Zhao Yanshou continued: "Yes, but does your Majesty know that there is Southern Tang (Huainan) to the south of Later Jin Dynasty, and there is Hou Shu to the west?"
"Nonsense, of course I know. What's wrong?"
"The territory of the Later Jin Dynasty extended to the sea in the east and Qin and Feng in the west. The border was thousands of miles long and bordered the Southern Tang and Hou Shu. It must be heavily defended. However, the climate in the south was hot and humid, and the Khitan people could not bear it. If one day, Your Majesty is leading the Khitan cavalry back north. Do you still have people stationed along the thousands of miles of border? Aren't you worried that the Southern Tang and Hou Shu will take advantage of the situation? Do you want to leave the results of today's battle to the Southern Tang, or do you want to leave them to the Southern Tang? Give it to Hou Shu?"
"This..." Yelu Deguang gasped. There is a game of chess in the world. This is not a single-player game, nor is it a room-based duel between the Khitan and the Later Jin Dynasty. This is a massively multiplayer online game. "What can I do?"
Zhao Yanshou said: "It is better to send Chen Qiao's troops to the southern border to guard against the Southern Tang and Hou Shu."
Yelv Deguang was frank and told the truth to Zhao Yanshou: "Back then, I did the same thing and gave all the surrendered troops of the Later Tang Dynasty to Shi Jingtang. What was the result? His son bit me back, so that we went through another experience. I had to go through all kinds of difficulties and dangers before I managed to win. Now, I don’t want to make the same mistake again.”
Zhao Yanshou waved his hand, "Similar but different. In the past, you handed over the army to Shi Jingtang, but you did not take their wives, children, and children as hostages, so they betrayed easily. Now, if we surrender the families of these soldiers and generals, Put them all together in Zhenzhou, Dingzhou and other Heshuo areas, and then let them take turns to garrison at the border, so that hidden dangers can be eliminated."
Yelu Deguang exclaimed, "You are such a fucking talent!"
This strategy is not original to Zhao Yanshou. The Central Plains Dynasty has existed since ancient times. For example, it is often mentioned at the beginning of this book that the Tang Dynasty sent soldiers from today's Shandong and Jiangsu to today's Gansu and Sichuan to change defenses. It usually took three years. In the first period, the most well-known of them is of course the "Pang Xun Rebellion". They were sent from today's Xuzhou, Jiangsu to garrison in Guilin, Guangxi.
Yelu Deguang actually had never heard of this old routine from the Central Plains.
The reason why Zhao Yanshou proposed this method to prevent the massacre was of course his own plan. After all, Yelu Deguang once said that he would be the master of the Central Plains. Zhao Yanshou's real purpose is to leave the spark of revolution for himself.
In any case, no matter what Zhao Yanshou's true intention was, his words saved the lives of 200,000 surrendered soldiers, which cannot be denied.
2. Shuwei
Since ancient times, people who are powerful have always resorted to killing. Zhang Li and other Han civil officials suggested that Yelu Deguang should do a good job in public relations and show a gentle and lovely side, which ran counter to Yelu Deguang's cognition. Yelu Deguang, like many nomadic leaders, was more superstitious about violence than the etiquette and moral education advocated by Confucian scholars in the Central Plains.
Even if he wants to win people's hearts, he still uses killing to show the tenderness under the butcher's knife.
2.1 On the second day of the first lunar month, Yang Chengxun was killed to avenge Yang Guangyuan who rebelled against the Jin Dynasty and surrendered to the Liao Dynasty;
2.2 On the third day of the first lunar month, Zhang Yanze was killed, and the "Bian people were very happy";
2.3 On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Li Yanshen and the eunuch Qin Jimin were killed. These two were the murderers of Yelvbei on the orders of Li Congke;
2.4 Arrest Liu Jixun and scare Zhao Zaili to death.
When the Shanxi and Liao Dynasties were in conflict, Liu Jixun, the governor of the Kuangguo Army in Tongzhou, was concurrently serving as the envoy of the North Academy of Xuanhui and participated in the discussion of major national policies. Therefore, he was listed as an "anti-Liao element" and a Class-A war criminal by Yelu Deguang. When Liu Jixun went to the pilgrimage to see , Yelu Deguang scolded him for destroying the friendship between the two countries and provoking war.
