Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 475: There is no place in the world that is not magnificent

Wanyan Yuanyun's dream of unifying Hubudagang was quickly shattered with the arrival of Li Taigong.

In a panic, Wanyan Yuanyun only took his family and close confidants, a total of fifteen riders, plus the Shangguan siblings, out of the back door and fled.

Beiyin River was quickly taken over by Li Taigong's troops.

Six days later, Santuzi Mountain.

Sanduzi Mountain is a boundary ridge. The north side of the mountain is the territory of the Ujihe tribe, and the south side of the mountain is the territory of the Hesheli tribe.

This place is about eighty miles away from Hubudagang.

Today, the great leader of the Hesheli tribe, Bojin Hesheli, blew the cauldron and welcomed several guests.

One of them was his "neighbor", Jingzhou, the leader of the Wujihe tribe on the north side of the mountain.

Jingzhou brought Shangguan Mingyue, Shangguan Luo and his sister, as well as Wanyan Yuanyun who had fled to the Wujichi tribe to seek asylum.

Hesheli Chuding naturally welcomed the arrival of his old friend Jingzhou.

He was also very courteous to the Shangguan Luo siblings, two famous scholars from the capital.

Only towards Wanyan Yuanyun, Chuiding's attitude was extremely cold.

He had previously gone to the capital to promote peace talks between Song and Jin, in order to prevent Wanyan Liang from using the excuse of fighting against Song to continue to deprive them of control over their tribal people.

As a result, after Wanyan Darui and Wanyan Luti rebelled in Shandong, they sent people to Beijing to warn the public, but deliberately omitted some tribal leaders, including him.

This is clearly an attempt to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

Wanyan Yuanyun was Wanyan Lvti's nephew. Even though this nephew wanted to steal from his uncle's house and was driven out, Hesheli Chuding still had no good attitude towards him.

Shangguan Luo said with a smile: "Chuiding Bojin, we all know that the leader of the 'Dubojilie' conference that will be held by the various tribes in Shangjing must be from the Wanyan family. The only difference is who he is.

Although Yuan Yun is Wanyan Luti's nephew, this uncle and nephew are now at odds with each other.

Chuiding Bojin, you shouldn't take your dissatisfaction with Wanyan Lvti out on Yuan Yun. "

Jing Zhou took the opportunity to say, "Yes, to be honest, neither you nor I can think of taking the position of Du Bojilie.

So, who will do it? Of course, we should choose someone who is close to us. Yuan Yun and his uncle are not the same kind of people. "

Hesheli Chuding's expression softened slightly and he said, "I know this too. But when I saw Yuan Yun, I couldn't help but think of his uncle.

That bastard Donkey Ti wanted to use Wanyan Liang’s knife to kill me!
Although we have to unite to fight against Wanyan Liang now, don't think I will stand on his side. "

Shangguan Luo smiled and said, "Of course. As far as I know, Li Minghe has been making contacts everywhere since he returned to Huanxi Town, and he has also recommended someone."

Hesheli Chuding's eyes fixed, and he asked hurriedly, "Who is it?"

Shangguan Mingyue replied with a smile: "Of course it's his son-in-law, Wanyan Lvti."

Hesheli Chuding was stunned and said, "Isn't Donkey Hoof still in Liaodong? Is he back?"

Shangguan Mingyue smiled and said, "No, but Wanyan Luti has already captured Dading Prefecture and occupied this magnificent city to resist the tyrant's army heading north to suppress the rebellion.

Just based on his role as a mainstay, he wants to compete for the position of Du Bojilie, even if he is not present, he still has the qualifications, right? "

Hesheli Chuding frowned and said, "He is not in the capital. Even if he becomes the leader of the alliance, how can he control the tribes?"

Jing Zhou said loudly: "Hey! Is there any need to say more? Of course, his father-in-law Li Minghe will be the prime minister and take care of everything on his behalf."

Heshelie Chui Ding sneered and said, "This old man is really good at calculating! The abacus beads are about to fall on my face."

Shangguan Luo said: “However, he wants to nominate his son-in-law as the leader of the alliance, but Wanyan Dari’s clansmen may not agree.

Let's see what means he has to convince Wanyan Darui's family."

Heshelie stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and said, "So, there may be three candidates elected in this Dubojilie Conference?"

Jing Zhou said: "That's right. Li Minghe wants to recommend Wanyan Luti.

The Tudan, Yanzhan, and Wuyan tribes wanted to overthrow Wanyan Sagai’s grandson, Zhenzhu King Sheyema.”

Heshilie Chuiding looked at Jingzhou and said, "And you want to recommend... him?"

Hesheli blew the tripod and spoke, glancing at Wanyan Yuanyun.

Jingzhou smiled and said, "It's not me, it's us."

