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Emperor Shi led the empress to sit on the top, and the coach Li Chuyun led Ye Luxian with a rope, and read aloud a big sentence filled with righteous indignation. He explained that the Liao Kingdom had committed many crimes, killing and looting the border people of China. More than 20 years ago, they invaded Daliang and plundered people's property. And all kinds of heinous crimes, in short, there are more than 50 serious crimes. Emperor Shi was a little embarrassed to hear that these literati really know how to make up......

Only when the topic changed, he began to praise His Majesty's literary and military strategies, as well as his achievements in destroying the Liao Kingdom.

Afterwards, he took Yeluxian to the Taimiao to offer sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth. The great achievements they accomplished made Yeluxian scolded bloody again. After such a set of standard procedures was completed, the offering of prisoners was considered complete. .

Fortunately, Ye Luxian was not the first one in these years. The so-called practice makes perfect, all civil and military officials are proficient, so all the ceremonies were completed before dark.

Afterwards, Yeluxian's family was temporarily placed in the post house of Honglu Temple, waiting to be dealt with, and many things were still waiting for Emperor Shi to deal with it.

Chapter 557, Emperor's Authority

After the prisoners were sacrificed, there was joy in Daliang City. The curfew was lifted that night, and the celebration continued all night, like a festival.

And Emperor Shi couldn't wait, and plunged into his exclusive Ruanxiang Township. Everyone said that Emperor Shi decided not to be a hero anymore!Let whoever loves it!

Although he was reluctant to part with the empress dowager Fu's tenderness and fragrance, Emperor Shi was forced to deal with many things the next day.

The first is to reward the three armies, and then the prisoners are arranged.

Those who should be killed were killed by him as early as in Shangjing. Since they were brought back, Emperor Shi naturally didn't want to kill them. Yeluxian's family was arranged to collect them by the Bian River according to the usual practice.

Later, Yelu Xiezhen's family was also resettled. Yelu Xiezhen was assigned to serve in the Ministry of War, while Yelusha and Gao Xun were sentenced to death for refusing to surrender.

Their deaths were just a gesture to show the world, and those who were actually going to be killed had already been killed.

Emperor Shi entrusted the Privy Council and Li Chuyun to be responsible for rewarding the three armies, and first drafted the regulations before presenting them to him.

The other three things also need to be arranged by Emperor Shi first.

The first is the aftermath of the war in the north. As the border moves north, the garrison arrangements will also change. This is a big deal. After all, since then, the northern border will have to move thousands of miles north, and it cannot be arranged overnight.

Secondly, the food routes of the Jinzhou army had to be re-arranged. Although the emperor of the Liao Kingdom had captured it, the war to destroy the Liao Kingdom was not yet completely over, and the Liao Kingdom was not yet in his hands.

So Emperor Shi called the officials of the Department of Household Affairs to discuss this matter in the morning and made arrangements.

The last is to report the autumn harvest situation in various places this year. Among them, the tax revenue of Shu is particularly eye-catching, because after several years of climbing, the tax of Shu has caught up with Chuzhou in Huainan, ranking fourth in the country, second only to Daliang in the capital, Hangzhou and Chu in the south. However, depending on the situation, Chengdu will overtake Chuzhou next year.

Emperor Shi naturally knew about this situation, because the new tax law was implemented near Chengdu, and it has been promoted and tried out with Chengdu as the center in recent years. Now the entire Shu region and even Guanzhong have implemented the new tax law.

Emperor Shi had thought about it before, gradually implementing it in the world, but at that time, the powerful enemy in the north, Liao Kingdom, was still there, and a large number of imperial soldiers were stationed on the border.

But now the situation has changed. In the entire north, plus the army that blocked the Liao Kingdom in Jinzhou, there are only about 5 people stationed there.

With the main force of the army by his side, and no strong foreign enemy threat in the north, domestic turmoil can be tolerated, so Emperor Shi can carry out reforms.

Emperor Shi thought about it. In fact, the most difficult place to implement at the moment must be in the Central Plains. At first, the capital of the country was in the Central Plains, and there were many powerful people nearby, and they also had the most land and the greatest power. Huainan was next.

