readx; A sudden blizzard from the north swept through the entire northeast, and it was not until three days later that the blizzard gradually subsided, and the sun came out, and the world was already covered with snow, and the rivers and rivers were frozen. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Raole River in the Khitan Songmozhou is actually the upper reaches of the Liao River, the Khitan tooth tent has been moved to the Raole River, the men have entered the Bohai country to fight, and there are only more than 200,000 old and weak women and children left around the tooth tent.

The Khitan implements a tribal alliance system, consisting of eight tribes, and is ruled by the Yaoran clan in the three major clans of the Khitan, Li Huaijie is the big chief of the alliance, his Khitan name is Di Ran, and he calls himself the Khan of the Block, for a long time he was only the nominal leader of the Khitans, and the Khitan power was actually controlled by the Khitan Elders' Leader Neri, until Neri died a few years ago, Li Huaijie monopolized the power.

At this time, it was the heyday of the Khitan, with a population of more than 600,000 and nearly 200,000 armored soldiers, but the Khitan was greatly injured by the war against the Tang Dynasty for many years, especially in the eleventh year of Tianbao, the Khitan was defeated by An Lushan, and more than half of the children of the Khitan and Xi people were taken captive by An Lushan, which greatly reduced the Khitan population and greatly damaged the strength, and only five of the eight divisions remained, if it were not for An Lushan defeated by Shi Siming, then in the end it was the Khitan people who were annexed by An Lushan, not the Khitans who annexed An Lushan Army.

It was precisely because of the huge losses in Khitan strength that Li Huaijie decided to unite Xi and Yan to attack Bohai in an attempt to obtain population and resources from the Bohai Kingdom.

The capture of the Bohai Sea has always been the strategic plan of the Khitans, and it was not until a hundred years later that Yelu Abaoji finally destroyed the Bohai Kingdom and realized the long-cherished wish of the ancestors.

But history has been subversive because of the emergence of a Li Qing'an, the Tang army used the sea to send 100,000 troops to the Bohai State, but also became a nightmare for the Khitans, when the Khitan army was deep in the Bohai State, a Tang army composed of 10,000 cavalry began to sweep the Khitan and Xi people, this is the Khitan six years ago after the defeat of An Lushan after another catastrophe, but this time it was a catastrophe.

Of course, the Khitan people on the banks of the Raole River are not all Khitans, the Khitans still have more than 100,000 scattered scattered in various places, this is only where the tooth tent is, these 200,000 people are the most important tribes of the Khitan, young and strong men have gone to the Bohai Sea to fight, leaving only the old and weak women and children and many Han slaves.

Han slaves are mainly women, they are Han women who were captured by the Khitans from Hebei prefectures and counties in the An Lushan rebellion, the Khitan people are the same, they have a strong ** for Han women, this is not just a physiological demand, but an urgent need for population reproduction, this population reproduction demand has lasted for hundreds of years, when the Hui declined, and the Khitan occupied the land and expanded, but their population reproduction could not keep up, this demand was even stronger, and gradually formed a beast surname culture, It was also inherited by the later Jurchens, and there will be the tragic experience of Han women in the two Song dynasties.

There were 50,000 or 60,000 captive Han women in the Khitan tents on the banks of the Raole River, almost every family, they were slaves, they were not counted as people, they undertook the heaviest labor during the day, and were ravaged by their masters at night, living an inhuman life.

As soon as the heavy snow stopped, the Khitan old people, women and children walked out of the camp tents one after another, feeling the happiness of the first winter snow, groups of Khitan children rolled in the snow, wrestled, and had snowball fights, and laughter spread all over the snowfield, while the Han female slaves went to the cattle and sheep tents to clean up sheep dung and cow dung, and to feed the grass and milk them, and they could not be seen in the snowfield.

At this moment, a long black line appeared on the hills in the distance, which was the 10,000 Tang troops led by Zhao Chongjie to kill, and soon the Khitans discovered them, they began to panic and fled to the camp, Zhao Chongjie looked coldly at the Khitan camp tent that stretched for more than ten miles in front, and he resolutely gave an order, "Only women and children are left, and all men are killed!" ”

The overwhelming Tang cavalry roared and rushed down the hill, like an avalanche, swept towards the Khitan camp, the Tang soldiers brandished their swords, their eyes were full of killing and plundering excitement, hundreds of slow Khitan old men were caught up and killed by the Tang army, and in an instant, the overwhelming Tang cavalry group rushed into the Khitan camp.......

