Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 432 81 The Emperor's Son Xu Zhuanzheng-5

Yelu Dashi detained Song Emperor Zhao Ke, and he also lived in a camp outside Bianliang City, known as the royal account.Except for the [-] cavalry who marched south to the Jianghuai of the Song Dynasty, most of the main force of the Liao Army stayed in the capital of the Song Dynasty and the roads in Hebei. Attack those remnants of the Song army who did not accept the call to surrender, and suppress the Song people who rebelled with all their strength.

Due to the rapid southward invasion of the Liao army, only a small number of prefectures, counties and villages were lost in Hebei.Many Song Dynasty citizens in isolated cities did not surrender after receiving Zhao Ke's edict, so the Northern Academy of Liao Kingdom sent high-ranking Song Dynasty officials from Bianliang to recruit them. If they still did not surrender, they would concentrate their troops and attack them one by one .On the one hand, although the number of remaining Song troops in Hebei was large, they couldn't respond to each other. They were trapped in fortresses and were defeated by the Liao army one by one.On the other hand, some Song troops broke up because they lost to the attack of the Liao army, scattered into the mountains and forests as bandits, and attacked the Liao army everywhere.The green forest heroes Wang Yan recruited in Hebei also raised the flag of rebellion to recruit the remnants of the defeated soldiers, and their power rose sharply.Fu Xuan, Meng De, Jiao Wentong, Liu Ze and other giant bandits who were wanted by the North Court of Liao Dynasty gathered in Taihang Mountain to fight against Liao Dynasty.Liu Liyun from Yanshan Prefecture gathered people to revolt under the pretext of equalizing the rich and the poor.In addition, Zen master Yutian Zhihe of Jizhou contacted tens of thousands of monks and laymen to revolt. Zhao Bangjie of Wuma Mountain claimed to be the Zhao Song clan and rebelled on his own.Even tens of thousands of Ding Zhuang, a Song native who was hijacked by the Liao army to Shangjing, conspired to revolt, but the Liao people noticed before they started, and killed hundreds of leaders.

At the same time, the Song army in Hedong quickly negotiated peace with the Mierbo tribe, and Yang Yanqing's entire army withdrew from Yunzhou and retreated into Yanmen Pass.While making friends with the heroes of the Taihang Mountains, the Hedong camp gathered the army southward.Hedong was condescending to the Central Plains, and the Hedong camp escaped, which immediately put huge pressure on the Liao army in the Bianliang area.While repairing his soldiers, Yelu Dashi prepared his troops for the ensuing battle.At the same time, Xiao Tachi and Bo Shenghuo were strictly ordered to attack Yanmen Pass, so that the east camp would not go south with all their strength.

In a few months, the Liao army invaded and occupied large tracts of land in Henan and Hebei. Countless Song people were captured as slaves and sold to workshops as labor slaves at a discounted price.Yelu Dashi encouraged the Khitan nobles to recruit craftsmen from the Song Dynasty to set up workshops, and specially classified blacksmiths, carpenters, cobblers and other craftsmen as artisan households. Shiwei households, Tatar households, Qianjiasi households, Uighur households and other miscellaneous Hu.Compared with the people of the Song Dynasty who may be robbed as slaves at any time and conscripted into the signing army, the conditions and status of the craftsman households are even more different.As soon as the edict to identify craftsmen was issued, a large number of Song craftsmen from Daming Mansion and Bianliang cities soon applied.The number of artisan households in the household registration of the North Academy increased sharply, and a large number of blacksmith households and young men were sent to various iron mines to smelt iron and rule the army.Soft tobacco, brocade brocade with heavy patterns, and silk silk that Khitan workshops could not produce in the past, with the craftsmen of the Southern Dynasties, as long as the labor is sufficient, they can have as much as they want.

