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Chapter 954 New Blood (Part )

After all, the size of the Goryeo Kingdom was too small and too closed compared to the Central Plains Kingdom. The struggle on this land for thousands of years is like a river of blood flowing from a snail's horn. In recent decades, as the rule of military officials has become more stringent, people from all walks of life, including the royal family, literary nobles, monks, common people, low-level soldiers, farmers, merchants, and slaves, have been purged repeatedly.

In this country, there are no real secrets. Any force or group that has political, military, or economic power has been unearthed and fallen under the control of the corresponding leader. In this situation, no one can extract new power that is not controlled by others.

Even if someone finds something new and exciting, they can't hide it from competitors, and they will immediately be attacked by a group of people. This kind of thing has happened many times in the past twenty years. The most recent one was taken advantage of by monk soldiers from more than a dozen monasteries.

This is also an important reason why the living monks who can still stay in the royal city are so kind and harmless.

Now, the real moment has arrived, but no one can do anything. All available power is on the table, and all movements are under the eyes of others, so there is nothing anyone can do.

The one at the top has more room for advancement and retreat, and all it does is show off its strength through polo competitions or other such opportunities, trying to win the support of smaller forces.

Everyone is waiting for Cui Zhongxian to die. Only when he dies will the situation return to chaos and everyone can fish in troubled waters.

However, this situation of no new power to rely on does not mean that there is no room for change.

Although the Goryeo Kingdom is closed, it is not completely isolated from the Central Plains Dynasty. The border line that stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles has, at least in recent years, seen an influx of a lot of new blood.

A few years ago, the Kingdom of Jin came to an end, and there was great chaos in the Northeast and Liaodong. Two heroes took advantage of the situation and established political power in the vast land across the river from the Kingdom of Goryeo.

One of these two outstanding men was a Jurchen named Pu Xianwannu, and the other was a Khitan named Yelvliu Ge.

Their united regime was in turmoil, and was soon defeated by Guo Ning, the current emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, and he himself died. The rest of their troops scattered around, and a considerable part of them entered Goryeo. Although its scale was insignificant in Shangguo, in Goryeo, it was already a huge armed group, and it once caused great turmoil.

Li Yun, the minister of the Zhou Dynasty, took this opportunity to open the door of Goryeo and realize the commercial cooperation between the powerful ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty and Goryeo.

The huge benefits brought by this move helped Cui Zhongxian to firmly control Goryeo. However, the many Khitan and Jurchen people who fled to Goryeo were always regarded as unreliable and hostile people by the Goryeo people, and were strongly ostracized and completely suppressed. Isolated from the political system of Goryeo.

This situation is a tacit understanding shared by all parties in Korea and a political bottom line that must be followed.

After the Khitan and Jurchens' power in Liaodong collapsed, many people were unable to leave their homeland and chose to stay there and surrender to the Zhou Dynasty. Those who ran all the way to Goryeo were undoubtedly a particularly wild and untamed part of the tribe.

They traveled a long distance to escape, not to mention the hardships and hardships on the way. After entering the territory of Goryeo, hundreds of thousands of people were poor and helpless, had no food or water, and had to plunder Goryeo.

The Goryeo Kingdom initially tried to raise troops to conquer, but they were unable to compete with these ruthless characters who escaped from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Cui Zhongxian took the opportunity to eliminate dissidents. As a result, several armies of Goryeo collapsed one after another, costing tens of thousands of lives.

Fortunately, these Khitans and Jurchens have long since lost their foundation. After a few battles, their own strength is no longer sustainable. They were just a makeshift refugee team without a solid organization. The Khitans and Jurchens were at odds with each other internally. The Khitans and Jurchens were divided into many factions with distinct latitude and longitude because of their old grudges in the Central Plains and Northeast China. At that time, Zhou Dynasty came forward as an intermediary to allow these people to stay in the northern area of ​​Goryeo. After a few years, these people could not gain a foothold and gradually dispersed and dispersed.

The people in various parts of the Goryeo Kingdom were able to absorb them at first, but as time went by, conflicts continued to emerge. Because most of these Khitan people and Jurchens are strong and strong, they will do anything for a meal, and their numbers are astonishing. They will inevitably disrupt the originally stable local order and rob the local Koryo people of their jobs.

