That day, I was in the Yuanhe Hall of Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing.
Whether they were Khitan people, Han people, Xi people or even Bohai people, they were all shocked by the conditions of the Southern Dynasties.
The coins turned into three million copper coins like a myth?
Everyone's first reaction was not surprise, but doubt.
"Could it be that the people from the Southern Dynasties are trying to deceive us?"
Immediately, this guess was overturned.
"Do they dare?"
Yes, does the Southern Dynasty dare?
Those who don’t dare, at least until now, the Southern Dynasties don’t dare!
So, what does the Southern Dynasty want?
Even if their emperor is young and ignorant, are all the ministers stupid?
All the ministers started discussing in a noisy manner.
Yelu Hongji looked at it and finally couldn't help coughing.
Everyone immediately fell silent. After all, Yelu Hongji had been in office for thirty years.
Although it experienced the Yelu Chongyuan and Yelu Yixin rebellions.
But after thirty years of being an emperor, his authority has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people - most of the ministers, whether they were officials from the south or the north, had not yet entered the official career, or were even just children when he came to the throne.
"No matter what tricks Nan Chao wants to play!" Yelu Hongji looked at everyone: "I agree to it!"
"I don't care what they think!"
"I just want money!"
"Being lazy..." Yelu Hongji looked at Yelu Dilie: "Draft a decree to Yeluju and Wang Shiru. As long as the conditions of the Southern Dynasty are not excessive, we will agree to them all..."
"It doesn't matter if people from the Southern Dynasties printed Jiaozi or other things..."
"As long as Daliao has three million copper coins that can be spent, we will agree to it... Next month on Tian'an Day, the envoy from the south will come to court and everything will be settled!"
“Starting next year, act according to the New Covenant!”
Yeludilie came out to pay homage and said, "I obey your decree!"
Yelu Hongji looked at the nobles in the north who were looking at him like hungry wolves. He knew that if he could really have three million copper coins per year, they would be able to use them.
Then, this money will probably be his, and even his grandson Yanxi's, biggest help in the future.
Because money can buy loyalty!
Yelu Dilie remembered something, and asked: "Your Majesty, what if the Southern Dynasty asks me to put pressure on the Xilu, or even send troops together?"
Yelu Hongji laughed: "Three million strings a year..."
"If Nan Chao is really willing to give, why not help him?"
As long as the Southern Dynasty guarantees filial piety of three million yuan a year, Daliao will have plenty of cannon fodder that can be sent to intimidate the Western invaders.
It just so happens that there seem to be a lot of divination people on the grassland recently.
Other nobles from the northern Khitan and the Xi tribe also nodded.
The income of three million yuan a year is indeed enough to buy Daliao's friendship to help contain the Xilu, and even help fight a war.
Yelu Hongji's younger brothers Yelu and Lu Han even took the case seriously: "If the Southern Dynasty really gives three million guan, I will petition the general to send the troops from the late emperor's palace to Datong Mansion in Xijing to intimidate the Western captives and force them to surrender!"
Yanqing Palace is the Wodudang Oruduo in Khitan language, which means: the breeding palace is the Hanluduo of Xingzong, that is, the palace tent army.
The palace army is a characteristic of the Liao Kingdom. Each generation of Liao emperor and queen mother has its own palace army.
In fact, it is a replica of the Imperial Guards of the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that the Liao people learned the lessons of the Imperial Guards' enthronement method in the Tang Dynasty. After each generation of emperors and queen mothers came to power, they would establish their own Hanluduo.
After the death of the emperor and the queen mother, their Hanruduo became the army guarding the imperial mausoleum and the trump card of the next generation of emperors at critical moments.
According to Khitan tradition, the youngest son inherits the palace tent.
Naturally, Yanqing Palace is the property of Yelu and Lu Han and their descendants.
The late emperor's two defeats at Helan Mountain were always regarded as a great shame and humiliation by Yelu and Lu Han!
only……
Yelu Hongji glanced at his younger brother and said, "Ah Chu, there's no need to be excited..."
"I will order Zalan to send his troops to Datong Mansion..."
After the Yelu Chongyuan and Yelu Yixin rebellions, Yelu Hongji's trust in the clan changed from blind faith to now suspicion.
How could it be possible to give Yelu and Lu Han a chance?
However, the Yanqing Palace tent army in the hands of Yelu and Lu Han is the force that he must win over.
