The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1842
"Your Highness, this is good, but the time is too long. I'm afraid it won't be effective in a few years. If so, we..."

"Why, General Gao Huaide, do you think we should directly attack Khitan as soon as possible? Not only you, but I think everyone has the same idea, right?"

Zhao Xu glanced at the generals present, and they wanted to make meritorious deeds immediately. After all, there was almost only one Liao country as the main enemy of Song Dynasty. At this time, everyone wanted to make meritorious deeds.

"I can understand your feelings. The Liao Kingdom was just defeated, and their so-called Khitan warriors were disintegrated by us at once. We fought this battle very easily, and the incomparable Liao people fled with only a small number of casualties. Our Great Song army is number one in the world, right?"

Zhao Xu's voice got louder and louder, but he couldn't hear a trace of anger, but anyone could tell that Zhao Xu didn't approve of attacking Khitan immediately, or that he didn't have confidence.

"Perhaps you say that we should pursue the victory, but are our soldiers suitable for cavalry operations? How can you have logistical support on the grassland? Have you ever thought about this? We thought about this problem when the former Emperor Taizong was alive. Our Great Song Dynasty unified all directions, and now the cavalry has also been established, but there is still a certain gap compared with the Khitan."

Zhao Xu's words finally let everyone know what Zhao Xu's scruples are. The cavalry is the eternal pain of the Song Dynasty. The Khitan people rely on cavalry, mainly war horses, on the grassland. They have already begun to breed excellent military horses, and there are already many, but it is far from enough.

At the end of the battlefield, there are one man with two horses or one man with three horses, so that all the men and horses can rest. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu for the last time, less than [-]% of them returned with hundreds of thousands of army horses, which was also a lot of consumption.

The imperial court can't put all its attention on destroying the Khitan. After all, it is impossible for the entire country's military force to be placed here. The farm is also to relieve the pressure on the imperial court. This place is responsible for more than half of the economy. It is enough to provide military horses, so that the court can also prepare for a protracted war.

The Liao Kingdom established by the Khitan people is not like the regimes in the south. They have existed for hundreds of years. AD 910 was only the time when they were officially established. Before that, their regime existed on the grasslands, but Yelu Abao The machine unified the various ministries and established a formal regime, but it was not that the Khitan existed for such a long time, and it took a long time to wander on the grasslands to have an official country title.

This kind of nation is the most terrifying. After living in the harsh environment for so long, they are physically stronger and better at cavalry combat. They have a powerful cavalry, which is unmatched by the Song Dynasty.

"The reason why Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall back then was not to prevent the nomads in the north. Although there were no cavalry in the Han Dynasty that could stop the Huns, it also played a certain role in delaying it. I don't mean to build the city. The important thing is to emphasize the importance of the cavalry, and sooner or later we will have a decisive battle with the Khitan, which is definitely no less than the scale of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's northern attack on the Huns, so garrisoning the fields is only part of the battle with the Khitan."

War is not just a military matter, it cannot be done without strong economic support, but on the surface it is still a military contest, like the current cavalry shortcomings of the Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty has begun to narrow this gap.

"You don't know why the city wall was reinforced at Gubeikou in the first place, and why the soldiers were reincarnated so that these soldiers would be familiar with Khitan, so that they would not know nothing about Khitan when they fought against Khitan in the future. What's more, we secretly This is to train their combat awareness. One day we will enter the grasslands and fight against the Khitan. This is beyond doubt, but this is only superficial. It is like wanting a horse to run. Giving grass to horses requires food and money, but Bianjing is far away from here, which places great restrictions on the north, so there are only advantages and no disadvantages in farming now."

So far, Zhao Xu has only told them that the farming is only to ensure future military supplies. In fact, there are many benefits. These generals should also know, but they don't say that they are soldiers and don't participate in politics, or they want the emperor. If you doubt it, the current emperor is afraid that you will control the military power and participate in politics, which is dangerous.

"Develop a regulation for this matter, report it to the imperial court, and ask the imperial court to send someone to implement it as soon as possible, because I don't think it will be long before we will go to war with Khitan. By then, we may have already achieved results."

