Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 843

Yelu Hanye and Yelulu couldn't help feeling relieved when they heard the words, Yelulu hurriedly said: "Please tell Mr. Ma in detail."

Ma Wentao said: "Twenty days later, on the day of the New Year's Day, His Majesty will order to form two new legions. The two will be the legion commander and the deputy legion commander. The 1-strong army under the two will naturally be merged into the new legion. Among the new legions. It’s just that according to the relevant regulations of our Xiangfu National Army, the family members of senior generals above the brigade commander must live in Xiajing City.”

Yelu Hanye and Yelu Lu felt relieved at first, and then they were overjoyed. In their view, as long as they have an army in their hands, they have the basis to guarantee their status and everything.As for the family members living in Xiajing City as hostages, this seems to them to be the most normal. If the court of Xiangfu Kingdom did not have such means, the two of them would not be at ease?

After Yelu Hanye was pleasantly surprised, he asked again: "Then dare to ask Mr. Ma, how are the more than [-] people under our command arranged?"

Ma Wentao said: "Naturally, they should be converted to land and registered as households. However, whether it is grazing or farming will follow the old rules of the party members, and the imperial court will not force it. The specific location is in the northeast of the Yellow River Basin in the Hetao Plain of Hengshan. The imperial court will help you settle down."

On December [-]th, Shi Fatty and Brother Yeluxiu returned to Shangjing successively.

Xiao Chuo tried his best not to convict the escaped Shi Fat and Yeluxiu who brought back his troops in desperation, and they still held their original posts.And because of Yu Jianye's kindness in saving Shi Fat's life, he was promoted by Shi Fat as soon as he came back, and was promoted to be a member of the Privy Council.

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Qingzhou is the most important frontier prefecture facing the Xiangfu Kingdom on the road of the Yongxing Army in the northwest of the Song Dynasty. It borders on Longzhou and Yanzhou of the Xiangfu Kingdom. After the loss of Tushizhai and Huangwanguan, the Song Dynasty went from southwest to northeast along the border of Gyeongju, and spent a huge sum of millions of taels of silver to build Dakouzhai, Sandingzhai, Chengguzhai, Xiwangzhai, Liujiazhai, etc. There are more than a dozen military strongholds such as Zhai and Zhai. These strongholds, together with Jinyang Mansion on Hedong Road in the northeast and Xizhou on Qinfeng Road, have built an important border defense line for the Song Kingdom against the Xiangfu Kingdom.If Qingzhou falls, the army of Xiangfu Kingdom can march from two roads, one is from Fuzhou to the East Road, attack Jiazhou, and go straight to Jinyang Mansion.The other one is to drive directly from Lanzhou, enter Xizhou, and then pass through Qinzhou to Jingzhao Mansion.At that time, the frontier defense in the northwestern part of the Song Dynasty will be in danger of collapse immediately; and after passing the Jingzhaofu, it will go east all the way to Luoyang, the capital of Xijing. In this way, Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Dynasty, will be directly exposed to the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom .

Because Gyeongju has such an important strategic location, the northwestern frontier army of the Song Dynasty has been mainly entrenched here.And because of the two major defeats by Xiangfu Kingdom, for more than half a year, it has been pursuing the national policy of keeping the inside and the outside, but this time Xiangfu Kingdom and the Liao Kingdom fought, the Song Dynasty used the Liao Army.Moreover, the Northwest Frontier Army has been reorganizing its army for more than a month, and is always ready to wait for Yinzhou or later Hekou County to be captured by the Liao army, and then take advantage of the fire to loot and send troops.Naturally, this matter cannot be followed up.

On December 50th, as soon as Ye Chen returned to Xiajing, he ordered Xu Xuan and Tang Xingwu, who had just been promoted to the seventh-rank senior staff officer because of his military exploits, to go to Song Qingzhou to protest against the use of Liao by Song. Not good, asked Song State to stop building the city wall, negotiated the border between Xiangfu State and Song State, compensated for the loss of one million taels of silver and [-] pieces of silk, and threatened that if the people of Song Dynasty did not give it, the army of Xiangfu State would take it by itself.

When the news reached Kaifeng, Zhao Dezhao, Emperor of the Song Dynasty, faced the military threat of his mortal enemy. Under the appearance of being paralyzed and furious, he was actually deeply disturbed and frightened.To excuse the Liao army, although it was Zhao Pu who cut it first and played it later, after all, Zhao Dezhao was annoyed at Zhao Pu's audacity, and the civil and military officials of Yongxing Army Road and Jiazhou did not follow Zhao Pu's words to borrow the Liao army without his will.But if this kind of thing gets out, it will only make his face and prestige even more discredited, and it will be revealed that as an emperor, his control over the border ministers is not as good as Prime Minister Zhao Pu.Therefore, Zhao Dezhao could only eat yellow lotus dumbly in this matter, and swallowed the pain in his stomach, and it was difficult to appeal to it. He even ordered to wipe Zhao Pu's butt to show that he instructed Zhao Pu to do it.

Zhao Dezhao found that he had nothing to do with Zhao Pu, who was so powerful, unless he directly indiscriminately in the hall, asked someone to kill Zhao Pu, or sent someone to assassinate him.Not to mention how many guards in the palace can be controlled by Zhao Pu, even if it is possible, Zhao Dezhao would not do this if he still had a semblance of reason.Even if the prime minister of a country is the emperor, it is impossible to kill at will. If there is no sufficient reason, how can the officials, scholars and common people of the world be convinced.What's more, everyone in the world knows that Zhao Dezhao was able to become the emperor because of Zhao Pu's merits. If Zhao Dezhao killed Zhao Pu, what would the people in the world think and what would people want?
However, with Zhao Dezhao's current madness, it's not that he didn't send someone to assassinate Zhao Pu, but he certainly didn't succeed.But Zhao Pu never responded at all, nor did he retaliate against Zhao Dezhao.

