When Hongying arrived at Yang's mansion, she was favored soon.
Although she is a disabled person, her appearance and skills are excellent, and she is very good at pleaseing Yang Ye.
However, when she often serves in bed, Yang Ye is a young and strong martial artist, but Hongying feels a little overwhelmed.
Within a few days, a cousin from Hongying's hometown came to join him, and he also had a Yangzhou accent. Because he did not have a provincial level, he wanted to make a living in the mansion and successfully became the groom of the Yang mansion.
In this world, when wealthy families accept people, they mainly prevent people from committing crimes from coming in. As long as they are good people, there is no big problem; because there has never been an undercover incident like this, people don’t understand... And that cousin, if he has a master and a concubine as a guarantee, there is no problem.
...In a few days, it will be even more difficult for people outside to enter Jinyang, because news of wars and wars came from the market.The Great Zhou army claimed to launch a large-scale attack of 200,000!
In early July, the Zhou army left Liaozhou (southeast of the Northern Han Dynasty, now Zuoquan County, Shanxi).
The city walls in Liaozhou were not strong enough, and they had been repeatedly competing for several years. First, the territory of the Northern Han Kingdom was invaded, and Li Yun found an opportunity to occupy Liaozhou; later, the Zhou court could not take care of the north, and Li Yun had no intention of fighting with the Northern Han Kingdom, and there was a violent change of power within the Zhou court, and the Northern Han Kingdom easily took back this place; not long ago, Murong Yanzhao became the governor of the Zhaoyi Army of Luzhou, and took back Liaozhou, which had no troops to defend.
Two days later, the Zhou army attacked northwest and approached the city of Longzhou.Longzhou is in an emergency.
Now the Northern Han court really felt urgent.
Longzhou's status is completely different from that of Liaozhou, which is the national gate of the southern part of the Northern Han Dynasty!
The gateway is an important town, with Fenzhou to the west (Jinzhou is also an important town in the hands of the Zhou Kingdom), and Longzhou to the east!
If Longzhou is lost, the Zhou army will occupy a major city directly at the gate of the capital, and can threaten the capital of the Northern Han at any time. In that case, the Northern Han Kingdom will not be safe.
The Northern Han lord first sent Feng Jinke, the general of the Guards, to lead the imperial cavalry and mobilized various troops to rush to Longzhou.The two sides set up a big battle. Although Feng Jinke fought hard, he was defeated by outnumbering and fled back to Jinyang.
The Northern Han Lord sent Yang Ye to lead his army to resist the enemy.
However, Yang Ye annexed Baigu, and remained unwilling to go to the decisive battle... The Northern Han court did not blame and urged him, and even many ministers made pragmatic suggestions. The Zhou army was coming in a fierce manner, and Yang Ye had few major generals and could not win; stationing troops in Baigu, can prevent enemy soldiers from hitting the capital from both sides of Longzhou and Liaozhou.
Longzhou was besieged and attacked by the Zhou army and asked for help many times.Liu Jun had no plan to retreat, so he hurriedly sent envoys to the Liao Kingdom to ask for help.
...The capital of Liao Kingdom is in Shangjing (probably located in the south of the Greater Xing'an Mountains, north of the Henghe River).Their troops sent to the Northern Han would not be as far away from Shangjing, but they had to go to Shangjing if they wanted to discuss sending troops.
The Liao Kingdom has been established for more than 50 years, and the existence of the Khitan forces in the Northeast cannot be ignored since the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Now, the Liao Kingdom is no longer a completely nomadic country. It is a semi-cultivation and semi-pardoned country. Even in Youyun, Bohai and other areas, farming is the main economic mode.
The capital Shangjing also showed this form very well.
Shangjing is not a place to build tents, it is indeed a city; it is divided into Imperial City and Seoul, with a circumference of more than ten miles, making it a big city.
Especially in Seoul in the south, there are settled craftsmen workshops and commercial areas, and porcelain can also be produced.
The main palace of the imperial palace is on a hill in the middle of the imperial city.But the place where the Northern Han envoys were received and settled was on the open ground north of the palace. There were many tents here, and the envoys lived in the tent.
The envoy did not see the Emperor of Liao during the day. No matter how anxious he was, he could only stay in the tent all day. He vaguely heard that the emperor was sleeping now!
So we cannot meet.
The envoy once heard in Jinyang that the Emperor of Liao was very cruel and had to have two things in his life, namely sleeping and killing!
However, drinking and hunting are also his hobbies.
This is just a rumor, but now it seems that it is most likely true.
The next morning, the envoy still did not see the emperor, but met the ministers sent by the Liao Kingdom in an official office.
