Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 285
Since ancient times, raising bandits and respecting themselves has been the core means for countless military strategists and politicians at home and abroad to seek their own survival. In history, and even in modern society, those familiar bandits and even those who have achieved great achievements have Heroes are basically raised by their enemies.

Ancient ones such as Nurhaci and modern ones such as Bin Laden were all created by people who raised bandits who failed to raise them properly.

This is really a very common method.

For Yelu Xiezhen, he had a real grudge against the Song people. When he was the king of Nanyuan, he happened to catch up with Fu Yanqing, the military governor of the day, and they often killed each other. Today You kill me a thousand, tomorrow I will kill you ten thousand.

The two border commanders who were unwilling to suffer were put together and stood up to each other. They wanted to cause a hundred border frictions a year. Whether they were soldiers or civilians, he had real blood debts on his hands.

Therefore, after the founding of the Song Dynasty, once it began to seek strategic relaxation with the Liao Kingdom, the first step was to remove Fu Yanqing, and the same was true for the Liao State. The first step was to remove Yelu Xiezhen.

I heard that old guy Fu Yanqing is not dead yet. He is currently the major shareholder of the trading company. Who would have thought ten years ago that he would become one of the shareholders of the Song Dynasty Trading Company and sit at the same table as Fu Yanqing? What about eating?
It sounds like a long time ago, but in fact it was only about ten years ago.

With such an identity, how could he not be afraid even if Zhao Guangmei asked him to be the governor?

Even if he believed that Zhao Guangmei would not kill the donkey, because people like them are indeed needed to rule the grassland, he still knew that he would definitely be ostracized in the court or within the trading company.

What if Fu Yanqing bullies him?He killed too many Fu family members.

So he raised the bandits not for self-respect, but for self-protection!
Who can be the bandit for him?

Naturally, there are only these Shiwei people who are brave and good at fighting, but are barbaric and disrespectful.

The people of Shiwei are currently listening to Da Song. What should I do if I am Da Song's loyal younger brother?Then let them go and kill the Khitans.

As long as the hatred between Shiwei and the Khitans is strong enough, he can naturally use this hatred to create friction, or even directly launch a war with Shiwei.

What can Da Song say?What can Zhao Guangmei say?Which of the Khitans and Shiwei people is a native and which is an outsider?

Of course, this is actually just the most ideal situation. In fact, these people in Shiwei are not stupid. When things happen, they will naturally not fail to analyze their own situation.

"If we don't grab the grassland, we will die sooner or later. Our playground is too barren. Now that we have come out this time, we will never go back."

"Haha, even if it makes King Qin unhappy?"

"Even if I am an enemy of the Song Dynasty, now that I have come out, I will never go back!"

The desertification of the Mongolian Plateau is relatively serious, and living there is relatively luxurious. In contrast, the core control areas of the Khitan people in the Liao Kingdom, namely the Hulunbuir Prairie, the Hetao Plain, and the Horqin Grassland, were conquered by the Han people. Although it is a barbaric land, these Shiwei people can regard it as a paradise.

There is a lot of water, a lot of grass, a lot of sheep that can be raised, and they will not die of hunger in the winter. This is called prosperity to them.

The barren Mongolian grasslands cannot support too many people. In the past, they had to kill each other in order to survive. This is why no one can unify Shiwei. In the past two years, with the support of the Song Dynasty, everyone was finally unified. , finally stopped killing each other, but after the fall of the Liao Dynasty, once the war loan from the Song people was gone, and the Song people might even force them to repay the loan, would they fall into fighting each other again? , and are you living in endless poverty?Could it be that easy to wake up from his dream of sweating in the Ugu tribe?no way!

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On the other side, Yelu Chong and Yelu Xiezhen were also playing chess in An Ran.

"Your Majesty has issued seven decrees in a row. Do you and I really want to stand still and watch our country, Liao Zuo, decline and be destroyed? Even many of the military leaders under my command are already ready to move."

"When a country is about to perish, it's normal for everyone to have their own plans. But I really didn't expect that Your Majesty would be so stupid and chose this last resort. The plan your brother gave him before he died. Both strategies are in vain."

"The King of Qi from the Song Kingdom sent a wave of attacks to make him feel that he could do it on his own. If the fight continues, there will be a chaotic war between Song and Liao. After all, he is the emperor, and his appeal is not trivial. What we have done In fact, it is indeed treason. Many military leaders are still willing to fight for it. This great situation is wasted. When the time comes, it will be small if you and I can't sell our country for a good price. I am afraid that when the time comes, we will have to fight against each other, and the same people will kill each other, and our country, Daliao, will have to be split into two again, causing all life to be devastated."

