At the turn of spring and summer, both the Song and Jin countries were in constant trouble.

On this side, the royal heir died, and on the other side, the crown prince was seriously ill; on this side, the prime minister resigned, and on the other side, three factions were fighting for the throne; not to mention, this side had lost northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong was in a mess with almost no hope of sorting things out, while on the other side, the Eastern Route Army returned empty-handed and suffered heavy casualties, which led to internal resentment.

In early summer, both sides encountered major foreign invasions.

The Zhao Song people were naturally enraged and panicked by Liu Yu's sudden declaration of emperorship in Jinan... This kind of thing had a huge impact on the Han people, especially since Liu Yu was a serious minister of the Zhao Song Dynasty and a scholar-official who had passed the imperial examination. The impact of this shock was not something that could be dispelled by just drinking a few glasses of wine or cursing, the general.

But on the Jin side, the Mongols officially rebelled!

It is said that the Mongols had become a border threat to the Khitan as early as the Khitan period. The Jin people inherited the Khitan's border structure. After they changed from a border threat to landlords, they inevitably inherited other border threats from the Khitan, and the most obvious of these were the Mongols.

In fact, as early as when Wanyan Aguda rose to power, due to the weakness of the Khitan, the Mongols on the prairie also quickly got rid of their oppression and entered a rhythm of expansion and annexation. Among them, the most powerful tribe was the Qiyan tribe, which had the longest history among the Mongols, and its leader was Kublai of the Borjigin clan.

In the second year of the Jing Kang period, when the main force of the Jin army was moving south, Hebula convened a meeting with various tribes and was jointly elected as the Minister of Mongolia... In fact, he was a Khan in a sense, and Hebula could be called Hebula Khan from then on.

However, the Khan Kublai was elected, and had not experienced any annexation through tribal wars, so his control was not very strong. The significance of his existence was to serve as a representative of the Mongols, in an attempt to gain a certain degree of autonomy for everyone from the Jin people.

Therefore, when the Jin people successfully created the Jingkang Change and hundreds of thousands of main forces of the army turned back, Hebula wisely chose to engage in diplomatic mediation with the Jin people. The final result of the discussion was that he formally accepted the Jin people's imperial edict and became a so-called "Mongol King". In the following year, when Zhao Guanjia was living in Nanyang, he chose to go to the Jin capital Huining Prefecture in person to pay homage to the Jin ruler Wanyan Wuqimai.

At this point, it seemed that the two sides were about to settle down and return to the stable situation of the old Khitan era.

But for some reason, at this time, the two sides caused an incredible thing to happen at the banquet... Hebule was drunk, and it was unclear whether he was really drunk or not. He actually went up to stroke the beard of the Jin Dynasty Emperor Wuqimai with his hand. Wuqimai immediately fell into a state of "anger" because of the other party's rudeness. He took him down on the spot and severely reprimanded him as if he were a subject.

Not to mention, he even took the opportunity to hit the other person a few times to vent his anger at being beaten by Nianhan.

It is said that Hebule was drunk at the time and did not mention it, but he must have been resentful after waking up. He pretended to be fine and played in Huining Prefecture for a while. When the crown prince suddenly fell seriously ill and the war situation in the front was unstable, Wuqimai and other dignitaries went south to Yanjing to support the army, he took the opportunity to say goodbye and slipped back to the Menggu grassland.

Then he rebelled.

In fact, given the strategic posture of the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty, it was natural for a war to break out between the two sides... After the collapse of the Liao Dynasty, the Mongols naturally wanted to take the opportunity to gain independence and did not want to be bullied by the Jurchens, who were once their equals. And the Jurchens naturally wanted to learn from the Khitans and make the Mongols their vassal and then serve as dogs obediently.

There are essential contradictions between the two sides, and the farce between Hebula and Wanyan Wuqimai also seems to be a test of each other.

But in any case, the fact that the Borjigin and the Wanyan clan launched their first full-scale war over the issue of beards was quite dramatic.

It was a pity that Emperor Zhao had not been informed of this matter at this time, otherwise he would have made a solemn note of it in his notebook. Because relatively speaking, these days, life was a little boring, and he even seemed to have little interest in some national affairs that he should have attached great importance to.

"Are there fingers in it this time?"

At the turn of spring and summer, the south wind was strong. Zhao Guanjia, who was working hard to eliminate all wild mammals larger than mice in the Genyue ruins, turned around and saw Yang Yizhong coming with a familiar box, and he couldn't help but look alert.

"I dare not open it privately." Yang Yizhong was stunned for a moment before he bowed. "This is a secret letter sent by Commander Zhai of the Left Army of the Imperial Camp..."

Zhao Jiu glanced at Zhai Biao standing beside him, but he pursed his lips, indicating that the son should open his father's note box, but he didn't know what he was guarding against. Zhai Biao, on the other hand, had no scruples and took the box directly. After opening it, there was really no little finger, and he just took out a piece of ordinary silk.

Emperor Zhao finally felt relieved, so he put away his bow and arrow, stepped forward to take it and have a look. However, after reading just one word, he felt his blood pressure rising again. It turned out that the handwriting on the document was red. He knew without thinking what Zhai Chong was up to.

So Zhao Jiufu raised his hand again and handed the document to Zhai Biao: "You read it!"

"Good instructor, you know that I can't read a few words since I was a child..." After taking the document, Zhai Biao pretended to look at it twice, but then bowed his head respectfully and handed it back with both hands.

Why do you still look at it when you don’t know the words?

Zhao Jiu almost laughed out of anger, but he handed it to Lin Jingmo on the other side and asked casually, "Does your father know how to read?"

"Good instructor, you know that my father can't recognize as many words as I do." Zhai Biao said with confidence.

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