Where the lights were bright, Yelu Yanxi, who was waiting for him, was already a little impatient, and said to the left and right: "I watched the city yesterday, but I felt that it was only two miles away from the city wall to the south side of the formation.

The emperor's civil ministers and military generals did not dare to speak, these people are all human spirits, who knows how to answer this sentence is appropriate? Only Yelu Dashi guessed Wu Yanguang's thoughts, and speculated that Wu Yanguang would find Bai Sheng some trouble, so he gave Wu Yanguang a round in advance and said: "Your Majesty, don't be anxious, the path in this Taiyi Mixed Heavenly Elephant Array is extremely complicated and tortuous, and it is not as simple as going straight. ”

Yelu Dashi's words are not fabricated out of thin air, and they are. Even in the maze games of later generations, the maze patterns on the paper are also winding around, and if there is an obvious path in it, then what is it called a maze? It is the imperial palace.

"Well, what Da Shi Linya said is true, but the banquet in this palace has already been prepared, if Bai Sheng doesn't come for a long time, this dish will inevitably be cold......

Although Emperor Tianzuo didn't understand the formation, when he looked down at the city during the day, he really couldn't see any obvious passage in the ocean-like banner, and at this time, in order not to be slandered by his courtiers as a layman, he could only follow Yelu Dashi's remarks.

Suddenly, I heard a voice on the side: "Father-in-law is above, please bow to my son-in-law!"

Emperor Tianzuo suddenly heard someone talking beside him, and for a while he couldn't react to the content of Chinese, and was about to turn his head to see who it was, only to feel that his eyes were flowering, and there was a handsome and dashing weak-crowned young man in front of him, who was paying homage with a big salute, and then saw Xiao Long and Yelu Talibi who followed the young man closely.

Seeing these two people, I thought back to the sentence "father-in-law" just now, how could I not know that the person kneeling in front of me was Bai Sheng, and I was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly approached in person, stretching out my hand to help, "Virtuous son-in-law, hurry up, let me take a good look at you!"

Several Khitan guards on the side had already changed their faces greatly, and they were about to take people, seeing the emperor's attitude, they hurriedly knelt down behind Bai Sheng, and the one who was the leader said: "The subordinates are not well protected, so that someone sneaks close to His Majesty and does not know it, it is really a crime that deserves death, I implore Your Majesty to punish him!"

It was naturally the emperor's family affair for the emperor to see his son-in-law, but a person like Bai Sheng who didn't know where to enter the venue and suddenly appeared in front of the emperor without warning was a major loophole in the defensive measures.

It is a great sin to not protect the emperor well, and it is conceivable that if it is not Bai Sheng but the assassin of the Jin Kingdom who comes this time, then the emperor is only afraid that he will already be in a different place, if the emperor has three long and two short, and the guards will run away? Of course, it is a crime that cannot be escaped, and it is a capital crime.

Yelu Yanxi ignored the guilty guard, picked up Bai Shenglai and looked up and down carefully, the more he looked at it, the more happy he became, and said: "Sure enough, he is a young hero, a dragon and a phoenix among people! My skinny child's vision for choosing a husband is really powerful! Good, good, good!"

The emperor said three good words in a row, and then asked, "Virtuous son-in-law, has my daughter ever come with you?"

Bai Sheng bowed slightly and said: "Back to my father-in-law, she naturally wants to come to visit you, but she and her son-in-law are not all the way, she came from our homeland in the west, and it is estimated that she should arrive in the next two days." ”

Bai Sheng's performance can be said to be based on the etiquette of Chinese men in later generations.

When he traveled through his former hometown, a modern boy married a girl, and when he accompanied his wife back to his parents' house in the first year, he also needed to kneel and kowtow when he saw his father-in-law and mother-in-law. The kneeling he just now came in accordance with the rules of his hometown, and it also reflected his respect for Yelu Guyi, and he and Yelu Guyi also had the same feelings of life and death and suffering together, no more than half a point of the relationship between him and Xiao Feng.

What's more, he could feel that his father-in-law's enthusiasm for him was from the bottom of his heart, in this case, how could he be a little disrespectful to this old man in his fifties? This head is not the imperial power, but the family affection, the family affection extended by love, the love of the house and the Wu.

When Yelu Yanxi heard that her daughter would also come back, she was even more overjoyed, so she looked at the leader of the guards on the ground and said, "What kind of skill does my son-in-law have? If you people can prevent him from dominating the world, then he will not be called a great hero who saved the Khitan! Get up, I forgive you for your innocence." ”

At this moment, Yelu Yanxi is like the drowning man in the ocean, and he has regarded Bai Sheng as the only life-saving straw. He didn't ask for anything else, only that Bai Sheng could turn the tide of the war for him and help him keep the inheritance passed down from his ancestors and ancestors.

