Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda personally led the troops to attack the ancient city of Dalu, defeated the Liao army, and came back captive.

In August, the Jin army took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Liao army and marched towards Huanglong Mansion.In September, the Jin army successfully captured Huanglongfu City.

Huanglong Mansion is an important town in the northeast of Liao Kingdom.Liao Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi learned that the Huanglong Mansion had fallen, and commanded more than 70 Khitan and Han troops to attack gold.

Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda led [-] troops to meet the enemy, and defeated the main force of the Liao army at Hubudagang.Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi abandoned his army and fled, while the Jin army seized and looted a large number of weapons, property, cattle and horses.

After this battle, the main force of the Liao army was defeated and turned to a passive defense against the Kingdom of Jin.

It can be said that the decisive battle surrounding Huanglong Mansion, an important town in eastern Liaodong, laid the fate of Jinxing and Liaodong.

Under the leadership of Ximen Qing, Yue Fei and others were enjoying delicious food in the restaurant of Huanglong Mansion, looking curiously at the bustling people downstairs with different costumes.

Chapter 686 Yue Fei Opens His Eyes

Huanglongfu City looks similar to the city in Hebei, it is a square city built on the high ground by the river.There are city gates on the east, south, west and north walls, and turrets on the four corners of the city wall.Because the Khitan people believed in Buddhism, temples and pagodas were built inside and outside the city of Huanglong Mansion.

The land around Huanglong Mansion is fertile and benefited from irrigation by the Songwa River system, so it is suitable for farming.In this land, there are many Han Chinese and Bohai people who live on agriculture.

Several years have passed since the battle between Jin and Liao over the struggle for Huanglong Mansion, and this place has been firmly controlled by Jin.

With the end of the war, under the policy of light corvee and light tax and recuperation, most of the people of Huanglong Mansion who fled once returned to their hometowns.Therefore, what Yue Fei, Wang Gui and the other four faced at this moment was a bustling city with a large number of Han people.

Ximen Qing said that Yue Fei and the others came out to broaden their horizons and broaden their horizons. This journey northward really benefited Yue Fei and the others a lot.

After crossing the sea and entering the Kingdom of Jin, Posu Road was mostly Jurchen, but there were also many Koreans, Bohai people, and Han people who came to do business in the trading docks and markets of Ximenqing. Northern aliens.

After entering Hosu Hall, they went north through Liaoyang Mansion, Xianping Mansion, Hanzhou, Xinzhou and other places in Tokyo until Huanglong Mansion. Yue Fei and others were surprised to find that there were a large number of Han Chinese living in Liaodong.More precisely, it should be that the Han Chinese are the largest ethnic group in these places.Secondly, it is the Bohai people who have already been Sinicized and speak the language of the Han people, making it difficult for newcomers to distinguish between the Bohai people and the mature Jurchens.Of course, there are also a small number of Khitans, Xi people, Turks and other aliens in these places who have already belonged to the Jin Kingdom.

Yue Fei looked at the people of all ethnic groups coming and going on the street, and heard the shopkeepers greet the guests in proficient Chinese language, and whispered to Ximen Qing like a dream: "Master, it's not that you brought me to the Kingdom of Jin, I I really don’t know that there are so many Han people in Liaodong! In the past, I always thought that the Khitan people in Liaodong in the north were barbarians who could only ride horses and shoot arrows. In this bitterly cold place in Liaodong, there are only some barbarians who drink blood. Unexpectedly, it turns out that Liaodong There is also a civilization that is almost the same as that of the Central Plains. If there were not some strangely dressed foreigners passing by downstairs, I would have misunderstood which city in Hebei this Huanglong Mansion is."

It was also the first time for Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, and Xu Qing to leave Xiangzhou. They sat around Ximen Qing and sighed the same as Yue Fei.

