This is a barren beach in Yingzhou, where the soil by the sea is seriously salinized and often disturbed by hurricanes, so the coastline of ancient China is very uninhabited. The Yingzhou wharf is five miles away from the place where Zhao Xing landed, separated by a mountain, after Zhao Xing's team was sorted out, Yuan Yeping led the front team to go inward 6.

Zhao Xing led the Chinese army. Zhang Yong insisted on leading the rear army, but Deng Yufu, a scholar, was bold and asked to go with Zhao Xing. And Jia Wen Qingchen was also in the Chinese army, he led the rest of his clansmen to serve as guides in front, and Zhao Xing followed behind, moving forward slowly.

Although Zhang Yong was in the rear team, he did not have the command of the rear team, because this operation was all disturbed by Zhao Xing's utility, and the fleet composed of local civilian utility was parked outside and did not land. Zhang Yong commanded Zhao Xing's people, so he simply gave up the command, and the leader of this team was a big man that Zhang Yong was not familiar with. This big man has a strong Liaoguo flavor on his body, and he has been hiding in the cabin before, this is the first time Zhang Yong has seen it.

In the Chinese army, Jia Wen Qingchen personally led people to walk in front of the team, and the whole team was silent because of the title on his lips, and only a footstep remained. Deng Yufu was also wearing a Japanese armor, holding a cane and knife as a crutch in his hand, seeing that Jia Wen Qingchen was walking away, he approached Zhao Xing and asked in a low voice: "Sign the judgment, I'm afraid this action is not unintentional by you, right?" There are all kinds of weapons in the cabin, and these things must have been prepared for a long time. ”

Zhao Xing replied softly: "You see it?" ”

Deng Yufu replied quietly: "Not only can I see it, but now." I'm afraid I can't see it. When you took out your weapon just now, I am now clamping Wen Qingchen's face changed, and I guess he can see it. ”

"It's a pity that he can't get out", Zhao Xing replied lightly: "If he wants to get out, I will sink the ship of his people and let these two people disappear into the sea." ”

"I'm afraid he can see it in a row", Deng Yufu continued to reply: "His face changed. He looked in the direction of Dengzhou, and it happened that the Lord gave the order, and the rest of the ships continued to sail towards Dengzhou. The goods were carried away, and the boats of the other people were caught in the flotilla and walked away. I think, I'm afraid he figured it out at that time - he can't turn back. ”

Zhao Xing smiled, and smiled very gently: "I know, it's not good for these two people to provoke me to come out." Just now he reported the number of people, saying that there were 131 people. deliberately did not say the servant under the head who accompanied the delivery. Hehe, then these servants are my hostages, of course they have to be sent to Dengzhou, and then they will be released when the matter is over. If Brother Jiawen wants to make trouble, I will throw that group of people to the Liao State and see how he explains?

You're right, now we both know each other's hole cards. That Brother Wen Meng seems rude, but he is actually a human spirit. The brothers didn't know what the code was, so Brother Jia Wen Meng didn't cry or make trouble. Very interesting. What did he say when he left just now: I'm not a good person, not a friend, but I'm still a good trading partner. When he said that, he told me not to do anything, haha, I do it. Can they see it?

They understand. Follow me and they will get rich overnight; Halfway back. They will die without a place to be buried. So they have no choice. ”

Deng Yufu frowned, and wanted to persuade a few words. At this time, the outpost sent someone to report that the Gurkha warrior whispered a few words to Zhao Xing that no one could understand, Zhao Xing waved his hand and called Jia Wen Qingchen: "There is a village ahead, but unfortunately there are only a dozen people, but I heard that there are more than 20 horses." ”

Jia Wen Qingchen looked at Zhao Xing, met his gaze, gritted his teeth, and replied, "Leave it to me!" ”

"I'll wait for you", Zhao Xing stopped outside the village.

The team paused in the small village and continued to walk forward, there was a strong smell of blood wafting in the air, Zhao Xing, who was used to fighting for his life and death in the past, suddenly felt a little uncomfortable with the smell of blood at this time, he only felt that this bloody smell was disgusting.

There were twenty-three more horses in the team, and the luggage brought by Zhao Xing and them was tied to the horses and carried forward by the horses.