There was no actual progress in the meeting this time. What he did was just submitting the national certificate. The officials said some clichés in the tone of the emperor's imperial edict. As for discussing sending troops to rescue, they could not give a reply on the spot... The situation was urgent, and the envoy did such a thing in just two days after going to Beijing.
However, doing real and practical things is not on the scene, but discussing them privately below.
This is the politics of the Central Plains dynasty. The Liao Kingdom was marked and characterized by tribal imprints, but due to long-term learning of the Central Plains official system, he was also infected with some habits.
The envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty wanted to bribe the prime minister of the Liao Kingdom with the money he brought, but the staff dissuaded him. The Northern Han Dynasty was equally important to the Liao Kingdom, and they would not sit idly by. If they were too humble, it would be inappropriate. However, the envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty was worried that the Liao Emperor was a foolish monarch, so he ignored the overall situation and decided to visit the prime minister to teach someone to help him speak.
The Emperor of Liao had known in private that the Zhou army had invaded the Northern Han Dynasty, before the arrival of the Northern Han envoy.
...The Liao Emperor Yelu Jing learned about this and reported it back from the Daliao Posthouse (embassy) stationed in Jinyang.
But Yelu Jing never paid attention to it... Jinyang's city is solid and will not be captured and destroyed so quickly, otherwise the Liao Kingdom would not be able to protect them; if the Liao Kingdom showed too urgent rescue, it would be difficult to control the country when it was diplomatic relations with the Northern Han Dynasty.
At this moment, Yelu Dilu reported to him to meet (Yang Gun, the Khitan general who reinforced the Northern Han Dynasty during the Battle of Gaoping).
Yelu Jing announced his visit.Yang Gun had just returned from Youzhou and looked tired, but as soon as he entered the palace, he was already afraid, so he immediately bowed in front of the tiger skin soft couch.
Seeing this, Yelu Jing sighed inwardly, thinking to himself, "Is I that scary?" He looks really fierce and fierce, with hard eyebrows and beard... According to the way the Khitans treat him, Yang Gun can be without kneeling and bowing with his hands on his chest; but he still gave a big gift.
This person is considered a general that Yelu Jing trusted more. Yelu Jing even sent him to Youzhou to visit Xiao Siwen, but he was still trembling in front of the emperor.
Yelu Jing said in his heart: No one can understand my difficulties.
Others are afraid of him, probably because he often kills people around him with his own hands, but Yelu Jing feels that he really has not killed people by randomly. He usually only kills two kinds of people, one is a noble who was demoted to a slave first, and the other is a person who has long wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of... Of course, sometimes he will cut off some irrelevant slaves.
However, he never killed a minister and nobleman with a little status for no reason, and he did not dare to do so.
But he is indeed cruel by nature and he is very happy to kill people!Just like drinking and hunting, getting drunk often is not all pretending, and it is also a hobby for a long time.
So people are afraid of him, which is also the situation he wants to see... Yelu Jing, the emperor, was not easy and his position was not very stable, which is also the essential reason for the turbulent and unstable situation in the Liao Kingdom for many years.
He wanted people to be afraid of him, otherwise he would have been killed long ago!
The current situation of the Liao Kingdom is very uneasy.
After Yelu Jing ascended the throne, the internal rebellion had already occurred three times, and it seemed that he had not stopped. As for the small rebellion and intention to rebel, even Yelu Jing himself could not remember it clearly. There were too many... In addition, the two tribes of Shiwei and Wugu, who had long been dependent in the Liao Dynasty, also betrayed the Liao Kingdom and were pacified by war.
Yelu Jing felt that this situation could not be blamed entirely on him, but everyone seemed to want to put all the blame on him!
The reason is that he is cruel... If he were not cruel, how many people would have wanted this throne and would have been killed long ago!
This made him very unhappy. He became even more angry when he thought that he would definitely take on the title of tyrant after his death.
But there was nothing we could do for a moment.
Why do so many people want this throne?
This goes back to when Emperor Taizong of Liao died, Emperor Shizong of Liao was supported by military generals (there was a Yizong between Emperor Taizong and Emperor Shizong, who was posthumously named, and he had never actually become an emperor)... This posthumous title of Emperor Shizong, so it was known that Emperor Shizong was not the son of Emperor Taizong; the empress dowager in the capital did not recognize this emperor at that time. She even wanted her son (the youngest son of Emperor Taizong) to be emperor, but the youngest son was not qualified enough, and he failed to win a battle. He reconciled under the persuasion of the nobles and recognized the throne of Emperor Shizong of Liao.
