Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Lin Xun was still very capable. He directly deducted the tea horse's goods and shipped them to Jiazhou to buy grain from Lu Youcheng.

"Prefect, do you really want to transport grain to Lizhou?" Kan Mian, the general judge, asked.

Lu Youcheng, the governor of the state, sighed: "All the goods have been delivered, how can we not go along with it? Yu Wenchang and Ju Ming actually collaborated with the traitor Lin Xin and deliberately provoked provocations in order to gain military glory."

Kan Mian said: "If these three people are defeated, the barbarians in Jiazhou may cause trouble. We must make preparations in advance."

Lu Youcheng said: "Go and inspect the villages in the south and keep an eye on the movements of the barbarians."

"Yes!" Kan Mian accepted the order with his hands raised.

Lu Youcheng is already quite old. His father is Lu Jie. He participated in the establishment of Song Yingzong Zhao Shu and was good friends with Sima Guang, Fan Zhen and others.

With Lu Youcheng's ability and achievements, he should not be just the governor of Jiazhou.

But his father belonged to the old party, and he himself was a favored official. He made great achievements many times but had difficulty getting promoted.

At the beginning, Dengzhou rebelled and occupied the county seat. The officials were so frightened that they fled one after another. Lu Youcheng, as a minor official collecting wine taxes, went alone to appease the soldiers who were demanding pay, and actually put an end to the mutiny.

Wang Zhongli and Zhong E conquered Lingzhou. The weather was freezing and the food was exhausted. All the people in other states and counties fled. Only the civilian men sent by Lu Youcheng to accompany the army did not escape, and they hung on until the end of the war.

Historically, Lu Youcheng fought against the Jin Dynasty in Shandong, and more than 40 members of his family died for the country...

After receiving the goods sent by Lin Xu, Lu Youcheng immediately summoned the grain merchants and ordered them to sell them at a fair price. He also recruited civilians to deliver them to Lizhou.

Such nanny-style service is not because Lu Youcheng is afraid of traitors, but because he is afraid that Yu Wenchang and Ju Ming will lose the battle.

When Lizhou is in chaos, Jiazhou will also be in chaos. The Xuhen Department is actually affiliated with Jiazhou.

"The country is about to be in chaos, and evildoers will be everywhere!"

Lu Youcheng stood on the tower and watched the grain transport team go away. He was so angry that he couldn't help but curse.

Both Yu Wenchang and Zhu Ming were regarded as monsters by Lu Youcheng, who believed that they fought because they wanted to achieve military exploits.

Two months later, grain was shipped to Jiazhou, and the military rations were immediately sufficient.

Ju Ming did not hesitate to flatter him and praised him: "Lin Qiju is really brave enough to do his job. He even dares to seize the property of the tea and horse owner. I admire him very much."

Lin Xin smiled and said: "As long as we can win the battle, there won't be any trouble."

This guy is a strange flower among the traitors. When others become traitors, they are just trying to get money and official positions, and they will basically not offend officials in the same camp. However, he often acted blindly. When he was the governor of Kaifeng, he dared to punish merchants with powerful backgrounds.

Now he was even more unscrupulous in taking refuge with Tong Guan, and took action to seize Cha Ma Si's property. Anyway, Cha Ma Si must be Cai Jing's man.

Lin Xin said: "We must have sufficient food and wages to fight the war. I think this food is not enough. Over at Chengdu Fuxing Road, I will urge them to transport another batch of food."

Ju Ming said flatteringly: "If you win this battle, you will take the greatest credit!"

Lin Xun stroked his beard and smiled: "I still need to rely more on Prefect Yuwen and Magistrate Zhu."

"I will go all out for the sake of the court and officials!" Ju Ming quickly expressed his stance.

A guy who can pronounce even words wrongly can stand out among many traitors. How can he be the white lotus that emerges from the mud and remains unsullied?

Ju Ming thought on his knees and knew what Lin Xin was thinking.

This guy wanted to be the head coach as soon as he came, and he probably wanted to take away all the military glory.

By that time, Tong Guan was planning the Battle of Lizhou, and Lin Xin himself was commanding from the front line. Zhu Ming and Yu Wenchang became foils instead.

If they are unfortunately defeated, all the blame can be placed on Ju Ming and Yu Wenchang!

