One Piece of Song Dynasty

Li Xin received Liang Xing's secret letter soon. After translating, Liang Hongyu said: "Officer, Liang Xing sent a message saying that Zhang Jue has been defeated and fled."

Li Xin put down his almost one-and-a-half-year-old son, took the letter, read it and sneered: "The imperial court wants to get Pingluan Camp, but is unwilling to send troops to help Zhang Jue fight the Jin army. How can there be such a good thing in the world? Zhang Jue does the same. I misjudged the imperial court, and it is normal for the army to be defeated. Now I just don’t know if the Jin people have obtained the imperial court’s handle from Zhang Jue.”

After Zhang Jue fled to Yanjing, he directly took refuge with Yaoshi Guo. He knew that Yaoshi Guo held military power and was a powerful man. He changed his name to Zhao Xiucai and hid in the Changsheng Army.

Since the great victory at Fengshan, Medicine Master Guo has relied on his military exploits and the favor of the emperor. Therefore, he has become a little complacent, arrogant, arrogant and arrogant. Nominally, Wang Anzhong is the top leader of the Yanshan Mansion, and Guo Pharmacist is his deputy. But in fact, Wang Anzhong has no involvement in the Chang Sheng Army. Even many government orders require Guo Pharmacist's nod to count. Wang Anzhong was a scholar with a weak character. He did not dare and could not subdue Yaoshi Guo. He only knew how to flatter him. Any military supplies such as weapons, armor, staffs, etc. that Pharmacist Guo wanted, he would write to the court and try his best to supply them. Pharmacist Guo said that horses were needed, and Wang Anzhong "entrusted them with all the internal officials and horses". In order to raise more military expenses and satisfy his personal interests, Guo Yaoshi sent his subordinates to engage in business such as selling boats in various states within the Song Dynasty to make money. At the same time, he also summoned some skilled Liao craftsmen who served Emperor Tianzuo back then to make various ingenious and precious items such as jade belts and ingots, which were used to make friends with the dignitaries in the court and the eunuchs in the palace. They all liked them. At this time, the Ever Victorious Army had soldiers, and the Shiliang Xiang soldiers were said to have people, all of whom were under the command of Pharmacist Guo. However, what is puzzling is that Pharmacist Guo and his men still did not change their clothes at this time, that is, they still wore Liao clothes instead of Song clothes. Many people privately compared him with An Lushan and considered him a dangerous figure.

What Guo Yaoshi did caused dissatisfaction with Zhan Du. Zhan Du was not as weak as Wang Anzhong. He had a stronger character. He wanted to restrict Guo Yaoshi from the scope of his power. Zhan Du was nominally the military director of Yanjing, but there were only troops stationed in Yanjing, which was incomparable to the strength of the Ever-Victorious Army. If Zhan Du wants to take full control of the military, he must subdue Pharmacist Guo, but Pharmacist Guo is not willing to be controlled by Zhan Du. The relationship between the two is becoming increasingly hostile.

Zhan Du and Guo Yaoshi both knew Yanshan Mansion and were both Wang Anzhong's deputies. But the court did not clarify who was the first deputy, and the two had a fierce dispute over this. Pharmacist Guo believed that in the emperor's imperial edict, he had the title of "Jie Yue" and his position of power should be above Zhan Du. Zhan Du believes that the ranking order on the imperial pen is the order of power positions. His name is in the front and Guo Yaoshi's name is in the back. This means that his power position should be higher than that of Guo Yaoshi. Neither of them could convince the other, and the conflict became increasingly acute. Wang Anzhong was unable to reconcile, so he had to write to the court and ask the emperor to solve the problem.

Song Huizong felt that guarding Yanjing was inseparable from Guo Yaoshi and Chang Shengjun, so he issued an edict to swap Zhan Du with Cai Jing, the prefect of Hejian Prefecture.

