Chapter 320 Losing Both the Wife and the Army
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That night Jiang Hongfei acted recklessly…
That night, the daughters of the royal family and clan of the Jin Dynasty trembled in fear…
The daughters of the royal family and clan of the Jin Dynasty sent by Li Cao included not only Wanyan Aguda’s wife Du Nuke, Wanyan Aguda’s beauty Xiao, Wanyan Zongjun’s princess Pucha, Wanyan Zongfu’s princess Pucha Shouchang and concubine Li Hongyuan, Wanyan Zongbing’s wife Tushan, Wanyan Zongbing’s daughters Wanyan Puci and Wanyan Xi Nian, and Wanyan Aguda’s eldest daughter, the eldest princess of the Jin Dynasty, Wanyan Wulu.
In addition, there are Wanyan Zonghan's two daughters-in-law, Wanyan Loushi's daughter and two daughters-in-law, Wanyan Yinshuke's sister, Wanyan Xiyin's entire family (including Wanyan Xiyin's wife Wugulun Heluoshi, Wanyan Xiyin's concubines, Wanyan Xiyin's daughters-in-law, Wanyan Xiyin's three daughters, in short, Wanyan Xiyin's entire family was captured, only Wanyan Xiyin escaped), Gaitian King Wanyan Zongxian's entire family (his situation is exactly the same as Wanyan Xiyin), etc.
In addition, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong killed Wanyan Jiemu and his sons and brought back all of Wanyan Jiemu's family members after they broke through Jinzhou City not long ago.
Some people may be a little confused and don't understand why these Jin people came out to fight, why did they bring their families with them?
People who ask such questions are probably not very familiar with the lifestyles of nomadic and fishing and hunting peoples.
The military and social organization units of the Jurchens were Meng'an and Mouke. They were military leaders set up in the late primitive society due to the need for plunder and hunting. Later, they developed into fixed military and social organizations. As a military organization unit, the number of Meng'an and Mouke was initially uncertain. Wanyan Aguda first set it as a Mouke with 300 households and a Meng'an with 10 Moukes.
In other words, the Jin people did not use the number of people as a military unit, but the number of households as a military unit. Moreover, these people lived together and formed a small tribe.
And this tribe was not fixed in one place. They implemented a strict collective nomadic grazing livestock management method all year round.
——The living state of the fishing and hunting people is between that of the nomadic people and the farming people. Although they do not move as often as the nomadic people, they sometimes move collectively for survival.
Every time the nomadic people and the fishing and hunting people move, they will pack up big and small bags and take away all their property and livestock. Wherever they go, they will take them. Women are also one of their properties.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Jin army went south this time with determination, so many officers and veterans of the Jin army came with their families. They originally wanted to occupy all areas outside the Great Wall. Some Jin people even wanted to include Xijing and Yanjing in the territory of the Jin Dynasty, and planned to let officers and soldiers settle in these areas and occupy these strategic locations for a long time, so as to do business with the Han people in the future, or go south to forage.
In other words, after the Jin people went south this time, many of them did not plan to go back at all.
The most typical examples are Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zongfu.
These three people were the generals stationed on the border designated by Wanyan Aguda, stationed in Yanzicheng, Bei'anzhou and Dadingfu (formerly Liaozhongjing), respectively, while Wanyan Jiemu was the general guarding Jinzhou. They would definitely not return to the Jin Kingdom, so they naturally had to bring their families with them.
However, things did not go as planned. The Jin people not only failed to achieve their goals, but also suffered an unprecedented defeat, losing both their wives and their soldiers.
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Yuanyang Luo.
Ever since arriving at Yuanyang Luo, Wanyan Aguda has been ill.
Under the leadership of Wanyan Xieye, the generals of the Jin Kingdom gathered the defeated soldiers at Yuanyang Luo, waiting for Wanyan Aguda's condition to improve, and then make plans for the next step.
Unexpectedly, Wanyan Aguda's condition not only did not improve, but his health became worse and worse.
There are many reasons for this situation.
For example, Wanyan Aguda has been drinking too much in recent years.
—— Since the anti-Liao campaign began, especially since the capture of several major cities such as Liao Shangjing, the capital of the Liao Kingdom, Wanyan Aguda has obtained a large number of beauties from various ethnic groups.