It must be said that since Zhao Xingming used the box to ship the goods, the form of the place of carrying the goods has gradually changed, and those merchants who have traded with Zhao Xing like to keep the complete packaging of the goods - wooden boxes, and then use them to ship the goods, and those who have not traded with Zhao Xing, seeing this new way of transportation, have also made their own wooden boxes, used in the sale of goods.

The length of the wooden box is particular, the length of the wooden box carried by the caravan is about the same as the body of the horse, the two boxes are on the horse's back, the top surface of the wooden box is flat, and some carry-on luggage can also be piled up. Sometimes, even adults can sit on wooden boxes and walk with the horses. This convenient mode of transportation quickly spread throughout the country, and even the Jurchens were infected with this custom.

Since there is this way of transporting goods in the north, Zhao Xing originally planned to vacate a few boxes and tie them to the horse after a little packaging, but now this plan is not needed. The soldiers carried the wooden box looted by the Jiawen brothers and quickly tied it to the war horse, which made the team's movements speed up a lot, and in the evening, Yingzhou City was already looming.

Yingzhou in the Song Dynasty is near modern Changli and Guangning, in this Hebei Plain, Yingzhou belongs to a city at the foot of the mountain, and then it is a continuous mountain, and it is Jinzhou over the mountain.

Yingzhou City was founded by a certain emperor of the Liao State, he placed the captive 300 Han slaves at the foot of the mountain, herded horses for him, in order to facilitate governance, he established the Touxia Military Prefecture - wrong, Yingzhou is a place similar to the Touxia Military Prefecture, maybe these male slaves are the private property of the Liao Emperor, maybe these male slaves are too tame, although its administrative system is similar to the Touxia Military Prefecture, but there is no army to supervise them.

Zhao Xingke is not as pedantic as Tong Guan's ideas, according to his vague memory, when the Song court united with Jin to destroy Liao, this great eunuch thought that the imperial court represented the interests of the majority of Han people and was the supreme power of the Han people, so those Han people in Liao should immediately kneel down under the banner as soon as they saw the banner of the Song people. Give your own property with both hands, and call it the motherland and the nation, take it...... As a result, the 200,000-strong army did not guard the Han army of the Liao State and was slaughtered by the head army.

He knows this history, so he is very wary of his group of "northern compatriots". Therefore, he stopped in a village not far from Yingzhou City and observed Yingzhou City in the twilight with a telescope.

Yingzhou City is a dirt fence. The Liao people were not interested in building camp walls for the Han people at all, and in their minds, they probably thought that it was most convenient for the Han people to have no city walls. The wall of the camp was dilapidated. It was just a continuous earthen rampart, and there were a few gaps in the middle, so the merchants in the area almost did not go through the main gate.

It is surrounded by the Khitans, and there are very few caravans that can endure the heavy exploitation of the Khitans and come here, if it weren't for the fact that the Jiawen brothers often need to come here to buy horses and buy fabrics made by the families of the Han Nu, I am afraid they will not go deep into such a siege. And in addition to the large caravan of Jiawen, which often comes and goes. Those who crossed the mountains and approached Yingzhou. They are all small people who carry a small package with them.

The place where Zhao Xing set his feet was the Yingzhou Horse Camp, which was a place dedicated to raising mounts for the Khitan Emperor. The Khitan Emperor had more than 100 similar horse camps in the country, the emperor liked to hunt, and wandered around the grassland with his ministers all day long, and when he was tired of hunting, he rested in the horse camp. Therefore, the horse camp has a complete set of court equipment.

The Khitan Emperor did not have high requirements for accommodation, and from the "Khitan Hunting Map" that circulated to the Song Kingdom, this emperor's favorite was to live in a yurt. Wherever he lived, he built a yurt in the middle of the courtyard. Therefore, those empty houses are for the army and ministers around them, although they are very tidy, but they are not high-end.

The Khitan Emperor's horse battalion usually did not have an army stationed, and he took with him a guard army of tens of thousands of people, and the guard army took over the guard work wherever he went. Thereupon. When the Khitan Emperor was away. The director of the horse camp would rent the vacant barracks to passing caravans in exchange for some living expenses.

The Khitan Emperor also acquiesced in this custom. Normally, where he planned to stay that night, he would also send someone in advance to inform the director of the horse camp so that the horse camp could clean up the idle personnel...... It is known that the emperor had now returned to his palace because of the snow, and the horse camps in various places were relaxed and became inns for merchants.

