Yiyouzhou in the east of the river is the bottom line of Liao's peace with the Song Dynasty!

Now the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State also knew that it was impossible to recover Youzhou, and they did not dare to try, and of course it was impossible to force the Song Dynasty to return it through diplomatic channels. Wu Haogu is not the brave and loyal Yue Wumu, he is an epoch-making figure with heavenly principles, capital, and republicanism in the middle, and the Great Song Dynasty has nothing to do with him. The righteous name can't deal with the world for the public, and the Confucian idea of loyalty to the monarch can't deal with the neo-Confucianism that convinces people with reason, and there is a capital industrial and commercial group behind the Youzhou Army, and it is impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to get stuck in the neck of the soldiers.

Therefore, the Great Song Dynasty wants to collect Youzhou, and there is only a crusade with a clear knife and a clear gun.

But Youzhou's military strength is still above that of Liao, how can you let the Great Song Dynasty recover? Zhao Ji has to have that ability, and he still needs to make peace with Liao? Isn't it good to send troops directly to Hedong Yunzhong and take away the Xijing Road of the Liao State?

Therefore, it is impossible to recover Youzhou, so the Liao State can only fight the idea of Hedong.

Lost in Youzhou, taken from Hedong.

"Your Majesty," Wu Haowen took a deep breath and put forward the conditions of the Great Song Dynasty, "Our dynasty is willing to redeem the lost land in Hedong with 10 million yuan, and then renew the alliance of Lanyuan." Combine the power of the Song and Liao countries to maintain the tranquility of the world. ”

10 million!

It's really rich!

But Da Liao can't agree yet!

Yelu Yanxi, Yelu Yan and Xiao Fengxian, who were present, all had the above ideas.

10 million is wanted, because after the loss of the New Year's coin and Youzhou, the finances of the Liao State are very tight. And now it is facing a two-front battle with the two major military groups of Youzhou-Nuzhi, Hexi-Menggu, and there are still many places to spend money. How long can it last with the 5 million yuan blackmailed from Zhao Ji and the grass valley in Hedong?

The next big Liao had to deal with strong enemies, and three of them were still strong and poor. Therefore, the warriors of Daliao only have the chance to die in battle, and have no chance to rob and get rich. Under such circumstances, it was simply impossible for the Liao army, which relied on fighting grass valleys to eat, to maintain the war.

Other words. Yelu Yanxi's court had to give money. Give the money, and the soldiers below will be desperate. If they don't give money, even if they are willing to work hard, they can't afford to fight - the vast majority of the Liao army is "self-helping", they have to bring their own equipment and horses, and they can eat in the grass valley by themselves.

This kind of army was full of energy to deal with the rich and weak Song Dynasty. You don't need to mobilize morale to get up! But let them go and fight the poor people who block divination, and they will wither immediately. Otherwise, Mogus would not have been able to support him for so many years, and now he will continue the struggle with his son Khurzahusi.

And next, the Liao soldiers want to fight Hexi, Menggu, and Nuzhi are all poor ghosts. The only rich Youzhou army is so powerful that it can't be defeated at all.

Therefore, the Liao Dynasty must pay money to the "self-gan Liao" below, otherwise it will not be able to fight for a few years, and a group of "self-gan Liao" will die of poverty if they are not killed.

But you have to pay for it...... Where does the money come from?

The Liao State lost its Yan land and not only lost its tax source, but also lost its most important iron production area! Now you have to use the precious gold, silver and copper coins to buy iron from Youzhou. In addition, due to the rebellion of the birth of the daughter and the loss of the timber production area of Youzhou. The Liao State also lost bulk export products such as timber, medicinal materials, Dongzhu, and furs, and the amount of silk and gold and silver that could be exchanged for the Song Dynasty also decreased significantly.

In this case, the ransom of 10 million yuan offered by Zhao Ji is really attractive.