"Yes, these Liaodong people write Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and believe in Buddhism. They are no different from us in the Song Dynasty. If there is any difference, it may be that the place where they live is more bitter and cold than the Song Dynasty, which makes the people here People are generally more hard-working, let's live a more simple life!" Ximen Qing said to Yue Fei and the others.

In the past, in order to encourage the soldiers to fight against gold, Yue Fei often shouted impassionedly to fight Huanglong Mansion.However, that was just a political slogan of Yue Fei.

Yue Fei went to the northernmost place in his life, but he followed Tong Guan's army to the Yanjing area as a Hebei warrior for the first time when he joined the army.And he didn't stay for long, and he followed the team back to the territory of Song Dynasty after the Song army suffered a few defeats.

Yue Fei never set foot on the land of Liaodong all his life, so naturally he would not understand the real situation of Liaodong.

In fact, from the Fuyu state established in the Liaodong region during the Qin and Han Dynasties in the 2nd century BC, to the later Goguryeo, Bohai state, Khitan, and even the current Jin state, agriculture has always been dominated by agriculture, with both animal husbandry and handicrafts. A civilized regime is by no means a barren land as people in the Central Plains mistakenly think.

Whether it is Fuyu, Goguryeo, Bohai, Khitan or Jin, since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Liaodong region has been learning and absorbing the advanced culture of farming civilization in the Central Plains, and simultaneously developed its own farming civilization.

Therefore, in fact, the Liaodong region has always been a multi-ethnic society where Han culture is the mainstay, and its civilization level is almost the same as that of the southern Central Plains.Both Liao and Jin are multi-ethnic civilized countries with a large number of Han people and popularized Han culture.

When war broke out between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the Song people in the south faced not only the barbaric Jurchens maliciously vilified in the books of the Han people in the Central Plains, but also the Han people in the North and the Khitan people who had the same culture as themselves. , Xi people, Bohai people.

At this time, the Dajin Kingdom already had the Han Army under the command of the Han Meng'an and the Bohai Navy under the command of the generals from Bohai.When the Kingdom of Jin declared war on the Northern Song Dynasty, behind the Jurchen army at the vanguard, there were hundreds of thousands of mobilized Han troops, Khitan troops, and Bohai navy.

Therefore, the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty in the Kingdom of Jin was not a simple barbarism that conquered civilization, but a civilized regime in northern China defeated another civilized regime in southern China.This is the truth of history.

The sad thing is that Yue Fei failed to understand this truth all his life. He didn't know that the enemy he was facing was a civilized country that also had an advanced culture and could resolve disputes between the two countries through negotiations.

Because of his limited vision, Yue Fei disregarded the fact that the Southern Song court's finances were about to collapse and had no war potential to defeat the Kingdom of Jin.As a result, because he refused to hand over his military power, he sent Zhang Xian to make trouble secretly, and Yue Fei finally brought himself a murderous disaster.

After Ximen Qing crossed over, he had the vision and knowledge of more than 900 years later, so he would naturally not be as short-sighted as Yue Fei.

900 years later, it was on the basis of Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming, Qing and other multi-ethnic countries that a new multi-ethnic China was born.

People of Song Dynasty, Han people in the north, Khitan people, Jurchens, Bohai people, Xi people, Mongols, Xixia people, Dali people, etc. will all be Chinese after 900 years.

Liao, Jin, and Xixia are all part of China, and the largest number of people in Liao and Jin are also Han people.If the thinking is limited to thinking that the Song Dynasty is China, Song Huizong and his sons in the Song Dynasty were taught that the Chinese were beaten, or that the Han people were bullied, then there is a disease, a kind of persecution paranoia.

Song Huizong Zhao Ji, the bird emperor, did something wrong on his own, causing his father and son, his harem women and daughters to be taken captive by the Jin army to the north. How could it become a shame for the entire Han nation?

May I ask if Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty was not captured by the Jin army, would he give his many concubines and daughters to the common people who were bullied and exploited by him?Will he reward the money he built Genyue to poor people in the country who lack food and clothing?

