"Adjutant general? Hehe, when you charge into battle and fight hard, you are a general, and when you get credit, we Han generals are not farts. However, my eldest brother is indeed an ordinary farmer, and I joined the army in the Khitan Yongye for four years, and I went to the military camp because of a little kung fu and cleverness. The eldest brother has been like this since he was a child, he was born silly and upright, so he stayed at home and waited for his mother. However, the eldest brother is not useless, he is born to be an expert in farming, and he can't compare to ten miles and eight villages. The eldest brother's real name is Yang Da, and my name used to be Yang Er, but my current name was changed in the barracks. Yang Xuan finally relaxed and said with a swear.

"It's really a pig giving birth to nine sons, even a mother of ten, you are quick-witted, shrewd and capable, but your eldest brother is stupid and upright, your brothers are really different. Okay, I believe you, I don't care what you were like before, now stay in Qinjia Village and live a good life, your mother is old, and it should be a few years to live a good life. Okay, it's late at night, go to sleep. Qin Forget laughed and made a rare joke.

Yang Xuan walked to the door, paused, and said without looking back: "The owner is not afraid that I have already made up these to deceive you." You just believe in me? ”

Qin Forget was stunned for a moment, "I have eyes, and I see everything you do." If I didn't believe you, trust me, you couldn't have been here with me for so long. ”

Yang Xuan was moved and walked out respectfully, only to find that the underwear on his back was already soaked when he walked out of the door.

On the morning of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Qin Forget took Yang Xuan to draw the last copper plate in the entire Qinjia Village and went to Chicheng again.

"Owner, isn't it too early to buy tools?" Yang Xuan asked Qin Forget next to him.

"It's not early, it's still a famine, nothing is in a recession, there is no one to grow the land, and farm tools and the like should be cheaper. Besides, we have to hurry up and reclaim the wasteland now, and if we want to do a good job, we must first sharpen our tools, and prepare the guys first, and we will be faster. Qin Forget touched the hundreds of copper plates in his arms and replied to Yang Xuan.

"But there are so many people in our village, and we have enough strong labor, when will we be able to cultivate people who can feed the whole village." Yang Xuan sighed again.

"Don't rush, take your time, we have some food savings now, and we can consider recruiting some refugees. It's just that the number of people should be mastered, how many people do you think is appropriate? Qin Forget asked Yang Xuan next to him.

Yang Xuan pondered for a while when he heard this, "With our current ability, it would be good to be able to recruit a hundred people, and we can't afford to raise more." And I suggest that the proprietor recruit those who are innocent and well-off, and who come from poor backgrounds, who are simple, easy to satisfy, and have some concerns, and will not produce any moths. ”

"It's about the same number, just a hundred. What you said is right, we will accept some people with good families, in case some people with bad intentions will take the opportunity to be unfavorable to our Qinjia Village. Qin Forget nodded approvingly.

"Yang Xuan, now our Qinjia Village is seriously understaffed. In the future, I will probably run around a lot outside, and the affairs of the village will be left to you. Qin Wang's tone was still tepid.

"The owner trusts me so much?" Yang Xuan looked at Qin Wang's side face with a look of surprise and emotion.

"It's just the two of us here, do I need to be polite to you here?" Qin Forget turned his face to look at Yang Xuan, his gaze open.

"From now on, it will be decided that I will be outside the Lord and you will be in the Lord. And don't ask me this kind of trust or distrust in you in the future. That's a lot of nonsense! Qin Forget pretended to be angry and said.

Yang Xuan heard Qin Wang's words and stopped his steps. The Han people living in the Khitan country have always been enslaved by the Khitan people, and most of them have become slaves of the Khitans. The Khitans fought and killed them whenever they wanted, even if they killed a Han Chinese, at most they would compensate for a cow or three sheep.

Like Yang Xuan, the Han family son-in-law who defected to the army is quite good, at least his family doesn't have to make cattle and horses for others, and he can also receive some military salary to support his family, but he is also used as cannon fodder by middle and lower-level Khitan officers. If you are not careful in the army, you will be casually killed by your boss, and you will not be justified if you are killed. How could he have been so trusted by his superiors? Although Qin Xuan was only a small village chief, it was enough for Yang Xuan to be moved.

He looked at Qin Wang's young back steadily, and his eyes slowly moistened a little.

At this moment, Yang Xuan secretly decided in his heart that he would follow Qin to the death in this life.

"Don't be stunned, let's go!" Qin Forget waved his hand dashingly behind him.

"Hey!" Yang Xuan wiped the corners of his eyes and chased after Qin Wang.

"Yang Xuan, tell me about the situation of the Khitans." After walking for a while, Qin Forget suddenly asked Yang Xuan.

Yang Xuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but look at Qin Yu strangely, not knowing why he wanted to ask this, "What does the owner want to know?" ”

"All, especially the military, the population, the distribution of power, and so on. We are in Yunzhou, too close to the Khitans, Chicheng County simply borders the Khitans, I am afraid that there will inevitably be conflicts in the future, I want to know a little more, know yourself and know the other. Seeing Yang Xuan's puzzled eyes, Qin Forget explained.

"Yes, what I know is limited, and the owner should be a reference." Yang Xuan agreed and explained the situation of the Khitan in detail.

"There is a beautiful legend about the origin of the Khitan people: there are two rivers flowing in the vast northern grasslands, one is called the Xilamulun River, which means "yellow water". People regard it as the daughter of the Yellow River in the distance, so it is written as "Huanghe" in the literature; The other river is called the "Laoha River", also known as the "Earth River", and the two river basins gave birth to the civilization on the grassland. Legend has it that a fairy who drove a green ox cart from the Huang River and an immortal who rode a white horse from the Tuhe River met at the confluence of the two rivers, and the two fell in love and became husband and wife, and they were the ancestors of the Khitan tribe.

