Shangjing, it rained quietly at night, there were few pedestrians on the street, although Shangjing was the most important capital of Liao, covering a huge area, but the buildings in the city were strange, the number was not too much, there were flat-roofed superimposed buildings from the Western Sogdian style, there were also eaves and arch buildings from the Song Dynasty, there were many long pointed wooden houses in the Khitan Shengfan style, and there were many large tents of the grassland.

There are more than a dozen streets in Shangjing, the most important street is the middle street, which is paved with stone slabs, and the northernmost part of the middle street is the imperial palace, and there are hundreds of mansions of wealthy and powerful families on both sides of the street.

At night, when there were few pedestrians on the Middle Street, several horsemen came to a large mansion, turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly into the mansion.

This mansion is the official residence of Yelu Yixin, the prime minister of Liao, at this time, the study is brightly lit, Yelu Yixin is sitting at the table playing with a three-foot-long red coral, which was given to him by Guo Kui last time, and has been placed in the Tokyo Mansion, his eldest son sent someone to send it back, Yelu Yixin loves to collect all kinds of gems and pearls, and his collection of various treasures has at least dozens of large boxes.

This crystal clear, perfect coral, and with a mesmerizing sheen in the light, it is the best of corals, and Yelu Yixin can't put it down.

At this time, someone outside the door reported, "The second son is back!" ”

Yelu Yixin hurriedly said, "Let him in!" ”

After a while, a man about thirty years old walked in, with a medium stature and a long face, similar to Yelu Yixin, he was Yelu Yixin's second son Yelu Wukang, Yelu Yixin had five sons, and the eldest son, Yelu Wenkang, was appointed as the defense envoy of Bohai Port and was stationed in Bohai Port.

The second son is the Yelu Wukang in front of him, who was the commander of the guard army, and now he is idle at home, and the other sons are all born to concubines, and they are not very valued by Yelu Yixin.

Yelu Wukang knelt down and saluted, "See Father! ”

"It's been hard all the way, have you met Guo Huaixin?"

Yelu Wukang is responsible for contacting the Song Dynasty, that adopted son Yelu Shan is just a male pet after all, and Yelu Yixin doesn't want him to participate in many confidential things, but just lets him be responsible for sending letters and the like, and the specific negotiations with the Song Dynasty still have to rely on his own son to do it.

Yelu Wukang took a boat to Xianlu Island last year and received a heavy gift from the Song Dynasty to their family, Xianlu Island made Yelu Yixin very satisfied, and with this large overseas island, their family had a way out.

With the help of the Song Dynasty, the construction of Xianlu Island had already begun, and 2,000 Japanese laborers were working on the island day and night.

Yelu Yixin's fourth son, Yelu Yunhui, two stewards, and dozens of family members are currently on Xianlu Island.

The family castle has been halfway built, a small pasture of 20,000 acres has been established, and there are already 3,000 sheep and 200 cows.

Since the Song Dynasty was full of sincerity, Yelu Yixin certainly had to reciprocate.

Yelu Wukang had just returned from Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, and he took out a letter from his arms and handed it to his father, "This is Guo Huaixin's handwritten letter from Fan Ning to transfer the child to his father." ”

Yelu Yixin was in good spirits, and hurriedly opened the letter, and sure enough, it was Fanning's handwritten letter, which clearly asked him to persuade Yelu Hongji to let the army of Youzhou support Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo.

This letter came at the right time, in the past two days, the Liao court was discussing the plan to increase the number of troops in Tokyo, and the debate was fierce, and it was not possible to come up with a clear plan for a long time, so Fan Ning put forward a request at this time.

Yelu Yixin paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, of course he understood that Fan Ning proposed the purpose of the Youzhou army to reinforce Liaoyang Mansion, it seems that the target of the Song army is not Liaoyang Mansion, but Yanshan Mansion, at present, there are 80,000 troops stationed in the Youzhou area, of which 50,000 troops are transferred from Liaoyang Mansion to send these 50,000 troops back to Liaoyang Mansion, so what about the defense of Nanjing Dao? Would Yelu Hongji approve of this plan?

Yelu Yixin was very embarrassed, and among the several plans currently being debated, there was no plan to transfer the troops of Nanking Province to Tokyo, and if he hastily proposed it, how could he pass it?

........

Early the next morning, Yelu Yixin visited the Son of Heaven, Yelu Hongji.

In the past few days, Yelu Hongji has also been worried about the increase of troops in Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, although the Song army transported 100,000 Han people craftsmen in Tokyo Province and did not attack the city, but it does not mean that they will not come again.

There is also the Song army attacking the Khitan Shengfan tribe in the northern part of Tokyo Province, causing serious casualties, at least more than twenty tribes have lost contact, and the Tokyo Province has too few troops, and it is indeed necessary to increase troops.

But now the number of Liao's army has been sharply reduced, 80,000 people have been wiped out in the Bohai Sea, and 120,000 troops are trapped in Jingcheng, so there are no 200,000 troops.

