On the east bank of the Liao River, in a ruined city full of collapsed and broken mouths on a city wall, a lot of people suddenly gathered, and a lively scene of people from all walks of life gathered.

This city is famous in history, and it is Xiangping City, which was built in the period of King Yanzhao of the Warring States Period. For more than 1,000 years, it has been the economic and cultural center of the entire Tohoku region. During the Qin and Han dynasties, it was the first county of Liaodong County, with a developed economy, a large population, and a large city, with more than 300,000 residents inside and outside the city. In the subsequent era of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this place was also governed by Pingzhou and Liaodong County, and it was still the largest and most prosperous city in Northeast China.

Later, this place was once occupied by Goguryeo and renamed Liaodong City, although it is no longer prosperous, but it is still one of the largest cities in Goguryeo. Later, it was recaptured by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and became the location of the Andong Protectorate, and this place once again became a prosperous and wealthy big city. After the rise of the Khitan, this place was captured by Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji, and became Liaoyang Prefecture and Great Liao Nanjing and Tokyo. In the Jin Dynasty, this place was again the Tokyo of the Jin Country, and it was still a place of economic and cultural prosperity.

However, in the Great Mongolia, which is said to be a fusion of ethnic groups, the Tokyo city of the Jin Dynasty, the ancient city of Xiangping with a glorious history of 1,000 or hundreds of years, has become a deserted place that is rarely populated. The inhabitants of the city, as usual, were slaughtered after the Mongol army invaded. Tokyo Province and Liaoyang Province and the various levels of government agencies below also ceased to exist zài. The large areas of fertile farmland on both sides of the Liao River have also become barren grasslands.

The original farming people, whether Jurchen, Khitan, Han or Bohai relics, were either slaughtered or plundered as herdsmen. Those who survived fled into the mountains and forests, and changed from farmers to fishing and hunting in the mountains. From civilization to barbarism. In the original history, these fishing and hunting tribes have lived semi-primitive for hundreds of years. regained all the wildness and brute bravery, and once again played the role of the terminator of the Han civilization......

However, the glory of the Jurchen belongs to the Jurchen barbarians hundreds of years later, and now the Jurchen relics who are hiding in the mountains and forests and have to work hard to please the Mongolian master can survive, but they are only living in the memories of the prosperity of the past.

The descendants are likely to be a certain nobleman of the Eight Banners, Yang Akang and Yang Axi, father and son, who can even climb a little close to the Aixin Jueluo family, at this time with more than 100 of their "warriors", on the way to the ruined city of Liaoyang - they were ordered by the Great Mongolian Liaodong Provinces Daru Huachi Grand Governor Ashulu (Tachar's cousin) to take his subordinates to Liaoyang Mansion to accompany the expedition.

"Tokyo's Liaoyang Mansion is almost here! Your daddy when I was younger. I also lived in Liaoyang City! lived in the palatial Zhao Palace, at that time, your grandfather, the King of Zhao of the Dajin Kingdom was still there, and the Dajin Kingdom was not dead. What we eat and use at home is the best. In the summer, I live in Liaoyang, and in the winter, I go to the warm Zhongdu, and the Zhaowang Mansion in the Zhongdu is bigger and more magnificent than that in Liaoyang. The capital is also more lively, delicious and fun. It's so much better. The women in the house are also stunning, and the delicate one is painful. This day is really missed! If only I could live this day, even if it was for a day. Even if you call me to death immediately, you are willing! Alas, when is the spring flower and autumn moon? How much do you know about the past? Xiaolou had another east wind last night, so the country could not look back at the bright moon. The carved fence and jade masonry should still be there. It's just that Zhu Yan changed. How sad can you be? Just like a river flowing eastward......"

Yang Akang, whose face was full of weather, messy hair and gray beard, turned out to be a tartar with a background. According to himself and his sons, he was the queen of King Zhao of the Jin Kingdom, who had already destroyed the country. His surname was Wanyan, and he changed his surname to Yang in order to avoid disaster, and he was known to be a descendant of the Yang family of the Bohai Kingdom in Liaodong.

I saw that he was wrapped in a tattered brocade robe with patches everywhere, a Han-style bun on his head that was rare among tartars, and a white hosta with exquisite workmanship. Riding on a big green horse with a strange appearance, his mouth is nagging stories that I don't know how many times he has told - or in fluent Central Plains Chinese! In the end, he actually sang "When is the Spring Flower and Autumn Moon" by Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty-this is still a cultured Tartar who can recite poetry!

Singing and singing, the old tartar's tears fell! The prosperity of the past can really only be recalled in dreams, and when I see the Mongolian uncle later, I have to pretend to be stupid, but I can't miss my homeland at all! If the Mongols know that he is a descendant of the Wanyan family, and he is still thinking about the good old days, even if he has 10 lives, it is not enough to die.

"Daddy, don't say it, be careful to let people listen and report to the Mongols!" The youngest son of the old tartar, Yang Axi, furrowed his brows and reminded the old man in a low voice that he also spoke Chinese, but he was not very fluent.

This little Tartar was only seventeen or eighteen years old, short and stout, with bald hair and braids, and the clothes on his body were all sewn in animal skins, and he looked like a wild Tartar.

