Chapter Seventy-Four: Killing and Saving People

What is the restaurant?

It's a place to eat.

Why do people eat?

It's about living.

When it comes to restaurants, everyone knows where there is a lot of food, regardless of whether they can afford to eat or not.

Since there is a lot of food, at least you will not starve to death.

In short, the restaurant is a place full of life, and death is two things that are not at all incompatible.

Tie Xinyuan's current problem is very bad, and for some reason he always likes to add something to other people's meals.

This may have something to do with the shadows of his childhood, when he first learned to walk, the first weapon he came into contact with was mushroom powder that could drive people crazy, and he wanted to add it to Yang Huaiyu's rice bowl when he was still being tethered by his mother with a rope to prevent him from running around.

Later, mushroom powder grew up with him all the way, and when he was in the most danger, it always helped him save the day.

Once you get used to using a tool, you will subconsciously use this tool to solve all your problems.

He has actually thought about opening a restaurant in Liao State many times, whether it is the exquisite dishes of the Great Song Dynasty or the delicious food in his memory, they can satisfy the appetite of these people in Liao who are still in a semi-wild state.

Making money is a small thing, and with a complete set of chain hotels, it is waiting to be inserted into all the big cities of Khitan.

If the restaurant is high-end enough, the Khitan nobles who come to the restaurant to eat will consciously or unconsciously bring almost all the secrets of the Liao Kingdom.

Therefore, Tie Xinyuan believes that his own restaurant must one day be opened all over the world.

Naturally, the restaurant of the poisoned person will not be able to open, and the consequences will be very serious, so it is very important to find a suitable partner.

For example, Yelu Chongyuan is very suitable.

When necessary, anyone Yelu Chongyuan doesn't like will be poisoned while eating at the restaurant, and if the timing of the outbreak is just right, Yelu Chongyuan estimates that there is only one way to rebel.

Rebellion is a wonderful thing, of course, only for the conspirators, because rebellion can completely muddy a pool of clear water, and the conspirators standing on the shore can happily start their fishing business.

The most wonderful thing is that through rebellion, you can deal a powerful blow to the imperial power, and by the way, you can damage the strength of other people's countries.

Give a good start to other people who want to rebel, and once everyone starts to follow suit, no matter how powerful the country is, sooner or later it will fall apart.

Meng Yuanzhi had already begun to reflect on whether he was qualified for the position of general, because he found that his earlier positioning himself as Tie Xinyuan's right-hand man seemed to be a bit poor, and he found that he couldn't catch up with Tie Xinyuan's extremely strange thinking.

Obviously, a person who can't guess the leader's thinking is not a qualified right-hand man.

However, he thought that the other people in Qingxiang Valley were often overwhelmed by Tie Xinyuan's strange thinking, so he no longer felt apprehensive.

"We tried so hard to please Yelu Chongyuan, but as a result, he still didn't trust us.

To tell the truth, he was suspicious of even the name of Yiyun, so he rejected our suggestion to prepare for the establishment of a state, and put us in the position of his subordinates.

Haha, Hami Military Division.

Lao Meng, do you know how many troops there are in a unified army division?

I don't know, the Khitans have set up no less than 12 unified military divisions such as the Nanjing Metropolitan Military Division, the Northwest Road Metropolitan Military Division, the Wugu Enemy Liedu Military Division, and the Northeast Road Metropolitan Military Division.

Among them, the smallest Northeast Road Unified Army Division has jurisdiction over three kingdoms, sixteen counties, and 180,000 soldiers, not counting the ****, tribal army and slave soldiers under their jurisdiction!

He has put such a big name on our heads, do you think there will be any good intentions? ”

"He wants to annex us?" Meng Yuanzhi was a little unsure.

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "That's right, he just wants to annex us, don't believe it, when we leave, there will be many officials who will return to Hami with us, the highest governor is naturally a cloud, and the officials below will definitely be all Khitans, he wants to slowly annex us." ”

Meng Yuanzhi's eyes were about to bulge out, and he shouted loudly: "Since this is the case, we might as well not come to Xijing." ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "How can you not come?" We want to establish our own country in a righteous and bright way, and we can't do it without coming to the Khitan, unless we keep being sneaky horse thieves.

Now, we and Yelu Chongyuan are like two hedgehogs who want to huddle together for warmth, looking for a distance that is acceptable to everyone, neither stabbing each other, nor too far away.

Believe me, you will always find a suitable distance, the interaction between the government and the government is like this, you test me, I test you, like two ***. ”

"What concessions do we take? Could it be that you really want to get some Khitan officials to go to Qingxiang Valley? If that's the case, I might as well take my wife and family back to the countryside of the Great Song Dynasty to live in seclusion. ”

Meng Yuanzhi said this sentence very seriously, as long as he found that Tie Xinyuan had the slightest hesitation, he would really leave.

