In the tenth year of Liao Xianyong, that is, the twelfth year of Hongxiang in Dashun, the Jurchens sent envoys to Linhuang Mansion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Deliver the letter of state, willing to pay the good of the generations, the Jurchen years to pay tribute, vassal Liao.

Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji listened to the officials read the letter of state sent by the Jurchen envoy respectfully, and his heart was happy.

The grievances between the Khitan and the Jurchens have been going on for a long time. The original reason, no one could guess, was actually because of a bird!

This bird, called Haidongqing, lives in the basins of the Mingtong River (Song, Huajiang), Heishui (Hei, Longjiang) and Ussuri rivers. Haidongqing is a bird of prey that is as big as a magpie, flies like an arrow, is fierce by nature, can hunt swans, and helps people hunt. Li Bai, a great poet of the previous dynasty, once had a poem: "Dancing with wide sleeves, like a bird coming from the east." "There are clouds in the time:" carved out of Liaodong, the most handsome person is called Haidongqing".

With its extremely explosive power, Haidongqing can be called the air overlord of the ancient northern world. Haidongqing is not easy to capture and domesticate, and there is often a saying among the folk that "nine deaths and one life, it is rare to find an eagle". The nomadic nobles, princes and nobles, because of the national tradition of like hunting, did not hesitate to buy Haidongqing, who can catch and present, but also to atone, domestication of Haidongqing became a fashion at that time.

The emperor of the Liao Dynasty had to carry out the huge "eagle release" ceremony every year, that is, to take Haidongqing to the wild hunting and playing, the so-called spring mountains and autumn water, the four seasons of the bowl system. The people of the time said: "The Liao country has a desert, and it is soaked in the realm of the Great Wall, so it is appropriate to govern." Autumn and winter are cold, spring and summer are summer, and fishing with aquatic plants is normal. Each of the four seasons has its own place, which is called 'bowl'. ”

At the beginning of the first month of each year, the emperor of the Liao State set out from Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, and arrived at the Yazi River after about two months. At that time, the swans had not yet migrated here, so the emperor and his party set up tents on the ice and chiseled ice to catch fish. As soon as the lake was opened, the attendants all wore dark green clothes, each equipped with a chain hammer, an eagle food vessel, and a spinning goose cone, and arranged them around the duck river. The emperor stood upwind and looked, once he saw the swan, he immediately raised a small flag, probed and rode to report to the attendants, far away from the drums, the goose was startled, the emperor immediately released Hai Dongqing, Hai Dongqing whirlwind sheep horns up, like an arrow straight into the clouds, suddenly swooped down, flew straight to the swan, and with a powerful wings to beat, the swan could not support, fell into the dust in an instant. The attendants around him immediately rushed forward, raised the cone to stab the goose, and fed Hai Dongqing with his brain. The emperor got the goose, feasted the ministers, and inserted swan feathers on the head for fun.

There is a poem praising Hai Dongqing and saying: "Fighting the wind and jade claws are in the sky, and the wind and hair fall into the snow and frost", it can be seen that Hai Dongqing is small and big, resolute and brave when he beats the swan, and he is very powerful.

The Jurchen people belong to the Sushen clan, and their ancestors lived in the Baishan and Heishui areas for generations, and some of them moved south to the Liaohe River Valley. Originally, the Jurchens had no grudges with the Khitans, but after the Khitans established the Great Liao State, they began to exploit the Jurchens, and the Liao rulers demanded tribute from the Jurchens every year.

Because in the sea east of the Jurchen station, there is a pearl as big as a marble and as small as a sycamore, which is very fond of the upper-class nobles of the Liao State. The pearl mussels are ripe in October every year, but at this time, the ice on the seashore is several feet hard, and people cannot chisel ice to extract pearls. There is a local swan that feeds on the pearl mussels, and after eating the mussels, the pearls are hidden in the mussels, and the falcon Hai Dongqing is an expert at catching this kind of swan. In order to catch this kind of swan by Haidongqing, the nobles of the Liao State forcibly took eagle harriers for many years, and ordered Haidongqing to be caught in the Jurchen city, and the fine dogs were taken in the territory of the Meng bones, which made the Jurchens suffer a lot.

