It was late at night after drinking, so they went back to rest. Du Zhongxiao lived in the residence of the former commander of the Wansheng Army, which was convenient.

Go out and look at the stars in the sky, there is no moon. Yelu Xiantong grabbed Yelu Renxian and Xiao Xulie, and said, "It's a long night, and I can't sleep for a while. Nothing to do, let's gossip. ”

As soon as Yelu Renxian and Xiao Xulie heard it, they knew what Yelu Xiantong meant, so naturally they didn't refuse. The three of them lived in one place, returned to the courtyard, moved a few chairs, and sat down under the starlight.

Yelu Xiantong said: "Today, I heard that Taiwei Du explained the meaning of this prison camp, what do you think?" ”

Yeluren pondered for a while and said, "If what Captain Du said is true, this prison camp is not a bad place to go. If we go to Kaifeng City, we can't actually do anything. A few days ago, I went to my brother and asked me to run a restaurant with him. I thought about it and thought about it, and I felt that it was not right in the end. They said that we should be ordinary people, but if we go out of the city, we must report to the government. ”

Xiao Xulie shook his head: "What ordinary people, just talk about it." Ten years from now, perhaps, not now. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of troops captured by the Song army, there are still many places and many people in the Khitan, how can they be allowed to do whatever they want! ”

Yelu Xiantong sighed: "Yes, I'm also thinking about how to do it." Staying at home in Xijin Mansion, with wealth with me, I am different from King Xiao. How can you survive if you don't work in prison camps? And in my opinion, arranging us in a prison camp and saying that we are officials, is actually different from what other Khitans just do. In other words, we are also locked up here. ”

Xiao Xulie said: "The king is right, we are being locked up here. It's just that we don't have to do heavy work, and there is Yulu, and the Song Dynasty treats us well. In my opinion, you don't have to think about it so much, you just need to do things and get money. ”

Yelu Xiantong said: "This is a good word, but there is an embarrassment. The Holy One is also locked up here, so what if something asks us? ”

Yelu Renxian and Xiao Xulie were silent, and fell silent for a while.

In fact, the three of them knew that Du Zhongxiao said that they would not be allowed to manage people directly, but after all, they were in charge of things in the prison camp and had power in their hands. If you have the right, there is a problem, what should you do if the other Khitans ask for it? With the status of three people, the others can be ignored, but Yeluhongqi can't be ignored.

After a long time, Xiao Xulie said: "There is no way, let's try to hide." I really can't hide from it, so I can only pretend to be stupid. What the Song people are most afraid of is that the prisoners are connected with each other, and the prevention is the deepest, so they should try to avoid it. ”

Yelu Xiantong could only sigh. Before being captured, he was a privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, one of the most important figures in the Khitan. If you don't care, how can you be worthy of Yeluhongji? But if it is managed, once it is discovered by the Song people, it will be a suicide.

The Khitan is one country with two systems, the Han people and the Bohai people use the Han system, and the other ethnic groups use the Khitan system. Correspondingly, there are the Privy Councils of the North and the South, and the Prime Ministers of the North and the South. Compared with the Song Dynasty, the power of the Khitan Privy Council and the Prime Minister was just reversed, and the main power was in the Privy Council. The Privy Council and the Northern Prime Minister are in charge of Khitan affairs, and the Southern Privy Council and the Southern Prime Minister are in charge of the affairs of the Han and Bohai people, in fact, the power is mainly in the Northern Privy Council. The privy envoy of the Northern Court, commonly known as the king of the Northern Court, was the first person in Khitan government affairs other than the emperor.

In fact, the Privy Council of the Song Dynasty was also divided into two houses, the east and the west, but only its name existed, and the official seal was also there, but in fact there was only one house. This was inherited from the late Tang Dynasty, the same as the Khitan, but the later development was different.

As the king of the North Courtyard, Yelu Xiantong has been by Yelu Hongji's side for the longest time, and his feelings are also deep, and he feels that he can't cut it for a while.

