Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

When Hongying arrived in Yang's mansion, she soon became favored. Although she is disabled, her looks and skills are excellent, and she is very good at pleasing Yang Ye. However, Yang Ye is a young and strong martial artist who often sleeps with him, so Hongying feels a bit too much.

Within a few days, a "cousin" from Hongying's hometown came to join him, and he also had a Yangzhou accent. Because he didn't have a provincial level, he wanted to make a living at the mansion, and successfully became the groom of the Yang mansion. In this world, the main reason for rich families to recruit people is to prevent criminals from sneaking in. As long as they come from good people, it is not a big problem; because there has never been such an undercover incident, people don't understand... and that cousin has a concubine as a guarantor, so there is no problem.

... In a few days, it will be even more difficult for outsiders to enter Jinyang, because there are news of wars and wars in the market. The Great Zhou Army claimed to attack with 200,000 troops!

In the first ten days of July, Zhou Jun left Liaozhou (the southeastern part of the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty, now Zuoquan County, Shanxi). In Liaozhou, the city walls were not strong enough, and they fought repeatedly over the years. First, it was the territory of the Northern Han Dynasty, and Li Jun found an opportunity to occupy Liaozhou. Later, the Zhou court could not take care of the north, and Li Yun had no intention of fighting with the Northern Han Dynasty. There was a violent power change within the Zhou court, and the Northern Han Dynasty easily took back this place.

Two days later, the army of the Zhou Dynasty attacked to the northwest and approached the city of Longzhou. Longzhou is in a hurry.

Now the Northern Han court really felt the urgency. The status of Longzhou is completely different from that of Liaozhou. This is the gate of the southern part of the Northern Han Dynasty! An important gateway town, to the west is Fenzhou (Jinzhou is also an important town in the hands of Zhou Guo), and to the east is Longzhou! If Longzhou was lost, the Zhou army would occupy an important town directly at the gate of the capital, and could threaten the capital of the Northern Han Dynasty at any time. In that case, the Northern Han Dynasty would not survive.

The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty first sent General Feng Jinke of the Guards Department to lead the cavalry of the Imperial Army, and mobilized all the troops and horses to help Longzhou. The two sides engaged in a big battle. Although Feng Jinke fought hard, he fled back to Jinyang in a hurry because he was outnumbered and defeated.

The Lord of the Northern Han Dynasty sent Yang Ye to lead his army to resist the enemy. However, Yang Ye annexed Baigu, stood still, and was unwilling to go to a decisive battle... The Northern Han Dynasty court did not blame and urge, and even many ministers said pragmatically that Zhou's army was menacing, and Yang Ye had few major generals, so he could not win.

Longzhou was besieged and attacked by the Zhou army, and asked for help many times. Liu Jun had no way to retreat, so he hurriedly sent envoys to the Liao Kingdom to ask for help.

...The capital of the Liao Kingdom is in Shangjing (probably located in the south of Daxing'an Mountains, north of Henghe). When they dispatched troops, the Northern Han Dynasty would not dispatch troops from as far away as Shangjing, but they had to go to Shangjing to discuss sending troops.

The Liao Kingdom has been established for more than 50 years, and the existence of the Khitan forces in the Northeast cannot be ignored since the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Today, the Liao Kingdom is no longer a complete nomadic country. The capital Shangjing also showed this form very well. Shangjing is not a place to pitch tents, it is indeed a city; it is divided into the imperial city and Seoul, with a circumference of more than ten miles, it is a big city. Especially in the south of Seoul, there are settled artisan workshops, commercial areas, and porcelain can also be produced.

The main palace of the imperial palace is on a hill in the middle of the imperial city. However, the place where the envoys of the Northern Han Dynasty were received and settled was in the open land north of the imperial palace. There were many tents here, and the envoys lived in the tents.

The envoy didn't see the emperor of Liao during the day, so no matter how anxious he was, he could only stay in the tent all day, vaguely hearing that the emperor was sleeping now! So I can't meet you. The envoy once heard in Jinyang that the emperor of the Liao Kingdom was very cruel, and he had only two things in his life, that is, sleeping and killing people! But drinking and hunting are also his hobbies. This is just a rumor, and now it seems that it is mostly true.

Early the next morning, the envoy still did not see the emperor, but saw a minister sent by the Liao Kingdom in an official office. There was no real progress in this meeting, what was done was to submit the credentials, the officials said some routines in the tone of the emperor's imperial decree, and did not mention a word about the dispatch of troops to rescue, and it was impossible to give an answer on the spot... The situation was urgent, and the envoy was in Beijing for two days.

However, when doing real and practical things, they are not on the scene, but they are all discussed privately at the bottom. The politics of the Central Plains Dynasty is like this. The Liao Kingdom has the imprint and characteristics of the tribe, but because of long-term study of the Central Plains official system, it is also contaminated with some habits.

The envoys of the Northern Han Dynasty intended to bribe the Prime Minister of the Liao Kingdom with the property they brought, but their staff dissuaded them. The Northern Han Dynasty was equally important to the Liao State, and they would not sit idly by.

And the emperor of the Liao Kingdom knew about Zhou Jun's invasion of the Northern Han Dynasty in private, before the arrival of the Northern Han envoys.

