Chapter 2720 A Baoji''s last plan, Emperor Taizong of Liao slept on firewood and tasted gall


    Chapter 2717: A Baoji''s last plan, Emperor Taizong of Liao slept on firewood and tasted gall


    During the Hundred Years of Han and Qiang War, the Han and Qiang people lived a miserable life.


    The Han people lived a hard life, and the Qiang people lived a hard life, even more.


    However, the Qiang people had not been civilized, and the lower-class civilians had not enjoyed a few good days. They were used to war and displaced, and their ability to resist hardships was naturally stronger than that of the Han people.


    It was not until Yelu Abaoji unified the Qiang tribe and ended the civil strife of the Qiang tribe that the Qiang people lived a few good days.


    But because of A Baoji''s ambition, he overestimated his ability to provoke the Han princes, which caused the Qiang people to fall into war again until they eventually destroyed their country and the clans were destroyed.


    In fact, for the Qiang people, the life they lived after the country was destroyed and the clan was better than before. After all, there was no war. Most Qiang people could live a peaceful and stable life, which was naturally better than fighting every time before.


    The Qiang people are not fools either. If the Sui Kingdom could treat them equally and really let them live a good life, they would naturally not oppose the Sui Kingdom, but the key is that the Sui Kingdom cannot.


    The Sui State did not give the Qiang people an equal status and the Han people at all, even if it was not meaningful on paper, there were many controls and bans on the Qiang people, and many of them were insulting.


    The Qiang people are already uncivilized and are mostly rebellious people. How can they stand this? So a large number of Qiang people embarked on the road of rebellion


    But later the Qiang people discovered that rebellion was a dead end and could not make any progress. They gradually gave up and began to gradually obey the rule of the Sui Kingdom. After all, living humiliatedly is better than losing their lives.


    But at this moment, the Sui State suddenly announced that all bans on the Qiang people would be lifted and that the Qiang people would have the same political status as the Han people in terms of law.


    In the future, the Qiang people can also own the land like the Han people, their property will be protected by law, and they can also study, participate in the imperial examinations, join the army, etc.


    This is like a blessing for the Qiang people who are highly oppressed and discriminated against. How can we not be happy about it?


    Because of the introduction of the Qiang Order, a large number of Qiang people were speechless all night, burning incense and praying overnight, praying for the Sui King Yang Guang to praise his kindness to the Qiang people.


    The Sui State governed Haizhou for many years, but still failed to convince the Qiang people. However, after the introduction of the Qiang Order, Yang Guang won the Qiang people''s hearts overnight.


    Of course, this is just a superficial phenomenon. If Xie Qiang Ling was really so good, Ban Gucheng Gongying and others would not try their best to oppose it.


    It is precisely because the hidden dangers of the Qiang Order were too great that knowledgeable people such as Cheng Gongying opposed it, and Ban Gu sacrificed his life to advise him, but he still failed to change his mind.


    The biggest hidden danger of Xie Qiang Order is that it benefited all the Qiang people, but not all the Qiang people were under the rule of the Sui Kingdom.


    There were actually only six or seven hundred thousand Qiang people directly under the rule of the Sui State in Haizhou, and there were more than one million Qiang people in the government, and they were autonomous from the original Qiang leader or nobles.


    At the peak of the Qiang people, even if they were in a state of division, the total population was as large as 4 million and hundreds of thousands. It was precisely because of this that it caused trouble in Western Xinjiang for so long that it even dragged down the Han Dynasty.


    After Yelu Abaoji unified the Qiang people, there is still a total population of nearly three million. They are highly unified and external, and they are not comparable to the split Baiyue and Shanyue.


    Logically speaking, with a total population of more than 3 million, and a hero like Yelu Abaoji, even if he can''t beat the Han people, he will not be able to protect himself.


    The reason why Yang Guang and Li Shimin could destroy the Qiang tribe so easily was adopted to use the same strategy as the Qing Dynasty’s destruction of the Ming Dynasty: to destroy the Qiang.


    The Sui and Tang dynasties relied on the division and disintegration of the Qiang people, and took the initiative to give up a lot of interests, thus gaining support from the Qiang elite class, and gradually isolated Yelu Abaoji.


