Han Zhigu was captured as a slave in his early years, and the tendency of Khitan was very serious. It was developed and only started to flourish since Han De's rebellion. The earlier one was the Han Yanhui family. Before entering the Khitan, they were the governor of Youzhou. His father, Han Mengyin, was appointed as the governor of Ji Rushun, and he moved in the Youzhou area. Therefore, after Han Yanhui entered the Khitan, he served in four dynasties and was highly valued. His descendants were no less prosperous than Han Zhigu family.

The Liu family was once a descendant of Liu Shun, the governor of Lulong of the Tang Dynasty. When his son Liu Shoujing saw the war in the Central Plains, he surrendered to the Liao Kingdom with Zhao Yanshou. His family was also prominent for a while and had several sons who married the Khitan princess and became the son-in-law. The most honorable one was Liu Jing first, and then Liu Liufu.

The Ma family was a descendant of Ma Yinqing, the governor of Qingzhou in Shijin Dynasty. Emperor Taizong of Liao raised troops to destroy Jin, but the man did not surrender. Emperor Taizong of Liao explained his righteousness and moved his clan to Yiwulu Mountain in Youzhou. From then on, his descendants served in Liao. The most famous one was Ma Renwang. He was once a deputy governor and a privy envoy of the Southern Court. There was also a family, the Ma Zhiwen family, whose aristocratic clan lived here and lived in Yanji. Therefore, it was impossible for future generations to distinguish.

Zhao Siwen of the Zhao family served as the governor of Pingzhou in the Later Tang Dynasty and the commander of the three prefectures of Pingying Ji. After surrendering to Liao, he was highly valued by the Khitan because of his bravery and good fighting.

There was nothing at all.

However, the Khitan did not adopt the Song system, but continued to retain the Tang Dynasty system. That is, a large family, with many divisions and customers under the village, but they were actually slaves. Even customers, they had no personal freedom. The master could arbitrarily beat the transactional divisions, slaves and customers, and even determine their life and death.

The boss itself owns countless farmhouses, houses, servants, cattle, camels, carriages and horses, and they cannot know the number. As for the gold, white jade, beads and rhinestones, clothes, and tools they have hidden, they can't calculate the money. The Khitan court had no choice but to do it too much, and sent people to investigate the hidden households, but they were unable to do so. They were forced to do so and dare not offend too much. If these big families led the people to surrender to the Song Dynasty, even the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun could not be protected. Once, the horse people looked at it and found that you were from the Ma family and it was not easy to offend them. The horse people were not stupid and perfunctory.

There are fewer people in the house, the taxes are heavy, and the burden is heavier, so life may not be much better than those customers.

Why do these parts not resist customers?

This is a system that has been formulated since the Tang Dynasty and is used to it. The system of the Song Dynasty is quite humane, but no one knows it.

These major families formed close ties with the Khitans. They prospered when the Khitans prospered, and they died when the Khitans perished. Therefore, Zhao Kuangyi led his troops to regain Youzhou. Several major families led their troops to cooperate with Han Derang and fought bloody battles, preventing the Song Dynasty from regaining Youzhou.

This is the more important reason.

It's a bit difficult to crack, but find out the reason. Sooner or later, you will find a way to solve it.

The group came to the West Mountain and set up a camp to rest by the Sanggan River.

As night fell, listening to the waves of mountain waves outside, Zheng Lang couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He arrived in Youzhou immediately.

For the Song people, Youzhou was hurt or painful, but for Zheng Lang, it was a sacred place.

Zheng Lang said to Guo Kui: "Zhongtong, I saw something, see if you have any way to resolve it."

"My husband, what's the matter?"

Zheng Lang said the thought in his heart.

"Does Mr. Zheng want to instigate these departments and customers?"

"Is it so easy to instigate the rebellion? I want these divisions and customers to yearn for the Song Dynasty. If so, when our dynasty has the opportunity to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, their resistance will not be fierce. Without the cooperation of these divisions and customers, only those big families. What kind of personnel can they mobilize?"

"I'm afraid it's not easy. The Khitans are strictly guarding our dynasty and cannot send scouts to these manors to lobby. One is that they don't believe it, the other is that they lobby in the front, and the Khitans will be arrested later."

"What if the number of commerce is larger?"

"Does Mr. Zheng want these businessmen to witness it with their own eyes and let them rumor themselves?"

"That's how I think."

"I'm afraid it's not possible. The border is full of war and people's lives are very hard. In the past, in Youzhou, our dynasty accepted some people to submit to them for friendship and helped them. After the drought, he sent them back to the Khitan. It was not a success. The difference was not big and the temptation was insufficient. Unless the people in Hebei and Hedong were as rich as Hangzhou, then they would be attractive."

Impossible.

In that case, the Song Dynasty would have entered capitalism long ago.

"Zhongtong, you have other good ideas."

"It's probably hard. You talked to Liu Liufu all the way, and my subordinates heard some of them beside you. The Khitan treated these big families very well, and the rebellion from top to bottom would not work at all."

"I have never thought about rebelling from top to bottom," Zheng Lang said: "Take it slow, no matter how anxious you are, if you want to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, the court must be careful to operate it for more than 20 years."

