Lin'an Mansion. This city was the center of the Song Dynasty and a gathering place for news from all over the world. In this city, it always seemed like there were layers of bottomless water rippling, and there were always turbulent currents colliding and rolling.
Because of this, this city has become the place with the least secrets. The news that was conveyed secretly under the water yesterday will be rolled up to the surface today and spread by everyone.
For example, the situation in the Kingdom of Jin. In the past few years, the people of Lin'an have become accustomed to the frequent bad things happening in the Jin Kingdom, and they look like they are on the verge of collapse.
But the process of such a powerful enemy going from strength to weakness, from weakness to two points, and then from two points to about to win and lose again can still bring a lot of talk to the people.
What's more, in the Zhongdu court of the Jin Kingdom, the person in charge of power was a Han'er? Ever since Guo Ning was appointed as the governor of the Dinghai Navy, the people around him had been talking about him. Later, this person promoted the sudden prosperity of maritime trade routes and brought about tangible changes to the people.
Of course, the common people did not deal directly with maritime merchants, but there was a sudden influx of horses, furs, ginseng and other materials on the market, and the prices were much cheaper. This was obviously good for the prosperity of the south, and the people were also very convenient. .
In the past two months, several kinds of felts, which are special products from the North, have begun to be put on sale. Now that the weather is hot, ordinary people don't care too much, but many shops have discovered the benefits of this product and have begun to stock up.
These are all related to Guo Ning, so they inevitably attract attention. Then everyone learned that this man was not just a person who was keen on sea trade, but also the most capable general and the most ferocious tiger in the Jin Kingdom.
At that time, the rise of Mongolia seemed to southerners to be similar to the Jurchens replacing the Khitan. And the Mongols seemed to be no less ferocious than the invincible Jurchens.
There was a proposal in the court to form an alliance between Song and Mongolia to attack the Jin Kingdom. However, this proposal immediately reminded people of the alliance on the sea and the ending of chasing away the wolf and welcoming the tiger, so it was tacitly suppressed by everyone.
But with the rise of Guo Ning in the Jin Kingdom, the Mongols were pushed back to the grassland, and there was no movement this year.
Guo Ning immediately convinced Zhongdu and became the Duke of Zhou of the Jin Kingdom, showing his willingness to take further steps at any time.
The latest sensational news is that Guo Ning suddenly dispatched an army and was about to devour the Kaifeng court. This is definitely big news. From the day the news came out, and now more than ten days have passed, the discussion among the public has not diminished.
There are always new, true or false news coming back, such as how Guo Ning secretly contacted the remnants of the Red Coat Army entrenched in the north and south of Mount Tai, and how he conquered Xuzhou in one day and earned Guide with hundreds of cavalry. Mansion, and then disperse tens of thousands of Jin troops outside Guide Mansion.
It is also interesting to say that from the standpoint of the Song Dynasty court, we cannot encourage usurpation in any case. Therefore, in the official caliber of the Song Dynasty, Guo Ning has never been highly evaluated. Many ministers are also very concerned about the process of Guo Ning's rise. He criticizes more and would rather regard the Jin court in Kaifeng as orthodox.
But in this way, Guo Ning's image was very good in the eyes of the people of the Southern Dynasties. Ordinary people can't imagine that many things, and they can only empathize with the ferocity of the Jurchens.
There are still elderly people in Lin'an City who talk about the fear in the local area when Wan Yanliang marched south with millions of troops in the last years of Shaoxing; there are countless people who know the story of the country's southward crossing from the stories passed down by the elders. The huge sea of blood caused by the Jurchens.
Half of the country in the Song Dynasty fell into the hands of the Jurchens. Until the Kaixi Year, the two families were still fighting, and the number of casualties among the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty was never small.
Who among the common people doesn’t know that the Kingdom of Jin has been a feud with the Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years? Such a terrible Jurchen, their Zhongdu court suddenly lost power?
Even the newly built imperial court in Kaifeng, which was built by a group of people who managed to escape, was about to be bulldozed in one fell swoop?
Moreover, the person who seized the highest power of the Jin Kingdom was not a clan king of the Jin Kingdom, nor a tribal leader who wielded force in northern Xinjiang, but a border guard soldier of the Jin Kingdom, a Han'er!
