Yelu Zongzhen came all the way west and stayed in each place for only a few days at most. In mid-June, he finally arrived in Fengshengzhou. This was originally a place where Khitan often used Nabo, so he stayed here for a few more days to handle political affairs, just as it was the summer Nabo.

After the Khitan took the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun from Shi Jingtang, the affairs were all under the jurisdiction of Nanjing, located in Youzhou. Geographically, these sixteen prefectures were divided into front and back of the mountain. The front of the mountain was centered on Youzhou, and the back of the mountain was centered on Yunzhou, because the back of the mountain was in the west, which was also called Shanxi.

However, by this era, Yunzhou had not yet become the ruling center of the Khitan in the Shanhou area. Historically, after Yelu Zongzhen personally conquered Dangxiang, he promoted Yunzhou to Xijing and became independent from Nanjing Road. The establishment of Xijing Road was to prevent the Song Dynasty from taking the opportunity to attack after the relationship with Dangxiang broke down. In order to prevent the Song Dynasty from taking the opportunity to attack, Khitan had always been the Zhaoyao Department in the southwest, which belonged to the same financial district as Xijing Road, but not the same military district.

By this year, the center of the Khitan ruled in the back of the mountain was Fengshengzhou, which was the director of the five Jiedu governors of the five Jiedus. The five Jiedus were established in the five Jiedus, and they had become an independent financial district. Occasionally, the Shanhou Tuan was in charge of the military affairs of the five Jiedus in the back of the mountain, but they had to jointly decide on local affairs with the Fengsheng Army Jiedus. The southwest part of the Zhaodan Department was not within these five provinces, but was an independent military defense zone. In fact, the Khitan had a strong sense of existence there, and he was just using the Zhaodan Department to deter the detention.

If there was no history of Yuan Hao's large-scale recruitment of the Dangxiang tribe and no military pressure on the opposite Song Dynasty Hedong Road, the Khitan would not have used Yunzhou to replace the status of Fengshengzhou. The Khitans originated from the east, fishing and hunting nations, and had no strong interest in the grassland. The Khitan rulers of all dynasties basically went to Fengshengzhou in the west, and then went west with a bit of a transformation.

It is precisely because of this that when the Song army arrived in Yinshan, a large number of grassland tribes wanted to escape from the Khitan. In the past, the Khitan never regarded that area as its own land, and had no administrative agencies, so they appeared there as a conqueror.

The military quota of Fengshengzhou is the Wuding Army, so the person in charge of the affairs of the mountain behind the mountain was the Jiedushi of Wuding Army.

The governor of the Wuding Army was Liu Wuchang, the brother of Liu Liufu. Since Yelu Zongzhen arrived here, he has been discussing matters with several kings and prime ministers every day. The turmoil occurred in the southwest of Zhaodaosi and had nothing to do with his jurisdiction. He just wanted to gather troops and deal with the supply and demand of food and grass for the army to conquer the army. He was a little busy and did not care about his own affairs, so he was not nervous.

After entering Yelu Zongzhen's imperial tent, Liu Wuchang performed the etiquette and said, "Report to your Majesty, the county, the camp and township soldiers have been ordered. Just wait for the imperial edict to gather together and go west to fight."

From Youzhou to Yunzhou, it is all places that are mainly farming, and it is relatively easy to gather troops. At this time, the wheat has been harvested, and the farming is not so busy. The warriors will have relatively little impact on production. However, the Khitan only uses these people as auxiliary forces for transporting food and grass. The real warriors can only rely on the Khitans and Xi people, nomadic, fishing and hunting tribes to gather at this season.

After asking about Liu Wuchang's troops and food, Yelu Zongzhen said: "Now the troops coming from the west with the royal court, it is almost over 200,000. It is enough to conquer the Dangxiang, but if you have to face the Song army, you are afraid that your strength will not be bad."

