Chapter 1825 The Han people in the north are different from the Song Dynasty
In addition to Liu Yanzong, among the few people who were brought into the government office, there was also the leader of the troops who originally focused on recruiting the Han army in the southwestern part of the Liao Kingdom, but followed Wanyan Nianhan and Yin Shuke's command to invade the Song Dynasty's west road.
The army went out to fight, but they also captured Guo Qizhong, a former Han official of the Liao Dynasty, during the Xiaotang campaign to aid Hedong Taiyuan. Including Liu Yanzong and Guo Qizhong, the identities of the people brought there almost had some similarities:
They were all former officials of the Liao Dynasty, but they all surrendered to the Jin Kingdom when the country fell.
Originally, most of the generals of the Jin Kingdom who fell into the hands of Xiao Tang would not escape death. Only Wan Yanchang, Ta Lai, Wu Da Lin, Shi Tu Hei and other Jurchen ministers who allowed them to return to the court would most likely be killed.
After being used, they were deliberately released back. As for the Han generals like Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong, etc. who experienced the Liao and Jin dynasties, after they were captured, Xiao Tang would neither kill nor release them, but would recruit Xuan to greet him when he had free time.
He said that he treated these captured Han officials of the Jin Kingdom as courtesy, and they never lacked food and clothing. He only asked the capable sergeants of each team to control and take these Han officials of the Jin Kingdom into custody. During the period, they would follow the army to and from the expedition. There were many brothers around who looked at them.
I am not afraid that they will have any chance of escaping if they grow wings.
There was no sign of Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and others from the Jin Dynasty court. Zhemo had long thought that they had all died in the rebellion, but he didn't know that Xiao Tang had detained them and imprisoned them to this day just to be able to
Win the hearts and minds of the people of Yanyun in one fell swoop.
Han Chinese born in Liao such as Liu Yanzong and Guo Qizhong, although they had joined the Jin Kingdom as officials when the Liao Dynasty fell, and had even been ordered to lead their troops to invade the Song Dynasty from the south, they still fought with Liu Yu, Chen Xizhen, and Li Cheng
, Kong Yanzhou and other traitors who were originally from the Song Dynasty but betrayed their country for glory and helped foreign invaders to do evil and seek glory and wealth cannot be compared. If Xiao Tang encountered the latter type of traitor, of course he would kill each one without mercy.
But although they are all Han family members, at least in this era, the motherland of these two groups is completely different.
For example, Liu Yanzong was originally the descendant of Liu Kuang, the military governor of Lulong in the Tang Dynasty. Guo Qizhong even helped Zuo of the Tang Dynasty in times of crisis. They were also the descendants of Guo Ziyi, the prince of Fenyang County, one of the most admired heroes in the history of Xiaotang in China. They are regarded as
The representative ancestors of the Han generals in the North were all ministers of the Liao Dynasty for several generations. Guo Qizhong's ancestor Guo Chengxun surrendered to the Liao Kingdom during the demise of the Tang Dynasty, and his descendants inherited the title of Tiande Army Jiedu Envoy. At that time, Zhou Li was the founding ancestor of the Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kuangyin Zha Mo Shang is just a doll wearing crotchless pants. At this historical stage, the Han people in Liao and the Song Dynasty are certainly connected by blood, but for this reason, it must be concluded that Liu Yanzong and other generations of Han people who were born in the Liao will have a negative attitude toward the Song Dynasty.
The country has a feeling of belonging to its homeland.
Not to mention the turmoil at the end of the Liao Dynasty. Of course, there were also Liao people from the Han family in the north, such as Zhao Liangsi and Zhang Jue, who tended to submit to the Song Dynasty, which was also mainly Han family. But for the Han people in Liao, down to the common people, the Song Dynasty
The imperial court first joined forces with the Liao Dynasty to destroy the Jin army. Once they captured Yanjing, they burned, killed, and looted, which aroused the indignation and resistance of the Han people in Liao. The Song court official Du Chong, who had long died in the hands of Xiao and Tang Dynasty, was among the Jin people.
When the Liao Dynasty was invaded by the Song Dynasty, all the Han refugees from the Liao Dynasty, men, women, old and young, who had fled from Yan to Hebei were massacred and other bloody massacres were committed. Up to the scholars and officials, Zhang Jue, who had surrendered to the Southern Dynasty, was beheaded by the Song Dynasty.
In order to appease the angry Jurchen Jin Kingdom, Zhao Liangsi, the instigator of the alliance with the Jin Dynasty to conquer the Liao Dynasty, was executed by the Song court and his head was beheaded... In this current situation, he still had to teach the Han people in the north and also speak to the Song Dynasty.
What kind of blood ties? I'm afraid they will only be full of resentment and hatred towards the imperial court in the south. And when the fall of the Liao Dynasty is a foregone conclusion, the vast majority of Liao Han children have only one way to go, which is to surrender.
Only in the Jurchen Golden Kingdom can we preserve the family and the inheritance of our ancestors.
I believe that people like Liu Yanzong and Guo Qizhong, who had been officials of the Liao Dynasty for half their lives, were born for the Song Dynasty, which broke the alliance and conquered the Liao Dynasty, and died for the weak and incompetent Song Dynasty of the Jin Kingdom. If you guys are enemies of the Song Dynasty, you are traitors.
