The entire process of the army's evacuation from Kaifeng is coming to an end. In the past few days, Guo Ning has been stationed north of Kaifeng, kindly encouraging the soldiers and awarding some extra rewards. Only once during this period did he go to Chenliu to see off the remaining generals of the Red Coat Army who came to assist in the battle.
With the entire Nanjing surrendered, the few scattered military states sandwiched between Shandong and Henan had no possibility of independence. All the remaining units of the Red Coat Army in Shandong must be completely integrated into the Dinghai Navy. There is no second possibility.
Although Shi Qing, Huo Yi and others agreed to submit to Guo Ning, they made many unbelievable demands in terms of their official position and treatment and the specific conditions for their subordinates to be included in the control of the military household system. Liu Erzu, Peng Yibin, Hao Ding and others went back and forth to mediate this issue, and spent a lot of time in front of Yelu Chucai.
Fortunately, these matters did not last long. The remaining members of the Red Coat Army may have more selfish motives, but they are not reckless. After reaching an agreement, they led their troops back to the east and west roads of Shanxi and immediately reorganized according to the requirements of the Du Marshal's Mansion.
Since everyone was satisfied with the result, Guo Ning also made a timely trip to Chenliu. He not only connected with the generals from the Red Coat Army, but also showed his importance to the ordinary soldiers, so that the soldiers could rest assured about their future future. .
At other times, he still returned to his original place to see off the soldiers going to Hebei, Zhongdu and other places.
If the fleet is still there, many soldiers can actually take boats eastward along the Yellow River, directly to the Huaiyin and Chuzhou lines, and then transfer to sea ships, enter the sea through Lianshui, and then go to Zhongdu Road and Beijing Road by sea Waiting places. Although this route is long, it is the fastest.
However, because this battle emptied the military government's savings, Tianjin sent letters every three or five lines to urge the return of the fleet in order to resume the dispatch of supplies in various places. In addition, all sea-going ships have been returned to the trading houses for trade with the south.
Therefore, most of the soldiers and horses still have to follow the path that the army has traveled north and south in the past few decades, first crossing the Yellow River, and then heading north along the Yuhe River. The army set off one after another, always passing by the post station where Guo Ning stopped every day.
However, the war in Kaifeng ended a month ago, and the soldiers and horses were almost gone. Yesterday, only two generals passed by. Today and tomorrow, there will be Jurchen descendants including Wanyan Xielie, Yila Pua and others, and Wanyan Congtan is missing among them.
This gentleman was originally the Tongguan garrison marshal appointed by the Kaifeng court. Guo Ning granted him permission not to follow the brigade to Zhongdu and to rest in Kaifeng. After Li Ting returns with his troops, he will serve as Li Ting's general and go deep into Qinlong together in order to make contributions.
Since the main ones here today are Jurchens, Guo Ning is inevitably a little slack.
He didn't go to the courtyard wall to look around at this moment. He spread out felt cloth under a large locust tree in the courtyard of the inn, sat cross-legged, and read a few pamphlets.
The pamphlet is large in format, with twenty or thirty pages inside. It is a widely circulated newspaper within the control area of Dinghai Navy.
In addition to publishing various orders, laws, appointments, rewards and punishments of Duke Zhou and the Marshal's Mansion, this kind of newspaper has also added a lot of fragmentary information in the appendices since last year.
For example, a certain specialty product has arrived in a certain place, a certain port has reported that a certain ship sank at sea, a rebellion by the Hu tribe in Puyu Road has hindered the delivery of ginseng this year, and the cattle of the Xianzhou military household in Qingzhou have not been allocated for the war. If they are returned in time, it may affect the autumn harvest and so on. Although the real secrets are definitely not visible, you can indeed get a general idea of the situation at a glance.
Because the attendants and civil servants in charge of this matter gradually became more and more skilled, by the beginning of this year, the content of the appendix became more and more abundant, including an interesting farce in which Song Guoxing was involved, and rumors about which important ministers in the Zhongdu court requested to be appointed officials, all of which can be found in a small grid. Found within the text of the block.
Fortunately, Di Bao had not yet been published to the Southern Dynasty, otherwise the Prime Minister Shi Miyuan of the Southern Dynasty would have seen that Di Bao recorded that he had diarrhea and could not go to court, and he would have driven his subordinates furiously to search for female officials everywhere.
The last two pages of the Di Bao usually contain the latest academy editions or opera libretto. Sometimes they cannot fit on two pages, so they are serialized in several issues.
Most of these court scripts and dramas were officially promoted by the Yidu Privy Council, and the lyrics were highly promotional.
Guo Ning will definitely not care about these contents. When he read the Di newspaper, he mainly looked at the military and political trends, and also the price fluctuations of several bulk materials in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Compared with the Southern Song Dynasty, Dajin has always been poor. Guo Ning's Zhou regime is about to replace Dajin, and it may not be possible to get rich in the short term. On the contrary, because of the benefits brought by trade, Dinghai navy's economy is vaguely dependent on it. Song Dynasty.
