Fu Song

Chapter 581 Going North

Xiao Chuo trusted Yelvmin very much.

The two met when they were at the bottom of each other's lives.

Compared with Yelumin, Xiao Chuo's situation is much better, so Xiao Chuo has always played the role of rescue and support.

Of course, Yelumin did not disappoint Xiao Chuo's expectations of him at all, and he even did better.

He's a man of real skill.

Under Xiao Chuo's guidance, he turned Yizhi, the soft-footed shrimp-like queen's relatives, Shanjun, who was originally used as a facade, into a tiger-wolf army that everyone is talking about now. But it took twelve years.

It has been a few years since the Shan army has become famous all over the world, but a few years ago, it was already a team that could stop children from crying at night in the Liao Kingdom.

Not long after Xiao Chuo ascended the throne, and then Xiao Chuo began to rectify domestic affairs when Yelujun was patrolling the world, but most of the forces that wanted to challenge Xiao Chuo's authority became under the sword of the Shan army. ghost.

They achieve each other.

But this does not mean that Xiao Chuo will let Yelumin go.

On the contrary, Xiao Chuo paid more attention to Yelvmin.

Whenever something bad happened to Yelumin, the attacking arrows would definitely be accompanied by Xiao Chuo.

The two were bound together from the very beginning.

This kind of binding is completely different from Yeluzhen and Yeluhuan's support for Xiao Chuo.

Their relationship with Xiao Chuo is more of a political ally.

Yeluzhen hoped that Xiao Chuo would exist so that Daliao could maintain a strong force to suppress the surrounding forces,

It is said that the Song Dynasty was destroyed, but now the remnants of the Song Dynasty have established a new court in the south. This is not something that can be underestimated.Moreover, as a learned Confucian general, Yeluzhen is also very aware of the shortcomings within Daliao.

The great victory on the battlefield has covered up many problems, and Xiao Chuo's reforms over the years have not touched the core of the problems.

If you relax at this point, the achievements of the past ten years may be in vain.

There should not be too many things in history that fall short for the sake of the mountain.

That's why a group of Liao elites like Yeluzhen betrayed Yelujun's final arrangements in the end.

Instead, he chose to support Xiao Chuo.

Because they understood that Prince Yeluxian would absolutely not be able to do such a thing.

After more than ten years of delay, it may be too late.

And like Wanyan Starling, it is purely because of the continuation, survival and better life of the Jurchen tribe.

Don’t read that Starling Yan has a high status in Daliao, calling the wind and rain, but the entire Jurchen tribe has always been the object of oppression, suppression, and exploitation in Liao. The Jurchen tribe is poor, and the only better way out is to become the army of Daliao One of them, but such people are too few.It's not that they can't reach it, but that the Liao Kingdom deliberately suppressed it.

For the Jurchens, the Liao Kingdom is merciless, and if something goes wrong, it will be swung with a big knife.

No matter how good the Jurchens were at fighting, most of them were still in the era of slash-and-burn farming, and there were many conflicts among the tribes. When they met the organized Liao army, they had to clean their necks.

Xiao Chuo gave Wanyan Starling a condition that he couldn't refuse.

Compared with loyalty to Yelujun, the survival and development of the tribe is obviously more important.

The difference between these people is that the relationship between Yelumin and Xiao Chuo is definitely to help relatives and not to help.

He would not ask for conditions, nor would he ask for the price, let alone the consequences, as long as Xiao Chuo gave an order, he would execute it without hesitation.

But now, Yelumin's mind has changed.

With the demise of the Song Dynasty, this kind of psychological change has actually appeared.

And as he wiped out the Cui clan and killed Cui Ang with his own hands,
Yelumin, who had avenged his vengeance, has fallen into a confused guy with no longing for the future.

In Tuanshan, a fight with Wang Zhu,
In Chenqiaoyi, a fight with Zheng Yong,
If you want to go back further, when crossing the Juma River, he killed An Ming without hesitation, but in the end he showed mercy to a little battalion general named Ren Zhong and let him go. Even if this Ren Zhong scolded him severely when he left, he said that he would never give up fighting with him because of his small favors.

Just because of this man, his old subordinate.

In the south, Yelumin has already shown signs of softening his heart.

