For decades, the Kingdom of Jin dominated the territory. Its moral destiny was intended to inherit the Song Dynasty, and its military power was planned to be that of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Looking around, we can see the Southern Dynasty, Xia Kingdom, and Goryeo as small countries, the grassland tribes as barbarians sharpening their swords, and the billions of Han children under their rule as loyal slaves and riches.
Such a big country would be in turmoil for years and be massacred by powerful enemies. The wise people in the world saw this and felt the signs of imminent chaos. When Zhongdu suddenly changed again, Han'er Guo Ning took control of the court with tyrannical force. I don't know how many people rejoiced for this, and I don't know how many people lamented it day and night.
Guo Ning is not the only one who shoulders the expectations of many people but still feels as if he is facing an abyss and walking on thin ice. As the leader of a force, Guo Ning is not the only one who has been stationed in the military camp for a long time and increasingly regards the military as his foundation.
April.
Jin Kingdom Nanjing, Kaifeng Mansion.
When the Song Dynasty occupied the Central Plains, this place was the capital of the Song Dynasty. It is said that there were millions of people and it was extremely prosperous and prosperous. However, after the rise of the Jin Dynasty, from the fourth year of Tianhui to the eighth year of Tianhui, they continued to fight with the Song army around Kaifeng. In the end, all the land in Henan was captured, but Kaifeng still persisted. The officials picked wild vegetables and ate them until they reached the city. In the end, it changed hands, and the people in the city were less than 10,000 people, and the situation was almost desolate.
Later, Dajin established the Xingtai Shangshu Province in Kaifeng to restore the city's vitality. However, in the third year of Zhenyuan, a fire burned half of the city and all the palaces left by the Song Dynasty were destroyed.
At that time, Wan Yanliang, the king of Hailing, was ambitious and wanted to dominate the world and make Kaifeng his capital again. This situation greatly displeased him, so he ordered Feng Changning, who was left behind in Nanjing, and Zuo Ying, the capital transfer envoy, to be beaten to death almost on the spot with a hundred sticks each. The deputy left-behind officer Guo Anguo, the left-behind judge Daliang Shun, and the Nanjing military commander Wu Jun were even more unlucky, with a staff of one hundred and fifty. The officials below ordered more people to be beheaded because of the fire.
King Hailing immediately mobilized manpower and material resources to rebuild Kaifeng Mansion. The officials in charge were Liang Hanchen and Kong Yanzhou. It is said that Liang Hanchen was originally a servant of the Song Dynasty, and he wanted to use this to drain the national power of Jin Dynasty. Therefore, even if the cost of one palace was too much, Liang Hanchen would always say that it was not perfect and withdraw.
During the Zhenglong period, Zhang Hao, the left prime minister, built Zhongdu and continued to be responsible for the construction of Nanjing. His position of power was greater than that of Liang Hanchen, and he used greater power.
King Hailing was eager to go south to destroy the Song Dynasty after completing the palace, so he mobilized the army, people, and craftsmen from all over the world. The civilians were limited to five and three were served, and the craftsmen were limited to three and two were served, totaling as many as two million people. He also transported trees, flowers, and stones from all over the world to build palaces, terraces, and pavilions. Although the pillars and pillars were gone, and the tiles were not used, they were replaced with new ones. As for the red couplets carved with regular script, the carved walls and majestic buildings, the mud on the walls made of gold, and the pillars made of jade, they are so gorgeous that they cannot be counted.
It is impossible to calculate the specific expenses at that time. All we know is that in order to build the palace, timber from Hedong and Shaanxi was floated down the river and passed through the mainstays, so the cost of transporting one timber was as high as 20 million yuan. How many thousands or tens of thousands of such woods were used in the palace?
Unfortunately, King Hailing was defeated and died soon after. After Emperor Shizong ascended the throne, he did not consider mixing things up and never set foot in the palace of Kaifeng Mansion in Nanjing.
The city's most glorious time has passed.
When Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu went south, because he had to start everything from scratch and lacked money and materials, he really took the idea of the palace in Zhongdu. He completely demolished the original Longde Palace site of the Song Dynasty and the adjacent Xiefang and Xiejing Gardens, and connected them with the open space to the east as a military camp for the training of his new army.
It is said that the open space to the east was originally the place where the Song Dynasty garrisoned troops. The first commander of the imperial city's chief minister and one of the squadron commanders, Yu Longzhi, was stationed there. This is very flattering.
Wanyan Shouxu has been stationed in this military camp in recent months. Especially after I heard that Zhongdu had undergone a sudden change and Guo Ning took power boldly, he did not leave the barracks for more than ten days in a row.
On this day, Tian Zhuo, the transfer envoy of Henan Road, came to the barracks to ask for a meeting.
At the entrance of the barracks, the gate was closed, with deer antlers on the outside, and soldiers patrolling on the watchtower on the top of the wall, which was very strict. Before he even got close, the sentries shouted and asked. Tian Zhuo quickly held up the token and announced his name, asking them to inform King Sui.
After a while, a junior high school student opened the door and came out, performed a military salute, and led Tian Zhuo into the school grounds to the east of the military camp.
When King Sui first took over Nanjing, he was very ambitious. He planned to train tens of thousands of elite troops to conquer Shandong first, unify Guan and Shaanxi, and then go north to support Zhongdu. Therefore, the scale of this school is huge, able to accommodate training of 20,000 to 30,000 people.
