Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

In the original history, this old Zongze should have died of illness last year and took up the post left behind in Tokyo!

Although Zongze's death was due to the continuous hard work of fighting, and Song Gaozong's abandonment of Hebei made him angry, but it also shows that Zongze's body is close to exhaustion, right?

Ximenqing decided to issue an order immediately, ordering the Imperial Medical Bureau to recommend An Daoquan to visit Zongze and take care of his body.

17th Chapter [-] The plan of the Southern Expedition and the Northern War

Zong Ze left the palace with enthusiasm for regaining lost ground, and tried his best to manage all affairs of the Ministry of War.

Ximenqing arranged for An Daoquan to recuperate the body of this diligent veteran, and at the same time asked Ma Kuoduo to share the worries of his teacher Zongze and not to make him too tired.

Perhaps spiritual upliftment can really change a person's lifespan. Zong Ze did not show any signs of aging or frailty, which made Ximen Qing, who was secretly observing, feel a little relieved.

It's just that Zongze's eyes are only fixed on Hebei and Hedong, which are close at hand, but he doesn't know that Ximen Qing's eyes have already turned to Jiaozhi in the south.

Rather than fighting against each other within China, Ximenqing is more willing to expand his territory outward.

Ximenqing, who came from a later generation, knows that there are Europe, Africa and America in the far west, and he knows the importance of oceans and great navigation in the future. How can he keep his eyes on the three-acre land in Hebei and Hedong?

When Ximen Qing was in Xingqing Mansion and Wanyan Zonghan gave advice, he once said that he wanted to conquer the Cochin Li Dynasty and the Dali Kingdom in the south. That was not a smoke bomb thrown at Wanyan Zonghan, but Ximenqing's true thoughts.

As for the two countries, the Cochin Li Dynasty and the Dali Kingdom, the more important geographical location is undoubtedly the Cochin Li Dynasty.

The conquest of Jiaozhi will provide a good springboard for Qi's ocean-going fleet to go on expeditions to Southeast Asia and the West.

Moreover, if the Jiaozhi area is completely conquered, wouldn't the future generations of China be able to change the name and justifiably shout out that "the South China Sea has been China's territory since ancient times"?

In order to conquer the Cochin Li Dynasty and control the countries in Southeast Asia in the future, Ximenqing has ordered Qi State Naval Commander Xu Wen to build navies on Fuzhou Road and Guangnan East Road, and at the same time send people to learn ocean navigation from the Arabs who come and go for business.

These Arabs occupied the Arabian Peninsula at the border of Eurasia, used their superior geographical location and modern navigation techniques to travel east and west, and monopolized the maritime trade from East Asia to Western Europe.

Although the shipbuilding industry was very developed in the Song Dynasty, it was not until Zheng He's voyages in the Ming Dynasty that the Chinese fleet set foot in the Indian Ocean for the first time.

Therefore, compared with those Arab businessmen, the Han people in the Central Plains still lack the experience and courage of ocean sailing.

Now that Ximen Qing has decided to go to sea, of course he has to make up for this shortcoming for China.

Those Arab businessmen are treacherous and cunning, in order to protect their own interests in navigation and business, how can they easily give up their navigation technology?

However, Xu Wen, the commander of the navy, was a well-known salt lord back then, and he had a bunch of careless brothers under him.

As soon as this group of brothers took action, not long after, dozens of Arabs accepted the invitation of the Qi State Navy and served as instructors for ocean navigation.

For this reason, Ximenqing also specially selected talents from the coastal states to join the navy to study and study ocean navigation.

Of course, such a big effort cannot be just to conquer the Jiaozhi Li Dynasty.

From Ximenqing's point of view, Li Chao's scumbag army was completely vulnerable to his new army.

And Xu Wen's navy also has the strength to land at any port and beach in Jiaozhi, and carry out a deep blow to the enemies of Jiaozhi.

It is easy to defeat the Jiaozhi Li Dynasty, but the difficulty lies in the long-term garrison there, and the immigration to enrich its land and completely Sinicize it.

The stumbling block facing Ximen Qing and Qi Guo is disease.

Be it Jiaozhi or Dali, they are all in the so-called miasma.When Han people in the north went to those places, they were prone to acclimatization and contracted various diseases.

