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Chapter 46, the cheeky Khitans

Japan, Tsukimidai, Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Nobiya, Nobita's room

After confirming that the thugs of the space-time debt collection company had left, Wang Qiu came back with Doraemon and rested for a while.

“…… Wow! You two guys are so treacherous! Don't call me to eat the original prairie barbecue! ”

Nobita, who had just come back from playing baseball, heard Wang Qiu and Doraemon talk about their acceptance of the Khitan banquet on the grassland, and immediately turned his face with tears in his eyes, hugged Doraemon and shook for a while, "...... Why can't you think of me if there is a good thing? Are we still friends? ”

Doraemon was shaken helplessly by him, while Wang Qiu sighed, took out a plastic lunch box casually, and handed it to Nobi Nobita, "...... I knew that you were going to cry and make trouble, so I specially brought you a few pieces of dough and grilled lamb chops, No, it's all here, eat it while it's hot! ”

“…… Ah, thank you so much, sure enough, Brother Wang is a friend enough. Nobita immediately smiled, grabbed a piece of lamb chop and stuffed it into his mouth, but after only a few chews, his face changed suddenly, "...... Phew! What does it taste like? Half-baked, with a strange smell......"

“…… That's what roast lamb tastes like! Absolutely unadulterated prairie flavor! Wang Qiu said with a smile while drinking tea, "...... It's just that there is no salt, no sauce, no pepper and cumin, no blood before killing, the roasting heat is a little insufficient, and the sheep looks sick and crooked......"

At the same time, Nobita reached out again and grabbed the bread in the lunch box, hesitated slightly, but out of curiosity, finally broke off a piece and threw it into his mouth...... Then he changed to a look of resignation and frustration, chewing the dry cake crumbs in his mouth hard, trying his best to secrete more saliva from his mouth, swallowing the mouth-suckling thing, and then snatching Doraemon's teacup and drinking it down, only then did he barely breathe.

“…… The Mongols entertained you with such a unpalatable thing? After drinking the tea, Nobita said with a bitter face, "...... It's so stingy. ”

“…… There is no way, the grassland is barren, and they usually can't even eat such things. And they are Khitans, not Mongols. ”

Wang Qiu corrected, "...... At that time, the Mongols were just an ordinary force on the steppe, confronting each other with the Khitans, Turks and Uighurs, the former rulers of the steppe, and had not yet become the overlord of the entire steppe - the era of Genghis Khan would not be until a hundred years later......"

“…… Oooooooo Can you stop talking about it, I'm most annoyed to listen to people talk about history lessons! "For this historical knowledge, Nobita fully expresses the irritability of a child who is tired of school," ...... I can't even learn the history of Japan, let alone the history of Mongolia, which is so unpopular......"

“…… But we've stepped into that history and turned it upside down. Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and replied.

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Although in order to entertain the "immortals" from the Song Kingdom, Yelu Dashi and their Khitan people have done their best, but after all, they are trapped in the barren Mobei grassland, and they have been in war for many years, the trade routes are not smooth, and the department stores are scarce, even if they want to have a large banquet, they really can't get anything good.

-- If it is in the spring and summer, they can also go out hunting on horseback and hunt some game for the guests of the Central Plains to taste. But now it is a cold winter, and the grassland has long been filled with birds migrating south, animals hibernating, and even rabbits have shrunk into their nests.

Yelu Dashi sent guards to go around the suburbs for a long time, but not a single bird was shot, only a wolf came, and the wolf meat was so thick that it was almost impossible to swallow, and there was a sour smell. As for the Tula River outside the city...... The Khitans were not Jurchens, and they did not have the technique of chiseling ice for fishing.

So in the end, it was just a few freshly slaughtered cattle and sheep, prepared a variety of grassland dairy products, took out treasured grains and beans, made some simple pasta, and then gathered some dried vegetables and dried mushrooms, and boiled them together with the lamb meat into a big pot of soup, and used it to entertain guests.

The problem is that it is the season of green and yellow on the grassland, and all the cattle and sheep have lost fat very much, and the meat is naturally old and knocking teeth. Moreover, the current city of Khaton lacked both salt and spices, and even fuel had to be spared...... As a result, hand-grilled meat, kebabs, rolled mutton, lamb chops, mutton soup, etc., made by burning cow and sheep dung, are all full of peculiar smells, and it is estimated that only nomads can eat them.

The main food of this campfire feast is a coarse flour with bran ground from barley and oats, and then spread out on hot stones without oil and salt.

