Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

The beginning of July in the lunar calendar is roughly equivalent to August in the Gregorian calendar in later generations. In this era, early autumn has already entered! Yanyun area is already a bit cold.

On the Bohai Sea, the wind and waves are raging, and several large ships are heading towards Yanyun.

On the leading large ship, two men were standing on the bow.

One of the men is over sixty years old, but his eyes are still very bright, his body is very tall, and the whole person actually gives off a mighty feeling.

The other person was only in his thirties, and his body was a little thin. He stood behind the man in his sixties.

Both of them wore extremely rich robes and tall hats, typical of the Goryeo people.

"Li Rui, you once met the emperor of the Han people. What kind of person is this emperor?" asked the man in his sixties.

"The emperor of the Han people is very young, he seems to be less than twenty years old! He is very gentle to people. We saw him in Liaoyang that day. General Jin Changsheng kept provoking him, and he was not angry. He seemed to be a very Weak people." The man in his thirties was Li Rui, a Korean who went to meet Zhao Chen that day.

The 60-year-old man next to him is An Pulin, Vice Minister of Korea! This time, it was An Pulin who went to China as an envoy to Korea!

"The Han people were almost wiped out by the Jurchen back then, but they were able to defeat the Jurchen and occupy the north. It can be seen that they are not easy! The emperor of the Han people can't just be a gentle and weak person." An Pulin shook his head and said.

"The Han army is really powerful! In the past six months, we have experienced dozens of battles with the Han army, and we have all failed! Especially when we were in Jinzhou City, our 100,000 army was no match for their 10,000 men! Mr. An , I always think we should withdraw from Liaodong! The Han army is so strong, it is too dangerous for us to stay in Liaodong!" Li Rui said.

"The military strength of the Han people is indeed beyond expectations! I am also a little surprised. Since the Jurchens destroyed the Liao Dynasty, we Koreans have also felt the crisis. Over the years, our Korean army has been training continuously. I have seen our army before. It can be regarded as a The elite army is already there, why are they not the opponents of the Han people?" An Pulin said.

"Our army has never experienced war, it's just a show! The Han army is going south and north. The Jiangnan Kangwang army, the Xixia army, and the Jurchen army were all defeated by them. The weaker soldiers have all died. After the battle, the rest are elite soldiers! Of course our Koryo army is no match for them." Li Rui said.

"The Han army is so powerful, why didn't they take the initiative to attack?" An Pulin said sharply.

"This... the lower officials don't know either." Li Rui said.

The waves were so big that An Pulin's body was splashed with sea water. He was thinking carefully.

"Just now you said that the Han emperor was young, gentle, and weak. It is very likely that he was evacuated by the ministers of the court and the army! The people in the army wanted to make Emperor Xuanwu continue to feel threatened, so that Emperor Xuanwu had to continue to rely on the military. The status of the army will always be high! Therefore, the Song army will not attack us now, but will let us exist, and even make us stronger and stronger!" An Pulin said fiercely.

"What your lord said makes sense." Li Rui was stunned, then nodded.

"That's right! That's how it should be! The emperor of the Han people is just a brat who is less than twenty years old, and he can't control the army at all! Presumably the battle report from the Liaodong battlefield has not yet reached Yanjing City!" An Pulin said.

"However, no matter what, the Song Army's strength far surpasses ours. Once the generals of the Song Army change their minds, we will be doomed!" Li Rui said.

"I, Koryo, have 7 million people and 500,000 troops! We have not encountered any wars, the domestic economy and trade are prosperous, and the people live and work in peace and contentment! Our army will gradually become elite! After a long time, we will be able to truly fight with each other. The Han people have resisted!" An Pulin said.

"I hope so." Li Rui whispered.

"I heard that the Han people built a Tianjin Wei in the east of Yanjing, let's go to Tianjin Wei to have a look first." An Pulin laughed.

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In the afternoon, several large ships of the Korean people came to the sea area where Tianjin Wei was located. An Pulin and Li Rui had already entered the cabin to rest, but they were called out at this moment.

"Have you reached the shore yet?" An Pulin yawned and said.

"Master Vice-Prime Minister, look!" a Goryo attendant pointed forward and said in a shocked tone.

"What's there to see? The Tianjin Guard has only been built for two years, a dilapidated wharf..." An Pulin said disdainfully.

But as he spoke, his voice stopped, his eyes widened, and he also showed an expression of disbelief.

On the sea ahead, I don't know how many ships are heading towards Tianjin Wei in the west.

There are sea ships everywhere on the sea, all kinds of sea ships, some are built extremely tall, and some look very small! Some are sailing boats, while others are man-pulled boats! There are people standing on the bows of all kinds of ships, and the crew members on some ships have already started to move the cargo out of the cabin!

