"Your Majesty, the Bohai Kingdom was established during the Tang Dynasty and was later destroyed by the Liao Kingdom. Because the Bohai people in the deep Liaodong continued to resist, they were relatively hostile to the Liao Kingdom. However, the Bohai people in the southeast of Liao merged into the Liao Kingdom with many Han people. Therefore, a new saying emerged: Mature Jurchen, giving birth to Jurchen, or mature women, giving birth to a daughter. The Mature Jurchen is the original Bohai people in the southeast of Liaodong, and the Jurchen is the original Bohai people in the deep Liaodong."

"Is it the Goguryeo country of the Tang Dynasty?"

"Goguryeo is Goguryeo. The Bohai people have some Goguryeo people from Liaodong, but more of them are Mohe people. There is a metaphor. Just like during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Northern Wei integrated the Xianbei people into the Han people. Regardless of whether this regime belongs to the Xianbei people, can it be said that the people in the Central Plains are not Han people, but Xianbei people."

"It turns out that Bohai has nothing to do with Goryeo."

"The Bohai Sea has nothing to do with Goryeo, and Goguryeo has nothing to do with Goryeo. The current Goryeo is a country composed of Silla Baekje people, and the original Goguryeo was a country slowly founded by the Bian people from the Yalu River. Even the Bian people belonged to the Goryeo people, but as their territory expanded, they merged a large number of Liaodong races, including a large number of Han people. Your Majesty, you should know that in the past, China's sphere of influence had mostly spread to the Kaijing area of ​​the current Goryeo capital, and in order to develop some Han people, they also migrated some Han people in the past. Especially in Liaodong, there were also many Han people, but China declined several times, and these Han people were also transformed. Therefore, the names of these two countries are very similar, but the races they constitute are completely different. One is a country dominated by the ethnic group in the central and southern Goryeo Peninsula, and the other is a country composed of multi-ethnic integration in central and southern Liaodong."

"I understand, just like the Western Regions are not Turkic, but Uighurs."

"Can you say that, but even the original Western Turks did not have many real Turks, but a country where the original people of all races were the main body and some Turks were integrated. When the Uighurs rose, it was a country where the Uighurs were integrated. But to be precise, no matter how many blood-analyzed the countries in the Western Regions can only be said to be Uighurs, not Turks."

This bloodline may be very important in future generations, and some thrusts and sticks are really unreasonable.

If there is a little fishy smell, it will be their country, and China will be more than good. At least the Huns belong to China, and then Hungary will be controlled by China...

But this has little to do with what Wang Ju said, so Wang Ju avoided this topic. He continued: "Especially when Emperor Taizong, the rebellion of the Jurchens was very large. By the way, they also contacted Emperor Taizong through the Yalu River, but they were far away in the depths of Liaodong and could not cooperate. Our dynasty missed an excellent opportunity to weaken the Liao Kingdom. Then the Liao Kingdom moved Chun Nabo to Changchun Prefecture and implemented some pacification policies for the Jurchen tribes. However, except for some areas, the remaining areas were not very effective."

"Highly collect and intensive levy?"

"It's not taxes. It's too far away and lacks water transportation. It's difficult to collect taxes. However, although they comforted some Jurchens, they still looked down on Jurchens in their hearts. Well, this mentality is a bit like when I look down on some scholars and officials to the barbarians."

So Wang Ju repeatedly said that there is no need to be afraid of them, nor do you need to deliberately bribe them. It would be fine if you don’t bribe them. The more you bribe them, the worse it will be, but you can’t discriminate against them. The integration of equality and tolerance is the king.

Wang Ju didn't mention it much and continued: "So there are some bad phenomena. First, the Liao Kingdom asked for a large number of tributes from the Jurchens every year, such as horses, northern pearls, sables, good dogs, and Haidongqing. Second, in order to shock, sometimes attacked the Jurchen tribes for no reason, and plundered the population and wealth. Third, the Liao Kingdom set up positions in Ningjiangzhou (northeast of Huanglongfu, now Fuyu), forcibly traded, and even blackmailed the Jurchens and humiliated them in every possible way, commonly known as beating the Jurchens."

"Why do Jurchens still have to trade?"

"Because the Jurchens were separated from the Liao Kingdom, the two sides did not have close contacts, and the more closed the more backward they were, the more backward they were. Your Majesty, this is like the Meishan area in the western part of Tanzhou. In fact, it is a good thing to set up positions, such as the market law enforced by Wang Shao in Qinzhou, and the mutual market enforced by officials when they pacified the south. As a result, Pu'anzhou became prosperous, which attracted the covetousness of the surrounding groups, and then launched an invasion. But in the long run, it is mutually beneficial, and at the same time it has improved the lives of the people in the surrounding areas, communicated with the outside world, and gradually emerged from a closed, backward and barbaric state, which is conducive to the management of the country."