"We also need good governance, otherwise once war begins, the Khitan will fight to the death with us."

"Yes," Zheng Lang lay on the bed and sighed depressedly. He was sure to annihilate Xixia, but he was not sure about regaining the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun.

The wind was even louder, and the pine waves were gushing, and the two of them fell asleep in a while.

...

Liao Xingzong was defeated by Hequ, and was embarrassed and angry. After New Year's Day, he led his army from Changchun River and jumped from the horses to the Tongtong River (Songhua River). Seeing the Khitan coming in full force, the nearby Pulu Maoduo (living in the northern part of Changbai Mountain, and is used to surrendering several parts of the Pulu Maoduo, the Changbai Mountain tribe and the Tumen River estuary (Qiansui) called the Dongjurchen).

Only then did Liao Xingzong satisfy his vanity and retreat to Changchun River.

I was very happy to hear that Zheng Lang was coming, but I did not expect to immediately let Zheng Lang surrender to the Khitan and discuss with the ministers. Finally, I came up with a step-by-step method to get Zheng Lang into the trap.

Then he led his ministers and soldiers to leave the location of Chunnabo in Changchun River and quickly headed south to Youzhou.

Not only did he treat Zheng Lang solemnly, but there was one thing he had to go south, which happened to be used to deal with Zheng Lang.

When I arrived in Youzhou City, it was already March, the earth was filled with spring, and the wilderness was full of vitality.

When the ministers from Youzhou came out to welcome the emperor, Liao Xingzong asked, "Where is the envoy of Song?"

Zheng Lang cannot be called his minister now.

"He started speaking at the Imperial College," Xiao Hui replied.

The southerners like this one, Liao Xingzong said in his heart. In fact, he also likes this one, saying, "Take me to take a look."

In order to appease the Han people in the territory, the Khitan established the Imperial College in Wujing. Nanjing's Imperial College is the largest, and Youzhou is also the largest city in the Khitan with a population of 400,000. It was also a large city in the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang held a lecture at the largest school in the Imperial College, and the listeners were like mountains. The people inside could not sit, so they had to stand, and even the windows outside were covered with people. When they heard the pride, some Confucian scholars shook their heads. Indeed, the two sides had too much difference in their Confucianism attainments.

Some people heard it and did not hear it, but Liao Xingzong came, and their ears were just concentrated indoors.

However, Zheng Lang heard that he walked out of the school and performed a courtesy. Zheng Lang didn't care about this, as long as he could recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, what's wrong with letting him kneel down? Reasonability is what Zheng Lang values ​​most.

Liao Xingzong looked at him with satisfaction and said, "Zheng Qing, you and I have been in harmony with each other for a long time."

His subordinates stole Zheng Lang's words, but they had nothing to do with him. Zheng Lang wrote some more words and words to him, which was considered a bit of a magical relationship.

"Your Majesty, don't dare."

"I ask you, in the battle of Hequ, are you intentionally making me and Yuanhao lose both? "Today, both the Khitan monarchs and ministers have all doubts. This is beneficial to the Song Dynasty. Then he looked at Guo Kui and frowned in dissatisfaction. Why did you let this person be the deputy envoy? Isn't this intention to disgust me?

"Your Majesty, it's not. Before the Battle of Hequ, I was in Ding You. According to ancient funerals, I could only talk about topics within the funeral, and other topics were all called unfilial."

"Yes, yes," an elder of the Liu family headed on his forehead.

Liao Xingzong rolled his eyes at the elder, looked at Zheng Lang and asked, "Then why did you send Guo Kui to my military camp?"

"Your Majesty. This battle has nothing to do with me. It was Zhang Kang who heard that Your Majesty and Yuanhao's army were displayed in Daizhou. Fierce battles could break out at any time..." After saying that, he walked dozens of steps and came outside the door. Others understood and did not follow. After all, they wanted to give Liao Xingzong some face. Zheng Lang said: "Zhang Kang analyzed that although Your Majesty uses the king to attack his ministers and occupy morality, he can occupy a small area. The reason for attacking Yuanhao was to force Yuanhao to ask for peace for our dynasty. Yuanhao and our dynasty had already formed a peace agreement. Your Majesty sent troops again, and lost morality on this, making the Western Xia soldiers a memorial army. The place where the battle was fought.

Located in the desert area, the wind and sand are ruthless, which is even more unfavorable to the Northern Dynasties army. Your Majesty is also believing in underestimating the enemy, but his Majesty is in trouble, so he wrote a letter to me. Then I wrote to my Majesty and asked him to arrange personnel just in case. I didn't expect that Your Majesty was really careless, especially Yuan Hao went to the camp to ask for surrender, and the Western Xia was scattered and the foundation was not deep. Once Your Majesty captured Yuan Hao from the military camp, he would capture his ministers with the king, and then arrange him to Zhongjing or Shangjing to serve as an official position. It is not wrong to Yuan Hao, and he also occupied the righteousness. If the Western Xia has no leader, he will inevitably be defeated. But who could have expected this?"

