Zhao Yanshou was in action. He found Li Song, the privy envoy, and asked him to advise Yelu Deguang and make him the prince.
Ugh! The reason why he had such outrageous thoughts was because Zhao Yanshou had already lost anesthesia.
Before Zhao Dejun, Zhao Yanshou and his son returned to the Khitan, they were already great warlords entrenched in Youzhou. They were surrounded by thousands of soldiers and generals from the Lulong Army, and their strength was not weak.
Later, in a shameless competition with Shi Jingtang, Zhao Dejun missed a move and was defeated.
This is not because Zhao Dejun is not shameless, but because he is bound by reality.
Because according to seniority, Shi Jingtang is indeed Yelu Deguang's nephew, but Zhao Dejun is Yelu Deguang's equal.
Shi Jingtang could shamelessly call Yelu Deguang, who was more than ten years younger than him, his father, but Zhao Dejun really couldn't do it, so he finally died in depression on the grassland outside the Great Wall.
However, after Zhao Dejun died, there were still thousands of Lu Long Army soldiers. In order to find a way to survive in Khitan, they chose to continue to follow Zhao Yanshou.
Yelu Deguang also needed people like Zhao Yanshou to help him stabilize the situation in Youzhou. In addition, Zhao Yanshou was handsome and good at getting things done, so he named Zhao Yanshou King of Yan and became increasingly close to him.
When Shi Chonggui turned against the Khitan, Zhao Yanshou had hopes in his heart. He hoped that like Shi Jingtang, he would be canonized as the Emperor of the Central Plains by Yelu Deguang. The Lu Long Army who followed him also had this goal.
Therefore, during the three Khitan expeditions south, especially the first two, Zhao Yanshou's Lulong Army was at the forefront each time and suffered greater losses than the average Khitan people.
Yelu Deguang also promised to make Zhao Yanshou the emperor after entering the Central Plains, but now, the emperor Yelu Deguang has done it himself.
Zhao Yanshou lost his troops and gained nothing, and the people below could no longer suppress him.
Behind the thousands of soldiers of the Lulong Army were thousands of families. Every family wore mourning and mourned, but they received nothing and were very resentful.
If Zhao Yanshou cannot obtain the position of Emperor of the Central Plains, he will not have enough benefits to appease them.
Then you don't need anyone else, just these tooth soldiers and tooth generals, you can deal with Zhao Yanshou.
You must know that the Lulong Army was also a fifth-generation fang soldier, and they also had a tradition of killing Jiedu envoys, so Zhao Yanshou had no choice but to be shameless to the end.
He didn't really want to be the prince of Yelu Deguang, because that was impossible.
He was expressing his position by actively asking to be the son of Yelu Deguang, hoping that Yelu Deguang could entrust him with all the military and state affairs of the Southern Dynasties, and he could become the emperor of the Central Plains.
It makes sense for Zhao Yanshou to seek out Li Song.
Because at that time, tens of thousands of soldiers from the Later Jin Dynasty followed the Khitans south, and the Khitans themselves did not have much food. Naturally, they did not have much food for the soldiers who surrendered from the Later Jin Dynasty. Most of the surrender soldiers followed them southward in a state of semi-starvation.
When crossing the Yellow River, Yelu Deguang saw tens of thousands of Jin soldiers, stretching for miles, and there were many complaints.
He was afraid that these generals would rebel, so he even wanted to drown all these later Jin generals in the Yellow River.
In the end, it was Zhao Yanshou's persuasion that prevented Yelu Deguang from doing this old thing.
Although Zhao Yanshou's original intention was to regard these surrendered soldiers from the later Jin Dynasty as his troops, and wanted to show kindness to them and gain their support.
But objectively, Zhao Yanshou still saved the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Li Song was the privy envoy at that time, and his nephew was in the army, so Li Song owed Zhao Yanshou a favor, so he had no choice but to go and help explain the situation in front of Yelu Deguang.
