What most people in this world are familiar with are the two widows next door, the big one on the other side, and the two widows diagonally opposite each other. A war that concerns the fate of the country. For the most ordinary people, there are a few people whom they are familiar with whom they have not come back and will never come back. There are still many people around him, everything is very lively, and I don’t know how the whole country is going.

It’s not that they are stupid, but that people can only know what they are. Unlike Du Zhongxiao’s previous life, whenever there are major events, TV, movies and various newspapers, everyone knows what to do.

This is the case with the Khitan now. Du Zhongxiao knew that the ministers and generals in the court knew that the Khitan would not work. But the Khitans themselves would not admit it as long as the Song army had not arrived there, and they would have to fight one battle after another.

After chatting with Li Fugui for a while, seeing that the time was almost the same, Du Zhongxiao changed into the public uniform and went to the living room.

Yelu Hongji was already waiting there, and when he saw Du Zhongxiao coming in, he didn't get up. He just sat there, looking at Du Zhongxiao coldly. Cui Xiang, who was on the side, was anxious, and Layelu Hongji erected the corner of his robe and asked him to get up and salute Du Zhongxiao. Where did Yelu Hongji agree?

Du Zhongxiao sat down in the main seat and looked at Yelu Hongji. There was not much time, and Yelu Hongji seemed to have changed. He had lost a lot of weight, had a lot of darker skin, and even wrinkles on his face. He was no longer the radiant look he used to be.

After the tea came, Du Zhongxiao looked at Yelu Hongji and said, "I'm here to report today, you want to see me. What's the matter?"

Yelu Hongji said: "I am the Khitan Emperor. Even if I surrender to you, I shouldn't treat me like this! I didn't eat for a day yesterday, and I heard that I wouldn't give it to you today. How could I surrender to you if I had known this day!"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Don't speak so urgently, say one by one. The first thing is the rule of the prison camp: there is food to eat when doing work, but if you don't do work, there will be no food to eat. If you do well, you will eat well, but if you don't do well, you will eat poorly. If you don't do work, you will naturally have no food to eat--"

Yelu Hongji said: "How can I do that kind of work like a servant? It's really outrageous!"

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Now it is in Kaifeng Prefecture, the Kaifeng Prefecture of the Song Dynasty, not in the Khitan. It doesn't matter what you are in the Khitan, what is important is that you are prisoners of war here, and prisoners of war are such rules!"

Yelu Hongji looked at Du Zhongxiao and said coldly: "If I don't work, will I never give food?"

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Yes, that's the rule!"

"I don't believe it. You really dare to starve me to death! If the king of my country is starved to death in the Song Dynasty, it would be a big joke if it spreads out!"

Du Zhongxiao looked at Yelu Hongji calmly and said lightly: "What joke? If you starve to death, you will starve to death. Why do people laugh? You still can't understand. Even if you die, you will starve to death. What does it have to do with me? I just set the rules for doing business and eating. This is how most people in this world are. If you don't work, who will farm? Where can you get food if you don't farm?"

Yelu Hongji said: "Of course the people are like this, I am a dignified heaven--"

Du Zhongxiao waved his hand: "I'll tell you again, the Kaifeng Prefecture of the Song Dynasty is not a Khitan! Here, don't put on the airs of the Khitan king, you are just a prisoner of war! I've told you many times, and now I'll say it again. If you do well in the prison camp, you can release it in the future and be an ordinary citizen. If you don't do well, then you'll be locked up here. Do you understand?"

Yelu Hongji sneered: "I don't believe it, you can really do this!"

Du Zhongxiao said: "To be honest, I don't know what it will look like in the end. You can wait slowly and see the results. But now, if you want to wait for the results, you must do your job honestly."

Yelu Hongji looked at Du Zhongxiao without saying a word. After a while, he said, "What should I do to avoid working?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's simple. If you surrender to the court and make real contributions, the court will naturally reward you. Those who were captured at that time had made contributions, but now they are good officials. They don't have to work and pay their monthly salary."

Yelu Hongji said again: "How can I make a contribution?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "I handed over the surrender to the present, and then sent an order to the Khitan generals to surrender honestly. If the court unifies the world, you are a hero, of course it is different from now. Don't hide it from you. The court's army has surrounded Fengshengzhou, and the lieutenant generals still lead troops to resist. As long as you can persuade the generals of several states to surrender, it will naturally be a great contribution."

Yelu Hongji smiled and said, "It's true! Khitaner Lang, how could he bow to you because of a defeat in the war! He wanted to force me to surrender to the states. What you think is beautiful! Even if I starve to death, I will not let you do it!"

Du Zhongxiao looked at Yelu Hongji and smiled and said, "Master, you think too much. It is naturally good to be able to surrender to the court to make contributions, but it is mainly a good thing for you. It doesn't matter if you don't do it. The Song army never thought of using your name to fight."

After saying that, Du Zhongxiao sighed: "After all, you don't understand. The Khitan was defeated in Youzhou, and the 400,000 troops were lost all over the past year, but in fact they were unable to resist the imperial army. So what if they didn't surrender? It was just a few more days to surround the Khitan. Even if they surrounded the hundreds of thousands of troops for ten years, they would not be short of food and grass. The reason why they wanted them to surrender was to kill less people's lives. Also, over the years, the Khitan wars have been constantly, and the people have worked hard enough. If they ended one day earlier, the people would suffer less. Do you understand?"

Yelu Hongji just sneered: "Let your tongue bloom lotus flowers, just to surrender without fighting in the place where I want to see me? Imagine!"

Du Zhongxiao didn't say anything. After a while, he shook his head and stood up and said, "What's the solution? You were originally the lord of the Khitan Kingdom, but you didn't care about the lives of the people under your command. I am the Privy Councilor of the Song Dynasty, and I have to think about them all the time. You said, how can you be invincible? Forget this, no matter how much you think, it's useless. Go back, if you want to eat, do your job honestly, otherwise you won't have food. I'd better make it clear, even if you are starved to death, this rule will not be changed. You don't have to think how important you are. Here, you are like everyone else."

After saying that, Du Zhongxiao waved his hand and asked Cui Xiang to take Yelu Hongji back.

Seeing the few people going out, Du Zhongxiao sighed. He really didn't think about what Yelu Hongji did. He was really ordinary in the prison camp. However, Yelu Hongji thought he was not ordinary and tried his best to be different from others.

If Yelu Hongji truly surrendered, the remaining Khitan defenders would surrender, and the Song army would be much easier to advance north. This is a fact and there is no need to deny it. But without Yelu Hongji, the Song army would not stop. The current Khitan has no strength to resist the Song army. Wang Kai and others have never considered the surrender of the Khitan at all, and are just preparing to attack.
Chapter completed!