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Because of this war, the Jin army not only repelled the Mongol army, but also rescued more than 30,000 captured people, if in the past, the people who were captured by the steppe Tatars were all treated as slaves, beaten and scolded by the master at will, and subjected to all the dismantling and grinding, often nine deaths, and occasionally people who escaped from the steppe by luck described the encounter after being captured as if it was hell.

This time, the Jin army was able to rescue all the more than 30,000 captured people, and basically sent them home safely. In addition, their relatives and friends, and the villagers will also be grateful for the emperor's kindness, so when Yan Changzhi withdrew his troops back to the central capital, the people in the border area were free to set up cases on both sides of the avenue to burn incense and pray, and bow to the ground. Quite a few people came from far away to express their gratitude to the emperor.

This kind of gratitude expressed by the people has never been seen among the emperors of Dajin in the past. Wanyan Changzhi was also quite moved, and personally dismounted to help up several old men, and comforted them with good words, and then let them disperse.

At the same time, Wanyan Changzhi can also deeply understand that in fact, the thoughts of the common people are very simple, they don't care who is the emperor, as long as they can protect them and let them survive, they will support whom. This is easy to say and not difficult to understand, but not every emperor can do it.

When he returned to Zhongdu, Wan Yan Changyi and his entourage were once again welcomed by the civil and military officials of Zhongdu outside the city, congratulating them on defeating the Mongol army this time.

During the period when Wanyan Changzhi led the army to meet the Mongolian army, the Taishi Zhang Hao died of illness in the central capital, and Zhang Hu escorted the coffin team with Zhang Hao's eldest son Zhang Ruwei and returned to Zhang Hao's Bohai hometown for burial. Therefore, he did not participate in the triumphant return to the division to welcome Yan Changzhi. Wanyan Changzhi also has a lot of respect for Zhang Hao, so although he knew that Zhang Hao's life was short, he still couldn't help but feel a little sad when he heard his death.

After returning to the palace, Wanyan Fushou immediately sent the dismantling book, it turned out that before Wanyan Changzhi returned to Beijing, Wanyan Fushou worked with other ministers to posthumously present Zhang Hao after his death, the title and the matter of compensating the descendants were all drawn up, and after Yan Changzhi was completed, he could immediately make an order to summon it.

After Wan Yan Changzhi saw it, it was basically in line with his own mind, and he didn't need to modify it, so he immediately issued an order, and according to the proposal of Wan Yan Fushou and others, Zhang Hao was posthumously appointed as the king of Han, and his nickname was Wenkang. Equipped with the Sejong temple court, and the painted image is placed in Yanqing Palace. By Wanyan Fu's life rate of 100 officials in the central capital, and ordered Zuo Xuanhui to make Zhao Xingxiang as an envoy, on behalf of the emperor to go to Bohai to lay the spirit, and give the Zhang family 10,000 taels of silver, 500 heavy colors, and 1,000 silk horses.

Zhang Hao has a total of five sons: Zhang Ruwei, Zhang Rulin, Zhang Runeng, Zhang Rufang, and Zhang Ruyou. Among them, Zhang Runeng and Zhang Rufang have passed away, and Zhang Rufang is Zhang Hu's father. Now there are only three people left, Zhang Hao's family is quite strict, and the constraints on his children are very strict, although there is Yin En, but only the eldest son Zhang Ruwei is the doctor of the Zheng Discussion, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and is an official of the fourth grade. And Zhang Rulin is a middle-aged doctor, and Zhang Ruyou is a junior doctor, both of whom are from the fourth-rank official rank, and they are still ranked. And Zhang Runeng and Zhang Rufang were posthumously awarded the six grades of Fengzheng Doctor and Fengyi Doctor respectively.

Wanyan Changzhi then issued an order to crown Zhang Ru as a good doctor of the third grade, and Zhang Rulin and Zhang Ruyou were also promoted to one level each, as the fourth grade of the positive doctor, and the general doctor. And the other children and grandchildren also had their own seals. He also posthumously appointed the dead Zhang Rufang as the doctor of Guanglu from the second grade, the marquis of Luanyang, and his wife Shi, that is, Zhang Hu's mother, was named the wife of the marquis, and Zhang Ruyou was the doctor of the fifth grade. Among them, Zhang Rufang's posthumous grade is the highest, and even the widow has a decree title, which is naturally to look at Zhang Hu's face and respect his parents, but also to enhance the status of Zhang Hu's faction in the family.