After more than two hours, the killing gradually stopped, and the cruelty of the war was shown in a moment, when the Khitan soldiers wantonly slaughtered civilians and annihilated silver women in the Bohai Kingdom, their families were also doomed, when the Tang army restored military discipline, tens of thousands of left-behind men had been killed, and many Khitan teenagers who had been able to get on horses and gallop were also unable to escape death, leaving only more than 100,000 women and children.

The Han women who had become slaves were also liberated, and their humiliation and anger exploded at this moment, but when the Khitan men were killed and they had no way to vent the pain in their hearts, their anger turned to the Khitan old people and children who also bullied them.

When the bullied women were allowed to take revenge, their outburst of hatred and cruelty was unbelievable, many Khitan old people and children were killed by them, they occupied the owner's property, stripped the hostess's clothes, humiliated them in every conceivable way, sacrificed them to the Tang soldiers, so that they could also pay for the humiliation, and the Khitan camp was full of crying.

In the end, Zhao Chongjie ordered the Tang army to restore military discipline, no longer abuse the Khitans, and began to bury the corpses, the soldiers buried the corpses and returned to the camp, each resting, and the 500 gendarmerie began to count the number of Khitan women and children, and counted the cattle and sheep property, until dusk, the count was finally over.

In Li Huaijie's golden silk tent, Zhao Chongjie was listening to the report of the marching Sima.

"Report to the general, we have captured a total of 173,000 Khitan women and children, including 132,000 women, 41,000 children, about 800,000 cattle and sheep, nearly 200,000 horses, and a total of 25,000 women from Hebei prefectures and counties who have been taken captive, most of them are very quiet, but some of them are quite emotionally unstable, and many women are clamoring to go home.

Zhao Chongjie pondered for a moment, and then said: "Gather the most noisy women, and I will give them a lecture." ”

An hour later, more than a thousand women were gathered in front of the tent, all of whom had already put on lambskin coats, warm leather boots, and thick sheepskin-pointed hats on their heads.

Although they made a lot of noise in the camp, they were all quiet at this time, and they were very worried in their hearts, not knowing what fate would happen to them.

At this time, it was already dark, more than a thousand soldiers held torches, surrounded them, the fire reflected the red snow, Zhao Chongjie climbed the temporary wooden platform, he saw the fear in the eyes of the women, knew that they were all soldiers.

He sighed in his heart, and then said loudly: "You don't have to be afraid, we are the Anxi Army, and we are the generals, and we will rescue you on the orders of His Royal Highness King Zhao." ”

After a pause, he asked again, "Do you know who Your Highness is?" ”

A little woman nodded to indicate that she knew, but most of the women were at a loss, they were all housewives at home, they didn't care much about state affairs, they only knew that it was a prince, but they didn't know who it was, but they didn't know, Zhao Chongjie saw that many people didn't understand, he asked for his surname and announced loudly: "His Royal Highness King Zhao is His Majesty the Tang Emperor, and I am on the orders of His Majesty the Tang Emperor to rescue you!" ”

The soldiers erupted in cheers, "Hooray!" Long live the General! Long live His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Many women wept bitterly, and the shame they suffered made them uncontrollable in a moment, and the cry infected everyone, and almost all the women began to cry, and many knelt down and cried and shouted, "General, we are going home, please, let us go home!" ”

Zhao Chongjie's eyes were also a little red, he waved his hand, and said loudly: "Please listen to me, wait for me to finish, and then you will make a decision!" ”

He took a deep breath and said: "You may not know the current situation in your hometown, then let me tell you, now Hebei Province is in ruins, most of the people have been evacuated, all states and counties are empty cities, An Lushan is still fighting with Shi Siming, you go back now, you can only become their prisoners again, then your fate is even more miserable, and this winter came very early, the heavy snow has closed the road, you can't go back at all, you can only freeze to death halfway, so you listen to my arrangement, Spend the winter here, and wait until next spring, after the Tang army has quelled An Lushan and Shi Siming's rebellion, and then send you back, when the imperial court will settle you and reunite your family. ”

The women stopped crying, and they listened blankly to Zhao Chongjie's arrangements for them.

