"Nianhan, do you want to invite the emperor to come south?" Wanyan Zongwang frowned slightly when he heard this.
"Yes!" Wanyan Zonghan also frowned, "Today is different from the past... The Song Dynasty has a wise master, and we have to make the emperor work harder, and the emperor will conquer it himself!"
His words were high-sounding, but in fact he did not feel sorry for Emperor Wu Qimai - when Wu Qimai first became emperor, it was said that he spent money from the treasury because he was greedy for good food and drink. Wanyan Zonghan, Bo Jilie, caught him and spanked him... The emperor was beaten by his ministers! This thing is very rare in Chinese history, right?
Although there are a lot of high-sounding reasons for this matter, the root cause is that the Jurchen military nobles wanted to restrict the imperial power under the leadership of the founding leader Aguda!
In the original history, the Jurchen imperial power was indeed limited until Wanyan Liang seized power... It is for this reason that the Emperor of Jin lacked a sense of presence in the Song and Jin wars before Wanyan Liang's southern expedition.
But this time, due to the rise of Zhao Kai and the fall of Zhao Huan, Wanyan Zonghan knew that he could no longer leave Emperor Jin in the distant Huining Mansion. Without the great god Wanyan Wu Qimai to command from the front, it would be difficult for the northern and southern armies of the Jin Kingdom to coordinate, let alone the coordination of the Jin and Xia armies.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Five Route Army. Although it is impossible to cooperate closely, there cannot be no coordination - at least the time of dispatching troops must be coordinated, right? It doesn't matter if there is a difference of a few days or ten between the various routes, but there should be no difference of three to five months, then Zhao Kai's army will be able to defeat all the armies of the five routes!
In addition, the emperor sitting in Yanjing could decide at any time whether to slap Xixia!
Because Xixia has no ambition to carve up the Song Dynasty with Jin, they just want some New Year's coins, and at the same time cut off several state armies of the Song Dynasty... Faced with the pressure of millions of Jin-Xia coalition forces, Zhao Kai is very likely to use Land and wealth wooed Xixia to keep them neutral.
In this way, Zhao Kai could concentrate his forces between Hedong and Hebei to defend against the Jin Kingdom's attack.
"But the reason why the emperor is in Huining is to intimidate the grassland!" Wanyan Zongwang looked a little worried.
"Grassland?" Wanyan Zonghan asked, "Is it a big stone or a Hebule?"
"It's Hebule!" Wanyan Zongwang frowned and said, "Yelü Dashi is to the west of the grassland, and he is our defeated general. The threat is not too big. But Hebule of the Mengwu tribe is very ambitious. Recently, he was still in the grassland. The leaders of the various Mongol tribes were summoned to some kind of meeting, asking everyone to elect him to be the Khan... It's already August, so the meeting may have already been held, and Hebule has probably become the Khan. We can't ignore this matter. Ah! In the past, when the Khitans ruled the north, the tribes on the grasslands caused a lot of trouble!"
This Hebule surnamed Boer Jijin was the great-grandfather of Genghis Khan!
Before the collapse of the Liao Dynasty, Hebule and other leaders of the Mengwu tribe submitted to the Liao Dynasty and were vassals of the Liao lord. After the collapse of the Liao Kingdom, the Mongol tribes also took the opportunity to break away from the rule of the Liao Kingdom, but they did not submit to the Jin Kingdom, but became an independent tribal alliance.
If the Great Jin Kingdom could not subjugate the Mongolian tribes and incorporate them into its own vassal system, then the Mongolian tribes would continue to annex various tribes in the grassland and eventually grow stronger, posing a huge threat to the Great Jin Dynasty.
"This matter cannot be rushed..." Wanyan Zonghan said, "The tribes on the grassland are all erratic and difficult to find. We can only try to figure them out slowly. Let's deal with the Song Dynasty first!"
Wanyan Zongbi also supported Zong Han's opinion at this time, and said to Zong Wang with a smile: "Second brother, let's go south first and then north! As long as we can defeat the Song State and take away the Song State's wealth, I'm afraid we won't be able to clean it up. Mongol?"
When Wanyanzong saw that his brother said the same thing, he had no choice but to relent and said to his son Wanyanqi: "Wanyanqi, you and Nianhan and your fourth uncle should go for a visit..." He said to his son again: Wanyan Zonghan said, "Nianhan, I don't agree with occupying too much land in the Central Plains... This will involve our strength and will not help pacify the grassland. Once a hero emerges from the grassland, we Jurchens will be in trouble. That’s big!
But now that we have fallen into the Central Plains, we cannot admit defeat easily, otherwise we will lose our prestige and lose the hearts of the people, and we will have to fight with Zhao Kai! "
Wanyan Zongwang raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, "You guys go and meet quickly, while I take good care of my health. Let's have another good fight next autumn!"
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The sky is blue and the wilderness is vast.
On the grassland, it is now the withered and yellow color of late autumn. Looking into the distance, one can only see boundless desolation and desolation... No, there is also a huge earth-yellow castle, just at the end of the vision, which looks lifeless. The whole world is filled with the atmosphere outside the Northwest Great Wall.
But here is Kaifeng Prefecture!
Yes, this is the Kaifeng Mansion in Bianliang, Tokyo, during the Song Dynasty, which has occupied the throne of the city with the highest housing prices in the world for at least a hundred years!
