In the spring of the fourth year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, Shangjing Road was already a floating scene where everything awakened. At this time, the long winter finally passed. On the black and oily land, the Bohai slaves belonged to the various Meng'an Moukes, and the Korean slaves had already begun to work hard and sow seeds. The old forest that had been sealed for a winter finally became popular. Jurchen men carrying bows and arrows were hunting precious furs and looking for various valuable medicinal materials. Merchants from Tongzhou (Siping) in the south were also constantly marching on the road that was not completely dry.

Since the establishment of the Great Zhou Republic and the Great Jin Kingdom, the connection between the Great Jin Kingdom Shangjing Road and the Great Zhou Kingdom has been increasing. The long-term tug-of-war that took place on the Korqin grassland seemed to have little to do with the Shangjing Road. Guo Yaoshi, who ruled the narrow and long areas of Tongzhou and separated the Republic's direct jurisdiction from the territory of the Jin Kingdom, was a good person.

Under his "superior skills", there was no war or conflict between the Liaodong region of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Shangjing Road of the Great Jin Dynasty, only trade. Fur, medicinal materials, Dongzhu, Harrier eagle, and various rare treasures from the mountains and forests were purchased and sold by Han merchants from the south.

At the same time, these Han merchants also transported ironware, grain, cloth, porcelain, and various daily necessities.

According to statistics from the Tongzhou Maritime Control Commission (customs) of the Great Zhou Republic, the total value of materials imported from here every year is as high as more than 2 million taels (silver coin units)! It accounts for 80% of the total trade volume of Zhoujin. By reselling rare items purchased from Shangjing Road of Jin Kingdom, merchants of the Great Zhou Kingdom can earn at least 4 million taels from Song Kingdom every year! With such a huge interest rate, Shangjing Road can be outside the war in the Korqin Grassland, which is natural.

However, walking on the streets of Huanglong Mansion, merchants could still feel that the atmosphere of war became more and more intense. In addition to Bohainu, Gaolinu and Han people, there were also Jurchen warriors wearing battle robes sewn with Tianjin cloth.

I saw bald hair, braided hair, carrying a knife bow, leading the tall Jurchen horse, and walking with the deputy Ali Xi, swaggeringly, from time to time, I would knock over the stalls of several Bohai people and Han vendors. Then I let out a burst of bold laughter, as if telling that they were the masters of this fertile land.

When the merchants saw these Jurchens rushing around, they had a bad feeling.

Because they knew that most of the Jurchens belonged to Meng'an Mouke, who usually lived in Meng'an Mouke's territory, farmed, hunted, and conducted military training. Unless the Jurchen nobles who built a mansion in Huanglong Mansion, others would generally not enter the commercial city of Huanglong Mansion.

Although Huanglong Mansion is ruled by Jurchen officials, the permanent residents are all Bohai, Goryeo, and some Han people who look like migratory birds.

Only when the situation on the battlefield of Korqin was severe, would a large number of Jurchens who received the orders of the Dianji entered the city, and then formed an army to march towards the Korqin front.

But I don’t know what happened this spring, but there are too many Jurchens entering the city! There are many streets and alleys everywhere!

Is it finally time to decide the victory or defeat on the Korqin Grassland?

Of course, it is impossible for the Jurchens to win. Because they have been on the defensive position in the past few years. The ridge built by Dongliao was tall and sturdy, and had excellent cannons. It was not something that the Jurchens could defeat... The initiative in the war has always been in the hands of Dongliao!

Therefore, the reason why the Jurchens gathered in Huanglong Mansion is mostly because the Korqin battlefield is in a hurry!

If the Korqin grassland is occupied by Dongliao, then the war should have burned to Huanglong Mansion, right?

Can everyone... still make money happily?

...

In Huanglong Mansion, on the wasteland near Tokyo Road in the Jin Kingdom, a small rammed earth four-angle castle was surrounded by a strong guard. Teams of Jurchen soldiers patrolled the city walls, and horse teams came and went from time to time outside the city. Checkpoints were set up on nearby roads, prohibiting any caravan from approaching.

On the west side of the bastion, there were open meadows full of tents of all sizes, and wooden fences were built around the tents and trenches were dug. It was a camp where heavy troops were stationed.

At this time, in a corner of the bastion, two Jurchen men in their forties, born tall and strong, with gloomy expressions on their faces, were holding their arms and watching the Jurchen soldiers in queue training in the nearby camp.

The physique and martial arts of these Jurchen soldiers are fine, but they get a little loose when they get together.

"It's still not OK to stay!" One of the men was Yin Shuke, the most powerful general in the Great Jin Kingdom. He looked at the soldiers who were training and just shook his head, "I'm still a little short of training... Is the Erlang of Shangjing Road so comfortable in the past few years?"

"What do you mean?" The one who was called the left-behind was of course Wanyan Zonghan, who stayed in Shangjing in the Great Jin Kingdom. He glared at Yin Shuke, "Which war was there on the Korqin grassland? The eight Meng'ans on Shangjing Road did not send troops? As for the war with the Han people in the south... they also built ten bastions and hundreds of wall docks in Tongzhou. Could it be that they would attack? Our Shangjing Road's sons are not iron-clad!"

