Chapter 87: The Dream of the Khitans
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In early August, the negotiations between Li Hu and Zong Han were once again at a deadlock.
Huanglongfu sent a letter to reject Zong Han's memorial and could negotiate peace with Li Hu, but he could never exchange collapsed ridges in Shandong. Huanglongfu suggested that Zong Han take advantage of the eagerness of the Khitans to restore the country and provoke conflicts between the Khitans and Li Hu. As long as the Khitans and Li Hu turned against each other, the situation in the north would be in chaos, and the chaos in the northern situation would be beneficial to the Jin Kingdom.
Zong Han felt amused and laughed when he received this imperial edict. He didn't know what kind of analysis and judgment the situation in the world today, but obviously Huanglong Mansion was completely unaware that the demise of the Western Xia had completely changed the pattern of three-part division of the world. Li Hu's strength is different now. As long as he is given a few more years of development, the strength of the Tiger Lie Army will exceed that of the Jin army, and the national strength of the Chang'an court is far from comparable to that of the Jin Kingdom. The strength of both sides has increased and decreased, and the situation is very unfavorable to the Jin Kingdom. This is also an important reason why Zong Han immediately changed the national policy and planned to re-implement the unified strategy of "first north and then south".
Since the Jin Kingdom was powerless to prevent Li Hu from unifying Zhongtu in the next few years, he could only conquer the desert before him, or use force to force the desert to form a solid alliance. Once a confrontation between the north and the south appears, the desert to the desert can no longer fight against Zhongtu by relying on its own strength. The Jin Kingdom was close to conquering the desert. Huanglong Mansion could not understand such a simple truth, but instead stubbornly focused on Zhongtu and tried to maintain the three sides of the world. This was too confident and too despised Li Hu.
Zong Han had no choice but to write to Huanglong Mansion and tried his best to persuade him. However, considering the situation in Huanglong Mansion, Zong Han asked Yang Pu to hurry back to Huanglong Mansion and inform him of his analysis and judgment of the situation in detail.
"After the end of the Western Expedition, Li Hu stayed in Daibei and made the decision to help the Khitans restore the country. He also gave a series of promises to the Desert Bodhi at all costs and recklessly to promote an alliance between the two sides. All of this he did was to use the power of the Khitans and the Desert Bodhi to drag the Jin army to the north so that its main force could carry out a war to unify Zhongtu."
"From this, we can speculate that once the northern border of our Great Jin Kingdom is in urgent need of emergency, we must transfer troops from Hebei and Shandong to help the army back to aid. At that time, will our Great Jin army still have the ability to help the Southeast Song army restrain the Tiger and Martyrs in the Central Plains?"
"The Southeast Song army lost our support. Can they resist Li Hu's attack? Obviously it is impossible. When we attacked Middle Earth, we were unstoppable. Now the court of the Southeast Song Dynasty is still the same group, but the elite Northwest Army in its army surrendered to Li Hu. It can be imagined that this is a battle with great strength, and the Southeast Song army is not the opponent of the Tiger and Li Wei Army at all."
"If Li Hu defeated the Southeast Song army, he would definitely attack Shandong, Hebei, and Youyan next. Just imagine, we have the invasion of the Khitans and the desert in the north, and there are lions like Li Hu in the south. We are attacked by both sides and fighting on both sides, can we still maintain our existing territory?"
"Since we know that we can't protect Shandong and Hebei, it's better to give these places to Li Hu now. The two sides have agreed to form an alliance. Our Jin Kingdom supports him to attack the Southeast Song army. He helps us conquer the desert, unify the entire north and take what we need. In this way, the world will be confronted by the north and the south, and our Jin Kingdom can still dominate the grassland and form a confrontation with Middle-earth."
"The Khitans were unable to conquer Central Earth when they were at their peak. The Khitans also conquered Hebei, but in the end the Khitans formed a Chanyuan alliance with the Song people. The two sides confronted each other north and south, winning a hundred years of peace and development."
"Comparing the situation back then, the north and Middle-earth were just reversed. The north was already unified, while Middle-earth was still in a split and melee. Now, on the contrary, the north was divided and melee, and Middle-earth had already shown signs of unification. In this case, what choice should our Great Jin Kingdom make is clear at a glance."
Zong Han's words successfully convinced Yang Pu, but Yang Pu did not have the confidence to convince Wu Qimai, Wanyan Gao, Wanyan Zonggan and others, because the first thing Huanglong Mansion is to consider is the unity of supreme power, which is the top priority for whether the Great Jin Kingdom can maintain it for a long time. Zong Han is the biggest obstacle to the unification of the highest power of the Jin Kingdom. If Zong Han is not eliminated, Wu Qimai's dormitory will be uneasy and cannot sleep day and night.
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Li Hu received news that the Central Plains War had begun as early as late July, which forced him to speed up the negotiations to promote the restoration of the Khitans and the alliance between the Middle Land and the desert. Thus, he used the foreigners to control the foreigners, posed a powerful threat to the Jurchens, and forced the main force of the Jin army to withdraw from Shandong and Hebei and then complete the unification war.
However, the letter from Huanglong Mansion gave Zong Han a heavy blow, which forced Li Hu to quickly implement his northern strategy.
Li Hu thought about it again and again and decided to let the Khitans restore the country immediately.
The conditions for the Khitans to restore the country were basically ripe. Now Li Hu has entered Central Earth. The power center has moved to Chang'an, and the status of Hu Lie Mansion has been reduced. The original official offices on the north and south sides and most of the foreign officials can be directly converted into the institutions and officials of the newly established Central Government of the Liao Kingdom. The most troublesome problem now is that there is no emperor.
