Even in the cold land of the north, when the spring breeze blows, the greenery will emerge from the originally barren grassland. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Cattle and horses are starting to gain weight, and this would have been an excellent season. But since the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji sent people from various tribes to gather in Beijing, all the people of Liao knew that this was the signal for the beginning of the war.

The people of the Liao State did not have any worries, after all, for a long time, the Liao State had rarely failed in the use of troops against Dashun, the Uighurs, the Jurchens, and Goryeo. The Khitans relied on the sharpness of the cavalry and were invincible.

In fact, the Khitan people in history are still very powerful, they have a combination of farming and nomadic people, they can not only produce their own food, but also cultivate grass valleys on the border. If it weren't for the Khitans' own civil strife, which gave the Jurchen people a chance to rise, no matter how powerful Wanyan Agu was, they would not be able to sweep the Liao State in such a short period of time and bring the original Liao State border into the Jin State's pocket.

And in this different time and space, the ancestor of the Jurchen tribe, Wanyan Aguta, had not yet been born, and the Jurchen tribe was only a small tribe under the rule of the Liao State. Yelu Hongji is also a generation of Ming Jun, and he is not as lavish as in history. The Khitan ministers also have no disobedience, and the Liao State looks monolithic and has strong combat power.

In fact, there are internal contradictions in any country, and the complaints against Yeluhongji seem to be nothing now, but after all, there are still hidden dangers. What about Dashun? Beneath the seemingly peaceful appearance, there is an undercurrent surging. Lu Chengqi's tough reform and hard push for the Supervision Department have touched the vested interests of many people. These officials, squires, and profiteers all gritted their teeth at Lu Chengqi's cake that touched them, and they were eager to push Lu Chengqi off the throne and restore the previous system.

Originally, officials and businessmen colluded and ships went to sea, and officials secretly benefited a lot, and profiteers only needed to deal with good officials, and they did not need to pay taxes at all. Now that Lu Chengqi has established a ship division, he will definitely be arrested by the sailor if he goes to sea without permission, and he will not return the goods unless he pays the sky-high fine.

In this way, due to the coercion of the imperial court, many profiteers paid fines, got their ships back, and paid customs duties before they could continue to go to sea. The profiteers who have lost a lot have secretly hated Lu Chengqi. There have been no minor moves yet, but as soon as the situation between the DPRK and China changes, it is impossible to see what they will do.

Officials are also like this, they don't dare to stretch out their hands on the surface, but secretly they hate the Supervision Department so much. If the official salary is according to the general expenses, it is enough for the officials to spend a large family. But officials want to save face, the expenses on weekdays are very large, and that little bit of money is not enough to spend. What's even more hateful is that Lu Chengqi also converted all the benefits into money and silver, and deducted half of it, which is what kind of pension is it. Officials also know that this is Lu Chengqi's life after ensuring their resignation, but the odious thing is that Lu Chengqi also stipulates that only by being honest can he get a huge amount of pension. If the corruption is discovered, even the family property will be confiscated, and the officials will be crazy.

They have been studying hard for more than ten years, in order to become officials and make a fortune? If they can't do that, why do they have to sharpen their heads and drill into it like this? If it is the original Yulu, the family can still maintain the scenery. But now that it has been halved directly, their lives are very poor all of a sudden, and they can't even afford to hire a servant. Not only has the income decreased, but the gray income that used to account for the majority did not dare to take it, which made it even worse. Thinking of this, there are not many officials who don't hate Lu Chengqi to the core. They only want to be officials, and they don't care who is the emperor, which is why the Mongols and Manchus are in charge of the Central Plains, and there are still so many Han people who are officials and work hard for them.

The wealthy squire also complained about Lu Chengqi, first of all, he advocated commerce and supported ocean-going trade, so that many tenants did not want to farm, and went to ports, county seats, and state capitals to find a living. With the example of the tenant peasants, they fled more and more, so that the fields of the rich squires were abandoned. Although it is not obvious yet, it will definitely intensify according to this trend. The rich squires are not without vision, and they know better than anyone else what concerns their vital interests.

