Realm of Power

The early summer rain was pattering under the window, and the rivers that had dried up all winter quickly swelled. The rain came quickly, and a teal was writhing on the noodles in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

A young man in a green shirt stood on the bow of the boat, looking at a flower boat passing by on the river. His thick black eyebrows couldn't help but frown slightly. The window of the flower boat was open, and a banquet was faintly coming out of it. The sound of singing, the young man standing with his hands behind his back standing on the bow, the side of the ship covered with thick baffles, the heavy waterline and the huge mountain-like imperial warship caused waves of exclamations from the flower ship.

Although it has been more than a month since the Empire took control of the Imperial Capital West Road, there are not many Imperial soldiers seen in the major cities on the Imperial Capital West Road. From the initial fear to acceptance, the Central Bians on the Imperial Capital West Road have begun to adapt to these Western continental soldiers. After all, the existence of human beings is not the same as the original rule of grassland people. Understandably, compared to the tragedy of everyone being a slave, the empire that abolished all slaves is much more peaceful. Moreover, the empire has re-divided the land on the Imperial Capital West Road, and a large amount of wasteland has been allocated to Central Asia. In the hands of civilians, this alone is enough Zhongbia, who had passed the Imperial Capital West Road, was full of gratitude to the entire Western Continent regime. Although he had begun to accept new things from the Western Continent, this was the first time he had seen such a huge imperial ship, let alone the one standing on the bow. He is a young man with black hair from China and Bia, who looks like As if hearing the discussion of these women, several more beautiful Central and Bian women ran out of the flower boat and pointed at the young man standing on the bow. The bolder ones even swayed. The fragrant embroidered handkerchief in my hand shows no fear at all.

This scene made an old scholar standing next to the young man say with emotion, "In terms of the means of restoring the war, the empire is indeed beyond my reach, Yelu Hongtai. In just over a month, the extinct imperial capital flower boats have all been destroyed." appeared, not to mention the population surged by more than one million in just over a month. Although it is still some distance away from the bustling traffic of Dijing West Road, it is far from me. Under the rule of the Yelu family, the situation is overgrown and rebellions are frequent. Moreover, I also heard that Miss Bonnie specially sent people to collect and treat the refugees from Central Asia in the south of the big river channel and introduced them to the Imperial Capital West Road. If this trend continues, I am afraid it will not take more than a year. , the population of the Imperial Capital West Road back then can be restored to 7788. With this transportation thoroughfare and hundreds of miles of fertile fields, the empire can easily solve the logistics supply problem of the army in Central Asia."

"If Patriarch Yelu wants the empire to send troops, just say so directly. It's not the Patriarch's style to beat around the bush like this!"

The fat man withdrew his sharp gaze from the flower boat in the distance and curled his lips slightly. The old fox never left Dijing West Road. He just wanted to remind himself that the Fengtai tribe was gathering strength in the north. Once the attack on the eight garrisons to the north of the Yelu family was completed, After completing the occupation, the next step is to go south and point directly at the Imperial Capital Plain, and to enter the Imperial Palace In the Jingping Plain, the Imperial Capital West Road, which is the gateway to the Imperial Capital, is the first to bear the brunt. This time the old fox did not hesitate to come in person because he wanted to tie the empire to his chariot. Judging from the current battle situation, the Fengtai Department has held the flag since the last time it entered the Imperial Capital. , severely humiliated the Yelu family, and the Yelu family was truly isolated.

"The clan leader deliberately released water to the north because he was worried that the Fengtai tribe would not go south to the imperial capital. After all, the current situation will be worse for the Yelu family the longer it is delayed!" The fat man smiled slightly, and he couldn't believe what the old fox said. There are 30,000 to 40,000 heavy troops in the eight border cities in the north. You can tell lies without blushing.

If it hadn't been for the old fox who sent Yelu Qiyeguang to the Imperial Capital, he might not have noticed that the old fox had re-adjusted the generals in the eight border towns in the north. The original confidants were all transferred back, and those sent to the Imperial Capital were all purged. The subordinates in question who were promoted and secretly surrendered may have originally had a strength of thirty or forty thousand, but now they are probably not even twenty thousand, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers.