Yelu Mage was very loyal to Yelu Yanxi. He asked the new emperor to be inherited by the prince of Yelu Yanxi. Li Hu knew his intentions, so he consciously selected the emperor as Yelu Xi Nilie. However, now that Huanglongfu and Zonghan's opinions are on the left, Li Hu and Jin Kingdom cannot continue, so the redemption of Yelu Xi Nilie is still unresolved.
Li Hu went to visit Yelu Mage in person, hoping that the New Liao Kingdom could complete the alliance before the Heishui River Desert in September, which would help establish the alliance.
"I'm more anxious than you." Yelu Ma Ge said with a wry smile, "But there is no emperor now, how can I rebuild the Great Liao?"
"It's not that the emperor has no, but you are unwilling to admit it." Li Hu said with a smile.
Yelu Ma Ge's face changed slightly and he became silent.
At the last moment of the fall of the Great Liao Kingdom, it was split. One was Yelu Yanxi's Northern Palace Treasure, and the other was Yelu Chun's Yanjing Palace Treasure. Shortly after Yelu Chun's death, the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty failed. Li Hu took the opportunity to enter Yanjing. The descendants of Yelu Chun were immediately captured by Li Hu to Datong. Some of these people now went to Chang'an with Li Hu's wife Yelu Mingyue, while others stayed in Hulie Mansion in Taiyuan.
"If you agree, choose one of these people to be the emperor." Li Hu said.
Li Hu said this very easily, but it was very harsh to Yelu Mage's ears. Li Hu was Yelu Chun's son-in-law. He chose an emperor from Yelu Chun's descendants. You can imagine how much influence Li Hu had on the New Liao Kingdom.
Does Yelu Ma Ge have any choice? No, he must accept it. Li Hu has already worked hard, but the Jin Kingdom obviously will not let the Khitans restore the country. They will try every means to stop it. In the end, Yelu Yanxi's descendants are likely to die and not even survive. In the end, Yelu Chun's descendants will become the emperor.
"You come to be the Regent." Li Hu made a suggestion, "This emperor should not be too young, too young to quickly establish his prestige, but he should not be too big. If he is too big, he will easily fight for power and profit and miss major events. Therefore, I think Yelu Longqing, the three grandsons of the late emperor, is more suitable."
Yelu Longqing is seventeen years old this year. He is handsome, gentle, humble and polite, and has a wise and talented man. He joined the army last year and served under Yelu Mage and followed Yelu Mage to participate in the Western Expedition. Yelu Mage likes him very much, and Yelu Longqing treats him with the courtesy of his teacher. The relationship between the two is very good.
Yelu Ma Ge looked at Li Hu in surprise. He never expected that Li Hu would push Yelu Longqing to the throne of the emperor. This at least shows that Li Hu did have sincerity to help the Khitans restore the country, rather than purely using it.
"Okay, that's it." Yelu Ma Ge was worried that Li Hu would regret it, so he immediately slapped Li Hu in a high-high manner.
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Yelu Mage immediately summoned civil and military officials from the Khitan Palace to discuss the establishment of the country. At this discussion, he announced the candidate for the new emperor.
This candidate did not receive everyone's response. Yelu Chun's founding of the country in Yanjing was actually usurpation, and no one could refuse to admit it. Therefore, the Liao officials loyal to Yelu Yanxi all believed that the blame for the overturn of the country should be borne by Yelu Chun. In their eyes, Yelu Chun's usurpation at the most critical moment had a much greater harm to the Liao Dynasty's destiny than Yelu Yuk's betrayal. Therefore, when they heard that the candidate for the new emperor was a descendant of Yelu Chun, their enthusiasm for restoring the country was immediately reduced. Is this the Liao Dynasty in Yelu Yanxi or the Liao Dynasty in Yelu Chun?
Xiao Delidi, Xiao Monknu, Xiao Temo and others all served in Yelu Chun's Yanjing Palace. They supported it very much and took it for granted. If Li Hu insisted on redeeming Yelu Xi Nilie to the most emperor, that would be an abnormal behavior. Li Hu had no relationship with Yelu Xi Nilie. In the future, Li Hu would not like him and could destroy him and the Great Liao.
Yelu Longqing is Yelu Chun's grandson, and his relationship with Li Hu is extraordinary. Although this helps Li Hu control the Great Liao, the Great Liao can also use this relationship to gain absolute support from Li Hu, and the Great Liao Dynasty may continue to last. This is the most important thing.
Another advantageous factor in Yelu Longqing becoming the emperor is that it can effectively alleviate the conflict between Yelu Mage and Yelu Dashi. Yelu Chun as the emperor, Yelu Dashi not only supported him, but also made great efforts, so Yelu Dashi was also a rebellion of the Liao Dynasty, and Yelu Mage has always been resentful of this.
If Yelu Xi Nilie was the emperor, it is hard to say whether Yelu Dashi would come back in the end. After all, the overturn of the country was related to Yelu Chun’s usurpation. As Yelu Chun’s confidant subordinate, Yelu Dashi would have to bear great guilt for this. In the future, Yelu Xi Nilie can still tolerate him?
Yelu Longqing became the emperor, and Yelu Dashi had no worries. On the contrary, he would take the initiative to show kindness to Yelu Mage so that he could work together to assist the new emperor.
The candidate for this emperor is very good, and it is the most suitable for both the Khitans and Li Hu.
On August 14, Yelu Longqing ascended the throne in Jinhe Mountain and rebuilt the Great Liao Dynasty.
Chapter completed!