"I really miss the reed flowers in Linhuang Mansion."
In Gaochang City, Yelu Dashi looked at the autographed letter sent by Li Yunze in his hand, his expression full of nostalgia.
"Your Majesty." As the envoy, Zhao Ding, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, stepped forward and saluted, "Since I miss you, I will just go back."
Everyone behind Yelu Dashi stared angrily, "We also want to go back. Please ask the officials of the Song Dynasty to return the old land of Linhuang Mansion to the Liao Dynasty. We will definitely go back!"
"You guys are joking."
Zhao Ding looked relaxed, as if he had a powerful country on his back. "The old land of the Liao Kingdom has already fallen into the hands of the Jin people. Our Emperor Song regained his homeland from the gold thieves. How can we return it to you? It doesn't make sense."
"Shilang Zhao." Yelu Dashi asked softly, "How many troops and horses has your official family prepared for us?"
"It's not that many." Zhao Ding responded with a smile, "Han Taiwei has more than 80,000 people."
"We have an army of 200,000 in Daliao." A Khitan general immediately stepped forward and scolded him, "Han Shizhong dares to come, and he will never come back."
Zhao Ding smiled and said nothing, just looking at Yelu Dashi.
In fact, everyone knows that the so-called Liao Kingdom established by Yelu Dashi and the remnants of the Liao Kingdom in the Western Regions has no strength at all.
To say there is an army of 200,000 is to mobilize everyone, and its true combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning.
Besides, even if it can defeat Han Shizhong, so what, then the Song Dynasty does not only have Han Shizhong's troops.
"Shilang Zhao." After a moment of silence, Yelu Dashi asked again, "How do your officials plan to arrange for us?"
"King Dashi is the king of Liao. He can live in Bianliang City or return to Linhuang Mansion. As for the people under his command, they also have their own rewards and can live in the homeland of Liao. Of course, it is indispensable to establish households to equalize the people."
Zhao Ding said sincerely, "The officials only want to restore the old land of the Han and Tang Dynasties and make the land of Kyushu intact. If the king is willing to obey the destiny, the officials will naturally not treat him badly. If you want to resist, you can only ask the princes.
Came to do something."
This is the benefit of a strong country. It can be confident when engaging in diplomacy.
"Forget it about the King of Liao." Yelu Dashi looked around at the many generals. "I just hope that the officials can treat me and my subordinates well."
The generals stepped forward one after another and said, "Your Majesty."
"Stop talking." Yelu Dashi simply waved his hand, "I don't want to either, but I can't beat you. Instead of all dying on the battlefield, it's better to take you and the others back to your hometown alive."
When he sent troops from Ketun City before, he only brought more than 20,000 troops.
Relying on one's own ability to sweep the Western Regions is a reflection of the right time, right place, and right people. To put it simply, it's just good enough luck.
At this moment, facing the Song Dynasty, which had even wiped out the Jin people, Yelu Dashi knew very well that he would never be able to defeat him.
As for running again, where else can I go, to those wild places where savages infest?
Already thousands of miles away from home, I really don’t want to run away anymore.
Now that there is a chance to go home, and even the mortal enemy Jin has been destroyed, don't bother anymore.
"Your Majesty made a wise choice." Zhao Ding saluted respectfully, "My foreign ministers congratulate you for saving the people from the suffering of swords."
"Thank you, Minister Zhao, for your hard work. Let's take a rest for now. When the repairs here are complete, we should go with Minister Zhao to Bianliang City to meet the officials."
The Khitan people of this era were deeply Sinicized, and they had a blood feud with the Jin people and hated their country for subjugation, but they had been at peace with the Song Dynasty for a hundred years, and there was no such big hatred.
They were definitely unwilling to surrender to the Jin Kingdom, but surrendering to the Song Dynasty, which was as powerful as chicken blood at this time, was not beyond negotiation.
After arranging all the affairs, Yelu Dashi took the initiative to follow Zhao Ding and traveled thousands of miles to Bianliang City.
Li Yunze personally went out of the city to greet him and hosted a banquet in honor of him.
"Guan family." After three rounds of inspections, Yelu Dashi took the initiative to ask, "I wonder if the officials will allow my people to return to their homeland?"
"You can return to your homeland." Li Yunze responded with a smile, "Each household will be organized and the people will have their own resettlement."
Yelu Dashi asked again: "I worship in Daliao Ancestral Temple"
"You can worship your ancestors at home." Li Yunze interrupted him, "Forget it about the ancestral temple and so on. There is no need to cause trouble for yourself. There is no Liao Dynasty. From now on, there will only be the Song Dynasty in the world."
After a moment of silence, Yelu Dashi stood up and saluted, "I am willing to return to my hometown, and from now on I will only be a farmer in Linhuang Mansion."
Li Yunze didn't make any false attempts to persuade him to stay, he simply nodded and said "Yes."
With the surrender of the Western Liao Dynasty, the old lands of the Han and Tang Dynasties in the traditional sense have basically returned to the Central Plains Dynasty.
But Li Yunze's pace of opening up new territories has not stopped.
Completely abolish the head tax by apportioning people into acres and liberating the restrictions on population growth.
Migrate people on a large scale to all directions in the southeast, northwest, and spread out as many people as possible.
In Li Yunze's words, as long as the sun can shine, we must occupy it.
