"Da Lang," Ma Zhi Wu Haogu said, still a little hesitant, and after thinking about it, he said, "It's better like this, tomorrow you go to Xiangshan with a certain family, and meet Mr. Xiangshan Murong, the teacher of a certain family, and you can talk to his old man as well." ”

Xiangshan Murong?

Why does it sound like it's all martial arts?

"This Mr. Murong is ......"

"Official, he is a great Confucian of Yandi!" Ximen Qing was now accompanying Wu Haogu, and when he heard Ma Zhi mention Mr. Murong, he interjected, "And the Yuhe Murong family to which Mr. Murong belongs is the same as my Yanggu Ximen family, they are all from Youzhou Yajiang, and they don't forget to restore Yanyun." ”

Ma Zhi nodded and said, "The eldest sister's Ximen family is known as the South West Gate, and the Yuhe Murong family is called the North Murong, and it is the pen of the Youzhou general. ”

Wu Hao Guxin said: How is it the South West Gate and the North Murong? Where did you put Xiao Feng and Xiao Daxia?

"Then the Yuhe Murong family, where Mr. Murong is located, is also a wealthy family in Yandi?" Wu Haogu asked.

Ximen Qing once gave Wu Haogu a booklet about the Yanyun clan, and there was no Yuhe Murong family in it, so Wu Haogu asked this question.

"Yuhe Murong and the Ximen people who stayed in Yandi are all retainers of the Zhao family," Ximen Qing whispered, "so they are not wealthy families." ”

Zhao's? Which Zhao?

Could it be Zhao Dejun and Zhao Yanshou's family?

Wu Haogu thought about it, and then remembered that Zhao Dejun and Zhao Yanshou, father and son, were also from Youzhou Town. After the destruction of Liu's Yan, Zhao Dejun served as the envoy of Youzhou Jiedu, and after the surrender of the Khitan, Zhao Dejun became the envoy of the Youzhou Festival of the Khitan, and later Zhao Yanshou inherited this position, and then Youzhou was changed to Nanjing Road, and Zhao Yanshou was the first to stay in Nanjing. The Ximen family claims to be from Youzhou, so it can't be Zhao Yanshou's subordinates, right?

The Ximen family has been making trouble for a long time, and it turns out to be a retainer of the traitor Zhao family! What is the idea of the traitor Zhao family to install them in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty?

Do you not forget to restore Yanyun, or do you not forget to go south to take away the Han people?

Wu Haogu thought so in his heart, of course he couldn't say it, because Sister Ximen must be a good person. He asked Ma Zhi again: "Then there are people in the Zhao family who have not forgotten to recover?" ”

He knew that compared with the Ma family of the doctor and witch, the Zhao family in Zhenzhou was the real wealthy family - the people were the foundation of the Youzhou Jiedu envoy. If the Zhao family is really willing to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty anyway (their family is also good at surrendering anyway), then the battle of Yanyun will be easy to fight in the future.

Ma Zhi shook his head and said with a smile: "I have to ask Mr. Murong, the family teacher, about the Zhao family." ”

Ma Zhi refused to say it, but Wu Haogu knew it. If the Zhao family didn't have any ambition, then Nanximen would have fallen a long time ago. But if it is said that a big Liao wealthy family like the Zhao family in Zhenzhou will jump out and become the first bird, Wu Haogu will not believe it.

Looking at the performance of their ancestors in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, you can imagine what kind of goods they are like when they are gray grandsons.

However, in the original history, the Zhao family in Zhenzhou didn't seem to have played any tricks. I don't know if the descendants of the Zhao family are too useless, or the Khitans have long been wary of their family's habitual surrender and seized power early?

……

Spring breeze, warm.

Wu Haogu, Ma Zhi, Ximen Qing, Zhang Zeduan, Lin Chong, Lin Jiaotou and others chose a bright spring day to leave the beggar city of Yanjing, and rode to the nearby Xiangshan.

The outside of Yanjing City is not as oppressive as the inside of the city, there are no tall and breathless city walls, and there are no groups of ragged beggars, and even the sky seems much brighter and farther than the inside of the city.

In the green fields, dotted with small cities. From time to time, large caravans of chariots and horses drove out of these small cities and moved over the green land.

Wu Haogu and his party are also freshly dressed and angry, in groups. Ma Zhi changed his solitary style in the Southern Dynasties, bringing dozens of guards, domestic servants and maids, as well as a large cart with all kinds of utensils for eating, drinking and playing. There was also a strong horseman, holding high a large flag embroidered with the word "horse", opening the way in front.

There is a kind of pomp and circumstance of the earth emperor's travel.

However, this kind of pomp and circumstance seems to be very common around Yanjing, coming out of the Qingjin Gate of Yanjing and walking less than twenty miles to the north, Wu Haogu saw four similar teams.

"Da Lang, they are all going on a safari." Ma Zhi told Wu Haogu with a smile, "Yanyun doesn't have much fun here, except for women, that is, safari, polo and lance holding." ”

Ximen Qing is also dressed in a Khitan-style suit, the bow and arrow are hung on the horseback, riding a horse and walking beside Wu Haogu, hearing Ma Zhi's words, she explained to Wu Haogu in a low voice: "If you can't ride and shoot on Yanyun's side, you won't even dare to call the children of the gentlemen." ”

Yanyun's wealthy family plays almost the same as the door valve of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it is not popular with otaku. If the children of wealthy families can't even play horseback riding, archery and polo, they can't even be called gentlemen, they can only be wasted.

