Chapter 371, Internal Affairs and Military

When Erunton heard Yang Peng say the same, he couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart. Ya Yu Guanyin said to Yang Peng: "I said the same to him just now, but the Empress Dowager has made up her mind, and I am worried that this battle is inevitable!" Yang Peng looked at Erronton and said, "If you want to deal with the Japanese people, I am naturally willing." ……”

Seeing that Yang Peng agreed, Erlongton was overjoyed and said excitedly: "In this way, the Japanese people will definitely be defeated!" Yang Peng raised his right hand, "Don't be happy yet." Although I agreed to deal with the Japanese together, our army is currently short of food and grass, and we cannot mobilize a large army, and I do not want to send a large army across thousands of miles of sea to attack the Japanese in Goryeo now! I, Yanyun, can cooperate with your country, but I can only send a naval army, just like our army cooperated with your country to deal with the Japanese people before! ”

Elronton hurriedly said, "Even so, that's a great help!" ”

Yang Peng frowned and thought for a moment, then raised his head and said to Errondun: "I still say the same thing, now is not the time for the Liao State to use troops on a large scale!" The current situation in Liaoguo should rest and recuperate and wait for the opportunity! "Erlongton couldn't help but secretly say: 'The strength of my Great Liao Kingdom has been greatly damaged, and it is not thanks to Your Excellency!' Of course, he didn't dare to say this, so he bowed down and said: "The envoy remembers King Yan's words, and he will definitely tell the Empress Dowager!" ”

Yang Peng remembered something and asked, "Mongolians, have you made any recent moves?" ”

Erunton shook his head, "In the past few months, the Mongolian side has been very calm, and there has been no movement. Yang Peng reminded: "The Mongols intend to destroy the Liao State, you can't take it lightly!" Ellonton said: "Thank you King Yan for your concern!" King Yan rest assured, the king of our country is sitting in Shangjingdao, and even if the Mongols have any changes, they are not afraid of them! ”

Yang Peng nodded, feeling that as an outsider, he could only talk about this, and what he did could only depend on themselves.

Erlongton bowed and said, "Since the King of Yan has agreed to join forces with our country to deal with the Japanese people, this envoy will reply to the Empress Dowager and His Majesty the Emperor like this?" Yang Peng nodded. Erlongton said: "Then the envoy will not disturb King Yan's rest, farewell!" Yang Peng said: "It's good for you to go!" Elundon bowed to Yang Peng and left.

Yang Peng saw Ye Yu Guanyin's frowning and contemplative appearance, and asked, "Worried about the Liao Kingdom?" ”

Ya Kannon sighed, "I'm not a princess anymore, what are you worried about!" Yang Peng smiled and said: "You don't have to worry too much, the strength of the Liao State is not weaker than our Yanyun, and there should be no problem in dealing with the Japanese people." Ya Kannon smiled bitterly, "I hope so!" Shaking his head, he said to Yang Peng: "Let's not talk about this!" Yang Peng smiled and nodded. Ye Yu Guanyin stepped forward, grabbed Yang Peng's palm, pulled Yang Peng up, blushed, and said with a wild expression: "You finally came to me, I can't waste time!" Yang Peng smiled, then put his right hand around her waist, hugged her slender waist, and said solemnly: "My wife has a life, and being a husband is naturally a good man and then he dies!" Ya Yin smirked, and then the two of them hugged each other and turned the screen and left the hall. Jiang Li and the others stayed in the hall and did not follow.

Yang Peng and Ye Yu Guanyin hugged each other and walked in the dim tree-lined path, soft-spoken, affectionate, Ye Yu Guanyin laughed from time to time, sometimes blamed Yang Peng in shame, and even gently punched him.