Liao Xingzong made him say nothing but to reply and said sadly: "I made a mistake."

"Your Majesty, victory or defeat is common to military strategists. Although your country is the most powerful country among the Three Kingdoms, can it reach the Tang Dynasty?" Zheng Lang fooled. When he came to Khitan this time, he was ready to fool the little emperor, and with the soft heart and medium IQ of this little emperor, it was easier to fool. On the contrary, it was difficult to fool Zhao Zhen.

"Not enough." Liao Xingzong replied honestly. If the Tang Dynasty did not decline, how could the Khitan succeed in establishing a country?

"Your Majesty, I won't talk about the late Tang Dynasty. I just want to say that in the early stage, I was defeated several times by Tubo, and lost more than 400,000 troops and horses, and then defeated the Xi people and your country, then defeated by the Mohe, and later Turks, and had the largest territory in the world. Your Majesty's defeat was only a moment of carelessness. However, if the Northern Dynasties were strong and strong, they could wait for the opportunity to take revenge. Will this defeat be defeated next time? Moreover, Xixia is not entirely a desert area. On the grassland, which country can match the Northern Dynasties' army?"

"I heard that you have a very gentle personality and can speak."

"Wouldn't it be better to speak with a gentle attitude? But if you become stubborn, you will be stubborn."

"That's right, otherwise you are not a good minister, but a flattering minister. Who are you talking about Zhang Kang? But the one Zhang Kang in Daizhou?"

"It's this person."

"He has some vision."

"He is far above his ministers, and there are several generals including Di Qing, Wang Xin, Zhong Shiheng, etc.."

"Can they compete with Zhang Kang?"

"Each has its own characteristics, and it is almost the same."

"Didn't you command the Northwest Battle?"

"Minist can only be called participating, but in fact these generals play a greater role than those of ministers."

Zheng Lang's voice was out of the way, even if you got me, the Song Dynasty was still very powerful. Liao Xingzong believed and doubted, and said, "You keep driving in, let me listen."

This time, where Zheng Lang passed by was very sensational, and almost all the people from all prefectures and counties came out to watch. Especially those Confucian scholars, they all became crazy. Some Confucian scholars specifically chased from Yunshuo to Youzhou to listen to Zheng Lang's lecture.

What did they say to make the Confucian scholars in the country crazy?

Liao Xingzong was curious, and he was also reading Confucian books. So he wanted to listen.

"Here," Zheng Lang said calmly.

He was not very handsome, but even Liao Xingzong was moved by his posture. He was neither humble nor arrogant. He received many envoys of the Song Dynasty, and he had almost never seen them from other envoys. Fu Bi was good, but he smelled the smell of resentment from afar. Bao Zheng was good, but he was serious and boring. More people were corrupt and could only be submissive.

Zheng Lang continued to speak, and he glanced at the emperor. He couldn't say that the little emperor was running to thirty years old.

One thing he thought of was that his mother Xiao Nojin, which is said to be very ugly. She has a dark face and looks like a wolve. I'm afraid it's an exaggeration. Liao Shengzong was not favored for a time. Otherwise, she wouldn't have even created Yelu Chongyuan, or Liao Shengzong's appetite is different from others and she likes ugly girls?

Not afraid of being ugly, but this woman is very vicious. The Empress Xiao Boss of Liao Shengzong was very nice to her. However, as soon as Liao Shengzong died, she immediately eradicated Xiao Boss of Xiao Boss of her parents and forced Xiao Boss of Xiao to death. The little emperor couldn't bear it and persuaded her a few words, which aroused her dissatisfaction. Liao Xingzong was forced to give in due to the power of her mother's tyranny. However, this woman was still dissatisfied and colluded with Xiao Xiaoxian to abolish Liao Xingzong and make Yelu Chongyuan the emperor. It turns out that she wants to be the second Wu Zetian.

Yelu Chongyuan secretly informed his brother that Liao Xingzong took the initiative to regain power and arrested her and trapped her in the Khitan Qingzhou. When it comes to imperial power, people would also become beasts. Therefore, the weak and old man, Li Xian, the Emperor Zhongzong of Tang, was so weak and good. After Zhang Jianzhi successfully launched a coup, he isolated Wu Zetian about Shangyang Palace inside and outside until Wu Zetian died. However, this little emperor was very good, and released his mother back three years later. Xiao Nojin was still unwilling to give up at this time, and kept making small moves below, which made Liao Xingzong anxious.

The most tragic thing is that after the death of Emperor Xingzong of Liao, Xiao Nojin saw his daughter-in-law Xiao Tali crying and said, "You are still young, why bother to be so sad."

Isn’t it just a man? There are so many wild men outside!

He died later, but because of her small actions, Yelu Chongyuan and his son rebelled.

People say that tigers do not eat their children, or that is pitiful to parents all over the world. Parents’ hearts are good, and not feasible to everyone. Some people are the best, and they still eat their own sons!

When you meet such parents, you can only blame yourself for not doing good deeds in your previous life.

When Zheng Lang thought of this, he had an idea and said, "Your Majesty is here, I will talk about the "Spring and Autumn Annals" first."
To be continued...