Qian Song

Chapter 438 The Royal Family and Clan of the Kingdom of Jin Who Wanted to Abandon the City and Flee

Chapter 438 The Royal Family and Clan of the Kingdom of Jin Who Wanted to Abandon the City and Flee (Ask for a monthly ticket!)

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The source of the Huanghe River blew its head, and the waves flew eastward.Shangjing used to be the land of the Liao Dynasty, and the imperial capital was built in the ancient west building.

Back against the three mountains attracting the sun and the moon, in front of Weidian Crouching Tiger Hill.The ancestor of Liao bowed his bow and shot at the gold and dirt, and he kept on cutting down the four barbarians endlessly.

Thousands of troops sway fierce tigers, and thousands of horses urge angry lions to roar.Take the fertile soil where the frowns sound, and seize the cities and states when the war drums sound.

The eight mountains and rivers are unified, and the foundation is established for two hundred years.Nine days are closed and the imperial palace is opened, and the clothes of all nations are worshiped.

Dominating the coquettish for decades, changing the old country.Legend has it that the Nine Emperors came to Tianzuo, the capital of the emperor with golden soldiers and iron armor.

The Lord of Liao was cowardly and lost his country, and the century-old royal spirit was secretly withdrawn.The glory of the past is nowhere to be seen today, only the ruins remain on the ground.

It is difficult for the birds to live in the abandoned city fortress, and the jackdaws swim around the ruined tower.Cattle and sheep are grazing all over the field, and the mountains are covered with green grass and rivers and ditches.

The rain falls on the earth and produces five grains, and the clouds soar into the sky and fly to the top of the sky.In ancient times, heroes were nowhere to be found, and princes were buried beside the green haystack.

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Huining Mansion in Jinshangjing was originally Linhuang Mansion in Liaoshangjing, the capital of the Liao Dynasty, also known as Xilou.

in fact--

The earliest Jinshangjing Huining Mansion was not in Liaoshangjing Linhuang Mansion.

After Wanyan Aguda established the Kingdom of Jin, he set his capital on the left bank of the Ash River and regarded it as the upper capital of the Kingdom of Jin.

But in Shangjing, there was no city at all. The Jurchens lived scattered at that time. The area that served as the capital had neither a city nor a palace. superior.

That is to say, after the founding of the country, Wanyan Aguda was busy stabilizing the political situation, tired of fighting, and had no energy to take care of the construction of the Shangjing City of the Jin Kingdom. At that time, the so-called Jinshangjing was nothing more than a large grassland, and Wanyan Aguda was just in his spare time. At that time, some areas of "Emperor's Village" and "Guoxiang Village" were simply divided on it, and there was nothing else.

Later, with the continuous development of politics and military affairs after the founding of the Jin Dynasty, and in the late period of Wanyan Aguda's administration, the situation in the so-called Jinshangjing area at that time changed slightly.

After eight years of development after the founding of the country, before the death of Wanyan Aguda, the Jin people finally changed the names of the "Emperor's Village" and "Guoxiang Village" at the beginning of the Jin Kingdom to Huining. The government was built as Jinshangjing, and the scale of the so-called Jinshangjing at that time also expanded.

——The living conditions of the Jurchens at this stage were made of wood and surrounded by fences, so they were called villages. The so-called Jinshangjing at that time also became a combination of villages one after another.

If we continue to develop according to history, until Wanyan Wu begged to buy the throne, the development of the military situation would be more and more beneficial to the rulers of the Jin Dynasty. The Jin people successively destroyed the Liao Kingdom and the Northern Song Dynasty, reaching their military peak.The military victory and political stability provided an important guarantee for the development of economy and culture, and the large amount of wealth plundered through the war provided the material foundation for the construction of the capital. Only then would the Jin people build the real Jin Shangjing on the so-called Huining Mansion of Shangjing at that time. .