The two came to the embroidery building of Ye Yu Guanyin, Yang Peng impatiently hugged Ye Yu Guanyin and kissed him, Ye Yu Guanyin pushed him away angrily, and said angrily: "Don't worry, drink something first!" Yang Peng smiled: "Drink, okay!" ”

Ye Yu Guanyin turned around gracefully, walked to the small table next to the bed, and brought a white porcelain wine bottle, Yang Peng smiled, turned over the two teacups that were buckled on the table and put them away. Ya Kannon pulled out the cork, poured two teacups full, then plugged the cork, put the wine bottle on the table, and urged: "Drink it quickly!" ”

Yang Peng picked up a glass of wine, and a strong smell of herbs came to his nose, and he couldn't help frowning, "What is this?" Ya Yu Guanyin said, "This is the medicinal wine I asked for from Miss Jinzhi. Yang Peng couldn't cry or laugh, "I'm in good health, I don't need to drink medicinal wine." ”

Ya Yu Guanyin said distressedly: "We have been together for so long, but I have never been able to conceive!" I heard that this medicinal wine is very spiritual, and both men and women can easily get pregnant after drinking a glass before having sex! Yang Peng understood, nodded and said, "Since it's so good, then I'll drink it!" Then he tilted his head and dried up a full glass of medicinal wine. Ya Kannon was very happy and drank her cup of medicinal wine. As soon as he finished drinking, Ye Yu Guanyin couldn't wait to drag Yang Peng to the bed. ……

The joyful song of joy and weeping lasted for a long time, and did not stop until more than an hour later, and the whole courtyard seemed extraordinarily quiet, and the noise in the distance seemed to be another world.

Ye Yu Guanyin was lying on Yang Peng's chest tiredly, her whole body skin was flushed with attractive pink, her hair was sprinkled on the pillow on the side and Yang Peng's chest, and most of her slender legs and jade arms were exposed.

Yang Peng hugged Ye Yu Guanyin's slender waist and sighed, "How many times did we do it just now?" Ya Yu Guanyin said coquettishly: "I don't know, I didn't count!" Yang Peng's heart fluttered, he raised his left hand and pinched Ye Yu Guanyin's chin, and sighed: "You were too scary just now, you are simply a goblin, and you look like you won't give up until you squeeze your eldest brother dry!" Ya Yu Guanyin glanced at Yang Peng with disgust, "It's just to be squeezed dry, lest you go to find another woman!" Yang Peng smiled, tiredness welled up, he couldn't help closing his eyes, and muttered, "I'm so tired, I'm going to sleep!" Ya Yu Guanyin smiled, pillowed his head on Yang Peng's chest, and closed his eyes. ……

Sleeping until midnight, Yang Peng woke up because of urgency. Seeing that Ya Yu Guanyin in his arms was sleeping soundly, he carefully got out of the entanglement of the pink leg jade arm. I got out of bed, took a robe from the hanger next to it, put it on, and went downstairs gently. When I came to the toilet downstairs, I spilled a big bubble of urine, and the whole person shivered. Lifting his pants, turning around, he saw a person appear in front of him, in the middle of the night, Yang Peng thought he had seen a ghost and was startled. But when I looked closely, I found that it was Jiang Li. He sighed and said angrily: "Lili, you almost scared me to death!" ”

Jiang Li didn't speak, and suddenly pounced, and before Yang Peng could react, he felt the warm fragrance of nephrite in his arms, and smiled, "What's wrong?" Jiang Li raised her head and said faintly: "People miss you!" Then he said angrily: "You said before that you would accompany me well tonight!" Yang Peng couldn't help but be embarrassed, if Jiang Li hadn't reminded him, he would have forgotten about it, and said softly: "Where to go?" Jiang Li looked at Yang Peng with shining eyes, and then took Yang Peng's hand and ran out of the embroidery building, along the edge of the small pond, and plunged into the middle of the rockery. Jiang Li stopped suddenly, turned around and threw herself into Yang Peng's arms, raised her head, and took the initiative to offer her red lips. ……

Yang Peng returned to the upper floor exhausted, and at this time Ya Yu Guanyin was still immersed in sleep. Yang Peng got into bed, took Ya Yu Guanyin into his arms, closed his eyes, and soon fell asleep. ……

The next day, Cheng Shijie, Duan Zhixian, Liu Zhiliang, Zhou Dayong, Zhang Yan and other brothers stationed in various places came, Yang Peng was very happy, set up a banquet in the backyard of his home, and played fists with the brothers for a whole afternoon, and everyone was drunk on the ground before he stopped. On the same day, the envoys of Tubo and many civil and military generals came, but Yang Peng was already drunk, so he had to wait until the next day to meet them. ……

A few days passed quickly, the night of Chinese New Year's Eve finally arrived, the entire Tianjing New City City was brilliantly lit, turning the night into day, there were singing stages everywhere, there were people reveling everywhere, and on the Xincheng River passing through the city, countless river lights turned a human river into a starry river, dazzling, and there were constantly young men and women coming to the river to put down the river lanterns carrying the wishes of the two together!