"How many ships should there be? Hundreds, a thousand, or even more?" Li Rui was also shocked at the moment.

There are ships heading towards Tianjin Wei, and there are also ships leaving Tianjin Wei! Some of these ships were heading east, some were heading south, and some were heading north. A scene of busy maritime trade was displayed in front of An Pulin and Li Rui.

Goryeo also has a pier, especially the capital of Goryeo, Kaijing, which is a city near the sea, but there is no such prosperous pier in the whole of Goryeo.

"Is this Tianjin Wei? Hasn't it just been built less than two years ago? Why is it so prosperous? Also, didn't the Central Plains just suffer from war and the people are struggling to live, and now there are still people coming here to do business?" An Pulin couldn't believe it.

In fact, Tianjin Wei is not only trade on the sea, but also trade on the Yellow River. The estuary of the Yellow River in the Song Dynasty was near Tianjin. Famous cities in the Song Dynasty, such as Kaifeng and Damingfu, were connected by the Yellow River, all the way to Tianjin, and then from Tianjin to Yanjing City. It can be said that it connects the entire Central Plains.

An Pulin looked uncertain, and after a while, a small boat from Tianjin Wei Customs came to inspect the ship, and heard that they were envoys from Korea, so he led them to the pier.

"Master Li, let's go to Tianjin Wei for a while!" An Pulin said.

"Okay!" Li Rui nodded.

Tianjin Wei Customs arranged a place for them to rest, but the two of them headed outside with a few guards.

The urban construction of the entire Tianjin Wei is still very simple, there are not many local residents here, they are all businessmen! It can be said that two thirds of Tianjin Wei are shops, and countless people trade in them!

They were dressed as Koreans, but no one on the street thought it was strange, and no one looked at them too much! Because there are also Korean merchants in Tianjin Weizhong, and there are a lot of them.

In addition to the Korean merchants, there were Dongying people, Annan people, some Southeast Asians with very dark skin, and some Semu people with yellow hair and blue eyes.

Businessmen are everywhere bargaining and arguing, and countless resources are continuously transported here.

A restaurant appeared in front of them. An Pulin and Li Rui were a little hungry after getting off the boat, but when they entered the restaurant, they found that it was already full of people!

"You two are objective, there are really no seats! But there is only one person at the table over there, why don't you sit with him? I'll give you a 20% discount on the meal price!" A waiter said with a smile.

An Pulin snorted coldly, but nodded anyway.

There was only a young man in his twenties sitting on the table over there. This young man was unusually handsome and dressed in a Confucian uniform. After Xiaoer went over and said a few words, the young man nodded.

An Pulin and Li Rui sat down here.

"You two are invited. Tianjin Wei is the most prosperous place. All the restaurants in Tianjin Wei are full of seats, so there are often guest officials crowded together." The young man first cupped his hands, then smiled.

"Brother, please!" Li Rui also cupped his hands and said with a smile.

"It doesn't look like the two of you are here to do business?" the young man asked.

"To be honest, we are going to Yanjing City, but passing through Tianjin Wei." Li Rui said.

"It's such a coincidence. I was also going to Yanjing, but the boat stopped at Tianjinwei." The young man laughed.

"Oh? What did little brother go to Yanjing? Study tour?" Li Rui said.

"That's not true! Judging from the appearance of the two, they seem to be members of the officialdom. Are you officials from Korea?" The young man looked at the two carefully for a while, and said.

"Ah!" An Pulin and Li Rui were startled, and An Pulin said in a deep voice, "How do you know?"

The young man laughed loudly and said, "Only people in the officialdom have your momentum, which is different."

An Pulin nodded, and said: "It's okay to tell you, we are the envoys of Goryeo, and we are going to visit the Emperor of Song Dynasty."

"Are you going to submit a letter to His Majesty the Emperor? To be honest, you should have done this a long time ago! I came out half a year ago and passed through Sichuan, Shu and Jiangnan all the way before I came here. Song and Jurchen battled and robbed several cities in Liaodong, and I was very surprised at that time! Hearing that you are not willing to surrender to the Emperor of Song, I couldn’t believe it! Now it’s all right, you surrender to the Emperor of Song and give up the cities of Liaodong, you Goryeo can keep the peace! Great Song is the most powerful country in the world, and we and other barbarians have always respected Great Song as our lord, and it is not shameful to be a vassal to Great Song." The young man laughed.

"So you're not from Song Dynasty?" An Pulin asked in surprise.

"That's right, the descendants of the Duan family in Dali Kingdom also came to pay respects to the Emperor of Song Dynasty by the emperor's order and hand over their credentials," said the young man.