Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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Therefore, Song Huizong could only instruct Wang Anzhong, the magistrate of Yanshan Prefecture, to pretend to be confused and push the lawsuit to Guo Yaoshi, the deputy prefect.

Guo Yaoshi was originally the leader of the Ever Victorious Army. How could the Han people in Yandi who lost their land win a lawsuit against him?

Many Han Chinese who fled back to Yanjing became impoverished and complained to the court.

Because of this incident, Zhan Du, the pacifier of Zhongshan Prefecture who is also the deputy prefect of Yanshan Prefecture, had some conflicts with the domineering Guo Yaoshi because he sympathized with the Han people in Yandi who lost their land.

Because of political disputes, Zhan Du and Guo Yaoshi developed into a power struggle in Yanshan Mansion.

After the Great Song took back Yanshan Mansion, the three highest officials appointed by the imperial court should be Wang Anzhong, the appeasement envoy of Yanshan Mansion Road and prefect of Yanshan Mansion, Zhan Du, the appeasement envoy of Zhongshan Mansion and the prefect of Yanshan Mansion, and finally the Jiedu Envoy of Changsheng Army He is also the same as Guo Yaoshi, the magistrate of Yanshan Prefecture.

However, Guo Yaoshi insisted that the defense of Yandi depends on the ever-victorious army, and he should be ranked ahead of Zhan Du.

Zhan Du said that he was the first in the imperial decree, and the order of the imperial decree cannot be reversed.

However, Guo Yaoshi controls tens of thousands of troops and has real power in Yandi. After defeating Xiao Qian, he thinks highly of himself and does not agree with Zhan Du's statement.

After the court of the Song Dynasty knew this situation, it was afraid that Zhan Du and Guo Yaoshi would have a bad relationship, which would affect the stability of Yanshan Prefecture, so they appointed Cai Jing, the prefect of Hejian Prefecture, to exchange positions with Zhan Du to appease Guo Yaoshi.

Chapter 868 Checking and Balancing Pharmacist Guo's Brilliant Move

After the death of Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda, the remnants of Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom in Jiashan were defeated by the Jin Army again. The three armed forces that threatened the security of the northern border of the Song Dynasty all disappeared.

After selling Zhang Jue's head and providing food and grass for Wanyan Zongwang's army, the relationship between Song and Jin also seemed to ease.

Although the Kingdom of Jin sent envoys to Yanshan Mansion from time to time to beg for refugees from the Kingdom of Jin who had fled to the Song Dynasty, and people from Yanshan Mansion continued to flee northward into the Kingdom of Jin, but in the eyes of Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, the danger of the Jin army invading Yanshan Mansion had disappeared. .

After the situation in the northern frontier temporarily stabilized, the Song court gradually felt that Guo Yaoshi's ever-victorious army had become a new threat.

Guo Yaoshi's ever-victorious army is powerful and occupies a large area of ​​land around Yanshan Mansion.

Guo Yaoshi himself is also domineering and domineering, and he is not restrained by Shangguan Wang Anzhong.

Some people in the court called it another Anlu Mountain in front of Song Huizong, thinking that if it was allowed to develop, the Ever Victorious Army would sooner or later become a serious problem on the border of the Song Dynasty.

In order to solve the problem of Guo Yaoshi and Chang Shengjun, the Song court first adopted a soft policy towards Guo Yaoshi.

After Wang Anzhong killed Zhang Jue, in order to appease Guo Yaoshi, Song Huizong named Guo Yaoshi as Taiwei on the grounds that Guo Yaoshi had repeatedly made military exploits. dissatisfied.

At the same time, Song Huizong listened to the slander of Wang Fu, Liang Shicheng, Gao Qiu and others, and believed that Taiwei Tongguan lost his troops and generals in the battle against Yan, which made Guo Yaoshi's ever-victorious army dominate Yanshan Prefecture.

Moreover, Taiwei Tongguan has an irreversible relationship with Guo Yaoshi, and Guo Yaoshi treats Tong Guan as his father.It was Tong Guan's connivance to Guo Yaoshi that made him ignore the court and run rampant in Yanshan Mansion.

After hearing what Wang Fu and others said, Song Huizong blamed Taiwei Tong Guan for his dissatisfaction with Guo Yaoshi and the humiliation of redeeming Yanjing, and people suggested that Tong Guan resigned and took up his post.

Tong Guan knew that he had fallen out of favor, so he obediently submitted a petition to resign from the position of Xuanfu envoy of Hebei and Hedong Roads.

Song Huizong immediately played the quasi-playing and lifted the real power of Taiwei Tongguan.

After Tong Guan became an official, Song Huizong appointed another favored eunuch Tan Zhen to take over as Xuanfu Envoy of Hebei and Hedong Roads, making him the commander in charge of the northern frontline defense of the Song Dynasty after Tong Guan.

Song Huizong entrusted all major state affairs to eunuchs, which is really absurd.

Tong Guan, an eunuch, had fought on the Xixia border for more than ten years. He won Xixia's vassal status and the support of the Western Army, so he could be regarded as a good soldier.

