When the autumn atmosphere became stronger and stronger, and the plains and mountains around Dingzhou City were dyed golden or crimson, Ma Renwang and Zhang Jue returned to Dingzhou City together to see the Great Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi.

The two of them brought not very good news to Yanxi.

What Zhang Jue brought was the news that the Great Song Dynasty refused to negotiate peace and that Wu Haogu was appointed by Zhao Ji as the envoy of Youzhou Jiedu and Yanshan Road was deployed! In the Song Dynasty, the envoys were generally appointed officials, but there were exceptions. For example, Zhao Qianshun's previous Hexi Jiedu envoy, and now Tianzhu and Anxi are the real protectors.

In addition, Li Qiande, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Jiaozhi County, was the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty's Annan Protector and Jing Haijun Jiedu Observation and Disposal. Theoretically, it can be regarded as the actual duty of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Is the Youzhou Festival of Wu Haogu real or virtual?"

Emperor Da Liao frowned, and seemed to be very concerned about the reputation that Wu Haogu had.

"It's supposed to be both virtual and real, right?" Zhang Jue said, "If there are ill-intentioned people in Yandi who can raise troops to respond, then the envoy of Youzhou Festival in Wuhao Gu may be a real job." In this way, it is also possible to set up observation envoys, defense envoys, regimental training envoys and assassination history, which can make many Yandi tyrants have an official addiction.

If Yan Di Haoqiang is grateful for the great grace of Daliao and no one raises troops to respond, then his festival envoy will be a regular official. ”

"Then it must be a real job!" Yelu Yanxi's brows furrowed even tighter.

Zhao Ji, Emperor Genghis, is really powerful! The name of a festival envoy is enough to shake the hearts of Yandi's people. After all, those Yandi tyrants are not scholars who play the imperial examination, and the imperial examination of Liao State is actually a father. If Yandi tyrants want to be officials, especially if they want to get a real job, they must have strength.

Therefore, Feng Wu Haogu was the envoy of the Youzhou Festival, just to tell Yandi Haoqiang that as long as the soldiers are strong and strong, they can get the fief and hereditary official positions!

In this way, the really powerful Yandi Haoqiang is afraid that they will all fall to the Great Song Dynasty, after all, they are on the side of the Liao State, and there is no hereditary reckless observer and assassin who can do it.

And even if Yelu Yanxi gave up the territory of Yandi, it was all distributed to Yandi Haoqiang, and Dingtian was in exchange for them currying favor on both sides of Song and Liao, and asking them to send troops to attack the Hejian camp of Wuhaogu, which was not to be thought of. Because there were only a few thousand defenders in Baozhou City, Ma Renwang, who commanded the eight battalions of the Han army to guard the pro-army, could not attack it, so he had to dig a trench outside the city and build a fortress and besiege it. Not to mention the impregnable Hejian camp with tens of thousands of defenders?

If you want to say that Ma Renwang can really fool, he obviously retains his strength, and he is unwilling to fight with the old books of the Yandi family, but he can also rely on a clever mouth to fool Yelu Yanxi.

According to him, at present, Yandi has suffered drastic changes, and the guards are unstable. If they are forced to attack the city, I am afraid that people's hearts will change!

Therefore, for the sake of the national unity of the Great Liao, we can only adopt the method of "using the other way and giving back to the other", build a fortress and besiege the city, and fight hard.

Moreover, Ma Renwang also proposed a way to solve Yanjing's predicament with a "hard village".