Xiao Xiaomu said: "The Song army's troops in the Hequ area include nearly 200,000 troops from Xu Ping, nearly 100,000 troops from Linfu and Fuyan, and an unknown number of Dangxiang troops. To start a war with the Song army, there must be 400,000 troops. If you add the rebellious tribes, you must have 500,000 troops to use it."

Yelu Zongzhen held his head and looked sad. Where did he go to fight in this season? If he waited for a few more months, the army of various tribes would gather together, and the army of the tribes would be barely enough. Now is the time when the herdsmen are nomadic, and they have no place to live, so they can't gather together.

Ma Baozhong stepped forward and bowed: "According to my opinion, the situation should not be done to start a war with the Song army too early. Insufficient troops are still a trivial matter. The Song army cannot gather together even if hundreds of thousands of people, otherwise the food and grass will be difficult to support. Your Majesty will not be weaker than any of the Song army, and it is nothing more than to defeat each other. What is really worrying is that the rule of the foreign troops is unstable and people are thinking about it. If the front fights with the Song army and the rear of the foreign troops will cause chaos, it will be truly terrifying. Therefore, it is better to go to this point to wipe out the rebels first."

Xiao Xiaomu said: "What if the Song army uses Dangxiang troops as the front drive and penetrates deep into its own territory and conquers cities and plunders?"

Ma Baozhong bowed: "King, you have to be careful about this matter, but you have to send troops directly to conquer the battle. Now we have no choice. We can start from two aspects. On the one hand, your Majesty will issue virtue to appease the tribes that are unstable. On the other hand, you will be able to attack the tribes with strong troops and make a fuss to war with the tribes that are rebellious. As long as you stabilize the tribes as soon as possible, you will not be so embarrassed. The Song army has hundreds of thousands of miles away, and you will definitely not be able to fight for a long time. After we pacify the tribes, we will wait for their teachers and veterans to get tired and then hit them head-on. This is the right thing to do!"

Yelu Zongzhen nodded repeatedly: "The prime minister is really good at planning the country. Your words have reached the point. Now the Song army has newly destroyed the Dangxiang, and the troops are in a straight and sharp manner. You should not be faced with it. The justification is to quell the civil strife first!"

Ma Baozhong politely said: "If you want to fight against foreign countries, you must first settle the country. Your Majesty will give you a clear understanding!"

Yelu Zongzhen pondered for a while and said to Liu Liufu on the side: "The unstable tribes are nothing more than the fact that this dynasty has imposed too much taxes on them a few years ago and the killings are too heavy. Scholar, you draft an edict to exempt the Southwest and Northwest Raiders and Tribes from the Ministry of Rampage and Tribes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rampage and Tribes. Moreover, in the past three years, no military service or corvee service has been consecrated, which has made them extinguish the rebellion. Also, under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rampage and Tribes, all tribes who are punished will be released, and as long as you do not rebel, everything is easy to say!"

Liu Liufu received the order and thought for a while and said, "The most difficult thing is the heart of the people. People's hearts are in the word "trust". Your Majesty, the edict is issued. How to make the tribes believe it? Don't think of a way to find a way. Two roads of recruitment departments were killed two years ago, and I am afraid it will be difficult to win the trust of the tribes."

"Well, it makes sense. In this way, the two recruits will be recruited to the next clear edict, and they will be punished by harsh punishments of their subordinates, each with a salary of one year, and seize three officials. The edict will be spread throughout the tribes and let them all know that the court is thinking about them."

After hearing this, Xiao Xiaomu said, "Since that's the case, why not change two groups of recruits to recruit envoys and seize the official position and remove them from their posts. The tribe's people will naturally be grateful."

"No!" Ma Baozhong stepped forward. "I have lost the hearts of the tribe and the hearts of the generals of the garrison. The land is not owned by the court since then! In my opinion, it is necessary to blame the two moves of envoys, but at the same time, Your Majesty secretly issued an order to send close people to the place to appease the two seekers. Tell them that this is the court's unscrupulous move, and when the matter is finished, we will call back the court to make compensation. Only in this way can we achieve the best of both worlds and not lose the other!"
Chapter completed!