Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 165 Sweeping the Floor and Borrowing a Long Whale (1)

It is natural to give some small money to the children who are helping out when staying at a farmer's house in Hezhong.Zhao Xingde took out a Lumei silver coin from his pocket and gave it to Meng Bin, but the young man didn't take it, instead he looked at Xingde a little sullenly.Zhao Xingde couldn't help being a little embarrassed, he looked up at Mrs. Meng, worried that he had committed some taboo.

Seeing this, Meng Wang also smiled and said: "Take it." All the soldiers thought that the young man's face was tender, so they all looked at him with a smile.

Clinker Meng Bin looked at Zhao Xingde, hesitated for a long time, and held back a sentence: "My lord, I don't want a reward, can you teach me how to locate the sky?"

Zhao Xingde was taken aback, looked left and right, Wang Tongdeng cast apologetic gazes at him, it turned out that just now he was wandering around the farm with nothing to do, happened to see this young man reading a star atlas.Meng Bin has lived in the countryside all year round, and he has no intentions. Chatting with Wang Tongdeng, he confessed his ambitions.In the future, he will travel all over the world in search of mineral veins, and create a family business that is number one in the county.He has also read a few books on this subject, but his mind is full of doubts. He has been suffering from the fact that there is no master who is proficient in sky observation and positioning.Wang Tongdeng then talked about Zhao Xingde's skill in observing the sky and locating the sky, which made the young man very envious.

Meng Bin looked at Zhao Xingde, with great expectation and pleading in his eyes.Zhao Xingde moved slightly in his heart, remembering how hard he was studying everywhere, nodded, and said in a low voice: "Okay." Before Meng Bin cheered, he said in a deep voice: "I have to go on my way tomorrow, so I can only teach you a little. If you can be cultivated, I will instruct you to become another famous teacher."

The soldiers were leaving tomorrow morning, Meng Bin nodded repeatedly, and immediately took out a stack of books from the room.The printing and paper are far inferior to Kanto engraved books, and the handwriting and pictures are barely legible.Zhao Xingde looked down at the questions he had marked in the book page by page, and couldn't help feeling a headache.Meng Bin said that he was asking about the technique of observing the sky, but in fact, the questions he asked included many aspects such as geometry, arithmetic, and astronomy.But thinking of the difficulty of this young man studying in this desolate place, he felt relieved, pulled himself together, and explained to him one by one.

This question and answer lasted for three hours, all the sergeants began to watch with great interest, and after a while they all left one after another.The oil lamp was placed on the dining table in the barn, and it was lit until the third watch, and the lamp oil was almost dry.Young people couldn't stay up all night, Zhao Xingde saw that Meng Bin's eyes were red, and he still couldn't bear to give up the chance to study, so he couldn't help feeling sorry for him, and wrote down his address in Dunhuang, and Li Rui's address , handed it to Meng Bin, and said in a deep voice: "The way to study is long and long. , you can come to us."

Meng Bin accepted the name card, and couldn't believe it, Sergeant Zhao actually pointed him to learn from the gentleman from the Tianji Academy of the Bachelor's House.He raised his head, eyes full of surprise and gratitude, but Zhao Xingde only smiled slightly.Looking at the back of the young man leaving, Zhao Xingde sighed secretly: "It is a deserted village and a remote place, where the cultural relics can be educated, and the people of the country can be so diligent. If the country is not prosperous, it is unreasonable."

Thinking of this, his heart surged and he couldn't fall asleep. He simply stretched his waist, put on his clothes, walked out of the barn, and looked at the eastern sky. It was not yet dawn, but the morning star was already hanging in the sky It is extraordinarily bright, and the night breeze is refreshing, which makes people feel refreshed.

In Youzhou City, Nanjing Liushou Mansion is still brightly lit in the middle of the night.The time for the Yelu family to fight for Nanjing is running out. Yelu Yanxi has already beheaded several military commanders who delayed sending troops.