Zhao Kuangzan looked at his father Zhao Yanshou's magical skills with cold eyes, and couldn't help but speak.
"Your Excellency, the living Han army is tens of thousands, and you have great kindness. But because of this, the emperor is even more wary of you.
Now that my father has asked the Privy Council to persuade him, wouldn't it just add fuel to the fire and make the emperor even more fearful?"
How could Zhao Yanshou believe it? Woohoo! How could I, Lord Khitan, guard against me, a die-hard leader who is determined to be a traitor?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
So Zhao Yanshou glared at Zhao Kuangzan, feeling that this son was making him more and more uncomfortable, so he scolded him coldly.
"How do you know, Mr. Shu? Your Majesty, a wise master with great magnanimity, how can you be suspicious of a certain family?"
However, it turned out that what Zhao Kuangzan said was more reasonable. After hearing Li Song's advice, Yelu Deguang immediately showed a smile on his face, and Li Song's back was covered with cold sweat.
Seeing that Li Song knew how powerful he was, Yelu Deguang smiled and said, "I will not hesitate to cut my flesh on King Yan, but the crown prince must be the son of the emperor, so how can King Yan do it?"
Haha! When an emperor who claims to be wise says, "I won't hesitate to cut my muscles," that's really not a sign of respect.
At least Li Song could hear the strong smell of blood in Yelu Deguang's mouth.
This old man was afraid of implicating himself, and felt that it would be difficult to explain to Zhao Yanshou when he returned to Zhao Yanshou like this. In desperation, he thought of a good way to get out of danger, and said sternly to Yelv Deguang.
"What King Yan wants is not what one person wants. Moreover, today, Hedong has not yet come to court, and there is no news from the various commanders in Guanzhong. I hope the emperor will be careful."
When Yelu Deguang heard this, he immediately put away his smiling expression, because Li Song's words were not what a lobbyist from Zhao Yanshou would say, but what a privy envoy should say.
Liu Zhiyuan from Hedong had always had an ambiguous attitude. He said he would send someone to meet him, but he never saw the Hedong envoy arrive.
As for the lack of news from the various commanders in Guanzhong, it is even more frightening, because behind their collective lack of news is Yelu Deguang's sworn brother, the King of Great Liang in Hexi, who may have made some moves.
Yelu Deguang immersed himself in thinking for a while. He found out that all the former commanders of various towns in the Jin Kingdom were under his de facto house arrest, and they had long complained about it.
Tens of thousands of Han troops around Kaifeng Prefecture lived in poverty and harbored resentments. They had long regarded Zhao Yanshou as their hope, who had saved their lives.
If Yelv Deguang didn't show any sympathy to Zhao Yanshou at this moment and cut off their thoughts, then unless these tens of thousands of Han troops were killed immediately, they would have to beware of mutiny.
Politically speaking, Brother Guang was very qualified, so he immediately summoned Tongping Zhangshi Zhang Li.
Zhang Li was originally the secretary-general of Zhao Yanshou's father, Zhao Dejun, and returned to the Khitan together with Zhao Yanshou. Before Yelu Deguang went south, he had already served as the Hanlin Emperor and Minister of the Ministry of Personnel of the Liao Kingdom.
Yelu Deguang asked Zhang Li to draft a decree to canonize Zhao Yanshou. The prince could not give it, but he could continue to increase his position to appease him, but Zhang Li said to Yelu Deguang.
"Now that the Liao Dynasty has just conquered China, it should be governed by Chinese people. It is not allowed to exclusively use Chinese people and influence recent customs. If the government orders are erroneous, people will not accept it, and even if they gain something, they will lose it."
Yelu Deguang was silent after hearing this. He didn't know that he shouldn't detain the towns, and he even knew that he shouldn't let Xiao Han and other Khitan people go around ploughing.
But it was really because the army had no food and grass, and the Khitan soldiers and generals were not fed, and they could not convince the people, so they had no choice but to indulge. It was not yet time to stop threshing grass and grain.
