Chapter 322 Jiang Yan Is Very Busy
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During this time, Jiang Hongfei was very busy.
Busy ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor.
Busy building new systems.
Busy formulating the laws of the new dynasty.
Busy in providing relief to the vast number of victims in Yanyunping area.
He was busy setting up defenses in his own territory.
Busy appointing officials.
Busy adjusting the appointment of officials.
He was busy holding the second imperial examination and the second martial arts examination to select new talents and give the ambitious people in his territory the opportunity to show their talents.
He is busy dealing with the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry in his territory who still have a sense of luck.
He was busy dividing fields, distributing grain, canceling debts, and appeasing the common people in his territory.
Busy recruiting another 100,000 garrison troops.
In addition, there are projects such as using work-for-relief to expand Yanjing City, building a new palace in Yanjing City, using work-for-relief to build the Grand Canal and waterways in the Yanyunping area, using work-for-relief to control the Yellow River that often floods, etc. Wait wait wait wait...
In short, Jiang Hongfei has been busy with a lot lately.
However, at this moment, Yelu Yanxi came to make trouble for Jiang Hongfei.
Yelu Yanxi fled from Yanjing to Liaoxijing in March this year, and then fled from Liaoxijing to Jiashan.
After arriving at Jiashan, Yelu Yanxi was not idle. He sent people to contact the Liao army and grassland tribes who were loyal to the Liao Empire to come to Jiashan King Qin to rescue him.
Not long after, grassland tribes such as the Guojiu Zhangbali, Yishiyi tribe, Yaonan Jiuzhang tribe, Guojiubie tribe, Hengzhang Sanfufang tribe came to Jiashan King Qin one after another to rescue him.
In addition, the tribes north of the desert and the Zhaofu tribes in the southwest and northwest also expressed their support for Yelu Yanxi's restoration of the country.
In addition, Li Qianshun, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, also strongly supported Yelu Yanxi's restoration of the country.
Li Qianshun married Yelu Nanxian, Princess Cheng'an, a royal daughter of the Liao Kingdom, and became the queen. She was regarded as Yelu Yanxi's son-in-law.
The key point is that when the Zhao and Song dynasties were about to destroy the Xixia dynasty ten years ago, it was Yelu Yanxi who sent troops to help Xixia fight Zhao and Song to "mediately mediate", so that Zhao Ji and his ministers had to let Xixia go. Therefore, Li Qianshun owed Yelu Yanxi a huge debt. favor.
Therefore, facing the imminent demise of the Liao Kingdom, Li Qianshun immediately sent 5,000 troops to aid Liao Xijing.
However, as soon as Xixia troops were sent out, Liaoxi Capital was captured by the Jin people.
Then, Li Qianshun sent minister Cao Jie to Jiashan quietly to ask Yelu Yanxi about his daily life, and sent Yelu Yanxi grain, grass, baggage, and various luxury goods to ensure Yelu Yanxi's quality of life.
Seeing that his son-in-law was so filial, Yelu Yanxi waved his hand and agreed to transfer a large area of land to the north of Xiazhai, south of Yinshan Mountain, and west of Yishila Tululu, namely Tiande, Yunnei, Wuzhou, and Douda and Si in Hedong. The eight palaces of La, Huodong, Yeque, Shenya, Yulin, Baoda and Yumin, as well as the Jinsu and Heqing armies in Hexi, were ceded to Xixia and asked Xixia to help him restore the country.
Li Qianshun was overjoyed and agreed to lend 30,000 troops to Yelu Yanxi and provide his own food, grass and baggage.
Politically, Yelu Yanxi still had many supporters on the grassland.
The Daliao Empire can be said to be a hundred-footed insect that is dead but not stiff.
In fact, the main enemies of the Jin people have not been Yelu Chun, Xiao Puxiannu and others from the Northern Liao Dynasty. It can even be said that the Jin people did not pay attention to these people from the Northern Liao Dynasty at all. Their main enemies There is always only one person, and this person is Yelu Yanxi.
That's right.