However, due to the birth of Li Cun, the Jin Kingdom only annexed part of the Liao Kingdom, and the key Jin people had no chance to get involved in the Zhao and Song Dynasty.

This made the Jinren simply not have the economic strength to build their own capital.

There is no way, Wanyan Wu Qimai can only lead the nobles of the Jin Kingdom to move to the Liaoshangjing Linhuang Mansion, and change the Liaoshangjing Linhuang Mansion to the Jinshangjing Huining Mansion, allowing the Jin Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty to share the same capital.

Surrounded by mountains and low in the middle, the land of Shangjing is a basin with a small river flowing through it. This river is called the Shahe River. Because of its abundant water source, luxuriant grass, and continuous reeds, the Khitan people call this place Weidian.

——The Khitan people are typical nomads, they especially love pastures, so they chose this place as their capital.

Yelu Abaoji shot here with a golden arrow, and built the Dragon Eyebrow Palace at the place where the golden arrow landed, as his residence.

This is the earliest palace building in Shangjing.

In the third year when Yelu Abaoji proclaimed himself emperor, the Liao people built a city wall around Longmei Palace, which was called the imperial capital.

The person who presided over the construction of Shangjing City was Kang Moji, a bureaucrat of the Han nationality in Jizhou. He built Shangjing City according to the ancient customs of Shangdong, a Khitan people.

Shangjing is divided into two parts, the imperial city and the Seoul city. The imperial city is in the north, and the Seoul city is in the south, separated by a wall.

The imperial city and Hancheng face each other from the south to the north. The structure is similar to that of Beijing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are four gates in the east, west, south and north, and there is a huge urn outside the gate.

The streets in the imperial city are vertical and horizontal, and there are many buildings. There are four north-south vertical streets and two east-west horizontal streets.Da Nei, where the emperor lives, is located in the center of the imperial city; to the south of Da Nei are the government offices, workshops, and temples; to the southeast are Linhuang Mansion and Linhuang County; to the southwest are Guozijian, Changtai County, Chongxiao Temple and Confucius Temple.

——It’s just that this Confucius is left lapel, that is, dressed as a barbarian.

South of the imperial city is Seoul, and there are also vertical and horizontal streets in Seoul.

Because the people living in Seoul are ordinary people, the city defense of Seoul is not strong.

In the Liao Dynasty, many Central Asian merchants came here to do business, among which Uighur merchants were the most, and they trafficked many Central Asian and West Asian goods here.

It is worth mentioning that since the Liao Dynasty, a large number of Han people have come to the capital to do business. Most of these Han people are from Bing, Fen, You, Ji and other states. There are also many Han people in the Central Plains and even in the south. , neither the Liao Dynasty nor the Jin Dynasty prohibited this matter.

——Because these Han people can traffic in tea and wine, grain, salt and iron, silk, porcelain and even various luxury goods, and take away the animal skins, cattle, sheep, and horses of the Liao or Jin people, which can revitalize the Liao Dynasty And the economy of the Jin Dynasty, so whether it is the Liao Dynasty or the Jin Dynasty, these Han people who come to the Northeast to do business are very welcome, and they will even be given some protection.

Therefore, Shangjing became the terminal point of the grassland Silk Road, an international metropolis, and the capital of the world.

It is precisely because of this that the previous Central Asia, West Asia and other regions only knew the Khitan, but did not know the Song Dynasty. They even thought that China was the Khitan, and the Khitan was China, so that Eastern European countries called the Chinese the Khitan.

After the Jin people inherited Liao Shangjing, they almost inherited everything except changing the name to Jin Shangjing.

In other words, even if the owner of Shangjing was changed from Liao people to Jin people, Shangjing was still the end of the grassland Silk Road, an international metropolis, and the capital of the world.

However, since the Daqian Dynasty began to cut gold, especially when the Qianjun and a group of rebels surrounded Jinshangjing, Shangjing could never return to the original grassland. The end of the Silk Road, the international metropolis, the capital of the world status, and is no longer the protagonist of any flourishing age.

