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After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Liangsi, who couldn't figure out the real intention of Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin, had to pin his hopes on Ximen Qing again.
Ximen Qing has a good relationship with the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, and now he is serving as a guest general under the tent of the Prince of the Jin Kingdom Wanyan Shenguo, so he must be able to spy on the movements of the Jin Kingdom's monarchs and ministers!
Zhao Liangsi made up his mind, and hurriedly brought Ma Kuo, his deputy, to Wanyan Shenguo's military camp, asking to see Ximen Qing, the "life-saving straw" in his mind.
In the camp, after hearing Zhao Liangsi's pleading for help, Ximen Qing showed a look of embarrassment and fell silent.
Ximenqing's move was not to inquire about the difficulties in the national policy of the people of the Jin Kingdom. For Ximen Qing, who knew the direction of history, there was no need to ask the nobles of the Jin Kingdom.
Ximen Qing knew very well that the Jurchens had been oppressed and exploited by the Khitans of the Liao Kingdom for generations, and the destruction of the Liao Kingdom was the ideal of several generations of the Wanyan family.The Jurchen nobles headed by Wanyan Aguda will never easily make peace with the Khitan people of the Liao Kingdom.
"I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, only because I am in this mountain."Zhao Liangsi didn't know the changes in the history behind him. As a player in the situation, of course he couldn't see the fog in front of him clearly.
If Ximen Qing acted so easily, how could he let Zhao Liangsi owe him a favor?Therefore, Ximenqing showed a look of embarrassment, hoping to earn Zhao Liangsi's gratitude.
Sure enough, in the face of the handsome Ximen Qing, Zhao Liangsi believed it was true, so he had to ask Ximen Qing hard, asking him to take a risk and help him again.
Ximen Qing saw that the fire was almost ready, so he made up his mind and agreed.Under Zhao Liangsi's expectant gaze, he got out of the tent and walked towards Wanyan Shenguo's big tent.
Ximen Qing stayed in Wanyan Shenguo's camp for a long time, chatted with him and inquired about Wanyan Wulu's past.
When chatting with this future brother-in-law started, Ximen Qing asked nonchalantly when the army would leave for the capital.
Half a day later, Zhao Liangsi, who had been waiting impatiently, finally got the answer he was most concerned about from Ximen Qing: the Jin army would not make peace with the Khitan people, and would soon attack the Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Liao Kingdom.
Zhao Liangsi was overjoyed when he heard the news, owed Ximen Qing a big favor, and left with great gratitude.
Two days later, as Ximen Qing had said, Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin personally led the Jin Army to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, the capital of the Liao Kingdom, and ordered Liao envoy Yelu Xinilie and Song envoy Zhao Liangsi to accompany him.
Shangjing Linhuang Mansion is located in the southeast of Shangjing Road in Liao Kingdom, in the grassland area north of Huanghe River and west of Langhe River.To attack Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing in the southwest from Ningzhou on the Hunhe Grassland, you have to cross the Dafu River and the Lang River.
Ximenqing once again received the military order to recruit and accept the rebellion, and led a cavalry of more than [-] people to follow the vanguard to cross the river westward first.
Along the way from Ningzhou to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, it is not an endless prairie, but a world composed of vast hills and grasslands.
I saw densely wooded hills and gentle hills dividing the land finely, forming small basin-shaped grasslands.
Each small grassland is like a small independent world.On the edge of the small grassland, there are bare rocks, lofty mountains or low hills with winding foothills.
These forests and basin-shaped small grasslands are full of cattle, sheep, birds and animals. Before the war, they were the places where the Khitan people grazed and hunted.
Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the Khitan people multiplied and multiplied in small grasslands on this land, giving birth to different tribes.
200 years ago, Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji also rose from here, unified the Khitan tribe, and then successively conquered Xi, Shiwei, Zubu and other tribes, and then conquered east and west, eliminated the Bohai State in the east, and established a vast territory of thousands of miles. Khitan is a powerful multi-ethnic country.
The land where Ximen Qing and Jin Jun's horseshoes are now stepping is the land of Longxing for the Khitan people of the Liao Kingdom.
Thinking back how invincible the Khitan people were back then, the entire East Asian world trembled under their horseshoes.
It's just that things are changing now, and 200 years later, the Jurchen survivors of the Bohai Kingdom came out with a hero like Yelu Abaoji, Wanyan Aguda, who led the rising Jurchens to launch a war of annihilation against the enemy Khitan.
Moreover, under the sky of history, such a cycle of fate will continue to be staged on the grassland, and will not stop there.
Ximenqing, who is familiar with the history of later generations, knew that less than a hundred years later, the Mongols who belonged to the Khitan people would rise up on the grassland again, lead the Mongols, and unite with the Khitans to overthrow the Jurchen rule of the Jin Kingdom, and the Khitans would eventually integrate into the Mongols. middle.
In the future, the Jurchens who were defeated by the Mongols will turn to the Han people in the south, join forces with the Han people to overthrow the Mongol Yuan rule, and place themselves under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the Han regime.
When the Jurchens rose again in Liaodong, they united with the Mongols, the enemies of the grasslands for hundreds of years, went south to the Central Plains to defeat the Han regime, and established the last feudal dynasty in China.
Khitans, Jurchens, Mongols, and Han people, you sing and I come on stage, sometimes as enemies, sometimes as friends, performing a wonderful drama of blood and fire on this land, showing the impermanence of the world to future generations .
Ximenqing and Jin Junmou Kexinwo Teci and Yici Kuxie were ordered to summon the tribal forces and sporadic Liao troops along the way of Linhuang Mansion, and they led the troops to approach Linhuang Mansion first.