Liu Jixun cried out that he was wronged, saying that he was of inferior position and had little power. How could it be his turn to speak on such a major court matter? Then he raised his hand and pointed at Feng Dao next to him, "Feng Dao was the Prime Minister at that time, and Jing Yanguang was the Prime Minister and Privy Councilor. It was the result of their agreement. Why didn't you arrest him?"
Yelu Deguang was furious, "The thief took one bite, and it penetrated to the bone. How dare you talk back? I don't know Feng Dao yet? He is a loyal elder, and he will never stir up trouble!" Then he locked Liu Jixun with an iron chain and took him in. He was imprisoned and prepared to be taken back to Huanglong Mansion for trial.
Zhao Zaili, who was the military governor of Jinchang in Chang'an at that time, got up and rushed to Bianzhou to have an audience. When he arrived in Luoyang, he said to the people around him: "Yelü Deguang has long told people that the reason why Li Cunxu died tragically is because of The reason is all because I launched the Beizhou Mutiny, and I, Zhao Zaili, was the culprit who forced Li Cunxu to death! It seems that my trip to Bianzhou this time will be a disaster."
Twenty years ago, Huangfuhui launched the Beizhou mutiny and then captured Weizhou. He elected Zhao Zaili as the leader, and Li Siyuan was ordered to put down the rebellion. As a result, "Mingzong entered Wei".
Yelu Deguang sent his trusted generals Lala and Gao Mohan to garrison in Luoyang. Zhao Zaili came to see him. He knelt down and kowtowed in the courtyard from a distance, while Lala and others were sitting in the hall without any courtesy. He accepted Zhao Zaili's worship in a grand manner.
Zhao Zaili left Luoyang and continued eastward. On the 29th of the first lunar month, Zhao Zaili arrived in Zhengzhou. When he heard the news of Liu Jixun's arrest, he was already uneasy and even more frightened. He secretly hanged himself in the stable that night.
The news of Zhao Zaili's suicide spread back to Bianzhou, and Yelu Deguang, under the persuasion of various Han civil officials, released Liu Jixun to show that he would disregard past suspicions and would no longer carry out counterattacks.
After Liu Jixun returned home, he died of sorrow and anger.
3. Double standards
Yelu Deguang's entanglements are everywhere. This is a problem that any foreign leader who wants to rule the Central Plains must face. If he implements the Central Plains standard (sinicization), he will lose himself and his power will be gradually divided by the Han ethnic classes; if he follows the Tibetan rites, he will lose his mass base and be trapped in the vast ocean of people's war.
Compared with other nomadic leaders who entered the Central Plains, Yelu Deguang faced an upgraded and advanced version of this problem - there was a hidden boss behind him, the Queen Mother Shulu.
Yelu Deguang is too difficult.
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Yelu Deguang moved Shi Chonggui's family into Fengchan Temple under house arrest, replaced all the guards at the city gates and palace gates in Bianzhou with Khitan people, and then held an opening ceremony in accordance with Khitan customs and traditions:
A dog was slaughtered at the palace gate and its body cut into thousands of pieces; a bamboo pole was erected in the palace courtyard with a sheepskin hanging from it. It is said that this can suppress evil spirits. In fact, it was to destroy the Feng Shui of the Later Jin Dynasty.
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Yelu Deguang wore Han clothes and presided over government work.
On February 1st, Yelu Deguang, wearing the ceremonial uniform of the Emperor of the Central Plains, ascended to the Jinluan Hall, granted amnesty to the Yuan Dynasty, and officially ascended the throne in the Central Plains and proclaimed himself emperor.
Sometimes Han law, sometimes Tibetan rites. After Yelu Deguang took control of Bianzhou, this contradictory approach was reflected in all aspects of government work.
