Chapter 66 The Promise of a Politician is a Joke

The drums at the head of Xijing City sounded, and every sound seemed to sound in the bottom of people's hearts, more like cheering for Tie Xinyuan's words.

After a while, the horn of the assembled army also sounded, and then the messengers of Xijing City began to clear the streets.

All of them had to go back to their quarters to be examined, and of course, all four gates of Xijing City were closed.

Tie Xinyuan put on a robe for Ouyang Xiu, who was a little lost, and the two of them walked in the panicked streets of Xijing.

The unknown people, thinking that war was coming, rushed to the north of the city, but were driven back by the servants with clubs and whips.

Tie Xinyuan smiled and pointed to the dead carriage blocking the streets and said to Ouyang Xiu: "The richer people are, the more afraid of war, and war is sometimes a process of redistributing wealth.

Therefore, although ordinary poor people are also afraid of war, while they are afraid, in fact, they still have a little bit of hope in their hearts.

Because I am so poor that I have nothing to lose, as long as I can get something in the war, it is a gain. ”

Ouyang Xiu frowned and said, "What did you learn from this scripture when you were studying?" ”

"Mr. Han Changli's "The Original Way".

Ouyang Xiu's brows furrowed even deeper, and he was silent for a moment and said, "None of what you said just now is the truth in the Original Path. ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "I am a more fickle person, when I was in the Great Song Dynasty, I followed the heart of the "Original Dao", and after coming to the Western Regions, what I followed was the simple rule of how to save my life. ”

"Without the determination to die without regrets, how can you achieve great things?"

"I don't need to die, there are countless heroes in this land who want to shed their blood in order to live a good life, as long as I can provide them with the good life they want.

As long as there are more and more people living a good life, in the end, they will be able to help Khotan restore the country, and they can help me to shock the Western Regions. ”

Ouyang Xiu bent down and picked up an old woman who had been squeezed down by the carriage from the side of the road, and continued to walk forward along the road that Gaga and Wei Chiwen had squeezed away.

People are crowding north, and after passing through the center of the city, the eyes suddenly open up.

Tie Xinyuan's camp is on the periphery of the school military field, and the camp of the Great Song Dynasty envoy group where Ouyang Xiu is located is in the school military field.

When Ouyang Xiu saw the warriors in the camp come out to greet Tie Xinyuan, he was stunned and said, "This is the camp where the giant is full of clouds!" ”

Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Tie Xinyuan gave Ouyang Xiu a strange smile and said, "I am a cloud!" ”

After speaking, he gave a salute, left Ouyang Xiu and walked straight into the fence, the two fierce warriors closed the fence, and still stood at the door holding knives to guard there.

The frightened Ouyang Xiu stood in the wind and snow for a long time before he staggered into the school military field with the support of his companions.

I drank and talked with the thief for a long time under the same roof, and ate the food made by the thief himself......

Xu Dongsheng did not come back, and Meng Yuanzhi said that he was called away by the people in the palace of King Yan Zhao.

This is very normal, King Yan Zhao has been attacked, Nerugu naturally has to go all out to track it down, since it is attacked in the wild, then, a cloud of people who have lived in the wild for many years should be very useful.

When it was dark, Xu Dongsheng came back, with a smile on his face, and it seemed that he was very comfortable in King Yanzhao's mansion.

"You weren't called like a dog this time, were you?" Meng Yuan opened his mouth and said.

Xu Dongsheng said with a smile: "It's still the work of a dog, but this time I gave some meat and bones." ”

The charcoal fire in the room was very strong, Tie Xinyuan took off his coat and asked, "King Yan Zhao is not dead?" ”

Xu Dongsheng shook his head and said: "His luck is very good, in order to show his demeanor as a corporal of Lixian, the first carriage was given to the newly recruited strategist Guo Liang. ”

"Who is Guo Liang?"

"The Great Song Dynasty Bingyin Kejinshi, in the Great Song Dynasty Ministry of Industry as an official, good at cartography, especially the geographical map of mountains and rivers, is Yelu Chongyuan with a high-ranking official Houlu to dig over, originally prepared to come to Xijing to the Liao Emperor to present the Liaoshui water map, it is said that this map is clearer than the Liaoshui recorded in Li Daoyuan's "Water Jing Note", more clear, and more detailed.

Unexpectedly, the gunpowder buried by Lao Meng and Huo'er was blown up, and he acted as a substitute for Yelu Chongyuan. ”

"How's Yelu Chongyuan?"

"I heard that I am deaf in both ears and need to recuperate, I didn't see Yelu Chongyuan, I only saw Nerugu, and now that guy is thundering, this wind and snow have covered up the traces of Lao Meng and Huo'er's breath and movement, and the hounds can't track them.

Nerugu asked us to search for the murderer in the wilderness outside Xijing City as soon as the snow stopped, and he concluded that the murderer was also stranded in Xijing City by the snowstorm.

We and the rest of the horse thieves searched outside the city, and he himself searched the city, leaving no trace of it. ”

Tie Xinyuan shook his head and smiled: "People can find you in the first time, which shows that all our actions are under the noses of others, but fortunately, people only pay attention to you and are not overly suspicious of us."

