Chapter Seventy-One: The Same Heavy Snow, Two Sorrows

After Tie Xinyuan lived in the old store of Fushouju, he no longer went out.

The heavy snow in Xijing City not only showed no signs of stopping, but the snowflakes became denser.

The snow cover was huge, with a foot of snow in Xijing City, and the snow on the grasslands in the distance only getting deeper.

The production base on the steppe is very fragile, and if there is less snow, the grass will not grow well in the coming year, the cattle and sheep will not be able to expand in the next year, the newborn lambs will be discarded, and the ewes will be slaughtered.

When there is a lot of snow, it causes a white plague, which is a disaster in which the grassland is covered with snow more than half a foot deep, making grazing impossible.

If the snow is loose, horses and sheep may still be able to cut through the snow and eat pasture; If the snow surface forms an ice crust due to the initial warming and then cooling, the livestock will not only be unable to eat grass, but will also be susceptible to scratches from the crust.

Cattle and sheep will die of hunger in large numbers, and even if they can survive, all the fat gained in the autumn will fall, so that only bones are left on the cattle and sheep, and there is no meat.

Without meat, there would be no food for the herders and people would starve to death!

Under normal circumstances, whenever there is a white plague, the shepherds will start preparing weapons and horses early, wait for the call of the patriarch, and then go to other places to loot in droves to survive.

If the number of people gathered in the ethnic group was large, they would go south in droves to find food for their wealthy neighbor, the Great Song Dynasty.

"I'm from the North Sea,

With Dongbula,

Listen to my singing,

I forgot to go home!

I'm from the North Sea.

The grass is all over the world,

One night the north wind blew and blew,

The North Sea is frozen.

I'm from the North Sea,

I'm going to freeze to death.

The merciful king hears me sing,

Follow Hongyan to move.

I'm from the North Sea,

A smile is like a flower.

The body remains in the emperor's house,

Only the soul comes back to my house. ”

Tie Xinyuan hummed this very unseemly song in a low voice, and motioned for Yu Chiwen to write down this song.

After humming three times in a row, he said to Gaga: "Find some singers, give them money, and let them practice this song, and sing it whenever they meet guests from the north."

Ga Quack was embarrassed and said: "You wrote a script yesterday for the storyteller to say, and today you wrote a tune, why?" ”

"Why? I just want to tell those northerners not to dream of moving south, the Great Liao Kingdom is not allowed! ”

Wei Chiwen also frowned and said: "You can write better, yesterday's words could have been much stronger than this song, it's all in the vernacular!" And it's soft, which makes people feel depressed. ”

Tie Xinyuan sighed and said: "Salig is illiterate, let alone writing tunes, what things does he sing which sentence is not vernacular?"

I haven't written about white, big ass or anything like that, but that guy was talking about this thing all night.

The people in the north are all barbarians, do you still expect them to be literate and hyphenated?

This thing is actually a letter, telling people in the north to find another way to move south, and it doesn't make sense. It's just that I wrote this letter for Salig's short-lived ghost. ”

Ga Ga took the tune written by Yu Chiwen, hummed and chirped extremely reluctantly to go to the singer.

He always felt that these things were useless, and that their efforts were in vain.

Tie Xinyuan looked at Wei Chiwen and said, "You also think it's useless?" ”

Wei Chiwen hesitated for a moment and said, "It's better to use a knife to be happy!" ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "That's right, what we planted is a seed that can bloom into a flower of war.

The soil for war is already there, and as long as we drop a seed, it is none of our business whether it can bloom or not.

From south to north, the territory is vast, even the wild goose needs to fly for a long time, and a news wants to reach the far north, the time is too long, I can't wait.

Only these stories and tunes on the grassland can grow wings and fly everywhere, so that's it. ”

After listening to Tie Xinyuan's explanation, Wei Chiwen was even more confused, and said loudly: "You said that the southward migration of northerners is a big disaster......

"Why do you want to provoke northerners to go south?" Tie Xinyuan cut off Wei Chiwen's words and asked rhetorically.

Seeing that Wei Chiwen nodded, Tie Xinyuan continued to smile: "If there is a powerful enemy who is coming to your house sooner or later, do you think it is better to come when the family is full of powerful people, or when the family is full of wimps?" ”

"Naturally, the time will come when the family is full of powerful people." Wei Chiwen's answer was categorical.

"That's what I thought too." Tie Xinyuan touched Yu Chiwen's head and went back to his own business.

In this world, only he knows what the Liao State and the Song State will be in decline in the next few decades.

Others plan things decades later, generally called unfounded worries, Tie Xinyuan does this, if God really has eyes, it will be called a rainy day.

After Wei Chiwen went out, Tie Xinyuan scribbled something, and he always felt that he was not very satisfied, so he threw it into the brazier, lazily lay on the brocade pile full of fur, opened the window and looked at the snow outside.

This is his unique way of resting, and every time he makes a hard stroke, he feels as if he has been reborn.

