Destroy Jin and conquer Song, and carry the Northern Expedition through to the end

Chapter 379: The Jurchens Reestablish the Jin Dynasty and Resist the Jin Dynasty

The five Jurchens walked out of Linqu County in panic, mounted their horses, and whipped them hard, making the horses gallop away.

After running five or six miles, the five people slowed down.

Pu Sulie wiped his tears and approached an older man. "Elder, did you understand the meaning of those last words?"

The old man who had been following the other four people silently nodded, sighed and said, "I know."

The other four people looked over with the same question.

The old man didn't keep the question in suspense: "Think about it, if Han'er is not wrong, and we are not wrong, then who is wrong? It can only be His Majesty, it can only be the Great Jin government."

"Originally, the Han people were living and working in peace in Shandong, and we were living in harmony in Liaodong, without any delay. But the government insisted on moving us to Shandong to get entangled with the Shandong Han people." At this point, the old man was also a little indignant: "If it's not the government's fault, whose fault could it be!"

Pu Sulie's heart trembled when he heard this, but he suddenly realized something.

Wei Sheng asked them to find out the person who made the mistake, punish him, and finally ensure that he would not make the same mistake in the future.

Now the first problem has been solved, the one who was wrong was the Jin government.

Not to mention how to ensure that mistakes will not be made in the future, if we want to accomplish the second thing and deal with those who made mistakes, don’t we need them to settle accounts with the Jin government?

The Jurchens also want to resist the Jin?
However, this was the condition given by Wei Sheng, and these liquidations had to be completed within five days, otherwise the loyal army would bring the Shandong men and begin to liquidate these Meng'an Mouke households and the Jin government officials.

Pu Sulie asked with a trembling voice: "Then...then Kong Damu..."

The old man shook his head: "Don't worry about him. It's his bad luck that he didn't escape with the prefect. Now we have to save our people."

After saying this, the old man stopped talking nonsense and headed north first.

After all, this is the hinterland of Yidu Prefecture, the densely populated Jiaolai Plain, with relatively complete road and bridge facilities. Without sparing any effort, the five people arrived at the former Anchuhushui Three Thousand Households...now the Qushui Three Thousand Households in the afternoon.

There was no way. At this time, the Jin Dynasty was still in a semi-tribal and semi-feudal stage. Unlike the Liao Dynasty, which divided the tribes and feudal systems into the North Court and the South Court, the tribal system and the feudal system of the Jin Dynasty coexisted in parallel. Under such circumstances, the household registration list was relatively chaotic, especially for the Jurchen tribes that migrated south one after another. Their names highlighted the concept of letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred flowers bloom at will.

The tribes that were previously named according to the mountains, rivers and geography are still named according to the mountains, rivers and geography.

Of course, this also led to the three Meng'an settled along the Qushui River, all of which were called Qushui Meng'an. In the documents of the Marshal's Office, they were distinguished as upper, middle and lower.

The Meng'an where Pu Sulie is located should be called Qushui Meng'an at this time, according to the official term.

At this time, Shangqushui Meng'anzhong also looked panicked.

Part of the original 3,000 households in Anchuhushui were divided and resettled in Zibo Prefecture, west of Yidu Prefecture, including some blood relatives.

To the south of Zibo is Tai'an Prefecture, the hometown of the Tianping Army.

Originally, Tai'an Prefecture was a poor and barren land, and its land had been taken away many times in recent years. Even though Geng Jing took away a large number of refugees and settled them in Yizhou last year, the remaining people could hardly survive.

Under Geng Jing's orders, although the local tyrants in Tai'an Prefecture also distributed food to help the people, the Jin Kingdom's plundering was impartial and the landlords had no surplus food. Therefore, under the instigation of the local tyrants, officials such as the county magistrates and the chief officers appointed by Geng Jing personally took the people to Zibo Prefecture to beg for food.

This kind of behavior of officials personally leading hungry people to flee famine was very common in the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. The professional term in history books was "refugee leader".

These Han people had the dual attributes of avengers and hungry people. After entering Zibo, they immediately set off a bloody storm, and the people of Zibo also rose up in resistance. In just a dozen days, they wiped out half of the Meng'an Mouke households in Zibo.

Only dozens of people from the hundreds of households along the Shishui River escaped to the Qushui River. Some of them were even scared half crazy by the massacre, which made everyone in Shangqushui Meng'an terrified to death.

Otherwise, Pu Sulie would never have surrendered to the Zhongyi Army without any intention of resistance.

Even if they have to do hard labor for a few years, even if they have to change their surnames, names, and clothes, even if the tribe named Anchuhushui Sanqianhu no longer exists in the future, it is better than dying and being wiped out now.

"Pu Sulie..." As soon as they entered the village gate, they were greeted by the Jin nobles who had been waiting there. Most of them were hereditary Mouke, and one was even a hereditary Meng'an. Upon seeing Pu Sulie, they were about to ask questions, but upon seeing the old man behind him, they quickly shut up and bowed respectfully. The Jin nobles all knew that the man before them was Wuyan Hushahu, a man over seventy years old, a living fossil of the Jin. He had fought in the army during the conquest of the Liao Dynasty and had even fought under Wanyan Zongwang against generals who defected to the Song and Liao dynasties, such as Zhang Jue and Guo Yaoshi.