But Jiangnan and Lingnan will be much easier. Those places have been swept by the army, and everything that needs to be cleaned up is almost cleaned up. There is no decent resistance in the place, and the people's customs are not so tough.

Originally, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there were many warlords, and Hebei's liberation was the least difficult, and it had even been implemented.

The main reason is that since the Tang Dynasty more than 100 years of troubled times, the main battlefield is in Hebei, many places have been killed into a piece of white land, the population has withered, and there are large open spaces.

After he promulgated that land that no one cultivated can be cultivated by refugees without land, he followed the implementation of taxation according to the land, so after these years, with more and more refugees, occupying most of the land in Hebei, the income per mu is basically the same. It has been implemented, and today's Hebei basically pays taxes in accordance with the new law.

This method can slow down the speed of land annexation, but Emperor Shi, who has read history books and received higher education in later generations, also understands that this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

Things are always changing, from microscopic particles to the macrocosm, everything is changing at any time, no solution is omnipotent, no reason is always useful, and no truth will last forever. Human history Too short.

Not to mention the boundless and boundless universe, in the hundreds of millions of years of the earth's history, human memory is only a few thousand years ago, and it is only two or three hundred years since human beings became "civilized", so many things are impossible to pursue perfection. For eternity, we can only continue to make choices, which are only in line with the current situation.

Development is the fundamental way out, and making the cake bigger is the key. Problems will always emerge, but he is too lazy to take care of them. Future generations will have their own blessings, so let them worry about it. I have so many wives, so happy very.

In the next few days, envoys from Goryeo, Dali, Liugu Tubo, Ganzhou Uighurs, Goryeo, Guiyi Army, etc. came one after another. With the news spread in the past few months, the fall of the northern overlord Liao has shocked the world.

This time, Emperor Shi did not let the officials of Honglu Temple receive them, but hosted a banquet for them himself.

At the banquet, Emperor Shi held a glass of wine with a friendly expression on his face, but the faces of the people sitting below were serious and nervous. They had probably heard that the Qin army captured and beheaded 50 Liao troops, captured its capital, and captured the emperor of Liao. matter.

What kind of concept is that? Taking Liugu Tubo as an example, all their tribes add up, and there are only about 30 men, women, and children

That's why I was so frightened that I hurriedly sent people here, bringing all kinds of financial specialties, first to please the emperor of Qin, and second to check on the situation.

Emperor Shi happily said some polite words, probably pleased with the arrival of their envoys, and asked them to eat and drink well, and then talked with them about the customs of various places, just like eating, drinking and bragging, talking about the world, The guests and hosts had a good time.

The next day, Emperor Shi summoned the envoy sent by the Guiyi Army into the palace alone and asked him some questions.

The Guiyi army is living a decent life now relying on marriages with various surrounding forces, but they have been sending envoys to keep in touch with various forces in China. They have also contacted the Southern Tang Dynasty, probably thinking that the Southern Tang Dynasty will be like the original Tang Dynasty.

The Guiyi Army has always been awarded by China, so although Emperor Shi did not fully trust them in some issues, compared with Ganzhou Uighurs, Liugu Tubo, etc., the Guiyi Army people are more credible in Shi Emperor's heart.

For example, in July of the 12th year of Tianfu in the Later Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Zhiyuan of the Later Han Dynasty awarded Cao Yuanzhong, the Jiedu envoy of the Guiyi Army, as the special administrator and inspector.In May of the second year of Qianyou in the Later Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Chengyou conferred the title of Jiedu Envoy of Guiyi Army, Tejin, Taifu Cao Yuanzhong, Doctor of Imperial History, and Founding Marquis of Qiaojun.

In the second year of Xiande in the later Zhou Dynasty, the Guiyi Army also sent envoys. Zhou Shizong Guo Rong took Cao Yuanzhong as the envoy of the Guiyi Army Jiedu to observe and stay in Shazhou Jiedu.In May Wuzi, Cao Yuanzhong, who stayed in Shazhou, was appointed as the governor of Shazhou, Taiwei of the school, and Tongping Zhangshi.

