Twelve horsemen and twenty-four horses reined in their horses on the hillside, and in the summer sun, the long shadows dragged on the grass were a little blurred, but they could not hide the magnificent scenery in front of them; the mountains overlapped, the eyes were verdant, the blue sky was like washing, everywhere were grazing cattle and sheep, and the oncoming wind blew in addition to dust, and the intermittent sound of camel bells. The Great Wall is already clearly visible, and the Great Wall built by Qin Shi Huang in order to resist Hu Qi is now a mainland scenery of the Liao people, which makes Yang Zhi indeed a little depressed.

Master Tianxin looked at Yang Zhi silently and said softly, "The temple is at the foot of the mountain, and we are waiting for you here." ”

Master Tianxin's two disciples, Sha Jing and Buddha Nanda, seemed to have something to say, but seeing that Master Tianxin had dismounted, he had to dismount with eight soldiers of the Liao army, and watched Yang Zhi go down the mountain alone; Master Tianxin understood the disciple's thoughts, and said in a deep voice: "I can see far and high here, when I was not successful in martial arts, I often came to Yang Invincible Temple, when I was happy, and when I was afraid, because no matter how difficult I felt, there was no difficulty in Yang Ye's past. Now the emperor values it and is named a national teacher, but what can he do about state affairs, Yang Zhi is an exception, this young man has the potential to change the fate of our Great Liao, as well as the Great Song Dynasty, the Jin Kingdom, and the Western Xia. ”

Master Tianxin's beard is white, and he is rarely a little sad when he speaks, and it is always a little difficult to talk about relying on a Song person to change the fate of Da Liao; Sha Jing and Buddha Nanda suddenly feel that they are very small, even ridiculous, they have not experienced anything, and they are still thinking about how to participate in the government and change to themselves, and they definitely do not have the vision and courage of Master Tianxin, and they are all caught in their own hearts for a while.

"Look. Master Tianxin said a little emotionally: "This day, this mountain, this wind, are all our Da Liao, if we don't work hard, maybe one day it will not be ours, it will be the Jin Kingdom, or the Great Song Dynasty." We must cheer up, from the overall point of view, we no longer have the capital to fight to the end with the Jin State, now it is to buy time, in the history of the Central Plains, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, had the humiliation of Bai Deng, and Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, had the Weishui Alliance, but then they all turned over, that is, to make themselves stronger. Now many people from the Khitan and other ethnic groups have defected to Aguta, and we need the help of the Han people. ”

The Liao State was ruled by the Han and the Khitan and other Hu peoples, and rarely relied on the Han army in terms of fighting, unless it was a famous general like Yang Gon, and the Khitans regarded themselves as superior to the Han in this regard. Sha Jing is a Uighur, Buddha Nanda is a Khitan, and their status is higher than that of the Han Chinese, and they are silent when they hear this; Master Tianxin's mood is a little heavy, and even his own disciples can't see what the consequences are, and the future prospects of Da Liao will be very bleak: "I am not as good as hell, who will go to hell." ”

As a child of the Xiao family, Buddha Nanda understood that Master Tianxin was good and should be supported, but he should also be accommodating with Xiao Fengxian. ”

Master Tianxin frowned slightly and said: "In your eyes, Yelu Dashi and I are such people who don't know the overall situation? Take Yang Zhi to see the emperor, I will go to Zhongjing Dading Mansion with Yang Zhi, no matter what Yang Zhi thinks, whether he is an official or a businessman, he can only start there." ”

Yang Invincible Temple is located at the foot of a mountain surrounded by two mountains in the east of the Gubeikou River, just on the side of the road, the temple sits in the north and faces south, there are only two big locust trees and three bolted horse piles in front of the temple, the shadow wall is damaged, the mountain gate is very old; there is a tall plaque on the mountain gate, the book "Yang Invincible Temple" four big characters, both sides of the mountain gate are all blank, since the Liao people want to laugh at the Song Dynasty, naturally will not publicize Yang Ye's achievements too much. Only Su Zhe's poem is written on it: "The ancestral hall is lonely and closes, and the weeds still know how to avoid blood." A defeat is pitiful and not a war crime, and he is too rigid and afraid of others. Chi drive for the Central Plains, taste can make the exotic respect, I want to be more than Jun Zhou Ziyin, Zhu Tong to talk enough to comfort the soul of loyalty. ”

Yang Zhi kowtowed in front of the mountain gate and entered the temple, walked around, found that there are two halls before and after, there are things with the hall and the Zen room, the main hall of the front hall is the statue of the ancestor Yang Ye, about two meters high, wearing armor, wearing a war helmet, soothing eyebrows, wide mouth, gray beard, a majestic posture; there are two rows of warriors draped in the whole body on the left and right sides of the shrine, the demeanor is different, lifelike. The apse and side hall are just sculptures of samurai, which should only be for a bit of a scale.

Yang Zhi found out before the incense was put on the incense that there was incense in the incense burner that had been served for the past two days, and the temple was clean, although he wondered in his heart, he still put sacrifices, lit sandalwood, and respectfully knelt down and kowtowed nine heads. Yang Zhi knelt until the incense was burned, and then kowtowed and stood up, as a person who crossed it is difficult not to believe in ghosts and gods, but it is completely contrary to the knowledge he has learned, Yang Zhi woke up in the sandalwood, his martial arts have risen sharply these days, but he is a little obedient in doing things, because of the contradiction in his heart.

As soon as Yang Zhi stood up, he heard the neighing of war horses, someone was coming, Yang Zhi walked out of the temple gate and saw that there were two fifteen or sixteen-year-old beggars, one was strong and was teasing the horse he was riding, and the other was standing a few steps away and watching. The little beggar who teased the horse saw Yang Zhi coming over, stepped forward and asked loudly, "What are you doing at my house?"

"Your family?" Yang Zhi looked back at the temple and said, "Your surname is Yang?"

The little beggar in front of him was stunned for a moment, and the quiet little beggar came over and said, "We live here, and sometimes we take the incense of the mountain temple to incense Yang Wudi." ”

Yang Zhi understood, the war in Liao had been fought for several years, and they must have been homeless and living in the temple, nodding and saying: "That's really troublesome for you, my name is Yang Zhi, I am the descendant of Yang Ye, I came to worship my ancestors today, what is your name?"

"Descendants of the Yang family. The eyes of the two beggars lit up, and the strong beggar said, "You are from the Great Song Dynasty, my name is Li Dayan, and his name is Ji Hong." ”

The temperament and potential of the two are not bad, but after all, in Liaoguo, Yang Zhi is still cautious, nodded and asked, "Where is your home?"

"Binzhou. Li Dayan's expression was a little gloomy: "It is now occupied by the Jurchens, my father was a centurion and died outside the city, and the Ji Hong family was a medicinal herb merchant who was slaughtered by the Jin soldiers." We had no choice, so we fled all the way south, and only here did we settle down, and the nearby villages and tribes were good, and in addition to begging, sometimes we were able to do some work to earn something to eat. ”

Yang Zhi was a little moved, he escaped from Binzhou, and it would take at least three or four months to walk all the way, and he would have to cross the defense line of the Liaojin and Jin armies, at that time the two should be smaller than now, Yang Zhi asked tentatively: "What are your plans in the future?"