Chapter 1252: Reversal of the Situation

"Your Majesty, do you seem worried?" Zhuang Gong looked at His Majesty in deep thought, and asked softly for a while.

"Shikai, at the time of the Shaoxing Peace Conference, our dynasty still had Sichuan and Shaanxi, and now the Sichuan-Shu war has just opened up, and the recovery of Shaanxi has not yet been put on the agenda. Asking Meng Yuan for Shaanxi, I am afraid of all difficulties, so it may evolve into the situation after the Xinmao Change. Zhao Yu tapped his fingers a few times.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates have also heard some people talk about it, thinking that the reason why I was defeated in successive battles when I was in front of the court, and that I was 'ruined', was caused by the Xinmao Change. But his subordinates thought that this was not the case at that time, and His Majesty did not need to worry too much......" Zhuang Gong said eloquently.

Zhao Hao listened to his argument, and at the same time analyzed it in his heart. He knew that the world and future generations thought that the reason why the Song court made this decision was to repay the shame of Jingkang, thus ending the century-long war confrontation between the Song and Jin. But in addition to revenge, in fact, the destruction of Jin by Lianmeng was a military and diplomatic strategy made by the Lin'an court in the late Southern Song Dynasty after careful consideration.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, some people in the Song Dynasty began to notice the existence of the Mongol force and tried to use the contradictions between Mongolia and the Jin State to serve the diplomacy against the Jin. However, at this time, the Song court had signed the "Shaoxing Peace Agreement" with the Jin State, and had no intention of recovering the great cause of the Northern Expedition to recover the homeland, so the matter was shelved. Later, when Wanyan Liang, the king of Hailing of the Jin Kingdom, tore up the "Shaoxing Peace Conference" and launched the "Zhenglong Southern Expedition", in order to reduce his military pressure, the Song court also tried to spread the Mongol and Khitan tribes to attack Jin together.

However, at this time, the Mongol tribes had not yet been unified and were not enough to become a force that could be relied on, and coupled with the blockage of the Jin State and the Western Xia, the Southern Song Dynasty had not been able to get in direct contact with Mongolia. Later, as the Mongol tribes began to gradually unify, the threat to Jin became increasingly serious, and it had reached the level of fighting against the Jin state, and at this time some Southern Song officials also began to be worried.

For the Jin State, the Southern Song Dynasty had three views: to protect the gold to reject the Mongolians, to destroy the Jin, and to destroy the Jin. Most people in the Southern Song Dynasty held the second view. The destruction of gold is different from the destruction of gold by Mongolia, it is not necessary to unite Mongolia to destroy gold, and if gold is to be destroyed, Mongolia must also be prevented. Because the Mongol military campaign was no longer directed not only against the Jin state. The Mongols first raided Sichuan and captured the five passes of the Southern Song Dynasty. Later, Mongolia forcibly borrowed the Southern Song Dynasty and successively defeated the defenders of the Southern Song Dynasty and raided the Jin State.

In the face of the Mongol surging southward and the feud between the Jin Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty court had two opinions, one supported the Jin Dynasty and used it as a shield against the Mongols; One believed that he should take this opportunity to destroy the Jin Dynasty, and thus raise his spirits and try to resist the Mongol attempt to move south. Therefore, the majority of the Southern Song court opposed an alliance with the Mongols. However, the vast majority of people are also opposed to guaranteeing gold, which is not only the reason for Jingkang's shame, but also the all-out war with Jin a few years ago is still vivid.

Therefore, the Southern Song could not be sure that after helping the Jin state to block the Mongols, the Jin state would not continue to attack the Song dynasty. At this time, although the Southern Song court had different opinions, they all recognized that Mongolia was a state of tigers and wolves, and that it was not enough to be an ally, or even a more vicious enemy than the Jin Dynasty. Therefore, under the influence of the idea of not uniting Mongolia to destroy Jin, the Southern Song Dynasty launched military operations on the border between Song and Jin on the one hand, and vaguely dealt with the Mongolian alliance on the other.

