Chapter 582: Even if I can be crowned king, I'm not uncommon
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Of course, Xiao Tang knows very well who Wu Yanguang and He Chongbao are. In this original work, Wu Yanguang is known as the first general of the Liao State, although he may not have this ability in the official history, but according to the original trajectory Wu Yanguang can rival the head of the Five Tigers, Guan Sheng, and Hua Rong and Zhang Qing, the two top generals with bows and arrows and hidden weapons, and it took a lot of twists and turns to make that Wu Yanguang hate the field, if only in terms of personal martial arts, this Wu Yanguang may really be regarded as one of the best figures in the Liao army.
And He Chongbao on martial arts, although not as good as Wu Yanguang, but said that the commander of the army to resist the enemy, he was able to ambush and disperse the Liangshan army with three ways, and trapped half of Lu Junyi's men and horses in Qingshiyu, and then when the two forces of Liangshan Bo joined forces, he could still calmly analyze and occupy, and finally because Hua Rong, Qin Ming, Dong Ping, and Zhu Tong led the troops to intercept, and ran into Huang Xin, Shi Xiu, Yang Xiong, and Song Wan were poked to death by random guns, and so many Liangshan generals were dispatched to kill him, but it can be said that He Chongbao's martial arts are not idle people.
But Xiao Tang really didn't expect He Chongbao's attitude towards him to be so eager, and listening to his tone, it seems that their family background still has some relationship with Father Xiao.
After He Chongbao introduced his two brothers He Jie and He Yun to Xiao Tang, Xiao Tang bowed his hand and said: "It turns out that Kai is the Liao Dynasty's Lu Duo Army He Tongjun, which has been famous for a long time. It's just that I heard He Tongjun say that he knows his father, but I don't know about it. ”
"Although it is an old thing, isn't it that the first emperor treacherously caused trouble to the dynasty, causing a large number of capable ministers and good generals in the court to have national retribution? It didn't make characters like Xiao Renxia go straight to the Southern Dynasty, but became Song people! ”
He Chongbao sighed, and then spoke to Xiao Tang again. It turned out that Xiao Tzu Lin, the king of Lanling County of the Liao Dynasty, who served in the Great Palace, and He Chongbao's father, who served in the Nanjing Daojun Division, were all suppressed and persecuted by Yelu Yixin, the arrogant traitor of Yelu Hongji when the Liao Daozong was in power, and then Yelu Hongji killed Yelu Yixin, who had a heart of disobedience, but with the turmoil of the Liao court, it still could not avoid the large-scale purge within the court.
During this period, some courtiers died of crimes, and there were also generals like He Chongbao who finally recovered some vitality after ten years or so, and there were also people such as Xiao Laopa, and the slave who defected to Xiao Mansion (Lei Ben, the head of Xiao Jiaji at that time) and others had to move south to avoid disaster, and the same official who served in the Great Wangfu of the Southern Yuan of Liao, Xiao Lao's father took advantage of the fact that he still had connections available, and he had opened up a relationship to rescue He Chongbao's family, and to this day, He Chongbao is still grateful to the Xiao family.
It was not suitable for a long conversation on the official road, so Yelu Dashi immediately asked Xiao Tang, Yan Qing, Xu Guanzhong and others to continue to set off into Xijin Mansion, and on the one hand sent an envoy to the Song realm to report the news that the Song envoy Xiao Tang was still alive, and on the other hand, he set up a banquet to entertain him again.
He Chongbao naturally also came to the banquet with He Jie, He Yun and others, and there were more deputy commanders of the Liao State's Huluduo Army circling around, and the wine was too much drunk, Xiao Tang was gradually able to perceive that when he first arrived in the Liao realm as a visiting envoy, why did Yelu Dashi say that there were many people who were favored by the ancestors of Xiao Tang's family in the Liao Dynasty, and he wanted to hint at Xiao Tang's vague hint to him through this......
Although it involves the diplomatic relations between the Song and Liao countries, it is Yelu Dashi who said it like he is half-covering his face, and he is also implying that Xiao Tang has many people in Liao who are willing to help him, and when it comes to clan blood, Xiao Tang is by no means an ordinary cloth and white ding, but also a noble family background that has been handed down since the founding of the Liao State.
