Li Yan is now Chinese New Year's Eve four.

In the eyes of later generations, thirty-four should be in the prime of life and can wear through the yang in a hundred steps.

But in this era, the average life expectancy of people is only between 32 and 40 years old, and the average life expectancy of even emperors is less than 50 years (only 49.76 years old).

Although Li Yan looks like he is only in his twenties, his physical function is more than ten times better than when he was seventeen or eighteen.

But after seeing his old brothers, Li Yan couldn't help but wonder, "Are you old?" "The thought.

Chao Gai is now fifty-seven years old, obviously much older than before, and he has completely entered the aging population.

However, what makes people happy is that Chao Gai, who has put down everything, has a very tough body, and after Chao Gai was favored by a maid in love, he actually got a son, and he accidentally had a queen.

Chao Gai said to Li Yan: "After I saw that stinky boy for the first time, I was excited for three days and three nights, that kid and I are simply carved out of the same mold!" ”

After Li Yan heard this, he gave the maid who gave birth to a son for Chao Gai a "Lady of Command", and then personally married her and Chao Gai, so that Chao Gai Mingmei was marrying her.

On the day of the wedding, Chao Gai was very happy, and when he met people, he said: "When you are old, you are old, but you have married a wife and had children, and you have become a layman." ”

It is a person who can see that Chao Gai, who was once higher than the sky, has really let go of it all now, and has begun to enjoy his old age and become a happy old man.

The old ones are not only covered.

An Daoquan is almost sixty years old, but the old guy is good at maintenance, and now he can still control the three daughters at night, looking at his body and bones, even if he lives to be a hundred years old, there is no problem.

Huangfu Duan is also in his fifties, and his health is also good, and now the hundreds of thousands of horses in Shuibo Liangshan are under his management and his disciples and grandchildren.

Lu Zhishen is forty-eight years old, Li Yan gave Lu Zhishen many beauties in his early years, and now Lu Zhishen is also a few children.

However, Lu Zhishen has not become a layman like Chao Gai - recently, Lu Zhishen may have had an epiphany and began to participate in Zen with his master, Elder Zhizhen, as if he meant to be a true monk.

Lin Chong is forty-seven years old this year, but he is still extremely keen on his career, and Li Yanli has counted his merits to give him a "Xuansu Cheng Xuan" of the third grade, and now he is guarding Xuansu County.

Chai Jin is now forty-seven, but he has a good mentality, he looks like he is in his thirties, and he is still a capable intelligence cadre under Li Yan.

Bian Xiang forty-six.

Nguyen Xiao 245.

Among the old brothers, those over forty years old are almost halfway old, and many of them are obviously old.

This couldn't help but make Li Yan want to go out for a walk.

Li Yan knew his body.

Now his strong body can definitely withstand any wind and waves.

I just don't know if five years from now, ten years from now, twenty years from now, will they get as old as Chao Gai and them, so old that they can't go far and go to sea.

It just so happened that Li Yan still had time, and not long ago, the shipyard had just built the hundredth treasure ship of Shuibo Liangshan.

Of course, these are all secondary reasons.

The main reason is that only trade can make a country truly rich and strong, and closing the country to the outside world can only make a country poorer and poorer, which has been proven by history.

Moreover, Li Yan knew that although the current situation in Song and Jin was very tense, the shame of Jingkang could not happen in a year or two.

Li Yan could have taken this opportunity to go out and see Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, Africa and Europe in this era, in other words, Li Yan was ready to open up a complete maritime Silk Road and open up a long-term financial route for Shuibo Liangshan.

In fact, the Maritime Silk Road has existed as early as the pre-Qin period, the Tang Dynasty it was called "Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road", and now it is the heyday of the Maritime Silk Road, the Northern Song Dynasty is so rich, largely because of this financial road to the Northern Song Dynasty blood transfusion, otherwise, with Zhao Jijun's ministers so profligate, the Northern Song Dynasty would have been impoverished.

Regarding Li Yan's plan to open up the Maritime Silk Road in person, Shuibo Liangshan was all against it from top to bottom.

But it didn't work.

Li Yan's own life, Li Cun, who was only ten years old, appointed Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Ding, Xu Guanzhong, Wang Lun, Zhu Wu, Sun Jing, Qiao Daoqing, Xiao Jiasui, Chen Gongfu, Chen Kangbo, and Chen Jingtong as the eleventh auxiliary ministers.

