Chapter 417: Encountering the Khitans
At this moment, hundreds of Song soldiers had rushed out at the gate of Yanjing City, and they came to Zhao Chen and knelt down.
These are the soldiers who entered Yanjing City before, and now they are the defenders here.
In addition to them, there was also a young man about twenty years old who came to Zhao Chen's side, with a surprised smile on his face, and said, "Weichen Hu Quan see Your Majesty!" ”
"How? What is the situation in Yanjing City now? When Zhao Chen saw Hu Quan, he was also very happy in his heart and said with a smile.
"Your Majesty, it's not very good." Hu Quan's face became solemn and said.
"Let's go, let's go to the city, and then let's go." Zhao Chen said.
At that moment, Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen, Zhang Xian, Hu Quan and others entered Yanjing City under the support of the army.
After entering Yanjing City, Zhao Chen found that the road in Yanjing City was very spacious, far better than Hanzhong and Lin'an! Even Chang'an City does not have such a wide road!
The Liao people have been operating in Yanjing City for more than 200 years, they are the largest country in East Asia in 200 years, here is the capital of the company, with the power of a country to build here, here is naturally more than Hanzhong, Lin'an and other places! As for Chang'an, after countless wars, many places have been destroyed, and Chang'an has been rebuilt several times, and it is no longer what it was like in the Tang Dynasty, so it is not as good as here.
As they walked along the avenue, there was silence around them, and no other sounds could be heard, and no one was seen.
There are also countless shops on the street, but these shops are now closed and no one is in or out.
"What's going on?" Zhao Chen said with some surprise.
"Your Majesty, two days ago, the Khitans tried to rebel and killed people everywhere in Yanjing City, so the people of Yanjing City have been hiding at home in the past few days and dare not come out." Hu Quan said.
"What about the rebellious Khitans?" Zhao Chen said.
"I've been killed!" Hu Quan said.
"Is it common for things like this to happen?" Zhao Chen said.
"It's been more than three months since Weichen came to Yanjing City, and in the past three months, there have been several times a month! We have a limited number of soldiers and horses in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and we can only guard important strongholds! Although the scale of the Khitan rebellion is limited, it takes a long time to pacify each time, and it causes great damage every time! Your Majesty, Weichen is incompetent and cannot make the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun completely settle. Hu Quan said with some shame.
"It's not a matter of your ability, but to eliminate the Central Plains Jurchens before, whether it is the Military Aircraft Department or the General Staff Headquarters or the military commanders, the eyes are all on the 200,000 Jurchens, and hundreds of thousands of troops are distributed in the Central Plains, we have no time to deal with Yan Yun's affairs! But now, we have drawn our hands, 200,000 Jurchens have been destroyed, we will have more than 100,000 troops into Yanyun, if Yanyun has any clowns, we will all be killed. Zhao Chen said.
"That's great! In fact, in the sixteen states of Yanyun, the number of our Han people is several times that of the Khitans, but the Han people here have been ruled by the Khitans for two hundred years, and they are afraid of the Khitans! Even if we come here, the Han people of Yanyun are still cowering, still afraid of the Khitans! If the Han people in the sixteen states of Yanyun are willing to support us, even if we don't have a large army coming, we are not afraid of the Khitan. Hu Quan said.
"The reason why the Han people of Yanyun are cowering is because the performance of our Great Song Dynasty in the past two hundred years has been so poor, and our Great Song Dynasty can't give them any confidence! This time I came here, and it will naturally give them confidence! Zhao Chen said.
Hu Quan nodded.
"Liu Aiqing, you once served as a guard in Yanjing, you came to tell me about the situation in Yanjing City." Zhao Chen looked at a tall middle-aged man beside him and said.
This middle-aged man is the former Yanjing left-behind Liu Yanzong, who has already taken refuge in the Great Song Dynasty.
"Your Majesty, the entire Yanjing City is divided into three parts, namely the Imperial City, the Inner City, and the Outer City! The imperial city is where the emperor lived, and after the Jurchen invasion, the royal family of the Liao Kingdom came to Yanjing City, and they lived there! The inner city is where the Khitan nobles live, but after the Jurchens occupied Yanjing City, most of the Khitan nobles were killed, and it was already empty! The outer city is where some Khitan civilians and us Han people live! In the entire Yanjing City, the number of Khitans is actually better than our Han people, and of course, in other places in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, our Han people are better than the Khitans. Liu Yanzong said.