"Dear dears, Ye Chen's bullying is too much, it's really abominable!" Zhao Dezhao angrily picked up a jade ax on the table, and broke it in two.Cao Bin, Luo Gongming, Xue Juzheng and others all sighed and were full of disappointment when the emperor of a country lost his composure at the court meeting, while Zhao Pu and some of his best friends and direct descendants sneered at Xinguo, almost showing sarcasm and contempt on their faces.However, all the courtiers, including Zhao Pu, cooperated and knelt down, saying in unison: "Your Majesty, calm down."

Since ancient times, when the emperor was furious, all the people around him knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, appease your anger."

Zhao Dezhao saw all the officials kneeling at his feet, especially Zhao Pu among them, he couldn't help feeling better, but he still put on a pretentious sigh and said, "I've lost my composure. It’s an abominable thing. All lovers, keep your voice down! Then tell me, how to deal with this matter?”

Because Zhao Pu privately bypassed His Majesty the Emperor and the Khitan Empress Dowager Xiao to make a loan to the Liao army, and it involved a struggle between the powerful prime minister and Her Majesty, so no one dared to speak out for a while.

Seeing this, Zhao Dezhao's expression became gloomy again.His eyes pointed to Lu Yuqing, who understood what the emperor meant, and was about to leave the class to speak, but Zhao Pu rushed out of the class with a blank face and said, "I don't know what your majesty's intention is?"

Zhao Dezhao snorted coldly in his heart, but frowned on his face, and said: "I think such a shameless request, of course I can't agree, but if I don't obey, it will inevitably lead to military disasters, so why don't you take advantage of the auspicious talisman just now to fight with the Liao Kingdom?" After a battle, the country's military strength and national power were greatly lost, and the army marched westward to strike first."

Zhao Pu smiled slightly, noncommittal, and asked again: "Since that's the case, then may I ask your Majesty, have I prepared enough for the savings and gifts of the Song Dynasty now? The armored soldiers of the soldiers, compared to Xiangfu Kingdom, what should they do? Yet?"

Zhao Dezhao was taken aback by the question, and turned into anger from embarrassment. He said forcefully, "It's not too late to prepare these things now."

Cao Bin stood at the head of the military officer, sighed slightly in his heart, and before Zhao Pu could speak, he went out of the class and said tactfully: "Your Majesty, if Xiangfu Kingdom is so easy to defeat, and if Ye Chen is so easy to deal with, Xiangfu Kingdom would have been destroyed as early as the previous two times." Fu Kingdom, why wait until today? Therefore, it is better to take time to plan for the auspicious Fu Kingdom."

For more than a year, first they fought for the throne and fought in chaos in Kyoto. Later, Pan Mei led an army of tens of thousands to rebel and experienced a civil war. Then Ye Chen sentenced the country to the founding of the country. The two wars in the Northwest were defeated, but the Song Kingdom was seriously injured , the treasury is also tight, coupled with the struggle between God and God, so that the court of the Song Dynasty was in a mess, and directly affected local roads, states, and counties.In Zhao Dezhao's chest, why did he really have half a bit of fighting spirit?If he really wanted or dared to send a large army to attack Xiangfu Kingdom, he would have sent troops together when the Liao army sent troops more than a month ago, so why would he wait until now.So, just now, it was just because he hated Ye Chen to the bone, it was just an impulsive statement. Now, after listening to Cao Bin's words, that impulsiveness has long since disappeared, but he has always suspected that Cao Bin and Zhao Pu are very close. They even secretly joined forces in an attempt to control the government and push him away.Naturally, he would not admit that he was wrong at this time.

In fact, the kings and ministers of the Song Dynasty have never acknowledged the existence of Xiangfu Kingdom, let alone established diplomatic relations with the latter, but the facts are facts. Now Xiangfu Kingdom took the opportunity to send envoys to blackmail and finalize the border with the Song Kingdom. The existence of Xiangfu Kingdom is actually meaningless.

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In Gyeongju City, the wind is cold and the dust is blowing.

Lu Yuqing, the political advisor, and Zhou Fagui, the governor of Gyeongju, sat in a carriage with their eyes closed.As soon as Lu Yuqing closed his eyes, he couldn't help thinking of the scene in the Chongzheng Hall where he was finally determined to go to Qingzhou and Xiangfu Kingdom's envoys.

Because of the enmity with Zhao Pu, he became the most trusted person of the emperor among the important officials in the court. In fact, he did not disappoint Zhao Dezhao. With Zhao Dezhao's support, he recruited and promoted some officials behind him. Fight against Zhao Pu, but at least he can stand up for the emperor at the court meeting.That day, he stood on the Chongzheng Hall with his hands down, and heard the emperor say: "When you go to Qingzhou, you must not lose ground and humiliate the country, but you must not lightly engage in border quarrels and disappoint my expectations."

At that time, I replied loudly: "Since you are His Majesty's envoy, you must fight hard on the basis of reason. If you insult your mission, you will die at the border to repay the kindness of the Holy One."

In addition, just before the departure, His Majesty the Emperor privately issued an imperial edict and imperial decree, granting him the right to remove life and death from the officials of the Northwest and Northwest Routes.

How can Lu Yuqing not understand the meaning of the emperor, the civil and military officials of Yongxing Army Road and Jiazhou privately gave excuses to the Liao army without the emperor's will, which has repeatedly violated the emperor's rebellion, the emperor's intention is to let him find an excuse to kill Related civil and military officials in Jiazhou.Even Lu Yuqing faintly felt that this matter in the mind of His Majesty the Emperor might be more important than negotiating with Xiangfu Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)