656,Marriage Storm (1)
The letter was very short, only a few lines, but there was a lot of content hidden in it, Zheng Fei looked at the letter, his face was full of stunned ......,
Hua Rong said in the letter that half a day after he sent the first letter, Yeluchun suddenly came to Ande City in the name of inspecting armaments, but Yeluchun just hastily circled Ande City, and then left everyone alone and left Hua Rong alone and told him that Yeluchun hopes to increase cooperation with the Tiandao Army, and from then on, high-quality war horses will be transported to Jingdong Road in unlimited quantities, and hope to exchange for grain, grass, weapons and firearms from the hands of the Tiandao Army. In addition, Ye Lu Chun also hoped to establish a more intimate personal relationship with the "Respected Commander of the Heavenly Dao Army, His Excellency Zheng Linfeng", and for this reason, he was willing to give his own daughter, Princess Ye Lu Caijie of Daliao Fulin, to Commander Zheng Linfeng as his wife. In the end, Ye Lu Chun said to Hua Rong euphemistically, the strength of the Jin State must have been clear to Hua Rong, since the Jin State has established an alliance with the Song State, especially since your Heavenly Dao Army has helped us cause so much trouble to the Jin State, the Jin State will definitely seek revenge on your Heavenly Dao Army in the future, but whether the Jin State helps the Song State deal with you or they deal with you alone, they must first cross the land of Yanyun, and he Ye Lu Chun is very happy to do this iron wall that blocks the southward pace of the Jin State, as long as he Ye Lu Chun is in the day, Jin people don't want to take a step beyond the sixteen states of Yanyun! Therefore, helping him Yeluchun is equivalent to helping your Heavenly Dao Army yourself.
Zheng Fei could see at a glance that although Ye Luchun's meaning was more subtle, his most fundamental idea was very clear, there was no doubt that he wanted to use "marriage" to become an ally with him! And Ye Lu Chun is not representing the Liao State and himself to form an alliance, this alliance is not established between the Great Liao and the Heavenly Dao Army, but between the Nanjing Dao, or between him Ye Lu Chun and himself!
Strictly speaking, Ye Luchun is betraying the Liao State!
What is this trying to do? Could it be that he is trying to break away from the Liao State and stand on his own? Suddenly, Zheng Fei's heart jumped unconsciously, he finally remembered that when Liao was destroyed by Jin, Yeluchun had called the emperor for a short time and announced the abolition of the Liao Emperor, but he did not serve as the emperor for too long, and died of illness shortly after he became emperor. This is enough to prove that this person has the ambition to establish himself as emperor. And more importantly, the emperor of Liao has just imprisoned the king of Jin, killed or exiled a large number of ministers of the main war faction, especially Yelu Yujian was forced to defect to the Jin State, which pushed the already precarious Liao State Guozuo into the abyss again, and the countdown to the demise of the Liao State has officially begun, with Yelu Chun's understanding of the Liao State, it is impossible for him not to see this, he cannot sit still, since he has the ambition to be the emperor, then everything he is doing now can have a reasonable explanation.
It has to be said that Ye Luchun's calculation is very good, if he wants to stand on his own, then he will inevitably encounter a series of difficulties in the future, so he needs to find a reliable and strong ally to help him.
For example, in addition to Liao, Jin is the sworn enemy of Liao, and Yeluchun is the leader of the main battle faction in Liao, that is, the sworn enemy of Jin, and Jin's determination to destroy Liao is unwavering, and he will never accept Yeluchun's request to be the emperor to retain the national Zuo of Liao; The Great Song Dynasty dreamed of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun, Yanyun is precisely Yeluchun's territory, and the Song Kingdom has been plotting against Yeluchun's nest from the beginning, which is an irreconcilable contradiction between the two sides, so cooperating with the Great Song Dynasty is the most unreliable; Western Xia was the feud of the Song State, and now it has completely broken with the Song State, and it does not have a strong territorial claim to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. It has nothing to do with Jin Guo. Although there is a peace treaty with Liao, it is an extremely weak alliance that can turn its face at any time. So, politically speaking, Western Xia was a very good choice. But unfortunately, from a military point of view, Western Xia is obviously not qualified, first of all, Yeluchun's territory does not border Western Xia. Secondly, the national strength of Western Xia is average, and it is still a little difficult to be self-sufficient, so it is a little difficult for him to support Yeluchun with all his might. The most important point is that the country of Western Xia has shown a great characteristic in the war with the Liao and Song dynasties for hundreds of years, that is, foreign wars are not good, the Western Xia relies on the rare desert Gobi desert for thousands of miles as a natural barrier, neither the Liao nor the Song Dynasty can successfully attack the hinterland of the Western Xia, these hundred years, every time the Liao and Jin attack the Western Xia, the Xixia people did not hesitate to retreat at the border as soon as they could not stand it, of course, the Liao and Song countries continued to pursue, but when they entered the desert Gobi, their nightmare began, And when they are tortured by the Gobi Desert, they will be born in the desert, grew up in the desert, and the Xixia people who are as familiar with the desert as their own home suddenly kill them and never return, in terms of defense warfare, the ability of the Western Xia is the strongest in the Liao, Song and Xia Three Kingdoms! But this natural shield in the achievement of the Tangut people's impregnable national defense also inevitably caused a serious confinement to the Tangut, the deepest impact of which is that the Tangut every time out of the border to fight, but also suffered, across the desert Gobi thousands of miles of supply lines often lead to the Tangut people's lack of stamina, almost every battle in foreign wars must stop!
