After quietly checking the shop he bought in Daming Mansion, Song Wen took An Chun and four of his men all the way north to Zhending Mansion, the largest city on Hebei Road.
Along the way, the desolate countryside and desolate fields were shocking. The successive wars between Song and Liao had devastated this place to death, and then several generations of Song emperors ignored it as a buffer zone with the Liao people.
Especially in order to delay the Liao cavalry, Emperor Renzong hurriedly chose a bad idea that a few civil servants came up with behind closed doors. He planted rice extensively on Hebei Road, which was not suitable for rice planting, diverted water and dug rice fields... and then modified the river course several times to create swamps and lakes.
Pit... I hope I can use these stagnant pits to resist the Liao cavalry!
How stupid, naive and foolish the civil servants of the Song Dynasty were? No one with a little sense and IQ experience would come up with such a stupid and whimsical strategy to please the public...
Won't people take a detour if there is water? You can't just soak the entire Hebei Road with water, right? So much fertile land and people have been lost, have you ever calculated the magnitude of the loss! In addition, the talented emperor Zhao Ji now,
The six thieves under his command took turns to raid the common people and merchants in the Central Plains and Jiangnan, making the already barren and desolate Hebei Road even more barren.
Whenever there is a natural disaster, groups of refugees emerge from the pupae and head towards the Gyeonggi and Jingdong Roads, that is, the Shandong area. This is how the dozens of refugee orphans and orphans of heroes Li Yan rescued along the way came.
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Zhendingfu city is not too big, but it is obviously much stronger than the several state capital cities near Bianliang. In some places, there are obvious traces of repairs after collapse. It should be leftover from the Song-Liao war.
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What Song Wen wants to go to is not Zhendingfu City. The two largest settlements in the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom are on Hebei West Road and the other is on Hebei East Road. Song Wen wants to go to Hebei East Road, which is close to the Liao Kingdom. Nanjing City is also
It was the Sanhe Foraging Field in the imperial capital of later generations... There was a Liao caravan waiting for him there.
Daruchi knelt on the ground without saying a word. Behind the desk in front of him sat Brother Yelushan, the young prince named Yelu Shange, the second son of the Nanyuan King and the second son of the Liao Emperor, who had a mustache.
"Get up! You are no longer my slave, Song Wen is your master!"
Daruch put his left hand on the ground and bowed his head in salute, then stood up and said: "Master Marquis, Daruch is sorry for you..."
"Forget it, you sent me so many goods this time, thank you for your hard work. Did Song Wen say when he will come?"
"Mr. Lang should go to Sanhe Farm in the next two days. He will stay for a few days to pay homage to the Marquis and then continue his journey eastward."
Brother Yelushan said in surprise: "This is the easternmost foraging field of Liao and Song Dynasties. Why should he go east? There are places where people from the Bohai Sea gather, and there are also some fishermen from the Song Dynasty...
You are so poor that you still refuse to obey the discipline. There is no profit?"
Daruch shook his head: "I don't know about this Daruch."
The two guards behind Brother Yelushan looked at their former colleagues in the tent with slightly dissatisfied eyes... He was not a good man to lose to the Song people in the drinking ring and embarrass his master!
Brother Yelushan looked at the two followers around him and gave a bitter smile: "Don't look at him like that. I was tricked by Song Wen back then! Ten bottles of spirits... let alone ten bottles, now it feels like three bottles
I can also get you drunk! Daruch’s drinking capacity seems to be very rare now..."
Daruch just sighed when he heard this...
Brother Yelushan hid his identity as a nobleman of the Liao Kingdom and came to see Song Wen, an old friend! First, because the Tiandi Chun Liquor he brought to the Liao Kingdom was very popular, and only three carts were sold out in almost half a month...
His father even used a fast horse to deliver ten jars of strong liquor to the capital city and presented it directly to Emperor Tianzuo of Liao Dynasty.
Thirty strings per jar, this is simply a sky-high price! These powerful and wealthy people in the southern Liao Kingdom scorned it at the beginning and are now flocking to it... Tiandi Chun Liquor quickly spread among the powerful circles of the Liao Kingdom! Many elders and officials from various ministries have entrusted
I came here to order it in advance... It is said that a nobleman's private caravan has taken Guan Wen to Bianliang to purchase this kind of liquor, hoping to share the profits of this lucrative business from his own hands!
How did they know that Song Wen was the only one in the world who could brew this strong liquor...
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Song Wen had a certificate of identity given by the chief registrar of Taoshan County, as well as a waist badge and official documents given to him by Gao Qiu. It was indeed much more convenient to travel outside, and he could also stay in the government residence.
It's just that unless Song Wen had nowhere to go, he still didn't want to go to the hotel and provoke the eyes and contempt of the civil servants who were away from home. The literati of the Song Dynasty had character, but their quality was really not high! Without the martial arts,
To protect you, just keep your strength and go head-to-head with the steel knife of the Jurchen Tatars on your neck!
In the distance, on a grassland near the junction of the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty, there is a large circle of low guardrails. Inside the guardrails are groups of cattle and sheep, tents and small houses. The cows in the guardrails
Almost all of them are too old to walk, because in this era, cattle are as strategic materials as war horses.
The Liao people were also unwilling to sell their prime cattle to the Song Dynasty. As for war horses, they were strictly prohibited from selling them to the Song Dynasty.
Similarly, the Song people also prohibited their own iron materials and copper coins from being exchanged in large quantities by the Liao people. The copper coins of the Song Dynasty were the real hard currency on this continent! All countries were willing to trade with the copper coins of the Song Dynasty, which also caused
In the late Song Dynasty, there was always a shortage of currency. As soon as many copper coins were minted, they were exchanged by the surrounding Annan, Xixia, Northern Liao, and even Korea and Japan in every possible way...
Song Wen jumped off the horse and stretched his sore waist and thighs... An Chun on the side quickly handed over a kettle. Song Wen took a sip of water and sighed: "After entering Hebei Road, the further you go, the poorer you become! Who are the people in the imperial court?
What do you think? Hiding, hiding, hiding... where can I hide? Could it be that I ended up hiding in the South China Sea?"
Song Wen was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered... when the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed, the last prime minister Lu Xiufu actually committed suicide in the South China Sea with the little emperor in his arms!
While Song Wen was sighing with emotion, two carriages and horses passed by, followed by a few dusty cavalry, and a few people dressed as minor officials sitting dejectedly on the carriage behind.
A knight looked at Song Wen and others on his horse, and asked: "Who are you? May I ask where the lifting department of Sanhe Farm is?"
Song Wen cupped his hands and replied: "I'm sorry, we are also here to do business from other places, and we are not familiar with this place."
The curtain of the carriage was suddenly opened, revealing a thin, slightly tired face of a middle-aged man in his thirties, with a hint of indifference and nobility between his brows, and firm but unwavering eyes.
The middle-aged man looked at Song Wen and said: "Young man, what makes the Song Dynasty today is not escape and retreat! Although the national affairs are difficult, Song and Liao have been at peace for nearly a hundred years thanks to the alliance of Tan Yuan... The young man has a bloody courage.
It’s a good thing. You can join the army and serve the court and make contributions, or you can go back to study hard and criticize Fang You and become famous all over the world! Just lamenting and complaining is not what a good man should do..." This chapter has been completed!