Su Yonglin was not surprised at all that Xin Qiji could say such things.
Previously, Zhao Kaishan and the others also wanted to contact the Southern Song Dynasty and hook up with the Southern Song Dynasty to see if they could get support or something.
To put it bluntly, they still feel that the Kingdom of Jin is too strong and they are too weak. It is okay to fight in a small way. If they really want to persevere, they must find a strong support.
Finally, he used the fact that Zhao Gou was an eunuch to dissuade him, and used the matter of becoming emperor to arouse his ambition, which temporarily stopped Zhao Kaishan from wanting to rely on the Southern Song Dynasty.
As for Xin Qiji.
He may have more feelings, a feeling of regret inherited from his grandfather, so the filter of yearning for the Southern Song Dynasty is even stronger.
Naturally, Xin Qiji obviously did not believe that the Liberation Army alone could defeat the Jin Army and retake the Central Plains. He was still more willing to believe that the Southern Song Army had this ability.
One side is a rebel organization that has just started to take action, and the other side is a mature state power. Anyone would think that the latter is more reliable.
Yes, if Yue Fei was still alive, the Southern Song Dynasty army did have this ability.
Unfortunately he is dead.
Contact Southern Song to ask for its help?
Su Yonglin sighed deeply, raised his wine glass and took a sip.
"You'an, do you know where I come from?"
"Um?"
"I come from the Song Kingdom in the south. I am not from the Jin Kingdom. Before that, I was a Song Dynasty."
"ah?"
Xin Qiji looked shocked: "Shuai Su is from Song Dynasty?"
"Well, I came from the Song Dynasty. Before March, I had been living in the Song Dynasty. My grandfather was also an official in the Song Dynasty. He was the magistrate of Fuzhou. My experience is very similar to yours. The difference is that our two grandfathers What’s done is different.”
Su Yonglin smiled slightly and told Xin Qiji what his grandfather had experienced, how the Su family later became a private salt dealer family, and Su Yonglin's own decision to leave the Song Dynasty and go north to rebel.
He wanted to break the yearning filter in Xin Qiji's heart and tell Xin Qiji that the Southern Song Dynasty was not a beacon of the Han family, but a cowardly, cowardly and incompetent separatist regime.
After Xin Qiji heard Su Yonglin's story, he was full of surprise and uncertainty and found it unimaginable.
"how so?"
"How could it not be like this? At the beginning, my grandfather was so heroic. He enthusiastically helped General Yue in his Northern Expedition, risking his life to fight the gold thief. But in the end, it was all in vain. General Yue was killed, and my grandfather had no thoughts.
I don’t know how my grandfather ended up on the road of smuggling salt, but I think it was the only way my grandfather could find after his idea of the Northern Expedition was shattered. My grandfather may have wanted to express his dissatisfaction with the Song Dynasty. . "
Su Yonglin sighed: "The Song State's dissatisfaction and suppression of the Northern Expeditionary Patriots is no longer something that can be explained clearly in a few sentences. It is clearly their homeland, but they do not allow their own troops to recover it, but instead give it to others. What is this? "
Xin Qiji sat opposite Su Yonglin with his eyes wide open, like a sculpture, silent and motionless, as if he was thinking about some difficult problem.
Seeing Xin Qiji's confused posture, Su Yonglin felt that he should add something.
"Later, I thought about it carefully for a while and realized that the problem is not simple."
Xin Qiji raised his eyes and looked at Su Yonglin.
"Dare you ask Su Shuai, what's your question?"
"An obvious and fundamental question."
Su Yonglin dipped his finger into the remaining wine in the glass and drew a line on the table.
"This is Huainan, this is Huaibei, generally speaking, it is the current boundary between the Song and Jin Dynasties."
Xin Qiji nodded.
"Before Jingkang, the Song Dynasty ruled the people of Huainan and Huaibei. There were southerners and northerners in the court. The number of northerners was more and the number of southerners was smaller."
Su Yonglin continued: "After Jingkang, the Central Plains were taken away by the Jin Kingdom. After the Shaoxing Peace Conference, the Song Kingdom really only had the land of Huainan, and no longer had the land of the Huaibei Central Plains. At this moment, You'an, do you think the Song Dynasty What is the foundation of the country?”
Xin Qiji looked at the line on the wine table and suddenly realized something.
"Southerners."
"Yes, Southerner."
Su Yonglin took a deep breath: "So You An, a very fundamental question has surfaced. Who are the people who want to expedition to the North and restore the Central Plains?"
Xin Qiji thought for a while, his brows gradually furrowed.
"The four generals of ZTE mentioned by the Song Dynasty court, Yue Fei, Zhang Jun, Liu Guangshi, and Han Shizhong, are all from the north."
Su Yonglin stared at Xin Qiji: "They lost their hometown and did not want it to be ravaged by the golden soldiers. They had a strong desire for the Northern Expedition. They did not want the court to settle down in a corner and lose the Central Plains. At that time, the war ministers, subordinates and their Most of his subordinates are from the north.
However, the Song Dynasty never regained the Central Plains, so the number of northerners in the imperial court gradually decreased. Those who entered the court through imperial examinations were gradually all southerners. The southerners did not feel the pain of losing their hometown. How many people were willing to make the Northern Expedition with the feelings of their homeland?
The Northern Expedition required a lot of money, food, and manpower. Where did these things come from? They all come from the land of Jiangnan, and all losses are borne by the southerners. The loss of the Central Plains is not the fault of the southerners. So how many southerners are willing to bear these losses and contribute to the Northern Expedition of the Central Plains for the Song Dynasty? "
After saying that, Su Yonglin sighed.
"It is true that there are many southerners who are willing to go to the Northern Expedition, and there are also many northerners who are not willing to do so. The traitor Qin Hui who was in power in the past actually advocated the policy of moving from south to south and from north to north, which influenced the Song Dynasty court to repatriate the people from the south to the north, for fear that this would It makes the Jin people displeased."
When these words came out, Xin Qiji felt his heart being tugged hard.
"It has been thirty years since the Song Dynasty moved south. In thirty years, one generation died and another generation grew up. How many of the new generation still cherish the pain of the loss of their country? How many people still cherish the thought of the Northern Expedition? , thinking about recovering the Central Plains?
The longer the time goes by, the more willing the Song State is to stay in a corner, and the Han people living in the Central Plains are becoming more and more willing to accept the rule of the Jin State. Most of the heroes who joined the rebel army in You'an lost their land or were about to lose it because of the Jin people's land-grabbing policy. land, so he hated the Jin people.
They did not turn against gold because of the pain of the loss of their country and country, but they turned against gold because of the damage to their property. How many people like you are there who fought against gold because of the loss of their country and their country? In this regard, Huainan and Huaibei are no different. "
The night was very quiet, and the gentle breeze blew away the heat accumulated during the day, giving this late spring season that is approaching summer a rare sense of coolness.
Xin Qiji frowned and was silent for a long time, then suddenly raised his head and looked at Su Yonglin.
"Su Shuai, what kind of person are you?"
"I am neither."
Su Yonglin raised the corners of his lips and said with a smile: "I was born in the southern country, but I crossed to the northern country to rebel. You'an, don't you think I'm weird?"
"indeed so."
Xin Qiji looked at Su Yonglin seriously: "Then, can Su Shuai tell me why Su Shuai left the Song Dynasty and went north to fight against the Jin Dynasty?"