... Yelujing, Emperor of Liao Dynasty, learned of this matter from the "Daliao Post House" (Embassy) stationed in Jinyang. But Yelujing has been ignoring it... Jinyang city is strong, and it will not be captured and destroyed so quickly, otherwise Liao will not be able to protect them; if Liao is too urgent to rescue, it will be difficult to control this country when it has diplomatic relations with the Northern Han Dynasty.

At this moment, people reported Yelu Dilu to see him (Yang Gun, the Khitan general who reinforced the Northern Han Dynasty during the Battle of Gaoping).

Yelujing announced his admission. Yang Gun had just returned from Youzhou, and he looked tired, but when he entered the palace, he was already afraid, so he kowtowed in front of the tiger-skin soft couch.

Seeing this, Yelvjing sighed secretly, wondering if I was that scary; he really looked ferocious, with hard eyebrows and beard... According to the Khitan people's own way of saluting, Yang Gun could just bow with his hands on his chest instead of kneeling; but he still bowed.

This man was regarded as a general that Yelujing trusted. Yelvjing even sent him to Youzhou to visit Xiao Siwen, but he was still trembling in front of the emperor.

Yelujing thought: No one can understand my difficulties. Others were afraid of him, probably because he often killed the people around him with his own hands, but Yelvjing felt that he really didn't kill people indiscriminately. He usually only killed two kinds of people, one was the nobles who were first demoted to slaves, and the other was people who had long wanted to get rid of them... Of course, sometimes they would kill some irrelevant slaves. However, he has never killed ministers and nobles with a little bit of status for no reason, and he dare not.

But he is indeed cruel by nature, and he is very happy when killing people! Just like drinking and hunting, often getting drunk is not all pretending, it is also a hobby for a long time.

That's why people are afraid of him, and that's what he wants to see...Yelvjing, the emperor, is not easy to be an emperor, and his position is not secure, which is also the essential reason for the turmoil and instability of the Liao Kingdom for many years. He wants people to be afraid of him, otherwise he would have been killed long ago!

The current situation in the Liao Kingdom is very uneven. After Yelujing ascended the throne, there have been three major internal rebellions that wanted to kill the king | self-reliance. It seems that there is no intention to stop there. As for the small rebellions and those who intend to rebel, even Yelvjing himself can’t remember clearly.

Yelvjing felt that she couldn't blame herself for this situation, but everyone seemed to want to put all the blame on him! The reason is that he is cruel... If he were not cruel, how many people would want the throne, and he would have been killed long ago! This made him very unhappy, and he was even more annoyed when he thought that he would definitely bear the title of tyrant after death. But there is no way for a while.

Why do so many people want this throne? This can be traced back to the death of Liao Emperor Taizong, Liao Shizong was supported by military generals as emperor (there was a Yizong between Taizong and Shizong, who was a posthumous posthumous emperor, but never actually became emperor)... This posthumous name Shizong, we know that Liao Shizong is not Taizong’s son;

This laid the seeds of disaster for the subsequent legitimacy of the throne. However, after Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty, the several emperors of the Liao Kingdom could not hold back the great achievements and great prestige of the various ministries; so Abaoji's descendants felt that they should be emperors, and even felt that the throne was their own.

Liao Shizong sat on the throne for three years, and the Vulcan Lake Rebellion broke out. Liao Shizong was beheaded and killed by Yan Wang Yelucha, who made himself emperor; Yelujing, the son of Taizong, killed Yelucha and proclaimed himself emperor. Does this throne belong to the line of Yizong, or the line of Taizong and Sejong? (Both Yizong and Taizong are the sons of Abaoji, the great ancestor of the Liao Kingdom.) Obviously, the descendants of both sides feel qualified, and they all feel that their roots are right | Miao | red.

In just a few years, the emperor was changed three times through mutiny and assassination. The first two did not last long, and there were several times when he was killed before becoming the emperor... Only Yelujing still sat in this position, although it was not so secure.

Under such circumstances, who can be the emperor? Yelvjing was actually very scared... Of course he also made others very scared.

He is in a bad mood every day, and only when he drinks a lot of wine can he feel a moment of joy. Some people say that he is a tyrant, but he still has self-knowledge and admits it; but if he is said to be a tyrant, he doesn't want to admit it. Can the tyrant be the emperor in this situation? If it was really that easy, Liao Shizong wasn't too faint and shouldn't have been killed.

Yelujing has been having a lot of headaches lately, and he has discovered that the real danger may not only come from Yelushi... because no matter who kills him, the essence will not change after sitting on the throne, and it will still be unstable. But what if the Xiao family, which has always been a royal marriage and has long been designated as the prime minister's door, is involved?

Yelvjing is nervous every day and thinks a lot. He even suspected that his bad reputation was Xiao's long-term strategy; Xiao wanted to put all the blame on himself, and then came forward to support a certain person's ascension to the throne, trying to end the chaos of the battle for the throne... But the prestige of the new king is also very important! If Liao Shizong's achievements and prestige could be compared with Taizong's at the beginning, there may be no chaos later.

If Mrs. Xiao really did that, Yelvjing herself would be taken for a ride! So Yelujing sent Yang Gun to Youzhou for a period of time, just to observe Xiao Siwen's usual performance.

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