There are only 260,000 troops left in the entire Liao State, 30,000 in Xijing Datong Mansion, 30,000 in Tokyo Liaoyang Mansion, 80,000 in Nanjing Xijin Mansion, 20,000 in Zhongjing Dading Mansion, and 100,000 in Shangjing Linhuang Mansion.

At present, the imperial court has two plans, the first is to recruit 100,000 troops, so that the total number of troops can reach 360,000, and the other is to transfer 30,000 troops from Shangjing to support Tokyo.

At this time, the eunuch reported at the door, "Yelu Xiangguo asks to see!" ”

"Announce him in!"

After a while, Yelu Yixin walked in quickly, bowed and saluted, "See Your Majesty!" ”

Yelu Hongji sighed, "It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, I really don't know how to transfer troops to Tokyo Road!" ”

Yelu Yixin said unhurriedly: "Weichen is here for this matter. ”

Yelu Hongji sat down and said, "I wish to listen to you!" ”

"Your Majesty, the current two plans are actually opposed by Weichen, one is to recruit new soldiers, the plan looks very good, but the person who formulated the plan has not thought about it, what do we recruit, recruiting new soldiers According to the usual practice, each person has to give ten guan settling allowance, then one million guan must be paid, the current balance in the treasury is only 600,000 guan, to bear the financial expenses of the entire Liao country, simply put, we have no money to recruit new soldiers."

Yelu Hongji nodded, "I have also taken this into account, it is indeed financially difficult, and it is not realistic to recruit new soldiers for the time being, so is it necessary to divide the army from Beijing to Tokyo?" ”

Yelu Yixin sighed deeply, "Your Majesty, it should be 200,000 troops defending the capital, and now they have to divide their troops out, the minister is deeply worried!" ”

"What do you mean by your worries?"

Jelu Yixin pointed to the north, "Does Your Majesty think they really surrendered?" ”

Yelu Hongji suddenly woke up to the fact that Yelu Yixin was referring to the Tiele tribes in the grassland, and it was in order to suppress the grassland tribes that the Liao State shifted its ruling center from Tokyo to Shangjing, and only suppressed the rebellion of the Kereh tribe at the beginning of the year, how could they really surrender?

Yelu Yixin continued: "Now we have doubled the taxes on the grassland departments than before, and the resentment of the grassland departments can be imagined, once the garrison in Shangjing is reduced, the grassland departments will definitely be ready to move again, and there are only 100,000 troops in Shangjing, and in order to keep Tokyo Road, at least 50,000 troops must be transferred over, and the capital city with only 50,000 troops does not feel dangerous?" ”

Yelu Hongji was distraught for a while, he really didn't think of the threat of the steppe tribes, and now that Yelu Yixin reminded him, he realized that the army in Shangjing really couldn't act rashly.

"That'..... How's that to be? ”

"Didn't Your Majesty think about transferring the troops of Nanjing Province to reinforce Tokyo Province?"

"You mean Youzhou?"

Yelu Hongji was shocked in his heart, he shook his head again and again, "Youzhou is at the forefront, Yixian has been lost, if the Youzhou army is transferred, I am afraid that Nanjing Dao will not be able to be saved." ”

Yelu Yi laughed bitterly, "Your Majesty, the army of Nanjing Road is mainly infantry, focusing on defense, 80,000 troops are scattered in various cities, if the main force of 200,000 people of the Great Song Dynasty attacks north and breaks the army of Nanjing Road, the 80,000 troops will not be able to hold Nanjing Road, it is better to leave 30,000 troops to defend Youzhou, and transfer 50,000 troops to defend Tokyo Road, as long as you keep Youzhou and do not lose, it is not of much significance for the Song army to capture other cities." ”

Yelu Hongji is a little moved, most of the cities in Nanjing Road are empty cities, it is of little significance, only Youzhou City has a population of hundreds of thousands, if you stick to Youzhou and give up other cities, it is a good choice.

Yelu Yixin saw that Yelu Hongji had been moved, and he added another fire and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen is the prime minister, and he must speak with the attention of the prime minister, Tokyo Road is our biggest source of finance and taxation, and it must not be occupied by the Song army, and Nanjing Province's financial and tax contribution to the Liao State has fallen to one percent, which belongs to chicken ribs, as the prime minister, Weichen attaches more importance to Tokyo Province, Tokyo is critical, and he can no longer hesitate." ”

Yelu Hongji thought of the tax source of Tokyo Road, and his heart was tight, Tokyo Road was too important to them, and they couldn't afford to miss it at all, but Nanjing Road was .........

After hesitating for a moment, Yelu Hongji said again: "Do you want Xi Ren and the Bohai Department to send troops to support?" ”

Yelu Yixin sighed, "Does Your Majesty think they will send troops?" ”

It's really unlikely, the 40,000 troops of Xi and the Bohai Department have just lost to the bottom of the sea, and if they are allowed to send troops, they will not be able to open this mouth.

He was finally persuaded by Yelu Yixin, and sighed helplessly: "According to Xiangguo's plan, leave 30,000 troops to defend Youzhou, and the 50,000 troops in Pingzhou will immediately support Tokyo Road." ”