Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 514: Please don’t follow the mistakes of your loyal ministers

"Go on," Zhao Mu sat upright on the dragon throne and looked at Yelu Yanxiu.

Seeing Zhao Mu sitting upright and listening to him attentively, Yelu Yanxiu was immediately delighted.

Yelu Yanxiu said, "It's very simple. Today I came to see His Royal Highness Prince Qi because I wanted to give His Royal Highness the opportunity to become His Majesty. Now His Majesty has occupied the old land of Western Xia, and I heard that wherever His Majesty's troops went, not only did they not harm the people, but they also killed the relatives and nobles who harmed the people. For this, I admire Your Majesty's kindness."

Hearing that Yelu Yanxiu had changed his name, Zhao Mu couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

"Although some of the Song army has been transferred back to the country, your majesty still has hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers under his command. Your majesty is the god of war of the Song Dynasty. There is no need for me to say more about your prestige in the army. Moreover, the former king of Western Xia occupied the land of Tubo and could be your vassal. Now your majesty has the former land of Western Xia, where the people are prosperous and the country is rich. Second, you have Western Xia as an external vassal. Third, you have prestige in the army and hundreds of thousands of elite troops. Now your majesty can take back the throne that belongs to you."

Hearing Yelu Yanxiu's words, Zhao Mu deliberately cooperated with her and asked, "Oh? The throne originally belonged to me?"

Seeing that Zhao Mu also changed his address, Yelu Yanxiu thought that his words had touched him.

Yelu Yanxiu then said, "Yes, in those days, Emperor Taizong Zhao Guang murdered Emperor Taizu and usurped the throne. Afterwards, he did not respect the Golden Casket Alliance and abdicated the throne to your Majesty's ancestor, Prince Qi Zhao Defang, but passed it to his son Zhenzong. Emperor Taizong was nothing more than a usurper and a traitor. If Prince Qi had succeeded to the throne, the throne might have been passed on to your Majesty."

"So this time, I am trying to persuade Your Majesty to rectify the chaos and take back what belongs to you. But if Your Majesty has no ambition to make progress, then you can also compete with the Central Plains. Now the officials in the court regard Your Majesty as a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh. If Your Majesty returns to the court, you may be a prisoner. I believe Your Majesty will make a wise decision on how to choose between the king of this country and the prisoner."

Zhao Mu still pretended to say, "Haha, that makes sense. But Your Highness is not just here to fool me with these few words. Your Highness has come all the way here, so you should give me something practical."

Yelu Yanxiu smiled and nodded, saying, "Of course. I will not come here empty-handed. If Your Majesty wants to secede from Xixia and establish your own regime, or to restore order in the future, then our Liao Dynasty is willing to lend a helping hand. As for Your Majesty's family in Bianjing, our Liao Dynasty is also willing to send warriors from the Shan Army to help rescue them. And to show our Liao Dynasty's sincerity."

Yelu Yanxiu paused for a moment, then continued, "In order to show the sincerity of our Great Liao, our Great Liao is willing to form an alliance with Your Majesty and send my daughter to marry Your Majesty. My daughter is also willing to serve Your Majesty in the future and help Your Majesty achieve unprecedented achievements."

Zhao Mu looked at Yelu Yanxiu and couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Hahaha. The Liao Kingdom is indeed sincere and sincere."

Yelu Yanxiu smiled and said, "Then your majesty agrees?"

Zhao Mu slowly stood up from the dragon chair at this time, she walked to Yelu Yanxiu's side and said: "Haha, Liao's wishful thinking is very good. First, they took advantage of the internal contradictions of my Song Dynasty and constantly weighed the pros and cons. Then they used the civil and military officials to slander Your Majesty, leaving me in a dilemma. Then Your Highness sent an envoy to intimidate me with the situation, and then seduce me with power and beauty. In this way, I have no choice but to rebel."

Hearing the thorn in Zhao Mu's words, Yelu Yanxiu still sneered and said, "Then does Your Highness have any other choice? Now there are only two paths before Your Highness, either sit on the dragon throne and become His Majesty. Or stay at the bottom of the stairs."

Zhao Mu leaned over and whispered in her ear, "I have a third way." "Oh?" Yelu Yanxiu remained calm and just murmured softly.

Zhao Mu returned to the dragon throne with his hands behind his back. He sat upright with his hands on the dragon heads on both sides of the seat.

Zhao Mu stroked the dragon heads on both sides and said, "Your wishful thinking is indeed good. But you underestimated one thing."

Yelu Yanxiu looked at Zhao Mu and said, "What did you underestimate?"

Zhao Mu kept the question a secret for a while, then continued, "By the way, before answering the princess's question, there is something I want to ask her. This is not the first time you have used such dirty tricks. The old general Yang Jiye, the loyal and filial king Hu Yanpixian, and the great general Di Qing, all of them died or were demoted, and it must have been your doing behind the scenes."

Yelu Yanxiu smiled and said, "Haha, Your Highness Prince Qi is really smart. If the emperors of your Song Dynasty were half as smart as you, they wouldn't have repeatedly wronged their meritorious officials and destroyed their own great wall. It's a pity that Yang Jiye, Huyan Pixian, Di Qing, and now Your Highness Prince Qi, are all stubborn and stubborn. They would rather die than establish their own throne."

"Back then, Pan Renmei benefited from our Liao Dynasty, and betrayed Marshal Yang's intelligence on the dispatch of troops, and cut off his food supplies. As a result, he lost seven of his sons and only one returned. We also sent people to contact him privately, hoping that he would lead his troops to defect. His surname was Yang, so our Liao Dynasty allowed him to be the emperor of the Sui Dynasty after the Song Dynasty was destroyed. But unfortunately, he killed the envoy. In the end, he dug his own grave and ended up hitting the monument of Li Ling and dying."

"As for the Iron Whip King Huyan Pixian, it's the same. He is the white jade pillar that supports the sky and the purple gold beam that spans the sea since Marshal Yang. We in the Liao Dynasty will naturally not allow such a person to exist, so we took advantage of the conflict between him and Grand Tutor Pang, fanned the flames behind the scenes, and with the help of Grand Tutor Pang, killed his entire family of hundreds of people."

"And Di Qing was also a rare general. He won a great victory in the conquest of Western Xia. Just like His Royal Highness Prince Qi today. We in the Liao Dynasty also sent people to persuade him, but unfortunately he was also a fool. So we had to take advantage of the civil officials' dissatisfaction with him. But Emperor Renzong of your Song Dynasty was not a pure tyrant. With the previous experience of Huyan Pixian, he did not listen to the civil officials too much this time. He just demoted Di Qing, but in the end he still scared him to death."

Yelu Yanxiu smiled and looked at Zhao Mu and said, "With the experience of these three people, I personally went to Lingzhou City to advise Your Highness to be smart and not follow in their footsteps."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mu nodded silently and said, "I have taken note of what Your Highness the Princess said. Now I will tell Your Highness the Princess about the third path I have chosen." As he spoke, Zhao Mu picked up a document on his desk.

Then he raised his hand and threw it to Yelu Yanxiu in front of him.

Although Yelu Yanxiu didn't know any martial arts, as a nation on horseback, she also knew how to ride and shoot and some self-defense punches and kicks. Zhao Mu's throw was not very powerful, and Yelu Yanxiu caught it steadily.

Yelu Yanxiu opened the official document sent by Zhao Mu and read it carefully.

After reading it, Yelu Yanxiu couldn't help but widen his eyes. He asked in disbelief, "Does Your Highness Prince Qi really think that his life is too long?"

(End of this chapter)