This place is doomed to become history.

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After the Jin army was defeated by the Gan army in the decisive battle, almost overnight, the defenders of the Jin Kingdom near Jinshangjing all abandoned the city and fled, turning into birds and beasts, from east to west, from north to south, able to defend Jinshangjing. There was no power left, it seemed that there were only tens of thousands of remnants of the Jin Kingdom who were fleeing to Jinshangjing led by Jin Wushu, and a Shangjing city stood alone on the huge northeast plain.

In fact, Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his son have been closely observing the decisive battle between Qianjun and Jinjun.

When Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Quan and his son learned that Jin Wushu had been defeated, they immediately called the prime ministers to hold an emergency meeting.

There is only one topic for this emergency meeting, that is, Jin Wushu has been defeated, and the capital is in danger, what should our Dajin Kingdom do?

The other Jin officials were stunned and didn't know what to do. Only the right prime minister, Han Qi, came out first and said: "Your Majesty should stop fighting during the trial with Zuo Zhan."

Han Qixian said that the successive years of wars between Qianjin and Jin have greatly weakened the country of Jin economically and militarily, especially the defeat of Jin Wushu, which further exposed the weakness of the Jin army and made the country of Jin no longer There is no ability to wage war against the Daqian Dynasty.

In this case, they can only wholeheartedly seek peace with the Dagan Dynasty.

Han Qixian recommended several Jin ministers who had followed Wanyan Zongpan, Wanyan Zongjun, and Wanyanchang, and hoped that Wanyan Zongqian and Wanyan Quan would entrust them with the matter of bowing their knees to the Daqian Dynasty, and other ministers would not be allowed to participate.

In addition, Han Qixian said that this time it was Jin Wushu's fault. If Jin Wushu hadn't killed Wanyan Zongpan and Wanyan Zongjun, scared Wanyanchang away, and killed more than a dozen Jin Wushu in one breath. If you want to fight the Daqian Dynasty wholeheartedly, the matter will not develop to this point.

Different from Han Qi Xianzhu, Yuwen Huangzhong later stood up and said that there are still tens of thousands of horses in the capital, and Jin Wushu also brought back tens of thousands of horses, and there are sufficient food, grass and soldiers in the capital, it is better According to the city, we must not follow the example of the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Goryeo Dynasty, and negotiate peace with the Dagan Dynasty foolishly, otherwise the royal families, royal families and clans of the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Goryeo Dynasty will be the end of everyone.

Yuwen Huang Zhong also said that if Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his son are willing to fight again, he is willing to lead the army to fight.

After listening to Han Qixian and Yuwen Huangzhong's propositions, Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his son agreed that Yuwen Huangzhong was their loyal minister of the Kingdom of Jin.

However, at this point in the situation, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Quan and his son did not punish Han Qixian.

In the end, Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his son decided to take a two-pronged approach,

On the one hand, let Han Qi first be responsible for sending people to negotiate peace with the Dagan Dynasty, and take the initiative to ask for tribute to the Dagan Dynasty;

On the other hand, let Yuwen Huangzhong and Wanyan Aguda's eighth son Wanyan Zongqiang organize an army to prepare to defend the capital.

in fact--

These two paths are not the path that Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his son really want to take.

The road that Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his son really want to take can also be said to be the real countermeasure. It is very simple, just one word - run.

If you add a direction in front of this movement, it is to run west.

To the west is the land of western Liaoning, which is where the tribes of the grassland are now fighting.

This is actually not a good place to go, because there are also many old grievances between the Kingdom of Jin and the grassland tribes. For example, the Kingdom of Jin and the Kingdom of Mengwu have been fighting for several years, and the grievances are very deep.