In the palace of King Yan, envoys from all over the country, as well as civil ministers and military generals from all over Yanyun, visited Yang Peng together, and the scene was unprecedented. Then Yang Peng made a brief speech, and then a big banquet, envoys and military generals of various countries frequently toasted Yang Peng, Yang Peng did not refuse, until he was drunk, and still did not have fun. At twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, huge fires and fireworks were lit all over the Tianjing New Town, the sky was dazzling, the stars and the moon were robbed of their brilliance, and the joyful atmosphere reached its peak at this time.

Soon after, the hustle and bustle of the city gradually fell silent, but it was still very noisy, and there were still many people partying in the streets and alleys, and this continued for a whole night. Tianjing New Town never sleeps, this may be a unique wonder of this era. ……

The next day, it wasn't until it was close to noon that Yang Peng woke up. I only felt the pain of my head exploding one after another, and my head was heavy, as if I couldn't lift it up. Recalling the joyful atmosphere of yesterday's banquet, I couldn't help but smile. Taking a deep breath, I got off the bed, and my feet on the ground felt as if I were stepping on cotton, light and fluttering, as if I didn't have any strength. Staggered to the table, sat down, opened a teacup, picked up the teapot and poured a full cup of tea, first took a sip of tea and rinsed his mouth, spit it out, and then drank the tea dry, exhaled a long breath, and the whole person was sober.

The door creaked open, and Jiang Li, who had been guarding outside, heard the voice come in. The sunlight shone in from behind her, and Yang Peng was suddenly hit by the sunlight, and couldn't help but be fascinated by his eyes. Seeing this, Jiang Li hurriedly closed the door!

Yang Peng glanced at Jiang Li with a smile and praised: "Really good!" Jiang Li smiled. Yang Peng looked outside, "What time is it now?" "It's almost noon!" Yang Peng knocked his forehead, "I really drank high yesterday!" Jiang Li smiled: "Not only is the master drinking high, everyone is drinking high!" But everyone remembered that there was a meeting today, so they all dragged themselves and staggered over. ”

Yang Peng smiled, "It's really hard for them." After a pause, "How can everyone be in this state!" You go and tell them to go back and have a good day's rest and come over tomorrow morning for a meeting! Jiang Li answered and left.

Yang Peng walked to the yard, was illuminated by the warm winter sun, only felt dizzy, moved a little, and the whole person was a lot refreshed. At this time, several female guards came, one with a basin of water, one with a towel and salt to clean teeth, in ancient times, there was no toothpaste, and families with conditions used salt to clean their teeth, and the other female guard held a food plate, in which there was a bowl of porridge, a stack of steamed buns, and a small plate of sauerkraut.

Yang Peng finished washing up under the service of the female guard, and then sat down in the small gazebo, eating breakfast while basking in the warm winter sun. Several female guards stood around.

A person walked in at the arch, it was Jiang Li, who had just been ordered to go out to interrogate. Jiang Li walked quickly to Yang Peng, hugged her fists and said, "Master, I have already let everyone leave according to your order." Yang Peng nodded and beckoned her: "Come on, come on, eat with me." Jiang Li sat down, picked up a steamed bun and ate it in small bites. Yang Peng looked at her with a smile, Jiang Li felt Yang Peng's eyes, and glanced at him charmingly, which made Chen Xiao's heart flutter and his index finger moved.

Hurried footsteps suddenly sounded at the door, and everyone turned their heads to look, only to see a female guard running briskly. The female guard ran to the pavilion, presented a letter with both hands, and reported: "Master, the secret letter just came from Western Xia!" ”

Yang Peng's heart moved. Jiang Li got up and took the secret letter and forwarded it to Yang Peng. Yang Peng picked up the secret letter, opened the envelope, took out the letterhead, unfolded it and looked at it. Nodding slightly, he muttered, "So what's going on?" Li Qingxia is really powerful, who would have thought that she would actually use such a scheme! Put down the letter, thought for a moment, turned to Jiang Li and said, "Go and call Mei'er." Jiang Li answered and ran down.

