Chapter 20: The Existence of Ghosts and Gods (3)
[Something is delayed, and the next chapter will be sent at twelve o'clock.] The next two chapters as they should have been. 】
Autumn colors fall on the northern land.
A city made of tents also appeared in the northwest of Liaoning Guoqing Prefecture by the Fuhu Forest according to custom.
There are tens of thousands of people, horses and vehicles, and tents of all sizes are like mushrooms after summer rains, and they are endless at a glance. In the most central position, there is even a palace connected by a large tent with a height of one or twenty steps and a corridor composed of bamboo and wood - the provincial hall of the Son of Heaven's administration, the Shouning hall of the dormitory, and the Bafang public hall of the tribal vassals.
These tents named after the palace are all made of wood and bamboo, covered with felt, painted on the pillars, hung on the four walls with brocade, embroidered dragon yellow cloth laid on the ground, windows and curtains are made of felt, and covered with butter silk.
This is the bowl of the Liao Emperor.
The Great Liao Emperor patrolled the country at four o'clock and subdued the four Yi. The walker that dwells in it is called a bowl. The bowl is set up in Guangpingdian in winter, the bowl is set in Yazihe in spring, the bowl is in Tu'er Mountain in summer, and the Fuhu Forest is in autumn. Hunting, grazing, managing government, and accepting the audience of the subordinate tribes, the military and political affairs of the Liao State were all completed in the bowl, which was a tradition that had been followed for two hundred years. However, he has changed to the current Da Liao Tianzi, which is a little more attentive to hunting.
A sound imitates the horn of a deer, announcing that the first hunt of the autumn is about to begin.
Yelu Yixin, the powerful minister of the Liao State, now the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, who was named the King of Wei and the Taishi, and was given the surname Yelu, also changed into hunting clothes in his tent and walked out of the tent. Yelu Yixin was valued and promoted by Emperor Xingzong and Empress Xingzong for his outstanding appearance when he was a teenager, and although he is now older, he has been controlling the government for a long time, which makes his bearing more extraordinary.
"Taishi!" Yelu Yixin's cronies, Lin Ya Xiao Delit in the north, happened to come to the tent door, his expression was a little panicked, and he leaned closer and whispered to Yelu Yixin: "There seems to be something unusual on the prince's side." ”
"Don't panic, Yale can't turn over. It's all arranged, and he can't get close to the Son of Heaven for the past two days. His own mother was given death for adultery, how long can he, the prince, stay on the throne? ”
Yelu Yixin called the prince's nickname indifferently, and teased a sturdy Hai Dongqing standing on his left arm with a strip of fresh meat. This falcon, which was obtained from the Jurchens of the East China Sea and trained by himself himself, is the key to this autumn's hunt. If you want to serve the emperor well and stabilize your position, you need to serve by your side at all times, and you can't let that one lose your interest.
Xiao Delit's face was obviously anxious: "It's not just the prince, but also the palace guards......"
Out of noble relatives for the guards, the tent for the close attendants, the northern and southern clans for the guards, the military ministers for the guards, the pro-army for the guards, and the hundred officials for the stays. Guards, close guards, guards, guards, guards, guards, and guards are all positions to guard the safety of the tabernacle of the Son of Heaven. However, the main ones who do things are the guards and janissaries, and the others are nominal errands.
Recently, the Northern Guard Division has been a little unstable, and there are faint rumors in private that someone is going to assassinate Yelu Yixin, a powerful minister. Xiao Delit also heard the wind and rushed over. The crown prince and the guards around the Son of Heaven, Yelu Yixin was able to give his life with one negligence.
"There is Cha Ra watching over there on the guard, and I also know who has the intention to make trouble." Yelu Yixin sneered, the guard Taibao Yelu Chara was his person, so he didn't have to worry about it at all. If he can't put his cronies and eyes around the Son of Heaven, he will be a powerful minister in vain. frowned and thought for a while, "It seems to be called Xiao Hugu." There is no need to touch him now, keep him useful in the future. ”
What is the use, Xiao Delit didn't need to think about it, and hesitated to speak: "But Your Majesty is such a son." ”
"Isn't there still a royal grandson...... Yelu Yixin's smile revealed a chilling killing intent.
