Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 270: A vicious and desperate plan
The negotiation itself went extremely smoothly.

However, these Khitan nobles put forward a small condition: the sixteen states of Yanyun, and their affiliated Bohai Kingdom and Korea, could be directly cut off to the Song Dynasty.

But in the northern and western regions, there needs to be a gradual process.

For example: Support Yelujing to become emperor again.

The famous Sleeping King once said as early as Chai Rong's Northern Expedition: "This place was originally Han land, and it is natural for it to be returned to Han."

A true friend of the Song Dynasty!

Although the background at that time was that the royal family and descendants of the Liao Kingdom were in conflict. The Shulu tribe and the Diela tribe were incompatible with each other. Even the queen was replaced by a Han Chinese named Guo. It was essentially an internal fight between the Khitan people. Maybe he really is a traitor to the emperor.

But that's not important. He did say this anyway, and Yelujing is now completely under the control of the Song State and the Shulu Department. Doesn't he have to do whatever he is asked to do?
All it takes is Xiao Siwen, Yelu Xiezhen, and Brother Yelvxiu to nod, and Yelujing can nominally become the emperor of Liao again at any time!
Then it was up to Yelujing, the Emperor of the Liao Dynasty, to "return" the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Song Dynasty first.

Then everyone divides Shangjing, Xijing and other places into their own envoys, and Xiao Siwen can also hold the two official positions of Privy Envoy of the Liao Dynasty and Governor of Yanyun of the Song Dynasty at the same time.

In this way, after the railway is completely built, can Yelujing be allowed to surrender according to etiquette? In this way, those of them who serve as military envoys outside, whether they are dealing with their ancestors or the subjects under their rule, The most important thing is to be able to explain the history of future generations.

Zhao Guangmei also tasted it, and it seemed that it did make sense. In this way, the resistance of the Liao people to peaceful reunification would be small. After all, they are two nations.

Of course, there must be some people who disagree with this, such as Yelu Xian.

Moreover, once Yelujing is restored to power, Yelvuzhi will no longer be able to win over him, and one of them will probably have to die.

Originally, Zhao Guangmei really wanted to win over Yelu Wuzhi. After all, they were the royal family of the Liao Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was open to all rivers. After taking over the Khitan, they should also give their royal family a place, so that they could rule the grassland more securely.

But it seems that Yelujing is not bad either.

Who will represent the Liao royal family, or the Diela tribe, does not matter to them at all in the Song Dynasty.

Naturally, the Yelu house quality also came to Yelvxian's side. After Xiao Siwen finished chatting with Zhao Guangmei, when he went back, he did not go back to Shangjing at all. Instead, he stopped directly in Yanjing and began to personally preside over the relevant planning of railway construction. At the same time, he began to Yanyun area wants to place orders with local Han companies.

By the way, the Liao army in Bohai State was ordered to assemble.

Brother Yelvxiu went to Datong Mansion in Yunzhou. At the same time, he organized his troops and began to train troops and make weapons.

He and Xiao Siwen are from the same line. Although his surname is not Xiao, he was single-handedly promoted by Xiao Siwen, which coincides with Xiao Siwen's literary and military skills. In fact, so far, this is equivalent to being a descendant of the Liao Dynasty. There was another internal break with the Liao Kingdom.

Yelu Xiezhen rushed to Zhending Mansion in Xijing, but this attempt was noticed by Yelu Housekeeper, and he immediately went to Zhending Mansion in person to start gathering troops and confront them, and then hurriedly left his confidants to lead the troops here. He returned to Linhuang Mansion in a hurry and seized the military power of the Pishi Army.

The entire Linhuang Mansion once again returned to the hands of Yelu Wuzhi, and for a time, the military and political power of the Liao Kingdom once again became his possession.

However, it seemed that at this time, Yelu Wuzhi's face was full of exhaustion, his face was lifeless, and he looked depressed.

Yelu Xian was completely panicked. He didn't even care that Yelu House had rashly taken over the power. He was like an ant on a hot pot and said quickly: "What's the situation? Father, are you still sure to protect me in Daliao?" comprehensive?"

Anyway, now that Xiao Siwen has rebelled, he, Yelvxian, has no way to check and balance Yelvwu's quality.

Yelu Wuzhi and Xiao Siwen were the two cornerstones of the Liao Kingdom. In the early days of the Liao Kingdom, there was a lot of bad blood between the royal family and descendants. This was because Yelu Wuzhi was too old and died quickly. Only then did all the power return to Xiao Chuo. At that time, Xiao Chuo was not the queen mother but the empress. From then on, the supreme imperial power was consolidated.

