[Southern Song Dynasty] Splendid mountains and rivers

Zhao Yuan picked up the white jade pot and slowly poured the wine for himself.The amber liquor splashed slightly, making the white jade cup more lustrous and charming.Although she was still smiling, and her eyes were full of warmth like a spring breeze, it made Hu Shang feel shuddering.

Zhao Kai on the opposite side was already drinking with his head down, drinking one cup after another non-stop, and incidentally raised his sleeves to hide his smirk.

Funny, really funny.

Hu Shang shook his beard, gave up on Zhao Yuan, and turned to Zhao Huan and said, "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, you have an incomparably broad mind and gentle temperament. You are as great as a god on Tianshan Mountain. May your The brilliance will always shine on the earth, let us be safe and happy forever, and let our descendants be bathed in your brilliance forever."

"Yeah." Zhao Huan replied indifferently, and the expression on his face was quite helpful.

Hu Shang turned to Zhao Kai again and said, "Dear lord, your literary talent is unparalleled in the world, and your calligraphy and painting are also studied by my children. My children all say that you are a great calligrapher." And painters, they want to learn from you and be a great person."

Zhao Kai put down his wide sleeves, the corner of his mouth twitched: "Yes."

Hu Shang finally turned around and said to Zhao Yuan: "Emperor Ji is talented and beautiful. She is the object of admiration for thousands of men. When women see you, they are all eclipsed and lose their jealousy. You are the most precious gift from God. Your gift is the blessing of the world, it is..."

Zhao Yuan endured it for a long time, but he couldn't hold back the noisy voice of the Hu businessman.She asked him to shut up several times, but Zhao Huan couldn't help listening with great interest, and stopped her many times with his eyes.It wasn't until Hu Shang talked about everything from the emperor's beauty to being unparalleled in the world, all the way to boasting that the goddesses in the sky and the earth are not as good as God's Ji half a hair, that he couldn't bear to utter two words: "Shut up."

Hu Shang looked extremely aggrieved: "For us, you are the god in the sky, which is a matter of course."

"Enough." Zhao Yuan squeezed the white jade cup tightly, and slowly exhaled, "Stop talking nonsense. I won't do this business."

"Diji, you can't do this, Diji!" Hu Shang had a mournful face, barely squeezing out the snot and tears together, "You need 'those' mares, and I have more than a thousand mares in my hand, just enough Solve your urgent needs; look, isn't this deal just right? Besides, I can speak and write in four languages ​​all night, and I can also be your right-hand man..."

"unnecessary."

"Don't be like this, Diji..." Hu Shang rushed up in three steps at a time, knelt in front of Zhao Yuan's seat and cried loudly, "I am indeed a sincere businessman, and I am willing to die for you. ..."

"Okay." Zhao Yuan gently put down the white jade cup, and glanced at Hu Shang, "Do you really want to do business?"

Hu Shang hurriedly nodded.

"Then you should know that buying and selling by force has never been the way of business." She slowly raised the corners of her lips, showing a faint smile, "Business is a matter of your choice and my wish. I I don't want to get entangled with you too much, and you don't want to get entangled with me too much."

Hu Shang's expression changed slightly, he gritted his teeth, kowtowed to Zhao Huan, Zhao Kai, and Zhao Yuan, bowed and retreated.

Zhao Yuan waited for him to go far away, called a follower over, and said: "Keep an eye on him, see where he goes, who he sees, and report immediately."

The entourage agreed and chased Hu Shang away.

Zhao Huan watched a good show for free, toasted Zhao Yuan enthusiastically, and then asked curiously: "Huanhuan is not afraid to scare the snake with such a big fanfare by ordering people to follow her?"

Zhao Yuan shook his head lightly: "I'm not afraid. My original intention is - knock the mountain to shake the tiger."

"Oh?" Zhao Huan became more interested, "But I see, this person is not simple." Whether it is the horse that "you are interested in" or "those glass", it is not something ordinary Hu merchants can get in touch with. thing.Since that person dared to say it in front of Zhao Yuan, there must be someone behind him.

"It's no longer needed." Zhao Yuan curled his lips again, "He dared to offer such a price, which means that this batch of horses is real. As for whether he has someone behind him, or whether he is committed to becoming the greatest Hu merchant, that's up to him. It's not within the scope of Chenmei's consideration. There are two reasons why Chenmei doesn't do business with him: first, the price he offered is too high; second, enough information has been revealed in his words."

"Oh?" Zhao Huan became more and more excited.Even Zhao Kai stopped the jade chopsticks and listened to her explanation with great interest.

"As I said just now, since he dared to speak to me face to face, it means that those hard-earned BMWs are real, and so is the business way." In Mongolia, no matter whether the other merchant is Yelu Dashi or Li Qianshun, it is true that the other party wants "that kind of colored glaze". It is also true that they used sweaty horses as bait to lure me into the bait. Since horses and business roads really exist, then I Why - borrow his hand to buy?"

Zhao Huan was startled, and accidentally spilled the wine glass.

The amber-colored wine gurgled down the table and dripped onto the gown embroidered with dark patterns, but he had no time to take care of it, and asked hastily, "Huanhuan has a clever plan? According to Huanhuan, the Great Song Dynasty What is the chance of winning?"

This battle is too important.

