It was the first day of the first lunar month of the second year of Jianzhong Jingguo in the Song Dynasty, and it was also the first day of the first lunar month of the second year of Gantong in the Liao Dynasty.

For the Goryeo Kingdom, which was across the sea from the Song Dynasty, this year was also the second year of Constitution. Because Goryeo Kingdom was a vassal of the Great Liao Dynasty, it could not have its own reign name, and the reign name of the Liao Kingdom must be used to show obedience.

The capital of Goryeo is still as deserted as ever. If we look at it from the eyes of later generations, this Goryeo capital cannot even become a "city". It is just a mountain and water surrounded by winding earth walls. The area inside the city is not small, with the circumference of the city wall being 29,700 steps (about 40 kilometers), and there are twenty-two gates. In terms of the area, it is very grand.

However, inside the rammed earth wall is no different from outside, and it is all the same with beautiful mountains and rivers. Only in the half-moon inner city of Kaijing has it become more popular, with some half-dead commercial and handicrafts, and some more grand merchant residences.

Next to this Kaijing commercial area is the southern gate of the inner city. Inside the southern gate are the settlements of two nobles and some temples, as well as a full moon platform of the imperial city built against Songyue Mountain. However, most of the inner city areas are still like the outer city, with mountains and rivers. A hill called Songyue Mountain occupies more than half of the land in the inner city of Gaoli Kaijing.

If any barbarians entered this capital, what awaited them was not street fighting or plundering, but a mountain jungle battle in the capital of the Goryeo, they could definitely fight guerrillas!

This is probably the reason why the Jurchens were not interested in the destruction of Goryeo in history? What if they perish? Do you live in Kaijing, Goryeo to hunt? Then why not stay next to the tiger water?

At this time, Wu Yanchong had already developed from a miraculously. When he returned to Kaijing, he had to be careful of meeting wild boars and wild wolves when he went out at night. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he was following the great king Wang Yong to worship his ancestors in the Taimiao.

Many of the systems in the Goryeo Kingdom were copied from the Song Dynasty, but they only copied the fur. In Wu Yanchong's opinion, the things inside were their own. For example, incest, the Wang family of Goryeo was engaged in intermarriage within the clan, and the most popular brothers married their sister. However, they also knew that it was against human nature to marry their sister, so when they married their sister, they would change their mother's surname to their sister.

In addition, the Goryeo Kingdom's emphasis on culture and military affairs and imperial examinations are also somewhat similar in appearance but not in spirit...

At this moment, Wu Yanchong followed Wang Yong into the temple worshipping King Xun of the Goryeo Xianzong. The monarchs and ministers first worshiped the tablets of Xianzong and offered sacrifices. Then they heard Wang Yong recite a seven-character poem by the King of Xianzong in fluent Chinese: "In the Gengxu year, there were enemies and wars penetrated deep into the Han River. At that time, Jiang Gongshou did not use the position, and the whole country was left-sided people."

Wu Yanchong turned his attention to the Grand Tutor and the Secretariat who were granted the temple of Xianxian, and the founding marquis of Tianshui County, and promoted Zhong to cooperate in Anguo to present the tablets of Jiang Hanzan, the hero of the meritorious minister of the country.

This Jiang Hanzan is Jiang Gong who made great contributions in the Khitan War in the past! He was a descendant of Jiang Gongzhen, the founding hero of Goryeo. During the reign of Goryeo, several top scholars seemed to have produced several top scholar military strategists in the later reign of Hsinzong. During the last battle between Goryeo and Khitan, he led a 200,000 Goryeo army (of course, known as) to fight against the 100,000 Khitan army, and won a great victory in Guizhou, Goryeo.

After the great victory in Guizhou, Jiang Hanzan did not suffer great trouble because of his great achievements. Instead, he served as the minister of the Goryeo Kingdom and the subordinate of the inner history clan Pingzhang, which is the prime minister. Until he retired, he was still prosperous and wealthy. He repeatedly promoted his titles and lived to be eighty-four years old before he died.

Jiang Minzhan (from a Jinshi), Cui Chong (the top scholar, known as Confucius from Haidong), and others who were famous Korean generals of Jiang Hanzan, also enjoyed glory after the war.

Judging from the fact that these top scholars and Jinshi of Korea can all go to the battlefield and can end up victoriously after winning battles, the Goryeo people have indeed not learned the essence of using literature to control martial arts...

"In the Gengxu year, there were enemies and wars penetrated deep into the Han River. At that time, Jiang Gongshou did not use the plan, and the whole country was a man with left-lantern lapels."

After Wang Yong finished reciting the seven quatrains left by his ancestors to commemorate the meritorious officials, the ministers who accompanied Wang Yong also recited them together, and then bowed to Jiang Hanzan's tablet together.

Wu Yan knew in his heart that the king must have made up his mind to start a war, so he worshiped Mr. Jiang with great fanfare when paying homage to the former kings of Xianzong.

This is to encourage the two important officials to follow Mr. Jiang!

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The full moon platform of the palace of the Kingdom of Goryeo is built between hills, just like Kaijing.