This laid the root of disaster for the later legitimacy of the throne.
However, after Emperor Taizong of Liao, several emperors of the Liao Kingdom could not suppress the great achievements and prestige of the tribes; so Abaoji's descendants all felt that they should be emperors, and even felt that the throne was theirs.
Emperor Shizong of Liao sat on the throne for three years, and the Fire God Dian Rebellion broke out. Emperor Shizong of Liao was cut off and killed by King Yelucha, and Cha made himself emperor; Emperor Taizong's son Yelujing killed Yelucha and ascended the throne and became emperor.
Does this throne belong to the Yi Sect, or the Tai Sect and Shi Sect?
(Yizong and Taizong are both sons of Abaoji, Taizu of Liao Kingdom.) Obviously, the descendants on both sides feel qualified and feel that they are well-off.
In just a few years, he changed the emperor three times through mutiny and assassination. The first two times did not last long, and several times he was killed before he became accused... Only Yelu Jing was still sitting in this position, although it was not so stable.
In this case, who can be at ease to be an emperor?Yelu Jing was actually very scared... Of course, he also made others very scared.
He is in a bad mood every day, and only after drinking a lot of wine can he feel the moment of joy.
Some people say that he is a tyrant, but he still has self-knowledge and admits his account; but if he is a tyrant, he doesn't want to admit that he is a tyrant. Can the tyrant sit in the emperor in such a situation?
If it was really that easy, Emperor Shizong of Liao was not too stupid and should not have been killed.
Recently, Yelu Jing has a headache. He found that the real danger may not only come from the Yelu family... because no matter who kills him, the essence remains unchanged after he takes up the throne and is still unstable.
But what if the Xiao family, which has always been a royal marriage and has been designated as the prime minister for a long time, is involved?
Yelu Jing is nervous every day and thinks a lot.
He even suspected that his reputation was so bad, which was Xiao's long-term strategy; Xiao wanted to put all the blame on him, and then came forward to support someone ascending the throne, trying to end the chaos of the throne dispute... But the prestige of the new king is also very important!
If Emperor Shizong of Liao had the prestige of becoming and prestige as Taizong, there might not be any subsequent chaos.
If Xiao really did that, Yelu Jing himself would become a scapegoat!So Yelu Jing sent Yang Gun to Youzhou for a while, just to observe Xiao Siwen's usual performance.
Although she is a disabled person, her appearance and skills are excellent, and she is very good at pleaseing Yang Ye.
However, when she often serves in bed, Yang Ye is a young and strong martial artist, but Hongying feels a little overwhelmed.
Within a few days, a cousin from Hongying's hometown came to join him, and he also had a Yangzhou accent. Because he did not have a provincial level, he wanted to make a living in the mansion and successfully became the groom of the Yang mansion.
In this world, when wealthy families accept people, they mainly prevent people from committing crimes from coming in. As long as they are good people, there is no big problem; because there has never been an undercover incident like this, people don’t understand... And that cousin, if he has a master and a concubine as a guarantee, there is no problem.
...In a few days, it will be even more difficult for people outside to enter Jinyang, because news of wars and wars came from the market.The Great Zhou army claimed to launch a large-scale attack of 200,000!
In early July, the Zhou army left Liaozhou (southeast of the Northern Han Dynasty, now Zuoquan County, Shanxi).
The city walls in Liaozhou were not strong enough, and they had been repeatedly competing for several years. First, the territory of the Northern Han Kingdom was invaded, and Li Yun found an opportunity to occupy Liaozhou; later, the Zhou court could not take care of the north, and Li Yun had no intention of fighting with the Northern Han Kingdom, and there was a violent change of power within the Zhou court, and the Northern Han Kingdom easily took back this place; not long ago, Murong Yanzhao became the governor of the Zhaoyi Army of Luzhou, and took back Liaozhou, which had no troops to defend.
Two days later, the Zhou army attacked northwest and approached the city of Longzhou.Longzhou is in an emergency.
Now the Northern Han court really felt urgent.
Longzhou's status is completely different from that of Liaozhou, which is the national gate of the southern part of the Northern Han Dynasty!
The gateway is an important town, with Fenzhou to the west (Jinzhou is also an important town in the hands of the Zhou Kingdom), and Longzhou to the east!
If Longzhou is lost, the Zhou army will occupy a major city directly at the gate of the capital, and can threaten the capital of the Northern Han at any time. In that case, the Northern Han Kingdom will not be safe.
The Northern Han lord first sent Feng Jinke, the general of the Guards, to lead the imperial cavalry and mobilized various troops to rush to Longzhou.The two sides set up a big battle. Although Feng Jinke fought hard, he was defeated by outnumbering and fled back to Jinyang.