Seeing Wanyan Zonghan a little annoyed, Yin Shuke quickly bowed: "Please forgive me for staying behind. The lower-ranking official is a rough man and can't speak. If there is any offense, I hope he can forgive..."

Zong Han waved his hand and frowned and said, "Yin Shu, what's the point of doing this? What offenses and what's the end? Can we really be a good man from the young master speak straightforwardly?"

"Secret official, I know." Yin Shuke quickly changed his mouth.

There was a saying in history that "Liao was abolished by Buddhism, and Jin was abolished by Confucianism." It can be seen that the Jurchen nation of the Jin Dynasty was once deeply influenced by Confucian culture. In this time and space, because of the Confucian reform and revival movement, the Confucian culture of the five major schools, including the Western-transmitted Tianli Buddhism, the East-transmitted Tianli Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism, Empirical School, and Reasonism, became stronger, and its influence and communication ability became stronger.

By the way, once a thought or religion is greatly improved or reformed, it will most likely split and evolve into multiple factions.

This is how Confucianism is now. It has split due to the great reform. It has caused constant collisions in thoughts, and new vitality has been created because of the collisions of thoughts.

Confucianism, which has new vitality, has certainly had a greater influence on the Jurchens who are in a state of overall economic and cultural backwardness.

However, this influence does not come from a single Confucian sect, but from three Confucian sects.

Moreover, these four major sects have their own territory in the Jin Dynasty. Among them, the doctoral group from the East, which had a great influence in Shangjing Road, was the Tianli Cult. On the grassland controlled by the Jin Dynasty, the education group from the West, which was the Tianli Cult. In the Datong Prefecture and Shunyi Prefecture of Xijing Road, Neo-Confucianism introduced from the Song Dynasty had an advantage.

In the second year of Xuanhe (the Jin Dynasty was a vassal of the Song Dynasty, so the Song Dynasty was named), the Jin Dynasty also held an imperial examination in their newly established Xijing Shunyi Prefecture (located at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, approximately in Baotou in later generations).

Wanyan Zongbi, known as the No. 1 Jurchen Talent, took the lead and became the first top scholar in the Great Jin Kingdom!

While the Jin genius in Xijing Road were busy taking the imperial examination, the Jin people were busy doing business with Zhou by the doctoral group, and all the Meng'an Mouke leaders made a fortune. Huanglong Mansion also developed into a Zhou-style commercial city, and hedonism began to spread in the upper level of Shangjing Road.

Luxury and magnificent weekly residences can be seen everywhere in Huanglongfu City. From time to time, you can see four-wheeled carriages made in Tianjin, all of which are decorated in magnificently. The most expensive carriages are covered with gold edges and inlaid with glazed windows. There is also a warm stove inside. It is not cold to sit in it in the middle of winter. You can also see the vague scenery outside through the glazed windows. It is such a pleasure...

However, Wanyan Zonghan is an old-fashioned Jurchen person. He is very disgusted with this luxury style and does not like the elegant demeanor of Xijingdao.

"What's going on in Linhuang Mansion? Is it going to fight a big war?" Zong Han changed his mind and asked about military affairs again.

Yinshu was ordered to come to the Beijing Road to train the army, and the scale of this time was extremely large. The eight Meng'ans in Huining Mansion and Huanglong Mansion were to send a total of 20,000 troops!

In addition, we also need to provide an extremely large number of food, cattle, sheep, horses, and vehicles to supply military supplies to Beijing. Although the population is not large, there are large areas of reclaimed black soil around Huanglong Mansion, which is extremely fertile and is the granary of the Great Jin Kingdom!

Every time the Jin Dynasty imperial court wanted to organize a large-scale battle on the battlefield of Korqin, it had to mobilize food and grass from Huanglong Mansion in advance.

From the amount of food and grass collected, Zong Han could know the scale of this Korqin Grassland Battle.

Yin Shuke nodded, "Our new army has been trained, not only the Iron Futu Army, but also the Iron Armored Hard Army, and the truly useful artillery. Thirty-four artillerymen... all equipped with 250 kilograms of bronze cannons bought from the Song State, with a total of more than 600 pieces! It's amazing now, I'm not afraid of tough battles like the Linhuangdong Battle!"

Now there are 34 Meng'ans in Xijing Road in the Jin Dynasty, and a total of more than 100,000 troops can be mobilized.

The new army of the Jin Kingdom was formed based on the 34 Meng'an in Xijing Road. The Meng'an Mouke military system was implemented, but the tactics had undergone great changes. From the past, relying solely on cavalry, it turned into cavalry, dismounted infantry, artillery cooperation, and supplemented by the fortress and hard camp.

Wanyan Zonghan exhaled and frowned: "You can beat Dongliao and Zhou by learning the style of Zhou? Fighting with others a cannon, how many cannons are there? How many cannons are we? There are 54 cannons on the latest 'Beiyang'-class soft sail battleship! There are more cannons at the Beiyang-class level than in our country."
Chapter completed!