The number of soldiers and horses under Yang Peng's command, from Tianjing New City, Ryukyu to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, has already exceeded hundreds of thousands. But so far, the only people who are willing to die for him without regrets are the Jinyi Guardsmen.
Loyal to the party. As for the other soldiers and horses, they more or less obey him with a certain purpose.
Yang Peng can understand this. This is human nature, and no one can change it. Not everyone who follows you is willing to be a dead soldier in your hands. But this highlights how precious people like Lao He are. Lao He Mu
After sending Yang Peng away, he secretly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and returned to the village. He once again became the mountain king who roared and laughed.
The man in the mask never left from the beginning to the end. He just didn't want to meet Yang Peng. Lao He chatted with the brothers in the village all the way and entered a hidden room in the village. "He left?" Dai Dai
The masked man turned his back to him. Lao He nodded. "Take your people and follow me..."...
Walk after walk. From the heavy snow in the sky to the grass growing and the orioles flying. Three months passed in a blink of an eye. Under the irrigation of the heavy snow, the spring grass grew exceptionally lush and full of vitality. The further south you go, the more you feel.
It is even rarer to see cattle and sheep when the grass is blown by the wind.
Dading Prefecture should be the most thoroughly Sinicized city in the Liao Kingdom. Although it experienced Zhou Dayong's sacking, with the help of Ryukyu merchants and Song Dynasty merchants, Dading became a prosperous city again.
Outside Dingcheng, you can see ferocious overseers waving whips everywhere, beating slaves in the fields while they work non-stop.
It can be seen that the nobles of the Liao Kingdom have also begun to pay attention to the development of the farming culture of the Liao Kingdom. What makes Yang Peng happy is that although there are many slaves working under supervision in the fields, few can
Seeing the Han people in Liao land.
Basically, they are all men from the original Jiaozhi with slightly dark skin. Occasionally, you can see a few Han people from the Liao area, either waving whips and supervising work, or dressed like landlords and wealthy people, sitting in the fields and cursing people.
This shows that Wang Mingcheng did contribute a lot. He must have saved a lot of Han people in the Liao area, otherwise this scene would not have happened in the Liao area. As for the Han people in the Liao area who supervised the work in the fields, Yang Peng did not
I don’t care. Yang Peng believes that with their status, these people will have more opportunities to go to Ryukyu. And the fact that they did not choose to go to Ryukyu shows that they are reluctant to live their current life.
A group of Liao Han people who have climbed from the bottom to the middle level do not need Yang Peng's sympathy and pity. Because they can climb up from the bottom, it means that they are living well and do not need help at all. Perhaps, they also
I don’t appreciate Yang Qi’s help.
In three months, Yang Peng lived like a Liao man. His hair was messy, lice were crawling all over his body, and his clothes were already pitch black, with a dark oily sheen. Even from a distance, people could see him.
You can smell the fishy smell on Yang Peng's body.
The half-year-old boy named Gou Sheng who followed Yang Peng actually lived a better life than Yang Peng. Although his situation was similar to that of Yang Peng, he did not dislike himself and liked him very much.
When the two people walked to the fields astride their horses, Yang Peng could always feel the eyes of the Liao Han people in the fields who had been promoted to slave owners staring at them all the time.
It seemed that they were just waiting for Yang Peng or Gou Sheng to look like a runaway slave, and then they swarmed up, captured Yang Peng and Gou Sheng, and went to Dading City to exchange for some wine money.
Yang Peng was very familiar with the looks in these people's eyes, because he had the same look when he saw the first batch of Liao Han people arriving in Ryukyu.
"Let's go~" Yang Peng had to urge Gou Sheng to hurry up. He didn't want to cause trouble when he was approaching Dading City. After paying three coppers for entering the city at the gate of Dading City, Yang Peng and Gou Sheng
Finally, she entered Dading City.
The city of Dading seems very prosperous. As one of the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom, it is also a major trading city, with wine shops, brothels, gambling houses, cloth shops, foot shops, etc. The most prosperous ones should be fur merchants and slaves.
