Chapter 1330 The Politics of Liao Kingdom
Liaoxi Beijing.
As dusk fell, 72 enemy buildings on the rammed earth walls of Xijing City lit up butter torches. The wind blew through the cracks of the walls of the rammed earth in the Tang Dynasty and the bricks and stones of the Northern Qi Dynasty.
This Xijing city, which was operated by the Liao Kingdom for many years, was formed by the outer wall of Beiqiping City and the Yunzhou City of Tang Dynasty.
At this moment, the copper camel bell that "welcomes the wind" at the south gate suddenly became alarmed, and three Western Regions caravans were pouring in with the drum beats of the closed city.
The city is bounded by the fourth floor, with the Drum Tower stationed in the Khitan army, the Bell Tower is home to Han craftsmen, the Honk Tower is equipped with Uighur Maritime Shipbuilding Office, and the Qiao Tower contains Xixia documents and archives. In addition, the grain storage area in the cave in the city can last for three years.
At this time, the smell of tanning skin floated in the northwest Qionglu District. The Khitan craftsmen soaked the red-hot horseshoe into the horse's urine, and the white mist that had been simmering slowly rose.
The kiln fire in Washefang in the southeast reflects the night sky as orange. Han craftsmen use Xing kiln techniques to outline the spring water and autumn mountains on the Liao-style cockscomb pot.
The Uighurs monopolized the jewelry trade in the Western Regions, and called the Guangming Hall with a Manichaean temple, which stood upright.
Due to the integration of customs in the Han and Liao dynasties, Han merchants in the city walked on the streets with brocade robes and stripes on their left-brown robes. On the contrary, the Khitan nobles imitated the customs of the Song Dynasty and wore right-angled heads.
Today, the Khitan shaman held a ghost-shooting ceremony in Ximen Wengcheng. This time in Yongle City, the Song generals Xu Xi, Gao Yongneng, Qu Zhen and others who fought with the Liao army in Mizhizhai were all stitched into paper statues.
The Khitan shaman was muttering, shooting arrows soaked in black dog blood at these paper-cut images of Song Zheng.
In front of the Oludo golden tent on the Sanggan River, Hai Dongqing thrust his wings on the pole. The Khitan nobles sat on the ground, wearing right-angled pork heads and shared roasted deer. The horse milk wine in the celadon cup was poured into their mouths with big mouths.
After the table, the jade-handled silver knife was slowly stirring the roasted milk porridge of geese, and the fragrance of yellow rice quietly spread across the beard of the Liao master Yelu Hongji.
"Isn't it true that Yelu Ta!"
Yelu Hongji knocked his knuckles on the desk, got up and returned to the tent.
Han ministers Yang Zunxu, Dou Jingyong and Wang Shiru copied documents in the hall to handle government affairs sent to each capital.
Soon Yelu Ta came in.
There were two Yelu Tabu in the Liao Kingdom. One was the son of the Yelu Gao family, who had been killed by Yelu Yixin, the former prime minister who fled to the Song Dynasty.
Now Yelu Tabuye is the son of Yelu Renxian, the first minister of the Liao Kingdom, and is now the recruitment envoy of the Northwest Road of the Liao Kingdom. This time he went deep into Yongle City to cover up the defeated Dangxiang Army under the Wuding River, and successfully counterattacked the Song army.
"Let me talk about the battle under Yongle City! You can listen too."
After Yelu Hongji finished speaking, Yang Zunxu put down what was happening at hand.
"Yes." Yelu Ta said it carefully.
Yelu Hongji frowned and said, "Did you say that I finally dispatched Tielin and defeated the Song army?"
"Otherwise, the outcome is hard to say."
"Yes, the Song army on Fuyan Road is endured to hard battles, which is not comparable to those under the city of Chanzhou back then. These Xu Xi, Qu Zhen, and Gao Yongneng are unknown, and their troops are even stronger than Lu Huiqing in Hedong."
Yang Zunxu, the prime minister of the Southern Prefecture, said: "The Song army in the north is the strongest in Shaanxi, followed by the Hedong army, and the Hebei army again."
"The western army's Zhongxihe Road is the strongest, followed by Fuyan Road, Jingyuan Road, Huanqing Road, and Qinfeng Road."
"This time Tabu also met elite soldiers from Xihe Road and Fuyan Road under Yongle City, so it is not surprising that they narrowly won."
Yelu Ta said, "No matter what, these soldiers and horses don't know how much money, grain and time have been fought."
"The Song people's reforms for twenty years first subdued Qing Tang, and now they defeated Dangxiang. In the future, they will compete with our Great Liao for Youyan."
As the sound of copper leakage in the corner of the tent was ticking, Wang Shiru suddenly coughed violently. He said, "This is extremely true. I have been worried over the years. Today, after hearing Yelu Ta's words, I feel even more worried."
"These Song dynasties have been continuously contacting the various ministries of the Nuzhi tribes through Goryeo and giving generous gifts to the female leaders. After so many years, their desire to get involved in Youyan has not been extinguished."
Yelu Hongji thought to himself that he had worked hard after he ascended the throne.
With the assistance of the Han minister Yao Jingxing, Yelu Hongji increased the 547 rules and regulations of the Chongxi Regulations of the Xingzong to 789, which was called the Xianyong Regulations, which added the crime of banning salt and iron and private casting of copper coins.
The purpose is to make the Khitan nobles apply the Han law.
However, this was opposed by the leaders of the eight tribes.
