Late Tang

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"Yelu Hande is dead?" A group of exclamations sounded.

Li Jing smiled and said, "That's right, Yelu Rude died, and he was beheaded by Yeluyun Deshi's nephew on the day of the firewood ceremony."

Yelu Rude's death can be said to be the result of Li Jing's planning, Li Wei's personal entry into Khitan, and his active promotion.If it weren't for Li Wei, Pu Guzhi might not have retaliated against Rude so fiercely.After all, Run De was the son-in-law of Bala Khan, and he had the support of many nobles to kill Yun Deshi.

But Li Wei's words made Pu Guzhi restless.Finally, finally decided to strike first.

The Khitan Chai Book Ceremony was originally used by Khitan candidates to select a new Khan. At the beginning, Yi Li Jin was not qualified to use this ceremony.But now Yi Li Jin is becoming more and more powerful, so Yi Li Jin of Khitan also has to go through this Chai Book Ceremony.

The Chai Book Ceremony is actually a ritual of burning firewood to sacrifice to the gods. When the Chai Book Ceremony is held, the person who takes over from Yi Li Jin must first complete a "rebirth" ceremony.Rebirth, as the name suggests, is to be born anew.As for the reason, it is to let the person who became Yi Li Jin remember that he will no longer be the representative of his own family in the future, but will serve the interests of the tribe.The so-called rebirth ceremony is actually just walking into an empty tent and changing into Yi Li Jin's outfit.

Yun Deshi, who was full of joy at that time, walked into the tent, was held down by several people, and his head was cut off with a knife, which became a real rebirth. .

At that time, the person who attacked was the shopkeeper Li, whom no one had thought of, because during the ceremony, the people of each department were actually monitoring each other, and it was impossible for anyone to secretly appear in that tent.Only people from the Central Plains caravan were invited to participate in this ceremony, but no one was staring at them.In the end, Li Wei, who had been pretending to be the shopkeeper Li, sneaked into the tent with a few special forces members, and killed Run De unexpectedly.

At that time, Yelupu Guzhi also sneaked into the venue disguised as Li Wei's subordinates. After they killed Runde, Yelupu Guzhi changed back to his clothes, and Li Wei and others disguised themselves as Yelupu Guzhi's subordinates.

When Yelu Runde, whom everyone was expecting, did not appear from the tent, but Yelu Pugu appeared with Runde's head, everyone was shocked.

Yelu Pugu held Yelu Rude's head out of the tent with his hand, and told the Diel tribe and other tribes waiting outside that Rude had plotted against Yunde and Shi Yilijin, who was a treason and had already been punished.

At this moment, Pugu's father, Yelv Tiela, and Yeluguzhi brothers rushed out with the warriors arranged by the headquarters, and before Runde's subordinates could react, they had already chopped up the group of people into pieces.

After killing Yelu Ruende, Yelu Tiesai took advantage of the prestige of his nine-term Yilijin and the current favorable situation in his hands to forcefully reach an agreement with all the tribes in the Diela tribe, and Yelu Puguzhi was elected as the new leader. Yi Li Jin of the Diela tribe successfully served as the Yi Li Jin of the entire Khitan at the same time.

The firewood originally prepared for Yelu Runde was directly used as the firewood ceremony for Yelupu Guzhi.

"Yelü Pugu was only elected as Yilijin, and the conflicts in the Diela tribe should be even greater now." Gai Yan stroked his beard and smiled, and everyone was not worried that after Yelu Hande's death, these conflicts would subside.

On the contrary, everyone already believed that killing against each other would only make Khitan's internal conflicts more acute.Yelu Rude assassinated Yeluyun Deshi. This was not his action alone. There were many nobles and other tribes in the Diel tribe who supported him, especially the support from Bala Khan.

But now, Yelupu Gu only assassinated Yelu Rude at the most sacred firewood ceremony of the Khitan people, and forcibly ascended to the position of Khitan Yilijin.This incident happened not only because of the internal struggle between the Yelu Tici family and the Yelu Rude family's Diela, but also the Khitan Khan Bala Khan of the Yaoren tribe.

"Zizhen thinks, how should we add firewood to the Khitan people?"

Li Jing turned her head to look at Jing Xiang, with a hint of comparison in her eyes, and a smile on the corner of her mouth.

Jing Xiang seemed very relaxed, "In the current situation, there are only two things we need to do. The first is to suspend the large-scale combat preparations against Liaodong, let the Khitan people know that we will not send troops, so that they can rest assured that they will fight internally. Second, we We can't sit still completely. We have to add fuel to them, let General Li Wei use his current friendship with Yelu Pugu to strengthen the deal with Diela. At the same time, we must also exert some influence on them, let them The conflict with Balakhan will intensify. You can even sell some weapons and armor to the Deira tribe, so that they can suppress Balakhan even more."