Yingzhou belongs to the Nanjing Road of Liao, the emperor likes to go around in Zhongjing, and generally rarely goes to Nanjing Road, and Yingzhou is on the edge of the mountain, which is equal to the end of the road, so the emperor has not come for a hundred years. This neglect has left the barracks in the state very dilapidated.

At present, Yingzhou is still in the middle of the famine, and the horse camp has also been affected, Zhao Xing easily exchanged a few rare things for enough horses, so that his entire caravan has become a veritable horse team, and the steward of the horse camp diligently vacated the large compound closest to the direction of Yingzhou City for him, at this moment, except for his people in the entire courtyard, no one else approached, which made him stand on the roof without scruples, and took out a telescope to observe Yingzhou City in the distance.

He now holds a telescope for sea viewing, which is far larger than the delicate telescope he used as a playpiece—and now he is holding the delicate and small telescope in his hand, pretending to observe the city of Yingzhou.

Deng Yufu didn't get a pair of telescopes, but he obviously also had an opinion on the telescope, the two looked in front, and he muttered in a low voice behind his back: "Sign the judgment, this thing is a militaristic weapon, but it must not fall into the eyes of those Jurchens." When they come up, you two must remember to put it away. ”

There was a sound on the stairs by the roof, Zhao Xing quickly put away the binoculars and put them in his arms, Zhang Yong also followed, and when Wen Qingchen's head showed in the corner of the house, the two of them had already made a look of pointing out the country, pointing to Yingzhou City under the sunset. Zhao Xing did more like it, he even learned the posture of Sun Wukong, put his hands on the pergola, and squinted his eyes.

Jia Wen Qingchen didn't mean to climb on the roof, he was very unimpressed by the behavior of the people on the roof, pouted and said: "Two, it's time to go, let's go now, just at sunset, we will rush to the city gate, and the defenders will let us in before they have time to check." ”

"Let's go", Zhao Xing immediately responded.

These people remounted their horses and urged them to rush to Yingzhou City. At sunset, the defenders looked strangely at the huge caravan. It is not easy to drive more than 300 horses through the state and county to Yingzhou this year. In front of Yingzhou is Yuguan, and taking the trade route of Yingzhou has to go through countless exploits, so it is too uncommon to have caravans in this way.

Several of the gatekeepers exchanged views in a low voice. It is believed that since such a caravan is not afraid to take this trade route, then the goods they carry must be of high value, and only in this way are they not afraid of being exploited layer by layer. So-

A soldier greeted the city gate with a smile on his face, and asked with a smile: "Where are the guests from, is it unusual to dress up like this?" It's like a rumored would-be merchant, but. Are you on the wrong path, we don't have a good place to host merchants...... Ah, no. We receive, is the guest planning to stay overnight? There are mountain roads ahead, so it's not good to rush overnight. Let's rest overnight, and we can hurry tomorrow morning. ”

Zhao Xing's reaction obviously satisfied the enthusiasm of the pawn, and as soon as he raised his hand, several dazzling golden things in the twilight rushed towards the pawn, and the pawn reached out to pick it up. But only one was received. The remaining twenty or thirty copper plates fell to the ground.

This copper plate is ten coins in the Song Kingdom, and it is worth ten coins in the usual Song Dynasty, so the casting is large and thick. But this kind of money is different from the real dangten coin, it is not a hole coin, it is a solid copper coin. It rolls round and fast. The pawn didn't catch it, and hurriedly rushed to the ground to chase the rolling copper coins to pick it up, and several other pawns at the city gate saw it, and then ran out to "help". Zhao Xing saw that most of them had already run out, and he grabbed a few handfuls of copper coins from his waist pocket. It was sprinkled all over the ground.

Jia Wen Qingchen was dressed in a golden costume, and with a serious face, he led the caravan to continue to rush to the city gate with the original degree. When he arrived at the city gate, there was no one else in the city gate, and even the tax collector who was in charge of registering the passengers entering the city in the city gate cave ran out to grab the money. The twilight is getting heavier and heavier, and it is a bit of a struggle to find the money on the ground. Because money is rolling everywhere. No one knows how many there are, so the ones that haven't been picked up are still looking for them seriously.