This time, the Muwu Kingdom sent 1 grassland cavalry to support the Kingdom of Jin, not because they turned hostility into friendship with the Kingdom of Jin, but because Hebuler also realized that the Dagan Dynasty was a hundred times more dangerous than the Kingdom of Jin. After this battle, [-] cattle and sheep and [-] women were given to the Mughal Kingdom.

In other words, this is completely an exchange of politics and interests, and has nothing to do with friendship.

If given a choice, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Quan and his son would definitely not want to flee westward.

But there is no way, the east is the sea, the Northeast Anti-Gold Coalition Army is active in the north, and the Daqian Dynasty's millions of troops are in the south. Apart from the west, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Quan and his father and son really have nowhere to escape.

This is actually one of the reasons why Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his son never chose to flee.

Now, the Kingdom of Jin has been completely defeated, if they don't flee, Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his son will have to follow in the footsteps of Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan.

In fact, Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his son had already made preparations for fleeing in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation. In other words, they had already made up their minds that if the situation was not good, they would flee from Shangjing at any time.

Of course, this is a top-secret plan, except for the reliable royal family and clan of the Jin Kingdom, close eunuchs, favored concubines, and a very small number of important officials of the Jin Kingdom, no one else knows about it.

If the emperor, the royal family and the clan want to escape, of course, the fewer people who know about it, the better.

So the morning bell rang as usual the next day.

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Wan Yanquan went up to the Qinzheng Building with a pretentious make-up to announce that he would go to the emperor's personal conquest.

When the subjects of the Jin Dynasty heard about Wanyan Quan's promise to conquer personally, they all took it as a joke.

Jin Wushu led an elite army of 150 million, all of which were defeated by the dry army, so the tens of thousands of horses in the capital, even if the tens of thousands of remnants and defeated generals of Jin Wushu were added, there was no chance of winning if they occupied the city, let alone What's more, he went out of the city to fight with the Gan army.

In fact, at the moment when Wanyan Quan announced that he would personally conquest, the escape plan of the royal family and clan of the Kingdom of Jin was already in full swing.

After the plan was almost ready, Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his father and son urgently appointed Yuwen Huangzhong as the left guard in Shangjing, who was fully responsible for the military and political affairs of Shangjing and guarding Shangjing. As the peace ambassador, he personally went to negotiate peace with the Daqian Dynasty.

Yuwen Huangzhong, who received the order, said without saying a word, "If the minister is here, the Shang capital will be there; if the Shang capital is unfortunately lost, the minister will never seek to live!"

What Yuwen Huangzhong said made Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his son even more gratified, and they even regretted letting Yuwen Huangzhong stay and die.

On the contrary, Han Qixian, after learning that Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his father and son were going to lead the royal family and clan of the Kingdom of Jin to escape, his face was ashen, and he persuaded Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyanqian and his son: "If your majesty and grand master take this step, my Jurchen The Great Jin Kingdom established by our ancestors at countless costs may end in the third generation, I hope your majesty and grand master think twice before acting!"

Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan father and son were so furious that they almost killed Han Qixian on the spot.

fortunately!

At the critical moment, Yuwen Huangzhong first interceded for Han Qi, and said that killing important ministers might cause unnecessary panic when people's hearts were fluctuating, so Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his father and son gave up angrily.

Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyanquan and his son handed over the tiger talisman for dispatching troops to Yuwen Huangzhong, and told Yuwen Huangzhong to try his best to guard the upper capital. The army of one million will definitely come back to rescue the capital.

Yuwen Huang Zhong took the tiger talisman, solemnly bowed to Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his son three times, then pulled Han Qixian up and left without looking back.

After watching Yuwen Huang Zhong and Han Qi leave first, Wanyan Zongqian, Wanyan Quan and his son hurriedly continued to prepare to lead the royal family and clan of the Kingdom of Jin to escape from Shangjing...

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I have been busy all day with something during the day, so I just wrote this chapter. Sorry, I kept you guys waiting for a long time!

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