This is related to the military system of the Liao Kingdom.

After all, the Liao Kingdom was not a conscription system, but a conscription system. The conscription system resulted in the fact that generals such as Yelu Xiezhen, Yelu Wuzhi, and Yelu Xiuge did not actually have absolute military power. This was completely different from the full-time soldiers of the Song Dynasty. of.

The military system of the Liao Kingdom was based on the five capitals, with administrative units at the government and military levels. The military-level administrative units were similar to the county-level administrative units in the mainland. The major military commanders, as minor nobles within the Liao Kingdom, actually It is somewhat similar to a county magistrate inherited from generation to generation.

For a long time, through trade and transportation between Song and Liao, they had basically bribed all the nobles at the prefectural level in the Liao Kingdom. Factories, horse farms, and cheese production had also been built in all the major state capitals of the Liao Kingdom. , woolen sweaters, handicraft products and other goods were sold to the Song Dynasty, and then purchased goods from the Song Dynasty and wholesaled them to various armies.

These Khitan people living in the state capital and the surrounding core areas were very aware of the gap between the Song and Liao Dynasties, and they were also very aware of the benefits after they betrayed their country and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

Although it is impossible for all these nobles to be appointed as governors, it is not a big problem to be appointed as prefects. They can also get some shares of trading companies, and their own degree of Chineseness is relatively high, so they can almost Seamlessly entering the officialdom of the Song Dynasty as a Khitan.

Are the Khitans and Song people originally one family? Wasn't the famous Tang general Li Guangbi who ended the An-Shi Rebellion a Khitan?Can everyone actually be Li Guangbi in the Song Dynasty?

Despite the current narrative of hostility between the two countries, in fact, if they are to be unified, the speed of national integration will be very fast.

But for the small nobles at the military level, it is completely different.

The Liao Kingdom, like other feudal dynasties in history, placed emphasis on counties and light on state capitals. The military-level administrative units were the real foundation of the Liao Kingdom's political power.

With the prestige of Yelu Xiezhen, Yelu Wuzhi and others, if you just want to rebel and depose the emperor Yelu Xian, then there will definitely be no problem. Anyway, the issues you are fighting over are the issues above you and those below. It doesn't matter either.

But in order to coerce everyone to defect to the Song Dynasty and betray the country, Yelvxian at least showed that he fought bloody battles on the front line and resisted bravely. He even achieved very good results on the surface at least, defeating the 30 Song Dynasty soldiers of King Qi of the Song Dynasty. military situation.

30 million!

At this time, you nobles are supporting your own troops one by one and deliberately betraying the country.

This is indeed a bit unreasonable.In fact, the small nobles at the military level may not understand the general trend of the two countries clearly.

People may not be able to gain any benefits from the Song and Liao trade in these years.

In fact, this is also the drawback of this top-down promotion of the industrial revolution, that is, it has to focus on cities, even big cities. In fact, let alone the Liao army, even the counties within the Song Dynasty are now In fact, governance was also poor. The imperial court paid less and less attention to county-level administration, and many of the agricultural population were even close to returning to autonomy.

This was true even in the Song Dynasty, let alone the Liao Kingdom?

To be honest, the system of the Liao Kingdom is excellent for these military leaders. They only need to turn in a certain amount of beans, iron, wool, horses and other products every year, and the rest is their own. Only When the king raised an army, he would take the men in the army to ride on their horses and go to fight for the country.

Moreover, the rewards and rewards captured during the battle, especially the slaves captured, all belong to each army.

This military commander is still hereditary.

Although this has greatly weakened the control of the Daliao central court over the local grassroots, and there is no control at all, the interests of these military leaders are indeed tied to the central court.

From a certain point of view, this system is really very similar to the imperial military system in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The upper class was as turbulent as they wanted. Wasn't there also a palace coup in every generation during the Sui and Tang Dynasties?In fact, it has no impact on the lower levels, but if the upper levels collectively betray the country, they may not do it.

Can the Song Dynasty guarantee the interests of small nobles like us?
If you want to understand it a little bit, you'll be even more certain that you can't do it after you understand it.