Since ancient times, heroes have been unable to resist the temptation of beauties.
It took only eight or nine years for Wanyan Aguda to lead the Jurchens to win successive battles and capture four of the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom. In history, he even captured Yanjing. He was far from being comparable to Zhao Ji and Yelu Yanxi of the same period, and even not comparable to Li Qianshun who was still quite accomplished. He was a great hero with extraordinary talent.
However, perhaps the more heroic, the more he liked women. This was the case with Qin Shihuang, Liu Che, Li Shimin, and Wanyan Aguda.
After achieving success, although Wanyan Aguda did not fall into incompetence and neglect government affairs, he would hold a big banquet whenever he had time, and sleep with a large number of beauties every night.
Wanyan Aguda was not like Jiang Hongfei, who practiced the "Su Nu Jing". He just relied on his body to resist. How could he resist?
Moreover, Wanyan Aguda had lived in the bitter and cold Northeast for most of his life. How could he bear the hot summer in the Yanyun area?
With these two factors working together, how could Wanyan Aguda, who was already fifty-four years old and no longer young, not fall ill?
Of course, this was only the superficial reason.
The underlying reason was that the Jin Dynasty had long passed its smooth sailing period and now entered a stage where politics, military affairs, and situations were extremely complicated, which put a lot of pressure on Wanyan Aguda.
You must know that the Kingdom of Jin is not a qualified feudal regime. It was originally a very backward tribal federal system. If such a regime wants to change to a feudal system, it will touch the power and interests of the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin. It will undoubtedly encounter Huge resistance.
To be honest, Wanyan Aguda didn't actually have the ability to change all this. He could only leave this task to Wanyan Wu, the crown prince of the Jin Kingdom, to do it through begging.
Furthermore, the Jin Kingdom dispatched 200,000 troops to capture Yelu Yanxi, but they were unable to capture it. As long as Yelu Yanxi was not arrested, the situation in the Jin Kingdom would not be stable, and thus it would not be possible. There is no way to eliminate the huge hidden danger caused by the snake swallowing elephant in the Jin Kingdom.
The birth of Jiang Hongfei, the power of Shuibo Liangshan, and Jiang Hongfei's ambition all forced Wanyan Aguda to be very careful and risk the national destiny of the Kingdom of Jin in a showdown with Jiang Hongfei, a young and energetic rising star. Victory or defeat, he is very nervous every day, and as a decision-maker, he must maintain a high degree of calm at all times, so the pressure in his heart is by no means ordinary.
Finally, and most importantly, Wanyan Aguda lost to Jiang Hongfei, killing his eldest son Wanyan Zongjun, and losing a large number of elites from hundreds of battles. This undoubtedly meant that the national transportation of the Jin Kingdom was given to the national destiny of Shuibo Liangshan, and the Jin Kingdom also offended With the help of a force that could destroy it, the Kingdom of Jin was in danger.
In addition, during the time when the Jin Army and the Liangshan Army were fighting, Yundi had a small rebellion every three days and a major rebellion every five days. The villages outside the city were plundered by the Liao people day and night.
——This made the always good-tempered Wanyan Aguda couldn't help scolding Liao's surrendered general Yelu Yujian: "You persuaded me to come here. Now the outer stronghold is uneasy, and there are soldiers on all sides. If I am caught in a snare, how can I return?"
Moreover, during that time, it was said that Yelu Yanxi would go out to Jiashan to seek revenge on Wanyan Aguda.
All of this was like a mountain of mountains pressing down on Wanyan Aguda.
How could Wanyan Aguda not get sick?
The key point is that Wanyan Aguda wants to take good care of his health, but he can't.
Not long ago, both Wanyan Juan's mother and son were killed in battle. Shuibo Liangshan not only captured the three prefectures of Ping, Luan, and Ying, but also the Liaoxi Corridor.
Wanyan Aguda's political sense was very keen. He realized that Jiang Hongfei's move was to completely separate the Jin Kingdom and the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and then attack them separately.
Thinking that Jiang Hongfei might imitate Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Wanyan Aguda, who was deeply worried about the Kingdom of Jin, how could his health not be in decline?