We're still a little reckless in doing this. ”

Meng Yuan said straightly: "Isn't that one thing in danger since we came to the Western Regions?" It's amazing to kill him and jump over the wall with a chicken and a dog, and then start over. ”

Tie Xinyuan glanced at Meng Yuan and said, "You are very confident in yourself, when you were in the Great Song Dynasty Tokyo City, you couldn't run out alone, let alone Xijing in the Khitan."

Not to mention anything else, just the ironclad army and a dozen or so condor archers can make you have no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground.

In the end, the Khitans are a race on horseback, and being brave and good at fighting is something in their bones.

In recent years, those high-ranking officials in the court of the Great Song Dynasty deliberately wanted to use "Poems", "Books", "Rites", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn" to assimilate them into the same country as the Great Song Dynasty. Then defeat the Khitan on the same platform, after all, under the same national conditions, the Great Song Dynasty is invincible in the end.

But do you see success? Not yet, although the Khitans who have been corrupted have seen results, and they are still far from success.

The emperor did not like to stay in the capital, but traveled all over the world, and would sacrifice to the sky everywhere, which was to maintain the wolf nature of the Khitan people, indicating that he still did not forget the nomadic life of his ancestors. ”

"You said that the Khitan people like the poems of the Great Song Dynasty were deliberately promoted by the Great Song people?" Xu Dongsheng asked in surprise.

Tie Xinyuan sneered and said: "If there is a good poem in Tokyo, the singers of the Liao Kingdom will be sung all over the world in three days, if you want to say that there is no official promotion of the Great Song Dynasty behind the scenes, do you believe it?" ”

"Don't believe it!" Xu Dongsheng shook his head firmly, "But since Emperor Liao understands this truth, why doesn't he prohibit it?" ”

"Who said that he didn't ban it, they started to ban it from the time of Empress Dowager Xiao, and they even invented their own writing at the earliest, but those words are now used by the royal family in addition to the royal family, who do you see using them?

Moreover, if you want to ban poetry, you have to come up with something new to fill in the gap, the Khitan people don't have this ability, you let a noble who is used to listening to the song of the Great Song Dynasty to listen to the story of a ram and two ewes, can he listen to it?

And the more you ban the word story, the more fierce it will spread, the more curious people will be, and finally the more out of control it will become. ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a dry mouth, and took a sip of water to moisten his throat, these things must be explained clearly to Meng Yuanzhi and Xu Dongsheng, so that they can understand what their most powerful weapon is.

Meng Yuanzhi laughed and said: "It turns out that those big turbans are not useless, this thing is ruthless and poisonous. ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "This is also a matter of no way, if you can't beat others, you have to slowly destroy their affairs from the root, until their force is pulled to the same level as the Great Song Dynasty, and then use our rich experience to defeat them, this method is good, but the effect is slower." ”

"After the snow stops, Lao Meng, they need to go out of the city, what do they need me to do?" Xu Dongsheng saw that the matter was over, so he asked about the next step.

Tie Xinyuan sighed and said, "I contacted Ouyang Xiu today, just to prepare for the next step to go to the Great Song Dynasty.

Hengshan wild horses will leave Hengshan after spring, we need to hurry up and go to Hengshan, use wild horses to open the door of the Great Song Dynasty, and let them accept a cloud, a chivalrous horse thief. ”

"But Xijing is in chaos now, and we need Yelu Chongyuan's promise! How do you leave without being promised? Xu Dongsheng felt even more strange, before coming, Tie Xinyuan swore that the Liao people would recognize the existence of Hami, but now, the matter was halfway done but he was already preparing to leave.

"Do you believe Yelu Chongyuan's promise?" Tie Xinyuan looked at Xu Dongsheng with a very strange look, as if he was looking at a fool.

"Since you don't believe Yelu Chongyuan's promise, what are you doing in Xijing?" Xu Dongsheng was a little annoyed, feeling that Tie Xinyuan was teasing him.

Tie Xinyuan took Xu Dongsheng's hand and sat on the chair and said, "Don't you understand?" What we have to do is convince Yelu Chongyuan that we belong to his side.

As for the promise, it doesn't matter, if that thing wants to be overturned, it's just a matter of lip service, only by establishing a very important interest relationship with Yelu Chongyuan, we will always be protected by him.

Now that we've made overtures, it's up to Yelu to react, and now that Nerugu has started to use you to participate in the search for his father's murderer, it's a sign that he's accepted us.

As long as we don't have a shortage of tribute to others in the future, when he wants to usurp the throne, we can do our best to help him, and this is it, with this important relationship, Hami actually belongs to us.

If someone like Yelu Chongyuan tells you in person that you can give Hami to me, you can't do it at all. The person who said such things could only be a traitor to the Khitan.

People may still want to wait for the usurpation to succeed before killing us, but for him, we are a tool that can be used for the time being.

When we still have use value, who can Hami be if it is not ours? (To be continued.) )