"Yanjing is established, this thousands of miles of fertile wilderness, and there are river and mountain barriers, which is enough for us to live." Yelu Yu Liyan nodded and said.

"It's not enough." Zhou Nan shook his head, what he just said was only the first step, that is, to give himself a foothold and solve the problem of survival. However, if you rely on this area alone, it will develop for a few years at most, and when it is stable and the population increases, food will be a problem. Besides, although the products in this area can be said to be rich, after all, they can only meet the basic needs of eating, dressing, and daily necessities, and it is not enough to become a country of its own, and if you want to drink tea, you have to buy it from the south. Iron ore and coal mines, the most important resources of the Cold Weapon Era, are also not available here. I didn't have the sulfur that I needed most to make gunpowder.

Zhou Nan patiently explained to Yelu Yuliyan: "If you want to occupy this territory and not be bullied by others, the mountain and river barrier is naturally a big reliance, but you must also be well fed, warmly dressed, and supported by your own people, and the army in your hands can be used with favorable weapons when fighting against the enemy, such as good weapons and arrows, such as explosive arrows." ”

What Zhou Nan said was the most obvious, and Yu Liyan naturally understood. Zhou Nan continued: "Some of these needs can be produced locally, and some need to be purchased from others. If other countries don't sell it, aren't we going to be controlled by others? This is one of them; If the Southern Dynasty has a population of 10,000 people, choose one out of ten, and there will be 1,000 soldiers and horses; And we only have a total population of 1,000 here, so how can we compete with the Southern Dynasties? That's why I said that Yanjing and Pingzhou were pacified, which just had a foothold, and the next thing was to occupy the surrounding states and counties. ”

"Where are you going to take it?" Yu Liyan asked curiously. As for the capture of the surrounding territory, she agreed, anyway, those places were originally owned by the Great Liao Kingdom, and now they are only forcibly occupied by the Jin soldiers. In addition, the way Zhou Nan marched and fought was always based on intimidation and inducement, and never like others, he just blindly killed people and set fires.

"Naturally, when it is useful, it is necessary to attack it. Hey. Zhou Nan said.

Yelu Yu Liyan didn't ask, smiled lightly, and said: "The concubine doesn't understand these things, what do you want to do, the concubine listens to you." ”

"Princess, you will decide the affairs of the court, and I will do it to resist foreign insults and defend the territory and protect the territory, okay?" Zhou Nan asked.

Yu Liyan nodded and said, "The concubine will definitely do her best to avoid Zhou Lang's worries." ”

Zhou Nan grabbed Yu Liyan's hand and said, "From now on, you will be the Empress Dowager Xiao." ”

Yu Liyan knew that Zhou Nan was talking about the Empress Dowager Xiao Xuan, and said coquettishly: "Who wants to be the Empress Dowager?" Are concubines that old? ”

While laughing, the three of them came to the tent, and the commander had already assigned someone to set up the tent, and lit a bonfire in front of the largest tent in the middle, while the soldiers of the Black Iron Army lit a bonfire outside the tent in this circle, just waiting for Zhou Nan and Yelu Yu Liyan to come over.

As Yelu Yu Liyan said, these soldiers from the families of the people of Danzhou have respect and loyalty from the bottom of their hearts for this princess of Shu who can bring everyone a living, and now they are happy to see the princess's favorite person with their own eyes that they can accompany the princess. Of course, they have already seen the means and strength of this horse battlefield, and no one dares to think of the amazing record of being able to lead only 4,000 people to capture Yanjing City and recapture Juyong Pass with 300 pro-troops; Now that they have seen the horses talking and laughing, they have captured the "Princess Pass" again, and they only have the share of five bodies to the ground. I love to read

All the Black Iron Army soldiers stood respectfully aside, waiting for the princess to speak. Yelu Yu Liyan said to the commander: "Each person will enjoy three bottles of wine tonight, but they must not drink too much. When the soldiers of the Black Iron Army heard the princess's words, they immediately thanked them in unison, and then they all quickly retreated to the periphery, leaving only Zhou Nan and the three of them to enjoy the rare quiet time of the night.

Yinping took out two pieces of felt, spread them in front of the fire, invited Zhou Nan and Yu Liyan to sit down, and then took out two square tables from the tent, put one in front of the princess and Zhou Nan, put a few dried fruits on it, and took out an iron grate and hung it on the fire. In a few moments, the conductor brought a large square piece of ribs, as if they had just been slaughtered. The silver screen did not cut the large piece of meat, but placed it all on the hanging iron grate, and let the bonfire below scorch the piece of meat.

Yanjing in winter is already very cold, and at this time it is in the wilderness outside the city, and it is even more cold, but fortunately there is this bonfire to keep warm. The flames of red flames jumped and bloomed in the quiet night, and the changing tongues of fire sometimes hugged each other, and sometimes separated and rushed to various places. There was an occasional beep in the firewood, followed by a cloud of sparks.

As the fire burns, the outside of the meat becomes golden, and large drops of fat and fat leach out of the meat and drip onto the firewood, which becomes brighter. The enticing aroma fills the air and smells mouth-watering. Yinping used a knife to cut two pieces of meat from the meat, put them on a plate, and handed them to the two of them.

"It smells so good!" Zhou Nan praised it and ate it with chopsticks, but Yu Liyan only took a small bite and refused to eat it again. "Why don't you eat it?" Zhou Nan asked strangely.

"The concubine didn't like fishy things since she was a child, and my father and mother always wondered why I was born as a Khitan Ren, but I only like light vegetarian food. Maybe it's just nature. Yu Liyan smiled lightly and said to Zhou Nan.

"Winter nights are cold, don't you be hungry if you only eat this mouthful of meat? And how can you resist it? Zhou Nan asked worriedly.

"Zhou Lang don't worry, Yinping will boil porridge to drink in a while, and it is enough for the concubine to drink some porridge." Yu Liyan said with a smile.

"That's good, don't wait until you wake up hungry in the middle of the night and get up to find food." Zhou Nan said narrowly.

After a while, Yinping took out a small iron pot-like thing, still hanging it on the fire, adding water and rice to it, and boiling porridge on the fire.

Zhou Nan then understood that the Khitan people also began to eat rice, think about it, in later generations, the Northeast and Tianjin and other places are all places where rice is produced, and the Liao State originally had these areas, and the conditions are suitable, so it is not uncommon to grow rice.

As the aroma of rice porridge spread, Zhou Nan couldn't help but feel a little greedy, so he drank half a bowl of porridge with Yu Liyan. Only then did the silver screen remove these dishes, boil a pot of hot water, and after the water boiled, pour it into an injector, and the fragrance of tea wafted out in an instant. Yinping poured another cup of tea for each of them, this tea was the Xinyang leaf tea that Yu Liyan fed him last time in Yanjing Hongyan Restaurant.