Tan Zhen, an eunuch without Tong Guan's military talent and prestige in the army, was asked to preside over the defense of the northern part of the Song Dynasty. Only Song Huizong, a frivolous and absurd emperor, could act so willfully.

After Tan Zhen took office as the envoy of Xuanfu in Hedong and Hebei, he gave Song Huizong an advice, suggesting that the court should pay money and food to create another army in Hedong to control the ever-victorious army in Yanshan Prefecture.

Tan Zhen suggested that this newly formed army be called the Yisheng Army, with [-] soldiers, stationed in various counties and transportation hubs on the northern border of Hedong Road near Yanshan Prefecture. On the one hand, it will be used to check and balance the Changsheng Army. Secure the border.

The imperial court quickly approved Tan Zhen's suggestion, and ordered Li Siben, the Daizhou guard who was familiar with the mountains and rivers near Yanshan, and Geng Shouzhong, the surrendered general of the Liao Kingdom, to prepare the army.

In order to attract elite soldiers and generals from the Northern Han Dynasty, the imperial court, at the request of Tan Zhen, specially approved the food supply of the Yisheng Army to be twice that of the Changsheng Army.

As a result, the generous treatment of the Yisheng Army not only attracted a large number of refugees near Yanshan to actively join the army, but even many soldiers from the Changsheng Army secretly came to join the Yisheng Army.

Guo Yaoshi was very panicked by the establishment of the Yisheng Army, especially because the sergeants in his own unit secretly turned to join the Yisheng Army, which made him even more troubled.

Guo Yaoshi had no choice but to order all the soldiers to tattoo on their faces and mark the Ever Victorious Army to prevent them from escaping and joining the Yisheng Army.

As a result, this incident caused everyone in the Changsheng Army to complain, and the morale of the army was unstable.

The generals in the Changsheng Army headed by Guo Yaoshi were very dissatisfied with Tan Zhen, the envoy of Xuanfu, who planned to build the Yisheng Army to check and balance the Changsheng Army, and deliberately provided twice the food and pay.

Tan Zhen's move made the generals of the Ever Victorious Army and the court even more alienated.

Moreover, the Yisheng Army that Tan Zhen worked so hard to form did not become an armed force loyal to the Song court.

This Yisheng army was originally a pure Youyun Han army specially recruited by the Song Dynasty in order to contain the ever-victorious army composed of Dao Han people in Liaodong and Bohai as the core, mixed with Nanjing Dao Han people.

However, just because the righteous victorious army were all Yanyun Han people, they were looked down upon by the Song people.

Tan Zhen recruited more than [-] people from Hedong to join the Yisheng Army, all of whom were supported by the imperial court.

However, with so many people needing to eat, the warehouses on Hedong Road soon became insufficient, and they began to owe food to the Yisheng Army.

The soldiers of the Yisheng Army couldn't get enough to eat, and thought they had been tricked by the court, so they cursed their mothers angrily.

At this time, the army rations eaten by the Song army on Hedong Road were all rotten rice leftovers.

These Song army sergeants believed that it was the imperial court that raised so many Yisheng troops for nothing that they could not eat good food. They were also full of resentment and blamed the Yisheng army.

When the Song Army and the Yisheng Army met on the road on the Hedong Road, they insulted the soldiers of the Yisheng Army: "You birds are all Fan people, how dare you eat the new food from the imperial court?

I am a dignified official of the Song Dynasty, but I am eating old rice!Could it be that I am not as good as you Niaofans when I wait for the Han people?

You birds are waiting, the master will kill you sooner or later! "

After being insulted and threatened by the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, the soldiers of the Yisheng Army became terrified and alienated from the Song Army.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Yisheng Army also discovered that the Song people did not really regard them, the Yanyun Han people, as their own, but as the northern barbarians like the Khitan people, and called them "Fanren" scornfully.

The officers and soldiers of the Song army on Hedong Road insulted the Yanyun Han people face-to-face as "Fanren". It can be seen that everyone in the Song Dynasty regarded them as "not my race".

Since they could not be recognized by the Song people, the soldiers of the Yisheng Army did not have any hope for the Song Dynasty.

After Zhang Jue was killed, Yanyun Han people were hurt again because of the discrimination of the Song army. Many people had two hearts, and it was difficult to be loyal to the Song Dynasty.

Tan Zhen's clever and dazzling operation not only failed to check and balance the Changsheng Army, but made both the Changsheng Army and the Yisheng Army complain to the court.

The Great Song Dynasty planted another disaster for itself.

In fact, when the Song army went north to conquer Liao and regain the land of Yan, the Han people in Yan did not like it, and not many people from Yan came to welcome the Song army.

As for the actions of the Jin army to capture the land of Yan and cede it to the Song Dynasty, the people of Yanjing City lined up to welcome the Song army, but it was just an illusion that the situation forced them to do.

After the Song Dynasty took back the land of Yan, a series of policies aimed at the northern land not only failed to appease the people, but made them even more disgusted with the foreign ruler of the Song Dynasty.