The fur trader, wielding two whips that symbolized his identity as a Liao native, spoke fluent Chinese, and was bargaining with people there.
Carloads of fur goods were bundled and pulled out of Dading City. Basically half of the merchants on the streets were engaged in the fur goods business. The population business was also very prosperous. Slave businesses could be seen almost everywhere on the streets of Dading City.
Transaction. A cunning slave trader snatched the daughter of a simple and honest man away from him, and then threw him a few cents of silver. He even cursed and felt that he had lost money. There was a half-year-old child with a straw mark on his head.
, selling his own.
On the whole street, there were mostly women sellers and old, weak women and children, and strong men were rare. Gou Sheng looked at the children selling themselves with straw tags on their heads, as if he remembered some unbearable past events, and he was in a very low mood.
"Pa~" Yang Peng patted Gou Sheng's head and grinned: "One day, I will lead the troops to attack, and then it will be up to you to rescue them yourself." Gou Sheng nodded heavily, "Yeah
! Master, you must let me be the vanguard when the time comes." Riding his horse a few steps forward, Gou Sheng tilted his head and asked, "Master, when is the day?"
Yang Peng smiled brilliantly. "Soon..." The two people walked around the city for half a circle, and finally stopped in front of a huge trading house. The entire trading house covered a large area, covering hundreds of acres of land.
From the outside, it looks like a huge building complex. The four-story building is quite conspicuous in Dading City. The "Yi" character hanging on the roof, which symbolizes Ryukyu, is fluttering in the wind.
Even the waiter standing at the door looked more arrogant than the waiters in other shops. When Gou Sheng saw Yang Peng stopped at the door of this grand business, he seemed a little embarrassed. He was really afraid that some evil servants would rush out to drive them away.
The two of them. When he saw Yang Peng put down the reins of his horse and stepped into the trading house, his heart almost jumped out of his throat.
"Stop!" Live up to Gou Sheng's expectations, when Yang Peng arrived at the door, he was stopped by someone. Gou Sheng immediately jumped off the horse, dragged Yang Peng and prepared to run. Yang Peng said calmly: "I asked you to take care of things.
Come out and see me. Tell him, 'Yi Yang is originally a family'."
The guys at the door frowned, but still followed Yang Peng's instructions. After a while, a young steward appeared at the door. When he saw Yang Peng, he was obviously in a daze. When Yang Peng brushed away his messy hair,
When he saw it, he was shocked.
"Please come in." The young steward invited Yang Peng into the business in front of everyone's astonished eyes. Gou Sheng suddenly had infinite admiration for this young master who had been hanging out with him for more than three months.
After Yang Peng entered the business, he simply washed up. After washing up, the young steward had already prepared a table of food and wine for Yang Peng.
Yang Peng and Gou Sheng lay on the table and started chewing. While eating, Yang Peng asked the young steward, "Are you from the Wang family?" The young steward said respectfully, "I am from the Wang family."
"Who is in charge of the business now?" "My uncle Wang Mingcheng." Yang Peng was a little surprised and said: "He is in Dading City?" The young manager nodded and said: "In recent times, Han people from Liao were replaced from Liao.
It’s getting harder and harder. Even if you buy it with money, you can’t buy it. So my uncle wants to use his connections to see if he can find a way to buy Han people from Liao.”
Yang Peng nodded and said: "When your uncle comes back, let him come to see me." In the evening, Wang Mingcheng returned to the trading house dejectedly. After hearing that Yang Peng had arrived, he hurriedly came to see him. After hearing Yang Peng's arrival, he hurriedly came to see me.
In the prepared room, there were only two people, Wang Mingcheng and Yang Peng. Yang Peng had already changed into clean clothes, washed up, shaved off his beard, and looked like a good young man again.