After dealing with Zhang Hao's funeral, several remaining ruling ministers, Wanyan Fushou, Wanyan Zongzheng, Sushi Lieliangbi and others were injured one after another, congratulating Wanyan Changzhi on defeating the Mongol army this time, and at the same time, all the ministers advocated to celebrate for a few days in the central capital.

Because Dajin is a military country, and this is the first military operation since Wanyan Changzhi ascended the throne, or Wanyan Changzhi's royal expedition, it is indeed to repel the Mongolian army, and at the same time Wanyan Changzhi also personally led the army, deep into the grassland, although did not urge the destruction of the Mongolian camp set up on the fishing seaside, but also destroyed several small camps along the road, and killed nearly 20,000 Mongolian tribesmen, and rescued more than 30,000 people of Jinguo, even if it is not a brilliant victory, but no matter from that point of view, it can be regarded as a victory, It's also worth showing off.

Moreover, since the Jin Kingdom entered the Central Plains, it has always been a headache for this group of steppe Tatars, because they raid the border area, move quickly, come and go, and are extremely difficult to deal with. During the period of Jin Xizong, Wanyan Zongbi, the elder father of Wanyan Changzhi, personally led a large army to conquer the Mongolian department, but was defeated by the army led by the Mongolian leader Habul Khan at that time. The Jin State was forced to use the method of razing to counter the Mongols, and only then did it maintain the stability of the northern border. By the time of Jin Shizong, he built a trench on the northern border to block the raids of the steppe Tatars on the border of Jin. Therefore, it can be said that Yan Changzhi's victory this time is not easy.

Because they were the two of them, Fusan Zhongyi and Sushi Lie Zhining, they followed Yan Yungong to rescue the Western Xia and failed, and it can be said that they were defeated by the Song and Mongolian coalition forces. Especially later, by the Wuding River, attacked by the Mongolian army, more than 100,000 Jin troops were almost wiped out by the Mongolian army, and finally more than 30,000 Jin soldiers were slaughtered by the Mongols on the Wuding River.

The two of them naturally hated Mongolia in their hearts. The defeat of the Mongol army this time, although it did not completely avenge the Mongols' massacre of the golden prisoners, it can be regarded as making the two of them angry. Moreover, Su Shi Lie Zhining also went into the grassland with Yan Changyi and took a trip, so after returning to Zhongdu, he also felt that he could be regarded as arrogant. Naturally, I wanted to celebrate.

However, after Yan Changzhi rewarded the meritorious personnel who went to Mongolia this time, he thought that he had just inherited the throne, Dajin was exhausted, and the treasury was empty, so everything should be simple, so he only set up a royal banquet in the palace to invite the ministers of civil and military affairs, and other celebrations were reduced at a rate.

Although the ministers were a little surprised, the reason given by the emperor was also high-sounding, and at the same time, he thought that the emperor was quite happy to understand the national situation, so he gave up. There are also people who make a special trip to the table to praise Wan Yan Chang's compassion for the people, diligence and thrift, and so on.

In fact, the civil and military ministers of the Jin State didn't know, in Wan Yanchang's heart, he didn't think it was a victory at all, in his opinion, this battle, except for the rescue of the more than 30,000 people, it was a gain, and everything else was lacking.

Before going to war, Wanyan Changzhi set two goals for this time to meet the Mongolian army, the first is to attack the main Mongolian camp on the shore of Yuer, completely destroy the rear of the Mongolian department, and the second is to take advantage of the Mongolian army's hasty return to the army and rescue the camp, send troops to pursue and inflict heavy losses on the Mongolian army.

The realization of either of these two strategic objectives would greatly damage the vitality of the Mongols, and at least for five years, they would not have the strength to invade the borders of the Jin State on a large scale again, while the Dajin could take advantage of the defeat of Temujin and the great reduction of the strength of the Mongol tribe to incite the other tribes of the steppe to regain their own strength, so that the steppe would fall into a situation of strife among the heroes. Dajin could sow discord and raze the country, so that Mongolia would never threaten the northern border of the Jin state.

However, neither of these strategic objectives was accomplished, and although the Jin army destroyed several small camps in the steppe, the main Mongol camp remained intact. Although the Mongolian army also retreated to the steppe, because it was the initiative to withdraw, the Jin army did not have time to pursue, and the loss of troops was not large, so the absolute strength of the Mongolian army in the steppe was still unshakable. And as long as Temujin was willing, at least half a year, or at most a year, the Mongols could regroup their army and invade the northern borders of the Jin Kingdom again.