"Your Majesty, the minister suggested that Yutian County, east of Yanjing, be the old camp of Xiao Yaomai, the governor of the Xi Palace. Then he ordered Xianzhou to serve as the ambassador of Nanjing Dao Tuanlian, mobilized Nanjing Daohao to strengthen soldiers and horses, and entered the Xijin Mansion with Xiao Yaomai. also used the method of step-by-step to repair the hard village from Yutian County all the way to the outside of Xijin Mansion. ”

Ma Renwang's recommendation of Xianzhou Fengxian Army Festival Envoy Yelu Kongli Gu is actually a Han person, his ancestral surname is Han, and he is the current old-timer of the Yutian Han family, and he is over seventy years old this year. He is the sixth grandson of Han Zhigu and the great-grandson of Han Derang's cousin Han Dewei. This Han family gave the surname Yelu, which is considered a Khitan royal family, and has been married to the descendants of the Xiao family for generations, and can also serve as a high-ranking official in the world, and there are many people who have been crowned kings.

With him as the ambassador of Nanjing Dao Tuanlian, it is difficult to say whether other Yandi Haoqiang will buy it or not, at least the Yutian Han family will have more strength.

Yelu Yanxi seemed to be a little undecided, so he set his eyes on Xiao Fengxian, and Xiao Fengxian hurriedly played: "Your Majesty, just one Yelu is afraid that it will be difficult to call the hearts of the people of Yandi." ”

"Really?" Yelu Yanxi asked, "Fengxian, who do you want to recommend?" ”

"The minister thinks that the only one who can call on the Yan people is the Wenzhong Palace."

"Wenzhong Palace?"

Wenzhong Wangfu is Han Derang's palace guard, and it is also the foundation of the Han family in Yutian! The owner of the thirteen palace guards of the Great Liao is either the emperor or the heir to the throne or the regent empress dowager, and only Han Derang can have his own palace guard as a Han minister.

And some of the children of the Yutian Han family can therefore be included in the genealogy of the Khitan royal family and become the Yelu family!

However, Wenzhong Wangfu is a palace guard who "cuts off children and grandchildren", and Han De let himself have no son, so Liao Shengzong let Zhou King Yelu Zongye enter the Wenzhong Palace, which is regarded as Han Derang's son, but Yelu Zongye was broken again. Then he was succeeded by Yelu Yalu, the son of Yelu Zongxi, the king of Wei, but the result was broken again. By the time Yelu Yanxi ascended the throne, the Wenzhong palace had been unpresided over for many years.

"Who can enter the Wenzhong Palace?" Yelu Yanxi asked.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin is both martial and martial, and he has won the expectations of the public, and he is enough to enter the Wenzhong Palace."

"King Jin?" Yelu Yanxi was stunned.

King Yelu Ao Lu Hu of Jin is the eldest son of Yelu Yanxi, but his biological mother is not the queen Xiao Duoli, nor is she the queen's sister Concubine Xiao Guige, but Yelu Yanxi's favorite concubine Xiao Sese.

According to the imperial succession system of the Liao State, the princes born to the concubines of the Xiao family are all descendants. And the princes who come out are eligible to inherit the throne! In other words, as the eldest son, Yelu Ao Luhu is the de facto first heir to the throne.

Of course, he does not have the status of crown prince. This is because the Great Liao State did not determine the succession system of the father's death and the son's succession, and the emperor's brother also had the right to inherit. So in order to appease the old-timers in the royal family, there is a strange title of "Uncle Huang".

Today, the theoretical heirs to the throne of Da Liao are Yelu and Lu Hu of Yelu Yanxi's grandfather's generation, and he was honored as the uncle of the righteous and benevolent emperor soon after Yelu Yanxi ascended the throne. He is 69 years old this year, and he is not in good health, he has been sick in bed for a long time, and he doesn't look like he can take the throne.

Because of an old imperial uncle, Yelu Aolu's inheritance has been vaguely unable to be implemented. This also gives Xiao Fengxian's brothers and sisters room to operate! And the succession of Yelu Ao Lu to Han Derang naturally blocked the possibility of him inheriting the throne through legal channels.

How could Han Derang's descendants inherit the throne of Da Liao? This is legally unjustifiable!

However, Yelu Yanxi has been hesitating about this, after all, Yelu Ao Lu Hu is the eldest son.