In terms of the area, it is much larger than the imperial city of Kaifeng Prefecture, but there are many ups and downs in the earth walls of the imperial city. The three palaces, known as "Shouchang Palace", "Rende Palace" and "Shoude Palace", look like three landlord courtyards of the Song Dynasty, scattered on the flat ground between small hills, with a messy layout and not neat at all.

The King of Goryeo handled government affairs on a daily basis and met with ministers was the Changhe Hall of Rende Palace, which was built in imitation of the palace of the Song Dynasty, but it was rough everywhere, and it looked like a sloppy and inferior imitation.

Wang Yong, the king of Goryeo Kingdom, sat upright in the dimly lit Changhe Hall, wearing a red robe. The king had a big beard and sat very majestic. He had a little bit of a military general's style, and his throne was usurped by his ability. Therefore, in Kaijing, many ministers think he is a great wise and powerful lord.

The hero Wang Yong was at this time listening to Minister Wu Yanchong reporting on the progress of the "arms trade".

Wu Yanchong has finished talking about the method of "using tax mortgage for weapons" and is talking about his own analysis.

"Your Highness... According to my observation, the Song Dynasty is becoming more and more like a profiteer who is proficient in calculations. They want to recover Yanyun's land, but are unwilling to truly strengthen their troops and prepare for war, so they can only take advantage of opportunities and achieve their goals by supporting Liao's opponents. And our Goryeo national strength is booming, and we already have the shadow of a strong and prosperous country, which is the only hope of the Song people."

"Since they have the only hope, why don't they give us weapons?" asked Goryeo King Wang Yong lightly.

"Because the Song Dynasty was afraid of the Khitan, he did not dare to publicly support our Northern Expedition to give birth to the Jurchens." Wu Yanchong replied, "That is why they had to provide us with weapons in the form of trade... But we only need to give 2 million to get ready-made weapons worth 6 million. It is much more cost-effective than buying raw materials and making them by themselves."

Of course, the Goryeo Bangzi of this era did not have the idea of ​​developing manufacturing. With the same money, it would be more cost-effective to get ready-made weapons than to get raw materials. As for the problem of the quality of the weapons in the Song Dynasty military weapon surveillance, the Goryeo king and minister didn't care. After all, no matter how bad it is, it is better than the things of the Goryeo people themselves.

The capital of Goryeo is now like a forest park, and you can imagine what their handicraft industry is. Although there are many fine products in Goryeo, the manor economy of the two nobles is a bit good, but it is not enough to prepare a large army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops. To expand production, you have to send labor labor to strengthen the men. As for whether the men brought in will do craftsmanship, it is impossible to control it.

With this little land, population and financial resources, it is impossible for the Goryeo Kingdom to support a large number of official handicraft workers. Moreover, after the war between the Zixianzong Dynasty and the Khitan in the Goryeo Kingdom ended, it has been peaceful for more than 80 years, and there is no need to raise so many craftsmen to make weapons.

"Yin Qing, what do you think?"

Wang Yong did not make a decision immediately, but solicited the advice of Yin Guan, the head of the Privy Council. Yin Guan had visited Liao and Song Dynasty many times and was familiar with the situation of the two countries.

"Your Highness, I agree to buy Haizhou Pass and Busan Pass to the Song people in exchange for 4 million pieces of weapons." Yin Guan said, "Because our country has not encountered a major war for 80 years, and although its national strength is strong, it has not been cultivated for many years. The Jurchen tribes have been in conflict for many years, and many brave men in each tribe have to use ten times of their troops to ensure victory."

"How many soldiers are there in each tribe of the Jurchen tribe?"

Yin Guan said: "If each division combines its troops, there should be 20,000 heroes. If you only look at the strongest troops, the Hushui Wanyan division will have about 3,000 elite troops. As for the Helandian divisions, there will be up to 2,000 soldiers available."

"Hahaha," Wang Yong laughed, "In the past, 100,000 Khitans were defeated by me, but now there are only a few thousand Jurchens... It seems that I am in the Great Goryeo and Xiong.

Yin Qing, how many soldiers do you think you need to use to make the Jurchen surrender?”

"Twenty-hundred thousand!" Yin Guan replied.

"I need so many soldiers?" Wang Yong was shocked.

If the Jurchens die, they will have an army of 20,000. If they have to spend 200,000, they are too proud of the Jurchens?

"Your Highness," Yin Guan explained, "100,000 of the 200,000 army can be used to conquer the Jurchens of Helandian and Taibai Mountain. Another 100,000 garrisons of the Great Wall, guarding the Khitans to go south.

If our army is in Helandian and Taibai Mountain is progressing smoothly, we can take advantage of the situation to recruit the Jurchen tribes such as the Wanyan tribe of Hushui, and use their cavalry as a guide to advance to the Tokyo Road of the Liao Kingdom, and restore the lost land of our hometown of Goguryeo in one fell swoop. At the same time, we must unite with the Song Dynasty and incite the Bohai people."

Yin Guan's words hit Wang Yong's thoughts. Helan Dian was not his ultimate goal, but restoring Goguryeo's hometown was his goal!

To achieve this goal, the Kingdom of Goryeo must first defeat the Jurchens, and then subdue or recruit the Jurchens. As long as the Jurchens are on the side of the Jurchens, Goryeo can further incite the Bohai uprising and join forces with the Song Dynasty to attack the Khitan.
Chapter completed!