After Xiao Ming went back, he took out the wooden box, it was just a pull-out wooden box, gently pulled open the cover plate on it, and there was a pile of parchment rolls inside, Xiao Ming opened them one by one, "Damn!" "Khitan script? Like, what the is this text? I don't know.

After thinking about it, Xiao Ming ordered his own soldiers to find Xiao Gan, the deputy privy envoy, Xiao Gan bowed to Xiao Ming after he came in, he was still very busy for a while, this person did have some talents, the entire restoration and order after the war in Beijing, the resettlement of the displaced people, and the labor arrangements for the soldiers were all busy with him, Xiao Ming didn't care about it at all.

He has also heard of what Xiao Ming has done, but he is a great hero of the restoration of Beijing, and he still relies on others to talk about merit, Xiao Ming is just good money, just loot some of it, others may be more ruthless than him, this is an open secret, and there is nothing to say.

When Xiao Gan took those parchment rolls and read them, the surprise in his eyes was undisguised, and he said: "This is Jurchen writing, this is ...... This is a letter exchanged with the chiefs of the Five Kingdoms, you let me see for myself"

Xiao Ming knew that the Five Kingdoms Department was actually the five northern tribes of the Ministry Ali, Pennuri, Yue Li Du, Yue Li Ji, and Orimi, also known as the Northern Five Kingdoms, they were a loose tribal alliance, and the place where they gathered together to live together was called the Five Kingdoms City, and the birth of the Jurchens was also collectively referred to as them, and the largest tribe among them was the Wanyan Tribe.

It seems that this Bana Tie Ji is obviously hooking up with the Jurchens, but I don't know what these letters say, Xiao Ming watched Xiao Gan remain silent, but at this time, Xiao Gan's heart was like a storm, it turned out that these letters turned out to be a whole set of conspiracies, how to create a rebellion in the Liao State and carve up the entire Great Liao State plan.

During the nearly ten-year war between the Liao State and the Jurchen Jin State, a famous Ashu incident was mentioned several times in the letters, and the main planner of this Ashu time turned out to be the author of the letter, the Great Liao State Master Bana Tieji! In fact, Ah Shu is just the chief of the Jurchen Sushilie tribe of the Five Kingdoms, what is the connection here?

In fact, there are very deep-seated reasons for this, the chieftain of the Sushilie tribe, A Shu, conspired to rebel against the Jurchen Wanyan tribe, the Wanyan tribe raised troops to attack, A Shu fled to Shangjing Linhengfu to ask for asylum, and the Liao Emperor ordered the Wanyan Department to withdraw its troops, and the Wanyan Department at that time withdrew with reluctance, but when the subsequent troops attacked Liao, they all regarded not handing over the "fugitive" A Shu as the biggest crime of the Liao Empire.

The Jin Empire insisted that reconciliation could only be achieved by handing over Ah Shu, while the Liao Empire refused each time based on its responsibilities and obligations to its vassals. It seems that Ah Shu is a key figure in the rise and fall of the war, and the Jin Empire has a terrible hatred for him. But when the Liao Empire collapsed and the Jin Empire arrested Ah Shu, he was released after only a few beatings. Later, whenever someone asked for Ashu's name, he humorously introduced himself: "My name is Poliao Ghost." ”

This is all really happening in history, and in fact, the planners of all this are related to Bana Tieji, which also includes the Xi rebellion in the Baoda period, and the rebellion of Gao Yongchang, a Bohai man in the sixth year of Tianqing in the Great Liao Kingdom, only there is a figure of Bana Tieji, that is to say, Bana Tiejia is planning all the rebellions of the Liao Empire without sparing any effort.

After Xiao Gan finished reading the parchment letter, he scolded angrily: "This traitor! He then explained to Xiao Ming the contents of each letter and the main figures who came and went, including the plan to plan the war between the Song Empire and the Liao State, and even the plan to support Ma Zhi to return to China and propose to Emperor Huizong the plan of Lianjin to attack Liao.

