Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 151 Arriving in Youzhou in October (2)

All the tribal leaders looked at each other, a few lowered their heads, and more looked at Yelu Dashi with admiration and eyes. "This is the future hope of the Khitan people!" Brother Yelu Tie murmured, holding a bloody sharp knife in his hand.Next to him, Yelu Yanshan raised his arms and shouted loudly: "Shoot Shangjing! Kill Hunjun!" "Shoot Shangjing, kill Hunjun!"

Tens of thousands of Khitan people outside Nanjing's left-behind mansion also shouted loudly, "Shoot to the capital, kill the faint king!" When they came out, many Khitan people rushed to kill the corpses to vent their anger.A moment later, apart from the old marshal's wide-eyed head hanging high on the spear, the body was torn into a bloody mess, and there was not much left.

At this time, Yelu Dashi was surrounded by many Khitan leaders and came to Nanjing Liushou Mansion. As soon as he appeared, the tens of thousands of people outside burst into cheers like a tide, and even his own soldiers took Yelu Dashi as the leader. The news spread that the "eight generals" were going to attack Shangjing, kill the faint king Yelu Yanxi, and return power to the people of the eight tribes. "Long live the eight generals!" "Long live Marshal Dashi!" "Long live!" The cheers continued for a long time, until Yelu Dashi raised his hands, only the young Khitan nobles scattered among the tribes stopped.

"All the heroes of our Khitan people are ready to attack Shangjing and revive Khitan!" Yelu Dashi had just said a word, but was interrupted by bursts of cheers. After a long time, he continued, "Every department prepares horses, food, weapons and arrows Arrows, each warrior requisitioned three Han'er to transfer luggage. If there is any shortage, go to Han'erfang City to get it. Except for the military craftsmen who stayed in the yamen and marked it, they can take it! Set fire, do not plunder women, offenders beheaded!" As soon as he finished speaking, all the Khitan people burst into cheers again, and many anxious Khitan people immediately urged their horses to go to the south city. After a while, Han'er There was a sound of smashing doors and crying in the crowded market.

"General, these wolf cubs, if they don't want to rob women, I'm afraid it will be troublesome." Yelu Yanshan frowned and said in a low voice as he watched the surrounding clansmen disperse to rob.

"You are patrolling the city with my own soldiers. You must not tolerate it." Yelu Dashi looked to the south and said slowly, "The blood of wolves must not be mixed with sheep. If you let it go, in a hundred years, the world will be full of blood. There are no real Khitans anymore." He drew out the scimitar at his waist, slashed at the sky, and shouted: "Revitalize the Khitans!" The Khitans who hadn't dispersed around became restless again.

The door was pounded loudly, Zhang Gourd tremblingly opened the latch, with a bang, the door was kicked open, three or five Khitans pushed him aside, one of them waved a scimitar ferociously , Shouted: "Take out all the gold, silver, and silk!" The others rummaged around for their valuable utensils.Outside the gate, every household heard the sound of shouting, cursing and crying.Zhang Hulu didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly opened the cash drawer in the shop, held it with both hands, and said with a flattering smile: "Small business, that's all, I accept it with a smile." Lu Shi's exclamation, the child's loud cry.

Zhang Gourd looked back, and secretly screamed that it was not good, and saw a pair of children being pushed to the ground, crying loudly, the Khitan man couldn't bear the crying, and was raising his scimitar to strike, Zhang Gourd hastily shouted loudly: "Master, you can't." Kneeling down on the ground, he kept kowtowing to the Khitan man.The Khitan man grinned grimly and said, "It's okay to let you two bastards go, and tell this woman to be obedient." Zhang Gourd was taken aback, and turned to look at his wife, Lu Shi, who also turned pale.He was silent for a moment, his lips moved, and he walked over to stop the two children behind him, preventing them from watching.Two lines of Lu's tears flowed down his cheeks, and his hands fell down feebly. The Khitan man laughed loudly, pushed Zhang Gourd aside with one hand, and rushed forward.

