Chapter 249 Le Shi Huanglong
Huanglong Mansion.
"This must be erected!"
Wang Yue stood on the wasteland behind the snow, looking at the broken city ahead and sighed.
After the attack on Tongzhou, the rest of the journey was unobstructed. The Han people in Xinzhou directly surrendered. Because a Jurchen army arrived in Huanglong Mansion, the city officials chose to be the mainstay of our Dajin. Since Wang Yue met their requirements, he usually tried his best to meet such requirements.
The goal of attacking Huanglong was easily successful.
It wasn't difficult at first.
The earthen city standing on the snowy field is just a misunderstanding of Yue Wumu.
The great painter's cellar is not here in Wuguo City.
In the old Liao era, this place may be considered an important city. It was originally a major city for the Bohai people, but later it became a military fortress for the Khitans to suppress the Jurchens. However, it was just a small town with a total population of only more than 1,000 households. However, it is still worth a monument. Even if it is just to directly attack the word Huanglong, it needs to be considered what the monument is made. After all, it doesn’t have much time.
For things like letting stone Yanran, you need to find a mountain rock or something. The engraved words can withstand the weather for thousands of years, but this ghost place cannot even see a mountain. It is a completely large plain, at most it is a bit of a mound or something.
This is Songnen Plain!
It is indeed a bit difficult to tie the yellow dragon, unless you get a big stone from another place, but that would be beyond his current time limit.
"Maybe I can learn from Ma Yuan."
Ma Kuo said.
"You mean to make a big copper pillar?
We are not short of copper, and some of the seized copper coins are, but after we left, it was not the last time that the Jurchens were cheap. They smashed the copper pillar and melted it, or used it to mint the money again."
Wang Yue said.
"The worst iron can be used."
Ma Kuo said.
"Where can I find so much iron in this area?"
Wang Yue said.
Iron pillars are a good idea. Make a few stoves and melt the worst-quality iron, which is basically equivalent to half-slag, and then pour it directly into a big pit, don’t care about the shape, anyway, pile it with tens of thousands of kilograms of slag iron. Then use your treasure axe to carve the characters deeper, and the larger the handwriting is like a cliff carving, or don’t just engrave the characters, just use these slag iron to create a rough shape...
This is indeed very good!
Although iron will rust, in fact, such an oversized iron lump will not rust very deeply.
It's okay to hold on for at least a few hundred years.
The Yellow River iron cow can hold on in the water for so many years!
But the problem is...
Where can I find so many irons?
There is no iron ore in this area, so we can't melt everyone's weapons and armor, right?
"Don't you know that the Jurchens Huining is the iron smelter?"
Ma Kuo said with a smile.
"Uh, Jurchens smelter iron?"
Wang Yue said in surprise.
"Of course, otherwise what do you think Aguda can do to fight against the Khitans?
Not only did he smelter iron, but he also smelted a large amount of iron, even sold to the Khitans. The Jurchen armor and weapons were all excellent, and most of them were made by themselves.
Don't think they don't know anything. These savages who others think know everything. They can hunt on horseback, board a boat, and farm. Although they can only plant tares, they can still use tares to make wine and smel iron. Although the methods are not very clever, because they are willing to put in their efforts to forge, they can really forge more exquisite armor than our court has made in the past.
Huining has iron ore, and they are all excellent.
We won't get much gold and silver after fighting.
Their gold and silver were all partly divided. The Jurchens were different from us. There was no real court. When I went there, I didn’t even have a palace. Even Aguda lived in their big tent with a fire kang. It is said that they have started to repair palaces in recent years, but in fact they are still very crude.
Huining is not a big city either.
In the past, the Khitan established a military prefecture to pacify the Jurchens.
But it's just a small city.
The gold and silver plundered by the Jurchens could not be stored there, so the chiefs of their tribes were divided, and those who were public would only be hidden in the mountains.
Next to Huining is the mountainous area.
But I haven't said that. After all, we have to use this to coax the soldiers, but we can't even collect much gold and silver even if we really capture Huining. Moreover, they can escape to the mountains and forests at any time, and it's hard for us to catch people.
At that time, it was not easy to get these soldiers to come back with iron ore, as well as their smelted iron, tens of thousands of horses, and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of iron? Isn’t it easy to bring a furnace here to repair it, and then repair it on the city wall, and demolish the houses inside, enough to be used as fuel. We brought the iron back and threw it into these furnaces to molten it. In addition, we took out a big hole down the city wall, and finally poured the molten iron into it.
The Jurchens could not smash the iron piles of hundreds of thousands of pounds, and they could not move them even if they wanted to break them. At most, they would just be buried.
But in the future, we will destroy the Jurchens and then dig them out."
Ma Kuo said obviously excitedly.
"You can repair the iron furnace?"
Wang Yue said.
"I don't know, but there will always be a few people here who can do it, such as the Liaoyang area, which is the Guanye, second only to Yanshan Prefecture in Liao Kingdom. Is there no soldiers in our Liaoyang and Tiezhou area?"
