Liaoguo, Shangjing Road, about 30 miles southeast of Yongzhou, there is a depression called Guangpingdian, more than 20 miles from east to west, more than 10 miles from north to south, the land is very flat, all sides accumulate sand, trees are more elm willows. And in the middle of the depression, there is a small lake like a mirror. Perhaps because of the geothermal resources here, the lake is not frozen in the sandy landscape. Even the surrounding grass and trees still retain a trace of green.

Although it is now the second half of the first month, Kaifeng, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, is mostly in spring. However, the grassland and sandy land in the north of the country are still shrouded in severe cold. Only Guangpingdian is slightly warmer here, and it has become a place where the Great Liao Tianzi spends all year round in the wild to sit in winter and avoid the cold, that is, where the winter bowl camp is located.

At this time in previous years, the palace tent of the Great Liao Emperor had already been opened and went to the Yazi River in Changchun Prefecture, where the Spring Bowl Camp was located. But this year, I don't know what's going on, around the lake in the middle of Guangpingdian Lake, a large field of felt tents are still erected. The tooth tent of the Great Liao Emperor is also among them, surrounded by a fence of thousands of spears and ropes stuck in the dirt. There is also an open black felt umbrella hanging on each spear, and under each umbrella stands a palace tent guard with a helmet and armor, about 1,000 people, guarding the tooth tent of the Great Liao Emperor.

The tooth tent is still the one that was erected when the emperor's car arrived, but the owner who lives in it has been replaced!

Yelu Yanxi, the new owner of the tooth tent, was still in a trance at this time, and he didn't believe that his grandfather Yelu Hongji, who seemed to be immortal, had died in the emperor's tooth tent where he was on the thirteenth day of the first month of this year.

At this time, his grandfather's last words were still lingering in his ears: "The Southern Dynasty has been good for a long time, you are strong, don't make trouble." ”

The emperor of the Great Liao State was most worried about his deathbed, and it was his heirs and grandsons who would provoke a war with the Great Song Dynasty.

It's a bit unbelievable, but it's true!

And Yelu Yanxi also agreed with his grandfather's will 100%, although he did not hold power all these years, he still led the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, the general north and south privy councils, and added the official position of Shang Shuling.

For everything in the Great Liao Kingdom, at least military affairs, I am still very familiar. So he also knows how lucky he is!

Because the Great Liao Kingdom almost passed by with a catastrophe of annihilation - in the autumn of last year, the army under the command of Yeluutra, the envoy of the Northwest Road, was lucky enough to capture the tribe led by Khan Mogus, the king of the Obukreh tribe. In order to cover the transfer of his people, Mogus had to lead the Kereb soldiers, who were far inferior to the Liao army, into a decisive battle.

The two sides fought for two days and one night, and in the end, the exhausted Liao army emerged victorious, capturing Khan Mogus, the king of the Kerebu tribe who had been fighting for nine years.

Although the tribes of the Kereb escaped under the cover of Mogus, the tribe that lost its leader was able to stop for a few years.

And for Da Liao, who was almost about to lose the war, the capture of Mogus became a step to the victorious end of the war...... Therefore, the Northern Resistance War, which had been fought hard for many years, ended successfully.

Yelu Yanxi now has a chill in his back when he thinks of this war that has just ended.

If Yeluutra hadn't captured the tribe of Mogus, or had not achieved a great victory, or had not captured the damned Mogus, then on the thirteenth day of the first month of this year, the death of his grandfather would have become the beginning of the collapse of the Great Liao Kingdom......

Because the death of the old emperor left Yelu Yanxi with a disintegrated court - because of the rift left by the murder of Prince Zhaohuai, Yelu Yanxi needed a lot of energy to mend.

And in the process of internal rectification, it was almost impossible for the Liao State to simultaneously conduct and block the war of the Bukereh Division.

However, ending the war against the Kereh tribe without capturing Mogus is equivalent to announcing to all the tribes in the grassland of Zhubu: Da Liao has been defeated and defeated by Khan Mogus, the king of the Kereb tribe!

This will win the unimaginable prestige of Kerebe and Mogus, enough to make all the hindrance men in the steppe regard Mogus as their common king!

The tribes of Divination will be united under the Cross Banner of Mogus (the Nestorian religion of the Kereb tribe......

Fortunately, such a nightmarish situation did not appear for the time being because of the death of Mogus.

It's just not showing up for the time being......

The crisis has not been completely resolved. Because Yeluutra, who returned from the city of Zhenzhou (the city of Kedun, which is about the center of the Mongolian plateau, near Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the later Mongol Republic), reported that the son of Mogus, Kurzahusi, had inherited the position of King Khan of the Kerebu, and although his mother was temporarily regent, the young eagles of the steppe would eventually grow up, and the warriors of the Kereh would once again raise the cross banner under his leadership!

At the same time, in the east of the Great Liao, the rise of the Shengnu Yingge is also unstoppable, starting from seven years ago, in the name of "Liaotong Eagle Road", wantonly attacking and annexing the Shengnuzhi tribe in the Tongjiang River Basin (the base of the Wanyan Department is in the area of Harbin City in the later generations, very close to Ningjiang Prefecture of the Liao State, and the Shengnuzhi tribe that can be annexed to the north, east and southeast of the Wanyan Department), after seven years of conquest, the territory and population of the Wanyan Department have expanded many times.