Wanyan Yuanyun hurriedly said: "If Yuanyun can get your help and ascend to the throne of Dubojilie, I will definitely repay you with all I have."

Hesheli Chuding could not help but ponder after hearing this.

With the strength of his tribe, he can compete for a top position in the conference.

But...it would be best if the leader of the alliance was one of our own.

Wanyan Yuanyun is now a lost dog, without soldiers or generals, and is just a royal family member with an empty title.

But precisely because of this, if I help him get promoted, why wouldn't he obey me?

Thinking of this, Hesheli Chuding gradually softened his attitude and asked, "Jingzhou, which other tribes have you contacted?"

Shangguan Luo and Wanyan Yuanyun were delighted to hear this. Since Hesheli Chuiding asked this, it was obvious that he was interested.

Just as Jing Zhou was about to answer, a guard rushed into the hall and said urgently, "Bojin, Li You, the nephew of Grandpa Li of Huanxi Ridge, brought people to our tribe to cause trouble. Lord Morgan was injured by him."

Hesheli Morgan was the cousin of Hesheli Chuiding.

Hearing the guards say this, Hesheli Chuding's face turned cold, and he said to Jingzhou and others: "Please wait a moment, I will be back soon."

……

In front of a big house on Sanduzi Mountain, Li You, Yang Xuance, and a dozen or so followers they brought with them were tied up by people from the Hesheli tribe.

Among these people, Li You and Yang Xuance were beaten particularly badly.

Li You's head had become a bloody gourd, with blood all over his face.

Yang Xuance, who came with him, had a bruised nose and half of his face was swollen.

Some young and strong men from the Hesheli tribe were so angry that they continued to beat and kick them.

Hesheli Morgan was biting a piece of cloth to stop the bleeding because three of his teeth were knocked out by his son-in-law Li You.

With a cloth ball stuffed in his mouth, he could not speak. His eldest son Aji Ga was asking people to put a rope on a big tree to hang Li You up.

Hesheli Chuding strode over with a few people, glared at them, and shouted loudly: "What's going on?"

When everyone saw that it was Bojin who came, they immediately stopped shouting and cursing.

Heshilie Chuiding looked at Morgan's appearance and couldn't help but frowned and said, "Morgan, how did you become like this?"

"Five powers! Five powers!"

Morgan mumbled twice, his words unclear.

He pulled the cloth out of his mouth, pointed at Li You viciously and said, "You are so disobedient, you little bastard!
He actually hit his father-in-law. How could I have found such a bastard son-in-law? "

Morgan spat out a mouthful of blood foam and angrily said, "If it weren't for my daughter and my little grandson, I would chop him to pieces right now!"

Li You was tied up, with blood all over his head, looking extremely horrible, but he straightened his chest and shouted, "Come on, come on, do it!
You old bastard, your daughter is cheating on you and you still have the nerve to do that.

You want to kill me? Come on! If you don't kill me, you are a son of a bitch!"

The people watching around were whispering to each other.

Morgan's sons were so ashamed that one of them rushed forward and slapped Li You's bloody face left and right.

He shook the blood off his hands and cursed: "Li You, you son of a bitch, you dare to throw dirty water on my sister, do you really think I dare not kill you!"

Li You jumped up and shouted: "Come on, come on, I'll kill you!"

His eyes were bloodshot and he looked like a madman, very scary.

In a rage, he rushed forward, but was quickly stopped by the two people who were guarding him from behind.

Li You came to pick up his wife and take her back to Huanxiling.

When he was still in Shandong Road, his wife took their son back to the north on the pretext that her father-in-law was going to celebrate his 60th birthday and this time the event should be extra grand.

Li You didn’t think much about it at the time, and was even... a little secretly happy.

My wife is not around, you know.

However, a word from Yang Yuan when they were in Liaodong made Li You worried and he was always suspicious.

In the past few days, Li Taigong has been trying to find a way to control Hubudagang while the Erwang family has not arrived yet.

Therefore, it was not until today that Li You made time for it.

He didn't believe the news that Wanyan Luti's former subordinates had returned to Huanxi Town, as it had not yet reached Sanduzi Mountain.

But my wife hasn’t returned from her parents’ home until today, which is totally unreasonable.

So early in the morning, Li You called his good friend Yang Xuance, brought a dozen people, and rode fast to Sanduzi Mountain to pick people up.

The son-in-law of the Morgan family was naturally familiar with the route and went straight to his home.

As a result, his wife obviously realized that she couldn't bear it any longer and was planning to return to Huanxi Town today.

Before leaving, she couldn't help but flirt with her lover again, but was caught by Li You.

His wife had a lover who had already married a woman, and his father-in-law's family had always known about it.