"You mean the Qinzhou City of Wang Shao, and your trading in Pu'anzhou was voluntary. The Liao Dynasty Ningjiangzhou environment was closed because of the Jurchens, but they also needed a lot of commercial goods, but they had to accept unfair transactions from the Liao Dynasty. Even if they were fighting the Jurchens, the Jurchens had to trade and exchange for the items they needed."

"Your Majesty is wise, and this is true. Although he is helpless, because of the backward environment, there are too many things missing in life. For example, an iron pot can often be exchanged for a good horse. The Jurchens did not have it, so they had to trade humiliatingly, but they were not convinced. Secondly, the Liao Kingdom often sent some envoys to various divisions to investigate. These envoys often rely on the power of the Liao Kingdom, so they bought security from various barbarian divisions like our dynasty. They turned around. It was obvious that they inspected, but they often squeezed out wealth and played with the Jurchen women. Finally, they took the eagle harrier, that is, Haidongqing. But Haidongqing was extremely smart and it was very difficult to capture. Once there were too many, many Jurchens were forced to travel around the mountains and forests all day because of catching eagles."

“So cruel?”

"It's not so cruel. The upper class of Liao Kingdom still wanted to win over and appease it. The main reason was the noble officials and envoys below who thought that Liao Kingdom was powerful and wanted to do whatever they wanted."

Under the rule of the Liao Kingdom, life was not very good for a Jurchen, but compared with the later oppression of the Jurchens on the Khitans, these exploitations were drizzling.

Zhao Xu already knew Wang Ju's intentions vaguely.

"I defeated Xixia in Qingzhou because of the country's financial tension and huge accumulation, and could not advance westward. But at that time, I discussed with Zhang Zhifu what would he face if he really attacked Xia, especially whether the Liao Kingdom would send troops to help. Even now, I still cannot judge. In addition, the severe drought in our dynasty came and the Liao Kingdom came to blackmail again. Therefore, I proposed to set up border troops in Hebei and Hebei to save troops, and to fill the border defense forces in Hebei and Hebei. At that time, I had already advised all maritime merchants to develop and utilize the other side..."

"The other side has helped our dynasty very much," said Zhao Xu.

Although Wang Ju repeatedly explained it, Zhao Xu would inevitably have some doubts about how prestige Wang Ju has on the other side. If he lacks prestige, it is impossible to be an overseas king. If he has sufficient prestige, he might be an overseas king.

Although there is no need to doubt that Wang Ju Future is not good for the Song Dynasty, Wang Ju Future went to the other side to become the overseas king. This made Zhao Xu feel a little uncomfortable.

But Wang Ju repeatedly stated that he would not be an overseas king, so Zhao Xu couldn't ask in depth.

Wang Ju also said openly: "That is, if there is no other shore, there will be no banking department. There will be no reforms presided over by the ministers. At least when I attacked Xia, the entire Song Dynasty was lightly launched. And there is still a role in the future, such as the benefit of the people and the sinking prisoners to improve new machines, and the other shore is also improving new machines. The two are one. Every year, with the coming and going of craftsmen on the other shore, the technology exchange, the improvement of new machines will be faster. This is technical aspects. There is also the provision of gold and silver in the future, the evacuation of extremely poor people, the complementary existence of materials, the prosperity of trade, the increase in taxation, etc. However, at that time, I did not expect that the other shore would become such a large scale, and I only thought about the development of Quanzhou's economy. But in some aspects, I thought very far away, that was to send a ship to the Jurchens to contact the Jurchens."

"So early?"

"Your Majesty, Helanshi is earlier, almost twenty years old."

Zhao Xu sighed first, then was sad. Perhaps this was a war, a war of preparedness, and the attack on Xia he initiated was too hasty and ridiculous.

"At that time, I did not say that the largest island on the other side was large in area and had many semi-arid grasslands. It was impossible to plant crops, but it was suitable for ranch. Therefore, I instructed merchants to send ships to the Jurchens to buy the fur of war horses. The fur was transported back to our court for trade. However, the war horses were brought to the other side for breeding. Later, a small number of horses were transported from the Dashi side to improve the breeding."

And these horses and Zhao Xu also saw them.

At the beginning of last summer, the other side carried 4,000 war horses on a boat. Some of the war horses died on the boat. After arriving at the Mizhou Port, the rest immediately took them off the boat and raised them carefully. In addition to a small number of sick horses, most of the horses were still alive and very tall, which was probably the result of the improvement and had been successively incorporated into the army.

At the same time, after last autumn, more than two thousand horses were exchanged from the Jurchen side, which is the real Jurchen horse, which is taller than the Dian horse, but smaller than the Xixia horse.