Emperor Taizu of the Great Liao once attached great importance to the combat effectiveness of the female direct department, calling it "the Jurchen is not satisfied with ten thousand, and it is invincible when it is full of ten thousand". And now the female straight face is probably full of 10,000, right?

Another worrisome opponent is the Goryeo Kingdom in the southeast. Goryeo used to be a difficult country in the eastern part of the sea to deal with, and it took a lot of effort for Daliao to subdue it, but now this country is about to move again, which is really a headache.

And the most troublesome thing is undoubtedly the Great Song Dynasty in the south!

The war between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia now seems to be basically over - as long as the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang does not die for a day, the Xia lord Qianshun will not dare to make any changes. And this Qianshun, like Yelu Yanxi's recently passed away grandfather, is also an admirer of the Great Song Dynasty culture...... He actually plans to change his view of Zhenzhen!

Qianshun, does this guy think he is named Qianshun or Li Qianshun? How do you use Li Shimin's Zhenguan year name? Moreover, this guy not only uses Zhenguan for the name of the year, but also uses Sinology for learning, but also plans to open a "national school" in Xingqing Mansion, imitate the Guozijian of the Great Song Dynasty, and teach the children of the royal family and nobles of the party to learn the "Five Classics".

With such a king in Western Xia, it is estimated that he will never go to war with the Great Song Dynasty for the rest of his life...... And without the containment of Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty can be eyeing the south, waiting for Da Liao to fight with Bu, Nuzhi, and Goryeo, and pounce together, right?

Thinking that he was being attacked on all sides and that he was unstable internally, Yelu Yanxi, the Great Liao Emperor who had just ascended the throne, sighed.

Emperor...... It's not easy!

"Your Majesty! Bongsan and Baoxian have arrived! ”

A gentle female voice was in Yelu Yanxi's ears, and when he looked up, he saw that it was his wife Xiao Duoli who walked in from outside the tent. Duoli is not a stunning beauty, but she is a wife who shares the hardships with Yanxi. Da'an married Yanxi in the third year (1088), accompanied him for 13 years, and now he finally survived, but unfortunately he never gave birth to a son and a half daughter for Yanxi. Now Yanxi's four sons were all born to side concubines.

However, Duoli's position is still unshakable, which can be seen from the honorable status of her two brothers (Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Baoxian) and one sister (Xiao Guige, Yanxi's side concubine).

"Tell Feng Xian and Bao Xian to come in together." Yelu Yanxi commanded.

Of course, the palace tent of the Liao State cannot be compared with the palace of the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Baoxian, the two brothers, stood outside, and when they heard the voice of their brother-in-law, they did not wait for the guards to summon them, and they went in to pay their respects as soon as they lifted the curtain.

"No courtesy." Yelu Yanxi waved at the two brothers and his wife, "Come forward and speak." ”

The three of them came up and sat down cross-legged in front of Yelu Yanxi's desk.

"Bao Xian, I have been fortunate all the way." Yelu Yanxi said to Xiao Baoxian first, "How is the south? How are their officials compared to the previous one? ”

Xiao Baoxian originally came all the way from Kaifeng Mansion non-stop.

"Much stronger."

What the?

Yelu Yanxi was taken aback, the previous one was already very powerful, how could this one be even more powerful?

"Where's the strength?"

"It's strong everywhere," Xiao Baoxian said, "Literature, martial arts, appearance, and physical ......"

"Wait, you say martial arts? This Great Song official knows martial arts? The queen suddenly interjected and asked.

It sounds fresh...... Aren't the officials of the Great Song Dynasty the kind of masters who need help when they walk and have to breathe after a few steps?

"Yes!" Xiao Bao said, "When the banquet was given in Qionglin Garden, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty also personally went down to shoot arrows, and the nine buckets of the step bow, all three arrows were hit a hundred steps away (the target, not the bull's-eye). ”

"Open the bow of the nine buckets?" King Xi (King Xi is not a hereditary prince, but an official who manages the six departments of King Xi's Mansion) who came from Dading Mansion in Zhongjing (Zhongjing is not far from Guangpingdian) Xiao Fengxian was also stunned, "So powerful?" You read that right? ”

"How could you be wrong?" Xiao Baoxian said, "This Song Lord is very powerful, and some people in Kaifeng Mansion compare him to Tang Taizong." ”

"Oh Khan!" Xiao Duoli took a lazy breath, "Then isn't my Da Liao very dangerous?" ”

"Oh, girl," Xiao Baoxian smiled, "Actually, the Song people don't have a very high evaluation of Tang Taizong, and think that he is just a master of the mean with excellent literary and martial arts...... is not as good as Song Taizong. ”

"Who said that?"

"Ouyang Xiu."

Xiao Duoli said to her husband: "This person must be a traitor!" ”

"He's famous."

"So you can be a famous face if you are confused?"

Listening to his wife's words, Yelu Yanxi smiled bitterly and shook his head, his two sisters, Duoli and Xiao Guige, were all good, but they were a little confused......

"Then how about this little Tang Taizong, who is not as good as Song Taizong, to my Daliao?"

Xiao Baoxian smiled and said: "I want to be a brother now, but it's hard to say in the future." ”