"Your Majesty, Wang Mingcheng, comes to see the city lord." After Wang Mingcheng saw Yang Peng, he saluted excitedly. Yang Peng waved his hand and asked Wang Mingcheng to sit down. "Has the problem of population replacement reached a bottleneck?" Wang Mingcheng nodded and said, "Yes, many Liao people
The nobles of the country hold a large number of Han people from Liao in their hands, but they are unwilling to give them to us. They have already made it known that they will not let go unless we pay a big price."
"Then let's give up."
"Ah?" Wang Mingcheng didn't believe his ears. Yang Peng said: "I have read the report Zhang Xiang gave me before. It has been replaced. And the population in Ryukyu has reached a saturation point. We
It will take some time to digest the displaced population.
Moreover, more and more people are coming down the mountain, and the land is no longer enough. Even the terraced fields suggestions I gave before cannot satisfy the continuous influx of large numbers of people."
Wang Mingcheng trembled and said: "What should we do? There are still so many Han people in Liaoning who are suffering..." Yang Peng sighed with emotion: "We can't become a fat man in one bite. We have to eat one bite at a time, and the road is step by step.
Let's go. We cannot tear apart Ryukyu, which was built with great difficulty, just to save people.
If Ryukyu is destroyed, our hard work will be in vain. I know you feel sorry for the people here, but replacement alone cannot save them. We can only save them by force."
"I understand." Wang Mingcheng said bitterly. Yang Peng added: "As for Ryukyu's various commercial affairs in the Liao Kingdom, they must also be moved from the open to the dark. From now on, Ryukyu's commercial affairs with the Liao Kingdom will be temporarily located in the sky.
Jingxin City. In the northwest, I will also introduce the Liao Kingdom's business to Fengcheng."
"Why do we do this?" "This time I traveled to the Liao Kingdom and paid close attention to the business situation of the Liao Kingdom. The business of the Liao Kingdom is still very primitive. This is a favorable situation for us. The Liao Kingdom is now in the process of
With the implementation of Sinicization, the demand for business will increase infinitely. The dependence on business will also increase. We must attract the Liao people and take the initiative into our own hands.
Once the Liao people go abroad to do business, their costs will increase. But the initiative is in our hands, and we can price the goods according to our ideas. By that time, we can easily control the prices of goods in Liao.
.As long as the prices of goods in Liao are controlled, Liao's money will flow to us infinitely. And we will become stronger day by day, and the Liao people will become weaker day by day."
Wang Mingcheng was dumbfounded after hearing what Yang Peng said. Wang Mingcheng did not expect that business could reach this level. "But if we do this, won't the Liao people try their best to exploit the Han people in Liao..." Yang Peng nodded.
The head said: "Yes, but the Liao people will not just exploit the Han people in Liao... They are most likely to go south and attack the Song Dynasty... because they feel that the Song Dynasty is rich and the Song Dynasty can grab what they want.
everything……"
"This..." Yang Peng said with a smile: "Of course, they can also start business with the Song Dynasty, but a war is unavoidable." Wang Mingcheng lost his voice: "What exactly are you going to do?" Yang Peng said decisively.
: "Control the war and force the two big countries to go to war. We can take this opportunity to draw chestnuts from the fire. We can solve the Liao Kingdom at once,"
"It's too risky..." "If they don't start a war, we won't have any chance. Because to any of them, we are grasshoppers." Wang Mingcheng never thought that Yang Peng could actually lay such a big one.
A bureau. A bureau that included two countries. Wang Mingcheng tried his best to calm down and whispered: "How long does this process take, and what do we rely on to attract people from Liao to do business?"
"The whole process... takes three to five years, no more than five years. As for how to attract Liao people? We don't need to attract Liao people at all, we only need to attract those businessmen. A large number of businessmen have been attracted to us,
The merchants who went to the Liao Kingdom only had three or two kittens, which could not satisfy the appetite of the Liao Kingdom. When the time comes, you don’t need to go to the Liao people, the Liao people will come to find you.
As for the way to attract businessmen, it is taxation. With appropriate taxation and the operation of Ryukyu Money Bank, I believe that many businessmen are willing to cooperate with us. As for those who are not cooperative... then let them disappear...
