"Da Lang, are you scared?"

"Afraid? Afraid? ”

"I'm afraid of going to Liao, I'm afraid of the Khitans."

"Uh...... Brother Xiaoyi, this, this...... Yes, there is. ”

"Haha, Da Lang is really worried."

Ximen Qing sent Wu Haogu out of Ximen Hall, and sent him all the way to the dock where the Mi family's official ship was moored.

On the way, the two walked side by side, and Ximen Qing talked about Yanyun's trip.

Although Wu Haogu was moved, he still didn't give a quasi-letter...... After all, today's Yanjing is a "foreign country", it is the terrible Nanjing of the Great Liao Kingdom, as if it is a place like a tiger's den in Longtan, and most of them will have Khitan thieves who are ten times more ruthless than Liangshan thieves!

So Wu Haogu was very afraid that he would really get the bento if he went.

"Da Lang, in fact, Liao is not a tiger's den in Longtan." Ximen Qing didn't know whether to tell the truth or comfort Wu Haogu, "Of course, there are a lot of thieves, but as long as they come and go, they won't attract villains." It's a thief, just spend money to buy a road.

Moreover, Second Brother Ma's family is one of the four major families of Yanyun, and they are very powerful, which is enough to ensure that you come and go safely. ”

"The four major families of Yanyun?"

"The four families of Han, Zhao, Liu, and Ma." Ximenqing said, "The Han family is the ethnic group of Han Derang; The Zhao family is a descendant of Zhao Yanshou, a general of the Later Jin Dynasty; The Liu family is Youzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and after Liu Yi, the envoy of Lulongjiedu, they have been Yanyun Haoqiang for generations; The Ma family is a descendant of Ma Yinqing, the assassin of Qingzhou in the Later Jin Dynasty, who was detained by the Liao people to Yanyun, the patriarch of the Ma family of the second brother of Ma, the patriarch of the Ma family in Lushan Mountain, Ma Renwang, is still an important minister of the Liao State, and now the official is sentenced to the envoy of the three divisions of Nanjing.

If you are a guest of the Doctor Wu Lu Shan Ma Family, where will anyone touch half of your hair in Yanyun? ”

Yiwu Lushan is in Xianzhou, western Liaoning, and it is the place where Ma Yinqing's family originally lived in Liao in the Later Jin Dynasty. Ma Yinqing himself did not join Liao, but lived in seclusion in Yiwu Lushan for life. However, his son Ma Yanxu went out of the Liao Kingdom and stayed in Nanjing, his grandson Ma Yuan became the deputy of Zhongjing, and his great-grandson Ma Quan became the envoy of Zhongjing.

However, the most awesome thing about the Ma family is Ma Renwang, the fifth-generation patriarch, don't look at him now, he is only the envoy of the three divisions of Nanjing, but he is a close confidant of Yelu Yanxi, the emperor's grandson. Once Yanxi ascends the throne, he will immediately become a supreme minister.

And Ma Zhi is Ma Renwang's nephew, he can definitely walk sideways in the Yanyun area, even if it is an ordinary Khitan, I am afraid he will not dare to provoke him.

Wu Haogu still frowned slightly, "As Xiao Yi said, Second Brother Ma is from such a background, why should he be determined to destroy Liao?"

With his talent, isn't it possible to be a supreme minister sooner or later on the Da Liao side? When it comes to our dynasty, it may not be able to surpass the future in the Liao Dynasty, right? ”

Ximen Qing smiled and said in an admiring tone: "What Ma Shibo wants is not to be a supreme minister, but to be famous in history." With his talented background, a Liao State Jinshi is not ready to take it? If you want to be an official, you will be out of office a long time ago. ”

The imperial examination of the Liao State is actually a means to win over the Han people and the Bohai people, and the imperial examination is to fight for the father. Although Ma Zhi's father died early, his uncle is powerful, and he is from the four major families of Yanyun, and he also has the ability, so he is afraid that he will not be able to get into Jinshi?

And with his background and a jinshi, he will definitely rise to prominence after high school, and it may be a matter of time before he becomes the ruler.

But on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, even if he has the great merit of recovering Yan and Pingliao, what kind of official can he give? He is not a Jinshi of the Song Dynasty, but a person from the south to the north, and at most he is given a high-grade position.

This Ma Zhi seems to be doing a thankless business!

Ximen Qing then said: "But Ma Shibo has had the ambition to overcome Yanyun for the Han family since he was a child...... This is also the ambition of Ma Yinqing, the ancestor of their Ma family. And there have always been people in the Ma family of Yiwu Lushan who have never forgotten the aspirations of their ancestors, just like our Yanggu Ximen family. ”

It turns out that on the one hand, there are people who are big officials in the Liao State, and on the other hand, there are people who do not forget the aspirations of their ancestors, and they are accumulating strength and waiting for opportunities.

