Yelu Dashi detained Zhao Ke, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, and he also camped outside Bianliang City, known as the imperial account. Except for the 50,000 cavalry who marched south to the Song Jianghuai, most of the main forces of the Liao army were stranded in the Song State's Gyeonggi and Hebei Zhulu, on the one hand, to put pressure on the Song army in Luoyang and Xiangyang to prevent it from dividing its troops to assist the southeast, and on the other hand, to attack the remnants of the Song army who were not called to surrender, and to suppress the Song people who were in trouble.

Because of the rapid invasion of the Liao army to the south, the counties and counties lost in Hebei were only a few. Many Song soldiers and civilians in the lonely city, after receiving Zhao Ke's edict, still did not surrender, the northern court of Liao sent the Song Dynasty high-ranking officials of Bianliang to surrender, if they still did not surrender, they concentrated the army and attacked one by one with iron barrel artillery. On the one hand, although the remnants of the Song army in Hebei were numerous, they could not echo each other, and they were trapped in the walled cities and were broken by the Liao army. On the other hand, some Song troops were scattered because they were defeated by the Liao army, scattered into the mountains and forests, and attacked the Liao army in all directions. Wang Yan's Lulin heroes in Zhao'an, Hebei Province, also erected a banner of rebellion, recruiting the remnants of the defeated army, and his power soared. Fu Xuan, Meng De, Jiao Wentong, Liu Ze and other giants who were wanted by the Northern Court of Liao gathered in Taihang Mountain to oppose Liao. Liu Liyun of Zhending Mansion gathered people to raise trouble under the name of equal wealth and poverty. In addition, there are Jizhou Yutian Zhihe Zen Master to contact tens of thousands of monks and laypeople to rise up, Wuma Mountain Zhao Bangjie claimed to be the Zhao Song clan to stand on its own, and the remnants of the Song people responded when they heard the wind, gathering hundreds of thousands. Even Ding Zhuang, a Song man who was kidnapped by the Liao army and sent to Shangjing, conspired to start an incident, but before it was launched, the Liao people noticed it and beheaded hundreds of people.

At the same time, the Hedong Song army quickly negotiated peace with the Erbo tribe, and Yang Yanqing's entire army withdrew from Yunzhou and retreated into Yanmen Pass. The Hedong camp formed a heroic alliance in Taihang Mountain and assembled the army to the south. Hedong was condescending to the Central Plains, and the Hedong camp came out, which immediately formed a huge pressure on the Liao army in the Bianliang area. Yelu Dashi repaired his soldiers and prepared for the ensuing battle. At the same time, Xiao Tachi and Bo Shengkuo were strictly ordered to attack Yanmen Pass, so as not to let the Hedong camp go south.

In a few months, the Liao army invaded a large area of land in Henan and Hebei, and countless Song people were captured as slaves and sold to workshops as slaves at a discount, and the meritorious generals of the Southern Expedition were also given a large number of slaves. Yelu Dashi encouraged the Khitan nobles to recruit Song craftsmen to open workshops, and deliberately organized blacksmiths, carpenters, leatherworkers and other craftsmen into artisan households, whose status was second only to the military households of the Northern Courtyard, but above the ordinary Jurchen households, Bohai households, Murowei households, Tatar households, Qianjiasi households, Uighur households, and other miscellaneous households. Compared with the common people of the Song Dynasty who could be looted as slaves at any time and requisitioned as a sign army, the situation and status of the artisan households were even more vastly different. As soon as the edict to screen the craftsmen was issued, a large number of Song craftsmen from the Daimyo Mansion and the Bianliang Zhucheng City soon applied. The number of artisan households in the household registration of the North Courtyard increased dramatically, and a large number of blacksmith households and young strong men were sent to various iron mines to smelt iron and control the army. The original Khitan workshop could not produce soft smoke, heavy embroidered brocade, gold silk silk, with the craftsmen of the Southern Dynasty, as long as the labor is enough, as much as there are.

