choke element

Chapter 314

At the turn of spring and summer in the second year of Zhenyou, the Mongolian army finally retreated.

For this reason, the Dajin court invited Princess Qiguo, the daughter of Emperor Jingzong, to marry her to Genghis Khan, and presented a batch of wealth in the name of dowry.Fortunately, the Mongolian army did not ask for a lot of property. It was nothing more than a few gold and silver treasures, a few boys and girls, some silk and satin horses and colorful embroidered clothes, and [-] horses.

As the dowry of the princess, these dowries are considered generous, but as compensation for the contract signed between the two big countries, these materials are pitifully small.

Perhaps it was because after the Mongolian army repeatedly plundered Zhongdu, Hebei, Hedong, Shandong and other places, the harvest was too abundant, and the appetite was already full, and no amount of food could be eaten.

In fact, because of the encouragement of the victory of the Dinghai Navy in Shandong, the Jin Army in various places is not as fearful of the enemy as a tiger.After the new emperor of the Dajin Kingdom succeeded to the throne, he indeed promoted some capable generals and formed a more resilient army. He fought fiercely with the Mongolian army a few times near the central capital. Although there were few victories in the field battle, the defenders The city is more than enough.

If the two countries are compared to two people who are entangled and fighting fiercely, then the Dajin Kingdom is like a rich man full of fat.On the other hand, Mongolia is a gangster who has been starving for a long time, so he is extremely fierce. After all, his physical strength still needs to be conserved, and he is also anxious to go home and start a fire to eat the food he robbed from the hands of the rich.

Therefore, since the beginning of the second year of Zhenyou, the war between Jinmeng and Mongolia has reached a stalemate. As the weather is getting hotter, the Mongolian army is even more uncomfortable.Many people in the court noticed this situation. They did not agree with the peace negotiation at all, and asked the emperor to continue to fight with the Mongols.

They believe that once the peace talks show weakness, it will inevitably induce the ambitions of the Mongols, which will instead delay the war.

However, the emperor himself has been very insistent on this.He always believes that the troubles of Dajin are not external but internal. In any case, only by ending the battle with the Mongolian army as soon as possible can he free up his hands and calmly sort out state affairs.

In the previous few months, because of the presence of a senior official like Tu Shanyi, many of the emperor's ideas could not be implemented.But once Tu Shanyi died, the officials gathered around him would inevitably split up.And the emperor is always the emperor. As long as he has basic political means, it is difficult for the officials to directly oppose his opinions.

The joint agreement between Jinmeng and Mongolia was completed soon.

At this time, Princess Qi's cart had already left the Gongchen Gate and was slowly heading north along the long street.Many houses on both sides of the long street were voluntarily demolished, and the demolished bricks, stones and wood were used to defend the city.So behind the two rows of guards and soldiers along the street, some people gathered among the ruins, looked at the convoy silently, and then continued to rummage through the ruins for usable bits and pieces.

The common people knew that after the princess left the city, the war between Jinmeng and Mongolia came to an end, and the millions of soldiers and civilians in Zhongdu who had been under the threat of death for the past six months could breathe a sigh of relief.

This is good news, but the people did not face it with joy.

Almost every family of those refugees died in the war, and they themselves fled for several months. Now they are ragged and skinny. Many people are only a breath away from starvation, and they are not in the mood to cheer.

As for the local people in Zhongdu, the fighting, death, hunger and fear for several months almost shattered their hearts and destroyed their confidence in Daikin.They instinctively knew that even if the Mongolian army retreated this time, the difficulties of the ant people had just begun.

Therefore, on the day when the agreement was reached, the city of Zhongdu was completely silent.

On both sides of the long street, there were officials with complex expressions.

The minds of the officials are more complicated than their expressions.Some Jurchen officers complained in low voices, feeling that their own side still had combat power, and they would not have been so eager to humiliate and seek peace. There were also Haner officials who tried their best to maintain their demeanor, and occasionally made eye contact with their colleagues, knowing that both sides remembered the history books. Those dynasties that are declining...or, there is also the Liao Kingdom of the Khitans.