…”
The next day, Yang Peng left Dading City with his dog Sheng early in the morning. Yang Peng did not linger too much in Dading City because he felt it was unnecessary. No matter how much he wanted to miss this city, he had to
Let this city be named Yang. After Yang Peng left, Wang Mingcheng followed Yang Peng's instructions and began to arrange the evacuation of Dading and even the entire Liao Kingdom's business.
He only understood a little bit of the great truths Yang Peng told him last night. But this did not prevent him from carrying out the tasks assigned to him by Yang Peng. Because the tasks assigned to him by Yang Peng were related to the entire Liao Kingdom.
, related to the real life and death of the Han people in Liao Dynasty.
In the face of big right and wrong, Wang Mingcheng is by no means the kind of person who is greedy for small profits and forgets the great righteousness. The business of Tianjing New City is very large in the Liao Kingdom, and it involves many industries. There are even some business groups from other countries that follow Ryukyu
The merchant ships arrived in the Liao Kingdom. The entire Ryukyu business, under the influence of the Ryukyu Money Bank, has formed a huge business group.
The people of Liao didn't know what impact the withdrawal of a large business group from the Liao Kingdom would have on the Liao Kingdom. Wang Mingcheng, who was carrying out this task, didn't know either. Only Yang Peng, the instigator, was the one who knew best.
Yang Peng didn't care how much a "fire" would burn the Liao Kingdom.
After Yang Peng left Dading City, he ran all the way to the border of Song and Liao. The border between Song and Liao was very long, so it was impossible to deploy a defense line along the entire border.
There are not many troops deployed in the Liao Kingdom, and there is no need for them to guard a large number of troops on the border. After all, the two brothers Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi personally issued orders not to provoke border wars at will. This is very important to the Liao Kingdom.
In other words, it was an invisible protective umbrella. Moreover, the Liao Kingdom mainly relied on cavalry, so there was no need to be stationed in one place.
The Liao army could patrol the entire border in a nomadic manner. The Song Dynasty mainly used infantry, and the Liao people often went south to clear grass valleys, so they were very meticulous in border defense. There was one sentry for every mile, one post for five miles, and one post for ten miles.
One fort. The entire border defense line was under the strict defense of the Song Dynasty infantry. Unfortunately, these soldiers were not the most elite imperial guards of the Song Dynasty, but Xiang troops, Tibetan soldiers, and more rural soldiers.
Those villages and towns that have lived on the border between Song and Liao for generations all have rural soldiers. The rural soldiers with weak combat effectiveness could not play any big role except to warn the Liao people when they went south. This is why the Liao people can
The reason why he often goes south easily.
The small Liao army almost regarded the border as a playground. As long as there were no large passes or places to station troops, they could easily shuttle between the two countries and come and go as they pleased.
This also brought extremely convenient conditions for Yang Peng to cross the border between Song and Liao. Yang Peng lingered on the border for a long time, chose a relatively safe mountain road, and crossed quickly. The reason why
Choosing mountain trails is just in case.
Once the Liao people discovered them, they could easily get rid of them. Yang Peng took Gou Sheng into the mountains. They groped their way through the mountains. The mountains were deep and the forests were dense, and wild animals appeared from time to time. Yang Peng held a handle in his hand.
The scimitar was opening the way. He originally thought that Gou Sheng would be scared, but unexpectedly Gou Sheng actually acted very happy, as if the jungle was his home.
Gou Sheng didn't have much fear of wild beasts in the mountains and forests, which was a good thing for Yang Qi. At least he didn't have to carry a tow tank around in the mountains and forests. The hillside was very steep, so it was very difficult for the two of them to climb.
After crossing two mountain cols, they climbed to a looming mountain road they had seen in the distance.
Yang Peng took a look at the mountain road. This mountain road should have been left by smuggling merchants in the past. Since the merchants from the South invaded the Liao Kingdom, many smuggling merchants were squeezed to death. The mountain road is also somewhat deserted.