Everyone knows that the eight border towns to the north of the Yelu family are on the Daizhou line, and they are like eight nails stuck on the side of the Fengtai Department. How could the Fengtai Department turn a blind eye to such eight nails? If you want to know about the Fengtai Department When to go south, just look at Fengtai Department You can find out by attacking these eight border towns at the right time. The so-called border towns were actually regarded as beacon towers by the old fox. The old fox didn't want to bear the infamy of crossing the river and burning the bridge, so he simply sent these people to death and killed them with the Fengtai Department's sword. It has nothing to do with him at all,

"Once it is discovered that the alpha wolf is unable to control the wolves, the wolves will automatically return to the newly emerged wolf king. This has been a law on the grassland for thousands of years. It is to allow the tribe to survive better. There is nothing to talk about. Loyal or not, even the peripheral generals under my command have defected to the Fengtai Department. If not, what about the eight northern border cities? How could he be swept away by the Fengtai tribe without any resistance?" Yelu Hongtai was enlightened by the fat man. Instead of blushing at all, he was extremely calm. At this moment, he was standing on the bow of the boat, watching with interest the people coming and going on the riverbank business road. The carriage is dressed in a green shirt, which makes the figure even more handsome. People who don't know better think that it is an old nobleman returning from the south.

"There have been a lot of people like this recently, and they have become a sight. For example, most of them are traveling on the business roads now. In fact, I am also curious why the Yelu patriarch didn't take in all these refugees, and didn't rob all these Central and Asian nobles. Instead of becoming a pauper, the fat man changed the topic when he saw that he couldn't hit the old fox with the eight border towns.

He looked away from a distance. The flower boat passing by just now really gave him an illusion. The development of Dijing West Road seemed to be a little different than he expected.

Aren’t these people from the south supposed to be bitter? Why are there people like this who hire flower boats, hug singers, and laugh all the way from the south? Such people don’t need to look to know that they are definitely not Common people, maybe even those so-called nobles who are proud to insult the empire,

The empire opened the entire Imperial Capital West Road, and these refugees with nowhere to go poured into the Imperial Capital West Road again. This is why in just over a month, the population of the Imperial Capital West Road swelled from about six million to The reason for eight million is that eight million may seem like a lot of people. In fact, compared to the population of nearly 20 million when Dijing West Road was at its peak, it is only less than half. , the Imperial Capital West Road can be completely digested. These are all production potentials, and the empire will naturally open the door to accept them. However, these children of the gentry are different. How can these people who are full of orthodox education in Central and Eastern Asia accept the rule of a foreign race? In fact, these people have also come to Dijing West Road, they are like time bombs one by one. Who knows what trouble will happen?

"It seems that His Majesty doesn't think highly of these noble children from China and Biya either!"

Yelu Hongtai smiled and said that he had robbed. For him, it was like a compliment. The empire's development policy in the occupied areas was indeed an eye-opener for Yelu Hongtai. The grassland people were accustomed to turning the population of the occupied areas into slaves, and then used these slaves to generate value, but the empire turned these people into civilians, and also gave them land and paid wages to those who worked. For the grassland people, it was simply unbelievable.

Since they are conquerors by force, they naturally want to enjoy everything. Keeping these slaves alive is already a gift from God, but they are actually paid to work? In fact, when Yelu Hongtai came to Xijing West Road this time, what he saw and heard greatly shocked him. The originally barren land full of weeds turned into a lookout in just one month. Countless fields that don’t reach the edge,

Just Yelu Hongtai's conservative estimate in his heart has already determined that once the autumn harvest comes, the food produced on the Imperial Capital West Road will be enough to feed an army of more than 200,000 people, and that's not counting the things he is looking at now. The land that the Central Asians from the south will reclaim in the future will be able to manage such a treasured land to such an extent that they will not even have enough food to eat. This shows that the grassland people are indeed quite incompetent in this regard.

Now seeing the Central Asians coming from the south, they even said with some emotion, "My Yelu family went south to attack Linhang, Xinjing. It affected not only the Linhang area, but also several towns south of the entire river. The province of Biya was originally prepared to sort out these areas, especially the Central Biya aristocrats. None of them are good. My Yelu family generally It was to turn them all into slaves, and it was refreshing to cut them down like this. However, because of the tragic defeat of Yanzhou, we had to give up this plan, and could only call back most of the troops who had gone south. In these southern areas, because of the refugees entrenched, they had already It is an area where bandits are rampant, and many people have formed a so-called rebel army to expand their power under the guise of resisting my Yelu family."

