No. 651 The Ninth Watch of the Fifth Year of the Heavenly Blessing of the Song-Liao Peace Treaty
Land and wealth are still secondary, and what really scares them is that if there are only forbidden troops loyal to His Majesty the Emperor in Liao, then most of their high-ranking generals will have to be discharged and returned to the fields.
Because, most of the military generals of the Liao State are residence officials by virtue of their aristocratic status, in addition to the examination of personal martial arts, the requirements for their personal military literacy are not good, not to mention, the Great Liao State has become increasingly decaying in the past hundred years.
Civil officials love money, and military generals are afraid of death, which has become a common practice.
However, today, when Han Shusheng informed everyone of the news in front of all the officers and men of the two armies, it meant that these officers were powerless to change the trend of this matter. Unless, the new emperor suddenly changes his mind and no longer supports this fateful change.
However, among them, only Yelu Yujian understands best in his heart that although the new emperor Yelu Aolugan is generous and benevolent on the surface, he is a stubborn person in his bones, and once he decides to do something, he will not break through the south wall and will not give up. What's more, he also understood that if the Liao State could implement the new law, it would indeed be able to change the current dangerous situation in the country, which would be very beneficial to stabilizing the rule of the Liao Emperor.
But then Han Shusheng's words made these worried people breathe a sigh of relief.
"Of course, Your Majesty is Your Majesty after all, not a scholar who is misleading the country with this kind of empty talk, taking into account the actual situation of Liao, Your Majesty has limited the scope of the implementation of the new law. The details are as follows......"
In fact, this is Cai Dao's suggestion to him, the implementation of the new law in Liao must also be like the Great Song Dynasty, the specific scope of implementation must be limited, south of Shangjing, as well as south of Tokyo Road, Siping and Liaoyuan, that is, the provincial boundary of Liaoning Province in later generations. The tribal system of the former Liao State is still practiced in the northern region.
Moreover, the new emperor also stipulated that although the Liao State would continue to make bowls in the future, the emperor would not hunt uncontrollably. In winter, I will go to the surrounding area of Dading Mansion to hunt, and in summer I will go to video or Liaoyuan Indeed, of course, if I can keep Huanglong Mansion, a new capital will be set up there in the future - Beijing Huanglong Mansion.
In the future, the Liao State will still implement the five-capital system, Shangjing, Tokyo and Zhongjing will remain unchanged, and the new ones will be Beijing Huanglongfu and Xingjing Longhua City.
Longhua City, also known as Longhua Zhou City, it is a city originally established by Yelu Abaoji, so it is called Xingjing. The approximate place is located near the Naiman Banner of Inner Mongolia in later generations.
One size fits all, one size fits all, is the most important thing for the implementation of the new law. Appropriately reducing the scope of Tokyo Province and Kamikyo Province is equivalent to pointing out the direction of future development for these nobles. If you want a site, you can, to the west and north of Kamikyo Road, and to the north of Tokyo Road.
In fact, Han Shusheng said a sentence in front of the new emperor Yelu Aolugan: "Taishi Cai of the southern country also pointed out a road for you, east of Tokyo Road, where is Goryeo, he said, anyway, that small country is a subject country of my Great Liao, and it is not up to Your Majesty to decide what to do with it." Although the country of Goryeo is small, the easternmost part of it is rich in rice, and it can become another Xilu province in my Daliao in the future. ”
Considering the problem of the family members of the palace division army, he decided to send these palace division troops to attack the Goryeo kingdom immediately after the Jurchens were exterminated. As for Shangjing and Tokyo, the army in Yanjing was enough to quell the rebellion.
Half a month later, Yelu Baoteng, the patriarch of the Han clan, finally signed a peace treaty with Han Zhongyan, the privy envoy of the Song Dynasty, which had far-reaching significance for the future relations between the two countries.
The reason why Han Zhongyan was chosen instead of any prime minister, or Zhao Bi, the king of Zhou, and Zhao Mi, the king of Cai, was because this Han Baoteng himself had been canonized as the new privy envoy of the Liao State by Yelu Aolugan. Considering the reason for the equality of status, Han Zhongyan will be chosen.
The contents of the peace treaty are as follows:
First of all, the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun were neither seized by the Song State, nor ceded by the Liao State, nor sold by the Liao Emperor to the Song Emperor.
As for the price, the Great Song Kingdom had to hand over one million taels of money to the Great Liao State every year.
Of course, this money is no longer called the 'New Year's coin', but will be called the 'New Year's gift' from this year.
The money here refers to the Tianyou version of the copper coin, and Han Shusheng resolutely does not want the Qilin silver coin, because he wants to mint this kind of silver coin in the Great Liao country, so he will not care whether the silver coin he mints is exquisite or not, and whether someone will steal it.
The silk was completely replaced with cotton cloth, this point, Han Shusheng to Yelu Aolu Gan, in the future, in the Liao State, up to the emperor, down to the people of Li are not allowed to wear clothes made of silk, must wear clothes made of cotton and linen.
For this, the new emperor readily agreed.
Silk is indeed very comfortable to wear, but its warming effect is certainly not as good as that of clothes woven from this new material. What's more, the price of silk is still too high, you don't see, the people of the southern country have worked hard to weave silk, but they themselves can't wear a single piece of silk in their lifetime.
Cai Dao did not stop Han Shusheng's request, because he knew that things in the world were easy to go from thrift to luxury, and from luxury to thrift. Maybe Han Shusheng himself and the new emperor of the Great Liao can do this, but those nobles of the Liao State have long been accustomed to the luxurious life of the past, unless Han Shusheng has the ability to completely eradicate these corrupt forces, otherwise his persistence may end when Yelu Aolu gets tired of him.
Second, the Song and Liao countries determined the border between the two sides.
The easternmost border is not Yuguan, but Jinzhou.
The border in the central part is Yunzhou, which belongs to the Liao State in the north and the Great Song Dynasty in the south.
The western boundary is bounded by the Wolf Mountain and the Yin Mountain at the top of the Yellow River.
Regarding this point, Han Shusheng thought that Cai Dao was really blowing, because there were still many territories belonging to the Western Xia Kingdom in the Hetao area, and Li Qianshun was crazy, and it was impossible to agree to Cai Dao's request.
But in fact, Li Qianshun did agree to this request, and after the autumn harvest in the fifth year of Tianyou, he relocated all the Han people and various tribes of the Western Xia Kingdom who had settled in the Hetao area to Yinchuan and the Hexi Corridor area.
Of course, Li Qianshun is not crazy, Cai Dao easily took back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun from the Liao State almost effortlessly, if he doesn't leave, he is really crazy, if he provokes that killing god, the Western Xia Kingdom may cease to exist.
Of course, Cai Dao is also giving 500,000 yuan to the Western Xia Kingdom every year as usual.