Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 275 The decisive and ruthless Xiao Siwen
In fact, the situation in Hebei is really different from what the court thought.

Li Hanchao himself is not a capable person, or in other words, what he has done over the years has been a bit appeasement, that is, when the Liao army comes, we will beat him, and if he runs away, we will not chase him. In this way, Our soldiers and civilians will not delay production due to the Liao army's harassment.

To put it bluntly, isn't this just being passively beaten? It can be said that it is completely opposite in strategy to the proactive attack advocated by Fu Yanqing before.

Historically, people came to Beijing to sue Zhao Kuangyin for raping a civilian girl, which made Zhao Kuangyin's nose crooked with anger. However, there was no way that Zhao Kuangyin would take such an important three people to prison just because of such a trivial matter as raping a civilian girl. Was the Zhenjiedushi envoy killed?I had no choice but to wipe his butt in person, leaving behind almost the only record of being unreasonable and unreasonable in my life. I told the parents of their children that they should just treat their daughters as being snatched away by the Khitans, and then scolded Li Hanchao for being nicer to other girls.

Therefore, the court's evaluation of this person was mixed. If you insist on bragging, you can say that in less than two years after he went to Guannan, Liao pirates did not dare to invade the border again.

But in fact, anyone who knows anything knows that he is actually useless and has never fought any decent battles. In the eyes of Liao people, Fu Yanqing can stop children from crying, but Li Hanchao, who has never heard of it.

But do you think he is really incompetent?
In fact, not necessarily. If he really had no ability, Zhao Kuangyin would not be able to send him to such an important position. This is the real lifeline of the Song Dynasty.

In the final analysis, easing off against the Liao was the imperial court's strategy, and easing up on the Song was also the Liao's strategy. They really hit it off. Li Hanchao definitely played an important role in the smooth development of trade with the Liao in recent years.

Isn't this the strategy? There has never been a chance to show it.

Now, here's your chance.

He has been in Guannan for so many years, and it's not like he has done nothing.

Although he does not have many troops in his hands, he has never relaxed his arming of civilian warriors for so many years. As the saying goes, Yan and Zhao have many generous and loyal people since ancient times. As the general supervisor of the soldiers and horses of the three towns in Guannan, Li Hanchao actually served as the commander-in-chief of the three towns. Zhen Jiedushi had great power and financial resources. After the Song-Liao trade was opened, he made a lot of money just by collecting tolls.

It is impossible to hand over this money to the central government.

He didn't even dare to put money into his pockets. Throughout the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, no military leader dared to put money into his own home.

then what should we do?The only way to use this money is to build an arsenal, and then distribute the manufactured weapons to nearby village warriors for free, and then organize regular training for everyone.

Everyone is also afraid that the Khitans will attack again, or that soldiers and bandits will rob them. Therefore, local people are extremely serious when doing military training, especially children and young people.

If you're good at it, when will the Forbidden Army's recruits be selected for the recruitment expansion?This is simply like a fish leaping over the dragon's gate.

Li Hanchao was actually an extremely rough-tempered, or slightly rude person. After learning that there were no less than [-] elite Liao soldiers, they smoothly entered the hinterland of Hebei from the Waqiao Pass under his control. Everyone was stunned.

In fact, after years of friendship, even the armaments at Waqiao Pass have been relaxed.

It is impossible to gather the main force to fight against the Liao army. Those Liao army will not be easy to find once they come in.

"I am ordering the people of Hebei, merchants, and slaves to buy Khitan heads from now on. Each head can be exchanged for three hundred coins, or the opportunity to join the Guannan Forbidden Army. I will take the initiative to recruit troops this time. If there are slaves Those who can kill Liao soldiers and cut off their heads, I will decide to remove them from slavery and reward them from Song Dynasty."

Li Hanchao actually didn't have that much money, but he felt that His Highness King Qin should be able to reimburse him for this money. If he didn't reimburse him...then he would resign and end get out of class.

Anyway, he was already guilty of the failure of Zhenguan. If he did nothing, he would most likely die a worse death.

In this way, these Khitan cavalry who entered Hebei soon fell into the vast sea of ​​people.

This place used to be engaged in horse administration, and it was close to the Khitan, so there was no shortage of horse-riding rangers among the people. After Li Hanchao's order was received, the entire Hebei region quickly prepared for war. The few Khitan soldiers who came in quickly fell into the vast ocean of people's war. In the sea.

Although the Song Dynasty was prosperous, the people were not so rich that they did not even dare to fight, and were already afraid of death.

