Like all the Great Song envoys who entered the territory of Liao, Yeludi began to memorize the roads in the Song Kingdom after crossing the Baigou and entering the Song Kingdom.

However, as other colleagues who have come to the Song Kingdom as envoys have said, the Song people will never take the fastest road to the south, and will definitely go around and around.

Over the course of several days, at least on two occasions, Jerodi found that his direction had shifted completely away from the south, and instead toward the east or west. At other times, it is not a steady southward direction, and it is also a large deviation.

From Nanjing Road to Kaifeng, the capital of the Song Kingdom, there are no other dangers except for the river. The road that has been written down now is so winding and winding, which shows that it is not useful at all for invading the Song Realm in the future.

"Can't you just take the main road, do you really think that we don't know the road without us?"

"If it weren't for Father Shang's back, where would he pick up a bargain for the Song people."

"The Southern Dynasty itself knows the way, otherwise why be so frightened."

When he turned eastward for the second time, there was the sound of the accompanying officials talking behind him, and the companion who understood the Khitan dialect made his face ugly, while Yeludi smiled more and more.

Seeing the Song people's style, Yeludi was full of confidence. Like Da Liao, he will never do anything on the road. After the envoy of the Song people passed the Baigou Station, he went all the way to the north until the mouth of the north of the tiger, and would never detour half a point.

"Shut up any gossip and don't look at the occasion."

Let the companion pass on the words, as if he was reprimanding his subordinates, but it made the face of Song Guan, who greeted him, darker and darker.

Yeludi didn't care at all, and looked at the scenery on both sides of the road leisurely.

A tuft of fields, stretching from the side of the official road to the horizon. As far as the eye can see, there are fields and ridges. Villages can be seen everywhere, and pedestrians are constantly coming and going.

For the first time, the wealth of the Song people was displayed in the eyes of Yeludi in the most intuitive situation.

The plains of Liaodong are also so vast, but when it comes to densely populated, they are far away.

In Yeludi's view, it can only be compared to the area around Xijin Province. But along the way, they are all far away from the state city, just a village under the rule of an ordinary county, and they are not far from the central daimyo's mansion in Hebei. Even so, it has been comparable to the most prosperous Nanjing in the Wujing Road, but if it is in Beijing in the Southern Dynasties, how prosperous will it be?

But until the Yellow River, Yeludi did not see the Daimyo's mansion.

No matter how many meticulous works the Liao State has sent in the past hundred years, and how deeply the roads in Hebei have been explored, the Song people will not expose the first important town in the north to the envoys of the Liao State.

The Yellow River in winter, without the legendary turbulence, is solidified in a plain white.

Standing under the golden embankment of the Yellow River, Yeludi felt his insignificance. The heavy and tall embankment stretches to both ends, and there is no end in sight, and there is no end in sight.

When you look up at Lu, you have to hold on to your hat. The top of the golden embankment is wider than the official road along the way, and the width of the bottom of the embankment is more than three or four times that of the top.

If the walls of any of the Song cities could be the scale of the Yellow River embankment, Yeludi would not have the idea of attacking that city under any circumstances.

Fortunately, this is a hundred years of continuous addition, the Southern Dynasty will thicken the Yellow River embankment every year, but only for the Yellow River, even if it is the city of Tokyo, the Southern Dynasty will not increase every year.

If the Southern Dynasty had built a levee of this magnitude of several thousand miles in just a few years, it would have been worth fearing......

No.

Yeludi suddenly shook his head when he measured the embankment of the Yellow River with his legs, if the Southern Dynasty really mobilized so much manpower to build the embankment, it would be finished without hitting the Southern Dynasty.

Thinking of this, he secretly hated that if one of the several troops that invaded the Song Realm in the south last time could be a little bold to go south to the banks of the Yellow River and drive the Song people to dig embankments and release water, the Southern Dynasty would not want to have a good life in the past two years, and his task could be completed more smoothly.

After crossing the Yellow River, it is entering the center of the Song Kingdom.

Jerodi didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that after crossing the river, the sky seemed to be darkened, no longer clear and lofty, and always gray.

But on both sides of the road, it is indeed more prosperous, and it is better than Hebei. The county seat with the city wall is the market town, and the market town without the city wall is the market town, but whether it is the county seat or the market town, it is the same densely populated and pedestrian-like. Jerodi still wanted to compare himself with China, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't think of any place that could compare with this place.

However, Yeludi has been upset since he entered the Kaifeng Mansion and has no time to look at the surrounding scenery. The members of the envoy corps were warned before leaving the border, not to lose the dignity of Da Liao, and when they were in Hebei, they all behaved very well, but after entering the Kaifeng Mansion boundary, those subordinates were like dirt buns who had never seen the world, stretching their necks to look left and right, and they almost didn't know how to go. And after his party came over, the Song people on the street just avoided it. But he was not afraid at all, but pointed at him from afar.