As for those milk porridge, milk tea, milk skin, milk cake, fried milk paste, butterwine and other dairy products, they are completely different from those of the same name in the modern world that have been sterilized by high temperature and ultraviolet rays and vacuum-packed, and have a little rancid smell. And those so-called mare's milk wines, the feeling of really drinking them, by the standards of later generations, is more like a very strong lactic acid bacteria drink. As for the common burning knife spirits in martial arts novels, there was no zài in the grasslands of this era - even in the Central Plains, the most primitive distilled spirits had just appeared, and had not yet been able to spread to the grasslands.

With such an unpalatable meal, even Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, the generals of the Song Dynasty, frowned a little. As for Wang Qiu, the traverser, he barely used a little cheese wheat as an appetizer - that is, fried green wheat with sour cream until browned - and could no longer find anything to eat. Especially the dirty cups and plates are simply unappetizing at the sight: everyone knows that the grassland lacks water, so the nomads have always been unhygienic, and in some tribes, rinsing clothes is even a crime......

However, the men and women of the Khitan, Turkic and Mongolian tribes who accompanied them at the banquet feasted one by one and ate heartily. A group of people sat on dirty felt blankets, drank directly from their skins, got drunk, and threw their gnawed bones everywhere. Moreover, they don't look like the "warriors on horseback" are not strong and strong at all, but they are all yellow-skinned and thin-looking, and they seem to have not eaten enough for a long time. There are even many people who have big neck disease, and the meat balls under the neck are bulging like turkeys, and they don't know what to say.

It seemed that it was difficult to satisfy the distinguished guests with such a simple and shoddy food and drink, so a group of girls from various tribes, known as the pearls of the grassland, appeared to provide entertainment by the campfire. Then, they came up to pour wine for the distinguished guests, and hinted between words: If you like it, you can let them dedicate themselves to sleeping, which made Wang Qiu feel a little flustered for a while...... Just when they came closer and carefully examined the appearance of these grassland girls by candlelight, Wang Qiu couldn't help but feel a thrill in his heart, and even the little thing he had just eaten almost vomited.

――What kind of prairie pearl is this? It's clearly in the pit, isn't it? Rectangular face and small eyes, collapsed nose bridge and turned lips, although the figure is still concave and convex, but the problem is that perhaps due to years of grazing, wind and sun, the skin is black and red, and very rough, without looking carefully, it is impossible to determine her gender...... Hey, I've also watched beauty pageants on Mongolian TV in the future, why is there such a big difference?

Seeing this respectful face, the little thought that had just risen in Wang Qiu's heart disappeared in an instant-if you think about it, you can understand that these girls on the grassland were born to graze on the plug, and they are accompanied by the wind and sand from morning to night, and the cattle and sheep are together, can the smell on this body be good? Moreover, the water source on the Mobei grassland is precious, and there is no bathhouse. Many herdsmen take a bath three times in their lives, and they always pick up dry dung to burn the fire, and the smell on their bodies is really three feet against the wind and ten feet with the wind! If you really sleep with them in your arms for a few nights, I'm afraid that your nose will be tortured so much that you can't even distinguish the smell.

Therefore, when the banquet was over, only Han Shizhong, who was cold and unscrupulous, seemed to have drunk too much mare's milk wine, and his eyes were confused and he hugged the two "little sisters of the grassland" into a small tent. And the other Song Dynasty officers all pushed away the "love" of these "prairie pearls" with an embarrassed face.

As for Wang Qiu and Doraemon, they are even more busy escaping from this world and returning to Nobita's room, ready to use Doraemon's treasured refreshments and comics to heal their devastated taste buds and optic nerves.

However, Guo Jing and Guo Daxian, who are not yet able to leave this world, have to continue to discuss the next step of cooperation with Yelu Dashi.

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Overall, the house in Jerodashi is very quiet. There are several pieces of blue and white porcelain on the table and on the shelves, a painting of flowers and birds and a large character on the wall, and a pot of orchids on the windowsill, which looks like the study of a literati doctor rather than the felt tent of a grassland eagle archer.

Under the flickering candlelight, it can be seen that this Khitan Hanlin Yelu Dashi is really good-looking, quite elegant and elegant, and at first glance he is a literati with a full stomach, but unfortunately his right leg is a little lame, and it is said that he had polio when he was a child.

However, the request he made to Guo Jing, the "real person who protects the country", at this time was not gentle and elegant at all, but comparable to a lion's big mouth.

