Ouyang Shi went deep into the Liao realm this time, and the atmosphere in Da Liao was much more tense than last time.

As early as August, Yelu Yanxi, the lord of Liao, who had always taken playing field hunting as the greatest pleasure, actually stopped hunting, went to the army in person, dismissed the Liao marshal Yelu Erduo, who was defeated in Daguru City, removed a large number of generals, and made Abu the capital of the Chinese army with the enclosure, and Yelu Zhangjianu as the capital supervisor, commanding 100,000 soldiers and horses of all ethnic groups. In addition, Xiao Fengxian, the king of Lanling, was the commander of the imperial camp, and all the camps deployed Yelu Zhangnu as the deputy commander, and 20,000 elite soldiers were the vanguard. The rest of the men and horses are divided into five divisions for the main army, thousands of noble children are the hard army, Hu Cong Baisi is the escort army, and the camel mouth is out of the north; He also took Xiao Hu Jingu as the commander, Chai Yi, a privy councillor, as the deputy commander, and led the Han Bu to ride 30,000 south into Ningjiang Prefecture.

As a result, before the forward soldiers and horses reached the border, the news came that the Huanglong Mansion had been breached. Then Zong Han's letter came, and the Liao lord was so angry that he tore up the letter without reading it, and ordered Xiao Dili, the privy envoy of the Northern Court, to go out as an envoy to the southwest, appease the rear, and follow the edict to conquer in person.

Ouyang Shi got the content of the edict for the first time, and when he saw the two sentences "The female straight has done it, and the army has been eliminated", he said in his heart: "The Liao lord has finally made up his mind to annihilate the Jurchens." Not only did they want to kill all the Jurchens, but they also refused to let go of the Han Chinese, Khitans, and Bohai people who had surrendered to the Jurchens! However, this does not leave the Jurchens with the slightest retreat, and will only make all ethnic groups in Dajin hate the same enemy. ”

Ouyang Shi's sensitivity to political intrigue is not below Yang Yingqi, he went deep into Liaojing twice, and after hearing about the various political changes in Daliao over the past few decades, he already smelled a certain breath: Daliao may break out at the same time in the case of serious external troubles. Ouyang Shi's tentacles were far from penetrating into the critical departments of the Liao State, but he still relied on his position on the interests of various magnates to predict what was about to happen. In the end, he set his mind on Yeluchun.

Yelu Chun is the cousin uncle of the Liao lord Yelu Yanxi, and is the most powerful contender for the throne of the Great Liao. Yelu Yanxi, the Liao lord of this dynasty, succeeded to the throne as the emperor's grandson, and his father was forced to commit suicide in a political dispute forty years ago. At that time, Yelu Yanxi was still a child, and the ruler of the government was Yelu Yixin, a powerful minister who forced his father to death, and Yelu Yixin once strongly advocated that Yelu Chun inherit the throne, which caused a lot of controversy at the time. Although Yeluchun did not ascend to the throne in the end, Ouyang Shi believes that as long as ambition has a chance to bloom, it will be difficult to make it peaceful again.

However, all this Ouyang Shi only stayed at the stage of speculation, and he could not get in touch with the more core figures of the Liao State, so he had no way to judge Ye Luchun's true thoughts, let alone promote the occurrence of the incident.

"What a pity!" Ouyang Shi thought to himself: "If my power in Liaojing is greater and my foundation is deeper, maybe I can make Daliao destroy a million army without spending a single soldier!" Thinking of this, his blood surged, using spies and spies to destroy the country and rejuvenate the country, that is something that Cao Guangbi and Xiao Tienu can't do! Vaguely, Ouyang Shi seemed to see a certain direction in his future. However, this kind of foresight is still very vague, because he Ouyang Shi is not a big man until now.