The rhetoric of running dogs is too far-fetched.
For Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and others, the attitude towards the Song Dynasty was generally the same. After they were defeated and captured, they were first angry that Xiao Tang refused to kill or let go, and they protested angrily, but they did not do anything yet.
Among the ministers of the Jin Dynasty who had been in the Jin Dynasty for several years, there was no one who planned to kill himself and repay the Jin Dynasty court. Fortunately, Xiao Tang treated a few of his own people kindly. Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and other captured generals had to wait and see what would happen, and these
Over time, everyone has seen Xiao Tang's army achieve great victories again and again. Now they don't even bother to openly break with the Song Dynasty. They have marched into the Jin Kingdom and are invincible. They even seem to have some control over the Jin people.
Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and others were shocked by the threat of national subjugation, but their minds were slowly changing. To this day, they have almost all concluded that if they want to protect their family inheritance, they, the Han people in Liao, especially the scholar-bureaucrats, must
In order to survive, the group had to change its doors again.
After a period of careful consideration, Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and other captured Jin Han officials have made up their mind that if Xiao Tang has invaded the Yanyun land, they will accept surrender, and the condition for begging Xiao Tang is to maintain themselves
The foundation built by his family for several generations in the Liao region has maintained the stability of the people's livelihood in the Yanyun region. What Liu Yanzong and others can do is to personally appease the remaining Han officials who have surrendered to the Jin Kingdom, and then sort out the people's livelihood and take care of it.
Local government affairs. In fact, the reason why Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and other Han ministers of the Jin Dynasty were ordered to lead the Northern Han army to invade the Song Dynasty was to lead the troops to fight. The Jin Dynasty Wu begged the emperor to mostly use them to conquer the conquered Song Dynasty as soon as possible.
The people on the land return to their hearts. In short, what did the Jurchen Jin people need from the Liao Dynasty surrender ministers who were good at governing the country? Now Xiao Tang turned around and wanted to annex the Jin Kingdom. What did the Jurchen Jin people need Liu Yanzong and others to do?
Same thing.
When I saw Yelu Yu and I bumped into each other in the palace hall, we stared at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and we were even more emotional. They were originally ministers of the Liao Kingdom, but Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and others still managed to survive until the eve of the complete collapse of the Liao Dynasty.
Only then did he return to the Jin Dynasty, but he and Yelu Yujian experienced the Liao Dynasty together. After the Jin Dynasty, they surrendered to the Xiaotang Dynasty. Neither of them could laugh at each other, who repeatedly surrendered and changed hands. Xiaotang Jian, Liu Yanzong, and Yelu Yujian
There was still a bit of embarrassment in the narrative, so he immediately added: "Xiangong Liu, Xianggong Guo, General Yelu and so on are all talented and heroic people. They should have achieved success and fame. However, it was difficult to save the Liao Dynasty from falling, so they had no choice but to surrender."
Jin people. Nowadays, the Jin Kingdom is doing many unjust things and is prosperous and declining. Xiao followed the trend and marched north to Yanyun. He is thirsty for talents and it is the right time to employ people. And your talents are different from those of the people in the north.
Wang, I have always admired you very much, so I treat you with sincerity. Fortunately, General Yelu also came to help Xiang, and Xianggong Liu, Xianggong Guo and all of you must have made up your mind now, right?"
At this point, these surrendered ministers of the Liao Dynasty who had surrendered to the Jin Kingdom but were forced by the situation also knew that they had no other way to go. Liu Yanzong sighed, took the lead to bow down, and said respectfully:
"I also appreciate the compliment. We...are willing to surrender to Commander Xiao and work hard for Commander Xiao to recruit the officials and gentlemen of Yanyun. We have received the courtesy and support of Commander Xiao for not killing him."
Well, I will work for a small official in the government office, and I don’t dare to neglect you at all!"
After Liu Yanzong, Guo Qizhong and others also expressed their gratitude one after another. Xiao Tang also treated them with courtesy. He stepped forward to support these northern Han ministers who had made up their mind to submit and surrender, and then comforted Liu Yanzong and said: "Mr. Liu has great ambitions."
Why should you be so humble when you are so talented? When I heard that Aguda, the leader of the Jin Dynasty, summoned Xie, he entrusted him with important responsibilities. Even in the Liao Dynasty, Nanjing, Zhongjing Road and Xiazhou County civil affairs were all entrusted to Xie for adjudication and the rule of law.
Everything is also taken care of in an orderly manner. And since Aguda died, the Jin people are destined to suffer the consequences... Since Aguda has the ability to recognize people, how could Xiao underestimate the talent and teach Liu Xianggong
, a person like Mr. Guo is so embarrassed?"
This is not because Xiao Tang deliberately used good words to praise Liu Yanzong and others. Indeed, according to his thinking, the Han people in Liao Dynasty represented by these people had no idea whether they could establish a peaceful country, even if they sacrificed their lives and forgot about it.
Compared with the Juyi brothers who fight fiercely on the battlefield, they will even play an indispensable and huge role.