Chao Gai also stood up involuntarily and said: "The prince said well, although my Daliang's current national strength is not as good as that of the Song Dynasty, my Daliang will never sign an alliance under the city, let alone humiliate the people by paying taxes and seeking peace." ”

Seeing that the emperor said this, the officials hurriedly said in unison: "The emperor is wise." ”

Huang Qianshan, who was paralyzed on the ground, was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, knowing that one of his feet had stepped into the ghost gate.

Chao Gai sat down again, and didn't need to discuss anymore, and said directly: "Prince, how many soldiers and horses do you want to bring north?" ”

Chao Yong said with a smile: "The Liao State will definitely not be able to gather many soldiers and horses, and it is enough to have 50,000 soldiers and horses such as Lu Junyi." Besides, the Liao State did not dare to fight for a long time, as long as the Liao State was hurt by a war, I am afraid that they would be the ones who would seek peace at that time. ”

Chao Gai shook his head and said: "Although the Liao Kingdom has declined, the tiger is still powerful, and you can't underestimate the enemy." There are still 30,000 soldiers and horses in Tokyo, so you can take another 20,000 with you. ”

Chao Yong thought for a while and said: "Fifty thousand soldiers and horses are enough, Erchen thinks that it is better to transfer General Lin to Xijing to guard against Wang Qing and Tian Hu's attack, and Wu Song and Mu Hong stay in Tokyo to plan everything." Wang Qing and Tian Hu were also busy attacking the city everywhere, they really sent troops to attack Xijing, and the soldiers and horses were also limited, and they sent 20,000 soldiers and horses plus the forbidden army of Xijing, which was enough to ensure that Xijing was not lost. ”

Lin Chong nodded and said: "What the prince said is that Wang Qing and Tian Hu are just a rabble, and if they attack the ordinary state capital under my Great Liang, it will still be a threat." Attacking Xijing, but it was beyond his strength. The high walls of Xijing City are thick, and there are 10,000 elite soldiers, which is enough to ensure that the city is not lost. ”

Chao Gai saw Chao Yong's confident face, so he also said: "Okay, then the prince will lead the troops to resist Liao, and Lin Jiaotou will lead his troops to aid Xijing and take over the defense of Xijing." ”

Wu Yong saw that Chao Gai had already made a holy decree, and he didn't say much, and added: "Wang Qing and Tian Hu's soldiers and horses are not far from Xijing, and General Lin can lead his troops to prepare for the city defense overnight." The envoys sent by the two of them were delayed by me for a few days, and then they were expelled, and at that time, Wang Qing and Tian Hu were going to send troops to attack Xijing, and General Lin should have been ready. ”

Chao Gai nodded and said: "Zuo Xiang's plan is good, Wang Qing and Tian Hu's envoys will be handled by you." ”

Chao Yong glanced at Huang Qianshan on the ground and said, "Erchen, please kill this person for treason, and set up a monument to publicize it." In the future, anyone who dares to speak out and seek peace with money will be punished for treason. If the descendants of my Chao family dare to sign the alliance under the city, they will be expelled from the Chao family, and the people of the world will punish them. ”

Huang Qianshan originally prayed that Chao Yong would forget him, but Chao Yong still didn't let him go, and couldn't help but forgive: "The villain was confused for a while, and asked the prince to spare his life." ”

Chao Gai is the second half of the sentence that shocked Chao Yong, which is undoubtedly a family motto.

The Zhao family in the Song Dynasty also had a family motto engraved on the stone tablet, but it was hidden in the Taimiao, and the subjects of the world only knew that the Zhao family had a family motto, but they did not know what the Zhao family motto was. Only when each emperor ascended the throne was allowed to go to the place where the stele was stored to watch and take an oath.

After Liang entered Tokyo, he moved the Zhao family stele out, and everyone knew the content of the Zhao family ancestral training stele:

"It is forbidden to kill the doctor who writes to him"

"All the descendants of the Chai clan shall not be punished if they are guilty. Even if there is a great sin of treason, it is not permissible to be connected to the whole clan, but only to be put to death in prison, not to be killed in the city. ”

"Whoever does not obey this precept will not be blessed!"