Li Yan did not let the well-known Liu Huiniang listen to the government, but only appointed Li Yan and Liu Huiniang's second son, Li Hou, who was only seven years old, as the successor to the throne and the state just in case - Li Yan did not let Liu Huiniang listen to the government, which made a group of ministers more respectful of Li Yan, and at the same time, everyone saw Li Yan's attitude towards the harem.

Li Yan selected 60,000 troops from the 200,000 troops - 40,000 of them were soldiers of the Liangshan army, 10,000 were soldiers of Khitan and other ethnic minorities, and 10,000 were soldiers of Goryeo and Japan. In addition, these 60,000 troops do not count the 40,000 navies and sailors of the left army of the Sun Never Setting Fleet and the 20,000 amphibious troops of Huyanqing.

The generals who went with Li Yan included Li Jun, Hu Yanqing, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Lan, Yang Yizhong, Li Shi (Yelu Dashi), Ni Zhongsheng, Tang Weiyi and so on.

In addition, Li Yan also brought 50,000 good horses, 3,000 thunder carts, 500 sinking snail boats, enough conscienceless cannons, bed crossbows, thunderstorms, and so on.

Li Yan also ordered Meng Kang and 3,000 shipwrights to screen out a thousand of the more than 2,000 big ships—not counting a hundred treasure ships, Li Yan brought all of these 100 treasure ships.

In addition, Li Yan asked Li Ying, Hu Cheng and other merchants of the household department to carefully prepare 500 ships of goods for themselves, including tea, porcelain, glass, soap, fine iron, and so on.

In the end, Li Yan recruited 1,000 merchants who wanted to go abroad to make money to accompany him—these merchants could also bring their own ships to sea with Li Yan's fleet, for example, Wang Ze organized thirty large ships loaded with goods to go to sea with Li Yan's fleet.

Seeing that Li Yan's sailing to sea was a foregone conclusion, Wen Huanzhang and others could only try their best to block the news of Li Yan's departure.

Pity!

Li Yan's movement abroad was too big, so as soon as Li Yan left on the front foot, Jin Guo on the back foot knew the news.

At this time, the Jin State had just escorted Emperor Tianzuo to Shangjing.

Emperor Tianzuo was first escorted to the Taizu Temple and sacrificed to Jin Taizu to finish his face and fight.

After the sacrifice to Jin Taizu, Emperor Tianzuo was escorted to the Imperial City Hall of Huining Mansion to pay homage to Jin Taizong's Wanyan Wu begging.

Here, Emperor Tianzuo presented the letter of surrender, which said:

"Liao's subordinate Yelu Yanxi bowed to the axe, bowed to the Dajin Kingdom, and prostrated himself to wait for the crime. Ministers do not suffer from their bravery, but they are also violent. Fu Nianchen's ancestors created a foundation of 200 years, inherited the throne of heaven, passed on his stepson to his grandchildren, worshiped God in the suburbs, and celebrated inside and outside......"

After reading the book, Wu begged to buy it, and issued an edict to cut Emperor Tianzuo as the king of the seaside, and then sent Emperor Tianzuo to Changbai Shandong to build a room to live in.

At this time, he was inquired about by the Jin people, and Li Yan sailed out to sea.

At first, Jin Ren didn't believe that Li Yan, who had always had a good reputation, would be so unprofessional.

After confirming it many times, Jin Ren was finally completely sure that Li Yan had really set sail to sea.

Jin Ren didn't understand this.

Soon after, Wanyan Zongwang and Wanyan Zonghan, who were holding heavy troops, suddenly suggested to Wanyan Wu to send troops south to attack the Song Dynasty.

Front-line generals such as Wanyan Yanmu and Wanyan Hulu also expressed their support.

The initiator of the war and the Song Dynasty was Wanyan Zongwang, who said to Wanyan Wu Qimai: "Ask for the Yandi household registration that belongs to our Dajin, the Song people will not give it, and the Song people will also violate the covenant to recruit Nayelu Yanxi and Zhang Jue, Xu's grain will not be recognized in a blink of an eye, and the ministers will hear that the Yanshan army is unstable, and attacking it can make it rebel, and Yandi is at your fingertips." ”

Wanyan Zonghan then said: "If you don't kill the Song Dynasty at this time, when the king of Liaodong returns, I am afraid that it will be difficult for me to avenge this humiliation." ”

Wanyan Wu begged to buy and then issued an edict to Yousi, ordering them: "Prepare the army and prepare to fight the Song Dynasty." ”

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