"For example, there are several large groups of bandits who have already raised their flags. The largest number is 20,000 to 300,000 people, and they control six or seven counties. The smallest number is 30,000 to 40,000 people. They occupy a place and call themselves Tianjun. In the south, The Zhongbia court has also stabilized its pace. In order to prevent the entire south from falling into famine due to the impact of refugees, Song Que, the shameless Some people even ordered the saturated southern parts of Central and Libya to refuse the entry of refugees, and some even used force to drive these Central and Libyan people back again. Even if I had to clean up such a mess first, I would already have it. It’s just beyond our capabilities. If not, why would a mere Song clan hold back my Yelu family?”

"Did Song Que give an order to refuse refugees from entering the south?" The fat man looked stunned. He really didn't know this. When the Yelu family went south, he was still watching the Long family move north, and was busy collecting the northwest and Yanzhou from the Long family. Dividends, who cares about this? The Long family fought bloody battles with the prairie people in the north, and the Song people rushed thousands of miles to uproot the Long family. They could do such an extremely shameless thing, and they could still count on Song Que. What,

Even the agreement was just a little bit of pressure on me, so I didn't accept it all immediately, and I didn't feel any burden at all.

The empire had just rescued the Song fleet from the Long family's attack. Song Que didn't even see him. He turned around and hurried to the Song camp in the south with more than a hundred of his confidants. He said that the war between the Song tribe and the Song tribe had been decided, and it was necessary to stabilize the situation. In fact, the southern base camp just wants to leave the alliance with the empire without leaving any trace behind.

This kind of person rejects the refugees and even drives them back. He can definitely do it. The fat man has already believed it for 70-80% of the time.

"There is no need for me to deceive Your Majesty on this matter!"

Yelu Hongtai also had a helpless look on his face, shaking his head and smiling bitterly. He could not see the gaffe of being a declining hero at all. His deep eyes were more like a wise man who had seen through the world, and he did not lead the prairie people to go south and massacre millions of people. The cold-blooded hero of the Biya people said in a solemn voice, "People say that our prairie people kill people like crazy. In fact, when it comes to killing people, Song Que is the number one."

"Our grassland people have killed at most one million Central Asians since they went south. In the winter that just passed, during such turmoil, many Central Asians starved to death simply because they could not be resettled. It reaches three million. This is still the conservative calculation of the Central and Asian courts. Those civilians who were affected and killed during the war and those who died due to the competition for territory by various bandits have not been included. If they are all counted, I'm afraid there are four million

"I'm afraid the Yelu family has killed not even half as many as Song Que!"

"I see. I was wondering how the Song fleet could attack Lichang in one fell swoop even though the main force of the Long family was heading north, but some of their spies were still there. It turned out to be because the entire waterway was in complete chaos, just like those The so-called rebels have probably been accepted by Song Que as one of his own a long time ago, so naturally they will not send any news to the Long family."

A look of surprise appeared on the fat man's face, and he smiled and said, "The clan leader has solved a piece of confusion in my heart today. The Song clan raided thousands of miles, such a long distance, and it was a panicked fleet. How could no one see it? How could there be no trace at all?" According to rumors, except that the Song clan used the power of the court to bribe all the bandits along the way and closed the eyes and ears of the Long family, there is absolutely no second possibility."

"Your Majesty is wise. Song Que's war strategy can only be regarded as average, but in terms of means, he is also outstanding."

"Taking advantage of the chaos in the Zhongbia court, he decisively led the large fleet northward and took control of the court in one fell swoop." Yelu Hongtai's voice paused with a gloomy face. "Then at Sancha River, Song Que clearly knew that my Yelu family would not continue. When moving south, they deliberately arranged people He made many provocations in the river and angered our army. As a result, more than a thousand of our Baihe soldiers went out to fight without authorization. They were trapped and killed by large ships and buried in the bottom of the river in vain. For this matter, I killed a general in anger. Cut off the heads of two Qian Dao Zhang, the second The genius reacted and became a stepping stone for others. It was just a loss of more than a thousand people. It was a defeat at most, and had nothing to do with the situation of the battle. But the next day, I received the news that the Song clan on the opposite side was preaching their victory everywhere, and Song Que claimed Kill my Yelu family More than 10,000 elite soldiers have sunk into the river anyway, and no one can see them. Moreover, they are said to have killed a general of my Yelu family and two Qian Dao Zhang. Through this battle, they have firmly established themselves in the court. Now that I think about it, , I, Yelu Hongtai, still feel a little itchy in my teeth."

While the two were talking, an imperial guard came up from behind in a hurry and whispered in the fat man's ear, "Your Majesty, I just received news that Song Que, the leader of the Song tribe, was attacked by the southern mountain people on his way back to the south. Intercepted and seriously injured!"