Great Song Super Scholar

748 - Heavy Injury
Wei Wang Yelushou was brought up by five flowers. Yelu Hongji was lying on the couch, his face was pale, and his body was wrapped in thick cotton gauze. Although Yeluping's arrow missed the heart, he was lucky not to be killed on the spot, but his His injuries were still serious, and taking the arrow almost killed him.

"Yelushou, are you guilty?"

Yelu Hongji's eyes were extremely angry, and he stared at Yelushou, but the injury was too serious for him to have an attack.

Yelushou was knelt down in front of Yelu Hongji, he knew he was going to die, so he decided to risk it, he held his head up and cursed: "Yelu Hongji, you are the one who is guilty, the country that my ancestors worked so hard to destroy, But it was ruined by you forcefully. You spent too much, killed the people, robbed the clan, cronies and traitors, and killed the loyal, which led to the emptiness of the treasury and the boiling of people's resentment. Lost, lost Xijing, lost Zhongjing, lost Tokyo, all the people of the Liao Empire have betrayed their relatives, and the country is about to be destroyed, what face do you have to go to see the Taizu, to see the ancestors!"

Yelu Hongji was trembling with anger, waved his hands and said: "Get out, hack me to death with knives and feed the dogs!"

The guards dragged Yelushou down, and Yelushou shouted: "Yelu Hongji, you will not spare your own son, you are doomed to die, Yelu Hongji, you are a sinner of the Daliao Dynasty through the ages"

Yelushou's voice gradually faded away, but every word of his curse was piercing, gouging out Yelu Hongji's heart and liver like a knife, Yelu Hongji suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and fainted on his back.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"

The surrounding imperial physicians were so frightened that they desperately rescued Yelu Hongji. After a while, Yelu Hongji slowly came to his senses. He sighed, "I am indeed guilty!"

"Your Majesty is seriously injured and needs to maintain the dragon's body. We will wait for the injury to recover."

"Go and call Hong Tai!"

Not long after, Yelu Hongtai came in a hurry, knelt down and saluted, "The emperor sees Your Majesty!"

Yelu Hongji said in a low voice, "How much did the [-] troops lose?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, about half of them were lost. Yelu Pingguang fled, and his whereabouts are unknown."

"What about us?"

"Nearly [-] casualties."

Yelu Hongji regretted it very much. He only had [-] troops left, and Yelushou tossed away [-]. The Liao Kingdom was really about to perish.

"Any news from Tokyo?"

Yelu Hongtai nodded, "I just got the news that the Song army fleet blocked the Liaohe River. Fan Ning led the army to the west bank of the Liao Kingdom and will launch an attack on Liaoyang City at any time."

"It's me who is incompetent!"

Yelu Hongji sighed again, and said to Yelu Hongtai: "The ministers outside pardon them for their innocence. I only hold Wei Wang and his son accountable for their crimes. Let them rest assured, go!"

"Brother Emperor, please take care of the dragon body. The ministers will restore order in Beijing as soon as possible and revive the army."

Yelu Hongtai ordered the imperial physician a few more words, and hurried out.

There were hundreds of ministers kneeling on the square outside the main hall. Although they did not directly participate in the rebellion, they did participate in the establishment of the emperor's grandson Yelu Yanxi as emperor. Now that Yelu Hongji has returned, King Wei and his eldest son have been thrown into chaos. He was hacked to death with a knife, and his wife and concubine were punished as prostitutes, which made every minister terrified, for fear that the emperor would be furious and affect his family.

At this time, Liang Wang Yelu Hongtai walked out quickly, stood on the steps and said loudly to the ministers: "The emperor only pursues Yelushou and his family's crimes, and the other ministers will pardon them all. Let's go home!"

All the ministers cheered, Yelu Ruinu on the right, Liu Shen on the left, Yao Jingxing, the privy envoy, stepped forward and asked with concern: "Your Highness, how is the emperor's injury?"

Yelu Hongtai shook his head, and said with a serious face: "Although the arrow missed the heart, it pierced the left lung. The emperor's injury is very serious. The imperial doctor said that he will take at least half a year of recuperation before his body will slowly recover."

"Then what about the grandson of the emperor?" Yelu Ruinu asked cautiously.

Yelu Ruinu was also one of the masterminds in supporting the one-year-old grandson Yelu Yanxi to ascend the throne. He was afraid that Yelu Hongji would be liquidated against him.

Yelu Hongtai knew that this Xiangguo was an old fritter, and he would fall to that side if he was strong, and his reputation was unreliable, but now that Daliao is in danger, it is true that there can be no more chaos, and the court must be stabilized.

