The new dynasty was founded in the eleventh year, and the old dynasty fell in the fourteenth year.

The emperor sacrificed to the sky, Longhu Mountain is the orthodoxy of Taoism in the world, and the heavenly master surnamed Zhang has been passed down to the present day for dozens of generations. The five heavenly masters of Longhu Mountain gathered in the river.

Zheng Zhi has always had a good impression of Taoism, which is a feeling. But it's not as superstitious as Zhao Ji. True Taoism, inaction and peace, is the essence.

Zheng Zhi naturally doesn't believe in Dafa such as Liuding Liujia, but this matter of sacrificing to the heavens, Chinese orthodoxy, starting from Wuzhu to Taoist people, this is an indispensable procedure. This period was also the beginning of the Quanzhen Dao, but Longhu Mountain was still the ancestor of Taoism.

The new dynasty of Great Xia, changed to Yuan Zhangwu, the first year of Zhangwu, 1139 years of the Western calendar. Six years of the Western Liao Kangguo.

The Great War has begun.

In the spring, Ruda went south with the third, fourth, and fifth naval divisions of the empire, with 218 large and small warships. Landing with Priango in the South China Sea, the capture of slaves began to build a city in a seaside port.

Priango, is the Khmer language. Later, this place was called Saigon, which means to pay tribute from the west. Finally, this place is called Ho Chi Minh City. The land of Vietnam also.

Ruda was here, and did not continue to follow the sailor. Instead, he led 4,000 ironclad armor to start running here, casting a big city and installing artillery. It also fought several wars with the local indigenous countries before completely occupying a large area of territory behind the harbor. Named Nanhai Castle.

The sailors parted ways, the 3rd Sailor continued southward towards the archipelago, and the 4th and 5th Sailors continued into the Strait of Malacca, landing several strongholds along the strait, the most important of which was Puluozhong, which was also beginning to forge a large city. It was later Singapore that held the choke point of the waterway. Name Mizuseki Castle.

Out of Malacca, it is the Indian Ocean, and there is a large archipelago, cities and fortresses, one by one. This is the foundation of Kaido.

After the sailors, there were more merchant ships, merchant ships came, transporting a little cargo, mainly carrying people to follow the sailors, and the people in the ships were ironclad soldiers.

In the Indian Ocean, you can go to Central Asia, the Middle East, and even Europe. Crossing is the land of the blacks. Beyond the land of the black man is the Atlantic, and then across is the vast land of America. To the north, it is the outlet to the sea in Europe.

This world, walking on the road, is vast. Walking in time, but it's just such a week.

If the sea route is mature, even if it is a sailing boat around the world for a week, it will only take a year or two. If Kaido is not mature, three years is not a problem. If there is a mechanically powered ship, then the world is close at hand.

The first year of Zhang Wu, summer.

Hu Sihu's ears were also hot, and it was no longer so cold.

The city of the tiger is no longer like the city of the Central Plains, with towering corner towers and pointed building tops. The outer city walls are even taller than the average city in the Central Plains, and the inner city is completely built in the Persian style.

The city is not vast. But it is a strong city, and China has not taken the people of other places seriously since ancient times. But the facts in history, in this world, there are still several brilliant civilizations, to a certain extent, in a certain period of time, are not worse than the Chinese civilization.

The name Hu Si Ear is not a word for Central Asia, but with a strong culture of the Great Khing'an Mountains.

Cutting out the ears is a word used by the Khitans, the Jurchens, and even the Mongols in the west of the Great Khing'an Mountains have this word. There are also Manchu languages.

The meaning is probably a palace tent, a palace, a pavilion.

Including the name of the city of Ordos in later generations, it is also related to this vocabulary. Ordo, that is, to cut off the ears.

Husi means to have power. Tiger Si plucked his ears, it is a palace of power.

The army of more than 100,000 Great Xia finally besieged this powerful palace, the powerful palace of the Khitans.

And Jerod stood on the head of the city, and he was not more than forty years old. There are also the habits of the Han people in the Central Plains. The seventy or eighty thousand soldiers of all the tribes of Central Asia in the city died under the command of Yelu Dashi.