"Rice shop! We are out of the cook, out of the shopkeeper, Yelu Chongyuan out of the account, and when we make money, he will be seven and we will be three.

Lao Xu is now discussing this matter with Yelu Chongyuan. ”

found that Meng Yuanzhi was very serious, Tie Xinyuan replied quickly, the human heart can't be left out in the cold, once it gets cold, it is very troublesome to regain the heat.

"But they're going to send you officials......"

"Compared to controlling Hami, which is not very important to Yelu Chongyuan, how can a barren Western Gobi compare to the establishment of a huge network of fine works?

People are like this, with watermelon, they don't care about a sesame seed. ”

Meng Yuanzhi looked at Tie Xinyuan beside him with some admiration and said, "I can't do these things......

"Of course you can't do it, you are the best among us, as long as you are the thug of our group of people with peace of mind in the future, the rest of the things will naturally have the right people to do."

"Who's going to manage this mess?"

"Lao Xu, this is what he is good at, he has been wronged too much these days, a good man practices himself like this, he needs to have the opportunity to breathe, and he is very interested in forcing Yelu Chongyuan to go to heaven and earth in the future."

"Alas!" Meng Yuanzhi followed the example of Tie Xinyuan, spread his legs and sat on the threshold and shook his head: "We are getting more and more inferior, more and more like the Great Song Palace, so ah, I think it is very likely that we will establish a very large country." ”

Tie Xinyuan patted Meng Yuanzhi's shoulder and said, "Take your time, old Meng, we will succeed." ”

Before you know it, the goose feather snow turned into fine snowflakes, and the gloomy lead cloud overhead slowly left to reveal the clear blue sky.

The weather is getting colder and colder.

Tie Xinyuan left the Yanzhao King's Mansion, and it was Tie Xinyuan's consistent practice that all the eggs could not be put in the same basket.

Walking down the bone-chilling street, a long oxcart passed by, and the ox cart was full of corpses, covered with a tattered mat, revealing only a pair of black charcoal-sized feet.

There are many homeless people in Xijing City, and naturally there are many people who are frozen to death every day, and most of the people who are frozen to death are Han people who live in the city to work part-time after losing their land.

Since the Khitan people realized that the benefits of farming were better than animal husbandry, the Khitan nobles did not know how to reclaim the land, so they began to endlessly occupy the land of the Han people, hoping that the crops grown in the land every year would allow them to obtain a more lucrative income.

The trend of rich people in the Song Dynasty occupying land was just as strong, but the Song nobles knew that they could leave food for their tenants who could barely live on their stomachs, and the Great Song officials also knew how to build water conservancy and encourage farming.

Even the emperor and empress, one needs to be close to the farmer in front of the Xiannong altar every year, and the other raises silkworms in the Houji Palace, setting an example for the people of the whole country.

Not only that, but they also knew that the simple promotion of scholars from the poor family gave the peasants a seemingly bright but actually extremely rugged way to progress.

Compared with the Khitan nobles, their methods are much gentler, and the minds of the Khitan nobles have not yet been liberated from animal husbandry.

They don't know that crops need not only water for irrigation, but also fertilizer to fertilize the land, and they don't know when to plant, when to harvest, and what kind of land is suitable for planting.

They didn't care about any of this, they just set an outrageously high rent, and then waited for the rent to be collected after the fall.

Unlike the Khitans, who had no land, they would habitually go to the cities and rely on helpers to make a living.

The Khitan cities did not have as many workshops as the Great Song Dynasty, nor did they have as many shops as the Great Song Dynasty, and they could not accept so many displaced people.

The poor homeless people, after exchanging their last wealth - their wives and children for food to eat, faced with such a cold winter weather, they could only be frozen hard by the cold wind, pulled by the servants on ox carts, transported to mass graves and thrown away.

Tie Xinyuan, who likes to get up early, can see such a scene every day, and while lamenting, he feels that this is a great disrespect for the value of life.

There are too few Han people who can farm in Hami, and Tie Xinyuan came to Xijing this time for another purpose, that is, to get some Han people who can farm back, otherwise, it is impossible to reclaim the cultivated land that satisfies him by relying only on the wild people on the Gobi Desert.

Tie Xinyuan was already on the verge of despair for that group of people, and according to Tie Wu, even if they used the world's most advanced horse-drawn hoe to plow the land, they would not want to plow a furrow with an even and straight depth on the land.

It takes more than a little or half a year for those people to evolve into an agrarian people, and it even takes one or two generations of hard work.

Since human life here is not valuable, Tie Xinyuan feels that it is a good opportunity for himself and Qingxiang Valley. (To be continued.) )