Snowflakes are falling in circles, and some of them will be blown upward for a while by strange winds that come from nowhere.

After he came to his senses, he went over what he had done recently to see if there were any flaws.

After finishing the tidying, he found that his way of doing things was still a little rough, or a little impatient.

After thinking about it for a long time, he realized that all the problems were actually on Zhao Wan's body.

Because of Zhao Wan, he always wanted to finish the task at hand quickly, so that he could go to Tokyo to see that stupid woman soon......

Missing Zhao Wan is an almost extravagant thing for Tie Xinyuan, and the more despicable his way of doing things, the more he wants to get that woman who is as holy as a daisy with dew.

When it was getting late, he had already made up his mind that as long as he saw Zhao Wan, he would get her immediately.

When he was in Rushan, he got Zhao Wan's body without saying a word, how could he be brought to the Western Regions by Xia Zhu?

After this matter came out, there was a lot of room for maneuver, and Xia Zhu and the others would have restrained a little bit anyway.

Even if the emperor was very angry, he would punish himself, and the punishment at that time would be much better than being exiled in the Western Regions.

It's rare to be proud once, it's rare to be pure once, and it's unlucky, and under the mutual affection, being a righteous gentleman is the stupidest thing.

Heavy snow continues to fall, such heavy snow is a disaster for the grassland, but for the arid Gobi, it is a very good thing, next year, there will be more snow on the Tianshan Mountains, the land at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains will be more humid, and the heavy snow will kill the eggs of the winter.

And the lack of grain in the grassland is itself a heavy reward from God for Tie Xinyuan.

With the same snow, different moods will show different moods.

Ouyang Xiu's mood was very bad at this time.

wanted to meet the crown prince Yelu Hongji, but was rejected by others without giving him any face, and wanted to meet Yelu Chongyuan, but he was also rejected mercilessly.

On weekdays, a celebrity like him from the Great Song Dynasty would be invited by everyone.

Now at this extraordinary moment, no one pays attention to him.

Being able to ignore the two people who died at the city gate is already the greatest respect for him.

The officials of the Honglu Temple of the Liao State were also very irritable, so many things happened in just two days, dozens of officials were implicated, the generals who were locked in the prison have been released, and those civilian officials who stayed in Xijing were stuffed into the prison for no reason.

Even Honglu Temple has two victims, and now Honglu Temple is even more dangerous for everyone.

If you can't see the high-ranking officials of the Liao State, you can't handle the right thing, every year when the Liao Emperor sacrifices to the sky, it is also the time when the Song State comes to give gifts, and the reason why the Song State is so diligent is to be the head of the wrongs, and it is the return gift given by the Liao State.

Last year, during the Spring Festival in Linhuang Mansion, the Song envoy brought back two hundred war horses, and this year's Xijing Spring Festival, Ouyang Xiu needed to bring back one hundred war horses to be equivalent to the gift he gave.

The gift has been taken away, and there has been no movement at all in returning the gift, as an envoy of the Song Kingdom, how can he not be in a hurry?

In previous years, when the gift was given, the Honglu Temple of the Liao Kingdom would draw up a list of return gifts, and this year, the Khitan people seemed to have forgotten about it.

Knowing the news of the freezing of the North Sea from Tie Xinyuan is a good stepping stone, using this brick to knock on the door of the Khitan high-ranking officials, if it is reasonable, this year's reward will be even more generous.

As for the several battles between the Khitan and the Great Song Dynasty in Shangdangguan this year, I only need to explain to the Khitan people that this is just a small friction between the local guards and the Khitan border generals, not that the Great Song Dynasty intends to march north, and I hope that the Song and Liao will continue to exercise restraint, forget these small frictions, focus on the overall situation, and continue to protect the "Alliance of the Yuan", which is the blessing of the people of the Song and Liao countries.

In the end, as long as the Liao Emperor's proposal for a marriage between the two countries is persistently rejected, whether it is a Khitan woman marrying the Great Song royal family, or a Great Song princess marrying a Khitan royal family, both of these are unacceptable to the Great Song court.

Not only must you refuse to be reasonable and responsible, but you can't let the Khitan go crazy, which is a test of a person's diplomatic wisdom.

After grinding his teeth with the officials of the Honglu Temple of the Liao State for a day, His Majesty saw that the affairs of the Liao Emperor were so unsettled, even the Khitan prince and the imperial prince did not seem to be able to see him, which made Ouyang Xiu have a very heavy sense of frustration.

Seeing that it was getting late, I habitually found a good restaurant, ready to drink some wine to relieve my depressed mood.

Walking up to the clean second floor of the restaurant, he saw a handsome young man in a black fox fur leaning against the window, looking at the snowflakes floating outside the window, worried.

He turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by the young man, a wine jar flew over, he had to catch it, and listened to the young man lazily say: "I see that you are not in a good mood, why don't you have a drink with two people who have fallen into the world?" (To be continued.) )