On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, when Zhang Zhao was about to enter Hezhong Mansion, Yelu Deguang summoned the military commanders from all over the Later Jin Dynasty who were under house arrest in Chongning Hall in Tokyo.
With the help of the two traitors, Zhao Yanshou and Feng Yu, Yelu Deguang classified the commanders of the later Jin Dynasty into different categories.
Among them, Wang Zhou, Fu Yanqing, An Shenqi, Yao Yuanfu, and He Jianshei, who showed their dissatisfaction overtly or covertly, were identified as unavailable.
Xue Huairang, Pan Huan, and Song Yanyun were indifferent, and they were not serving anyone's orders, so they were identified as people who could not be released outside.
Zhao Zaili, An Shuqian, Li Yin, and Hou Yi, who readily bowed their knees and even came to fawn over them, were identified as those who could be reused.
As for heavyweights like Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen, of course they must be treated with care again and become their confidants.
Moreover, Yelv Deguang is also very discerning. Perhaps it is because those who surrendered are all crooked, which makes me, Brother Guang, a bit embarrassed.
He actually took a look at Deguang and identified Gao Xingzhou, who had been passively resisting, as someone who could be reused.
The reason is simple, because Gao Xingzhou is Du Chongwei's son and daughter. This kind of things gather people into groups. Gao Xingzhou was willing to marry his daughter to Du Chongwei, and he didn't mind being a minister of the Liao Kingdom.
I feel a little negative now, but that’s because I haven’t received any benefits, so I have no motivation.
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After Gao Xingzhou found out, he was speechless for a long time, and didn't know whether to cry or regret becoming an in-law with Du Chongwei.
After finishing the drama of Deguang's appraisal, Yelu Deguang started to attack Buddhism.
Of course, he didn't dare to do what Sanwu did to destroy the Buddha. The Khitan people believed in these ghosts and gods. If it weren't for the fact that there was no other way, Yelv Deguang would not dare to put his hand into the Buddhist money bag.
Therefore, he did not come forward himself, but pushed out his uncle Xiao Shilu, who had repeatedly failed in battles.
This Xiao Shilu was severely beaten by various generals from Yong and Jin countries. Even now that he has entered Tokyo, he is still like a gray grandson.
But because he was Yelu Deguang's biological uncle, he had a high status. There was no one more suitable than him to clean up the temple bank.
But the problem is, Xiao Shilu is also afraid! If you are so blatantly extorting money from the temple, are you not afraid of being killed by the thunder from the sky?
So after a few days of procrastination, after Zhang Zhaodu had entered Hezhong Mansion, under the threat of Yelu Deguang that either I would kill you or the Buddha would kill you with thunder, Xiao Shilu chose to keep it first. Take your life.
On the ninth day of the fifth lunar month, Xiao Shilu called the great masters led by Daxiangguo Temple, Daguanyin Temple, and Baiyige Temple to the mansion in the name of discussing great religious matters. .
The monks in the temples suddenly looked at each other. They had never expected that someone would come to the temple and transform into a monk!
The great monks collectively sternly rejected Xiao Shilu's request and angrily rebuked Xiao Shilu on the spot. Wouldn't he be afraid of going to Abi Hell after his death?
Xiao Shilu could only smile bitterly in his heart, what could he do? If I hadn't come forward like this, I'm afraid I would have to go to hell now before I die.
So it doesn't make sense, so let's do physics. Let's have a hungry meal first. Xiao Shilu persuaded them earnestly while sealing off the mansion to prevent the monks from going out.
As long as the masters admit that the Daliao banknote is as valid as the Hexi banknote, they will release him immediately.
Moreover, Daliao Banknotes are not like Hexi Banknotes, which are estimated to be issued in tens of millions of coins. They only need 500,000 coins.
However, if you talk to a monk in Tokyo about Buddhism, these masters may be defeated, but if you talk to them about finance, they will be well-connected.
They dared to accept the banknotes from Hexi, apparently because Hexi had exclusive best-selling products such as white sugar, rock sugar, and cotton, and Zhang Zhao also had a large number of Buddhist treasures that they coveted as collateral.
Hexi was even more stuck at a key point in the trade route. The trade route was also opened by King Yong. In addition, merchants had this demand, so they would accept Hexi banknotes.
There was also a tacit agreement secretly, that is, Zhang Zhao would not spread Buddhism from Hexi to the Central Plains, and would not seek the status of Wheel-turning Dharma King and Supreme Heavenly Dharma King in the Central Plains. Only then did the monks in the Central Plains agree to cooperate with Zhang Zhao.
This thing has to be at the right time, right place, right place and right people. How could Xiao Shilu or Yelu De want to touch it by force just by opening their mouths? How could it be possible?
As for hungry people, they cannot give in, because the bank finance industry can be said to be the lifeblood of monks in temples such as Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo and Luoyang in Xijing.
The profits made by Daxiangguo Temple alone by absorbing savings and lending have long exceeded those of donors and incense and silver.
They also know that as long as it is started, there is no way to stop the use of banknotes to get money for nothing. The first time will be followed by countless times, and it will always be the last time.
Xiao Shilu starved the masters for a day. Before the masters could bear it, Yelu Deguang couldn't wait any longer.
In desperation, Uncle Xiao Guo could only use the best method of the Khitan people and come directly to the door to force him.
On May 11, under the urging of Yelu Deguang, Xiao Shilu completely broke his face and broke into the Daxiangguo Temple at night under the name of a Huazhou bandit.
