364,Secret Rooms & Mestalks(2)

Zheng Fei glanced at it, and saw that among the people in Liangshan, Duan Jingzhu, who had red hair and yellow beard, was particularly eye-catching, and he was overjoyed, yes, how could I forget him! Duan Jingzhu has been selling horses in Liaodi all the year round, and he must be proficient in Khitan!

Zheng Fei summoned Duan Jingzhu and handed him the letter, "Look at what is written on it." ”

"Yes!" Duan Jingzhu immediately unfolded the letter and read it, and translated it to Zheng Fei while reading it.

And Zeng Mi saw that there were actually people in this group who knew Khitan language, his face changed suddenly, and he was stunned to see Duan Jingzhu translating the letter almost word for word.

Zeng Mi's performance always fell in Zheng Fei's eyes, Zheng Fei snorted coldly in his heart, and was even more sure that Zeng Mi must know the Khitan language, and he also knew what was written on these letters!

Soon, Duan Jingzhu translated all the letters to Zheng Fei.

Zheng Fei turned around and stared at Zeng Mi, his heart was shocked!

He finally understood why Zeng Mi would rather risk being killed and killing his relatives than say what was written in these letters...... These letters are actually letters exchanged with the people of the Jin Kingdom!

Although the Jurchens had already established a country at this time, they had not yet created their own script, and the letters they used at this time were basically Khitan, and these letters were letters written in Khitan by a person called "Sticky Drink".

Maybe Zeng Lang wanted to remember what he had written to Sticky Drink, so in addition to the reply letter to Zeng Lane from Sticky Drink, there was also a backup of Zeng Lane's letter to Sticky Drink, so through these complete correspondence, and then a little guess and scrutiny, the relationship between Zeng Lane and the Jurchens and the content of their letters were displayed in front of Zheng Fei's eyes!

The Jurchens have seventy-two tribes, large and small, almost all of which live in the territory of the Liao State, and the Khitans in order to rule the Jurchens, they adopted a strategy of "divide and rule" against the Jurchens, and they deceived some Jurchen tribes into the Liaodong Peninsula and incorporated them into Khitan nationality, and these Jurchen people are called "mature Jurchens".

Other Jurchen people who did not submit to the rule of the Khitans were called "Shengjurchen", and Wanyanbu was one of the main tribes of "Shengjurchen".

And Zeng Rong's real name is Wanyan Zengnu, he is a member of Wanyan Ministry, and his father Wanyan Sakai is an old friend since childhood.

Due to the Khitan people's deliberate oppression of the "Jurchen", not only the wealth of the Jurchen was forcibly expropriated, but many necessities of life were also restricted.

Wanyanbu heard that there was a wealthy country called the Great Song Dynasty in the far south, and he especially liked some of their tribal specialties such as pearls, animal furs, ginseng, etc., so he wanted some tribesmen to take these things to the Great Song Dynasty in exchange for some daily necessities, such as salt, swords, etc.

And Wanyan Zengnu took such a mission when he was young, left the Jurchen Wanyan Department, trekked through mountains and rivers with difficulty, passed through the layers of obstruction of the Khitans, and finally went south to the Great Song Dynasty.

As a result, the pearls, furs, ginseng and other things he brought were really popular in the Great Song Dynasty and were sold out at a high price.

Wanyan Zengnu used the money in exchange to buy a large amount of salt, swords, cloth and other things and returned to Wanyan.

When he came back to Wanyan to present the things he had exchanged for to the clansmen, the entire Wanyan Department was stunned, they didn't expect that in the past, they could only exchange the same things for less and some pitiful necessities from the Khitans, but they could exchange more and better things from the Great Song Dynasty ten times or even dozens of times!

Although it took a long time to come and go, the price was worth it!

Wanyan suddenly found a way to get rid of the exploitation of the Khitans and "make a fortune" to strengthen himself, so Wanyan Zengnu set off again, bringing more clansmen, and also brought more pearls and ginseng to the Great Song Dynasty again.

But who expected, somehow leaked the news, the matter was known to the Khitans, and the whereabouts of Wanyan Zengnu and others also fell under the surveillance of the Khitans.

So, when Wanyan Zengnu and others were about to arrive in the Great Song Dynasty again and relaxed their vigilance, the Khitans launched an attack on them.

The Wanyan people suffered heavy losses, and only a few people such as Wanyan Zengnu fled to the Great Song Dynasty with their goods.

The Khitans also informed the Great Song Dynasty border guards and asked them to arrest Yan Zengnu and others.

Wanyan Zengnu and others had no choice but to hide incognito, after the limelight passed, Wanyan Zengnu and others sadly found that the Khitans had strengthened the border guards, and it was impossible for them to go home again.