Lin Xin is using Ju Ming as a spearman, but isn't Ju Ming like this?

They both just get what they need.

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While Ju Ming was training his troops and preparing for war, the envoy sent by Song Huizong to the Kingdom of Jin was beaten and detained by Wanyan Agu and put under house arrest.

Didn’t I say before that the Kingdom of Jin sent many valuable gifts?

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty regarded this as a tribute, so he asked Hu Yanqing to bring the imperial edict to the Kingdom of Jin.

Wanyan Aguda was furious because of this and said to Hu Yanqing: "What I brought to the Song Dynasty was a letter of credence, but you brought an imperial edict. Am I a minister of the emperor of the Song Dynasty? You, a small commander, can bring (500 soldiers), he is actually in charge of negotiations between the two countries, the Emperor of Song is looking down on me!"

The negotiations between Song and Jin came to a standstill.

The Song Dynasty is really nonsense, even diplomacy can make such mistakes.

What’s even more outrageous is yet to come… I won’t mention it for now.

But it was said that Tong Guan, in order to unite with the Jin Dynasty to attack the Liao Dynasty, caused the Song army to lose one hundred thousand troops. Xixia took advantage of the victory to pursue Zhenwu and surrounded Zhenwu with heavy troops. Several reinforcements from the Song Dynasty rushed to rescue him.

One of the Song armies (Lanzhou soldiers) captured the three cities of Shuibo, Gaizhu and Pulong in Xixia. He threatened Zhuolu City in Xixia by encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and Prince Richard of Xixia immediately withdrew his troops.

Before leaving, Brother Richard pointed at Zhenwucheng and said, "Don't destroy this city, leave it as a disease of the Southern Dynasties."

This sentence is half rhetoric and half truth.

Zhenwucheng is too far away, and there is barren land along the way. If the Song Dynasty wanted to occupy it for a long time, it would have to consume huge amounts of supplies every year. Just a few years later, the grain and grass reserves on the frontier were less than a month, and the military fortresses along the line were as if they were made of paper.

Both sides stopped their troops and declared the war to be over, and the Song Dynasty took control of the Hengshan area.

Tong Guan was unparalleled in the limelight, and his arrogance even surpassed that of Cai Jing.

Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty had someone carve a monument to commemorate the glorious achievements of the war: "Captured the entire Qing and Tang Dynasties, surrendered 200,000 people from the three tribes of the princes, captured and killed 40,000 people, and gained four states, one army, one pass, six cities, Ten villages and twelve forts. Occupied thousands of miles of Xixia land, established a new army, seven cities, and five villages and twenty-four forts, captured eight Xixia cities, captured three thousand enemies, surrendered 20,000 troops, and beheaded five enemy troops. Ten thousand."

If you don't count the casualties of the Song army and how much food the Song Dynasty lost, this is indeed a brilliant victory.

Xixia's finances were shattered and it would be difficult to recover in the short term.

With the victory in foreign wars, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty engaged in feudal superstition and canonized Zhuangzi as the True Monarch of Wei Yuantong and Liezi as the True Monarch of Zhixu Guanmiao.

However, this year, floods occurred again in the southeastern roads, drought occurred again in the Huainan East Road, and famine broke out in the North Beijing Road.

The water in Liangshan is gathering for justice!

The mountain stronghold was originally built by Chao Gai, who robbed a large amount of treasures two years ago and planned to hibernate for a while. So he took Wu Jialiang (Wu Yong), Liu Tang, Qin Ming, Yan Qing, Ruan Jin, Ruan Tong and others to Liangshanbo to build a cottage.

Song Jiang traveled through the Yellow River Flood Area of ​​Hebei Province and arrived in Liangshan a while ago. It happened that Chao Gai died and was elected as the leader by Wu Jialiang and others.

Zhao Qi, Minister of the Ministry of War, and others evaluated Song Jiang as "a cunning and cunning thief" and "brave, brave and narrow-minded".

This guy is by no means the submissive image in "Water Margin". He appointed Wu Jialiang as his deputy general and began to recruit water bandits, fishermen, and thieves near Liangshanbo.

Two years ago, a large area of ​​​​Liangshan Shuibo was heavily taxed by the government, making fishermen miserable and difficult to live. After Song Jiang showed his strength, fishermen joined in one after another, and in an instant there were thousands of thieves.