Yelu Yanshan led a group of soldiers from Nanjing's left-behind mansion to patrol along the streets of Fangshi, passing Fengxianfang, Ganquanfang, Xian'lu'fang, and Jingkefang along the way. Khitan people who looted shops were everywhere.Some of the Han'er resisted, and they settled the bill with a knife, and Yelu Yanshan didn't care.When I came to Fabao Temple, I saw the door of a gourd and soy sauce shop open, and the screams of women could be heard faintly. Yelu Yanshan frowned, and ordered his soldiers to inspect, and immediately sent those Khitan people and women to bring out.

"Master Qingtian!" Zhang Hulu scrambled out and kowtowed in front of the horse in Yeluyan Mountain. Lu's face was pale, and he covered his clothes with one hand, knelt on the ground, and Zhang Hulu Kowtow together.The Khitan people next to them looked at them with disdain.

"Marshal Dashi issued an order that Khitan blood should not be mixed with Han'er, and kill this woman." Yelu Yanshan said coldly, the cavalry next to him immediately rushed forward and swung his saber, Lu Shi had no time to dodge, so he The fragrance disappears and the jade dies.Not only Zhang Hulu was stunned, even the five Khitan tribesmen who were brought out were also stunned. "You guys violated the military order and whipped five horse whips each." The soldiers stepped forward, and the five Khitan men, who had no clothes on their upper bodies, were pushed down by the side of the road and whipped cracklingly.Yelu Yanshan coldly glanced at Zhang Hulu who was lying on the ground, and rode away lightly.Such a bloodless sheep is not even qualified to cut grass and roots.

After the Khitan cavalry walked away, the children in the house lay down next to their mother's corpse and yelled. Zhang Gourd came to his senses and put Lu's body away, hiding it behind the shop. Zhang Gourd couldn't help feeling sad, and sat on the ground crying loudly. Said: "My lady, I'm useless!" "My lady! It's my fault!" He thumped the ground and wept bitterly, recalling that in order to marry a daughter-in-law, he worked as a servant from dawn to dusk. The amazement at that moment recalled her touching shyness when she was pregnant, and recalled her painstaking efforts to pull the two children, Zhang Hulu's tears and snot kept streaming down Lu Shi's cold body, tears mixed with blood.

On this day, the entire city of Youzhoufang was looted, and the mansions of Han officials in the south were not spared, and thousands of people were killed in the looting.A group of Khitans broke into General Guo Baoyi's house, killed two people, and stole a lot of property, Yelu Dashi did not pursue them, and only rewarded the Guo family with four slaves and gold and silver to appease him.No less than Xiao Da, king of the Southern Academy, dozens of Khitan leaders and officials who did not want to rebel with Yelu Dashi, all the men and subordinates of the clan were slaughtered, even infants were not spared.The women and wealth of these families were rewarded by Yelu Dashi to the generals who were loyal to him.At nightfall, everyone of the Khitan tribe went out of the city with their plundered wealth and slaves. They each prepared their horses and weapons. When Yelu Dashi gave an order, they followed him to the capital to overthrow the tyrant Yelu Yanxi and rebuild the Great Khitan.

Yelu Dashi returned to the inner house, picked up a volume of "Gaul War Records" written by the famous general Gu Lumei, and slowly read it.Not far from the left-behind mansion in Nanjing is the palace of the King of the South Courtyard, and there is also a Hanren Square nearby, and there are cries and screams from time to time.Yelu Dashi has also read the Spring and Autumn Period, although his face is sinking like water, his heart is slightly uncomfortable.Suddenly, he felt a pair of catkins caressing the back of his head, and the jade fingers gently pressed his temples for him. It was his wife Xiao Yingyan.Yelu Dashi's expression moved slightly, and he said slowly: "Xiaoyan, am I a cruel person?" Only at this time, his face showed a trace of tiredness.

Xiao Yanyan comforted softly: "You are a great hero of the Khitan people." Yelu Dashi slightly closed his eyes, and sighed: "Maybe." Which empire's prosperity is not built on the bones of the Khitan people? The weak and hypocritical Confucian way of Confucianism has been fettered and decayed for hundreds of years, and it is time to return to the road of bloody slaughter.