Moreover, with Temujin's intelligence, he would definitely realize the mistake of this dispatch of troops, so in the next invasion of the Jin State, he would never have gathered such a large army and rashly attacked the Jin State. Instead, he used the tactics of making the Jin country the most powerful, broke the army into pieces, assigned small groups of men and horses, and constantly harassed and plundered on the border, and now the people are unable to defend against it.

With the Song Dynasty still in the south, it was difficult for the Jin State to dispatch more than 100,000 troops to take the initiative to attack Mongolia. When the Jin State was unable to dispatch sufficient superior forces, it would only play into Temujin's hands if he ventured deep into the steppe to attack the Mongols. He would never concentrate his army and confront the Jin army head-on, but instead used the tactic of luring the enemy into depth, constantly scratching, and then cutting off his food routes. The army of the Jin State will only be lost in the vast grassland, and will be attacked by the Mongol army in turns, and will be exhausted until the final food is exhausted and the whole army is annihilated.

But even if the status quo is maintained, the Jin State will be in the middle of the Song and Mongolian north and south attacks, left and right, exhausted, until the national strength is exhausted, the Song and Mongolian coalition forces will move a large army at the same time and invade the Jin State on a large scale.

Although the Southern Song Dynasty has no intention of the Northern Expedition now, and is also negotiating peace with Dajin, Wan Yan Changzhi knows in his heart that this is only because the Southern Song Dynasty has just annexed Western Xia, and the national strength is insufficient, and it will take a while to stabilize the situation in Western Xia. The feud between the Jin and Song dynasties could not be resolved peacefully, and Zhao Chen, the lord of the Southern Song Dynasty, was an ambitious monarch, so the current peaceful situation was not just temporary, and there would be a war between the Jin and Song dynasties sooner or later, and the Jin Kingdom must prepare early.

Wanyan has been stationed in Nanjing for a long time, so the distribution of border troops in the Southern Song Dynasty is very clear, and now the Southern Song Dynasty has set up 12 imperial garrisons in the border area, with a total of about 320,000 people. Therefore, in order to be able to compete with it, Daikin must at least ensure that the number of troops deployed on the southern border is at least about 25 to 300,000, and the current number of troops in the southern border is less than 200,000.

In addition, in the north, if you want to be able to stop the Mongols from moving south, according to Wan Yan Changzhi's estimate, there are at least about 200,000 to 250,000 troops. But at present, the number of troops in the north is only more than 130,000. The forces on both the north and south lines are insufficient.

Although the Jin State was not like the Song Dynasty in those years, with a huge army of 1 million or hundreds of thousands, after all, it was founded by force, and the number of regular troops in the country was also maintained between 80 and 1 million, and it was not too difficult to garrison about 500,000 troops on the border. However, due to Yan Yungong's personal conquest of Western Xia, coupled with the civil war, Dajin Yijing lost more than 200,000 troops. Although the number of people can be replenished, the losses are all Dakin's elite men, and the new army that has been replenished cannot completely replace the veterans without four or five years of training and battlefield tests.

This is the reason why Dajin obviously still has enough troops, but now the troops on the north and south lines are still insufficient.

Monk Wanyan Chen had mentioned to Wanyan Changzhi the lack of garrisons in the south before he left, and now he has been in office in Nanjing for more than two months, although he did not write to Wanyan Changzhi to urge him to increase his troops. But Wanyan Changzhi knew in his heart that this was just because Monk Wanyan Chen also understood the current predicament faced by Dajin, and he was afraid that he would be in a hurry, so he never urged to increase his troops. In his heart, he must be more anxious than anyone else.

If the lack of troops is only one aspect, after all, there are other ways to make up for it, and it is possible to send new recruits to fight for a while, but it is really not possible, so it is okay to go into battle and command it yourself. On the other hand, Wanyan Changzhi is a little helpless.

Although Daikin has not yet had major financial problems, if Daikin uses troops to garrison the border, it will remain at about 500,000 for a long time. The amount of money, food, and materials consumed will also increase greatly, and not only the financial pressure will also become heavy. There is simply no way to accumulate national strength. On the contrary, if Song Meng had almost prepared and invaded from the north and south at the same time, then Dajin would be in danger.

Therefore, after the feast, one of the Wan Yan Chang sat in the imperial study and pondered, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were still immersed in the joy of defeating the Mongol army, and no one saw that Dajin had not actually gotten rid of the crisis. And there is no one who can share this pressure with him, thinking of this, Wan Yan Changzhi couldn't help but sigh, the officials in the court were really disappointed.

At this time, Wanyan Changzhi couldn't help but think of Zhang Hu's proposal to himself, imitating the Southern Song Dynasty, and reforming the tax system.