Chapter 187: Dismounting
On March 26 of the second year of Chunhua, it is suitable to travel and the fortune is north. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
A long avenue, from this side of the river to the other side of the mountain, carried the transportation of the Great Song Dynasty and the hope of the people.
The grass on both sides of the road is oily, the farmland is dense, and occasionally you can see a pond or two or two on the hillside, and the breeze blows on the water, creating a natural picture.
On the avenue, Zhao Gu and Li Fu sat in a spacious carriage, escorted by the seven brothers of the Little Seventh Division, and drove towards the Liao Kingdom.
The sun is warm, the breeze is blowing, and the scene of spring is staged in the northerly place, which makes people feel refreshed.
This is the sixth day after Zhao Gu and the others set off, and they will arrive at the border of Liao Kingdom in another day.
This time, it was not the road of the previous Northern Expedition, but all the way to the north, straight to the Liao State.
Along the way, from time to time, you will meet people and merchants rushing to the north, which are all migrations triggered by the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun.
The sixteen states of Yanyun were ruled by the Liao State for many years, and the population was extremely scarce, so the imperial court promulgated a policy that any people who were willing to migrate to the past would not only have good land as gifts, but also be exempted from taxes for three years, which naturally attracted the people to migrate one after another.
As for businessmen who drill wherever there is a benefit, they will not let go of this good opportunity to make a fortune.
The sixteen states of Yanyun are now in ruins, and it is a good time for businessmen to make profits.
Seeing such a scene, Li Fu couldn't help but feel comforted, and sighed: "Fortunately, Li Hao's faint official didn't ...... you, Master Hou, otherwise how could I have the scene I have today!" ”
Zhao Gu said modestly: "This is all the result of the emperor's and Xiangye's strategy, I just happened to be in the meeting, it's nothing." ”
Li Fu nodded: "We will arrive in the territory of Liao tomorrow, and I don't know if there is a chance to return to the Great Song Dynasty and see this great river and mountain this time." ”
Zhao Gu can only be relieved by this, Li Fu also knows the conditions that Zhao Pu wants to achieve, they want to stir up trouble in the court of Liao, and in the face of the high-ranking and powerful people of the Liao royal family, it is light to say that life and death are vast, and if they don't do it, they will die without a place to be buried.
Fortunately, both of them are people with excellent psychological quality, and they have confidence in themselves, so they quickly cleaned up their mood and continued to hurry.
On the second day, the two entered the territory of Liao, but as soon as they entered Liao, they were dismounted by the Liao.
I saw that at the border of Song and Liao, there were corpses lying full, there were more than 300 people, looking at the clothes of these people, they were actually the people who came to greet Zhao Gu and Li Fu.
Needless to say, these people were naturally sent by the Empress Dowager Xiao, but they were killed by others, so the identity of the perpetrator was naturally about to come out, and there was no doubt that they were other members of the royal family of the Liao State.
Zhao Gu and Li Fu glanced at each other, their faces were a little unpleasant, but the two still chose to move on, they would not give up their mission because of the slightest threat.
Six days later, the carriage arrived at Linhuang Mansion, the capital of Liao.
Linhuang Mansion is the capital of Liao, also known as Shengjing, since 75 years ago, Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji set the capital here, here has become the political and economic center of Liao.
Compared with Kaifeng Mansion, there is a different scene in Linhuang Mansion, although the streets, houses, storefronts, etc. are not as exquisite as Kaifeng, but there is another kind of coarse mine phoenix position, giving people a sense of vigor and atmosphere.
When they arrived at Linhuang Mansion, Li Fu stepped forward to show the talisman, and the soldiers guarding the door welcomed the two in, and someone else went to inform the relevant officials.
After a while, a thin middle-aged man came over, asked the identities of Zhao Gu and Li Fu, checked the Fu Festival again, and then welcomed the two into the pavilion.
After arriving at the pavilion, before the two had time to freshen up, a large group of Liao people broke into the pavilion, and they wanted to see Zhao Gu with a grin, and spit out some unclean words, and the provocative posture was clear at a glance.
Zhao Gu listened inside, his face turned black all of a sudden, and he kicked the door open.
"Which snake-headed rat-tailed guy is making a big deal out of here?" Zhao Gu scolded.
When he went out, there were more than a dozen Liao people standing in the courtyard of the pavilion, all wearing silk robes, learning from the Song people, and with a hosta on their heads, extremely nondescript.
Seeing Zhao Gu come out, more than a dozen Liao people immediately surrounded him, and Xiao Qiqi was about to step forward to stop them, but Zhao Gu directly waved his hand to stop them, and let the Liao people surround themselves.
"You are Zhao Gu?" One of them asked.
"Exactly." Zhao Gu replied.
"It's you who robbed the sixteen states of Yanyun in our Liao Kingdom?" The man asked again.
Zhao Gu squinted at him and said playfully: "Son, call Daddy to listen." ”
"Why do you say I'm your son?" The man exasperated.
"Then why do you say that the sixteen states of Yanyun belong to the Liao State?" Zhao Gu asked rhetorically.
This person was speechless for a moment, and then listened to another person: "My Liao State has beaten your Great Song Dynasty every year and dare not come out, just because we are stronger than you, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun should be ours." ”
Zhao Gu shook his head and smiled, looking like he didn't want to talk to an idiot, which caused more than a dozen Liao people to be angry.
"What do you mean?" Another asked.
"What do you mean? Since your Liao State is so strong, why were the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun taken back by our Great Song Dynasty? If you have the ability, you can snatch it back, is it useful to bark here? Zhao Gu said calmly, but the words he said made the faces of the Liao people red, and they didn't know how to deal with it.
"You ......." More than a dozen Liao people were in a hurry, and they were about to start beating people, Zhao Gu spoke again: "What's the matter? If you want to fight but can't, you're ready to do it? Is this the virtue of the Liao people? ”
"You ......." All the Liao people were angry again, their fists were clenched, but they didn't dare to really hit Zhao Gu.
The domestic situation in Liao is now very unstable, and once the Great Song Dynasty is provoked because of Zhao Gu, the consequences are not something they can bear.
In the end, a group of Liao people who really didn't know how to be good put forward a proposal to duel with Zhao Gu, and everything was seen in Fist Mountain.
Zhao Gu happily accepted, took out a Shenwei thunderbolt from his arms, and said: "Ben Hou is a literati who is not good at hands, this thing is made by Ben Hou, moving mountains and reclaiming the sea, attacking cities and conquering land, Ben Hou has already done this thing with you." ”
"You're cheating, if you use this bullet, then what are we going to compare?" A Liao native raised an objection.
Zhao Gu smiled coldly: "You scoundrels, you are just a literati, but you want to use force with me, and I am not allowed to use weapons, I think you might as well let me tie my feet and do it with you, so that your chances of winning will be greater." ”
Hearing this rather sarcastic words, the Liao people couldn't stay any longer, so they hid their faces and fled.