Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 291 Let the Koreans also go eastward to rob the Japanese
Regarding Zhao Guangmei's attitude, whether it was a Shiwei person, a Song Dynasty person, or a Khitan person, one word stood out to them all: "Huh??"

The matter of afforestation meant that the Song Dynasty would give a large amount of white money to the people of Shiwei every year in exchange for trees that were useless in the eyes of many people in this era.

But this only shows that the people of Song Dynasty are really damn rich.

With trees, in fact, for the people of Shiwei, they can provide work-for-work relief in years of famine, and can also greatly hinder desertification. Moreover, trees themselves are economic, and the fruits on the trees can be made into cans and sold to the Song Dynasty. Go, since the investment is all made by the Song Dynasty court, then the income, no matter how small it is, is pure income, which is undoubtedly a great support for the people of Shiwei.

Just think that Song Dynasty pays a sum of money every year to support them.

Of course, in fact, afforestation on the Shiwei Plateau will greatly solve the problem of desertification in the Khitan grassland and even the Hexi region. It is really money spent that benefits the present and creates future generations.

There is nothing to say about the second one. Those who want to gain fame and fortune should go to Dunhuang to fight with the Guiyi Army. This is normal. He can guess this in advance.

But this third one!
Goryeo?

Why did you go east?

Of course, from the perspective of ordinary people in Shiwei, it may be a good idea to go to Goryeo. Although the living conditions in that place are not as good as those in Linhuang Mansion, the agriculture is fairly developed and the climate is not bad. It is indeed very suitable for them to thrive.

With such conditions, they naturally had no reason not to agree.

The so-called Khan of Ugu Humar, in fact, no one has acknowledged it from beginning to end. He became this Khan with the help of loans from the Song Dynasty. It is completely different from the Genghis Khan created by Temujin. .

Now being bombarded by Zhao Guangmei, everyone was stunned, and the vague ambition of the big family Weibu was also blown away. Naturally, he, the Khan, was no longer important.

The leaders took the initiative to come to him to chat with each other, and everyone was quickly divided into three groups. Those who should go back, those who should go west, and most of them decided to go to Goryeo with him to find a way out.

Shiwei, who had just been unified, immediately fell apart.

When the Khitan people saw that the Shiwei people were gone, they were naturally very happy. Once a million-scale war like this was launched in a hurry, they would be rushing to exterminate the species. They would definitely not be willing to fight it unless they had to.

After this disturbance, those Khitan people who were originally very repulsive to the Song Dynasty were no longer so repulsive to the Song Dynasty.

Again, the Khitans are actually the most sinicized among the surrounding foreign races since the Tang Dynasty. Coupled with Zhao Guangmei’s deliberate cultivation over the past ten years, everyone is very good at the level of customs, culture and civilization. similar.

When a high-level civilization dominates a low-level civilization, it is inherently a dimensionality-reducing blow that cannot be resisted even by simple national consciousness, and a more ruthless ideology is required.

For example, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in modern times, the local people wanted to eat the shit out of the country. If the U.S. had not been immoral and there were many smart people at the top, how could there have been so many bad things.

The Liao annexation to the Song Dynasty only damaged the interests of the small army leaders, but Zhao Guangmei was still interesting to the people of the Liao Kingdom, and thanks to a fearless charge by the Shiwei people, Zhao Guangmei had the opportunity to demonstrate a nitrocellulose explosive Practical application effects in cold weapon warfare.

It should be said that the effect is indeed very good.

There is no army in this world that can compete with Shi Wei in terms of fighting with cold weapons and bravery. Even Shi Wei was like this. As long as the Khitan people have normal brain development, they should know that they are no match for the Song Dynasty.

Then everyone started saying nice things.

When Yelvxian saw this, he was very sensible. With the young army leaders who were still willing to follow him, he cut his own national title and headed north, shouldering the important task of opening up territory in the ice and snow for the Song Dynasty, and also keeping the Jurchens in check. .

To some extent, these people were the Cossats of the Song Dynasty.