But the Liao State also has political correctness...... It is politically incorrect to give up Yandi, and it would be fine if you could get Hedong as compensation. If even Hedong is returned to the Song Dynasty, then Yelu Yanxi will not be able to explain.

"Hedong is used to exchange for Youzhou!" Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth and said, "Without Youzhou, I will never return Hedong!" However, I can continue the truce between Hedong and Southern Korea...... The condition is that the Southern Dynasty will pay 500,000 coins to our dynasty from the beginning of the golden year! ”

"The alliance between the two countries has not been restored, how can our dynasty pay the New Year's coin?" Lu Yihao shook his head, "But...... I love the people like sons, and I can pay a ransom to your country in exchange for the people of Hebei and Hedong who have been plundered. If one person makes 20 taels, 50,000 people will be 1 million taels. ”

That's a good name!

The monarchs and ministers of the Liao State in the imperial tent all breathed a sigh of relief. Now I can finally get some money to maintain the war against the female straight and the moe gu.

The Liao army did not capture many people in Hebei - they retreated from Hebei in a hurry, and the population they plundered did not have time to take with them. However, they caught many Han people in Hedong, after all, there were still a lot of territory in Hedong in the hands of the Liao State. Of course, the people there have fallen into the hands of the Liao, and if they are taken out and "sold" to the Song State, they can not only get money, but also have less trouble in management, isn't it killing two birds with one stone?

And Zhao Ji spent money to ransom the people, and he could get a reputation for loving the people like a son, and those loyal and upright ministers in the court were not easy to say. After all, Mencius said that the monarch is light, the people are the foundation, and the community is secondary. What's not worth exchanging money for a people-based people?

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Wu Haowen and Lu Yihao had already left Yelu Yanxi's imperial tent. Now is the time for the kings and ministers of the Great Liao to digest the information they have just received and discuss how to deal with it.

The atmosphere inside the tent was extremely heavy! Because of the extraordinary generosity of the Great Song Dynasty, it has proved how sinister the situation of the Liao State is now. So much so that the Great Song Dynasty, the old enemy of more than a hundred years, felt frightened for the Liao State.

If it weren't for the Song Dynasty's imperial court that the Liao State would soon collapse under the attack of the two major military alliances of Youzhou-Nuzhi and Hexi-Mongolia, how could they be willing to spend so much money to support the Liao State?

If the forces of the two major feudal towns of Youzhou and Hexi were not too strong for the Great Song Dynasty to handle, how could they be willing to maintain the balance of all parties by maintaining the Liao State?

The reason why the Song Dynasty was willing to pay money shows that the Liao State is in danger! Without these financial aid from the Song Dynasty, the death of the country is only a matter of imminence.

"Your Majesty, although my Da Liao is invincible, it is impossible to deal with the four enemies of Youzhou, Nuzhi, Hexi, and Menggu at the same time. For today's plan, there is only a distinction between priorities and elimination one by one! ”

The first to put forward an opinion was Xiao Fengxian, the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, who said a bunch of correct nonsense as soon as he opened his mouth. The strength of the Liao State, let alone the four of them coming together, they can't be eliminated one by one!

Moreover, since Youzhou, Nuzhi, Hexi, and Menggu have formed an alliance, they will not give Liao a chance to clean up one by one. This is a war to destroy the country, how can there be a heads-up?

"Who's going to deal with it first?" Yelu Yanxi frowned and asked.

"Youzhou is the strongest," Xiao Fengxian analyzed, "and I still have Wuzhou iron weapons for soldiers and horses, so I definitely can't be the first to fight."

Hexi is more than 2,000 miles away from Shangjing and Zhongjing Taiyuan, and it is also more than 2,000 miles away from Xijing, so it is really inconvenient to discuss. So you can't deal with it from the beginning.