In other words, Yelvxian never really controlled the power of the Liao Kingdom in history. The reason why he died so young cannot be ruled out that Xiao Chuo felt that his husband was still in the way.

Now that Xiao Siwen has retired and made it clear that he doesn't even want to be a descendant, then he has no control.

"They...could they be asking...to bring back that rebellious minister?"

Yelu Wuzhi shook his head and said: "That's just a pretense. They are going to surrender to the Song Dynasty. This time the three of them insist on going to Kaifeng in person to celebrate the birthday of the Queen Mother of the Song Dynasty. It seems that they have reached an agreement. The Song Dynasty must be Gave them a guarantee.”

"Then, what should we do? This is a mutiny and a rebellion. The Pishi Army is still in our hands. We still have great righteousness and can issue an edict to mobilize the world's troops."

"No, the Song Kingdom will definitely take the opportunity to take action. We have almost no chance of winning. Besides, they also have an emperor in their hands. It is not easy to even mobilize troops. If they do this, they will fall into their trap."

"Then, Xiangfu, what should we do?"

"Hey~"

Yelu Wuzhi sighed dejectedly, then took out the wine bag and started drinking.

In fact, he and Yelvxian are not on the same side.

He is old, he is too old. He entered the political arena during the Yelu Abaoji era. He was involved in every handover and every mutiny in the Liao Kingdom.

How many years has it been? How many more years does he have to live?
His power in the Liao Kingdom was not enough to lift the table and become the emperor himself, but he did have the strength to decide who would be the emperor and support whoever could rise to the top. But if this kind of power was left to his descendants after his death, it would be very important to his descendants. It’s hard to say whether it’s a blessing or a curse for future generations.

He was able to have such great power because of a combination of fate and fate. In essence, his soldiers were soldiers of the royal family, not his private soldiers.

What's more, with the general trend of the world, even he felt increasingly powerless and incomprehensible.

Hey ~
Isn't that just betraying the country? Why don't you contact yourself?
I can sell it too.

If the Song Dynasty could agree to hand over the Linhuang Mansion in Beijing to him as the Jiedushi, and at the same time give them shares in the company, this thing is not non-negotiable!Brother Yelvxiu and his descendants all have a share, so why don’t I?Who do you look down on?

royal?

What royal family?
Just because I am a member of the royal family, I have the obligation to leave my bloodline and legacy to the royal family.

In fact, he generally knew Zhao Guangmei's conditions. In his opinion, this could not be said to be surrender. It was more like the merger of Song and Liao to establish a true Chinese orthodoxy. This could really be said to be the unification of the country and the restoration of Han and Tang orthodoxy.

Anyway, the Song people were a farming civilization, and it was impossible to control the grassland without them, the barbarians.

I heard that the noble Song people are no longer even willing to farm and have begun to buy serfs in large numbers. How can they still be willing to bend down and herd cattle?

But it is definitely too late to think about this now. Now that Yelujing is back, he is very embarrassed. Once Yelujing regains power in the future, he will definitely not get good results.

'How can we break the situation... At least we can't implicate future generations. '

Yelvxian continued to hold Yelu Wuzhi's hand and said: "My dear father, you are the pinnacle of our Daliao Dynasty. Now our country Zuo and our ancestors all have to rely on you! Is there really nothing we can do?" No more?"

"Of course there are ways...of course."

"What can we do? Father, please tell me."

"Gather all your troops and horses, use your chariot to march personally, attack the Song Dynasty, and look for an opportunity to fight the Song army decisively!"

"Fight...beat the Song Army? But the Song Army is strong, and Brother Yelvxiu and the others..."

"Your Majesty, what the Song people want is to conquer the enemy without fighting. No matter what, they cannot let the Song people succeed. If the Song people can't succeed, they can't succeed. There is also the railway, which cannot be repaired. Once this railway is connected to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's 30 imperial troops may appear in Yanyun and Shangjing at any time, and they will have to surrender even if they don't want to."

"But... the people of Song Dynasty are strong, and the Liao Dynasty is now torn apart. If we take the initiative, how can we compete with them? Moreover, they have been mobilized hastily and the number of troops is uneven. How can we fight?"

"This battle is not about capturing cities and territories, it is just about... killing people."

"what?"

"Kill, kill civilians, kill the unarmed people of the Song Dynasty, beat the grass valley again, and run away after the beating, you can also set fire to their city, poison their river, do it as hard as you can, as hard as possible, big The soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty were all professional forbidden troops, and a large number of them were hoarded in Kaifeng and Luoyang. The total number of the forbidden troops stationed abroad in Taiyuan and Xiongzhou was now less than 2. The Guiyi Army was trapped in the Gaochang Uighurs in the far west. It is necessary to use a small number of elite troops to take advantage of the empty defense of the Song army to rush in quickly, kill people and set fires. The Song army will not be able to react for at least half a month. We only need to withdraw after half a month."