Therefore, Yelu Hongji comforted him and said, "Don't worry, Ah Chu. If we really want to send troops to the Xilu, I will take Ah Chu as the vanguard..."
"If the Xilu can be broken, the coffins of Yuan Hao and Liang Zuo can be dug up by Ah Chu, and their heads can also be taken to Qingling by Ah Chu to pay tribute in front of the father's mausoleum to appease the emperor's spirit!"
After Yelu and Lu Han heard this, they finally said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
He knew that Yelu Hongji was just lying to him.
It is impossible for Yelu Hongji to send troops.
Send Yeludilie to scare the Xilu, and the problem will be solved.
…
Renwushuo (the first day of the lunar month) in August of the eighth year of Yuanfeng.
Under the direct intervention of Lu Gongzhu and Zhang Fangping, the banquet officials finally determined the relevant bibliography.
The preliminary draft was based on the Confucian classic "Book of Rites" and eleven volumes of manuscripts selected from Li Gou's "Huangyou Continuation" and "Huangyouhou Collection", which were designated as the royal books. Deng Runfu, who served as a lecturer, named it "Mr. Xu Jiang's Collection".
"Book of Rites" was lectured by Fan Chunren and Lu Dafang, assisted by Cheng Yi and Lu Xizhe, and secondly by Su Che and Fan Bailu.
"The Collection of Mr. Xujiang" was given by Deng Runfu, assisted by Fan Chunren and Lu Dafang, and secondly by Cheng Yi and Fan Bailu.
Cheng Yi, Su Che, Lu Xizhe, Fan Bailu and other banquet officials were ordered by the two palaces to sort out the words, deeds and laws from Renmiao Qingli to Jiayou era, and designated it as "Yuanyou Yushu", which was ordered to be respected before spring and February next year. Presented to the emperor in preparation for the emperor's study - this was Lu Gongzhu's suggestion, and Lu Gongzhu accepted the suggestion of Sima Guang from Chenzhou.
After finishing these things, the two palaces took the ordered "Collection of Mr. Xujiang" and went to Funing Hall.
At this time, Zhao Xu happened to be reading in the Imperial Garden.
Seeing the books held in the hands of the two palaces and the ministers behind them, Zhao Xu knew exactly what was going on.
So, he trotted up to the ministers and circled around them, looking satisfied: "Now I have a book to read!"
Both palaces smiled, and Queen Mother Xiang was extremely pleased and distressed - this child is so sensible and easy to learn!
…
Xingqing Mansion.
The report from Bianjing was finally sent to the Xixia Palace in Xingqing Mansion.
Empress Dowager Liang of Xixia was already feeling unwell at this time and could no longer handle state affairs normally.
Prime Minister Liang Yibu began to take full power.
Bingchang relied entirely on Renjia's full support to have room to move freely in the palace.
Therefore, when Bingchang knew that the envoy from Bianjing had sent back a report and rushed to the front hall of the palace, the ministers had already left the hall one by one.
Only the Prime Minister Liang Yibu stood in front of the palace, waiting for him.
"Prime Minister..." Bingchang asked angrily: "The envoy reported such a big thing, why did you make the decision before I came?"
Liang Yibu smiled: "Did Wu Zu make the decision?"
Bingchang looked at Liang Yibu, gritted his teeth and said, "Why can't I do it?"
"Very good!" Liang Yibu threw the memorial in front of Bingchang: "Then let Wu Zu Qiankun be arbitrary!"
After saying that, he took the Liang family's bodyguards and walked directly past Bingchang.
Angry, Bingchang trembled with his hands and pointed at his cousin and brother-in-law: "Domineering... domineering and powerful officials!"
But there was nothing he could do about Liang Yibu!
Liang Yibu and his dead father Liang Yimi learned the lesson from the collapse of the Bu Zang family.
He accumulated a lot of dead soldiers and won over the imperial guards in the palace.
Almost everyone in the palace is from the Liang family.
If Bingchang hadn't been accompanied by a group of imperial guards from Renjia at all times, he wouldn't have been able to move freely even in this palace.
Liang Yibu turned around, looked at Bingchang, sighed, and said: "Wuzi, without Chen and his son, Dabai Gao Kingdom would have been destroyed long ago!"
"I and my late father, I shed blood and tears for the sake of Dabai Gaoguo. Why are you so jealous?"
