The Yanji region was the ruling center of the Liao State in Yanyun, and it was also the main grain producing area, and its position became more and more important during the Jin-Liao war.

The upper echelons of the Liao State were worried that the Great Song Dynasty would secretly form an alliance with the Jin army, and took advantage of the fact that the Liao State was busy dealing with the Jin army to plot against the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, and they were unable to effectively deal with the powerful and ferocious pirates who were extremely headache-inducing, and from time to time invaded the territory to loot and disturb the chaos, so they strengthened military control and vigilance over important towns and borders.

With the help of Sun Wu and Jia Shifang, two generals who were familiar with the border, Zhao Yue and his entourage escaped the dense southern border checkpoints of the Liao army and infiltrated the Liao border.

Walking through the Tianjin area of the later generations, choose the near road to ride a horse and go straight, and the north reaches Yanjing only three or four hundred miles, which is not too far. It's just that the farther north you go, the colder the weather becomes, and the hint of spring that you see in the south is gradually disappearing without a trace, and there is still ice and snow everywhere, and the cold wind is still hard and cold, but there is less snow.

At this time, the population of the entire Yanyun together is afraid that it cannot be compared with a large area of Tianjin in the later generations. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the vegetation is abundant. Woods are common. The weather is cold and frozen, and there are few people in the four fields, which makes it more and more desolate, and it is very convenient to steal or do some murder and goods.

When Zhao Yue observed the rising combat effectiveness of the Jin army, he once went north and secretly crossed once, generally remembered the road, had experience, and could speak some Khitan daily language. Wu Neng and Xu Jin were originally from Jizhou, Liao, and had been active in Liaoguo for a long time with their master Ma Ling, and were proficient in Khitan living customs and language.

They wore make-up on their faces and changed their appearance, wearing sheepskin coats, rough and sturdy leather boots, plush fur hats, and riding ordinary horses. With his bags, he looked completely like the image of a Liao person who went out for business and travel.

The number of horses in Liao is far from being comparable to that of the Great Song Dynasty. Even ordinary Han families have horses.

Influenced by the centuries-old customs of the Khitan, the Han people of Yandi, who mainly farmed, were also accustomed to raising horses. It is usually used for riding, pulling carts and ploughing land. In Liaodi, it is common for ordinary people to ride horses. Many Han Chinese were also born cavalry. Many cavalry in the Northern Army of Cangzhao were picked out by the robbing Yandi people.

In the past few years, the horse farms near the coast and the war horses equipped with troops in the two countries of Jin and Liao have been raided and looted by the pirate army out of nowhere, and the losses have been heavy.

In the Yanyun area behind the war, there were even fewer war horses as the elite army was constantly being transferred north to fight Jin.

The qualified war horses equipped by Yanyun's army are already stretched. Now only elite troops can guarantee supplies, and other troops have to supplement their horses with better horses raised by the people that they had not seen much before.

But that doesn't mean there are fewer horses.

The nomadic Khitans in the north moved westward in large numbers to avoid the scourge of war, constantly squeezing the living space of the grassland Zahu, causing continuous bloody conflicts, forcing the Mongolian Xianbei and other Zahu tribes to take refuge in the Jin army that recruited them, and gang up against the Khitans to make profits, which indirectly made the population and army of the Jin State continue to grow.

The Yanyun region in the south is warm, comfortable and safe, and the nomadic Khitans have migrated more south.

This greatly filled the growing population gap formed by the pirate army snatching the Yandi Han and the Sinicized Khitans, and the fierce warriors who were naturally equipped with weapons also greatly improved the civilian armed forces in the Yanyun region. The large number of horses brought in also increased the total number of horses in Yandi.

The nomads moved to the Yandi, which was mainly cultivated, and due to the lack of a large and good grazing area, many families had to give up their vigorous skills, rough and fierce style and whip scimitar under the arrangement of the Yandi government. Nesting in the fields, he clumsily learned to farm to survive, and also provided military rations for the local government and the Northern War.

This is the national sorrow of the war years.

But the horses they brought, even if they were looked down upon by the Liao army, which lacked war horses. It is also stronger than the Song army's war horse.

In the eyes of the Liao people, no matter how bad their horses are, they are also wild horses that run out. The horses of the Song people were just inferior livestock in captivity. In addition to the main war horses equipped with the Western Army. The horses of the other Song armies were as short and weak as donkeys, and they were only worthy of feeding wolves. It is not enough to be qualified to pull a cart.

This is the huge gap between the Song and Liao countries in terms of the quality of war horses and human races and the quality of force.

Therefore, Zhao Yue and his entourage rode horses and carried weapons to spend the night, which was not eye-catching.

