Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2717: A Baoji's dying plan, Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty tried his best

During the Hundred Years Han-Qiang War, both the Han people and the Qiang people had miserable lives.

The life of the Han people was miserable, and the life of the Qiang people was equally miserable, or even worse.

It's just that the Qiang people are uncivilized, and the common people at the bottom have never enjoyed a few days of good life. They are used to wars and displacement, and their ability to resist hard times is naturally stronger than that of the Han people.

It wasn't until Yelu Abaoji unified the Qiang people and ended the Qiang people's civil strife that the Qiang people lived a good life for a few days.

However, because of A Baoji's ambition, he provoked the Han princes beyond his control, causing the Qiang people to fall into war again, until the country was finally destroyed.

In fact, for the Qiang people, the life after the subjugation of the country is better than before. After all, there are no wars. Most Qiang people can live a peaceful and stable life, which is naturally better than fighting wars every now and then.

The Qiang people are not fools either. If the Sui Kingdom could treat them equally and really let them live a better life, then they would naturally not oppose the Sui Kingdom, but the key is that the Sui Kingdom could not.

The Sui State did not give the Qiang people and Han people equal status at all, even on paper, there was no meaning at all, and there were many restrictions on the Qiang people, and many of them were insulting.

The Qiang people are uncivilized, most of them are rebellious people, how can they bear this?So a large number of Qiang people embarked on the road of rebellion
But later the Qiang people discovered that rebellion was a dead end, and there was no way out at all, so they gradually gave up and began to gradually obey the rule of the Sui Kingdom. After all, it is better to live in humiliation than to die.

But at this moment, the Sui State suddenly announced that it would cancel all bans on the Qiang people, and clearly declared that the Qiang people had the same political status as the Han people in terms of law.

In the future, Qiang people can also be like the Han people, the land will be owned by themselves, the property will be protected by law, and they can also study, participate in imperial examinations, join the army, and so on.

For the oppressed and discriminated Qiang people, this is tantamount to a piece of good news, how can they not like it?

Because of the release of the Qiang Order, a large number of Qiang people were so ecstatic that they were speechless all night, burning incense and praying all night, praying for Sui King Yang Guang to praise his kindness to the Qiang people.

The Sui State had governed Haizhou for many years, but it still failed to convince the Qiang people. However, after the release of the Qiang Order, Yang Guang won the hearts of the Qiang people in just one night.

Of course, this is only a superficial phenomenon. If the release of the Qiang Ling was really so good, Ban Gucheng Gongying and others would not try their best to oppose it.

It is precisely because the hidden dangers of releasing the Qiang Order are too great that people of insight such as Cheng Gongying will oppose it, and Ban Gu even risked his life to remonstrate, but still failed to change Yang Guang's mind.

The biggest hidden danger of the release of the Qiang Order is that it benefits all Qiang people, but not all Qiang people are under the rule of the Sui Kingdom.

The Qiang people in Haizhou who were directly under the rule of the Sui Dynasty were actually only 70 million people, and there were more than one million Qiang people in places where the government could not control them, and they were governed by the original Qiang leaders or nobles.

At the peak of the Qiang nationality, even in a state of division, the total population was as many as four million and hundreds of thousands. It is precisely because of this that they have been able to harm Xijiang for so long, and even dragged down the big man.

After the unification of Yelu Abaoji, the Qiang nationality still has a total population of nearly 300 million. It is highly unified internally and externally. It is not comparable to the split Baiyue and Shanyue.

Logically speaking, with a total population of more than 300 million, plus heroes like Yelu Abaoji, even if they can't beat the Han people, they won't even be able to protect themselves.

The reason why Yang Guang and Li Shimin were able to exterminate the Qiang people so easily was that they adopted the same strategy as the Manchu Qing eradicated the Ming: use the Qiang to destroy the Qiang.

The Sui and Tang Dynasties relied on the division and disintegration of the Qiang people, and took the initiative to give up a lot of benefits, thus gaining the support of the Qiang elite, and gradually isolated Yelu Abaoji.

A Baoji is not an ordinary person either. After two major defeats, he realized that the Qiang people were completely powerless, so he bought a chance for the Qiang people to rise again at the cost of his own life.

