Chapter 55 Mengjin peace

The central capital will definitely be safe, because Genghis Khan has no intention of attacking the impregnable central capital, but peace must be bought at a price.The geography-savvy Alaqian swaggered into the central capital with the mission of Genghis Khan. Wanyan Xun and senior officials received him cautiously, and Alaqian conveyed Genghis Khan's words: "The Shandong and Hebei prefectures of your empire are all mine, and there is only one Zhongdu in your hands. The sky has weakened you. , if I beat the dog in the water again, the heavens will blame me. I want to withdraw the troops, are you going to reward the soldiers to calm the anger of my soldiers?"

Prime Minister Zhang Xingxin snorted coldly, and said before Wanyan Xun said, "It's really killing people and paying for them." Ah Laqian looked at Wanyan Xun, Wanyan Xun's face was originally brimming with excitement, but after hearing Zhang Xingxin's words, it immediately dimmed.Ah Laqian immediately concluded that Wanyan Xun had the intention of negotiating peace, but he could not be independent.He looked at Shu Hu Gao Qi again, Shu Hu Gao Qi was very calm, no attitude could be seen from his face. Alaqian finally dropped a sentence and asked them to fight first: "I will give you half a month to think about it."

As soon as Ah Laqian left, the Jin government immediately discussed the issue of peace and war.Of course, it was definitely not the emperor Wanyan Xun who spoke first, but the most influential person at the time, and this person was of course Shuhu Gao Qi. Shuhu Gaoqi's face was as hard as steel, and he said firmly, "The Mongols are exhausted, and they should fight a decisive battle." Although his words were brief, everyone could understand that the Mongols were indeed exhausted after sweeping the Central Plains for a month. suspected.However, he only examined the weaknesses of his enemies, not his own.Wanyan Fuxing, who lost Juyongguan two years ago, examined his own shortcomings: "I can't fight anymore. The families of the soldiers in the city are all out of town. After being raided by the Mongols, their lives and deaths are uncertain. They are so anxious that they can't wait to fly out of the city to visit them." Family members. As long as we go out to fight in the city, the soldiers will definitely disperse, not only will we make the Mongols laugh at us, but the city will be easily lost.”

What Wanyan Fuxing said was not because he was scared out of his wits, but because it was based on facts. Since the start of the Mengjin war, the escapeism among the Jin army has been unstoppable.There is indeed a spirit of resistance, but compared with the overwhelming escapeism, it seems different.The escape of the soldiers of the Jin Army is related to "filial piety" in traditional Chinese culture. Many people flee for their parents, wives and children. What they don't understand is that without a country, there is no home. Of course, it is wishful thinking to expect them to understand this. .Wanyan Fuxing only saw this shortcoming and could not solve it, so he hoped to negotiate a peace with the Mongols. Although it could not solve the fundamental problem, at least it could temporarily get rid of the trouble.

After hearing what the two generals said, Zhang Xingxin really wanted to scold her.He said sarcastically: "The commander-in-chief has tens of thousands of people and cannot go out of the city to fight. What is the difference between this and asking for surrender?" His assistant also helped: "There are still tens of thousands of soldiers in Zhongdu City. Even if they don't leave the city to fight, the guards will not be a problem. They just fart and ask me to surrender and pay tribute. We will obey obediently. The face of my Dajin Kingdom It's all gone." Wan Yanxun came out to reconcile: "Surrendering and paying tribute immediately will be detrimental to the dignity of our empire, but whether it is fighting or defending, it is not good for us. Zhongdu is now an isolated city. The Mongols only need to besiege for a few months, and we are finished. First Don't talk about anything else, just talk about the food problem, who of you can solve it?"

Of course Zhang Xingxin understands what is going on in the besieged city. He softened his tone and said to Wanyan Xun: "The so-called peace negotiation can only happen when the strength of both parties is equal. I don't disagree with the negotiation, but whether the peace negotiation can be successful or not depends on our determination." Show some strength so that the Mongols don't look down on us." Shu Hu Gao Qi sneered and said, "How do you show your strength?" Zhang Xingxin was speechless, he was a talker, he talked more than he did. Everyone discussed again, and after three days of discussion, they finally made a decision that everyone was happy with: a peace negotiation.

