Song Gexing

Chapter 298 Liao Incident
Two brothers, Cai Jing and Cai Bian, one went to Liao as an envoy, and the other went to Datong to contact the White Tatars. The scholar Li Qingchen was sent to Bazhou to rectify the border army.

The internal minister Tong Guan was sent to Yunneizhou, the most famous traitor in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty. At this time, two people had already entered the official career.

At this time, both Cai Jing and Tong Guan were still upright people, at least they acted upright, and Zhao Fang did not deliberately suppress them, believing that people's temperament should be related to their circumstances.

Li Xian is now in his prime, and Tong Guan must be well-behaved. Otherwise, if his adoptive father discovers that he has done bad things, he will have to peel off his skin.

Zhao Fang did not suppress him but cultivated him. Firstly, it was Li Xian's face. Secondly, Tong Guan was indeed a general. It would be a pity to waste it.

As for the crime in history, isn't it true? Besides, as a eunuch, it is perfectly normal for him to flatter the emperor.

As a former member of Zhao Ji Qiandi's family, he had no choice but to flatter him if he wanted to be taken seriously. Otherwise, how could he fight his way out of the encirclement and suppression of those old members of Prince Duan's Mansion.

And Cai Jing is definitely a great talent, and he does have ambitions, but they have not yet been revealed. We cannot prevent him from showing his talents because of things that have not happened yet.

Cai Bian is not a treacherous minister, and historically he has never dealt with his brother Cai Jing. He is a rare good person in the Cai family, and he is also a good official.

His reputation for integrity was spread to the Liao Kingdom. When he was transferred to Guangzhou, the people lined the streets to see him off and sprinkled rose dew on his clothes to show their respect.

But he was also a supporter of Wang Anshi's reform, which caused him to be slandered after the old party came to power. After Zhao Gou moved south, he was implicated in the bad reputation of his brother Cai Jing.

Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty completely ignored the fact that he opposed Cai Jing's autocratic power and was released by his own brother and was not allowed to return to Bianjing. They still denounced him as Cai Jing's younger brother.

It can only be said that he is an unfortunate person. Unfortunately, he was born into the Cai family and has the same mother as Cai Jing. Otherwise, his reputation will be known to everyone in future generations.

Because Cai Bian's calligraphy is not inferior to Cai Jing's at all. If Mi Cai's name is because Cai Jing is a bastard and people use Cai Xiang to replace Cai Jing's calligraphy, then Cai Bian will be buried because of this.

It should be said that the calligraphy of the three Cai's in the Northern Song Dynasty has its own merits. Cai Xiang is ancient and crude, Cai Jing is beautiful and charming, and Cai Bian is wild and uninhibited. His calligraphy is truly like his person.

As for Li Qingchen, he is Han Qi's niece-in-law and a native of Damingfu, Hebei Province. Zhao Fang gave him the opportunity to train him. After all, he is his brother-in-law.

In the 16th year of Xining in the Song Dynasty and in August of the first year of Dakang in the Liao Dynasty, Yelu Jun ascended the throne as emperor. He decreed that his wife Xiao should be canonized as the queen, and his eldest son Yelu Yanxi should be crowned the prince.

Yelu Jun was very ambitious, but just three days later, Xiao Tat, who stayed in the capital of Liao Dynasty, announced his guilt, claiming that Yelu Hongji was poisoned to death by his own son Yelu Jun.

The left guard Taibao of the Liao Kingdom, the royal family member Yelu Yange, immediately announced that he could prove the matter, and then the clan began to force the palace to ask Yelu Jun to clarify the matter.

Soon Yelu Hongji's third brother Yelu Alian was pushed to the front to compete for the emperor's position. Only then did Yelu Jun find that most people in the clan did not support him.

Yelu Alian should be the fourth child. The second child, Yelu Baoxinnu, died young and was not the legitimate son. Therefore, Yelu Hongben, the third child, became the second child and he became the third child.

