1123 By example
Once the wheel of war slowly rolls forward, it means that this is the end of everything that has been done and also means a new beginning.
The history of human development is a history of war. Whether it is the integration of nations or regional compatibility, cultural and economic development, it is obviously because of war that all this has begun to begin with a new beginning in the end.
A long separation will lead to unity, and a long separation will lead to unity. In this way, while pushing a nation to become more advanced, it is naturally necessary to destroy the old and establish the new. Obviously, the best way to destroy the old and establish the new and integrate and merge all regions, cultures, and economies is war.
The remnants of Jin served as officials in the north, and the Xia people served as troops in the north. All of this was recovered in the north and captured most of the territory of Jin and Xia countries, how to truly integrate the two with the Song-ruled people and the army was a problem that Ye Qing must solve now.
Although Xia and Jin have returned to the North and have been integrated in commerce and trade, it is obvious that all this is a deceptive superficial phenomenon, and have not yet reached everyone's high sense of self-identity for the identity of Song or North.
After all, the territory seized by war is naturally some barriers between the people of the two places. If you want to eliminate these barriers, the people in the Jin and Xia territories, which are now occupied by Ye Qing, can be completely integrated with the people of the Song Dynasty and have a high sense of self-identity. Ye Qing can do the only way to bind the people of Xia and the remaining ministers of the Jin Dynasty to share hardships together.
War is obviously a lubricant that wants to completely integrate these territory into one. Only after living and dying together, whether it is the North, Xia, or Liao soldiers, can they achieve a complete harmonious relationship in unanimous foreign countries, thus forming a sense of identity with each other as the same kind.
Just as the Liao soldiers needed Yelu Yue's approval, after Yelu Yue agreed to follow Ye Qing to fight, the first thing that came to mind was to pull the current Xia army onto this chariot.
Humans are crowded animals, and trust, emotions, etc. between people are obviously based on commonality. In addition to looking at what he does on weekdays, it is to see whether the person can work with you.
Only after working together can people understand each other more and then use this to decide whether this person is worth dating yourself.
The same is true for the cohesion of a team. The success of a project will make everyone in this team more close and trust each other deep in their hearts, and will inspire stronger cohesion.
Once the project fails, it almost means the failure of the entire team, and the team will be divided or change players will become inevitable.
Ye Qing wanted to make the occupied Xia, Liao and Beidi cohesion in the war with each other through another war, thereby accelerating the integration of populations between them, thereby completely eliminating each other's attachment to their original identities and becoming a common and prosperous ethnic group.
After all, Li An was an emperor. Although he was not sure how many levels he had been demoted in a row, he became a marquis of the Song court, no matter how his title changed, he still maintained an unignorable influence in the Xia realm at this time.
Using Li An's influence, the Xia army mixed in Anxi Protectorate fought for the northern region, and finally, through the war, the regional and cultural gaps between the three major Protectorate armies were completely eliminated, and a real whole that was not distinguished from you and me.
As the saying goes: "Sharp edges are produced from dull stones, open fire accumulates from dark wood, precious pearls come from low clams, and beautiful jade comes from ugly purebred."
Ye Qing naturally wanted to temper the three major protectors step by step through war, thereby removing all kinds of impurities, and thus obtaining a more sophisticated army that can truly compete with the Mongols.
Although he has not yet attacked Jin, after Ye Qing had decided to attack Jin, his eyes had already turned farther away, that is, once he seized the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun as he wished, the opponent he had to face next was the Mongols who came and went like the wind and had strong combat power.
So at this time, he had to forge a large army through war and began to prepare for possible conflicts with the Mongols in the future.
Yelu Chucai's feeling about Ye Qing's attempt to attack Jin was getting stronger and stronger since he came to the Longcheng Barracks. When every letter of his was in Ye Qing's hands, Yelu Chucai's heart was already filled with a deep sense of powerlessness. All of this was obviously pushed to an irreversible level by Ye Qing.
