back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 389
"This matter has to be well planned, otherwise, with Yelu Hongji's suspicious nature, how could he take such a risk?" Yelu Chongyuan sighed heavily, he had already felt the pain of fighting against the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty in the past.

Yelu Nielugu held his courage and said: "What's the problem? Yelu Hongji usually likes to hunt. If we lay an ambush in the hunting ground in advance and force the emperor to pass down the imperial edict, wouldn't the throne be ours? "

Yelu Zhongyuan didn't expect that this idiot son would know how to start planning big things.This is the so-called wise man who thinks a lot will lose, and a fool who thinks a lot will gain something.It's just that when Yelu Chongyuan was hunting, he always brought his own cavalry with him, even though there were only a few thousand of them.But this level of combat power, filled with tens of thousands of tribal warriors from Yelu Chongyuan, may not be able to hurt even a single hair of Yelu Hongji.In addition, Yelu Hongji's hunting places are different every time, and he almost has to gallop across the grassland with a radius of hundreds of miles in Linhuang Mansion. It is not easy to ambush in advance!

What made Yelu Chongyuan even more apprehensive was that in front of the armored cavalry, the warriors of his tribe were like a group of beggars fighting an enemy armed to the teeth with wooden kitchen knives.Even if there are a large number of people, it may not necessarily gain the upper hand.What's more, the royal tent's own cavalry are strong in battle and trained frequently, how can they be matched by a group of mobs like them?
Yelu Zhongyuan shook his head with a wry smile, and put the proposal behind him.If this can be done, there is really a ghost.Counting on this, it is better to discuss Yelu Hongji's surrender of the throne.

Hearing that Yelu Zhongyuan rejected the proposal again, Yelu Neilugu's face was very ugly. He thought he was smart, but was repeatedly denied in front of Yelu Chongyuan.How can this make him bear it!Self-esteem was troubled, and Yelu Nielugu held back all his strength, determined to show Yelu Zhongyuan success.Of course it was his own plan, but he didn't disclose it to Yelu Zhongyuan at all.

But at this moment, in the Kaihuang Palace, Yelu Hongji was disturbed by all the things that happened when he came in, and he couldn't even go to the morning court. Xuan entered the Mingwang Tower.

After Yelu Yixin entered Mingwang Tower, Yelu Hongji just sighed.Yelv Yixin waited at the side, not daring to ask questions.

What troubled Yelu Hongji was that it was going to be late autumn.As soon as late autumn arrives, the first snow should fall on the grassland.Due to the agreement with Dashun, I didn't go to Caogu this year.Maybe he was also frightened by Dashun's soaring combat power, Yelu Hongji couldn't bear the slightest thought of invading Dashun.Fortunately, with the opening of the mutual market, the entire Daliao will not be in trouble this winter.And as the Khitan people gradually changed from a complete nomadic people to a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic country, their self-sufficiency ability has increased, and this day is passable.

And it became more and more powerless to go south to fight the Grass Valley.There were quite a lot of materials looted before, but now the farmers on the frontier know the Khitan people's urine, and before autumn, they hastily harvested the unripe wheat in the field, and then took refuge with their families in the city.There is only one empty house left, and it is very difficult to loot.If you want to have a big harvest, you must attack the city.But the Khitan people are all cavalry, and the Han army is afraid of death. Facing the high and deep city, the Khitan people can only look at the city and sigh.

In the east, there is a turmoil caused by Jurchen, and in the west, there are turmoil of various clans.The foundation on which the Liao Kingdom relied to maintain its rule was being shaken bit by bit.However, the Khitan nobles of the Manchu Dynasty were infected with the bad habits of the Han people. They only liked to read some poems and books, and they were full of literary words.

They are proud of learning Han culture, but they have forgotten what the Khitan people relied on to conquer the world.Seeing that the warriors of various tribes have more or less suffered losses on the battlefield, even the Jurchen tribe, who are inferior to beggars, can hardly beat them, and they don't know how to reflect.Thinking of this, Yelu Hongji felt powerless in his heart.Although he is the emperor of the Liao Kingdom, he is powerless to really command the entire Liao Kingdom army.The noble royal army is the oldest armed force in the Liao Kingdom. Its predecessor was actually the private armed forces that unified the nobles of the former Khitan tribes.The Khitan have the same traditions as other nomadic peoples.Each tribe, ranging from chiefs to leaders, all have their own independent armed forces, which are actually private parts.In order to reduce resistance during the process of unifying the Khitan tribe, Taizu Yelu Abaoji of the Liao Dynasty did not eliminate all these old nobles.Instead, it adopted a strategy of combining fighting and pulling to treat them differently, especially in order to win the support of the upper Khitan nobles to stabilize people's hearts, Yelu Abaoji completely preserved the family tradition of nobles owning private armed forces.These nobles all have their own territories, cattle and people.The result of this is that many nobles, especially the princes of the two most prominent Khitan royal families, the Yelu family and the descendant Xiao family, have a large number of private armed forces.These armed forces are completely owned by the nobles themselves, and the soldiers mainly come from their subordinates and even slaves.

Once there is a war between the Liao Kingdom and other countries, the emperor will issue a conscription order to the princes and nobles.The nobles are obliged to send troops or lead troops to fight in person.And not only send people, but also provide the horses, armor, weapons and rations needed by the soldiers.In the event of battle casualties, the emperor will give appropriate financial compensation.The nobles who sent troops, especially the nobles who personally led the troops, had the priority to plunder during the war, and had the priority to choose spoils such as treasures or slaves after the war.

The consequence of this is that the powerful nobles often rebel.It wasn't until the Liao Kingdom came out with a strange woman, Xiao Chuo, that large-scale reforms began, the focus of which was to attack and weaken the private forces of the kings.Such a fatal move naturally aroused fierce resistance from the kings.Xiao Chuo suppressed part of this and divided and ruled, which weakened the power of the kings to a large extent, and also established the emperor's personal soldiers such as the imperial tent and cavalry.However, her reform was not thorough. Xiao Chuo only temporarily suppressed the troops of the kings, but did not completely force the reform.The consequence was that after her death, the kings of the Liao Kingdom revived, even more unscrupulous than before.Emperor Taishu Yelu Chongyuan was an example, but Yelu Hongji, who had always known that Yelu Chongyuan was an idiot, did not think that Yelu Chongyuan, who had half of his body buried in the loess, would rebel.Because he is so familiar with this uncle, he is not as good as A Dou.

Yelu Hongji thought a lot for a while, but forgot that Yelu Yixin was by his side.After he came back to his senses, he realized that Yelv Yixin had been kneeling and waiting for a long time.Yelu Hongji looked at his confidant minister, felt apologetic for a while, and after getting him to stand up, he blamed him: "You too, you didn't make a sound when you came. I thought I was the only one!"

Yelu Yixin said respectfully: "Your Majesty is very talented and thoughtful, and I dare not disturb you."

After listening to so much flattery, Yelu Hongji also became immune, and said: "Okay, don't talk so much. I summoned you, just to tell you, stop fighting with the emperor's uncle. The two of you They are all important ministers of my Daliao Dynasty, if I lose any one of them, it will be like losing my left and right arm."

(End of this chapter)