"Your Majesty, I heard that the crown prince of the Great Xia Kingdom is also in the army." A Tarasi man, who was distinctly different from the East Asian face, stood respectfully behind Yelu Dashi and spoke a broken Khitan language.

Taras, to the west of Husi's ears, is the territory of Kazakhstan in later generations. Tarat is also the place behind Khorezm when the Mongols conquered west. In the past, there was a big battle between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Cannibal here. It is also the tenth year of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji Tianbao, and Gao Xianzhi's defeat place.

Yelu Dashi's face became deeper and deeper when he heard this, and he asked, "Zheng Zhi's son, but is it called Zheng Kai?" ”

Yelu Dashi paid attention to Zheng Zhi for a period of time, and when Zheng Zhi was on the Northern Expedition to Daliao, Zheng Kai, who was only a few years old, happened to be in the army. But Zheng Kai has not yet won the people of the prince, but most people regard Zheng Kai as the prince.

"Zheng Kai, Zheng Kai." After repeating a few syllables, the Tarasi man said firmly: "Your Majesty, I heard that the crown prince of the Great Xia Kingdom is named Zheng Kai. ”

Yelu Dashi's face was a little complicated, the situation of the battle between the Jurchens and Zheng Zhi, the news really reached here after five years, at first Yelu Dashi did not believe the news that came back with the travelers, until he personally sent someone to cross the grassland and come back, Yelu Dashi completely believed the news.

Zheng Zhi defeated the Jurchens, and even drove the Jurchens back into the jungle again, and the Jurchens were killed and wounded more than half. Yelu Dashi only had a sense of joy in his heart for this news, and suddenly there was a joy of revenge. Compared with the Jurchens who are like savages, Yelu Dashi, who can speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, naturally has a closer sense of intimacy to the Song people.

For more than 200 years, the Khitan Liao has always been yearning for China, and its cultural customs are also mostly influenced by the Han people. There is no difference between himself and Song. Yelu Dashi, born in Liao's Linya, is the Hanlin of Liao. That's not the idea.

The battle with the Song was even a civil war. Died at the hands of the Song Dynasty, many years later, Yelu Dashi, who established the huge country of Western Liao, is somewhat acceptable in his heart, but it is the historical changes of China for thousands of years. The Jurchen savage is unforgivable.

Yelu Dashi looked at the boundless Han iron armor outside the city, the countless healthy horses, and the familiar cannon muzzle of the black hole of a door.

After thinking about it for a long time, since the Han army came, Yelu Dashi has not had a large-scale battle with it, and all the elite forces have gathered to Hu Si's ears.

Seventy or eighty thousand elite soldiers of all ethnic groups were in the city, and the food in the city was relatively well prepared.

But it was this matter of war or non-war, and Yelu Dashi seemed to have some other thoughts in his heart. It's not that Yelu Dashi is willing to give up this huge country of Western Liao Khitan, but Yelu Dashi has some luck in his heart.

This fluke idea is not that Yelu Dashi is naïve and immature, expecting the Han people to retreat on their own. It's Yelu Dashi who wants to find out what the Han people are here for? Is it simply to expand the territory, or do you have other ideas.

If it is simply for the land, for the immortal merit of opening up the territory, and for the glory of the history. If this is the case, Yelu Dashi has only one battle, because this is the last way for the Khitan people to live, and the Khitan clan, if they lose here, they will no longer have an inheritance.

If the Han people had other ideas when they came here, Yelu Dashi would not be willing to fight, because Yelu Dashi was willing to cooperate with the Han people to some extent. Help the Han people achieve what they want.

After thinking about it for a long time, Yelu Dashi thought too much, and finally spoke: "Go and call Yilie!" ”

When the Tarasi man heard this, he respectfully covered his chest and bowed, and turned to descend the towering wall.

Yelu Yilie, the son of Yelu Dashi, the emperor after the Western Liao. But this emperor is not the direct successor of Yelu Dashi, and the country of Western Liao also has an empress. She is the queen of Yelu Dashi, and Yelu Dashi's will is like this, and it is not a usurpation. Empress Gantian reigned for seven years, and she was Yeluyilie.

After Yeluyi ascended to the throne, there was another interesting thing. Ascend the throne and change the yuan, the year name: Shaoxing!