"Your Majesty, now there are Khitans in the inner city!" Hu Quan said.
"Didn't you say that the Khitan nobles had been killed by the Jurchens?" Zhao Chen said in surprise.
The Jurchens hated the Khitans the most! The main reason why Wanyan Aguta raised troops at the beginning was that the Khitans were too oppressed and had to raise troops! After the establishment of the Dajin Kingdom, except for Yelu Dashi who led a part of the soldiers and horses to flee, the rest of the Khitan nobles were almost all killed by Wanyan Aguta! After more than 100 years, the Jin people continued to torture and destroy the Khitans, so that in later generations, the Khitan people completely disappeared! Therefore, Zhao Chen was surprised at the moment.
"Your Majesty, after we captured Yanjing City, some Khitan people took the opportunity to come to the inner city, and they claimed that those courtyards and houses in the inner city were left by their Khitans, and they should belong to their Khitans! Now there are quite a few Khitans in the inner city! In fact, when we first came to Yanjing City, there were still some Khitans who wanted to enter the palace, but we drove them out. Hu Quan said.
"We have occupied Yanjing City, and those ownerless mansions naturally belong to the imperial court! Naturally, these people will be driven out of the inner city! Zhao Chen said coldly.
"But in this way, will it anger the Khitan?" Hu Quan said.
"Anger the Khitan? Why is the sixteen states of Yanyun unstable, mainly because the Khitans look down on us Han people! In the past two hundred years, we have failed too many times in front of the Khitans, even Taizu and Taizong have failed in front of the Khitans! Even if we defeat the Jurchens and occupy the sixteen states of Yanyun, the Khitans still look down on us Han! The weaker we are, the more arrogant the Khitans become, the more they disobey our rule, and the more they want to rebel! Therefore, only by ruthless suppression can the Khitans surrender! Zhao Chen said.
Hu Quan pondered for a long time on the horse before nodding.
Everyone rode their horses and galloped on the avenue of Yanjing City, and there were almost no people on the way.
The area of this Yanjing City was huge, and it took a full quarter of an hour for them to enter the inner city.
After entering here, Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen and others suddenly found that this place was completely different from the outer city!
The buildings here are magnificent, there are many tall mansions, but more importantly, there are a lot of people on the road here, and there are many Khitan people who are active here!
Seeing Zhao Chen and them coming, those Khitan people were not afraid, but looked at this side with a smile.
Seeing that Zhao Chen's clothes were different, those Khitans showed some surprised eyes, but more of them were disdainful.
Seeing such a scene, Zhao Chen couldn't help frowning.
He ignored these Khitans and continued to move on.
However, just after walking a few steps, a dozen Khitan teenagers suddenly blocked the road in front.
The dozen or so Khitan teenagers were shouting there.
"What are they talking about?" Zhao Chen pointed ahead and said.
He didn't understand Khitan, so he had to ask the people around him.
"Your Majesty, they said that the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are the territory of the Khitans, let us Han people get out of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and there are ......" Yu Yunwen next to him suddenly paused, with a hesitant look on his face.
"What else? Say it! Zhao Chen said coldly.
"They asked Your Majesty if you were the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and they said...... Say that Your Majesty should dismount and kneel in front of the Khitans, so that the Khitans will spare Your Majesty's life. They said that we Han people were born slaves of the Khitans, and we wanted to make cattle and horses for the Khitans to rule. Yu Yunwen said in a very low voice.
Zhao Chen didn't have any expression on his face, just a murderous aura in his eyes.
More than a dozen Khitan teenagers over there also pointed at Zhao Chen from time to time, smiling mockingly from time to time.
"These people dare to insult me, what should they be guilty of?" For a long time, Zhao Chen said lightly.
"Your Majesty, this is a great crime of disrespect, and Ling Chi should be executed according to the law!" Zhang Xian walked up from behind and said coldly.
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Only two chapters were written in the evening. Tomorrow is a holiday, make up for it, and make up for it.