Chapter 748

Walking out of the palace slowly, Yelu Yan, who was obviously very tired, couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at the sun in the middle of the sky, squinted his eyes and let out a long breath of turbidity.

He finally lived up to the expectations of his old friend, and finally persuaded His Majesty to agree to conscript soldiers and horses from the northern tribes to go south to conquer the Song Kingdom.

It's just that after the hard persuasion of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces, Yelu Hongji reluctantly gave up his plan to drive the expedition in person.

After that, the Son of Heaven himself chose several candidates for the commander, and after the deliberation of the ministers, it was finally agreed that His Majesty's half-brother, the King of Song, Shangjing and Yelu and Lu Wei were the commanders, and 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Great Liao and 150,000 of the northern tribes were recruited to fight the Song State.

Yelu and Lu Wei are the commanders, Yelu Yan does not object, after all, compared to the unobtrusive son of heaven, the king of Song, Shangjing left Yelu and Lu Wei in the army for a long time, quite prestigious, and loyal and cautious, although there are only a few times to lead the army in the north to quell the rebellion, but there is no great defeat and victory, can only be regarded as a golden mean.

There will be no problem with the identity and status of such a person to be the commander, but in terms of using troops, it is much better than sending someone who is too bold and reckless, after all, it is the Song State that needs to be faced, not those northern aliens who only know how to rely on brute force to fight.

Compared with several other candidates, only this Song king, who can only be called the mediocre material, can be of great use, which is enough to see how far the talents of Daliao have withered now.

Yelu Yan did not stay outside the palace, but saw Yelu and Lu Hu walking over in the midst of a group of sycophants, and it seemed that the ministers who were slapping Yelu and Lu Yan saw that Yelu Yan, the court ruler, seemed to be waiting for Yelu and Lu Hu here, and then scattered after hurriedly saluting Yelu Yan.

"I've seen Your Highness......" Yelu smiled at Yelu and Lu Yi after those people left.

"The prime minister must not be like this, he knows what kind of person he is, and today, he is very worried about the heavy responsibility, and he is still thinking of finding a time to visit the prime minister......" Yelu and Lu Wei hurriedly returned the salute and said with a wry smile.

"This burden is too heavy for Lone, in fact, Lone is more willing to continue to stay in Beijing than to bear this burden."

"Your Highness's words are wrong, if Your Highness doesn't bear this burden, who has the courage and wisdom to bear it." Yelu Yan smiled and shook her head. "I don't know if His Highness has leisure, and today he will be the ...... of the official"

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In a restaurant not far from the Great Liao Palace, the two sat opposite each other, although there was wine and food, but neither of them had any appetite.

Yelu and Lu Wei, who were very self-aware, expressed their hope to Yelu Yan very bluntly, hoping to get some guidance from him. But the problem is that Yelu Yan, as the ruler of the Great Liao, even if he wants to help, at most he can only say a few good words for Yelu and Lu Wei, who are out of the country at that time, so that the supply of ordnance and baggage can be in place in time.

"How's that for good? Xiao Shen has always been at odds with Lonely, and today, he actually succumbed to me, and he must be dissatisfied, when the time comes, the army is outside, and the prison army is not in harmony with the commander, I am afraid that there will be big trouble. ”

Yelu and Lu Wei have always been very afraid of trouble, which is why since he took up the post of Shangjing Guards fifteen years ago, His Majesty has promised him other positions several times, but he has always refused.

After all, he prefers to stay here, go to work and leave work safely, and don't need to worry about other problems.

"This time, the lower official recommended to His Majesty the Xuanwei envoy of the Northern Courtyard Xiao Wu and Xiao Lao as the military supervisor, but the Son of Heaven was not full, but he gave it to Xiao Shen......" Yelu Yan was also very distressed.

Xiao Shen is also a guy who has no talent in his chest and only knows how to bully his superiors, but on the contrary, our Great Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji likes such a character.

Especially in the years of Yelu Hongji's reign, it is because of such a traitor that it has led to a series of civil strife in Daliao, but now, Yelu Hongji has not only not woken up at all, but still stubbornly likes these scheming sycophants, which is really painful.

But they are all helpless, or rather, the Great Liao Tianzi is simply like a magnet of superior quality, even if it is a sycophant who is ambushed by the sand, when he comes to the Da Liao Tianzi, it will emit a bright light.

"What's more, this time I asked all the northern tribes to send a large army to help in the war, when the time comes, those unruly people are in front of you, if there is a contradiction between Lone and Xiao Shen, wouldn't it be a joke for the world to show our Da Liao?" Yelu and Lu Wei had a headache.

However, he had many words, but he could not say them in front of his own brother.

After pondering for a long time, Yelu Yan rubbed his swollen eyebrows and made a decision. "What Your Highness said is very true, so let's do it, and then contact your colleagues to think of a way to see if you can make Your Majesty change his mind. If not, at least ...... At least not to let the ugliest situation happen. ”

There is no way, although Yelu Hongji also trusts Xiao Wuna, the Xuanwei envoy of the Northern Courtyard, but now that Xiao Wuna is in Western Xia, it is difficult to turn back to Beijing, and it is common for His Majesty to be a favored villain around him.

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In the spring of March, the stretches of farmland outside Yanzhou City are full of busy figures. In addition to the original Yanzhou Hanmin, most of them are the dependents of the Xiang army who migrated from Shaanxi Road.

Every household was able to receive their own land deeds, rations, dried meat, various means of subsistence, farming tools, and even cattle from the government.

Even pots, bowls, scoops, and basins can be received, so to speak, the government's service definitely makes these military dependents even feel at home.

Compared with the broken thatched hut in my hometown, the one-third of an acre of land that people can't even fill their stomachs, it's really not too happy to come here.

Moreover, the government also specially mobilized a group of officials who knew how to farm and how to tell these people in batches and shifts about the cultivation of the dry land here, how to irrigate and plant more effectively, and how to maximize the yield per mu.

However, many people who were negligent in farming, or who came from more south, learned a lot about dryland farming here.

At the junction of the three prefectures of Yan, You, and Hong, there are currently thousands of staff members with rich experience in herding who have been demoted to the post of horse herding supervisors. He was in charge of grazing cattle and horses, and specially selected a number of good horses from the war horses, and spent a lot of money to purchase excellent stallions from the Western Regions, striving to build this area into an excellent horse farm in the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, Wang Yang specially purchased a large number of alfalfa seeds through those smuggling merchants, and signed cooperation agreements with more than 3,000 households.

The alfalfa they grow will be purchased by the government and exchanged for two stones of grain per acre of land.

In other words, they only need all kinds of alfalfa to obtain half a stone more grain than the usual yield per mu. It took a lot of effort to convince me to talk about it.