"Do you want to force me to do what Sima Zhao did?"
This is a fact!
Dabai Gaoguo's ability to survive to this day is all due to his father Liang Yimi and his painstaking efforts to maintain it.
Otherwise it would have fallen apart long ago!
After saying that, Liang Yibu walked away with a puff of his sleeves.
In his mind, he couldn't help but think of what a nobleman loyal to him said quietly to him when they were discussing in the palace just now - the Nanman's conditions were not unacceptable...
As long as the Southern Dynasty canonizes the Prime Minister as the King of Xia...
That person's words were naturally interrupted immediately by Liang Yibu.
But now, it's reverberating in Liang Yibu's mind like a curse.
Of course, Liang Yibu knew that that was impossible.
Not to mention that in the country, the powerful people of the Wei Ming family and the Renjia family, Yu Zang family and other forces will never recognize the Liang family, and the Liang family has no ability to win the civil war.
Even the pressure from abroad was enough to wake him up.
Neither the Northern Dynasties nor the Southern Barbarians would let the Liang family usurp the throne of the Wei Ming family!
As long as he dares to usurp the country, the Zhao Guan family of the Southern Barbarians and the Yelu family of the Northern Dynasties...
They will join hands to crush him to ashes at all costs!
It was for this reason that his father only dared to imprison Bingchang and kill the Han officials appointed by Bingchang.
I don't even dare to do it.
…
Bingchang picked up the memorial that Liang Yibu threw in front of him.
When he opened it, he felt like he was struck by lightning.
The Southern Barbarians want to join forces with the Northern Dynasty to attack with three million Guansui coins?
This this……
Bingchang took a deep breath, his mind was buzzing.
At this time, a woman who was about the same age as Bingchang came out of the hall, wearing a peach-shaped golden phoenix crown, a red dress with narrow sleeves, and a red dress. She was holding an incense burner and was about the same age as Bingchang.
"Wuzi...The Queen Mother invites you to come into the palace to speak..."
Bingchang glanced at that woman. She was his queen, Liang Yibu's sister, and the biological mother of his only son!
Looking at the other party, Bingchang hesitated for a moment and finally nodded.
But my heart is extremely sad!
When he came to the throne, he was less than seven years old and was controlled by the Queen Mother and the Prime Minister.
After finally taking charge, he was imprisoned, and all the ministers he appointed were beheaded.
Today, his son is only three years old.
If he is unlucky, the child will make the same mistake again.
Thinking of his son, Li Bingchang cheered up and followed Empress Liang into the palace and entered the curtain.
Then, he saw his mother, who was also his nightmare - Empress Dowager Liang, leaning on the hospital bed with an unnatural look on her face.
"The soldiers are here..." Empress Dowager Liang looked at Bingchang and said as usual: "Sit down..."
Bingchang sat down.
"Have Wuzu heard about the alliance between the Southern Barbarians and the Northern Dynasties?" Queen Mother Liang asked.
"Is there any way?"
Bingchang shook his head.
Empress Dowager Liang sighed: "It's all my fault..."
"I'm sorry for Emperor Yizong's entrustment... I didn't teach the Wu soldiers well..."
Bingchang's face became extremely dark as he listened.
But he didn’t dare to refute!
Empress Dowager Liang looked at his expression and continued: "I am also a poor old man. I am not as blessed as the Queen Mother and the Empress Dowager of Nanman. If the Buddha does not bless me..."
"My biological son, even the meat that falls from my belly, is not close to me!"
She had read the secret reports of Wei Ming Mo Duo and Lu Ze Chen Yujin.
"You are not convinced?" Empress Dowager Liang looked at her son, a stupid, childish and naive son.
She said to her niece, Empress Liang: "Empress, show Wu Zu the secret report of Wei Ming Mo Duo and Lu Ze Chen Yujin..."
"Let Wu Zu take a look, what did the little emperor of the Southern Dynasties do?"
As a result, two thick memorials were delivered to Bingchang.
Bingchang opened it, read it for a while, and laughed disdainfully: "Nanman boasts about himself, does the queen believe it?"
Empress Dowager Liang looked at her stupid son: "Wuzi, look carefully!"
"Look at how others seize power, and how do you seize power?"
She looked at Queen Xiaoliang: "Queen, tell Wu Zu, what do I think?"
"A ten-year-old little emperor still knows that he can control power by being filial, smart, and sensible!"