A Baoji knew that the blood feud between Han and Qiang would never be resolved, and that the elite of the Qiang nationality basically had enmity with the Han people, so he ordered his son Yelu Deguang and some hard-core confidants to take the initiative to lead the crowd to the Sui Dynasty after committing suicide. surrender.

In this way, although the Qiang people will be exterminated, most of the Qiang people can survive, and under the leadership of the elites, they will preserve the fire, try their best to plan for the future.

Although Li Shimin and Yang Guang wiped out the Qiang people, they did not gradually capture the entire Haizhou step by step. Instead, they occupied the Qiang land by surrendering the Qiang people after Yelu Abaoji was defeated and committed suicide.

This approach is naturally taking a shortcut, and the result of taking a shortcut is that although the early stage went smoothly, the subsequent road will inevitably be more difficult.

This is also the main reason why no matter whether it was the Tang Dynasty or the Sui Dynasty, they could not completely digest the Qiang people, because the foundation of their rule over the Qiang people was not the common people from the beginning to the end, but the aristocratic elite class among the Qiang people.

In the same way, Yang Guang's Emancipation of the Qiang Order this time will benefit the Qiang people at the bottom, but since more Qiang people are ruled by the nobles, the greatest benefits will naturally be taken by the nobles, and ordinary people will only get a share. small portion.

Therefore, no matter how grateful the Qiang people at the bottom are to Yang Guang, it will not strengthen the foundation of the Sui Kingdom's rule in Haizhou, because more of the Qiang people's ruling power is in the hands of the nobles.

The Qiang elite that Yelu Abaoji hoped to surrender, just like the Han clans attached to the big man to suck blood, also attached to the Sui Kingdom to suck blood, and grew up with the Sui Kingdom until it was completely too big to lose, and finally revived again.

Afterwards, the development between Han and Qiang was somewhat different from what A Baoji had expected, but it was still generally moving towards what he thought.

After all, under the extremely high-intensity ban of the Sui Dynasty, the Qiang people were like wild horses that were harnessed. No matter how wild they were, they still could not escape the fate of being tamed.

But just when the wild horse of the Qiang people was about to be tamed, the Great Qin and Sui Dynasty brought a glimmer of life to the Qiang people.

Originally, the Sui Kingdom had persisted for several years, but the Qiang people couldn't carry it any longer, and might give in by themselves.

However, when the Great Qin conquered the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty was completely unable to bear the domestic and foreign troubles, and had no time to spend with the Qiang people, so it had to release the Qiang Order to continue life.

The release of the Qiang Order represents the surrender of the Sui Kingdom, and the Qiang people will be completely invincible, and will soon replace the Sui Kingdom and regain control of Haizhou.

Haizhou, Yushu County Government, Yushu County.

The prefect of Yushu, Yelu Abaoji's second son, Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang, after receiving the news of the release of the Qiang Order, hurriedly and secretly summoned his brothers and his father's confidantes to discuss how to deal with it.

It has to be said that in order to win over and appease the Qiang people, Yang Guang spent a lot of money, not only making Yelu Deguang the prefect of Yushu, but also marrying his younger sister, Princess Lanling, to Yelu Deguang. Destined to have no effect.

Whether it was to avenge the killing of his father or for his own ambition, it was impossible for Yelu Deguang to truly surrender to Yang Guang.

Today, the Qiang people are roughly divided into four factions: the Sinicization faction directly under the rule of the Sui Kingdom; Take refuge in Yuanmeng's fleeing faction.

Among the four major factions, the Sinicization faction is naturally the strongest. After all, the Sinicization faction has a population of 70 million, which is incomparable to the other three factions.

Although the Sinicization faction is the most powerful among the Qiang people, it is also the least united faction internally due to the various prohibitions of the Sui Dynasty. Representatives include: He Lou Zigan, He Louquan, Han Yanhui, Kang Moji and others.

