Xiao Hu went back and returned triumphantly, but he was not proud enough this time, and he only charged a little interest, and when Gan Qi came to ask for the order of the Great Song Emperor, that was when he was really proud, and he must do everything he could to insult him, and in front of all the Great Liao officials and the emperor, he completely trampled the faces of Gan Qi and the Great Song Dynasty under his feet.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are a long and narrow area from east to west, that is to say, from the border of Xiongzhou to Yanjing, it is not far away, but it is about 200 miles, that is, a distance of 100 kilometers.

The Great Song Dynasty also lacked this area that was only more than 100 kilometers wide, did not have the Yanshan Mountain Range, and did not have the real pass moat as a line of defense.

Xiao Hu returned to Yanjing City in the afternoon of the next day, and many people were waiting for news from him.

Emperor Yelu Hongji had been waiting for a long time, and Xiao Hu, who could be a million troops by himself, came back with a victorious attitude, and saw everyone in the court with a smile on his face.

Yelu Hongji opened his mouth and asked, "How did the Song people react?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Gan Qi, the envoy of the Hebei Two Roads, saw that the 700,000 warriors of my Daliao were gearing up, and they were already frightened and panicked. After a few times of intimidation, he was very flattering, and he was really frightened! Xiao Hu said this, but it is also the truth.

Yelu Hongji laughed when he heard this, there is nothing that makes an emperor happier than this kind of thing.

"Song people, it's still those Song people, I thought that these Song people had grown up, and they wanted to wrestle with Da Liao, it seems that this is just the case!"

"Your Majesty Shengming, the Song people are just some lip service, if they really want to do something real, they will immediately be scared." Xiao Hu flattered.

However, it is also true that the confidence of the Great Song Dynasty has long been seen through by the Liao people. The Liao people had more means to take advantage of the Great Song Dynasty, but whenever the Song and Xia went to war, the Liao people would appear, sometimes as mediators, sometimes intimidating the Great Song Dynasty, sometimes intimidating the Western Xia, between the long-sleeved and good dancing, I don't know how much benefit they got between the Song and Xia countries.

In a word, Liao Xingzong almost raised the prestige of the Liao State to the peak, and the Song Dynasty was also afraid, and the Western Xia was also afraid. Now that Yelu Hongji has just been replaced, Yelu Hongji may still be worried that his power is not as good as that of the previous emperor, but now he has a try, and he is in a good mood and his power is still the same.

This time, it was time for him Yelu Hongji to come to power and exert his authority, so Yelu Hongji opened his mouth and said: "The first emperor was benevolent, his ears were soft, and he always let the Song people go at critical moments. Today but there is no need for yesterday, this time he is the Song people kneeling and begging for mercy, and they are bound to get the ten counties in the south of Waqiaoguan. ”

Yelu Yixin immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty Shengming, as long as you get these ten counties, the Song people's defense line is broken, if there is another dispute in the future, the Great Liao Iron Cavalry will go south, and within ten days he will besiege Bianliang City, and he will be taught that the Southern Dynasty will never dare to disobey my Daliao order again." ”

The more Yelu Hongji listened, the happier he became, if he got such a great benefit, there would be no such strong stroke in the history books, and he asked: "Do you know who the Song people will send to envoy?" Isn't it Fubi's old puppet again? ”

Ye Luren, the privy envoy of the Northern Court, replied first: "Fu Bi is already old, and he is the prime minister of the DPRK, and the Southern Dynasty will definitely not send him an envoy." ”

Xiao Hu also replied: "Your Majesty, the minister knows something, and nine times out of ten it is Gan Qi Gan Daojian, who is the envoy of the two roads in Hebei. ”

"How's this guy?"

"I heard that he is a disciple of Bao Zheng, who is only twenty-two or three, a person who has not dried up, a man who talks eloquently, and is very similar to the style of the literati of the Southern Dynasty."

"Such a person, why did the Southern Dynasty send him as an envoy?" Yelu Hongji wanted to ask why.

"Just because this person is Zhao Shu's brother-in-law, and he started from humble beginnings with Zhao Shu, so he is highly used, and he is favored and trusted by both inside and outside."

Yelu Hongji was even more overjoyed when he heard this: "It seems that the new emperor of the Southern Dynasty is nothing more than this, only relatives are acting, how can he govern the country like this?" ”

How could Jeruyisin not understand what Jeruhunji meant when he said this? hurriedly replied: "The new emperor of the Southern Dynasty is really 108,000 miles worse than His Majesty, and there are still many useful ministers in the Southern Dynasty, but he only favors a milky brother-in-law, whose strength is so small that it is insignificant." ”

This is the words that Yelu Hongji is waiting for, the person who is the emperor naturally has to be compared with the person who is also the emperor, Yelu Hongji said: "The emperor of the Southern Dynasty is really insignificant in his way of employing people, since Yuan Hao was assassinated by his son, the emperor of Western Xia is also insignificant......"