Under the guidance of the bribed monks, more than 100,000 guan of silver were taken away from the basement of Daxiangguo Temple.
At this point, the monks, who had been hungry for two days, saw that Yelu Deguang really dared to show off his face and even refused to give face to the Buddha, so they had no choice but to give in temporarily.
The money accumulated in the joint bank of the Buddhist temples in the two capitals is as high as three to four million guan. If all of it is stolen by the Khitans, the Buddhist sect in the two capitals will be doomed.
And if the Khitan people were willing to take out the printed Daliao silver notes and hold on, they could still eat the five hundred thousand yuan, and even their losses would be quickly recouped from their books.
However, the masters must not have imagined that there is such a thing as a run on this thing, and they could not have imagined that recognizing the Khitan's banknotes would have offended my king, Zhang.
Of course, they have not lost much at the moment. On May 13th, Yelu Deguang claimed that the Buddhist sects in the two capitals had voluntarily donated 360,000 yuan to support the Liao Dynasty in exterminating the Tibetan bandits, regaining Guanzhong, and restoring peace to the world.
This money, plus the money taken away by Xiao Shilu, was exactly 500,000 guan. Yelu Deguang actually ordered Zhang Li to print and deliver 500,000 guan of Daliao silver notes.
After getting this done, Yelu Deguang finally felt relieved.
You don't think he knows that there are a large number of former Jin Dynasty civil and military personnel and even tooth soldiers who save money in temple banks such as Daxiangguo Temple.
He must know that if the Daxiangguo Temple is really to be raided, why don't these people immediately rise up to rebel?
The current situation is just that the Daxiangguo Temple and other temple banks have an extra 500,000 yuan in bad debts, which has caused suffering to the masters, but the interests of the soldiers are still protected.
On May 15th, Yelu Deguang swore an oath at Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, expressing his intention to personally conquer the Han Dynasty and annihilate the Tibetan bandit Zhang Zhao who occupied Guanzhong.
While he rewarded the former Jin soldiers and generals, he ordered the Khitan soldiers and generals who were still in the grass-grazing valley not to plunder again.
For this reason, Yelu Deguang also publicly punished some Khitan nobles who disobeyed orders. The highlight was dragging out Zhang Yanze and Fu Zhuer.
These two idiots were the instigators of the massive robbery in Tokyo that later made it impossible for the Khitan troops to stop the robbery. It can be said that they got off to a very bad start.
Amid shouts of death, Zhang Yanze, Fu Zhuer and more than 20 Khitan and Han people were dragged to the street and paraded.
The people of Tokyo, who deeply hated them, followed closely with wooden sticks in hand. Before they could reach the execution ground, these twenty people were beaten into a pulp.
Among them, Zhang Yanze, the most evil-doer, had almost only a piece of skin left when he arrived at the execution ground.
After killing Zhang Yanze and Fu Zhuer, and giving a large reward to all the troops, I regained some of the people's hearts.
Yelu Deguang announced that the Han army would take Wei Wang Zhao Yanshou as the general, Li Shouzhen and Gao Xingzhou as the left and right deployment envoys, Xue Huairang, Pan Huan and others as the formation envoys, and An Shenqi, Fu Yanqing and others as the military and horse envoys, but later The person was almost held hostage.
In addition, Yelu Deguang appointed Du Chongwei as the military envoy of the Returned German Army in Songzhou, to pacify the Returned Army soldiers, resist the Hu Jile who had been harassing the north, and wipe out the 'bandits' in Chenzhou and Bozhou.
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
Another shameless master, Zhao Zaili, was appointed by Yelu Deguang as the military governor of Weizhou Yicheng Army to guard the Yellow River floating bridge for Yelu Deguang.
This old man traveled thousands of miles to pay homage to Yelu Deguang, but was extorted money by King Xi Renwei. He also heard that Yelu Deguang was trying to seize the ministers of the Jin Dynasty, so he was so frightened that he hanged himself in the stable.
But at this time, due to Zhang Zhao's threat, the Khitan people as a whole were much more gentle than at the same time in history, so Zhao Zaili was not only alive and well, but also reused.
After the arrangements were made, Yelu Deguang chose to set off on the same day. In this battle, Yelu Deguang recruited 60,000 Khitan and Liao troops, and the Jin army surrendered 30,000 soldiers. A total of 90,000 people, known as 150,000, marched westward along the Yellow River by land and water. , conquered Zhang Zhao.
Before the army set off, Yelu Deguang appointed Cui Tingxun, a Han from the Liao Kingdom, as the military governor of the three towns in Heyang, and Geng Chongmei as the military governor of the Shaanzhou Baoyi Army. He headed west in advance, intending to control various places, establish supply points, and firmly control both sides of the Yellow River.
Since he did not know and could not imagine that Zhao Kuangzan had betrayed him, Yelu Deguang's plan was to go to Hezhong Prefecture to rely on the dangers of mountains and rivers to fight Zhang Zhao decisively without receiving any warning from Hezhong Prefecture.
Therefore, the Shaanzhou Baoyi Army Jiedushi envoy Geng Chongmei and the Heyang Three Town Jiedushi envoy Cui Tingxun who went ahead did not have many troops at all.
Among them, as the most important Shaanxi Province after Hezhong Prefecture, Geng Chongmei went to take office with only 600 troops and horses. King Xi Lala led 3,000 Xi infantry, and the Jin army surrendered the Ning Kingdom. .