And to the senses of Song people, Guo Ning's experience still has a familiar energy. He was born in the military, was extremely brave, and made many military exploits, and then he was about to wear a yellow robe... Isn't this the Emperor Taizu of this dynasty?
This kind of coincidence makes people feel a bit fantastic, and people can't help but talk about it. Many people were talking about Guo Ning's deeds, and they actually felt a little proud, as if they had long since classified the Northern Han people into another group and regarded them as a different ethnic group, and they had become one with the Song people of the Southern Dynasty again.
Of course, many people don't understand the reason and can't believe such a story. It was only then that the military intelligence from the north came in one by one, and everyone was sure that the Duke of Zhou, Guo Ning, was approaching Kaifeng City. When the battle was over, the two Dajins were reunited as one, and then it was time to change the dynasty.
During this time, many people came to Lin'an from coastal ports and all over Huainan. They also brought various news about the north, so much so that the artists in the Washe Goulan talked about the usual famous ZTE generals. When passing on or announcing the legacy of Hehe, he will also talk about the Duke of Zhou in the north, and casually interpret a story about how he killed the Jurchens in the north.
In fact, Guo Ning really didn't kill Jurchens very much, but the people of Song State liked to hear about it. Anyway, most of the storytellers make it up. Occasionally, a few of them get copies of the popular ones in Shandong, and the stories are particularly exciting. The artists make a lot of money, and the listeners smile and feel happy.
This kind of situation happens every day recently. When it comes to war or peace with the Jin Kingdom, the people can't agree. But when it comes to the Jin Kingdom, it is about to end. A Haner is leading hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Kaifeng. This is too refreshing. One can resist such a story.
In the past two days, there have been new trends among the people. Many people feel that this dynasty should raise troops to join forces with Guo Ning to destroy the Kingdom of Jin.
The proposers were all very plausible, saying that the soldiers and horses on Jingxi Road could go north to attack Nanyang and Ye County, while the soldiers and horses in Sichuan and Shaanxi should return to Guanzhong Tianfu and so on.
At the same time, the court fell into silence and was in an awkward situation. The wars in Huainan and western Beijing are still going on. That's because the two sides were fighting in a stalemate before, and the armies and departments were intertwined. It's not something that can be stopped just by stopping.
If either side wants to cease the war, the other side must believe in its sincerity. But according to the court's own intention, this war was originally the result of the Kaifeng court being deceived by Zhongdu. It should not be fought, and there was no need to continue.
What the Song Dynasty wanted to see was two weak and confrontational Jin countries, so it made various financial and commercial operations in the past year.
The Song Dynasty could also accept a powerful Jin Kingdom. That was the norm in the past hundred years. Humiliation and pain were inevitable, but you could get used to it if you endured it.
No matter how good the Jin Kingdom is, no matter how good the Jurchens are, they are all barbarians. Since ancient times, barbarians have had no luck for a hundred years, and no barbarians can survive in the world.
In other words, under the threat of the Jin Kingdom, the Song Dynasty was still orthodox and relatively safe. But the Song Dynasty could not accept a Haner regime to replace the Jin Kingdom no matter what!
From the day Guo Ning took control of Zhongdu, Song officials and literati were happy that the Jurchens were declining, but they were wary of Guo Ning and his Dinghai regime.
If it weren't for the fact that the benefits of maritime trade were so great and so many people were involved, some people would have openly expressed their opinions on this issue long ago.
But this time, it was obvious that Ding Haijun had deceived everyone. They were crying for poverty, holding the money and food they received from the Song Dynasty, waiting for the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty to fight with the Kaifeng Jin army, and then suddenly launched a thunderous strike... Song officials were both vigilant and fearful of this.
What's more, that Han'er's surname is Guo, and the official position he arranged for himself is called Duke of Zhou! What does this mean? Who is a scholar and doesn’t understand?
Everyone was thinking, if this person easily destroyed the Kaifeng court, would he attack the Song Dynasty next, send millions of troops to the West Lake, and immediately attack the first peak of Mount Wu?
