Xijin Mansion City, outside Yuhua Gate.

The banner is displayed, and the tiger is like a forest.

Thousands of traitors guarded the army, wearing helmets and armor, holding swords, carrying bows and arrows at their waists, and stood in two columns without saying a word, extending from the wharf of the Sanggan River to Yuhuamen.

Yuhua Gate is one of the two west gates of Xijin Mansion City, in the southwest position, after entering the Yuhua Gate is the palace city of Nanjing, Liao.

The layout of the palace city in Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, Liaoning, is also a bit strange, not in the north or center of the city, but in the southwest corner of the city, not far from the Sanggan River.

Except for the palace where no one lives - Xijin Mansion is theoretically Liao Nanjing, but the emperor of Liao State spends the whole year between the four bowls and Shangjing, and will not come to Nanjing at all. Therefore, the palace of Xijin Mansion is actually empty, and a large number of official offices outside the palace, except for the Nanjing Left-behind Division, the Nanjing Third Division Envoy and the Nanjing Transit Envoy, are also empty.

In addition to the above, there are also two huge barracks in the palace city of Xijin Mansion, which belong to the Khitan palace tent soldiers stationed in Xijin Mansion and the traitor guards and pro-army.

The Yongping Pavilion that received the Song envoys was also in the palace city of Xijin Prefecture, next to the camp of the guards and pro-army. At this time, the Nanjing of the Great Liao State and the left-behind Tongzhi Xiao Baoxian had already led a large group of officials of the Liao State, neatly dressed in robes, waiting in front of the Yongping Pavilion.

Han Ziguo's age and horse people seem to be like that, because of the excellent level of reincarnation, his official luck has improved a lot, and now he has achieved the stay in Nanjing, which is shoulder to shoulder with the heavy ministers of the Liao State.

Although the official has done a lot of work, the mood of the Korean capital is not good at all. Because now the national situation of the Great Liao Kingdom is going downhill, and it is going very badly.

The Zhao, Ma, and Liu families of the Yan four families may still have some small calculations about the weakening of the Liao State. But the Yutian Han family is really resting with the country!

The Han family is not just Han Chinese anymore...... In fact, the Han family's Han blood is already very thin, because they all gave the surname Yelu, entered the Heng Tent Ji's father's room, and married the descendants of the Xiao family. Moreover, the theoretical patriarch of their family (Han Derang has no descendants, this branch is actually inherited to Han Derang by the royal Yelu family) is also hereditary Wenzhong Palace, which is one of the palace tents of the Khitan Eleven Palace.

So they are more Khitan nobles than Han Chinese! Once the Great Liao is in trouble, the Yutian Han family is afraid that they will live and die with the Khitans!

A while ago, when the relationship between Song and Liao was tense, Han Ziguo, who stayed in Xijin Mansion, did not sleep a solid night, for fear that as soon as he opened his eyes one day, the Song army would be killed in the city of Xijin Mansion.

Fortunately, it is only the mission of the Great Song Dynasty that has come now......

Just when Han Ziguo breathed a sigh of relief, Liu Hong, the commander of the Nanjing Provincial Command Army, suddenly came up: "Stay behind, I just got a quick report from Kuaima, and the Bohai Nu of Longyan Tieshan is making trouble." ”

Longyan Iron Mountain is an important iron-smelting town in Liao, and it is also the main production area of Liao's weapons. The location is not in Nanjing Road, but in the territory of Khan Prefecture in Xijing Road, which is the location of Zhangjiakou in later generations.

Although this place is not under the jurisdiction of Nanjing Province, it is very close to Nanjing Province, so after the officials of Khan Prefecture found out that there was a change in Longyan Iron Mountain, they immediately asked Nanjing Province for help.

"Is it a big deal?" Han Ziguo frowned, Longyan Tieshan, which belongs to the jurisdiction of Xijing Dao, had a mess, and actually asked Nanjing Dao for help - I'm afraid this mess is not small!

"It is said that there are thousands of miners and forging slaves, and it seems that they have also played the banner of 'Sword King'."

"What's the hell? ...... the incident," the Korean capital was stunned, "in the Khan State? Are these Bohai slaves crazy? ”

It's incredible!

The full name of the Khan Prefecture is the Qingping Army of the Khan Prefecture, the state is Huailai County, and Longyan Iron Mountain is in the territory of Huailai County. Because it belongs to the land of Yanyun, most of the surrounding areas are the territory of the Han people. What are they doing there? Could it be that you still want to occupy Xijin Mansion and rule the Han people? Are these Bohai slaves crazy?

"Mistaken, right?" South Korean Ziguo asked uncertainly, "Could it be a trouble?" ”

Trouble between miners and craftsmen was very common in Liao, usually for the sake of making trouble, because the Liao court gave these "officials, slaves and maids" very low treatment.

"Possibly," said Liu Hong, "why don't you send a team of cavalry to find out the situation first?" ”

"That's all!" Han Zi nodded, "The Song envoy is about to enter the city, don't make a fuss and make people laugh."

In addition, there are also many Bohai slaves in Xijin Province...... Send someone to keep an eye on them, and don't let them make a fuss. ”

"Whoa!"

The Liao State's Nanjing Left-behind Han Ziguo and the Nanjing Provincial Commander Liu Hong made a very bureaucratic decision.

They take it for granted that Bohai Nu will not revolt in places like Longyan Tieshan and Xijin Mansion, because this is the territory of the Han people, and if they want to revolt, it will also be an uprising of the Han people, and they Bohai people should also go to Liaodong to revolt.

