Chapter 44, Yelu Dashi Kedun City, Liao Dynasty Northwest Road Recruiting Si Yamen Outside, with heavy snow falling, the biting cold wind howled like a ghost; inside, in the dark and gloomy room, a huge tallow torch burned blazingly.
Suddenly, there was only a "bang" sound, and the closed wooden window was blown open by the blizzard.
The strong wind outside the house immediately rushed in with snowflakes, and the flames twisted wildly, pulling the shadow of the man sitting inside the house.
It's like being trapped in a ghost.
The cold wind suddenly hit.
Even though he was wrapped in a luxurious mink fur cloak, Yelu Dashi couldn't help but shiver.
He had to stand up, close the window panel again, move a heavy cabinet to block the window panel, and then sit down again.
Under the firelight, he held the brush and frowned in thought.
Although he had already set up a government office in Kedun City and divided the officials among them.
Unfortunately, although Mobei has been governed by the Liao Kingdom for a hundred years, the cultural and educational atmosphere is still weak.
Literate people who are proficient in writing are rarer than the best horses.
Many trivial official documents are still only handled by him, the Khitan Hanlin.
What made him couldn't help but lament was the reserves and military power that Keyun City currently had.
"There are 80,000 army horses, 500 palace soldiers, 10,000 tribesmen cavalry, 200 pairs of iron armor, 3,000 pairs of leather armor, and there are still two months of food in stock.
Alas, I am a powerful country in the Liao Dynasty.
In the past, the territory was thousands of miles away, but now it is How can you still compete with the Jin people when you have been reduced to this little wealth?"
Since Emperor Yelu Yanxi of Tianzuo was defeated and captured two years ago, the shattered and collapsed edifice of the Liao Kingdom has only been left with the lone army of Yelu Dashi in the remote Mobei, and the northwest road to recruit Si Zhizhi.
Duncheng is such an isolated city.
In the past, when the Liao Kingdom was in its heyday, its territory reached Lake Baikal in the North Sea and encompassed the entire Mobei grassland.
It also established the Northwest Road Recruitment Division and the Ugu Enemy Lietong Army Division to control various ethnic groups in Mobei.
By the end of the Liao Dynasty, the Khitan people's control over the Mobei people had greatly weakened, and the Ugu Enemy Lietong Army Division had ceased to exist in name only.
However, the local nomadic people in this area still had not yet formed a unified climate, and only some local conflicts had occurred. , unstable tribal alliances.
Relying on the remaining power of the Khitan people in the past, Yelv Dashi could barely frighten the tribes in Mobei and keep the city of Kedun intact.
But the problem is that if he wants to rely on Mobei's manpower and material resources to confront the Jin Kingdom that stretches across the Central Plains, it will be like a mantis trying to use his arms as a chariot.
For overlords such as the Xiongnu and Turks who had risen in the past, and the Mobei nomads who had all the people as soldiers since ancient times and were known as "controllers of hundreds of thousands", the Khitan people had always been more wary and restrictive than they were against the Jurchens.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, efforts have been made to restrict the import of iron tools and salt into the grasslands, forcing them to use stones and bones to grind arrowheads for hunting, thereby weakening the military strength of these nomads.
At this time, most of the tribes in Mobei were extremely poor, and even tribal leaders might not be able to own a pair of iron armor.
Ordinary tribesmen are considered wealthy if they can get an iron pot.
In the era when the Liao Kingdom was powerful, this harsh policy effectively weakened the combat effectiveness of the grassland nomads.
Even if there were occasional rebellions, they would rise and fall.
But when all five capitals of the Liao Dynasty were lost, and only a corner of Kedun City was left, it became a huge obstacle for Yelu Dashi to reorganize his armaments.
Although they were also highly mobile cavalry, these men in leather robes and shooting bones in Mobei How can the unemployed militiamen with arrow clusters beat the heavy armored cavalry of the Jin people?
If we say that repelling the Jin soldiers and restoring the motherland is just a long-term plan, we can slowly wait for the opportunity and think of a solution.
So the current grassland white disaster caused by the snowstorm has made Yelu Dashi's weak regime almost fall into a crisis of self-disintegration.
A large number of livestock were frozen to death in the snowstorm, causing the gap in food supply to further increase.