In the past few months, a large number of people in the Song Kingdom either died in the war or were taken into slavery. Many cities were turned into hills and ruins, and the population was halved, or even only one or two out of ten remained.The countryside was barren, and part of the vacated large land was rewarded by the Liao Kingdom to the generals of the Southern Expedition to build large farms, and the slaves were used to plant rice, wheat, mulberry and hemp, and the other part was planted with grass as a pasture for grazing cattle, sheep and war horses.The more the Liao army gathers, the more land the pastures occupy. From east to spring, the weeds in the fields are green and sprouting, growing extremely fast.The cavalry of the Liao Army grazed horses in Henan and Hebei. There were tens of thousands of horses in large groups and hundreds of small groups. It made people feel like they were in the Mobei grassland.For hundreds of years, the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty said that this dynasty lost the land for raising horses, so it could not compete with Khitan and Xia in terms of cavalry.The captive ministers of the Song Dynasty heard horses neighing and hooves roaring all the time, and when they came out, they saw groups of war horses.The emperor and his ministers looked at each other, wondering why the Liao people could raise horses in Henan, but this dynasty couldn't. In the end, it could only be attributed to the fact that the Khitan people were naturally good at raising horses.

Although the Khitan people come from Mobei, they have been influenced by the Central Plains culture for a long time.Liao Kingdom has been established for a hundred years, and the Khitan people have been deeply sinicized, reading Han books and speaking Chinese.Khitan women were influenced by the customs and culture of the Southern Dynasties. Even the daughters of the descendants of the Xiao family often wore makeup for the daughters of the Han family.The Khitan dignitaries prefer the gentleness of the Southern Dynasty, and most of the princes and ministers have singers and maidservants from the Southern Dynasty.Before the Southern Expedition, Yelu Dashi encouraged the Khitan people at the bottom to restore the old customs of Khitan and wash away the extravagance and pomp of the Southern Dynasties, which cannot be completely banned.Wholeheartedly supported his measures, most of them were Yelu Tiege, Yelu Yanshan and other confidants and young children who had been following him in the uprising, and the other most were poor Khitans who could not afford the extravagance of the Southern Dynasty.Since the Southern Expedition, a large number of silks and satins, ingenious playthings, and albums and books from the Southern Dynasties have flocked to the north.The southerly wind blows strongly in the rear of the Liao Kingdom, such as Shangjing Road, Zhongjing Road, and Nanjing Road, and incidents of women from the Southern Dynasties being forcibly robbed and even hidden in camps by soldiers on expeditions have been repeatedly prohibited.

Yelu Dashi repeatedly issued edicts to clarify the distinction between Khitan and Southern Dynasties, but the effect was not obvious.On this day, he took an examination of the schoolwork of the crown prince Yelu Yilie, and found that Yilie knew the system of the Southern Dynasty quite well, so he questioned him carefully.Under the stern eyes of his father, Yelu Yilie felt a little trembling, and replied: "Father, my dynasty ruled the northerners with the laws of the northern kingdom, and the Han children with the laws of the southern dynasty. Now we have occupied a large area of ​​the land of the southern dynasty." , and there are so many Han children, so I read two more copies of the Southern Dynasty's regulations and systems. If it is inappropriate, I will never read it again."

According to the Han people's name, Yelu Yilie has reached the age of holding the crown. Like other Khitan youths, he has worked hard in the military camp for several years. Apart from practicing riding, shooting and battle formation, he also met a young man. A group of confidantes of similar age.Yelu Dashi himself has read a lot of books, and he is the number one scholar.However, Yeluyi's self-examination is a Khitan study, Sinology and Western study, and it never delays a day.In terms of the depth of hard work, it is not inferior to the hanging cone and pricking stock of the Southern Dynasty.He is seven feet tall, and because he is still young, he is a little thin. Compared with other Khitan youths, he has a more refined temperament.

"Use the laws of the Khitan to govern the people of the North, and the laws of the Southern Dynasty to rule the people of the Southern Dynasty," Yelu Dashi looked at Yilie, his eyes changed several times, and finally turned peaceful, and said slowly, "Although it sounds good, it is actually a big mistake. The Southern Dynasty has In a word, the people are like water, and the country is like a boat. The Khitan people and the Han people are both water, no matter how you manage them separately, it is impossible to separate them completely. As long as they are within a country, the customs of the Khitan people and the Han people will inevitably influence each other. The number of Han people is dozens of times that of our Khitan people. If they keep the original customs, we will only make us Khitan people gradually lose their true colors and become like them. Therefore, we must not only govern the northern people with the Khitan law , but also rule the Han people with the Khitan law."

