Song and Liao were both undeniable superpowers in the world, and the difference was not only between farming and nomadism, civilization and barbarism, but also the emperor, which was very different.

Emperor Song, don't usually talk about the private tour of Tokyo City, it's difficult to get out of the palace on official business.

"Oh, the body of ten thousand gold, there must be no mistakes."

"Oh, Your Majesty's Ninety-Five Supreme, how dare you ask Your Majesty to go out of the palace in person? If there is anything, Weichen and others will do their best to serve, please rest assured. “

"Besides, the capital has a large population, its own foreign countries, civilizations, and foreign races that know the law, and barbarians who don't know what etiquette is, everyone in the south and the north of the world, there are three religions and nine streams, dragons and snakes are mixed, and it is too dangerous for Your Majesty to leave the palace, but you can't be careless. If there is a real danger, it is difficult to prevent it. I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if? (In case you encounter any accident when you leave the palace, causing misfortune, your supreme wealth will not be enjoyed, can you be willing to give it up?) Can you be willing to go just because of a moment of indiscretion? The emperor suddenly collapsed unexpectedly, half of the sky of the Great Song Dynasty collapsed, the country was turbulent, and our Great Song Dynasty was also dangerous. Your Majesty, don't go out willfully and give our ministers and janissaries extra trouble to defend. We're very busy taking care of the country for you, and we're tired enough. You're so blind that you're messing around...... ）”

Speaking of which, the implication is nothing more than this: This Great Song Dynasty is nominally your emperor's world, but in fact it is the world of the people of the world, especially the world of our civil and military officials, and it is by no means really the emperor's alone. The Great Song Dynasty can have an ancestral system: the emperor and the scholars rule (enjoy) the world together. The world is in charge of us (especially the scholars). We work hard to take care of the country, and we should also take advantage of our own family by the way. It's no good, who is the official? Emperor, the affairs of the world, whatever we say, you can believe it, and we can get it as we want. What do you think you're doing when you go out and take risks on your own? Just stay in the golden nest and listen to our report, rest assured and enjoy you, it's better for you to see nothing outside, and it's best to know nothing. You must not go out for a stroll by yourself, and you will see the truth of the world and discover our hands and feet, and you must not see all the selfishness, shamelessness, and ugliness hidden under the appearance of our honest gentlemen and loyal ministers, and you must not affect us to be officials and get the benefits we deserve, and delay us from enjoying wealth and glory with you......

As soon as the emperor said that he was out of the palace, the civil and military bureaucrats were unprecedentedly united, and they made concerted efforts to persuade and stop them with all kinds of reasons, just to trap the emperor in the palace and be deaf and blind.

The emperors of the past dynasties were not fools, and they understood the dirtiness behind the ministers to prevent the ministers from leaving the palace, but they could not unite as one, so they could only give in.

Zhao Ji was frivolous and willful as the emperor, but he couldn't get the ministers to obstruct him, but he refused to stay in the palace honestly, so he had to go out to enjoy the world of flowers, which could only be sneaky, and he slipped out of the palace from the tunnel, and went directly to the target Qinglou, and only the game beauties were in contact......

The palace is out, but he still can't see the truth about Tokyo, let alone the world.

This is not the case in Liao.

The Liao Emperor had a clear system of touring the five capitals every year, specially inspecting and deterring the world, that is, the bowl system.

The folk sentiments of the Liao State and the Song State were very different, not only the nomadic herding and the tradition of good warfare led to the uncertain migration and the carriage and horse as the home, which determined the emperor's patrol system, but also ruled many races, various, Khitan, Tatar (Mongolian) people, Xi people, Wugu, Zubu, enemy Lie, Heichezi Murwei, Han people, Bohai people, Dangxiang people, Tubo people, Jurchen people...... Farther west, the Uighurs...... Each has its own tribes and ethnic groups, each of which belongs to the chieftain, and in fact it is an independent military group of all sizes, and in such a complex national situation, in order to stop the rebellion and deter the tribes, the Liao Emperor cannot sit in the palace of the capital like the Song Emperor to listen to the report and manage the world remotely, and must patrol everywhere.

The Liao Dynasty had a capital, but its political core was not in the capital, and all major political issues were decided at any time in the bowl (Khitan "palace"), which was the administrative center for handling government affairs. Every year, there is a "four-hour patrol", and each has a place to go at the four hours.

With this system, Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi is a ridiculous guy who does not want to make progress, does nothing, and blindly hunts for pleasure, and will not stay in the palace honestly.

This time, he caught up with the strength of the country to cut gold, and from the beginning of the hot summer to the autumn at this time, the north began to turn cold, and the Jin army became more and more furious and dangerous, for safety and a warmer and more comfortable climate, Yelu Yanxi went south from wandering outside the Great Wall to enjoy the Guannei, but did not live in Yanjing City.

