Chapter Ninety-One: Old and Strong, Yang Wenguang
In the Xiangzhou City Post Station in the north direction of Kaifeng City, a sturdy old man is holding a spear in his hand, and is fighting with two Liao warriors......
In contrast, although the two Liao warriors were young and strong, and their martial arts were also quite extraordinary, but in the face of this old man, they were completely suppressed and could not fight back, so they could only parry with the long knives in their hands, and at the same time they were forced to retreat again and again, and there was a corner behind them, and they were about to retreat, which also made the two Liao warriors feel aggrieved, and their angry roars were useless.
In addition to the three people who did it on the field, there were also two groups of people around the venue, one of which was relatively small, most of them were dressed as Khitans, and they knew without asking that they must be in a group with Khitan warriors. On the opposite side of this group of Khitans, there are a large number of Song people, including Song soldiers wearing wide felt hats, but more are ordinary people wearing shorts and shorts, looking at their dress, they should be farmers in Xiangzhou, but there are many injured people among these people, and a few of them are not lightly injured, and they were actually carried over by people with door panels.
"Bell! Clang! With the violent collision of two weapons, I saw that the old man who was dancing the spear nodded with a phoenix, and the spear slapped on the handle of the long knife in the hands of the two Liao warriors like a spiritual snake, but the two couldn't hold the weapon at all, and the two long knives flew out at the same time almost in order.
"Old General Yang is slow, we admit defeat!" At this moment, the Khitan side suddenly stood up, and a Liao official immediately said loudly, I saw that this Liao official looked about twenty years old, although he had the hair of the Khitan, but according to the aesthetics of the Song people, this Liao official was not bad, at least compared with the Khitan warriors behind him, his appearance was much more gentle.
Hearing the words of this young Liao official, the old general Yang immediately put away his gun and stood up, and the Khitan warrior whose two weapons were knocked out also immediately retreated in shame, only to see that the old general Yang handed the gun in his hand to a young Song general next to him, and then he spoke: "Since Xiao Zhengzhi has admitted defeat, then please keep your promise, apologize to these farmers who were trampled on by you and injured the crops, and support the money for the wounded medicine and the compensation for the crops!" ”
"This is natural, although the envoy is young, he has always been a man of his word!" The young Liao official waved his hand back as he spoke, and immediately walked out of the Khitan a Han man, but a young man wearing a Liao official uniform, and several Han officials walked out with a pen.
The Han official who came out was only about twenty years old, tall and handsome, and could be said to be a talent. After seeing the other party come out, he bowed down and saluted General Yang and said: "Below is Zhang Renxian, the deputy envoy of the Great Liao Mission, here on behalf of my Great Liao Mission, I apologize to the people of Xiangzhou, as for the people who were injured due to misunderstandings before, as well as the crops that were trampled on, please come forward and report the amount of compensation, and we will definitely compensate according to the price." ”
Seeing that the other party actually sent a Han official to make amends to his side, the old general Yang couldn't help but snort coldly, most of the people who trampled on the crops and beat people were Khitans, but now they actually sent a Han people to make amends, so it can be seen that these Khitans are not sincere in admitting their mistakes at all, and even reminded him of this incident that their Khitans will never make amends to the Han people.
This old general Yang is not an ordinary person, he is Yang Wenguang among the famous Yang generals in later generations, but the current Yang Wenguang is already old, although his body is still very tough, and he can even go into battle to kill the enemy, but it is inevitable that he is a hero in the twilight, and the gray head and wrinkles on his face are already showing the world that this brave veteran is likely to be able to kill the enemy again in a few years.
Yang Wenguang was originally the deputy governor of Qinfeng Road, but this time he received an order from the imperial court that an important Liao delegation came to the Great Song Dynasty and needed to send someone to greet him, because the Khitan people had always been very arrogant in the Great Song Dynasty, and ordinary officials were unable to restrain the Khitans, so in the end, the imperial court transferred Yang Wenguang, a veteran, from Qinfeng Road to receive the Liao delegation. Yang Wenguang's father, Yang Yanzhao, was a famous general in Hebei, and when he was guarding Hebei, he defeated the Liao army many times, making the Khitans dare not look south, and Yang Wenguang himself was also a fierce general, so he received the Liao envoy, which could naturally deter the other party.
Yang Wenguang rushed to Xiangzhou from Qinfeng Road, where the Liao delegation was waiting for his arrival, but as soon as he arrived here, he heard that the Liao delegation trampled on the crops of the farmers outside the city, and when the farmers stopped them, these Khitans even started beating people, which made General Yang angry and called those injured farmers over, and then personally took them to claim compensation to the Liao mission.
The mission sent by the Liao State this time was in charge of two young people, among which the Khitan young man who admitted defeat just now was named Xiao Derang, Xiao was the nobleman of the Liao State second only to the royal family, Xiao Derang was even more noble, and he had already held important positions in the Liao State before, and this time he served as the envoy of the mission. As for the deputy envoy is the Zhang Renxian who made amends, this person is also from an extraordinary background, his father's name is Zhang Xiaojie, the current prime minister of the Northern Mansion of Liao, the first person among the Han officials of Liao.
It is about to come to the time of the autumn harvest, at this time of year, the imperial court will levy the autumn tax, and it is also at this time that the Liao State will also send people to ask the Great Song Dynasty for the year's annual coin, according to the agreement of the Yuanyuan Alliance of that year, the Great Song Dynasty will pay 300,000 annual coins to the Liao State, but at the time of Renzong, the Liao State once again threatened with force to raise the annual coin to 500,000 yuan, including 300,000 silk and 200,000 silver, which are generally escorted to Xiongzhou by the Liao envoys after being counted in Tokyo. And this delegation of Xiao Derang and Zhang Renxian came to ask for and count the New Year's coins.