Although the Qiang traitor faction and the dormant faction are not as large as the Sinicization faction in terms of numbers, the gap is not too big, and the two factions are also the most united internally to resist Sui's rapid assimilation of the Qiang people

In order to preserve their power and wealth, the Qiang traitor faction and the dormant faction had to let go of their hatred and hold hands temporarily to make peace in order to resist Sui's assimilation of the Qiang people.

Representatives of the Qiang traitor faction are mainly: Yelu Lage, Yelu Diela, Yelu Yindishi, and Yelu Anduan, and these four are all participants in the "Rebellion of the Brothers", and they were also the same in the original history. Betrayed Abaoji.

The difference is that the "Rebellion of the Brothers" in the original history failed, but they succeeded in this life.

The four brothers Abaoji trusted the most, and at the most critical moment, stabbed Abaoji's elder brother in the back, which became the last straw that crushed the Qiang people.

The representatives of the dormant faction are members of the original Abaoji lineage headed by Emperor Taizong Yelu Deguang of the Liao Dynasty.

Among them: Yelubei, Yelu Lihu, Yelu Yaliguo and other Abaoji's sons.

And Yelusu, Yeluxie Niechi, Yelu Renxian, Yelu Wuzhi, Han Zhigu, Xiao Dilu, Xiao Aguzhi, Xiao Siwen and other Abaoji's confidantes.

Not counting the total population, the Dormant faction is the strongest among the four major factions. After all, the Dormant faction has the second largest population of Qiang people and the most talented elites.

As for the Fleeing Faction, although it has the smallest number among the four major factions, it is the elite of the Qiang elite, including Yelu Chucai, the first wise man, Yelu Shilu, the first fierce general, and Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xiezhen, the two bibi .

Under the deliberate arrangement of Yelu Abaoji, when Yelu Chucai and others escaped from the Qiang land, they also took away the two elites of the Qiang army, the Pishi army and the Tielin army.

Because Yelu Abaoji knew very well that if these two elite troops were not allowed to take Yelu Chucai away, Yang Guang and Li Shimin would definitely be cheaper, and it would be even more difficult for the Qiang people to restore their country.

It has to be said that although Abaoji, the great ancestor of the Liao Dynasty, failed to make his mark in this era, just the fact that he broke through and stood up before his death is enough to prove his failure. It was more due to bad luck than himself. Not capable.

"Is everyone here?" Yelu Deguang asked.

The third son of Yelu Abaoji, who was most favored by Yelu Deguang, and was even appointed as the emperor's younger brother, who also served as the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses, Yelu Lihu, immediately stood up and answered after hearing what his second brother said:
"Except for the fifth uncle, uncle, and eldest brother, who are far away and unable to arrive in a short period of time, most of the others have arrived."

Yelude nodded lightly, fifth uncle Yelusu and uncle Xiao Dilu both supported him, they couldn't get there or it was because they were far away, but his elder brother Yelube might not.

When he thought that the Qiang people were about to be completely assimilated by the Han people, while his elder brother was still fighting for power with him, and his father was defeated because of the betrayal of his four brothers, Yelu Deguang felt a deep sadness in his heart.

"Don't wait, let's discuss first."

As soon as Yelu Deguang finished speaking, his uncle Xiao Dilu walked in with Xiao A Guzhi and his son Xiao Siwen.

Uncle Yelu Deguang also came, and immediately went to greet him personally. After all, like the Liao Kingdom in history, Xiao was also the second most common surname among the Qiang people after Yelu.

Although Xiao Dilu's surname is Xiao, he is not a Han Chinese. The origin of his surname is actually that after the establishment of the political power, A Baoji felt that the meritorious service of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was indispensable, so he beat his mother and grandmother to the family. , All the Lishi and Yishishi were given the surname Xiao.

Therefore, the Xiao family in the Liao Kingdom is actually the Li family and the Yi Shi family.

"Everyone, my father asked me to wait for the opportunity to restore the country. Over the years, I have worked hard, and I have been looking forward to the restoration of the country every day. Now this opportunity has finally arrived."

After saying that, Yelu Deguang threw out the document with the release of the Qiang Order, suppressing the excitement in his heart and said: "The release of the Qiang Order is the good opportunity for the restoration of the country that we Qiang people have been dreaming about day and night."