After a while. The tax collector remembered his duty, and he returned to the city gate cave with a jingle in his pocket, and Zhao Xingzheng was waiting in the city gate cave with a dozen people. The tax collector was very satisfied with Zhao Xing's eyes, since the other party was so knowledgeable and interesting, he didn't plan to be embarrassed, spread out the account books, and asked perfunctorily: "Where do the guests come from, how many people are there?" What is the value of the goods? Report it. ”

Zhao Xing casually took out another bundle of paper, and gently broke it, revealing a few round silver coins, and he said in a strange tone: "The military masters have worked hard, one silver coin per person, take it to drink tea, and the rest will be counted as the city gate tax, and the villains will all obey the distribution of adults." ”

The tax collector narrowed his eyes and looked at it, the bundle of silver coins in Zhao Xing's hand was about twenty-five, and there were only ten soldiers at the city gate, plus his entourage, that is, fourteen people, so that he could drop eleven silver coins himself.

There are few copper coins in Liao, and they are basically in a state of bartering commodities, and the copper plates that Zhao Xing scattered are so popular, not to mention silver dollars. The tax collector made a lightning move, counted out a few silver coins, left them for the pawns, put the rest in his own pockets, and then shouted at the guards who were still looking all over the ground: "Come here, this great official has given you a favor, boys, a tael of silver for each of you." ”

Hearing the sound of the city gate, even the two guards who were the only ones on the tower could not sit still, and they climbed down the tower and stood in front of the tax collector and stretched out their dusty hands.

The two tax collectors did not estimate it, he glanced at Zhao Xing, hoping that Zhao Xing could add more, but Zhao Xing had no intention of doing anything, he smiled and pointed to the city gate, reminding: "It's dark, the city gate should be closed." ”

The tax collector hurriedly climbed down the pole: "Bastard, don't go to close the city gate yet, listen to the words of the adults, the adults will be rewarded." ”

The two people went to close the city gate, and the tax collector began to distribute silver coins according to the head, and the closed city gate made the city gate hole a lot darker, at this time Zhao Xing kindly took out a glass lamp and lit it for the tax collector.

Glass lamp?! This guest was so extravagant, carrying such a beautiful and gorgeous glass lamp, as soon as the glass lamp was lit, the tax collectors stopped their movements and looked at the glass lamp in Zhao Xing's hand with envy and greed. There are tax collectors now, Zhao Xing is only one person left, most of his subordinates don't care about the existence of the master, just bury their heads and go to the city, this kung fu, has gone without a shadow.

The two and three servants left behind were very leisurely, and they rushed to help the guards close the city gate, but as a result, Zhao Xing was left alone to deal with the tax collectors in the city gate cave......

Seeing this situation, several soldiers were a little moved, but they were a little hesitant when they thought of the huge caravan behind them.

Zhao Xing seemed to feel the strange atmosphere of the scene, and he lifted the glass lamp. Raising it to his face, he smiled at these people with a strange expression, suddenly pursed his mouth, and suddenly blew out the lamp.

The gate cave suddenly fell into darkness, and the tax collector complained dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter? What do you do by blowing the lamp...... Don't, don't move, Li Er. What are you doing? ”

As soon as the lights went out, three soldiers subconsciously pounced on Zhao Xing, and they had been thinking about this thought for a long time. The action of the pounce was not thought of, but by the time they had only taken a few steps, they had already come to their senses and stopped consciously.

However, the guest on the opposite side seemed to be even more panicked, trying to dodge but going the wrong way, and instead crashed directly into the crowd of pawns. Then. Several dark shadows rolled into a ball.

Then there was the sound of fighting, and it was not clear who was fighting whom, and all that remained in the entire gate was the hoarse voice of the tax collectors. After a while, the voice subsided, and the glass lamp was lit up again, revealing that it was still Zhao Xing's smiling face.

"How are you? You weren't even hurt, thank goodness, hurry, Li Er. Zhao San, ......"

