Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 209 An Lushan Li Fei Khitan

After the Khitan War, Anton was still developing in full swing.

Fanyang Road, Youzhou City, and Anlu Mountain are not idle either.

What An Lushan fought at the beginning was to subdue the Khitan people under his command just like subduing the Xi clan, and let the Khitan people also help him fight like the Xi clan.For this reason, An Lushan must not only control the Khitan territory, but also subdue the Khitan people's hearts.

As for how to subdue the hearts of the Khitan, An Lushan had a strategy from the beginning, which was the same as subduing the Xi clan.

In a great battle, the Khitan suffered heavy losses, not only a large number of people died in battle, but also a large number of horses and livestock. If there are no accidents, this winter must be very sad.

Since he wants to subdue the hearts of the Khitan people, it is definitely impossible for An Lushan to exploit the Khitan people as a victor.

Not only did An Lushan not exploit the Khitans, but he released many of the Khitans he captured during the war, and even returned them together with their weapons and horses.In addition, the [-] lambs and calves extorted from the servant bone department were also given to the Khitan people.

At the same time, An Lushan took time to go from Youzhou to the territory of the Khitan people from time to time, and danced with the Khitan people, drank, talked about life ideals, etc.An Lushan hinted at the Khitan people more than once, but in fact, like the Khitan people, he is a Hu.Compared with getting along with the Han people, he was actually closer to the Khitan people in his heart, and he didn't want to be an enemy of the Khitan people. However, the imperial court had orders, so he had to work for the imperial court and so on.

In order to convince the Khitan people, An Lushan also said a lot of bad things about the court behind his back, blaming the Tang court for all the crimes that the Khitan people have fallen into today.And An Lushan also took credit for himself, saying that how the court originally wanted to punish the Khitan people, it was An Lushan who begged the court in every possible way to stop the punishment of the Khitan people and so on.

In three months, An Lushan went to and from Youzhou and the Khitan people no less than twenty times, an average of one trip every few days.

It has to be said that An Lushan does have his own way of winning people's hearts.Especially as he said, An Lushan himself was born as a Hu, and the Khitans were also Hus. Naturally, everyone should get close. The Khitans were fooled, and they were willing to believe in An Lushan.

In short, if everyone has any grievances or crimes, they will all be pushed to the Tang court.

Once they come and go, they can get acquainted. An Lushan came and went back and forth no less than twenty times, and soon became completely integrated with the Khitan people, fooling the Khitan people.Almost all the Khitan people in the Khitan Territory began to feel that An Lushan was indeed a 'good man', and it was only under the orders of the Tang court that they had to be enemies with the Khitan people in these years. It was the fault of the Tang court, and all the hatred All attention should be on the head of the Tang court.

At the same time that the Khitan people who fooled the Khitan territory in Anlu Mountain hated Datang.

Anton and Li Fei also spoke ill of An Lushan in front of some Khitans including Princess Yangu and Yelucha who had returned from the captives, making them hate An Lushan.

Compared with An Lushan's pure slander and flicker, what Li Fei said is closer to the truth.

"In the history of the Central Plains, there have been more than one occasions when the generals who led the army intentionally created enemies, and deliberately delayed the time for extermination, and took the opportunity to continuously ask the court for various money, food, weapons, etc., in order to strengthen their own strength, and finally carried out rebellion. , you Khitan——" After nearly four months, Princess Yangu and Yelucha recovered from their injuries, and together with hundreds of adult Khitans, they were guarded by Li Fei in Liaoyang City.

They didn't abuse them, and they took care of food and housing. They were fairly quiet and didn't cause Li Fei any trouble.

In fact, as early as when Princess Yangu and Yelucha were still seriously injured in bed, Li Fei often came to 'brainwash' them, telling them the truth of Khitan's end today.

"As far as I know, An Lushan has repeatedly tricked you Khitans and Xi people to a banquet, and then he put drugs in the wine, beheaded all the Khitans and Xi people who went to the banquet, back and forth Later, nearly 2 people were killed. An Lushan blamed all the crimes on the Tang court. In fact, no one in the court knew what An Lushan had done, and did not know the grievances of the Khitan and Xi people. An Lushan is like this Do it, and naturally forced you Khitan and Xi people to rebel. Later, An Lushan continued to grow stronger in the process of fighting against you Khitan and Xi people. Now An Lushan has 20 elite soldiers, and first It tricked the Xi people to hate the Tang court and serve An Lushan. Now it must be tricking you Khitan people to put all their hatred on the Tang court, and then serve him An Lushan."

"What you say may not necessarily be true." I have heard Li Fei say a lot in the past three months, and every sentence is reasonable. In fact, Yelucha has already believed most of it in his heart. He was once one of the generals under Huaixiu Khan's command. First, he knew many things, and he had always had doubts in his heart before. Combined with what Li Fei said, he had already guessed many facts. The reason why he still insisted that what Li Fei said might not be true was because Yelucha was very suspicious of Li Fei. He had a bad impression of him. He was defeated miserably with three thousand cavalry, broke through the royal city he was stationed in, and captured the Khitan people in the royal city together with him and Princess Yangu to Andong. It's hard to make a good impression on things you care about.

"You always say in front of us that everything is An Lushan's tricks, that An Lushan wants to rebel, how do we know that this is not your own trick, that you are not deceiving us, and then deceive all the Khitan people through us? "Princess Yangu also stared at Li Fei with her delicate eyes. Her impression of Li Fei was even worse. Li Fei personally led troops to break through the Chifeng King City and captured tens of thousands of Khitan people in the King City. Even she almost died in the city. Li Fei shot down, although Li Fei saved her later, it was a different matter, and she was even more difficult to care about Li Fei.

"Don't worry, since I dare to say that it's all An Lushan's conspiracy, I can prove it. Now that Anlushan has established its momentum, its ambition to rebel will gradually be revealed. Not to mention the day when Anlushan really rebelled, A few days ago, didn’t I ask you to arrange a few people to go back to the Khitan territory to investigate, to see if An Lushan is instigating you Khitan people to hate Datang, isn’t the fact clear?” Li Fei smiled indifferently, Not in a hurry to convince Princess Yangu and Yelucha.

In the afternoon, several Khitans released a few days ago came back.

The news they brought back verified what Li Fei said, that An Lushan really spared no effort to encourage the Khitan people in the Khitan territory to make them hate the Tang court and get close to him An Lushan.

"Let me just say it. Think about it, An Lushan is a great general of our Tang Dynasty who holds a heavy army, and is the adopted son of our Tang Emperor. The whole Tang Dynasty treats him well. His Majesty the Emperor trusts him and uses him, and treats him well." Even more so. If he had no ambition to rebel, why would he encourage you Khitans to hate Datang? Is that what a general of the Tang Dynasty should do? If he has the ambition to rebel, he is a person without conscience at all, and it is not surprising that he will do anything, you Khitan people are being led to a real dead end by Mount Anlu!" Speaking of this, Li Fei is extremely solemn, which makes people feel helpless. doubt again.
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