Xiao Ming couldn't figure it out, why did this Great Liao National Master do this? Now the entire demobilized and vast Great Liao Empire is in turmoil, he seems to hope that the Liao Kingdom will be in turmoil and eventually fall apart, what is the purpose of this person?

After reading all the letters, Xiao Gan was frowning and thinking about this question, and he suddenly mentioned: "The national teacher seems to be a Uighur, could it be that he is a royal family of the Khotanese Kingdom?" ”

Xiao Ming hurriedly asked why, and Xiao Gan explained to Xiao Ming: "The Kingdom of Khotan is a large country in the Western Regions, and it established a kingdom before the Tang Dynasty, but it was finally destroyed by the Great Liao, and their country was divided into two parts, the "Western State" Uighur and the Black Khanate, and now they are both subject states of the Great Liao, and Bana Tie is the Uighur clan of the Western Regions."

"Look here," Xiao Gan said, pointing to a scroll of letters, "This is a reply from Bana Tie and the royal family of the Western Uighurs, the Wei Chi family, talking about the peace talks with the Song within the Western Xia royal family, and the Empress Wei Chi declared that she should make friends with the Western Uighurs and jointly deal with the attack of the Black Khanate......

"Did you say that the queen of Western Xia was surnamed Weichi?" Xiao Ming asked.

"Exactly!" Xiao Gan nodded.

Xiao Ming touched his chin and said: "So this Bana Tie Ji not only has dealings with the Xizhou Uighurs, but also has close contacts with the royal family of Western Xia, this person is my number one traitor in Da Liao, and everything he does is a criminal act to subvert the country, and he must be eliminated!" ”

Xiao Gan asked: "But now this guy has a good relationship with Emperor Liao's royal family, and King Lanling is his protective umbrella, and there are many henchmen, even if we have evidence, who will believe us?" ”

Xiao Ming smiled: "Now that his henchmen are cleaned up, as for him?" Leave it to me! ”

So the two began to talk secretly, how to eliminate the henchmen of the Great Liao National Division, and gradually eliminate this person's prestige among the people, and have gradually exposed his tricks, and now there is actually one thing left that is not clear and understood, that is, why did Bana Tie Ji do this, and what was this person's motives?

Judging from all kinds of evidence, Bana Tie Ji seems to have profound Buddhism, but he is a very hidden spy, he seems to hate the Great Liao State, and he wants to subvert the Liao State by all means, so according to his origin and origin, this person must be a person from the Western Regions vassal states destroyed by the Liao State, and only this can be explained.

For Xiao Ming, someone subverted the Great Liao State, it actually has nothing to do with him, the Song and Liao countries were originally feuding, Xiao Ming, as a Han person, may be more happy that the Liao State was subverted, but Xiao Ming is a modern person, from his historical point of view, what Liao, Song, and Jin are actually China, but the Jin State is rising now, this Jurchen nation is cruel and murderous, and will attack the Central Plains in the near future.

The Jin people killed people in the Central Plains, and the Han people were killed by them a lot, and destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, which Xiao Ming was very unhappy about, and so far, what can buffer the Great Song Dynasty is the crumbling Liao State, as long as the Great Liao State is not defeated one day, then the Jin State will not cross the Liao State and come to attack the Song State.

So logically speaking, Xiao Ming will help Liao first, but this largest empire in the north can now be said to be rotten at all roots, how long can he be supported, Xiao Ming himself has no bottom in his heart, for him, "Time!" "Time is the point, it is the most precious, he has to complete a lot of plans within a certain time.

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In the following period, many Han Chinese and people from the Western Regions were arrested throughout Shangjing, and many of the spies of the Jin and Western Xia kingdoms mentioned in Bana Tiejia's letters were arrested one by one.

In addition, there are merchants from the Western Regions, in fact, these people are just peripheral personnel, but the real core is an organization called "National Teachers Helping Buddhism" established by Bana Tiejia, through the Buddhist believers from all over the Liao State and various tribes and nobles, to establish some kind of contact, and at the same time plan various anti-Liao activities.