Originally, Lu Chengqi lowered the agricultural tax, which made them happy for a while, thinking that they could collect more. But Lu Chengqi single-handedly picked up commerce and handicrafts, absorbed a large number of idle people, and his wages were much more than those of tenant farmers, and tenant farmers were not fools, so of course they would choose to work under trade-offs. At first it was only one or two walks, and the squires did not pay attention, but later the tenant farmers fled in large numbers, and they paid attention. As a last resort, by reducing land rents, a group of tenant farmers were retained. But in the face of the commercial boom, the fragile smallholder economy seems to be fragile and crumbling.

How can this make the rich squire not complain about Lu Chengqi's policy?

This is also why the Dashun Dynasty is in a peaceful situation, and the undercurrent is surging. Lu Chengqi was also vigilant, on the one hand, to speed up the development of commerce and handicrafts, and on the other hand, to appease these vested interests and seek time for development. He also knows that the rise of a class must be accompanied by the decline of a class. If the interests of the majority are taken into account, then his reforms will be considered successful. Otherwise, it will be a mirror flower, as soon as he leaves the throne, it will not take long for him to be beaten back to his original form.

But now, the contradiction has been shifted, because the Khitans have begun to invade the border.

In the spring-like grassland, a large group of cavalry galloped from a distance in the dark, frightening Youzhou City to close the city gate and begin to defend the city. At the same time, the wolf smoke rose, warning the city not far away.

The wolf smoke has been extended, until it reaches Taiyuan City, and then it gallops out from the post road by the fast horse and goes straight to Chang'an City.

Lu Chengqi, who was in Chang'an City, was the first to get the report of the Supervision Department and learned about the composition and generals of this Khitan army. This Khitan army that invaded the territory was led by the emperor's uncle Yelu Chongyuan. The Khitan people changed from a nomadic to an empire, and the emperor's position was not like that of the Central Plains Dynasty, which was inherited by the father and the son, and the brother could also ascend the throne. Although this imperial uncle is respectful on the surface, he is actually secretly quite disdainful of Yelu Hongji, and is full of resentment against Liao Xingzong's inheritance of the throne to Yelu Hongji, and secretly makes trouble.

Previously, seeing that Xiao Xulie, the prime minister of Beifu, had repeatedly led the army to successfully fight the grass valley, Yelu Chongyuan's eyes were also red. Seeing that although he is the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, there are few opportunities to send troops, and he secretly hates it in his heart. This time, Lu Chengqi punished the unscrupulous merchants and cut off a large amount of salt and iron imports from the Liao State, so Yelu Chongyuan took the opportunity to make trouble and asked for the right to lead the troops this time, vowing to pay the price for Dashun.

Although Yelu Hongji was not too wary of Yelu Chongyuan, he was afraid of his military power and ordered him to lead his headquarters to go on the expedition. Yelu Chongyuan spoke again, and only then did he get another 20,000 soldiers and horses, a total of 100,000 troops, known as 300,000, and rushed to Youzhou City.

Yelu Chongyuan ordered his eldest son Yelu Nerugu to be the vanguard, leading 10,000 soldiers and horses, to cross the gap in the Great Wall that had been in disrepair for a long time, and reach the outside of Youzhou City.

Lu Chengqi knew that it was Yelu Chongyuan who led the army this time, and he couldn't help but feel relieved. There are not many historical records of this man, but in general there are two salient points. Yelu Chongyuan is good at politics, but his military strategy is very poor, otherwise he would not have lost to Yelu Hongji in the Chongyuan Rebellion. This paragraph was also written in the pen of Jin Yong, a martial arts master in later generations, that is, the paragraph where Xiao Feng captured the emperor's uncle on a single horse.

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