, weeds have sprouted green leaves everywhere on the mountain road.
"Ouch~" Gou Sheng, who was running wildly on the mountain road, suddenly let out a strange cry. Yang Peng held a machete and ran towards the place where Gou Sheng's strange cry came from. Yang Peng had just ran a few steps and saw a piece of animal hunting equipment.
A big net fell from the sky. Just when Yang Peng was about to resist, he saw a strong man walking out of the grass with the dog in his arms.
A sharply polished simple knife was placed on Gou Sheng's neck. Yang Peng gave up resistance in an instant. The big net enveloped Yang Qi tightly, and then he saw many people emerging from the jungle. These
People don't look at the bandits because they all wear uniform leather armor.
The style of the leather armor is the same. Most people wear cyan leather armor, and a small number of people wear red leather armor. Yang Peng noticed that the person wearing red leather armor was actually a woman. Yang Peng had it in his mind.
I tried hard to search for the army of female soldiers in the Song Dynasty, but I couldn't find any useful information. This means that this group of people was not included in the establishment of the Song Dynasty.
"May I ask which strongman robbed me?" "Who are you?" The strong man holding the dog in his arms put the dog down and handed it over to two men to capture him. He walked up to Yang Peng and asked.
: "We brothers are just ordinary passers-by. Please do this brother a favor and let us pass."
"An ordinary passerby?" The sturdy man sneered.
"Bah~" he spat and said contemptuously: "Ordinary passers-by? There are no ordinary people who can pass this road. You kid is not honest at all. If you don't tell the truth, a certain family will kill you.
, throw it into the mountains to feed the wolves." Yang Peng squinted and said, "There's no need to be so cruel, right?"
"Huh?!" The strong man stared with an unhappy look on his face. Yang Peng said helplessly: "Okay! I'll tell you the truth, our brothers are Han people from Liao who escaped from Liao." The strong man stared.
, asked fiercely: "Then why didn't you tell the truth just now?" The strong man didn't wait for Yang Peng to answer, and asked Gou Sheng, "Did he tell a lie? Tell the truth, or someone will kill you and feed you to the wolves."
"
Although Gou Sheng was scared, he had seen the world with Lao He. He nodded crazily. "Since you are Han people who escaped from Liao, a certain family will not make things difficult for you. There are so many Han people in Liao, you dared to escape, and you succeeded.
Yes. This shows that you have the guts.
What a certain family appreciates most is a man with good qualities. You go with a certain family to the village, and a certain family invites you to drink." Yang Peng smiled and said, "You don't need to drink, right?" "Huh?!" Seeing the strong man, he said again
With his eyes wide open, Yang Peng had no choice but to agree.
The strong man had people untie the big net tied to Yang Peng, and also confiscated Yang Peng's weapons. Moreover, he seemed to be on guard against Yang Peng. Although he untied Yang Peng, he left Gou Sheng with him.
Between the two people, there were several soldiers wearing leather armor.
Yang Peng was not given the slightest chance to turn defeat into victory. Yang Peng just followed this special group of bandits to their mountain stronghold. On the way, Yang Peng asked: "Brother, you don't look like mountain bandits."
Bandits, are they the Xiang soldiers in a certain fortress?"
The strong man glared and said, "Don't compare a certain family with those Xiang soldiers who are just waiting to die. Besides, have you ever seen a female soldier in that Xiang army camp?" The strong man seemed to have explosives in his throat.
He spoke in a babbling manner and was not polite at all.
Yang Peng was not angry and continued to ask: "Then you are bandits?" "What? Look down on us?" "Don't dare..." "By the way, brother, where are we?" A strong man.
Suddenly he realized that Yang Peng talked a lot, and he wanted to punch Yang Peng, but in the end he thought about it and held it back, and just said something in a low voice.
"Two Wolf Mountains!" "Two Lang Mountains..."
Yang Peng muttered, his eyes suddenly widened, and he lost his voice: "Lianglang Mountain?" The strong man glanced at Yang Peng and said angrily: "What? Have you heard of Lianglang Mountain in Liaodi?