Yelu Hongtai hinted at him and said: "I heard that Zhang Xiaojie's crime of fornication with the Song Dynasty was revealed and he committed suicide in fear of crime. There is also solid evidence for Yelu Yixin's fornication with the Song Dynasty. I believe they have other crimes. You can collect them. The court needs them. Severely punish these traitors, and with the keynote of the court, everyone will share more worries for the emperor!"

Yelu Hongtai has already hinted very bluntly, by pushing all kinds of crimes on Zhang Xiaojie and Yelu Yixin, the court will have a scapegoat.

All the ministers immediately understood, and they left one after another and went back. Their next step was to fabricate charges, and even accuse Yelv Yixin of being the accomplice of Yelushou's seizure of power.

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Not long after the time passed, the news of the fall of Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo spread to Shangjing. At this time, because Yelu Hongji was seriously injured, he ordered his brother Yelu Hongtai to supervise the country and take charge of the daily state affairs. Important military affairs should be reported to Yelu Hongji , up to him to decide.

As for the little emperor Yelu Yanxi, because he is the only grandson of Yelu Hongji, and he is only one year old because he is young, Yelu Hongji did not make things difficult for him, but let him continue to be the grandson of the emperor, and when he grows up, he will ascend the throne as his successor. bit.

Yelu Hongtai did not dare to tell his elder brother the news that Liaoyang Mansion was completely captured by the Song army, but only said that Liaoyang City was undergoing a fierce siege battle. Be mentally prepared.

Yelu Hongji didn't care too much about the situation of Liaoyang City. He knew that Liaoyang City would be captured sooner or later. It would be best if he could kill more Song troops. Hit hard.

Yelu Hongji is still recuperating in the palace, but he spends most of his time hiding in the inner study and studying maps. Does anyone know what he wants to do?
It has been ten days since the Song army captured Liaoyang City, and the Liao army in the entire Dongdong Road has been wiped out. Fan Ning ordered the Buddhist temples to be cleaned up, the assets of the major temples were seized, the temples were closed, and the monks were ordered to return to vulgarity. This was given to him by the Han officials who surrendered to the Song Dynasty. It is suggested that the monasteries in the Liao Kingdom are greedy, not only emptied the treasury, but also seized the assets of the people, and the people of the Liao Kingdom hated them very much.

By attacking monasteries, since a large amount of money can be obtained to supplement military expenditures, it can also gain the support of the people, win the hearts of the people, and allow monks to participate in labor to solve the situation of labor shortage. It can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

Fan Ning adopted this suggestion and worked in more than a dozen states and counties with the most Buddhist temples, obtained a lot of wealth and land, and made tens of thousands of monks return to secular life, which indeed won warm welcome from the people of Tokyo Province.

Soon, Han Jiang took over the local government affairs in Liaodong, and Fan Ning led an army of 30 to Dading Mansion to join the [-]th army of Emperor Zhao Xu.

In August of the third year of Xihe, 60 Song troops joined forces in Changxing County, where the former Dading Mansion of the Liao Kingdom was located. The entire grassland north of the county became a sea of ​​troops.

At the same time, 15 troops from the Naiman, Dadan, and Lieshan tribes of the Mobei Grassland gathered in Pibeihe City, preparing to participate in the war against the Liao Kingdom.

These prairie tribes have no sympathy for the weak, they worship the strong, and the weak are just their prey. When the Liao Kingdom is now declining, all the grasslands are ready to move, ready to share the fat of the Liao Kingdom.

Yelu Hongtai came to the inner palace worried, he was led into the inner study by an eunuch, he was a little stunned, and saw Yelu Hongji concentrating on drawing something on a map?
Yelu Hongji is slowly recovering from his injuries, and the arrow wound has not completely healed, but at least he can read some books, and with the support of the maid, he can get out of bed and walk a few steps.

"Your Majesty, I have an important military report!"

Although he didn't want to affect the emperor's recovery, the matter was of great importance, and Yelu Hongtai could no longer hide it, so he decided to report to the emperor.

"Is it the emperor of the Song Dynasty who drove himself to conquest?"

Yelu Hongtai was startled, "Your Majesty knows?"

Yelu Hongji shook his head, "I don't know, but I can guess, how can Zhao Xu let go of this kind of glorification of the ancestors and the display of a generation of brave and wise emperors, he will definitely drive himself to conquer, how many Song troops are there now?"

"Your Majesty, at least 60 Song troops have assembled in Dading Mansion, and will soon launch an march to Beijing. Not only them, but the Naiman, Dadan, and Lieshan tribes are also eyeing us. The Grassland League, we have been attacked from the north and the south, and the situation is extremely serious."

Yelu Hongji sighed slightly, "I expected this day long ago, so I have been thinking about countermeasures. I have been thinking about it for half a month. The only way to ensure the continuation of the Daliao is only one, and that is to move the capital."

"Relocate the capital?"

Yelu Hongtai was shocked immediately.

(End of this chapter)