Gubeikou has slowly started to be reinforced these days, it is taller than before, and two gates have been added. The two gates are guarded by two different guards. The two teams hold tokens respectively, and only two tokens are completely protected. Only after matching can the city gate be opened.

Wait until everything in the city has stabilized before starting to celebrate. After all, we have won the battle, so celebrations should be celebrated.

They were very happy, but there was one person who was not happy. This person was called Ye Luxian. He heard that the Khitan army was defeated. It made people feel distressed to see how far his old blood flowed. It's serious, the more serious child is the death of Yelu Haowu, and the Khitan lost a general, and he was still a confidant. The Khitan's loss is really not ordinary.

"Cut off Xiao Tianzuo's title as the King of Song, and perform meritorious deeds for crimes. Han Kuangsi will serve as a privy envoy to Beijing to assist the government, and the crown prince will supervise the country and the queen Xiao will manage the government on my behalf." After her status was established, the Xiao family governed and became a generation of Empress Xiao.

Xiao Tianzuo returned to Shangjing in embarrassment, and it was impossible not to deal with it. Ye Luxian directly deprived him of the title of King of Song with an imperial decree. The deprivation of his title in this big defeat is already considered light, otherwise he would have been killed long ago .

In the Han Mansion, after the eunuch announced the decree, a middle-aged man said: "Your Majesty, Father, you will use you again, the Privy Councilor, and let you assist the government. You can make great achievements."

The speaker is called Han Derang, and his father is Han Kuangsi, who has now become the largest Han courtier, and has become a privy envoy.

"This is the great love of His Majesty the Emperor. I have had this opportunity for many years. We can use the Khitan people to achieve our goals. Our Han family has taken root in Khitan. We are no longer Han people. The Han people imposed on us at the beginning. The disgrace to the family, we will never forget it for the rest of our lives, your grandpa left his last words before his death, our Han family must never forget this disgrace."

What they said meant that the Han people were their enemies, and they wanted to attack the Han people.

Han Kuangsi's new privy envoy is the best among the Han people in the Liao Dynasty. Just look at his official position and you will know how arrogant he is. , Jinchang Army Jiedushi.

Han Kuangsi was fond of medicine and studied medical skills meticulously. He was once on duty in Changle Palace, and the queen treated him like his own son (the queen treated him like a son).Han Kuangsi's ability to receive such great love from the queen is inseparable from his proficiency in medical skills.Among the court doctors of all dynasties, it is still very rare to be regarded as "the son of the queen".

Han Kuangsi had served in official positions, and Mu Zongying of Liao Dynasty had served as Xiangwen of Taizu Temple for ten years.He was good friends with Jingzong Yeluxian, who was not yet on the throne at that time.After Yeluxian ascended the throne, Han Kuangsi was appointed as the left-behind in Shangjing, and later changed his official post to stay in Nanjing and was granted the title of king of Yan.

Later, after the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun were taken back by the Song Dynasty, he was defeated in the battle with the Song army, was demoted, and was changed to Jinchang Jiedu envoy, but it was all idle jobs. He was unemployed at home. This time when the Liao Kingdom was defeated, he was directly promoted to be a privy envoy. This is real power.

His son, Han Derang, is a young talent and an envoy of the imperial city. At this time, he heard his father say that he remembered the humiliation and vengeance of the Han family, and his grandfather died with regret.

"As a descendant of the Han family, I must assist His Majesty the emperor of Daliao to defeat the Han people, so as to vent his hatred and kill all the Han people."

When Han Derang said these words, his face was expressionless. In fact, there was nothing wrong with it, because it was equivalent to his family's legacy. Although in his generation, they had only three generations of the Liao Kingdom, but as long as the country of the Han people is not wiped out, their legacy will still be true. It will be passed on, this Han Derang is the capable minister who assisted the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom in the later novels, and it is said that he was a little ambiguous with the Empress Dowager Xiao.

"As long as my son remembers, as long as he remembers, the shame your grandfather suffered must be recovered from these people."