"God bless me Khitan Da Liao! It will not take long for the descendants of the saint to come out, and the fortune of the country will be prosperous, and the world will be just around the corner. Yelu Yixin immediately answered.

Yelu Hongji waved his hand: "The matter of winning the world, but I haven't thought about it for so long, I just want to work hard now, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and between one and the other, I must always see the difference." ”

"Your Majesty will surely lay the foundation of immortality! The ministers are also willing to do their best for His Majesty and leave a name in history. Yelu Yixin followed Yelu Hongji's words and continued, not that Yelu Yixin was good at sycophancy, but that Yelu Yixin was walking on thin ice at this time, and always felt that someone was hurting him behind his back, and if he didn't work hard to make the emperor happy at this time, then there was really no way to solve the crisis.

The two of them chatted very happily.

The privy envoy of the North Court, Yeluren, took advantage of the gap to speak: "Your Majesty, the minister has some small things to play. ”

"Come on!"

"In the north of Huanglong Mansion, in the northwest of Ningjiang Prefecture, a Jurchen tribe has recently risen, called Wanyan, which swept more than 400 miles, unified more than 20 tribes of all sizes, and also had a lot of friction with the garrison of Ningjiang Prefecture, killing a lot of my Daliao people. The minister wanted to send troops to suppress it, and asked His Majesty to show it. "Jereren first reported this, but it was really a small matter.

"How many men do they have?" Yeluhongji asked.

"When there are two or three thousand, but I also heard reports from people, I don't know where they got a large number of iron tools, and even dozens of pounds of heavy armor equipment, and they come and go in the jungle, it is not a big trouble."

"Send troops from the Huanglong Mansion to let the nearby Jurchen tribes also send people out and exterminate them as soon as possible." Two or three thousand people, not worth mentioning, Da Liao not only has a few thousand garrisons in Huanglong Mansion, but many nearby Jurchen tribes are also under the control of the Liao State, and it is easy to gather more than 10,000 people and horses to destroy a savage tribe.

"Yes!" Yelu Renxian didn't care so much, the Liao State has been subdued and destroyed for so many years, and this time is not so special. The only trouble is to give more money and food.

……

On the Xiongzhou side, Gan Qi, who was galloping on horseback, became more and more anxious, because the ordnance and equipment of 25,000 people had not yet arrived, and news came from the Cangzhou wharf every day, and the fleet still had not arrived. The winter monsoons are not friendly to sailing ships heading north, and the fleet stops and goes at sea, which is not a thing to do.

There were too few ordnance and equipment transported from all over Hebei, and Gan Qi only went to Huanglong Mansion and Zhending Mansion to personally open the treasury of the forbidden army in various places and dig for some inventory, especially standard bows and crossbows, hand crossbows, longbows, divine arm bows, crossbows, and winch ballistas.

But he also made Gan Qi half angry, and every night he wrote an impeachment chapter into Beijing to impeach officials from all over the country. If Gan Qi can really make a decision, maybe he will be killed in a river of blood.

The treasury of the forbidden army can also be shorted on a large scale, and the gap between the accounts of the treasury and the actual inventory is so large that it is outrageous, and the accounts are full of memories, but there are almost no things.

Gan Qi once again understood the extent of the erosion of the country, and once again understood why when the Jin people went south, they said that they would surround Bianliang.

Angry that Gan Qi was furious everywhere, but also helpless, on the way to and fro, even the county officials in various places went to rummage through, and turned over to a usable bed crossbow, Gan Qi could be overjoyed.

This has frightened many officials, and they have tried to find ways to fill the armor with armor everywhere, for fear that Gan Qi, the envoy of the Hebei two-way system, will come to inspect the armaments and impeach them several times, which will affect their future.

This is an unexpected joy, even if it is superficial work, it can also see a little effect, there are always a few more pairs of iron armor and blades, and then some good crossbows, that is an unexpected joy.

In this way, Gan Qi even sent many henchmen to farther states and counties to inspect, and although the harvest was small, it could also gather a small amount into a lot. This Great Song Dynasty is good enough to be big enough and there are enough state capitals. On the two roads in Hebei, a county turned out ten pairs of iron armor, and together they could make up two or three thousand pairs. A state capital can have a few crossbows, and then it can also make a hundred and ten to use.