Yelu Yanxi was arrogant, extravagant, fond of hunting, and re-appointed the treacherous minister Xiao Fengxian, which completely destroyed the huge family fortune of the Liao Empire. He was a cowardly emperor who disappointed many Liao people.
However, no matter how miserable Yelu Yanxi was, he could not obliterate the indisputable fact that he was the legitimate emperor of the Liao Empire.
In the eyes of most Liao people, including most Jin people, and even several surrounding countries and forces, such as the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the Xixia Dynasty, the Goryeo Dynasty, and various grassland tribes, the emperors of the Liao Empire were recognized by There is only one person, and this person is Yelu Yanxi.
Be it Yelu Chun or Xiao Puxian, the Northern Liao established by them with the support of many Liao ministers is nothing more than a local government in the eyes of most Liao people, Jin people and the surrounding countries and forces. It is a pseudo-regime and cannot represent the Liao Empire at all. Everything is actually just their own wishful thinking.
Even Yelu Chun, who founded the Northern Liao Dynasty, did not really recognize his identity as emperor until his death. Xiao Puxiannu, the Queen Mother of the Northern Liao Dynasty, was also appointed by herself, and did not get the majority of the Liao and Jin people, as well as any country or country. Recognition of power.
Some people may say, is this a bit too high a view of Yelu Yanxi? He is a useless and foolish king, even more foolish than Zhao Ji. How could he still have such a high status? Such an important role?
Not really.
First of all, feudal society attaches great importance to etiquette and law. The king is the king and the ministers are ministers. This does not mean that whoever gathers a few people and ascends the throne can become the emperor of a region, unless you are really big enough not to care about any country. The situation of power perception.
Under normal circumstances, if you want to be an emperor, you must not only have territory, an army, and support, but also need to be canonized by a powerful country. Of course, you can also regard this canonization as the recognition of a big country or the establishment of diplomatic relations.
for example:
At the beginning of the rise of the Jin Kingdom, the Jin people approached the Liao Kingdom to canonize Wanyan Aguda as the emperor of the Jin Kingdom.
However, the Liao Kingdom thought too highly of itself at that time and rejected the Jin people's request without even considering it, so Wanyan Aguda raised troops again and continued to fight against the Liao Dynasty.
Later, the Liao Dynasty was really no match for the Jin Dynasty, so Yelu Yanxi sent Liao Taifu Xi Nilie to present the imperial seal to confer Wanyan Aguda as the "Emperor of Donghuai Kingdom", but Wanyan Aguda did not allow it. Wanyan Aguda said to his ministers: "The Liao people have been defeated repeatedly, and they sent envoys to seek peace, but they only pretended to be empty words as a delaying tactic. We should discuss the attack." So the negotiations broke down and the war started again.
Therefore, no matter from which aspect, the emperor of the Liao Empire was Yelu Yanxi, which is undisputed.
And if the Liao Empire is to be destroyed, the prerequisite must be to capture Yelu Yanxi or kill Yelu Yanxi.
Otherwise, the destruction of Liao would not be possible.
More importantly, since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the Liao people in the territory of the Jin Dynasty often rebelled against the Jin Dynasty under the banner of Yelu Yanxi, which brought great hidden dangers to the stability of the Jin Dynasty. Therefore, the Jin people had to leave a large army in the country for a long time to suppress these rebellions.
In addition, the three states of Ping, Luan and Ying, which were previously ruled by Zhang Jue, only temporarily accepted the rule of Northern Liao when Yelu Yanxi disappeared. Later, when the people of Ping, Luan and Ying learned that Yelu Yanxi was still alive and was accumulating anti-Jin forces in Jiashan, Ping, Luan and Ying quickly broke away from the control of Northern Liao and changed to worship Yelu Yanxi as the authentic one.
All of this made the Jin people desperate to capture Yelu Yanxi.
For this reason, Wanyan Aguda even went out in person.
It was because the Jin people felt that as long as Yelu Yanxi was not caught and died, their Great Jin Kingdom would not be able to rest.
It was also because of this that the Jin people had been entrenched in Yundi before Jiang Hongfei and Wanyan Aguda started the war.