In the past few months, a large number of Song people have either died in the fire or been taken captive as slaves, many cities have been ruined into ruins, the population has been halved, and even only one or two out of ten remain. The countryside was barren, and part of the vacated land was rewarded by the Liao State to the southern expeditionary generals to establish large farms, and the slaves were enslaved to plant rice, wheat, mulberry and hemp, and the other part was planted with pasture grass as pasture for grazing cattle, sheep and war horses. The more the Liao army gathered, the more land the pasture occupied, and when spring came from the east, the weeds in the fields sprouted green, and they grew very fast. The cavalry of the Liao army grazing horses in Henan and Hebei have thousands of horses in large groups and hundreds of horses in small groups, which makes people feel like they are in the grassland of Mobei. For hundreds of years, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty said that the dynasty had lost the land for raising horses, so it could not compete with the Khitan and Xia kingdoms in cavalry. The captive ministers of the Song Dynasty heard the neighing of horses all the time, the hooves of horses roared, and when they came out, they saw herds of war horses. The monarchs and ministers looked at each other, I don't know why the Liao people can raise horses in Henan, but this dynasty cannot, and in the end it can only be attributed to the fact that the Khitan people are naturally good at raising horses.

Although the Khitan people came from the land of Mobei, they have been influenced by the culture of the Central Plains for a long time. The Liao State has been in China for a hundred years, and the Khitan people have been sinicized very deeply, reading Han books and speaking Chinese. Khitan women were influenced by the customs and culture of the Southern Dynasties, and even the daughters of the Xiao family often made makeup for the daughters of the Han family. The Khitan magnates preferred the gentleness of the Southern Dynasty, and most of the princes and ministers had singers and maids from the Southern Dynasty. Before the southern expedition, Yelu Dashi instigated the Khitan people at the bottom to restore the old Khitan customs and wash away the extravagance and flashiness of the Southern Dynasty, but it was not completely prohibited. A large part of those who wholeheartedly supported his measures were Yelu Tiege, Yelu Yanshan and other henchmen and young people who had been following him in trouble, and the other large part were poor Khitans who could not afford to enjoy the extravagance of the Southern Dynasty. Since the Southern Expedition, a large number of silk satins, clever playthings, picture books and books of the Southern Dynasties have flocked to the north. Shangjing Road, Zhongjing Road, Nanjing Road and other Liao State rear areas are even more southerly winds, and the soldiers who went out to rob the women of the Southern Dynasty, and even hid in the camp, have been repeatedly banned.

Yelu Dashi repeatedly issued edicts to clarify the distinction between the Khitan and the Southern Dynasties, but the results were not obvious. On this day, he took the schoolwork of the crown prince Yelu Yilie, and found that Yilie knew a lot about the system of the Southern Dynasties, so he interrogated him carefully. Under the gaze of his father, who was as fierce as an eagle, Yelu Yilie did not feel a little trembling, and replied: "Father, my dynasty ruled the northerners with the rule of the northern country, and the rule of the southern dynasty ruled the Han'er, and now we occupy a large area of the land of the Southern Dynasty, and there are so many Han'er, so the sons and daughters have read two more books of the Southern Dynasty's rules and regulations. If it's inappropriate, the son won't look at it again. ”

According to the name of the Han people, Yelu Yilie has reached the age of binding the crown, and like other Khitan boys, he has endured hard in the military camp for several years, practicing the methods of mounted archery and battle formations, and has also met a group of henchmen of the same age. Yelu Dashi itself is well-read, champion and first. Since he was a child, Yelu Yilie has been studying Khitan Studies, Sinology and Western Studies at the same time, and he has never missed a day. If you talk about the depth of hard work, it is not inferior to the cantilevered cone strand of the Southern Dynasty. He is seven feet long, because he is not strong, he is a little thin, and compared with other Khitan youths, he also has a little more Sven temperament.