If what Chao Yong said is really publicized, once the descendants of later generations are forced to sign the alliance under the city, the subjects of the world will have a reason to rebel, which is undoubtedly a great threat to the Chao family.

Chao Yong saw Chao Gai hesitate, and said: "If my Chao descendants really need to sign an alliance under the city to keep the country, then he is not worthy of being the emperor.

On the other hand, publicizing the family motto can also allow the people of the world to supervise the descendants of my Chao family, lest they, like the descendants of the Zhao family, act mischief while no one knows the ancestral motto. ”

Chao Gai is also a sprinkled person, and he knows that there is no eternal country, seeing that Chao Yong said it so thoroughly, he also nodded and said: "Okay, just do what the prince said, and let the world know that there is only one way to die for a traitor, even the emperor." ”

"Father is wise, when a nation is accustomed to spending money to buy peace, then the nation is not far from decline. I just want the Han people in the world to regain their lost blood surname, the Han people are more than 10,000, and the Khitans, Dangxiang people, Jurchens, and Mongols are only a few million, as long as my Han people have no heart to negotiate peace, everyone fights to the death, and no nation can enslave my Han people. ”

The Khitans were the main ethnic group of the Liao State, the Dangxiang people were the Western Xia, and the Jurchens were the Jin State. Most of the Mongols don't know which ethnic group it is, and a few learned people know that there was a record of "Meng Gu" in the Old Tang Dynasty, but it seems that it is a very small steppe tribe in the north, and none of them have established a country, how can it be compared with the previous three ethnic groups.

Chao Gaiqi said: "Who are the Mongols? ”

Chao Yong saw that he had already said something, so the surname Suo pretended to be a magic stick again: "The Mongols are several tribes in Shangjing Province of Liao, if there is no Liang of my country, a few decades later, those tribes will be unified by a person named Temujin, establish Mongolia, and then sweep away the Jin State, Western Xia, and Southern Song Dynasty, and establish a huge empire, at that time, there are only 50 million people left in my Han people." ”

Chao Gai was speechless: "If there are 50 million Han people left, wouldn't that kill 50 million Han people?" ”

Chao Yong shook his head and said: "Not so much, perennial wars, people are not able to make a living, many people died of famine, plague and other situations, but tens of millions of people were slaughtered. The butchers were mainly Jin and Mongol, and some Han Chinese who died in surrender. ”

Lin Chong and other people who were convinced of Chao Yong's identity as a descendant of Xingchen heard Chao Yong say it so tragically, and they were all covered in cold sweat one by one.

The hundred officials who had just returned to obedience felt that Chao Yong was talking about it, not to mention that Mongolia had never heard of it, and it was unbelievable that tens of millions of people were slaughtered.

Zhao Mingcheng said in disbelief: "Will the Mongols be more powerful than the Jin people?" It was able to destroy the Jin Kingdom, Western Xia, and Southern Song Dynasty. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "I also asked people to inquire about the situation of the Mongolian tribes, the Mongols are indeed brave and good at fighting, even when the iron cavalry of the Liao State is at its peak, it is impossible to unify the Mongolian steppe." All the tribes of Mongolia are a people on horseback, and the Liao State sent troops deep into the steppe several times, but not only could not exterminate or subdue the tribes of the steppe, but defeated more and won less. Therefore, the Liao State can only dig trenches and build castles on the border of the Mongolian steppe to prevent the steppe cavalry from raiding, and it is strictly forbidden for iron weapons to flow into the Mongolian steppe, but the Mongolian cavalry has no armor, and the Liao cavalry who can fight with bone arrows is daunting, and it is necessary to build a trench equivalent to the Great Wall of our Han people to resist the invasion of the Mongolian cavalry. You can imagine how warlike the Mongols were, right? Even so, the Mongol tribes broke into the territory of the Liao State from time to time to plunder. ”

(To be continued)