"You can't do that!"

Qing Shannu, who was in charge of the Servant Bureau, was standing on the Gongchen Gate, seeing this situation, he shook his head again and again.

He immediately recruited a foreign accountant: "You go to Miao Daorun and say, this is a great and happy event for the emperor, how can you be so dead? Let the soldiers under his command shout long live! Let's celebrate!"

Xiao Di led the foreign tent to go, and after a while, some officers and soldiers raised their arms and shouted.The cheers seemed weak, except for the guards and a small number of soldiers who guarded the army, no one responded.However, the emperor is now in Zhaoming Palace, separated by two high walls, he can only hear the general idea, and Qingshan Nu can easily handle it.

Just thinking of this, a servant rushed over and said, "The emperor has summoned you."

Qing Shan Nu hurriedly got up, and before leaving, he told a foreign accountant in a low voice: "You also go and watch. Before the princess leaves the city, all the troops will shout long live, shout loudly! Don't stop!"

Seeing Xiaodi running out of the palace gate, Qingshan servant nodded slightly to the servant.The two walked hurriedly along the corridor in the palace. Qingshannu lowered his eyelids, watching the servant's feet moving quickly, thinking about how to describe the joyful appearance of the soldiers and civilians in Zhongdu.

At the same time, Danzhou City, which is thousands of miles away from Zhongdu.

During the Jianyan period of the Song State in the Southern Dynasty, Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou in the Song State, dug the Yellow River embankment in an attempt to stop the Jin State's army with the river water.As a result, the water attack did not prevent the Jin army from moving freely. On the contrary, more than [-] people in the Song Dynasty were drowned, and tens of millions of people were displaced.

Du Chong himself later surrendered to Dajin and became the third envoy of Yanjing Xingtai and Prime Minister You.

At that time, the Dajin Dynasty was up and down, and no one thought that Du Chong would cause such a big trouble, otherwise he would never end well.After the Yellow River was excavated by Du Chong, it continued to flood for decades, which cost the court countless manpower and resources, and it could not be managed.

Because the Yellow River flows from Si to the Huai River, the Shandong and Nanjing routes are roughly divided by the Yellow River.On Nanjing Road, only Shanzhou and Caozhou are located east of the Yellow River.

During the Ming and Chang years, the Yellow River burst again. This time, the river diverged from Yangwu to flow north, and first flowed into Liangshanbo, and then divided into several rivers.One of the more important ones is roughly parallel to the old road, and after bypassing Jeju and Xuzhou, it merges into one in Pengcheng.

So Caozhou, Danzhou, Jeju, and Xuzhou became areas surrounded by the Yellow River and its tributaries and continuous silted lakes.

Now Cao and Dan prefectures are under the control of Sui Wang Wanyan Shouxu; Ji and Xu prefectures are used by the Red Coat Army as the bases for advancing westward armies; the four prefectures are like a natural battlefield.

In Shanzhou City, Wanyan Heda, who was appointed by King Sui as the envoy of the Henan Commander, strode out of the commander's mansion.He was wearing a heavy armor, and when he stepped, the sturdy iron armor leaves collided with each other, making a rattling sound.

However, when he walked outside the commander's mansion and stood in a slightly open area, the sound of the armor leaves colliding was immediately covered by another sound.The voice came from outside the city, the camp of the Red Coat Army.Shouts poured in like a tsunami and poured into his ears.

That was at least tens of thousands of people shouting one after another.

The shouts came from the wide front, irregular, noisy and chaotic.A little low here, and a sudden high there.After whistling for half a cup of tea, different people and different slogans gradually unified.

A general at the side said: "They are shouting long live! It is Yang An'er, the rebel who has come! This guy... really wins the hearts of the people!"

"Long live? Winning people's hearts?" Wanyan Heda just sneered.

(End of this chapter)