So, in order to survive, Wanyan Zengnu and others had to take off their Jurchen clothes, put on Hanfu, and changed their Han names, which were called Zeng Lane from then on!

After dealing with the remaining pearls, ginseng and other things, he used the money to start from small businesses, and he was involved in both the underworld and the white way, relying on the ruthlessness of the Jurchens, he actually broke into the fame step by step, and later occupied Zengtou City and established a great family business!

But even so, Zeng Rong's heart always thought about the people on the banks of the distant Songhua River, he thought that the Khitans would use this to punish the Wanyan tribe, and his own people would also suffer more painful tribulations, and even it was not impossible to be exterminated.

But who expected, by chance a year ago, he accidentally learned from a Khitan caravan passing by Zengtou City that Wanyan was really punished by the Khitans for privately trading with the Great Song Dynasty, although Wanyan suffered heavy losses, but they woke up from this incident, relying only on the strength of their own tribe is too weak, if you want to confront the Khitans and resist the exploitation and oppression of the Khitans, you must unite all the Jurchens!

From that time on, the Wanyan tribe began to gradually unify the Shengjurchen tribes through marriage, alliances, conquests, etc., and turned the Wanyan tribe into the leader tribe of the Shengjurchen!

Zeng Lang was overjoyed, and immediately found a way to get in touch with the Wanyan Ministry, and more and more news about the Jurchen Ministry also came out, the most important of which is that the Jurchen Ministry, under the leadership of the contemporary leader of the Wanyan Ministry, Wanyan Aguta, officially rebelled against Liao last year, they first conquered Ningjiang Prefecture, and then conquered Bin, Xiang, Xian and other prefectures through the great victory of Chuhedian, and at the same time in the process of attacking the Khitans, they continued to recruit Wuya, Xi people, Bohai people and mature Jurchen tribes, expanding their territory and population, and on the first day of the first month of this year, the Dajin Kingdom was officially established!

Zeng Rong's sudden appearance also surprised Wanyan Ministry, they thought that Wanyan Zeng Nu and others had already died under the hands of the Khitans, but they were still alive, and they even occupied a semi-independent small territory in the Great Song Dynasty, accumulating a large amount of money and an army of thousands of people!

In addition to wanting to return to Wanyanbu, the purpose of Zeng Lang to get in touch with Wanyan was to ask whether Jin Guo was still willing to trade with the Great Song Dynasty through himself, but Jin Guo's answer surprised Zeng Rong, it is said that Wanyan Aguta personally ordered Zeng Rong to maintain the status quo for the time being, and not to negotiate trade with the Great Song State first, and at the same time ordered Zeng Rong to report the details of the Great Song Kingdom to the Jin State, including the national strength of the Great Song Kingdom, the combat effectiveness of the army, and so on!

In the subsequent letter, Zeng Lane also reported everything he knew about the Great Song Dynasty to Wanyan Aguda in detail, and emphasized that through his dealings with the Great Song Dynasty officialdom over the years, he found that after the Great Song Dynasty passed the alliance with the Liao State, although it was exchanged for nearly a hundred years of peace with the Liao, the more social wealth was accumulated, the real national strength was getting lower and lower, and the real Great Song Dynasty was now corrupt officials all over the world, and the three redundancies (redundant soldiers, redundant officials, and redundant expenses) were serious, and the army was even more rotten to the root. Except for the Northwest Army, which has a little combat effectiveness against Western Xia all the year round, the combat effectiveness of other armies is simply unbearable, and it is precisely because of this that he, a Jurchen, can be allowed to occupy the rich land of Zengtou City in vain but no one cares about it!

Jin Guo replied again, first bringing good news to Zeng Rong, saying that in April this year, Jin Guo had conquered Huanglongfu, an important economic town in Liao, not only increased its strength and entered the "hinterland" of Liao, but also could face the threat to the Khitans' hometown, Linhuang Mansion in Beijing! Take it down just around the corner! Next, he told Zeng Lane to pay close attention to the movements of the Great Song Dynasty, and to buy the official ...... of the Great Song Dynasty at a large price.

This is the information expressed by all the letters exchanged between the two sides, through these letters, Zheng Fei suddenly realized that the reminder he had given to Ma Zhi seemed to be too little, and Wanyan Agu's order was clearly to make Zeng a nail lurking in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty!

Zheng Fei naturally knew Wanyan's ability to fight against the bones, that is, he destroyed the Khitan Daliao who dominated the north! But only now did he understand that Wanyan Aguta, as a generation of male masters, ...... Did he have the ambition to compete in the world from the beginning?!