The Liao Kingdom has recently fallen into a strange state. The victory in the Battle of Xijin Province eased the crisis of the Liao State in the face of the Great Zhou and Jurchen attacks. After the defeat of the Great Zhou soldiers and horses, the Jurchen army did not dare to approach Dading Mansion again, but quickly retreated to the west of Liaoyang Mansion on Tokyo Road, and prepared a defensive posture.

It stands to reason that in this situation, the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State should have breathed a long sigh of relief and celebrated the alleviation of the crisis. However, for Yelu Zongyuan, he still felt a lot of pressure. The peace with the Great Zhou was first opposed by many people, and the most fierce opposition was not others, it was Han Desui, the abbot of the Great Liao State, who made great contributions in the battle of Xijin Mansion and was named the king of the Southern Courtyard. Han Desui believed that he should take advantage of the situation to storm the Great Zhou, take the opportunity to annex all the land in the north of the Great Zhou, and obtain a large amount of human and material resources. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Based on Han Desui's years of experience in confrontation with Da Zhou, he believes that this kind of opportunity is simply a godsend. If Da Zhou is given a chance to breathe, then Da Zhou will recover quickly, and the effect of the great victory in the Battle of Xijin Mansion will be greatly reduced.

It is like the head of a flood, when the flood peak hits, the trend of the flood peak is devastating. With the power of victory, you can march forward. If this optimal opportunity is delayed, the power of the winner will fade, and the loser will have a chance to breathe and readjust. Then things are much more difficult to do.

For Han Desui, going south has been his dream for many years. He has lived in Xijin Mansion for a long time, and has guarded this largest city where the Liao and the Great Zhou communicate for so many years, and he thinks that he has a deeper understanding of the Great Zhou than all the Liao courts. At the same time, he also felt the wealth and prosperity of Da Zhou most intuitively, which made him salivate over Da Zhou.

He especially studied the terrain of the northern part of the Great Zhou, and from the perspective of military operations, as long as he broke through a few border towns in the Great Zhou, the capital city of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Bianliang, was actually at his fingertips. In addition to the natural danger of the Yellow River, the north of the capital of Bianliang is a flat river, and there is no danger to defend. The difficulty is that it is difficult to break through more than a dozen border towns such as border towns such as Xiongzhou, Bazhou, Rongcheng and Baozhou, and the other party is heavily stationed, and the city is built like an iron bucket, which is really helpless. So now that the 300,000 troops of the Great Zhou are almost lost, isn't this just an opportunity to break through the other side's border towns in one go? As soon as the border town is broken, what resistance does Da Zhou have? Soon it will be destroyed, and the general soldiers will come to the city of Bianliang.

I have to say that Han Desui's idea is quite reasonable. Now the elite of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been lost, and a group of remnants of the border towns have been defeated, and the old and weak soldiers are also in a trough. At this time, once the elite of the Liao State is exhausted, and the power of a great victory is attacked, I am afraid that it will not really be destroyed. If you don't do it at this moment, wait for the Great Zhou to slow down, the soldiers and horses will be replenished, and the morale will be restored, it will not be a good opportunity.

However, Han Desui's thinking is clearly an impulse to fight for his life, and his fundamental drawback is that he ignores the threat of the Jurchens in the abdomen. Han Desui had never fought with the Jurchens, and he was not interested in the Jurchens. He even felt that Yelu Zongyuan was really incompetent, how could a mere Jurchen tribe be encircled and suppressed for three years and still not resolved, on the contrary, let them sit big, with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. It's a big joke. He laughed at Yelu Zongyuan in front of him, although Yelu Zongyuan was angry in his heart, he could only endure it. Because he couldn't offend Han Desui. If there is anything in the Great Liao Imperial Court that Yelu Zongyuan, an extremely tough and fierce person, dare not offend, then Han Desui must be one of them.

Han Desui's plan for how to prevent the Jurchens from attacking on their backs was to send some soldiers and horses to defend Zhongjing Road and Dading Mansion, and all the rest of the elite attacked Dazhou. After taking Bianliang City, all problems were solved. When the time comes, someone will ask for money, and there will be money, and there will be whatever they want. Let's go back and solve the Jurchen problem. He even said that even if Zhongjing Dao was given to the Jurchens, it would be nothing, because the Great Liao would have a wider and richer southern territory, and even if it was exchanged, it would be worth it.

This radical idea was naturally not supported by everyone, including Yelu Zongyuan and his Yeluchun Yelucai, including Prime Minister Han Yanshou, and a large number of tribal leaders expressed opposition. Of course, Yelu Zongyuan was unwilling to fight for his life, and if he lost, wouldn't he lose the throne of the Great Liao Emperor, and the loss was too great. Coupled with the understanding of Da Zhou for many years, they all think that this is a big piece of fat meat, but they can't eat a fat man in one bite. If you really want to provoke Da Zhou to fight back, it should definitely not be underestimated. The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, even if the Great Zhou is declining now, even if the Great Zhou has just been defeated by the hands of the Great Liao, there is actually no chance of winning.