Ximen Qing, who came from later generations, knows that the so-called acclimatization is actually the lack of antibodies in the body after being infected with different viruses and bacteria in unfamiliar places, resulting in frequent epidemics.

Just like the Chinese of later generations who want to experience the primitive customs in Africa, they must first be injected with many virus vaccines such as dengue fever to ensure that they will not suffer from strange diseases when they go to Africa.

Today's Qi State does not have any virus vaccines, and the bites of mosquitoes in the smoky places in Jiaozhi and Dali can easily infect people with malaria.

Therefore, Ximen Qing, who became the emperor, did not immediately send troops to the south, but asked the "miracle doctor" An Daoquan to lead the famous doctors of the Imperial Medical Bureau to study the panacea for treating malaria and preventing mosquito bites.

I don't know anything else, but Ximen Qing knows that artemisinin can treat malaria.Didn’t the female scientist Tu Youyou win the Nobel Prize for her research on artemisinin?

There is no shortage of Artemisia annua in our country!

When researching medicine, Emperor Ximenqing also ordered the troops stationed on Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road to brainstorm research on the army's anti-mosquito bite measures.

No need to sharpen his sword and practice martial arts, Ximen Qing is already making a strategic plan for the expedition to Jiaozhi.

So, did Ximen Qing give up the Kingdom of Jin, which unified North China, in order to conquer Jiaozhi and Southeast Asia?

This is not an absolute thing either.

For Ximen Qing, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongfu and others at this time are not only his relatives and brothers, but also his reliable political allies.

When these people are in charge of the state of Jin, they can guarantee the stability between the two big countries, Jin and Qi.There is no need for Ximen Qing to launch a war against the Kingdom of Jin.

However, Ximen Qing knew in his heart that most of the Jurchen nobles in the Kingdom of Jin were aggressive and ruthless, and they didn't know much about internal political compromise.

When there is a large-scale war abroad, these Jurchen nobles put all their blood into the foreign war, and they can live in peace with each other.

Once the Kingdom of Jin stops its foreign conquests, those Jurchen nobles will definitely fight and kill each other in order to fight for power.

In the original history, after the fall of the Kingdom of Jin in the Northern Song Dynasty, internal political struggles began. Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Xiyin, Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyanchang, Yelu Yujian and others all became victims of political struggles.

Jin Xizong Wanyan Quan who succeeded Jin Taizong Wanyan Wu begged to buy the throne indiscriminately killed meritorious officials and was killed by Wanyan Liang.

After Hailing King Wanyan Liang became emperor, he raised his butcher knife to massacre the clan and nobles, and finally was usurped by Wanyan Zongfu's son, Jin Shizong Wanyanyong.Wan Yanliang also died at the hands of the rebels.

It wasn't until Jin Shizong Wan Yanyong came to power that the cannibalism of the Jurchen nobles basically ended.

However, this is not because of how merciful or wise and powerful Jin Shizong Wan Yanyong was, but because most of the founding heroes of the Jin Kingdom and their descendants were slaughtered.

The rest of the clan and nobles are mediocre people who can no longer make trouble.

Therefore, Ximen Qing judged that the relationship between the Qi State and the Jin State had stabilized, and after the Jin State lost its expansion momentum, fierce conflicts would inevitably erupt among the Jurchen nobles.

At that time, Ximen Qing will take advantage of the situation, and it will not be difficult to recover the territory lost by the Song Dynasty.

All that is needed now is to train soldiers and horses and wait patiently.

So, when the Kingdom of Jin was temporarily unavailable, why didn't Ximenqing first aim at conquering the Kingdom of Koryo across the sea?

In a word, Koryo is too poor with many mountains and little land.

In Ximenqing's eyes, Koryo has no value worth conquering.

Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Chapter 48

In the second year of Qi Chengde and the eighth year of Jin Tianhui, the state of Qi was well-organized and the people were harmonious, Haiyan and Heqing, and there was a scene of governing the world after the troubled times.

Although Ximenqing did not stop preparations for the two wars between the North and the South, he handed over all these military preparations to Luan Tingyu, Tong Guan, Zong Ze, Wang Jin, Tang Long, Ling Zhen and other ministers.