The rapid changes in the current situation are really dazzling. One turning point after another makes the people in this troubled world feel breathless.

The ten-year layout of Wu Haogu in Yan land, and the harvest of one day has completely broken the balance that has maintained a hundred years between Song and Liao. The Khitan empire is clearly shaking!

However, with the cooperation of Zhao Ji, a good opponent, Yelu Yanxi, who was standing on the edge of the cliff, showed off her dazzling military talent, defeated Zhong Fu and Gao Qiu one after another, and burned the war from Hebei to Hedong, making Zhao Ji, who was known as "Emperor Genghis", exhausted him from dealing with it. In the summer of the fourth year of Daguan, he even made a big detour that was well-known in history, which instantly shattered the Song people's hard work to manage the Yanmen Pass defense line for a hundred years.

More than 100,000 elite troops of the Great Liao Dynasty passed through Yanmen Pass like a tide, and quickly captured the Yanmen County, the prefecture of Daizhou, seized a large amount of materials stored there by the Song army, and then successively captured Gan County, Yangwu Village, and fought with Xiao Gan, who was beautiful and detoured in Xinkou Village.

At this point, the road leading to Taiyuan City, the capital of Hedong Road in Dasong has been unobstructed!

The Khitans' far-distance horses had been running back and forth outside Taiyuan City for a long time.

It’s just a matter of time that Taiyuan City is surrounded by groups!

But just as the Hedong crisis was in a state of shock, Xiao Baoxian, the envoy of Yelu Yanxi's peace seeking peace, knocked on the gate of the Wujiakou (no Zhangjiakou) gateway that was being built.

By the way, Yelu Yanxi's actions to seek peace from Youzhou were still very clever. Because he had already recognized such a reality. His Liao army could beat the genuine Song army, but he could not defeat the Republican army in Youzhou! Even the powerful soldiers and horses who defected to the Republic of Yan, could defeat the elite Khitans.

The Republic of China is a system, including the command of the staff team, efficient management backed by Tianjin's industry and commerce, and the civic warriors (the powerful army in Yan land also has a large number of citizens, as long as they are field soldiers who are not paid, they are citizens), as well as the cooperation of multiple armies of infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers, all made the Youzhou Republic of China ahead of the Liao army by an era!

Even the powerful soldiers who have newly joined will exert their strongest combat power in this system!

However, the system of the Youzhou Republic Army is not impeccable. To the point recognized by later generations, it is that the great craftsmanship and businessmen are short-sighted and cannot compare to the feudal bureaucrats who will play big chess.

Although Youzhou now has the strength to destroy the Liao Kingdom, it does not have the ambition to prosper in Liao and spread across the grasslands and deserts.

Because the industry and commerce industry always have to make small plans and calculate economic accounts. From an economic perspective, it is definitely a good deal to seize Yan land.

First of all, Yan land has the raw materials needed for industry and commerce in Tianjin, including wood, carbonite, iron ore, cotton, animal husbandry products, etc. Although Tianjin is now prosperous in industry and commerce, the overall scale is still not large. Most of the required raw materials can be supplied by Yan land. If there is still a shortage, it can be supplemented by maritime trade with Liaodong, Goryeo and Japan, and there is no need to obtain them from the vast grasslands and deserts with inconvenient transportation.

Secondly, the land in Yan land can be used to maintain an army with the land-giving civilians as the main force. The cost of maintaining the army with land plus citizenship (Knight households, the government households are all citizens) is much lower than spending money to hire mercenaries. Moreover, for a period of time (decades or more), an army composed of landlord citizens is more loyal and more combat-effective than the mercenary. Such an extremely cost-effective army can open up the market and produce cheap raw materials for the industry and commerce of Tianjin, and can also protect the safety of Tianjin itself, which is a very cost-effective transaction.

However, if such an army based on land and citizenship is used for the battle between grasslands and deserts or white mountains and black waters, it will be difficult to cover the cost. The land in the grasslands and deserts is not attractive to the landlords. The land in the Liaohe River and Daling River basins is still valuable, but the Tokyo Road of the Liao Kingdom is now a powder barrel. It is easy to fall into the quagmire and cannot extricate yourself when rushing in.

It is better to use the army of Yan land to conquer the Tokyo Road of Liao Kingdom than to obtain colonies in Goryeo and Japan. Because these colonies can help Tianjin industry and commerce occupy the market and obtain profits, and also get some rich and comfortable land to allocate them to landlord citizens. It is worth more than one kill, but it is not much money, and the income is quite guaranteed.

At the same time, the war on Tokyo Road in Liao Kingdom will provide a huge market for the industry and commerce of Tianjin Prefecture. Instead of participating in it, it is more profitable to stand aside and sell arms.

Of course, not participating does not mean that you cannot obtain small pieces in Liaodong, which have extremely high strategic value and easy to defend.