After a while, I saw Yelu Hanyu, who was dressed in civilian clothes, following Jiang Li over quickly. Seeing Yang Peng, Yelu Hanyu smiled and said, "Little sister thought that the eldest brother would sleep until the afternoon, but I didn't expect to get up!" Yang Peng smiled, took Yelu Hanyu's slender hand and walked out of the pavilion, strolling along the small pond in the courtyard, but in the other hand he was holding the letter he had just received.

Yang Peng handed the letter to Yelu Hanyu, "Take a look." Yelu Hanyu took the letter, couldn't help but stop, and read it. Yang Peng also stopped and stood by the pond with his hands behind his back.

After a while, Yelu Hanyu stepped forward, handed the letter back to Yang Peng, and frowned: "Li Qingxia's approach is really unexpected, but it can be said that she has not achieved her goal by unscrupulous means!" Yang Peng nodded, "Yes!" In order to ascend to the throne, he actually encouraged his eldest brother to launch a mutiny to attack his father, and then when his father and brother were both defeated, he suddenly took action to eliminate both sides in one fell swoop and ascend to the throne! and also pushed the charge of killing the king and killing the father on the eldest brother, and executed the eldest brother in this way! Ruthless and decisive, counting birds with one stone, I really underestimated her before! ”

Yelu Hanyu sighed and glanced at Yang Peng, "Big brother, speaking of which, she was also forced by big brother!" ”

Yang Peng was stunned for a moment, then remembered the gambling contract between himself and Li Qingxia, and thought: "If she is not such a decisive and ruthless character, even if she has this gambling contract, I am afraid that she will not be able to do this kind of thing!" Yelu Hanyu couldn't help but nod and frowned, "Big brother, I'm afraid it's difficult to destroy Western Xia within two years!" Although the Western Xia country has suffered a great setback, and has experienced this civil strife, after all, it is a powerful country that has been inherited for more than a hundred years, and its potential cannot be underestimated, and now there is such a powerful person as Li Qingxia to lead them, although our Yanyun is strong, but to destroy the Western Xia, even if we do our best, it will be difficult to do it in a short time! This does not take into account the factors of other countries, if Li Qingxia unites Tubo and the imperial court, I am afraid that the situation will be reversed, and we will even capsize in the gutter! ”

Yang Peng looked thoughtful and said categorically: "The matter has come to this point, it's useless to think so much!" Only by exterminating him with all our might, we will definitely be able to do it! Yelu Hanyu couldn't help but increase his confidence when he heard Yang Peng's categorical words.

The annual Yanyun regular meeting was held in the palace hall, and military and political officials from all over Yanyun came to attend. First of all, Zhang Xiang and Cai Huaishui made reports on internal affairs and the military respectively. Internal Affairs: The areas currently controlled by Yanyun include Nanjing Road in the former Liao, that is, the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, which is probably the current Beijing area and the northern region of Hebei Province; Hebei East Road, Hebei West Road, and Hedong Road under the control of the former Northern Song Dynasty are probably the current southern Hebei region, and Jingdong East Road and Jingdong West Road are now Shandong; Qinfeng Road, now the southern region of Gansu Province, Yongxing Military Road, now Shaanxi Province, as well as the Lianghuai region, the Ryukyu region. Yanyun's current control area is basically the area north of the Yangtze River except for the current Hubei Province, Henan Province, half of Anhui and the area north of the Yangtze River from Hanzhong to Xichuan in the west, and the Central Plains in the traditional sense has basically been included by Yanyun.

Population: The total population of various places exceeds 26 million, but the population distribution is not even, among the 26 million population, nearly half of them are in Yanjing and Lianghuai regions, and the Shaanxi and Gansu regions are the most extensive, but the population is the least, although the population is small, but the people in the bitter cold land are often hard-working and good at fighting, so the conscription work of the Yanyun Army in recent times is mainly carried out in the Shaanxi and Gansu regions. The other is in the Ryukyu region, which now has a population of about 3 million.

Trade and handicraft industry: Tianjing New Town, Lianghuai area of trade and handicraft development is very rapid, can be described as a thousand miles, now the two places of trade and handicraft industry has surpassed the Yanyun 16 states, and the momentum is still strong, of which the development of trade and handicraft in the two Huai area is particularly eye-catching; The development of Shanxi is also very rapid, and Shanxi specialties such as old vinegar have become popular products in commerce; In the Shaanxi and Gansu regions, due to the serious damage caused by the previous war, the trade and handicraft industry has only just begun to recover, and although the momentum is good, it is much backward compared with other regions, and it is not possible to replenish the treasury for the time being, and blood transfusions are constantly needed.