——At that time, Wanyan Aguda personally led 100,000 elite cavalrymen to station troops in the east of Fengsheng Prefecture, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Xiyin stationed tens of thousands of troops in the south of Yingzhou, and Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyan Loushi stationed tens of thousands of troops in the west of Hongzhou. The three armies formed a shape of a Chinese character "品", which was a big net ready to capture Yelu Yanxi.
At that time, after the big net was set up, the Jin army had been following Wanyan Aguda's edict, resting and herding horses, while paying close attention to the situation in Yelu Yanxi and the Yanjing area, and waiting for the Zhao Song Dynasty to send troops to the north to recover Yan.
And Yelu Yanxi did not leave Jiashan for a long time because he heard that the Jin people were setting a net to wait for him to leave Jiashan, and he was afraid of the Jin people who beat him from north to south and from east to west.
Later, Jiang Hongfei and Wanyan Aguda started fighting, and Yelu Yanxi was overjoyed. He was ready to reap the benefits of the conflict between the two sides, and he would not leave Jiashan to disrupt this war that was extremely beneficial to him.
What surprised Yelu Yanxi, no, it was extremely shocking that the loser was not Jiang Hongfei, who he didn't know where he came from, but Wanyan Aguda, who frightened him!
It was not until then that Yelu Yanxi looked at Jiang Hongfei for the first time.
Seeing that Jiang Hongfei was so powerful, Yelu Yanxi thought a lot, and his civil and military ministers also gave him a lot of ideas.
As a result, Yelu Yanxi and his ministers rarely reached an agreement and wanted to form an alliance with Jiang Hongfei to deal with the Jin Kingdom together.
Moreover, Yelu Yanxi and his ministers had even thought of the conditions for the alliance, that is, as long as Jiang Hongfei could help their Liao Empire defeat the Jin Kingdom, all the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom would be ceded to Jiang Hongfei. Even marriage was not out of the question, as Yelu Yanxi had six daughters, four of whom were unmarried.
Yelu Yanxi immediately sent an envoy to discuss the alliance between the two families with Jiang Hongfei.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Hongfei refused without even considering it.
The reason why Jiang Hongfei refused Yelu Yanxi's request for an alliance was very simple, that is, Yelu Yanxi was absolutely a pig teammate. Teaming up with such a pig teammate, wouldn't that be a waste of life?
You know, during World War II, if there was no Italian noodles, maybe there might be a chance... there would still be some opportunities there.
Of course, in addition to the fact that Yelu Yanxi was definitely a pig teammate, Jiang Hongfei had three other reasons.
First, Jiang Hongfei's next strategic goal must be to compete for the Central Plains first - he can't give up the rich Central Plains and go to the grassland to fight those barbarians to the death to consume his national strength. Isn't this throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds?
Second, Jiang Hongfei has found a force to contain the Jin Kingdom, and there is no need for Yelu Yanxi, a waste, to hold the Jin Kingdom.
Third, in fact, like the Jin Kingdom, Jiang Hongfei's country also has a large number of Liao people, so Jiang Hongfei can't let Yelu Yanxi turn over, and even must win Yelu Yanxi, otherwise Yanyunping will also have endless troubles.
Jiang Hongfei refused to form an alliance with their Great Liao Empire, which made Yelu Yanxi angry, especially when Yelu Yanxi heard that Jiang Hongfei had formed an alliance with Xiao Gan.
After Xiao Gan escaped from Yanjing, he led the Xi, Han, and Bohai armies to leave Gubeikou and return to his hometown Jianshan. He renamed the original Xi Palace Hall as "Tiewa Wulong Hall", founded the Great Xi Empire, proclaimed himself "the Holy Emperor of the Xi Kingdom", and changed the era name to "Tianfu".
Politically, he established three Privy Councils for Xi, Han, and Bohai to take charge of the affairs of the three tribes, and changed the East and West Jiedushi to two kings, and established officials in different offices; economically, he minted "Tianfu Tongbao" coins and circulated them in Xi; in terms of ethnic policy, he implemented a policy of hatred for the Khitans, constantly attacked the Khitan tribes, and looted people and livestock, which caused dissatisfaction among people of all ethnic groups and lost the hearts of the people.