After all, this good time for everyone has only passed ten years ago, and people who have experienced five generations of troubled times are still alive. It should be said that the more this time is, the more sturdy the folk customs are actually.

Whoever invades the Song Dynasty, in the hearts of the people, wants everyone to go back to the days of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, where there must be a two-legged sheep market within thirty miles.

Khitan elite?

Lao Tzu is playing the elite!

The group of old people who beat away Yelu Deguang 30 years ago are not dead yet.

Several big mansions have also been urbanized. Due to the long-term depletion of military equipment and the lack of garrisoned troops, the city defenses cannot be defended. But as long as you Khitan cavalry dare to come in, we will fight in the streets!

Thanks to real estate, there are already five- and six-story residential buildings in major cities.

In fact, this kind of residential building, with a little preparation, is really no easier to fight than an ordinary city defense. Just throwing some glass bottles from the upstairs can kill people.

What's more, someone might just throw a bomb.

Besides, everyone knew in their hearts that the Song Dynasty was just caught off guard. In fact, as long as we held off these traitors for a few days, Li Jieshuai's imperial army would surely arrive with reinforcements.

Urban workers are much easier to organize than rural warriors in previous eras. In fact, in the troubled times like the late Tang Dynasty 30 years ago, ordinary people could rise up and drive away heroes like Yelu Deguang. This has a lot to do with the development of the citizen economy. Big relationship.

As for the countryside, in fact, the rural areas of Hebei are increasingly leaning towards large-scale production. Either large-scale production in military villages, where everyone is nominally a soldier, or the economic recovery of large landowners' estates, with foreign slaves replacing the former tenant farmers. Tenants, but they are no longer the mainstream in the social economy. The court society and the people generally do not regard those foreign slaves as human beings, so everyone ignores them intentionally or unintentionally.

This time the Khitan invaded, the villagers in the village were not afraid, but became more and more excited, especially Marshal Li, who was so open-minded and had three hundred heads per head. Even though everyone's money has become less valuable over the years, but Three hundred guan is still a huge sum of money, at least to the ordinary people in these villages.

Even enough to buy a house in the city.

The big landowners were also very concerned about it. After all, they were the ones the Khitans came to rob, and those slaves did not need to be mobilized.

For them, a chance to become a naturalized member of the Song Dynasty was a chance that they were willing to risk a near-death experience.

You know, because the Song Dynasty recognized marriage household registration (concubines are not counted), those bachelors in the Song Dynasty, even if their conditions are shit, they are old losers that no one looks down on. As long as you think about it, there are countless foreign beauties around you. Come to embrace me.

Nothing to say, just do it.

Many of these slaves were from Shiwei.

Compared with the brave people of Shiwei, the Khitan people are weak.So Guan Nanjun basically sits and waits to pay and collect heads every day.

Later, when I ran out of money, I simply issued an IOU.

Only if there is news about the exact Khitan army, they will send out cavalry to kill him.

Li Hanchao himself was not idle either, he also ordered his troops to kill Ben Youyun.

However, he also knew that the Sixteenth Province of Youyun was Xiao Chuo's dowry and was an asset of the Song Dynasty and even the King of Qin. Naturally, he did not dare to actually burn, kill and loot. However, he led the cavalry all the way to show off his power, and still There was no problem. They even used light cavalry to go outside Jizhou City and yelled curses inside.

Then, Xiao Siwen went out of the city to pick him up.

"General Li, you came just in time. The war has already begun."

"Of course the war has begun. More than 1 of you rode into our Song Dynasty to burn, kill and loot. What else is this than a war? You'd better pray that those Liao soldiers don't go too far now. Otherwise, I will definitely die to thank you for this. You are guilty of dereliction of duty, but you, huh, even His Highness the King of Qin may not be able to protect you."

"Ah no, no, no, Li Jieshuai, you misunderstood. What I'm talking about is not the war between me and you, but the war between us and them. The Khitan dog thieves invaded my territory and enslaved our Han people for more than thirty years. Now, The time for revenge has come!"

The amount of information in this sentence was so large that Li Hanchao was really confused.

"Aren't you...our Shulu tribe descended from the Liao Kingdom? No, I don't quite understand what you mean."

"Li Shuai, you don't understand history. Our Shulu tribe is not among the eight tribes of Khitan. We are Uighurs. During the Tang Dynasty, we were vassals of Tubo. After Tubo weakened, we temporarily attached ourselves to Khitan. Because we have been with the Die La tribe for generations. We got married, so we became this so-called descendant clan, but in essence we are indeed Uighurs, and the Uighurs of the Song Dynasty are now one family."