Yelvxian was stunned.

He was dumbfounded: "Aren't you looking for death? Song Jun is not a soft persimmon with a good temper. If he does this, Song Jun must go crazy? Doesn't he have to come back with revenge?"

Hearing this, Yelu Wuzhi flashed a serious light and said: "The Song Dynasty wanted to peacefully unify, but they bypassed you and me and let Yelujing, that loser, represent our Daliao royal family. Why? No matter how much he surrendered Interests, what kind of preparations have been made, Daliao’s own national strength is at stake here, if we really want peaceful reunification, we must and can only establish it when the current relations between the two countries are relatively friendly.”

"Today, the Song Dynasty is strong and the Liao Kingdom is relatively weak. To be honest, if there is a fight, the chance of winning must be slim. That's why those weaklings will consider surrender and negotiate this condition. Otherwise, they will definitely not even negotiate, let alone What's more, the people of the Song Dynasty are now very wealthy, and maybe the people of the Song Dynasty also have unified ideas about living a good life in the Song Dynasty. These are the basis for peaceful reunification."

"Yes... yes."

"But there is a situation where people still dare to fight even if there is a huge disparity in strength. No matter how wealthy the Song Dynasty is, no one is willing to be a Song Dynasty person."

"Is it...hate?"

"Of course. When Fu Yanqing was in the north, we, Daliao, fought endlessly with the Southern Dynasties. We always killed one of them, and he would kill ten of me. Since I slaughtered his civilians, if he didn't massacre our Liao, How can the people of the country vent their anger, and how can the generals and armies explain themselves to the Song Dynasty court?"

"But this...isn't this the loss of life?"

"Yes, it means that all lives will be destroyed. If you can't bear it, you can surrender directly to the Song Dynasty. Then it will really be peace. I don't care. I also have shares in the Liao Kingdom's commercial bank, and even have assets in the Song Dynasty. It's not a big deal for me. If you die by wiping your neck, you will definitely ensure that your descendants will be rich and noble for generations to come, but what about you? Everyone else can live, but it is hard to say that you are the emperor."

"........."

"There was a blood feud between Song and Liao. However, after border trade began in recent years, the relative public sentiment has improved a little, but only a little. I believe that there must be some people within the Song Dynasty who are opposed to direct peaceful reunification."

"As long as we kill Song people wantonly, even if the matter of peaceful reunification is a dirty one, the Song army will definitely retaliate, and our people will be devastated. The hatred that has not been resolved will become even more pointless after this. Understood. When the time comes, can they still support Yelujing, the loser, and let him kiss the Song Dynasty? As long as the people in the country are anti-Song Dynasty, how can they still want to vote for the Song Dynasty? How can the Song Dynasty still do it? Do you want them?"

"But...but the national power and military power of the Song Dynasty were very strong, which made them anxious. The entire Liao Kingdom, the entire Liao Kingdom..."

"I said, the Liao Kingdom is the Liao Kingdom, you are you, the Liao Kingdom is yours, but it is not just yours, do you understand?"

"But won't the Song people destroy us, Daliao?"

"No, he can't be destroyed."

"why?"

"The Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun must be returned to them. If they can't defeat it, they can't defeat it. Besides, Xiao Siwen and Brother Yeluxiu won't really fight. In any case, Yanyun is the territory of the Han people. In these years, The most important thing to ease the relationship with the Song Dynasty is them. They are of the same clan. Even if hatred is aroused, they can resolve it. They are not deadlocks. Moreover, we in Daliao are really no match for the city's offensive and defense."

"But what about the vast horse and sheep herding areas outside Yanyun? The railway has not been repaired yet. How many cavalry do they have? How much supplies do they have? As long as we give up going to the capital, fight guerrillas with them, and cut off their supplies, In the vast grassland, can the Song army, which is short of supplies, find the main force of our Liao army?"

"The strength of the Han Dynasty could not destroy the Xiongnu. After the Xiongnu moved there, they came to Xianbei. The strength of the Tang Dynasty could not destroy the Turks. After the Turks moved westward, they came to the Uighurs and us Khitans. The Song people will not be an exception, as long as this hatred is enough. Deep, so deep that every Khitan son wanted to eat the flesh and blood of the Song Dynasty. Women and children were asked to mount their horses and pick up scimitars. The Song people had to kill everyone if they wanted to rule this grassland. They, He will never be able to rule us."

(End of this chapter)