As soon as these words were spoken, Wuqimai stood beside his son, Nianhan held the tea and did not move, and several elderly founding heroes in the hall were also depressed for a moment... The whole hall was silent for a while.
Because these people knew very well that what Lou Shi said was the absolute truth.
"More than two uncles?" In the midst of the silence, the first to break the silence was the fourth prince Wanyan Wushu, who had shaved his beard and looked much younger. His sitting posture was strange, but his words were sincere, which attracted the attention of people in the hall. "My second brother (Wanyan Wulibu, the commander of the Eastern Army) was only over thirty years old when he suddenly died of illness; my other uncle Wusai, I remember that he was the commander-in-chief of the Western Front against Goryeo, and General Loushi was just a soldier under him, and he also died of illness in his thirties; and my eldest cousin Mou Lianghu, my father promised him to be the marshal, and he was the best to my brothers, but he died before he was forty? My eldest brother even married his wife to take care of him..."
One familiar name after another floated past their ears, and the many Jurchen nobles in the hall became more and more sad.
But what can we do?
As the first generation to start a business, what hardships did you suffer when you were young? What did you eat and use? Who hasn't been hungry and cold? How many obvious and hidden injuries did you suffer in the war? It is common to die in your thirties or forties, and dying in your forties or fifties is probably a happy funeral!
So logically speaking, if you die, you die!
Only wealth, glory, power and profit are right before our eyes, and life is no longer the same as before, and everyone is unwilling to accept it.
Speaking of which, we must first review the turmoil within the Jin Kingdom last year.
First of all, it must be confirmed that the Jin Kingdom had no intention of going south last year, and it was not a trick. Even this New Year's Day military expedition was really just a separate action pushed by Wanyan Loushi, and the Eastern Route Army was not mobilized at all.
The reason was that Jin was plagued by internal and external troubles, and many problems occurred intensively within a year...
The most obvious one is, of course, that the Crown Prince Wanyan Xie suddenly became seriously ill and then died, leaving the throne vacant, which then triggered a fight among the three major factions for the throne. Needless to say, this was a fight for the foundation of the country.
While fighting for the throne, the Mongols also launched an uprising and declared war;
In addition, Liu Yu's pseudo-Qi army was defeated in Jingdong.
The Meng'an and Mouke people in the northern region also collectively petitioned in the autumn to expand their territorial rights.
A more serious external threat was that it was in this year that Yelu Dashi completely integrated the remaining forces of the Liao Dynasty in the Western Regions.
This great general of the Liao royal family and Khitan Jinshi, who had been captured by Wanyan Loushi in the past, relied on his two hundred remaining cavalrymen to maneuver in the Western Regions. In seven years, he managed to link up eighteen coalition forces, integrate the entire Western Regions, and raise the banner of the Liao Dynasty again. Moreover, just since last autumn, he began to gather troops on a large scale, as if he was about to make a big move.
When the news came, even though there were Mongols or Xixia people in between, the three words Khitan, Liao and Yelu were still taboos that had to be taken seriously by the Wanyan clan of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty.
As expected, following an accident, the Khitan nobles in Datong, Xijing, suddenly rebelled in response to Yelu Dashi and Mongol Kubula Khan.
Then, there was the incident of the loss of all the ferry boats in Little Gossa during the Chinese New Year...
These things happened one after another, and it was understandable that the Jin central government was overwhelmed and decided to slow down its march southward.
However, returning to some fundamental issues behind the matter, the reason why the country is in such a mess is that the founding people mentioned by Lou Shi are gradually dying out, which is a factor that cannot be ignored.
For example, wasn't the issue of the crown prince that led to the fierce fighting among the three major factions because the crown prince Xieye suddenly collapsed, which completely invalidated the order of succession arranged by Wanyan Aguda and subsequently broke the balance among the three major factions?
Moreover, in the process of fighting for the throne, what caused the situation to become unbalanced was nothing else but the death of Aguda, Wuqimai, and Xieye's other brother, Jiemu, who was the governor of Datong, the Western Capital of the Jin Dynasty.
Wanyan Jiemu died suddenly of illness, and the consequences were no less serious than the death of the crown prince Xieye.
This man was the military supervisor placed by Aguda in the Western Army of Nianhan. He had outstanding military achievements and was the theoretical superior of Lou Shi and Yin Shuke. He was the Left Supervisor of the Marshal as early as the establishment of the Capital Marshal's Office. He was one of the few close relatives and generals in the Western Army who could effectively pin down Nianhan.
Later, Talai used a trick to come to power, and this man resigned from the post of Marshal and Left General, and was instead appointed as the governor of Datong, the Western Capital. However, he still sat in charge of the capital and enjoyed a very high political status. Then, he was still like a dagger, firmly behind Nianhan.
Although Nianhan had successfully consolidated and expanded his authority by raising prices among Aguda's direct line and Wuqimai's line before Jiemu's death, the death of Jiemu made Nianhan completely fearless in politics and military affairs.
Wanyan Yinshu was promoted from the governor of Taiyuan to the governor of Yanjing, and Wanyan Xiyin (Gu Shen) was ordered to enter Yanjing and announced that he would carry out political reforms. All of these were direct consequences of the death of Jiemu.
That’s not all. The Khitan rebellion in Datong, Xijing, was undoubtedly another direct consequence of Jiemu’s death, and it was Lou Shi who was later responsible for cleaning up the mess.
In addition, during the fight for the throne, Jayamu had always supported Aguda's eldest son Wanyan Oben. His presence and stable attitude kept Aguda's direct line, one of the three major factions, closely united. But when the emperor's uncle suddenly died of illness, everyone in Yanjing knew about it, and the third prince Wanyan Erlido began to think about fighting for the throne himself.
Therefore, not to mention that the dispute over this matter was like a farce, and not to mention that it concerned the fundamental issue of the throne, no one was willing to give up. Just saying that the brothers Xieye and Jiemu died one after another, had made this fierce dispute and struggle come to the present moment, and Nianhan had already won!
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