Kong Duanyou, as a contemporary Yan Shenggong, he trembled and followed Zhao Ding to the Dragon Court.

In order to show the sincerity of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Ding personally came to the Dragon Court of the Kerebu Department, which was his first time as a state envoy to a foreign country.

Along the way, I saw the unmelted ice and snow on the desert, the young shoots of the tender grass that had just been spit out, and the countless Kereh tribesmen galloping on horseback.

I saw poverty, backwardness, and desolation.

I saw positivity, hope, and tenacity.

The Tiele tribes, or the grassland tribes, have been the henchmen of the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times.

What did these tenacious steppe people rely on to keep looking for trouble for the Central Plains Dynasty?

From the Xiongnu to the Turks, from the Turks to the Khitan, from the Khitan to the Jinren, and then to the eighteen tribes of Tiele, it has never stopped.

Figuring out the reason is Zhao Ding's starting motivation for personally arriving at the Mobei grassland this time.

"Yan Shenggong, why do you say that the people of the grassland survive under such harsh living conditions, and keep making trouble for my Central Plains Dynasty?" Zhao Ding asked in a mutter.

He sat in the tent of the Dragon Garden, looking at the young children who were constantly picking up cow dung outside, and looking at the herd of livestock roaming around, a little stunned.

The people of the Great Song Dynasty are more than 10,000!

But when I arrived at the grassland and Longting, I found that there were only 100,000 households in the Kereh headquarters, less than 500,000 people.

Such a population is not even as large as the population of a city in the Great Song Dynasty.

But it is such a tribe, but the Great Song Dynasty has to be cautious, he, the candidate for the ruling in the court, has to come here to see it in person all the way.

Long Ting and Zhao Ding thought completely differently, the city wall here is not even a city wall, it can only be regarded as a battlement.

The Khan's court was a large tent that could be moved at any time.

"I think that nomadism and nomadism are the key to this nomadic word. They are moving around, living in no fixed place, if you want to destroy them, you have to find them, but Mobei is so big, how can it be easy to find it? Kong Duanyou was still hiding in the felt and said tremblingly.

He was forcibly pulled down here by Zhao Ding, he didn't want to eat sand, he didn't want to follow Zhao Ding's envoy, and he didn't want to see the sturdy bodies of the Kereh people.

Even he saw the shirtless Crebe men wrestling on the grass, and he felt terrible.

Aren't they cold?

But Zhao Ding's question, he didn't dare not answer, so he could only find a reason that he had been asking for.

Zhao Ding thought for a long time and said: "You can charge fearlessly in the face of the rain of arrows, and you can climb fearlessly in the face of the towering city wall, knowing that it is very likely to die under the city wall, but you are not afraid of death." ”

"Behind this bravery, there is actually poverty."

Zhao Ding wrote in the notebook that because of their poverty, men began to ride, shoot arrows, and hunt at the age of twelve or thirteen, grew up on horseback, lived on horseback, fought on horseback, and finally died on horseback.

"Poverty?" Kong Duanyou frowned, he didn't understand.

"Zhao Jingluo, summoned by Lu Khan." A Khitan interpreter found Zhao Ding in a daze and whispered.

"The envoy of the Jin Kingdom, Chen Wang Wanyan Zongjun is also in the tent, and I also ask Zhao Jing to be careful." The interpreter kindly reminded.

Zhao Ding dragged Kong Duanyou up, came to the big tent of the royal court, looked at Lu Khan sitting on the main seat, and said with a smile: "I don't know what Lu Khan thinks after listening to the opinions of the envoy of the Jin State?" Do you want to be the enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, or do you want to be good to the Great Song Dynasty? ”

Lu Khan shook his head: "Zhao Xianggong is serious, this envoy of the Jin Kingdom just started to talk about the dispatch of troops to Monan, and I haven't listened yet, so I called Zhao Xianggong over and listened to it together." ”

After Zhao Ding heard the translation, he glanced at Xia Zuo and Wanyan Zongjun with the money rattail braid.

Wanyan Zongjun is the sixth son of Wanyan Aguta, who has military exploits, is the king of Chen, and the left servant of the Shangshu of the Jin Kingdom.

The weight of this is not low at all!

It seems that Jin Guo is not unprepared, Ling Tangzuo disguised himself as Xia Zuo and put forward that strategy, which can only be said to be at the right time, and it may have been discussed among the Jin people a long time ago.

However, this Lu Khan actually directly pulled the Song envoy and the Jin envoy together, it seems that his attitude is obvious, and he does not want to start a war lightly.

This is good news for Zhao Ding, he thought that this time he would be imprisoned by this Lu Khan to Beihai, and he would have to be like Su Wu, herding sheep for a few years before he could go back.

"Say it. Let me hear it. Lu Khan said to Ling Tangzuo.

Ling Tangzuo came out of the ranks, holding a wine glass in his hand, this wine vessel, named Jue. There is a stream in the front, that is, a flow groove for pouring wine, and a sharp tail in the back, and a cup in the middle.

There is a puff on one side and three legs on the bottom.

"Khan, this is a knight, used for drinking, I don't know if Lu Khan knows, why does this lord have three legs?" Ling Tangzuo asked with a smile while holding the Jue.

Lu Khan was stunned for a moment and asked, "This has been handed down since ancient times, it is like this, what other reason can it have?" ”

The corners of Ling Tangzuo's mouth showed some smiles and said, "Because this is the most stable!" My Khan, such a wine glass, put it on the table so that it will not topple over. ”

"It's like the world today."