Many warriors were frozen to death, which made Yelu Dashi feel sad.
As an important town in the northwest of the Liao Dynasty and a frontline military base for suppressing grassland rebellions, Kedun City's treasury has always been well stocked.
However, during the Jurchen war to destroy the Liao Dynasty, although the city of Kedun had not been invaded by the Jin soldiers, the troops stationed, the royal horses grazing, and the baggage stored in the Liao army were used many times by the Liao army.
After that, the grasslands were hit by disasters year after year, and the little savings they had were gradually exhausted.
Although Yelu Dashi had no choice but to dismiss most of the nomadic cavalry of the Mobei tribe that he had summoned before, allowing them to return to their own tribes to eat, in order to reduce the pressure on food and fuel supply in Ketun City.
But in the current city of Kodun, there is still a lack of iron ingots, a lack of medicine, a lack of cloth, a lack of salt, a lack of food, and even insufficient fuel for heating.
Although the only grains and livestock left in the treasury are enough for the entire city's soldiers and civilians to survive this winter, how will they survive the coming spring famine?
Yelu Dashi was so worried that he almost lost his hair when he thought about the trouble these clever women were having.
But even if he scratches his scalp, he can't conjure grain and iron out of thin air.
For grain and salt, he can also find a way to organize a caravan after the beginning of spring and purchase some from the Xixia people.
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However, things like iron tools that can enhance the potential for war are contraband that is not allowed to be sold on a large scale to the grasslands even in Xixia.
Moreover, the grassland has always been poor and barren.
Even if the Xixia ban is lifted, he will not have much gold and silver in his hands now.
As time went on, the glow of the tallow torch began to dim, as if the grease had burned out.
Yelu Dashi rubbed his eyes and threw down the account book.
Just as he was about to light another torch, he realized that the storm that had been howling outside had become silent at some point.
He immediately turned around, moved the cabinet, and pushed open the window panel.
Immediately, a bright sunlight fell down, almost blinding him.
Thank goodness it stopped snowing.
Looking at the clear blue sky with white clouds, Yelu Dashi felt a little confused by such a sudden change in weather, but he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
The rare bright sunshine in winter fell on him, making Yelu Dashi feel much warmer.
He was about to move his desk to the window and work while basking in the sun, but suddenly he heard a faint sound of music coming from a distance. music In this twelfth lunar month of winter when the wind and snow are raging, and it’s not even a festival yet, someone is actually playing music.
But a frontier fortress military town like Duncheng is not a big city like Bianliang or Yanjing, and there are no places for entertainment every night.
Even Yelu Dashi, who is the lord of a city, would not hire a bunch of musicians and singers to play for fun whenever he has nothing to do.
Not to mention that this is a critical moment after a snowstorm, when the soldiers and civilians in the city are hungry and cold, their hearts are scattered, and their future is uncertain.
Therefore, Yelu Dashi opened the window and looked around in confusion, but found nothing.
I even suspected that there was something wrong with my ears.
But the melodious and elegant music became clearer and clearer, and the more beautiful it sounded, just like fairy music.
It wasn't until he discovered the commotion on the city wall and saw countless residents pouring out of their houses and looking up to the sky that he paid attention.
I put my strength into the high clouds, and finally gained something: A majestic, magnificent, and indescribably luxurious palace floated out of the clouds while playing music in the distance.
The gilded roof tiles and carp statues shine with golden light, and auspicious clouds float around the palace, adding a touch of fairy charm to it.
This is so shocking, so magnificent, so soul-stirring, so unbelievable.
"Heavenly Gods" The soldiers and civilians in the city who saw this scene couldn't help but think of these two terms.
Seeing such a shocking vision coming from the sky, the residents of all ethnic groups in the city knelt down in unison, prostrate themselves on the ground, and muttered words, praying to the immortals in the palace in the sky to bless them.
Yelu Dashi was also hesitant to kneel down.
However, at this moment, the music from the "Heavenly Palace" above his head suddenly stopped, and a hoarse voice rang out: "Quiet, quiet, the real person who protects the country of the Song Dynasty, Guo Jing, is here specially to escort the coffin of the emperor of your country.
Where is the commanding stone Linya?"
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