Water Margin people

"Your Majesty, this King of Jerusalem is not a simple person. They are Christians, the garrison left by the Crusaders in Jerusalem, and the enemy of all Arabs."

"If Saladin rises in the Caliphate, the Christians in Jerusalem will be the most worried and afraid. Now the King of Jerusalem is probably trying to drag us down with him!"

Li Zhu spoke to Sun Lei.

"Of course I know, but it doesn't matter to us. Saladin's first target must be Jerusalem, so it's not a problem for us to get involved."

Sun Lei said indifferently that what he wanted was for the Leper King to contain Saladin. As for whether he would be used or not, it didn't matter. They would just use each other anyway.

"Everyone, get ready. We will send troops to Hezhong Prefecture tomorrow!"

Sun Lei looked at everyone and gave orders, and the generals took the orders and went out.

"See, this is real strength. The Leper King even sent me a congratulatory letter."

Sun Lei looked at Yelu Dashi in the corner of the palace and smiled.

"Humiliating me won't do you any good!"

Yelu Dashi spoke in a flat tone. He looked at the palace that he had built with his own hands and lamented that everything he had had become a wedding dress for others.

However, he has already accepted it calmly. He understands the principle that the winners are kings and the losers are bandits, so he should accept his defeat.

"How can I say that I am humiliating you? You are sitting in the corner, fully dressed, and you are clearly just listening in!"

Sun Lei pointed at Yelu Dashi and said, "They didn't even tie him up, which was already very polite."

"You dare to wade into this muddy water?"

Yelu Dashi did not dwell on these things. Instead, he looked at Sun Lei and asked, he was referring to the war between the Leper King and Saladin. The war between the Arabs and the Crusaders had a long history and no one could stop it.

"It's easier to fish in troubled waters!"

Sun Lei said.

"Slacking off, aren't you afraid of getting stuck? This is a bottomless quagmire!"

Yelu Dashi said bluntly.

"Haha, you seem to have misunderstood. I am of noble status, how could I possibly go into the water to catch fish? Wouldn't that just dirty my clothes? I like to drain the water. Once it's drained, I can catch fish however I want!"

Sun Lei said with a laugh.

"What on earth do you want to do? You must have a purpose for bringing me here!"

Yelu Dashi finally couldn't help it. This question had always been in his mind, and he finally asked it today.

"You want to know?"

Sun Lei looked at Yelu Dashi with a smile.

"Say!"

Yelu Dashi glared at Sun Lei and roared. He was also a Khan. Although the time was short, he was still a person of noble status and would not allow himself to be teased like this.

"I told you to surrender!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"You already have everything, what else can I give you! What's the point of surrendering you! You have those foreign Khans enough!"

Yelu Dashi looked at Sun Lei and yelled.

"A famous person once said that even a piece of toilet paper or a pair of underwear has its own uses. Of course, you have your own uses too!"

Sun Lei smiled and repeated the famous words of the Commander in Chief of the Golden Gun.

Yelu Dashi stared at Sun Lei. Toilet paper and underwear are not good adjectives.

"Don't worry about these details. What I care about is your identity. Juer Khan of Western Liao, the last Khan of the Khitan people and the former conqueror of this land."

Sun Lei looked at Yelu Dashi and said, although Yelu Dashi was defeated, he was still very useful, especially in this land.

"What do you mean? Are you going to humiliate me again?"

Yelu Dashi gritted his teeth and said that Jur Khan, Khitan Khan, and conqueror were all humiliations to a loser like him. "That's your idea. I can let the Khwarazmians and the Karakhanid Khanate deal with this land, but I don't have any good way to deal with the nomadic Turks in the north. Compared to here, the scattered Turks in the north are more difficult to control!"

Sun Lei said.

"The Turks in the north? Those savage tribes!"

Only then did Yelu Dashi realize that to the north was a khanate composed of a group of tribal savages, called the Kimak Khanate. This khanate was large but very loose. It was composed of Kimaks, Cumans, Tatars and most of the Turkic tribes. It was very loose and scattered across the vast grasslands north of Western Liao.

"What are you going to do? Those people are an uncivilized primitive tribe. They don't even speak the same language, so it's difficult for them to communicate!"

Yelu Dashi spoke.

"Don't those people have the same ancestors as you? You are all descendants of the Donghu. Isn't it bad to say that about your own people?"

Sun Lei smiled and looked at Yelu Dashi and said, the Donghu was divided into Xianbei and Wuhuan, and after the Xianbei became strong, it split into two branches, one was Rouran and Turks, and the other was Shiwei and Khitan.

"Humph!"

Although Yelu Dashi did not want to admit it, the Khitan and the Turks did have the same ancestor. It was for this reason that everything went smoothly after he came to the West, especially the Turkic tribes, who were very polite to him as a Khitan leader. This enabled him to build the huge Western Liao Empire in a short period of time.

"It depends on whether you agree or not. I tell you, this is the last chance. If you don't reply, I won't bother with it anymore! Just send more troops to attack them."

Sun Lei watched Yelu Dashi issue an ultimatum. He had given Yelu Dashi many chances, and if Yelu Dashi did not cherish them, then it was not his fault.

"Aren't you afraid that I will gather my men and start a new movement?"

Yelu Dashi looked at Sun Lei and asked.

"You can try. I hope you can unite those people in the north so that I can wipe them out at once!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Why should I help you!"

Yelu Dashi asked again with his eyes wide open.

"For the sake of the Khitan people you left behind in the Central Plains, I treated your parents well. Although they didn't have luxurious clothes and delicious food, they could still raise sheep and farm a little, so they didn't have to worry about food and drink!"

Sun Lei said that when Yelu Dashi fled from the Central Plains, he only took a few sons with him, and his parents and wives and concubines all left behind in Xijin Mansion.

Sun Lei was not shameless enough to say something like "I will take care of your wife and children", so he could only talk about the current situation of Yelu Dashi's parents. He did not make things too difficult for these people. After their property was confiscated, they were demoted to commoners, and now they live a good life by herding and farming.

"Okay, I promise you!"

Yelu Dashi's face was distorted, and he hesitated for a long time before finally saying this.

"Okay, just be sensible!"

Sun Lei looked at Yelu Dashi with a smile.

"I will only integrate the Turks and Tatars in the north for you. As for the rest, I can't do anything else!"

Yelu Dashi said that his face was only useful among the Turks and Tatars. He had no way to deal with the Cumans and the like. These people had the same habits as the West and were of a different race, so they would not give him face.

"Okay, just do your best!"

Sun Lei nodded.

After dealing with Yelu Dashi, Sun Lei was in a good mood. The last threat in the north was also resolved, and the affairs in the west were completely sorted out.

"Your Majesty, Ajis, Mahmud, and Ibrahim have all brought their people here!"

Li Zhu watched Sun Lei report.

"It's quite fast. How many people are here?"

Sun Lei asked.

"Five thousand per side!"

Li Zhu replied. (End of this chapter)