[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them":3,"chapter-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-304":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Transmigrated to the Northern Song with Them",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2319194,4535,"Chapter 304: The Resolve of a Mature Corrupt Minister","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-304",304,"\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Duoli Lan and Xiao Guige, leading a group of Liao women, had just moved into Chengping Palace when they learned from the remaining Liao beauties still residing there that most of the previous Liao women in Chengping Palace had entered Zhao Yu’s harem and become his concubines; only a few, bound by deep obsessions or attachments, had held on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, many Liao women were stunned—none had imagined Zhao Yu truly intended to take them into his harem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As steppe women raised in a culture of bride abduction, they could understand being taken as war trophies into Zhao Yu’s harem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They simply never expected the Zhao Song dynasty, famed as a land of ritual and propriety, would engage in such blunt and unhidden plunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But then again, if the steppe peoples could act on the first day, the farming peoples had every right to respond on the fifteenth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when the Liao was strong, did any year pass without southern raids to gather fodder and seize Han people as slaves, plundering Han wealth for their own indulgence?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, how else to explain that the Liao’s total population of roughly ten million included five to six million Han, outnumbering all other ethnic groups combined?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Liao iron hooves trampled Zhao Song’s lands; Han sons and daughters screamed beneath Liao cavalry blades, countless families shattered, endless tears shed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, fortune has turned: Zhao Song is strong, the Liao is collapsing, and Zhao Yu has taken them for his own—what is wrong with that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is simply the cycle of heaven’s justice—retribution never fails. Though they resented their fate, they understood its reversal: like the wind across the steppe, sometimes gentle, sometimes wild, unpredictable, and beyond control—only by yielding could one survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the Liao beauties said that all previous Liao women who entered Zhao Yu’s harem had done so willingly, out of their own weakness; Zhao Yu had never forced any of them. Even those still in Chengping Palace received ample food and clothing, and suffered no abuse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This eased many Liao women’s hearts; some even felt Zhao Yu still possessed a measure of righteousness—he had not slaughtered or trampled them, the conquered, but granted them dignity as war prizes. Their fear and rage at being dragged to a foreign land softened slightly, offering a sliver of comfort amid their dread and unease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Duoli Lan and Xiao Guige, with the group of Liao women, waited anxiously in Chengping Palace for three days—no good news came from Yelu Yanxi, nor did Zhao Yu summon them to his bed; instead, they received word that Xiao Fengxian had come to see them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing Xiao Fengxian had arrived, Xiao Duoli Lan and Xiao Guige, desperate and frantic, immediately went to meet him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After their reunion, Xiao Fengxian struck first: “Your Majesty the Empress, Your Majesty the Yuanfei—disaster has come…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Xiao Fengxian told Xiao Duoli Lan and Xiao Guige how Zhao Yu had forced Yelu Yanxi to abdicate in favor of Yelu Ao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Xiao Duoli Lan and Xiao Guige were both stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet after their shock passed, they found it inevitable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current situation: the Liao’s house was already ablaze, and the fire was clearly out of control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically, Yelu Yanxi, as head of the household, should rally his family to fight the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yelu Yanxi chose to ignore the fire entirely, fleeing only for his own safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The neighboring Zhao Song dynasty, fearing the fire would spread to its own home, could not stand idly by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Zhao Song could only act to help extinguish the fire—or prevent it from reaching its own walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The best solution now was to remove the head of household who cared only for his own escape, heedless of the ruin to his own home and neighbor’s, and install a new leader willing and able to fight the fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yelu Ao, who fit perfectly in every way, was an excellent choice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, Yelu Ao was Zhao Yu’s adopted son; if he ascended, Liao and Zhao Song could more easily unite—perhaps the Liao’s only chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, from the Liao’s perspective, Zhao Yu’s backing of Yelu Ao was the best possible course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was only true from the Liao’s perspective—not from the viewpoint of Xiao Fengxian, Xiao Duoli Lan, and Xiao Guige, especially Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Guige.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recall: to help Yelu Ding defeat Yelu Ao, Xiao Fengxian had driven Yelu Yudu into rebellion, purged all political forces behind Yelu Ao (primarily the Xiao Seshe family), and nearly killed Yelu Ao himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Xiao Guige did not directly participate, she was among the greatest beneficiaries—and thus inevitably would be hated by Yelu Ao by association.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Xiao Duoli Lan might be dragged down by Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Guige’s actions, later targeted for vengeance by Xiao Seshe and Yelu Ao.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Learning this outcome, even the mild-mannered Xiao Guige could no longer hold her tongue: “You, as the state’s minister, entrusted to aid the sovereign, have brought the nation to ruin—how dare you still draw breath?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Fengxian had no reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For marrying his sisters Xiao Duoli Lan and Xiao Guige to Yelu Yanxi, and winning Yelu Yanxi’s favor, Xiao Fengxian had risen to Grand Secretary, Guardian of the Three Excellencies, and Prince of Lanling—unquestionably the most powerful man in Liao, second only to the emperor, long controlling its reins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet under Xiao Fengxian’s rule, the Liao teetered on the brink of collapse, its people’s loyalty crumbling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Fengxian’s crimes were unforgivable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Fengxian knew full well what he had done—and knew that unless he saved himself, he would be flayed alive, and his entire family would perish.\u003C\u002Fp>",947,"2026-06-20T15:06:50.687Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","91cdbfc63018d94b119f33774b2a55b2b3cbf8b8a357e9c60f4cd5952f2d170d","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-305","i-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-chapter-303",348,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-transmigrated-to-the-northern-song-with-them-cover.jpg"]