When I came in now, I saw that the school ground was extremely empty. The sounds of people training were quickly dispersed in the wind, so that nothing could be heard outside the military camp.
There were two to three thousand people training at the moment, most of them holding wooden guns and wooden knives, following the officer's slogans and making stabbing and slashing movements. There are also some cavalry riding horses to practice their shooting skills on horseback. Looking at the target next to the road, there are many arrows missing, and the hit rate is not bad.
On the high platform in front of the school grounds, Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu was watching intently. Because he had been sitting for a long time, his body and face were covered with dust. Although he was only sixteen years old, he felt the kind of tiredness only experienced by middle-aged people.
Tian Zhuo had finished paying homage to him, but Wanyan Shouxu was not in a hurry to talk to him.
After watching the training for a while, he sighed and said: "This unit is the newly established Jianwei Captain's headquarters. It was originally planned to be equipped with tens of thousands of elite soldiers. They must be trained strictly and strong and vigorous. They must not be able to do those things. The old road used to defend a thousand-household military camp."
"Your Highness is wise."
"However, the weather was not good last year, and it seems that there will still be a severe drought this year. Fengqiu said that the forks of the Yellow River have stopped flowing, and all the water mills have been shut down. Only then can we irrigate the fields and alleviate the disaster a little. . Moreover, Zhongmou, Chenliu, Weishi and other places have already reported that there are locust infestations. I finally gathered the strong men who planned to fill the Jianwei Duwei Department, but most of them were called by the Mongolian Gang to cull the locusts!"
Having said this, Wanyan Shouxu grinned: "Only two thousand people were left for me! What use can two thousand people do?"
He said to Tian Zhuo dumbfounded: "Qizhi, have you seen the military report? After Guo Ning took control of Zhongdu, he called himself the marshal of the capital. He immediately set up military envoys and soldiers in Hebei, Shandong, Zhongdu, and Liaodong. The general manager of Madu. Each Jiedushi envoy has at least 10,000 elite soldiers under his command. Those six Jiedu envoys are 60,000 elite soldiers!"
"more than."
"ah?"
"The six military governors currently appointed by Guo Ning do not include his two direct generals Wang Shixian and Qiu Huiluo. Those two men are the main force that followed Guo Ning north to Zhongdu. Once the rest is completed, there will be no Less than 20,000 people." Tian Zhuo stretched out a finger.
"In addition, Guo Ning's command has also gathered 100,000 soldiers originally from Beijing Road, just waiting for subsequent training. Yin Chang, the military commander of the Xingde Army he placed in Jinan Prefecture, also has strength." Tian Zhuo stretched out another finger. .
"After Guo Ning became the marshal of the capital, he still served as the military commander of the Dinghai Navy. That was his old foundation in Laizhou, a real elite soldier in hundreds of battles. Now even if there is no massive expansion, there will be no less than 10,000 people. ." Tian Zhuo stretched out another finger.
"Also, Guo Ning is very powerful in Liaodong, including officials such as the Xuanfu envoy in Liaodong, Judu Afu, and many local Huli Gai, Khitan, Goryeo, Bohai and other tribes also work for him. Listen. He said that when they fought in Mongolia, they only needed a few days to assemble tens of thousands of warriors from various tribes." Tian Zhuo stretched out another finger.
Four fingers were waved in front of King Sui, who didn't even have the energy to sigh.
Tian Zhuo originally wanted to raise his fifth finger to determine the naval strength of the navy, but looking at King Sui's expression, he finally did not say anything.
On that day, King Sui went south with a number of his cronies, which was Tu Shanyi's political maneuver, and Guo Ning also cooperated with it. The people who followed King Sui south were all outstanding men whom Tu Shanyi was optimistic about; most of them had seen with their own eyes the ferocity of Guo Ning's troops during the last Hu Shahu coup.
Later, when King Sui came to Kaifeng, Tian Zhuo and others had been paying close attention to the movements of Guoning in Shandong. Especially since last year, the expansion of Dinghai Navy was like a furious tide. They first captured Liaodong, and then took advantage of King Sui's troops to fight Yang An'er to capture the entire Shandong Province. East Road, and then without stopping, broke through Mongolia and entered the central capital.
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The speed of this rise was as fast as lightning, and its powerful force frightened King Sui and the officials around him to the extreme. Therefore, in the past few months, Tian Zhuo sent many spies to closely investigate the movements of Zhongdu. He even sent people to copy every document released by Shandong and carefully study it.
Speaking of his understanding of Ding Haijun, Tian Zhuo is probably the most complete person in Kaifeng Mansion. Even when he started to forcefully implement farmland last year, he imitated Ding Haijun's policy in many places. Now that the situation has reached this point, Tian Zhuo hopes that the grassroots civil and military officials in Kaifeng Mansion will not waver, and that the core figures, including King Sui, must at least understand what kind of opponent they are facing.
King Sui was young after all, so he was suddenly frightened when he heard about such a huge force.
He hesitated for a while and asked: "The rapid rise of Guo Ning and the bravery of leading troops to run rampant are really rare and unusual since ancient times. Now that he has territory, soldiers and horses, and power, follow him There are also countless people. In your opinion, what will happen to the Kingdom of Jin next?"
The young man stretched out his hand, took Tian Zhuo's arm and shook it, and said sincerely: "Tell the truth, okay?"
