At this time, it was getting late, the wind was blowing outside, two muffled thunders sounded, and a heavy rain was coming. In the White Tiger Hall, pine resin torches are lit, and the light is as bright as day. It was quiet all around, and the sergeants all looked over to this side, and only one voice echoed in the hall: "The way of self-defense is the fundamental system of our dynasty." I am a self-defended people to all the people. In my Chaozhou county and township, they are all self-defended land. If the barbarians want to enter the Kou, it will be difficult to go step by step, and they will not be able to go deep. Why, because of the Jurchens and Khitan barbarians, they only know how to enslave the people. Once they are in the army, we will attack the people in groups. And if we serve the people at will, we will destroy their self-defense mentality, which is tantamount to preparing for the barbarians. If the people cannot defend themselves, neither will the kingdom be able to defend themselves. The so-called embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the anthill, which is exactly what it means. ”

Zhao Xingde softened his tone a little and said, "I am afraid that some people think that this is just a small matter. But have you ever thought that it is a small thing for you. It could be a big deal for the people. The people are busy clearing the wasteland and farming, the children at home need to be controlled by their parents, and the elderly parents want their children to take care of them, which is not a big deal for others. He looked up at the sky outside and said, "It's about to rain," he asked, raising his voice, "Is anyone worried that their straw hut is leaking and their parents, wives and children are flooded?" ”

These words made many people's faces change, and the huts and straw huts that the people hastily built were very simple, not like the tents of the leather rooms that the sergeants raised above the ground to protect them from the rain. Not only should there be water leakage, but also beware of rainwater backing up on the ground. Zhang Servant, who was waiting next to him, was also one of them, he looked at the impassioned Captain Zhao, and there was an expectation in his heart, although he didn't understand it, he felt that this captain was for the good of the people.

Zhao Xingde looked around, dozens of Ding Zhuang serving in the White Tiger Hall, many of them showed uneasy and expectant expressions, he smiled slightly, and said in a deep voice: "If you are worried, go back to take care of your parents, wife and children first, and don't worry about the miscellaneous here." ”

"Thank you, sir." Zhang Fu was overjoyed when he heard this, bowed to Zhao Xingde, his body moved, and he looked left and right, and after everyone thanked each other in a mess, they were still looking at each other, and they didn't dare to pull their feet and leave. Kim Chang-tae didn't feel funny, and said loudly: "Go back and take care of your family, hurry up!" After a pause, he added, "Come tomorrow to get a liter of food." Zhang Fu glanced gratefully at the upper seat, turned around and hurried away. In a moment, the dozens of Ding Zhuang who were waiting next to him were almost clean, and only two or three remained.

In the past, the sergeants used to have their own banquets, but now there is no one to serve, so they return to the previous situation, and everyone shouts for wine and food, but there is another lively taste. Because the signs of serving the people had just begun, since the captain did not allow it, most of them laughed and laughed. And the more attentive officers have deepened their understanding of Captain Zhao De. Jin Changtai beckoned Du to blow the horn, and asked him to find a few people to run to the kitchen and bring all the prepared dishes. Because although the cooks are all paid, they still let them go home early on rainy days. For ordinary people, backing up rainwater from the ground is a big deal that needs to be dealt with by the whole family.

At this time, Zhang Xingdao and a few others had not yet left, Zhao Xingde was a little strange and asked, "Why are you still staying here?" Zhang Sickle said: "My lord, I am naked, and I live on high ground, so I am not afraid of flooding." The situation of the other people was similar to him, only one named Zhou Yu said in a deep voice: "I will forget his home on the day of my order, although I only serve as a lowly servant, I can't give up halfway." Zhao Xingde smiled and was noncommittal. Li Sihai looked at him a few more times. Jin Changtai groaned secretly, these Ding Zhuang who stayed behind will have to send a bucket and a half of grain tomorrow to be fair.

Li Sihai took the wine and smiled at Zhao Xingde: "The road chief Shi Cui Qianzhi is on an envoy in Liao, and the lord of Liao also asked about our dynasty's interference in Liaodong, and Cui Qianzhi replied that if the Liao country breaks off its support for the grassland tribes to harass our dynasty, our dynasty can consider not interfering in Liaodong." In comparison, Cui Qianzhi used the people of Liaodong as a bargaining chip to bargain, compared to Zhao Xiaowei who asked for his life for the people, the realm was much worse. Zhao Xingde raised his glass and touched him, and said humbly: "This is all out of public intentions, for the country and the people, Captain Li praised it falsely." Li Sihai smiled slightly, a hint of color flashed in his eyes, and he didn't say any more.

At this time, Zhang's wife was hunched over, constantly pouring out the rainwater that had poured into the nest, and a son, a daughter and two children followed her, holding the pottery bowl with little hands. There was a wooden tray on the bed, and the rain was dripping down like beads with broken threads, and soon the work would be full. "Mother," the youngest son said with a crying voice, "where is Daddy, I want Daddy." The older daughter also had tears in her eyes, and it was thundering and raining outside, and the children couldn't help but be scared.

Two lines of sweat trickled down Zhang's face, and she kept scooping up the water while saying, "Your father is serving at the sergeant's master's place, and he will be back soon, soon!" "The child doesn't understand much reason, the daughter's hand holding the clay pot suddenly softened, a basin of muddy water knocked over the ground, wow cried, the son also cried, Zhang's heart was full of pain, and when there was nothing to be done, suddenly a figure ran through the rain curtain.