The two roads of Hebei in the Northern Song Dynasty are large enough, not Hebei Province in later generations, but most of Hebei in later generations, plus part of Henan, plus part of Shandong, and part of Shanxi, which is very large enough for Ganqi to scavenge to his heart's content.

On the two roads in Hebei, in fact, some people are panicked, because they all know that the Liao people have stationed troops on the border and may have to fight, otherwise it would be impossible for Gan Jingluo to loot armaments everywhere.

This time, Gan Qi sent the letter of state to Bianliang City. The news of Chen Bing, a Liao person, could not be hidden.

In Bianliang City, there is naturally an uproar, there are many people shouting and shouting to kill, and they know that Gan Xianggong is in Hebei, and there are many literati who are also very enthusiastic, running around to tell each other, not groveling, not teaching people to bully......

Of course...... There are a lot of people shouting and shouting to kill in Bianliang City, but if the Bianliang people are really willing to go to the battlefield to fight and kill, they may not be able to find a few people.

However, there are always some young scholars who are really full of enthusiasm, and there are really some scholars who go around to pull people around to support Mr. Gan, just like in the past when Mr. Gan went to Yongzhou.

To say that the Confucianism of the Great Song Dynasty actually has many people who are very well educated, just like when the Southern Song Dynasty fell, there were thousands of literati who were martyred in Yashan and jumped into the sea, and there were as many as 100,000 people who jumped into the sea and died together.

is also like Wen Tianxiang, after all, he still kept Dan's heart and sweat.

(PS: So the later Japanese, in order to combat the anti-Japanese heart of the Chinese people, also deliberately made up a series of theories, the most famous of which is: there is no China after Yashan.) It is said that China's historical inheritance was cut off after Yashan, and the people who had the backbone of China all died after 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea and died in Yashan in the Southern Song Dynasty.

During the period when the rise of Japan began to have ambitions for China, the Japanese wrote a large number of articles and books on Chinese history, especially about the inheritance of China and the history of China being ruled by foreign people Chinese s.

One of the reasons is to combat the anti-Japanese heart of the Chinese people, strengthen the recognition of Japanese rule, and another reason is that the Japanese need to strengthen their cultural self-confidence after the rise, and the opinions are gathered together, that is, the Chinese are no longer the Chinese of the past, they have long become inferior people, and they need to be saved by the Japanese who have been inherited from the orthodoxy of Chinese culture.

Among the many Japanese who studied Chinese history during that period, the so-called Japanese scholar Naito Hunan was the most representative, and he devoted his life to the study of Chinese history. These theories were widely circulated in China during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, especially some traitor literati in enemy-occupied areas were particularly fond of this kind of argument, and also fooled a large number of Chinese literati, such as the famous traitor Wang Jingwei's curve to save the country, Wang Jingwei also had a large number of pro-Japanese literati around him, and they really believed in these arguments. It's just that I didn't expect that in modern society a hundred or ten years later, this kind of argument can still be very loud and has countless fans, which is really sad. ）

Straight to the point.

Above the court hall in Bianliang, Tokyo, Emperor Zhao Shu was still a little frightened, looked at the national letter, and asked the Manchu Dynasty: "Is there really 700,000 Liao troops?" ”

Fu Bi, who has served as a million soldiers, is there at this time, but he shows the calmness of the old minister, and slowly replied: "Your Majesty, the Liao people are just bluffing, at most there are only 100,000 people. ”

Zhao Shu was relieved when he heard this, and said: "That's good, there are nearly 300,000 forbidden troops on the two roads in Hebei, and I am not afraid of him." ”

Fu Bi said again: "Since this matter started because of Gan Daojian, this matter of envoy mediation should also be handled by Gan Daojian, and it is not a problem to think about it." ”

Fu Bi naturally didn't have a good heart. Fu Bi has personally experienced the difficulty of seeking peace. Gan Qi caused trouble, Gan Qi lost his net worth to solve it, and when he came back, he had to let Gan Qi fall into a crime of provoking life and putting the country in danger. Who told Gan Qi to take care of everything in the court at the beginning, he should suffer some hardships.

Emperor Zhao Shu was very confident in Gan Qi, and replied: "Before Gan Qing went to Hebei, I had made arrangements, and the envoy was him, and he would solve this matter." ”

Fu Bi smiled and nodded, agreeing.

Zeng Gongliang always felt that something was wrong, and he kept thinking about it in his head, and even guessed whether Gan Qi wanted to start a war with Liao, but this idea was fleeting, there was no reason, and it was untenable.