And such a sign, appearing on the body of a commanding general, is by no means a good thing.

Put Yelumin in the south again, maybe something will happen.

The best way, of course, is to transfer him away,

Let him stay away from his hometown, from the past environment, from the past people and things.

It just so happened that the Wugu Enemy Lie Commanding Army Division rebelled, and their main force was wiped out, but a large number of affiliated tribes and remnants fled away. In the north, a strong general was needed to sit in town and stabilize the northern frontier.

Xiao Chuo believed that when facing these people, Yelumin would definitely become that ruthless general again.

The current Daliao has no ambitions for territory.

At least Xiao Chuo is like this.

She firmly remembered the things her second brother told her when she was a child,

Territories that you cannot effectively rule are superfluous, cumbersome and troublesome, and all you need to do is to ensure enough influence over them.

In fact, the influence Xiao Cheng mentioned is not a brutal suppression rooted in weapons, but a series of comprehensive means based on culture and economy.

But at that time, Xiao Chuo couldn't understand these things, so Xiao Cheng just said it.

Xiao Chuo firmly remembered the previous point, but he didn't know the specific measures for the latter.

Therefore, in her opinion, the so-called influence, of course, is to use a knife to let the other party know how powerful Daliao is.

"These tribes in the north, and even some barbarian countries in the north, are afraid of power and not virtuous." Xiao Chuo tapped his fingers on the table and said, "So, you have to be more decisive."

"understand!"

"Although the next domestic political reform has achieved a general consensus at the central level, the further down the line, the greater the opposition will be, because for the central, such reforms have no impact on their own interests. Big, but for the middle class, the lower class is a major matter that touches their own interests."

"Yes, that's why I'm a little worried, Empress Dowager, why do such a thing? One is not good, and accidents are easy to happen." Yelumin persuaded.

"It has to be done, because if you don't do it, Daliao will go back to the old road. Over the years, I have tried my best, but I just tried to reverse the direction of the big ship Daliao, but after a little relaxation, they will He will habitually slide back, sail against the current, and retreat if he does not advance." Xiao Chuo said with a smile: "Second brother has already started in the south, and he is painting on white paper, which is much easier than me. The rectification of officials, redundant officials, and redundant soldiers is now in full swing in the south. In this competition with the second brother, I am now lagging behind!"

Yelumin couldn't help laughing: "A giant, there is no need to compare strength with a doll."

"We are giants, but we are not young anymore. The second elder brother is not a doll now, at least he is also a young man. You have fought against them in Xiangfan and Xinye, at least in the military. They're not bad, are they?"

"That's right!" Yelumin nodded and said, "But such an army, they are too few."

"When the political affairs are cleared up, the affairs in the army will be logical." Xiao Chuo said: "So I can't stop, but how can I solve the interests of many small and middle-level officials?"

Seeing Xiao Chuo staring at him, Yelumin suddenly understood: "So the Queen Mother needs one victory after another."

"Not only victory, but also a large amount of trophies that can be brought back continuously." Xiao Chuo said: "In this way, I will have enough financial resources to appease and compensate those whose interests have been damaged, so that they will not resent the court or seek opportunities. Make trouble, let them do what I want them to do obediently, but this requires money!"

Yelumin said relaxedly: "I understand, queen mother, there is a big country in the northwest, named Huacizimo, and I heard that it is very rich. I will go and move the treasury of this country back to the queen mother."

"You bring [-] Shushan troops, and in addition, ask Wanyan Yujian to bring [-] Jurchen troops to go with you, plus Guo Xie's [-] heavy armored cavalry." Xiao Chuo smiled.

Wanyan Yujian must go with him, this Yelumin understands, because Wanyan myna, since Wanyan Yinshu has been fully used by the queen mother, Wanyan Yujian's usefulness as a tool person has almost come to an end, follow Going to make contributions by yourself is another kind of appeasement to Wanyan Yujian.

But Guo Xie's five thousand heavy armored cavalry!
"Queen, can you not let Guo Xie come with me?"

"why?"

"It's hard to raise!" Yelumin spread his hands and said, "It's too expensive. To raise a heavy cavalry, I can raise several light cavalry. Next, the north will be pacified, where there are only remnants of soldiers. Heavy cavalry will be needed there." !"