Yelu Alian was the military envoy of the Liao Kingdom and the king of Qin and Yue. His status was only lower than that of Yelu Hongben. However, the problem was that the second son was far away in Nanjing and was beyond his reach.

When Yelu Hongben received the news, he immediately announced his support for Yelu Jun and cursed Yelu Alian for being a pig-headed person who didn't even know he was being used as a weapon.

The Liao Kingdom was about to fall into a state of division. Under the protection of his cronies, Yelu Jun broke out of Zhongjing and fled to Nanjing to analyze Jin Mansion, and ordered King Qin to do so.However, there were only a few people who responded. It can be seen that except for Nanjing, the dignitaries in other places in the Liao Kingdom basically supported Yelu Alian.

This was actually a long-standing internal trouble in the Liao Kingdom. The Khitan nobles tended to stick to the old rules. It was Xiao Yanyan and Handerang who suppressed this problem back then.

But as time went by, each generation of monarchs in the Liao Kingdom tended to become sinicized, and the Khitan nobles dared not speak out because the emperor was too powerful.

However, the continuous civil strife and the failure of foreign wars in the past few years have allowed these veteran powerful people to find reasons, and at the same time they also see that the royal family can no longer suppress them.

It's just that the Liao Kingdom was founded by the Yelu family after all, and the people's support was still there, so they had to choose a member of the Yelu family to be the emperor. Yelu Alian happened to have many connections with them, so he became the best candidate.

In terms of status, he is the true legitimate son of Yelu Zong and Yelu Jun's uncle. In terms of strength, he has the right to speak even if he is seriously ill.

In September, Yelu Alian ascended the throne in Zhongjing Mansion and issued an edict to depose Yelu Jun from the throne of emperor and confer him the title of King of Zhao.

He also issued an order to remove Yelu Hongben from his post in Nanjing, and appointed Yelu Asi, the king of Qishui County, as the king of Nanjing. Yelu Hongben then contacted the Song Dynasty and announced that Xijin Mansion would return to the Song Dynasty.

"Second uncle you!"

After learning the news, Yelu Jun rushed into Yelu Hongben's study and wanted to question him but didn't know how to proceed.

Looking at his nephew, Yelu Hongben sighed and said: "Yale Ou, it is already destined that Liao has reached this point. After taking Xijing from the Song Dynasty, we have no way out. It just comes early or late. That's all. , Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures are a thorn in the hearts of the Song people, but we never have a chance to make a comeback. Your father went to Bianjing City back then and secretly told me when he came back. Once he is gone, you are If we can’t suppress those people, preserving the bloodline for our Yelu family is the most important thing.”

Yelu Jun was shocked. His father didn't think much of him. He had already told him, but why didn't he believe it?

But when Yelu Hongben took out a letter, it was indeed written by Yelu Hongji himself, and he felt completely wilted.

This matter was really what Yelu Hongji secretly confessed. Yelu Hong had not told the truth to Zhao Fang at first, but it didn't matter.

As a heroic leader of his generation, Yelu Hongji could see that the conflicts among the Khitan nobles were irreconcilable after his uncle rebelled.

Later, after experiencing Yelu Yixin's rebellion, he became more certain of the danger of the Liao Kingdom, which was also an important reason why he took the risk to go to Bianjing.

Zhao Fang's wisdom and martial arts made him understand that the Song Dynasty had the ambition to dominate the world, and it could be achieved. Even if he could stop it, his son would never be able to stop it.

The Yelu Jun of this world is not the one who was falsely accused and died. Xiao Guanyin's son Yelu Jun is equally brave, but the father had to die if he wanted the son to die.

This Yelu Jun did not have the courage to intimidate the Khitan nobles, nor did he have the strategy to get around the powerful. He was just a conservative leader with mediocre talents.

On the third day of October in the 16th year of Xining, the Hebei Song Army entered Xijin Prefecture and took over the defense of Nanjing, the Liao Kingdom. All Liao troops were withdrawn and retrained.

Yelu Alian went crazy when he received the news, and the war was about to break out.

(End of this chapter)