Chapter 1577 Dragon Tendon

After a political class, Aguda's strategy value increased by five points. He stood up and looked at the Huntong River: "It is said that there is also a big dragon in the Huntong River."

Zhao Xiaoyi said: "Before leaving, in addition to the giant net for fishing under the ice, Situ also gave me a set of fishing gear. He said that there is a giant fish in the Hun Tong River, as big as a river elephant, and let me try it."

Aguda knew that Zhao Xiaoyi asked the Nuzhi tribe to help lay the fishing gear. He nailed iron drills between the two banks and placed pulleys and roulette wheels. A floating rope was set across the roulette wheel across the river. There were iron rings on the ropes, and sub-lines were hung on the rings.

There is a set of large steel anchor hooks with a hook door as wide as four fingers and a string of hooks spread across the river.

This kind of fishing gear was called "river fishing" in later generations of Shu, but it used bait instead of anchor hooks. After Su You modified it, he had long wanted to use it, but unfortunately the Yangtze River was too wide for fishing, so now it has been handed over to Zhao Xiaoyi for use.

To deal with the giant things in the river.

There are giant fish in the Yangtze River now. It is said that one thousand catties of wax fish and ten thousand catties of elephants. The wax fish is the Yangtze River sturgeon, and the elephant is the white sturgeon.

There are five groups of river fishing groups blocking the river in this area, and floating balls the size of baskets are floating on the river.

Aguda looked around for a while: "Why is there a rope missing?"

"It sank." Zhao Xiaoyi picked up the wine glass calmly: "Maybe the big fish brought it down."

"Ouch!" Aguda couldn't help but stumbled, and then ran towards his canoe: "The senior official has been talking to me for a long time, I will go and greet the people!"

Seeing A Gu's hurried look, Zhao Xiaoyi shouted: "Be careful, remove the empty hook first, be careful that the big fish struggles and the flying hook bounces and hurts someone!"

After a while, the sound of birch bark whistles sounded on the river. After a while, countless small boats rushed out from the reed swamps.

The Liao people were also alarmed. They probably reported it to Yelu Hongji, and Yelu Hongji's tent also moved this way.

The excess fishing rigs were quickly removed by the engineering team, and the winch on the last remaining fishing rig was shaken to swing the entire fishing rig's floating rope toward the shore.

The straight woman helped remove the empty hook from the fishing rig.

The preliminary work was completed quickly, and then several straight women arrived supporting Zhao Xiaoyi's large raft. They passed under the main rope of the fishing rig, and another group of straight women came up and began to drag the main rope like a tug of war.

The main cable pressed on the raft and dragged it, and the raft slowly moved toward the center of the river. Each floating ball was dragged across the raft, and groups of empty hooks were removed.

Finally, a huge fish tail was dragged out of the water, and thousands of people on the river bank let out a cry of surprise!

The big fish under the water struggled suddenly, and its tail created huge waves, sweeping the two straight women on the raft into the water.

"Wow--" There was another roar of low shouts on the shore. Now everyone could see clearly that the shark-like tail with most of it exposed was already taller than the short and stocky straight woman!

The big fish has been struggling underwater all night, and has been wrapped in several sets of threads. There is no need to worry about it escaping, but because the fish is so big, it will not take a while to subdue it.

A Gu stripped off until only a piece of cloth was left. He rowed a new canoe to the side of the big fish, picked up the giant ax used for logging and said, "Come again!"

The female straight man on the raft once again dragged the main rope to drag the big fish closer to the water.

Yelu Hongji on the shore was paying attention to the situation, and then waved his hand fiercely: "All the troops beat the drums and cheer with the strong men!"

The drums in the Liao army's formation rumbled, and bursts of shouts erupted from the shore.

Seeing that the big fish was close to the water, it suddenly jumped out and started a huge wave, preparing to dive.

Soon enough, when the fish's head was close to the water, Aguda jumped up suddenly, shouted loudly, swung down the giant ax with both hands, and slashed through the gap between the two large bones at the back of the fish's head.

The ax severed the backbone of the big fish.

The big fish finally stopped struggling and turned its belly inside out, as if it was struck by electricity.

Aguda suddenly re-emerged from the bloody water, raised his ax high and shouted.

The straight women around him were also screaming excitedly along with the ghost.

Even the big fish couldn't be dragged onto the raft, so the straight women could only tie it to the side of the raft and push it towards Yelu Hongji's tent.

Zhao Xiaoyi dragged Aguda onto the raft, took off his robe and covered him.

When the fish reached the water's edge, more than a dozen straight women jumped into the water and used rattan ropes and horizontal bars to lift the fish to the shore.

The big fish is nearly three feet long and weighs at least several thousand kilograms. It is as big as a shark and has a long sword-like nose in front of its head. After landing on the shore, it was placed on the riverside, which was quite shocking.

Yelu Hongji was extremely excited. Such a big fish only existed in the legends and songs of Hun Tongjiang, and now it had become the prey at the Goose Banquet.