So after a while, Yelu Deguang said to Zhang Li: "You go and draw up the decree. I have my own thoughts on this matter."
Zhang Li sighed deeply and had no choice but to retreat and draft the order.
Not long after, Zhang Li drafted an edict and sent it to Yelu Deguang, planning to move Zhao Yanshou to stay in the capital, prime minister, record ministerial affairs, and supervise all Chinese and foreign military affairs.
Good guy, I just saw Yelu Deguang’s eyelids twitching. If Yelu Deguang didn’t know Zhang Li’s character, he would have suspected that he was colluding with Zhao Yanshou.
After thinking and thinking for a long time, Yelu Deguang took up his pen and painted out the words "Commander of Chinese and Foreign Military Affairs".
For Brother Guang, this was a huge concession. Historically, he had also obliterated the matter of recording ministers.
The next day, Zhao Yanshou was canonized by Yelu Deguang and was immediately overjoyed.
Although he lacked the title of Commander-in-Chief of Chinese and Foreign Military Affairs, after receiving this canonization, Zhao Yanshou became the first among the Han people in the Liao Kingdom.
It’s hot in Tokyo and summer is coming. Sooner or later the emperor will have to go north to enjoy the cool weather. Then isn’t he the actual controller of the Southern Dynasties? By then, hehe...
The proud Zhao Yanshou was showing off everywhere, while Zhao Kuangzan frowned and said to Zhao Xian beside him.
"The Khitan Lord rewarded you so generously. I am afraid that he has become suspicious of your second brother, so he must send a letter immediately to ask your second brother to lead the army to the east. He cannot wait for the Khitan people to complete their arrangements."
This second brother does not mean second brother in later generations. Brother at this time can mean elder brother or father. Generally speaking, it is an honorific title for older close relatives.
Well. Although they haven't gotten married yet, Zhao Kuangzan has already begun to regard himself as his son-in-law.
On the tenth day of April, Du Chongwei and Li Shouzhen, who had been scolded by Tokyoites as "little grandsons" and had gained nothing from selling their country, found Yelu Deguang and begged Brother Guang.
"I have sent one hundred thousand Han troops to surrender to the emperor, and they have done great service, but now I have to pay tribute to you. I am really unwilling to do so."
Then Yelu Deguang laughed loudly and said to these two shameless people: "You two have made great contributions, so I will spare you the 20 million yuan in congratulatory money to reward you for your contribution."
This is the treatment that lackeys and traitors deserve after they have been drained of their usefulness and become disposable consumables.
His two dozen Yelv Deguang transformed into a donkey cart and the God of War. The fleeing Hundred Battles Division returned and surrendered. The reward they received was that each of them was spared 10 million yuan, that is, 10,000 guan of extortion.
On April 15th, after Xiao Han and others plowed the grass in the valley, they returned to Tokyo with hundreds of gold, silver, brocade and silk women in carts. The area around Tokyo was almost in ruins.
Later, Xiao Han heard that Shi Chonggui's newly built Zide Palace had a fifty-year-old man who was beautiful and good at singing and dancing, so he immediately led his troops to seize it.
Zhang Huan, the eunuch guarding the Zide Palace, refused to give it to him. Xiao Han personally burned Zhang Huan's abdomen with a hot iron. Zhang Huan's intestines pierced his belly and died. Shi Chonggui expropriated and built the Zide Palace, and everything from the maids to the treasures belonged to the Khitans.
Xiao Han even set a fire in Zide Palace. The fire spread to nearby residences, burning more than 200 houses and killing more than 100 people.
At the end of April, Yelv Deguang took the traitors Geng Chongmei, Gao Tangying, and Cui Tingxun who had gone south with the Liao Kingdom as his envoys, and once again led the Khitan people to the various states to clear grass and valleys in order to collect enough food for the army for three months.
Because news that Zhang Zhao had entered Guanzhong finally began to spread.
