The court of the Song Dynasty was always paying attention to the situation in Northern Liao. When Yelu Yixin was forced to the verge of a dead end, most of the voices in the court were worried about Yelu Yixin.
As long as it doesn't happen in their own dynasty, everyone is happy to hear about civil strife. Sometimes they even take the side of the rebels.
It's not sympathy for the weak, it's purely a feeling of hatred of iron that cannot be transformed into steel...Why can't you expand the results of the victory?
During this period of time, the National Dynasty Arrival News also opened a special section to discuss the civil strife in Northern Liao.
There were those who specifically discussed the war situation, some who discussed the morality of Yelu Yixin's uprising, and some who even wrote articles analyzing the current situation of the Northern Liao court... After the court controlled public opinion, for the first time, the country had people discussing a matter.
With the opportunity of the imperial court, Bianliang, and even the entire country, local and state capitals burst out with quite high enthusiasm.
Zhao Xi has always paid attention to public opinion.
The reason why the imperial court did not openly support Yelu Yixin was mainly due to public opinion. It was a one-sided article to criticize Yelu Yixin's morality.
Only when analyzing the battle situation, the author showed some regret for Yelu Yixin's situation.
The Song Dynasty still hoped that the civil strife in Bei Liao would last longer, which fully demonstrated that the entire state still felt that it was difficult for the state to directly confront Bei Liao, so it hoped that the civil strife in Bei Liao would consume Bei Liao's strength.
"The official family, Yelu Yixin, has led his troops to retreat to Yongqing County. There are nearly 50,000 troops and nearly 100,000 family members..."
Yelu Yixin has been completely defeated. It took less than a year from the momentum when the uprising was like a rainbow to the end of the family. From the so-called 200,000-strong army at the time of the uprising, to now there are only less than 50,000 around them.
Die loyal.
Even with these 50,000 yuan, people’s hearts are probably agitated.
If these forces had not had old enemies or deep grudges in Bei Liao, and Bei Liao had no way to accept them, I am afraid that Yelu Yixin would have been left with his own tribe.
This is the fate of the rebels.
"Have you sent someone?"
"Well, I've sent someone to contact you."
"what for?"
"Yelu Yixin voluntarily disbanded his armor and only asked for acceptance from the country. Even if he became a civilian, he could even be given a place to live on the border..."
"Now the borderland?"
"Returning to the official home, the last time the country sent troops, they advanced nearly fifty miles to the north. The border troops did not completely withdraw, and they set up camp nearly fifty miles away from the border city, in order to prevent the chaos in Northern Liao from affecting the country. Moreover, the 100,000 cavalry heading north,
We have complied with the order and were divided into various armies to train the ability to coordinate operations on the plains."
In the imperial court, discussing the feelings of the former Privy Envoy of the King of Wei in Northern Liao Dynasty made the whole cabinet feel proud and proud.
Did the Song Dynasty ever have such a situation?
"How did the cabinet decide on this matter?"
Yelu Yixin's role in the Song Dynasty is really not of much use at this time. It is just a group of defeated troops. They probably have no desire to fight anymore. Now they just hope to survive.
Whether it's the Northern Liao Dynasty or the Song Dynasty, as long as they are given a place to stay, anything will happen.
Now they are just in decline. How can the Song Dynasty tolerate the Northern Liao Dynasty if the Northern Liao army does not take over the troops who have rebelled and harbored resentment?
However, these people are all battle-hardened defenders after all, and there are still three pounds of nails in the ruined ship. The country needs to think about how to make good use of these defeated troops.
As for giving Yelu Yixin and others a place to live, why? They are not related to each other. Regardless of whether the Song Dynasty is afraid of the Northern Liao Dynasty, there is no need to take the risk of hosting a group of rebels.
This risk is not only a risk to the Northern Liao court, but also a risk to this group of rebels themselves.
"The officials reported from Hebei Province that the envoys from the Northern Liao Dynasty have applied for entry. They should have arrived in the Zhending area by now, and Honglu Temple has sent envoys north to welcome them..."
Compared with Yelu Yixin, after all, Guochao and Bei Liao were two dynasties in contact, so they should pay more attention to Yelu Yixin than Yelu Yixin.
Although the Northern Liao envoys have not been treated as seriously as in previous years in recent years, the proper etiquette procedures have never been lost.
"Does the cabinet want to express its stance to the Northern Liao envoys to prevent Yelu Yixin from entering the country?"
Wang Anshi's answer was wrong, and Zhao Xi understood. Whether to accept Yelu Yixin was related to the entry of envoys from the Northern Liao Dynasty, which meant that he wanted to maintain normalized diplomatic relations with the Northern Liao Dynasty.
"Officials, ministers, etc. discussed that the imperial court will negotiate with Bei Liao on the current border line on the condition of accepting Yelu Yixin. The border line between Bei Liao and Guochao needs to be re-determined..."
Yelu Yixin promised to give away sixteen states, and the Northern Liao court would agree to return several states to Yelu Yixin? Zhao Xi felt that the cabinet ministers still thought too much.
Although the strength of the Northern Liao Dynasty was greatly reduced after the civil strife, it would never lower its head that had been raised for more than a hundred years until there was a large-scale war with the imperial court.
I'm afraid the Northern Liao court will not give in to the imperial court's threats...
The cabinet's judgment may not be accurate, but after all, it is a rare rise, and Zhao Xi does not want to attack it.
If you have enough time, you can give it a try.
"When can the auxiliary knights be activated for battle?"
Wang Anshi was stunned by the official's irrelevant questions.
"Back at the official home, after more than three months of intensive training, the auxiliary cavalry can be used at any time. However, this training time was in the winter when the war horses are fat, and a lot of war horses were wasted. Although the war horses are all brought by the cavalry, the imperial court...
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Zhang Dun quickly picked up the conversation. He and Wang Shao were responsible for this. Wang Shao had complained to him about the waste of war horses.
"The imperial court will give money to the war horses to compensate the cavalry soldiers. Is the imperial court's finances okay?"
"Back at the official residence, tens of thousands of war horses will not affect the imperial court's expenditure."
Now the imperial court has plenty of money. Two or three years ago, when the war with the Northern Liao Dynasty was agreed upon, the imperial court was already saving money and food for the war. Tens of thousands of war horses were really nothing.
Xue Xiang has such confidence, let alone tens of thousands of war horses, even if the war starts now and it lasts for three or two years, the court can still support it.
"In this case... then all the auxiliary cavalry will be put into combat formation. Moreover, I think that we can allow all the border troops of the country and the DPRK to assemble towards the border, including Lanzhou Road, Hexi Road, Hedong Road, etc. This must be done
Pressure across the board...”
"Official family······"
Wang Anshi was stunned and couldn't understand the official's purpose of doing this at this time...
"Prime Minister, the cabinet is considering redrawing the border line as a condition to negotiate with the Northern Liao court on whether to accept Yelv Yixin. I think that the Northern Liao court may not agree. In this case, the court will make a move to suppress the border with a large army to force
Beiliao accept it."
"However, I think there is one thing that requires the cabinet to make preparations as soon as possible. The Yelu Yixin rebels will definitely not be accepted by the country. But, what about those family members?"
"For the Northern Liao court, those people are the family members of the rebels, but for our Song Dynasty, those people are just civilians who want to enter the dynasty. According to the contract and regulations with the Northern Liao Dynasty, there is no reason for the court not to accept it, right?"