What Pan Xiong brought back was the 100,000 standing forbidden army he brought to Yuguan and the 350,000 Tuntian forbidden army that was later reinforced.

As for the Youyan region, the Khitans and Han people, who originally belonged to the Liao State, were either relocated to Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo, or lured overseas by the Great Song Dynasty. And the 500,000 troops left by Cai Dao himself stayed there and didn't make any big trouble.

After receiving the letter, the people of Bianliang City put down their work one after another, took out all kinds of food from their homes, and some took out the wine brewed for women from home, and the families of the soldiers who participated in the expeditionary force rushed to the north gate of Bianliang City together, ready to see with their own eyes these heroes who recaptured the sixteen states of Youyun for the Great Song Kingdom.

The people rejoiced to welcome the king. This is a grand scene that has not been seen for many years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the plan was all formulated by Cai Dao, the specific executors were Pan Xiong and his nearly 500,000 troops, and they were naturally the ones with the most casualties. In particular, Pan Xiongfang's Tuntian soldiers on the north bank of the Luan River experienced the continuous impact of the most elite troops of the Liao State. If it weren't for the terrain restrictions, and Yelu Zhongke and Yelu Yanxi were unwilling to consume their palace troops in such a place, maybe Pan Xiong would not have been able to use the Moon Formation at all.

Wang Shi set the Central Plains Day in the north, and the family sacrifice did not forget to tell Nai Weng, Lu You's poem is very appropriate, the children and grandchildren of the great poet of the Southern Song Dynasty did not see such a grand scene, but Cai Dao and the forbidden army under him did it.

After the little emperor learned of this, he was drowsy from being noisy in the main hall just now, and he immediately came to his spirit again, this is a good opportunity to sacrifice to the Taimiao, and it is also the best time to brush his prestige in front of the subjects of the world. Xiao Zhao seems to be naturally keen on this kind of thing. You must know that the ritual sacrifice to the Taimiao is a very tedious and tiring thing, and he can survive it as a child.

This must also be thanked to the deceased Empress Dowager Zhu and Cai Dao, if the two of them worked together to take care of his body since childhood, how could he grow up so healthy?

After everything was done, Pan Xiong was left in the palace by Empress Dowager Meng, Xiao Zhao Ban, Zhou Wang Zhao Bi and Cai Wang Zhao Mi, and summoned him alone.

Of course, he wanted to ask about the specific situation of Yanjing, as well as his opinion on the matter of Emperor Liao's sealing of his master Cai Dao.

Pan Xiong generally talked about the situation in Yanjing, which is nothing more than that the Yanjing area has now been moved away by people from both sides.

This was undoubtedly an action to greatly weaken the Liao State.

According to the rough statistics of Pan Xiong's faction, the Han people of Liao who were abducted by those military generals alone, together with men, women, and children, have reached one million.

Pan Xiong then said his own opinion on the Liao Emperor's addition of Cai Dao: "Queen Mother, Your Majesty, first of all, this matter was done by the Liao State itself, of course, in order to tie up the Taishi, to be honest, even if my Great Song did not attack the Liao State this time and recaptured the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, the monarchs and ministers of the Liao State will not be free for long. He fought three consecutive battles with the Liao army, all of which were won by less.

Of course, there are reasons why the main force of the Liao State was pinned down by our Great Song Dynasty, and there are also reasons why the generals of the Liao State were greedy for life and afraid of death and fled before the war, but this also shows that the dead emperor of the Liao State, Yelu Yanxi, is far behind his grandfather Yelu Hongji.

Besides, the Queen Mother, Your Majesty, this kind of thing was rare and common during the Warring States Period, and Tian Dan of Qi State still went to Zhao State to be the minister of state. Taishi went to Liao, which indeed stabilized the situation in Liao, and Taishi told Weichen about this. On the one hand, it is to let the Liao people free up their hands to take over the vacuum area north of the Hetao and south of the desert, after the Western Xia people leave, if that area is left unattended for a long time, the Tatars north of the desert will take advantage of the weakness to enter, seriously threatening the Taishi's future planning, that is, to start building the Great Wall around the Hetao.

On the other hand, when he went to Liao, he not only had to help Liao turn to farming, but also further deepened the sinicization of the Khitans. Queen Mother, Your Majesty, two princes, imagine that having a Liao State with a very high degree of sinicization as a neighbor is a hundred times and a thousand times stronger than those barbaric and uncivilized Jurchens as neighbors! ”

"Then how should the mourning family and His Majesty respond?" Empress Dowager Meng actually didn't care how Emperor Liao crowned Cai Dao, she only needed to give an explanation to all the people in the world and the ministers of the court.

Pan Xiong replied immediately, however, his eyes kept waiting for Xiao Zhao's companion: "The Queen Mother, Your Majesty, the two princes, you can send people to preach everywhere later, Taishi is just like Tian Dan back then, just to temporarily help the Liao State, a friend of the Great Song State, stabilize the situation in its country." Weichen also suggested, Your Majesty, you can also push the boat down the river, and simply crown Taishi as the king of Yan. Of course, this is just a false title. Your Majesty, what do you think of this proposal from Wechen? ”

"King Yan is King Yan! Anyway, the sixteen states of Youyun are too masters, and he took them back for me! Xiao Zhao replied nonchalantly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Zhao asked two more questions that made the others a little different: "However, Pan Aiqing, do you really have to let go of the Western Xia people like this, and Liaodong will not be taken back?" ”

"If Your Majesty has such ambitions, you need to work hard now. Study hard, grow up with the ministers you trust, just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and pick out your Wei Qing and Huo Qubing for my Great Song Dynasty. Although Master Taishi is young, after all, he can't accompany Your Majesty for a lifetime, just like Weichen. Pan Xiong replied solemnly: "What you want to get, you still need to work your own."

Master Taishi also said that if the Western Xia Kingdom and the Liao Kingdom were destroyed now, it would inevitably make the soldiers on the border of the Great Song Kingdom and the forbidden army in Beijing begin to gradually slacken, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers would also drop sharply. Your Majesty, studying history books during this time, you should remember that during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Xianbei people were originally nomadic people, but after they moved south to Yunzhou, the Rouran people, who had the same roots and species as Xianbei, began to constantly harass the frontiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The current situation in the Liao State is equivalent to that of the Xianbei people in the late Northern Wei Dynasty, with murderous Jurchens in the northeast and Tatars in the northwest. When the Liao State is strong, they will choose to submit temporarily, but if the Liao State declines, they will immediately show their fangs and wait for an opportunity to pounce on it, wanting to eat the Liao State. At that time, I was the only one who faced these barbaric murderers alone. ”