The reason why Morgan wanted to marry his daughter to him, a man from Liaodong who was accompanying Mr. Li to visit his son-in-law's home, was because his daughter's reputation had already been ruined on the Sanduzi Mountain, and marrying her far away would prevent her from being exposed.

I didn't expect that my daughter was still so unrestrained even after getting married, and the truth was finally revealed today.

Li You was naturally furious when he found out that he was wearing a big green hat.

But my father-in-law's family always favors their own daughter.

Even if Morgan slapped his daughter and scolded her, Li You would not be so angry.

Seeing that the Morgan family was so unreasonable and wanted to turn the tables, Li You became so angry that he lost his mind.

With one punch, he knocked out three of his father-in-law's teeth.

This made his elder and younger brothers-in-law very angry, so they rushed up and beat him up.

Of course Yang Xuance couldn't just stand by and watch Li You being beaten, so he immediately led his men in to rescue him and started fighting with the Morgan family's people.

A group of people fought and retreated to the street. The villagers in the village who rushed to the scene after hearing the news and saw their own people being beaten, of course they wanted to help.

Li You and Yang Xuance were outnumbered and ended up like this.

Hesheli Chuding heard about the dirty deeds of the Morgan family from his wife.

Looking at the situation at the scene now, how could he not understand what was happening.

Heshelie blew the cauldron and looked around, then lowered his voice and asked, "Where is your daughter?"

Morgan replied somewhat uncomfortably, "Inside the house."

Chui Ding snorted and said, "She still knows how to save face."

Morgan's face turned red, and he said awkwardly, "My daughter has done this evil thing. What can I do as her father? Can I beat her to death?"

Chuiding glared at him, then moved closer to his cousin and asked in a low voice, "Tell me the truth, whose grandson does yours belong to?"

Morgan looked even more embarrassed, and replied in a low voice: "I... asked my daughter, and she said... it was Hutabu's."

Hutabu was the lover of Li You's wife, a famous warrior in the Hesheli tribe.

Hesheli Chuding looked into the crowd and saw Hutabu at a glance.

He was standing next to Morgan's sons. Hutab was very tall, about 1.9 meters tall, and very eye-catching.

This was one of Chuding's favorite generals, and Chuding was reluctant to do anything to him.

Chuiding frowned and thought for a while, then asked, "Now that things have turned out like this, what are you going to do?"

Morgan sighed and said, "I'm afraid this marriage is over. I don't know what to do now."

Heshelie blew the tripod and said, "Release the people and drive them out of the village, and let this matter be over."

Morgan said bitterly: "Li You even beat up my father-in-law, and we will be mortal enemies from now on.

That Li Taigong doesn’t get along well with our Hesheli tribe…”

Chuiding said impatiently: "If we don't deal with each other, we will just fight for who is the boss. We are all Wanyan Liang's mortal enemy, how can we offend him to death?
Besides, I feel ashamed for what your family did.

What? You still want to kill someone?
If someone comes to your door, everyone will help you. But this is unfair, and everyone has their own reasons.

Just do as I say.”

Chui Ding turned around and walked away, saying angrily: "What a mess this is."

Seeing Bojin's instructions, Morgan had no choice but to do as he was told.

He said to Li You who was glaring at him fiercely: "My daughter is innocent and has never done anything to let you down.

It is you who are suspicious and destroy my daughter's reputation. This marriage between our two families cannot be completed."

Li You laughed out loud, blood flowed into his mouth, and he spat it out on the ground.

Morgan said with a stern face: "My daughter from the Morgan family doesn't have to be given to you, Li You.

Today, I will let you go. From now on, our two families will have nothing to do with each other."

Morgan said to his son, "Give them back their things and drive them out of the village."

After saying that, Morgan turned away and returned to his room.

As soon as he entered the house, Li You's wife came forward and asked, "Dad, what's wrong?"

Morgan slapped her so hard that she staggered. He said angrily, "What's wrong? You're going to make your father lose all his face."

His daughter covered her face and was about to defend herself with tears in her eyes when she heard screams from outside, the sound coming like a tide.

Morgan was shocked, not knowing what had happened, and turned around and walked out.

In front of the gate, the Morgan family returned the bows, swords and horses to Li You and his group.

Li You climbed onto the horse and wiped his face from top to bottom with his hands.

The originally blood-red face now showed marks all over it, making it look more like a ghost.

His eldest brother-in-law yelled, "Go away, and don't come to my San Tuzi Mountain again. Otherwise, I will beat you every time I see you!"

Li You shook off the bloody hands and knocked his legs against the stirrups.

He had trained his warhorse himself, and he could tell his master's intentions just by the way and strength of hitting the horse's belly.

The horse immediately leaped sideways and headed straight for Hutabu, who stood out from the crowd.