And two years after the founding of the Qin State, Cao Yuanzhong, the governor of Guiyi, sent an envoy to offer [-] horses to Emperor Shi, and Emperor Shi even rode them on the battlefield. You must know that the land of Hexi was the largest horse farm in the Han Dynasty. .

Three years ago, when the Guiyi Army sent envoys, Emperor Shi made every effort to prepare for the great war against the Liao Kingdom in order to stabilize the situation in the northwest. Teacher, concurrently Zhongshu Ling, and King Xiping to reassure him.

Now that the envoy of the Guiyi Army was found, Emperor Shi did not beat around the bush, but told him directly. After returning, he would tell King Xiping to make a general report on the terrain near the Hexi Corridor, the deployment of various tribes, and the location of their settlements. Come to the court.

Hearing this, the envoy was stunned on the spot, and then nodded again and again. Although Emperor Shi didn't say anything, he wanted a map and marked the locations of the settlements. From this point of view, it seemed that the imperial court wanted to send troops to the Hexi Corridor.

Afterwards, things proceeded in an orderly manner. By the beginning of October, the rewards of the three armies had been completed, and the forbidden army had a holiday.

In mid-October, the Jinzhou army's food road preparations were completed, and the blockade of Liaodong continued.

In November, at the court meeting, Fan Zhi, Luqiu Zhongqing and others first came out to sing praises, praising the achievements and mighty virtue of the emperor, and then Shen Yilun, an envoy of the Ministry of Household Affairs, mentioned that the tax revenue of Shu had increased greatly this year, and even exaggerated to the point of supplying the Liao army. Later, he pointed out that the reason for the soaring fiscal revenue in Shu was due to the implementation of the new tax law and so on.

Then it is proposed to implement it in the world.

As soon as the words came out, he immediately encountered some opposition, mainly from officials in the capital.

However, these objections are not worth the final word of Emperor Shi, and no one dares to disobey the authority of the emperor at this time.

In the end, the court passed a resolution to introduce the new tax law to the world starting next year.

Chapter 558, Ping Liaodong

Another year of winter, the snowfall in Daliang was two days earlier this year, and the winter weather became extremely cold.

In order to keep out the cold, Emperor Shi had no choice but to report to the regiment with the wives in the harem to keep warm. After going out to fight for more than half a year, he couldn't bear it long ago.

The winter in the north will be colder, which is why he has to withdraw the main force to the south in advance.

The weather is also an insurmountable obstacle, one of the natural forces that human beings cannot fight, and it is better than a million troops.

The rise of the Tubo Dynasty was due to the warming of the climate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the use of troops in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties to Myanmar and Vietnam was almost like a template carved out. First, they were overwhelming, and then the local army broke up to resist, and then fought until the summer. , the weather was hot and the disease was rampant, so we had to retreat.

Several dynasties have sent many troops, and it can only be said to be luck once or twice, but it is not luck to send troops every time for hundreds of years. It can only be said that the weather is always the biggest enemy.

If the army stays in Beijing until winter, the 10,000+ army will all come from the south. I don’t know how many people can adapt to the bitter cold there. It is a very dangerous thing. Therefore, Emperor Shi’s rush to withdraw his troops was not because of his harem, but for the sake of the world. , For the sake of more than [-] soldiers.

After returning this time, Xiao Hunian and Xiao Huanghua's children were all born, and because of Emperor Shi's hard work, tireless efforts, and day and night, Dongyue, Zhao Shijian, and Empress Dowager Fu had happy pulses again.

At the end of the month, Luqiu Zhongqing, the privy envoy, and Taiwei Li Chuyun presented the charter for rewarding the three armies. Emperor Shi focused on the promotion arrangements for the main generals. These positions are very important.

Most Emperor Shi agreed, only a few he readjusted the arrangement.

As for the rewards of ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers, Emperor Shi looked over them himself, and after seeing those who had done more meritorious service, he called all the commanders of the entire army to the Privy Council Office to look at them the next day, and asked them if there were any omissions.

These were originally reported by the commander of the capital, and Emperor Shi asked them to confirm again, firstly to show importance, and secondly said directly: "Everyone come and take a closer look, I asked you to confirm the signature and leave a note.