Yeluren said first: "Great King, now, don't think about that. The saint is in full bloom, and his stubborn personality is normal, we just don't know. Even if something really comes to you, try to avoid it. ”

Yelu Xiantong said: "Is this really how to avoid it?" Even if it is ordered by the Holy One himself, he will ignore it? ”

Yeluren shook his head first: "I know what you think. If it's a trivial matter, you don't have to come up and ask for it, you can help naturally. It must be a great thing for the Holy One to come over personally. King, we have been defeated, and there are things that cannot be done. ”

Yelu Xiantong was silent, looking at the stars in the sky, his expression gloomy. Yes, it has been defeated, no matter whether it is accepted, it is defeated after all. Yelu Xiantong has been by Yelu Hongji's side for a long time, and he knows that Yelu Hongji will never admit defeat, and he will inevitably cause trouble. The prison camp, after all, is a Khitan prisoner of war camp, what will happen then? Yelu Xiantong didn't know either.

Seeing that Xiao Xulie didn't speak, Yeluren said first: "It's not early, let's rest early." In the past few days, Captain Du has been in the prison camp, and there must be many things. If we don't behave well, we're afraid of gossip. ”

After speaking, together with Xiao Xulie, he got up and left.

Halfway through, Xiao Xulie said: "Stay behind, look at the meaning of the king of the North Courtyard, I'm only afraid of causing trouble later." ”

Yeluren sighed first: "He was by the side of the saint for the longest time, and in the end, he persuaded the saint to surrender to the Song army." If the Holy One really made trouble in the prison camp, how could he get out? We just watch him a lot, remember not to provoke things on ourselves, and try to remind him as much as possible. ”

Xiao Xulie was silent for a while, and said: "Stay behind, although Youzhou is defeated, the strength of the Khitan still exists." You say, if the Song Dynasty attacks Zhongjing, can it hold it? As long as you keep Zhongjing, everything will be fine. ”

Yeluren first looked at the night in the distance, and after a long while, he said, "I advise you not to have illusions. To say that the strength still exists, but it is just to lie to yourself. The 400,000-strong army went south, and the young and strong people of their own clan were basically here, and they were all lost in the first battle. Du Taiwei made it clear that these people would not be put back, but would stay in the Song Dynasty to build bridges and pave roads. There is no one, how to hold Zhongjing? I estimate that this autumn, the Song Dynasty will attack in a big way. ”

Xiao Xulie sighed: "Although I know this, I always think in my heart that one day it will be different." Our Khitan army can turn defeat into victory and regroup. Alas, how powerful the Khitan used to be, how could it be like this! ”

Yeluren shook his head first, only to feel his heart numb. He is more unlucky than Xiao Xulie. In Hequ Road that year, Yelu Zongzhen was killed by Du Zhongxiao with artillery bombardment, and he was the king of the North Courtyard, and led the army to withdraw from Hequ Road. It was also in Shangjing Road that he suppressed the various Tibetan tribes. Yelu Hongji and Yelu Chongyuan fought to the death, and there was no rebellion in the Tibetan tribe. Finally, Yelu Hongji won, and it was time for him to come out, but he didn't expect to encounter this big defeat. Yeluren first saw clearly that the current Khitan had a fundamental gap with the national strength of the Song Dynasty, and it could not be hostile to Ben.

What happens later? It was nothing more than the Song army continuing to advance north and destroying the Khitan. The strength of the two sides was comparable, and the Khitan could not resist. Especially since the Song Dynasty had a railway, the long road was no longer an obstacle, what else did the Khitan have to fight against the Song Dynasty?

The nomads of the northern steppes have been fighting with the farming peoples of the Central Plains for thousands of years. There is a going to be a result in this battle. It's just that for the Khitans, this result is a little difficult to accept.

Shaking his head, Yelu Hongji said, "It's late at night, let's rest early." These things don't have to be thought about in the future. ”

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