Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 415: We can’t repeat the mistakes of Wu Huan Hua

Fang Shisan felt that what Zhao Mu said was reasonable. It was indeed difficult to believe what he said alone.

If instead it made Zhao Mu suspicious of his own side and made the Song Dynasty relax its vigilance towards surrounding countries, then it would actually help the Khitans.

Fang Shisan sighed and said, "Okay! Since you want to hear it, my lord, don't blame me for talking too much."

Then Fang Shisan told Zhao Mu exactly what happened.

At first, the Ming sect had no contact with the Khitan. Their acquaintance also started from smuggling.

Fang Shisan's sphere of influence is in the southeast, and many salt farmers are followers of his "Eat Vegetables Demon Cult". Although these people work hard at transporting and drying salt, they can't make much money throughout the year because of the embezzlement from the government and salt merchants. So some people began to take risks and smuggle illegal salt.

The people under Fang Shisan recruited these salt farmers to integrate the private salt business. And pulled these people into Mingjiao.

The final destination of these private salts is to be shipped by ship, along with tea and other supplies, to the Liao Kingdom in the north, and then purchase arrows, longbows and other items for military supplies from the Liao Kingdom to prepare for future uprisings. .

Hearing this, Hu Yanjin said: "I see, your Mingjiao is still suspected of being an enemy!"

Zhao Mu shook his head and said: "Haha, they are indeed collaborating with the enemy, but being supportive of the enemy is a bit harsh. Although salt and tea are indispensable things in daily life, they are not important things. They just make money through smuggling. It's just a small amount of money. But purchasing feather arrows for military supplies with the intention of rebelling is a crime that would punish the Nine Clans."

Zhao Mu asked: "Is this when you got involved with the Liao Kingdom?"

Fang Shisan did not hide anything, he nodded and said: "That's right. At that time, the Liao Kingdom sent people to win over us, and they sold us the various military supplies we purchased without hesitation. They even gave them to us. We issued customs clearance documents from the Liao Kingdom and asked us to hide these supplies in some insignificant mountain goods, cheat them through the Song Dynasty, and transport them to the mainland."

Zhao Mu said: "It's just that although you have benefited from the Liao people, you have never done anything for them."

Fang Shisan nodded and said: "That's right. Because the Liao people are cruel, if they were allowed to invade the interior, they would kill more than a million lives. The purpose of our Ming Cult is to save the people and promote good deeds. If it is for our own selfish interests, we will lead the Liao soldiers to invade Central Plains, what is the difference between us and the traitor Shi Jingtang back then? My master is the heir of the Emperor of Later Shu. When the Song army destroyed Hou Shu, one of the tribesmen disguised themselves as common people and got rescued by the Mingjiao and arrived in the Western Regions. I have heard about the brutality of the Liao people. Although he grew up in the Western Regions, he is still of Han descent. Not to mention that collaborating with the Liao people is contrary to the teachings of our Ming religion. We will never cooperate with Hulu!”

Hearing this, Zhao Mu smiled.

Zhao Mu said: "Oh? Not cooperating with the barbarians? Then you planted an insider next to the King of Xixia, don't you want to take advantage of the Dangxiang people? Then the Khitan barbarians are Hu people, aren't the Dangxiang people the same?"

Fang Shisan replied: "Of course not. The Dangxiang clan is the sole loyalist of the Tang Dynasty. The predecessor of the Xixia Kingdom was the Jiedu Envoy of the Tang Dynasty Army, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty personally gave the surname of Li to the leader of the Xixia Kingdom. Although the Dangxiang clan is under Li Yuanhao's In retrospect, Han Chinese clothes were abandoned. But this did not change anything. Most people in Xixia still used more convenient Chinese characters. In my opinion, the Song Dynasty and Xixia were the successors of the Tang Dynasty. The relationship between Xixia and Xixia is nothing more than a feud between two brothers from different families and a fight over the distribution of their father's inheritance, which is not comparable to that of the Khitan barbarians."

Hearing Fang Shisan's answer, Zhao Mu was quite surprised. He didn't expect that his thoughts and his own would be so consistent. Although Zhao Mu also regarded the Xixia people as barbarians, the Xixia people were closer to him. After all, as Fang Shisan said, although Li Yuanhao acted rebelliously in Xixia Kingdom, there was no substantial change. After all, the Xixia script he created is much more troublesome to learn and use than Chinese characters.

If it were not necessary to save face and distinguish it from the Song Dynasty, there would be no way for this Xixia script to be promoted in the country.

Moreover, the Dangxiang tribe's own clothes were too ugly, except for the Xixia royal family and officials who shaved their heads for the sake of the Xixia kingdom, leaving only two small pigtails. Ordinary people, even soldiers, only braided their hair instead of shaving their heads.

Zhao Mu said: "What about the Khitans? They also claim to be the successors of the Han and Tang Dynasties. The Yelu family claims that their surname is Liu and is the descendant of Han Gaozu, and the Xiao family claims to be the descendants of Xiao He, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, they also call themselves Inherited the legal tradition of the Tang Dynasty."

Before Zhao Mu finished speaking, Fang Shisan couldn't help laughing.

Fang Shisan laughed and said: "Hahaha, it's just a monkey. No matter how much the monkey dresses like a human, he will never become a human, he will always be just a monkey."

Zhao Mu couldn't help but laugh when he heard Fang Shisan's comments. He feels that he is very close to him now, and feels that this guy in front of him should be him in this era.

Zhao Mu said: "So this is why you don't cooperate with the Khitans?"

Fang Shisan nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes, let's say something taboo. The Song Dynasty can fall, but it will never fall in the hands of the barbarians! Therefore, we will never allow the mistakes of Emperor Shi Jingtuan'er to be repeated. Besides, this Now that the situation is serious, small countries such as Liao, Xixia, Tubo, Dali, Goryeo, and Gaochang Uighurs also plan to send troops to help. I am afraid that this chaos will not be much worse than the Wuhu chaos in China at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. "

Fang Shisan looked at Zhao Mu and said resolutely: "The people of Qin have no time to mourn for themselves, and the descendants will mourn for them; the descendants will mourn without taking note of it, and the descendants will mourn for the descendants again." Even in the Song Dynasty, If you are willing to cross the south again, we, the Mingjiao, will not allow the barbarians to show off their evil in the Central Plains again!"

After listening to Fang Shisan's words, Zhao Mu even doubted whether the kid in front of him was also a time traveler.

In the future, the Song Dynasty will indeed have a "Southern Crossing in Clothes" that is no less than the Southern Crossing from Yongjia. And this time the Song Dynasty was even more humiliating than the Western Jin Dynasty.

Although the Eastern Jin Dynasty lost half of its country, the royal family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was not robbed by barbarians, and the princesses and princesses were not raped or humiliated. Eventually the valley road burst and he died.

Moreover, they did not pay tribute to the barbarians, and even launched a Northern Expedition from time to time, although the final results each time were not very satisfactory. But this spirit is far stronger than the Southern Song Dynasty's partiality and shameless submission.

And the most important thing, if we go by the chronicles of this parallel time and space, those who will expel the barbarians and restore China in the future will really be the people of Mingjiao.

(End of this chapter)