The merits of the soldiers with their heads hung on their waistbands were reported by you. If there are any concealed reports or false reports in the future, they will have to come to you. "Emperor Shi said with a smile, and after he finished speaking, he beckoned all the commanders to come over and see.

Then he went to drink tea by himself, watched them check, and added: "Think about it, you are just a temporary mental effort, but to the sergeant, it is the credit for life and death, so don't miss anything."

Then they were given another two days to go back and think about it, and report any mistakes or omissions as soon as possible.

In the next two days, someone really reported it again, and then Emperor Shi outlined the seal and asked the Privy Council, the Department of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War to implement it.

In the twelfth lunar month, the work of rewarding the three armies has been basically completed, and most soldiers of the imperial army are on vacation.

However, the court ushered in a major event, and the Dingnan Army Jiedu made a family of more than 60 people have arrived in Beijing.

Emperor Shi sent officials from Honglu Temple to meet them and temporarily placed them in the post house.

Afterwards, a banquet was held in the imperial city to entertain them. Many people in the court did not expect that the border towns that they thought would be extremely difficult to deal with were so easily called to Daliang by Emperor Shi.

It is obvious that Li Guangrui led the whole clan to Beijing to tell the emperor that he is willing to give up military power in order to seek wealth and safety.

This incident shocked many veterans who had experienced the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the separatist regime of the feudal towns for nearly 200 years seems to have been resolved so easily by Emperor Shi!

But Emperor Shi understood in his heart, is it really easy?That was 20 years of conquests from south to north, millions of people fought one after another, blood flowed in exchange for Tianwei, if the Liao Kingdom survived, the Li family would not be easily subdued.

At the reception banquet, Emperor Shi said some words of comfort to Li Guangrui's family, and also saw his elder brother Li Guangyan.

However, compared to the two brothers, Shi Congyun is more interested in Li Guangyan's ten-year-old son Li Jiqian, because in later generations, this son is much more famous than his father and uncle.

But looking at the nervous child in front of him, Emperor Shi couldn't help but smile, and didn't take it seriously, only gave him a set of the Four Treasures of the Study, and encouraged him to study hard.

Then he ordered rewards of money and housing, and Li Guangrui was added as a servant, and he was sent to the Ministry of War, and his brother Li Guangyan was also given an official status and stayed in Daliang.

As for the situation in the northwest, after discussing with the Privy Council and the prime ministers, Emperor Shi decided to use Xiang Xun as the defense envoy of Xiazhou to lead the military forces of the five states of Xia, Sui, Yin, You, and Yan to guard the northwest.

The party members are also different. Some of them, represented by the Li family, are willing to submit to the imperial court. However, there are some party members in the north who were not too submissive to the rule of the Li family before, and they were even more resistant to the Central Plains dynasty.

So Emperor Shi also found his confidant veteran, told him about the situation there, and then gave him a big policy. After he went there, he would suppress and appease them, win them to surrender, and send troops to suppress them if necessary.

For this reason, he specially transferred two artillery battalions from the Forbidden Army to Xiang Xun.

Xiang Xun took the order to prepare to set off after the year and lead the army to the northwest.

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Time flies, the sun and the moon fly, and in March of the fourth year of Kangding, Emperor Shi's tenth child was born, a little princess born to him by Xiao Chuo, and Emperor Shi was very happy.

In March, there were also results in Liaodong. After more than a year of blockade and attack, Yelumo, the last force in Liao, who stayed behind in Tokyo, became ill from fear and died of illness in the Liaoyang army. The defenders surrendered and the Qin army entered the city. , Meaning the complete demise of the Liao Kingdom, the two-year war against Liao came to an end, and Liaodong was completely controlled by the Qin army.

In the past year or so, the generals Lin Renzhao and Wang Shenqi of the Qin Army have fully implemented Emperor Shi's strategic plan. On the one hand, they blocked the west of Liaoning with heavy troops, and on the other hand, they continued to send rangers to harass the Liao army, and the navy also continued to raid from the sea. They plundered Liaodong ships, cut off the sea, blocked the sea, and fired at the troops on the shore from time to time.

As time went by, Liaodong became more and more closed and desperate.