The Song court believed that under the situation of the rise of Mongol power, Jin had turned from a former enemy to a buffer state today, and as long as Jin could resist the Mongol attack, it was not impossible for the Southern Song Dynasty to continue to pay New Year's coins to Jin. The Mongols were very powerful and already had the ability to destroy the Jin Dynasty, and after the Mongols destroyed the Jin Dynasty, it was not a good thing for the Song Dynasty to be neighbors with the Song. If you do not break off diplomatic relations with the Jin Dynasty and continue to lose the New Year's coins, it will be beneficial for the Jin people to resist the Mongols, so that the Southern Song Dynasty will also have the opportunity to relieve time and organize forces to fight against the Mongols going south.

However, the views of the Southern Song Dynasty on the Mongol and Jin Dynasty issues. The attitude towards the Jin dynasty remained different from that of other neighboring regimes. Due to the Jin soldiers going south and capturing the two emperors of Huiqin and returning to the north, the imperial court, including the royal family, was looted. The Song people hated the Jin people to the core, and although the Song Dynasty had been poor and weak for many years, the call to regain the lost land to avenge the world never stopped. In fact, the Southern Song Dynasty government has been constantly adjusting its strategy against Mongolia and Jinjin according to the changes in the current situation, and the promulgation of the resolution of "Lianmeng to destroy Jin" has also turned around several times, and finally under the facilitation of many unexpected events, under the combined effect of various factors, the Southern Song Dynasty had to embark on the road of Lianmeng to destroy Jin.

However, in the end, the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia came together, and the north and south flanked each other, causing the Jin Dynasty to perish, mainly because the Jin Dynasty misjudged the situation, ignored the controversy of the Southern Song court, and did not expect that the Song Dynasty would also have factors conducive to the union of the Jin and Song dynasties, let alone strive for the Song people to unite against Mongolia. After learning that the Southern Song Dynasty was going to cut off the loss of the New Year's coins, Jin was greatly dissatisfied and blindly decided to go south to fight for territory, pushing his possible allies to the side of the enemy. In order to solve the domestic crisis of the Jin Dynasty and to punish the Southern Song Dynasty for refusing to pay the New Year's coin, the year launched a war against the Southern Song Dynasty.

The southern invasion of the Jin Kingdom shattered the illusion that the Song court used Jin as a barrier, and the related controversy stopped, and the situation of the war was not as optimistic as the Jin people had estimated. At this time, for the sake of their own survival, the Southern Song Dynasty not only resolutely resisted the invading Jin army, but also constantly looked for opportunities to go deep into Henan to copy the strategy to force the Jin army to retreat. In addition, in order to reduce the pressure on national defense, the Southern Song Dynasty also openly recruited powerful Shandong loyal and righteous troops, and at the same time joined forces with the Western Xia to attack Qin and Gong. The Jin occupied some prefectures and counties in Huainan during the Southern Song Dynasty, but they were quickly recovered by the Song people, and then the Song-Jin border fell into a long tug-of-war.

The Jin soldiers did not take advantage of the war against the Song Dynasty, and their attempts to seize Huainan as a buffer fell through, losing many of their vital forces, and the Song court had to engage with the Mongols again for their own survival, in order to reduce their military pressure. For the Southern Song Dynasty, the destruction of Jin began to become the mainstream view, although sending troops to help food had the purpose of "holding on to hatred and shame", but the most fundamental purpose was to "make peace with Mongolia", which was the correct move in line with the interests of the Southern Song Dynasty and the only correct choice of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the first month of the first year of Duanping, the Song and Mongolian coalition forces broke through Caizhou City, the last stronghold of the Jin State, and the Jin Aizong hanged himself after the hasty succession of Yan Shouxu, and the late Jin Emperor Wanyan Chenglin was also killed in the chaos, and the Jin State perished. In the end, the Song army got most of the spoils, including Wanyan Shouxu's corpse. And recovered the four prefectures of Shou, Si, Su, Hao and the first army of Lianshui, plus the Haizhou obtained by eliminating Li Quan, a total of five states, one army, and twenty counties, and the entire territory of Lianghuai was recovered. There are 11 counties in Tang, Deng and Xi in western Beijing, and 2 counties in Pizhou in Jingdong.