Xiao Delit was frightened, did not dare to look directly at Yelu Yixin's smile like an ice knife, and lowered his head. It's just that when he looked down, he found that Yelu Yixin was holding a pair of hands with fresh meat strips and a pair of falcon's eyes that turned straight away, trembling involuntarily, which showed that the owner of the hand was by no means as calm as it seemed on the outside.
Swallowing dryly, Xiao Delit also secretly hated. If it weren't for the fact that the crown prince had been in power for the previous year, he had always been hostile to Yelu Yixin in everything, and he was always hostile to the group of people who were attached to the king of Wei, why would the king of Wei have such a ruthless hand.
Now that the queen has been given death, it is impossible to resolve the revenge of killing her mother. If you don't get rid of the prince, it will be Yelu Yixin and these people who will die, and they will have to send arrows on the bow, and they will never be able to retreat half a point. He stepped forward again and whispered fiercely in Yelu Yixin's ear, "Master, be careful of long nights and dreams. ”
Yelu Yixin nodded, of course he understood this truth, and said with a smile: "You dare to say it more than Zhang Xiaojie." ”
"That's because the villain is loyal to the Taishi." Xiao Delite hurriedly bowed down, feeling uneasy, wondering if Lu Dao had said the wrong thing.
Zhang Xiaojie is the prime minister of Beifu, Han Chinese, but recently he was given a national surname and changed his name to Yelu Xiaojie. However, Zhang Xiaojie has always been attached to Yelu Yixin, so Yelu Yixin should still be called whatever he wants - the Liao State is different from the Song State, the Song State is governed by literature, and the prime minister presses on the privy envoy. And in the Liao State, which ruled the country by force, the prime minister had to stand under the privy envoy - but the northern Lin Ya of Xiao Delit was still far inferior to the power of the prime minister, for fear that Yelu Yixin would say the opposite.
Yelu Yixin stretched out his hand and picked up Xiao Delit: "I know your loyalty, so I won't hide anything from you." ”
Just two sentences, Xiao Delit was grateful, his eyes were red, and he was about to cry when he looked at it, "Taishi has blue eyes, and the villain will try his best to repay him." ”
Yelu Yixin beckoned, summoned the guards who didn't dare to hear the words they shouldn't have heard, and avoided them together, and ordered: "Go find Xiao Shisan." ”
Turning around, Yelu Yixin smiled at Xiao Delit: "I don't know how Xiao Thirteen, the palace inspector and the Privy Council, has arranged how the things have been done?" If it's a tribal army, it's nothing if you die in 10,000 or 8,000. But on the side of the leather room army, a team of men and horses can't be lost. ”
"Medicine slaves are smart people, and they should know how to advance and retreat." Xiao Delit said respectfully.
Yelu Yixin nodded, otherwise he wouldn't have let this person go to Xijing Dao to run errands.
After teasing for a long time, Yelu Yixin finally took the fresh meat and brought it to Hai Dongqing's mouth. The feathered neck stretched out, and the hook-like beak swallowed the fresh meat in one bite.
Immediately, a pair of eagle eyes with a scorching cold light stared at Yelu Yixin's fingers again. Yelu Yixin wiped his fingers on the holster of the arm guard, and there was no more. Hai Dongqing, who has been hungry for two days, is far from satisfying his empty appetite with a small strip of fresh meat the size of his tail finger, and the hunger that is aroused will further force the falcon to participate in the hunt.