"At this time, the Song, Jin, and Tiele tribes are the three-legged stand and the world, only in this way is the most stable! If the Song people really destroyed the Jin Kingdom, the next one would be the Tiele Tribes. ”

As soon as Lu Khan heard this, he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said: "The Great Song Dynasty and the Tiele tribes have always been friendly, and there is no disaster of war. The Great Song Dynasty and the Tiele tribes did not have such a grudge. ”

"Don't deliberately say something frightening to confuse my subjects of the Tiele tribes."

Ling Tangzuo laughed three times and said, "The Khan's words are fallacious! Not some alarmist either! ”

"The ambition of the Song people is known to passers-by, after the annexation of the Jin Kingdom, the Song people will definitely not stop there, and at that time, the Tiele tribes will become a big trouble for the Great Song Dynasty."

"Song Taizu has a word! On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore! ”

"If the khan has a fluke in his heart, when he is trampled by the iron hooves of the Song army, think about what he thinks today! Isn't that ridiculous?! ”

Ling Tangzuo's words went to his heart, Zhao Ding wiped the sweat on his head, he knew that the young man in front of him who spoke generously was actually an official of the Great Song Dynasty, which made him feel like the back waves of the Yangtze River were pushing the front waves.

Lu Khan also showed a thoughtful look when he heard this, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "Let me think about this, you continue." ”

Ling Tangzuo looked at Yan Zongjun with a smile, this khan's mind was no longer unilaterally biased towards the Song Kingdom, but there were signs of leaning towards the Jin Kingdom!

"I don't know if Lu Khan has ever heard of the saying that the world must be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time?" Ling Tangzuo asked with a smile.

And Lu Khan nodded, this famous saying, but a proverb that has been circulated for nearly a thousand years, he has naturally heard it. He thought for a while and asked, "Are you talking about the Great Song Dynasty having a situation of swallowing the world?" ”

Ling Tangzuo nodded, shook his head again, and said, "What Lu Khan said is not right or not, the emperor of the Song Dynasty has the will to swallow the world, there is no doubt about it. But what I'm going to say is not just Song Guo's ambition to swallow the world. ”

"Oh?" Lu Khan leaned forward and looked at Ling Tangzuo with a curious gaze.

Ling Tangzuo said with a smile: "I don't know if the position of the Khan, the Khan, is sitting on pins and needles?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole tent was silent, which is a fact.

A hundred years ago, the Kelie Department of Dingdu and Longting did not unify the entire Mobei Grassland Tribes, on the contrary, he only relied on the strength of the Kelie Department to suppress the other tribes.

It is far from enough to say that the grassland departments are unified.

Everyone in the Kree tribe knew about this, but no one stepped forward, and they stood up and stabbed this layer of window paper.

Don't hit people in the face, and don't expose their shortcomings when scolding.

This is the sore foot of the Kerebu, but it was directly said by an outsider, and Lu Khan's face was naturally a little unpleasant.

Ling Tangzuo looked at Lu Khan's appearance and said with a smile: "I don't know if Lu Khan has the ambition to dominate the grassland?" ”

"If there is, then Lu Khan is still an eagle on the grassland, if not, then Lu Khan is just a guinea pig on the grassland."

Scold!

The guards in the royal court drew their long knives, and this Han man spoke wildly, and he actually dared to insult the Khan of the Kereh Department!

Lu Khan didn't stop the long knives of these guards, if Ling Tangzuo couldn't say why, he wouldn't be able to leave this royal court today.

Ling Tangzuo still had that smiling smile, looked at Lu Khan, then looked at the guard who pulled out his sword, and said with a smile: "Khan, if the Khan is willing to be an eagle and send troops to Monan, it will be the best opportunity to kill people with a knife!" I wonder what Khan thinks? ”

When Lu Khan heard this, his whole body was about to fall out of the table, looking at Ling Tangzuo, this meaning of killing people with a knife, of course he heard it clearly!

Clever words, clever tongues.

Lu Khan wiped the sweat from his forehead, signaled the guards to put away the knife, the power of the Song people was concentrated on the Jin side, if at this time, he went south, occupied the four towns of Monan, and relied on the army of the Great Song Dynasty to kill people with knives, and consume the strength of other tribes.

It is not impossible to take the opportunity to unify the entire Mobei tribes!

"You have a point." Lu Khan nodded, glanced at his son Toli, thought for a long time, and said: "The two reasons you said are very good, but I, the Kereh Department, still do not agree to send troops to Monan, and help me bring an apology to the emperor of the Jin State." ”

Lu Khan said with a smile: "After withdrawing troops from the four towns of Mo Nan last year, my Kereh Department made friends with the Great Song Dynasty, and the Song people did not violate the covenant, and my Mo Bei Erlang is also a Zheng Zheng man, so naturally he will not violate the covenant." ”

"For the sake of a verbal covenant, the Khan gave up a great opportunity. Also ask Khan to think twice. Ling Tangzuo frowned and looked at Lu Khan, he was obviously already moved. Why are you refusing to send troops now?!

Lu Khan saw Ling Tangzuo's eyes and said, "Before you came, the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty also arrived at the Dragon Court. I think the Song envoy's suggestion is better, the two countries can only prosper if they don't raise swords. The sword has no eyes, and the sword soldiers are men who die on the battlefield, and if there are no men, the family is over. ”

"In the past year, without the identity of the intermediary of the Liao State, I have lost the Mobei Zhubu and the Great Song Dynasty Huiyi, one less handover, and life is much better, people's minds are determined, I Kelie Department, the people of the grassland, are also people."

Lu Khan looked at Zhao Ding and laughed. The benefits of trading back to the Great Song Dynasty this year are simply not too much.

Just about the salt, the tribes who were more or less willing to obey him in the past are now much more obedient.

Zhao Ding stood up, saluted Lu Khan, looked at Ling Tangzuo and said, "Not all victories need to rely on sword soldiers. ”

"Sometimes, money can do too."

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