Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 407 King Zhang's Another Mother

Zhang Zhao wants to be brothers with Yelu Deguang, this is no small matter.

It's not just a matter between two people, it's also related to the relationship between the two countries, and Zhang Zhaoming is still a subject of Jin.

So after the meeting, the two began to send envoys to communicate frequently, and the Khitan and Guiyi Army also started discussions.

During the discussion, Zhang Zhao stationed troops in the northwest of the Hunhe River, and Yelu Deguang stationed troops in the southeast of the Hunhe River, each still maintaining considerable vigilance.

During this period of time, the Guiyi Army continued to show the strength of the Guiyi Army to the Khitan people, improving Zhang Zhao's status and image in the hearts of the Khitan people.

Wu Da'er took his brother Wu Yuan'er with him, and went to Khitan again, and began to lobbie the dignitaries all the way.

At the same time, Cao Yanjing also began to reveal some information from the Khitan people.

The biggest aspect is about the grievances between Zhang Zhao and Gaochang Uighur Pugu's family, and the grievances with Karakhan Saktu.

Yelu Deguang then knew that Zhang Zhao's favorite concubine, Cao Shi, was the former queen of Karahei Khan, and that Saktu's daughter was also captured.

There are also some small words on the Guiyi Army side, but they are not mainstream.

Because at this time, what people hate is not Khitan's annexation of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, because they don't want to swallow it, so it's strange.

The vast majority of people hate Shi Jingtang for betraying his country and seeking glory.

Especially after Yelude Guang personally led an army of [-] to besiege Yunzhou for eight months and could not go down.

If it wasn't for Shi Jingtang's shamelessness, how could Yelu Deguang get the Yanyun Sixteen States?
People in Hebei and Hedong especially hated Shi Jingtang to death.

After ten days of confrontation between the two sides, Zhang Zhao took the initiative to release hundreds of Zuopishi Fengsheng Army prisoners captured by the Hun River.

On the second day, they returned the armored weapons they had lost by the Hun River.

Then according to the Khitan custom, they were allowed to send hundreds of people to the mass burial pit where Khitan soldiers and horses were buried, and the corpses were taken out and burned into ashes and taken away.

This softened the attitude of the Khitan people, and at the same time recalled the experience of being defeated, and made the generals feel unwilling to fight against the Guiyi army.

It also made them understand that Zhang Zhao first sent troops to the east, but he came with a purpose.

Zhang Zhao was also very upset at this time, Yelu Deguang hadn't made a decision, and it had been more than a month since he led the army northward from Xiazhou.

The army is thinking about returning, and the food is about to run out. If there is no response in half a month, he will not be able to stay any longer.

Finally, two days after returning the ashes of the Khitan people who died in battle, Khitan sent an envoy about Yunzhou City.

Yelu Deguang insisted that the soldiers and civilians in Yunzhou were already citizens of Great Khitan, and he disagreed with Zhang Zhao's plan to take them away.

Zhang Zhao guessed that this must be an envoy sent by Shi Jingtang, who made a long way to arrive from Youzhou.

But even with Shi Jingtang's edict, Yelu Deguang could not win Yunzhou City.

Because although Wu Luan and the others also had the intention to retire, they could not open the city without safety guarantees.

Who doesn't know the virtues of the Khitan people?
Based on this, Zhang Zhao boldly guessed that Yelude only came to express his attitude, but in fact he came to seek Zhang Zhao's help.

Because if he wants to end this embarrassing situation, he needs a trustworthy person from Yunzhou people as a guarantee to guarantee their safety before Yunzhou city will be handed over.

Zhang Zhao pondered for a long time. Regarding Yunzhou, he was really helpless now.

And Wu Luan and others in Yunzhou City have actually done a good enough job.

Hundreds of people were killed and injured, and they stayed in Yunzhou for eight months. I am afraid that all the food that can be eaten in Yunzhou City has been eaten up, and it is really impossible for people to demand anything more from them.

Historically, they persisted for seven months, and after receiving Yelu Deguang's guarantee, they gave up Yunzhou City.

