Chapter 180: What's so good about being an emperor?
Xiao Fengxian, who was entrenched in Nanjing, that is, the empress of Yelu Chunxian, sent an envoy to send a letter to Xiao Ming, claiming that they were all in the Khitan line, hoping to join forces to deal with the pressure of the Song army's troops. This kind of request for help was meaningless, Xiao Gan couldn't make a decision, so he had to ignore it first, but Queen Xiao didn't stop because of this, and even sent three or four letters one after another.
The letter now not only began to promise but also the conditions are getting thicker and thicker, from the beginning of the promise that Xiao Ming can continue to be the king of Dongdan, to the king of Jingjiang in the Great Liao, in charge of the Privy Council of the North and South Yuan, but he thinks that he is the orthodoxy of Khitan Yelu, and wants Xiao Ming to recognize Yelu Chunxian's son Yelu Hongqing, who is only ten years old, as the emperor!
Xiao Gan didn't dare to call the shots, so he sent a letter to Xiao Ming to explain the situation and see how to deal with the problem? Dongdan is now the remnants of the Liao State, to say that there were originally some people from the Liao Kingdom who were heartfelt, but since they followed Xiao Ming, they have almost all become Xiao Ming's supporters, and they naturally look forward to Xiao Ming, but unfortunately in Xiao Ming's absence, some people will inevitably be a little lively in their minds!
Among them, some of the original North Courtyard people led by Xiao Chaihu, who stayed in Tokyo, were the most ambiguous, Xiao Chaihu was originally the descendant of Yelu Zhangnu, the king of the North Courtyard, when Yelu Zhangnu launched a coup d'Γ©tat and established Yelu Chunxian as the emperor, these people were more heartfelt to Yelu Chunxian, and there were some original feelings in it, but there was still a sense of guilt for the old master in his heart, but fortunately, this group of people was not the mainstream.
Facts have proved that as soon as Xiao Ming returned to Tokyo, all the wavering, the undetermined, and the sympathizers for the Empress Dowager Xiao all stopped being silent, when Xiao Ming said goodbye to Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhang said to Xiao Ming: "Youzhou Mansion is the land of my Great Song Dynasty after all, I hope you can live in my Great Song Dynasty to take it back, although you have no ambition, but the singing that night made me see your ambition, I hope you live up to this ambition!" β
Xiao Ming said in his heart: "That night, I suddenly came to the interest, and I just thought of Yue Fei when I drank, how did I become ambitious!" Do you drink and spit out the truth? Why is it so messy! β
Xiao Ming arrived at Yingkou Commercial Port from Weihai, set off to Tokyo, and asked about Xiao Gan's current specific situation, Xiao Gan told the truth, Xiao Ming felt that the real situation was actually much more complicated than intelligence!
In fact, Empress Xiao not only sent a letter to Xiao Ming, but even contacted the Jin State, and Empress Xiao, who thought that he was the orthodox of the Great Liao, had decided to declare himself a vassal to the Great Jin State, and at the same time, under the strong pressure of the Great Song Dynasty, Empress Xiao actually declared himself a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty.
Xiao Ming was very disgusted by her letter to Xiao Ming, asking Xiao Ming to admit that her son was the orthodox of Da Liao, and the people of Dongdan were also the most controversial about it, Xiao Ming was noncommittal about it, but it was not a good decision to make a decisive decision, because it also involved the interests of Dajin Kingdom! Xiao Ming wants to see Dajinguo's reaction.
But within this period of time, news came from Nanjing City that the commander of the Great Liao Dade Imperial Court, Guo Yaoshi of the Changsheng Army, rebelled, and led the Changsheng Army with 8,000 golden soldiers and 500 iron cavalry, and surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty with four counties in one state! This is an incident in the chaos of Yanzhou, which stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.
At the beginning of Yelu Chun's first arrogance, Guo Yaoshi was named the commander of the Liao army because of his meritorious service from Long, and the army under his jurisdiction was also known as the Changsheng Army, but after the establishment of the regime, the Great Liao regime began to squeeze out the Han people, Yelu Chun was born in the Southern Courtyard first, and he was already very able to accept the reality of the Han people as officials, but most of the Liao ministers who followed him belonged to the Northern Courtyard, and after Yelu Chunxian died of illness, Xiao Hou took power, and the exclusion of the Han people became more and more severe.
