Great time travel

Chapter 66, Ketun City

Chapter 45, Cortun City
Ketun City is located on the banks of the Tula River in the upper reaches of the Orkhon River in modern Mongolia, in the northeast of Hadasan, Burgen Province.

Looking down from the sky, Kedun City in the Liao Dynasty was built on a hillside. The city wall was about ten meters high, and the length of each side was six to seven hundred meters. Not far from the east, there was a large frozen river winding north. , it is the Tula River that provides water to the city.

This city of Kedun in the Liao Kingdom was originally built by the imperial concubine in the 22nd year of Liao Shengzong Tonghe, and it was also named Zhenzhou. .The city is divided into South City and North City, which are arranged in the shape of Japanese characters.At that time, more than [-] households of Liao Shengzong moved to Bohai, Nvzhi, and Han distribution families lived in Nancheng, and they were basically artisan households.Beicheng is where the cavalry tents of the various tribes in Mobei under the jurisdiction of the Liao Dynasty are located.

Although Kedun City has a long history, its layout is not that big. Not to mention compared with Bianliang and Xiangzhou, even compared with Huining in the Kingdom of Jin, it is far inferior. Because of this, the city was even abandoned and deserted by the Khitans for a long time.It has only been used again in recent decades, but it has not been well repaired.Therefore, although the city wall is very high, it is also very dilapidated. At a glance, it can be seen that it has not been repaired for many years.In some places, there are even collapsed gaps.

Since it was originally designed as a military fortress, the entire city covers an area of ​​less than half a square kilometer.Moreover, the northern city that accommodates the army basically has no fixed buildings, it is a pure tent city.There are only a few streets and alleys in Nancheng, and some wooden or rammed earth houses of various colors have been built, and restaurants and shops have been opened. There are hundreds of Han, Bohai, and Khitan households living in various places, which finally makes this place a little prosperous. meteorological.

But in terms of the area of ​​the entire urban area, I am afraid it is not as good as a residential area in later generations, and the population and industry are even more incomparable.

——Due to the rise of the Kingdom of Jin, the import of goods from the Central Plains was cut off, and the business here was also hit hard and became extremely depressed.

However, no matter how dilapidated and poor it is, this is the last city under the rule of Daliao today!

Moreover, with the pathetic productivity level of the Mobei Grassland in this era, it is really impossible to support a larger-scale urban civilization.

Khitan, the once mighty overlord of the grassland, is left with only a few embers.

In short, after seeing the desolate and dilapidated appearance of Ketun City, Wang Qiu has no idea about making money from here.

Now, the only thing you can hope for is how many reward points you can get by changing the historical fate of this Khitan survivor.

——After a lot of chatter and farce, the Khitan prisoners who were rescued from Huining finally carried the ice coffin of Emperor Tian Zuo down the floating city, and all the strange events that happened before, They all told their compatriots in Ketun City exactly...

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Looking at the lifelike remains of Liao Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi through the thick transparent ice coffin, Yelu Dashi had very complicated feelings.

——No matter from which point of view, Liao Tianzuo Emperor Yelu Yanxi was not a qualified emperor.

Yelu Yanxi's father was the prince, who was supposed to succeed to the throne.It is a pity that Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji was fooled by treacherous officials. Not long after Yelu Yanxi was born, both parents were punished and killed by Liao Daozong.Liao Daozong later realized that he was wrong and killed the prince by mistake, and felt deeply guilty.So he loved this grandson who had no father and no mother very much, and wanted to make up for his faults, and finally left a will before his death and passed on the throne to his grandson Yelu Yanxi.

It stands to reason that it is reasonable and common for the throne to be passed on to the grandson. At that time, the whole country of the Liao Dynasty had no intention of objecting.But the problem is that although Yelu Yanxi was already in his 20s at that time, he had no interest in governing the country and had no talent.Because he has lived in love since he was a child, doing whatever he wants and doing what he wants.After he ascended the throne, he only knew to hunt everywhere throughout the year, which made the state affairs gradually slack.