Many states and counties in the west surrendered one after another, while the Qin army continued to fight steadily, slowly advancing eastward with absolute superiority in strength and equipment.

The Liao army trapped in Liaoyang understood the seriousness of the matter. They had been blocked, there was no way out, and there was no reinforcements.

As a result, the Qin army's tactics were deep trenches and high fortresses, and they refused to fight. They just kept getting close to the Liao army, and only approached Liaoyang step by step eastward with superior forces. The Liao army tried to raid several times but was repelled.

This tactic was proposed after discussion between Wang Shenqi and Lin Renzhao in combination with reality, and Emperor Shi agreed.

This is a bit like Sima Yi's tactic against Zhuge Liang in history. The army is close to the body and then avoids the battle. This is one of the better tactics for the side with the advantage. Because the advantage is in hand, the fight may lose, because the war is full of risks. As long as you don't fight Definitely win.

Sima Yi's purpose was to cut off the Shu army's food or compress them out of Guanzhong, while the Qin army's purpose was to compress the living space of the remnants of the Liao army eastward with a huge advantage.

In the east, there are female straight people and Goryeo, and the sea is blocked again. This kind of battle is getting more and more desperate for the Liao army.

The more the Qin army stopped fighting, the more fearful and desperate they felt, because the only hope at the moment was for the Qin army to fight with them in the field, and then seek a chance of victory in the chaotic battlefield.

It's a pity that they didn't have a chance in the end. By August of that year, the Qin army had steadily advanced to the city of Liaoyang Prefecture. All the prefectures and counties along the way surrendered, and many Liao troops also surrendered. Just wait for the nobles of Yelu to guard the isolated city of Liaoyang.

The subsequent matters were easy to handle. Wang Shenqi continued to lead the army to besiege the city, and Lin Renzhao divided his troops to pursue the remnants of the Liao army to the east, and at the same time regained many counties in the east along the way.

In the end, only Liaoyang City was still standing in Liaodong, and the Qin army was not in a hurry to fight, because winter was coming, the supplies in the city were expensive, and the weather was bitter and cold, which was more useful than any swordsman.

After besieging the isolated city for five months, Yelumo was only worried about death due to illness. The defenders in the city could no longer hold back and surrendered. There were about 8 soldiers and civilians in the city during the siege, but only 5 remained when the Qin army entered the city. .

Many people were killed by hunger and cold, and there was even a situation where a large number of people cannibalized each other. It is really unbearable until now.

After that, Wang Shenqi immediately mobilized food from surrounding states and counties to support, and only then did the situation in the city improve.

This also means that since then, Liaodong has also returned to Qin, and Qin's territory has reached the border of Koryo to the east.

In April of the same year, Meng Xuanzhe made a statement that the northern border was in Yunzhou, Wuzhou, Yanzhou North and other places. The border defense line based on the ancient Great Wall and the Lotus Fort as the core was basically completed.

Chapter 559, Northern Warfare

In June of the fourth year of Kangding, the original Liao Shangjing sent news to Li Jilong that the defense line of Lianhuabao in the north had been built.

In contrast, the border defense pressure on Li Jilong's side was even greater. Some remnants of the Liao Kingdom fled to the grasslands to win over the local tribes, preparing to retake Huangzhou, and harassed the border from time to time.

But fortunately, there is no such person as Yelu Dashi among the fleeing nobles of the Liao Kingdom. They have limited ability and cannot integrate the northwest grassland. At most, it was only about a thousand.

Their raids were not very successful, and only a few frontier herdsmen were plundered.

And the large-scale southward movement, no matter hundreds of riders or more than 1000 riders, was hit head-on by the Lotus Fort in the border valley, causing many casualties.

However, their undisciplined continuous harassment and killing aroused the hatred of the original Liao people and accelerated Qin's rule over the local area. Once the herdsmen on the border found the enemy's attack, they immediately reported to the government, and the counterattack of the government and the army was also faster and more convenient. .

Moreover, at the beginning of February this year, the remnants of the Liao Kingdom raided the Qin Army stronghold in the valley and killed [-] soldiers, including a Dutou.

By mid-February, some herdsmen reported to the government the whereabouts of some rebel strongholds.