After Genghis Khan got the news, all the soldiers said, while they lost their vigilance now, we stormed Zhongdu and took it in one fell swoop.Genghis Khan shook his head. Until then, he still thought that the time to attack Zhongdu was not ripe. He proposed peace to the Kingdom of Jin, not because he let the Kingdom of Jin go, but because he had other plans.This plan was implemented after the peace talks, and it worked like a god. Genghis Khan's peace negotiation condition is that the Kingdom of Jin needs to hand over 500 virgins, 3,000 horses, and 10,000 silks and satins to him.At the same time, the Wanyan family must donate a princess to him.

In the past, these conditions were nothing more than a drop in the bucket for the eldest country of Jin, but at the end of 1213, the country of Jin was no longer what it used to be. 500 boys and girls are easy, the Jin government can ask for it from the people, and 10,000 silks and satins are also easy. In Wanyan's court, only women are silks and satins, but 3,000 horses are a bit difficult, because their horse farm has long been taken by Genghis Khan.Wanyan Xun had no choice but to ask the army for help, so Shuhu Gaoqi had to order the army to hand over 3,000 horses.The last item is about the princess. In the eyes of Wanyan Xun, Genghis Khan is a beast. It is really unconscionable to marry his sister and daughter to such a beast, so he sent the daughter of his uncle Wanyan Yongji into the embrace of the beast. .This woman from the Wanyan royal family is called Princess Qi, and it is said that on the day she was married, she cried until she was dark.It can be seen that after seeing Genghis Khan, he was immediately attracted by the latter's charm, and returned to the grassland with Genghis Khan in a good mood.

After Genghis Khan received these tributes, he withdrew his troops from Zhongdu, but Zhongdu did not regain its strength because of Genghis Khan's departure. In fact, Zhongdu was already weak. The Mongolian army's one-month mopping up battle has left the northern part of the Kingdom of Jin in ruins, and the central capital is isolated and helpless, becoming a tree without roots.The food problem is a looming problem for Wanyan Xun and his government.When Genghis Khan besieged Zhongdu, there was already a shortage of food in Zhongdu, and most of the people were short of food. A courtier came up with a bad idea, the people can buy officials with grain.The problem is that there is a shortage of food, even if someone wants to be an official, he must be able to provide food, so this method will soon fail.Seeing that it could not be obtained by clever means, the Jin government seized it.Wan Yanxun issued an order that every household in Zhongdu City should keep food for two months, and hand over the rest to the government.As soon as the notice came out, the people in Zhongdu began to swear at the streets. From swearing to confronting the government's grain collection team, conflicts broke out on a large scale.

Wanyan Xun immediately realized that he was in danger of falling into the people's war, and immediately canceled the order. The people in Zhongdu put down their hoes and kitchen knives, but the government's food problem was not resolved. Another problem is the northern defense. After the Mongols withdrew, Juyongguan and other northern border towns and passes became historical relics. Shuhu Gaoqi said to Wan Yanxun: "Although the Mongols negotiated peace with the Mongols, the Mongols are capricious. Again and again, history repeats itself, and the northern border must be strengthened."