A straight woman took the wooden bowl, Aguda took it, took out a short knife from another companion's waist, slashed the fish's belly, inserted the wooden bowl into the fish's belly, scooped out a bowl full of big fish roe, and handed it to

In front of Zhao Xiaoyi.

Zhao Xiaoyi rolled his eyes at him, took the wooden bowl, returned the short knife in Aguda's hand to its original owner, and pulled him to Yelu Hongji: "The Southern Dynasty congratulated His Majesty the Liao Kingdom's Zhengdan Envoy Zhao Xiaoyi on the birth of a daughter.

Yan Aguda uses this fish to extend his life to His Majesty the Emperor of Liao Kingdom."

Yelu Hongji laughed heartily, took off the gold belt from his waist and threw it to A Gu to beat him: "Xiao Yi is not a private gift from me for showing off. You are a strong man from my vassal country of Liao, so I will reward you with this gold belt."

After Aguda took it, he was still standing dumbfounded. Gailibo quickly rushed out from the crowd and pressed down Aguda's head: "I still don't thank your majesty for the reward!"

Yelu Hongji took a mouthful of fish eggs and said, "This is my greatest joy in the Liao Dynasty. Don't embarrass Libo."

After speaking, he smiled at Zhao Xiaoyi and said, "Xiaoyi has been singing to the wind and whistling the moon on the Hun Tong River these days. It turns out he was preparing this for me. He was very thoughtful."

Zhao Xiaoyi quickly bowed: "There is another treasure that I want to present to Your Majesty. Please lend it to King Yan."

"Oh?" Yelu Hongji dragged the wooden bowl: "Then I want to take a look."

Zhao Xiaoyi led Yelu Yanxi to the tail of the big paddlefish, instructed Yelu Yanxi to cut off the muscles of the tail of the paddlefish, then carefully broke the spine, and ordered two palace guards to carry the tail and walk backwards.

A translucent notochord, two fingers thick, was pulled out from the fish's back.

The place where the front part connects to the brain has been cut off by Aguda. Zhao Xiaoyi and Yelu Yanxi carefully controlled the exit of the tail, and finally pulled out the whole paddlefish notochord.

Putting the notochord into a large gold plate, Zhao Xiaoyi held it up to Yelu Hongji: "There was this thing hidden on the back of the big fish. The people from the South China Sea got it and made it into a dried product, which they called 'dragon tendon'.

It is the best among river delicacies. In Kaifeng Mansion, there is a saying that 'one inch of dragon's tendons and one inch of gold'."

The Liao people's diet was vulgar. When they caught big fish, they would chop it into pieces and stew it in a pot. The fish roe was already an extremely high-quality ingredient. Who knew there was such a good thing hidden on the back of the fish?

Yelu Yanxi has been addicted to Song Dynasty cuisine recently: "Brother cooks, maybe he can cook it?"

Zhao Xiaoyi said: "Bianjing Fang Zhiwei has a top-notch dish called Longjin Fushouquan, and a golden soup ruler vegetarian dish made with fish maw. Now that we have the ingredients, I would like to buy a Shuicuo banquet for your majesty in the Song Dynasty palace.

I thought it was a goose feast to congratulate His Majesty."

Since it followed the rules of the Song Dynasty, this banquet was more elaborate. The banquet was set up by the riverside, and Zhao Xiaoyi served as the master of ceremonies. In addition to delicious food, there were also fine wines and music brought by the Song Dynasty, so that Yelu Hongji, who was summoned to accompany the banquet,

The ministers of the Liao Dynasty and the leaders of the vassal states felt as if they were in a fairy palace.

Yelu Hongji watched a group of country bumpkins become polite and polite under Zhao Xiaoyi's arrangement. Although the utensils occasionally made noises, the people involved would glance at Zhao Xiaoyi, and he knew it was rude.

The Goose Banquet of the Liao Kingdom had never been so well-organized. Under the arrangement of Zhao Xiaoyi, Yelu Yanxi led the ministers and ministers to hold wine and celebrate Yelu Hongji's birthday in a neat and loud voice. Yelu Hongji couldn't help but sigh:

"Today I know how happy it is to be an emperor."

…

Guiyou, Liao ordered to analyze Tianjin, and the two prefectures of Dading selected selected people to hear.

I don’t know how Zhao Xiaoyi deceived Yelu Hongji. Yelu Hongji ordered the five capitals and states to build Confucius temples, promulgate the "Five Classics" and spread them, and issued edicts to instruct scholars to learn from the classics.

Looking at this situation, in a few years, the Liao Kingdom will also launch an imperial examination.

The negotiations between Shen Kuo and Yelu Shensi also entered the second stage. The Song Dynasty deducted 10,000 guan from the annual coins and presented the Five Classics, poems, Buddhist scriptures, books of various schools of thought to the Liao Kingdom every year, as well as helping the southern Liao Kingdom.
Chapter completed!