In Kailong Temple, there are many henchmen of the "Buddha Helping Group", many monks have been arrested, and at the same time, the palace of the national teacher has also been blocked. These gold medals are all made of red gold, one side is the Buddha statue carving, and the other side is written with a line of Khitan text: "Edict Buddha mantra!" ”

All these actions were carried out in secret, Xiao Ming sealed the news tightly, and the palace of the national teacher of Kailong Temple was sealed, but Xiao Ming left Master Xianjie nearly 40,000 volumes of Buddhist classic books.

And Master Jiming, has left the Liao State and began to return to the Song Kingdom, escorted by Xiao Ming's tiger guard, with him there are several large boxes of books, those rare Buddhist classics, especially the Sanskrit scriptures were sent by Xiao Ming to Master Jiming, let him take back to the Song Dynasty, because the engraving of the Tripitaka is too much, Jiming can not take it away, otherwise Xiao Ming will definitely let Jiming take it away.

These engraving genuine engravings, later also suddenly disappeared, was used as an excuse for Xiao Ming to attack people's homes, this is a later story, Shangjing is now in order, but Buddhist activities suddenly decreased, the common people have to face a heavy tax before the arrival of spring, which is the traditional animal husbandry tax of Liao.

After the severe cold of winter, the herd of the Liao people, who are mainly based on animal husbandry, will shrink in a large area, some are frozen to death by the severe cold, and some are eaten by wild beasts.

This has also caused a burden on many farmers, and the Liao State is now gradually becoming more and more dependent on agricultural production, the traditional fishing and hunting life is being replaced by a fixed, settled agricultural life, in order to support animal husbandry and collect heavy taxes on agricultural areas, is undoubtedly a kind of killing chickens and eggs.

In order to make a living, many people not only have to raise sheep and cattle at the same time, on the one hand, for livelihood on the other hand, it is also a way to evade taxes.

But the tax still has to be collected, and officials at all levels are still counting on this tax collection to reap benefits, and the bureaucratic system of the entire Great Liao State has not been destroyed by the attack of the Jin State, but after Xiao Ming recovered Shangjing, it is still operating normally, and Xiao Ming has no intention of interfering in this regard, it has always been Xiao Gan and others who are doing it, and he, the left-behind envoy, should be a hands-off shopkeeper.

The collection of the animal husbandry tax actually does not fall on the peasants, this kind of tax is nationwide, the shepherd only needs to pay one lamb, and then it will return five sheep to you, and the number of sheep or cattle in the family exceeds fifty, you can get this subsidy.

The source of money is the people engaged in agricultural production, but this part of the people is now also half a herdsman, a large number of farmers actually have herds at home, as herdsmen in winter, and as farmers in summer, so the tombs in the homes of the people of Liao are mostly limited to about 50, but the Liao people are now implementing the military cantonment system, so many farmers have no herds at home and turn to raise sheep and cattle for the army, and even there are people who specialize in farming for the army.

In addition, the handicraftsmen in the city became the object of taxation, and the rich and noble families in the city did not have to pay taxes, forcing a large number of craftsmen to flee to the Jin country in recent years, and the flow of population was mostly for this area, and the Jin country from a small tribe of more than 100,000 households, soon absorbed a large number of craftsmen and farmers such as Liao, Xi and Han, and the population not only grew rapidly but also brought them a lot of advanced craftsman technology, especially iron-making technology.

In view of this, Xiao Ming suggested going to Beijing; Dozens of prefectures and counties, including Tokyo, were exempt from tax this year, but heavy taxes were levied in the areas occupied by the Jin State, and the policy was sent directly from Shangjing to all localities, and posters and poster scrolls were everywhere, and the people and craftsmen in the east were elated, while at the same time, a large number of refugees and craftsmen fled to the areas controlled by the Liao army.

But after the beginning of spring, the Jin soldiers seem to have begun to carry out a series of military operations, the movement of troops with the Huanglong Mansion as the core is very obvious, and the troops in the entire Northern Liao Kingdom occupied by the Jin army are mobilizing, and they have prepared at least 200,000 horses to attack the Shangjing area again!