Moreover, they did not go to the well-guarded towns and other prosperous places, and Wu Neng Xu Jin took the two divine horses Hai Dongqing, who had been trained for many years, to help explore the road and monitor the movements of the surrounding enemy troops. Zhao Yue can avoid the interception and inspection in front as soon as possible.

Taking a step back, even if it is exposed that Zhao Yue, Wang Nianjing, and Wan Qi Danian do not understand the language of the Song people, and there is a standard Khitan Wuneng Xu Jin who pretends to be a translator and guide, and there are well-prepared reasons for entering the country, and they can generally pass the customs with businessmen.

There is a very interesting feature of the Northern Song Dynasty: no matter how vicious the war between the Western Xia, the Great Liao and the Great Song Dynasty was, and how bad the relationship was, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty were treated well by the officials in both countries, and the more the relationship with the Great Song Dynasty was extremely tense during the war, the more the Song merchants would be warmly welcomed by the officials of the enemy country.

Of course, this is not that the barbarian people are highly conscious in this regard, and their conscience finds that the relations between the two countries are bad, but they are not guilty of innocent businessmen.

The reason is to put it bluntly, the Great Song Dynasty was rich in products and developed civilization, and the barren barbarian states of Xia and Liao all needed the scarce materials and exquisite copper coins of the Great Song Dynasty to be provided or smuggled to by the Song merchants. The Song merchants risked the great dangers of the Song side's ban and punishment and the robbery of horse thieves and barbarian tribes along the way to the enemy country to carry out cross-border trade, which also greatly prospered the economies of Xia and Liao.

For hundreds of years, it was all too common for the Song people to come to Liao to trade goods and information in a legal or illegal way.

In this period of fierce competition between Jin and Liao and the crisis of the Great Liao, the Liao State especially needed the Song people to supply various materials that their country did not have or was in short supply, and also needed the Song people to sell information to them in order to keep abreast of the dynamics of the Great Song Dynasty, and vigorously welcomed and patronized the Song merchants, and had support and encouragement in the policy, and even had a certain degree of official protection.

Without the trade and information support of the Song merchants, the situation of the Liao State would be even worse and worse.

Zhao Yue and his entourage tried their best to choose a more remote place to walk, and along the way, they also met several groups of Song merchants who worked tirelessly to trade across the border.

Zhao Yue knew very well in his heart that most of the merchants who came to Liao during the difficult period of transportation in the cold and winter were traitors. Most of the materials sold were urgently needed for the war, such as pig iron, grain, and even knives, guns and weapons that were strictly forbidden to be exported by the Great Song Dynasty. Legitimate trade goods, such as tea, porcelain, and silk, became scarce and hard to find. Because the profits of these things are high. But it is far from being comparable to the windfall profits of the former.

The road of maritime transportation is now monopolized by the Cangzhao Navy, armed maritime merchant ships, and the Zhaozhuang fleet.

Even if the Song merchants had a strong background and economic strength, they could not withstand the huge losses caused by the 'pirates' intercepting and looting again and again. No matter how greedy you are, no matter how bold you are. I can't afford to take the risk of almost no return, so I can only abandon the sea route and take the trouble to take the land route.

Now Zhao Gonglian, together with the Qianning Army, the Xin'an Army, and the Jizhou Army, are inspecting and tightening the border, and normal goods are unimpeded. It is too difficult for contraband to be smuggled out through Cangbei. These traitorous merchants entered the Liao State through relations on the border of Yingzhou and Shanxi.

Zhao Yue had something to do, and he didn't want to attract attention to it, so he didn't care about the traitorous behavior of these businessmen, and he couldn't manage it if he wanted to. Kill these people, pig iron knives and guns, you can still use spells to turn them into vanishing in Liaodi?

Dead this batch. There are many more unscrupulous businessmen to come.

There are too many traitors of the mercenary businessmen and the Han ruling class, and they are emerging one after another.

Before the crossing, even if the state adopted severe and effective means to pursue and punish the whole world, from the officialdom to the people, wanted to entrap the interests of the people of the country to obtain huge profits, and then fled to the 'paradise' abroad with huge sums of money to live a drunken life of dreams.

Zhao Yue felt helpless when he thought about this. Thinking back to the dirty history of the world in his previous life, he couldn't help but sigh with indignation: "As for traitors and traitors, I'm afraid that the countries of the world together are not as many as those produced by the ancient powers of the East, so rampant!" ”

The blood and sweat of the people have been ruthlessly looted and exploited by generations of hypocritical rulers. He has to suffer large-scale bloody massacres and humiliation again and again, and how unfortunate it is to be born as a person in this land!

Wang Nianjing and others are not travelers. I don't know the bloody history of the world where Zhao Yue came, but Zhao Yue was indignant and dissatisfied with these traitorous businessmen who sought profit and glory when he met. I can't help but feel a sense of anger and joy when I can't help but slaughter and punish him.

