4. Blood transfusion
Yelu Deguang did not trust the Han people. In a short period of time, he carried out a major blood change within the imperial court, replacing important positions in the imperial court and local military towns with trustworthy comrades.
On the day he entered Bianzhou (the first day of the first lunar month), Yelu Deguang appointed Liu Min, the deputy privy envoy, as the acting mayor of Bianzhou (Quan Kaifeng Yinshi).
Promoted Zhang Li to Prime Minister (Tongping Zhangshi), Li Song to Privy Envoy and Crown Prince's Grand Master, Feng Dao to the Crown Prince's Tutor, He Ning to the Imperial Academy, Zhao Ying to the Prince's Taibao, Liu Xu to the Prince's Taibao, and Feng Yu to the Prince's Young Master. Save.
These people were "seniors of the previous dynasty", but the ones Yelu Deguang respected the most were Li Song and Feng Dao. The others were just political vases, so he quickly packed up the vases and sent them to his hometown, and ordered Zhao Ying, Feng Yu, and Li Yantao to lead them. Three hundred cavalry escorted Shi Chonggui's family to Huanglong Mansion for resettlement.
With this dishonorable but arduous task, these people are excluded from the core decision-making level, enjoying the name but no reality.
The above is the distribution of central power, and the following is the division of local affairs:
Liu Xi, who was left behind in Youzhou, was left behind in Luoyang; Yelvlouguo (the second son of Yelvbei) was appointed as the military governor of Huazhou; Pan Yuran, the brother-in-law of Yelvruan (the eldest son of Yelvbei), was appointed as the military governor of Cangzhou; Zhao Yanshou was appointed as the military governor of Cangzhou. His son Zhao Kuangzan was the governor of Hezhong...
The wealth does not flow to outsiders, and several important towns are basically in the hands of Yelv Deguang's direct descendants. Yelu Deguang was full of confidence, and with a stroke of his pen, he issued a large number of personnel transfer orders, changing almost all the feudal towns in the world. However, his operation was not to move towns, but to directly replace them.
This operation is in Taixiu. Will the Jiedu envoys obediently hand over their power with an edict from Yelu Deguang? This will be discussed in detail later.
5.Threshing grass
Since the overthrow of Hou Liang, all the rulers of the Central Plains have faced the same problem: lack of money and food.
Some scholars explain the "dynastic cycle rate" from climate changes, and have proposed concepts such as the Great Ice Age and the Little Ice Age. The perspective is very novel and makes some sense. Of course, it also faces many doubts. But the chaos during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period is really inseparable from the climate.
From the end of the Later Liang Dynasty to the fall of the Later Jin Dynasty, a template could be applied to three consecutive dynasties and seven emperors: natural disasters, food shortages, and money shortages year after year.
Yelu Deguang cannot avoid this problem. In fact, his situation was even worse, because a characteristic of the nomadic army was that it had no logistical supplies.
This is the most obvious difference between the two talent trees.
For the people of the Central Plains with farming civilization, logistics supply is the most important part of the military system. The Art of War says, "before the troops and horses are moved, food and grass go first." Today's military fans also talk about it, saying that fighting a war means fighting logistics. For laymen, People compare the combat weapons of both sides, such as tanks and armored vehicles, while insiders compare the logistics support systems of both sides, such as field medical care, fuel and ammunition supplies, etc.
For the Khitans, who are nomadic civilization, there is no such thing as logistical support. What do soldiers eat? Steal the enemy's.
Therefore, throughout the dynasties, nomadic tribes went south to invade and destroy border areas, causing serious disasters to the people of the Central Plains.
Now Yelu Deguang has entered Bianzhou and occupied the Central Plains, and still follows this fine tradition.
Zhao Yanshou suggested that Yelu Deguang change his management thinking in time and provide military pay and rations to the army to support the army.
Yelu Deguang refused very contemptuously. Winners will not learn from losers. Winners have full confidence in their own systems. Of course, the army has to make a living on its own, work on its own, and have enough food and clothing. Don’t the common people have food and money at home? Take it away and it will be your military pay and military rations.
It can not only reduce the work of the government, but also solve the problem of military food and salary. It can also keep the army strong in energy and high morale. Why not?
Yelu Deguang ordered the Khitan cavalry to "herd horses" and "threat grain and grass" everywhere, which was actually to rob the people. With Bianzhou as the center, extending to Puzhou and Caozhou in the east, Luoyang in the west, and the Yellow River in the north, hundreds of miles around became a no-man's land. People were either killed or starved to death because their food was robbed, and livestock were also destroyed. Grab them all.
Yelu Deguang also ordered Liu Xu, who was in charge of finance (the Third Division of the Judgment Division), to pay out a huge reward, saying that our Khitan army of 300,000 troops traveled thousands of miles to eliminate the Later Jin Dynasty. The soldiers must get the rewards they deserve, so pay up quickly!
Make bricks without straw. The treasury is empty, where is the money to pay rewards?
Yelu Deguang doesn't care about this. You guys have to figure out how to make money.
Apart from printing counterfeit money, there is only one way: to plunder the people.
The people have long since become poor.
Yelu Deguang: "Whoever has money, I will make money from. Of course, the poor will not be spared either."
So the army was dispatched and they went from house to house in Bianzhou City to forcibly collect the money. Not to mention the common people, everyone including the prime minister and generals had to pay. After scraping all the land in Bianzhou, it was still not enough, so they sent troops to search the surrounding states. Anyone who dares not to surrender or who dares to hide will be shot without mercy.
After finally collecting the huge fee, Yelu Deguang did not distribute it to his subordinates. Instead, he sealed it in the palace and became his private property for his own squandering.
The two things of threshing straw and plundering money made the Khitan people's image plummet. Both the officials and the people hated the Khitan people with hatred. All the previous longings for the Khitan "liberators" disappeared at that moment. People They all hope that a Han hero will rise up and lead everyone to drive the Khitans out of the Central Plains.
This person will be here soon.
6. Peace in the world
Yelu Deguang ordered that from now on, no more weapons and armors were made in the world, and no more military horses were allowed to be purchased, in order to prevent the Central Plains people from obtaining an armed force that could compete with the Khitan.
This is the fatal bug under the logic of bandits, that is, excessive superstition of violence and neglect of the subjective initiative of working people. Qin Shihuang collected the soldiers of the world and cast them into twelve golden figures. The common people had no weapons, and the exploiting class could sit back and relax? Do you think Buyi's anger will only use his head to snatch the earth's ears? Raise a pole to become a flag and cut down a tree to become a soldier.
Another example is that some robber countries always think that by showing off their nuclear weapons, placing aircraft carrier battle groups in sensitive waters, and saying a few harsh words, the Chinese will succumb.
From Qin Shihuang to Yelu Deguang, and then to the Americans during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, they all made this mistake. A righteous millet plus a rifle, a robber-proof airplane plus a tank.
Ironically, Yelu Deguang also issued an order to reduce taxes and reduce taxes, saying that the burden of taxes and corvees on the people should be reduced, and the government should also streamline administration and reduce financial expenditures. In this way, peace can be achieved in the world.
While "threshing straw" and collecting money, we also reduced rents and taxes for the people. This is still the exclusive struggle of Yelu Deguang mentioned above. He is schizophrenic. Sometimes he plays the role of the wise king of the Central Plains and loves his people like a son. Sometimes he shows his true form. He is still a barbarian leader with huge teeth and fangs, burning, killing and looting.
