back to ancient times to be emperor

Chapter 870
In the 12th year of Liao Xianyong, that is, the [-]th year of Hongxiang in Dashun, Jurchen sent envoys to Linhuang Mansion.

Passing the letter of state, I would like to be a good friend from generation to generation. Jurchen will come to pay tribute every year and be a vassal of Liao.

Emperor Yelu Hongji of the Liao Dynasty felt relieved when he heard the officials read the letter of credence respectfully presented by the envoy Jurchen.

The grievances between Khitan and Jurchen have a long history.The original reason, no one can guess, is because of a kind of bird!

This bird is called Haidongqing and lives in the Hudong River (Song, Huajiang), Heishui (Hei, Longjiang) and Wusuli River basins.Costinus is a bird of prey that is as big as a magpie, flies like an arrow, and is ferocious in nature. It can hunt swans and help people hunt.Li Bai, a great poet of the former dynasty, once wrote a poem: "Dancing gracefully with wide sleeves, it looks like birds coming from the sea." People at that time said: "The most handsome ones carved out of Liaodong are called Haidongqing."

With its extremely strong explosive power, Costin can be called the king of the air in the ancient northern world.Costinosaurus is not easy to capture and domesticate, and there is a folk saying that "it's rare to be an eagle after nine deaths".The nobles, princes and relatives of the nomadic people, because of the national tradition of hunting, spared no expense to buy costin. Whoever can capture and present it can also pay off the crime. Domestication of costinin became a fashion at that time.

Every year, the emperor of the Liao Dynasty held a grand "falcon release" ceremony, that is, he took Haidongqing to the wild to hunt and play.There is a record in the time: "There is a desert in the Liao Kingdom, which is surrounded by the Great Wall. It is suitable for governance. Autumn and winter are against the cold, and spring and summer are summer heat. Fishing with aquatic plants is a common thing every year. Four seasons have their own places. It's called 'Nabo'."

Every year in the first ten days of the first lunar month, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom departs from Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing and arrives at Yazihebo about two months later.At that time, the swans had not yet migrated here, so the emperor and his party set up tents on the ice and dug into the ice to get fish.As soon as the lake is opened, the attendants are all dressed in dark green clothes, each with a chain hammer, an eagle food utensil, and a goose cone, and arrange them around the duck river.The emperor stood upwind and watched, and once he saw a swan, he immediately raised a small flag, galloped to report to his attendants, sounded a drum in the distance, and the goose jumped up. The emperor immediately released Haidongqing. The same goes straight into the clouds, suddenly dives down quickly, flies straight to the swan, and beats with powerful wings, the swan is unable to support it, and falls to the dust in an instant.The attendants around immediately rushed forward, stabbing the goose with their awls, taking the brain and feeding it to Haidongqing first.The emperor gets a goose head, feasts his ministers, and puts swan feathers on the head for joy.

There is a poem praising Haidongqing saying: "Fighting the wind with jade claws soaring to the sky, glancing at the sun and wind and feathers falling into snow and frost", it can be seen that when Haidongqing pounced on the swan, it was very powerful, resolute and brave.

The Jurchen people belong to the Sushen family. Their ancestors lived in the Baishan Heishui area for generations, and some of them moved south to the Liaohe River basin.The Jurchens originally had no grievances with the Khitan people, but after the Khitan people established the Great Liao Kingdom, they began to exploit the Jurchens. The rulers of the Liao Dynasty demanded tribute from the Jurchens every year.

Because in the sea to the east of the Jurchen's residence, there is a kind of pearl as big as a marble and as small as a phoenix tree, which is loved by the upper class nobles of the Liao Kingdom.Pearl mussels are fully ripened in October every year, but at this time the seaside ice is several feet deep, and people cannot dig into the ice to get pearls.There is a local swan that feeds on pearl clams and hides the pearls in the crops after eating clams. The falcon Costin is an expert at catching this kind of swan.In order to use Haidongqing to catch this kind of swan, the nobles of the Liao Kingdom forcibly took hawks and harriers for many years.