At this time, the Liao army was originally more Han army and less Fan army, and the Khitan people were less than one-third! There are more Xi people and Bohai people! coincided with the incident of Li Chuwen surrendering to the Song Dynasty, Empress Xiao no longer trusted the Han people, and she was afraid that the Han-majority Changsheng army would change again, so she sent Xiao Yuqing to supervise the Changsheng army, preparing to seize Guo Yaoshi's military power.
Guo Yaoshi is not a fool, how can he not see the truth, Li Chuwen's death has sounded the alarm for him, so he urgently summoned the subordinates and encouraged them to join the Song Dynasty, and the soldiers below are actually mostly Han people from the north, and they have been oppressed by the Khitan for a long time, so "all the mouths are shouting, and all of them respond" So they imprisoned the prison army Xiao Qingyu, and took his subordinates Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, Zhen Wuchen, Zhao Heshou and others to the Song Dynasty together.
When Pharmacist Guo descended to the Song Dynasty, he made a very emotional descent. He first expressed his strong sense of national identity with the Song, and at the same time said that he was originally loyal to Liao, but Empress Xiao repaid the grievances, and the Song Dynasty was really forced to surrender. Due to Guo Yaoshi's familiarity with the Liao situation and his possession of such an important armed force as the Changsheng Army, the Song appointed him as the observer of Enzhou and still knew the military of Zhuozhou. Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren, Zhen Wuchen, Zhao Heshou, and other leaders of the Changsheng Army, who surrendered at the same time, were also promoted to Fu Zhi and belonged to Liu Yanqing's department.
In addition to resisting the Jin soldiers in the north, the army of the orthodox emperor of Dade did not have many people and horses left in Nanjing, and Guo Yaoshi's surrender to the Song Dynasty was naturally a worse thing for him, and Empress Xiao had no choice but to officially surrender to the Jin and Song countries after not getting Xiao Ming's reply.
This period of history Xiao Ming is not clear, Guo Yaoshi is a famous third family slave in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, first rebelled against Liao, then descended to the Song Dynasty, and then lowered the gold, and finally sat on the top of the ranking of several traitors, but now the events in history are very strange, Xiao Ming's appearance has changed this history, and the complex form of Yandi now depends entirely on Xiao Ming's decision, which he did not expect.
Dongdan Kingdom, the country is not a king, not a king! Although Xiao Ming is the actual person in charge, he does not interfere in many governance measures, but only specifies the corresponding guidelines, and it should be that the decisions are all implemented by Xiao Gan and Wu Yong and others, and it turns out that these two people have to constantly report to Xiao Ming, but Xiao Ming always let the two of them decide themselves, as long as they can let the people live and work in peace and contentment, they will approve all of them.
First, Xiao Ming was often not in his position and always led troops to go on expeditions, and second, Xiao Gan and Wu Yong and others were indeed very talented, and politically tended to rule by Xiao Ming's inaction, without the suppression of imperial power and the excess of bureaucracy, and they were not so constrained in doing things.
But the two of them found Xiao Ming several times, thinking that the time was ripe for what Xiao Ming said now, did he follow the general trend and claim the emperor in Liaodong? They think that Xiao Ming was the emperor's order, and he was able to take them to lay down this piece of the country in the troubled times, and at the moment the Jin Jurchen had no way to do it, and now he conquered Goryeo for thousands of miles, occupied Sinuiju and subdued the king of Goryeo, which is a good time to be called the emperor.