Of course, this is just the qualification of a veteran. Although it is intimidating, it is just like that. After all, Wuyanhu Shahu did not participate in the subsequent war against the Song Dynasty. He just wandered around as a local official and retired early, so that he now has the status of a hereditary Meng'an.

During the reign of Wanyan Liang, hereditary Meng'an was no longer as valuable as it was at the founding of the country.

However, the fundamental reason why Wuyanhushahu was still respected at this time was that his younger brother Wuyanpuluhun had a very smooth career.

Wuyan Puluhun initially followed Wanyan Zongmou, the second prince of the Jin Dynasty. Later, when Wanyan Wushu took over his brother's power, he became Wanyan Wushu's trusted and beloved general.

He pursued Liu Guangshi in Hangzhou, attacked Zhang Jun in Mingzhou, suffered a loss at the hands of Han Shizhong in Huangtiandang, and experienced a crushing defeat at the hands of Yue Fei in Yancheng. He had fought against the so-called Four Generals of the Restoration.

It can be said that Wuyan Puluhun experienced all the victories and defeats that Wanyan Wushu had experienced.

By now, Wuyan Puluhun had become the chief judge of the clan affairs. He was the right deputy commander-in-chief of the southern expedition. He followed Wanyan Liang to attack the two Huai regions and stationed in Shouchun to maintain the food supply for the two Huai regions.

With such a younger brother and his own qualifications, Wuyanhu Shahu naturally has great prestige.

"Don't stand here, let's go into the mansion to talk." Wuyan Hushahu did not consider himself an outsider and directly commanded more than 30 nobles from the Jin Kingdom to enter the house.

After sitting down, Wuyan Hushahu got straight to the point: "The Loyal Army has given us a condition, asking us to seize Yidu Prefecture and hand it over to them with both hands."

As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd was in an uproar and began to talk about it.

Someone couldn't help but question directly, "Are you really going to agree to this? Pu Sulie is not in a clear mind and doesn't understand what's going on. Are you confused too?"

"This is Yidu Prefecture, the best place in Shandong! This is Yidu Prefecture!"

"Asking us to seize Yidu Prefecture, kill the loyal ministers of the Jin Dynasty, and then surrender to them and let them do whatever they want is simply a dream!"

In an instant, shouts and curses rang out in the house.

Among them, there were quite a few people who accused Wuyanhu Shahu with red eyes.

Wuyan Hushahu simply picked up the teacup, drank the hot tea in it, then stood up suddenly and threw the teacup to the ground.

The room fell silent for a moment.

"Don't you understand?" Wu Yanhu Shahu looked around at the Jin nobles. "The current situation is not that the Loyalty Army of tens of thousands of people is attacking Yidu Prefecture, but that millions of Shandong people are rising up in rebellion and coming to kill our forty thousand households!"

"Gao Yi, you just shouted the loudest. How many troops can you Meng'an still mobilize? Can you survive this? We, the Jurchen nation, are helpless. Do you think you, the men of Bohai, can muster tens of thousands of elite soldiers to fight the Shandong Han people to the bitter end?!"

Gao Yi's lips moved twice, and he could only stomp his feet in anger.

If the elite members of the clan had not been drafted by the government to conquer the Song Dynasty, how could we be in the situation where we are at the mercy of others today?
"It's not the Loyal Army that's forcing us to surrender, but only the Loyal Army will give us a chance to survive!" Wu Yanhu Shahu's hair and beard stood on end, clearly furious. "You said you don't want to take this chance, and want to hold out in Yidu Prefecture and wait for reinforcements. Very well, who among you can match the abilities of Meng Tian Zhenguo and Shizhan Xieye? They were all regular Jin troops, and they were all wiped out by these Han people. You still want to hold on today?! Can you?!"

Someone trembled and said, "But...but...are we left with no choice but to hand over the lives of all our clan members to others? What if Wei Sheng, the Loyal Army leader, suddenly turns against us after we surrender?"

It’s no wonder he thought so, because the Jin Dynasty itself had done such a thing of breaking its promise many times.

Wuyan Hushahu sneered and said, "Now is not the time for you to be picky. You have no choice at all, and I have no choice at all! Do you really think that Kong Damu has such omnipotent abilities that he can change the overall situation in Shandong?
I tell you, when Wanyan Fushou decided to withdraw to Liaodong, the Shandong issue was already settled! It's a pity that you still felt happy that no one was competing with you for territory, and you didn't have to share food with them. What a bunch of idiots.

At this point, Wuyan Hushahu's tone softened slightly, and his voice became weaker: "Think about it, the Loyal Army only gave us five days. I am already over seventy years old this year, and I have lived enough. All I have to do is to help these 40,000 households in Shandong survive.

If you don't want to be swallowed up by Han'er, you must find a way out. Whether it's to escape, surrender, or fight, you have to do it quickly!"

(End of this chapter)