It has been a year since the Liao Kingdom lost Yanyun. This year can be regarded as the most difficult year for the Liao Kingdom since the founding of the Liao Emperor Yelu Abaoji...

Looking through the history of the Liao Kingdom, whether it was the rebellion of brothers, the power gains from the Shulu family, or the three princes and their descendants' struggle for the throne, they did not lose the serious blows that Yan Yun brought to the entire Liao Empire.

The most tragic thing is that after losing Yanyun, the Liao Kingdom was surprised to find that this land seemed to be not just a strategic role, and this land even influenced the entire people's livelihood of the Liao Kingdom.

Because a large part of the grain problems in the Liao Kingdom now have to be solved by farming, and although the entire Great Liao Empire is broad, the real main farming area is Yanyun. Now that it has lost Yanyun, the Liao Kingdom has returned to the situation where the entire country has to rely on grazing to solve the grain problems.

It was raining all night. In the winter after Yanyun was lost, the northern grassland was attacked by a cold current. Blizzards swept across three quarters of the entire territory of the Liao Kingdom, causing almost all the cattle and sheep of the herdsmen to be killed or injured.

The powerful Liao Empire was severely damaged, and even more unlucky things happened. The Song Dynasty in the south came up with a plan that made the Liao Kingdom worse.

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"Brother is worthy of being the eldest brother. You have already suffered so much from this Liao Kingdom."

During this year of garrisoning in Yanyun, Yang Yanzhao could have witnessed with his own eyes how Liu Rang made the whole Liao Kingdom go all the way, which deepened his admiration for Liu Rang's ability.

Liu Rang felt a little embarrassed about Yang Yanzhao's praise: "Brother, I'm sorry. This strategy can achieve the effect today. It can be said that it is caused by the combination of the right time, place, and people. Brother, in fact, is not as great as you said."

"The right time, place, and people, and brother, tell me in detail."

"This day, there was a snow disaster in the Liao Kingdom in winter, do you know?"

Yang Yanzhao nodded. The heavy snow in the Liao Kingdom in winter was basically no one in the north. Although Yan Yun was not affected by the cold current, a large number of victims who escaped from the Liao Kingdom spread the news throughout Yanyun, and even to Bianliang City.

"If it weren't for the heavy snow, this strategy wouldn't have worked so quickly."

"Where is the location?" Yang Yanzhao continued.

"I have to thank Your Majesty for your advantage. Your Majesty has no say in the support you have given me. I have never seen such an emperor who has no doubts about using people. You may have to count your Majesty except Emperor Gaozu of Han and Emperor Taizong of Tang. To be honest, now, in the entire Hebei North Road, I am really no different from the local emperor. Except for the military power in your hands, you Yan Zhao, I have the power of giving, financial power, and even personnel appointment and removal power throughout the journey.

After having these, I will be no longer able to implement this strategy. Your Majesty is the biggest contributor."

When Liu Rang said this, Yang Yanzhao could clearly feel the sincere admiration and loyalty towards Zhao Weiji. It was truly a reflection of the death of a scholar as a confidant here.

"Then now my brother has to talk about the harmony."

"People and people? This person and people are of course our Lord Xiao." Liu Rang said, pointing to Xiao Qi, who had been laughing beside the two of them just now but did not say a word.

The conversation between Liu Rang and Yang Yanzhao was a torture for Xiao Qi. After he was returned a year ago, he realized the fact that all his plans were no longer possible. When he joined the Song army and was found out by the Liao Kingdom, he became the public enemy of the entire Liao Kingdom.

Even if he now finds all the weaknesses and imitations of the Song army's new weapons and brings them all back to the Liao Kingdom, it will not be able to cleanse the stigma of his traitors. No one will believe that he joined the Song army just to revenge Yelu Hugu, and then there is a plan to save the country in a curve.

After seeing this reality clearly, Xiao Qi could only serve Song Ting wholeheartedly, because even the entire Han people in Yanyun despise him. If he left Song Ting, he might not even be able to guarantee his personal safety.

And in this case, he was recruited by Liu Rang. If Liu Rang knew very well about the Han people and the Han areas of the Liao Kingdom, then Liu Rang was not very clear about the Khitans and their traditional life.

But Liu Rang asked Xiao Qi to help him solve this problem. As early as when he was a left-behind Xijing, Liu Rang had heard of Xiao Qi's name.

This rising star in the Liao Dynasty's political arena is well-known all over the world. Liu Rang never dreamed that such a person would surrender to the Song Dynasty.

However, when Liu Rang learned about the entire process of Xiao Qi surrendering to Song, Liu Rang really felt that the person who forced Xiao Qi to a dead end was even more terrifying.