"We will give you a part of the property of the Khitans, give you cattle, sheep and tents, and there will be an army to protect you, and you will wait for the day when you return to the south with peace of mind, but from now on, you must obey the management of the army, and you are not allowed to seek revenge and cause trouble, if there is any more person who does not obey the order, she will be deprived of her property, do you hear?"

Zhao Chongjie's last voice was very stern, he saw that the women didn't dare to say anything, but there was obvious fear in his eyes, knowing that this time had an effect, he waved his hand and said, "Now you go back to the account first!" Rest well, tomorrow there will be soldiers to register and distribute your belongings, but don't make any more noise. ”

More than 1,000 women went back by themselves, many of them went back on horseback, and the farthest people had to walk more than ten miles, Zhao Chongjie pondered for a moment, and then instructed his subordinate Zhang Zhongdao: "You can lead two thousand brothers to stay here, pay attention to the discipline of the soldiers, and treat these poor women who have been taken captive, if there is a situation, I will naturally send someone to contact you." ”

"Is the general going to Raole?"

Zhao Chongjie nodded, "There are more than 100,000 people on the Xi side, and they will also be conquered, I will leave it to you here, remember, restrain military discipline, and you are not allowed to indulge the soldiers too much, otherwise, I can't explain to the general." ”

"Please rest assured, General, I will definitely restrain the brothers!"

Zhao Chongjie patted him on the shoulder, and went back to the tent, and the next morning, Zhao Chongjie led 8,000 cavalry to gallop towards the Xi people station in the south.

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In October, Chang'an also had the first light snow, compared to the blizzard in Bohai country, the light snow in Chang'an fell very gently, fine snowflakes flew in the sky, from time to time by the cold wind blown into a long snow chain, fell on the roof, it accumulated a thin layer, they fell to the ground, soon melted, into a pool of black slush water, the carriage drove quickly, splashing a splash.

Chang'an has been very calm these days, and it is almost the end of the year, and the price of rice has been further reduced to 60 wen per bucket; with the full recovery of Cao Yun, the grain and tax money from the official warehouses in the south of the Yangtze River have been escorted into Beijing one after another, so that the official treasury of Chang'an has been enriched, and the grain prices in the market have been effectively suppressed.

If there is too much money circulating in the market, then the supply of goods must be increased in order to effectively stabilize prices.

Three hundred cavalry escorted Li Qing'an's carriage into Chunming Street, and drove away in the direction of Daming Palace, Li Qing'an returned to Chang'an for almost half a month, in Jiangnan, he used the case of Yang Xunwu to clean up Huainan and Jiangnan officialdom, seven assassins were warned, seventeen county officials were demoted, a number of officials such as county officials and county lieutenants were purged, nine of them were raided and imprisoned, but except for Yang Xunwu who was beheaded and raided his home, the rest of the officials were not punished by death, Li Qingan always grasped a degree, his purpose was to deter Jiangnan officialdom, I don't want to set off a bloody storm in Jiangnan officialdom, which is not conducive to the stability of the political situation.

Li Qing'an went to Daming Palace, is to hold a meeting with the political hall to discuss the Khitan and Xi matters, he just received the information sent by Li Baozhen, Li Baozhen's battle in the Bohai Sea was quite beautiful, two battles annihilated the Khitan coalition army of nearly 100,000 people, and now Li Huaijie's 50,000 troops are besieged in Huzhou City, they are cut off from food, and rely on killing horses to live.

Zhao Chongjie led 10,000 cavalry to sweep through Songmo and Raole, and basically swept away the Khitan and Xi's lair, and he needed to raise the issue of the resettlement of the Khitans to the political hall.

The carriage drove into the Daming Palace, stopped in front of the gate of Zhongshu Province, a personal soldier opened the door, Li Qingan got off the carriage, walked quickly towards Zhongshu Province, and entered the political hall and meeting hall, seven Xiangguo were already waiting here, Zhang Hao, Cui Ning, Wang Jin, Yan Zhenqing, Pei Min, Liu Yan, Guo Ziyi Seven people all gathered.