In fact, Mongolian horses are also excellent and hard-working. It is precisely because of this horse breed that Mongolian talents once fought invincible all over the world.

However, the Song Dynasty only recognized explosive power and greatness, and Wang Ju didn't even care about it. However, for the Song Dynasty, it was enough to pay attention to explosive power. Did the Song Dynasty want to learn from the Mongols, travel long distances, and conquer thousands of countries?

Therefore, the army is very eager for horses on the other side, but they are not very interested in horses brought from the Jurchens. In fact, they do not know that most of the horses on the other side are the result of the improvement of Jurchen horses. Moreover, there are not many of these improved horses. If one is transported this summer, there will be not many of them.

However, this batch of horses was transported in time, and the northwest obtained a large number of war horses, which finally made the army and horses less nervous. But there was still a huge gap. Not only did the ban on cavalry in the Song Dynasty need a large number of war horses, but the fallen troops of the marginal border also lacked a large number of war horses. In the battle against Xia, too many soldiers were sacrificed, and a large number of war horses were also ruined. Think about it, once the army entered Xixia, can it be possible to lack cavalry?

It seems that I have obtained a lot of horses, and I have to leave some of the ban cavalry in the capital, and I can't do it.

But if you get the Xixia, the war horses will be solved. Not to mention the local horses in Xixia, if you take the Xixia, you can buy war horses from the Jiashan area of ​​Liao Kingdom in the northeast, you can buy war horses from the Juyanhai from the Jubu people in the northwest, and you can also buy war horses from the Uighurs in the west, and there are horses from the Xihe area, Tengchong horses, and horses from the other side to supplement them, which is enough to build more than 200,000 cavalry.

With this cavalry, you don’t want to expand your territory, and at least you can effectively defend against strong enemies in the north in the future.

Wang Ju continued: "In fact, these trades can allow some merchants to communicate with the Jurchens."

"The Liao Kingdom did not notice it?"

"Liaodong is too vast, and the coastal area is very far away from Changchun Prefecture. Therefore, the transactions in recent years may not have alarmed the Liao Kingdom, but it was just shocked. It was just maritime trade. The Liao Kingdom was not able to solve the problem. Moreover, the Liao Kingdom had very weak control over the coastal area. It is precisely because of these trades that some economic people are very familiar with the Jurchen tribes. Then last year, my minister instructed the maritime merchants to use the Clippers Suzhou area to allow them to acquire Haidongqing from the mature Jurchen at a high price."

"Mature Jurchen?"

"I just said that the oppression that the Jurchens suffered was not the original intention of the upper class of the Liao Kingdom. It was mainly the acts of the officials, nobles and envoys below. The so-called envoys are often the mature Jurchens who make accomplices for tigers."

"I understand." Zhao Xu said.

It is difficult to arrest Haidongqing, but the mature Jurchens will not care about the lives and death of all ethnic groups. It turns out that there is no sales route, so it is impossible to pay the tasks assigned by the Liao Kingdom on time. But now the Song Dynasty's sea merchants have come to buy it, and there is a sales route. It is still high. For money, the mature Jurchens will further force the Jurchen tribes to hand over more Haidongqing, and further push the Jurchen tribes to dire straits.

As a maritime businessman, Haidongqing is indeed a sacred horse and looks very good. Even Zhao Xu couldn't help but ask the eunuch to buy two, let alone other people.

Therefore, the sea merchants offered high prices, but they also made money. Moreover, the ship secretly went to Suzhou (Dalian area) of Liao Kingdom, not only Haidongqing, but also other Liao Kingdom merchants.

The Jurchens became increasingly resentful to the Liao Kingdom. In addition, the relationship between these merchants and theirs, if you instigate them at the appropriate time, many Jurchen tribes would rebel.

What Zhao Xu didn't know was that in fact, Wang Ju ordered the maritime merchants to bring many weapons to trade, including compound bows and swords. However, the style was not the style of the Song Dynasty, but was changed to the style of the Goryeo Japanese, and the merchants were also talking nonsense in the past. Some publicly admitted that they were Song people, some pretended to be Goryeo, and some pretended to be Japanese. Anyway, the Liao Kingdom was the overlord on the land, but they were dwarfs on the sea, so they couldn't tell the truth.

With weapons and various injustice, if you instigate them, some tribes will dare to rebel and revolt.

And this winter, people will be arranged to deliberately instigate themselves so that when next spring comes, conflicts will intensify and the Liao Kingdom will ignite war.