Since an uprising is unlikely, it is most likely to be a disturbance. Now it is the time for the Song envoys to enter the city, and the mobilization of troops to suppress it will make the Song people mistakenly think that the rivers and mountains of the Liao State are in danger......

So the Korean capital and Liu Hong missed the best opportunity to suppress the uprising. However, this is not the biggest mistake the two of them will make in recent times!

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"The Song army is coming north, and the Bohai Sea will prosper!"

"Great Song Bohai, Fight the Khitan together!"

Starting from the late night of March 27, Longyan Iron Mountain suddenly became chaotic! The Bohai Nu of Iron Mountain raised the banner of "Sword King" and seized the swords, guns, bows and arrows stored in the Iron Mountain warehouse (Longyan Iron Mountain itself is where weapons are made), and rose up in all directions. The small number of Khitan soldiers guarding Tieshan were wiped out in a very short period of time by the Bohai Nu, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, because of their negligence.

By noon, that is, when Han Ziguo and Liu Hong received the urgent report from Kuaima, Longyan Tieshan and the surrounding places were completely under the control of the rebellious Bohai Nu.

The Bohai Nu, who had won the war, did not forget to "unite" the Han compatriots, so according to the plan, they shouted the slogans "The Song army is coming north, the Bohai Sea will prosper" and "The Great Song Dynasty Bohai, jointly attack the Khitan", in an attempt to lure the nearby Han peasants to participate in the uprising.

The Yanyun Han clan will not be fooled, and they have no incentive to rebel. But the low-level Han people in the Yanyun area are actually living in hell just like Bohai Nu!

Therefore, as soon as I heard that "the Song army is coming north", there were really many poor Han peasants who did not know the truth and were fooled, picked up swords, guns and farm tools, and joined the uprising team of the Bohai people.

may be because he is afraid that a certain Han clan who has taken the wrong medicine will suddenly rise up and seize Longyan Iron Mountain, which is an important military industrial town.

Therefore, in the vicinity of Iron Mountain, the Han fortress is not allowed to exist. The Han villages, which had little defense, could not resist the mighty Bohai Nu rebel army, and these villages fell one after another after the army.

And the envoy of the Qingping Army Festival of the Khan Prefecture in Huailai County is even more helpless, this is the hinterland of Yanyun, who would have thought that the Bohai people of Longyan Tieshan would take the wrong medicine and rebel? Therefore, the armament of the Qingping army in the Khan Prefecture was extremely poor, and it was almost empty.

At the time of the change, there was no way to mobilize township soldiers, and there were no township soldiers to recruit -- the so-called 1.2 million Jingzhou soldiers had to be built on the basis that the state had a large number of homesteaders.

But now the yeoman farmers in the Yanyun area have long been extinct, and the land and population are controlled by the clans, where are there still Jingzhou soldiers available?

The envoys of the Qingping Army of Khan Prefecture, which had no soldiers, could only ask for help while defending the county seat of Huailai.

By the night of the same day, the rebellious Bohai Nu had already swept through the surrounding villages, and under the influence of the lie, the number had also expanded to 30,000 people—not only the strong, but also the old and weak, women and children, but the momentum was still very great.

Between the mountains and fields, there are torches everywhere!

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The city of Xijin Mansion was also shrouded in a dark night at this moment, with dark clouds hanging low in the night sky, and faint muffled thunder rolling through the sky from time to time.

Accompanied by the thunder that sounded from time to time, there was also a "closed door drum" that sounded all over the place. Many of the institutions of the Liao were modeled after the Tang Dynasty, including curfews, and every night around the time of the two watches (9 p.m. to 11 p.m.), "closed-door drums" were heard in all the cities of the Liao state. Of course, the province is no exception!

The closed-door drum of Xijin Mansion is beaten 600 times, and after the beating is completed, it is not allowed to walk on the streets and alleys of the city for no reason, otherwise you will commit the crime of "committing the night" and will have to be slapped 20 times.

And every morning after five watches and three quarters (more than 5 o'clock in the morning), there will be 400 "open door drums" in the city of Xijin Prefecture, and only after the opening of the door and drum is completed, can you walk on the street.

After the sound of the closed-door drum tonight, the streets of the entire city of Xijin Prefecture were already dark, and there were basically no pedestrians except for the guards and the soldiers on patrol. Unless you are on official business, or to buy medicine for a patient at home, you are not allowed to go out on the street behind closed doors.

The twenty-six squares in the city of Xijin Mansion were also closed at this time, and the entire city was divided into more than two dozen separate areas, which seemed empty and quiet.

Even Kitaichibo, the most prosperous commercial center in the province, is as quiet as a ghost town at this time. However, it is slightly different from the other 20 or so squares, and there are still a few streets and alleys in the North Market Square, where the lights are revealed, and the sound of silk and bamboo singing is heard. These streets and alleys are where the Qinglou Chu Pavilion of Xijin Mansion is concentrated.

In a "willow alley" near the south gate of Beishifang, there is a remote location, and the appearance also looks dilapidated Daqing Building, called Haidong Pavilion, which is the lowest grade green building in Xijin Mansion. Behind it are several Bohai right surnames, and those who sell themselves in it and don't sell their arts are all Bohai Ji from Liaodong - in Da Liao, Bohai Ji is almost the lowest existence, and they can't get into the eyes of Khitan nobles and Han families at all, even the Song people, Goryeo people and Hui people who go to Xijin Mansion to do business don't look down on them. So the ones who patronize here are some inferior coolie craftsmen.

Sometimes, such as tonight, there will be caravans from afar to charter the field, so that those men who have not tasted women for a long time can enjoy themselves......