The envoy of the Song Kingdom, who had not been put in the eyes of Yeludi, finally found an opportunity, "It seems that your family really likes the customs of this dynasty, if Lin Ya and your family have any needs, but it can be said bluntly, as long as you can do it, you will try your best to treat each other in the future...... When Lin Ya returns to China, it will be difficult to see. ”

The companion seemed to have good intentions, but his high-minded attitude made Yeludi look very unpleasant, "Let the outsiders see and laugh, the children have seen less, and they will have the opportunity to come a few more times in the future, just get used to it." ”

Jerodi and his companion smiled at each other, and they both saw unconcealed disgust in each other's eyes.

The relationship between the two countries was only maintained on a paper covenant, and each side was eager to destroy the other city, and the friendly exchanges at this time were only to cover the bloody battlefield with a white cloth.

After another two days, the walls of Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo finally appeared in front of Yeludi's eyes.

Looking at the glorious giant city entrenched on the western horizon, Yeludi was puzzled for a moment, obviously coming from the north, but approaching Kaifeng from the east.

How exactly he got around, Yeludi didn't know, but he did understand what the Song people wanted to hide.

In the distance to the north of Kaifeng City, there is a place where billowing black smoke is rising. After arriving at Kaifeng Mansion, Yeludi felt that he couldn't even breathe here, and the source of this foul smoke was the huge iron field.

It was the place where steel was produced in the Southern Dynasties, and many divine weapons, such as horse swords and plate armor, were shipped from there. The annual iron output is 10,000,000 catties, which is several times the amount of iron produced in the whole country of Daliao, and this is only one of several large iron yards in the Southern Dynasties.

It's a pity that the Song people would never let the envoys of the Liao State go there to investigate, so it is impossible to enter the city through the north gate.

However, Yeludi was not that interested, although the iron field of Daliao was small, it was enough to equip the Khitan elite cavalry. The palace army, the leather room army, and even some of the subordinate troops were all equipped with iron armor and horse armor.

Such an elite can wipe out a country with a million mouths and 100,000 troops as long as it takes a few thousand. In the territory of Daliao, there are more than 100,000 armored cavalry, as well as a larger number of light cavalry.

This is not a gap that the Song people can make up for in just over a decade.

It is also iron, and the weight is comparable, but the hoe in the farmer's hand is not comparable to the steel knife in the warrior's hand.

There is still some distance from the Tokyo City Wall, and there are no fields in sight in the surrounding area. You can only see a series of houses, a series of warehouses, and black hills made of coal.

"That's the coal field?" Jerodi pointed to a black hill not far away and asked the people around him.

“…… Be. The companion replied very reluctantly.

Jerodi knew that this one must have guessed what he was trying to say.

It was because of the fire in the coal field that the previous emperor of the Southern Dynasty was suffocated to death by his own son. A six-year-old child, of course, would not kill his father for the sake of imperial power, purely by accident. When this incident spread among the Liao Kingdom, it was regarded as the result of the wrongs of the previous life. However, the letter of state carried by the mourning envoy sent by the Southern Dynasty only briefly said that he died of illness, and did not tell the truth.

"Amitabha." Yeludi recited a Buddha, "The first emperor of your country suddenly drove away, and the emperor of the country and the father of the monk also felt the same way, and on the day he received the news, he began to drop out of the dynasty and pray for three days to seek blessings." ”

The companion thanked him in a low voice, but his voice was full of weakness inside and out.

"When Emperor Xizong was still alive, Shang's father and Emperor Xizong both remembered the century-old alliance between the two families, so they resolved the grievances on the border with great wisdom, so as to keep the alliance of Lanyuan. For Emperor Xizong's consideration of the overall situation, the country is deeply grateful to the father and the people. I also regretted the death of Emperor Xizong. ”

The face of the envoy turned from red to white, and then from red to blue, and he wanted to refute it in person, but the envoy of the Liao State provoked several times, and he must have a plan. If they have the intention to break the covenant, if they say it to death, it will be a taboo for the court. Even if I hold my breath in my heart, I can only endure it.

Then after a few words of conversation on the grounds of the coal field, Yerodi did not pay much attention to the black coal mountain, and swept his gaze. The subsequent grain hoards are even more eye-catching. The towering walls already have the level of the county city walls along the way.

This is actually outside Kaifeng City, a strong stronghold, if a foreign enemy invades the edge of Kaifeng City, it can accept Qinwang troops from all over the world at any time.

However, the contents of the wall attracted Yeludi's attention even more, and when he looked in from the main entrance, the grain hoards inside looked to be stuffed to the brim.

"A good year?" Jerodi whispered.

This year is also a good year on Nanjing Road, and it is also a good year in Xijing. But there are not so many cases where the grain is piled up in the warehouse.

This is because the Great Liao Imperial Court patrolled the southeast, northwest and northwest with a bowl, and at the same time it was also a food quartet. The taxes collected from various places only need to be placed around the cities along the way for the army to eat, and there is no need to gather in the capital. Only the money and grain on the Nanjing Road needed to be transported to the north as a supplement.

Like the Southern Dynasties, the situation where the wealth of the world gathers in one city is impossible to appear in Daliao. But there is no need to leave so many granaries around the capital.