The Northern Han Lord sent Yang Ye to lead his army to resist the enemy.
However, Yang Ye annexed Baigu, and remained unwilling to go to the decisive battle... The Northern Han court did not blame and urged him, and even many ministers made pragmatic suggestions. The Zhou army was coming in a fierce manner, and Yang Ye had few major generals and could not win; stationing troops in Baigu, can prevent enemy soldiers from hitting the capital from both sides of Longzhou and Liaozhou.
Longzhou was besieged and attacked by the Zhou army and asked for help many times.Liu Jun had no plan to retreat, so he hurriedly sent envoys to the Liao Kingdom to ask for help.
...The capital of Liao Kingdom is in Shangjing (probably located in the south of the Greater Xing'an Mountains, north of the Henghe River).Their troops sent to the Northern Han would not be as far away from Shangjing, but they had to go to Shangjing if they wanted to discuss sending troops.
The Liao Kingdom has been established for more than 50 years, and the existence of the Khitan forces in the Northeast cannot be ignored since the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Now, the Liao Kingdom is no longer a completely nomadic country. It is a semi-cultivation and semi-pardoned country. Even in Youyun, Bohai and other areas, farming is the main economic mode.
The capital Shangjing also showed this form very well.
Shangjing is not a place to build tents, it is indeed a city; it is divided into Imperial City and Seoul, with a circumference of more than ten miles, making it a big city.
Especially in Seoul in the south, there are settled craftsmen workshops and commercial areas, and porcelain can also be produced.
The main palace of the imperial palace is on a hill in the middle of the imperial city.But the place where the Northern Han envoys were received and settled was on the open ground north of the palace. There were many tents here, and the envoys lived in the tent.
The envoy did not see the Emperor of Liao during the day. No matter how anxious he was, he could only stay in the tent all day. He vaguely heard that the emperor was sleeping now!
So we cannot meet.
The envoy once heard in Jinyang that the Emperor of Liao was very cruel and had to have two things in his life, namely sleeping and killing!
However, drinking and hunting are also his hobbies.
This is just a rumor, but now it seems that it is most likely true.
The next morning, the envoy still did not see the emperor, but met the ministers sent by the Liao Kingdom in an official office.
There was no actual progress in the meeting this time. What he did was just submitting the national certificate. The officials said some clichés in the tone of the emperor's imperial edict. As for discussing sending troops to rescue, they could not give a reply on the spot... The situation was urgent, and the envoy did such a thing in just two days after going to Beijing.
However, doing real and practical things is not on the scene, but discussing them privately below.
This is the politics of the Central Plains dynasty. The Liao Kingdom was marked and characterized by tribal imprints, but due to long-term learning of the Central Plains official system, he was also infected with some habits.
The envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty wanted to bribe the prime minister of the Liao Kingdom with the money he brought, but the staff dissuaded him. The Northern Han Dynasty was equally important to the Liao Kingdom, and they would not sit idly by. If they were too humble, it would be inappropriate. However, the envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty was worried that the Liao Emperor was a foolish monarch, so he ignored the overall situation and decided to visit the prime minister to teach someone to help him speak.
The Emperor of Liao had known in private that the Zhou army had invaded the Northern Han Dynasty, before the arrival of the Northern Han envoy.
...The Liao Emperor Yelu Jing learned about this and reported it back from the Daliao Posthouse (embassy) stationed in Jinyang.
But Yelu Jing never paid attention to it... Jinyang's city is solid and will not be captured and destroyed so quickly, otherwise the Liao Kingdom would not be able to protect them; if the Liao Kingdom showed too urgent rescue, it would be difficult to control the country when it was diplomatic relations with the Northern Han Dynasty.
At this moment, Yelu Dilu reported to him to meet (Yang Gun, the Khitan general who reinforced the Northern Han Dynasty during the Battle of Gaoping).
Yelu Jing announced his visit.Yang Gun had just returned from Youzhou and looked tired, but as soon as he entered the palace, he was already afraid, so he immediately bowed in front of the tiger skin soft couch.
Seeing this, Yelu Jing sighed inwardly, thinking to himself, "Is I that scary?" He looks really fierce and fierce, with hard eyebrows and beard... According to the way the Khitans treat him, Yang Gun can be without kneeling and bowing with his hands on his chest; but he still gave a big gift.
This person is considered a general that Yelu Jing trusted more. Yelu Jing even sent him to Youzhou to visit Xiao Siwen, but he was still trembling in front of the emperor.