Xiao Ming said to them: "Now is the most stable and peaceful period in our Liaodong, if I are called emperor, do you think the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom will agree?" This is still one of them, and besides, what is good about an emperor? In addition to eating and wearing, I don't have to worry about other things, and I don't have freedom, and besides, my Xiao clan is the emperor in the land of Da Liao, what will the original Liao people under my rule say? β
Xiao Gan said: "The people look forward to the king for a long time, Emperor Tianzuo has no way, and he has lost the country of his ancestors, and it is the virtuous who get it!" Is the king's humility just that he thinks there will be gossip? β
Xiao Ming said: "This is wrong, nine out of ten of the land of the Great Liao Kingdom has been seized by the women of the Jin Kingdom, can it be said that they are virtuous people?" You may say that I will take you to drive the Jurchens away and restore the land of the Great Liao Kingdom, but do you know how difficult it is? Not to mention anything else, we are much worse in the army alone! β
Seeing that the two of them didn't understand, Xiao Ming explained to them: "Although we are strong now, after all, the number of people is limited, do you see how many soldiers we can use now?" Although we have Thor cannons and projectile rifles, these things are too expensive, and the reason why we can get these advanced weapons is entirely because we are backed by the powerful scientific and technological and economic strength of the entire Great Song Dynasty! And this is also the only way for us to survive, if we don't have these things, just rely on cavalry and swords, spears and feathers and arrows to fight the Jurchen barbarians, what do you think are our chances of winning? β
Xiao Gan followed Xiao Ming to fight in Shangjing, to be honest, the strength of the Jurchens also left a deep impression on him, if it weren't for Xiao Ming's tricks, it is difficult to say whether he could fight in Kyoto if he continued to trick, and it is estimated that all the 100,000 horses in his hands would be folded outside Shangjing, so he nodded in agreement.
"If Dongdan Liaodong can become the richest region in our hands, with a developed economy, leading science and technology, and a strong military! I think it's much more meaningful than me being the Emperor of Laoshzi alone! Besides, is the entire prosperity of Liaodong the credit of me alone? How can I do it without you? I think our team is very good, what kind of emperor are you? I'm tired of thinking about it, and I have that leisure, I might as well build our mine bigger! β
"By the way, are all the captives in Goryeo now arranged to work as coolies in the mines?"
Wu Yong said: "Looking for your instructions, all arrangements have been made, and now the problem of shortage of manpower in the mine has been solved!" β
Xiao Ming said with a smile: "It seems that the Goryeo Kingdom knew that we were in trouble and sent us labor!" Their character is so good! Ha ha......! β
Xiao Gan and Wu Yong also laughed, and Xiao Gan finally asked, "Then how do we reply to Empress Xiao in Nanjing?" β
Xiao Ming muttered: "The matter of Goryeo Guo's request for compensation has already made Jin Guo angry, I estimate that if Empress Xiao declares himself to Jin, Jin Guo will have to make another fuss, and if we don't get it, it will be more troublesome for us to take over Nanjing!" β
In the end, Xiao Ming instructed the two of them: "Wait and see what happens!" β
King Dongdan did not respond here, but Empress Xiao of Nanjing really couldn't hold on, and after getting the demotion, Jin Guo said that it was acceptable, but the title of Liao State must be cancelled, and Jin Guo could be named Yelu Hongqing as the King of Yan, hereditary prince treatment, which Empress Xiao naturally could not accept.
However, after the Great Song Dynasty received the surrender table, Emperor Huizong was very excited, he actually adopted another way, he ordered Tong Guan to continue to march to Yanjing, led by Guo Yaoshi to Yanjing Mansion, the Liao army immediately prepared for war, claiming that the Great Liao was only a minister and did not cede the Great Liao's Nanjing, hoping that the Song army would retreat.
But Tong Guan received an order from Huizong, Yanjing, who had become the Great Song Dynasty, now fell into the hands of the remnants of Liao, which was a great shame, how could he not recapture Yanjing, so he refuted the request of the Liao army, and Xiao Hou urgently transferred 30,000 Liao soldiers from Zhongjing Mansion to the south to defend the Beijing Division, and a big war was about to break out.
And at this time, Xiao Ming's Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo ushered in two envoys, one of these two envoys is from the Dajin Kingdom, and the other is from the Great Song Kingdom, and the two of them came to meet the King of Dongdan, and there was a secret decree from the emperor of their own country.
Xiao Ming arranged different strategies for this, thinking of Zhang Shuye's words, he was a little reluctant, but now is it to return Youzhou and other places to the hands of the Song Dynasty? He wasn't sure if now was the time, and everything would be said later after the two countries had been seered......
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