Although there is still a group of old ministers who are trying their best to maintain the authority of Emperor Tianzuo, and strive to maintain the rule of the Khitan clan over the North.But this Emperor Tianzuo did a really bad job. He hunted all day, drank and had fun, was absurd, ignored the government, and caused trouble everywhere.Gradually, treacherous ministers were listed above the court.People at the time commented: "Emperor Tianzuo was addicted to wine and music, and he was desolate. He reprimanded the loyal and good, and appointed the small group. The creatures near and far were known to be ruled harshly." It is used for hunting (hunting), credit is framed, discipline and discipline are lax, and human feelings are resentful, so the Jin people take advantage of their weakness and attack."

After the Jurchens rebelled and caused chaos in the North, although the Khitan court was worried, they also felt that under the stimulation of life and death, it was time for Yelu Yanxi to cheer up.But everyone never expected that when the country was in danger, he would become an even more unbearable escaped emperor. It was just that the imperial conquest failed once, and he no longer had the courage to face the golden soldiers. Leaving hundreds of officials and the army to flee one after another—fleeing from Shangjing to Zhongjing, from Zhongjing to Nanjing (Yanjing), from Nanjing to Xijing (Datong), and then even fled to Mobei.Just like this, he ran away again and again, and finally escaped with unknown life and death: the country has not yet perished, but the civil and military courts of the Manchu Dynasty could not find the emperor!

Such a cowardly and incompetent performance caused the whole country to drop their jaws: Is this coward a scholar of the Song Dynasty, or a Khitan Khan?

I remember that when he was an official in Yanjing, Yelu Dashi once persuaded the Emperor Tianzuo, hoping that he would stop evading his responsibilities and gather all the remaining soldiers and horses in the country to fight the Jinren to the death.Even if the army is defeated and the country is subjugated, the great reputation of the Khitan ancestors who won the world in a hundred battles cannot be insulted.Unexpectedly, the emperor promised very well, and as soon as he turned around, he secretly took a group of concubines and guards to hunt somewhere.

After the disappearance of Emperor Tianzuo, the ministers of the Liao Kingdom who were still persevering also despaired. They ran and surrendered, and the rest were incompetent people who gathered in Yanjing City. Waiting for the moment when the tree falls and the hozen disperses.

Seeing that the 200-year-old foundation of Daliao was about to be destroyed in such an extremely useless manner, Yelu Dashi had no choice but to stand up and join forces with Xiren leader Xiao Qian and Han Prime Minister Li Chuwen to support the emperor together on behalf of the remaining forces of the Liao Kingdom. Uncle Yeluchun proclaimed himself emperor and established a temporary regime in Yanjing to lead the war of resistance.Facing the north-south attack from the Song army and the Jin army, these Khitan survivors struggled hard for two or three years, and finally they were defeated.

However, when Yelu Dashi finally escaped from the Jurchens' prisoner-of-war camp, led a group of soldiers and horses into the grassland, and joined Yelu Yanxi.This Emperor Tianzuo actually wants to punish him for the crime of treason and usurpation of the throne!Although through some negotiations and intimidation, Yelu Yanxi finally pardoned Yelu Dashi in order to avoid internal strife, but when the conditions were completely unacceptable, he refused to listen to advice and launched a full-scale counterattack against the prosperous Jinren ...In the end, he was completely defeated, losing the last military capital of the Khitan people on the northwest grassland, and making himself a prisoner.

So far, the big ship of the Daliao Empire, which has gone through 200 years of vicissitudes, fell apart and sank completely.

But the Khitan clan that once ruled the north, even though they were at the end of their rope, still struggled for survival.

Since then, two or three years have passed.Yelu Dashi led the last lone army of Khitan, guarding the city of Ketun, watching the disputes in this world with a cold eye.

During this period, all kinds of vicissitudes and changes in the world made them, the Khitan people living on their last legs, dizzy to see:

The Song and Jin countries, which once fought hand in hand with Liao, became mortal enemies in the blink of an eye.

It took only half a year for Jin Bing's horseshoe to cross the Yellow River with ease and hit the city of Bianliang, which is prosperous and magnificent.