From an objective point of view, it cannot be said that Yelu Yanxi's choice is blind. For a long time, for whatever reason, the generals and soldiers of the Liao State were in a state of low morale, and no one dared to kill all the dignitaries of the Jin State like Bai Sheng, and no one could get the hearty victory that Bai Sheng won tonight.

Although yesterday morning, the Taiyi Mixed Heavenly Elephant Array trapped and killed 10,000 Jin State light cavalry, but how can this be compared with Bai Sheng's record? When Bai Sheng first arrived, he killed 10,000 Jin State Tiefutu plus more than 20,000 light cavalry, and only less than 10,000 Jurchen light cavalry fled into the wilderness.

And Yelu Yanxi urgently needs more than just a two-game victory, he urgently needs this spirit and fighting spirit brought by Bai Sheng. Without a character like Bai Sheng, the Khitan soldiers are like patients suffering from hypochondria, and in the sick army, the Khitan people can't see the slightest hope.

So he did not hesitate to praise his son-in-law with all kinds of beautiful words, in fact, he also wanted to use Bai Sheng to stimulate the blood and fighting spirit of the Khitan soldiers, so Bai Sheng once again became a "child of others".

But there are two sides to everything, or too much, and the more Yelu Yanxi praised Bai Sheng, the more uncomfortable his soldiers became.

People who are uncomfortable usually have two reactions, one negative and one positive. Negative people can't help but think, since your son-in-law is so powerful, let your son-in-law fight this war, don't let us rush to the front and do our best? And positive people will go to the other extreme, your son-in-law is great, right? Okay, I'll let you see if your son-in-law is great, or we are good.

Of course, Yelu Yanxi wants to see a positive reaction, but there are two kinds of positivity, one is to vow to play with the people of the Jin Kingdom to compare with Bai Sheng, and the other is to directly compare with Bai Sheng. Unfortunately, there are more people of the latter type.

In this latter kind of character, either the qualifications are old, or the relationship is hard, or the family is strong, or they are quite talented and learned, in short, these four kinds of people cannot accept the emperor's reliance on Bai Sheng. Yelu Dashi is naturally one of them, He Chongbao is also one of them, Qu Li is still one of them, in short, everyone's hearts are very angry with Bai Sheng.

Most of these people have the same thoughts in their hearts, you are a native of the Song Kingdom, even if you have the favor of Yelu Guyi, why did you come to our Khitan to suppress us?

And Yelu Dashi's resentment against Bai Sheng is much more complicated, in addition to having the same thoughts as others, it also involves emotional disputes between men and women.

Therefore, Emperor Tianzuo proposed to return to the palace immediately for a banquet, but Bai Sheng proposed to properly settle his subordinates.

There was no military camp in Yanjing that could accommodate 400,000 soldiers, and at the beginning of the Liao army guarding Emperor Tianzuo's retreat to Yanjing, the Liao army requisitioned a large number of houses of the people of Yanjing.

It is not enough to requisition the house, but also to requisition the land to build a new house. Just make do with living in a people's house for the rest of your life? Can you ask which official or rich man is willing to be so wronged by himself? If the Liao State is not destroyed, let it go first, and there must be a spacious and bright house to live. The home concept of the Khitan aristocracy is quite similar to that of later generations.

At that time, it was Yelu Dashi who presided over this official business, and Yelu Dashi proposed two methods for the people to choose: First, if they moved out of Yanjing, the imperial court would pay a settlement fee and issue a migration certificate, so that the people could go to Youzhou outside Yanjing, or even Yunzhou and other prefectures and counties, and second, if they had a homeland that could not be separated, they could only live together with their neighbors and neighbors.

The method that Yelu Dashi came up with is a way to do it, and the people are naturally miserable, who wants to leave their hometown? Who wants to live with other people's families? Men sleep with men, women sleep with women, not only can husband and wife not share the same bed, it is impossible to even have a room, and the people of Yanjing City have not enjoyed a one-time life for several months, who can be willing to do this kind of thing?

It is said that the composition of the inhabitants in the city of Yanjing is very complicated, and the Khitan people are less than half, except for those ethnic minorities who have settled abroad, the most are the remnants of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Many years ago, the Emperor Shi Jingjiao of the Later Jin Dynasty raised troops against the Tang Dynasty and gave the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun to Yelu Abaoji to the thighs, and the people of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun at that time were almost all the subjects of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the Han people here have no feelings for the Song Kingdom, but have deep affection for the Han and Tang Dynasties.

When Yelu Dashi forcibly expropriated houses and land, he treated the Han people and the Khitan people differently, and the Khitans were often able to take care of them, while the Han people could only admit that they were unlucky and choose one of the two roads given by Yelu Dashi.

Yelu Dashi didn't know that this move was a big loss for the people, but he had no choice, if he didn't do this, Yanjing would not be able to defend it, can you let the 400,000 Liao troops sleep on the ground in the streets and alleys?

Therefore, at that time, he made a promise to those people who did not want to relocate, saying that once the Jin attack was repelled, or a military camp was built at another address, these houses would be returned to the people intact, and a certain amount of economic compensation would be given on the basis of return, so as to calm down the people's grievances.