When many foolish and loyal ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty shouted "the shame of Jingkang" and drove countless people to shed their blood, Song Huizong Zhao Ji, whom they wanted to save, had more than a dozen wives and concubines in the Five Kingdoms City of the Jin Kingdom. Hugging left and right every day, and gave birth to more than a dozen children in one breath, life is very nourishing!

Precisely because he is well aware of the virtues of Song Huizong and his son, since Ximen Qing crossed over, he has never thought of protecting these two foolish kings, but has been thinking wholeheartedly about how it is possible to replace them.

Ximen Qing, Yue Fei and others came to the Kingdom of Jin to reform their vision and knowledge first.

Chapter 687 All the Ministries Gather

The four of them, Yue Fei and Wang Gui, have hardly ever set foot outside Tangyin County in Xiangzhou, Hebei since they were young.

Even if Yue Fei has read many books since he was a child, he is not much better than Wang Gui and the others.

As the saying goes, "reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles".The books Yue Fei read expanded his horizons far less than what he saw and heard this time following Ximen Qing all the way north.

Whether it is the mutual market transactions in Dengzhou Penglai Port, Ximenqing's private navy to encircle and suppress pirates at sea, or the real life of people of various ethnic groups in Liaodong, Yue Fei cannot learn from books.

This is not to say that the northern nomads were not recorded in the books that Yue Fei read, but because there are few objective and fair records of the northern aliens in the books of the ancient Han people.

In the period of backward productivity in ancient times, farming civilization was higher in civilization than nomadic civilization and fishing and hunting civilization. Therefore, the Zhuxia who occupied the most suitable land for farming in the Central Plains, that is, the current Han people developed and built a high-level farming civilization.

Although some ethnic groups around the Central Plains also developed farming civilization, the proud Han people in the Central Plains called the other ethnic groups surrounding the Central Plains the "Siyi", namely Dongyi, Beidi, Xirong, and Nanman.

Dongyi is a contemptuous name for the various ethnic groups in the East by the Chinese living in the Central Plains.During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was gradually conquered and integrated by the Chinese civilization.

Beidi is a derogatory name for the different ethnic groups in the north from the Chinese people living in the Central Plains.In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were Quan Rong, Li Rong, and Yi Yun in the north. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were the Xiongnu. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were Xianbei and Turks.

From the records of the name of Beidi in the Chinese books of the past dynasties, it can be seen how much the Han people in the Central Plains despise the foreigners in the north, and most of them use insulting names.

The names of Di, Quanrong, Lirong, and Xuanyun are related to beasts at first glance. It can be seen that the Han people in the Central Plains belittled the aliens as beasts.

The alien Chinese names Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Khitan have finally broken away from the category of dogs, horses and beasts, but the progress is not much, and the semantic meaning is always related to humble slaves.

Other names like Nanman are also related to insects, snakes, birds and beasts.

It is impossible for these Han Chinese sages who are named to insult and despise foreigners, and to objectively and fairly record the history of their contacts with foreigners.

It is only logical to wantonly distort and smear foreign races in one's own masterpieces, if you write like a god!

Therefore, it is wishful thinking for Yue Fei to learn about the alien races in the north from the ancient books he read.

Regardless of whether it will be war or peace against the Jin Kingdom in the future, since Ximenqing wants to train Yue Fei and the others as his generals, he must let them have an intuitive and clear understanding of the people of all ethnic groups in the north, and understand what kind of people their opponents are.

Whether it is a powerful person or a powerful nation, they will face up to and respect their enemies, and recognize the strength of their opponents.

Only those who have low self-esteem in their hearts will "duck their mouths hard when they are dead". By.

However, no matter how many moral high grounds they fabricate and how innocent they pretend to be, they cannot conceal the fact of failure.

Ximen Qing didn't want his subordinates to have such stupid and weak people.