"Yang Peng smiled bitterly and said: "I've only heard of it, it's like thunder..." The strong man squinted and said: "If you know the reputation of Lianglang Mountain, then give some peace to a certain family."
Yang Peng lowered his head, and the corners of his mouth were twitching. Yang Peng had indeed heard of Lianglang Mountain, but it was different from what the strong man thought. The strong man waved his hands and said: "You don't need to be so polite when talking to a certain family, Zou Zou, a certain family
My name is Du Qing, and all my friends in the world call me Brother Qing."
Yang Peng's mouth twitched again. He really hoped that Shan's name was repeated, so that he could avoid his fate.
Du Qing! This familiar name also matched. "Have you seen that mountain peak?" It seemed that he was getting closer to the village, so Du Qing was extra light in his steps and said a few more words. Yang Peng looked at the mountain peak in the distance and saw the mountain peak.
In the most conspicuous place, a naturally formed stone chicken stood there, and he closed his eyes in pain.
Jinji Ling! "Jinji Ling! Our village is right there." Yang Peng didn't say anything, so he happily told the answer in Yang Peng's heart.
Lianglang Mountain. Jinji Ridge. Dujiazhai. Du Qing.
Du Qing was too lazy to talk to Yang Peng anymore. The group of people wandered around and arrived at Jinji Ling. The mountain road covering Jinji Ling went up all the way, and passed six secret sentries for interrogation. Most of those sentries lurking in the dark were women.
They were well-trained and had very keen eyesight. Seeing Yang Peng staring thoughtfully at the women, Du Qing explained to Yang Peng angrily.
"This is a rule set by the family. Don't think of us as grass bandits, but our ancestors were generals. Therefore, everything in this village is basically in accordance with the rules in the military camp. Even when we go up and down the mountain
, it also has to go through strict interrogation." Du Qing not only did not find it cumbersome, but was actually proud of it. You can tell by his proud tone.
Yang Peng nodded, but said nothing. He followed Du Qing all the way to Jinji Ridge. When it was time for the last interrogation, a woman suddenly came over and pointed at Yang Peng coldly, "Brother Qing, let him go down the mountain.
Let him never climb mountains again." Yang Peng seemed to have thought of something, and slightly arched his hands, "Then Yang will leave first."
"Gou Sheng, let's go." "No!" Du Qing said with a frown: "They were invited by a certain family to have a drink in the village. They can't leave." As soon as Yang Peng took a step to leave, he was stopped by someone.
The woman said helplessly: "Brother Qing, this is my sister's order..." Du Qing frowned and said: "Why doesn't my little sister let someone invited by a certain family go up the mountain?"
The woman looked at Yang Peng and whispered: "I'm afraid the young village master hasn't asked about this person's origin and name, right?" Du Qing was stunned, then turned to ask Yang Peng, "Did you deceive a certain family?
Are you actually from Liao?"
"Hey~" Yang Peng sighed helplessly and said, "I'm Yang Peng." Du Qing's eyes suddenly widened and he roared: "Are you Yang Peng? That Yang Peng?" Yang Peng said: "The former heaven.
The lord of Jingxin City, the current King of Yan, Yang Peng." "You are actually Yang Peng." Du Qing gasped, staring at Yang Peng, wishing he could eat Yang Peng in one bite.
"Stop!" A clear shout came from the mountain road. Then he saw a woman, tall and slender, with a willow-thin waist, black hair that looked like it was dyed with ink, tied with a bow, wearing a goose-yellow soft satin with a waist tie.
Wearing a black gold silk embroidered belt, red cowhide boots, and a garnet red cloak.
She is as white as a pear blossom, with eyebrows like a crescent moon, an oval face, a hooked nose, and a small rosy mouth that makes people want to kiss her. But at this moment, she has evil eyes, and it seems that no one can get close to her.
.The woman moved her lotus steps slightly and walked down the mountain road.
What happened after all? Let’s hear the details next time.