Especially now, when Ye Qing and Li An expressed their meaning, even Li An, who had always had a flattering and pleasing smile on his face, guessed Ye Qing's intention.
Looking at Ye Qing with deep eyes, Li An unconsciously clenched his palms. At this time, he found that his palms were covered with sweat. He stuttered: "The officials are willing... the officials are willing... willing to go to the battle with the lord... as long as you give your order, the officials will definitely go through fire and water..."
"No need. If there was a day, how could I let you go to the battlefield in person?" Ye Qing smiled casually with a teacup on his face, then thought for a while and continued: "Since Xingqing Hou is willing, then you might as well discuss with Liu Keshi and Li Heng to see which army they are willing to draw from Anxi for your dispatch."
Li An's thin lips were tightly closed, his pair of triangular eyes were spinning around, and he was thinking quickly in his mind about what Ye Qing's words meant.
Obviously, if Ye Qing wants to fight, then it is natural that Ye Qing has the final say in which troops to be dispatched from the three major Protectorates. He will dispatch which one to be dispatched, and where to seek it.
What are the suggestions of Liu Keshi and Li Heng?
The entire northern region is now his, so Ye Qing asked himself, and then asked him to discuss with Li Heng and Liu Keshi which army to send to him to lead him. In the end, he wanted to...
Li An's pupils suddenly tightened, and the sweat in his palm instantly became more, and even his forehead began to sweat: Ye Qing asked him to lead his troops to fight with him, and he also wanted to take the initiative to ask Liu Keshi and Li Heng for soldiers. So what if Li Heng and Liu Keshi don't give him troops?
"Sir... Sir, you must have ordered Liu Dupu and Li Dupu will dispatch a large army to the officials, but if they are the officials... the officials will discuss with the two officials..." Li An's expression was full of embarrassment. He felt that Ye Qing seemed to have dug a big hole for him, and he jumped in without realizing it.
Yelu Chucai, who was silent on the side, cursed Ye Qing for despicable words in his heart, because at this time, he finally understood why Ye Qing said that he wanted to see how many troops he could bring to him during the meal.
Ye Qing had no intention of drawing troops from the Anxi Protectorate to Li An, and now he wanted Li An to lead his troops to fight with him. He could not just throw Li An as a pawn on the battlefield and die, right?
So Ye Qing's meaning was obviously aiming at the people of Xia State, or...
Yelu Chucai thought quickly in his mind. When Ye Qing's move was trying to kill Li An, or had other purposes, he inadvertently glanced at Li An's dodging gaze, his heart was shocked instantly. He seemed to understand why Ye Qing was like this.
Gently biting his lips, Yelu Chucai once again couldn't help but want to verify his guess. He looked at Li An and said slowly: "Half Xingqing, this is the last chance that Lord Ye has given you. If you are not sure, you may have to..."
Yelu Chucai's words became slower and slower, while Li An's triangular eyes became more uneasy and frightened as he said, which further confirmed Yelu Chucai's speculation about Li An. He continued to say: "After passing this village, there will be no such store..."
"Master Ye, the official..." Before Yelu Chucai finished speaking, Xingqing Hou immediately looked at Ye Qing, who was still smiling casually, as if he wanted help, and said hurriedly: "The official really has no other meaning. Those people... those people were found by them themselves. The official really didn't mean to be right with Lord Ye. He really didn't think about restoring the country. The official just wanted to do his best..."
"Is that true?" Ye Qing smiled very casually, but at this moment, Li An's eyes were filled with a gloomy sense of horror.
He had not dealt with Ye Qing once or twice. Before he usurped the throne, he already knew Ye Qing's character well. So when he knew that his secret was no longer a secret, he felt a deep sense of fear after being taken away. He was afraid that someone would immediately rush into this tea room and tie him up.