But this is not inside Kaifeng Prefecture, but in the suburbs outside the city... Even the suburbs are very expensive! Before the Xuanhe Disaster, every inch of land inside Kaifeng City was worth every inch of money, but outside Kaifeng City there was at least every inch of land and every inch of copper was available!
If you can build a manor outside Kaifeng Prefecture, you must be a rich or noble person! Zhao Kai, who now has an annual salary of 6 million (probably the highest in the world), had a large manor outside Kaifeng Prefecture... Before his soul was "sublimated", he often spent time with him in that manor. The oiran leaders of Kaifeng Mansion spend a happy time together.
Looking back now, it still tastes great!
It's a pity that things have changed and people have changed now... No, things have changed, people are gone, and even the soul has flown to nowhere?
Zhao Kai, who was riding a Qingtang dragon horse, gently picked up the reins, stopped the BMW under his crotch, then stood up on the stirrups and looked around.
There were twenty-four female squad members wearing chain armor and with strong bodies flying over immediately, forming a circle and encircling Zhao Kai in the center. All I saw was that these female class members with their faces covered with veils were holding horned bows in their hands, looking around warily, as if they wanted to find an assassin from the dead grass about half a person tall, and then kill him with one arrow. ....These ladies are so fierce!
In the outer areas, there were hundreds of Yulin cavalry and imperial tent cavalry, all riding in pairs, one holding a carbine and the other holding a bow and arrow. After spreading out, they controlled a large area of grassland. Each of them appears to be a capable and loyal protector of their Emperor.
Next to Zhao Kai, there were several senior officials wearing scarlet official uniforms, who also reined in their horses and came closer to the officials of the Song Dynasty.
One of the strong men with a black face began to babble, "Guan family, this grassland is really great. It has a radius of hundreds of miles and at least three million acres of grassland... It's still weeds now. When spring comes next year, Sprinkle grass seeds when you eat, and it will be really dark green in summer. If you have enough bean cake tubes, you can raise 100,000 horses, or even 150,000 horses! Who said that there is no place to raise horses in the Central Plains? Isn’t this the case? ?"
Is this human language?
Is this a grassland? This is Kaifeng Mansion!
The person who said this is Ma Wang, the horse head that Tong Guan found for Zhao Kai from Moutuogang Racecourse... During the period of Zhao Kai's rise, the existence of Ma Wang Although he is not as good as generals such as Han Shizhong, Huang Wuji, Yue Fei, Xiang Ke, and Li Xiaozhong, he is an indispensable figure.
Because until now, Zhao Kai's army still relies on cavalry as its main attack force - this is also the characteristic of the Song army that was said to have "no horses" in the past!
Although there is a shortage of horses... the fighting method is still to use cavalry as the main attack force!
Otherwise, how can we attack? You can't let a group of crossbowmen and archers who are not equipped with long-handled weapons attack the enemy's cavalry, right? This is impossible! Or set up an iron barrel array and hope that the enemy's cavalry will stupidly crash into it? It's a pity that the great cavalry countries that were neighbors to the Song Dynasty were not so careless...
Although Zhao Kai has been working hard to enhance the attack power of the infantry, this kind of thing will not be effective for a while... Therefore, the cavalry is still the main attack power of Zhao Kai's Song Army.
And Ma Wang has been responsible for providing horses for Zhao Kai's increasingly large cavalry in the past two years!
This responsibility is really heavy! But Ma Wang led a group of old brothers from Moutuogang, and they actually successfully shouldered this heavy burden.
At least so far, all the cavalry soldiers under Zhao Kai have their own horses!
Ma Wang and his fellow horsemen and brothers have also been promoted continuously because of this merit. Now Ma Wang's title has been promoted to Zhongdafu, and his official position has been promoted to Hengxingdafu, and he has also been promoted to Yaojun... .It is truly unique for a horse driver to be promoted from a captain to such a status in less than two years.
However, no matter how high Ma Wang's official rank is, it is impossible to conjure a horse out of thin air!
With the full implementation of the imperial army system and the increasing scale of the cavalry, the supply of horses has become very tight.
Although Zhao Kai's Song Dynasty controlled Shaanxi, he also controlled the path to Qingtang Grassland and could obtain a supply of good horses.
But buying someone else's horse is not as reliable as raising it yourself... There are two routes to raising horses. One is to encourage nobles and soldiers to raise horses in their own villages; the other is to establish government offices. horse farm.
There are actually several government-run horse farms in Zhao Kai, but they are not large in scale - where can we find prairie in the Central Plains? Although there are several hillside grasslands around Luoyang, the area is not large. One area can only support 20,000 to 30,000 horses at most.
And just when Zhao Kai was worried about not having a racecourse, the answer to this problem was actually found in Kaifeng Mansion!
Today's Kaifeng Mansion is actually the most suitable grassland horse farm!
Not only because more than a hundred miles around Kaifeng Mansion has become a barren grassland, but also because there is a large area of open space inside the huge Kaifeng Mansion city, enough to house hundreds of thousands of horses in a short period of time. If the enemy suddenly attacks, the castle of Kaifeng Mansion can serve as a refuge for the horses.
Thinking of this, Zhao Kai could only sigh: "I didn't expect that the prosperous Kaifeng Mansion in the past has now turned into a grassland... Forget it, the horse farm of Qunmu Division is located in Kaifeng Mansion. !