Zeng Gongliang said: "Your Majesty, send someone to Xiongzhou to convey Your Majesty's holy message, so that Gan Jingluo has a confidence in his heart." ”

"Yes, send someone to tell Gan Qing that it is not okay to cut the land, and it is not okay to add New Year's coins, and it must not humiliate the face of the Great Song Dynasty." Zhao Shu has some backbone, anyway, the national character can't be lost.

Fu Bi heard some extraneous meanings, isn't this order just to let Gan Qi spend money to solve it in private? The smile on Fu Bi's face was even worse.

However, in fact, Zhao Shu didn't mean this, he just wanted to be tough, because he knew that Liao was going to have civil strife, and Gan Qi had bargaining chips. This civil strife was originally created by Gan Qi, so Zhao Shu really has confidence in Gan Qi.

Zeng Gongliang, who had always had doubts in his heart, said at this time: "Your Majesty, then send the minister's dog Xiaokuan to spread the will?" ”

"Yes." Zhao Shu doesn't care about this.

Why did Zeng Gongliang let his son preach this will? Because he knew that there must be something wrong with things, and something unexpected would happen, he really wanted to find out what Gan Qi was going to do, and he had to tell Zeng Xiaokuan when he went home.

Zeng Xiaokuan received Zeng Gongliang's instructions, took the holy decree and got on the official road in the car, and hurried to Xiongzhou.

It's just that Zeng Xiaokuan, who saw Gan Qi, didn't expect that Gan Qi held the holy decree, but kept silent about the mission, and was still busy everywhere.

For Gan Qi at this time, the envoy? That's impossible!

Although there will be no danger in the current pattern of the Liao and Song Dynasties, Gan Qi will still not be in danger. Rather than spending that time on the mission, Ganchi might as well make a few more preparations for war.

The Liao people also sent people to urge them several times, but Gan Qi shirked in horror in every way, and even acted panicked in front of the Liao people.

The Spring Festival has arrived, and the Liao people sent people to urge again, Xiao Hu came in person and threatened Gan Qi: "What? Don't you dare to go to my northern court? Or is your emperor so scared that the six gods have no master, I don't know what to do? ”

Gan Qi looked terrified and speechless.

"If there is no envoy to my Yanjing in the beginning of spring, my Majesty has a word, and immediately send troops to war, and fight Xiongzhou first!" Xiao Hu's face was fierce.

Gan Qi nodded: "Please also ask the Liao envoy to calm his anger, in two days it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, and once Chinese New Year's Eve passes, there will definitely be a large-scale mission to Yanjing within half a month!" ”

"Why is it half a month after Chinese New Year's Eve?" Xiao Hu asked sharply.

Ganchi looked up at the sky outside the window and replied, "Because at that time, the snow will stop." ”

"The snow has stopped? Can't make it to the road after the snow? Xiao Hu asked again.

"There are a lot of belongings, hundreds of convoys, and it is snowing to make the journey."

Xiao Hu was overjoyed when he heard this: "The convoy is hundreds? Ha ha...... You Song people are ......"

Xiao Hu, who laughed out loud, suddenly felt that he shouldn't laugh like this, so he stopped his smile again, changed his face, and said: "Don't tell your emperor, you don't have to send any property, my emperor has a word, as long as the land, otherwise there will be a big war!" ”

"Liao envoy is angry and angry, I will report to Your Majesty again and deliver Xiao Envoy's words." The embarrassment on Ganqi's face was extremely well acted.

"Hmph, those who know the times, Junjie also. If you don't know the current affairs, I will teach you that the Southern Dynasty ambushed millions of corpses, shed thousands of miles of blood, and lost your family and country. Xiao Hu flicked his sleeves again, and it was really refreshing to say such naked threatening words to a country.

"Liao envoys rest assured, peace is precious, Liao and Song are a country of brothers, and peace should be precious."

Xiao Hu walked out and said: "Don't wait for the envoy to come again, if you let the envoy come again next time, then either the envoy comes with a team of guards, or a million soldiers are coming to the city!" ”

"I wish Xiao a safe and healthy Chinese New Year's Eve!" The Liao people have already begun to celebrate the festival of Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is time to bless it.

"Humph!" Xiao Hu had already left the hall, and he didn't drink a cup of Gan Qi, let alone eat.

This time, Gan Qi sent Xiao Hu to the gate of the city before stopping.

The moment he turned his head, between Gan Qi's eyebrows, the murderous aura was exposed!

There are also words: "After acting in so many scenes, this scene is the most difficult to act!" ”