“…… 100,000 stone of rice and wheat? Equipped with swords, bows and crossbows for 10,000 people? A million dollars for the military? Do you want a batch of brick tea and table salt? ”

Looking at the list handed over by Yelu Dashi, Guo Jing couldn't help but gasp, his face was very ugly, "...... Big Stone Wood Teeth! Not to mention whether the Great Song Dynasty has the obligation to provide armaments and baggage to the Khitan, don't you feel that you are too greedy to ask us for so many things in one breath? ”

“…… The lesson of the real person is that your ministry first burned down the Jurchen thief cave Huining to avenge the death of my Khitan people, and then escorted my compatriots and the remains of the first emperor thousands of miles away. ”

Yelu Dashi showed a "simple" smile and said with great "sincerity", "...... Although I am glad to hear that the Jurchen thieves have suffered heavy losses, so that my Khitan has a good opportunity to restore the country, but the treasury of Kedun City is empty, and even the military expenses for the army cannot be raised, so I can only hope that the Great Song Dynasty can be generous and subsidize one or two. In the future, if you can recover Shangjing (Linhuang Mansion, near Chifeng in Inner Mongolia, the source of the Khitan clan) and regain the place where the ancestors are buried, all the things that the real people ask for, the widow will not allow it! ”

Speaking of which, the reason why Yelu Dashi has lost his temperance at the moment and has the cheekiness to ask Guo Jing for funding is really a helpless move.

-- Originally, 200 years after the founding of the country, the Khitans, who were once nomads, had already been highly sinicized in the Liao State, and their military, political, and economic systems were almost the same as those of the traditional Central Plains Dynasty. But now, having lost most of its territory and leaving only a steppe centered on the city of Kedun, the exile regime of Yelu Dashi has regained its original appearance as a nomadic khanate.

Theoretically, Yelu Dashi still has more than 10,000 elite cavalry skilled in archers and horses, but these armies, like the Xiongnu and Turks before them, are "irregular armies" based on tribal organizations and the integration of soldiers and people...... On the plus side, this military system links the production activities of the nomads with the military activities to a certain extent, mixes the patriarchal relationship with the relationship between officers and soldiers, and coordinates the core organization with the peripheral organization, so that the strength of the military organization and the efficiency of mobilization in a short period of time are much higher than those of the army of the ordinary agricultural country. Often, as long as he received an order, tens of thousands of people could quickly gather and go south to hunt.

But the flaws of this military system are also obvious. First of all, this system is quite a bit of medieval Europe, "I am a vassal of the king, but my vassal is not a vassal of the king" - in this army, the descendants of Yelu Dashi that can really be commanded by his arm are only 500 Khitan palace tent troops and more than 1,000 city defense troops in Kedun City, and the other troops are the subordinates of various chiefs, who cannot be summoned and waved away.

Secondly, this also led to the extremely low command efficiency of the army and the extremely great difficulty of mobilization -- the only troops that could be mobilized at any time were the 1,500 standing army in the city. As for the soldiers and horses of other tribes, they must have sufficient reasons and sufficient interests before they can be mobilized: if the Jin army crosses the desert and attacks, the grassland tribes will naturally fight to the death; If it is to go south to plunder when the autumn is high and the horses are fat, then most of the nomadic tribes will be willing to go to the south with Yelu Dashi; But if it is for everyone to recuperate in early spring, when the horses are losing weight, they will follow Yelu Dashi to drive thousands of miles together to recover the Khitan people...... You'll have to negotiate the price.

- If Yelu Dashi wants to restore the Liao Kingdom, the first step must be to return to the Khitan ancestral land in Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, and then mobilize the Khitan tribes there to recruit at least tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of their own tribe, so that they can have the capital to compete with the Jurchens for the world...... Obviously, during this period, he had to be strict with military discipline, not allowing these Mobei nomadic tribes to plunder their Khitan mother clan to get rich, nor could he give the pastures in the land of Khitan Longxing to outsiders as trophies. For this reason, he had to bear all the food and straw expenses of the expedition, and also allocate a large amount of military pay and rewards in advance, and could not expect the various tribes to "participate in the war at their own expense", otherwise no tribe would be willing to follow him for "voluntary labor".

The problem was that there was not enough money, food, or ordnance to support the expedition.

In the past, in times of peace, the Khitan government of Kedun City would organize caravans every autumn to drive cattle, sheep, horses, and animal skins and minerals to the border pass, and exchange some salt blocks, sugar, tea bricks, iron tools, cloth, spices, and dried beans, oats, rye and other winter materials with the merchants of the Central Plains, so as to maintain and enrich the reserves in the city - only relying on a small piece of riverside cultivated land outside Kedun City could not feed the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Kedun City.