How many pairs of eyes are staring at Bianliang, Yanyun, Liao, and even the remnants of Jin in the northeast.If he wins, the Song Dynasty will sweep away the decline, and Zhao Huan can also take the opportunity to support the newcomers and clear away the barriers in the court one by one; if he loses, he will ridicule everywhere and lose everything.

"I never thought in advance that the matter of Western Xia would involve so many interests." Zhao Yuan played with the white jade cup with a slightly distressed expression, "Maybe in addition to being a target, I have to go to the Western Regions myself. It's just that 'Princess Yan' must sit in Yanyun..."

Zhao Huan and Zhao Kai looked at each other and nodded slightly.

The next day, two major events occurred in Yanjing City.

The first major event was that a Hu merchant from the Western Regions was treated as a guest of honor by the officials, and he went to the princess's mansion to host a banquet every day, drinking and having fun.

The second big thing is that Roufu Diji occasionally feels cold and needs to rest for a few days without seeing outsiders.As for whether this "accidental cold" will develop into "serious illness", only the person concerned will know.

At the same time, Zhao Yuan dispatched elite soldiers and generals from several surrounding states to Yanjing to protect the safety of the officials and princes, while he drove all the way to the prairie with ease.If she remembered correctly, after leaving Huanzhou and going north, it was the territory of the Mongols.Mongolians have always lived by water and grass, so there must be few people on the border in this kind of snowy winter.

It turned out that her guess was right.

It took her more than half a month to go north from Huanzhou via Mongolia, and walk west along the border between Mongolia and Xixia.Since the incident about the "Princess of Xixia" happened last time, Zhao Yuan began to study Mongolian, Xixia and Khitan desperately.Although the attainments are not high, there is no problem with basic daily communication.So in the past month, she can be said to be unimpeded.

On the way, she gradually inquired about some news.

There are not many places of origin of sweat horses, and they are basically concentrated in the Western Regions.In the Western Han Dynasty, it was the seat of the Dawan and Yuezhi states. After the Dawan Kingdom was destroyed, it was baptized by wars in turn.It shows the Huns, Turks, Rouran, Tubo, and then Xixia and Liao.Now that the Liao army is strong and tyrannical, it has firmly occupied the land from Lop Nur to Kashmir, completely including the entire production area of ​​sweat horses.

Therefore, it is basically certain that the batch of "horses you are interested in" that the Hu businessman said is in the territory of Liao.

When she entered the border of the Liao Kingdom, the Liao general Xiao Orila and his [-] troops had just won a big victory.The Liao Emperor happily held a celebration banquet, praised the generals who participated in the battle, and consolidated his position by the way.It's a pity that his celebration banquet was held at an inopportune time. The No. [-] fierce general Xiao Wuli assassinated in the pursuit of the Xixia Kingdom was brought out by Yelu Dashi.

Zhao Yuan once watched the celebration banquet from afar, the singing and dancing, it was hot and intense, very Khitan style.A celebration banquet lasted for ten days and ten nights, until Emperor Liao himself felt that something was wrong and issued an edict to stop the banquet. Unfortunately, no one listened to him.

The Liao Kingdom was having a carnival, and the Liao Emperor was "being" carnivaled.

A long-planned palace change was staged. Yelu Dashi and Xiao Wuli, who had just won the battle, jointly announced the ten crimes of Emperor Liao. The first one was to be captured by the enemy and lose the face of Liao.Emperor Liao pointed at Yelu Dashi and was speechless for a long time. Yelu Dashi ended Liao Emperor's life with a machete.At that time Zhao Yuan was still outside the city wall, he could only hear the sound of fighting inside, weaving into blood.

Emperor Liao had no sons, and Yelu Dashi made great contributions to welcoming Emperor Liao and sending troops to Xixia. He was revered as the new emperor and ruled Xiliao.

The new emperor ascended the throne with three fires, and the first one was burned on the old officials of the Liao emperor.The old ministers of Emperor Liao fled to death, and those who did not escape would not live long.Like a ghost, Zhao Yuan roamed the capital of the Western Liao Kingdom day and night, finding one dying person after another, and finally uncovered some secrets of the Liao Kingdom.For example, the location of the racecourse, for example, Yelu Dashi was very ambitious early in the morning.

She started buying horses in Xiliao.

First, one horse, then ten horses, and finally hundreds of horses... She doesn't mind at all that her space becomes a stable, anyway, now she can manipulate the space freely, as long as a simple thought, the space can be moved freely. Fresh as ever.

However, Xiliao's horses were gradually sold out by her.

Zhao Yuan acted cautiously, did not buy military horses, but went to several private horse farms, and nested bit by bit.By the time the new emperor of Xiliao burned the old school of Liao to the ground with the first fire, and was ambitiously preparing to burn the second fire, she had already stayed in Xiliao for two full months, and basically bought all the horses she could buy. Empty.

Yelu Dashi was horrified to find that among the fine-bred BMWs in his country, especially the king of horses, there were only male ones left in just a few months, and they disappeared without a trace. According to the investigation, it is really frightening.

who is it?

Who has such a great ability?

Yelu Dashi thought for a long time, but did not come up with a result.However, in order to completely divert the realization of Xiliao, he decided to light the second fire of Xiliao.The name of this fire is - Conquering the World.

Only by making Xiliao the most ferocious country can he wash away his infamy of usurping the throne and become a generation of Mingjun.

In the spring of that year, the new emperor of the Western Liao Dynasty sent his general Xiao Wuli to lead his troops eastward, bypassing Mongolia, and approaching Yanyun.