Xiao Tang knew that the Xiao family of the Southern Courtyard of Xiao's father's lineage, the ancestors were born from the Khitan uncle's department, and they also made great achievements, but when the Song and Liao were still killing each other, Xiao Tart Rin was killed by a three-bow bed crossbow in the Battle of Lanzhou. Since the founding of the Liao Dynasty, the Xiao clan of the national uncle has been an important minister of the emperor in all dynasties, and it is an ethnic group that most often intermarries with the Yelu family, the royal family of the Liao State. If Xiao Tang wants to restore the glory of Xiao Tzu Rin's ancestors, with his current status in the Song Dynasty, plus the assistance of Yelu Dashi and others in the Liao Dynasty, he may not be able to be like Xiao Tzu Rin, a famous general of the Great Liao back then, than working hard for the Song court, he can have more space to show his ambitions.
When Xiao Tang noticed this, he just shook his head and chuckled, and changed his words to prevaricate Yelu Dashi. Not to mention that Xiao Tang was a Han man before he crossed over, and he had also experienced many ups and downs in the Song Realm over the years, and now he has no sense of belonging to the Liao Kingdom except for the so-called bloodline inheritance of this body. Although the so-called title of county king of Liao sounds very bluffing, it is still too different from the gold content of the Great Song Dynasty, which is very strict and rigorous.
Just like Xiao Lao's father's ancestor Xiao Tzu Rin was named the king of Lanling County, which was mainly canonized by the Xiao family in the Liao State, this one county king title has been awarded to as many as 25 people, and the Liao Dynasty king, the change of the county king is also very frequent (for example, the current commander of the army to pacify the commander, Tianzuo Emperor's uncle Yeluchun has been named King Zheng, King Yue, King Wei, King Qin and Jin), all say that things are rare and expensive, in fact, the so-called county king of the Liao Dynasty is like a high-level virtual title of the festival envoy, it sounds bullish, But there may not be any real power.
And in view of the frequent turmoil in the royal family of the Liao Dynasty, it seems that Xiao Hengde, the son of Xiao Tzu Rin, the ancestor of the Xiao family, and Xiao Pidi, the grandson of Xiao Pidi, have all died in the internal strife in the harem of the Liao Dynasty, so to put it bluntly, most of the princes and county kings of the Liao State only have a certain amount of military power, and they have to delay the danger of falling into the internal strife of the Khitan royal family. Yelu Dashi's hint to Xiao Tang was just a blank check from Zhang Xu to give him more room for growth, how could this make Xiao Tang tempted?
Whether Yelu Dashi is trying to let me be an internal candidate, or directly surrender to the Liao State, no matter which court in the Song Dynasty or Liao only covets the title and rank, to put it bluntly, it is just a job hopping from one faint monarch and working hard under another faint monarch......
Xiao Tang secretly said in his heart: The situation in Liao is now more turbulent and chaotic than that of the Great Song Dynasty, if you can't stop the army of the Jin State, what kind of princes and nobles will Hugh say, even Song Huizong, Song Qinzong, and Tianzuo Emperor, the three emperors of Song and Liao, have also become prisoners of the Jurchens. Therefore, it is not intempting for others to give you a chance to pay homage to the king, but now I know that there is a fire pit in front of me, and of course I can't jump into it.
It's just worth Xiao Tang's attention that he has learned that he can use his background and will be useful in the territory of Liao, and there is a chance that the Liao State will be killed in the Jin State according to the trajectory of the official history. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being......
Originally, this was just Yelu Dashi's connection with Xiao Tang's background, so he tried to let Xiao Tang, who was favored by the officials in the officialdom of the Song State, one day be able to help the Liao State. But now that he saw Xiao Tang's reaction, Yelu Dashi also understood the other party's thoughts, so he just said pity in his heart, so he and Xiao Tang carried the cup and the cup until the banquet.
A few days later, the Song army stationed at Waqiao Pass in Xiongzhou on the border between Song and Liao received a report from the Liao envoy, knowing that Xiao Tang had not been killed in the Liao State, so he sent a fast horse to Bianjing to report it, and on the other hand, he reported it to the Hebei Daimyo's Mansion, and asked the left-behind division to send an official who was familiar with Xiao Tang in the military department to come and respond. And Xiao Tang, Yan Qing, Xu Guanzhong and others were also sent off by Yelu Dashi, He Chongbao and others, and set off from Xijin Mansion again and went straight to Waqiao Pass in Xiongzhou.