Jiang Hongfei sent someone to find Xiao Gan and said to him: "You can't do this. You might as well change to hate the Jin people. I will sell you food and supplies, do business with you, and provide you with everything you lack, including weapons and armor."
Jiang Hongfei was willing to support Xiao Gan and sell Xiao Gan food, fodder, and various supplies, giving Xiao Gan a way to survive.
Whoever feeds you is your mother.
Xiao Gan was also Jiang Hongfei's uncle, so the hatred between the two must have been forgotten.
Moreover, Jiang Hongfei did not want to annex Xiao Gan's Great Xi Empire.
What's more, Xiao Gan and his men hated the Jin people.
The key point was that after Xiao Gan changed his ethnic policy to hate the Jin people, he gained the support of people of all ethnic groups on the grassland.
Therefore, in just a few months, Xiao Gan's army grew to 70,000 to 80,000 people.
Xiao Gan had been leading these 70,000 to 80,000 troops to fight against Jin generals such as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, and Wanyan Zongfu, so that the Jin people could not take care of harassing the border of Liangshan Marsh for a while.
Jiang Hongfei would rather form an alliance with a former minister of Yelu Yanxi than with Yelu Yanxi, which made Yelu Yanxi feel that he had suffered a great humiliation.
Moreover, Yelu Yanxi gave a large part of Yundi to Xixia. If Jiang Hongfei did not ally with him, he could not lose Xixia, an important ally.
Therefore, Yelu Yanxi decided to send troops to Jiashan to seek revenge on Jiang Hongfei and recover the lost land of Yanyunping.
In this regard, a group of Liao officials advised Yelu Yanxi:
"Jiang Yan is both civil and military, and he is a god in using troops. Throughout his life, he has made no mistakes in his decisions and almost no stupid moves. He is like a peerless swordsman. If he does not move, he will kill the enemy with a sword. He wins cleanly without any unnecessary moves. He is the Huo Qubing among emperors, the most capable and warlike emperor since ancient times. Even Aguda is not his opponent, let alone my Liao? Your Majesty, my Liao must not be an enemy of him!"
"Since the Jin people first captured Changchun and Liaoyang, the carriage was unfortunately in Guangping, and The capital is Zhongjing. When Shangjing is captured, the capital is Yanshan. When Zhongjing is captured, the capital is Xijing. When Xijing is captured, flee to Jiashan. I used the whole army to not plan for war, so the whole Han land of the country was owned by the Jin people. Later, all the Han land was taken by Jiang Yan. The country is so weak, and it is not a good idea to strive for war. We should raise troops and wait for the right time to act, and we should not act rashly. "
The evaluation of Jiang Hongfei by Yelu Yanxi's subordinates is as high as it can be. Looking at history, perhaps only Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, Han Wu Liu Che, and Tang Emperor Li Shimin can be compared with Jiang Hongfei, and even Song Zu Zhao Kuangyin is not qualified.
In theory, Yelu Yanxi should not come to seek death.
But at this time, Yinshan Tatar and Mao Geshi tribe also came to Jiashan to join Yelu Yanxi.
With these two teams, Yelu Yanxi thought he was helped by God and his confidence increased greatly.
At the end of September, Yelu Yanxi went down Yuyangling, led a cavalry army of 50,000 Khitan and grassland nomads, and 30,000 elite Xixia cavalry all the way eastward, aiming at Yundi.
After this coalition army moved eastward, it successively captured Tiandejun, Dongsheng, Yunnei, Ningbian and other states that were previously occupied by the Jin people.
——Since the main force of the Jin army had been driven away by the Liangshan army, the coalition army was like entering an empty land and quickly attacked Yunxi.
After that, Yelu Yanxi kept harassing Yunxi, and he also sent people to secretly contact the former Liao ministers, trying to attack from both inside and outside, defeat Jiang Hongfei, seize the Yanyunping area, and even overthrow Jiang Hongfei’s regime that had not yet been fully established...
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