Since most of the Han people in the Liao State have been assigned to the Khitan clans as slaves, the functions and powers of the southern officials are also different from before, and they no longer govern the affairs of the Han people, but are specifically responsible for collecting taxes from workshops such as textiles, iron smelting, and porcelain making, rewarding agricultural sericulture, and managing slave trade. In addition to governing the Khitans, the northern officials were also responsible for the training of soldiers in peacetime, and dispatched soldiers and horses to fight in wartime. A small number of Han military camps in the Liao State that have not yet been dismantled will change their surnames and be placed under the jurisdiction of the north. The officials in the south mostly used experienced former court ministers, while the yamen in the north was completely controlled by Yelu Dashi's true henchmen, and it was impossible for others to get involved.

"A total of 5,730,000 slaves were added to the farms and workshops of the major families, and more than a million were cast into the military states by the princes and magnates. With this large number of slaves, the tribes were engaged in logging, charcoal mining, iron smelting, and weaving, and their production more than doubled. In addition, after the small plots of land were incorporated into the large farms, the labor used was reduced, and the grain harvested was more than before. Xiao Xiaode reported with a smile on his face, "Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, all industries have prospered, and we no longer need to use silk, grain, and iron tools from Nanchao City this year. Weichen estimated that only in the autumn of this year, the merchants of the Southern Dynasty would come to buy our cloth, rice wine, ironware, and other goods. Although there was a strong sense of flattery in his words, it was more of a sincere admiration.

In the beginning, only a part of the Khitan nobles supported Yelu Dashi, and since he succeeded to the throne, he has been gracious and powerful, on the one hand, he has eliminated dissidents several times, and almost changed the leaders of various tribes, and on the other hand, a large number of slaves have arrived in the workshops opened by each family, and the output of various utensils has increased dramatically. In just two years, the wealth of the wealthy people of the Khitan tribe has doubled as if it had doubled compared to before. Taxes were collected through the southern government and distributed in the name of military salaries and subsidies, and now ordinary Khitan people live a better life than the small tribal leaders in the past. And all this happened in just two years. Except for those whose heads were cut off, all the Khitans, whether rich or poor, noble or lowly, whether they were born and died with him, or those who later returned to the wind, are now grateful and loyal to Yelu Dashi. In the past, everyone gritted their teeth and scolded Yelu Yanxi to express their loyalty to His Majesty Dashi, but now Yelu Yanxi is almost no longer mentioned.

"Your Majesty is like the sun and moon in the sky, you don't need to be a foil for the faint monarch anymore." Xiao Xiaode thought secretly, looking at His Majesty who was contemplative behind the imperial case quite deferentially, he couldn't help but think of the legend below, Her Majesty the Queen Mother swallowed a round of red sun in her dream, conceived for ten months after pregnancy, and gave birth to the legend of His Majesty Dashi, "This is a round of sun given to the Khitans by the immortal heaven, no wonder the young men are willing to die for him." ”

Yelu Dashi smiled slightly and asked, "Is there really no need to barter goods from Nanchao City?" He didn't wait for Xiao Xiaode to respond, so he replied to himself, "Although the cloth and silk utensils produced by my dynasty workshop are both abundant and cheap, they are not as exquisite and meticulous as those of the Southern Dynasty, so I still have to buy what I should buy." ”

He knew in his heart that the various utensils that did not need to be made from Yibu Silk in Song City were due to the great surge in the production of Liao State workshops on the one hand, which could meet the needs of ordinary Khitans, and on the other hand, the fact that most of the Han people were confiscated as slaves, and the demand for these Southern Dynasty goods was greatly reduced. To the incomplete extent that the various industries of the country completely surpassed those of the Southern Dynasties. He knew these things in his heart, but he would not say them, so as not to lose the face of the privy envoy of the Southern Court.

At the beginning, he carefully investigated the gains and losses of the Xia and Song dynasties in the south, and found that the reason why the Xia State was stronger than the Song and Liao States was that one was to establish the country by force, and the other was to reward industry and commerce, so that the benefits of industry and commerce were far greater than farming. As a result, when the workshops of the Liao State flourished, the demand for slaves increased greatly, and the Han people often preferred to live on dozens of acres of ancestral fields than enter the workshops. So Yelu Dashi advocated that those people who had no power to resist be divided into slaves, and in addition to some of them ploughing the fields in the farms, many of them entered the workshops opened by the Khitan Hao clans. Thanks to the abundant supply of slaves, the size and output of the Liao Workshop more than doubled in just two years, and as the workshop expanded, a steady stream of slaves and maids would be sold from the farms to the workshops in the future.

Yelu Dashi raised his hand so that Xiao Xiaode didn't have to be nervous and apologized, and said slowly: "We Khitans are good at fighting, just take care of slaves." You go and tell the owners of those workshops that you should let the shopkeeper and slave take care of the workshop, just like the Han slaves who take care of the big grange, let the shopkeeper slave take care of the workshop, do business, and improve the quality of the utensils, and there must be rewards and punishments. In my opinion, the slave shopkeeper who does a good job should be rewarded with a lot of rewards, Guangwu mansions, horses and high carriages, and beautiful women and gold silks, all of which can be given, and they should not be stingy. Yelu Dashi had a faint mockery on his face, and said, "Also, from the Southern Dynasty to hire craftsmen with heavy money, it won't be long before the quality of the utensils produced by our dynasty will catch up with the Southern Dynasty." This policy of colonization and industrial development requires a lot of hard work from Xiao Shu's secret envoys. ”