The area from Kaesong to Yeseong Port is fine. These places have a developed economy, prosperous commerce, and can accommodate a large number of laborers. In other places, whenever northern refugees appear, there will be fierce friction with the Goryeo people. In the past few years, conflicts involving hundreds or thousands of people have broken out more than ten times, often resulting in dozens or hundreds of casualties.

Under this situation, how could ordinary people in Goryeo have any kindness toward the Khitans and Jurchens who went south? It would not be an exaggeration to say that the public was furious and outraged.

All parties in Goryeo naturally pretended to plead for the people and were busy grabbing political capital. Who would risk the world's openness to hook up with those bereaved dogs?

These foreigners came to Goryeo from the central plains or the northeastern hinterland. Many old, weak, women and children were killed or injured, and the rest were young and middle-aged men. And almost all of them could fight. They were all good at riding, and they were warriors who had been tempered over time. .

As long as all parties in Goryeo recruit them, they can easily increase their own military strength and form an overwhelming advantage over their opponents. However, due to the strong public opinion in the country, many things cannot be done openly. At most, they can only be contacted and blended in secret.

The leaders of all forces know that if they want to recruit this group of people on a large scale, this is not the biggest worry. The hierarchy in Goryeo was very strict, and no matter how resentful the common people were, it would not affect the nobles at all. At most, it would damage their reputation.

What they are afraid of is those who are not of my race, and their minds must be different. What they feared was that these foreign warriors maintained private ties with the Central Plains Dynasty and would become a knife to subvert the political situation of Goryeo.

They were even more afraid that the wealth and wealth that their family had built in Goryeo would fall into the hands of others, and that their own power would also lose control and become a puppet under the influence of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

There are even many people who are worried that Cui Zhongxian himself will introduce the power of the Central Plains Dynasty to completely destroy the local Goryeo aristocracy. After all, the title of "King of Goryeo" given by the Central Plains Dynasty that day was really exciting.

The marshal of the capital of Dajin at that time has now become the emperor of Dazhou. Who can guarantee that Cui Zhongxian will not play a big trick before his death and transform himself from King Quan to the real King of Goryeo?

In this case, whoever cites the Khitans and Jurchens from the Central Plains is any different from opening the door and bowing to the robbers?

Such concerns have become widespread in Koryo over the past two years. So when Yin Chang arrived, all forces sent people to investigate, and they all suspected that he was a key figure sent by the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty, and that he was going to do something in collaboration with the countless Khitans and Jurchens stranded in Goryeo.

It turned out that everyone was wrong.

Dazhou did not put his mind on the Kingdom of Goryeo, and Yin Chang was not specially sent by the Emperor of Dazhou. Strictly speaking, Yin Chang, like the Khitans and Jurchens, were all bereaved dogs who were defeated in the Central Plains. It's just that Yin Chang also has a group of partners who are good at running hooks and bars, so he went to Korea to make money!

No matter how ridiculous you think this is, it is true! Those officials from humble backgrounds in the Great Zhou Dynasty were really so shameless!

In this case...the identities of those Khitans and Jurchens are also different.

They were originally full of suspicion and no one dared to use them; but if you no longer worry about their connection with the Great Zhou, these foreigners are fat meat, a piece of fat that can make you stronger!

Nowadays, among all the forces in the King of Goryeo, the one with the weakest military force is Cui Yu, the Deputy Privy Envoy. Cui Zhongxian can conclude that in these few days, his eldest son will recruit a large number of foreigners to his army under the guise of searching for good Roman polo players to prepare for the polo competition.

How can such a thing be delayed? Those Khitan people and Jurchens are all evil ghosts who are crazy about poverty. Whoever can start to lure them a day or two earlier may have hundreds of fierce warriors in their hands, who can play a huge role at the critical moment!

Cui Zhongxian immediately reminded Chi Yunshen to ask him, his second son Cui Jue and others to quickly follow up and carve it up, so as not to fall behind others.

(End of this chapter)