Yuzhou Island, Faqi Temple.
When the hottest summer arrived, Kang Lu, who had been given the title of Haidong Envoy by Zhao Kai, once again appeared in front of Wanyan Yan, Liu Lin and Luo You.
At this time, Qushan County on the other side of Yuzhou Island had been occupied by troops led by Miao Fu. Therefore, Yuzhou Island is heavily guarded, and there are heavily armed traitor soldiers everywhere. However, there was no trace of the sergeant's family and craftsmen on the island, and they had obviously left by boat.
The escape plan of the Puppet Song Dynasty has been in progress. According to the final plan formulated by Wanyan Yan, Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou, Liu Lin, Luo You and others, the final destination of this great escape will be Japan's Kyushu Island. Haeju in Goryeo will become a transit point on the way to escape. The traitors and their family members who escaped from Yuzhou Island, Chenjia Island, Dengzhou and other places, as well as some of the common people, craftsmen, monks and others who were kidnapped, will be transported there. They first took the sea route and concentrated on Goryeo Haeju, and then went south in batches. Instead of going to Tamna Island, we went directly to Hakata on Kyushu Island to land.
The reason why Tamna Island was abandoned was because Wanyan Yan received news in early June that Wang Kai, the king of Goryeo, had already landed on Tamna Island first... His homeland of Goryeo had been completely destroyed by the Jin soldiers. Occupied, there was no place for Wang Kai and his Goryeo court to gain a foothold among the five realms and two realms (Seohaido, Yanggwang Province, Jeolla Province, Gyeongsang Province, Jiaozhou Province, East Border, and North Border).
In desperation, Wang Kai had no choice but to take the courtiers who still supported him, thousands of martial arts warriors, and 20,000 to 30,000 family members, and fled to Tamna Island on a Song merchant ship.
Although this Tamluo Island was previously occupied by Zhao Shu's troops, because there was really no oil or water on the island, there was no government office and no army stationed there. They just found a bay on the south side of the island where they could shelter from the wind and park their boats (the place that later became Seogwipo), and established a stronghold called "Seogwipo".
The Navy of the Southern Song Dynasty built a fortress there and stationed three hundred soldiers. Then it recruited a group of merchants and built a small commercial port next to Xigui Fort. There was nothing to sell, so they prepared some fresh water and Food was used to "kill" merchant ships traveling between China, Japan and Li.
After all, Tamna Island covers an area of more than 1,800 square kilometers, and it is impossible to defend it with just 300 soldiers and a small number of profiteers. Therefore, most of the area on the island is still under the rule of the "Damluo Star Lord". The pseudo-Song group originally wanted to occupy the territory belonging to the Star Lord, but now the homeless Wang Kai has taken it. First.
Considering that these remnants of the Goryeo Kingdom were at the end of their rope, Wanyanyan and others let go of Tamna Island and prepared to go straight to Japan.
Now Li Cheng has taken Zhao Shanzhen to Haeju, Goryeo, and is responsible for overseeing the exiles who are arriving there one after another. Kong Yanzhou, on the other hand, was traveling eastward with the fleet. Wanyan Yan, Liu Lin and Luo You stayed on Yuzhou Island to break up the rear, and were also responsible for contacting the Northern Song Dynasty court... Today, the three of them finally received the long-awaited "bad news".
"What a cruel official, they won't even spare me, my younger brother and sister... They want to arrest Ling Chi! Everyone, what do you think we should do about this matter?"
Of course it was Wanyan Yan who was complaining about Zhao Kai's cruelty, but after listening to Kang Lu, who was sweating profusely and trembling, read Zhao Kai's letter, she didn't look angry at all. Instead, she said this with a smile. What should I do if I ask the people around me?
What else can be done? Of course I'm running away!
"My Lady, the Thirty-six Stratagems are the best! Yuzhou Island is not a place to stay for a long time. When Kong Wanhu and Liu Wanhu (Liu Yi)'s fleet comes back, we will keep you on the ship and sail eastward!"
"Yes, let's go far enough that Zhao can't catch us!"
"If the man named Zhao doesn't give us a way to survive, why won't we run away? The world is huge. As long as we have soldiers in our hands, we can't go anywhere?"
"It makes sense, let's just leave!"
Wanyanyan smiled even happier, this was the effect she wanted!
She has Li Cheng, Liu Lin, Kong Yanzhou, Liu Yi, and Wang Bolong under her command, a total of five ten thousand households... These five ten thousand households are all independent warlords! Although Li Cheng, Liu Lin, and Kong Yanzhou had a good relationship with her, they were not so good that they could live and die together.
Since Zhao Kai did not have a navy capable of fighting, Wanyan Yan was not afraid of Zhao Kai sending troops to the sea to pursue her. What she was afraid of was that the ruthless Wanhu and Qianhu below would rebel and tie her up in Shuntian Mansion and present her to Zhao Kai.
And Zhao Kai's letter not only blocked the possibility of Wanyan Yan's surrender, but also blocked the way for the people under her to rebel.
Zhao Kai solemnly warned Wanyan Yan in the letter that the crime she had committed deserved death. Even if she bound herself to the capital, she would still be executed at Lingchi!
If she wanted to survive, she had to go overseas and not be caught by the heavenly soldiers. No matter how bad you are, as long as you can't catch me, you'll be fine.
The meaning is very clear. Zhao Kai can't spare Wanyan Yan, but he doesn't want to really cut her into pieces...as long as she doesn't send herself to Shuntian Mansion to be cut into pieces.