Since the fiasco of the Yongxi Northern Expedition, the Song Dynasty has always been afraid of the Liao Dynasty, coupled with the annual payment of New Year's coins to the Liao State, which makes the Liao State have a natural psychological advantage over the Great Song Dynasty, so after the Liao State delegation entered the Great Song Dynasty, it has always been extremely arrogant, and the same is true of the mission led by Xiao Derang and Zhang Renxian, two young people, along the way, I don't know how many good fields have been trampled, and many people of the Great Song Dynasty have been injured, and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty dare not take care of them, which has fueled their arrogance.
It's just that what Xiao Derang and Zhang Renxian didn't expect was that it was Yang Wenguang, the grandson of Yang Wudi and the son of Yang Yanzhao, who came to greet them, and what they didn't expect was that this old general Yang actually summoned the farmers who were injured by them to come to the post station to claim compensation, which made Xiao Derang and others a little at a loss, especially thinking of the prestige of Yang Wuving and Yang Yanzhao back then, coupled with Yang Wenguang's great military exploits in his life, which made Xiao Derang a little afraid.
However, as the so-called young and vigorous, although Xiao Derang was afraid of the prestige of Yang Wenguang's ancestors and grandchildren, he refused to bow his head so lightly, so he excused himself that these Khitans were still martial, and if they wanted to make them admit their mistakes, they had to overpower them by force, otherwise they would never compensate.
In the face of the excuse of Xiao Derang and others, Yang Wenguang was also furious, and personally went down at the moment, asking Xiao Derang to send Khitan warriors to fight him, but he won three games in a row, and the three Khitan warriors were shot out of the field by General Yang without making three moves, and they won very easily. In the end, Xiao Derang was still not convinced, and sent the two strongest Khitan warriors to the field together, but unfortunately the situation was still one-sided, but it was just a little more supported than the previous Khitan warriors.
Compared with Xiao Derang's arrogance and stubbornness, Zhang Renxian, the deputy envoy, seemed very easy-going, and immediately asked his scribes to write down the losses of those bankers after apologizing, and then compensated according to the market price, without the slightest arrears. When the old general Yang Wenguang saw this, he couldn't help but have a good impression of this deputy envoy of the Liao State.
But at this moment, I saw Zhang Renxian suddenly walk in front of Yang Wenguang, and said with a smile: "I have long heard that the Yang family is loyal and brave, and the names of Yang Invincible and Yang Liulang are even more powerful to my Great Liao, but I didn't expect that the courage of General Yang is not inferior to the ancestors, so I really admire it!" ”
"Deputy Envoy Zhang is polite, the old man is just the courage of a horseman, and he can't be compared with his grandfather, he really can't afford to be praised by Deputy Envoy Zhang!" Yang Wenguang also smiled and said modestly, but their Yang family has three generations of generals, which is also very rare among the generals of the Great Song Dynasty, so Yang Wenguang is also quite proud of this.
Zhang Renxian looked at Yang Wenguang's modest appearance, but in fact he had a proud expression, and the corners of his mouth suddenly showed a hint of imperceptible sneering: "The Yang family is unparalleled in bravery, and it has been three generations since the old general Yang, if you can produce another general in the fourth generation, it will definitely be a good story in the future!" ”
Yang Wenguang immediately stared at Zhang Renxian's words, raised his head and looked at the other party seriously, although Zhang Renxian's words seemed to be flattering, but for those who knew the inside story, it was implied sarcasm, it seemed that this Deputy Envoy Zhang was not as easy-going as he was on the surface.
"Don't worry about Deputy Envoy Zhang, although my Yang family has a slight reputation, but for the talented Great Song Dynasty, it is nothing at all, without our Yang family, there will naturally be other generals in the future to defend the territory of my Great Song Dynasty!" Yang Wenguang was also-for-tat at this time.
The generals of the Great Song Dynasty have been suppressed by civilian officials, and even have formed an unwritten rule of "no more than three generations for generals", that is to say, no matter how good a certain Jiangmen family is, at most three generations can only be generals, and when it comes to the fourth generation, even if there are excellent generals in this family, they will be suppressed by civilian officials, and there is no chance to lead troops to fight, which is also an important reason for the decline of Jiangmen.
Yang Wenguang is already the third generation of generals of the Yang family, and his sons have begun to be suppressed by the civilian group, such as his youngest son Yang Huaiyu, who is a good seedling who leads the troops to fight, but unfortunately he is deliberately suppressed by the civilian officials, and now he can only serve as a small forbidden army guard in the palace, although it is also considered a military position, but he never wants to go to the battlefield for the rest of his life, and if he does not go to the battlefield, I am afraid that within two generations, he will become an ordinary nobleman, such as Cao and Gao, although the name is Jiangmenzhi, there are many people in the family who hold military positions, But if they are really allowed to go to the battlefield, I am afraid that it will only delay the military aircraft.
Although Zhang Renxian is a Liao person, he knows very well about the Great Song Dynasty, and also knows that Jiangmen is suppressed by civil officials, so he will make sarcastic remarks, and now he hears Yang Wenguang is still hard-mouthed, and he smiled indifferently at the moment: "General Yang is really confident in the Great Song Dynasty, and the deputy envoy has been yearning for the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, taking this opportunity, I also want to take a look at the scenery of the Great Song Dynasty, and I hope that the Great Song Dynasty will not let me down!" ”
When Zhang Renxian said these words, he didn't expect that his trip to the Great Song Dynasty did not disappoint him, because he provoked one of the most terrible enemies in the world, of course, this was only for him.
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