"It's true that the Mongols wanted to deceive the lower officials and restore the country, but the lower officials had no intention, but they..." Li An said it all in a panic in fear.
Yelu Chucai's shock at this moment was beyond measure. He had originally just guessed that Li An had done something secretly in Xingqing Mansion to restore the country. He had never expected that there were still Mongolians behind this.
Of course, what surprised him even more was how Ye Qing knew all this? And how Ye Qing did it, after learning about it, he was able to act so calmly.
"How many people are there now?" Ye Qing asked lightly.
Facing Ye Qing's problem, Li An swallowed several saliva in fear. His pair of triangular eyes looked at Ye Qing nervously and murmured: "No... less than 20,000 people are all in the Helan Valley." "Will they listen to you? Are there Mongols in it?" Ye Qing continued to ask.
Yelu Chucai continued to remain silent, looking at Li An, who had completely collapsed and had no masters, stutteringly answering Ye Qing's question.
The Liao people chased each other with the Mongolians on the grassland, which was enough to make the Mongolians feel a little difficult to deal with. After all, they all grew up on horseback, and they were also erratic and wandering like the wind. Therefore, if they wanted to control the various herdsmen on the Mongolian grassland in a very short time, they would definitely require the Mongolians to put in a lot of energy to deal with it.
What's more, there were Xingqing Prefecture and Xiping Prefecture staring at each other, and the Mongolians had to be on guard. Because of the entanglement of the Liao people in the grassland and Gobi, the Song people used Li An assassination to cause trouble for them.
Li An is obviously not a lord who is willing to be the king of a country that is destroyed. Although he was closely watched by Liu Keshi in Xingqing Prefecture, he still has the opportunity to come into contact with many outsiders in the past two years.
It is precisely because of this that he hit it off with the Mongols, hoping to restore the country with the promises given to him by the Mongols and live another emperor addiction.
When he was in Jinan, Ye Qing had already learned from the drunkenness of Mu Huali and Bolshu that even though Temujin had become the overlord on the grassland, after the battle of attacking Liao, it still caused dissatisfaction with the distribution of plundering wealth.
The tribes that were surrendered to the Mongols in Liao and Xia were obviously treated far less in Mongolia than those tribes who were dissatisfied with Temujin. Therefore, in order to balance and appease the tribes who were dissatisfied with the dissatisfied with the pressure from Song occupation of Xingqing Prefecture, the Mongols had to relax their control over the tribes that occupied the Xia Kingdom, and even used this to learn from the Song people, treating the Jin people as opponents to restrain them, and privately obtain Li An.
The full connection was hoped to create chaos and conflicts for the Song people in Xingqing Prefecture, which made the Song people unable to focus all their attention on the Jin Kingdom or their Mongols.
In short, in the eyes of the Mongols, the Jin people who formed an alliance with the Song people were like Ye Qing's puppets, so they also needed to support such a puppet to make Ye Qing restless and have to guard against threats from Li An, so that they could continue to quell the remnants of the Liao Kingdom and continue to expedition the eastern expedition to eliminate hidden dangers that might have come from the Song people.
Seeing Li Ann, who was like a stray dog, leave the tea room in panic, Yelu Chucai asked with some concern: "You let him go like this, aren't you afraid that he won't come back after he leaves?"
"Li An regards his life as more important than restoring the country. Which one is more important is that he has a scale in his heart. This is not what I worry about. Now the only thing I worry about is..." Ye Qing held the teacup and said thoughtfully beside his mouth.
"Are you worried that the Mongols would be wary? As the Li An incident happened, once the Mongols noticed, they would be more vigilant to prevent you?" Yelu Chucai asked.
In Yelu Chucai's view, the current situation is quite complicated. Both the Mongols and the Song people are very strong, and they are also using the weak, such as Jin and Canxia to make more plans, with the purpose of forming an effective restraint for each other.