He is the emperor, so he naturally does not like to live in the city under the direct control of Yeluchun, the king of Yan, lest as a supreme be suspected of taking refuge at this time.

The important thing is that he is a nomadic emperor, although it is absurd and unbearable, he is not a weak scholar emperor like Zhao Ji, and he does not like to be confined in the city, can not hunt, it is inconvenient to play around on horseback, and he has a luxurious palace frame to live, with important ministers and nobles to follow, and more palace tent army and aristocratic tribal army to escort him, so he is entrenched in the west of Yanjing City, on the relatively empty field at the approximate junction of Yanshan Mansion and Yunzhong Mansion, and accepts the main civil and military personnel left at home by King Yan and his subordinates to come to meet and provide materials and other offerings.

I thought that everything was safe and sound, and I just waited for the warriors who went out to return to celebrate the joy of destroying the Jin Kingdom and the success of the massacre and robbery, but I didn't want to break out into the piracy disaster.

Although Yanjing City, which was in the hinterland of Yanshan Prefecture, deliberately left 10,000 soldiers and horses in case the Song army took advantage of the situation to raid the north and other accidents, it was still broken in an instant after the fall of other state capitals......

The pirate army lurked in Yanshan Mountain, the closest to Yanjing City, in advance of Duan Jingzhu's horse thieves led by the raid on the Yanjing area at night, and the professionally trained warriors entered several horse farms and easily killed the few and careless horse farm defenders, and the brigade immediately rushed into the captives to guard all the horsemen or slaves, so that no one could slip through the net and reveal the news, and put the Liao army left behind in Yanjing to raise and facilitate the joy of the war horses and the many horses snatched back from the north, as well as the good horses of the nearby tribes were easily snatched, In the blink of an eye, the infantry cavalry turned into a flying horse, and then they rushed together and quietly surrounded Yanjing, attacking suddenly when the sky was twilight.

The Liao army defending the city, who slept or slept soundly, only heard the sudden roar like thunder, and died in a daze, or covered their heads and brains, and were stunned and at a loss, and the four gates of the capital were broken.

Nearly 30,000 pirate cavalry Pegasus entered Yanjing City, some were responsible for blocking the city gate and blocking the escape route, and some were responsible for attacking the city.

The Liao army brigade stationed near Simen suddenly heard a shock, or got up from its sleep in a daze or in a hurry, and before it could figure out what was going on, most of the people who were in a mess were blocked in the barracks by the pirate army before they could get dressed......

What about Yeluchun, the king of Yan?

Because the hand of the army guerrilla warfare is extremely exquisite, the rectification of the Jin country is extremely miserable, the Liao country has gained a lot in this battle, day by day with the spoils of war continue to be transported back, the good news from the north also continues to come back, Yeluchun and the Liao Emperor and all the Liao officials and Liao people are happy, there are still some worries and concerns about this strategy, with the victory and arrogance of the Jin army is furious but helpless, and it quickly disappeared in the indulgence and laughter, think about the Song State from now on is not a threat, the beast Jurchen is almost finished, The biggest threat does not exist, and the Liao State is only left with Lehe, just waiting for the triumphant celebration of the various armies, so King Yan has inevitably lived lightly these days, and the favorite wine of the cold barbarians is naturally flowing every day, and from time to time he drank high in the flattery and praise of the feast and the joy of everyone changing tricks, and drank too much last night, but was deliberately pounced by the pirate cavalry after entering the city, and the hundreds of Liao troops guarding the palace were killed and captured and the defense was broken through in a blink of an eye. The Manchu people fell into the hands of pirates in the middle of a dream, and King Yan himself was one of them.

He is not young anymore, and the consequence of drunkenness is that even if he is frightened, he can't immediately become a dragon and tiger like a young man, he is still drowsy and weak, and he is half drunk and half awake under the frightening servant's personal servant, and he staggers and is taken down as soon as he leaves the house.

To be a prisoner, to be a prisoner, to be killed in the hands of a vicious, cunning and incredibly powerful pirate, to surrender or not to surrender is a question worth pondering, no less difficult than those profound philosophical problems.

Yelu Chun can stand out from many royal children and become the noble Yan King and the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, not only can win the trust of the absurd and inscrutable Liao Emperor, but also can control the sixteen states of Yanyun, the richest place in the Liao State, dominate the south, the power is in hand, and the actual power is still above Xiao Gan, the privy envoy of the Northern Court who has the nominal status of the Liao State system above him, and is qualified to be called a wolf lord like the Liao Emperor, he is naturally not a simple character, talented, and has the loyalty and courage of the nomadic barbarians.

Whether it was out of the pride and dignity of the king of the Heavenly Empire for too long, or out of loyalty and duty to the Liao Emperor and the Liao State, he didn't want to give in and surrender easily.