    A Baoji is not an ordinary person. After two major defeats, he realized that the Qiang tribe was completely powerless to turn things around, so he exchanged for the Qiang tribe with his own life for an opportunity to rise again.


    Abaoji knew that the blood feud between the Han and Qiang was difficult to resolve, and the Qiang elites basically had a grudge against the Han people, so he ordered his son Yelu Deguang and some hard-core confidants to take the initiative to lead the crowd to surrender to the Sui Kingdom after committing suicide.


    In this way, although the Qiang tribe will be exterminated, most of the Qiang people can survive and preserve the fire under the leadership of the elites, lie in firewood and taste gall, in order to achieve the future.


    Although Li Shimin and Yang Guang destroyed the Qiang tribe, they did not gradually capture the entire Haizhou step by step. Instead, they occupied the Qiang land after Yelu Abaoji''s defeat and suicide.


    This approach is naturally taking shortcuts, and the result of taking shortcuts is that although the early stage is smooth, the subsequent path will inevitably be more difficult to follow.


    This is also the main reason why the Qiang people were unable to completely digest the Qiang people later, because their ruling foundation over the Qiang people was not ordinary people from beginning to end, but the noble elite class among the Qiang people.


    Similarly, although the Xie Qiang Order introduced by Yang Guang this time will benefit the lower-level Qiang people, since more Qiang people are ruled by the nobles, the greatest benefit is naturally occupied by the nobles, and ordinary people only get a small part.


    Therefore, no matter how grateful the Qiang people at the bottom were to Yang Guang, they would not enhance the foundation of the Sui Dynasty''s rule in Haizhou, because the Qiang people had more rule in the hands of the nobles.


    Yelu Abaoji hoped that the elite class of Qiang people who surrendered, just like the Han family dependent on the Han Han to **** blood, they also depended on the Sui Kingdom to **** blood, and grew up with the Sui Kingdom until they were completely overwhelmed and eventually revived again.


    Although the development between the Han and Qiang was somewhat different from what A Baoji expected, he was still moving towards what he thought.


    After all, under the extremely high-intensity ban of the Sui State, the Qiang people were like wild horses covered with reins. No matter how wild they were, they still could not escape the fate of being tamed.


    But just when the Qiang tribe was about to tame, the Qin attack on the Sui tribe brought a glimmer of hope to the Qiang people. Originally, after the Sui Kingdom persisted for several years, the Qiang people could not bear it anymore and might have surrendered themselves.


    However, when the Qin Dynasty attacked the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty could not bear the domestic and external troubles, and there was no time to waste time with the Qiang people, so it had to introduce the Qiang Order to prolong its life.


    As soon as the Qiang Order was released, it represented the surrender of the Sui State. The Qiang people would be completely overwhelmed and would soon replace the Sui State and regain control of Haizhou.


    Haizhou, Yushu County, Yushu County.


    After receiving the news of Jie Qiang Order, the prefect of Yushu, Yelu Deguang, the second son of Yelu Abaoji, quickly summoned several brothers and his father''s confidant during his lifetime to discuss how to deal with it.


    It has to be said that Yang Guang had invested a lot of money in order to win over and appease the Qiang people. Not only did he let Yelu Deguang be the prefect of Yushu, but he also married his sister Princess Lanling to Yelu Deguang, but his painstaking efforts were destined to be of no use.


    Whether it is to avenge the revenge of killing his father or for his own ambitions, Yelu Deguang cannot truly surrender to Yang Guang.


    Nowadays, the Qiang people are roughly divided into four factions, namely: the Chinese faction that directly belongs to the rule of the Sui Kingdom, the Qiang and Jealous faction that betrayed Yelu Abaoji, the dormant faction that obeyed Abaoji''s orders, and the escaped faction that escaped from the Qiang territory and surrendered to Yuan Meng.


    Among these four factions, the Chinese faction is naturally the strongest. After all, the Chinese faction has a population of 600,000 to 700,000, which is something that the other three factions cannot compare with.


    Although the Chinese school was the most powerful among the Qiang people, it was also the most disunited faction within the country due to various bans from the Sui Kingdom. Representative figures include: He Lou Zigan, He Lou Quan, Han Yanhui, Kang Moji and others.


    Although the number of people in the Qiang and the Dormant Sect is not as good as that of the Chinese sect, the gap is not too big. Moreover, the two sects are the most united to resist the rapid assimilation of the Qiang people by the Sui State.


