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Since the establishment of the Ding Dynasty in the Song Dynasty, he has never been good at foreign wars.Although there are endless famous ministers and generals who strive for frontier merits in the country, due to various reasons, no matter whether they are facing the Liao Kingdom, Xia Kingdom or even the southern borderlands, they have never had any real decent results.Later, the tragedy of the Jingkang period cannot be mentioned.

After the south crossing, both the Xiaozong dynasty and the current dynasty tried to restore it.However, before the mobilization of troops, although the government and the public were noisy, the result after the war was always loss of soldiers and generals.Even though there are some victories in various battlefields, once Hu Ma peeps at the river, the court can't support it, and has to humiliate and sue for peace.

From the standpoint of the court, it is necessary to find out the achievements. It is nothing more than that the emperor of the Song Dynasty is no longer a courtier of the Jin people, but a nephew.The Emperor Dajin on the opposite side is sometimes an uncle and sometimes an uncle.Although he is inferior in seniority, after all, he doesn't need to be called his own father, and he still has face.

Ever since the head of Prime Minister Han was sent to the Kingdom of Jin, most of the officials of the State of Song have understood the disparity in force between the North and the South.Even those who once advocated the Northern Expedition have to admit that recovery is certainly a good thing, but if they do not do what they can, they can only bring shame on themselves.

As for the hearts of the people, it has become even more decadent.Although people with lofty ideals are still struggling, more people can neither see the hope of victory nor the source of benefits from the war, so as Taoist Baishi said: "Waste ponds and trees are still tired of talking about soldiers. "

Under such a situation, Da Song's attitude towards the Kingdom of Jin in the north turned to compromise and tolerance.The relationship between the two countries eased, business and trade flourished immediately, and commercial smuggling became unstoppable.In southeast coastal states and counties such as Huating, Haiyan, Qinglong, Gujing and Jiangyin, Zhenjiang, Tongtai, etc., local treacherous households widely harvest rice dendrobium and sell it to the north. Can profit several times.In the past two years, merchants have not only smuggled food, but also strategic materials such as iron ingots, copper ingots, rawhide, and swim bladders, which are directly converted into armor and weapons, have also become popular goods and shipped out ship after ship.

Jia She has always been clear about this.With his shrewdness, he can find out which merchants have problems by standing at the gate of the Xuyi market for a meal, and when he returns to Gaoyou to look at the boats along the canal, he can tell which merchants are from just by glancing at the depth of the water. There are also materials in the gang cargo.

But when he knew it, he knew it, and he didn't talk too much.

Because once you talk too much, your head will hate your neck at any time.

Because this kind of smuggling trade was to a certain extent connived by the court, some people in the court were happy to see it succeed, and hoped that local officials would be the umbrella.

Because the power of the Song Dynasty court was not enough to restrain these giant merchants, and the court did obtain horses, furs and other materials that the Song Dynasty urgently needed in its trade with the Kingdom of Jin.

It was also because Da Song discovered that it was the many local forces in the Kingdom of Jin who benefited from this trade.In the early years, these forces were dominated by the Shandong Red Coat Army. After they captured the city and plundered the land, they took the money they looted from the Jurchen Meng'an Mouke and exchanged it with the Song people for necessary food.After the business was done, Laizhou Dinghaijun replaced the Red Coat Army and became a major customer in one fell swoop.

From the rumors brought back by the sea merchants, Jia She had long known that Guo Ning, the navy, was a strongman similar to the Five Dynasties vassals, and he was incompatible with the Jin Kingdom's court. Relationship.

Their opposition to such a huge trade has long been evident.And Da Song was particularly happy to use this method to support different forces in the Kingdom of Jin.There are people rebelling and people fighting in the Kingdom of Jin, and those are things that can weaken the captives.What our side uses is just a group of merchants, and has nothing to do with the imperial court itself.

That being the case, who wouldn't want to watch a show just to have fun?
For this reason, in the past few years, Song Dynasty has shown a looser control over market trade and smuggling as it went east, and began to turn a blind eye to the flow of many important materials.

The Tianshui military field in the west is limited to the Shu Road, so the trade volume is limited in the first place, and it is mainly a place for importing cattle and horses from the north, let alone.In Xiangyang Dengcheng Market, Anfeng Army's Anfeng Army Huajiu Town, and Gwangju Zhongdu Field, the management gradually became lax.But because the opposite is the Nanjing Road of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Shouxu, who stayed behind in Nanjing, has done a lot, so the merchants did not dare to mess around in the two major commodities of food and military supplies.

Only here in Xuyi, Shandong is separated from Hongze in the north, and it directly connects many heroic forces in Shandong.

The local supervisor, Lao Ma, and the escort officer, Lao Luo, even openly accepted money and bribes to dispatch soldiers under their command to escort smugglers.About [-]% of the bribes they accepted went through Jia She's hands, and they actually came from Jiangdu, Yangzhou; the other [-]% came from Hefei, and most of them were Huaixi generals behind them.

