The appearance of the Han people in the Datong area is very consistent with their personalities, with square faces, sharp edges, and short and large noses, giving people a sense of strength and strength.

They are simple and kind, simple and thrifty, men and women weave, far away from luxury, but seek food and clothing, live a quiet life, simple and simple like the Beiyue Heng Mountain. They are the most faithful inheritors of the ancient ancestors' heritage, and they are a simple people.

In terms of character, they have always been a contradictory unity, both bold and stubborn, both chivalrous and conservative and stingy, both strong and internal, but often timid and weak, which has a lot to do with the geographical environment in which they live.

Now the news that Xijin Mansion was taken over by the Great Song Dynasty is like a warm wind that has swept the entire land of Yanyun with the arrival of spring, and it is an indisputable fact that the Khitans have defeated and retreated to defend Datong Mansion.

Seeing that the people here are still working according to the original rules of life, Yelu Zong's heart slowly let go, he knows that all this is only wartime, when the news of Xijin Mansion reaches Datong Mansion, the Han people here will definitely spread gossip.

After two failures, Yelu Zong really understood many truths at once, such as the people's hearts in Datong Mansion...... People are like this and always compare, although it is often said that people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away, but they still unconsciously make comparisons.

What is Xijin Mansion like, although Yelu Zongzhen has not seen Qingyan, but he can see the suspicion from the secret spy's report.

Even people as proud as him have to admit that the Great Song Dynasty was much stronger than the Great Liao in terms of local governance, and the war-torn Xijin Mansion was quickly built in an orderly manner, although it was not as prosperous as the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo City, but it was prosperous.

From the conversation with Zhao Zhen, Yelu Zongzhen understood that the reason why Xijin Mansion had such a rapid rise must be inseparable from the support of Zhao Zhen, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, but to be honest, Yelu Zongzhen knew that these were useless, and he himself did not have the ability of Zhao Zhen to connect everything in series and advance it in an orderly manner.

Looking at the nervous and excited appearance of the people of Datong Mansion, Yelu Zongzhen could only admit that he was not as good as Zhao Zhen in governing the country, and as for the Khitan people's best warfare...... At most, it is also between the two of them, after all, the Song people's plan for the Northern Expedition is not a day or two, and they are in danger, so they are naturally not the same.

Yelu Zongzhen took a deep breath, the top priority at this time should be to strengthen the city defense of Datong Mansion, with a perfect garrison to resist the attack of the Great Song Dynasty, the artillery in the hands of the Song army is not only a harvest weapon, but also a siege weapon, Yelu Zongxin said, this artillery often works wonders when attacking the city, with the sound of thunder, the strong city wall will shake the mountain, and the weak one will collapse directly.

At first, Yelu Zongzhen didn't believe it, but when he saw the cannons shot from the wall of Xijin Mansion tearing apart his Chinese army's big tent with a terrible whistling sound, he really realized the power of what Zhao Zhen said.

If the Great Song Dynasty had thousands of such sharp weapons, attacking the city would be like walking on the ground!

When Yelu Zongzhen discussed this idea with Zhang Jian, he was denied by Zhang Jian for the first time: "Your Majesty is too worried, if the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty really attacks Datong Mansion, he will definitely not break the city with artillery." The battle of Xijin Mansion was just a pretentious two, and the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was willing to use the elite in his hands to attack the city rather than use the might of artillery, which was a constraint, because the people in the city were all Han Chinese! ”

Yelu Zongzhen nodded, what Zhang Jian said was that the Han people in the city were the most advantageous shield for themselves to resist the artillery of the Great Song Dynasty, unless Zhao Zhen was crazy, how could it be possible to attack the city with artillery, after all, his benevolent name was far and wide......

Thinking of this, Yelu Zong really felt panicked in his heart!

Where did he Zhao Zhen come from! I don't know why people in the world have such an evaluation of him, he went west to conquer the party and seized the land of the two states just so that the Great Song Dynasty had the land of horse grazing, is this benevolence? He destroyed Dali in the south, just because he obtained Dali's Yunnan copper, is this benevolence? Not to mention that he sent troops to the countries of the South China Sea in the Great Song Dynasty, and even those foreign barbarians did not let go, which can also be called benevolence? !

Unconvinced, Yelu Zongzhen said: "If he can be regarded as a benevolent monarch of the Great Song Dynasty, then I am a saint......

Zhang Jian smiled slightly: "Does Your Majesty think that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty can't afford this benevolent character?" But everything he did was done by Renjun in the eyes of the people of the Han family, and internally, he implemented the rule of the saints, cutting off the three redundant diseases of the Great Song Dynasty, this alone can be regarded as the work of Renjun, and the most important thing is that he benefits the people, except for the harsh taxes of the five generations......"

"Exemption from exorbitant taxes?! Hehe, he Zhao Zhen said in front of me, but he said that there is no shortage of money, and the goods bought by the businessmen contain taxes! ”

Zhang Jian's eyelids raised: "Your Majesty, the people in the world here are the Song people, they do business in the world, they teach and educate people, they go out to travel, they are all praising the benevolence of the Great Song Emperor!" How many Song people in the world can be counted, someone will say a word today, someone will say a word tomorrow, after a long time, it will naturally become the world people say so. ”

Yelu Zongzhen pursed his lips: "You mean because there are many Song people?" ”

Zhang Jian sighed and said: "That's right, to be precise, there are many Han people in the world, this is the advantage of the Great Song Dynasty, although my Da Liao claims to have a million, but these millions are also people and soldiers, Your Majesty has ever thought that unless the war to destroy the country, otherwise Da Liao can really have a million people?" ”

Yelu Zongzhen nodded with an ugly face: "Indeed, unless there is a war to destroy the country, I will not be able to summon the millions of soldiers of Daliao." ”

"But the Song people can!"

"It can't be!"

Yeluzong really didn't want to deny Zhang Jian's words, the Khitan warriors are all fierce, they are warriors when they go to the battlefield, and they are herdsmen when they go down the battlefield, which can only reach millions, where can a Han dynasty like the Great Song Dynasty find these soldiers?

Zhang Jian bowed and said: "Your Majesty, the military system of the Great Song Dynasty has long been changed, from the original recruitment to conscription, these conscripts are changed every four years, and the replaced conscripts go home to farm, and the Great Song Dynasty reduces his family's summer and autumn taxes, and these conscripts are mostly simple and honest peasant children, and the age must not exceed twenty-five, the younger one is eighteen or nineteen years old, and the older one is only in his twenties, and after four years, he will retire from farming and then change to the new army, if there is no war, twelve years will be counted down......"

Yelu Zong really secretly calculated to himself and couldn't help but shudder, just with the current 600,000 troops of the Great Song Dynasty, he could save 1.8 million troops in twelve years! Or some armies that don't need to be supported by the imperial court!

"With so many people, once the war starts, people can't stand eating horses and chewing Da Song!"

Yelu Zongzhen still didn't give up, and put forward a negative word, but Zhang Jian shook his head: "I can afford it, the Great Song Dynasty continues to develop the land of Lingnan, and the original miasma land has now become a land of fish and rice, in just ten years, how amazing is this?" This is not counting Dali and the South China Sea countries, I heard that the rice there is twice a year, and in some places even three times a year! ”