"Whether he is born benevolent, filial, intelligent, or handsome, or he is a young man with such a sophisticated and scheming mind..."
Empress Dowager Liang said excitedly: "Wuzu is twenty-five years old this year!"
"At the time when Yizong was in Wuzu, he had already won the support of everyone in the country. He had already eradicated all the Tibetans and had monopolized power..."
"Where are the soldiers?"
"The southern barbarians are too far away to learn, so why don't the Wu soldiers learn from Emperor Yizong?"
Li Bingchang lowered his head when he was told.
Empress Liang silently sat next to her husband, and then pointed out to Li Bingchang the place the Empress Dowager had drawn.
Li Bingchang looked at it, his eyes gradually changing color.
He raised his head suddenly: "Are these true?"
"Everyone in the Southern Barbarians knows it..." Empress Dowager Liang said: "Wei Ming Mo Duo, Lu Ze and Chen Yujin also saw it with their own eyes and heard it with their own ears in the palace... Wei Ming Mo Duo said: Taking a sneak peek at the new emperor of the Southern Barbarians, although he is young, Chong, Lin Chao seems to be quite heroic!"
"Lü Ze and Chen Yujin also reported: I observe that the young Nanman king behaves in a moderate manner and speaks in a lawful manner. I think he is quite similar to the young man of Jingzong (Yuan Hao)..."
"The southern barbarians are also planning to invite the famous Mo Duo and the northern envoy to attend the scripture banquet..."
"Counting the time, it's only been these few days..."
"Without confidence, they would openly invite Weiming Moduo and the Northern Envoy to observe?"
Li Bingchang lowered his head even lower as he listened.
Seeing this, Empress Dowager Liang could only sigh twice.
This son is considered useless, and he can only place his hopes on his grandson.
However, my grandson is only three years old...
Nothing can be seen!
In the future, he will have to face that monster emperor of the Southern Dynasty!
what to do?
Queen Mother Liang doesn’t know either!
I can only hope that Bodhisattva will bless the other person and die early!
…
About the same time.
The Liao Kingdom went to Beijing to Linhuang Mansion.
Yelu Hongji, the Lord of Liao, was personally checking his grandson's homework.
Ten-year-old Yelu Yanxi, in front of her grandfather, stumbled and carried what the teachers taught her.
"In the past... in the past, the emperor... Emperor Yao..."
"Smart...smart, literary...thinking..."
Yelu Hongji's face gradually darkened as he heard Yelu Yanxi stumbling on his back.
"Zhao Xiaoyan!" He directly interrupted Yelu Yanxi's endorsement and summoned the teacher he specially selected for Yelu Yanxi.
Privy Council Scholar Zhao Xiaoyan quickly stepped forward with a squid in hand and said, "I am here!"
"How did you teach your grandson?"
"Why is it so difficult for Taisun to memorize the Code of Yao?"
Zhao Xiaoyan could only apologize: "I am guilty, please be punished by Your Majesty!"
"Punishment? Punishment!"
Yelu Hongji said dissatisfied: "Is punishment enough?"
"Can punishment alone make the King of Liang read "Shang Shu" and "Spring and Autumn"?"
"Just for punishment, can Liang Wanghui look up the explanatory notes, read the memorials, and review them by himself?"
"If this is the case, I will punish you every day!"
Zhao Xiaoyan could only kneel down and apologize: "I am incompetent..."
Yelu Hongji let out a breath, then looked at his grandson who was so frightened that he was almost stupid, and said helplessly: "Yanxi, come to the emperor's grandfather... The emperor's grandfather will teach you to read in person from today on!"
He didn't believe it.
How could he be inferior to the two women from the Southern Dynasties if he personally taught King Liang?
So, on this day, Yelu Yanxi, the young king of Liang Dynasty and grandson of the emperor, met for the first time a man about the same age as him, probably a little older - Zhao Xu.
Emperor of the Southern Dynasties.
He has taught himself to read "Spring and Autumn" and "Shangshu". When he encounters something he doesn't understand, he will look up the explanations and even order the ministers to compile dictionaries.
What kind of monster is this?
Yelu Yanxi didn't know.
But all he knew was that from this day on, his imperial grandfather, who used to be extremely kind and doting to him, became extremely strict.
He is always compared with the Southern Emperor named Zhao Xu.
(End of chapter)