The news of the "chaos" in the Liao Dynasty quickly spread to Bianliang, and the official Zhao You brought up the matter of Jinglue Youyan again, but his tone was much more cautious.In the Chuigong Hall of the White Jade Palace, among the important officials of the court attending the court meeting, Zhao Zhifu, the political adviser, advocated the Northern Expedition, Cai Gongxiang and the privy envoy Wang Fu advocated a prudent approach, and Li Bangyan, Shen Yun, and Liang Shizhong watched their words and expressions in the middle.

Seeing that the officials were hesitant, Taiwei Tongguan said: "Your Majesty, if we send troops to the Northern Expedition at this time, it may cause the Liao people to fight against us together. It is better to wait for a while until the Liao people are almost exhausted, and then send envoys to contact us." Jurchen, the two families are attacking the Liao Kingdom from the north to the south."

Zhao You nodded slightly, picked up the teacup and took a sip of ginseng tea, regained his senses, looked at the nine-clawed golden dragon painted in gold on the dome, and said in a deep voice: "Tong Taiwei is the country's planner, and his words are very kind." Tong Guangong said: "This is the duty of a humble minister, Your Majesty knows everything."

Zhao You looked at Tong Guan with satisfaction, the so-called merit is not as good as past, since the defeat in Hebei, Tong Guan is indeed much more submissive than before.He suddenly remembered something and asked, "Tong Aiqing, recently I got a strange article. It is said that Aiqing tried his best to resist the Liao people's persuasion to surrender in Hejian, and ordered the scribes in the account to write it. When I read this article, I only feel that it is beautiful." Yi Zhibian's intentions are very upright, and the heart of loyalty is vivid on the paper. Is this scribe still in Aiqing's shogunate?"

Tong Guan was taken aback for a moment, he didn't play the call to action at the beginning, and it was even more impossible after that. "I don't know who is embarrassing this official, and brought this article to the official." He glanced slightly from the corner of his eyes, only to feel that Zhao Zhifu's eyes looked at him as if nothing, and his heart trembled, and he immediately bowed his head Said: "Your Majesty forgive me, I don't know who I am. The person who wrote the proclamation is precisely Zhao Xingde who is on the run for treason."

"Oh? It's actually this person," Zhao You sighed slightly. In recent years, the southeast camp has been reported many times, and the confessions of the "chaos" bandits are solid. Zhao Xingde was not involved in the evil sect's rebellion.He already knew that it was an unjust case, but he just took into account the dignity of the court and has not been rehabilitated.According to the above report, among the Qingliu scholars in the southeast, some opened righteous warehouses to help the poor, some set up tents to teach the way of loyalty to resist demons and heresies, and some organized villagers to form villages to protect themselves and resist the bandits. In different places, it is often difficult for the Demon Cult to succeed.Where there are few Qingliu scholars, it is difficult to control.Zhao You now also feels that there is no need for the ancestors to support scholars for nearly a hundred years.

The day before yesterday, Li Bangyan sent two beauties into the palace. The officials were overworked, so that they felt a little dizzy when dealing with the government affairs.He thought about it for a moment, and told Shen Yun: "This Zhao Xingde has not been deeply involved in the world, and he made mistakes occasionally. It is because he still has a heart of loyalty and loyalty. If he is captured, he will still be decent and escorted to Bianjing. , I will deal with it after personally questioning it.” To this day, the party’s control over the Neo-Confucian Society has existed in name only, and the officials still refuse to admit their mistakes publicly.

Shen Yun bowed his head and accepted the order, and glanced at Tong Guan, only to feel that he was standing beside him with his head bowed, seemingly undisturbed, more respectful than anyone else.Cai Jing, Wang Fu, Li Bangyan and others are all used to the fact that officials' minds have changed over the years.In the past few years, Qingliu of the Neo-Confucianism Society has given lectures and written works in prefectures and counties, and he keeps saying that the country will not be safe if the "treacherous" ministers are not destroyed.Cai Gongxiang secretly thought, not to let His Majesty have the thought of using this generation of clowns.These juniors don't know how to measure, unlike the old Yuanyou party members.It is only appropriate to deal with it well.It can no longer be as graceful as it was when the case of exposing posts was first started.