This is also a good thing. After all, Zhao Guangmei still wants the Northeast Plains and even Siberia. But when it comes to sending people to expand territory, it is impossible for the Song Dynasty's own army to go, and even other ethnic groups may not. I am not willing to start a business there.

It can be said that the Song people, Khitan people, and Shiwei people are all very satisfied with this plan.

Gao Li was definitely dissatisfied, but Zhao Guangmei definitely didn't care whether they were satisfied or not.

As the saying goes, a persimmon should be picked soft, and Gao Li was a soft persimmon in his eyes.

In the final analysis, the country of Goryeo definitely did not have the soil to become a powerful country, because it was too easy for it to win the country.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, no less than 200 million people died in four generations before Goguryeo was destroyed, but he ended up stealing most of it when he changed hands. How can you explain this?

Got a huge bargain for nothing.

He also changed the name of his country to Goryeo, which is only one word different from Goguryeo.

Isn't this a provocation?
But at that time, the Tang Dynasty was already sunset, and the core areas in the west could not be taken care of. Once Anxi was thousands of miles away, and now the border defense was in Fengxiang. The traitor in the east really couldn't take care of it, so they just let it go.

After the founding of the Liao Kingdom, he had always been very respectful to the Liao Kingdom. After the founding of the Song Kingdom, he also came to pay tribute and showed a respectful manner. Naturally, Zhao Kuangyin would not embarrass him. After all, even Yanyun had not been confiscated. I really don't care about them.

Although the Liao Kingdom beat them several times, especially Xiao Siwen, and used them to deflect conflicts when something happened, the Liao Kingdom had no intention of destroying Koryo in general.

So much so that although this country has been walking a tightrope from beginning to end, and has always been known for being good at walking a tightrope throughout history, they have indeed never experienced a large-scale founding war.

A nation that has not experienced a large-scale founding war inherently lacks the genes for rise.

I think back then, Goguryeo was able to establish a country even though the Central Plains dynasty in the Northern and Southern Dynasties had no time to take care of it. However, Goguryeo has been destroyed and rebuilt three times since the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was an intermittent fight for more than 100 years, and countless blood was paid and fought hard. It was built through the sacrifices of generations.

Only countries like this were assigned to the Sui and Tang Dynasties as rivals.As for Goryeo, their country was stolen from the Tang Dynasty, so their internal organizational form, the national identity of the people, the spirit of struggle, etc., are all garbage.

Although it is cruel, the fact is that any nation can only become independent and strong after experiencing the baptism of iron and blood.

A country that has gained national independence in a daze without going through this is actually a deformity.

They are easy to bully, and it makes sense to bully them.

So if you don't bully who will you bully?

Besides, their relationship with Xiao Siwen and the Shulu Department was not very good, and when Zhao Guangyi came here before, these people wanted to defect to Zhao Guangyi directly.

Isn't this just hugging the wrong thigh?

All are happy.

The entire Goryeo court was really confused. The king, Wang Min, rode a fast horse in person and came to see Zhao Guangmei without even a guard. When they met, he knelt down and cried.

"Your Majesty, you are aware that we Koreans have no disrespect for the Heavenly Soldiers of the Song Dynasty. We sent troops to help when His Majesty the King of Qi came down. We will never hesitate to pay tribute in times of adversity. You... you can't That’s it!”

After saying that, he crawled to Zhao Guangmei's feet in great embarrassment and said: "Your Highness, since he succeeded to the throne, the little king has always admired the Central Plains State and did not dare to slack off. He has contributed good horses, armored soldiers, and ministers. Since he succeeded to the throne, , began to set up imperial examinations, and the exams were all Confucianism. Song Wen, Your Highness, you don’t want Shi Wei to occupy the grassland, just because the Khitan people are more sinicized, which is more conducive to your rule, but the Goryeo Dynasty is more sinicized!"

Zhao Guangmei laughed when he heard this and said: "So, are you willing to abolish your country's title and become the military governor of the Song Dynasty?"

Hearing this, Wang Min gritted his teeth and shouted: "My lord, I am willing!"

In fact, in their eyes, there is no difference between the ruler of the country and the governor. Even if he is the ruler of the country, how dare he be disobedient when he is a neighbor of such a tyrannical Song Dynasty?

