Chapter Table of Contents Chapter 53 Conflict

I don't know how many times I have walked this road, and I don't even know how many inspections on duty here, and I have never encountered such a thing as today. If you put it in the past, it is okay to check it, they are all legal goods for sale, and it is a big deal to delay a little time, but today it is different, this caravan not only has legal weapons, armor, and even gunpowder, which are absolutely forbidden to be 'exported'.

In the past, this kind of trade was not undone, but it was all small items, dozens of donkeys, and they were all private roads. This time, because the volume was too large, there were 500 camels and nearly 100 carts alone. Since it is called a private road, it must be a remote and difficult path, and the brigade cannot take it at all, so it can only choose to take the big road. Gao Cheng considered that he was familiar with people, and the inspection of the Volcano Army had always been lax, so he took the risk of carrying these things to pass the customs, but he didn't expect to go out and kill Tai Sui!

"Lao Gao, that's our new deputy intellectual, he has a big temper, you should be careful to reply!" Inspector Wang pulled Gao Cheng down and said softly.

"My lord, it's the trumpet Sheng Rentang, I don't know what the adults command?" The senior executive hurriedly replied, looking up and down at this Zhijun Lord, the military state on the border of the Great Song Dynasty is mostly a civil and a military two chief officials, of course, under the big system, the civil and military are light, and the civilian officials have the final say, but the age of the Zhijun in front of him is really not very old, he is in his early twenties, less than thirty, wearing a military uniform and carrying a waist knife.

"If Sheng Rentang is also a trumpet, then no one in the northwest will dare to call the shopkeeper!" The adult grinned, "I wonder where you're going?" Now that the two countries are fighting each other, they will lose their lives if they don't get it! "My lord, we are going to Yuanzhou, although the war is raging over there, it can be the time to make money, these are daily necessities, and the price can quadruple when you get there!" The executive was taken aback by the adult's movements, but still explained with a smile. In fact, everyone recommends giving up this transaction, and even the big shopkeeper in the hall is unwilling to do it, although the profit is high, the risk is greater. If something happens to so many materials, it is difficult to explain it up and down, but yesterday it suddenly changed, and the big shopkeeper personally asked the organization, and chose a thoughtful and steady him to run a special trip. It is rumored that the big owner ordered that this batch of goods should be sent to Wonju at any cost.

"Huh. You Sun Da shopkeeper really want money and don't want to die, you dare to do any business! The man looked as he walked, and from time to time he reached out and touched the goods on the pack.

"Hehe, adults and our shopkeeper Sun are old acquaintances?" Gao Cheng didn't look at Zhijun and touched the goods. His heart jumped suddenly, how could the adults touch those forbidden things, he couldn't figure out what he was thinking for a while, so he could only laugh and laugh.

"Well, sort of. The two of us still have a bit of a friendship! Zhijun nodded.

"Oh, since it is the old acquaintance of our shopkeeper, then you must know that our Shengrentang are all businessmen, and the villain will inform my shopkeeper and ask him to visit!" Gao Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, acquaintances are easy to do, the two chatted while walking, and only the patrol was far behind them!

"Hmph, he's picked out from his own right?" The adult smiled weirdly. He walked to a car and sniffled, patted the wooden box on the car, and whispered in the executive's ear, "I'm afraid the people of Liao don't use these things yet!" ”

"Huh?! Gao Cheng was shocked, gunpowder has always been the secret weapon of the Great Song Dynasty, and no one can traffic it out of the country even when the smuggling is at its worst. It can be seen that the ban is strict.

"You don't have to be afraid, as long as you tell me honestly who to sell it to, I'll let you go!" Zhijun looked at the sweat falling to the ground, and Gao Cheng asked.

"My lord, the little one only knows that Lu Dao is a city guard in Yuanzhou who bought this thing at a high price, and the others don't know!" Gao Cheng panicked. But it's quite calm, because at his level, I don't know who the real owner of Lu Dao is. But he also knows that his owner is a big man with hands and eyes, and there is a faint legend that he is the current 'King of the Northwest' Prince Yan, so he is not very afraid, if something happens here, someone will definitely protect him, and listening to the words of this Zhijun, there seems to be a slowdown in front of him, and he still tells the truth when he thinks about the pros and cons.

"Well, I see, you can go, if you can see the person who bought the goods, tell him that the old brother is still thinking about him!" Zhao Lian's heart has been troubled by Zhao Xin's sudden departure without saying goodbye, and later the brothers privately rumored that Zhao Xin went to Liao, but no one can prove the authenticity of this information.

"What do you call you, my lord?" Gao Cheng was overjoyed when he heard this, asked respectfully, and secretly gave a money bag.

"Hehe, my name is Zhao Lian, and several of your shopkeepers know me, so you don't need these things. But I was calculated by them this time, and I will definitely ask them to give an explanation next time I meet! Zhao Lian shook his head and smiled, "Wang Inspection, I have already checked, it's not too early, let them get out of the customs, don't block the road!" He turned back and shouted to his subordinates.