Now Wu Yanguang has moved the 200,000 troops out of the city and set up the Taiyi Mixed Sky Array, he is considering whether to return the vacated houses to the people, in order to fulfill his original promise, who knows that Emperor Tianzuo wants to transfer these houses to the Song army brought by Bai Sheng to live, how can this work?

“...... Water can carry a boat, or it can capsize a boat. Your Majesty, this move must not be done!" Yelu Dashi generously stated, saying that Emperor Tianzuo's face was red and white, and he couldn't refute it.

Yelu Dashi was still unsatisfied, first talked about the conditions for not providing accommodation in Yanjing City, and then said to Bai Sheng in turn: "Bai Juma, since your ministry is here to assist the Liao State to fight against Jin, why do you have to enter the city? There are no Jin people in the city to kill, and the Jin people are outside the city, so I think that your department is stationed in the Jin camp in the south of the city, and it happens to be the horns of our army's battle formation in front of the city.

This is said in a very unsound way, which means that if you must lead the army into Yanjing City, then I suspect that your purpose is not pure, why are you trying to kidnap our emperor and then recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun?

It is no secret that the emperors of the Song Dynasty have been passed down from generation to generation to take back the sixteen states of Yanyun as their mission. Although there has been no large-scale war between the Liao and Song dynasties for nearly a hundred years, and the two sides have always exchanged envoys and exchanged friendly contacts, it is a well-known thing that the Great Song Emperor has never forgotten the sixteen states of Yanyun.

As the king of the Southern Courtyard of Liao, Yelu Dashi couldn't help but beware of this inexplicable uninvited Song army, as for Bai Sheng saying that he was here to protect his father-in-law's safety, he just took it as a deaf ear and didn't believe it at all. What about deceiving children? If you Bai Sheng wants to maintain the safety of your father-in-law, you have to see if the emperor of the Song Dynasty is willing or not!

Yelu Dashi's words were reasonable, and when the military officials echoed one after another, they all said that Dashi Linya's words were reasonable, and asked His Majesty to think twice, which made Yelu Yanxi hesitate, so he had to look at Bai Sheng embarrassedly, meaning You see, if it is not your father-in-law, I don't welcome you, but the family conditions are limited......

Bai Sheng watched coldly from the side for a while, and guessed about the psychology of everyone present, and when he saw that his father-in-law was embarrassed, he laughed and said: "That is the case, of course the son-in-law will not embarrass the father-in-law and you, our army will retreat to Jizhou, if the war in Yanjing is tight in the coming day, you only need to summon your father-in-law, and the son-in-law will lead the troops to help, but it is difficult to say whether he can arrive in time." ”

Do you want to use my Liangshan soldiers as cannon fodder? Go and dream! Lao Tzu is here to protect my father-in-law, not to be cannon fodder for you heads.

Originally, if someone quietly informed him of the current situation in Yanjing City, then he was not an unreasonable person, and it was not impossible to tie the team in the south of the city, after all, the Jin army in the south of the city had been swept away by himself, and if the Jin army sent soldiers and horses from the east of the city to carry out a counterattack, he could also choose to face it or avoid its edge, which was not a grievance.

But Yelu Dashi was so excited in front of everyone, if he camped in the south of the city according to the intentions of the Liao people, it would not work, because that would be tantamount to bowing to Yelu Dashi.

I Bai Sheng came to Yanjing with a hot face, but it wasn't to stick a cold ass, don't say it's you Yelu Dashi, even my father-in-law can't do it! Helping you is love, not helping is duty, what's the matter?

Therefore, it is necessary to retreat as an advance and take Emperor Tianzuo into an army.

The army of the old man is actually the general Yelu Dashi, don't you not let my team enter Yanjing City? Okay, I'll stay away?

Sure enough, Emperor Tianzuo was the first to lose his breath and glared at Yelu Dashi angrily. You Yelu Dashi can win the hearts of the people? But you have to beat the Jin people back to me! You can't beat the Jin people, what are you doing here babbling? If my virtuous son-in-law returns to China in anger because of this, you will kill Yan Agu for him?

Of course, Yelu Yanxi would not say this in public, but the glance that stared at Yelu Dashi already explained everything, and said: "No, we must let them enter the city, so let's let them camp in the palace." ”

Seeing that the ministers were anxious and wanted to stop them, they suddenly sank their faces, "What's the matter? This Da Liao is not dead yet, doesn't I even count as the emperor?"

The ministers immediately bowed their heads and shut up, knowing that this matter was irreparable, and persuading them again would be tantamount to doing it against the emperor, and there was nothing wrong with it, what was the benefit of doing it against the emperor?

Everyone was silent, and Emperor Tianzuo's anger calmed down a little, and said: "Come on, go and inform Wu Yanguang and let him open the passage and let our allies from Daliao enter the city!"