Xiao Xiaode hurriedly lowered his head and replied respectfully: "Yes." His Majesty's will will be conveyed to the workshops and shops. ”

Yelu Dashi nodded and said in a deep voice: "You don't have to be strong. You can handle the proportions yourself. Also, I heard that some people mutilated slaves at will," he paused, looked at Xiao Xiaode, who nodded like onions below, and said in a deep voice, "Slaves are the wealth of the workshop, and they are also the wealth of the state, and they must not be harmed at will. ”

Yelu Dashi pointed to a thin scroll placed on the imperial case, and sighed: "I have carefully read this "Encyclopedia of the Law of the State" four times, and I have benefited a lot, you can take it down and experience it first." ”

Xiao Xiaode confessed, stretched out his hand to take the scroll in his hand, and glanced at it, in addition to the title, there was a striking sentence on the cover, "Although you are the emperor, you are also a slave of the law of the country." The handwriting is old, and I don't know who mentioned it, what year and month, Xiao Xiaode saw this rebellious sentence clearly, his legs and stomach couldn't help but tremble, and he said in a trembling voice: "The minister should follow His Majesty's example, read it through three times first, and carefully understand it." ”

Yelu Dashi's face was different, and he smiled: "It took me more than ten years to study this book, and you don't have so much time. This book is nothing more than a catalogue, and all the volumes are voluminous, and they are all stored in the Hanlin Temple. In this way, you find Lin Ya in the south, everyone will share a point, and every two of them will be responsible for studying a part of the classics, and I will remind you at any time. He suddenly sighed with some emotion, "I really don't know how much thought and manpower Xia Guo spent in order to translate it. My envoy brought it back fifty years ago, but unfortunately it has been dusted in the Hanlin Courtyard. After speaking, he waved his hand to let Xiao Xiaode retreat.

The emperor had a lot of opportunities, Xiao Xiaode had just retired, and he reported to the privy envoy of the Northern Court, Yelu Tiege, to meet with him to discuss the signing of a peace treaty with the Song and Jin countries. Yelu Dashi smiled and told him to hurry in. From the point of view of convenience, it is appropriate to place this errand of making a peace treaty in the south yamen, but in terms of importance, it is better to place it in the north yamen. His Majesty's reliance on Yelu Tiege can be seen from this. There are even some rumors below, after the reopening of the Khitan Eight Congresses, the position of His Majesty the Emperor will no longer be like the Han people of the Southern Dynasties, but will be designated by the old emperor, and the Eight Ministries Assembly will elect the Khitan people who have both talent and virtue to inherit the throne, and Yelu Tiege, the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, is one of the candidates of His Majesty Dashi.

In the past two years, the Liao court has stipulated that the Khitan Xi people are called Chinese people, and more than two million Chinese people have been incorporated into the household registration of the North Courtyard, and Zhengding needs to carry horses and bows and arrows twice a year. This time, the household registration was re-organized, so that the number of Chinese people who were subordinate to the military was more than 700,000. The Yamen of the North Courtyard also unified the establishment of the leather room army, the subordinate Shan army, the palace guard cavalry army, the border garrison army, etc., and selected the elite from the Liao army of various departments, and obtained 50,000 palace tent troops. The implementation of these measures touched the interests of many Khitan magnates, but they made the Liao State prosperous in military strength, and Yelu Tiege can be said to have contributed a lot.

"Your Majesty, the Southern Dynasty has a good reputation and light fortune, and since Zhao Ke ascended the throne for more than a year, we have complimented him a lot, and there should be no problem in making a new peace treaty with the city, but it is absolutely impossible to conclude a peace treaty with the Jin State, even if we are willing, they will not be willing." Yelu Tiege said in a deep voice. In the past two years, the whole Liao country has felt that His Majesty has thunderous means and a bodhisattva's heart. In order to save the tribesmen from the suffering of the war, there were hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen in the country, but they were still willing to sign a contract with the Jin and Song dynasties, no wealth, no land, as long as these two countries agreed to trade with the Taiping City of Liao.

Yelu Dashi's face was relaxed, and he said with a smile: "Even if the peace agreement fails, you have to give it a try." Salute first and then soldiers, release the news that we are ready to sign a peace treaty with the Jin country, if the Jin country does not agree to the peace treaty, and the whole group is excited, we will send troops to crusade against the Jin country. The Northern Courtyard has been planning the Northern Expedition to the Jin Kingdom, it is best to lead the Jurchens out of Ningjiang Prefecture to fight a decisive battle with us, don't they want to attack Liaoyang Mansion? "In the past two years, the national strength of the Liao State has long recovered from the civil strife, and everyone wants to make meritorious contributions to themselves. However, in order to prevent the people of the North Court from failing to respond to their errands and leaking the news, it was only now that he informed the privy councillor of his true intentions.

Brother Yelu Tiege's face showed a sudden look, and immediately turned into great joy, bowed down and said, "Weichen obeys the order." ”

Yelu Dashi raised his hand, so that he didn't have to be polite, and said with a smile: "The Southern Dynasty over there, I don't know our reality yet, this peace treaty of mutual market exchange, try to let the Southern Dynasty reduce the tariffs to the minimum, and try to extend the period of the peace treaty. ”

Brother Yelu Tiege nodded knowingly, and said with a smile: "Let's store it in Bianliang, and we will double it back in the future." Both of them laughed, and then talked about the reorganization and training of the Khitan armies, and it was getting late, and Yelu Tiege took his leave and left.