To put it bluntly, Ye Qing has not yet attacked Jin. When his eyes were on the Mongols, the Mongols were also following Yelu Liuge and Yelu Sibu, and then he focused on Ye Qing.
The entire northern land, Xia, Liao, Jin and Mongolia are like a chess board, and now Ye Qing and Temujin are like chess players, the residual gold and Khitan Liao people, and even the Jin people are like chess pieces, allowing the two to play.
Although Ye Qing is not very clear about how the Wujing Road of the Jin Kingdom has developed, from Li An, we can also vaguely see that the Mongols and Khitan Liao people are obviously not standing still on the same spot on the Wujing Road.
"What would you do if Yelu Liuge and Yelu Sibu really opposed Jin? Will you stand on my side at that time?" Ye Qing looked at Yelu Chucai and asked.
"What do they have to do with me?" Yelu Chucai twisted his body uneasy and asked, with waves of uneasiness rising in his heart.
The strategy of adding two households to one household by King Wei Shao Wanyan Yongji was finally implemented. Although I don’t know what the Khitan Liao people will react to this now, Yelu Chucai could vaguely judge from the series of things that Ye Qing started now that the Khitan Liao people at this time might be starting to fight against Jin as Ye Qing and he had speculated.
"Aren't you a Khitan Liao from the Jin Kingdom?" Ye Qing asked with a smile.
Yelu Chucai's heart began to sink involuntarily, and his expression became much more serious. After a moment of silence, he calmly said: "You mean, once Yelu Liuge and Yelu Sibu rebelled, then the court would... treat the Khitan Liao people equally?"
"Will you treat everyone equally? But at least if you return to Yanjing, it's hard to say whether they will trust you." Ye Qing said relaxedly, then stood up and patted Yelu Chucai on the shoulder, and said, "Don't think about it. I don't know what the situation in the Jin Dynasty is now, but I know... all this is developing towards situations you don't want to see. Once the brothers of Yelu Liu rise up and raise the banner of anti-Jin, your family in Yanjing will inevitably be implicated. Even if the court will not touch them, will the ministers not attack the Khitan Liao people for this?"
"Then what do you think they will do?" Yelu Chucai stood up and followed Ye Qing and walked downstairs.
"Will the Wanyan royal family take the method of killing chickens and intimidating monkeys under the pressure of the ministers?" Ye Qing turned his head and looked at Yelu Chucai and explained further: "Yelu Liuge, once Yelu Sibu rebelled, will the court kill a few prestigious Khitan Liao people to serve as a warning to others in order to quell the rebellion as soon as possible and shock other Khitan Liao people? Don't forget, I know Wanyan Jing better than you, and my ears have always been soft. Although I didn't listen to our reminders this time, it does not mean that he has his own opinions. From my perspective, the reason for this is because he believes more in his royal uncle Wanyan Yongji, rather than my nominal gentleman."
"The reason you reminded him was that you hope he would do this? Isn't it just to intensify his decision to implement the two households and one household proposed by King Wei Shao to check and balance the Khitan Liao people?" Yelu Chucai's voice became a little cold in an instant.
At first, he really thought Ye Qing had a kind intention because after the two countries formed an alliance, he was really considering the stability of the Jin Kingdom. Now it seems that Ye Qing is so despicable that both humans and gods are angry.
It was precisely because Wanyan Jing wanted to get rid of the influence of Ye Qing that he deliberately made this reminder so sincere, which made Wanyan Jing involuntarily rebellious, or he still felt that Ye Qing's move was uneasy and had other intentions. In short, Ye Qing's sincere reminder who deceived him Yelu Chucai got everything he wanted, that was to watch the Jin Kingdom gradually move into internal strife, thus providing him with a rare opportunity to continue attacking Jin.
Ye Qing seized all these changes, and was also doing every step he had already thought of. Now it was obvious that the wheel of war had slowly started under Ye Qing's insidiousness, and destroying gold became his next goal.
Chapter completed!