However, with the collapse of the Liao State and the ravages of the Jin soldiers, this traditional trade has been intermittent in recent years, and after Emperor Tianzuo was captured and Yelu Dashi fled to the city of Kedun, these Khitan remnants were unable to make ends meet every year...... After a few years, they are already on the verge of becoming poor.

And if it is because of insufficient preparation, this once-in-a-lifetime wonderful opportunity is missed, so that the Jin army, which has suffered heavy losses, can breathe, or let some Khitan tribal leaders under the rule of the Jurchens take the first step to rise up, recover the Khitan ancestral land, seize the political commanding heights of the Great Liao Restoration, and make the Khitan people rise together...... Then Yelu Dashi's road to recovery will become extremely difficult, and even cause the tragedy of being in the same room.

Therefore, in line with the idea of "one thing without two masters", Yelu Dashi simply lost his temperance cheekily and came to Guo Daxian's side to turn his fate.

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“…… So, he knocked it on your head? This is already a revenge, okay! ”

In the Sky Castle Tower of the Floating City, Wang Qiu looked at Guo Jing dumbfounded, "...... Do we look so much like fat sheep and meat tickets? ”

“…… He probably thinks that this bamboo pole is the best, and if it can't be knocked, there is no loss. ”

Guo Jing replied, "...... Even if it falls out, as long as we grovel and apologize, most of us won't do anything to him. ”

“…… And the trouble is that this bamboo pole really can't be knocked by him! If we really hope that the Khitans will do their best to further change the world and get more reward points! After Wang Qiu thought about it for a while, he sullenly revealed the mystery.

“…… Yes, if you want to cooperate, you have to be sincere. Guo Jing touched his beard in great distress, sighed and said, "...... Suppose you know that your friend is hungry, but you still have to compliment him that he is a god who can not eat the fireworks of the world, and that he is a tough guy who would rather starve to death than ask for help, and you know that your friend wants you to send him some money, but you are willing to send him a letter full of comfort and encouragement, and tell him how noble it is to be self-reliant...... If that's the kind of person you are, then I can guarantee that your only friend is yourself. ”

- Although he was very annoyed by Yelu Dashi's extortion, in order to let the Khitans go on the road as much as possible, so as to change history and get more reward points, Wang Qiu still had to grasp his scalp and find a way to collect goods to meet the needs of the Khitans.

“…… As for ordnance, I remember that before he set out from Bianliang, Doraemon moved a lot of things in the ordnance prison of the Song State, and then emptied the arsenal of the Generalissimo of Hebei in Xiangzhou. ”

“…… As for the salt, I can pull a cart back from the salt company in the city, and say that I am helping to buy goods for the city, and the people from the salt company should not have the spare time to track down...... As for the money, the price of salt is not expensive anyway, so I can pay for it first. ”

“…… The price of tea is much more expensive, so I will reject such an outrageous request! There's no food left over at home! ”

“…… I really can't take out a million copper coins, so I asked Nobita to get a few sacks of glass beads and ask him if he wanted it! ”

“…… Finally, 100,000 stone of grain...... There is really no way around this, whether in China or Japan, such a large amount of grain trading is very noticeable! Wang Qiu shrugged helplessly, "...... Professor Guo, can you cross this one? ”

“…… This one is the most unavoidable, there is not enough military ration for the soldiers to fill their stomachs, there are no beans and barley for the war horses that have been hungry for a winter, how can this battle be fought? Guo Jing spread his hands, "...... Let's think again! ”

So, Wang Qiu, Nobita, Doraemon and Guo Jing sat cross-legged opposite each other, frowning and thinking for a long time,

In the end, it was Wang Qiu who took the lead in coming up with a solution in his mind.

“…… There is an old saying that 'it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish', rather than let us buy food for them at a loss, how about letting these Khitans grow their own crops? He stared at Doraemon and said, "...... Traditionally, the steppe nomads believed that the land outside the Saiwai was difficult to cultivate, and they could only obtain grain and rice from the Central Plains in the south. But I remember that in the 21st century, Mongolia achieved self-sufficiency in grain, which shows that with the progress of agricultural technology, some crops can still be grown on the Mobei Plateau...... Doraemon, do you have any cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, and barren-tolerant seeds of future food crops adapted to the climate of the Mongolian plateau that can be used to sow seeds in the area of Kodun at this time? ”

“…… Ah, this...... Let me look for it, it seems that there really is......"