Archery of Gongshou Rivers and Mountains

In the ninth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty and the third year in Jin Changning, in April, Niujia Village in Lin'an

Niujia Village was originally a small village, but now it is only a small village, but there is a big businessman who bought a house here and settled down.

Wanyan Kang is reading a secret letter sent by Wanyan Honglie. Last year, he and Shi Songzhi went to Xiangyang to work.Shi Songzhi served as a Xiangyang household Cao joined the army, controlling household registration, taxation, and warehouse access; Wanyan Honglie joined the army as a manager, and controlled litigation and prison inspection.

Ever since Wanyan Honglie changed his appearance, he has never had any superficial contact with Wanyan Kang. For more than two years, the two have only communicated through secret letters.

After reading the letter, Wanyankang lit the oil lamp and burned the letter to ashes.After Wanyan Honglie was complacent, he became friends with Shi Songzhi in a very short period of time - Shi Songzhi is also a person with outstanding literary talents, but he doesn't like Neo-Confucianism, and he is very utilitarian, so although he and Chen Xun both He is Shi Miyuan's son and nephew, but his reputation among the literati is much worse than that of Chen Xun.

But his character is actually very similar to Wanyan Honglie, and Wanyan Honglie intentionally made friends, the two became friends not long after.But going to Xiangyang was not because of Wanyan Honglie's intention to get close, but because of his own intention and a coincidence.

As far as Shi Songzhi is concerned, it is because of his outstanding vision that he has seen that Xiangyang is located in an important position, where he can advance, attack, retreat and defend.Therefore, I specially asked Shi Miyuan for such an official position, and when Shi Songyi arrived in Xiangyang, he gathered the refugees and reclaimed wasteland. In just two years, the treasury is now full of grain, and the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first. This he did.

Wan Yankang felt that this was probably his own butterfly effect, otherwise, didn't he remember that the Song officials in Xiangyang City were all stupid people, and the defense of the city depended entirely on Guo Jing.Why is it that at this time, someone is running Xiangyang.Wan Yankang didn't know that, according to the official history, Songzhi basically worked in Xiangyang after he became an official.

But Shi Songzhi is not just a great virtuous minister, he has the same problem as his uncle Shi Miyuan - love to discuss peace.But at this time, Wanyan Kang didn't know this.

And Wanyan Honglie naturally understood the importance of Xiangyang.He went to Xiangyang not to deal with the Kingdom of Jin, but to fight against Mongolia, and to find opportunities to contact the old department, and to recruit new people-although he didn’t know his own old department, but he knew Wanyankang’s old department. Wanyan Kang also gave him a list.

I heard that he is now in Xiangyang, and he has made a good name of Yan Qingtian.However, his development in the Kingdom of Jin is not satisfactory. This is not because of Wanyan Honglie's own ability, but because the country of Jin is too chaotic...

Mongolia cut gold for the third time last year, under the banner of revenge for Genghis Khan.However, after successfully defending the city last time, all the cities in Shaanxi understand that the only way to survive is to strictly guard against the Mongols, and the purpose of the Mongols this time is not looting, but revenge.

Therefore, the large and small cities along the road were only tentative attacks, and they left as soon as they touched them. As a result, hundreds of thousands of troops went straight into the central capital, and the surrounding area of ​​the central capital was completely defenseless, and was looted by the Mongols.Wanyan Hongxi recruited troops from all over the country to serve as the king of Qin, but as a result, more than 40 people were thrown in. The soldiers and horses of the king of Qin from all over the place were strewn with dead bodies, but the Mongols couldn't tell how many people were missing.

It was not until two months later that the Mongols retreated on their own.In the end, the Shaanxi army beat the Mongols on the tail and rescued tens of thousands of people who were captured, but still 10,000+ people were robbed and left.But they were killed outside the customs—they didn't need these young men who could only plow the fields.

Not even Genghis Khan’s order of “kill everyone except craftsmen”, 10,000% of [-]+ people were killed, and the corpses were left to be eaten by jackals and vultures...

Wan Yankang, who learned about this in the Southern Song Dynasty, spat out a mouthful of blood and passed out, which frightened Ouyang Ke, who was on the side, and was sick for more than a month.

And Wanyan Hongxi also suffered a serious illness after being sent to the city by soldiers this time, but the reason was completely different from Wanyan Kang.And before the soldiers recovered, Wanyan Hongxi clamored to move the capital, but although he had a firm stand, most of the ministers did not agree to move the capital.

The simplest reason is that although it is a bit embarrassing to be surrounded by the Mongols this time, if the capital is moved because of this, it will seriously damage the morale of the army and the people.This looks like abandoning the people in the north. Next time the Mongols come again, it will be even more troublesome.Now that the Mongols have retreated, they should manage the defense of various places well, prepare the army for war, and wait for the next time to avenge their shame.

However, Wanyan Hongxi is obviously not a hero like Goujian. He is good at playing tricks and tricks. If he shoulders the fate of a country in troubled times, it will be a sad thing for him and the country. matter.

But although Wanyan Hongxi wanted to relocate the capital, the big families in Jin Kingdom were not vegetarians, so they insisted on not relocating.In the end, Wanyan Hongxi somehow remembered the matter of Wanyan Yongji. At that time, he also dared to launch a coup because he had the support of some big families.The reaction of these big families at this moment made him afraid that they would stage a coup d'etat again.

So, he naturally acted first.However, for a monarch like him, there are really not many useful people under his command.The purge he intended to launch against the courtiers had just begun when the news was leaked and had to be launched hastily.

It's just that some people fled, some people resisted, just experienced the chaos of war, and it didn't take long for the Central Capital to be stabilized for a long time, and there was another bloody storm...

As a result, there are now two emperors in the Kingdom of Jin, one is Wanyan Hongxi, and the other is "Wanyan Kang", the son of the late King Zhao.

That "Wanyan Kang" is of course not this Wanyan Kang, but a puppet emperor pushed out from nowhere, but Wanyan Kang is not going back to the Kingdom of Jin to do anything to prove this point.

In short, the Kingdom of Jin is currently in the middle of a civil war, and Wanyan Honglie's letter at this moment is to tell him that he has contacted his old department, but it only means that they have contacted.

Because this time, Wanyan Honglie was waiting for his statement.At this moment, they have the opportunity to return to the Kingdom of Jin, even if they cannot sweep away the decline in a short time and regain their prestige.But at least, Wanyan Honglie believes that his son can end the division of the country in a short period of time. After all, the elite soldiers in the country are all concentrated in the hands of his old troops in Shaanxi.

Even if a part must be left to defend Mongolia, but as long as he goes back, no one will believe that he only uses those elite soldiers to open the door and does not set up antennas for himself, not to mention that he does not need to be crowned, he must have the status of emperor...

Wanyankang couldn't help but complain a little bit about the Southern Song court, but he was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of well ropes. Now that such a good opportunity, he didn't know how to seize it?It's because they don't go to war that Wanyan Honglie thinks that the Kingdom of Jin still has the power to return to heaven, right?

Just when he was depressed, he heard someone knock on the door, and Wan Yankang called to come in, but the people who came in were his regular customers after he resettled in Niujia Village——Zhao Yuju.

"Brother Kang, what makes you frown?"