From this point of view, the Southern Song Dynasty can be regarded as a beneficiary of the "Lianmeng Annihilation of Jin" incident, but this result is not good news for the Southern Song Dynasty, after the destruction of Jin, the Mongol army withdrew to the north of the Yellow River, and the Song army withdrew to the vicinity of the Yangtze River. At this time, Henan was extremely dilapidated due to the war and could not supply the army, so Henan became an unoccupied area sandwiched between Mongolia and the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Mongols did not stop moving south after the destruction of the Jin regime, but continued to move southward, making the destruction of the Southern Song regime their next goal, and thus the forty-year confrontation between the Mongols and the Southern Song began. Looking at the whole process, the Southern Song Dynasty government was not unaware of the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and finally embarked on the road of "Lianmeng to destroy gold" was more of a helplessness of "choosing the lesser of two evils".

But the disaster brought by the "Xinmao Change" to the Southern Song Dynasty was far more than that. The defense of the Southern Song Dynasty in Sichuan can be summed up in one sentence: "The three passes are the gateways, and the five states are the barriers." The three passes are the seven square passes of Jiezhou, the immortal pass of Fengzhou, and the rest of Xingyuan Wuxiu; The five states are Jiezhou, Fengzhou, Chengzhou (Tongqingfu), Xihe Prefecture and Tianshui Army. The Mongol army went south twice, turning "the Shukou passes into flat land and irreparable", and the door of Sichuan was wide open.

Even more serious was the destruction of the Jialing River by the Mongol army. The logistics supply of the Song army in Shukou completely relied on the water transportation of the Jialing River, and the three most important military places in Sichuan and Shaanxi, such as Chuzhou, Da'an Army, and Lizhou along the river outside Jianmen Pass, so Sichuan and Shaanxi could not have Hanzhong Xingyuan Mansion, but they must not lose these three states along the Jialing River.

Although the new Shu marshal Li Zhen collected the defeated troops from all over the country after taking office, recruited loyalty, quickly recovered the lost territory, and worked with the deputy marshal Zhao Yanna to restore the Shukou defense line as much as he could. However, due to the occupation and destruction of these three states by the Mongol army in the "Xinmao Rebellion", the water transportation of the Jialing River could not be sustained thereafter, and the land route could only be reopened. Until Kuoduan attacked Shu again in the autumn of the second year of Duanping, the vitality of Shukou was still far from recovering, so that Sichuan fell in a short period of time after the all-round confrontation between Song and Mongolia, which cannot but be said to be the root of the evil planted by the "Xinmao Change".

In addition, from a longer-term perspective, after the Zhao and Song dynasties crossed to the south, the income of the Sichuan Consulate General accounted for more than a quarter of the total financial revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty all year round, and the military rations provided by Sichuan reached more than one-third of the entire military rations supply of the Southern Song Dynasty. In this sense, the fate of the final defeat and destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty also began with the "Xinmao Change......

"Your Majesty, my subordinates think that although there is a lesson of the Xin Mao Change, but at this time, at that time!" Zhuang Gongcong briefly described the process of Xinmao's change, and expounded the decision-making process and the future of gains and losses.

"I would like to hear your judgment!" Zhao Hao poured a cup of tea and pushed it to him with a smile.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhuang Gong never politely drank the tea and said, "Your Majesty, my subordinates think that although our dynasty was higher than Meng Yuan in terms of strategic planning, and relying on geographical advantages, it was still defeated because of the final real decision on the outcome of the war, as well as the army's combat effectiveness, logistics and supply, as well as the operation of the country, and the command on the battlefield. It is a pity that in these respects, our dynasty did not have an advantage at that time, but now Your Majesty is wise and powerful, the ministers are powerful, the army is in charge, and the people support it, and the situation has been reversed. ”

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