Chapter 189 Zhu Jinliang returned to Kaifeng
Yelu Xiuge only served as the prince of Da Liao for less than a month, and the Liao State was forced by the Great Zhou to cancel the emperor title and change its name to the Khitan State, Yelu Huge's father Yelu Husi became the lord of the Khitan State, and Brother Hugh also became the Khitan prince.
The Great Zhou forced the Khitans to cancel the imperial title, but did not allow the Khitan to claim vassal status to the Great Zhou, because after the title of vassal, it was a tribute, not a war reparation.
In Guo Zongxun's words, when the Khitan has paid the war indemnity, the existence of the Khitan State will be unnecessary, and I will personally lead a large army to conquer the Khitan.
Yelu Huge thinks that the period when the Khitan pays compensation to the Great Zhou is an opportunity for the Khitan people to regain and develop.
However, the cruel reality made the entire Khitan Kingdom tremble under the iron hooves of the Great Zhou.
Chai Yong and Niu Gao, the guards of the ancient north entrance of the Great Zhou Dynasty, always implemented the northeast war strategy of the little emperor Guo Zongxun, and from time to time they would send the Great Zhou cavalry into several ways to enter the Khitan territory for sweeping.
This side owes a huge amount of war reparations to the Great Zhou, and the Great Zhou army still comes to sweep it from time to time.
For this reason, the Khitan lord has protested to the Great Zhou side several times.
Regarding the protest of the Khitan State, Guo Zongxun's reply was that once the protest was held, the number of times the Great Zhou army entered the territory of the Khitan State to sweep doubled.
It is already winter, and the Khitan people do not understand, and the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty is still happily entering the Khitan territory to sweep in the cold climate of ice and snow......
Everywhere the Great Zhou army went, cattle, sheep and horses were robbed, women and children were also robbed, and within 300 miles north of Gubeikou, almost all the villages and tribes of the Khitan people were spared.
The Khitans finally tasted the nightmare they had inflicted on the Han people in the Central Plains.
The army of the Great Zhou Dynasty has its own set of rules for sweeping the Khitan tribe, as long as you don't resist, then only rob cattle, sheep, horses, women and children, do not kill people, do not set fires, and do not rob Khitan adult men......
These Khitan men had no horses, stood on the ground and watched the Great Zhou army galloping on their tribe, and asked angrily, why, why are you so cruel to us?
The answer given to them by all the Great Zhou soldiers is the same, no why, because our Great Zhou army is strong enough, because we are happy, because this is our Great Zhou emperor's special order for us to rob you.
There will also be rebellions, and Yelu Wansi even organized a Khitan army to fight against the Great Zhou army.
Cao Bin, the envoy of Youzhou Town, learned the news of the assembly of the Khitan army? Excited, immediately ordered? From the 200,000 troops stationed in Youzhou City, 100,000 were divided and marched towards Gubeikou.
Chai Yong led 20,000 Great Zhou cavalry as a vanguard? Cao Bin's 100,000 army followed up and killed all the way to the city of Liaoyang Mansion.
Only then did Yelu Wansi realize clearly? The so-called warriors of the Khitan, the backbone has been broken? When facing the Great Zhou army? They can't raise the slightest fighting spirit at all? Either flee from the wind or fall from the wind......
"Lord, it's not a way to fight like this, we are simply taking the initiative to send slaves to Da Zhou."
"Lord, the Great Zhou army entered my Khitan territory and only robbed cattle, sheep and horses? Robbing only women and children? And they only robbed less than half of the land of our Khitan Kingdom, which is already the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty who has shown us a favor. ”
"Lord, don't have any more thoughts of resisting, let's evacuate all the Khitans to the Mongolian steppe and north of Liaoyang Prefecture? From Gubeikou to Liaoyang Mansion, they grabbed it casually. ”
Yelu Wansi was forced by the nobles in the country to have no choice but to surrender to the Great Zhou army again.
