"There are thieves in Henan and Hebei, although they are all rabble, vulnerable to a single attack, but the thieves are scattered and scattered. When the army was cleared, the thieves hid in the mountains, forests and rivers, and as soon as the army left, they came out again to harass our army's grain road and coerce the people up the mountain. There were no less than hundreds of thousands of such thieves, and the North Courtyard mobilized a lot of soldiers and horses to the south to clear them, so that their arrogance was a little weaker. Now that we have to concentrate our men and horses to deal with the Song army, I am afraid that the forces behind them will be empty, and the thieves will resurge. ”

"What countermeasures does the North Courtyard have?" Yelu Dashi asked, he picked up a cup of tea on the table, and handed it to Yelu Tiege.

Yelu Tiege took the tea bowl, grabbed a pinch of powdered sugar with his fingers, added a piece of cheese, and naturally put his two fingers into the tea soup and stirred it, and then drank it, and drank half a bowl of tea into his stomach in a big gulp, and the aroma of steaming oil tea seemed to steam the pores of the whole body to open up. The soldiers and horses going south are limited, and in the face of the situation that soldiers must be used everywhere, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, the North Courtyard does consider it, but this countermeasure, Yelu Tiege himself is too inaccurate.

Yelu Tiege hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "The ready-made method is to restore the system of the Han military camp. or recruit the children of the Han people in Hebei, or organize the surrendered Song army into the Han army. Although it is of little use, the Han army can build grass valleys for us, collect taxes in the Han border, guard the pass roads, escort heavy grain and grass, and suppress the bandits in the rear. In this way, we can save a lot of troops and concentrate our troops and horses to concentrate on attacking the remnants of the Song State's camping and forbidden army. He paused and explained, "When the Song army and the bandits entered the Han military camp, Henan and Hebei would have one less recalcitrant rebel. Let them and those who do not surrender attack each other, and our dynasty only needs to spend a small amount of official money and food, and we can solve the great trouble of the henchmen. Just ......"

Yelu Tiege was a little hesitant, and since Yelu Dashi succeeded to the throne, he vigorously suppressed the Han army. In addition to the signing army, only the Han people in the special battalion heads such as the trap camp, the death battalion, the artillery battalion, and the artisan battalion were in each army. The Han people, who were originally prominent in the Liao State, have long been wiped out. Except for Guo Baoyi, there are no Han people who command tens of thousands of troops. As soon as the opening of the surrender of thieves and the Song army was opened, the number of the Han army would inevitably expand rapidly, and it might even surpass the Liao army headquarters, and it was natural for the Han generals to regain military power.

Yelu Dashi's smile froze, and the atmosphere in the imperial account was a little solemn for a while. He picked up the teacup, without adding powdered sugar or pastry, and took a sip. Only Yelu Tiege, a confidant in his early years, knew that Yelu Dashi's favorite taste of tea soup in the Southern Dynasty when he was young, only because he did not conform to Khitan customs, he restrained himself and only drank oil tea and milk tea. It's just that when you don't think about it, you will relapse into your old ways. Only Xiao Guifei in the palace knew this habit, and personally prepared the dragon and phoenix tea group for the imperial account, if you don't put powdered sugar and cheese, it will be a good tea soup in the Southern Dynasty.

After being silent for a while, Yelu Dashi said: "Since the situation is pressing, let's rebuild the Han military camp." He paused, looked at Yelu Tiege's relieved expression, and said in a deep voice: "The affairs of the Han military camp are managed by the Northern Courtyard, and the Han military camp must be firmly controlled by the Khitans." In terms of status, no matter how many generals and soldiers of the Han army are, they are much lower than the ordinary military households of the Khitan in our northern courtyard. His tone was a little cold, and Yelu Tiege hurriedly bowed down and replied yes.

"My Liao Dynasty is the country of the Khitans, this is the fundamental system, and it cannot be shaken." Yelu Dashi seemed to be worried about the mistake of the North Courtyard, and deliberately told Yelu Tie Gedao, "The Song people are dozens of times more than my Khitans, if this fallacy spreads, even if Da Liao conquers the world, won't it become the country of the Song people?" Among the ministers and generals, whether they are Khitans or Han Chinese. As long as anyone mentions the matter of treating the Khitans and Han people equally, it will shake the foundation of the country, and the North Court will immediately report it to me and severely punish it. He sighed and said in a deep voice, "I, the Khitans, establish the country by force, believe in the law of the weak, and respect the strong. Since the Immortal Heaven allowed the Great Liao to defeat the Southern Dynasty, the Khitans should be on top. He sighed and said in a deep voice, "Back then, the Western Jin Dynasty was perverse, and the Xianbei people entered the Central Plains, which had already become a great unification, and it was because of negligence in this that the Han people of the Yang family and the Li family stole the national ancestor. I have no choice but to make a plan ahead of time, and I must not repeat the mistakes of the past. ”

Brother Yelu Tiege's heart sank, and he hurriedly stood up and bowed down and replied, "The last general understands. ”

The sound of iron armor sounded in the tent, although Yelu Tiege was a privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, he usually wore heavy armor, and his food and clothing were no different from ordinary Khitan military households. Yelu Dashi nodded with satisfaction, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Tie, I can trust you. However, the expansion of the Han military camp in the North Courtyard, you must not entrust others, you must do it yourself, be careful. Every step I take, the details of the size are reported to me. He pondered for a moment, as if remembering something, and added, "The Kansai side should also keep an eye on it. Since Cao Di does not accept the reinforcements of the Xia Kingdom, we should not force him too much, and let him watch Hangu close for us. Also, the scholars of the Southern Dynasty Society are the most stubborn. In the southeast, Yue Feizhen's national army and Chen Dong's henchmen, the southern expeditionary army should be cut off as soon as possible, and it has become a climate not to allow them to expand their power. ”

After the privy envoy of the North Court retreated, Yelu Dashi took another sip of the tea soup, but this time he frowned, he looked at the clear soup in the tea bowl, and seemed to be dissatisfied, so he deliberately grabbed an extra handful of salt, a handful of sugar, double the amount of cheese and ghee into it, and then frowned and swallowed slowly.