"The rule of law in the north with the rule of the Khitan, and the rule of law in the south with the rule of the southern dynasty," Yelu Dashi looked at Yilie, his eyes changed several times, and finally turned peaceful, and said slowly, "Although it sounds good, it is actually a big mistake." There is a saying in the Southern Dynasties, the people are like water, and the society is like a boat. The Khitans and the Han people are both water, and no matter how you govern them separately, it is impossible to completely separate the two sides. As long as it is within a country, the customs of the Khitan and the Han people will inevitably influence each other. The number of Han people is dozens of times that of our Khitans, and if they maintain their original customs, they can only make our Khitans gradually lose their original colors and become the same as them. Therefore, we must not only govern the northerners with the Khitan law, but also rule the Han people with the Khitan law. ”

Jereil looked puzzled and asked, "How can they make us like them instead?" I, the Khitan, are the soldiers of the Northern Courtyard, and the Han'er of the Southern Dynasty are just slaves. The words of our Khitan people are military orders, and the Han'er only have to obey them. ”

Yelu Dashi didn't say much, he ordered someone to take a jar of muddy water from the outside, and then took a large jar of water, and he first said to Yelu Yi: "The people of the Southern Dynasty are like this jar of dirty water, and we Khitan people are like a jar of clear water." Then in front of Yi Lie, he poured the muddy water and clean water together, and said in a deep voice: "This can of dirty water and a can of clean water are mixed together, and what you get is never the same half, but two cans of dirty water." Clean water can't make dirty water clear, but a little dirty water can make clean water dirty. The so-called from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift difficult. It is difficult to make the people of the Southern Dynasties as simple as the Khitans, but it is too easy for the people of the Southern Dynasties to make the Khitans accustomed to leisure and luxury. ”

"Are the people of the Southern Dynasties dirty water ,......,?" Jereil touched the brocade of his robe, and although he may not believe it all, he did not dare to question it anymore, so he could only lean over and say yes.

Yelu Dashi said in a deep voice: "My Khitan people are far less than the Song people, why can I defeat the Song State?" The people of the northern part of our country were born in the desert, living in pursuit of water and grass, grazing and shooting meat and cheese for a living, accustomed to fighting, simple in nature, and only looking at strength, similar to tigers, leopards and wolves. And we, the Khitans, are the kings of beasts. The people of the Song Kingdom are not not many warriors, nor are they disadvantaged soldiers, but they were born between warm mountains and soft waters, and they like to be comfortable and peaceful in their bones, pay attention to gentleness, courtesy and humility, and never really like to fight and fight. The king of Shang fought against Xionghu, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu, all of which were heroes of the moment. But in the history books of the Song Kingdom, which one is not a famous tyrant? In the name of fake benevolence, righteousness and morality, a powerless gangster, he actually sneered at the heroes? Since the Song people love a comfortable life so much, no matter how many soldiers and horses they have, they can only become cattle and sheep grazing by our Khitans. But," he patted Yi Lie on the shoulder, "if we become like the Song people who live in comfort and peace, then we will also become other people's cattle and sheep, so we must protect the old Khitan customs This bottle of clear water, and we must not let the muddy water of the Southern Dynasty be stained." ”

"Erchen," Yelu Yilie said in a deep voice, "Erchen understands. ”

Yelu Dashi nodded with satisfaction and waved him to retreat.

After Yilie retreated, the privy envoy of the Northern Court, Yelu Tiege, came to meet again. Although the Liao army captured Bianliang, the capital of the Song Kingdom, it was still surrounded by three armies: the Hedong Camp, the Xijing Camp and the Southeast Camp. As long as the Song army eased up, the situation was very dangerous, and they might be forced to withdraw from Bianliang. Therefore, Yelu Tiege advocated that it was necessary to take advantage of the fact that Yu Wei of the Southern Expedition was still there and the Song army had palpitations in his heart, and he should first solve the three-way siege. Among these three routes, Liu Yanqing has the least troops, and the Xiangyang area has the shortest operating time. The Liao army concentrated its main force to attack Liu Yanqing's department, which was the easiest to win, and it could also be quickly resolved. Moreover, even if the Song army could not be completely annihilated in the southeast, its remnants could be expelled to the south, so that it and Chen Dongyue Fei's troops could compete for the Jinghu area, making the Song State's internal strife in the southeast more intense. This is a strategy to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and it also responds to the Liao army's partial division in the southern expedition.

Author: I'm on a business trip, and I'm cheating on the hotel network, so I'm a little late to upload. The update may be a little later in these two days. Probably after Monday it will be normal. Thank you for your bearing. Thank you for your support!