The record of the Song army in Hebei and Hedong was actually even worse than that of the Liao Kingdom before, and it almost ruined the whole country's soldiers and horses in one year.

Then, when the Jin army went south for the second time last autumn, until winter came and the road was blocked by heavy snow, the Khitan people in Duncheng thought that even if the Song Dynasty barely held the capital Bianliang this time, at least they would Most of the Central Plains have been lost... Unexpectedly, a fairy with boundless magic power was born out of nowhere, not only attracting fire from the sky and burning up the Jin army in the Southern Expedition, but even plowing the courtyard and sweeping the caves, taking away the Jurchen's hometown, the Jin Kingdom's The capital will be peaceful!

——The rhythm of this shocking reversal made Yelu Dashi almost drop his jaw when he suddenly heard about it.

As a Confucian scholar who respects ghosts and gods, and a military and political strongman who has experienced countless battles, Yelu Dashi has never been too cold about cultivating immortals and worshiping Buddha, and entrusting his life to ghosts and gods.But now the brightly colored floating city floating above his head, the corpse of Emperor Yelu Yanxi in front of him, and the descriptions of those Khitan compatriots who flew all the way from Huining, but he really can't tolerate his randomness deny.

Therefore, while accepting this shocking fact, he regretted why such a true immortal with boundless mana could not be born in the Liao Kingdom.

Of course, for the Khitan clan who are already at the end of their rope, this is still a great opportunity to turn the corner.

——According to the meaning of the Great Song court revealed by the "true protector of the country" in his speech, the strategic goal of the Song people is at best to capture the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun and control the northern barrier of the Huahua World in the Central Plains.As for the extremely cold place north of Yanshan Mountain, instead of taking advantage of the enemy Jurchen, it is better to let the old neighbors Khitan come back as companions... After all, the two countries have negotiated peace for hundreds of years before, and each other is used to each other's existence...

However, the premise is that the Khitan people still have a way to rely on their own strength to fight back to their homeland and regain their origin from the Jurchens.

In addition, the death of Emperor Tianzuo also cleared the obstacles for Yelu Dashi's ascension to the throne, at least he no longer had to bear the stigma of "usurping".

Yelu Dashi shook his head, drove all kinds of messy thoughts out of his mind, lowered his head again, and silently watched the remains of Emperor Tianzuo... For a while, all kinds of memories of past life, as well as sadness, sentimentality, The indescribable emotions such as lamentation, bewilderment, etc. were mixed together, stirred randomly into a paste, and then rushed into Yelu Dashi's heart, choked in his throat, and he didn't know how to get it out.

——No matter how cowardly or cowardly, no matter how much he betrayed his relatives, until he died, this man in front of him was still the supreme leader of the Khitan clan, the ruler of hundreds of tribes in half the world, and the lord he once served wholeheartedly...

"... Your Majesty, Your Majesty, this is probably the last time I will call you that. Although what you have done is truly ashamed of your ancestors, of the heavens, of all peoples, and you simply don’t know what will happen after you die. I went to see my ancestors, but I will still bury you with the emperor's ceremony. It's just that my Khitan clan is already short of people and money, so I'm afraid I won't be able to afford the funeral objects, please forgive me."

He flicked the ice coffin gently with his fingers, and whispered to himself, "...But, please rest assured, Your Majesty. The country that was ruined by you will be restored by me; the country that was cut off by you will be restored by me; The capital that you abandoned will be recaptured by me... You can go there with peace of mind!"

After whispering here, Yelu Dashi took a last look at the ice coffin, then turned around and left with his cloak, and at the same time loudly commanded the guards outside the door:

"...Heading the order! The whole city celebrates, arranges a big banquet, and entertains the distinguished guests from the Song Kingdom in the most enthusiastic way!"

At the same time, Wang Qiu stood on the castle tower of the Japanese-style floating city, looking at the handwriting displayed in the "Book of Time Traveling", with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"...to change the fate of Yelu Dashi and the Khitan clan "Ju'er Khan", the founding king of the Western Liao Dynasty, and get 1500 reward points."

——The total score of "End Game" with [-] reward points is still [-] points away...

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