Qiming 1158

Chapter 1465 The end of Xiliao

Seeing their submissive appearance, Su Haisheng nodded slightly, and his views on these people were not as angry as before.

Just now, he planned to send all these people to hell, but now that he thinks about it, he is quite sensible.

"Okay, what about your monarch? Why didn't you come to surrender together? Can the monarch not surrender?"

Xiao Duolu did not look embarrassed.

"The Empress Dowager Chengtian didn't want to see anyone, she was closed in the deep palace, and neither of us could see it, so..."

"Empress Dowager Chengtian... Hmph, it's interesting, take me to see her."

Su Haisheng snorted coldly and ordered his subordinates to untie him.

Xiao Duolu didn't immediately agree to the promise, and then stood up to lead a horse for Su Haisheng.

Apparently, he has entered the role of the conquered, and is trying to get a better post-war treatment by courting the "conqueror".

However, just a few steps into Hu Siyuan's ears, Su Haisheng frowned and saw a black smoke rising into the sky from the position due north in front of him.

Xiao Duolu, who was leading the horse, also saw it. He was stunned for a moment, and then turned pale in shock.

"That's... that's the palace! General Su! That's the palace!"

"Send someone to put out the fire immediately!"

Su Haisheng frowned and ordered the guards around him. The guards rushed out and called for help to put out the fire. Su Haisheng also rushed to the palace to check the situation.

Two hours later, the fire in the palace was basically put out, but unfortunately, Empress Dowager Yelu Pusuwan died in the fire, and her charred corpse was found in the main hall of the palace, which was in ruins. .

According to the residue of the clothes she was wearing, the Ming army and Xiliao initially determined that the deceased was her, but Su Haisheng was not at ease and ordered a large search of the whole city to dig three feet into the ground.

Because Hu Siyuan's ears were surrounded by the Ming army on all sides, unless the palace had a particularly secret and long tunnel leading directly to the outside world, Yelu Pusuwan would never be able to escape Hu Siyuan's ears.

Judging from the previous situation of more than 2000 people breaking through at night, the Ming army initially ruled out the possibility that Hu Si'er had a secret escape route, but Su Haisheng was worried if he didn't dig three feet into the ground.

After a day and a night, the city search was completed, and there was no news of Yelu Pu's completion.

Another day later, the entire land in Husi'er's ear city was basically dug again, and it was really not much less than three feet away from the excavation, and there was really no trace of any tunnels.

The Ming military conducted a severe interrogation in the face of all the nobles in Hu Siyuan's ears. Even when they embezzled how much money or wasted lives were interrogated, they did not know any information about the escape route.

So far, Su Haisheng basically believed that Yelu Pusuwan, the Empress Dowager Chengtian of Xiliao, was really dead.

He regretted it.

And although the powerful bureaucrats and officers and soldiers of Xiliao complained about Yelu Pusuwan, when she really died, they still cried for her and felt inexplicable sadness for her.

Not many people were killed in this palace fire. It was more like a fire that Yelu Pusuwan had set up for himself.

The princes and nobles of Xiliao were basically preserved. Except for the group of people who were killed in the previous night attack, no one died because of it.

But Yelu Pusuwan's death also announced the official demise of Xiliao as a complete country.

At this time, it was November 29th in the tenth year of Hongwu.

Su Haisheng agreed to this war to destroy the Western Liao Kingdom. As the destroyer of the Western Liao Dynasty and the recoverer of the Western Regions, his name will forever remain in the annals of history and be admired by people.

After this war, the Ming army controlled the entire Husior's ear, and thus got everything in the entire Husior's ear.

Including all the property, grain, military materials, etc., stored by the officials and princes of Xiliao, as well as official documents, royal utensils, ceremonial items, etc., among which the amount of gold and silver is particularly huge, and the abundance of seizures is staggering. .

Because of the collective surrender of the princes and nobles of Xiliao, their private property was also declared to be deprived by the Ming army and became the trophy of the Ming army. Some princes and nobles protested, but they were rejected by the Ming army. Some people tried to escape and were captured by the Ming army. Beheading in public.

Among those who surrendered to Hu Sior'er's guards, there were those who were disturbed by this, and all of them were wiped out by the Ming army.

Only then did the situation in Hu Siyuan's ears really return to calm.

Su Haisheng felt very helpless about the attitude of these Xiliao prisoners, so he called Xiao Duolu not to talk to him, and asked him to explain something to the prisoners.

"As prisoners of war, all the property becomes the spoils of the victor. This is a normal thing. No matter how you surrender, you are still prisoners of war, understand?"

Xiao Duolu smiled unflatteringly, saying that he understood, but he still had some ideas.

Because they were the most familiar with the country of Xiliao, they felt that they had an obligation to help Daming establish Daming's rule over the homeland of Xiliao after the war. For this reason, Xiao Duolu did not put forward a series of opinions of his own.

Including a series of content to appease officials, powerful, old army and local officials, tribal leaders, etc., he believes that these measures are conducive to restoring the stability of the Western Regions as soon as possible.

In this regard, Su Haisheng expressed confusion.

"Why do you need your suggestions for the territory that Daming conquered by himself? You are captives, so you should have the self-consciousness of being captives. In the land of the Western Regions, Daming will send officials to deal with it, so don't say anything more, you will deal with it. It will be down soon."

Xiao Duolu was neither shocked nor understood by Su Haisheng's statement.

Does it mean that the country has no intention of using them to restore the stability of the homeland of Xiliao as soon as possible?They have their own ideas and don't plan to let them continue to be superiors?
Su Haisheng didn't say anything more, and directly drove Xiao Duolu away.

He and all the dignitaries, officials, and senior generals of Xiliao only had very simple treatment, which was no different from normal prisoners of war. It would be better to say that ordinary prisoners of war soldiers were more valuable in Su Haisheng's eyes than them.

There are many Khitans in his army, and there are also some Khitan instructors, so he arranged for these people to contact, talk and chat with the soldiers at the bottom of Xiliao.

Both belonged to the Khitan people, and Su Haisheng felt that there must be a lot of common language between them.

Then they really have a lot of common language.

These Khitan instructors told them how they became Ming people and joined the Ming army and then gained a new life. They told them that there was no oppression, exploitation and discrimination in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone was not divided into ethnic groups, only classes.

They patiently explained some basic common sense of the Ming Kingdom to the soldiers of Xiliao, explained some of the policies of the Ming Kingdom, and gave them a very good meal, so as to gradually dissolve the estrangement between each other.

The soldiers of the Western Liao Dynasty began to be willing to tell the Khitan instructors about their origin and past, and the sufferings they suffered. The Khitan instructors encouraged them to speak out about their past sufferings and talk aloud, so that they could feel relieved.

This series of procedures is nothing new in the Renaissance Society, and the instructors in the army are especially good at it, but where did the soldiers of Xiliao experience this kind of procedure?
They soon entered the stage of expressing their bitterness, and with the deepening of the process, the captured Xiliao high-ranking officials will also go to their own destiny.

Although the Central Capital's order to deal with these Western Liao prisoners of war has not been conveyed, it is not important. Except for a very few important people, the Ming army has the same means of dealing with these high-level prisoners of war. This is the tradition within the Ming army.

On the fifth day of the first month of December in the tenth year of Hongwu, the complaint meeting and the public trial meeting were held in Hu Siyuan's ears, and the first batch of middle and low-level officers were brought to the public trial stage.

This is just the beginning.

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