Cai Jing was a civil servant with a calm personality and a broad mind. After coming to Yanjing, he was honest with Guo Yaoshi. Guo Yaoshi also respected him and his domineering momentum was somewhat restrained. As a result, the disunity among the leadership team of Yanshan Prefecture was resolved. However, the military power of the Ever Victorious Army was still firmly in the hands of Guo Yaoshi.

Wanyan Zongwang personally returned to Shangjing and reported the Song Dynasty documents such as the imperial edict, imperial edict and edict given to Zhang Jue by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty to Jin Taizong. He suggested that the Emperor of the Song Dynasty should be taught a lesson when the opportunity arises. Of course Jin Taizong was very angry after reading these documents. These documents can be said to be ironclad evidence that the Song Dynasty colluded with the traitor Zhang Jue. But Jin Taizong was very political and calm-minded. He didn't want to break up with the Song Dynasty right away because Emperor Tianzuo hadn't been captured yet, and Zhang Jue hadn't been captured either. The Jin Kingdom couldn't make enemies on three sides. As for how to retaliate against the Song Dynasty, , and leave it for later.

Wanyan Zongwang thought about it and felt that the time to fight the Song Dynasty was indeed not mature enough at this time. He has not fully understood the military strength of the Song Dynasty, especially Guo Yaoshi and the Changsheng Army, and he is still wary.

After returning to the front line in Pingzhou, Zong Wang suppressed his anger and sent a letter to the Xuanfu Division in Yanshan, saying that since China has formed an alliance with me, you should give me food and salary when I come to attack the rebels. Wang Anzhong hurriedly reported to the court. Song Huizong did not want to break the relationship with the Jin State, let alone anger the Jin army, so he issued an edict to Yanshan Xuanfu Division to transport grain to the Jin army. How did Song Huizong know that the edict he gave to Zhang Jue had already fallen into the hands of the Emperor of Jin and had already become a handle. And this handle later became an important reason for the Jin army to invade south.

Pingzhou City was besieged for many days, but Zhang Dungu, the commander-in-chief, still refused to surrender. Zong Wang was furious, so he mobilized a hundred thousand troops to attack the city forcefully. It wasn't until Pingzhou City ran out of ammunition and food that Zhang Dungu and others surrendered. After the Jin army occupied Pingzhou, Zong Wang comforted Zhang Dungu and others and pardoned their crimes. Later, taking advantage of Zongwang's return to Beijing for business, Zhang Dungu and others reoccupied Pingzhou and once again killed Jin officials and rebelled against the Jin. Zongwang ordered his mother to lead an army to attack the city. Soon, she captured Pingzhou. Zhang Dungu and others were killed, and his mother was reinstated because of her meritorious service. The people of Pingzhou were very tenacious. When the Jin army broke through the city, thousands of people in the state refused to surrender and fled from Kaicheng.

The fierce resistance and unyielding spirit of the Pingzhou people made Wanyan Zongwang realize that simply using force to conquer was not enough, and something must change. Jin Taizong trusted Zong Wang very much and once issued an edict stating that "matters big and small in Pingzhou are of no concern to Commander Bai and cannot be communicated to the imperial court." This provided a political basis for Zong Wang to start trying to change his ruling strategy in Nanjing.

Under the advice of Liu Yanzong and other Han officials, Zong Wang mainly adopted two countermeasures in Nanjing: First, he learned from the southern official system of the Liao State and used Han officials to manage local affairs. The second is to organize the imperial examination to select scholars in Pingzhou. In the early Jin Dynasty, the imperial examinations were not held in Beijing, nor at regular intervals. Instead, the commander-in-chief of the Jin army selected opportunities to hold them in various places according to actual needs. Therefore, there were the so-called "Shenzhou Ranking", "Pingzhou Ranking" and "Dingzhou Ranking". List" etc. However, this kind of imperial examination selection is under the supervision of the military commander. It is a temporary decision with neither procedures nor systems. It is especially compulsory for candidates, so the effect must be discounted.

But in any case, the series of policies Zong Wang tried to implement in Nanjing were relatively popular among the people. Therefore, the Jin people quickly established a foothold in the three states of Pingying and Luanzhou.