Chapter 430 Fear

After the spring of the tenth year of Jianyan ended, a large part of the people in the world, from south to north, from east to west, from Mongolia to Goryeo, from Khitan to the Jurchens themselves, seemed to have reached a consensus.

That is, the Great Jin Dynasty had actually perished.

The ten-year war between Song and Jin has ended.

However, the end of this war, or the so-called landmark event that marked the demise of the Jin Dynasty, is bound to be controversial.

Some people say that the Jin Dynasty was a tribal alliance established by military force, so when Emperor Zhao ordered the entire army to attack on the third day of February, the country was actually destroyed.

Others say that the reason why the Jin Dynasty was regarded as a legitimate country was because it entered the Han territory and changed certain Han systems. Only when it had a system and people's hearts had a say, could it be considered as the sign of the Jin Dynasty's demise. Therefore, the Jurchens' abandonment of Yanjing, the so-called nation's escape from the Han territory together, and their return to the frontier was considered the sign of the Jin Dynasty's demise.

Of course, some people also say that Wanyan Wushu went south to Cangzhou, but he couldn't even get a chance to be burned, and was beheaded by Emperor Zhao without a word. This was the sign of the demise of the Jin Dynasty... because Wanyan Wushu himself was the last all-round supreme ruler in the Jin Dynasty who had strategic vision, military experience, and political experience, and was also the actual commander of the Jin army in the later period of the Song-Jin War.

However, considering that the Jin Dynasty still had thousands of miles of territory outside the Great Wall, six major and more than two hundred small Jurchen tribes, a certain amount of military equipment reserves and countless gold and silver treasures, and more importantly, they still had a ruler, a ruling prince, two ministers, several ministers, several generals... and so on... Therefore, there are always some people who pursue procedural justice and think that the Jin Dynasty has not yet perished and the Song-Jin War has not yet ended.

At the end of March and the beginning of April, as Lü Yihao returned to Yanjing surrounded by tens of thousands of soldiers, the Grand Commander of Hebei became the central protagonist of this stage of the Northern Expedition. Qin Wang Han Shizhong, who had taken the lead, voluntarily gave up the former Liao Dynasty's Secretariat, and Grand Commander Lü immediately established a temporary Grand Commander's Office here, and carried out a lot of work in accordance with the previous decrees. Countless administrative orders were issued from here.

Emperor Zhao, who left the Yellow River and slowly headed north along the coastline, also cooperated with the imperial edicts throughout the process and agreed to almost all of Yanjing's requests.

Yanshan Road was re-established, and the new governor was undoubtedly Lu Yihao who concurrently served as the governor; Datong Road was formally established, and Ren Baozhong waited for his official appointment as the governor; and the proposals from Tokyo for governors of Hedong Road, Hebei East Road, and Hebei West Road were all rejected, and military control continued in the name of the Grand Marshal's Office.

The last point caused some waves in Tokyo and local official circles, and they were getting bigger and bigger.

Because soon, with countless appointment and dismissal documents issued directly from the Grand Marshal's Office in Yanjing, surrendered officials in the entire north of the Yellow River began to be formally screened according to their "spring plowing performance". About 40% of them were allowed to remain in office, while those Jinshi who accompanied the army to inspect the spring plowing, those who participated in the Northern Expedition for consultation, and the educated officers in the army also began to be transferred to local areas on a large scale.

This means that the Tokyo officialdom did not gain nearly the most anticipated benefits from the Northern Expedition.

However, the interesting thing is that among the emotions that should have been filled with anger and dissatisfaction, there is obviously a certain sense of panic and fear... Moreover, this fearful emotion seems to be far greater than the dissatisfaction and anger.

To put it bluntly, it took ten years to accomplish this goal, and according to the current understanding of the times, the high-ranking official naturally took away and enjoyed the greatest share of the credit and prestige.

Now, in this feudal empire with a strong Confucian color, no one can question this official anymore. In the era and history, in the power orientation, he, Cangzhou Zhao Jiu, has become an anchor-like existence.

In Tokyo and Hebei, civil officials and military generals can only worry about being abandoned by the government, and have no right to express anger or dissatisfaction.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that Emperor Zhao was so unscrupulous, allowing Yanjing to encroach on Tokyo's power and responsibilities, while he himself did not even show up, but just went along the river and into the sea, doing some ridiculous things.

On the third day of April, Emperor Zhao, who had paid homage to his ancestors in Cangzhou, continued northward into the area of ​​Yanjing Prefecture (at this time Yanjing included most of Tianjin in later generations). After arriving at Beishui, he immediately issued an edict to abolish the name of Daming Prefecture as Beijing and change Yanjing to Beijing. At the same time, he appointed Yue Fei as the commander-in-chief and Yelu Yudu as the deputy, and commanded the Eastern Mongolian and Goryeo armies to pursue the Jin king out of the border, advance into Liao territory, and sweep beyond the border.

At this time, everyone finally knew the last tolerance that Emperor Zhao gave to the Jin Kingdom after Wuzhu's death - the King of Liao and the eldest prince Wanyan Ouben must die.

After you die, you can give the Jurchens another chance to come and listen to the conditions.

"Wanyan Wushu knelt for the entire afternoon and didn't even dare to ask for fire, and this is the result?"

In the city of Yanjing, in the Shangshutai, the King of Qin Han Shizhong finished reading the relevant documents behind the case, suddenly let go, then turned his head and smiled at the people beside him. "Once Wanyan Wuben dies, won't Erluguan and Talan take over? Then the Jin Kingdom can do whatever it wants to do with it?"

“That’s not all.”

King Xing Ma Kuo shook his head. "Now that the Jin Kingdom has abandoned the Yanyun clan and sent them out to the border, if there is still a court structure, it is Wanyan Obon who has the final say, but the military power has been divided into the direct line of the Wanyan clan and other Jurchen tribes... The emperor's original intention is probably to continue to dig out the hearts and bones, force chaos, and get rid of the Wanyan clan from the Jin Kingdom."

"If that were the case, the Jin Dynasty would be destroyed from the inside out." Han Shizhong sighed inexplicably.

"Wouldn't it be nice if we died from the inside out?"

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