But no matter how Liu Rang asked Yang Yanzhao for the reply he had received, he would be incomparable. This made Liu Rang feel extremely regretful. If Liu Rang thought that if he could get help from this person, his soon-to-be-development governance in Yanyun would be extremely smooth.

However, even so, Liu Rang successfully started his plan in Yan Yun because he knew that the emperor gave him such great power was not just to implement a small-scale official system of the north and south, but he must have greater ambitions to let him realize it.

In fact, when Liu Rang took over Yan Yun, the entire Yan Yun's environment was already very conducive to his governance, because Zhao Weiji used the strategy offered by Liu Rang to sort out the entire internal environment of Yan Yun.

Here, we have to mention the policy that Liu Rang had previously offered to Zhao Weiji. In Zhao Weiji's words, this policy is to fight against local tyrants and divide the land.

In Liu Rang's previous plan, in order to get the support of the Han people in Yanyun, Liu Rang gave a solution to give them land.

Yanyun is not like the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, due to the beginning of preliminary industrialization, arable land is no longer so important to the people.

But it is different in Yanyun. Because it is still under the rule of the Liao Kingdom, it is quite attractive for ordinary people to own a piece of land of their own.

It was precisely because of this that Liu Rang made a plan to fight the local tyrants and divide the land as the core. However, although it was to fight the local tyrants, Liu Rang did not use violence to drive the local tyrants out of Yan Yun.

In this era, everyone knows what kind of power the aristocratic families have. These Yanyun's aristocratic families are still prosperous even under the rule of the Khitans.

Moreover, Liu Rang, who was left behind in Xijing, had also dealt with these big clans for many years, so he naturally knew that it was not easy to deal with these big clans.

But because of this, he also knew what these big clans wanted.

What did the Yanyun clan want? It was a political status that suited its family status. Although the influence of the aristocratic clans in the court began to gradually be weakened after the name Wu Zhou, no one dared to truly ignore the power that these clans could produce.

It is precisely because of this that the aristocratic families in the Central Plains still have a good political status. However, this is limited to the aristocratic families in the Central Plains.

Since the Yanyun clan in the north has been ruled by the Khitans for nearly a hundred years, their ambitions have never been realized.

After all, it is certain that the person who is not of our race will be different not only for the Han people, but also for other ethnic groups. There are too few Han people in the political arena of the Liao Kingdom with great officials like Han Delang.

It is precisely for this reason that Liu Rang gave Zhao Weiji a suggestion, asking Zhao Weiji to use some of his official positions to exchange for the Yanyun clan's part of the land interests of these Yanyun clans in Yanyun provinces, so that the strategy of dividing land could be implemented.

Zhao Weiji also accepted his suggestion. Zhao Weiji, who is undergoing official system reform, just needs some fresh blood to replenish the court. This is why when Liu Rang took over Yan Yun, the political situation before him was already very favorable.

It is precisely because of the extremely favorable political environment within Yanyun and the strong support of Emperor Zhao Weiji that Liu Rang began a fact of extinction after initially completing the northern and southern official system of the Song Dynasty.

This desperate plan is to hollow out the foundation of the Liao Empire and turn the Liao Kingdom building into a tower in the air.

Liu Rang learned from Xiao Qi that an important thing about the Liao Empire was that although the Liao Kingdom was established for a hundred years and had been centralized in a certain amount of time in recent years under the leadership of Han Derang, this country was established by nomadic peoples after all. Tribes are still the main body of this country. Since tribes are the main body of this country, the people of this country will definitely put the interests of the tribe before the interests of the country, just as the big clans in the Central Plains put the interests of the family first.

Based on this, Liu Rang designed a plan to poach those marginal tribes from within the Khitan. He asked these Khitans who still lived in Yanyun to contact those tribes with more miserable lives on the edge. He gave them some generous conditions to allow them to migrate to Yanyun.

Since ancient times, nomadic peoples have been in a tradition of migrating to the inland. In addition, after the Yanyun War, the two countries entered a period of temporary peace, which also made these tribes migrating to the inland less guilty.

With God's help, a super snow disaster hit most of the Liao Kingdom in winter, and countless livestock were frozen to death in winter. In addition, the loss of Yanyun made the Liao court unable to provide so much food to provide disaster relief.

Under such circumstances, those tribes that could not even guarantee their lives could not resist the large number of migrating to the mainland from the Song Dynasty.

This made Liu Rang's policy show amazing results in a short period of time, making it even more difficult for the Liao court, who was already in internal and external difficulties.

The dilemma of the Liao Kingdom is far from over. At the end of this year, a person who had protected the Liao Kingdom for many years passed away. A legendary woman named Xiao Chuo, the Empress Dowager Chengtian of Liao Kingdom, passed away.
Chapter completed!