Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Abandoned Khitans

Xiao Tianxiong leaned on the wide seat with his bare arms, the wolf head tattoos on his shoulders were lifelike, and the two rows of sturdy subordinates standing with their hands down all had large and small wolf heads on different parts of their bodies. The persistence of the Xiao family on the main island over the years seems to have maintained the original Da Liao bloodline, and this is also the reason why they do not easily expand the team.

"Brothers, my Khitan people are gradually declining, although the Eastern Liao has continued, but with Kublai Khan's withdrawal from the domain, we have lost the last piece of land. We have been hiding here for many years, trying to wait for a chance to revivenation, but seeing that the Great Song Dynasty is about to end, and the world is all Mongol, we have no chance.

What do we do next? Surrender to the Mongols, or go into battle to kill the enemy and die for your country! But we can't choose either. Our Khitan warriors are by no means greedy for life and afraid of death, they have lived in it for decades, serving Han officials as dogs and biting people for them, why is this? Why do we do this, live so humblely!

Because we still have a more important task, the heavy responsibility of continuing the bloodline of the Khitan people, the Jurchens killed millions of our people, and the captured and surrendered people, although they survived temporarily, were shouted like dogs by the Jurchens, and abused like animals. We, the clansmen, are the last complete tribe of the Khitan, and we cannot die here silently. I decided to complete the mission of the Han officials this time, and at the same time take all the people to evacuate Sanshan Island, find a piece of land that can allow us to take root and multiply, and rebuild the glory of our Khitan people. ”

Hundreds of people tore open their clothes, revealing tattoos all over their bodies, raised their heads to the sky and howled angrily, expressing their feelings and anger in a voice that went straight to the sky.

The Liao State, established by the Khitans, was the greatest enemy of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the two countries fought many wars. Before the formation of the most famous Lanyuan Alliance, it was led by the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Great Liao at that time to invade the Song Dynasty, and when the soldiers went south, the Song Dynasty was defeated, and the Liao army brigade penetrated deep into the territory of the Song Dynasty, which frightened Song Zhenzong to give up Kaifeng and led the emperor's relatives to flee south.

Under the insistence of Kou Zhun, the prime minister of the main battle faction at that time, and Yang Si and Yang Yanlang, who led the troops to resist the enemy, they did not move the capital to the south. After several years of war, the Liao State occupied the sixteen states of Youyun on the border of the Song Dynasty, and forced Song Zhenzong to pay tribute to make peace, in addition to ceding these lands, he also had to pay tribute to the Liao State every year with silver and cloth and silk.

At that time, the Song Dynasty was strong and fierce, and under the initiative of the Yang generals, it turned from defeat and retreat to mutual confrontation, and did not further let the Liao army go south. The tradition may have been cultivated at that time, the emperor was timid and afraid of war, and the civil officials of the Lord and the faction, who had figured out the holy will, occupied the court, and the opinions of Kou Zhun and Yang Yanlang and other main battle factions to counterattack the Liao State were suppressed. Those civil officials who were afraid of the enemy like tigers and just wanted to break the bank and avoid disasters supported the peace, and in order to avoid Kou Zhun's obstruction, they also united to frame Kou Zhun.

Although the Liao State was strong, he not only bullied the Song Dynasty, but also destroyed many small countries in the east and west, and brutally oppressed the Jurchens. It is recorded in the history of world wars that in the battle of Hubu Tagang, under the condition of extreme disparity in strength, Wanyan Agu fought with only 20,000 cavalry at that time, and the 700,000 Liao troops killed fell into a flower and fled in a mess.

The Jin Dynasty established by the Jurchens wiped out the Liao State for more than 200 years and occupied the territory of the Liao State, and continued to invade the Song Dynasty in the south like the Liao State, and the Song Dynasty still ceded land again and again, and used a lot of silver to buy peace for a few days.

Xiao Tianxiong, the remnants of the Khitan, grew up in the hatred of the country and the family, but no one has ever experienced the real pain of destroying the country, and they are all passed on by the elders by word of mouth, telling the glory of the Liao State in the past. Because of this relatively closed life, they have become very pure pure-blooded Khitans.

Xiao Tianxiong has been in charge of Sanshan Island for more than ten years, he doesn't want to be a self-contained here, to be the owner of a small island, he has a broader mind. But the current trend of the world has no chance for him, after the destruction of the Eastern Liao, the Khitan people are even more lonely, and they will only disappear in the long river of history.

So this time he decided to take the opportunity of Yuan Bing to go south, he also wanted to leave this small island, looking for a more suitable place to live, a broader land, his goal is magically the same as Zhao Tianyou's choice, that is, to go to Taiwan along the Penghu Islands.

But before leaving, he had to complete the task assigned to him by Pu Shougeng, and block the Great Song Navy warships coming from Fuzhou at sea. Of course, this task is top secret, Pu Shougeng is an official of the Great Song Dynasty, Quanzhou is still the world of the Song Dynasty, how could he give such an order?

Because Pu Shougeng was about to rebel, Boyan's general Suo Duo sent a letter, which played a decisive role in the balance in Pu Shougeng's heart, and completely fell to the surrender of the Yuan Dynasty. Originally, Pu Shougeng was very dissatisfied with Zhang Shijie and Chen Yizhong in Fuzhou, and the money and grain in Quanzhou were like his own, and he didn't give Pu Shougeng any face at all.

It has long been said that Pu Shougeng is a businessman and an official, and he is extremely profitable, and he can't even be transferred to Guangdong as a high-ranking official, Quanzhou is not only economically developed, but also has hundreds of thousands of his fellow clansmen here. The ancestor of Pu Shou Geng is a big businessman who is rich and rich, and the main port at that time was Guangzhou, and later moved here with the development of Quanzhou Port, and it can even be said that the prosperity of Quanzhou Port is inseparable from Pu Shou Geng's family.

Further forward, the Pu family are all Arabs who crossed the sea, and the overseas Chinese living in Champa is Vietnam, and gradually spread to the coastal area of the Song Dynasty with business, and at the most prosperous time, there were more than 100,000 Arabs in Quanzhou Port.

And Zhang Shijie, Chen Yizhong, and Song Chen, actually discussed in Fuzhou to set up a capital in Quanzhou, wouldn't that take away all the achievements of Pu Shougeng's years of operation? Fuzhou gathered the main force of the naval army in the southeast of the Great Song Dynasty, known as more than 1,000 warships and more than 100,000 troops.

Most of the main forces of Quanzhou's sailors have been sent to Quanzhou to guard Duanzong, and there are only more than 30,000 henchmen who stay around, and they can't fight against Zhang Shijie's troops head-on.

If it was changed to Boyan's handwritten letter, Pu Shougeng might have to hesitate, after all, the matter of Dingdu Quanzhou was just an audit, and everyone did not have a straightforward discussion, that is, he had not torn his face with Zhang Shijie and Chen Yizhong, and Pu Shougeng had not been forced to the sake of the opposite.

However, the letter was signed by no one else, it was Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, and the letter promised Pu Shougeng that if he cooperated with the extermination of the remnants of the Song Dynasty in Fuzhou, the control of Quanzhou Port and maritime trade would continue to be handed over to Pu's business for a hundred years.

And this letter did not appear in the history known to Zhao Tianyou, this letter prompted Pu Shougeng to reduce the yuan in advance, and disrupted the plan of Zhang Shijie and others to set the capital.

The butterfly's wings have finally shown their strength, will everything change in the future?