The number one scholar of the Song Dynasty

Cai You said in his heart: Gao Qiu wanted to have both sides, but he just dared to instruct his son to hang out with Yang Lin. Liang Shicheng won the imperial army with great difficulty, how could he just sit back and watch him surrender to Yang Lin or have an ambiguous attitude.

Suddenly, Cai You was stunned. Gao Qiu and his son were easily spotted by Liang Shicheng, so what about himself?

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On the official road to the west of Bianliang, dozens of captains of the Longevity Battalion opened the way, followed by twenty red-robed bodyguards in round-collar armor, surrounded by a pure-color white horse-drawn carriage surrounded by luxurious carriages with green curtains. It was Yang Lin and his party who rushed to Yan'an Mansion.

Yang Lin leaned on the seat cushion woven with red hearts and gold rims, looking at the two little beauties in front of him with a Buddha-like expression. Yang Tianai, who was dressed in a white dress, was concentrating on changing the benzoin in the incense burner at his feet, turning her head from time to time to sweetly greet him. laugh.Zhong Guiyi, who was covered in a red dress, was holding a golden-yellow peeled peach, his mouth was full of juice, and his fingers were sticky.

It's so fucking boring, I knew the journey would be so boring, so I brought a few concubines here.It's all because of the momentary soft-heartedness, and the two lolis couldn't help begging. After taking them out, Yang Lin realized that it was a big miscalculation.

These two live treasures are like dog skin plasters, sticking to his side, and Yang Lin, who is eager to bully men and women along the way, can't do anything.

Yang Lin was very idle, opened the curtain, and stretched his head out of the carriage.

"How long will it take to arrive in Shaanxi?"

Lu Qian rode his horse over, lifted the reins and said, "Young Zai, we'll go to Jiezhou in no time. After two miles from Jingshan Mountain, we can see Shaanxi."

"Lead me a horse. It's too stuffy in the carriage. It's better to ride the horse with the whip. Let someone guard the carriage and the people inside, and just drive slowly behind." Yang Lin thought, throwing away the two Little loli, go have fun first.

As soon as Yang Lin finished speaking, two girls got out of the carriage, staring and pinching their waists, looking extremely dissatisfied.

"We want to ride horses too, we don't want a carriage."

"Yes, I will share a horse with you." Zhong Guiyi said confidently.

Yang Lin smiled bitterly, got on the horse, and pulled the two girls onto the horse's back one by one with each hand.She hugged Xiao Taozi in the front, and Yang Tianai hugged his waist in the back with a blushing face.

Yang Lin scolded: "I cultivate myself for half a month, I'll talk about it when I get to Yan'an Mansion!"

After speaking, he held the rein in his hand and lightly kicked the horse's belly. Herod's horse under his crotch also let out a long neigh, and immediately flew away with all four hooves.

Chapter 238 A Tale

Do you want to fight Youyan in the Northern Expedition?

It is definitely going to be fought, but it is definitely not now. Da Song's military power is actually not as strong as it looks.

In the successive success stories over the past few years, none of them was a real hard-fought victory.

Yang Lin is well aware of this, the downfall of Xixia is more because Xixia hoped that the first battle will fix the world and restore the disadvantages that have been gradually eroded.

This gave Tong Guan a chance to conquer Xixia so smoothly, and the territory of Xixia has not been completely pacified so far.Many party aristocrats still control a large area of ​​land, with soldiers and horses in their hands.

If it wasn't for Yang Lin's deceit to fight a real battle with Dali's 37 Wuman tribes in the mountains and mountains in the southwest, [-]% of the Song Dynasty would not be able to win.

Khitan, as a huge empire of dominance and mediocrity, is about to die, but its foundations still exist, and it has lost its ambition to send troops south. The monarchs and ministers are all immersed in the last afterglow of the Daliao Dynasty to enjoy themselves.

Such a behemoth is a natural barrier, which can block the more fierce and ruthless alien race from the north for the Song Dynasty, which is not yet strong enough, and buy more time to develop and become stronger.

The ancient tea-horse road, the place where horses are raised in the northwest, all kinds of frontiers and fierce foreign soldiers, a great situation is in front of us. At this time, instead of taking advantage of the situation to train strong soldiers, we have to use the long-tired western army, Tongguan private soldiers, and uninitiated recruits from Hebei. The recruits who were trained to provoke a big war, a big war between the two largest empires in the world, are simply stupid.

For their own power, these people forcibly bet on the national fortune of the Han Dynasty, and Yang Lin must stop them both publicly and privately.

Yan'an Mansion is an important town in the north, with a dense population, Yang Tianai sat on the horse and looked at a towering tower in the city, about nine feet high, leaning over and asking: "Father, look at that tower, it's so tall."

Zhong Guiyi was very proud, and triumphantly said: "That is Zhen Qiang Tower, which was built by my great-grandfather!" Yang Lin laughed dumbfounded, stroked her little nose, and said: "Your surname, everyone knows your majesty." gone."

Yang Lin didn't ride slowly, but was only pulled away by Lu Qian for three days. When he led the Longevity Battalion into the city, all the generals and officials of the Yan'an Mansion came out to greet him.