Ma Kuo said
OK, there will be this one.
This suggestion is indeed very feasible, and it will only take a few days at most. In fact, it took Wang Yue only six days to get here from Shenzhou. He can still squeeze out a few days to do a large project here. Nowadays, iron smelting furnaces are not modern large blast furnaces, which take a long time to build.
There is also fuel, and a circle of cities around him can be dismantled.
But what to cast?
It is necessary to cast something to suppress all evil spirits. Use this to suppress this land. The divine beasts and other things must not be powerful enough...
Well, Wang Yue knows what he should cast.
"King, the Jurchen envoy has arrived!"
Dou Cheng suddenly came to report.
"messenger?"
Wang Yue was stunned.
But then he woke up and said that Wu Qimai sent someone to ask for peace. After all, they were less than four hundred miles away from Huining at this time, and there was no obstacle in front of them except Xiangzhou that was completely ignored. Originally, there was Songhua River and Lalin River blocking them, but at this time they were completely frozen and could pass directly by riding horses. These two rivers were completely useless. Next was Songnen Plain, which was less than four hundred miles away. Just let go of the horse and run. Huining had no real city wall at this time, and even a simple circle of earth enclosures could not stop their attack.
Wu Qimai had no reinforcements, so he would have to beat him up to the elderly, weak, women and children.
Sum is inevitable.
"Bring it here!"
Wang Yue said.
Dou Cheng quickly brought the Jurchen envoy.
"Zhang Hao? I seem to have heard of this name."
Wang Yue looked at the messenger and said.
This is a young literati who looks quite elegant and handsome.
"The king, his family is from Liaoyang. Last time the king killed Eluguan, his father was broken into pieces by a car. The king even offered his mother to the official family. No, it was dedicated to the Supreme Emperor."
Dou Cheng reminded him.
Zhang Hao lowered his head, and it was obvious that his body was shaking.
"Ah, I remembered it, this really corresponds to the saying, a grain of ashes from the times falls on my head, it is a mountain. I regret your personal tragedy, but this is the fault of the times. Who made us all live in such a chaotic era? The fact that Ling Zun was split by a car is just a microcosm of this era. There are too many such things in this dog-die era. Since Aguda started his army, many people in Liaodong have been destroyed. Although the car split has died a little harder, it is no different from those who died in the chaos.
Alas, the people are suffering, the people are suffering, the people are suffering!
Fortunately, Lingtang finally got her happiness. After all, being able to serve the Supreme Emperor is also her blessing. This is also a worry-free life. By the way, you are also half of my Song Dynasty’s Supreme Emperor!
You are also half a Song person!"
Wang Yue said in a nagging manner.
Zhang Hao took a deep breath...
"The king is joking, why dare to take this!"
He restored the demeanor of a Confucian scholar and said with a smile.
"It's no big deal. The Supreme Emperor is also a person who is easy to get along with. You will know when you go to the Song Dynasty to meet him. If Lingtang really gets his favor, your benefits will be indispensable. I won't mention this for now. After all, you are still in the Jin Kingdom and Song Jin is still in the battle. When Song Jin recovers friendship in the future, what will Wu Qimai ask you to do? Don't worry, I won't make things difficult for you just to target the Supreme Emperor. I can say anything directly."
Wang Yue said.
"Your Majesty was deceived by the late emperor as a treacherous minister and rashly destroyed the alliance to attack the Southern Dynasty, causing the Song and Jin brothers to fight each other, and ended up dead in the battlefield, which is enough to warn our country. Now Your Majesty also regrets this move, so he sent someone to rebuild the interests of the Song and Jin. The Great Jin wished to return to the Great Song and the Sixteen Prefectures in accordance with the alliance. The Song and Jin used Yu Pass as the boundary, and from then on, they were brothers' states for generations, and they also used 500,000 taels of silver to compensate for the losses caused to the Southern Dynasty by the previous emperor's southward journey."
Zhang Hao said quickly.
"Yes, I have no objection. As for me, I really hope to see the Song and Jin Dynasty restore peace, but I am just a war. I have no right to interfere in such diplomatic matters. These are decided by the court. Therefore, I can only report to you for peace and wait for the officials to make a decision."
Wang Yue said casually.
Speaking of which, the King of Zhongshan is a loyal minister, so of course such a major event must be reported to the officials.
"Can the king withdraw his troops first?"
Zhang Hao said with some surprise.
He didn't bother to pester the peace, and in fact, they were indeed asking for peace. If it was a bit embarrassing, it would be embarrassing. The key was to coax this demon-like man first.
"Uh, you have to know that before the court makes a decision, we were still in war. Since it was a war, I would of course continue to attack. It is the court's business for you to ask for peace, and it is my business for the front line to fight. So I still have to go to Huining next. As for the peace talks between the two sides, the same is true for me when I went to Huining. At that time, the court would send envoys to Huining to continue the talks with Wu Qimai, which would not delay the restoration of friendship between Song and Jin."
Chapter completed!