Of course there is no doubt about this, but when Wanyan Xun ordered people to repair and guard the border, no one wanted to go.No one from the Jin government went there, and the local tyrants from all over the country took advantage of it, and they all regarded it as their base camp. The Tuhao Corps is an armed force formed by many people spontaneously after the Mongols entered the Central Plains. They hate the Mongols and always stand on the side of the motherland, Jin.If these armed forces can be incorporated, at least the northern border defense will not become a display, but on the issue of incorporation, the Kim government is surprisingly stupid.Wanyan Xun asked Shuhu Gao Qi to recruit them, but Shuhu Gao Qi said dismissively: "These people are not suitable for war at all, and recruiting them is equivalent to recruiting a bunch of trash." Wanyan Xun was taken aback, because according to the information he had, the local tyrants were not a small number. Even if their combat effectiveness was weak, as long as they guarded the Juyongguan Great Wall, they could at least play a role in buffering the Mongolian attack on Zhongdu.Shuhu Gaoqi's nobility made Jin Guo forever lose the opportunity to rebuild the northern frontier defense. Zhongducheng also needs to solve a crisis, which is about the army.The army of the Kingdom of Jin is a mixed corps, including Jurchens, Khitans and Hans.In the army, the Jurchens are of course the undoubted leader, and the soldiers of other nationalities are naturally in a subordinate position. Because the Jurchens always play the boss, the soldiers of other nationalities are always squeezed out and oppressed, which caused the internal tension in the Jin army. Discord. This situation has changed in recent years. The biggest change is that after Shuhu Gaoqi led the Khitan-based Red Army to kill Hu Shahu, the power of the Khitan in the army rose, and the status of the Jurchens was impacted.The two sides have bad intentions, do not know how to unite when there are enemies outside, and crowd out and attack each other. The rift between the troops is getting deeper and deeper, and the combat effectiveness is naturally impossible to talk about.Of course Wanyan Xun and his advisers noticed this situation. Their narrow view of nationality determined their field of vision. They hoped that the Jurchens could overwhelm the Khitans in the army and regain their authority.But this is impossible in a short period of time. Even Shuhu Gao Qi admits that he can't control the Red Sword Army now. The last crisis did not occur in Zhongdu City, but it was more serious than the other crises that were close at hand. This was the government officials who had defected to Genghis Khan everywhere in the northern part of the Jin Kingdom. We mentioned earlier that Genghis Khan's plan after he broke the siege of the capital city, the source is here.During Genghis Khan's large-scale attack on Jin in 1213 and the subsequent raids, he not only achieved major military victories, destroyed the political foundation of several provinces of the Jin Kingdom, but more importantly absorbed many generals.These generals became the capital for the Mongols to destroy the gold and the Southern Song Dynasty to unify China in the future.There were as many as a hundred of these generals, many of whom later became heroes of Mongolia, and the most important representative was Yeluliuge. After Genghis Khan returned to Mongolia, a large number of surrendered generals did not follow, but served the Mongols in their official residence.It can be seen from this that Jin Guozhong is really in a crater, which can be described as perilous. I am afraid that there is only one way to reassure Wanyan Xun, and that is to leave this annoying Central Capital, and leave it forever. The official term is: move the capital. At the beginning of May 1214, Pu Sanduan, who stayed behind in Jin Nanjing (now Kaifeng, Henan), and Changshou, the commander of the Henan Military Region, jointly wrote a letter to Wan Yanxun, asking him to move the capital to Kaifeng. In their words, once the capital was moved to Kaifeng, he would be able to sleep peacefully and block Changhuai. Reject the big river and strangle Tongguan to strengthen ourselves. Wanyan Xun hurriedly summoned officials to discuss the matter as if he had found a treasure.The vast majority of officials who had no hope for the future agreed to move the capital, only a few people disagreed, and the important minister Tu Shanyi was one of them.He said that once the capital is moved, Hebei may not necessarily belong to the Mongols, but it will definitely not belong to the Kingdom of Jin again.Henan is narrow and thin, and it was the site of the Four World Wars. The Southern Song Dynasty and Xixia were all staring at the surrounding area, and it was difficult to hold on. Wanyan Xun asked maliciously: "If you don't move the capital, can you have a way to guard the central capital?" Tu Danyi hesitated for a long time, unable to come up with any solution, but he still had something to say: "The tombs of our ancestors are all here, how can we bear to leave them alone and leave easily?" Wanyan Xun continued to ask: "Is there a way for Aiqing to gain a foothold in the central capital?" Tu Shanyi closed his mouth, and let out several sighs of grief. The facts are clear, if the Jin government does not move south, it will have to wait for death. This is a problem that even gods and Buddhas cannot solve. Wanyan Xun felt that he had a chance to win, and ordered each department in the capital to discuss independently, and then submit a letter of opinion.This is a small move, but various departments still had heated discussions. After the discussion results were presented, Wanyan Xun issued an imperial decree saying that everyone believed that the capital should be moved. On May 11, 1214, Wanyan Xun issued an imperial edict to move south.Seven days later, he set off.But on the surface, he did not completely abandon Zhongdu, but ordered Wanyan Fuxing and Prince Wanyan Shouzhong to stay in Zhongdu. Wanyan Xun's task of moving the capital is arduous and eye-catching.3,000 camels loaded with gold and silver treasures and 30,000 carts loaded with archives and royal property traveled 600 kilometers southward, and it took more than two months to reach Kaifeng. Now, only Wanyan Fuxing and the fragile crown prince Wanyan Shouzhong are left on the stage of Zhongdu City. The two mustered up their courage and secretly vowed to finish singing this drama that ended with the end of the song. Before the two of them could start singing, great changes happened.