And Wanyanyan couldn't escape being cut into pieces even after she was tied up in the capital, so what good end could there be for the person who tied her up and sent her to Shuntian Mansion? Even if you don't slice it, you still have to cut it into pieces, right?
Since capturing Wan Yan Yan and offering it to Zhao Kai would inevitably lead to death, it would be better to escape with Wan Yan Yan... So Zhao Kai's letter actually helped Wan Yan Yan stabilize the team.
In addition, in Zhao Kai's letter, the two brothers Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe were also mentioned. Zhao Kai announced that they would be deposed as common people and expelled from the Jade Order!
The reason is that their father Zhao Gou was rebellious, considered a traitor his father, arrogantly proclaimed himself emperor, and resisted the heavenly soldiers. However, there was no mention of their impure blood!
In other words, Zhao Kai admitted that Zhao Shanzhen and Zhao Shanhe were the sons of Zhao Gou and the blood of the Song Dynasty royal family!
Only by admitting it can he be deposed as a commoner and be expelled from the Jade Order!
Wanyan Yan was quite satisfied with the attitude of her subordinates, nodded and said: "Since the official family cannot tolerate my mother and son, of course my mother and son have no choice but to flee... But under what name should my mother and son enter Japan?" What about the country? I’m afraid it’s inappropriate in the name of the two palaces to hunt in the east?”
"Yes, yes, this is inappropriate, inappropriate..." Kang Lu has been frightened ever since he arrived on Yuzhou Island, fearing that Wanyan Yan would kill him. When I was reading the letter just now, I was so nervous that I almost fainted.
Of course, he was still frightened when he stayed by Zhao Kai's side. That's like accompanying a king like a tiger! That's why he took the initiative to take over the task of "proclaiming the edict". But I didn't expect that Zhao Kai would spell out everything in the letter... Wasn't this intentional to anger Wanyan Yan?
Fortunately, Wanyan Yan was not angered, and his life was temporarily saved... But if this life was to be saved, Kang Lu had to maintain contact between the two parties as much as possible. In this way he is a useful sinner!
To maintain contact between the two parties, Wan Yanyan could not call herself the Queen Mother of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Shanzhen could not call himself the Emperor of the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, entering Japan in the name of the Emperor and Queen Mother of the Song Dynasty is tantamount to telling the Japanese that you are a lost dog that is driven out, and it is not easy to establish authority.
"Then..." Wanyan Yan asked thoughtfully, "Then under what name should we march eastward?"
"This..." Kang Lu thought for a moment and said tentatively, "Why don't you represent the young master as the king of Japan?"
The so-called "Biao Young Master is the Japanese King" means that a group of traitor leaders under Wanyan Yan jointly wrote a "Biao to the Emperor" to request Zhao Shanzhen to be canonized as the Japanese King. It doesn't matter whether Zhao Kai approves or not.
Wanyanyan nodded and looked around with a smile: "What do you think?"
"Mother, the official name of the Japanese country is Japan." Liu Lin has been in charge of Haizhou affairs for a long time and is relatively familiar with foreign affairs. "And the young master has not yet conquered Japan, so I am afraid it is not appropriate to represent him as the king of Japan, right?"
"What's the expression?" Wanyanyan asked again.
"Then let's act as a general who conquers the barbarians!" Luo You interjected, "According to the "Book of Rites of Zhou": China's barbarians, the people of the five directions, all have their own nature and cannot be transferred. The people in the east are called 'barbarians', and they are tattooed, with Those who don't eat fire are the ones who eat it. Japan is located in the east of China and is a 'barbarian'. If you want to conquer Japan, that is to conquer the barbarians, so you should be called the general who conquers the barbarians."
This Luo You is still very knowledgeable. How well-chosen is this name? General Zhengyi... is so suitable for Japan's national conditions!
Wanyan Yan nodded lightly and said with a smile: "It makes sense, let's call him the general who conquered the barbarians, and the general's office will be called the shogunate. As for the shogunate's residence, let's first choose the great zaifu near Hakata."
With a shogun, of course there must be a shogunate... The Hakata shogunate is here!
She thought for a while and then said: "Under the shogunate, there are five more marching generals. Every ten thousand households is one general. After arriving in Japan, the five generals are divided into one town to protect the shogunate. You think how?"
Under the shogun, there are five elders!
Of course, Wanyanyan didn't know what the Five Great Lao Wu followed. She was copying the Jurchens' Bojilie collegial system.
In other words, after losing the wealthy areas of Shandong, Huaibei, and eastern Henan, the Pseudo-Song Dynasty Group could no longer maintain a relatively high degree of centralization and had to transform into feudalism - the basic condition for centralization is that the central government must be rich!
If you don’t have money, you can’t hire an army or support a bureaucracy, how can you centralize power?
Because Zhao Kai's Northern Song Dynasty did not have as much money as Zhao Huan's Southern Song Dynasty, they had to increase the feudal elements and develop an enhanced version of the government army system. Although the monarchs of the Southern Song Dynasty were somewhat isolated by the bureaucrats, the centralization of power in the Southern Song Dynasty was very strong. The new army of the Southern Song Dynasty relied on the imperial court to support them, and they were well maintained!
Wanyan Yan's pseudo-Song group can only rely on limited savings to survive, and it cannot last long. Moreover, the economy of the Japanese island of Kyushu, the target of their invasion, is also very backward and cannot support a centralized bureaucratic state at all. The establishment of a "vassal feudal" system is the only way out.
Of course, this hierarchical feudal system is still quite effective when it comes to expansion and conquest...
