The younger brother of Tianba walked into the courtyard with a smile and beckoned those who called the flowers to come and receive dry food.

Yang Huairen turned to the officials who accompanied him, "How is it?" Right? The dog is like this, if you are afraid of it, the more it competes with you, the more you are not afraid of him, pick up a stone and hit it, it can only run away with its tail between its legs. ”

The old man didn't understand what was going on, and nodded blankly, but the admiration for Yang Huairen in his heart increased a little.

In an inconspicuous alley far away, two people with masked faces were paying attention to everything that happened to Yang Huairen's side just now.

One of the slightly larger masked men asked, "Big boss, do you think this surnamed Yang can be trusted?" ”

The other was a little smaller, "For now...... I'm not sure either. However, it seems that those things about the fight between him and Yerodio should not be fake, and he is really not afraid of the Khitans. ”

"So what's next, what are we going to do? Continue to send someone to follow him, or do you want to make contact? ”

"Contact? How to get in touch? You said lightly, you look at the men around him, which one is not a master? We have to think about this matter......"

Yang Huairen finished delivering dry food, and then moved into the official post under the guidance of the local officials of Yongqing County who came to receive him.

The county magistrate of Yongqing County is a Khitan, and his name Yang Huairen didn't hear it clearly, only knowing that his surname was Xiao. Xiao Xianling is different from those high-flying Khitan people on the street, he is a person who reads Han books and speaks in Sven, but it makes Yang Huairen uncomfortable.

Anyway, he didn't have anything to say to him about a county order, so he casually exchanged a few polite words and said goodbye.

The food provided by the official post of Liao State was actually very ordinary, and Yang Huairen was not in the mood to enjoy the food, so he instructed everyone to prepare some dry food casually, rest early after dinner, and hurry tomorrow.

Everyone has experienced today's events, even the most common dry food and pickles are very happy, and it is absolutely true that they are happy because they help others.

When it was time to prepare the dry food for tomorrow's journey, they also prepared double portions, that is, in preparation for the next trip, when they met the poor Han people, they could also help a little more.

Yang Huairen didn't have to worry about this, everyone was spontaneous, and after a simple meal, he suddenly remembered something, so he found the old man to talk.

"Old man, if I remember correctly, your surname is also Xiao, right?"

The old man was startled, and almost sat on the ground with no legs, waving his hands so hard that he couldn't see the real shadow clearly, before he argued, "Yuyang Jungong, the old man is indeed surnamed Xiao, but my Xiao and the Khitan Xiao are not the same thing." ”

Yang Huairen was amused by him, "I said old man, the two of us just chatted for a while after dinner, so I asked casually, who said that you have anything to do with the Khitans?" ”

When the old man saw Yang Huairen laughing with him, he put his mind at ease, knowing that Yang Huairen was usually very good at talking, so he also stroked his beard and smiled, "The old man is forty jinshi and first, probably because he was too old when he was a junior jinshi, so he was not sent by the imperial court to become a local parent official like the younger jinshi."

I waited for a year before I was remembered by the officials and sent to Honglu Temple to make up an eight-grade Fengyi to specialize in Song Liao diplomatic affairs.

I know that I am old and have no background, and it is difficult to be promoted, but since I have entered Honglu Temple, I have concentrated on my own job and studied Khitan customs and languages diligently.

Shangguan saw that the old man was honest and diligent, so he gradually promoted the old man, and finally became the six-grade Fenglilang the year before last, which every year our Great Song Dynasty delivered the New Year's coin to the Liao State, the old man was involved in it, and every year the imperial court sent an envoy to visit the Liao State, and he also had the old man's share. ”

Yang Huairen wanted to laugh in his heart, this old man looked very honest, but his words were very meaningful, no one asked him how to be an official, and how to be a Fenglilang of Honglu Temple, he himself explained his life, it seems that he has other intentions.

Compared with Yang Huairen, his official position and promotion process are really unattainable, and he is in his sixties, and he has only mixed up with the official position of Liupin Fenglilang, and it is not glorious to say it.

But since he said it so easily and seriously, Yang Huairen understood that he had something to say, but he didn't dare to say it too directly to him, the county prince, so he laid the groundwork first, so Yang Huairen knew that although he was not a big official, his diplomatic experience was much richer than Yang Huairen.

Yang Huairen put away his smile and asked seriously, "Old man, don't beat around the bush, since we came to Liao Kingdom together, if you have anything to say, the envoy will definitely not blame you." ”

"Yang Jungong is talented and intelligent, and the old man has learned it."

He crossed his hand and saluted first, respectfully and respectfully did enough courtesy to Shangguan before he spoke, "Today's events on the street, although it seems to be safe and sound at the moment, but the old man still has to persuade the county duke, we are in Daliao, and we are the envoys of a country, and we should be more careful in our future trips."

The Khitan people I met today, maybe as the county lord said, are just some ordinary ruffians, little gangsters, we will fight if we fight, even if the county order of Yongqing County comes forward, we can't do anything to our Song envoys.

But what about the future? This has just entered the Liao realm, and the next thing is to go to Xijin Mansion and Dading Mansion, as long as it is in the territory of Liao, the Han people are a head shorter than the Khitans, and it is normal to be bullied and wronged.

If the county magistrate has to take care of everything, he can't manage it, and it can only add to the troubles. Moreover, many things are not what the county prince sees, and the situation in Liao is not so simple. ”

"Oh? What do you mean by that? ”

"After the Khitans occupied Yanyun and centralized power, in order to facilitate their rule, they divided the people into three, six, nine and so on according to their ethnicity.

And the Han people are huge, accounting for almost half of the population of Liao, so in the hierarchy of Liao, Han people are not the lowest, but in the middle, they are ordinary people.

Liao is a country of the Khitan people, and the Khitan people are naturally the first class of nationals, and this first class, according to the difference of ethnic groups, is also divided into three levels.

The Khitan nobles who are in power, the Yelu royal family is the highest class, and the Khitan tribes who are still nomadic to this day, because the army of the Liao State is from the men of these tribes, so they are second-class, and the Khitan people who live in the city and have changed their ancient way of life to live a farming or industrial life are the third class.

In the second class, because several Khitan emperors admired Han culture, and in order to win over the Han people, who had the second largest population, the Han people were still the superior people in the second class......"