Seeing Li Qing'an come in, all seven of them stood up and bowed: "Your Highness is here!" “

"I'm sorry to be a step late."

Li Qingan arched his hand apologetically and smiled: "The wheels on the road were a little broken, and another carriage was changed, so it was late, so everyone waited for a long time." ”

Li Qing'an's eyes fell on Guo Ziyi, this is the third time he has a meeting with all the members of the political hall, but every time Guo Ziyi is silent, but without him Li Qing'an was present, Guo Ziyi spoke very enthusiastically, criticizing the disadvantages of the times and expressing his heart directly, Li Qingan knew that this was Guo Ziyi still a little knot, he smiled at Guo Ziyi, and sat down.

The crowd also sat down. An official gently closed the door to the chamber, and the hall fell silent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased that the last time I submitted a plan for the Bohae Province to the Government Affairs Hall, I received the final approval from the Government Affairs Hall......

At present, the political hall is the highest authority of the Tang Dynasty, Li Qing'an, as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, all his major actions in name must be approved by the political hall, which has a legal status, and he proposed to put the Bohai Sea under the direct jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty and change it to Bohai Road, and this plan was also submitted to the political hall.

As the highest authority of the Tang Dynasty, it is not only necessary to safeguard the vital interests of the Tang Dynasty, but also to take into account the moral must be tenable.

But the situation of the Bohai State is different, it itself is a subject country of the Tang Dynasty, after several generations of emperors canonized, has recognized its self-reliance, and the Bohai State has also paid tribute year after year, and has not done anything contrary to the duty of the subject country, so Li Qing'an proposed to directly swallow the original plan of the Bohai State, which is morally untenable, and this plan has also experienced fierce debates within the political affairs, except for Zhang Hao and Liu Yan to support Li Qing'an, the rest of the Xiangguo are almost unanimously opposed, which violates the basic moral bottom line of the Tang Empire.

The original intention of the imperial court was not to let the Northeast region return, on the contrary, this is what the Tang Dynasty has always wanted to do since the founding of the country, the Sui and Tang dynasties have sent troops to this area, which is the continuation of this line of thinking, and finally because of the rise of Tibet, the Tang Dynasty has no time to look eastward, so it was forced to accept the current way of subjectivity.

What the government hall wants is a kind of moral, accountable and dignified return to the world, not a military occupation that takes advantage of the danger of others.

As a last resort, Li Qing'an revised the plan, changing the direct annexation to a gradual attribution, implementing a three-step plan of garrisoning, immigration, retaining the royal family but dissolving the imperial court, and sending state and county officials by the imperial court, and when the conditions are ripe, the Bohai State will be changed to Bohai Dao, and the time is set at five years, which is a moderate compromise plan, which was basically accepted by the political affairs hall, and finally the government affairs hall changed the term from five years to ten years, and the plan was passed.

In this way, the Bohaidao plan is no longer Li Qing'an's personal idea, but the national strategy of the entire Tang Dynasty, which is deployed and implemented by the imperial court.

Li Qing'an's ambition is very large, and the scope of the Bohai Province he refers to is not only the Bohai Kingdom, but also includes Silla, Khitan, and Murowei, which is the north of today's Sakhalin Island all the way to Siberia and Alaska, in the Tang Dynasty, these places are basically no man's land, once the Bohai Road is officially established, this will become the third largest administrative region of the Tang Dynasty after Anxi Road and Hezhong Road.

What Li Qing'an wants to report today is the latest progress of the Bohai Campaign and the resettlement of the Khitans.

“．．．．．． General Li Baozhen defeated the Khitan coalition army in the Bohai State, and the area where the Khitan and Xi are located has also been cleared, and now there are a total of 240,000 Khitan women and children who need to be relocated, and nearly 40,000 women and children who were taken captive to Hebei Prefectures. ”

With the lessons of An Lushan's rebellion, the Tang Dynasty basically reached a consensus that the Hu people would no longer give them land to live in, but would implement the plan of internal relocation and mixed Han and Hu people, and gradually assimilate the Hu people, so Li Qing'an's proposal of this plan was reasonable and reasonable, and everyone did not oppose it.