Yeluyi showed a look of doubt on his face, and asked back: "How could it be possible for them to turn us into the same as them? I am a Khitan, and I am a military household in the Northern Academy. They are servants. The words of our Khitan people are military orders, and Han'er can only obey them."

Yelu Dashi didn't say much at first, he ordered someone to fetch a jar of muddy water from outside, and then a large jar of clean water. He first said to Yelu Yilie: "The people of the Southern Dynasties are like this jar of dirty water, and we Khitan people are like this. A can of clean water." Then, in front of Yi Lie, he poured the muddy water and clean water together, and said in a deep voice, "If you mix this can of dirty water with a can of clean water, what you get will never be the same half, but Two cans of dirty water. Clean water cannot make dirty water clear, but a little dirty water can make clean water dirty. The so-called transition from frugality to extravagance is easy, but from luxury to frugality is difficult. It is extremely difficult to make the people of the Southern Dynasties as simple as the Khitan people. But it is too easy for the people of the Southern Dynasties to let the Khitan people get used to leisure and luxury."

"People from the Southern Dynasties,...is it dirty water?" Yelu Yilie 'touched' the brocade of his robe, although he didn't believe it completely, he didn't dare to question it anymore, he could only bow down and say yes.

Yelu Dashi said in a deep voice: "My Khitan people are far less than the Song people, why can I defeat the Song country? The people of my northern country were born in the desert, living by water and grass, grazing'shooting' and hunting meat and cheese for a living. When it comes to fighting, they are simple in nature, rely only on strength, and are similar to tigers, leopards and wolves. And we Khitan people are the kings of beasts. It is not that there are not many warriors in the Song Dynasty, nor is it that they are not good at fighting, but they were born in Wenshan In the soft water, I like ease and peace in my bones, and I am gentle, courteous and humble, and I will never really like to fight and fight. King Shang Zhou fought fiercely against bears and tigers, Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, and Emperor Wu of the Han defeated the Xiongnu. They were all heroes for a while. But In the history books of the Song Dynasty, which one is not a well-known tyrant? In the name of benevolence, righteousness and morality, a bunch of powerless people actually sneered at the heroes? Since the people of the Song Dynasty love a comfortable life so much, then they No matter how many soldiers and horses there are, they can only become cattle and sheep for our Khitan people to graze. However," he patted Pai Yilie on the shoulder, "if we become like the people of Song Dynasty and indulge in a peaceful life, then we will also Become someone else's cattle and sheep, so we must protect the bottle of clear water of Khitan's old customs, and we must not let the muddy water of the Southern Dynasty get dirty."

"My son," Yelu Yilie said in a deep voice, "my son understands."

Only then did Yelu Dashi nodded in satisfaction, and waved him back.

After Yilie withdrew, Brother Yelv Tiege, the privy envoy of the North Court, came to see him again.Although the Liao army captured Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, they were still under the watchful eye of the three armies of the east camp, the Xijing camp, and the southeast camp.As long as the Song army is relieved, the situation will be very dangerous, and they may be forced to withdraw from Bianliang.Therefore, Brother Yelu Tie advocated that while the Southern Expedition was still in power and the Song Army was still in fear, it was necessary to solve the three-way siege first.Among these three routes, Liu Yanqing has the least troops, and the operation time in Xiangyang is also the shortest.The Liao army concentrated its main force to attack Liu Yanqing's troops, which was the easiest way to win, and it could also be a quick victory.Moreover, even if the southeast camp of the Song army cannot be completely wiped out, the remnants of the Song army can be driven south, making it compete with Chen Dongyuefei's troops for the Jinghu area, making Song's internal strife in the southeast more intense.This is a strategy to drive away tigers and wolves, and it also responded to the partial division of the Liao army in the southern expedition.

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