The Meng Gu tribe by the river has 40,000 soldiers, and they are nomadic people, and once the war starts, it will inevitably flow around, and it is difficult to capture. In addition, it is also possible that the Mogu and Kereh tribes and the Tatar Nine tribes (located in the central part of the Mongolian Plateau) will join forces. In this way, there will be at least 100,000 cavalry from the steppe tribes to fight with us, and the war will inevitably be protracted. For today's plan, the only way to do this is to win over the Tatar Nine Divisions and use the Tatars to deal with the Meng ancients. ”

"That's the first to clean up the girl!" Yelu Yanxi frowned and said, "Taizu once said that the female straight is not full of 10,000, and the full 10,000 is invincible, and the current female straight is probably full of 10,000, right?" ”

"But the various parts of the female straight live everywhere, and they are far away, so it is difficult to echo for a while." Xiao Feng said first, "If you can send elite soldiers to raid, you can be caught off guard by the female straight person, and it shouldn't be difficult to break up and press the tiger water to complete the face." Now all the departments of the female straight are headed by the tiger water and the end of the face, as long as they are dispersed, the female straight of the various departments will be a plate of loose sand, and they will not become a threat. ”

Yelu Yanxi did not listen to Xiao Fengxian's words as the history books said, but asked Xiao Wuna's opinion, "Xiao Wuna, you are familiar with the situation of women, what do you think Xiao Fengxian is planning?" ”

Xiao Wuna said sadly: "The birth of a daughter sitting upright began with Taizu's attack on the Bohai Kingdom. After the Bohai Sea was destroyed, the people moved to Liaodong, and the hometown of the Bohai Sea became the home of the daughter. Therefore, the birth of female straight people multiplied there, and the number of people increased. And the alliance of daughters and tribes was gradually formed by the first emperor during the time, claiming to have 100,000 households! The population is in the hundreds of thousands, to say the least. However, the territory of the birth of a daughter is very large, east of the Liao River Basin, from the north to the two sides of the Tongjiang River, and to the south to the Great Wall of Goryeo. 100,000 households are scattered among them, which is still very sparse. ”

History has let Yelu Yanxi carry the pot of giving birth to a daughter, which is really a bit wronged. The southern part of the territory that Shengnuzhi now occupies originally belonged to the Bohai Sea, a prosperous country in the east of the sea. In history, after Liao Taizu Abaoji destroyed the Great Bohai Sea, he moved hundreds of thousands of Bohai people to Liaodong and Liaoxi, and threw the territory of the Bohai Kingdom there.

The female straight people multiplied there, generation after generation, and by the time of the Liao Dao Sect, the population was already large, and it had developed from a scattered tribe to a tribal alliance. The Liao Daozong was busy dealing with the rebellion on the Mongolian plateau, constantly appeasing the female straight people (also to obtain harrier eagles, dongzhu, medicinal herbs, and furs), and watching them form tribal alliances.

By the time Yelu Yanxi took power, the birth of a daughter would have been a big one.

Xiao Wuna said in a heavy tone: "And the direct department of the birth of a daughter has always been headed by the Hushui Wanyan Department, which has thousands of households, and the cavalry that can be dispatched is about four or five thousand. The number of people who can be mobilized in the urgency is about 2,000-2,500. ”

"It's only 2,500 ......," Yelu Yanxi gritted his teeth, "I led 100,000 elite soldiers to go, and I am not afraid that I will not win if I fight him." ”

"Your Majesty can't," Xiao Fengxian hurriedly played, "How can 100,000 elite soldiers be vast?" Not only will the news leak, but the food and grass needed by the army will be difficult to raise for a while. By the time the soldiers and rations are ready, the birth daughter will have been fully prepared, and then there will be not 2,500, but 25,000 enemies. ”

"That's right," Yelu Yanxi nodded, "Fengxian, how many people should we send?" ”

"7,500 elite soldiers!" Xiao Fengxian said, "Three times the enemy, all elite warriors are selected, and there is no need to fight the grass valley soldiers, there is one main and one auxiliary, so there are 15,000 people." The supply of military rations can be taken care of by Tokyo Province. ”