In terms of agricultural production, the newly reclaimed wasteland in various localities has doubled compared with the previous year, and more than 70 percent of the cultivated land that was abandoned because of the war has been restored, and this year's grain harvest has already been harvested, and if the weather in the coming year is the same as this year, it is estimated that the output will increase by 3 or 40 percent.

Taxes: Agricultural taxes are relatively stable, business and trade revenues continue to grow strongly, and the normal fiscal revenue this year is more than 26 million, but due to the cost of resuming construction in various places, the consumption is even greater, more than 30 million, and the deficit is more than 4 million.

Military aspect: Yanyun Army is still the top ten legions, two royal guards and Xuanjia army, of which the strength of the directly subordinate legion is stronger than before, because the Yang family army, Gao family army, Cao family army, etc. have been reorganized into the direct legion, the current scale of the direct legion exceeds 400,000, including 90,000 cavalry, including 20,000 Yanwang iron cavalry, that is, the heavy armored cavalry equipped with Yanwang horse and the new Xuantian battle armor, which may be the most powerful heavy armored war horse in the world; In addition, the number of the nine legions remains unchanged, the Jinyi Guard, the Secret Guard, the Feifeng Female Guard and the Xuanjia Army, the number of people remains the same, the total strength exceeds 560,000, the army alone, the Yanyun Army has nearly a million people, but in terms of total strength, it is not more than the Khitan Army and the Song Army, the Song Army's forbidden army currently has more than 1.1 million, and the strength of the Khitan Army is about this number.

In addition to the main body of the army, Yanyun's military strength also includes artillery and naval forces, and the artillery has expanded from five artillery teams to ten, with more than 100 artillery pieces in each artillery team; The navy has expanded from the original 5,000 to 50,000 today, and the number of cruisers equipped with 24 guns has increased to 60, and the rest of the warships are innumerable. The flintlock pistol was mainly used in the Tianjing New Town, and the Ryukyu and Lianghuai regions, but was not really used in cavalry combat, and all the northern legions were not equipped.

After listening to the report, everyone was very excited, and Liu Zhiliang couldn't help but sigh: "The world only thinks that our Yanyun Army is invincible, but in fact, they don't know that our water army is truly unparalleled in the world!" ”

Wang Hai, the commander of the navy, said with a smile: "General Liu has won the award, how can our navy be compared with the army brothers, the combat power can't be compared, and the combat record is even more incomparable!" ”

Liu Zhiliang said with a smile: "General Wang is too modest, and his achievements are just because the brothers of the navy have not had a chance to play!" ”

Wang Hai couldn't help but hug his fist at Yang Peng and said: "King Yan, our navy is now full of soldiers, can't we just let us stay in the water village and sleep?" Wang Rong said angrily: "King Yan thinks that our water army is useless, so he is always reluctant to use it!" ”

Yang Peng looked at Wang Rong and said with a smile: "I don't think the navy is useless!" After a pause, "This year, I'm afraid that the navy will be too busy!" Wang Hai Wang Rong's eyes lit up, and Wang Hai said loudly: "It's good if you can't be busy, at least it's better than being idle and having lice on your body!" The crowd burst into laughter.

Yang Peng gestured at Jiang Li, who immediately commanded the Feifeng Female Guard to hang a huge map behind Chen Xiao. Everyone looked at it and saw that it was the whole picture of Huan Yu, and everyone had seen it, so they were not surprised. This Huanyu map, according to the current words is the world map, before Yang Peng drew a rough according to the knowledge he mastered, but many of the details are blank, today's Huanyu map, many details have not been filled, such as the countries around the Indian Ocean, as well as the countries around the Mediterranean Sea and European countries, etc., have been filled in, and now it seems that it feels much richer than at the beginning.

Yang Peng stood up, pointed to Japan, and said: "This year, there will be a big war between the Khitans and the Japanese people, and we have to help the Khitans." ”

Wang Hai frowned and said, "Do you want to fight the fleet of the Japanese again?" I'm afraid this is not easy to do, as soon as we go, the Japanese will definitely move the channel to a very northerly place in order to avoid our navy, and our navy has traveled a long distance, with huge consumption and little gain. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.