"Your Majesty," Ma Renwang saw that Yelu Yanxi was still hesitating, and also opened his mouth to persuade, "Yandi Haoqiang has always been the head of the Yutian Han family, and the Yutian Han family is respected by the Wenzhong Palace. If the King of Jin enters the Wenzhong Palace, he will be the natural patriarch of the Yutian Han family, that is, the lord of Yandi. ”

What is the ...... Of course it's a fool!

Yandi Haoqiang, who is not dissatisfied with the Yutian Han family? The ancestors of the old Liu family and the old Zhao family were all envoys of the Youzhou Festival, and the ancestors of the old Ma family were also the Shi Jin Qingzhou Thorn History. Han Zhigu, the ancestor of the Han family, was just a slave of the Khitans, and he became popular because Han Derang became the face of the Empress Dowager Xiao.

And the old Han family relied on their identity as a Khitan royal family, when did they put the rest of the Yandi wealthy families in their eyes?

Besides, the Khitan royal family can't marry with Yandi. They have to marry the Xiao family, and the daughter of Yandi Haoqiang is only worthy of being a concubine for the important people of the Han family!

Therefore, the Zhao, Liu, and Ma families of Yandi are all married to each other, with these three families as the core, and the rest of Yandi Haoqiang have also joined a huge marriage network, it can be said that everyone is related to each other, and only the old Han family is excluded.

Ma Renwang's words finally made Yelu Yanxi make up his mind, "Then let the King of Jin enter the palace of King Wenzhong first, and then give him the name of the Privy Council of the Southern Yuan, and allow him to recruit soldiers and horses in Yandi, and let Xiao Yaomai and Yelu Control Ligu assist him together." ”

Yelu Ao Lu Hu is still a half-sized son, so naturally he can't command the whole army of Yandi, and his fellow acquaintances of the Privy Council of the Southern Yuan are only in name, and the real ones are Xiao Yaomai and Yelu Kong.

Ma Renwang then suggested: "Your Majesty, there is the army of Xi Wangfu and the Han family of Yutian to the east of Xijin Mansion City, but the west of Xijin Mansion City is very empty, if you don't strengthen the garrison, you may be taken advantage of by the Song army." Therefore, the minister suggested that six of the eight battalions of the guards should be divided into Yongqing, Gu'an, Anci, Fanyang, Liangxiang and Yuhe, and also learn from the methods of the Song people to build more hard castles to block the road of the Song army's westward advance.

As for the siege of Baozhou, it was enough to have two battalions of Xiaowu and Xiongjie led by Han Qixian. It is not necessary to leave the remaining six battalions there as well. ”

Xiao Fengxian, who was on the side, shook his head and said, "But in this way, there are too few soldiers and horses on the Dingzhou side, and Your Majesty still plans to enter Zhending Mansion!" ”

"You can mobilize the Sijie Army and the Xuanli Army from Xijing Road to aid the Dingzhou Road battlefield."

The horse man looked and said: "In addition, the minister thinks that it is not appropriate to attack the city of Zhendingfu. Because Zhendingfu City is a fortified city built of huge stones, and the people of the nearby Taihang Mountain are quite strong, if they are filled into the group training, they must be very war-resistant.

Therefore, the minister suggested that the army go south to attack Shenzhou. To the south of Shenzhou is Jizhou, and to the south of Jizhou is the Daimyo Mansion. If the army attacks Shenzhou and crosses the Hutuo River by force, it will definitely terrify the monarchs and ministers of the Song State, and they may agree to our peace conditions. ”

Xiao Fengxian said: "But Zhending Mansion is the only way for the Song Hedong Army to go east, if you don't block Zhending Mansion and go south directly to Shenzhou, the Song Army may attack Dingzhou from Zhending Mansion and cut off the back road of our army." ”

"Don't be afraid," Ma Renwang said with a smile, "They are now marching step by step, walking twenty or thirty miles a day, and walking from Zhending Mansion to Dingzhou City for at least three or four days, our army has already returned to the division." ”