Yelu Dashi felt the boiling hot soup and tea ironing his stomach, looked at Hangu Pass, and said secretly: "Although the west of the Xia Kingdom is troubled by the Rus and the Turks, it is difficult to take care of it. The east was rejected by Zhao Qi and Cao Di, but they couldn't sit idly by and watch me annex the Song Dynasty, where will their next chess piece fall? ”

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Zhao Xingde only took a few sergeants such as Du Fujiao and Liu Zheng, and rushed to the White Emperor City day and night. In addition to not being able to gallop on a horse when crossing the Sword Pavilion plank road, the horses were urged to hurry along the way. The Shu road is difficult, although the post road is smooth, but after dark, the sergeants who are not familiar with the road do not dare to gallop on the mountain road, and can only rush in the daytime, and the journey is a lot slower.

From Guanzhong to Shuzhong, the topography, scenery and human conditions have changed greatly, and the people of Du Blowing Horn have a sense of dizziness. After entering Shu along the way, the state capital and county are full of flowers, the folk martial arts are only for the sake of seeking the sergeant's background, or to strengthen the body, the local area is actually nearly a hundred years without soldiers, so the literary style of this place is prosperous, second to none in the Xia Dynasty, and even many sergeants encountered along the way are polite and polite. The people of Shu open terraces to plant rice, the mountains are widely planted mulberry tea trees, the folk are popular to raise silkworms and spin yarn, the workshop weaves a lot of Shu brocade, and even the ordinary people wear silk robes. Like Guanzhong, Shu built many small dikes and canals according to local conditions, one is to irrigate the acres of high fields, and the other is to use the canals to transport materials by boat. Although Shu is mountainous, the ditches in the mountains are vertical and horizontal, and many rivers and canals can be used for small boats after being renovated. But because the place is too wet, cotton is not good to grow here, on the plank road, many merchants from Guanzhong to Shu to transport white cloth and cotton robes, and then from Shu to transport silk and tea. At this time, although it is spring, the climate has not yet warmed, the people of Guanzhong are still using stone charcoal to roast the fire, and the people of Shuzhong are using bamboo charcoal to heat, and there is a faint bamboo fragrance when burning. When he was in the Chengdu Inn, Liu Zheng found that many women walked through the place, leaving a petal-like incense powder imprint, with a step-by-step lotus, and the city was full of fat powder fragrance. Looking at the old man basking in the sun under the eaves of the street, although Du Chuijiao and Liu Zheng are both from the Xia Kingdom, they still can't help but feel that Shuzhong is much more comfortable than other places, which makes people linger back and forth.

Although Zhao Xingde was anxious, but he could not fly to the southeast, he changed horses along the way, after dark, Du Fujiao Liu Zheng and others talked about what they saw along the way, and Zhao Xingde was thinking about how to deal with the crisis of the Liao army going south. Before he arrived in Ezhou, he had already written several letters and sent them to Chen Dong with Fuhai Xingpigeon books regardless of the cost.

At the moment of the great enemy, the council is in a chaotic manner to implement the system of public discussion, all kinds of characters have their own thoughts, all of them appear on the stage, among which there are many like-minded people who are determined to save the day, but there are also many people who try to fish in troubled waters. For a while, it was difficult to distinguish the authenticity. Not to mention, there are several undercurrents in the southeast, and there are many henchmen such as Cai Jing and Li Bangyan, but in fact, Zhao Qi is still supported by most of the officials in Junzhou County. In Zhao Xingde's view, the hasty implementation of the election system at this time is really a bit out of place. However, the matter has come to this point, and there is no turning back from the bow. People's hearts are already in a state of wait-and-see panic, and if they repeat it again, Chen Dong and the Science Society will be equivalent to a self-extinction. For today's plan, the only way to make mistakes is to make mistakes, and temporarily borrow the ancestral system of the dynasty to guard the inside and outside, and stack the bed frame house. In addition to the election of the state and county gentry, another system was implemented to concentrate on the imminent crisis of the Liao army's southward movement.

With Zhao Xingde's experience of going out to fight in these years. The top priorities at the moment are the two things of soldiers, horses, and food. The most taboo thing to do when marching and fighting is that the orders are different, and each does its own thing. Therefore, Zhao Xingde suggested that Chen Dong should not be able to defeat the enemy by obeying the orders of a general even if there are thousands of troops and horses, regardless of the origin of the soldiers and horses in various states and counties. And this candidate for general, he unreservedly supported Yue Fei, and advised Chen Dong not to be suspicious and restrained, so as not to miss the big event. On the other hand, food is the lifeblood of the army. Zhao Xingde suggested that Chen Dong establish a unified military quartermaster office, which would be responsible for raising military salaries, requisitioning military supplies, and manufacturing ordnance, and transporting them to the front of the army in a timely manner. Only by grasping these two things well can we have the capital to resist the southward movement of the Liao army. As long as you don't make a mistake in these two things, the state and county will let it go first. The state and county forces that hesitate or even resist these two things, Chen Dong must be careful and vigilant, and when necessary, he must kill chickens and monkeys, lest those who have intentions compete to follow suit and bury the southeast half of the country in vain.