This time and space has been guarded for one more month, and because of the foreign aid Zhang Zhao, they are unwilling to take the risk of trusting Yelu Deguang.

Zhang Zhao guessed that Yunzhou City probably sent an envoy to tell Yelu Deguang that he only believed in Zhang Zhao.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao said loudly to Han Kuangye who came here as a special envoy.

"Please go back and report to Your Majesty, the residents of Yunzhou can come or stay as they please, as long as Your Majesty is willing to issue an edict to treat them favorably, there are always a small number of people who are willing to leave their hometown.

But the four thousand soldiers of the Datong army and the more than ten thousand family members of the Datong army must be taken away by me. "

Han Kuangye slightly raised his head and glanced at Zhang Zhao, "I don't know, Your Majesty, where are you going to arrange these Datong soldiers?"

It seems that Yelude just didn't want Zhang Zhao to arrange the Datong Army to Xiazhou, but Zhang Zhao decided not to dump him.

In this matter, if Yelu De wants to win Yunzhou without being ridiculed by the world, then he has to ask Zhang Zhao a lot. What qualifications does he have to ask for conditions?

"Hexi, Longyou, Lingwu, and Xiasui are all short of people, and they can be arranged anywhere!
Your envoy should go back and tell His Majesty that it is better for these people to go anywhere than they go to Hedong. Taifu Liu of Hedong is a great man! "

Han Kuangye's expression became serious all of a sudden, because he understood what Zhang Zhao meant.

Liu Zhiyuan in Hedong has always been very opposed to Shi Jingtang's father serving Khitan, and Jinyang in Hedong is just south of Yunzhou, which is more convenient than going from Xiazhou to Yunzhou.

More importantly, Liu Zhiyuan in Hedong is competing with Khitan for the hundreds of thousands of people under Bai Chengfu, the former deputy governor of Yinshan in Tang Dynasty.

These tribes, mainly Tuyuhun, mixed with Turkic, Dangxiang, Xiren and even Khitan tribes, have always been an important component of Yinshan.

Now Bai Chengfu could not bear the oppression of Khitan and moved inland, living in Daibei and other places.

But these hundreds of thousands of people are not all of them. There are still tens of thousands to 100,000 people in Khitan.

In other words, after Bai Chengfu returned to Liu Zhiyuan, Liu Zhiyuan could use Bai Chengfu and others to continue to lure all ethnic groups in Khitan to surrender.

So compared to Zhang Zhao, after Liu Zhiyuan controlled Bai Chengfu, the threat was greater than Zhang Zhao's Hexi Guiyi Army.

If the Datong Army, which had fought against the Khitan for eight months, retreated southward to Liu Zhiyuan's territory in Hedong, on the front line of Yunzhou, there would be no peace.

Of course, Han Kuangye didn't know the historical process like Zhang Zhao did. If he knew, he wouldn't be nervous.

Because in history, after Liu Zhiyuan took control of Bai Chengfu's department, in order not to further stimulate the Khitan, causing the Khitan people to go south, he dared not recruit the thousands of soldiers and horses and more than ten thousand family members of the Datong Army, and let them struggle for survival in Hedong.

In the end, some of them died outside Beizhou along with Wu Luan, and most of them had to return to Yunzhou.

But the Khitan people, especially during Xiao Chuo's period, pacified them greatly, so these people who were originally heroes who resisted Khitan became more resentful of the imperial court, returned to Khitan, and regarded China as a bandit.

During the Northern Expedition of the Northern Song Dynasty, especially the second Northern Expedition, Pan Mei and Yang Ye left Yanmen and went north.

The Han people in Yunzhou and the Sinicized Hu who originally belonged to the Central Plains, specifically, the descendants of this part of the Datong Army fought desperately, making it much more difficult to capture Yunzhou than originally planned.

However, since he couldn't guess what Liu Zhiyuan would do, Han Kuangye could only remain silent, and then quickly returned to the Khitan camp to report.

Because he agreed with what Zhang Zhao said, even if people like the Datong Army went to Xiazhou, it would be much better than being obtained by Liu Zhiyuan.