It is precisely for these reasons that Xiao Baoxian, the envoy of the Liao Kingdom, who had already recognized the reality, was once again warmly entertained by Wu Haogu, the general leader of the short-sighted Tianjin bourgeoisie.

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Tianjin City.

Compared with the lively scene of the bustling and bustling of carriages and horses in Jiehe Market before the war began in the Song and Liao dynasties. At this time, Tianjin, which had transformed into the capital of Youzhou and the capital of the Republic, seemed a little cold and depressed.

It is summer now. In the past few years, summer and autumn were the most prosperous and lively seasons of Jiehe Market.

Nowadays, this market cannot be said to be completely depressed. However, there are many fewer merchants and pedestrians on the street. Although most of the shops are still open, they also seem cold. Xiao Baoxian, who rode along the widest Republic Street in the south city of Tianjin, occasionally saw the construction site where construction was stopped halfway. I don’t know if the boss ran away or the workers went to the army to fight?

It seems that Wu Haogu's life in Tianjin is not as glorious as I imagined! Xiao Bao first turned his head and looked at Wu Haogu who was walking with him.

This man who almost became the "Master of a Country" was much thinner and older than when Xiao Bao first saw him last time, but he also had a little more kingly aura that was above others.

Maybe he has now experienced the difficulties of being an emperor and a king? He seems to be powerful now, but in fact he is sandwiched between two giants of Song and Liao, and he takes advantage of the sword and licks blood from the edge of the knife.

Once the war between the Song and Liao countries is terminated, and they join forces to oppress Yan land, the king's life in Yan land will probably end?

Wu Haogu is indeed a bit annoying, and the increasing depression in Tianjin is a factor.

Although Wu Haogu has always tried hard to retain the wealthy merchants in Tianjin, his opposition with the Song and Liao Dynasties still scared away many investors.

Even those businessmen who were not scared away reduced their investment due to the uncertainty of the war prospects.

In addition, although Ji Yi, who took over the Hailu Maritime Control Department, fulfilled her promise and continued to trade "Northern Horse, North Grain, North Medicine, and North Wood" with Tianjin, the transaction of Northland fur was basically not affected by Tianjin's monopoly position.

However, the Hebei Transportation Department has not sent any new orders. Tianjin's brick, marsh, iron smelting, military industry, wood, shipbuilding and other industries have gradually fallen into a downturn.

Finally, the financial industry in Tianjin also performed poorly, and funds continued to go into exile in Haizhou. Some gold, silver and silk shops and quality warehouses, which were afraid of any connection with "rebels", also evacuated from Tianjin. Although Tianjin Bank and JD Bank took the opportunity to expand their business and occupy the market, they basically maintained abundant funds on the market.

However, Tianjin's status as a "financial center" is also giving way to JD.com...

However, in Wu Haogu's view, the downturn in Tianjin is only temporary. Because Tianjin still has the best educational resources of this era, a strong army and navy, a huge and technologically advanced manufacturing industry, and most importantly, it also has tens of thousands of armed citizens.

So he was not worried about the exchanges between Tianjin.

What really bothers Wu Haogu was the difference between the "republican faction" and the "monarch faction" within the Youzhou group.

This difference exists in Wu Haogu’s back house, and it can even be said to be the birthplace of the difference!

The leaders of the "monarchy" are Ximen Qing and her characters, Ximen Anguo, Zhao Zhongge, Murong Mu, Murong Wangyou, Zhang Jue, Zhang Xizai, Hua Mancang and Chai Li. If they are a little broader, they will also surrender to the major families of Youzhou under the Republican government, and they are all monarchy.

They all hope that Wu Haogu will ascend the throne in Tianjin as soon as possible and rule in the name of King Yan or the Emperor of Great Zhou!

The "Republicans" took Pan Qiaolian as the backstage, including a group of Kaifeng generals who also followed Wu Haogu, Haoshang from Kaifeng and Haizhou, scholars from Yuntai Academy, and knight generals from non-Yan (the Ximen family and the Chai family were considered Yan family).

They all hope that Wu Haogu can remain "low-key" and act in the name of the Republic's rule, so as not to intensify the conflict with the Song court. Even if Zhao Ji has issued an order to confer Wu Haogu as "King of Yan", Wu Haogu should not rule Yan land in the name of "king".

Because once a country is established and a king is called, there will inevitably be a life-and-death struggle between the two countries of Song and Zhou.

However, these two factions have consistent opinions on the matter of peace talks with the Liao Kingdom.

Youzhou cannot be in opposition to the two giants of the Great Liao and the Song dynasties at the same time! Now Tao Jiefu is in Qingzhou and Cangzhou stations tens of thousands of troops, which makes him want to invade no matter how he looks. With these tens of thousands of people in Youzhou, you must always be vigilant and deploy heavy troops in Tianjin Prefecture, so he is unable to attack Liao in large numbers.
Chapter completed!