But Guo Ziyi heard a clue, and he asked slowly: "I listen to His Royal Highness King Zhao, there are only the women and children of Khitan and Xi, where are their men?" ”

Li Qingan smiled slightly: "Guo Shangshu should know that the Khitans are all soldiers, and the men are fighting in the Bohai Kingdom, so their nest only has women and children, of course, if there are prisoners of war, then there are men." ”

The other ministers in the political hall don't know much about this, and Li Qing'an seems to have a point, all the people are soldiers! Naturally, the men went to war, but Guo Ziyi knew very well in his heart that no matter how many people were soldiers, there would definitely be men in the tribe, and it was impossible for all of them to fight, and he also guessed that it must have been Li Qing'an who ordered the massacre in the Khitan and Xi's lair, so only women and children remained.

At this time, the eyes of the two were facing each other, and Li Qingan's smile had a strong coercion, to be precise, it was actually a warning, warning Guo Ziyi not to make extraneous branches, Guo Ziyi's head slowly lowered, and he stopped talking,

"Ladies and gentlemen, if this plan can be passed, tomorrow spring, the army will directly transport the Khitan people back to Datang by big ship, and then slowly resettle them after the war in Hebei is over, please vote on it!"

The government hall is a seven-member system, and under normal circumstances, the majority is the majority to pass, but some major matters, such as the construction of the Bohai Road, the launching of the other party's war, and other major military policies, must be agreed by all the ministers of the government hall, and this kind of matter is called a first-class political bill.

Therefore, a proposal must first be judged by five middle scholars, which is called a 'final bill', and the low-level political bills of the third level and below do not need to be approved by the government affairs hall, but are directly approved by the minister on duty in the ruling office.

However, even if a low-level political bill is decided by one person, it must be reviewed by the Ministry of Menxia, and if the Ministry of Menxia fails to pass the review three times, it will be upgraded to the second level and submitted to the government hall for voting.

Since the ruling pen rotates every ten years, from this point of view, the power of the seven ministers in the political hall is actually the same, and each person has ten days to master the ruling pen.

This is the power restraint mechanism designed by Li Qing'an, even if he becomes the emperor in the future, he can only intervene in the first-level and second-level government affairs, he can make proposals, he can also veto, when his opinions and the political hall conflict and can not be reconciled, then he has only one way, he has the right to dissolve the political hall, and re-elect the new political hall by the court officials above the fifth grade, of course, the emperor will nominate the difference.

This is actually the essence of the three-province and six-ministry system, that is, to use the power of the prime minister to restrain the monarchy, but to ensure that the monarchy is not hollowed out.

Li Longji used the means of issuing internal edicts by Hanlin scholars to empty the power of the political affairs hall, while Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty used the means of elevating all officials to one level to expand the scope of the emperor's personnel appointments and dismissals.

Li Qing'an, on the other hand, made this system clear and implemented the system of public recommendation by hundreds of officials for the first time, which could undoubtedly avoid the evil consequences of the decline of the dynasty due to the emperor's mediocrity in the future.

Of course, in the future selection of the crown prince, Li Qingan also considered the plan of using the emperor's differential nomination and voting by the political affairs hall, etc., so I won't say much here.

Li Qing'an's Khitan resettlement plan has been taken out, and it will be reviewed and approved by the Zhongshu Sheren, and the plan will soon be decided, which is a Class B political plan, that is, as long as the majority of people agree, it can be passed.

Maybe Xiangguo didn't pay attention to the meaning of the word 'women and children', or maybe Xiangguo knew it and deliberately pretended to be stupid, this political bill was successfully voted on, six to one, only Guo Ziyi was opposed, he retained his principles, but gave Li Qing'an face, and did not shake out Li Qing'an's massacre of Khitan men.

When Li Qingan saw that the vote was passed, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then got up and said: "There is another plan, that is, about the possibility of the Hui invasion of Hebei, I want to discuss this matter with you again, and prepare for war as soon as possible." ”

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(This chapter is a bit boring, so it's a plus)

(To be continued)