At the same time, in order to hunt around freely, Emperor Liao often sent envoys, wearing silver medals, called silver medal angels, to the Jurchen Ministry to forcibly ask for the falcon Haidongqing.Wherever these envoys went, apart from extorting wealth from the Jurchens, they also asked them to present beautiful women to accompany them. They did not ask whether they were married or not, nor did they ask about their family status, and insulted them at will.It is called the recommended pillow seat.The brutal behavior of the Khitan nobles greatly hurt the feelings of the Jurchens and aroused the Jurchens' incomparable hatred.

In addition, the Liao Kingdom was also very wary of the Jurchen, and divided them into two major tribes, one part attached to the Liao Kingdom, called "cooked and Jurchen", and the other remained between the white mountains and the black waters, seemingly obeying the orders of the Liao Kingdom, but in fact That is to do their own thing, which is called "the birth of a girl".

Giving birth to Jurchen is different from familiarity, and Jurchen has completely integrated into the Liao Kingdom.The Jurchens who lived in Baishan Heishui had had enough of the Khitan people's exploitation, otherwise Wanyan Wugunai would not have received material assistance from Dashun, so she decided to raise troops against the Liao Kingdom.

Little did they know that the Liao Kingdom was extremely wary of the Jurchens, and they did not hesitate to let their feud Dashun go, and dispatched a large army, vowing to wipe out the Jurchens.

Lu Chengqi's original intention was to stir up conflicts between the two tribes, but he never thought that the effect would be so good.

For a whole ten years, the Khitan people had no time to look south, even the two generals Xiao Xulie and Xiao Feng died.

The hatred between the Khitans and the Jurchens has deepened.But in fact, both the Jurchen and the Liao Kingdom are at the end of their strength, and they are no longer able to conquer, and urgently need to recuperate.

However, this was the Emperor Yelu Hongji of the Liao Kingdom personally ordered the crusade. If the Jurchens were not beaten to surrender, how could Yelu Hongji get down?

Seeing the Jurchen subdued now, Yelu Hongji put down the big stone in his heart, and felt that letting go of the Jurchen seemed no big deal, but he was not stupid, and ordered the Jurchen to be included in the Liao Kingdom, and not to be in the white mountains and black waters, otherwise he would "continue the crusade" .

The Jurchen envoy was already unable to raise any protests, and after struggling for a day, he could only finally agree.

At this point, the ten-year war between Jurchen and Khitan ended with Jurchen's surrender, the raw Jurchen tribe was mixed into the mature Jurchen tribe, and the Khitan army withdrew.

After the army withdrew, Yelu Hongji began to look for something to do again.

In the past ten years, the border of Shunliao has been safe and sound, and Yelu Hongji has been jealous for a long time.Who knows that Dashun is rich and rich in the world?What's even more exasperating is that Dashun's coins are commonly used in the Liao Kingdom, and are even more popular than the Liao Kingdom's own coins. It is about three Xianyong Tongbao and one Hongxiang Tongbao of Dashun.Sometimes even a tael of silver can't be exchanged for a Dashun's silver coin, and a tael of gold can't be exchanged for a Dashun's gold coin.

But after the Dashun merchants collected the silver and gold, most of them were sold to the Dashun Royal Bank to earn the difference.The Dashun Qianjian mixed these gold and silver with tin and copper to make silver and gold coins and issue them.In this way, Dashun earned the price difference, which made Liao weaker and Dashun's economic strength stronger and stronger.

Dashun has so much money, silver, grain, tea, and silk, how could Yelu Hongji not be jealous?
Not to mention that it is getting colder and colder in Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Yelu Hongji has long wanted to go to the warm south.Even though the Liao Kingdom urgently needed to recuperate, Yelu Hongji still had the idea of ​​Dashun in his heart.

(End of this chapter)