The result is obvious. Even without Murong Fu's participation, none of the generals were willing to leave with the officials of the Song Dynasty. Even though they were instructed by Huizong and promised high titles and generous salaries, no one was tempted.
Helpless, they could only focus on the soldiers, and this time they also learned the wisdom and did not ask in front of everyone. Instead, they specially selected a camp and let all the soldiers in the army enter the camp to ask questions. .
It is hoped that this will prevent everyone from watching each other and avoid following the trend.
However, after meeting hundreds of people in a row, no one chose to follow them back to the Song Dynasty. In desperation, those senior officials could only turn the inducements into threats, using the soldiers' relatives and friends in the Song Dynasty as a breakthrough point to force them to agree. go back.
After all, if you can't persuade even one person to go back, let alone dereliction of duty, you may not even be able to save your life.
Fortunately, the effect of coercion is quite significant. Almost one out of ten people cannot stand the oppression and chooses to compromise.
Just when the officials of the Song Dynasty regained their confidence and recruited soldiers who were willing to return to the Song Dynasty, Murong Fu had completely relaxed his mind and began to contact Yelu Chun, the Emperor of Tianxi in the Northern Liao Dynasty. ?.?????.???
Now is the time for Bei Liao to start a counterattack against the Liao Kingdom and accelerate the destruction of this temporary regime.
The harsh winter has passed, everything is recovering, and without the protection of the wind and snow barrier, the war between the Liao army and the northern Khitan tribe, which has been in truce for several months, has begun again. Compared with the Khitan tribe's efforts to recharge their batteries in the past few months, the Liao army is forced to After spending the whole winter in this frosty and cold land, their combat power was greatly weakened. Several conflicts caused huge losses, and they had to gradually withdraw from the grassland.
The Khitan tribe in the north has lived here for a long time and has long been accustomed to such a harsh environment. In just half a month, they almost regained most of the land captured by the Liao Kingdom, and a great victory was in sight.
The Liao Kingdom suffered this setback and blamed all the faults on the Song Dynasty. If the Yanbei Army had not retreated, they would not have been attacked by the Khitan tribe in the Northern Liao Dynasty, resulting in heavy losses.
Emperor Tianzuo once again sent envoys to negotiate with the Song Dynasty, asking them to send troops to help.
Huizong listened to Han Zhongyan's slander and sent 50,000 troops to help. As a result, less than 30,000 troops were killed by the enemy in less than a month. Instead of helping the Liao Kingdom to annihilate the enemy army, Huizong repeatedly became a drag, leaving Northern Liao with only It took less than two months to recapture the land that had taken them a year to conquer.
Emperor Tianzuo was so angry that he sent envoys one after another to the Song Dynasty to important people.
As a last resort, Huizong could only send 50,000 troops northward to aid the Liao Kingdom again.
Emperor Tianzuo was well aware of the dangers of the Northern Liao regime to his imperial power, so he immediately mobilized all the troops and horses that the Liao Kingdom could use, just for a battle.
Huizong was now on the verge of riding a tiger. Seeing that more than two months had passed, and there was still no news from the military officials he sent to Yanbei, he couldn't help but urge him.
At present, the Song Dynasty has almost no soldiers and horses to garrison the state capital. If they can't bring back people, they will have to punish them.
Huizong knew that Murong Fu had many good soldiers and generals, and even more people who were loyal to him. It would be almost impossible to win them all over, so he gave them so much time. If the result could not satisfy him, If they are satisfied, then they no longer need to wear the official hat.
Yanbei, Longcheng.
Several Song Dynasty officials felt their hearts tremble when they saw the Holy Emperor's decree.
In order to win over one more person, they had to meet with Murong Fu's soldiers alone every day, and then used coercion and inducement. However, Yan Bei's army had a hundred thousand people. How could this be so big?
We could only meet with two to three people in a quarter of an hour at the fastest, and no more than 150 people in a day. Later, after we became familiar with the process, the more than ten officials who arrived began to divide the work and cooperate. At the end of the day, there were only a thousand people. Even if you don't sleep, it will take about a hundred days.
Even if they had used all available means, they could only recruit about 2,000 people in total. Knowing that the war in the north was tense and the officials were in urgent need of reinforcements, how could they dare to report the roster of these 2,000 people to the officials? Home?
He probably would have been punished before he even got back.
This time the officials issued an order to ask, even if there were less than 2,000 people, they had no choice but to bite the bullet and report it.
After the chamberlain got the number of two thousand people, he looked at them with some sympathy, and then left without looking back.
"If I had known this, I might as well have just reported illness and stayed home. Why did I have to come to this muddy water?"
One of the high-ranking officials fell down in despair, feeling that there was almost no hope of living.
The same was true for the remaining people. If Murong Fu hadn't been so polite to them and entertained them with delicious food and drinks every day, they would have wanted to go back.
Some people are even thinking that instead of going back and suffering the consequences, why not take refuge with Murong Fu?
Of course, they just dare to think in their hearts that although they are afraid of death after being an official for a long time, they are more afraid of death without even having a status.
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"Dad...dad."
On this day, Murong Fu was playing with Shuang'er in the courtyard. Unexpectedly, the little girl suddenly started babbling. When he heard his daughter calling him daddy for the first time, he was immediately overjoyed.
"Sister, call me sister!"
When Xue Qing heard this, she immediately jumped off the swing and ran over and shouted.
However, Shuang'er just kept laughing and babbling without being able to say a complete word.
Xue Qing lowered her head in despair.
Murong Fu touched her little head and said, "Shuang'er is still young, and you will be my sister from now on. Remember to take good care of your sister, just like your two brothers take care of you."
Xue Qing raised her head and said, "Dad, from now on, will the eldest brother and the second brother love Shuang'er as much as they love Qing'er?"
"That's natural."
Murong Fu smiled.
Xue Qing suddenly looked a little disappointed.
Murong Fu noticed something strange about her, and suddenly understood something, and then asked, "Qing'er, do you think the eldest brother and the second brother are good to you?"
Xue Qing said flatly, "The eldest brother used to be very kind to Qing'er, but now he doesn't have time to play with Qing'er. Although the second brother is silly, he is willing to listen to anything I say. They are all very kind to Qing'er... Right!"
Looking at his daughter who had a hint of resentment, Murong Fu couldn't help but feel funny, "If one day your eldest and second brothers are in trouble and need Qing'er's help, will you help them? Or will you just sit back and watch because you are afraid of trouble?"
Xue Qing said almost without thinking, "Of course I will help!"
Murong Fu asked, "Why?"
Xue Qing said, "Because... because we are brothers and sisters! My eldest aunt often warns my eldest brother that I am a younger sister, and I must always accommodate myself and protect myself. If my eldest brother and my second brother are in trouble, Qing'er will protect me just like them." protect them."
At the beginning, Xue Qing was a little embarrassed, but when she said the last sentence, her face was full of seriousness.