In addition to the fact that others think that the Great Zhou is not so easy to be defeated easily, the important reason why they oppose Han Desui is also because their roots are in the land of Da Liao. Their tribe, their property, and their property are all in Daliao. Han Desui said it easily, according to his thoughts, everyone would have to follow him and make a desperate bet, and the people of his own tribe and their own land and industry would all be ruined. Moreover, in the eyes of many people, the land of the Southern Great Zhou is not as rich and fertile as the tribal land they own. As the so-called broom cherishes itself, no matter how bad it is, it is also a place to give birth to oneself, and it is also a place where oneself can gallop across the country. No matter how good the south is, it is also a foreign land. If you ask the people of Da Liao if they are willing to move to the land of Da Zhou in the south, I am afraid that most of them are not willing at all.

Although Han Desui had a high status and great merit, his proposal naturally could not be implemented when everyone opposed it. Yelu Zongyuan and most of the ministers of the Great Liao were inclined to the second plan of Prime Minister Han Yanshou, which was to negotiate peace with the Great Zhou and break up the alliance between the Great Zhou and the Jurchens. At the same time, he knocked on the bamboo pole of the Great Zhou Dynasty fiercely, and used the money, food and materials supplied by the Great Zhou as the capital to exterminate the Jurchens. In this way, it can immediately make up for the losses caused by the Great War, and it can also weaken the strength of the Great Zhou while exterminating the Jurchens with all its might. This plan is called killing two birds with one stone, and it has been approved by the vast majority of people. Han Yanshou's scheming plan was also approved by Yelu Zongyuan. However, Yelu Zongyuan added one more to Han Yanshou's plan, that is, after the destruction of the Jurchens, the Great Liao will target the Great Zhou and punish this unkind and unrighteous country that deceived the Great Liao.

The reason why Yelu Zongyuan added this article was not only because he had already coveted Great Zhou, but also because of the pressure he was under. The Great Liao Imperial Court is actually not monolithic now, and many people are very dissatisfied with Yelu Zongyuan. Yelu Zongyuan had already caused the dissatisfaction of the major tribes, and if it weren't for Han Yanshou to bridge the gap and offer generous conditions, the battle of Xijin Mansion would have been a failure. However, these tribal leaders did not know at the time that the collapse of the dam in the Yakniu River Gorge in Nakyodo was the idea of Yelu Zongyuan. But this matter is obviously impossible to hide.

Therefore, after the battle of Xijin Mansion, the tribal leaders learned that Yelu Zongyuan had issued an order to dig a dam, which caused 200,000 people in Zhongjing Province to be washed away by floods for dozens of miles into a place of death, and they were shocked and had a new understanding of Yelu Zongyuan. Yelu Zongyuan's prestige and reputation among the major tribes have reached a new low, and this kind of emperor who does not care about the life and death of the people under his rule is simply unique in the nearly two hundred years since the founding of the Great Liao State. This person is too cruel and has no bottom line. Then the conditions he agreed to will definitely turn his face in the future, and tear it up when he says it's torn. This person is not enough to believe and rely on.

Therefore, the leaders of the tribes had secretly reached a consensus that they must guard against Yelu Zongyuan. They had even put forward conditions to Yelu Zongyuan through Han Yanshou, they demanded a high degree of autonomy, and asked Yelu Zongyuan to announce the people of the world as evidence. In fact, this is to make a fuss for independence, and to split the territory of the major tribes in Shangjing. Nominally, it belongs to the Great Liao, but in fact, it requires all the officials and garrisons stationed by the central government of the Great Liao, and even all the military, political and financial powers such as money, grain, and taxation to be recovered, and the imperial court will never be allowed to touch it.

Yelu Zongyuan's anger after knowing this can be imagined, this is to greatly weaken his power as the emperor of Liao, these tribal leaders are so hateful that they dare to make such excessive demands. What is the difference between this and rebellion, but it is a literal difference. But Yelu Zongyuan also knew that he couldn't fall out with the tribes at this time, and now the imperial court has suffered serious losses in soldiers and horses, with a total strength of less than 500,000, of which only about 150,000 cavalry remain. The tribal alliance has more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and all of them are cavalry, and the advance has become an indispensable force to a large extent. If you offend them at this moment, if they take these 200,000 soldiers and horses to pick their sons, or rebel, they will not be able to deal with it.

Of course, Yelu Zongyuan refused to provoke them, he asked Han Yanshou to continue to stabilize the tribal leaders, telling them that as long as they could suppress the Jurchen rebellion and stabilize the situation in Daliao, as long as their soldiers and horses could obey their orders to fight bravely, then they could agree to all the conditions. The premise is that they must not be half-hearted, otherwise they will not agree to their conditions if they cannot achieve their goal.

The reason why Yelu Zongyuan decided to add a plan to march into the Great Zhou immediately after destroying the Jurchens was to maximize the use of the tribe's soldiers and horses to fight for himself and squeeze the value of the soldiers and horses of the tribal alliance. At the same time, with the help of the enemy, the strength of the tribe's soldiers and horses is weakened. For every time they die, they have one less opponent to punish them in the future. That's right, Yelu Zongyuan has already thought that once the situation stabilizes, he will not hesitate to wipe out all the tribes that are threatening him at this time. Even if he killed all the tribes of their tribe, he would never tolerate their threats and coercion at this time, and no one in this world could coerce him.

In short, the Liao court has been in this feeling of excitement and carnival because of victory for a period of time, and at the same time, it is also in a kind of noise and unhappiness caused by disagreement. There is more coercion and trading in the dark, and the hidden calculations under the calm. So it feels weird and subtle.