This is not the most powerful one. Next year, the other side will carefully select 5,000 of the most powerful soldiers, pretending to be Goryeo. Why do they pretend to be Goryeo? The hatred between the Goryeo and the Liao Kingdom has also become enormous, so maybe "warriors" will spontaneously enter Liaodong to avenge the Liao Kingdom for Goryeo... And from this year, these 5,000 soldiers will start to learn Goryeo, and then these 5,000 soldiers will enter the depths of Liaodong.

Wang Ju never underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Liao army, but there have been no major rebellions in the entire Liaodong for so many years. The Liao Kingdom did not have many troops stationed, and the areas were large and the troops were scattered. In fact, even if there were not many tribal rebellions at that time, these 5,000 soldiers would have a serious impact on the Liao army in various parts of Liaodong.

The difficulty is the beginning. Once victory starts, more Jurchen tribes will inevitably participate, so these five thousand soldiers will retreat.

But Wang Ju didn't say much about the specific arrangements. If he talked too much, Zhao Xu might be suspicious again.

“How much will they play?”

"It will play some role..." Wang Ju said hesitantly.

That area of ​​land is easy to cultivate strong people, including the Han people who went to the northeast and went to the northeast, who also had a hot personality.

But we cannot exaggerate the combat effectiveness of the Jurchens. Wanyan Aguda is very powerful, but if Wanyan Aguda kills, the combat effectiveness of the Jin Dynasty has been weakened. If it weren't for Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, even if there was a little success in the emperor, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, and Wu Jie joining forces, it would be enough to drive the Jurchens out of the Central Plains. Maybe even the Yanyun area would be taken back.

This is also the reason for the second rise of the Jurchens. If it weren't for the scum of Li Zicheng, how could the Qing Dynasty enter the pass?

Therefore, how much restraint will be caused by the Liao Kingdom next year depends on how many Jurchens will participate and how commanding the general is.

"However, with the restraint of Liaodong and the bondage of several high-yield crops, coupled with the heavy defense of Hedong, Hebei, I believe that I can win plenty of time."

All kinds of preparations can be said to have been achieved to the extreme. If they fail, Wang Ju will have no choice.

Zhao Xu's heart calmed down.

Wang Ju returned home.

It’s the New Year, everyone has a holiday together.

The capital city is decorated with lights and colorful colors, which is very lively.

Wang Ju read the book for a while, and Qiong Niang walked in and said, "Officials, you have a rare time. Let's go out and have a walk."

In fact, the New Year is also celebrated on the other side, and the lights will be decorated. People from the suburbs of each settlement will flock to the city to visit or buy commercial goods within these days. But even Fengshi and Wenshi are far from as prosperous as the capital.

"Then go out and have a look."

"Yes. I probably won't see it in the future."

"That may not be possible. In more than ten years, the population on the other side will further expand, and some prosperous big cities will appear." The two of them said. When they arrived at the door, Wang Zichuan suddenly walked in.

Qiong Niang asked: "Where have you been? I and the officials are going out for a walk, but I can't find you."

In fact, in addition to the Wang Zichuan brothers, the Wang family also had more than a dozen other guards. But the original second eldest son and the others were all old, including Ye Long Meesheng, and they stayed on the other side. The clothes were not as good as new, and the people were not as good as old. Generally, Wang Ju went out and brought the two Wang Zichuan brothers.

"Where is Zishan?" Qiong Niang asked again.

"Taibao, the second wife, Zishan is in Kaifeng Prefecture."

"Huh?" Wang Ju was also surprised.

"Taibao, my younger brother and I just went out for a walk, and suddenly I heard a commoner talking to others. It was said that even if the Liao Kingdom helped Xixia, as long as Taibao, you go to Shaanxi, the Liao Kingdom would send troops to our court. I and my younger brother felt that this was wrong. There was no such statement before, but today it was different. The officials brought their ministers to banquets with Liao envoys and other envoys, and what the Liao envoys said. And I heard Taibao say that the Liao envoys might come to speak for Xixia." Wang Zichuan wanted to express it clearly, but he was more brave and his mouth was not good enough. Everyone said that his face was blushing.

"I understand. You mean that after the banquet, some ministers were dissatisfied with me and deliberately sent someone to release this rumor. So you grabbed the people and asked them, but didn't ask them out, so you asked Zishan to send him to Kaifeng Prefecture for interrogation."

"Yes, yes, that's what it means."

In fact, more and more officials in the capital respect Wang Ju. However, Wen Yanbo and Sima Guang and other disciples also had many.

Although Wang Zichuan couldn't explain it clearly, his analysis was good. In fact, the battle between Song and Liao in the early Song Dynasty, and the Liao Kingdom did not gain a significant advantage. However, the more he was afraid, the more he was. Now there are fears in the Liao Dynasty throughout the country.

Once this news is released, it will be very unfavorable for Wang Ju to go to Shaanxi.

Qiong Niang asked, "How can these people be like this?"
To be continued...