"Under such circumstances, the stronger the Diela tribe led by the Yelutiela family, the greater the pressure on Bala Khan, and the stronger the final rebound."

"When it's unbearable, Bala Khan will no longer have to bear it." Li Zhen said with a smile, "Of course, I heard that Bala Khan is a businessman, and he likes doing business rather than fighting. It's better to let General Li Wei send People who pretended to be Puguzhi assassinated Bara Khan. Then they chose a strong new Khan to fight against the Deira tribe."

"As soon as Bala Khan dies, the commander-in-chief can send envoys to Khitan to express his willingness to fully support them in their crusade against the Diela tribe. I think civil war in Khitan will be inevitable."

Li Jing nodded again and again, but secretly he couldn't help but gasped.My group of counselors are really ruthless, a few easy words are already going to subvert a country.If things really go as expected, it will be a fatal blow to Khitan, a newly rising alliance outside the Great Wall.

However, Li Jing liked the plan.

Pu Gu had assassinated Yelu Rude first, if Yelu Bara was also assassinated, I believe many people would think that he was the one who killed him.

Assassination comes and goes, which is the most likely behavior to cause revenge and hatred.

Moreover, Li Jing also believed that the Khan clan of the Yaonian clan would definitely not be reconciled to seeing Khitan's power always being occupied by the Diela tribe.

"Zizhen's words are very true." Li Jing immediately turned to Li Zhen and Li Liang and said humanely, "In this case, let's make an agreement on this. Next, the Chief of Staff will come up with a comprehensive plan, and I will increase it. Send people into Khitan."

Li Rang also suggested with a smile: "Since the business in Khitan is so hot now, why don't we send more caravans to Khitan, before they fight, we can make a good fortune. When they fight together, we can make a lot of money in the war." fiscal."

"You are really pervasive. It's really useless to let you take care of the money bag." Li Jing smiled and pointed at Li Rang.

Now Li Jing is gradually getting used to handing things over to everyone for discussion, and after getting the results, he can trust them to take responsibility.For Li Jing, as his family business grows, it is impossible for him to do everything by himself, and it is inevitable to take care of everything.What Li Jing needed was to gather everything together for him to listen to and deliberate, but for the specific operations, he had to let other people take charge.

Li Zhen, Li Liang brothers, Gai Yu, Jing Xiang, and the staff of the General Staff Department were among the advisers, and Li Jing trusted them very much.As for the specific civil affairs logistics, Guo Chengan, Li Chun, Li Rang, Cui Zhiyuan, and Du Zhongwu were also responsible.

It is very important to know people and make good use of them, and to decentralize power appropriately.

The people below are also accustomed to this way of the commander in chief, delegating power layer by layer, each handling their own responsibilities.This is a very good way of doing things, and the master and minister know each other well.

The Khitan in history successfully rose to become the Daliao Empire during the last 30 years of troubled times of the Tang Dynasty and more than [-] years of the Five Dynasties.But now, history will turn a corner here. With the appearance of Li Jing, Tang Jun began to re-enter Liaodong, which had been forgotten by the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years.Moreover, with Li Jing's participation, the Khitan Kingdom did not have smooth sailing, and instead began to bring troubles to Xiao Qiang.

It is also a good decision for Zhen [***] not to attack Liaozhong for the time being.

This year's attack on Liaozhong was a bit hasty for Zhen [***], which had just expanded its army.The roads in southern Liaoning have not yet been repaired, and the grain and grass in the rear have not been transported to the front.Moreover, winter is about to begin, and a large number of soldiers in Zhen [***] are from the Central Plains, and they have not yet adapted to the cold winter in Liaodong.Moreover, the mountainous terrain in Liaozhong is also a difficulty.

Well now, the town [***] has at least half a year to prepare.

"From now on, we will build a wide and flat road in the south of Liaoning to facilitate the transportation of soldiers and horses and the transportation of grain and grass for logistics. There is a wide and flat road running through the south of Liaoning, which is not only convenient for our army and grain transportation, but also for our development of Liaodong. , is also extremely important.” Guo Chengan, as an aborigine in southern Liaoning, proposed a road construction plan.

If you want to get rich, build roads first, this sentence is still very deep in Li Jing's memory.There are many mountains in Liaodong, and even many cities are built on the mountains. Although the defense is enhanced, transportation is very difficult.If there is a main road, the control of the entire Liaodong will be strengthened.Li Jing immediately agreed to this plan.Although, Li Rang made a preliminary budget for this plan, which required countless money, food and civilian husbands.