In front of Jia She, Lu Boda, the envoy of Jin State Sizhou who was sighing, was dragged down by Jia She and others because he was repeatedly sent by Kaifeng to negotiate.This sounds absurd, but it is actually very common on the border between Song and Jin. After all, the courts on both sides are so loose, and the people below always have to live.Who doesn't like yellow copper coins?

But Jia She really didn't expect that Guo Ning of the Dinghai Navy would do such a big thing!

He didn't take everything Lu Boda said seriously, this guy drank some wine, and obviously started talking nonsense, and now he has already touched on Guo Ning's family history, saying that that Guo Ning had entered Zhongdu alone in his early years, He set fire to the imperial palace, and then fought out of the city with thousands of soldiers from the Kingdom of Jin.That's too much.

Thinking of this, Jia She probably showed an expression of disbelief.Lu Boda stood up, grabbed Jia She's clothes, and shouted: "At that time, Marshal Hu Shahu was standing at the foot of the city, shouting loudly, who dares to kill me! As a result, before the words were finished, the group of strong men who ordered the navy went arrive……"

"Ahem, Lao Lu, you're drunk, and you were talking about burning the palace earlier, who is this Hu Shahu? Is it the one who rebelled two years ago?"

"Really?" Lu Boda frowned and thought for a while: "Oh, did I get it wrong? That's okay, let's talk about Hu Shahu's usurpation first. If it weren't for this guy who murdered the first emperor, Guo Ning would never have started a family. Chance!"

"Never mind, whatever. Say it."

Lu Boda kept talking non-stop, Jia She responded with his mouth, and continued to think in his mind.

There is no doubt about one thing, that is, Guo Ning has indeed controlled the central capital by force, and the generals from all over the Dajin Kingdom, at least for now, can do nothing to him.The same is true for Wanyan Shouxu, who is so powerful in Nanjing.

You don't need to listen to Luboda's nonsense, but his anxiety is not fake.If he does this, Daikin Nanjing Road will only become more nervous and vigilant.And this kind of nervousness and vigilance must be due to the disadvantage in strength, and because the Dajin Kingdom is actually facing unprecedented difficulties.

Amidst Lu Boda's rambling words, Jia She remembered something again.

Last year, when the soldiers left behind in Nanjing fought against the Red Coat Army, the two sides mobilized more than 20 troops, and it is said that blood flowed like rivers.The rest of the Red Coat Army later fled to the Song Dynasty. Jia She met some of them, and even set up a bridge to find a place for them to hide.Those people are all veteran soldiers.

Wanyan Shouxu's troops were able to defeat the Red Coat Army, which shows that they are good at fighting.But Jia She also heard that Guo Ning, the commander of the navy, raised troops to attack the Red Coat Army, and within a month, he captured many territories of the Red Coat Army and defeated or killed countless famous bandits.And this person went north to Zhongdu, and defeated Daijin's old enemy Mongolia and Daikin's capital Marshal Shuhu Gaoqi one after another. It can be seen that his strength is indeed much stronger than Wanyan Shouxu.

The current situation is like two families living next to each other, one is fierce and the other is weak, and the weak are often bullied.However, there are also difficulties in a vicious family, that is, there are many vicious dogs in the house, and they cannot be driven away, and they are bitten from time to time.

The frail family has free time on weekdays, so it feeds a few bites of dog food to the vicious dog of the vicious family, thinking that one day the vicious dog will bite the neighbor, and I will look at it through the courtyard wall, just to have fun.

However, it may be that too much dog food was fed, and one of the vicious dogs had grown into a fierce tiger. Not only did it bite the vicious neighbor to death, but it was about to take over the nest and become its master.

So, the result of weak neighbors and fierce tigers being neighbors.what will happen?
Jia She suddenly remembered the events of the Jingkang period, and thought of the consequences of Dajin replacing Daliao, and couldn't help but fight a cold war.

After drinking for three rounds, Luboda left drunkenly.When the boat was ups and downs in the wind and waves of the Huaihe River, he still climbed the side of the boat and waved to the Quechang pier.

Jia She and the others all smiled and waved their hands.

Until Luboda crossed the river and landed, the figure was completely invisible.Lao Ma, the supervisor in charge of the market, sneered: "This guy is pretending to be drunk. Brother Ji Chuan, most of the good wine you brought is on his lapel, but not much goes into his mouth."

Jia She didn't take it seriously: "He just came to pass on a message. The officials of the Shang Dynasty couldn't let go of their arrogance, and they had to be drunk to speak. It's really embarrassing for him, brother! Since they made a special trip to convey the news, we have to report it quickly. Slightly."

"I don't know how true or false these words are."

"Although I can't believe it all, it's probably not bad."

Jia She looked up to the sky and said haha: "No hurry, I figured that the two congratulatory emissaries who went to Zhongdu before will return soon. They are not used to traveling by sea, the ships must follow the Liyang route, and they will go to Chu first. Zhou, Taizhou. I have some friendship with them, and when the time comes, I will be able to welcome them and ask them, and I will know the inside story."