The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1318 Khitan civil strife

"Our information says that the Song Dynasty in the south is attacking a country in the south called Nanhan. The interior of the Song Dynasty must be empty, so at this time we can go straight to Huanglong, but our affairs do not allow us to do this. thing, really heartwarming."

"Don't worry about Derang. As long as we succeed in this matter, we will be qualified to start a war with the Song court. At the beginning, Prince Song knew our intentions, so he asked us for [-] horses for nothing. Those are the best horses. I will never forget this point, and when this king takes power, I will definitely give them a good look."

This is a big tent, and there are many small tents like this around it, but this tent is the largest and the most magnificent, and there are grasslands everywhere.

Maybe you have already guessed that this is the Khitan, the greatest enemy of the Song Dynasty, but from what these two people said, it seems that something big is going to happen to Khitan, but they don't know what it is.

"My lord, we have already made arrangements. You just wait to ascend the throne and lead our Daliao to prosperity." The name of this invisible person is Han Derang, Yeluxian's counselor, and the other person is Yeluxian. It seems that They were going to kill the current emperor, Yelvjing.

"Carry this corpse out, don't let me see it, or you will kill it together." A sound of fury sounded, and soon a few guards came over and cleaned up the corpse on the ground.

This angry person is called Yelujing, who was called Liao Muzong in history. He is the son of Liao Taizong Yelu Deguang. Although he ascended to the throne, the throne is not stable. His throne was taken from him.

In terms of succession to the throne, although the eldest son inheritance system was established in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was not well implemented. The second generation of Qin Huhai in the Qin Dynasty, and later Tang Taizong Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, as well as the reigning emperors of the Qing Dynasty chose themselves. The system of successors does not strictly implement the eldest son system. It is a natural choice of competition and independent choice to avoid massacres.

In order to consolidate his position, Liao Muzong, like the general emperors, rejected alien forces.The ministers who were close to Emperor Shizong of the Liao Dynasty were either dismissed from office or no longer reused.

For example, Yelv Tuixian had made great contributions to his succession to the throne. Liao Muzong promised him to be the king of his own department, but because Yelv Tuixian always remembered Liao Shizong's kindness to him, Mu Zong was very upset and gave him the title. His Majesty's promise was also shelved.Mu Zong also mercilessly suppressed those who dared to oppose him openly and conspired against him.

In addition to the suppression, Yelvjing also forbade the ministers to discuss the state affairs casually.Many ministers were demoted and dismissed for discussing government affairs.Although Mu Zong quelled these rebellions, he could not fundamentally prevent such things from happening, but instead planted the seeds of disaster for the future.

Less than a year after he ascended the throne, the uncle Xiao Meigude, who was in charge of political affairs, and Li Huan, a scholar of the Xuanzheng Palace, discussed defecting to the Later Zhou Dynasty. I know drinking and hunting, but I have no big ambitions, so I suggest using soldiers in the next week.In the end, the incident was leaked, Xiao Meigu was killed, and Li Huan was sentenced to death with a cane.The matter had just subsided. In July, Liao Shizong's younger brother Yelu Louguo wanted to establish himself as emperor again, but was strangled by Mu Zong, and his accomplice Yelu Dilie was executed by Ling Chi.

In October of the third year of 950, Li Hu's son Yeluwan also came to fight for the throne, and his younger brother was also involved. Even Yelu Anbo, the former important minister of Sejong, was involved. As a result, Anbo died in prison, and others were arrested. He was executed, but his younger brother and Yeluwan were released.This is the same as his father Liao Taizong's punishment of rebellious brothers, unlike the competition between Han brothers that basically resulted in massacres.

In November 950, the fourth younger brother Di Lie conspired to rebel. After being subdued, the others were killed, but Di Lie was released. Explain that your own is the legal heir.

It didn't take long for the political affairs to make Yelu Shouyuan and Taibao Xiaoa wait for others to rebel, and they were all executed in the end. One month later, Li Hu's son Yelu Xiyin rebelled.Mu Zong imprisoned both Li Hu and his son. His position as emperor was finally secured, and those who opposed him were either dead or arrested.

He should be looking up to the sky at this time, but history played a joke on him. When he was in power, the regime in the south was Hou Zhou, which was the most powerful dynasty among the five dynasties. increase.

And Zhou Shizong was a talented and general emperor in the Five Dynasties.However, Mu Zong's internal affairs were very unstable, with constant rebellion. He himself was also an emperor who liked to drink, hunt, and play, and he did not do much.Such two countries are at war, and the outcome is naturally obvious.

In February of the fourth year of AD 950, Zhou Shizong had just ascended the throne, and Liu Chong of the Northern Han Dynasty wanted to take the opportunity to attack. He felt that Zhou Shizong would definitely not send troops during his filial piety, so he asked Liao to send troops to help.

Mu Zong sent Yelu Dilu to help Liu Chong, and asked Yang Gun to lead 5 iron cavalry and [-] people from Xi and other troops to attack Hou Zhou together. He still wanted to divide the land of Hou Zhou, so he was very happy happy.

No one would have thought that Chai Rong would decide to conquest himself despite Feng Dao's obstruction.In March, the two armies fought fiercely in Gaoping (now Gaoping, Shanxi).Seeing the strict military discipline of Hou Zhou's army, Yang Gun reminded Liu Chong not to underestimate the enemy, but Liu Chong didn't listen at all, and instead spoke rudely. Yang Gun was so angry that he led the troops to the sidelines to watch the battle.At the beginning, the Hou Han army took advantage, but under the supervision of Zhou Shizong and Hou Zhou general Zhao Kuangyin, the Hou Zhou army turned defeat into victory and completely defeated the Hou Han army.Later Zhou's army took advantage of the victory to pursue and almost wiped out Liu Chong.

These are the shame of Yelvjing, so he only knows to have fun later, he will kill whoever opposes him, and now he has lost a few eunuchs just because he is upset.

Others dare not speak, otherwise it will be ugly to die, everyone is obsessed, and Yelujing is enjoying himself again, not knowing that the outsiders can't bear it with him, and the danger is coming further Now, he will have to pay the price for his arrogance. This price cannot be afforded by ordinary people, even if he is the emperor.

Yelvjing, while drinking kumiss, hummed a ditty, watching the singers perform for him, not to mention how happy he was, but the outside was indeed gloomy, very depressing, just like the depression before the storm.

A lot of people gathered together, the scale is not big, but the number is huge, mainly eunuchs, what are these eunuchs doing together, are they planning big things?

(End of this chapter)