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Chapter 487 The Age of Confrontation (Part [-])

On the evening of April [-], after dinner, the sky gradually darkened.

You can see the bright lights in the Jinjun barracks.

But in fact there was silence all around.

If you look closer, you will find that there is no one there.

That's right, the Jin army began to retreat.

This is a helpless move.

By the evening of April [-], the Song Army scouts found a large number of horseshoe footprints around.

The information was intensively sent to Han Shizhong.

Jin Jun retreat?

Han Shizhong was not sure whether the Jin army really retreated, or whether they deliberately retreated to advance.

In other words, the Jin army is really retreating, but it is also true to retreat.

As long as the Song army pursues and kills them, they may encounter an ambush by the Jin army.

Han Shizhong ordered all the ministries not to move around, and asked someone to send a message to Hu Yantong, and make an ambush, only ambush, no pursuit.

Both sides are on high alert while exercising the necessary restraint.

On the evening of April [-], Zhang Rong received a military order from Han Shizhong. He led eight large ships and set off from the port of Duli City, all the way to the north.

On April [-], the information about Zongfu's request for help first arrived at Liaoyang Mansion, and then sent to Yanjing respectively from Liaoyang Mansion.

On the afternoon of April 24, the day before the Jin Army arrived in Gaizhou, the Song Army Navy arrived in Gaizhou.

Jin Jun never thought that Song Jun could go north faster than them.

The Song army who arrived in Gaizhou landed quickly and launched a surprise attack on the unsuspecting Gaizhou area.

When Zongfu and Wan Yanchang arrived at the boundary of Gaizhou on April 25, the scouts reported that there were a large number of Song troops in Gaizhou.

Zongsuke was shocked by this news.

Why does Gaizhou also have Song Army?

Jin Jun, who had already relaxed, immediately became vigilant again.

Amidst the tension, the Jin army retreated cautiously to Liaoyang Mansion.

Finally, Zongsuke completely fell ill.

In the early morning of April 26, Wanyan Aguda's third son, Wanyan Zongfu died of illness on his way back to Liaoyang Mansion.

Wan Yanchang kept his mourning secret and continued to retreat northward with the Jin army.

On the evening of April 27th, the eight hundred li urgently sent from Liaoyang Mansion to Yanjing was placed on Zongwang's table.

Zong Wang's face was extremely gloomy.

Without any further hesitation, he ordered fifty thousand elite troops from Yanyun to withdraw to Liaoyang that day.

At the same time, he wrote a letter to Wanyan Wu Qimai about the internal strategic adjustment of the entire Dajin Kingdom.

I hope that Wanyan Wu Qimai can transfer another 3 people from Shangjing to Liaoyang.

Jin Guo had no choice but to start stationing heavy troops in Liaoyang Mansion, and spend time finding out the details of the Song Army in Fuzhou before making plans.

The withdrawal of Yan Yun's troops and the change in the battle situation in Liaodong meant that in the sixth year of Jingkang, Jin's military deterrence against the Song Dynasty had temporarily failed.

The direct purpose of Zongwang's army gathering in Yanyun, Zhending, Zhongshan, and Hejian is actually very simple. Coercion by force is a bargaining chip in the negotiations with Song Dynasty on the matter of Taiyuan Mansion.

Things that cannot be obtained on the battlefield have become more difficult on the negotiating table, or in other words, it is almost impossible to obtain them.

What exactly do the peacemakers of the Kingdom of Jin want to get?

Absolute right to trade with Song, export goods with zero tariffs for Song.

How does this benefit Jin Guo?

If the trade between Song and Jin is fully opened, what impact will it have on Song and Jin respectively?

If a person in the 21st century sees this question, he will probably raise his hand immediately: I will answer this question. The Kingdom of Jin is so stupid that he even wants to start a business. My Song Dynasty directly dumps the products of the Kingdom of Jin. Just play to the death of the Kingdom of Jin up.

This is the result of only endorsement.

The concept of commodity dumping was simply unplayable in the 12th century.

The manufacturing industry of Song Dynasty is obviously more developed than that of Jin Dynasty. Opening up is good for Song Dynasty, right?

At first glance it looks like this!

Then why did the Great Song Dynasty in history strictly control the trade between Song Jin, Song Xia, Song Gaoli, Song and Japan?

The reason is simple, because the population of all countries around the Central Plains Dynasty is limited.

Moreover, I have to admit that in this era, the people who live the most enjoyable lives are the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

The mighty Liao and Jin kingdoms have an advantage in military force, but their people's life is much worse than that of the Song Dynasty, let alone Xixia.

The people have neither enough population nor consumption power, so what are we talking about dumping commodities?

Besides, there are four necessary conditions for commodity dumping:

[-]. The production cost should be low enough.

Second, the transportation cost should be low enough.

[-]. The business environment must be stable enough.

Fourth, the consumer group is large enough.

These four points were not available in the Kingdom of Jin in the 12th century.

If it is necessary to talk about who will sell more things after the opening of the two sides, I am afraid it really is the Kingdom of Jin.

Song Dynasty transported things there, and maybe there were only a few counties in the Kingdom of Jin who had spare money for consumption.

Unless it is a fixed-point supply, such as supplying to a densely populated place in the Kingdom of Jin, doing business for some people.