Zhang Fu saw the woman from a distance and said in a loud voice: "What's the use of scooping water, use mud and grass to build a threshold in front of the house to block the rain." While he was at home, the husband took out a hoe, and plunged into the rainwater, dug up a pile of dirt, and built a little embankment at the door. Zhang was still pouring water outside, and looked up at her husband's busy figure in the rain, her eyes full of tears.

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Liao State Shangjing Linhuang Mansion, the emperor's imperial account, Yelu Dashi is in the imperial review of the Xia State envoy group observation secret report, this envoy is in the enemy country, the top and bottom are cautious in words and deeds, only one Chen clan far branch, some of the mouth is open. "It's a frustrated person, but you can win it over." Yelu Dashi groaned. Before he ascended the throne, he was accustomed to burying shadows around his opponents, and after becoming the emperor, he didn't need to personally ask about such trivial matters, but whenever it became natural, the spies also played these things directly, and regarded themselves as the henchmen and cronies of His Majesty the Emperor.

Outside the door, the eunuch Tong Bing, the old prime minister Xiao Wuna, and the privy envoy Xiao Xiaode of the Southern Yuan asked to see him, and Yelu Dashi hurriedly passed him in, and stood up to greet him at the door. Xiao Wuna is an old minister of the two dynasties, and now he is over the age of old. The military power is still in the hands of his confidants, and the old prime minister is responsible for compiling the history of the country, as well as advising agriculture and encouraging industry and commerce.

Although Xiao Wuna appeared at the door with an angry face, he didn't care about the big courtesy, and said in a deep voice: "The Shang Dynasty is the ancestor of the Central Plains people, and it has nothing to do with our dynasty, why did Your Majesty want to add the words that the Khitan is a descendant of Yin Shang and Miao in the history of the country." Xiao Xiaode, the privy envoy of the Southern Court, followed behind Xiao Wuna helplessly, bowed down and said, "Minister Xiao Xiaode, meet Your Majesty." ”

Xiao Wuna threw a brand new volume of national history on top of the imperial case, angrily waiting for the emperor to explain. He is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, and he is not afraid of death. When Emperor Daozong was alive, he only cared about hunting and having fun, and most of the major affairs in the country were handed over to Prime Minister Xiao Wuna. After Yelu Yanxi succeeded to the throne, Xiao Wuna was deposed because of his loyalty and daring advice, and when Yelu Dashi raised troops, he also gathered his own soldiers and horses in his hometown to prepare to defend the abolished emperor, but after Yelu Dashi successfully ascended the throne, in order to stabilize the government, he still did everything possible to invite this important minister out of the mountain.

This morning, he checked and found that the national history record had been altered, adding the sentence "Khitan, the Miao descendants of Yin Qi," and he couldn't help but be furious, and asked the Hanlin Academy to edit it, but he didn't dare to hide it, saying that the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan instructed Xiao Xiaode to ask for the guilt, and Xiao Xiaode had no choice but to bring him to meet the king.

Yelu Dashi waited for his anger to calm down a little, and said with a slight smile: "I have done some research in the past, the old prime minister, please sit down, and wait for me to speak slowly." Xiao Wuna snorted, sat aside, and couldn't bear the truth of what he said, Yelu Dashi did edit the Hanlin Academy at the beginning, and it was natural that he had studied the history of the country. Yelu Dashi motioned for Xiao Xiaode to sit down as well, and Xiao Xiaode was suspicious and sat down in fear.

"The Han people's "Historical Records" said that the ancestor of Yin Shang was called 'Yin Qi', and I originally researched that Yin Shang moved the capital eight times in the 14th Dynasty, and repeatedly passed through the Xianbei Mountain area, so he left a line, and later multiplied into my Khitan Eight Divisions. Therefore, my Khitan Eight Divisions, and Confucius of the Southern Dynasty are the same descendants of Yin Shang. Yelu Dashi said with a straight face. Xiao Xiaode couldn't help but open his mouth, as the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, he was not an unlearned person, and he couldn't imagine that His Majesty, who was full of poetry and books, would casually say such apocryphal words.

"You, you ......." Xiao Wuna couldn't help but turn blue with anger, "Your Majesty, is there any circumstantial evidence for this evidence?" ”

Yelu Dashi's face was strange, he spread his hands, and asked rhetorically: "There is a saying in the history books that 'the princes before Yin cannot be obtained', so there is not much circumstantial evidence, but like 'Qin Zhixian, the Miao descendants of the Emperor Zhuan', 'The Huns, the Miao descendants of the Xia Hou clan', there is also no circumstantial evidence to examine. He smiled slightly, "The Khitan ancestors can be mentioned up to three generations, and the Central Plains should no longer be regarded as barbarians." ”

Xiao Xiaode was dumbfounded, Xiao Wuna was so angry that his beard trembled, and he said indignantly: "Nonsense." "The emperor did something perverse, and he could do something much worse than revising the history books, and Yelu Dashi was messing around on it, and he had no choice but to walk away in the end. Yelu Dashi respectfully sent him to the door, and sent the palace ministers to send 500 sheep to the prime minister's mansion to reward the old prime minister for his work for the country, but he left Xiao Xiaode behind, and asked him about his farms and workshops.