When Li Hanchao heard this, he instinctively swallowed and his head was buzzing.

Xiao Siwen wouldn't be able to fix this for him.

The Uighurs and the Song Dynasty are now one family. They are both recruiting the Western Army and returning to the Yi Army to take charge of attacking the Gaochang Uighurs.

But Xiao Siwen, as the Privy Council of Daliao, said this,

Besides, there are no other eight Khitan tribes. Haven't the leaders of the other seven tribes been almost killed by Shu Luping?So now those seven have become the ruling class again, and you are an outsider again?
"Mr. Xiao, what do you mean by that?"

"That's right, Li Shuai, just in time, it's time for me to go to Kaifeng to attend my daughter's wedding. Aren't these Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun said to be the dowry of our Shulu Department? Then stop inking and hurry up. Well, from now on, the defense work of Youji and Hebei will be left to you. Now these two states are empty cities, it is too dangerous."

"Wait a minute, empty city? Where are your defenders? Haven't you started recruiting defenders at this time?"

"I conscripted. I conscripted a hundred thousand troops. One hundred thousand troops were handed over to Han Derang and asked him to go to the capital. This time, it is us Han people's revenge on the Khitans."

"Han... De... Rang? I remember that he and Princess Qin were..."

"Oh, don't care about these details. To be honest, this time the Khitans burned, killed and looted, and the Yanyun Han people also suffered countless casualties. After 30 years of anger, it is finally time for them to pay for their blood debt."

In fact, the Han people in Yanyun are not stupid. The common people at the bottom may not know how powerful the Song Dynasty is, but those powerful landlords who have trade and business with the Song Dynasty know very well how powerful the Song Dynasty is.

Besides, the Song Dynasty spent billions and billions of money to build railways. At least half of the money spent here must be for them to earn.

Now that Yelvxian refuses to allow repairs, this will cut off their financial path.

So everyone had no objection to surrendering to the Song Dynasty. This time Yelvxian did this, everyone slapped their thighs and suddenly realized: It’s bad, I have become a Khitan.

Everyone knows what the Song Army's military discipline is. Fu Yanqing's illustrious name was actually obtained by killing Yanyun Han people like them. He always paid back double, or even tenfold.

Although the Li Hanchao replaced by the Song Dynasty is a good person, who knows if the Fu Jiajun will be replaced if something like this happens?After all, the Song Dynasty's army has a tradition of redoubled revenge.

They are the ones taking revenge!
Fear is contagious.

Therefore, at this time, playing the compatriot card has become a necessity. We must emphasize that everyone is Han, and we must separate ourselves from the Khitans.

How to cut?

Lead your troops to the capital!
It doesn't actually matter whether you can beat him or not, even if it's someone at the dead end, the key is to have this attitude.

Song Jun, if you want to massacre the city, don't massacre our own people, go north and attack the capital. If you don't dare, you are a coward.

But it gave Li Hanchao the feeling of punching cotton.

"What about the soldiers of your Shulu Department? Han Derang, did you take your soldiers away too?"

"My people, I asked them to gather together and go to Datong Mansion to join Brother Yelvxiu. As long as Da Song gives the order, I guarantee that Brother Yelvxiu will definitely switch sides and go to Beijing to help."

"........."

This old thing is ready to be moisturized!
In fact, the reason why the Shulu tribe was strong in the Liao Kingdom was not that the Shulu tribe itself was really powerful enough to compete with the Dila tribe, but because they had a huge influence on the Han people, the Jurchens, the Uighurs and other foreign races in the country. Influence, but the most important of them are the Han people. Their influence is especially in the South Court of Liao Kingdom. All the four major Han families were slaves of the Shulu Department.

It is precisely because of such a relationship that the Liao State, as a multi-ethnic country, can maintain basic domestic stability as a whole.

But now with Xiao Siwen's move...the Shulu Department's foundation in the Liao Kingdom is gone, right? Let the Han people become independent, right?

As for whether Brother Yelvxiu is reliable or not... this is actually not important to Xiao Siwen. He has already decided to vote for the Song Dynasty. What matters is his attitude. In the future, as long as the Song Dynasty still wants Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to be managed well , especially if it is necessary to manage the Jurchens of different races, such as the Bohai Kingdom and the Koryo Kingdom, which are the traditional spheres of influence of the Shulu tribe, it is impossible not to use them.

You are decisive enough.

(End of this chapter)