Han Kuangsi's father, Han Derang's grandfather is called Han Zhigu, Han Zhigu was also a celebrity in the early Liao Dynasty, but he used to be a Han, and later he was taken away by the Khitan people. He fled back to the Han territory, but the Han people there didn’t want to see him, and insulted him, and even beat his wife to death, because his wife was a Khitan, and they called him a lackey of the Khitan. The Central Plains was also in chaos, a great chaos. At that time, when the north was in the war in the Houliang, Han Zhigu had no way to sue, and was beaten to death.

At this time, he finally announced that he would no longer be a Han Chinese. He must destroy the Han people in his lifetime, and he must wash away his shame. Therefore, he directly fell to the Khitan and became a Khitan. Han people, he strongly encouraged the Khitans to send troops to occupy the Central Plains.

He has a good relationship with Emperor Taizong Yelu Deguang. He was responsible for many of Yelu Deguang's political actions.

He died in 930 AD. Six years later, Yelu Deguang successfully captured the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun. These were all formulated by them. These places were built to attack the front of the Central Plains.

He is also known as an important hero for the rise of the Liao Kingdom. When he died, the emperor was by his side. I asked him if he had any last words. Who knew that he said that he must destroy the Han people, and at the same time asked his descendants to be loyal to him from generation to generation. Daliao, who assisted Daliao in breaking through the Central Plains, actually had one thing he didn't tell the emperor at the time, that is, he did all these things for revenge.

Han Zhigu is not a big-hearted person, which can be forgiven, but he can't directly take revenge on the entire Han people and the Central Plains just because some people insulted him at that time, and pass down family instructions to let his dead grandsons hate the Han people for generations. The eyes of the mind are really not ordinary.

His son and grandson all listened to him, and they had always been the main fighting faction in Khitan, always looking for opportunities for the imperial court to have a decisive battle with the Han people, but they were not in important positions.

"Daddy, you are now a privy envoy, and you can influence the court's strategy. I wonder if Daddy has any plans for the future?"

"Plan? Now that we are newly defeated, there will be no military action for the time being. By the way, go and see Xiao Tianzuo with me. He just came back. I'm going to visit him." Han Kuangsi actually wanted to go at this time See Xiao Tianzuo.

"Daddy, why are you going to see him? He is no longer King Song, and he has no military power. What are we doing with him? It's too late for everyone to avoid him now." Han Derang was puzzled.

"What do you know? Although he doesn't have any real power now, don't forget that the emperor's health is not good and the queen is in charge of the government, and the prince is young. The Xiao family will rise soon, and this time the big defeat can't be blamed. He, if the others had been killed long ago, now he is only deprived of his title, it can be seen that the emperor values ​​him."

Of course, Han Kuangsi is more thorough than his son. If he is not punished, then the emperor will not give an explanation to his subjects. If the emperor does this, he will still use this person in the future. Even if he is not useful, it should be better. Because the younger sister is the queen, this queen still holds real power.

Xiao Mansion!

"Congratulations to Mr. Han, Mr. Han has been promoted to the Privy Council. I haven't had time to congratulate you, but you came here. I just want to congratulate you at my mansion."

"Thank you, Lord Xiao. What is the promotion? It is His Majesty's great love." Han Kuangsi was also very polite.

"Oh, what is Mr. Xiao, I'm just a commoner now, and I can't afford to be called an adult." Xiao Tianzuo waved his hands quickly.

"Over there, everyone in Daliao knows the prestige of Master Xiao. A phoenix will always be a phoenix, but it is only temporarily flying lower than a chicken."

Xiao Tianzuo glanced at Han Derang in surprise: "This is Mr. Ling. I have heard that Mr. Ling is a good-looking person. He is indeed a good-looking man. He will be my important minister in the Daliao Dynasty in the future."

"Thanks for the prize. This is exactly what the child has to give up. In the future, I will have to rely on Mr. Xiao to remind me. I thank you here." Han Kuangsi was paving the way for his son, and soon they chatted together, like They are friends who talk about everything, and they also discussed a lot of plans in the meeting. These are plans to attack the Song army in the future. The Han family and the Xiao family are considered to be united, a strong alliance.

(End of this chapter)