There is a kind of thing in this world called a joke, Yang Huairen may have been joking when he said this sentence "kill back", but who knew that he didn't say it accurately? Of course, that's all for later.

If it weren't for the emperor's errand, Yang Huairen would have wanted to go back to his hometown in Qizhou to have a look, and people often came to his hometown to report to Yang Huairen on the construction of his hometown.

For example, the academy has been built and put into use, because they are willing to spend money to invite a gentleman, so the famous old gentlemen in Hedong have settled in the academy to teach, and the scholarly families in Qizhou and surrounding states and counties are willing to send their children to study in the academy.

The new roads in Yangjia Village have also been built, which are flat and solid than the roads in the city, and the new houses and new grain fields are built very decently.

I can't go back to my hometown, and I can't go to Cangzhou Chai's house. Yang Huairen has been thinking about Chai Zhizu, and in the news sent back by the Fengshenwei sent to Cangzhou, under their surveillance, the Chai family in Cangzhou was as calm as usual, and did not see Chai Zhizu.

Yang Huairen pondered, don't go home for the New Year, Lao Chai, you are really busy, just busy coming and going, morning and evening are empty, why should you?

However, in terms of belief, Chai Zhizu is also admired by Yang Huairen, people have a goal, and then for this goal, no matter how many difficulties and obstacles, people will face it safely, and they will be willing to do it, and it is not easy to do this.

The only thing that makes people angry is that he has wisdom, but he has not used this wisdom in the right path, and he is obsessed, and he will touch a gray nose everywhere, but he will never know repentance, and in the final analysis, he is still a lump of elm.

Fifty miles to the east, the envoy turned north, crossed the Yellow River from Huazhou to the opposite bank.

In this season after the year of each year, it has become a habit for the imperial court to send people to send New Year's coins to Liao, and it is not unreasonable, there are too many things to transport, if it is placed in summer, crossing the Yellow River is a troublesome matter, and too much manpower and material resources are wasted in vain.

In February, the Yellow River was still frozen, and it was not thawed until about April, so at this time, the ice on the Yellow River was still thick and strong, and the carriage carrying hundreds of catties of goods crossed the river, which was very safe and convenient.

After crossing the river, along the north bank of the Yellow River all the way to the north, you came to the north of the Daimyofu, the capital, the north of the Northern Song Dynasty is not the capital of the later generations, Beijing, but the Daimyo, the north of the river.

The status of the Daimyo Mansion in the Great Song Dynasty is very high, ranking among the four major Beijing Mansions, that is, it is equivalent to the status of the vice capital, and the Xijing River, Nanfu, Nan and Jingshun Tianfu are equally famous.

It's just that because the geographical location is not far from the border between the north and the Liao State, the economic development and the prosperity of the city cannot be compared with the other three major prefectures, and it looks like it gives people a dilapidated impression.

However, the Daimyo Mansion is still an important military town in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is known as "controlling the river Shuo, locking the key to the north gate", to a certain extent, controlling the Daimyo Mansion and the surrounding military towns, you can block the northern nomads from crossing the Yellow River and smashing the Central Plains.

Speaking of the Daimyo's Mansion, Yang Huairen can think of two things, the first is the people and stories in the Daimyo's Mansion in "Water Margin", such as Yang Zhi selling knives, the moment this honest family slashed the bully Niu Er to death, the mood should be very burning.

and later Cai Jing's son-in-law Liang Zhongshu, it was he who sent Yang Zhi to escort the birthday gang for Cai Jing, an old father-in-law, and won the calculation of King Chao in Huangnigang.

Liang Zhongshu's real name is Liang Zimei, and because he served as a scholar in the middle of the court, he was called Liang Zhongshu by his colleagues.

Although he is Cai Jing's son-in-law, he is actually only one year younger than Cai Jing, and the original partner is not Cai Jing's baby daughter.

Yang Huairen has really seen this Liang Zimei, at this time he was just a small record of following Zhang Dian and patting his ass, and later Zhang Dian stepped down, and after Huizong favored Cai Jing, he switched to Cai Jing's disciple.

After that, in order to climb a new big tree, he divorced his wife and married Cai Jing's daughter, and he later became a famous mansion Yin, which shows that Liang Zhongshu is another Chen Shimei of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Another thing related to the Daimyo's Mansion is the origin of "the Son of Heaven guarding the country".

Ordinary people only know that Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty set the capital of Beibei and Beijing in order to resist the invasion of the Central Plains by the northern Tatars and Warat as the Son of Heaven, and they thought that Zhu Di created a precedent for the Son of Heaven to guard the country.

I don't know that this point of view was first put forward in the Northern Song Dynasty. During the reign of Renzongqing, the Khitan gathered heavy troops in Jizhou, Luxian and Luanzhou, waiting for an opportunity to invade the Central Plains in the south.

This incident frightened Emperor Renzong and the civil and military officials at that time, and at this time, some people talked about moving the capital to Xijing to avoid the disaster of war, and some people advocated peace.

Only Lu Yijian, who was serving in the Daimyo Mansion at that time, opposed peace or retreated without a fight, leaving the famous sentence "Let the Khitan have to cross the river, although the city is high and the pool is deep, how can it be ashamed?" I heard that the Khitan was afraid of the strong and cowardly, and the city of Luoyang was killed to demonstrate. It is advisable to build a big name in the capital, and show that the general will be in person to conquer it. ”

The gist is that since the Khitans want to fight, if we retreat, it will make the advantages of our city high and deep become decorations, and let the Khitan people, who were originally afraid of the strong and bully the weak, have nothing to fear, and when the time comes, the country will be in danger.

The capital of the Daimyo Mansion should be built, and the Khitan people should be clearly told that our officials and the subjects of the Great Song Dynasty are not afraid of them, they will come, and they will fight.

This is the first to put forward the thesis of "the Son of Heaven guards the country", but it is a pity that there are too few people with courage like Lu Yijian, and the result is that although what he said made people's blood boil, none of the emperor and those court bigwigs listened to him, and it was useless to vomit blood.

Therefore, Yang Huairen has self-knowledge, and rarely gets involved in the affairs of the court, or sooner or later he will let these sour literati vomit blood and die.

However, Yang Huairen likes the tough guy character of Lu Wenjinggong, if everyone in the court is like this, I am afraid that the Northern Song Dynasty will not be so cowardly by now, obviously the economy, science and technology and population are far ahead, but the military is weak, and it is controlled by the Khitans.

When it comes to the food of the Daimyo's Mansion, what Yang Huairen appreciates the most is a special snack called mutton marinated dumplings.

Boil it into the thick wheat kernels and pour the boiled mutton braised soup, and then soak it in the braised dumplings with cooking cakes or local special baked cakes, the meat is fragrant and delicious.

It sounds like a simple snack, but in fact, whether the heat is well mastered or not has a great impact on the taste. In later generations, this local ethnic snack has undergone continuous improvement before it has become a mature practice and appearance.