After removing the threat from the Japanese country, they continued to expand and expand to the west, determined to drive all the Angsa bandits into the sea.
The Song Dynasty, which was called weak and cowardly, could finally feel proud.
As an opposition force blocking the progress of the Central Plains dynasty, the turbans have almost disappeared under the strong suppression.
Universal education has replaced the monopoly of knowledge by the turbans. The military, which has received much attention and support, has also gotten rid of its reputation for repeated defeats. The iron cavalry has conquered the country wherever it goes.
As long as things are on track and countless people benefit from it, everything else will fall into place naturally.
Just like Li Yunze distributed land to the people, whoever wants to take the land back will have to fight against the people all over the world.
He also supported the strength of the military and directly suppressed the civil servants who originally suppressed military generals. The entire Song Dynasty almost returned to the emphasis on martial arts in the Five Dynasties period.
Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for the bandanas to come forward to suppress the military forces again.
Even without Li Yunze, the military forces will protect themselves and not give the bandanas a chance to stand out.
Just dream about scholar-bureaucrats sharing the world.
When these things become an unstoppable trend, all subsequent advancements will be logical.
As the supporter behind the scenes, Li Yunze finally did what he should do.
Modern world, Shangri-La Hotel.
Li Yunze, still dressed in slippers and vest, came to the restaurant to eat.
"Mr. Li." Tony, the personal butler, came over, leaned over and whispered, "There is a gentleman who claims to be from a foreign trade company and wants to discuss business with you."
"Foreign trade companies?"
Li Yunze followed Tony's instructions and looked over. Not far away, several men in suits and ties were smiling and nodding towards him.
"Okay, let's ask them to come over."
Several people came over, smiled, exchanged greetings, and handed over their business cards.
"Sit down, let's have something together." Li Yunze greeted with a smile and asked a few people to sit down.
"Mr. Li." The leader in a black suit handed over his business card and introduced himself, "We are the business operators of Weili Foreign Trade Company. I heard that Mr. Li's foreign trade business is very big. I hope you can take care of me."
"Where did you hear that?" Li Yunze put down his chopsticks and asked curiously.
"Those of us who are doing business have some connections in port freight." The black suit smiled and handed it to Hua Zi. "Our company is a foreign trade agent. We have all kinds of goods, and the prices are absolutely cheap and reasonable."
"oh."
Li Yunze smiled and nodded, "Okay, I will definitely cooperate if I have the opportunity in the future."
After lighting cigarettes and chatting for a while, the people in black suits said goodbye and left.
Looking at their leaving figures, Li Yunze frowned slightly.
He has extremely rich experience in social life and can be said to have seen all kinds of people.
These few are said to be engaged in foreign trade, but I always feel like something is wrong.
But I couldn't tell what exactly was wrong.
"Tony." After returning to the room, Li Yunze handed the business card to the butler, and also took a stack of large golden bulls from the drawer and handed it over, "Go and check this company."
Two days later, Tony brought back the results of the investigation and found no problems at all.
Weili Foreign Trade has been established for many years, and it is indeed specialized in foreign trade business. At least this company has no problems at all.
Since nothing suspicious could be found, Li Yunze simply let it go and pretended that there was no such thing.
What Li Yunze didn't know was that a group of people were investigating his details in detail.
"His goods are concentrated in the rented warehouse at Pier 7, mainly daily necessities. There are customs declarations and rented containers, but we sent people to check, and many times they are all empty containers."
"Funding channels?"
"I went to XX Bank, and all the payments were in gold escrow."
"Where did the gold come from?"
"I heard that there are gold mines in Africa, and they also have many cargo yards in Africa."
"Send someone to investigate and find out."
Li Yunze, who had no idea that he was being targeted, received the Jingkang World reward from the system.
'Rewarding the world of Water Margin, the whole world can do whatever they want, and there are no specific requirements.' The system gave Li Yunze a popular science, 'This kind of world is different from the real historical world. It is based on original works, so you don't need to have any burden.'
"Water Margin, indeed."
Ever since the Dream of Red Mansions world appeared last time, Li Yunze had thought that such a world would appear again in the future.
According to the timeline, it is indeed Water Margin.
"Can I change it to another one?" For this kind of reward world that does not need to bear the burden of history, Li Yunze feels that another one from the same time period is obviously better.
"What do you want to change?" The system was very considerate and allowed him to propose it himself.
"Ahem." Li Yunze became serious, "Do you know there is a world called Pingmei?"
The system immediately said, 'Understood, I will add and merge them for you. Or choose a substitute character, who do you choose?'
"Why is it merged and not single-selected?" Li Yunze was a little depressed. "I'm not very interested in the world of Water Margin."
There are not many beauties in the world of Water Margin, so of course I am not interested.
'You know the background world of Water Margin very well.' The system understands Li Yunze very well and knows what his preferences are. 'There are many beauties in Bianliang City. Think about it carefully.'
These words awakened Li Yunze.
There are few beauties in Water Margin, but there are many beauties in the background world.
"I understand." Li Yunze immediately showed a thief's smile.
"Besides this, is there no other reward?" He also wanted more benefits. "I saved the world of Jingkang. Let's give some actual benefits."
'How about a person with infinite strength?' The system takes good care of him, 'the one who can uproot a weeping willow.'
"Not bad." He was still very satisfied with this reward.
Then the next step is the most critical thing, selecting people.