How many battles have been fought? The Great Zhou had actually occupied a large area of Khitan territory from Gubeikou to Jinzhou and Yingkou.
However, the little emperor Guo Zongxun did not send troops to garrison, and ordered Cao Bin to lead the army back to Gubeikou.
"The northeast is not in a hurry to occupy it, first restore Yanyun and then talk about it, as long as the absolute suppression of the Khitan by the Great Zhou is maintained, tell Cao Bin, don't be impulsive, it's not the time to destroy the Khitan State now."
It was under such circumstances that Zhu Jinliang, as the envoy of Yelu Huge, the prince of the Khitan, secretly came to Kaifeng and found the comrades-in-arms of the iron-blooded secret guards who fought side by side in the past.
"Zhu Jinliang is back? Bring him to see me, he is the hero of our Great Zhou. ”
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's best for you to go out of the palace in Weifu, once Zhu Jinliang enters the palace, it will inevitably be known by many people, which will not be conducive to his future actions on the Khitan side."
Liu Bowen hurriedly spoke out to stop Guo Zongxun's idea of summoning Zhu Jinliang in the palace.
"Liu Aiqing is reasonable, but I was too anxious and didn't think about their father and son."
Guo Zongxun also happened to want to go out of the palace to relax, and staying in the palace all day was really boring.
After some arrangement, at night, Guo Zongxun was carried by Lu Siniang and Nalan Yi and turned out of the high walls of the palace, and Wei Zhongxian had already prepared the carriage.
The meeting place chosen this time is an ordinary house, which will also be the place where Zhu Jinliang will return to Kaifeng in the future.
"Grass people Zhu Jinliang see Your Majesty."
Zhu Jinliang, who was kneeling on the ground, was already crying.
Guo Rong died, Zhu Jinliang got the news in Liaoyang Mansion, and he didn't dare to cry at that time, and he didn't dare to show the slightest mourning for Guo Rong's death.
"Calm down, Mr. Zhu, how is your son doing on the Khitan side?"
Guo Zongxun was very excited in his heart, it was the ordinary Han people of this era who used their backbones to support the backbone of the Han nation.
Therefore, the first thing Guo Zongxun asked was nothing else, but Zhu Junsheng, who was left as a hostage in Liaoyang Mansion.
Zhu Jinliang got up and wiped his tears and said:
"Back to Your Majesty, the son of the grass people is all right on the Khitan side now, and with my Great Zhou Tianwei to deter, the Khitans don't dare to do anything to him."
Guo Zongxun shook his head and said:
"My Han people were taken hostage in the Khitan country and placed under house arrest, and they were monitored all the time, how could this be that everything is fine, now that Mr. Zhu has returned to Kaifeng after hardships, and Ling Lang is alone in the Khitan, how can I rest assured, Mr. Zhu, who is this?"
One of the plainclothes guards who followed Guo Zongxun also couldn't cry, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhu Jinliang and said:
"Father, His Majesty sent someone to bring the child back."
Zhu Jinliang was shocked, stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Junsheng's hands, his lips trembling and he couldn't speak.
"Mr. Zhu, I am going to keep Ling Lang by my side and let him work under Liu Bowen, the left of Zhongshu Province, Mr. Zhu and Ling Lang's family, I also sent someone to Kaifeng, how much Ling Lang can make in the future, how big an official he can be, it depends on his own efforts."
Zhu Jinliang and his son kowtowed to Guo Zongxun and bowed again:
"Grass people, father and son, thank you, Your Majesty."
"Mr. Zhu, I have limited time to leave the palace, so I won't talk to you more, now you can tell me the news you found in the Khitan country."
Guo Zongxun listened to Zhu Jinliang tell him everything he had to do in the Khitan Liaoyang Mansion, and nodded incessantly.
"Brother Yelu Xiu asked you to pass a message to me, and I will hunt under Kaifeng City, haha, but I underestimated the Khitans and underestimated Brother Hugh, he wants me to give him a chance to recuperate, you say, can I agree?"