Zhao Xing spoke, with a thick Song voice in his voice: "Your words just now saved your life, you should thank yourself for your luck." At the same time, I am glad that I still have compassion

The tax collector sniffed and sniffed the blood in the air. He suddenly woke up: "Song people?!" You killed them all. So bold? ”

At the city gate, several people were taking out a paper tube that resembled a medicine golem from the package, and they tied the medicine golem to the door shaft of the city gate with a thin iron wire. Then the medicine was lit, and the city gate cave erupted with bright fireworks, and Zhao Xing smiled very kindly in the fireworks: "Don't get excited, don't shout loudly, you saved your life just now, but you may not be able to live forever, dare to shout again, you will die." ”

The fireworks burned quickly, adding another smell of gunpowder smoke to the air, and the tax collector looked around at the moment when the fireworks went out, and there was only one standing pawn left in the entire city gate. The rest of the people were lying on the ground.

"You're alone, kill them all?"

Zhao Xing was like a teacher who was kind and seductive, and patiently explained: "Of course, I am wearing gold silk soft armor, and they poke me with a knife, but it doesn't hurt." And I still have a knife in my hand, but your people are empty-handed, and they use their fists to compare with my knife, and the result can be imagined......"

"What are you going to do? What did you just do, are you signaling to people outside? Here are all my Liao army, how can you take the city? "Just now they were taking lead solvent - I'm a lazy person, and I think it's too troublesome to seal the door bolt with lead liquid, so I made this medicine puppet, using the high heat generated by the combustion of gunpowder to directly melt the lead powder inside and seal the door bolt or box lid. This method of sealing the door is too simple, but now, without removing the bolt, this gate cannot be opened.

How about it, after listening to my method, do you know that I don't have a team outside, and now you are relieved? ”

"Not Song Jun? …… Are you horse bandits? The tax collector stammered: "Don't be kidding, you can't run out of the land, there are mountains all around, and the Liao army has horses, so you can't run far." ”

Zhao Xing tilted his head and looked at the city, as he expected, a fire lit up near the city gate mansion, in the twilight, this firelight was obvious, and the tax collector also saw this fire, and he was trembling all over.

The sound of people running near the broken city wall, a person next to Zhao Xing took out a slender copper whistle, held it in his mouth and blew it a few times, and the echo of a copper whistle nearby, after a while, a handsome-looking, but blood-stained man, carrying a blood-stained knife, walked here gently, he walked in a peerless style. But the bright red blood made him feel like a demon out of hell, and it made people feel chills all over his body.

This person walked up to Zhao Xing, and bowed down to Zhao Xing with an elegant demeanor and tone of speech that the tax collector was not familiar with: "Leader, the government has been captured, a thousand households in the city, fifty-seven Khitans have been cut down, and the four gates have been controlled, Brother Jiawen, please come over." ”

This person is Yuan Yeping, he sighed in the demeanor of a Tang gentleman, and said: "This is a poor county, the money in the treasury is less than 1,000 yuan, and the granary is still empty. ”

"Brother Jiawen—it's him! No wonder when I entered the city just now, I looked at the bearded man and looked familiar, the Han surname of the Jiawen brothers should be Tong, right? The tax collector did not realize that he was dying, and asked curiously.

"Oh? Jia Wen's Han surname is Tong. This is one of the eight major Manchu surnames, no wonder the head is so flexible. Zhao Xing nodded thoughtfully and continued: "Seeing that you are well-informed, I will give you a grace - we are from the sea, and the Yingzhou Navy attacked us, and this time we are here to retaliate." Then we will go by sea, and you can take your family with us. Then go to the Song Kingdom, go to Goryeo, go to the Wa Kingdom, the choice is yours. What do you think? Would you like to come with us? ”

The tax collector collects money at the city gate all year round, and this job is a job to get money. If you are not smart and clever, you will not be able to climb into this position, when Zhao Xing spoke, he had obviously calculated his own situation, if he hesitated a little in answering, I am afraid that these people will be wiped out immediately

"Great, I'm going to Song Kingdom. can place me in the Song Kingdom. I'll take the whole family with you," said the tax collector, smiling all over his face. But Zhao Xing's next words shattered his little abacus.

"Take this person with you, although the treasury is poor, but I think the Khitans in the city are not poor, let this person go and show the way, order the brothers to raid the house one by one, kill all the Khitans, and copy out all their money."

The tax collector's face had turned into a bitter melon face—and he went to point to the door. Can I run on my own afterwards? Can you stay in the city? It is estimated that he will only run away with Zhao Xing in the future.

