Hearing Zhao Kai's words, the four privy councilors and deputy privy councilors Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Li Shifu, and Dong Jingang, who were also in the imperial study room of Yaochi Palace, almost smiled crookedly.
Zhao Daguan's family is about to go to war...a big war!
This high-ranking official never intended to let go of the Western Bandits, Beijin, and Wanyan Yan who fled to Japan!
The reason why he put these three enemies aside for the time being and instead mobilized his troops to march south was because he had no money!
Because the territories of Xi Zei, Beijin, and Wanyanyan are not profitable, they cannot expect to "make a profit," at least in the short term.
The Western Bandits ran away to the territory of the Four Towns of Anxi. Although that area was much richer than the Western Bandits' original territory, it was too far away from the Central Plains. The cost of military conquest was not low, and the benefits were not too high. Especially after the Western thieves with strong military capabilities ran over and established a military feudal country under the banner of the Tang Dynasty, the cost of conquest would skyrocket.
And this war is likely to turn into a war similar to the Dzunghar Hundred Years War - it was a life-and-death war between two dynasties with Buddhism as their state religion. After they decided the winner, it was the Buddhist forces. Great decline in the Western Region!
Therefore, the struggle between the Song Dynasty and the Western Bandits (Western Tang Dynasty) must be carefully measured...
As for the traitor who sneaked into Japan's Kyushu Island... of course he cannot be let go! But the Japanese devils can't be let go, right?
However, although Zhao Kai was not prepared to let go of the traitors and Japanese devils, the generals under him had little interest in Japan - a remote and remote place, and a long and thin one was left alone in the east, inside the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty A guy who is good at naming even gave Japan a nickname, "Tōjo", which means there is a line of Japan in the east.
It’s just this one, how much oil and water can be gained by beating it?
After Dajin withdrew from the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, although his vitality was severely damaged, his strength still remained. The previous battle to annihilate Goryeo fully demonstrated the strength of the Jin Kingdom. After the destruction of Goryeo, the Dajin Kingdom also took advantage of a few small coins in their pockets, so they began to build a Dajin version of the "Guanning Jinshan Defense Line" on the Yanshan and Liaoxi Corridors.
The "pass" among them is not Shanhaiguan, but Huachengguan on the Liaodong Peninsula - this Huachengguan is stuck at the narrowest point of the Jinzhou Peninsula at the head of the Liaodong Peninsula. It is a triangular fortress with six sides and twelve corners, and it is tightly guarded. It leads to the pass from Jinzhou Peninsula to Liaodong Peninsula. Even if the Song army took the sea route and landed in the bay south of Huacheng Pass in Fuzhou, they would be blocked by Huacheng Pass.
"Ning" is of course not Ningyuan, but Guangning Mansion. Guangning Mansion is the current capital of the Kingdom of Jin. It also guards the mouth of the Liao River and is considered a gate of the Kingdom of Jin. Of course, it is the focus of the golden thief’s defense!
The "Jin" in "Guanning Jinshan Defense Line" is really Jinzhou!
After losing the Shanhaikou, Jinzhou became the key to guarding the Western Liaoning Corridor and defending Guangning Prefecture, the most prosperous place of the Jin Dynasty.
Therefore, in the past two years, the construction of Dajin Kingdom in Jinzhou has been almost uninterrupted!
The "mountain" in "Guanning Jinshan Defense Line" refers to Yanshan. The current Yanshan Mountains are occupied by each of the Song and Jin Dynasties, and are also the focus of competition between the two sides.
Among them, the Yanshan territory belonging to the Great Jin Kingdom was mainly the territory of the original Dading Prefecture in Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom. This territory was granted to Wanyan Zongbi long before the Great Jin Dynasty lost the land of Yanyun, and became the Lulong Jiedushi of the Great Jin Dynasty. The main territory occupied by the company.
After Dajin lost the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, Dading Prefecture became extremely important, and of course it was heavily defended.
Wanyan Zongbi himself became the military pillar of the Jin Kingdom after Zong Han and Xiebao and his son went west. He took over the position of Marshal of the Capital from Wanyan Liang, who had been promoted to emperor, and established a capital in Dading Prefecture. The Marshal's Mansion is in charge of three battlefields including Yanshan, Jinzhou, and Linhuang Mansion!
As the core of the three major battlefields of Yanshan, Jinzhou, and Linhuangfu, Dadingfu and Xingzhongfu in the northeast of the Yanshan Mountains also had many fortresses built layer upon layer, serving as the frontline fortress for the Jin Kingdom to resist the Song Dynasty's attack.
However, what really blocked the progress of the Heavenly Soldiers of the Song Dynasty was not the "Guanning Jinshan Defense Line" of the Kingdom of Jin, but "poverty"!
"Guanning Jinshan" is poor! After fighting so hard, you can't grab anything, so of course everyone has no interest.
Currently, the most promising territories in the Kingdom of Jin are the Liaoyang Prefecture area and the west coast of the Koryo Peninsula. The former is Daliao Tokyo Prefecture, which is fairly well developed. However, this piece of meat is not easy to find. You have to eat the "Guanning Jinshan Defense Line" first!
The latter is the heartland of Korea and has been developed for many years, so it is relatively good. However, the golden soldiers who had just conquered this territory had been plucking the wool, and they were so ruthless! They were all bald...so much so that Wanyan Zongqian and Wanyan Liang thought it was too shabby and wanted to exchange Gaoli and Wanyan Zongpan for Liaoyang.
Because he was too poor, the people in the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty privately called Dai Jin the "Beijing Beggar".