At that time, Zhao Gou of the Southern Song Dynasty, the era name was exactly: Shaoxing! It's just that during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, it started twenty years earlier.

Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty ended in 1162. Shaoxing in Western Liao ended in 1163.

Yelu Yilie temple number Renzong. Zhao Gou Temple No. Gaozong.

And the young Jerodiel ran up to the top of the city, and when he saw Jerod Stone, he stood behind him.

Yelu Dashi was still silent for a long time, still deciding, and waited for a long time before he spoke: "Yilie, how are you learning Chinese?" ”

Ye Dashi asked in Khitan language, and Yelu Yilie paused for a moment and replied in Chinese: "Father, the child should learn Chinese well. ”

The tone is slightly strange, not as authentic as Yelu Dashi, but it is not bad.

Yelu Dashi nodded, and said in Chinese: "Outside the city, the crown prince of the Han emperor is here, you can go out of the city." ”

Yelu Yilie was stunned when he heard this, and his face was slightly panicked. An army of more than 100,000 people outside the city has arrived, and the city is already besieged. Naturally, Jereel knew this. Yelu Yilie even knew that the Han people outside the city were here to fight. When the great war was imminent, Jereh did not understand why his father had left the city on his own.

To say that Yelu Dashi wanted to surrender to the Han Chinese, Yelu Yilie did not believe it. This father, on this land, has fought countless battles, taken the lead, and is never afraid of death. The people killed can be piled up into mountains, and the land of the cities attacked is not smaller than the territory of the Liao State in the past.

Such a person, where is the person who will surrender.

Jeremiel turned pale and looked at his father.

Yelu Dashi also turned his head to look at his son, and said, "You go out of the city, bring some Turkic women, bring good wine, and go to entertain the crown prince of the Han emperor for a good banquet." ”

Yelu Yilie was flustered in his heart, but he didn't express it, nor did he refuse, but just asked: "Father, what did you say to the Han prince after the child went?" ”

Yelu Dashi's face was straight, and he said: "You first say thank you for the kindness of the Emperor of Great Xia back then, and then ask the prince, what is the army going to do when it arrives here?" Is it to expand the territory, or do you have other plans? I won't say much about the rest. ”

Yelu Yilie is also a wise man, and when he heard this, he had a little clue, and asked again: "Father, what if you open up the territory, and what if you have other plans?" ”

Yelu Dashi sighed slightly, and then said: "If you open up the territory, you will come back, and our father and son will fight to the death on this city." If you have other plans, you can stay there and let Liu Zhengyan send someone into the city to meet me. ”

Jereil understood a general idea in his heart, but he didn't ask anymore. If there is going to be a war, he is worried that those Han people will not let him come back. But it was Yelu Dashi who came out of his mouth, so he couldn't refuse.

Yelu Dashi is less worried, and the book of sages, Yelu Dashi is no less read than the Han people. Even though the two countries were at war, Jerodashi believed that his son would return. What's more, Yelu Yilie went to entertain Zheng Kai, and he treated him with righteousness, and Zheng Zhi's son should not do that unrighteous thing.

Yelu Dashi's confidence also comes from the fact that Zheng Zhi easily let Yelu Dashi go from the siege back then, and he didn't even send anyone to chase him. Although Jerodashi didn't know why? But Yelu Dashi relied on this matter to let his son go out of the city when he was thinking about it.

Even from the perspective of conspiracy, it is actually of little significance to seize one of Yelu Dashi's sons in such a battle of national ruin. How could Yelu Dashi exchange the life and death of the entire country and the entire Khitan clan for one of his sons? The son of the royal family is not just this one. It's just that the other sons are still young, and they are not proficient in Chinese, and they are not smart enough. You can't do anything like that.

Why did Jerodashi send his son out? It is also the luck in Yelu Dashi's heart, there is still room for maneuver in luck, if there is room for maneuver, his son is sincere, and he is famous.

The two talked privately for a while, and then Yelu Yilie slowly walked down the city wall, and after making some preparations, he left the city.

Liu Zhengyan, Han Shizhong, Sun Shengchao, Zheng Kai and others were all in the big tent, making all the preparations before the big war.