Touching the priceless Hai Dongqing, Yelu Yixin said: "It doesn't matter if you can help the party keep Fengzhou, the war is not good and you will retreat first, as long as you can find out the truth of the Nanren forbidden army." ”
Xiao Delite said disdainfully, "The southerners are just relying on their strong soldiers, how can they compare with my Khitan iron cavalry." ”
"The southerners are still somewhat capable." Yelu Yixin looked up in the direction of Shouning Palace, above the huge tent, a black dot the size of a fingertip was suspended in the air dozens of zhang high, "The Nanren's spaceship is really not very useful for my Khitan iron horse, but it is still very useful to find prey, and the Son of Heaven also likes it." ”
Shawdlett followed suit. The emperor they serve is cruising the heavens in a spaceship. It was not a spaceship bought from the Southern Dynasty, but was made by the craftsmen of the Great Liao. Daliao has a territory of thousands of miles, and with tens of millions of mouths, it is not difficult to find a few craftsmen who can make spaceships.
"This thing, as long as Hai Dongqing pecks at this spaceship, it's over." When he saw the spaceship for the first time, Xiao Dlett was even so shocked that he couldn't speak, relying on the spaceship people to be able to fly into the sky! But when he saw it familiar, he felt normal, "I rushed over and cut the rope below, and the wind didn't know where it would blow." ”
Yelu Yixin moved the falcon to the eagle frame, and his eyes became deep: "Whether it is a spaceship, plate armor, plus a divine arm bow and a horse chopping knife, these weapons are all used in conjunction with the army of the Southern Dynasties, and they are not of much use to my Great Liao." ”
Needless to say, the spaceship can't keep up with the cavalry's schedule, so it's easy to defend and siege the city. Although plate armor is good, where did Daliao get so much steel? It's easy to say that it's artificial. Only in the Southern Dynasty, where there was no shortage of iron and only lack of artificial, did there be an urgent need to build plate armor. The divine arm bow and the horse chopping knife are all used by foot soldiers, and the Great Liao, which founded the country with cavalry, is it necessary to equip it with the Han army and the Bohai navy?
Xiao Delit's voice also deepened: "The southerners are weak, and they are nothing. can be equipped with plate armor, spaceships, divine arm bows, and horse chopping knives, and it is indeed getting stronger and stronger. I heard that at the beginning of the year, there was a big victory in the south that broke 150,000 yuan. ”
"That's not a big deal." Yelu Yixin shook his head and sneered, "What Jiaozhi country, what thousand five broken 100,000, that's all a joke." If you want to set a high level, you have to compete with my Khitan iron horse. ”
"The emperor of the Southern Dynasty has always seemed to want to recapture Yanyun, maybe he will go crazy at some point and really raise troops to attack him."
Yelu Yixin laughed twice, "As long as there are still party members, it is impossible for the southerners to attack me first." ”
Yelu Yixin had no intention of provoking a war against the Southern Dynasties. He is already above 10,000 people under one person, if he wins, he will not ascend to the throne, and if he loses, his current position will not be guaranteed, what good will it do him to start a war with the Song people? And why is it the reason for the trouble?
However, in the past ten years since the new emperor ascended the throne, the Southern Dynasty has always been aggressive and constantly strengthened its armament. If this is ignored, the nobles in the country who have been suppressed by him will inevitably be disgruntled, and they will plot at the end.
Therefore, Yelu Yixin must maintain a tough attitude towards the Southern Dynasty, whether it is asking for the northern land, marrying the princess to Bingchang, or helping the Western Xia to attack Fengzhou, it is all an attitude that must be shown. As a powerful minister, he can't be a little weak for the Southern Dynasty.
It is just that we must grasp this degree and not let the situation slide to the point of war between the two countries. The best weapon in Yelu Yixin's hand now is Western Xia, if it is used well, it is a good hunting dog, if it is in danger, it needs to help a little.
"Xixia is a good dog!" Yelu Yixin jumped on his mount, and not far away, Xiao Shisan rode over, "As long as the Son of Heaven of the Southern Dynasty still wants to seize Xingling, the party members will have to be the dogs of Da Liao!" ”