In just a few months, the vicinity of Youzhou has turned into a military camp, and Khitan cavalry can be seen running slowly everywhere in the city, and camps stretch out in stretches outside the city.Yelu Dashi rebelled with the support of the Yelu royal family. The first major event, he did not hesitate to surrender to the military state and distribute the Han households to the tribal leaders in exchange. The generals are placed in the positions of commanders at all levels to ensure that they can firmly grasp the gathered tribal warriors.

The warriors of the Khitan tribe were reorganized in Youzhou, and Yelu Dashi reappointed the commanders of ten thousand, thousand and hundreds.These generals are all the younger generation of the Khitan tribe. They were suppressed by the upper-level royal relatives and tribal leaders in the past. They had nowhere to show their ambitions. Yelu Dashi called for the revitalization of Khitan to connect them.Reorganizing the mob's tribal soldiers and horses into an elite resistance army to fight against the division of the Pishi army palace is not a one-day job, and it needs to deal with countless chores.These generals asked for instructions and reported step by step, and the whole army gradually moved like a finger.Therefore, there is an endless stream of military officers who come and go to Nanjing to stay in the government every day from morning to evening.

"Here to meet Hunjun," Yelu Dashi pointed to the narrowest throat at the west end of the long and narrow Liaoxi Corridor. Here, the mountains and the sea face the hills, and the situation is dangerous. It is the only way for the troops of the Northern Academy to attack Youzhou.He said to Guo Baoyi: "Block the road with iron barrel cannons to attract the faint kings to attack. The Iron Wall Camp and the Han Army Camp must firmly defend the camps." color'.Several distant relatives of his subordinates were also classified as slave households and wanted to intercede for them.

"Why, do you have something to report?" Yelu Dashi raised his head, but suddenly found that Guo Baoyi's appearance was different from usual. It turned out that the hair bun of the Han people was gone, but instead, it was the hair style of the Khitan people, with two temples. Keep a lock of hair on each side, and shave all other hairs. "Oh," Yelu Dashi smiled slightly and praised, "This is our Khitan."

"The last general is ashamed." Guo Baoyi's face changed slightly.His parents, who have body, hair and skin, although he is loyal to the Yelu family, he still made up his mind to make his head look weird.

Yelu Dashi saw what was on his mind, didn't take it seriously, smiled and said slowly: "Mencius said, Shun was born in Zhufeng, moved to Negxia, died in Mingtiao, Dongyi people, King Wen was born in Qizhou, died in Ying is also a native of the Western Yi. Confucius said that when the barbarians entered China, the Chinese lived there, and when the Chinese entered the barbarians, the barbarians came. The customs and etiquette of the Shang and Zhou dynasties originally belonged to the Hu people, which were different from the Central Plains. They lived in the Central Plains. Afterwards, the etiquette of the barbarians became the orthodoxy of China, and later generations followed it. At the beginning, the six kingdoms of the Kanto region despised the Western Qin Dynasty as barbarians. In the Qin Dynasty, there were still rotten Confucianists who remembered the dead bones in the tombs, borrowing from ancient times. It's not the present, so the Qin Emperor made a fool of himself. Since then, the Han Dynasty has not inherited the Qin system. The clothes and skin that the rotten Confucians never forget are just the 'hair' on the skin. China's Zhengshuo may not be in the Southern Dynasty. Wait for our dynasty After moving to the Central Plains, an order was issued to shave their hair, and anyone who submits to our Great Khitan Kingdom must follow the Khitan rules, and must not miss the clothes and hairstyles of the previous dynasty. This is the root cause."

Guo Baoyi only said that he was right, and heard Yelu Dashi sighed: "General Guo is as loyal to me as Daliao, but he is actually no different from the Khitan people. In the future, when the tripod is scheduled to go to Beijing, it is not impossible to give the surname Yelu or Xiao."

Guo Baoyi was terrified in his heart, he couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard the words, knelt on the ground and said: "Thank you, my lord." When he raised his head, he said, "The last general wishes to belong to the Yelu clan."