This made Wanyan Aguda always have nightmares. He often dreamed that Jiang Hongfei unified the Central Plains, swept across the grasslands, and slaughtered all the Jurchens. Not only that their great Jurchen foundation was taken away by Jiang Hongfei, Jiang Hongfei would also let their women Real people will perish their country and exterminate their species.
After waking up from his dream, Wanyan Aguda was sweating profusely and in a daze.
Wanyan Aguda clearly felt that his time was running out.
Thinking of the huge mess in the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Aguda quickly called Wanyan Xieye and other senior officials of the Kingdom of Jin, and said to them: "I miss home, let's go home."
Now, of the more than 200,000-strong army of the Jin Kingdom, there are only less than 100,000 left, and the Liangshan Army might be able to kill them at any time. Many of the former fearless warriors of the Jin Army are now as frightened as birds.
Therefore, Wanyan Aguda is not the only one who wants to go home.
Therefore, seeing Wanyan Aguda wanting to return to Jin Shangjing, the Jin man was indifferent on the surface, but deep down he couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Soon, Wanyan Aguda left Wanyan Zonghan to guard Yanzi City, Wanyan Zongwang to guard Bei'an Prefecture, and Wanyan Zongfu to guard Liaozhongjing. Wanyan Xieye and others escorted him to the northeast along the grassland road.
At the same time, Wanyan Aguda sent someone to Jinshangjing and asked Wanyan Wu to beg for money and pick him up quickly.
Wanyan Aguda did this, of course, not to show off, and he didn't have such a mood after losing to Jiang Hongfei. He asked Wanyan Wu to beg for it to settle the funeral arrangements.
Wanyan Wu was very shrewd in begging for money. He heard from someone who came back that Wanyan Aguda was not in good health recently, so he guessed the meaning of Wanyan Aguda, so he traveled through the starry night and arrived at Odu Mountain Station, where he saw that Wanyan Aguda was already in shape. Wanyan Aguda.
Wanyan Aguda has been gifted since childhood and is known as the number one Jurchen Qi practitioner. He can capture most of the monsters in Changbai Mountain and Heilongjiang with just his hands.
Now he is as skinny as a stick.
Needless to say, Wanyan Wu also knew that Wanyan Aguda's time was running out.
Wanyan Wu Qibuy couldn't help but feel a sore nose and couldn't help but shed tears.
Wanyan Aguda took Wanyan Wu's begging hand and said, "I have a few words to tell you. You must remember them. My biggest enemy in the future, Dajin, is Jiang Yan. This man is young, energetic and ambitious. He will definitely In order to restore the old territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, if we, Dajin, want to continue to survive, we must unite with the Song Dynasty, Xixia, Goryeo and the grassland tribes. We must not be as domineering as before. This is the way to die. To attack the Song Dynasty, you have to devote all the strength of the whole country to save it. It is best to persuade the Xixia, Goryeo, and grassland tribes to send troops together. Otherwise, the day the Song Dynasty will be destroyed will be the time when Jiang Yan attacks the Jin Dynasty..."
Wanyan Wu Qimai had already heard about Jiang Hongfei's defeat of Wanyan Aguda.
Wanyan Aguda, who has always been invincible in battles, also has Wanyan Xieye, the first commander of the Jin Kingdom, as well as Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongfu, Wanyan Loushi, Wanyan Yinshuke, Wanyan Yan Xiyin, Wanyan Wushu, Wanyan Zongxian, Wanyan Salihe and a large number of famous generals and generals of the Jin Kingdom are no match for Jiang Hongfei, let alone him who has never been on the battlefield and only works as a civilian?
So Wanyan Wuqimai kept Wanyan Aguda's words in mind.
Wanyan Aguda also instructed Wanyan Wuqimai: "After you ascend the throne, send someone to Yanjing to negotiate with Jiang Yan, and put all the blame on me, to ensure that Jiang Yan will not attack my Great Jin first, and then tear up the treaty after Jiang Yan attacks Song. As for those captured by Jiang Yan, rescue them if you can, but if you can't, alas..."
Hearing Wanyan Aguda's words, Wanyan Xieye and others turned their heads away.