As for the economy of the Song Dynasty, to be honest, the officials of the Song Dynasty don't seem to care much. On the contrary, Ding Haijun is doing business while also taking care of the price fluctuations in the Song Dynasty to prevent public dissatisfaction from boiling over and causing an overreaction from the central government of the Song Dynasty.
That's why there is such content about the Southern Dynasties, but if you think about it carefully, is there too much gossip about the military, political and economic affairs of the Southern Dynasties and Lin'an City in this newspaper?
Guo Ning suddenly said "Huh", turned the book back to the cover, and looked through it again.
Yelu Chucai, who was sitting cross-legged on the side, smiled and said, "What did the Duke see?"
Guo Ning flipped through the Di newspaper, looked at the font, and then looked at the paper: "The first few pages, the northern government decrees and messages were all from a month ago. The last two pages of the drama, I also I’ve seen it. But these few pages, which talk about the prices of supplies in the south and trivial matters in Lin’an... were from ten days ago, and there are news from seven or eight days ago? This... is this a fake newspaper? "
"A month ago, the wealthy businessmen in Yangzhou gathered their connections and produced a Dibao to facilitate their business dealings. In order to facilitate the sale and distribution in our territory, they secretly copied the format and content of our Dibao. Only in this period, A lot of content was inserted to facilitate their business dealings. This copy was collected from the post station in Guide Mansion when the Recorder was reorganizing the post road. The goods were just distributed the day before yesterday, and each copy was priced at seventy cents. If you sell a copy, the postman will get five cents."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Guo Ning glanced at it again with great interest: "It's a shame that the female businessmen have come up with such a trick. They have to send people to inform all the inns that selling is strictly prohibited unless they change their names and register them again." The secretary must pay a management fee!"
Guo Ning lowered his head and looked again. He flipped through two pages and noticed one of the lines. .net
After taking a closer look, it turned out that an official from the Song Dynasty named Xuan Zhen set off for Yangzhou today. His mission was to represent the emperor and pay tribute to Ying Chunzhi who died of illness during the Huaidong Economic Strategy. In addition, he also expressed condolences to those stationed in Yangzhou. The first unit of the Loyalty Army.
Guo Ning knew how Ying Chunzhi died, even though he was thousands of miles away. This person instigated a riot in Zhongdu at the beginning of the year, almost frightening Guo Ning's wife, and almost killed Wang Shixian. The other related casualties were even more heavy. Guo Ning had already told him that he couldn't live.
For the situation in Huaidong, Ying Chunzhi's life or death was of no importance at all. However, when the Song Dynasty court was able to cover its eyes and deny recognition when such a high-ranking official was killed, it proved that Yang Miaozhen had truly established a foothold in Huaidong.
Even a weak woman will become tough after struggling for a long time in troubled times, not to mention that Yang Miaozhen is not an ordinary woman. She had endured in Huainan for a long time and received little attention from the Song Dynasty court. She was only regarded as an ordinary refugee fleeing south.
The imperial court wanted to pay attention to the remnants of the Red Coat Army, and it was Yang Miaozhen's rival Yang You who was cultivated, and Yang You always wanted to unite the Chuzhou and Zhenzhou branches of the loyal army.
At some point, Yang Miaozhen's troops would be forced to resist; and once they resisted, the force of the loyal army would match up with Jia She's financial resources of many private businessmen, forming a force that even the Song Dynasty court had to be wary of.
The result is what it is now.
It seems that the territory of the Song Dynasty is business as usual, but in fact, Huaidong, a large area, is about to change its color.
For Ding Haijun, this represented the continuous political and military weakening of the Song Dynasty, but it did not affect the relationship between the north and the south, let alone commercial exchanges. It was really a good thing worth celebrating. Dazhou, who is about to be reborn, needs a rich but weak neighbor so much.
Yelu Chucai turned sideways, read the few words, and sighed with emotion: "The former members of the Red Coat Army who fled to the Song Dynasty are short-sighted after all. This group of people wanted to establish a vassal town in the Song Dynasty. Right? It's a pity that even Yang Miaozhen didn't see it clearly..."
Guo Ning coughed a few times and replied sternly: "As the saying goes, a tide-turner stands at the head of the wave, holding a red flag that is not wet in his hand. To rely on one person's will and go against the hearts of millions of people is a solitary man, not a commander-in-chief. To do this, The leader of tens of thousands of people is
You have to conform to the tide of people's hearts, and if you conform to the people's hearts, the heaven and earth will naturally work together. "
Yelu Chucai thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "That's what the Duke said."
At this time, there were sudden sounds of footsteps outside. Yelu Chucai stood up and patted his robe.
Guo Ning also stood up.
He stood on tiptoe and looked outside the courtyard wall, his right hand casually resting on the hilt of the knife at his waist: "Who is outside? Is it the soldiers from the next group who marched here in advance? Ni Yi was lazy and didn't come to repay me first."
"Ni Yi is outside and has just finished some work." Yelu Chucai replied.
His expression was very solemn, but he suddenly showed unbearable joy: "My lord, do you know the name of the inn we are at?"
"How could you not know that this place is called Chenqiao Town and this inn is called Chenqiaoyi."
