I don’t know who said: “War is just a continuation of politics.” Just as the war is approaching, both countries began some political games and changes.

In the blink of an eye, it was November of the second year of Yongxi. First of all, a major event happened in the Liao Kingdom. The incident completely changed the political situation of the Liao Kingdom.

Emperor Shengzong of Liao appointed Han Delang to serve as the Liao Kingdom's political affairs order. This basically means that Han Delang fully assisted Emperor Shengzong in controlling the country's political affairs and people's livelihood.

At this time, Han Dejang had basically dominated the Liao Dynasty. Since Han Dejang was a Han Chinese, the Khitan government and the opposition always had some oppositions. Although it was not loud, it also showed Han Dejang's embarrassment at this time.

At the same time, a rumor began to arise in the Khitan country: Han Derang was the guest of the empress dowager Xiao Chuo. This rumor was serious.

The general content is: "It turns out that when Xiao Chuo was young, Han Delang was a childhood sweetheart. He should have married Han Delang. However, Xiao Chuo was later selected as a concubine by Emperor Jingzong of Liao, and the marriage between the two was abandoned. However, it happened that Emperor Jingzong of Liao was young.

Xiao Chuo died early, and at the age of 30, he was already a widow. So he was in the appreciation of Han Derang, and wanted to use Han Derang to protect their mother and son, as well as his thoughts to relive the dream of mandarin dreams. Under this dual purpose trend.

He had secretly remarried to Han Derang. From then on, Han Derang kept going in and out of Xiao Chuo's tent, hunting and handling government affairs. The two of them ate together, sat side by side, lie down in the same tent, and lived a married life.

. And the Holy Sect also served Han Derang with his father."

Although I don’t know whether the rumor is true or false, it is already very convincing to cooperate with Han De’s current status.

The spreader of this rumor was naturally a detailed work sent by the Song army. It was normal to launch a full-scale attack on the enemy before the war.

The dissatisfaction of the ministers in the court inside, and the attacks with messages outside made Han Dejun very uncomfortable. Just when Han Dejun was attacked from both sides, the appearance of a person changed all this.

Yelu Hugu, the governor of Zhuozhou of Liao Kingdom, recruited and returned to Shangjing. Yelu Hugu had offended Han Derang's father before and had a grudge against Han Derang.

This person returned to Shangjing with his identity as a member of Yelu's royal family and pointed at Han Dejun, which made Han Dejun very unhappy. During this day's meeting, this person criticized Han Dejun's policies, which finally made Han Dejun unable to bear it and finally broke out.

The cause of the incident was that Han De asked the court meeting to invite Emperor Shengzong of Liao to strengthen the troops of Yanyun prefectures in Xijing and Nanjing to prevent Zhao Song from invading.

At this time, Yelu Hugu spoke: "The Yanyun in Nanjing is the territory of your Privy Council Han, you, the Privy Councilor of the Southern Court, are you in charge of Yanyun's affairs? Do you want to increase troops in your territory? Are you planning to gain troops and gain self-respect?

Ah. Why did Zhao Song attack?"

"I am loyal to the emperor, how can I be respectful to my own troops? You, Yelu Hugu, slandered people with blood."

"Loyalty? People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, who can tell them clearly? What's more, you are still a Han Chinese. What if Zhao Song really wants to send troops to attack? If you have a large army, you will have troops to fight against me, Daliao?"

By this time, every sentence was already heartbroken. Han De asked his three generations of ancestors and grandchildren to serve the Khitan and were always loyal, but because he was a Han Chinese, he was always hostile and excluded by the Khitan ministers. This has always been the pain in Han Delang.

At this moment, Yelu Hugu's heart-killing words were all given up. Han Derang was already angry and rushed to the crown. So Han Derang directly snatched the bones in the guards in the hall and smashed them into Yelu Hugu.

Yelu Hugu never expected Han Derang to kill people directly, so he was not prepared at all. He was hit by Han Derang Yigu on the spot.

Seeing that Han Derang was at the court meeting, he killed Yelu Hugu with one blow, and the ministers in the hall were silent at this time.

Han Derang saw that he had hit Yelu Hugu and killed him, but he was not panicked. Instead, he threw down Guduo and immediately knelt in front of the Emperor Shengzong of Liao and said, "The three generations of ministers and grandchildren have been serving the Great Liao Dynasty, but have never been there.

There is no evil, and the loyalty of the minister is even more understandable. At the power of the emperor, Yelu Hugu is really because he cannot tolerate his attack, but when he is in the court, he is really unforgivable to see blood. I ask the emperor for punishment."

Although Emperor Shengzong of Liao was still very young at this time, he had been participating in politics for many years. Naturally, the interests of this matter were natural. Han Derang was a rare talent. If he was asked about him at this time, he would be cheap. The south side was already eyeing the Liao Dynasty.

Zhao Song. Moreover, Han Dejun has been suffering from troubles from all parties recently, so why not take this opportunity to establish his authority for Han Dejun to shock the inside and outside the court and the outside world?

"Han Qing asks you to raise your ancestors and grandchildren's supreme contributions to the Liao Dynasty cannot be offset by a few words from others. Han Qing cannot bear to Hu Gu's slandering his ancestors, but he is a filial person. And how can I not know your loyalty?

It is a crime to instigate the relationship between the monarch and the ministers, and you are killed by you. Han Qing and the others are the only ones who have dragged Yelu Hugu's body down and ordered his family to collect the body and bury it. Since he has been killed, he will no longer pursue other mistakes.

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After this incident, Han De let his prestige be completely established. He directly killed his political enemies and was not punished. What a power this is. So as Han De let his prestige establish, the Liao Dynasty politics finally settled down.