It's just that not only him, the king, but also the important officials and nobles of Manyan Capital, including the few important generals who stayed behind, also fell into the hands of the pirates who carried out key surprise captures for the first time; The army was blocked in the barracks again, and they couldn't get out at all, and if they didn't dare to show up, they would immediately be shot by a bow and crossbow and even a room would be blown up, and there was no soldier to rescue Yanjing, everything was irreparable; The captives, whether they were civil and military officials or pig-headed but noble nobles, knelt down and looked forward to his docile obedience to the pirates' demands, and the people of the city expected him, the king, to first give in and nod his head honestly and agree to give up resistance, so as to escape from the invincible butcher's knife of the pirates; The life of the whole city hovered between the nodding and shaking of his head as a king, if he was reckless and did not nod, then the pirates would definitely not kill people, but they were afraid that Yanjing would be dead in a blink of an eye......

From the happy paradise of victory to the dark abyss in a blink of an eye, this drop is too big, too steep, too sharp, and the blow is too big.

Sad and helpless, he wanted to grit his teeth and admit death, but he could only obediently cry blood and bow his head.

How many generations of Yanjing City, which had accumulated wealth, was quickly sacked by well-trained pirates......

The pirate boss (Xiao Jiasui, chief of the general staff of the Northern Army), who wore an eerie hooded helmet, comforted Yeluchun who was devastated and said: "You don't have to be so depressed and sad, and you don't have to be so secretly hateful. Let me tell you the truth. Our pirate country is not here to destroy the Liao Kingdom this time, let alone to rob you. We are going to destroy Western Xia. ”

"This small country is dancing happily by virtue of its geographical advantages, and dares to be disrespectful to our country all the time, thinking that it is located in the western part of the interior, not by the sea, there is no threat, and there are two major countries in the middle, the Song State and the Liao State are hindered, and our pirate army can't beat it, no matter how angry it is, no matter how powerful it is, it can't help it, and always dares to rely on barbarism, greed, ferocity, arrogance, bullying and robbing our friendly merchants who go to do business, and wantonly sabotage normal trade. My pirate nation can endure it once, twice, three times, but not again and again. If you can't bear it, you don't need to endure it anymore! ”

"If you don't teach a lesson, the small country still thinks that no matter how powerful and invincible it is, no one can cure it!"

"This is not only to destroy his country, but also to destroy his people."

"Our king has decreed that the entrenchment and scourge of the party members and their rebels in that land for generations to come will be eradicated. The Tangut people who were not killed all moved to China. Otherwise, people in the world still think that our pirate country also has a weakness and a force that can make us helpless, how can they know that our pirates are strong even if they are far away?! “

In Ye Luchun's extreme horror and inexplicable joy that he didn't understand the benefits for a while, Xiao Jiasui said meaningfully: "King Yan, you are the noble prince of the Liao Kingdom, and you are also an understanding person, naturally you know that the Song Kingdom has not much population by us, and the Western Xia is completely gone, who will the vacated territory belong to in the end?" ”

In Ye Luchun's natural eyes, Xiao Jiasui smiled, "Yes, it will only be you Liaoguo who will be cheaper." “

"Although the hometown of Western Xia has become a no-man's land, it is just at the mercy of you, the Liao Kingdom, which has the most advantages in population and power, and is also the most suitable for the life there, to occupy it to your heart's content. We sent our orders and efforts to fight a bloody battle to empty out there, which actually helped you expand the living space of the Liao Kingdom, or at least helped you expand the room for maneuvering with the Jin Kingdom. ”

"You have a broader and more comfortable logistical support area, you can safely raise more cattle, sheep and horses, produce more grain and cloth, and have a reliable way out."

"We have completely destroyed the Song and Xia countries, and we have also robbed the Jin State before, at least the Jin State has no craftsmen, less weapons production, and the war potential is greatly damaged. This kind of thing, the indirect benefit is your Liao country. With such a great benefit to the survival of the Liao Kingdom in vain, King Yan, do you want to tell me if you Liao Kingdom should thank us? Should I repay it? “

"My pirates don't do loss-making business, I am here to use Yanyun to fight Western Xia, and by the way, I also have to reap the rewards, and it is also necessary to obtain various material conditions for expeditions."

"Don't worry, we won't come back here when we go to Western Xia. We also want to enjoy life and go back to the comfort of our overseas hometown to spend time with our loved ones. The affairs of your continent have nothing to do with our pirate nation. What disputes and grievances there are between your kingdoms, that is your own concern. In the future, we will only continue to do serious trade, as in the past, fair trade without deception. In fact, you need our goods, and you can't do without our help in trade. “

"As long as it doesn't hinder our serious trade. We won't be robbing it again in the future. ”

"I hope that we can live in peace and friendship in the future, and the friendship between land and sea will last forever."