At night, Yelu Hongji was lying in a tent, listening to the people around him snoring like thunder, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. He didn't eat for a day and said he was not hungry, but he just didn't show it. When it was late at night, he couldn't help it.

When Yelu Hongji got up, he arrived at the door and saw two soldiers sitting there around the fire to cook. He was hesitant for a moment and didn't know what to do. He lay at the door and looked at it for a while, and was really hungry, so he walked out of the door.

A soldier turned around, looked at Yelu Hongji, and said, "It's dark, you don't sleep, what are you going to do?"

Yelu Hongji said, "I am hungry, so you can get some food. I'm full and I'll sleep naturally."

Another soldier laughed and said, "If you don't do your job, you will naturally have no food to eat. This is very clear. Do you think that punishing you during the day is a joke on you? Go back quickly and don't talk nonsense here!"

Yelu Hongji said angrily: "Don't eat during the day because he is afraid that the rules will be broken and others will be dissatisfied. Now they are all asleep, and I eat, no one knows what rules? I dare not let me eat!"

The two soldiers looked at Yelu Hongji up and down and said with a smile: "This guy is really interesting. He actually thought that the rules were used to scare him. You turned out to be the lord of the Khitan Kingdom. If you punished you, others would just be convinced. Don't stumble, go back to bed quickly. Otherwise, you wouldn't have food to eat."

Yelu Hongji looked at the two of them and couldn't understand it for a moment. Could it be that the Song army was really the rule that if they didn't work, they would have no food to eat? Even if they were captured, they were different from others. How could they work? There was no reason why the Song Dynasty could not even afford to support themselves. These days, like others, I was taken here and did not cause trouble. Is it enough to let myself work and the officials here crazy?

There is no moon in the sky, and the stars are blinking. Yelu Hongji looked up at the sky, feeling a magical feeling. The emperor of a country was treated like this, and there is no such thing in this world. If it were before, he would never dare to think about it.

After a while, Yelu Hongji said, "You really want to treat me like this? I will meet the officials in charge of this place tomorrow, and see what the team says!"

The soldiers shook their heads together: "Why do you have to make trouble? It just so happens that Taiwei Du is here, and tomorrow's newspaper will be launched to see if the Taiwei sees you!"

The next morning, Du Zhongxiao had just gotten up, Cui Xiang came in and said, "Taiwei, Yelu Hongji wants to see the officials here."

Du Zhongxiao asked, "What are you doing? He has been reluctant to bow his head, why do you need to come to see us?"

Cui Xiang said: "I asked the officials below that Yelu Hongji refused to do work yesterday and was detained for food. He didn't eat for a day, so he couldn't hold on at night and wanted to go out to find something to eat. He was blocked and realized that he wouldn't joke with him. If he didn't do work, he would really have no food to eat. So this morning, he wanted to see the Grand Marshal. The lower official wanted to come, but he still didn't want to be with others."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Normal. It was originally the emperor of a country, but now he is working with prisoners. How can he lose face? Moreover, Yelu Hongji is young after all, and he will inevitably become more angry. Send someone to bring him here, come here for an hour and see me in the living room."

Cui Xiang agreed and turned around and went out. Du Zhongxiao sat in his seat, and the soldiers came to drink tea there.

The Khitans were taken here, and in addition to Yelu Hongji, there were actually several important figures who were not so honest. However, with Yelu Hongji there, he naturally stood up and others looked at him. If Yelu Hongji’s affairs were not handled well, others would cause trouble.

Soon, Lee Fugui came in and talked about some gossip with Du Zhongxiao. Knowing that Du Zhongxiao is now trying to avoid the hustle and bustle of court affairs in the court, Lee Fugui no longer mentioned the government affairs, but only talked about interesting daily things.

After a while, Du Zhongxiao said: "Yesterday Yelu Hongji did not do anything, and the food was detained by the guards. I am coming to see me today."

Li Fugui hurriedly said, "Taiwei, what does he mean? This is the Khitan Emperor. If he causes trouble, many people will definitely respond."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Don't worry. On the battlefield, his hundreds of thousands of troops could not cause any trouble. What can he do now? The tiger falls into Pingyang, unless he truly surrenders, he can only work honestly. In the prison camp, he can eat as much as he does, and if he doesn't do his job, he will eat trance. It is the most fair."

Li Fugui said: "I'm afraid that he would rather starve to death than work, so what if I'm afraid he's going to be cruel?"

Du Zhongxiao said, "If this is the case, I really admire him a little. However, the rules cannot be changed. He would rather starve than work, and he would only starve to death. Don't think that he was once the Khitan emperor, so he would not dare to starve him here."

Li Fugui couldn't help but frown: "If the Khitan Emperor starved to death, would there be any gossip?"

Du Zhongxiao said, "So what if you have gossip? Can gossip still kill people? It means telling the Khitans that if they become prisoners, they will obey the rules. Their previous identities were given to them by the Khitans, and they were useless in the Song Dynasty. Only by doing things for the Song Dynasty can you get rewards."

When Li Fugui heard this, he shook his head and stopped talking. Then he thought that some things were different because of their different identities. He thought that such things were not suitable, but as Du Zhongxiao's identity, it was suitable.

Building a prison camp is actually not in tradition, but Du Zhongxiao proposed that no one has opposed it until now, including Emperor Zhao Zhen. It is not that they agree with doing this, but that they respect Du Zhongxiao. According to traditional customs, Khitan prisoners either killed or appointed officials and raised them well. After ten or twenty years, will anyone still remember who they are?

In the early days of the Song Dynasty, the Southern Tang and the Later Shu, I don’t know how many emperors and high-ranking officials were captured. Some were killed, but most of them were raised. The emperor was granted titles and ministers entered the Song Dynasty to become officials. Now, except for a few exceptions such as the Qian family, how many people remember them? Even like Li Yu, the late lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, were killed by Emperor Taizong of Song, without any trace of everything.

Du Zhongxiao insisted on building a prison camp, which was actually good to these Khitans. If the Khitans were defeated, these Khitan prisoners actually wanted to be ordinary people but were not allowed. After entering the prison camp, at least after they came out, they could become ordinary people. But this thought was not appreciated by the Khitans.

After a good meeting, Li Fugui said: "The Taiwei is kind-hearted, I am afraid that the Khitans will not recognize him."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Why do they need to realize that we do things not to win the consent of others or even be grateful, but because we should do so. Khitan and Song are brotherly countries, and there will be no war in Chanzhou again, so we should not be too harsh. But if these Khitan officials are allowed to be officials, not to waste the court's salary, it will be a problem in the future. They have no power, what about their descendants? Over time, things will happen. It is better to lock up in the prison camp for a few years and go out to be an ordinary citizen. As long as they don't cause trouble, the matter will pass silently after decades."

Li Fugui said: "Silent? I'm afraid it's not easy. Wang Kai and others have surrounded Fengxian Prefecture. It is said that the Khitans have to organize reinforcements. The Khitans are now showing their own appearance, but they are still dissatisfied."
Chapter completed!