Xiao Lao'er continued, "And many other tribes that also have a nomadic way of life are inferior people of the second class, such as the Jurchens and Mongols, who are not as high as the Han in the eyes of the Khitans.

The last remaining third class is some other nomadic people who have fought with the Khitans and fought for pastures in history.

Now that the Liao State is strong, those nomads are afraid of the threat of the Khitans and have to bend their knees to be vassals, but the Khitans look down on them in their bones, and after learning a little about our Han culture, they feel that they are a superior nation, and the other nomads have become barbarians, so they are divided into inferior people.

There are also some other inferior people, that is, some slaves, these people are all tribes that were exterminated by the Khitans, and after killing all their adult men, they kidnapped the women and children of these tribes, and made slaves to the Khitans for generations, which is really pitiful. ”

Yang Huairen had also heard that the Liao State divided the people into three, six, nine and so on, but he didn't expect that the Han people were not the most bullied, and remembered what he saw today, so he hurriedly asked, "The Han people are the superior people of the second class, why are they still so bullied?" In this way, aren't the people of the tribes who ascended to the throne lower unable to live? ”

Xiao Lao'er nodded with a determined face, "The county prince will definitely see it in the next few days, the Khitan people have always been arrogant, so in their hearts, except for them Khitans, they can't afford people of other nationalities."

Even if they like the culture of our Han people, they only say that our Han ancestors are talented and learned, and today's descendants are not angry and insult their ancestors, so they also look down on the Han people.

In fact, there must be one thing that the county prince must also understand that the Han people, as the second largest ethnic group in the Liao State, the Khitan people are more or less jealous in their hearts, so the Khitan Emperor verbally said that the Han people of Yanyun are also Liao, and the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State are brotherly states, and the Khitan people and the Han people should coexist in a friendly manner.

But in their hearts, they were also afraid that these Han people would rebel against their rule, so in terms of policy, they were relatively harsh on all other ethnic groups except the Khitan.

There are some things that the old man knows that the county prince can't look past it, but in the Liao State, there has never really been a large-scale massacre of the Han people, and for other nomadic remote tribes, once they make the Khitans unhappy, they will really be exterminated by their slaughter.

It's just that the nomadic Khitan tribe moves south every winter, and they always have to loot some villages on our border on the Song-Liao borderland.

These Khitans came to loot, and most of them robbed property and food, and they did not kill on a large scale, so the court was also embarrassed, and did not want to turn against the Khitans because of this matter, so they restrained the border army, only ordered them to drive away, and never dared to really start a war. ”

Yang Huairen smiled bitterly in his heart, it was originally a wretched matter, and he asked your old man to explain it.

However, Yang Huairen also knew that Xiao Lao'er said these words, purely because people kindly reminded him not to be so reckless and reckless in the future, and it was also for his good.

Yang Huairen knew in his heart, although he didn't quite agree with some of Xiao Lao'er's views, but he wouldn't argue with him about anything, seeing that he was still verbose, he hurriedly waved his hand to signal him not to say anything, but asked about other things.

"Old man Xiao, since you know so much about the Liao Kingdom and the Khitan people, why don't we talk about something else, the envoy asks you, what are the foods that the Khitan people usually eat the most?"

Xiao Lao'er thought for a while, "Except for eating more meat than we usually do, in other aspects, because the most important areas inhabited by the Khitan people have changed to a farming-based lifestyle, many habits have become similar to those of our Han people in the northern Song Dynasty over the years."

The staple food is naturally wheat, rice, millet, and soybean, which are common food crops, and there are many kinds of wheat in the land of Yanyun, and on both sides of the Liao River, it is mainly rice. ”

"Oh," Yang Huairen nodded, and asked again, "What about vegetables?" ”

"It's also similar to our northern region, mainly white siad and radish, and there are some other cold-resistant vegetables, of course, there are not as many kinds as our Da Song."

Xiao Lao'er suddenly remembered that Yang Huairen was a person who made a fortune selling fairy vegetables, so he added complimentarily, "They can only eat dried vegetables dried in summer and autumn in winter, and fresh vegetables are rare."

If the county prince sells several fairy vegetables at home to the Liao Kingdom, he will definitely be able to make a lot of money! ”

Yang Huairen said "bah" in his heart, and said in his heart I won't sell those high-vitamin or high-yield tomatoes and potatoes to the Khitans, my brother wants to make money, but he is not inferior to the Khitans.

In the future, the newly opened vegetable bases in various places will not be enough to popularize to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and they will be eaten by the Khitan people?

Besides, Yang Huairen knew that the average life expectancy of the Khitan people was far less than that of the Song people, and a large reason was that the climate and geographical environment of the area in which they lived were not as good as those of the Great Song Dynasty.

Human life expectancy, in addition to genetic determination, the biggest acquired impact is the living environment and living habits, including the Khitan people, the average life expectancy of the nomadic population in the northern grasslands and Mobei is low, because the eating habits are too single.

Meat and dairy foods are rich in protein and fat, but if meat is the main food, long-term excessive intake of protein and fat also puts a great burden on people's digestive system.

Science has proved that human gastrointestinal function largely determines the basic life span of human beings, and balanced food intake is the healthiest eating habits, such as the Khitan people's meat-based eating habits, which leads to their average life expectancy.

So at present, it is absolutely impossible to give those vegetables and the method of planting and cultivating vegetables in winter greenhouses to the Khitan people.

Yang Huairen even felt that the people who initially sold tea to the north had made an unforgivable mistake.

Tea polyphenols and other substances in tea have a great auxiliary digestive effect on the protein and fat in meat, which is equivalent to drinking tea, which helps the digestive system to reduce the burden caused by digesting meat food.

Since the tea of the Han people was sold to the northern nomads, these people realized the great benefits of tea for their bodies, so for hundreds of years, the ruling peoples of the northern steppes were different, but they all had a soft spot for the tea of the Han people.

Fortunately, tea was still a luxury at that time, and in the Great Song Dynasty, although coarse tea was cheap, the content of tea was less, and coarse tea would not be sold to Liao.

Other tea is relatively expensive, even the people of the Great Song Dynasty are not willing to drink tea every day, they travel thousands of miles to Liao, pay tariffs and other expenses, and when the tea arrives at the Khitans, the price has already increased several times.

Therefore, tea is not something that all Khitan people can drink, and only a few nobles, eunuch families and relatively wealthy Khitan people will take tea as a daily drink.

And more Khitan civilians, especially the Khitans who still live a nomadic life, only occasionally buy and enjoy them.