Chapter 320: Determination

"Oh my, Brother Yelu, why do you need to perform such a great ceremony? Please get up quickly."

Zhang Jie hypocritically walked to Yelu Yanxi and helped him up,

turning a blind eye to the hatred that flashed in his eyes but was extremely bone-deep.

He and the Tianzuo Emperor, although they had no personal grievances such as the hatred of killing a father or snatching a wife before this great battle,

but after one became the Great Gan Emperor and the other became the Great Liao Emperor,

and one wanted to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and even wanted to annex the Great Liao,

and the other wanted to surpass the ancestors and enter the Central Plains, they were mortal enemies!

No matter how gentle Zhang Jie appeared, or how forbearing Yelu Yanxi was,

this absolutely irreconcilable contradiction would not disappear.

Since they were already mortal enemies who had to live and die,

then why not squeeze out his last bit of utilization value without sparing any effort?

Is it possible to keep it for the New Year?

Even if Yelu Yanxi still had some utilization value, otherwise,

Zhang Jie would absolutely not mind letting him "die of illness" just like his end in history!

Conversely, if Yelu Yanxi had a chance,

he would absolutely not mind using the most cruel and humiliating methods to concoct Zhang Jie.

The operations of leading sheep, sealing "King of Heavy Confusion" and "Duke of Confusion," dividing the empress, concubines, and imperial princesses,

and imprisoning them in the extremely cold Five-Country City were not the patent of the Jin people.

Or rather, as the juniors of the Great Liao, many things of the Jin people, who were originally wild people in the White Mountains and Black Waters,

were learned from the Great Liao.

"Hmph!"

Seeing that the Tianzuo Emperor was still sensible, the generals took their hands off the hilts.

Wu Song's iron-tower-like strong body was once again submerged in the shadows of the big tent.

"Commander Lin, you must take good care of Brother Yelu from now on, do you understand?"

Zhang Jie ordered Lin Chong, and deliberately emphasized the tone on the two words "take care."

The war in the north would be handed over to Lin Chong, the Great Commander of the Front Army of the Great Gan's Five Armies Governor's Office.

He, who had completed the decisive battle and beaten the Great Liao to a pulp, was going to return to the dynasty,

and solve Fang La, who was still rebelling in the south.

Although Fang La's uprising caught him off guard,

he also had the intention to indulge Fang La to impact the pattern of the south,

and strike at those gentry who only knew about their families and not the country,

but he could not let Fang La completely rot the south.

According to the secret telegram sent by the Embroidered Uniform Guard in the south,

Fang La, who called himself "Holy Duke," was advancing triumphantly and was about to reach Hangzhou.

The south was a heavy place with the largest population, rich resources, and the most taxes,

if he really let Fang La disturb the south, he would really be too late to cry.

Moreover, if he really let millions of people die in the flames of war, his modern world view would not allow it.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, your subject will definitely incorporate the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun into the territory of our Great Gan.

If there is any loss, please cut off my head!"

Lin Chong responded solemnly and even set up a military order.

After speaking, his expression relaxed a lot:

"Your subject will definitely take good care of His Highness Yelu in the future."

He also emphasized the tone on the two words "take care."

The tacit understanding between monarch and subject was in such unspoken words: although the Tianzuo Emperor had such and such shortcomings,

and caused the Great Liao's hundreds of thousands of main forces to be lost in one day,

and the hearts and prestige of the people were gone, he was ultimately the orthodox emperor of the Great Liao,

and still had quite a few subjects, tribes, and cities loyal to him in the Great Liao.

If he were really given a chance to escape, not to mention integrating the entire Great Liao,

but integrating part of the Great Liao's forces was something he could do, which would undoubtedly bring trouble to their Great Gan.

Zhang Jie's meaning was very clear to Lin Chong: if it was impossible, the Tianzuo Emperor must absolutely not return to the Great Liao alive!

Although with the Great Liao's current strength, and the Tianzuo Emperor's unreliable ability,

the possibility of this happening was not very high, but it had to be guarded against.

The Tianzuo Emperor, listening to the conversation between the monarch and subject, only felt a chill behind his back.

Having been an emperor, how could he not hear the naked beating and warning in it?

"Your subject will retire first."