After the Liao lord left Liaojing, Ouyang Shi knew that it was not of much value for him to stay any longer, so he followed Zhao Guan's advice and left. However, he did not return to Huining, but came to Chenzhou, Ningzhou, and Suzhou. Chenzhou is not far from the mouth of the Liaohe River, Ningzhou is in the middle of the Liaodong Peninsula, and Suzhou (this Suzhou is not Suzhou in the south of the Yangtze River) is at the end of the Liaodong Peninsula. In these places, there are three or five strongholds that are often haunted by "non-maritime merchants".

Ouyang Shi found his clan brother and Ouyang Long's son Ouyang Guo, and then contacted a group of pirates, large and small. He knew that the merchants active in the northern part of the East China Sea could only be regarded as the second at most in terms of strength, and the first place was the Huang family, which was rooted in Quanzhou and Mingzhou, and its strength was far above the Ouyang family. The Huang family did a great thing more than forty years ago, that is, to promote the resumption of relations between the Great Song Dynasty and Goryeo. The strength of a businessman to play such a role between the two countries can be imagined.

However, Ouyang Shi didn't want to meet Huang Lu, the parent of the Huang family, for the time being. Now that the prestige of the Han Dynasty is limited to the Tongjiang River Valley, for a big clan like the Huang family in the East China Sea, I am afraid that it is only a dispensable force.

"The Huang family, as well as the Chen family and the Lin family...... Let's wait until we become the real princes. Ouyang Shi knew that these merchants were like bees, as long as the Han Department had enough sweetness and didn't have to go out of their way to find it, these families would also flock to it.

At this time, the attention of the Liao State was mainly focused on the northeast, and the control of the Liaodong Peninsula was significantly weakened, so the pirates in this area were active. Ouyang Shi spent a lot of money to ask Ouyang Guo to help him recruit homeless people along the coast, and bought an old sea boat from Ouyang's family. He was very excited after stepping on the sea boat, looking at the sea after two years of absence, smelling the sea breeze and touching the waves, it felt like a child who had been weaned for two years and smelled ** again.

Ouyang Shijiu was in the Han Dynasty, and often handed over with Di Yu, Cao Guangbi and others, and was deeply influenced by the knowledge and art of war of these people. He paid attention to the more than forty people he recruited, and sent out more than a dozen of them, leaving only thirty people, and chose a more majestic and nimble Haimin Cao Xiaocai to lead.

Cao Xiaocai saw that Ouyang Shi was spending so much money and valued himself so much, and gradually returned to his heart, and asked this day: "Young Master Ouyang, you recruit us people and train us like this, it is not like you want to do business with the Great Song Gaoli, but you are training sailors!" ”

Ouyang Shi smiled: "Water Master? Have you ever seen the training of a sailor? ”

Cao Xiaocai said: "Six or seven years ago, I stayed in Quanzhou's sailors, and then the officials above ate too much to eat, and the brothers couldn't stay anymore, so they went to sea to find a way to survive." At first, I was a bodyguard, but then I got some money and started some work on my own. Two years ago, my boat was capsized by the waves, and I drifted around here with a piece of wood. ”

Ouyang Shi was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked him some things about the training of the sailor, but there was nothing new - his father had also stayed in the Great Song Dynasty sailor back then, and he knew the trick well, and he had talked to Ouyang Shi in detail one by one. Ouyang Shi said: "You have worked as a sailor and a pirate, so it's okay to have connections." Do you know who are capable and unambitious people around here? ”

Cao Xiaocai said: "The younger one has an old brother named Gao Yaoshi, he also has a ship, and there are 100 people under him, and he and I mostly worked together to make a living. But two years ago we also encountered a big wave - he was luckier than me, the ship was not lost, but it was badly damaged, and the cargo was all lost, and he could not go out to sea again. I had to turn a sea-going boat into a fishing boat, and occasionally catch some soft-footed shrimp passing by - but there were no good boats, and it was difficult to do this unprofitable business, so life went by day by day, and most of his men escaped, and even our current ship also had many of his old troops. ”

Ouyang Shi groaned, "Can you find him now?" ”

Cao Xiaocai said: "His current lair is less than twenty nautical miles away from here, Young Master Ouyang, if you can trust me, I will drive a boat to recruit him." ”

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