The old tartar didn't look at the little son either, but sighed: "Report a fart, those people can understand Chinese?" The straight lady thief is a rough man who doesn't know a single big word! Axi, you too, why don't you refuse to read and learn words? ”

The little tartar shook his head with a disdainful expression: "There is a bird for reading?" Like my eldest brother, I went to be the master of Mongolian Daru Huachi, but the Mongolian took a fancy to my sister-in-law, wanted something, and cut off one of my eldest brother's arms. The whole person is wasted, so he knows how to drink, and he is sent to Jinzhou to change some fish and salt, and he will not come back for a month, and I don't know if he has changed all his fur for wine......"

"Alas!" The old Tartar shed tears in two lines, his eldest son Yang Ah Guo was born and raised with his original partner - needless to say, his original partner was married when the Dajin Kingdom was still there, of course it was stunning. The couple had a good relationship, but when the Mongols invaded, his original partner was raped and killed by the Mongols, and only he and Ah Guo relied on each other for their lives and fled all the way to Liaodong......

"Daddy, don't sigh!" When the little tartar saw the old man like this, he felt uncomfortable. "This is fate! No way, who told us that we couldn't beat the Mongols? Be honest and obedient to the people, and live your life. ”

"Yes, life matters!" The old tartar nodded, "It's been more than thirty years, everyone else has died, and I'm the only one who is alive, and I don't know when I......'ll die."

Seeing that the old man's morale was depressed, Yang Axi reluctantly squeezed out a smile and changed the topic: "Daddy, I don't know what happened to the Mongols gathering us?" Shouldn't you take us to attack the Song Dynasty? I heard that the Song Kingdom was rich, and the wealth was piled up, and the emperor of the Song Kingdom had a room full of good-looking clothes, as well as a room of gold and silver treasures, and ate a roast sheep at every meal! ”

The old tartar sneered, shook his head and said, "All the nonsense, when your father and I were the princes of King Jin, we had more than one room of clothes and one room of treasures!" Not to mention how rich the Southern Dynasty was, it was the richness of Liaoyang City when it was in the Jin Kingdom, which you can't imagine. If we can really go to the Southern Dynasty to grab a handful, it would be good. When the time comes, I will need a Han girl to warm the bed, preferably to look like Ah Ci......"

When the two Tartars were planning to rob the Song people, the group had already arrived outside Liaoyang City. Normally, this area is a barren place where you can't even see a ghost shadow, only the inner city of Liaoyang City, the original palace of the emperor of the Dajin Kingdom, there is the Mongolian Daru Huachi Grand Governor and a small number of Mongolian generals stationed.

Liaodong and Liaoxi were under the jurisdiction of the Yanjing Zhulu Xingshangshu Provincial Yamen before Meng Ke Khan did not have a hanging point. That is the territory of the king of Tachar on both sides of the Great Khing'an Mountains, the Ulus of the Red Jin (that is, the meaning of the feudal kingdom of the Red Jin). But now, Tachar's power has penetrated deep into Liaodong, and Liaodong Zhulu Daru Huachi has also been replaced by his cousin Ashulu.

And Ashulu also brought a thousand households under his name, grazing around Liaoyang City, which brought some popularity to this abandoned city.

When the Yang family's father and son arrived with people, there were already many camp tents outside Liaoyang City, all of which were hastily. There is no fence, just use a cart to tie it in a circle casually, and then put some deer in a random way. The tabernacle was not arranged in an orderly manner, with a heap in the east and a mass in the west. Hope is a rabble.

Of course, these people are not the thousands of households of Ashulu, but the Tartars of the various departments around Liaoyang, enjoying the treatment of third-class Han, seeing that the Mongolian uncle is like a mouse seeing a cat, but they all dream of going to the Southern Dynasty to Goryeo with the Great Mongolia to grab something.

When the Tartars of the Yang family arrived, there were already a lot of Tartars gathered here, and the atmosphere was also very cheerful, and there seemed to be laughter coming out of every tent. The two fathers and sons glanced at each other, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that this gathering was a good thing.

At this time, a few more horses galloped up to meet him, and the first one was an old Tartar surnamed Xiao, who was an acquaintance with Yang Akang, and after approaching, he reined in the horse, and laughed and said: "Brother Akang, I finally waited for you to come, I was worried just now that you missed the time and couldn't catch up with the troops." ”

"Sending troops?" Yang Akang asked, "Who are you hitting?" ”

"Fight the Song people!" Xiao surnamed Tatar said, "The prince of Ashulu said it himself, this time it is to fight the Song people!" After winning the battle, the gold and silver women are at our disposal, and the prince of Ashulu does not want them at all. ”

"Is there such a good thing?" Yang Akang was stunned for a moment, and then said, "When will you send troops?" Do you want to bring your own equipment, horses, and rations? ”

"Equipment, horses are provided by themselves, military rations are eaten in Mongolia, and when the people are ready to send troops, they will go south to Jinzhou the day after tomorrow."

"What? Going to the Golden State? Yang Akang was a little surprised, "Haidu attacked Song? ”

Xiao Tatar shook his head and smiled: "I don't know, to be honest, I don't know where Jinzhou is, I'm a rough person, I can't compare to your brother." ”

Old Yang Tartar just shook his head, and muttered: "No, no, if you want to go south, you shouldn't go to Jinzhou!" Where can the prince of Arushu find so many ships? Where did they Mongols have ships? And the Song people's naval army is not weak......"

Yang Axi, the little Tartar on the side, interjected: "Whatever, how to cross the sea, Uncle Mongolia will think about it." Let's just kill and rob! I heard that the soldiers and horses of the Song people are weak, and ten of them can't beat one of us! (To be continued......)