Yelu Yanxi, who felt his heart hair, no longer wanted to stay in this dragon's den and tiger's lair, and left.

"Li Dequan, send Brother Yelu off for me."

Zhang Jie, who had already developed the last utilization value of Yelu Yanxi, naturally had no reason to refuse.

Besides, the following topic was not suitable for Yelu Yanxi, a captive, to participate in.

"Your Highness, please."

Li Dequan came to Yelu Yanxi, bowed slightly, and led the way for him.

As for why he called Yelu Yanxi "Your Highness"?

Well, it is said that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, and naturally, one army cannot accommodate two emperors,

and Yelu Yanxi was a defeated general, what qualification did he have to be on par with Zhang Jie?

So his name as the Great Liao Emperor was not recognized here,

it was just that he himself and Xiao Wuna, Xiao Fengxian, and others who were also captives of the Great Liao called each other, entertaining themselves.

But Yelu Yanxi was ultimately the Son of Heaven of the Great Liao, a great country,

it was not good to humiliate him too much, Wu Yong, Chen Wenyun, and others discussed,

and decided to use "Your Highness," a title equivalent to a prince, to call him.

"Your Majesty, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have fallen into the hands of the Great Liao for a hundred years,

the people there are afraid that they only know the Great Liao, and do not know our Central Plains."

After sending off the Tianzuo Emperor, mentioning the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun again, Chen Wenyun said with great emotion.

"A hundred years is too long, a full five or six generations, there is no way."

Wu Yong, shaking his goose feather fan, sighed.

"Sigh..."

Even Zhang Jie could not help but sigh in his heart.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun had been ruled by northern nomadic regimes for more than four hundred years since they were offered to the Great Liao by the Child Emperor Shi Jingtang in history,

and the identity of the local Han people gradually changed,

even becoming the power of foreign races to invade the south, further aggravating the difficulty of the Central Plains in recovering lost territory.

The Han army hereditary lords commanded soldiers and people, managed money and grain, and played a key role in the process of the Mongol and

Yuan dynasties conquering and ruling the Central Plains.

The most representative Han hereditary lord families that appeared in the Yuan Dynasty were called the "Four Great Hereditary Lords":

Gongchang Wang family: The Wang Shixian family guarded Gongchang (present-day Longxi, Gansu),

controlled the border area of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan, and was the most prominent meritorious family during the Kublai Khan period.

Zhending Shi family: They were important supporters of Kublai Khan's implementation of Han law.

Dongping Yan family: The Yan Shi family controlled Dongping Road in Shandong.

Shuntian Zhang family: The Zhang Rou family became the vanguard of attacking the Song after surrendering to the Mongols,

and his son Zhang Hongfan was the meritorious official who destroyed the Song, and also captured Wen Tianxiang, the Prime Minister Wen.

In the eyes of these hereditary lords, they were no longer Han people.

If it weren't for Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang defeating the Great Yuan, unifying the world, and taking back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun,

this land would have been far away from the embrace of China.

The term "re-creating China" was a very formal fact!

'It's still in time.'

Zhang Jie withdrew his scattered thoughts and focused on the present.

Although the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun had fallen into the dust of barbarians for a hundred years,

it was not as if it had experienced the Liao, Jin, Mongol, and Yuan for a full four hundred years like in the Yuan Dynasty.

Zhang Jie then solemnly looked at Lin Chong and said: "Brother Lin,

if anyone dares to block, do you know what to do?"

"Your Majesty, your subject knows it very well."

Lin Chong, whose expression had always been very peaceful, more like an ordinary middle-aged man than

a general commanding tens of thousands of troops, also showed ruthlessness on his face:

"If anyone dares to block our Great Gan's great cause of re-creating China,

your subject will definitely make him regret coming to the world!"

"That's very good."

Zhang Jie nodded with satisfaction after getting the answer he wanted.

It is difficult to change the hearts of the people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun who are toward the Great Liao,

but their Great Gan is very good at solving the bodies that carry the hearts.

On the previous battlefield, tens of thousands of broken,

missing arms and legs, Liao army corpses were all evidence of this fact.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun must return to the embrace of Han civilization,

if anyone is really stubborn, then don't blame him for raising the butcher knife. ===== CHAPTER 321 =====