At the same time, in order to hunt freely everywhere, the Liao Emperor often sent envoys, wearing silver medals, called silver angels, to the Jurchen Department to forcibly claim the falcon Hai Dongqing. Wherever these envoys went, in addition to extorting money from the Jurchens, they also demanded that they offer beautiful women to stay with them, neither asking whether they were married or not, nor asking whether they were high or low, and humiliating them at will. It's called a pillow seat. The brutal behavior of the Khitan nobles greatly hurt the feelings of the Jurchens and aroused the incomparable hatred of the Jurchens.

In addition, the Liao State was also very wary of the Jurchens, and divided them into two major tribes, one part of which was attached to the Liao State, called it "Mature and Jurchen", and the other continued to stay between the white mountains and black waters, and seemed to obey the orders of the Liao State, but in fact, they were divided into their own affairs, called "giving birth to Jurchen".

The birth of Jurchen is not familiar with Jurchen, and has been completely integrated into the Liao State. The Jurchens living in Baishan and Heishui had had enough of the exploitation of the Khitans, otherwise Wanyan Wugunai would not have received material assistance from Dashun, so he would have decided to raise troops against the Liao State.

As everyone knows, the Liao State is also extremely wary of the Jurchens, and they do not hesitate to let go of the feud Dashun, dispatch a large army, and vow to exterminate the Jurchens.

Lu Chengqi also wanted to provoke the contradiction between the two tribes, but he never thought that the effect would be so good.

For ten years, the Khitans had no time to look south, and even died Xiao Xulie and Xiao Feng, two generals.

The hatred between the Khitans and the Jurchens has deepened. But in fact, whether it is the Jurchen or the Liao State, they are already at the end of their strong crossbows, and they are no longer able to levy it, and they urgently need to recuperate.

However, this was personally ordered by the Liao Emperor Yelu Hongji to be requisitioned, and the Jurchens were not beaten to surrender, where did Yelu Hongji get off the stage?

At this moment, seeing that the Jurchens were soft, Yelu Hongji put down the big stone in his heart, and felt that it seemed that it was no big deal to let go of the Jurchens, but he was not stupid, and ordered the Jurchens to be included in the Liao State, not in the white mountains and black waters, otherwise they would "continue to fight".

The Jurchen envoy was no longer able to protest, and after struggling for a day, he could only accept it in the end.

At this point, the ten-year war between the Jurchens and the Khitan ended with the Jurchen annexation, and the Jurchen tribe was mixed into the mature and Jurchen tribes, and the Khitan army withdrew.

After the army withdrew, Yeluhonki began to think of something to do again.

In the past ten years, the Shunliao border has been safe and sound, and Yelu Hongji has long been red-eyed. Dashun is rich in the world, who doesn't know? What's even more infuriating is that Dashun's coins are commonly used in Liao, and even more popular than Liao's own coinage, which is probably three Xianyong Tongbao in exchange for one Hongxiang Tongbao of Dashun. Even one or two pieces of silver sometimes can't be exchanged for a Dashun silver coin, and a tael of gold can't be exchanged for a Dashun gold coin.

However, after the Dashun merchants collected the silver taels and gold, most of them were sold to the Dashun Royal Bank to earn the difference. The Dashun Qian Jian mixed these gold and silver with tin and copper to make silver coins and gold coins for issuance. In this way, Dashun is equivalent to earning the difference, causing the Liao State to become weaker and weaker, and Dashun's economic strength to become stronger and stronger.

Dashun has so much money, silver, grain and grass, tea, and silk, how can Yelu Hongji not be blushing?

Not to mention that it is getting colder and colder in Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing now, Yelu Hongji has long wanted to fight in the warm south. Even though the Liao State is in urgent need of recuperation, Yelu Hongji still has the idea of Dashun in his heart. (To be continued.) )