As a general of the Han Dynasty who had belonged to Khitan for hundreds of years, Guo Baoyi knew very well about the strife between the royal family of the Yelu family and the descendants of the Xiao family in the Liao Kingdom.The Yelu Dashi uprising this time was also related to the fact that the emperor of the Liao Kingdom relied more and more on the Xiao family, alienating and guarding against the Yelu family.

"Okay." Yelu Dashi smiled slightly, and raised his hand to make him stand up to speak, "I already know your loyalty." He dispelled Guo Baoyi's doubts, and said in a low voice, "Is there anything else?" Guo Baoyi said Only then did he say the matter of pleading for the distant relatives of his subordinates. Yelu Dashi bowed his head and pondered for a moment, wrote a note, handed it to Guo Baoyi, and assigned these Han households to Guo's Throwing Junzhou . "Your Excellency is generous and benevolent, and I will be grateful to you!" Guo Baoyi walked away gratefully. Yelu Dashi looked at his back with a vague smile on his lips.

As soon as Guo Baoyi left, Xiao brought his son Yelu Yilie and daughter Pusuwan to say good night to his father Dashi.

"Abu, sleep well." Five-year-old Pusu Wannen said, Yelu Dashi lovingly 'touched' her head, and asked Yelu Yilie, "Have you finished all your homework for today?" "Yes, Abu." 12-year-old Yelu Yilie said respectfully.Yelu Dashi asked him to complete his daily homework, except for riding and archery. The four gentlemen taught Khitan, Chinese, Persian, and Turkic respectively. In the beginning, the time for eating and resting in the middle is also very short, which is very hard for the underage children.

The sons and daughters withdrew, but Mrs. Xiao still stayed in the room, hesitating to speak.Yelu Dashi smiled slightly, and said in a low voice, "Madam, if you have something to say, please tell me."

Xiao hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Distribute the Han people inside and outside the city to the tribe. I heard that most of the Han slaves who should have been allocated to the tribe's warriors were occupied by the chieftains. Those tribes who were allocated to the common people The headmen often drive the slave households like cattle and horses. If this continues, the Khitan warriors and the Han people will probably be dissatisfied."

Khitan women have a tradition of caring about political affairs, and Yelu Dashi didn't think it was disobedient, and said with a smile, "That's exactly what we want to do." Seeing Xiao's puzzled look, he said slowly, "These old and stupid For the sake of slaves and wealth, the headman entrusted the tribal warriors to my command. They fought in the front, and they were domineering in the rear, digging their own graves. Just wait for me to fight to the death with the faint king, and guide me to clean up these rotten things Dry bones, effortless. All warriors who are loyal to me and shed blood and sweat will have sufficient rewards. At that time, I will let the real pillars serve as the leaders of the Khitan tribes. They are the hope of revitalizing Khitan. "

Yelu Dashi sat here and listened to the generals reporting military affairs one by one. It had been an hour without moving. He simply stood up and stretched his muscles and bones. He stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, his heart was surging. The royal family's finger-pointing can sacrifice the interests of the Han people to buy the head of the Khitan tribe, and they can cede the ancestral homeland of Yunzhou to the barbarians on the grassland, but this is all for the revival of the Khitan.If the general can accomplish great things, no matter if he is a Khitan, Xi tribe, Jurchen or Han, they will only remember him as a generous and benevolent sage.

He exhaled deeply the turbid air in his chest, took another breath of cold night air, and felt his whole body vibrate.Looking at the stars in the distance, he said slowly: "The heaven and the earth are not benevolent, and everything is a straw dog. The soil and rain make the grass grow, and the grass feeds the cattle and sheep, and the cattle and sheep feed the shepherd and the wolves. After the shepherd dies, the soul returns to the longevity heaven, Flesh and flesh turn into soil, re-nourishing the grass, and the cycle goes on and on, and all things are born endlessly. This is the way of heaven. The law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest are the way of heaven. They are descendants of green bulls and white horses, brave and good at fighting, and rule over cowardly and despicable people, this is also the way of heaven. What I have done is to revive the Khitan, which is gradually decayed by the customs of the Southern Dynasty, and obey the way of heaven."