The son of the emperor's uncle Yelu Chongyuan killed people because he fought for the ranch. According to the original rules, he still had to use the old custom of atonement to atone for his sins. However, Yelu Yixin insisted on exile, and later the Chongyuan Rebellion occurred.
The Chongyuan Rebellion greatly damaged the Liao Kingdom's vitality, which was due to the fact that Yelu Hongji's acquisition of power was too radical.
Later, Yelu Hongji expanded the enrollment of the Han Jinshi subjects, and each subject was selected to be eight or nine people. He also created the Khitan Jinshi subject, allowing answers to be answered in Khitan small characters.
In recent years, the lords of the military prefectures under the Liao Kingdom occupied the official fields and took the former free Khitans, Han people and Jurchens as slaves to grazing and plowing the fields.
These leaders also united to oppose the Xianyong Regulations and asked Yelu Hongji to abolish this law.
However, Yelu Hongji still withstood the pressure and refused to abolish the Xianyong Regulations. (Another time and space have been abolished for many years in history. Yelu Hongji has compromised with the domestic vested interests. Three years after the regulations were abolished, Yelu Yixin, who was a thug, was also killed)
Yelu Hongji said: "Although our Great Liao Kingdom is sufficiently used, the people's strength has been exhausted."
"The barbarians and the Chinese are the ones in China. Only by implementing the Han law is the only way out for our Great Liao."
"You all think that the Song people were so cowardly that they were not enough to be a confidant of our Great Liao. The real confidant of our Great Liao lies in the north, south of the desert, and Tokyo Road!"
"So we easily negotiated peace with the Song people in Chanyuan, and we obtained the Han people's material resources every year to fight in the east and west, in exchange for peace on the frontier."
"But over the years, we used the annual tribute given to us by the Song people to buy things from the Song people through the court, and even had to input gold and silver every year to supplement the Song people. We Khitans usually use the salt money from the Song people, and instead of the copper coins of our Daliao themselves. Now even in my imperial tent, the porcelain of the Han people is placed, and the tribute incense of the Han people is burned!"
"Can we blame the Song people? No, it is precisely the nobles of our Khitan who are not good at it. They adhere to the old laws and customs all day long and do not want to make progress. They enjoyed everything the Song people paid tribute, used silk cotton cloth and ceramic tea from the Han people, and at the same time redeemed the people's fields and pastures, and the good family became slaves. Now half of the land in our Great Liao Dynasty is in the hands of these people, and only 30% were used during the late emperor."
"In this case, our Great Liao will surely perish, not at the hands of the Song people, but at the hands of our Great Liao people themselves!"
Speaking of this, Yelu Hongji was panting and his face was ferocious. His gilded horse whip hit the map hard, and his servant stood outside the tent and trembled all over.
All the officials of the Liao Kingdom said one after another: "I am ashamed! I cannot share your worries for Your Majesty."
Yelu Hongji said, "I say these words to you, not to Yelu Po and others."
"These uncles and uncles of my country have changed, become timid and devoted themselves to making peace with the Song Dynasty. This time, the Song people and the kings and ministers paid 700,000 yuan a year, thinking that it would be exchanged for our Liao Kingdom to stand by and watch Dangxiang. They were all ecstatic. They completely forgot how Zhang Yue numbed us two years ago when he was in the prime minister, and defeated the 300,000 troops of the Dangxiang people in Pingxia City."
"But can I blame them? I can't blame them. Now our Daliao has become like this. Yelu Po has disappointed me over the years. He has made great contributions to our Daliao and was loyal to me. But he has been in the Northern Court, and has changed. What is the importance of peace in the century of Song and Liao. The reason why the Song and Liao Dynasty were able to be peaceful for a hundred years was because Dang Xiang was there. Without Dang Xiang, how could we talk about peace? When Emperor Taizu took a golden arrow and broke through the Wei Jiu tribe, he had never used half a copper coin in the Southern Dynasty!"
"Yang Qing!" Yelu Hongji pointed at Yang Zunxu, "In the future, you will be the Privy Councilor of the North Court."
Yang Zunxu stepped forward and said, "I thank Your Majesty for your kindness."
Yelu Hongji said: "What I want is Wang Anshi, a minister like Zhang Yue. Let our Great Liao completely change to the Han law!"
"I plan to learn from the Tang Dynasty's political affairs hall system to establish a Nabo political meeting composed of the leaders of the eight major tribes, left behind in the five capitals, and the Han priests, which will be held every year in spring and autumn mountains."
"Use the annual output of the salt pond and the horse farm as reserves, and get salt and horse bills to solve the urgent need for money shortage in the country. There is also Yelu Tat!"
"I'm here!"
Yelu Hongji said: "I will station heavy troops in Yunneizhou and Qingzhou to prevent the Song people from embezzling Dangxiang!"
Yelu Ta hesitated slightly, and then said, "Dangxiang's several prefectures in Hexi have been engulfed by Ali Gu. If you go down, you may not be able to stand it."
Yelu Hongji said: "I know that Dangxiang still has to rely on himself to stand, but I, Daliao, still have to hold on to him."
"I still say the same thing. The Song people are not our biggest troubles. Our Daliao themselves are our biggest troubles! Only by reforming and using the old customs and using the Han methods can we save our Daliao!"
"Send Yelu Xiang, Taichang Shaoqing, and Jia Shixun, the editor of the History Museum, to discuss peace with the Song people and discuss the annual monies!"
All the ministers agreed and then slowly retreated.
Chapter completed!