Xu Jin is clever and careful. In order to solve Zhao Yue, pull up a new topic to divert everyone's attention.

"Childe, did you find it, the last time we passed by, the ratio of folk Han and Khitan people was at least seven to three, but now it is more than upside down. Even if the Han people on the Yunzhou side were constantly relocated to farm and supply food, the ratio of Han to Khitan people would not reach 2 to 8. Look at the villages we met along the way, the inns we lived in, which were basically lived and operated by Han people in the past, but now they are full of dirty Khitan figures, and most of the innkeepers and key members speak the Khitan language......"

Zhao Yue nodded and smiled, feeling a lot better.

This is caused by the Cangzhao Northern Army's wanton looting of the population of Yandi for many years, which proves that the achievements are brilliant, and it is indeed worth rejoicing.

He was momentarily excited, and wanted to express his ambition vigorously, and when he glanced at the vast fields covered with snow, he couldn't help but think of a poem that was ancient and unpretentious, and judged with his keen and superhuman senses that there was no one within two or three miles around, so he read it out loud.

The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting.

Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging.

Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly public test.

It must be a sunny day, and look at the red dress, which is extraordinarily enchanting.

There are so many rivers/mountains/Jiao, leading countless heroes to bend their waists.

Regret the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, slightly lose the literary style; Tang Zong and Song Zu are slightly less coquettish.

A generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only knows how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle.

The past, the number of romantic figures, but also look at the present.

The great man's "Qinyuan Spring? Snow", Zhao Yue Regardless of the fact that the Mongols were just one of the miscellaneous people who were driven by the wanton oppression of the Khitan and the Jurchens at this time, Genghis Khan would have to appear a hundred years later or never, and he did not change the content he had memorized in school in his previous life, and copied it all, and read it out in a frustrated manner.

Wang Nianjing, Xu Jin, and Wu Neng are all literate but only coarse and ink-savvy fighting men, listening to this poem, but can't help but be infected by the unparalleled heroic and majestic fighting spirit and majestic domineering spirit revealed in the words, one by one, the blood is boiling, the eyes are wide, and the nostrils are whirring.

Even Wan Qi Danian, who is more wild than human, coarse and illiterate, couldn't help but feel excited, and shouted impulsively: "Okay." ”

Xu Jin stayed for a moment, sobered up and asked, "Childe, is this your creation?" ”

The excitement had not subsided, and there was a tremor in his voice.

Wang Nianjing and Wu Neng are both old men who have been with Zhao Yue for a long time, and they know very well that Zhao Yue is smart and magical, and seems to be omnipotent, but it is true that he has never seen his son write lyrics and poems, and Zhao Yue has no interest in poetry and romance. They also looked at Zhao Yue.

Zhao Yue smiled and shook his head decisively.

Even if he came to another world, even if it was still early before the birth of a great man, he would not have any disrespect for a great man.

The merits and demerits of politicians have their own historical evaluation.

In this world where the Han nation is about to face a bloody bath, Zhao Yue's evaluation of the great man in his heart is particularly clear.

In any case, it was the great man who led the suffering people of that world to stand up from now on.

No matter how dissatisfied people are with the great man and use various methods to slander and attack him, the greatness of the great man alone cannot be denied by anyone.

Pick up the bowl to eat, put down the chopsticks and scold the mother, a person with a conscience must not do it.

Wang Nianjing, Xu Jin, Wu Neng, and Wan Qi Danian are all martial artists who lack knowledge of history, even if they know who the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Sect and Song Zu are, and they don't know which powerful person Tianjiao is, they only think that they are ignorant and do not explore and inquire about their minds.

Zhao Yue naturally wouldn't remind them, so he deliberately said it.

He just sighed that the great man shook the hearts of the ancient and modern, and a poem could even be moved by a beast like Wan Qi Danian. He also looked up at the gray sky and the weak sun, and the gaze of consciousness penetrated directly into the core of the universe in the depths of the firmament.

Zhao Yue was very curious, is there any god in the world? Or the highest level of intelligent beings with abilities close to those of gods? Is there a life similar to God that is manipulating and controlling the fate of all living beings in the vast universe?

He is using his knowledge of science and technology to strive to improve the civilization level of this planet, and forcibly reverse the trajectory of human destiny and the world pattern of this planet, not only to save his own life and his family's life and save the Han nation, but also to know if God will be angry with his arrogance and punish him for his wanton provocation if he acts so recklessly, interferes in history, and changes human society.

Zhao Yue looked up at the sky and scolded in his heart: "The God who controls the world, the highest level of life with supreme wisdom, are you really here?" I'm not afraid of you, I'm just provoking you. Punish me for your invincible will and boundless might, and show me that you really exist. ”

Unfortunately, there was no change in the sky except for the turbulent changes of the clouds, and there were no miracles. (To be continued.) )