After the Liao Dynasty stabilized, it prepared for war in full to prevent the Song Dynasty from attacking.

...

But the Liao Dynasty's politics had just stabilized, but something happened to the Song Dynasty.

It was still the second year of Yongxi, but it was December.

On the first day of December, the phenomenon of food occurred. It was originally just a simple astronomical phenomenon, but in this era, food was not a good thing.

Confucianism has given many natural phenomena political significance since Dong Zhongshu proposed the induction of heaven and man. At this time, Tiangou Food appeared and said that God warned the king. Is there a problem with the king's behavior, or is it that the little humans and demons around the king are charming and harming the world.

It's right.

Zhao Guangyi, who was preparing for the war, suddenly encountered this Tiangou Shi, and his brain hurt. But at this time, Tiangou Shi said that there will definitely be ministers who will jump out to talk about the next day.

Sure enough, at the court meeting the next day, Song Qi, one of the prime ministers, jumped out and said: "Tiangou Food said that it is unknown. God warned him all because His Majesty intends to restart the war. The war is unknown. May Your Majesty

Dispel the thought of the Northern Expedition, issue an edict to punish oneself, appease the people, and surrender to God."

Zhao Guangyi was so angry that he heard this, but he couldn't find any refutation. Besides, because of the existence of Taizu's teachings, that guy had no choice.

Just when Zhao Guangyi was at a loss, Prime Minister Li Fang stood up and said, "I think the appearance of Tiangou Food at this time is not only not God warns the Emperor of Song, but rather God gives the Emperor the injustice to fight against the emperor. The powerful ministers of the Liao Dynasty are in power and even

It was a ruthless rebellion forcibly marrying the widow of the previous emperor. The Liao Kingdom actually let it go, but it was actually unfaithful and unrighteous. At this time, Tiangou said that it was the right to conquer this unfaithful and unrighteous country in the Song Dynasty. How could God give the opportunity to give it a good opportunity?

Pass."

When Zhao Guangyi heard Prime Minister Li Fang say this, he was immediately happy, so he came to climb: "Li Aiqing's words are reasonable. This Tiangou Food said is a signal from God to me, and I will let me go out to fight against the unrighteousness. So everyone

My dear, don’t have to say more, I will make a decision on the Northern Expedition.”

But although the crisis has been resolved, Song Qi really disgusted Zhao Guangyi. Later, someone secretly protected the Guangnan Transportation Army Wang Tingfan to make a mistake, and Wang Tingfan is also related to Song Qi. So Zhao Guangyi found an excuse. Song

Qi's position as prime minister was considered anger.

At this point, the obstacles to the Northern Expedition within the Song Dynasty were temporarily eliminated.

...

After the political obstacles in both countries were eliminated, the road to war was basically cleared. But this is not the end. After all, it is easy to find some helpers when fighting. So at this moment, both countries focused on the peninsula in the northeast.

In order to cause chaos to the Liao Kingdom to alleviate the resistance to the Northern Expedition, Zhao Guangyi sent envoys to Bohai and Goryeo to make an appointment with them to attack the Liao Kingdom from the rear when the Song Dynasty was invading the army.

However, the envoys of the Song Dynasty returned in vain. The reason was that the Liao Kingdom also sent envoys to these two countries.

Although the Liao Kingdom did not make an appointment with these two countries to assist in the war, they asked these two countries to stay there and not move when the Song Dynasty sent troops to attack the Liao Dynasty.

Naturally, the Liao Kingdom did not expect these two countries to help, as long as there was no trouble.

During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Liao, Goryeo was defeated by the Liao Kingdom, and the land was cedeed and the tribute was paid every year. I did not dare to form any intimacy against the Liao Kingdom, and this time the Liao Kingdom did not want Goryeo to send troops, as long as I was at home.

Just stay honestly. After weighing the pros and cons, Gao Li thought it would be better to follow the orders of the Liao Kingdom. So he rejected the proposal of the Song Dynasty.

The situation of Bohai Kingdom is different. Bohai Kingdom was destroyed by the time of Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji. Later, Abaoji signed his eldest son Yelu Bei to establish the Dongdan Kingdom here, and since then, Bohai became Liao?

Tomb vassal.

Although the locals in the Bohai Kingdom rebelled many times afterwards, they were all suppressed by the Liao Dynasty. After that, in order to ease ethnic conflicts, the Liao Dynasty asked the royal family to marry the daughters of the Bohai nobles in large quantities. Therefore, although they had national hatred and family hatred with the Khitan, they would like to share with you

The alliance between Zhao and Song is also unrealistic for Bohai.

So Bohai also rejected the Song Dynasty.

Even though his comrades were not able to get it, the unfavorable forms for the Song Dynasty developed again. On the other side, Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom came to the court and ordered Yelu Xiuge to recruit soldiers and prepare for war.

At this time, the Song Dynasty did not know about this, because in order to deceive the Song Dynasty, Empress Dowager Xiao sent Xiaozhu to walk in the Song Dynasty and lies that the Liao Kingdom was still in turmoil at this time and the internal situation was empty.

The generals stationed at the border were all very excited to hear this news, believing that this attack on Liao would inevitably lead to the recovery of Yanyun in one stop.

There was only one person in the Song army who was still awake at this time. That person was Zhao Weiji. He knew the history and knew very well the end of the war. Although he didn't know if the outcome of the war would be changed because of his appearance, he

Still don't dare to take it lightly.

Just when he was still preparing for the war carefully, he didn't know that he would encounter a big trouble in the upcoming war.
Chapter completed!