Today's Yang Lin is the backer of the entire Western Army. When the veteran generals of the Western Army went to Beijing to ask for help, they ran into obstacles everywhere, gritted their teeth, tightened their belts, and fought with the party members on a hungry stomach. It seemed like yesterday. The Western Army naturally paid special attention to it This big tree.

After sitting down in line, generals of the Western Army who heard the news came from various military states one after another.

After exchanging pleasantries, Yang Lin cut to the chase and said, "The Mongols crossed the Khitan when they requested to open a border market. The entire grassland is under the rule of the Khitan. They may not condone such a thing."

When Master Zhong heard this, his heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Young Zai, Khitan controls the tribes of Mongolia in name, but in fact they have never regarded them as their own people. The Khitan nobles often went westward, hunting herdsmen and plundering women and children. As a slave, now that the Mongolian tribes choose to open the market, the harm to Khitan is not too great, so there should be no overreaction."

The border general, after all, is not a member of the imperial court, and has the limitations of his vision.

Yang Lin sipped his tea and said, "Opening a cross-border market is by no means normal. The Khitan doesn't care about it, which is equivalent to opening a head for other tribes and Fans. What's more, the Mongolian imports into the Song Dynasty are all military equipment, especially war horses.

No matter how stupid the Khitan people are, they will not sit back and watch us have endless war horses. Who doesn’t know that the Song Dynasty has money, and it is not difficult to let go of the border market and buy out Mongolian horses.”

The generals smiled heartily, Yao Gu got up and said: "Master, this matter is not difficult, if Khitan dares to go south, the subordinates are willing to be the vanguard."

The teacher still had a proud face, and said flatly: "You can attack Heishan first, go out of Xijing Road, take Dading Mansion, surround Shangjing, and capture Liao Emperor alive."

Yang Keshi slapped the table, spitting flying all over the place: "Speak to all the tribes of Mongolia, let's go north together and capture the faint king Yelu Yanxi alive."

The Northwest generals discussed in full swing, and the scene was once very jubilant.

Yang Lin's fingers trembled angrily, he grabbed the teacup and threw it on the ground, and immediately fell silent.

"Now that the Western Xia has just finished fighting, the party and the party have not returned to their hearts, Tubo is eager to try, and the northwest frontier is not monolithic. At this time, instead of thinking about tidying up the right and consolidating the Hetao, I actually thought about fighting Khitan!

Although Khitan is no longer as brave as it used to be, it still has millions of troops and thousands of generals, how could it be so easy to take down.

The territory of Khitan extends to the East China Sea in the east, the Tianshan Mountains in the west, the Xing'an Mountains in the north, and the Baigou River in Hebei in the south. It is several times larger than that of the Song Dynasty. Can you destroy and occupy it?

Now Khitan is riddled with many diseases and is gradually declining, and all ethnic groups in the country are unwilling to surrender.Going to attack Khitan now, isn't it helping them integrate the whole country and rise again? "

In fact, the Khitan nation is really not as cruel as Jurchen and Mongolia.

In 947, Emperor Taizong of the Liao Dynasty led his army south to the Central Plains and captured Bianliang, Kaifeng. Yelu Deguang ascended the throne in Bianjing and proclaimed himself emperor, changing the name of the country to "Daliao".After that, they withdrew from the Central Plains by themselves, occupying only the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and returned to the grasslands to rule as kings.

The generals were speechless, Zhong Shidao laughed, clasped his fists and said: "Warriors are ignorant, Shao Zai calms his anger, what Shao Zai plans to do, our Western Army will listen to Shao Zai."

He waved his hand lightly, and someone brought new tea, Yang Lin sighed and said, "To resolve this matter, Mongolia, Khitan and our Great Song must sit down and talk."

"Young Zai said just now that the Khitan must be intolerable. If you sit down and see the Mongols, wouldn't you want to throw the table and start a war?"

Yang Lin smiled and said: "From the point of view of the interests of the entire Khitan nation, they are not allowed to talk, but from the perspective of the interests of individual Khitan individuals, this may not be the case. Now the government of Khitan is in the hands of Brother Xiao Fengxian. People are greedy for money and power, if you bribe him, Khitan can do anything!"

Buying the powerful officials of the enemy country and selling their national interests, this seems to be used by foreigners in the Han Dynasty in the past.

To act like this is not only Feng Jiyue, but also a little bit of Song Dynasty's strength of character.

Seeing a group of generals, Yang Lin was a little ashamed, wiped his eyelids and said: "There is no distinction between high and low in strategy itself, but in the purpose and identity of the person who uses it. Our actions today are for the long-term stability of the Song Dynasty, and for the border Enjoy peace forever, and in the future, it will surely leave a name in history for people to look up to."

Yang Lin said

Everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, fighting for the generals but knowing how to make meritorious deeds, this kind of thing is still a bit ashamed to be an accomplice, only Zhong Shidao said: "In this case, we will ask the court for bribes?"

"Everyone in the court is short-sighted, so how could they come up with money? This matter is taken care of by me. You just need to send someone to escort my people to Khitan, and use money to smash Xiao Fengxian to death!"

Chapter 239 Subduing the Hengshan Qiangs