It's really a bit of a feeling of being in Liaoying, and the heart is in Song.

Only the other three families of the four major families of Yanyun also have the same meaning?

Thinking of this, Wu Haogu asked again: "Do the Han, Zhao, and Liu clans of the four major families of Yanyun not forget the Southern Dynasty like the Ma family?" ”

Ximen Qing smiled and said: "Yanyun Han people, no one will forget the Southern Dynasty." It's just that in the past 100 years, the north has been strong and the south is weak, and there is no hope of recovery, so it has gradually become cold.

But now the weakness of the Khitan people can be seen by everyone, the heart is ulcerated, and the limbs are too strong...... A chieftain on the steppe, Macus, made the Khitans exhausted, and they fought for six or seven years without knowing anything.

And the western thieves who vassal the Liao people were repeatedly defeated by our dynasty, and the subjugation was about a matter of time or time. This Song is strong and weak, it is already a clear thing. What do you think of the Yanyun Hao family? ”

"Xiao Yi," Wu Haogu looked at Ximen Qing, "Do you really think that Liao is weak and Song Qiang is now?" ”

Ximen Qing laughed, "The ancients read thousands of books than to travel thousands of miles, Dalang, you just haven't been to Liao, so you will be blindly afraid."

If you go to the Liao Kingdom and see those Khitan palace tent soldiers who only know how to eat fasting and pray Buddha, you will know that they are by no means the elite opponents of the Western Army.

Besides, the Khitan Palace tent soldiers have long been attacked from all sides, not only to deal with our dynasty, but also to run for their lives on the grassland, and to guard against the female direct departments in the east, which is simply insufficient. ”

Ximen Qing and Ma Zhi's optimism does not seem to be unreasonable...... Wu Hao Guxin said: About ten years later, it will be the battle of Hubu Dagang!

The Liao soldiers, who claimed to be 700,000, were destroyed by 20,000 Jurchen iron cavalry, and the Great Liao was in a state of collapse ever since!

But Ximen Qing and Ma Zhi would never have thought that the Great Song Dynasty, like the Liao Kingdom, had long been decayed.

The combat power that the Western Army is now showing is actually based on the decay and weakness of the Western Xia.

However, what Ximen Qing said just now also makes sense, and it is necessary to go to Liao to see it. This Jingkang shame is, in the final analysis, because of the weakness of the Khitan. And the antidote to the difficulty of Jingkang may be in Liao...... If Wu Haogu really has the ideal of saving the country and the people, he should also go to Liao to see with his own eyes what Khitan warriors, Mongolian warriors and strong men who give birth to daughters are like.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles!

"Okay," Wu Haogu finally nodded, "After I've finished the few important things at hand, I'll find an opportunity to go to Yanyun." ”

……

"Big Daddy, Ma Shibo, Wu Dalang agreed to go to Yanyun."

After sending Wu Haogu and the others to the dock, Ximen Qing immediately rushed back to Ximen Hall.

In the inner living room of Ximen Hall, Ximen Qing reported Wu Haogu's decision to his grandfathers Ximen He and Ma Zhi.

"Good!" Ma Zhi stroked his palm, "The big thing has taken another step!"

If this Wu Dalang is really as famous, we will have a mouthpiece in Kaifeng Mansion in the future. ”

It turned out that Ma Zhi's plan was to first praise Wu Haogu as a famous man, and then use him to publicize the decline of the Khitan, so as to prompt the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers to expedition Yanyun to the north.

"The mouthpiece thing is easy to do," Ximen He tasted the fragrant cloud mist and ordered tea, while shaking his head slightly, "It's just the heart of the Great Song Dynasty, I'm afraid it will be as corrupt as the Liao Kingdom!" ”

Ma Zhi smiled and said: "Shibo's words are wrong, this Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom are different.

The foundation of the Liao State is the Khitan hinterland, and the palace tent soldiers who claim to be 400,000 are recruited from the hinterland. Now the Khitan people only know how to eat fasting and recite Buddha, and the 400,000 palace tent soldiers have long been in vain. If you want to cheer up, unless you can eradicate the Buddhism of Daliao!

On the side of the Great Song Dynasty, there has always been no fundamental heart, but the world is shared with scholars and doctors. The force of the Great Song Dynasty relied entirely on military recruitment, and what are you afraid of if the military recruitment is corrupted? The rotten ones are withdrawn, just spend some money and raise some more. Now that the Great Song Dynasty is not out of money, spending tens of millions of dollars to train 100,000 elite soldiers, are you afraid that you can't beat a disintegrating Da Liao? ”