First of all, he has established a good cooperative relationship with him in the past few years, even if there is an unpleasant situation, it will pass quickly, and at the same time, even if he does not border his territory, his powerful ocean fleet also provides strong conditions for providing assistance to him; Secondly, he has occupied half of the Great Song Dynasty, don't underestimate this half of the country, this is not as simple as simply occupying a small half of the Great Song Dynasty, because this small piece of territory almost includes all the richest and most important places in the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention anything else, just the loss of the southeast roads that have been the "granary" of the Great Song Dynasty is enough to slam the comprehensive national strength of the Great Song Dynasty down several times! For Ye Luchun now, he is no longer a small feudal town that can only exist as a containment of the Great Song Dynasty, but has become a behemoth with inexhaustible money, food, goods, and people.
Of course, the most important point is that he has never revealed any intention to him Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, he and the Liao State were the first to take the initiative to contact him, especially this time he raised troops against the Song Dynasty, Hebei Three Roads are also empty of troops, but he did not choose to go north, but did not hesitate to go south, giving up going north to capture Hebei Three Roads, that is, giving up the border with Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, so no matter how you look at it, he seems to have no meaning at all for Yeluchun's territory. Don't underestimate this seemingly casual move, he is enough to make Yeluchun see some kind of hope. At least for now
Therefore, for Ye Lu Chun, who else in the world can attract Ye Lu Chun more than himself?
But another question arises, that is, does he have anything to attract himself? The reason why an ally is an ally is based on the fact that they can use each other, and they are useful to him, so what is the use of them to themselves?
Obviously, Ye Luchun also clearly realized that he could no longer attract enough interest by relying on war horses alone, so he put forward two conditions that he couldn't refuse, one was to come up with a way to "marry", as long as he accepted his conditions, then he would become his "father-in-law", and everyone would be a family from now on. It is a good deal to get a powerful ally with just one daughter.
These two are willing to use their own bodies to block the pace of the Jin army going south! The implication is that he can concentrate on dealing with Da Song without any scruples.
To be honest, Zheng Fei was very excited, Ye Luchun obviously did not have the ability to predict the future, he simply thought that he could help him block the Jin Army's "revenge", but he didn't know that no matter what, the Jin Army would go south, and this was just one of his big hearts!
I had previously envisioned that by helping the Liao State, they could curb the development of the Jin State, but this plan was bankrupt because of the mediocrity and incompetence of the Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi, and now Yelu Chun's proposal has unexpectedly found a new way, Ye Lu Chun is the main battle faction of the Liao State, different from Yelu Yanxi, who is greedy for pleasure and retreats to the Jin everywhere and self-destroys the Great Wall to bring the Liao State into the abyss step by step, he is the most determined fighter against the Jin, if he can become the emperor of the Liao State, then the life of the Jin State will be much worse, at least, It can also buy yourself a little more time.
Zheng Fei decided to accept Yeluchun's conditions and support him as the emperor of Liao!
However, yes, Zheng Fei does not intend to accept another condition of "marriage", because he now has three wives, the Li family sisters and Hu Sanniang, and the husband and wife are loving and happy, and the whole family is happy, and he has never thought of taking another concubine. In addition, even if you take a concubine, it is absolutely impossible to accept a Khitan woman as a wife, if this matter is to be spread, how should the people of the world think of themselves? I'm afraid that it won't be long before the word "traitor" spreads.
After Zheng Fei made up his mind, he immediately sent a letter to Hua Rong, asking him to reply to Ye Luchun according to his instructions.