He really never expected that Zhao Guangmei's move would lead to disaster.

Although the Sinicization of Goryeo in this era was far less advanced than later, in fact, the large-scale Sinicization of Goryeo began with Wang Nian. After all, he only succeeded to the throne for a few years in this time and space, and the effect is not obvious yet, but at least He thinks his attitude is really good.

He used to have no border with the Song Dynasty at all, but he still insisted on paying tribute to the Song Dynasty across the sea, sent students to the Imperial Academy of the Song Dynasty, and also sent the war horses that they most needed to the Song Dynasty.

Don't worry about whether these war horses are easy to care for in the mainland, just say whether he sent them or not.

Although he had no good intentions and had the strategic intention of uniting with the Song Dynasty to fight against the Liao Dynasty, even if he took ten thousand steps back, this should be regarded as a strategic ally, right?

In order to accommodate Shi Wei, it ended up causing disaster to them, Goryeo?

Is there such a big brother?

So the reason why he dared to come alone was, firstly, because he knew that he couldn't defeat him no matter what, and secondly, he really felt that he was justified and could reason with Zhao Guangmei.

Zhao Guangmei's various performances since the Northern Expedition have indeed proved that the King of Qin of the Song Dynasty is still reasonable. He is a benevolent monarch who wants regional peace and stability.

Unexpectedly, what Zhao Guangmei said next made him a little confused:

"I heard about it. Your recent imperial examination seems to me very good, very good. I have thought about it. If you withdraw from the territory of Goguryeo and make some space for those Shiwei people, you will do me a favor. , can those Shiwei people also be your good neighbors? Don’t worry, I won’t let your help go in vain.”

"As long as you agree to step down as the ruler of the country, be the governor of the Song Dynasty, and let the Song Dynasty restore the homeland of the Tang Dynasty, the land you gave to Shi Wei will be considered as if I paid for it on his behalf and bought it with you. "

"Ah...this...buy? How can you buy this?"

"Haha, don't you listen to my price? Don't worry, this price is definitely not a small amount, and you can also live together with the Shiwei people."

"If the land is sold, where will our citizens live?"

"Don't worry, I have found a good place for you. After the Shiwei people enter, I will give you a large sum of money. You can use it to resettle your people. As for the original homeland of Goguryeo, give it to Shiwei." Wei people, you go back to Silla and Baekje and build a big shipyard. I will give you money and you build a navy. From now on, follow my brother. I, the Song Dynasty, will fully support you. Seize the Japanese land."

"Ah... ah?"

"The Japanese country is richest in silver. Xiao Wang, you know, our Song Dynasty is very short of silver now. It is not only used for currency, but also for industrial purposes. It is too big and will get bigger and bigger in the future. Just It must be imported from the Japanese country, but so much money has been earned by the Japanese country. Isn’t it a waste? What a pity? Instead of letting the Japanese people earn it, it is better to let it be earned by you."

"I, the Song Dynasty, will provide money, ships, and technology. You will be responsible for sending troops. You can even recruit Shiwei people to fight with you and jointly seize the territory of the Japanese country. How about it? You and the Japanese country have a deep feud with each other, right? Take theirs Kill all the men and the unsightly ones among the women. The good-looking ones can be sold to the Song Dynasty. The land as big as the Japanese country and the silver will all belong to you. You will not lose money in this transaction. ah."

"Anyway, I'll give you the price. If you agree, I'll pay and you'll transfer the land. We'll form a Song and Goryeo coalition to rob Japan of its land and silver. If you don't agree, then you can go back and rectify it." Prepare your troops for war to face the combined forces of Song Dynasty and Wei Dynasty."

After a while, Wang Nian hesitated and said: "This... may I ask His Highness the King of Qin, have any Japanese people offended you?"

"Then how can it be said that it is an offence? There is a blood feud, and I have even dreamed of destroying them. They are the kind of people who will not spare any chickens or dogs. Wang Jiedushi, can you satisfy my wish?"

"Ah... then if you say this, then... then I will... understand."

Thinking about it carefully, he seemed to be really well off on this deal.

(End of this chapter)