To be honest, no one in the Northern Song Dynasty army wanted to fight the Western Bandits, Dongtiao, and Northern Beggars before Zhao Kai pacified the Southeast. Even Yue Fei is unwilling to "attack Huanglong"... It's not that he doesn't want to complete the great cause of destroying gold, but it's just that we can't fight a war without anyone paying for it!
Although the territory of the Great Jin Kingdom is quite large, especially the plains in Liaodong are very valuable and are said to be extremely fertile.
However, the population there is not large and the level of development is not high. After a war, it will probably be a white land. When the time comes, it will have to be redeveloped, and large investments will be necessary. The soldiers cannot afford that much money to invest, so the land in Liaodong has limited value to them.
But now there are already people paying for the war and development of Liaodong!
Since someone is paying the bill, it’s all for nothing!
Zhao Kai turned around at this time, looked at Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Li Shifu, and Dong Jingang who were laughing sullenly, and asked: "Good minister, Pengju, Xianzhong, Jingang... tell me, this Western thief, Bei Bei or Tojo, who should we fight first?"
"Of course they are gold thieves!" Han Shizhong said with a smile, "In the official family, gold thieves are the first to be beaten when making close friends and attacking far away! And although gold thieves are called northern beggars, their territory is still relatively profitable."
Yue Fei nodded and said: "Second Brother Han is right. The officials want to go straight to Huanglong. Now is the time! But we can't rush to get rid of the gold. It's very difficult to succeed in one fell swoop. We have to be slow." Fight slowly... We have tens of millions a year from the prosperous land in the southeast, so we can fight a protracted war. The gold thieves are too poor and cannot consume our money."
"The official family," Dong Jingang said with a smile, "the gold thieves today are a bit like Goguryeo back then... It would be difficult to wipe them out in one fell swoop, but we can send troops to fight them every year. It's best to choose a time when farming is busy. Go and fight, and let the strong men in their country be busy with military service and unable to farm and harvest. If they fight like this for ten or eight years, it is impossible not to collapse! This is how the Tang Dynasty dealt with Goguryeo back then!"
This Dong Jingang turned out to be a reckless man, but he was willing to learn. As officials became more senior, they read more books, whether they were miscellaneous books or Confucian classics, but military books and history, so their military level became higher and higher. The money-killing strategy proposed now sounds quite reliable.
Zhao Kai nodded and looked at his brother-in-law Li Shifu.
"Officials," Li Shifu said, "of course the gold thieves must be eliminated, but the western thieves cannot be ignored... Because eradicating the gold thieves is a protracted battle. In the process of eradicating the gold thieves, there may be gold thieves who want to destroy the gold thieves. The matter of relocation. According to the Privy Council's investigation, the gold thieves who moved west last time have now merged with the west bandits. If we allow this situation to happen again and again, in the future the gold thieves in the northeast will be wiped out, and the gold thieves in the northwest will probably rise. It will be difficult to destroy it then!”
Zhao Kai nodded again, with an iron-blooded look on his face, "If the Northeast thieves are to be destroyed, the Northwest thieves cannot be let go, and the Japanese thieves in the east cannot be let go either! I, the Great Song Dynasty...will never let go of thieves when they see them. Destroy!"
This tone...you will know you have money in your pocket as soon as you hear it!
What kind of industrialization can other people do if they have money...Zhao Kai, a time traveler, is not good enough and doesn't know how to industrialize, so all he can do is conquer the world.
"Guan family," Han Shizhong said a little worriedly, "are we going to go to war with the Western thieves, the gold thieves and the rebels (referring to Zhao Gou) at the same time?"
Zhao Kai smiled and shook his head, "I'm not that warlike... Even though the country is big, if you are warlike, you will perish, I still know!" He paused, "We and the gold thieves are mortal enemies. There is nothing to say, just fight. But we can still talk with the Western thieves, the rebels, and the Japanese pirates!"
Han Shizhong smiled and said: "The official is famous, but...who are the Japanese pirates?"
He has never heard of Japanese pirates...
"It's Japan!" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "Didn't their envoy Ping Zhongsheng already arrive at Shuntian Mansion? I heard that he also fought against the rebels, and I just happened to have a chat with him."
Taira Taira no Mori fought against the army of the Shogunate of the Song Dynasty at Dazaifu Castle on Kyushu Island, but failed to win and was captured alive by the enemy.
However, Ping Zhongmori did not choose honorable seppuku... This kind of practice was not popular these days. Samurai seppuku became popular during the Kamakura shogunate period. Taira Tadamori, the pillar of the Taira clan samurai, was not so ruthless, so after being in a desperate situation, he chose to surrender disgracefully and offered to pay a ransom for his life.
Wanyan Yan and others were short of money, so they agreed to Ping Zhongsheng's plan. After collecting a little money (they didn't know how valuable Ping Zhongsheng was, they only asked for 100 strings), they released Ping Zhongsheng. He was also asked to bring a letter to Emperor Toba, asking the latter to immediately surrender to the Song Dynasty and cede Kyushu Island to General Zhengyi.
Taira Takaramori took advantage of the opportunity of being imprisoned in Hakata Tangfang and through several familiar Song businessmen to find out the details of the so-called shogunate of the great general who conquered barbarians in the Song Dynasty.
After returning to Heian-kyo, he made a suggestion to Emperor Toba, took the initiative to profess his vassalage to the Song Dynasty court, and then used the power of the Song Dynasty court to eliminate the Song Dynasty General Shogunate in Hakata... and at the same time launched the Song Dynasty Movement. To strengthen oneself.