However, Li Jing didn't think it was a problem. The only problem was that Li Rang planned to recruit civilian husbands, which were free Yao slaves.This one was firmly opposed by Li Jing.Large-scale civil engineering projects have always caused great harm to the people, and even caused rebellion and other incidents repeatedly.The reason is that the project is labor-intensive and takes a long time, and the peasants have to work for free and bring their own food.

This kind of project is the most difficult for the common people, labors the people and hurts the money, and the common people cannot bear it.

Li Jing didn't want to make such a thing happen to himself, so he insisted on building the road, but the road construction had to pay the people wages, and he had to be responsible for the food.

"Now we are full of grain, and there are still countless refugees in the world who have no food to eat. Therefore, there is no need to be afraid that there will be no one to build roads. We have money, and the bank has tens of millions of money."

Li Rang smiled wryly and said, "Marshal, the money is the deposit of glass dealers everywhere, not ours."

"Since it's in the bank, it's ours. Use it first, and then don't worry about paying it back? Civil servants don't need much money. One person costs fifty or sixty yuan a day, and a meal is included. There will definitely be a large number of people scrambling for it." Want to come. What you have to do is to transport these people to the south of Liaoning, and then arrange for them to build roads. One person is less than two guan a month, and 10 people are only 20 guan. We can afford this money. Like this Hello, hello, everyone, if people in various counties are forced to serve for 20 guan, not to mention delaying production during the farming season, and causing resentment among the people, is it worth hundreds of thousands of guan?

After being explained by Li Jing, Li Rang also wanted to understand.Although it is said that the government has been enlisting civilian labor since ancient times, since the teacher is so sympathetic to the power of the people, and there is indeed money and food in the warehouse, then he should support the teacher's decision.

"Although there is no need to fight for the time being, the training of the army and the resettlement of the people cannot be suspended for a moment. Especially all the newcomers must have clothes to keep out the cold and food to wrap their stomachs. Before the cold winter comes, we will build resettlement houses for everyone. Even tents can be used for temporary resettlement, but those people who have traveled all the way cannot be resettled here. Remember, population is a treasure, and now we No matter how many people there are, we need it." Li Jing has a high demand for population.

There are more than 200 million people in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning, which is already extremely large.But for Li Jing, it is not saturated, Zhen [***] is not just a self-sufficient agricultural town.The workshops in the town of [***] are very good in business and trade. At present, there are not many wars in Tang Dynasty, and the profit of commodity trade is extremely high.Even if there is chaos, relying on sea trade with other countries can also support the population of [***].Moreover, after conquering Liaodong, there will be more territory, and the demand for the population will only increase.

Even Li Jing has made Guo Chengan like a marriage rule, which is to promote early marriage, so that men can get married when they are 25 and women are [-], and even men who are [-] and women who are [-] are considered late marriages, and they have to pay late marriage poll tax, even widows and widows. For five years, the government will force them to remarry, and those who do not have to pay a fine.There is even a plan to set up an official media agency to manage these, specifically to manage the marriage registration and age status of the people, and those who are unmarried at the age of marriage will be helped by the official media.The purpose is to make the town [***] have more people.

For the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty was strong and prosperous in the early years, it established more than 500 Jimi states instead of colonizing them. It was because the population of the Tang Dynasty was too small to conquer and surrender but not to really occupy them.If Li Jing really wants to occupy the land of Anton, he needs more people to colonize and occupy.

"By the way, right now we have enough food and enough money. Therefore, I plan to comprehensively rectify the economy in our town [***]." Seeing everyone's half-baffled look, Li Jing explained Said: "To put it bluntly, I am going to solve the problem of high prices today. I hope that the price of food in the town [***] can be restored to five cents a catty, that is, one hundred cents per bucket of rice. Other prices It has to go down too. We want to establish a brand new, stable and orderly economic order. I know this is a difficult task, but it cannot be delayed any longer. Everyone should go back and find a solution to this matter, and Shichiro Take charge of this matter. No matter what, after seven days, I hope to see a comprehensive and feasible plan!"

Hearing Li Jing's mission, even counselors like Li Zhengai Yu Jingxiang couldn't help but twitch their mouths, and Li Rang looked even more serious. This mission is indeed arduous.Right now, the price of grain in Dengzhou has reached [-] yuan for a bucket of rice. Li Jing asked for a tenfold reduction at once. This is really a big problem. (To be continued.)