Yuan Yeping smiled beautifully, grabbed the tax collector, left a bloody mark on the other party's body with his palm, and he pushed the tax collector in front of Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing asked kindly, "What's your name?" What do you call it? ”

"Villain Rwanda!"

"That's a good name. Prosperous and reaching, even with the surname. Better", Zhao Xing waved his hand, Yuan Yeping grabbed Rwanda to take the lead, and he himself led the servants to follow and walked to the government together.

The entrance of the palace is full of dead bodies and stumps, some Jurchens seem to be very satisfied with the effect of the knife in their hands, the corpse is full of men who cherish the knife, Jia Wen Qingchen seems to be satisfied with the sharpness of the knife in his hand, he is standing on the steps of the inner courtyard of the palace, swinging a knife to cut off a person's head, Na Lisuo's action caused a cheer around, and on the steps there were two old men in official robes, and they shouted out in grief and indignation.

Zhao Xing's belly was full of smiles - the steel wrapped in the outer part of the knives in Jia Wen's hand was very thin, and as long as the knives were sharpened a few times, the thin steel on the outside could be worn through, so Zhao Xing called this batch of knives "disposable war knives". The more often this knife is used, the faster it will break. Jia Wen is proud now, but it may be exchanged for chagrin in the future.

Jia Wen Qingchen—no, it should be called Tong Qingchen—was shouting while killing people: "Such a poor county dares to boldly attack us, making Lao Tzu pay for five lives, bad luck." I'll kill a few more today, so you can know ......"

Zhao Xingdi moved a chair from the person, Zhao Xing sat on it, faced the two officials, and asked calmly: "Which of the two is the mansion honorable...... Tsk, look at you poor, the official robes are so shabby, what is the point of being an official, what is the point of being an official, mix with me in the future, I just have a few counties for you to govern, which one is the governor, which one is the county lieutenant? ”

In fact, the official robes on their bodies have already explained the official ranks, and the official system of Nanjing Province in the Liao State is completely modeled after the Great Song Dynasty, and even the grades and names of many official titles are completely similar, Zhao Xing asked knowingly.

His words made the two officials raise their heads and look at Zhao Xing with a little surprise.

This passage contains several messages, first: Zhao Xing has a territory, he is not an ordinary robber, and even wants to set up a county in the territory to manage the people under his banner; Second: Zhao Xing is not a murderous person, he did not break into this place to slaughter, as for what the exact reason is, it is not yet known; Third: Zhao Xing was not a general of the Song army, because in the Song State, the status of military generals was low, and it was impossible to have a territory to govern.

After the two officials looked at Zhao Xing, they looked at the people around Zhao Xing. Just now, they were only frightened, but they didn't even see Zhao Xing's group of well-equipped, and the fierce fighting had torn the coats of many "bandits", revealing the fine gold silk soft armor under the coats. This kind of Persian soft armor is not something that ordinary people can match, and Zhao Xing's subordinates even ordinary soldiers wore such a chain of chain mail, which impressed the two officials.

The two officials were still thinking about how to answer, Jia Wen Qingchen had noticed the official's hesitation, he walked over with a knife on his face full of displeasure, and complained: "Leader Zhao, you see, you only gave me a suit of armor to wear outside, that armor is beautiful and beautiful, but when we entered the city, we were all disguised as a caravan, and the battle started very suddenly, my men didn't have time to put on the armor, they rushed too fiercely, and injured two or three people, and your men were all wearing soft armor close to their bodies, and there was not even a serious injury in front and back, what do you say?" ”

Tong Qingchen is asking for chain mail, Zhao Xing laughed, vaguely, and seductively replied: "Afterwards, come, first interrogate these two officials with my brother." ”

Tong Qingchen heard Zhao Xing's words just now, and he thought that Zhao Xing said that he had a territory, which was purely coaxing, so he replied with a haha: "According to the rules of my clan, these people are all your captives, and you decide." ”

Zhao Xing smiled happily on his face, but his words were very cold: "Oh, I just remembered that we have talked about the division of the spoils, the people belong to me, the horses belong to you, and the treasures are divided equally." So as long as it's two-legged, it's all my property - why did you damage my property just now? Tong Qingchen was stunned, why, the person in front of him turned his face when he said that he would turn his face?