Wanyan Aguda didn't know that the Jin spies in Yanjing had already reported that Jiang Hongfei had slept with all the daughters of the royal family and clan of the Jin Kingdom, and distributed other women to his meritorious soldiers. In addition, Jiang Hongfei sent Yelu Dashi to lead 5,000 Liangshan troops composed of Liao people to guard the Jurchens. Yelu Dashi and his men trapped all the Jurchens, regardless of age. As a result, Jiang Hongfei only symbolically beat Yelu Dashi with ten military sticks...
After explaining everything that needed to be explained, Wanyan Aguda asked Wanyan Wuqimai to return to Jin Shangjing immediately to stabilize the situation and prepare for the throne. He would return to pass the throne to him later.
A few days later, Wanyan Aguda left Wudushan Posthouse and prepared to return to Jin Shangjing to pass the throne to Wanyan Wuqimai.
But when Wanyan Aguda's team reached the western palace of Budu Luo on the north bank of Hunhe River, Wanyan Aguda put an end to his glorious life at the age of 54, one year earlier than in history.
Not long after, Wanyan Aguda was solemnly buried by the Jin people on the west side of the Jin Shangjing Palace.
Afterwards, Guolun Bogile Wanyan Xieye, Prince Wanyan Ang, Wanyan Zongjun, Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang and other high-ranking officials of the Jin Dynasty led the clan relatives and officials to respectfully invite Wanyan Wuqimai to succeed to the throne and become the new emperor of the Jin Dynasty.
Wanyan Wuqimai did not agree according to convention.
So, Wanyan Zonggan led Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongfu, Wanyan Zongbi and other sons of Wanyan Aguda to put ochre robes on Wanyan Wuqimai, and stuffed the jade seal into Wanyan Wuqimai's arms, and repeatedly requested Wanyan Wuqimai to succeed to the throne, and Wanyan Wuqimai agreed to ascend the throne.
Afterwards, Wanyan Wuqimai offered sacrifices to heaven and earth, granted amnesty to all Chinese and foreigners, changed the sixth year of Tianfu to the first year of Tianhui, and became the Jin Taizong.
After Wanyan Wuqimai succeeded to the throne, he did not send envoys to Jiang Hongfei to seek peace as ordered by Wanyan Aguda.
First of all, of course, it was because the people of Liangshan Marsh occupied the women of the Jin people and allowed the Liao people to kill the Jurchens. The two sides had deep hatred and it was impossible to resolve it. If he sought peace, how could Wanyan Wuqimai be the emperor?
Another reason was that after Wanyan Aguda died, Wanyan Wuqimai, because he did not have the prestige of Wanyan Aguda, could not suppress arrogant generals like Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang.
-- Some time ago, Wanyan Wuqimai was addicted to alcohol, so he stole some spirit coins from the treasury to exchange for alcohol, but was spanked in public by Wanyan Zonghan.
As an emperor, Wanyan Wuqimai was spanked in public by his ministers. It can be said that he was the first person in history.
On the surface, it was Wanyan Wuqimai who broke the rules left by Wanyan Aguda.
In fact, it was the Jin nobles headed by Wanyan Zonghan who were trying to give Wanyan Wuqimai a head start and hinder Wanyan Wuqimai's reforms, not wanting the royal family to harm the interests of the Jin nobles.
And Wanyan Aguda's sons who held military power, such as Wanyan Zongwang, Wanyan Zongfu, and Wanyan Zongjun, all chose to sit on the sidelines and watch the incident.
Obviously, Wanyan Zongwang and his men chose to give their uncle a warning, letting Wanyan Wuqimai know that he couldn't leave his good nephews.
The key point was that Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang and other Jin military personnel believed that their defeat to Jiang Hongfei was a great shame, and that Jiang Hongfei's robbing of their women and allowing the Liao people to kill their Jurchens was a blood feud that must be avenged.
In such a political environment, Wanyan Wuqimai could only follow the wishes of Wanyan Zonghan, Wanyan Zongwang and other Jin military personnel, and appointed Wanyan Zonghan as the Southwest Commander, who was fully responsible for the Jin's war and political affairs in the southwest; and appointed Wanyan Zongwang as the Southeast Commander, who was fully responsible for the Jin's war and political affairs in the southeast.
After Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang received the order, several bigwigs of the Jin military held a meeting, decided on the strategy of allying with the Song Dynasty for revenge, and sent envoys to the Zhao Song Dynasty...
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