After thousands of years of development, in 907 AD, Yelu Abaoji, the leader of the Khitan Diethorn Tribe, unified all the departments to replace the Khan of Trace Dejin. He successively suppressed the rebellion of the Khitan nobles and conquered the Xi, Murowei, Zhubu and other tribes, and his momentum was huge and extraordinary. In 916 A.D., Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji proclaimed himself emperor and established a slave state, the Khitan State. In addition, the Khitan State conquered the Bohai State last year and changed its name to the Dongdan Kingdom, and the current Khitan Kingdom has twice the territory of the Central Plains: it is bordered by the Beihai, East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea in the east, Jinshan and Quicksand in the west, the Klulun River, the Orkun River, and the Selenge River basin in the north, and the southern foot of the Outer Xing'an Mountains in the northeast, and the northern boundary of Shanxi, Baigou River in Hebei and the northern boundary of Ganzhou in the south.

The current Khitan State can be said to be a behemoth, with a population of more than 10 million people and elite cavalry of the Khitan people and the various tribes conquered by them. What's even more terrifying is that once there is a war, it is completely possible for the whole people to be soldiers, and it is not a problem to gather millions of cavalry in a few months. If Dayan had not been protected by the Great Wall, the entire Central Plains would have been broken by the Khitan iron cavalry.

The Khitan was a slave country, with a population of more than 10 million, except for about 2 million Khitan people, the rest of the foreigners were their tenants, herdsmen and slaves. People of the Xi, Murowei, Zubu, Han and other ethnic groups are all enslaved by them, and these people are not as good as live pigs and dogs. If a foreigner kills a Khitan, then the whole family will be buried together. And if a Khitan kills a foreigner, he only needs to compensate one cow or three sheep. In the Khitan, all the wealth was concentrated in the hands of the Khitan people, and countless Khitan nobles were produced, just like the families of the Central Plains. The difference is that these nobles can raise tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops in a grand manner. ”

"Then there is no one to resist these foreigners? Or simply these nobles are in rebellion themselves. Qin Forget asked in surprise.

"Yes, but no one has ever been able to hold out for three months without being extinguished. The Khitan royal court had a Praetorian Guard, called the Khitan King's Cavalry, with hundreds of thousands of people, who were selected by the Yelu clan from thousands of people across the country. These cavalrymen have grown up on horseback since they were children, and they were originally the elite of the Khitan tribes, coupled with the rigorous training of the Khitan king's cavalry for several years, these people are all devils, and no one can resist them wherever they go. This army once had a proud record of 10,000 defeats of 50,000 Xi people. With such an army in hand, the Khitan royal court has never been afraid of the nobles rebelling, all the Khitan nobles have tens of thousands of regular Khitan troops in their hands, and the general foreigners rebel and are easily suppressed. That's all I know. ”

Listening to Yang Xuan's narration, Qin Forget kept pumping cold air, for so many years, the people who went south to the Koubian were all Khitan cavalry, and these people were still unable to fight back against the Central Plains countries, not to mention those Khitan cavalry who would not easily go out, as well as those Khitan kings who were like devils, what kind of combat power would it be? Yang Xuan's words made him feel powerless.

Who can shake such a country?

"Then in your opinion, does the Khitan Kingdom have any weaknesses?" Although the Khitan Kingdom was strong, Qin Forget didn't believe that they would be monolithic, so he immediately asked.

"Yes." Yang Xuan replied affirmatively, "The Khitan Kingdom is in its heyday, and the dissatisfaction of various ethnic groups against it can be suppressed by force. But the biggest contradiction in their country is the conflict of interests between the North and the South. ”

"North and South?" It was the first time Qin had heard such a statement.

"Yes, North and South." Yang Xuan nodded, "There are two families in the Khitan State that are the most powerful, one is the Yelu clan of the royal family of the Khitan Kingdom, and the other is the Xiao clan of the descendant clan. Every queen of the Khitan Kingdom is from the Xiao clan, so the strength of the Xiao clan is not much worse than the strength of the Yelu clan. Now the entire Khitan Kingdom is bounded by the Khitan royal court, divided into two courts, the north and the south, the south court is controlled by the Xiao family, and the north court is controlled by the Yelu clan. ”

"The relationship is so bad that the Khitan royal family doesn't care?" Qin Forget asked suspiciously.

"Anyway, when one side has a big advantage, the Khitan royal family will stand up to suppress the superior side and support the inferior side, until the strength of the two sides is balanced again. In fact, the battle between the two houses is also a matter that the Khitan royal family is happy to see, and it is just a way to balance. Yang Xuan said slightly mockingly, "Like us Han people, infighting is purely playful." ”

"Hehe, if they are united, wouldn't our Central Plains be even more miserable?" Qin Wanghe laughed, "In this case, wouldn't the people from the Southern Courtyard be from the Southern Courtyard every year before?" ”

"Yes, the territory of the two houses is clearly divided, and neither side can set foot in the territory of the other, otherwise it will be a war. The south courtyard is close to the south, and it often comes to Dayan to fight the autumn breeze, so it is much richer than the north courtyard. The territory of the North Courtyard is larger, all the way to the north, and no one can say exactly how big it is. Although it is mostly a bitter cold place, the soldiers are more fierce and better at fighting, and the king of the North Courtyard does not want to defeat the Southern Courtyard all the time, and even wants to rule the entire Khitan Kingdom. ”

The two talked and talked, and soon walked into a dense forest.