The rise of the prince

Chapter 738 670 one, memory, determination
In the silence, both of them were speechless. There are no ifs in the world, and only a living and conscientious person like Yelu Dashi can think about these ifs.

Since ancient times, fighting and killing people has been inevitable.

Ancient countries are far from the cohesion of later generations, limited to transportation and communication technology, etc. The country is often loosely organized, and there is not so much money for the soldiers who work hard. After the soldiers work hard, looting is almost the default rule. As long as it is not too much, the generals will open their eyes Close one eye.

So this is really why the Yue family army who starved to death and did not rob the people would be so different and loved by the people.

But like massacring 10,000+ unarmed people in a city, people with conscience are still shameless, but such things abound in history.

"King Liao doesn't need to be like this, you have tried your best." Li Xingzhou comforted him: "Besides, there are more than [-] unjust deaths in the world every year, this is actually luck, not your fault.

You have done your best in the south. If it wasn't for the King of Liao, the Yanshan Mansion would have fallen into the hands of Jing Guo long ago. It is not wrong to lose the [-] troops in the first battle to the King of Liao. If you were on the northern front, the situation now is unknown. "

"Did King Jin laugh at the old man?" Yelu Dashi laughed at himself.

"No, let's be honest, we can fight to the death on the battlefield, but it's all up to each other. Now that the Liao Kingdom is dead, why can't the King of Liao let it go.

The king of Liao is in his prime, so is he willing to spend his time with nothing to do all day long? ’ He said it very bluntly.

Yelu Dashi didn't answer, just took a sip of tea by himself, and then said: "This is not the first time the prince has said it, nor is it the first time I have expressed my position."

Li Xingzhou was not in a hurry, and patiently picked up his teacup and looked towards the clear sky in the north, "The current situation in the world, the Xia Kingdom is in civil strife, and the internal friction is serious. Let them fight for another three to five years, and I am sure that the land of Hetao will go all the way to the old place of Yumen Pass. Recovering, opening up the channel with the Western Regions, when the time comes, grand plans and great achievements can be expected."

The Hetao area can simply be understood as the area surrounded by a few words in the "ji" shape of the Yellow River. There is abundant water and grass, and it is one of the important horse farms in China.

When the Han Dynasty was able to compete with the Xiongnu, the biggest turning point was that Wei Qing recaptured the Hetao area, which gave the Han Dynasty an additional Hetao Plain economically, greatly increased the production of war horses, and had a flexible geographical location where they could attack at will. The strategic location of the grassland.

But now that there is no Hetao area in Jingguo, it is very difficult to attack the grassland. The route to the east is fixed and blocked by mountains and rivers. Passes are easy because there is no choice.

Therefore, the Central Plains dynasty without the Hetao area can only focus on defense, even if you have money and food, there is nothing you can do.

The presence or absence of Hetao has also become a barometer of the Central Plains dynasty. A powerful dynasty in history will inevitably control this area, and then take the initiative strategically, showing strong suppression and control over the north and northwest.

Li Xingzhou has been thinking about it.

Attacking the Kingdom of Jin is for Shimo and Liaodong Racecourse in Shangjing, and the Kingdom of Xia is for the Hetao area and the Hexi Corridor.

"Let's talk about the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Wugu is indeed a hero of the generation, but now he is gone, the new monarch may have vigor, but he acted too hastily, too young and not stable enough, the king of Liao also fought against me, do you think I can defeat him? him."

"Oh, it seems that the prince is not young." Yelu Dashi laughed.

Li Xingzhou was taken aback for a moment, and then he became embarrassed. He was only twenty years old, so he forgot.

Yelu Dashi had a complicated look on his face, he glanced at him and didn't know what he was thinking, and then said: "I am convinced that I was defeated by the prince, you have a good design, and your ability to use muskets is very good. No one thought that Zhan can still fight like this. The prince is really a genius, but he may not win when he meets Jin Jun."

"Why?" he asked curiously.

Yelu Dashi put down his tea cup: "Firearms are very powerful, but they are not as ruthless as people's hearts. If the Jin army becomes ruthless, they will fight you desperately. Your firearms are useless. That's how the Jurchens came all the way.

Furthermore, your firearm has many inconveniences, it is amazingly powerful but very slow, and it is afraid of water, so you cannot fight it in rainy weather. The battle of Yanshan Mansion was unexpectedly fought, so it achieved such a result.

If I had known this in advance, I would have sent light cavalry to harass you, and instead of fighting you head-on, I would have dragged on until the rainy day before attacking the camp.

Now the Jin people must know the firearms you used. There were so many people watching the battle in Yanshan Mansion, and they sent spies to inquire. You can ask people who have seen it, and they must know about the same.Therefore, there will be more ways to deal with the new army, and a rash attack is likely to suffer a big loss. "

Yelu Dashi continued: "My lord, it's useless to tell me your great plans and wishes. I have made up my mind. The Liao Kingdom is cut off. I don't want to get involved."

"But Yelu, the royal family of the Liao Kingdom, is also a vassal granted by the previous dynasty, so it can be regarded as a family." Li Xingzhou said, he played tricks, if he could say that, the founding ancestors of the Xia Kingdom, Jiaozhi, and the Liao Kingdom could all be counted as the former dynasty. The big officials in Xinjiang have been sealed off, but they don't recognize the orthodoxy of the Jing Kingdom in their hearts, and the Liao Kingdom has always wanted to replace the Central Plains as the orthodoxy.

