The Khitan Dynasty was a complex of an agrarian society and a nomadic society, and the Khitan ruling group always maintained a nomadic lifestyle with chariots and horses as their home, so it was called the Xing Dynasty. It is precisely for this reason that the local administrative system of the Liao Dynasty is quite chaotic, and the setting of states and counties is quite arbitrary, and the states and counties with the same name abound, resulting in the history books of later generations not being able to tell how many states there were in the Liao Dynasty, which can also be regarded as a national characteristic!

Yuanzhou is one of the many state capitals of Liao, but this state is a little special, it is a private city. After the establishment of the Khitan state, the nobles used the captured or given population and their original slaves and tribes to establish on the land they had seized or allocated, and the Han people who constituted the head and lower households could not be separated from the agricultural area, and the Khitan lords of these head and lower states could not build their private cities in the Han land far from the grassland, so they chose such a combination of farming and nomadism to establish their head and lower private cities.

Generally speaking, where the royal kings, princesses and descendants of the head can build a state city, the rest shall not build a city, can only set up a fort and tree village to distinguish it from other species to build, most of the population under the head comes from Hebei, Shanxi and the original Bohai country, are Han or Bohai people, the identity is called the tribe of farmers, handicraftsmen, there are also slaves, the former is dependent on the identity, the latter is a slave, the proportion of slaves is in the minority.

Before the alliance of the Liao, Song and Yuanyuan, wars were frequent, and a large number of people could be captured, so there were more military states under the head. Subsequently, there were fewer wars and fewer sources of prisoners, and it was difficult to use the captured population to increase the number of military states under the head, so the general trend of the military states under the head was decreasing, and by the end of the Liao Dynasty, they were almost extinct. And Yuanzhou has been preserved to this day because of several queens and ministers in the family. But today, it's also quite sad...

Sunset. A Liao army with thousands of horsemen came from the north, raising billowing dust and smoke. The knights on the horses were chatting and laughing, and the broken leaves of their armor and the undried stains of blood on the tips of their spears indicated that they had just fought a battle, and they were tied to a long rope with strings of men and women tied to it, and in the ranks were thousands of horses and countless cattle and sheep, which were obviously their trophies.

"Fifth girl, the Black Slave Department is really bold, and they dare to plunder our territory, they are really looking for death!" A Liao general said respectfully to the main general.

"Hmph. This time, they should have been unlucky, they met our five girls, not only lost their troops, but also were copied by us. Occupy the pasture! Another Liao general said proudly.

"Abhe, you said that the population of the black slave tribe is not more than 1,000 tents, and the soldiers with armor are less than 1,000 horsemen, why dare you invade my pasture?" The fifth girl ignored the sycophants of the two, but asked rhetorically.

"Five girls, now Zhongjing and Tokyo have all fallen into the hands of Jurchen thieves, the emperor has taken refuge in Xijing, there is chaos everywhere, no one obeys the dispatch, and they all want to take the opportunity to forcibly occupy territory in order to protect themselves!" Abu He looked at the five girls around him and wanted to see something on her face. But the fifth girl's face covered with a face was not visible at all, he thought for a moment and said.

"Didn't you notice any difference among the black slave tribesmen who were killed?" The fifth girl glanced at Abu He coldly and asked.

"No... No, Zelle, did you find out? Abu He was seen by the five girls and tightened his body, and quickly avoided turning his head and asked, he is the old general of the Duwei Mansion, in his impression that the fifth girl when he was a child was an innocent and happy little girl, she was separated in a tribal conflict more than ten years ago, and suddenly returned home a few months ago, but she became a different person, and everyone never saw her smile. But although he was strange as a house slave, he didn't dare to ask.

"Commander, I also feel strange, I have never heard of any fierce generals in the Black Slave Department in the past, but today we encountered a team of men and horses who were very fierce, and they fought to the death. In particular, the leader injured more than a dozen of our brothers, and later it was the fifth girl who took care of him. Did they ask for help! Zaletima said as he stepped forward.

"Those people are Jurchens, although they have changed their clothes, but there are traces of braids on the back of their heads!" The fifth girl said.

"The Black Slave Ministry colluded with the Jurchen?!" Abu and Surprise Dao, Yuanzhou is adjacent to Zhongjing Province and Tokyo Province, and is in the hinterland of Liao State, but now Zhongjing Province and Tokyo Province are the world of the Jurchens, and this place is under the attack of the Jurchens on both sides, and Yuanzhou is a strategic fortress connected by the three capitals, and the Jin army must pass through to attack Xijing Road, so it seems that the Jin army is going to do something to them.

"Judging from all indications, the Jurchens are about to march into Yuanzhou, and the order is to go down, and order all departments to strengthen their vigilance, send the army out of the city for fifty miles, and report back quickly if there is an enemy situation!" The fifth girl said.

"Yes, the last general will do it immediately!" Zelle immediately ordered a group of men and horses to divide into two teams and go in two directions.

"Alas, what the prince said is true, the world has been in turmoil, and the prince has been preparing for this day for more than ten years, and can he stop the Jurchen Iron Horse in a hurry and hold Yuanzhou?" There is a city in front of me, this is the main city of Yuanzhou, the city was built in the early days of the founding of the Liao Dynasty, the city wall is the earth rammed, the plane is square, the north and south, the east and west are five hundred steps long, the wall collapses three zhang wide, there are corner platforms and horse faces on the outside of the city wall, there are only two gates in the north and south, this city can only be barely regarded as a small city in the Central Plains, but it is one of the best cities in the grassland, the five girls looked at the weak city and sighed and thought.

Everyone has seen that these 'five girls' are Zhao Xin, outside Lingzhou City, when guarding the prince's peace talks, he accidentally discovered that the general who escorted the Liao envoy was actually his long-lost family, but at that time, the two sides were fighting like black-eyed chickens, and the two sides were burdened with heavy responsibilities, so Zhao Xin suppressed the idea of recognizing each other. When she ran away later, Zhao Xin thought of the underground power of the prince, as long as she didn't leave the Great Song Dynasty, no matter where she was hiding, she would be found sooner or later, so at that time she made up her mind to 'go home'!

Zhao Xin traveled north to find Yuanzhou according to what Xiao Chongde said, and the next thing went smoothly, and he recognized his family with the residual memories of his childhood and the knife that never left him. Only then did she find out that her father was Xiao Jinxian, the city lord of Yuanzhou, and her mother was the princess of Yuyang, Daliao, named Xiao Chongxin.

But the situation at home is not optimistic at all. According to the Liao system, each tribe is generally divided into two parts: the garrison household and the Liuhou household, taking turns to defend the border or participate in the expedition, and her eldest brother is leading the tribal army to fight with the Jin army in front; The third child, Xiao Chongde, was selected as the imperial tent to wait for Langjun, a deacon by the emperor's side, as his personal bodyguard responsible for the daily life of the emperor's palace, and performed relevant official duties; The second child has been in poor health since he was a child, and as Yuanzhou Situ, he assists his father in managing the remaining households; Several of the sisters have been married, and there are only two weak younger brothers left in the family...