This is political common sense. The old king of Goryeo also passed away, and a new king came to the throne. The young master of the country was in doubt. The meritorious elders, royal family members, etc. all coveted the highest power, seriously threatening the new king's rule, and facing serious internal troubles.
As the founder of Goryeo, Wang Jian used the old trick of political marriage in order to gain widespread support, and he himself was the key tool. He married into major families in the country, worked tirelessly as a groom, and became a true "national son-in-law."
This is an effective means for Wang Jian to integrate political resources from all parties, but the side effects are also fatal. Wang Jian's father-in-law has many wives, many children.
After Wang Jian's death, the relatives were really jumping up and down. These father-in-laws all wanted their grandsons to take the throne. The grandfathers fought openly and secretly, framed each other, and even sent assassins into the palace to assassinate the king. Wang Wu once killed an assassin himself. .
Children are more valuable than mothers. The power of these concubines from wealthy families is also divided into three, six or nine levels, and their status in the palace is naturally divided into superior and inferior.
Since Wang Jian followed the "groom official route", it is easy to understand that the earlier he married a wife, the weaker the power of his natal family, and the later he married, the more powerful the daughter of a wealthy family became. For example, his married wife is an ordinary folk woman.
It is said that this woman was a civilian girl from Luozhou. One day when she went to the river to wash clothes, she met Wang Jian, who was still a general, and the two of them were indescribable after that. What is very dramatic is that Wang Jian is a scumbag. He knows that this is an ordinary civilian girl whose mother's family has no money and no power, so he has no intention of talking about marriage. He just wants to have temporary physical pleasure and end it there.
Even during the intimacy, Wang Jian deliberately paid attention not to let the woman get pregnant, but in that era, there were no good safety measures, so Wang Jian chose a relatively stupid and primitive contraceptive method, but in the end the woman Still pregnant. Please see historical records for details:
"...If you don't want to have a pregnancy, you announce it to the bed mat, and then (referring to the woman, Zhuang He Queen) sucks it, and then she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a child..."
No need to translate, everyone understands. I admire you.
In short, don't admit it even if you pull up your pants. Wang Jian was blackmailed by this woman and had to take responsibility for his one-night affair. So this woman became Wang Jian's eldest wife, and the child she conceived was Wang Wu, Wang Jian's eldest son.
Later, when Wang Jian married again, it was obvious that he would not marry a woman from a commoner family. They would basically be generals, senior officials and other powerful and wealthy families.
Therefore, there were also undercurrents surging in Wang Jian's harem. He himself was not sure whether his eldest son Wang Wu could successfully ascend the throne. Even until his death, he did not dare to publicly designate Wang Wu as his successor for fear of causing turmoil. Finally, on his deathbed, he very implicitly tested the attitude of the founding hero Park Su-hee.
Pu Shuxi was Wang Jian's founding hero. He was good at conquering and fighting and made countless meritorious deeds. Pu Shuxi was to Wang Jian what Guan Yu was to Liu Bei. Park Shuxi expressed her support for her eldest son Wang Wu, and then Wang Jian closed his eyes with joy and left us forever.
It was with the support of this meritorious minister that Wang Wu reached the pinnacle of power in the Goryeo Kingdom.
However, Wang Wu's grandfathers and half-brothers did not give up. They used various means to fight for power, including assassinations and coups... Goryeo's domestic undercurrents were surging and crises were everywhere.
The temple is small and the wind is strong, and the pond is shallow and there are many bastards. This tiny land, with its intricate interest relationships and intertwined interest groups... is no less powerful than the great powers of the Central Plains.
Therefore, in this case, how could Wang Wu mobilize the weakest chickens in the country to provoke the tigers and wolves of the Khitan?
After listening to Guo Renyu's report, Shi Chonggui was greatly disappointed, but he was still unwilling to accept it, so he sent an envoy to ask Wang Wu for the truth, hoping to get his sincere answer and clear attitude. After all, this would be a war of annihilation that would determine the fate of the Three Kingdoms. In war, as allies, we must be honest with each other.
Wang Wu was hesitating, talking about him from left to right, answering questions that were wrong, avoiding important matters and choosing light ones, and talking nonsense all over the place surrounded by clouds, mountains and fog. Shi Chonggui was desperate. It seemed that the goal of the Korean people was to cheat people into eating and drinking, which was unreliable.
On the Khitan side, under the clouds of two defeats, the "Empress Dowager Party" of the "Support Jin Faction" has risen, and the "Emperor Party" of the "Destroy Jin Faction" is in a worrying situation. The Queen Mother Shulu may once again oust Yelv Deguang , listen to the government behind the curtain, or simply abolish Yelu Deguang and take charge of the government.
Yelu Deguang was about to lose all his previous efforts. He could only fight with his last ditch and must launch another war of aggression southward. This will also be the biggest gamble in his life. He can only succeed but cannot fail.
So what's the reason for the war? How did Yelu Deguang withstand the pressure of two failures and break through the layers of resistance from the "Supporting Jin Sect"?
Reasons are like water in a sponge. If you squeeze it, there will always be one.
1. Goryeo spy
To strike while the iron is hot, let’s start with the most powerful country in the universe, Koryo, which succeeds more than fails.
In the early contacts between Wang Jian and Wang Wu of Goryeo and the later Jin regime, they did not go through formal diplomats or use formal diplomatic channels. The person responsible for acting as an intermediary to pass messages back and forth turned out to be a monk from the Western Regions - Hu Monk Sock.
When Shi Chonggui was in close contact with King Wu of Goryeo, the Khitans captured the spies of the Later Jin Dynasty within the boundaries of Yunzhou.
Interestingly, there is no historical data about this incident in the Central Plains, and there is only one sentence in the "History of Liao": "In December...Yelukong A, the military governor of Yunzhou, was the spy of the Jin Dynasty."
It couldn't be shorter. The three elements of time, place, and people account for almost all of it. The description of the matter is only four words "the spy who won the promotion." We caught the spy of the later Jin Dynasty. How many spies there are, what their tasks are, how to deal with them, and other key issues have not been disclosed.
Maybe they are really responsible for liaison with Korea, maybe they have other secret missions, or more likely, they are not spies at all. In that era, "enemy spy" was a tried-and-true panacea. Any foreign business traveler could be defined as a spy, even citizens of the country.
As mentioned before, before Yelu Deguang launched the Jin-Liao War, there was a saying that Yelu Diran captured the Later Jin spies in Beijing. "History of Liao·Taizong Ji" also said seriously that "Knowing has two minds." This incident also became a Khitan One of the reasons to go south.
This time, the Khitans repeated their old tricks and claimed to have caught a spy from the Later Jin Dynasty.
Due to the lack of historical data, we can appropriately use our imagination and make reasonable speculations. Of course, it is possible that Shi Chonggui actually sent spies to the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun to collect intelligence; it is also possible that this is another bag of washing powder in the hands of the Khitans.
If it was really the spy who was responsible for contacting the Koryo Kingdom to jointly attack the Khitan, then the Koryo Kingdom had really tricked Shi Chonggui into a trap, and it was more like failing than succeeding.
