Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 650 Everyone gets what they need
Zhao Mu said at this time: "I swear to heaven, this is absolutely true. Besides, keeping Liao is also beneficial to our Song Dynasty. This time, we are just destroying Liao for our own benefit."

After hearing what Zhao Mu said, Li Canghai asked, "Oh? How can we each get what we need?"

Zhao Mu replied: "This plan to destroy Liao is not necessary, it's just that Liao is being shameless. The disagreement between Liao and the Song Dynasty is only over the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and the Han Chinese homeland in Liaodong."

"Let's not talk about the territory of the former Tang Dynasty. The land of Liaodong and the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have been the territory of the Han people since the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty established Shanggu, Guangyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuantu and other counties on those lands. Since the Five Dynasties, the traitor Shi Jingtang ceded the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Liao Kingdom. As a result, the Great Wall barrier of our Central Plains was completely lost."

"Without the support of Yanshan, Taihang and the Great Wall, these northern enemies can come and go as they please, and going to the Central Plains is like a no-man's land. They regard the Central Plains as a granary and a warehouse. They can rob or kill anyone they want. Whether it is for the prosperity of the Song Dynasty or for the safety of the people, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and the old land of Liaodong must be taken back."

"I have talked to Yelu Yanxiu before. If the Liao Kingdom is willing to return the Han Chinese homeland including the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Song Dynasty, both today's Northern Expedition and the previous Western Expedition to Pingxia can be completely avoided."

Li Canghai shook his head and said, "But this is impossible. Although the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are in the Central Plains, they are also a bridge for the Liao Dynasty to absorb the culture of the Central Plains. If we lose the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Liao Dynasty will always be a barbarian. With the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, we can open up the connection with the Central Plains and even go south to occupy the Han territory. The Liao Dynasty is the dynasty of the Central Plains."

"Besides, such a big thing cannot be decided by Yelu Hongji alone. If the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are returned inexplicably, the political situation of the Liao Dynasty will be turbulent, and even a civil war may be triggered. In any case, Yelu Hongji will never cede the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Song Dynasty."

Zhao Mu sighed and said, "It is precisely because it is impossible that we have to fight this war. To pacify Liao, we must first destroy Xia. Only by eliminating the scourge of Western Xia can our Song Dynasty concentrate on marching north to fight Liao. Your Majesty and I have been planning this for several years. Now that my uncle-master has asked me to stop the war, it is too late."

"But I overestimated the strength of Liao before, so I brought in a few allies to attack Liao together. These allies are Murong Fu, the Jurchens, and Goryeo. But Goryeo did not participate in the initial alliance, so even though it contributed this time, it won't get an inch of land."

"After the success, Murong Fu occupied the land of Liao and revived his Yan Kingdom which had perished hundreds of years ago. The Jurchen tribe walked out of the jungle and got rid of the slavery of the Liao people. As for me, His Majesty gave me all the wealth of the royal family and nobles in the five capitals of Liao, as well as their wives. Murong Fu restored Yan, the Jurchen tribe became independent, the Song Dynasty took back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and the old land of Liaodong, and I got a lot of money and countless women to return to Lingzhou to enjoy the good life on earth, so everyone got what they needed."

After listening to this, Li Canghai said, "I understand. You divided the spoils fairly evenly. But you just mentioned the preservation of Liao. How will the Liao Dynasty survive in the future?"

Zhao Mu shook his head and said, "Uncle Master is wrong about one thing. There will be no Liao in the north. There will only be the Khitan tribes. The plan that Your Majesty and I have made is this: after the Liao is destroyed, all the property and women of the Liao royal family will belong to me. The rest of the men will be taken back to the Song Dynasty."

"After that, we will kill a group of capable, powerful, and stubborn royal family officials. The rest will be re-ennobled by the Song Dynasty. The remaining homeland of the Liao Kingdom will be divided into small tribes like a pile of loose sand. By then, the disaster in the north of our Song Dynasty will be completely eliminated."

After hearing this, Li Canghai let out a long sigh and said, "I understand, but this may be the best solution."

Li Canghai said with a smile, "There are at least several thousand women of the Khitan royal family and nobles. Can you handle so many women for yourself?" Zhao Mu said with a smile, "Of course I can handle it. One of my concubines is good at the secret yoga technique of replenishing one's yang. Not to mention several thousand, even if there are tens of thousands, I can handle it with the technique of replenishing yin to replenish yang."

Zhao Mu also smiled and said, "Besides, I don't want every woman. Not every woman will be captured by me. They may escape or die in the chaos. And I will only choose young and beautiful women to fill my harem. As for those who don't meet these two requirements, I won't want them. After screening, it will be good to have one or two thousand people."

Li Canghai looked Zhao Mu up and down, looked at his trembling legs and said, "What do you do now?"

Zhao Mu replied, "This is because Master Uncle is my close relative. How could I use such a vicious method to absorb Master Uncle's essence? If I use this method to have sex with Master Uncle, his essence will be completely drained away by me, and he may even get sick."

Li Canghai smiled and said, "Then you are pretty good to me."

Zhao Mu didn't use that method on Li Canghai, of course, not because he cared about her. Although Zhao Mu liked women, he wanted to possess any woman who was a little bit pretty. But he would never be merciful to a woman who wanted to kill him.

Now he did not take energy from Li Canghai, simply because most of Li Canghai's martial arts had been absorbed by him.

If he used that method to take away her vitality again, Zhao Mu was afraid that she would lose all her vitality and become an old woman. By then, he was afraid that he would have a psychological trauma for the rest of his life.

After all, when he treated Yelu Yanxiu and Yelu Jinnu like this in Lingzhou City, they both looked pale and exhausted in the end.

Zhao Mu said to Li Canghai at this time: "Uncle Master, you should come back to Lingzhou with me. My Master's Wife has missed you very much after so many years. If you don't want to enter my palace, there is a good place for you to go. My Master's Wife remarried the King of Xixia not just for wealth and glory. It's just that behind the mountain of Qingfeng Pavilion, the palace of Xixia, there is a great secret of the Tianjian Divine Art inherited by my Xiaoyao Sect. In order to protect the secret there, my Master's Wife remarried the King of Xixia."

"Although Master's Wife comes back often now, she spends most of her time accompanying my father-in-law in Qingtang. And Qinglu has to assist in managing the six palaces. Naturally, she has little time to guard there. Master's uncle can go there to guard, and then the child can meet Master's uncle."

Hearing what Zhao Mu said, Li Canghai thought for a moment: "Alas! The fall of the Liao Dynasty is a foregone conclusion, and it is not something that can be changed by human power. This result is not disappointing to the old priest. The Liao Dynasty has been destroyed, so there is no need to go back to Muye Mountain. It is better to go to Lingzhou to guard the Tianjian Divine Art."

(End of this chapter)