Xiao Chuo smiled and said nothing.

Yelumin thought for a while and understood.

He finds it difficult to raise, and the Queen Mother must also find it difficult to raise!

In the past, the queen mother had money, and that was because the queen mother didn't need to spend all her energy on state affairs, she had to use the money to fix her own little ninety-nine.

But now, if the queen mother has money, I'm afraid she can't help spending it, because the entire Liao country belongs to the queen mother.

Therefore, the queen mother is thinking that she can save as much as she can, and throws this burden on herself.

"I understand!" Scratching his head, Yelumin decided to take on this big burden.

"You don't need it now, but if you defeat Huacizimo, if you go west in the future, you will definitely encounter heavy armored cavalry." Xiao Chuo said with a smile: "You can try it at that time, it is our strength, Still they are great."

"Queen Mother, when it comes to weapons, during the Battle of Xiangyang this time, Liu Zheng's navy was confronted with Wujiang navy, and the opponent used extremely powerful gunpowder weapons." Yelumin shook his head and said: "According to Liu Zheng Said, with a loud noise, more than half of the elite soldiers he gathered on the ship to prepare for hand-to-hand combat were killed and injured in an instant, and it was precisely because his flagship was quickly defeated that this led to his battle. The water battle was defeated like a mountain. I have never heard of such a powerful gunpowder weapon. At first I thought it was Liu Zheng who was making excuses for his failure, but after many investigations, Liu Zheng did not lie. We need to pay attention to this matter Get up!"

"I know, I know!" Xiao Chuo shook his head and sighed, "That's a cannon!"

"Cannon?" Yelumin was a little puzzled.

"Fire is the edge, cannons, gunpowder cannons!" Xiao Chuo said: "I have known this for a long time. The injury of the late emperor was the result of this kind of gunpowder explosion. Now, he even made the cannons out. Did you? I thought he was just kidding me? Is there really such a powerful weapon in this world?"

"It's not necessarily so powerful." Yelumin shook his head: "It's just a surprise. If I had taken precautions, it wouldn't be like this. And I sent a lot of spies to investigate this thing afterwards, and finally figured out this thing. It is actually made of wood, I think we can try it too."

"The key is gunpowder!" Xiao Chuo said, "I captured all the master craftsmen in this field from the craftsman camp in Tokyo City, and I got a piece of land for them alone, and I am studying this thing specially. And the spies also came from the Western Army. I got some samples back there, I hope it will be successful soon!"

"I heard that Xiao Cheng has always attached great importance to craftsmen, are you planning to do the same?"

"Like it!" Xiao Chuo giggled: "Anyway, with our size, as long as I find out what the second brother is researching, we will do the same research. He has ten people doing this. , I will send a hundred people to a thousand people to do this. I don’t believe that I can’t win him. Oh, yes, I still need money. This matter will be pointed at you. I want to count on appropriating money from the treasury Those old-fashioned people will not agree to these things that seem to be nothingness."

"The cannon is no longer something ethereal!" Yelumin said.

"That's right, the wooden cannon you mentioned is just the most basic thing. If they come up with copper cannons and iron cannons in the future, but we don't have them, it will be a disaster."

Yelumin nodded in agreement.

Think back then, what did Song Dynasty use to compete with the Daliao iron cavalry?
infantry.

Why can infantry carry cavalry?

The most important thing is their divine arm bow and a wide variety of crossbows.

The overwhelming bow and arrow of the divine arm can penetrate iron armor and horses, and it has become a golden rule for the cavalry of the Liao army not to fight when they meet the Song army.

If Daliao had the kind of cannon that Liu Zheng encountered, with ten cannons and a hundred cannons, how could the Song Army's infantry phalanx hold up?

It must fall apart, as long as they fall apart, they will be the food of the cavalry!

It's just that I don't have to worry about such things in the future, it's better to go north!

They are all savages, let's see if I don't kill them all.

Thinking of these things, Yelumin rarely showed a satisfied smile on his face.

He subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief that he didn't have to run into people like Wang Zhu and Ren Zhong in the future.

I hope I never run into it in the future.

He didn't want Wang Zhu to come up with a knife and ask him why!
He couldn't answer.

(End of this chapter)