This letter can reveal Yelu Yixin’s emotions in his last moments.
It has the feelings of the Northern Liao and Wei kings, and also the understanding of Yelu Yixin as a person. Unfortunately, he still lived in his own world and did not wake up until his death.
The letters expressed a lot of confusion, maybe a little bit of anger, annoyance, guilt, and unwillingness.
Even with deep dissatisfaction with the Song Dynasty, as well as his pride in guessing the Song Dynasty court...
He really does not lose his true qualities as a hero.
"Guan family, will you send troops?"
Wang Anshi also had to admit that Yelu Yixin guessed correctly. The Song Dynasty really wanted to send troops to the Northern Expedition at the moment Yelu Yixin's rebels were annihilated.
This is understandable.
The cabinet has discussed it and also communicated with officials.
The difficulty of going north to fight the Northern Liao Dynasty was that the Northern Liao cavalry changed the previous practice of arraying and attacking, and followed Yelu Yixin's example, breaking it into parts and adopting what officials called guerrilla warfare.
If that were the case, it would be relatively troublesome for the state and the DPRK to deal with it. Unlike the battle between the chariot formation and the Northern Liao cavalry, the Fan cavalry had no absolute advantage.
The time for the Guo Dynasty to go to war was when the Northern Liao court was annihilating the Yelu Yixin rebels, because at that time, the Northern Liao court considered itself the most invincible.
After two tentative attacks by the Song Dynasty court, it also gave the Northern Liao court the impression that the Song Dynasty's combat power was no more than this.
The most important point is that Bei Liao has been in civil strife for one year and Yelu Yixin has been causing trouble for more than half a year. The wars in the past two years will consume Bei Liao's war horse reserves to a certain extent and even make Bei Liao's war horses stretched thin.
According to the analysis of most generals, the soldiers at this time are the most violent, and even a camp roar is possible, let alone fighting?
Only by fighting at this time can all the main combat forces of Bei Liao be drawn to Hebei Road, and they can fight the Song Dynasty head-on in an upright and upright manner.
Yelu Yixin guessed correctly. Wang Anshi was uncomfortable, and probably the entire cabinet was uncomfortable.
After planning for so long, everything between the officials and the cabinet was acted out very realistically, including the different opinions on sending troops twice and the turbulence of public opinion this time.
But it turned out to be understood by a rebellious minister, which was really uncomfortable.
“Let’s build momentum!”
"Building momentum?"
"Yes! The imperial court wants to stir up public opinion throughout the country to prepare for sending troops to the Northern Expedition, and create a momentum to send a large number of troops to the north."
Wang Anshi was a little confused by what the officials said. The imperial court was planning to send troops. Everyone knew that once the Northern Liao imperial court decided to encircle and suppress the troops, it would be difficult for Yelu Yixin's rebels to survive.
The opportunity is now. Now that the officials are talking about building momentum and making a move towards the north, is it possible that they are not ready to send troops yet?
"Officials, how to build momentum? What is the purpose?"
"The so-called momentum is naturally based on momentum, not on facts. The Northern Liao court encircled and suppressed Yelu Yixin's rebels. Now the country should also be aware of it, so the court will publicize such a thing widely.
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"At the same time, I thought that I could select some of the sincere letters from the rebels' families and make them public. I received the favor of the country and my heart was for the country, so I naturally wanted to persuade the rebels to join the country. However, the journey was long, and they were blocked by the Northern Liao Dynasty.
It is really difficult to go south and submit to the Song Dynasty without encirclement, suppression and obstruction."
"Some of the letters of the rebel generals, including Yelu Yixin's letters, can also be excerpted and published so that they can be seen by the court's ministers, common people and even the families of the rebels. These rebels have given birth to children because the court treated their families well.
I have the heart to submit to the Song Dynasty..."
"The rebels who want to be obedient to the people of the country are obliged to rescue them. Especially before they are about to be encircled and suppressed by the Northern Liao Dynasty, the imperial court shouts several times to send troops to conquer, and even sends envoys north to mediate to rescue those rebels. This is what they should do.
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This...Wang Anshi understood it, and all the ministers in the cabinet understood it well.
It first published the situation of the Northern Liao Dynasty's encirclement and suppression of the rebels, and then selectively published the letters that belonged to the Song Dynasty family members, and then combined them with excerpts of the rebels' letters, creating a situation in the country where these rebels chose good trees to live in, but they were
The Liao court blocked it.
Therefore, the imperial court sent envoys to the north to mediate for those rebels who wanted to join the Song Dynasty. Isn't this complementary to the imperial court's approval of party nobles to join the Fanqi to fight for the Song Dynasty?
The key is that with such a public opinion situation, even if the imperial court intends to send troops northward, the Northern Liao court can only concentrate its forces to continue to encircle and suppress Yelu Yixin's rebels...
Yelu Yixin did not expect that even if he was dying, his value would still be used once...
The most critical point is that the family members of the rebels will really blame the Northern Liao court for their deaths as Yelu Yixin said.
"Official officials and veteran ministers believed that when the Northern Liao court announced its encirclement and suppression campaign, the envoys sent north by the court should mobilize troops and move north in Bianliang and even the entire Gyeonggi Province."
"In addition, the veteran believes that the cabinet, or the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of War and other bureaucracies can visit the families of the rebels at this time to comfort their emotions and show the sincerity of the Song Dynasty court..."
The imperial court is like this, let alone two hostile parties. Zhao Xi was not surprised that Wang Anshi, a gentleman, showed a certain level of conspiracy theory.
This is how it should have been. The cabinet was also delighted with such a plan.
Therefore, the arrival report in Bianliang first published an article that the Northern Liao imperial army was gathering troops to encircle and suppress the Yelu Yixin rebels. The article started from the Yelu Yixin rebellion and continued to talk about the rebels' presence in the Northern Liao territory in the past year.
The experience of running away in panic...
Any problem can be stated from two opposing aspects. For example, when Yelu Yixin caused harm to the territory of Northern Liao, he was chased by the Northern Liao court and fled everywhere.
This is nothing. For the subjects of the Song Dynasty, the chaos in the Northern Liao Dynasty was a joy to see.
There were some scribes who were preparing to comment on such a matter the next day, and even wanted to make a sound that the Song Dynasty should send troops.
However, a day later, just as the gloating article appeared in the arrival newspaper, there appeared again the sincere letter from the rebel family members discouraging the rebels from surrendering to the Song Dynasty court...
It turned out that according to the Hedong Contract between the Song Dynasty and the Northern Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty could accept civilians, but could not accept criminals who violated the laws of the Northern Liao Dynasty. Therefore, after the rebels were defeated, these family members had to say goodbye to the rebels, and they were separated from each other from then on.
When many family members were properly resettled in the Song Dynasty, most of the so-called rebels hoped to be disarmed and return to their fields, and come to the Song Dynasty to be ordinary obedient citizens, just to be reunited with their wives and children.
However, the Northern Liao court did not allow them to change their ways and insisted on killing them all, so they had to break up into pieces and flee.
However, after a year of planning, the Northern Liao court finally grasped the movements of the scattered rebels and assembled a large army to prepare for annihilation.
The same facts, if interpreted from different angles, will lead to different understandings. What the truth is is not important.