. . . .

There was a sound of mules and horses calling. It was the arrival of a batch of food and grass that Pei Yuan had sent to escort down the Yellow River from Lingzhou.

Last year's autumn harvest in the four prefectures of Yinxia and Yousui, this year's spring plowing was almost delayed by half. Guo Tiance wrote five days ago, and it was really difficult for the four prefectures of Yinxia to produce much grain.

Then this batch of grain from Lingwu was almost the last supply Zhang Zhao got.

There is no time to waste time with Yelude. If Yinxia Yousui does not want a large-scale famine this year, Zhang Zhao has to make good arrangements.

Where is the time, continue to confront the Khitans in this Hunhe.

At the beginning of May, Zhang Zhao sent Bai Congxin and Huang Yingda to each lead [-] elite riders up the Hunhe River, breaking in from the shallow water of the Cangtou River in the upper reaches of the Hunhe River.

They bypassed Wuzhou City, which is Zuoyun County, Datong City, Republic of China, and finally disappeared on this plateau.

Wuzhou City is less than a hundred miles away from Yunzhou. When Bai Congxin and Huang Yingda entered the east of Wuzhou City, Yelu Deguang finally became nervous and sent envoys to Zhang Zhao's camp again to discuss the date of the alliance between the two parties. and location.

It's really fucking cheap, if you don't force it, you just don't know how to be afraid.

On May [-]th, under the witness of representatives of Yunzhou Datong Army, Khitan and Guiyi Army's eminent monks accompanying the army.

Zhang Zhao and Yelu Deguang were at Yuanyang Po, which is the lakeside of Daihai Lake. According to the customs of the Central Plains, they laid out cattle, sheep and pigs, and burned wood to sacrifice to the sky according to the Khitan custom.

The two held hands, they were brothers, and they swore to keep each other safe and not to invade each other.

Zhang Zhao called Yelu Deguang his elder brother, and called Empress Dowager Yingtian Shuluping the Empress Dowager Shimother.

Every year, on the birthday of the Empress Dowager Shimu, envoys should be sent to congratulate her with a thousand bolts of Khotan colored silk, two thousand bolts of Hexi white cotton cloth, one hundred catties each of Hexi white sugar and tea bricks, and fifty catties of rock sugar.

Yelu Deguang called Zhang Zhao his younger brother, and called Zhang Zhao's aunt, Princess Fengtianchang of Khotan, his aunt.

On Princess Fengtianchang’s birthday, Khitan should send envoys to celebrate her birthday, and present [-] pieces of Khitan gold and silver ornaments, such as gold-flowered silver spittoons, gold-flowered silver bowls with capricorn patterns, gilt and silver crowns, etc.

There are also top-quality Dongzhu and Khitan porcelain, ginseng and deer antler.

This congratulatory gift was not equal, the value of Khitan's gift in return was only about half of that of the Guiyi Army's congratulatory gift, but Zhang Zhao really didn't have the energy to grind his teeth with the Khitan people in this regard.

These grassland peoples seem to like to highlight some status in terms of congratulatory gifts.

After dating the brothers, Yelu Deguang agreed with Zhang Zhao to pick up 4000 soldiers of the Yunzhou Datong Army and [-] people's family members.

The two parties agreed that Lingzhou and Xiazhou belonged to the territory of the Guiyi Army.

However, the territory including the Zhenwu Army and the Tiande Army, including the West Shoucheng City, the Central Shoucheng City, and the East Shoucheng City, belonged to Khitan.

This is equivalent to assigning the entire Hetao to Khitan except for the area where the Ningxia Plain is located, which is almost the area from Linhe District of Bayannaoer City to Hohhot City in later generations.

However, Zhang Zhao had never mastered these areas at all, they had been occupied by the Khitan people long ago, and it was not his turn to agree or disagree.

The Khitan people just want Zhang Zhao to officially admit it, and they don't want to harass them.

The mutual request of the two parties is that you don't come to take my Hetao, and I won't harass you in Lingzhou.

One thing and one thing, just do what you need to do.

(End of this chapter)