The people of Song Dynasty could not even guarantee the interests of their own small landowners in the country, and even tried their best to suppress them.

Historically, it was the Xiao Chuo period that abolished the military state system, strengthened the centralization of the imperial court, and ended the chaos of palace coups in every generation. It fundamentally changed the political system of the Liao Kingdom, but to be honest, the combat effectiveness of the army did decline. , if this kind of military system model in history can be implemented all the time, the Jurchens will not be hurt by a single hair of the Liao Kingdom. It can only be said that stability and strength cannot have both in ancient times.

This is actually the reason why they, and even Brother Yelvxiu, are standing still. It is not easy to do so.

Originally, if Yelvxian had honestly gone to fight Shiwei, although the desertification on the Mongolian plateau was relatively serious, if he had escaped, given his strength, he would still be able to seize at least those large lakes, and he would have been able to survive. , hello everyone, hello everyone.

As a result, he had to stay and fight the Song army to the death, and he kept issuing orders to mobilize troops, which made their men panic and almost unable to suppress them.

This is not a scam.

It is impossible to go back to help in the war. No matter who you help, this war will not be fought. To put it bluntly, the interests of the upper, middle and lower levels of the Khitan people have diverged in three directions.

It is indeed not a problem to stay here all the time, and their morale is low now. If they fight against the Shiwei people like this, they will indeed suffer heavy losses, and they are even a little weak and unable to defeat them.

These barbarians are extremely talented in fighting.

So what to do?It would be better to just let the people go and let them enter the hinterland of Liao Kingdom, or even go to the capital.

If they go on a killing spree and then withdraw, then they will be able to support themselves. This is the most ideal situation.

And if they come and occupy the pasture and don't leave, that's fine. It is equivalent to shifting the conflict and makes it easier for them to watch the fire from the other side.

The Song army came only to destroy the Liao Dynasty. When Shiwei came, it meant that the Khitan people would be exterminated.

To put it bluntly, if the battlefield is changed, they should not fight in Dading Mansion. Since Yelu Xian has issued urgent edicts, they should all go back to Beijing. By then, the people of Song, Liao and Shiwei will all gather in Linhuang Mansion. There was a chaotic fight nearby.

He wanted to see whether Yelvxian would fight against the people of Song Dynasty or the people of Shiwei.

We also need to see whether they, the Song people, are fighting the Khitans or the Shiwei people.

As for how to release it?That's too simple. Just say that they obeyed the king's order and mobilized the army to fight the Song army. However, the sudden eager march caused a mistake in the defense line, allowing the Shiwei people to take advantage of the gap and enter the hinterland of the Liao Kingdom. Isn't this a normal thing?

They didn't put the Wei people in this room, it was clearly Yelvxian who put them in.

It was he who released the Western thieves in order to resist the Southerners.

Even if life is ruined, it must be the fault of Yelvxian, the foolish king.

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On the other side, Zhao Guangmei still calmly maintained a slow marching speed and walked all the way to the foot of Linhuang Mansion.

Facing the towering city wall, he just smiled disdainfully and ordered the bombardment. In just half a day, more than 4000 cannons were fired at the city wall of Linhuang Mansion.

Originally, the Liao people did not pay much attention to city defense, and weapons such as artillery had not officially appeared on the battlefield. Therefore, the city wall of Linhuang Mansion was actually very thin. More than 4000 artillery shells were fired at it, which directly destroyed the city wall. .

What the hell is this?
There were not many defenders left, and they dispersed in a hurry. From the beginning to the end, Yelvxian's army was watching from the hills not far away from him.

But he still dared not lead his 10,000+ troops to fight against Zhao Guangmei's army.

The scene of the roaring artillery fire made him turn pale with fright.

Zhao Guangmei even knew that Yelvxian was watching not far away, but she didn't care about him. If he wanted to watch, let him watch as much as he could. They were all light cavalry anyway, and he couldn't catch up with them.

"Pass my order and send people to Nanda Palace, Beida Palace, Yishi Palace, Xiwang Palace and many other major departments, as well as Shuibin Palace, Tingli Palace, Tieli Palace, Anding Palace, Changling Palace, Zhenhai Palace and other prefectures. Mansion, ordered them to come to Huang Mansion in person within three months to ask for surrender to the Song Dynasty. Before three months, our artillery of the Song Dynasty will arrive, bombard their city, and let all of them accompany Yelu Xian to wander on the grassland. Go ahead."

(End of this chapter)