Pu Chayi quietly looked at his gray-haired mother crying and bid farewell to his young son. Even though he was reluctant, the soldier holding a scimitar stood in the middle and separated him.

From time to time, there were faint crying sounds around him, either far or near, and the atmosphere was so sad that the woman who was reluctant to let her son was pushed and sat in the mud outside the house.

Her young son was so angry that he yelled, but was still ruthlessly dragged away by the soldiers.

Pucha's horse was also a little restless in an uneasy atmosphere. The hatred and hostile gazes around him were about to swallow him. The horse was a spiritual animal, and probably felt the hostility, so it became restless.

He had many soldiers under his command, and the hostility of these unarmed people was meaningless and worthless.

The army led the young man away in the afternoon, and the large army took the young man away in the hatred eyes of the crowd.

Pu Chayi was indifferent to all eyes, rode on a tall horse, and slowly walked out of the village. This was not the first time the Great Jin Dynasty had conquered the dynasty this year.

Or he couldn't remember the time when the horse hooves stepped on the muddy path. After a while, the horse could not leave, so he had to dismount and walk. The villagers around had long run far away and dared not approach. When they saw officers and soldiers, they were like jackals, tigers and leopards.

A hidden worry arose in Puchayi's heart. He was the King of Qi of the Great Jin Kingdom, but he, the King of Qi, was different from other people who were awarded the title of king.

His military achievements were also made, but they were not significant enough, and were pale in comparison with Yan Zongbi, the King of Liao. His greatest contribution was to govern the land of Longxing for Emperor Taizu, provide political resources, and organize the court.

Because their Pucha family has been operating in Liaodong for hundreds of years, they are more knowledgeable about politics and well-read poetry and books, and what they see is different from the generals who can only kill people.

Pu Chayi, who made him look like a stunning look, was very uneasy.

This is not the first time he saw this scene. When the Emperor of Liao was greedy for pleasure and was very happy with merit, he looked at them everywhere when he was leveraging the Xi people and Jurchens in Liaodong.

Hatred, anger, but suppressed, and endured. Until Wanyan Wugunai emerged, with a wave of his hand, the entire Liaodong turned around almost instantly. The suppressed people rose up one after another. The largest country in the north, the Great Liao Kingdom, which claimed to be armed with millions, collapsed in several years and was destroyed.

Such a lesson is too profound, and now... he seems to have a vague feeling.

But the Great Jin Kingdom had to conquer the dynasty. Last night, information came again in front of him. Li Xingzhou had already taken down all the villages and towns around Ningyuan. Ningyuan City is now an isolated city without help, and at the same time, he sent people to attack the city for several days.

Jing's muskets and cannons were constantly stopped day and night, causing great casualties to the defenders. If Ningyuan did not reinforce them, it would sooner or later break the city.

The government and the people were shocked all of a sudden, and the emperor and the ministers were panicked. They thought Ning Yuan could hold on for more time, but they dragged the army of Jingguo to retreat, but they didn't expect that they would be in a hurry so soon.

The main reason is that many fortresses set up in the western Liaoning Corridor did not work at all.

There are two main fortress groups defended by the Great Jin Dynasty on the border, one is in the north to guard against the Tatars. In the name of Wusha Castle, there are a total of seventy-six forts.

There is also the one on the western Liaoning Corridor to the south. The average width of the western Liaoning Corridor is only sixty or seventy miles, and there are not many fortresses in the north. There are Shanhaiguan in front and Ningyuan and Jinzhou in the back. Who would have thought that Shanhaiguan was so unpredictable...

In a hurry, the ministers discussed and transferred the army originally stationed in Jinzhou to the south, and once again proposed to recruit the troops.

The wine bags in the imperial court were scared by Li Xingzhou, and now, when Zheng Ding heard that Zheng Ding agreed, he even lowered Zheng Ding's age to sixteen!

Xiao Hongqi repeatedly objected because this year was not the first time he was recruiting resident!

There was a routine conquest of Ding once. I knew that after the Jing Kingdom army headed north, I conquered each other once. When the Jing army broke through Shanhaiguan and conquered again, the Jing army now attacked Ningyuan and conquered Ding again!

Within one year, four strong men are at a lower standard every time.

At the same time, there is also a tax increase. The newly levied soldiers who do not increase taxes cannot be raised. They originally had to charge war taxes, but they had already collected them once. After Jing Jun broke into Shanhaiguan, he added them again.

The young and strong laborers of the people were taken to fight, and no one was going to work. Instead, taxes rose again and again. Pu Chayi was frightened and saw the shadow of the Great Liao Kingdom.