    In order to protect their power and wealth, the two factions, which were originally mortal enemies, had to give up their hatred and temporarily shake hands to make peace to resist the Sui Dynasty''s assimilation of the Qiang people.


    The representative figures of the Qiang and Treacherous Sect are mainly composed of four people: Yelu Lage, Yelu Diela, Yelu Yindishi and Yelu Anduan. These four people are participants in the "Rebellion of Brothers", and they also betrayed Abaoji in the original history.


    The difference is that the "Brother Brothers'' Rebellion" in the original history failed, but in this life they succeeded.


    A Baoji''s four most trusted brothers, and at the most critical moment, he stabbed A Baoji, the elder brother, and became the last straw that crushed the Qiang tribe.


    The representative figure of the Dormant School was from the former Abaoji group headed by Emperor Taizong of Liao Yelu Deguang.


    These include: Yelu Bei, Yelu Lihu, Yelu Yaliguo and other sons of Abaoji.


    And the confidants of Abaoji, Yelu Su, Yelu Xienichi, Yelu Renxian, Yelu Wuzhi, Han Zhigu, Xiao Dilu, Xiao Aguzhi, Xiao Siwen and others.


    Obsolute Sect is the strongest among the four major factions. After all, the dormant sect has the second largest population in the Qiang people and the most talent elites.


    As for the escape faction, although there are the fewest people among the four major factions, they are the elite among the Qiang elites, including: the first wise Yelu Chucai, the first fierce general Yelu Shilu, and the two bi Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xizhen.


    Under Yelu Abaoji''s intentional arrangement, Yelu Chucai and others took away the two elite Pishi Army and Tielin Army of the Qiang Army when they escaped from the Qiang land.


    Because Yelu Abaoji knew very well that if these two elite troops were not allowed to be taken away by Yelu Chucai, it would definitely be cheaper for Yang Guang and Li Shimin, and it would be even more difficult for the Qiang people to restore the country.


    It has to be said that although A Baoji, the Emperor of Liao, failed to make his mark in this era, just breaking his skills before his death, it is enough to prove that his failure is more due to his poor luck, rather than his lack of ability.


    "Have everyone arrived?" Yelu Deguang asked.


    Yelu Lihu, the third son of Yelu Abaoji, who was most favored by Yelu Deguang and even made him the crown prince and also served as the Grand Marshal of the World, was named Yelu Lihu, and after hearing what his second brother said, he quickly stood up and answered:


    "Except for the fifth uncle, uncle, and elder brother, who were far away and unable to arrive in the short term, most of the others arrived."


    Yelu Deguang nodded. His fifth uncle Yelu Su and his uncle Xiao Dilu supported him. They couldn''t get there or were really far away, but his elder brother Yelu Bei might not be there.


    When Yelu Deguang felt deeply saddened when the Qiang people were about to be completely assimilated by the Han people, his elder brother was still fighting for power and profit with him, and his father was defeated because of the betrayal of the four brothers.


    "Let''s discuss it first."


    As soon as Yelu Deguang finished speaking, his uncle Xiao Dilu took Xiao Aguzhi and his son Xiao Siwen and walked in.


    Yelu Deguang''s uncle came and went to greet him in person. After all, like the Liao Kingdom in history, Xiao was also the second largest surname among the Qiang people after Yelu.


    Although Xiao Dilu''s surname was Xiao, he was not a Han family. The origin of his surname was actually because after A Baoji established the regime, he felt that the achievements of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, Prime Minister Xiao He made an indelible contribution, so he gave all the family that his mother and grandmother beat him, the Poli and Yishi clans, to the Xiao clan.


    So the Xiao family of the Liao Kingdom was actually the Paoli family and the Yishi family.


    "Everyone, my father asked me to endure the opportunity to restore the country. Over the years, I have been sleeping on firewood and tasting gall, and I have been looking forward to restoring the country for a day. Now I have finally waited for this opportunity."


    After saying that, Yelu Deguang threw out the document written by Jie Qiang Order, and suppressed the excitement in his heart and said, "This Jie Qiang Order is the opportunity for restoration of the country that I, Qiang people, have been thinking day and night, have been waiting for."


    (This chapter ends)