Yelu Jing said in his heart: No one can understand my difficulties.
Others are afraid of him, probably because he often kills people around him with his own hands, but Yelu Jing feels that he really has not killed people by randomly. He usually only kills two kinds of people, one is a noble who was demoted to a slave first, and the other is a person who has long wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of... Of course, sometimes he will cut off some irrelevant slaves.
However, he never killed a minister and nobleman with a little status for no reason, and he did not dare to do so.
But he is indeed cruel by nature and he is very happy to kill people!Just like drinking and hunting, getting drunk often is not all pretending, and it is also a hobby for a long time.
So people are afraid of him, which is also the situation he wants to see... Yelu Jing, the emperor, was not easy and his position was not very stable, which is also the essential reason for the turbulent and unstable situation in the Liao Kingdom for many years.
He wanted people to be afraid of him, otherwise he would have been killed long ago!
The current situation of the Liao Kingdom is very uneasy.
After Yelu Jing ascended the throne, the internal rebellion had already occurred three times, and it seemed that he had not stopped. As for the small rebellion and intention to rebel, even Yelu Jing himself could not remember it clearly. There were too many... In addition, the two tribes of Shiwei and Wugu, who had long been dependent in the Liao Dynasty, also betrayed the Liao Kingdom and were pacified by war.
Yelu Jing felt that this situation could not be blamed entirely on him, but everyone seemed to want to put all the blame on him!
The reason is that he is cruel... If he were not cruel, how many people would have wanted this throne and would have been killed long ago!
This made him very unhappy. He became even more angry when he thought that he would definitely take on the title of tyrant after his death.
But there was nothing we could do for a moment.
Why do so many people want this throne?
This goes back to when Emperor Taizong of Liao died, Emperor Shizong of Liao was supported by military generals (there was a Yizong between Emperor Taizong and Emperor Shizong, who was posthumously named, and he had never actually become an emperor)... This posthumous title of Emperor Shizong, so it was known that Emperor Shizong was not the son of Emperor Taizong; the empress dowager in the capital did not recognize this emperor at that time. She even wanted her son (the youngest son of Emperor Taizong) to be emperor, but the youngest son was not qualified enough, and he failed to win a battle. He reconciled under the persuasion of the nobles and recognized the throne of Emperor Shizong of Liao.
This laid the root of disaster for the later legitimacy of the throne.
However, after Emperor Taizong of Liao, several emperors of the Liao Kingdom could not suppress the great achievements and prestige of the tribes; so Abaoji's descendants all felt that they should be emperors, and even felt that the throne was theirs.
Emperor Shizong of Liao sat on the throne for three years, and the Fire God Dian Rebellion broke out. Emperor Shizong of Liao was cut off and killed by King Yelucha, and Cha made himself emperor; Emperor Taizong's son Yelujing killed Yelucha and ascended the throne and became emperor.
Does this throne belong to the Yi Sect, or the Tai Sect and Shi Sect?
(Yizong and Taizong are both sons of Abaoji, Taizu of Liao Kingdom.) Obviously, the descendants on both sides feel qualified and feel that they are well-off.
In just a few years, he changed the emperor three times through mutiny and assassination. The first two times did not last long, and several times he was killed before he became accused... Only Yelu Jing was still sitting in this position, although it was not so stable.
In this case, who can be at ease to be an emperor?Yelu Jing was actually very scared... Of course, he also made others very scared.
He is in a bad mood every day, and only after drinking a lot of wine can he feel the moment of joy.
Some people say that he is a tyrant, but he still has self-knowledge and admits his account; but if he is a tyrant, he doesn't want to admit that he is a tyrant. Can the tyrant sit in the emperor in such a situation?
If it was really that easy, Emperor Shizong of Liao was not too stupid and should not have been killed.
Recently, Yelu Jing has a headache. He found that the real danger may not only come from the Yelu family... because no matter who kills him, the essence remains unchanged after he takes up the throne and is still unstable.
But what if the Xiao family, which has always been a royal marriage and has been designated as the prime minister for a long time, is involved?
Yelu Jing is nervous every day and thinks a lot.
He even suspected that his reputation was so bad, which was Xiao's long-term strategy; Xiao wanted to put all the blame on him, and then came forward to support someone ascending the throne, trying to end the chaos of the throne dispute... But the prestige of the new king is also very important!
If Emperor Shizong of Liao had the prestige of becoming and prestige as Taizong, there might not be any subsequent chaos.
If Xiao really did that, Yelu Jing himself would become a scapegoat!So Yelu Jing sent Yang Gun to Youzhou for a while, just to observe Xiao Siwen's usual performance.