If the people are unstable, no matter how many soldiers there are, it will be useless. Maybe the foreign enemy will not be able to defend themselves and the internal sect will be in trouble.

However, the royal relatives and nobles naturally would not listen to him. They were scared by Li Xingzhou and were trembling with courage. They were all thinking about sending people to western Liaoning and sending more people to western Liaoning. No matter how many people died, it would be good to block the Jing army. Their completeness, wealth and power they went to, could be preserved.

Seeing those powerful court officials who were flushed, righteous and righteous, actually pretending to be public and private, Xiao Hongqi was extremely disappointed. In the end, he stopped arguing and shut up silently.

Now he finally discovered one of the biggest weaknesses of the Great Jin Kingdom, that is, the royal relatives and nobles have completely controlled the court. To put it bluntly, the high-ranking and powerful people are almost all relatives and friends of the Wanyan family.

If a nepotism in Jingguo is a taboo, and at least one should make a fuss or try to avoid such a situation, then a nepotism in Jinguo is the norm.

This structure can indeed improve national cohesion in the short term, because it is basically a family, not a family but a relative or a friend. As long as someone can preside over the situation, everyone will work hard.

But over time, various disadvantages will appear, and power will become increasingly concentrated. When national interests and family interests or even personal interests conflict, the latter is most likely to win.

Because it is a family ruler, almost all official titles are hereditary, so it is impossible to seriously engage in technology like Jingguo. There is no way for the people to rise, there is no right to speak at the bottom, and there is no way to communicate with each other, and soon public grievances will arise.

Even if such a dynasty is strong, it will be difficult to last. After resigning from the dynasty, Pu Chayi fell into deep thoughts and worries.

He is well-versed in history, governs the country, has many knowledge and is famous, so he thinks more than others.

I also understand one truth. To govern a country well, the most important point is to give the bottom a rise channel. No matter whether the channel is big or small, at least ordinary people must have hope and expectations so that the localities can be stable and the country can be in peace.

This is the case with the scientific and technological system of Jing State. It guarantees the opportunity for the lower-level people to turn over again and gives ordinary people at least hope. In fact, there are indeed several civilian prime ministers in Jing State. These are all telling Mingzhong that even the lowest-level people in Jing State have the possibility of becoming less than one person and more than ten thousand people.

As long as this possibility is available, people will have hope. Only with hope can they live a stable life instead of rising up.

Therefore, Pu Chayi felt that a country like Jingguo would never perish easily, no matter how weak it was.

The situation in the Jin Dynasty was very dangerous. The royal family members and nobles completely controlled the imperial officialdom. Ordinary people had almost no way to rise. Once they were born, their lives would be determined.

People without hope may get up and fight to the death at any time. In this case, no matter how powerful the Jin Kingdom is, it is useless. A rebellion can be suppressed by force, but if the root cause is not solved, the resistance from the bottom will never end, and sooner or later it will take the life of the Great Jin Kingdom.

But he could not change the current situation. The royal relatives and nobles who controlled the government either had great military achievements, had good relations with the emperor, or had deep roots in the Jurchen clan.

Pu Chayi felt so discouraged for the first time......

What also gave him a headache was that the most hated thing about the campaign against Ding also fell on him.

...........

Thinking of all this, Pu Chayi sighed, this time he was going to be scolded by the people again.

Fortunately, it was not all bad news, and there was also good news that the emperor was finally willing to invite King Wanyan Zongbi of Liao to come out and replace Wu Linhuang as the Grand Marshal of the World, and to lead all the troops of the Jin Kingdom except the Imperial Guards.

On the day when the King of Liao left Beijing, the emperor brought all the officials to see him off. Pu Chayi found in the crowd that the King of Liao was much thinner. Now he was as strong as a bear and tiger. He was a fierce man who was fighting back and forth in front of the army. Now his eye sockets were deep and his face was thin. He could see that his strength was only a wide skeleton.

The emperor did not say a word to the King of Liao, and he held it with one hand and drank it all. There was no etiquette, no kneeling, no thanks, and even no polite words.

It is because everyone has noticed the subtlety of the atmosphere.

Pu Chayi hasn't seen the King of Liao for a long time, and he doesn't know whether the news of his imprisonment by the emperor is true or false, but the two of them are old comrades-in-arms, so they excitedly take a step forward.

The King of Liao also noticed him, but just nodded, then got on his horse and left, with only six personal soldiers around him heading south.

.........

Pu Chayi came back to his senses. The reason why he wanted to seek Ding was to follow the emperor's orders, but he could completely disobey the orders. After all, who can tell the truth about age?

What's important is that he believed in the Liao King. If the Liao King was the head coach, the situation might turn around, so he had to recruit enough troops for the Liao King.