"My lord, you don't need to lie to me. It's all happened hundreds of years ago. Besides, there's an old saying in the Central Plains that Feng Shui takes turns and you will come to my house next year. Moreover, Jingguo is not the previous dynasty. I will bluntly say that it is worse than the previous dynasty." too much!"

Yelu Dashi's words were too much, and after he finished speaking, he quickly picked up his teacup to cover up his excitement and gaffe. Anyone would be angry with such words, and it is taboo to go to court in advance.

But Li Xingzhou also hit the pain point in his heart. Just as Li Xingzhou said, the ancestors of the Yelu royal family were indeed former vassals.

The Yelu royal family has always respected the previous dynasty, so many systems, architectural styles, and even customs have been learned, thinking that they are the orthodox.As a result, Jingguo, a small country that was far inferior to the previous dynasty, dared to call itself orthodox and even opposed Daliao.

In fact, Yelu Dashi has always looked down on Jingguo, a dynasty that claims to be orthodox in the Central Plains. They didn't have Jiaozhi in the south, and they didn't control Dali and Baiyi.

The Tubo tribes in the Northwest, the Hexi Corridor in the Northwest, the land of Hetao, and the countries of the Western Regions outside Yumen Pass (approximately the present Xinjiang region plus several Stan states, where the Western Regions Protectorate was established in the Han and Tang Dynasties) have been out of control for hundreds of years.

To the north, the ministries at the southern end of the desert grassland, and the Liaodong region no longer surrendered.

Jingguo was not the former dynasty at all, so the Yelu royal family never took it seriously, and Emperor Taizu was enthroned as emperor.

But it turned out that they did not expect that the death of their Liao Kingdom was due to a small country like Jing Kingdom. Although the main reason was Jin Kingdom, it was Jing Guo who finally broke through Youzhou and captured the last emperor of Liao Kingdom.

People under the eaves had to bow their heads, but Yelu Dashi accidentally showed his resentment and unwillingness.

In fact, he was also afraid in his heart. The King Jin in front of him made him feel complicated. He was only 20 years old, and the blood in his hand was so much that it would make people tremble. He was not an easy person to deal with.

To Yelu Dashi's surprise, Li Xingzhou was not angry, and he couldn't be angry, instead he smiled: "That's right, what you said makes sense, compared with the previous dynasty, Jingguo is just a small country.

In fact, hundreds of years later, people in Jingguo could hardly even imagine what the Central Plains dynasty that was written in the history books looked like. "

It is indeed unimaginable for Jingguo to control important places such as Hetao, Hexi, Liaodong, and the Peninsula, and to control the countries of the Western Regions (here, the Western Regions refer to the present-day Xinjiang region plus those Stan countries to the west of Xinjiang). What would the Central Plains dynasty look like when the national army fought and sent troops to destroy the country thousands of miles away.In this day and age, people don't even dare to think about such things.

Because to achieve those things, it is not enough for an emperor to have the ability. The atmosphere of the world, the hearts of the people, and many talents can create such a prosperous world. Today's Jingguo people do not dream of such a magnificent picture.

Today's people can't imagine the way the envoys of the Han Dynasty handled things. They directly took a dozen people to the country that robbed the Han Dynasty caravan to question the crime. At the banquet, they chopped the king with a knife and said, "The Han army is approaching, don't move." If you move, you will destroy the country." None of the nobles and ministers disobeyed, and the matter was settled like this.

That kind of national prestige is unimaginable, or no one dared to think about it for hundreds of years. It is the essence of an era. Looking at it this way, he also understands why Yelu Dashi is unwilling to submit to Jing Guo. To put it bluntly, he looks down on Jing country.

But he also seemed unwilling, otherwise he wouldn't have said such a thing.

The ancestors of the Yelu family were the big officials who were entrusted by the previous dynasty, and they once set up the Songmo Dudu Mansion in their place of residence.

Later, when wars raged in the Central Plains and before Jingguo was established, Liao Taizu built a city pier on the grassland according to the style of the Central Plains to accommodate the people and scholars who fled from the Central Plains and went north.Gaining a large population also brought talents. Various systems and habits tried to imitate the previous dynasty as much as possible, and the Liao Kingdom gradually grew.

Li Xingzhou did not reply to Yelu Dashi's surprise, but said seriously: "It is easy to recall the past, but we must live in the present. How will we know if we don't do many things? I am still young, and I still have a lot of time for me to take a step forward." Let's walk, it may not be a shame to walk with me."

Seeing him free and easy, Yelu Dashi sighed with emotion: "My lord is so young and so kind-hearted, if Yelu Dun is half as good as you, my Daliao will be more than that."

I didn't say much after that, and Li Xingzhou didn't force him to ask. Give him some time, and don't push this topic to a dead end.

Slowly, people came one after another, the young main generals in the new army, then several important advisers in the court, and finally Zhong Daoyu.

When Zhong Daoyu came, everyone went out to welcome him. Although he is at home now, everyone respects him, especially because he has lost many battles in the past few years, which made everyone understand how powerful Zhong Daoyu was back then.

The scenery in the palace was just right. Li Xingzhou set up round tables, maps, sand tables, and offered tea and wine. Everyone sat and discussed, and each expressed their opinions. There was only one goal, the Kingdom of Jin.

From Yanshan Mansion to Shangjing (south of Lindong Town, Bahrain Zuoqi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), there is still a vast Liaodong!

Everyone discussed fiercely, and gradually forgot about their seniority. Li Xingzhou's eyes were burning, and a fire was slowly burning in his heart.
(End of this chapter)