In other words, use the market to sell directly to Jin Guo officials, but the demand is relatively small.

The Kingdom of Jin transported their goods southward, facing a massive and capable consumer market.

It is the same reason as the Kingdom of Jin exported sheep and green and white salt to the Song Dynasty the year before last.

Changbai Mountain is extremely rich in products, and commodities outside the Great Wall are extremely popular in the Central Plains.

This is also the situation that the conservatives in the Kingdom of Jin have always wanted to establish.

Moreover, the Kingdom of Jin is short of copper coins.

But now, due to the passiveness of the strategic situation, the state of Jin may not have such a good bargaining chip in the next negotiation between Song and Jin.

After arranging the reinforcements to support the Liaoyang Mansion, Zong Wang turned around and sent another envoy to the Song Dynasty.

On the evening of April 28th, Zhao Ning was finishing his meal when Gao Qiu came.

"Your Majesty, there is something urgent."

"Say." Zhao Ning is in a good mood recently.

The situation in Liaodong is advancing, and he is waiting for good news from Han Shizhong.

The purchase of horses in the northwest is also progressing smoothly, and the replenishment of war horses in Shaanxi has reached the scale of [-] horses.

Both Li Yanxian and Liu Kai's troops are deploying large-scale cavalry regiments.

Moreover, Zhao Ning also wrote to Yue Fei, asking him to select a few capable cavalry from the Shenwu Army Cavalry Corps to go to the northwest to train them in cavalry.

Once the Shaanxi Cavalry Corps is established, Xixia should prepare the coffin.

Gao Qiu hesitated for a moment, and said: "There is another private fight in Jiangling Mansion. This time, more than 3000 people participated in the civil war, and as many as [-] people were killed or injured."

When Zhao Ning heard the news, he was so angry that he slapped the rice in the bowl on the table, and said angrily: "Does Tang Ke not want to do it anymore!"

Gao Qiu said quickly, "Your Majesty, calm down."

"3000 people!" Zhao Ning suddenly stood up, "You are too courageous! This is a rebellion!"

"Your Majesty, I believe that this matter has something to do with the large-scale land reclamation on Jinghu North Road. Every private fight is due to the competition for good land!"

"What! The fertile land that has been opened up can't be distributed privately! What are they doing as the court! Challenge my patience again and again!"

Chapter 488 An account of destroying the country! (Second more)

Gao Qiu said: "Your Majesty, I think we should send an army to Jiangling Mansion to stabilize the situation."

Zhao Ning said: "Pass down my order, let Zhang Bofen lead three thousand elites to Jiangling Mansion, anyone who dares to make a mess will be killed!"

"Yes." Wang Huaiji received the order and immediately went to deliver the message.

Gao Qiu said again: "Your Majesty, this matter may not be simple."

"How do you say that?"

"Jiangling Mansion is now vigorously reclaiming wasteland, and countless people are staring at it. The several private fights must have been caused by those behind the scenes who did not evenly distribute the spoils."

Gao Li's words are more particular: behind the scenes, uneven distribution of spoils.

But Zhao Ning saw another point. He asked: "It is really not easy to incite more than 3000 people to fight privately. This is rebellion! How did they do it?"

Gao Qiu said: "This may be related to private usury."

"usury?"

"I have occasionally heard it mentioned by others that many peasants in the private sector actually owe usury to the landlord."

Zhao Ning suddenly realized.

The reason may really be what Gao Lian said.

The national conditions of the Song Dynasty are definitely much more complicated than those of the Tang Dynasty.

With the unprecedented prosperity of business and the rise of merchant groups, in the era of official standards, officials and merchants found each other for the first time.

Quan and Qian have a great cooperation of the century.

More than 100 years of land annexation and the great development of commerce led to the emergence of a trinity of usury groups of officials, businessmen and landlords in the Song Dynasty.

The usury of landlords to tenants further strengthened the personal attachment of tenants to landlords.

In this way, the landlord can mobilize those tenants who owe huge sums of money to work hard for them.

Because of such a national condition, Wang Anshi also introduced the "Young Crop Law".

There were serious differences between Wang Anshi's "benefit from one hole" concept of governing the country and Sima Guang's concept of "equity between the rich and the poor".

The failure of Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law means that the imperial court has completely failed to control the lending business.

Zhao Ning fell into deep thought. The reasons behind the Jiangling mansion's private struggle were complicated.

Perhaps the most important thing is the landlord's firm control over the life relationship of the tenants.

The landlord interest group is the most corrupt and shameless.

They just keep buying houses... oh no, keep acquiring land and renting it out to tenants.

They do not create any value by themselves.

Merchant capitalists can also promote commercial prosperity in their greedy pursuit of profits.

But the landlord group is a cancer!

In fact, private fights occurred from time to time in ancient times.

The reason why Jiangling Mansion has been doing so frequently recently is because the huge benefits brought by land reclamation have intensified the conflicts between all parties.

It seems that land reform in the south is imperative!

Especially Jinghu Road, Jiangnan Road and Liangzhe Road, these places have extremely rich natural resources, and it is definitely a huge loss for the court to be controlled by local forces.

Zhao Ning no longer talked about Jiangling Mansion, he already had an arrangement in mind.

He asked: "I asked you to investigate the situation of the folks on South Jingxi Road. How did the investigation go?"

"There is intelligence."

"Say."