Thinking of Pucha's look up, it had just rained in the sky, and the dark clouds were still stacking in the distant sky, covering the sunshine. In the farthest horizon, the mountains were undulating and spreading majestic to the south.

The river's magnificent and colorful mountains and vastness made him obsessed with it, but when he looked up, he saw the clouds that could not be dispersed in the sky.

Po Chayi, who is very politically sensitive and has rich experience in grassroots governance, has a sense that if this battle continues like this, Li Xingzhou will not need to take action, and there will be big problems within Dajin.

Pu Chayi is not without selfishness, but his Pucha family's daughter is the queen!

This alone destined him to fight to the end for the Jin Kingdom, and there was no way out...

We must do our best to this battle, and even if we don’t win, we must tie the monster Li Xingzhou.

Thinking of this, he sighed again. He knew that he might not have let his daughter marry the Wanyan family. Even if he did not have the current status, he would have room for mediation and would not be in a dead end like he is now.

The Pucha family started to gain a foothold since the Han Dynasty assisted Liaodong officials, and has been going on for hundreds of years. The dynasties have changed continuously and the forces of all sizes have changed. It is not unreasonable that they can always gain a steady foothold in Liaodong. They can always see higher and longer.

"Fortunately, Liaodong is always safe..." Pu Chayi said to himself, which was considered self-comfort.

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Jinzhou is the most important city and important place in western Liaoning. It is well-connected and guards the throat. This place is also different from Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan.

Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan can be called important defense centers, while Jinzhou is a major transportation center. In this sense, Jinzhou is a strategic location. If Shanhaiguan is lost, Ningyuan can still defend.

If Jinzhou is gone, it will be a big problem for the Jin army to defend wherever it is, because the offensive route suddenly becomes extremely numerous.

Therefore, at the strategic level, Jinzhou's position is the most important.

The soldiers were famined here, dust was everywhere, and there were shouts of killing sounds. There were camps everywhere. The troops drawn by the Jin Kingdom from Liaodong and Shangjing were gathered here, and the strong men recruited from all over the country were in urgent training. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, there was a scene of passion.

Today is particularly different. All the military generals and officials from Jinzhou, all went out of the city fifty miles, staring at the sun, as if they were looking forward to something.

After waiting for more than an hour, everyone was so hot that they hid under the trees on the roadside to rest. Finally, at the end of the road in the distance, several sparse figures appeared in the air that was swept and twisted.

There were seven horses and seven people walking slowly towards this side.

"Here's here!" someone shouted excitedly.

The military generals and officials on the roadside started to slap the dust on their butts, then stood neatly, waiting for the people on the other end of the road to approach.

......

"I am here to welcome the commander!"

Hundreds of people knelt on the loess in the avenue.

The person who came turned over and got off the horse was the thin Wanyan Zongbi. Many people here were subordinates of Wanyan Zongbi's former generals. Seeing that he had not seen him for more than half a year, he couldn't help crying.

Wanyan Zongbi nodded, "Get up."

Everyone stood up, and some people couldn't help complaining, "Master, you are finally here. If you don't come, Li Xingzhou will come to Jinzhou City!"

Wanyan Zongbi continued to walk forward, someone led his horse, everyone made way and surrounded him in the center.

"Don't worry if I'm here." He spoke, his tone was calm and his voice was not high, but it made everyone feel at ease.

"Where is Wu Linhuang?" he asked as he walked.

"That kid was besieged by Jing Jun in Ningyuan City. Now Ningyuan is an isolated city." Someone said contemptuously that none of them looked down on Wu Linhuang very much.

Wanyan Zongbi didn't ask any more questions. He didn't care about Wu Linhuang's life or death. "Where is Yelu Tuohu, is there any exact news about him?"

The surroundings were quiet for a while, and then someone whispered: "I'm dead, dead in Shanhaiguan. He asked most of the people to flee north and took a few people to fight with the people of Jingguo..."

"The court also said that he lost Shanhaiguan, and said that he did not obey the orders of the general and was stubborn..."

The voice became lower and lower. Wanyan Zongbi took a deep breath, but in the end he didn't say anything. After half a year of house arrest, he understood more things, not generals who only knew how to beat and kill.

Yelu Tuohu, who once regarded as a brother, and who had been born and died together, now ended up like this, and it is impossible not to feel heartbroken.

However, his heart was already cold. After he was deceived to hand over military power, he was imprisoned by his own nephew, the current emperor.

If it weren't for the call from Jing Guo people this time, he would have been afraid that he would not be able to come out for the rest of his life, which would be really ironic.
Chapter completed!