In autumn, the Liangshan heroes began to rob the ships, and then went ashore to plunder the towns.

The county magistrate of Yuncheng sent archers to arrest him, but they returned defeated.

The governor of Jeju mobilized rural soldiers, but they were also unable to annihilate them.

Both officials concealed the information until winter came, when Song Jiang led his troops to attack Yuncheng County. The local officials finally couldn't hold it any longer and quickly reported to the court, requesting that officers and soldiers from Yunzhou and Jeju be mobilized to suppress it.

The scale of Song Jiang's uprising was small, but the commotion it caused was not small. The reason was that he blocked the Cao River and blocked the water transportation of Jingdong Liang Road, Huainan East Road and Liangzhe Road!

These are all tax-heavy areas, which made the Song Dynasty's finances even worse.

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In Hanyuan County's yamenhouzhai, Zhu Ming has been training troops for several months.

The servant brought a plate of delicious food, and Zhang Jinping introduced it: "This is my husband-in-law's hometown dish, which is called fragrant bowl. I asked the cook to try it out, and I finally made it."

What kind of hometown food is this?

Zhu Guoxiang has a colleague who is from Sichuan, and he learned Dongpo Rou from this person. After Zhu Ming was brought to the city by his father, he often went to this house to have a meal. His favorite food was the fragrant bowl, and he would look at it every time he went there.

Yu Wenchang took a piece and tasted it, nodding his head in approval: "This is the most delicious thing in the world!"

Ju Ming said: "It's very well done. It's stuffed with minced pork, alternating with fat and meat. The thinner the better. Add onion, ginger, cornstarch, salt and egg white, stir and beat repeatedly, then spread the egg yolk on the surface and steam over high heat for two quarters of an hour. That’s it. Cool it, cut it into pieces, steam it and cook it.”

Yang also took a bite and praised: "The cooking is simple but extraordinary. I have never tasted such delicious pork."

Yuwen Chang smiled and said: "Success is as elegant as Mr. Dongpo's."

The two families chatted and laughed for a while, and Yu Wenchang began to talk about business: "If the name is not correct, the words will not be correct. What is the name of the army to conquer the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians?"

Ju Ming said: "If you can't get in, you can't share the sacrifices of the king, you can't drink wine."

"Haha, that's wonderful!" Yu Wenchang laughed.

It was about Qi Huangong's attack on Chu. The King of Chu sent an envoy to ask: "You are in the north and I am in the south. I have not provoked you. Why did you send troops to attack me?"

Guan Zhong replied: "The state of Chu does not pay tribute to thatch, and the emperor cannot filter the dregs of wine, so it is difficult to sacrifice to the state of Qi to ask for tribute."

Does Emperor Zhou lack those few straws to filter wine?

Just find any reason.

Lizhou had too many excuses to send troops to attack the Sichuan barbarians in Qiongbu. It was enough to say that they had not paid tribute for several years.

Yu Wen often said: "After half a month, we can send troops."

Ju Ming reminded: "Order the five barbarian tribes and the Xuhen tribe to send out barbarian soldiers to help. If you are willing to give soldiers the best, if you don't send soldiers, they will be convicted afterwards!"

"It should be so." Yu Wenchang nodded.

The two families had enough to eat and drink, and went to the garden to drink tea.

Halfway through the drink, Yu Wenchang's personal entourage suddenly came in: "My lord, the two forest barbarians are asking for help. More than a dozen of their villages in the northeastern mountains were attacked by the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians. The ghost owners of those villages were all beheaded as sacrifices to the ghosts. "

"What a courage!"

Yu Wenchang slapped his thigh fiercely: "It goes without saying that they are incompetent. The Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians have repeatedly violated the boundaries. It will be difficult to live in peace unless they are subdued!"

Although the barbarians in Lizhou were in the Jisi state, the Song Dynasty also established states, with a total of fifty-four Jisi states.

Often dozens of villages, or even more than a dozen villages, together with large surrounding mountains, were set up as a state by the imperial court.

Due to the continuous expansion of the Qiongbu Sichuan barbarians, the divisions of these Jizhou states have changed beyond recognition.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, things went too far. The territory of the two forest barbarians was completely changed. They were beaten and moved all the way south. They were completely inconsistent with the court data.

Don't take the imperial court seriously at all!