Zheng Kai did not take the initiative to speak, but followed behind everyone, learning the planning and scheduling of this real battle. What you learn in the martial arts academy is not as good as what you see on the spot. That's the experience.

Zheng Kai just asked a few words from time to time, and some things in scheduling, if he didn't understand something, he opened his mouth to ask the people around him. Liu Zhengyan, Han Shizhong and others were not too troublesome, pointing at the map and sand table that had just been made, and answering in detail one by one.

Jeremiah came out of the city, and was in the tent with the ironclad soldiers.

The map sand table and the like in the big tent have long been removed.

Zheng Kai is the leader, left and right Liu Zhengyan and Han Shizhong and others.

The Turkic woman then entered, paid a respect, and was waved out by Zheng Kai. Then came the wine of the Western Regions, meat naan and the like.

Zheng Kai did not refuse, after someone tried it, he also picked it up and ate it, and from time to time turned his head to look at the son of the emperor of Liao who was sitting not far away.

"Thank you to the prince for entertaining the wine and food." Zheng Kai said.

Yelu Yilie's mind was a lot calmer at this time, and he was looking at these Han people who looked similar to him all the way, and after entering the account, he was also looking at the crown prince of the Han emperor.

"Your Highness likes it, that Turkic woman is the best at singing and dancing, do you want to appreciate it?" Yelu Yilie said in accented Chinese.

Zheng Kai waved his hand and said bluntly: "I won't watch the song and dance, why are you here?" ”

Yelu Yilie's face straightened, put down the cup made of gold he brought in his hand, stood up and respectfully bowed, and said: "I am here to be ordered by the Emperor of Liao, and I would like to thank His Majesty the Emperor of Great Xia for his kindness back then. ”

Zheng Kai didn't understand when he heard this, and Liu Zhengyan was also confused. Only Han Shizhong knew a little bit of the inside story, so when Zheng Kai asked left and right with his eyes, only Han Shizhong and Zheng Kai nodded and signaled. is to tell Zheng Kai that Zheng Zhi has really had kindness in Yelu Dashi.

Zheng Kai nodded when he heard this: "Your father can lead the Khitan remnants to establish such a huge country here, and he is also a hero in the world, and his father has also praised him a lot. To say that your father is a masterpiece of a generation is quite admirable. ”

Zheng Kai's words are also polite and courteous words. Since Zheng Zhi and Yelu Dashi have had some so-called kindness, then it should be like this, so as to show style.

When Jereil heard this, his heart became much more settled, and his worries disappeared. He immediately spoke: "The Emperor of Liao sent me here to ask His Royal Highness the Prince. I don't know if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led a large army to open up the territory and expand the territory, or did he have other plans? ”

When Zheng Kai heard this, his face was slightly surprised. Zheng Kai is not unaware of this problem. Zheng Zhi is bent on going west, so he really has a plan. However, this country of Western Liao is in the way of this road and has become a stumbling block.

But Zheng Kai didn't know how to answer for a while, but looked at everyone left and right, Liu Zhengyan naturally knew what was going on, and he was also surprised.

Yelu Yilie was extremely smart, and hurriedly said: "If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has other plans, I have 80,000 Khitan Daliao elites, and I can help." ”

When these words were spoken, Jere's heart was relieved, and he looked up at the people in the tent, just waiting for a response.

Zheng Kai and Liu Zhengyan glanced at each other, thought for a moment, and said tentatively: "Have you fought with the Turks in your Liao Kingdom?" ”

Zheng Kai is also a smart person, things can not be done, how to do it, obviously have to be tested. Also look at the attitude of Jerodashi. The matter of cooperation is acceptable to Zheng Kai to a certain extent, because although the land of Western Liao, although the territory is vast, the population is not large, and there is no production at this time.

The real meaning of the land of Western Liao is the transportation artery between the East and the West.

There are many prerequisites for cooperation. Surrender is the acceptable degree in Zheng Kai's heart. It also depends on the attitude of Yelu Dashi.

Xinglu Dashi didn't think about surrendering, surrendering to cooperation, there is obviously a difference. This question is in the middle. Obviously, it is also a difficult problem to solve.