Chapter 634 The Magical Use of the Thief Monk
The task that Wanyan Aguda assigned to Ximen Qing and the others was easy to perform, but it also had to take certain risks.
Because the Jin army defeated the Liao army in a row, the soldiers and horses of all ethnic groups in the entire Linhuang Mansion were already panicked and had different ambitions.
Except for the Khitan and Xi people who were most loyal to the Liao Kingdom, who were still insisting on resisting, many other soldiers and civilians of various ethnic groups such as the Han, Bohai, and Shiwei people had the idea of surrendering the Jin army in exchange for peace and wealth.
Relying on the prestige of the invincible Jin army, the three Jin army Muke, Ximenqing, Xinwo Teci, and Yici Kuxie, recruited and surrendered in those small grasslands along the way, and persuaded many Liao tribes to surrender.
Ximenqing is a Han Chinese, and he is mainly responsible for recruiting the Han army and Han people along the way.Xinwo Teci and Yici Kuxie were Liao generals who returned to the Jin army after the defeat of the guards.Therefore, the two of them invited Ying to come here to talk about their old friends in the Liao army.
Although it seems that foxes can easily earn military exploits by recruiting Liao rebels all the way, it is not completely risk-free.
After all, people's hearts are unpredictable, and there may not be spies loyal to the Liao Kingdom among the tribes, soldiers and civilians who surrendered.If you are not careful, you may be attacked and assassinated by them.
Ximenqing was willing to take a certain risk to accept the task of recruiting surrenders, not only to win military exploits and participate in the martial arts recruiting conference in the future, but also to select talents from the collapsed Liao army and secretly win over them, with a view to future success. own use.
To Ximenqing's surprise, along the way from Ningzhou to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, he not only subdued many soldiers and civilians of various ethnic groups, but also recruited monks from many temples!
The closer Ximen Qing and others got to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, the more Buddhist temples and pagodas they saw on the roadside and on the mountain.
When the eminent monks in these Buddhist monasteries heard the hooves of Ximenqing and other Jin army forwards, they rushed to meet each other. They brazenly abandoned the nobles of the Liao Kingdom who had worshiped them for many years, and clamored to join the new master, the Jurchens. embrace.
Ximen Qing looked at these moths who didn't do anything about production and cheated on food and drink, and felt very contemptuous in his heart.However, when facing these monks, Ximen Qing smiled and comforted them.
In Ximen Qing's view, these monks are one of the best weapons to corrupt the Jurchens and weaken the Kingdom of Jin. Of course, the more the better!
Because in history, there is a saying that "the Liao Dynasty was released and abolished".That means that the Khitan of the Liao Kingdom turned from prosperity to decline precisely because of their belief in Buddhism, leading to the country's subjugation.
The Khitan people of the Liao Kingdom came into contact with the Buddhism in these areas after they conquered the Bohai Kingdom in the east and obtained the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun in the south.
The attitudes of the emperors of the Liao dynasty towards Buddhism basically followed a development route from believing in Buddhism to practicing Buddhism.
Liao Shengzong Yelulongxu, who was known as the sage in history, had a high cultural accomplishment in Han Dynasty. It is said in history that "the two religions, Taoism and Buddhism, both thoroughly understand their purpose, especially Buddhism".During his lifetime, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom was touted as the reincarnation of Sakyamuni by the people of the country, which shows the worship of Buddhism in the Liao Kingdom.
Especially during the Emperor Tianzuo's previous generation, Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji Dynasty, the reverence, intoxication and obsession with Buddhism were particularly prominent.In February of the fourth year of Xianyong, Yelu Hongji, Emperor Daozong of the Liao Dynasty, promulgated the "Huayan Sutra Praise" written by himself; in July of the eighth year of Xianyong, he promulgated the Five Odes of Huayan written by himself.In addition, he also wrote "Hua Yan Jing Sui Pin Praise" and so on.In the first year of Taikang, Yelu Hongji, Emperor Daozong of the Liao Dynasty, ordered the crown prince to write Buddhist books.
It can be said that the entire Khitan royal family and nobles were addicted to Buddhism and lost their martial arts and enterprising spirit.
Most monasteries in the Liao Dynasty had considerable real estate, the main source of which was donations from the society, especially a large amount of alms from the Liao emperor's family and nobles.
For example, Princess Qinyue, the second daughter of Shengzong, built a private house in Nanjing to build the Dahaotian Temple.
Mrs. Xiao of Lanling County Shi Zhongjing Jing'an Temple has [-] hectares of land, [-] shi of grain, [-] guan of money, [-] households, [-] cattle, and [-] horses.
There are also some monasteries that do not directly receive land donations from the court or rich people, but buy land and build manors through money donated by the public.
Therefore, monasteries in the Liao Dynasty were generally relatively wealthy, and monks and nuns evolved into manor owners, living a prosperous life.Especially some large monasteries can be said to be as rich as an enemy.In the last years of Daozong, when the Liao government had financial difficulties, there were even scenes of monasteries donating to the state.
The social and political status of Buddhist monks in the Liao Dynasty was unprecedentedly improved, and some of the privileges they enjoyed far exceeded those of previous dynasties.Therefore, there are many people who are willing to become monks and nuns among the people.
During the period of Daozong, the situation of excessive monks and nuns reached the extreme, and the number of monks reached its peak.The total population of the Liao Kingdom is about 10,000 million, and the number of monks during the Daozong period was as high as [-]+.These Buddhist monks are not engaged in production, and rely on other people in the country to support them.There is no doubt that this situation has had an extremely bad impact on the Liao Kingdom.
At that time, this phenomenon had been strongly criticized by people of insight in the court, who believed that the number of monks at that time had reached the point where the state's finances could not bear it.