"What are these little towns doing for a low purpose?"

The Ma family's chariot and horse brigade passed by a small city near the official road, the outer wall of this city was rammed earth, and a deep and wide trench was dug outside the city, and there were patrolling soldiers on the city wall.

As a "spy", Wu Haogu saw such a fortress, so he naturally wanted to inquire.

"This is the powerful fort dock of Yandi," replied Ma Zhi of the Qingdai of Ximen, "here in Daliao, all the wealthy families will build forts and live in them, and the forts are usually surrounded by their fields, and the forts are full of soldiers and hoarding grain and grass. ”

This is clearly the style of the Eastern Han Dynasty!

"The court of Liao doesn't care?"

"Tube?" Ma Zhi smiled, "Isn't that the case with the surname Yelu and the surname Xiao?" The nobles who can be ranked as rulers, who does not have a private city and a military state? ”

"Private city?"

"It's an enlarged fort." "There are not many in Nakyo-do and Nakyo-do, but there are many in Kamigyo Road, Seikyo-do and Tokyo Road. Wealthy families have private cities, and when they become bigger, they will seek the name of the military state, which can be regarded as the territory of their own generations. ”

The military state under the head turned out to be the private territory of the powerful Liao State!

"Didn't the Liao State build a palace tent and analyze the tribes? Why are there so many military states, private cities and forts? ”

Ma Zhi shook his head, "Since I am building palace tents and analyzing tribes, I am also building military states, private cities, and forts...... It is not easy to explain such things clearly. In short, today's Great Liao Kingdom is just a piece of scattered sand. ”

In fact, it is not difficult to make it clear that the construction of palace tents and the analysis of tribes are used to deal with the old tribes, while those who set up military states and private cities and forts are the newly rising nobles and heroes, of course, including many people in the Khitan royal family.

Therefore, the Liao State is engaged in centralization while slowly falling apart......

This situation is a bit like the Han Dynasty, the so-called "Han with strong death" can also be applied to Liao - if Wanyan Jurchen is regarded as a part of the Liao State, Liao is to die by force.

And once the Wanyan Jurchen replaced Yelu Khitan as the new master of the empire, and integrated the various powerful forces of the Liao State with the momentum of "its prosperity and prosperity", the combat power generated was not at all something that the Northern Song Dynasty could resist.

This Great Song Dynasty looks really dangerous!

……

From Yanjing City (Fangshan District, Beijing) to Xiangshan at this time, there are about 40 miles. Wu Haogu and the others rode for more than an hour, and they almost arrived at the foot of Xiangshan.

Xiangshan Wu Haogu is very familiar...... Of course, it was Xiangshan more than 900 years later, and he often went there to sketch when he was studying in Beijing. What Biyun Temple, Jingyi Garden, Shuangqing Villa, Yuhua Villa, and the famous Xiangshan Red Leaves, etc., he doesn't know how many times he has been there.

But now, none of these famous sights are there. What can be seen is the lush greenery and continuous mountain, as well as a large temple under construction at the foot of the southern foot of Xiangshan.

The Great Temple, which was named, did not exist in later generations and is likely to have been destroyed in the war.

Wu Haogu asked Ma Zhi: "Second brother, that's Huayan Temple, right?" ”

"Yes." Ma Zhi said with a smile, "It was built by a certain uncle, and he dared to ask for the life of the people of Songshan who transported charcoal when he was the county commander in Songshan, and he did not give in when he was caught in prison by Xiao Tuhun. Now that the official has become bigger, he is bent on currying favor with the emperor and King Yan, and in order to build this temple, I don't know how many people from Yuhe County have been used. ”

"Oh," Wu Haogu asked, "Ma Police Patrol was still caught in prison by the Khitans?" How did that come out? ”

"It is said that Xiao Tuhun felt that the uncle of a certain family was dedicated to the people, so he was greatly moved, so he let him go, and recommended my uncle to the imperial court."

Wu Haogu said: "That Xiao Tuhun is a good official." ”

Xiao Tuhun stayed behind in Zhongjing, this is the largest official in the Liao State! was topped by a sesame-sized county order - most of the county orders of Ma Renwang were bought from Xiao Tuhun - he was not furious, and recommended it to his superiors. It is surprising that the Great Liao Dynasty has such a good official.

"Where," Ma Zhi said in a low voice, "This matter was actually arranged by Mr. Murong, who was going to see him today, and he also gave Xiao Tuhun's mother-in-law six thousand taels of silver!" ”

Ma Zhi snorted: "Otherwise, if you don't complete the errand of transporting charcoal into Zezhou on time, my uncle's official will be the end." Where will Zhongjing stay behind say that he loves the people, and recommend it to the top...... Think beautifully! ”

It's not easy to be a good official! Wu Haogu thought to himself: It seems that to be a good official, you must have money, and you must be able to find a way to send money, oh, and there must be a capable master.

Only in this way can we give one away and one accurate, and only then can we soar!

"This Mr. Murong still has some skills." Wu Haogu nodded, "Second brother, why don't you hire Mr. Murong to be the mastermind." ”

Wu Haogu didn't want to invite Mr. Murong back to the Song Dynasty to help him, because the officialdom of the Song Dynasty was something he didn't understand. Wu Haogu must find an old fox in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty......

"This matter," Ma Zhi smiled, "then it depends on Mr. Xiangshan's interest in the Suzhou Anfu Army's envoys." ”