"Thank you, sir!" Gao Cheng was so amnesty and thanked, and hurriedly let the guys go on the road, just out of the pass, suddenly remembered that this Zhao Lian was not the commander of the former loyal and brave army leopard generals, no wonder he would open the net and let us go, it turned out to be his own family!

"Without the permission of the prince, gunpowder and so many weapons cannot be sent, so the prince already knows that Zhao Xin is in Liao!" Zhao Lian looked at the distant caravan and thought about it, but he was quickly confused, so Zhao Xin's departure was arranged by the prince, but why did the prince strictly order him to chase and kill? He just figured out a problem, and was troubled by another problem, but he didn't expect that this was secretly arranged by Jianxi with chicken feathers as an arrow, but the prince didn't know anything.

The Xijing of the Liao State was lost, the emperor fled into Jiashan, and the princes and princesses who followed and the ministers and guards came a lot, and they also had to eat and drink Lazar, and not only to eat enough, but also to eat well, which brought a lot of pressure to the place. Of course, the Jurchens who were in charge of chasing them were not immortals, and they also had to eat and drink. As a result, the area where the forces of the two sides crossed became the object of plunder on both sides, and they went there to collect grain, and the Han people living there bore the brunt of the biggest victims

There is a river passing near Qingliangzhai, the land can be irrigated and suitable for farming, a group of Han people who were taken from Hebei more than 100 years ago were placed here to farm, and they have multiplied for several generations, and they have become accustomed to the rule of the Khitans when they pay taxes and become soldiers. Due to the looting and squeezing of both sides of Liaojin and Jin, it can be said that there is no surplus food at home, but fortunately, there are wild beasts around, and some people go out to hunt and hunt some wild things to satisfy their hunger.

In October, the first snow fell here, and several young people in the stockade went out hunting together, and just found a string of horses' hoof prints not far from the village, because this place is not far from the grassland, and there are often wild horses, everyone is very happy, so they immediately chased down along the hoof prints, and soon found a horse that was lost. Although a horse was worth a lot of money, the rumbling belly reminded them that horse meat was more tempting, so several men worked together to shoot the horse to death and carry it back to the stockade.

A few people who were very happy didn't expect to get into trouble, and they met a Khitan on the road, and the man immediately insisted that the horse belonged to their family. He brought them to the lord's house in the stockade. At the beginning of the establishment of the Liao Dynasty, the Han people in the territory were basically from captives plundered by foreign wars, people who had escaped or fled into the country, and as slaves, their status was the private property of Khitan households, so naturally they could not have any equal power and status.

Although several people tried their best to argue that it was a wild horse, the lord did not listen at all, and ordered them to compensate the Khitan for the two horses. In the later period of the Liao Dynasty, due to the widespread discrimination against the Han people in the Liao Dynasty society and the result of land annexation, the Youyun Han people lacked their own land, and although they changed from slaves to tenants, the vast majority of the Han people were still at the bottom of the oppressed society. These people are all tenants, and after collecting taxes in a year, they can barely fill their stomachs, and this year they have been repeatedly collected by both sides, where can they afford to pay. So the lord decided to use the 'village law' to make them give horses to their fate.

After the founding of the Liao Dynasty, with the expansion of territory, faced with the nomadic life of the Khitan and other ethnic groups, and the Han people and the Bohai people who settled down for farming, it became difficult to govern the two major ethnic systems in the country, and a set of legal systems, so it adopted a policy of 'Hu and Han partition', that is, "rule according to customs" to govern the Khitan people with traditional grassland customary law, and when ruling the Han and Bohai people, it borrowed from the mature laws of the Central Plains Dynasty.

According to the law, they are not guilty to death, and the lord's decision immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the Han people in the village, but it was only dissatisfaction, these people had lost their bloodiness under the long-term oppression, and they dared not speak out. Because in folk customs, the Han and the Khitan are not really as equal as the law, and the actual situation is that the Han people are still an inferior people discriminated against by the Khitan, or they are still slaves inferior to livestock, and the Han people seem to have acquiesced.

These young men were tied hand and foot behind their horses, and the Khitans were ready to drag them to death with horses, "My lord, let them go mercifully!" Their families knelt down and pleaded, but the Khitans were unmoved.

"Damn, you Khitan people have the ability to fight with the Jurchens, you know that Lu Dao bullied us Han people, if you don't let people go today, Lao Tzu will fight with you!" At this time, a person finally couldn't help it and stood up and shouted.

Everyone looked back in amazement and found that this person was a traveling doctor who came here a few days ago, because this person can treat some incurable diseases, and when he sees a doctor, he will give him money when he sees a doctor, and he doesn't care if he doesn't have money, and he can explain some reasoning, which is very trusted by everyone. Seeing the winter, everyone left him in the stockade, but they didn't expect a foreigner to dare to conflict with the lord for them today

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