Hutabu was folding his arms, looking at Li You with a sarcastic and complacent expression on his face. Suddenly he saw Li You rushing towards him and was shocked. However, he had no time to dodge.

"Hah!" With a short and sharp shout, Li Youren rode forward, drew his sword from his waist, and swung it out.

"Puff!" Hutabu's "head taller than the others" was cut off.

A surge of hot blood surged into the air like a fountain.

Li You rushed past the headless corpse and shouted, "Let's go!"

When Yang Xuance saw it, his soul flew away.

If you want to kill someone, why don't you give me a look first!
If we get caught this time, we won't be able to survive.

Yang Xuance did not dare to delay. He whipped his horse and followed Li You to rush up the mountain road.

The dozen or so knights were not stupid either, seeing this, they immediately rushed out, and they would draw their swords and chop down anyone who blocked their way.

Anyway, we have completely fallen out, so why are we still hesitating?

When Morgan hurried out of the house, Hutabu's tall body fell down with a "thump".

The Morgan family's sons were busy getting their horses saddled, but by the time they were ready and wanted to catch up, it was too late...

When Hesheli Chuding heard the news that his beloved general Hutab had been killed, he was stunned.

Shangguan Luo and Wanyan Yuanyun couldn't help but smile.

This Li You is truly a good helper sent to them by God.

This time, the Hesheli tribe should firmly support Wanyan Yuanyun to take the throne!
……

Wanyan Luti's palace on Huanxi Ridge is a house with three entrances and three exits.

Here, it is an extremely luxurious building, but it is far inferior to the palace he has in Tai'an, Shandong.

That palace was originally a mansion built by the most wealthy man in Tai'an at great expense. It covered a large area and was extremely luxurious.

If you don't care about power and just want to be a rich man, it would obviously be more comfortable there.

Yang Yuan was assigned to the left wing of the second courtyard.

The third courtyard was reserved for Wanyan Luti's princess and the elders of the family. Even Li Taigong lived in the second courtyard.

However, Mr. Li lived in the main house in the second courtyard.

Although Yang Yuan lives in a cross-courtyard house, it is a small courtyard of its own, so the privacy here is quite good.

Yang Yuan was sitting in the study, scribbling on paper.

There are many powerful factions in Huining Prefecture in Shangjing, and each faction has different demands, so drawing a mind map will obviously be more helpful to his analysis.

Two women stood on the left and right of the desk, looking at their master with curiosity as he was painting.

Draw a line here, a circle there, and write a few words.

The two illiterate women did not feel it was messy. They just thought that Master Yang's actions were mysterious and profound, similar to the fortune-tellers they had seen, so they looked at him with special awe.

They were sent here by Mr. Li to serve Yang Yuan this morning.

Li Taigong said that their master was the top scholar in the Song Dynasty.

The top scholar! Even a proud and arrogant woman like Fei Yuye was impressed, let alone these two beautiful birds from the mountains?

"Alihu, Ata."

Yang Yuan called out to them, and the two women hurried forward and responded, "Master."

Yang Yuan said, "Hang it on the opposite wall and make it smoother."

"Yes," the two women agreed, carefully lifted the paper that Yang Yuan had drawn, and walked towards the opposite side.

It can be seen that Mr. Li put a lot of thought into selecting maids for Yang Yuan.

These two women were selected from tens of thousands of households in Hubudagang and they were very beautiful.

The most precious thing is that they have a more simple and gentle temperament than the beautiful girls next door.

Alihu is a young woman, and her figure is not as slender and graceful as the women in Lin'an.

But her complexion was like rice that had absorbed enough sunlight, full of vigorous vitality.

Her breasts and buttocks are like fruits that have just passed the filling period, full of a plump texture.

Ah Ta was still a little girl, only twelve years old. But she was obviously a beauty.

In front of Yang Yuan, she tried her best to act obedient and docile, but Yang Yuan could see that it was only because of her fear and flattery of him.

When at home, the little girl is as lively as a dog seeing her owner coming home from get off work.

What a coincidence, her name is A-Ta, which means dog.

During this era, Chinese characters were not only the official language of Japan and Goryeo, but also the official language of the Jin Dynasty.

However, although these two girls could speak Chinese, the names given to them by their parents were obviously Jurchen names.

Just hearing their names, Yang Yuan thought they were very high-sounding. After asking them, he found out that Alihu means basin and Aita means dog.

The two girls carefully hung the mind map drawn by Yang Yuan on the wall, spread it out, turned their heads to look at Yang Yuan, and when they saw him nod, the two girls quickly stepped aside.

Yang Yuan looked at the mind map and began to think.

On the day Li Taigong returned to Huanxiling with a thousand elite soldiers, he drove away Wanyan Yuanyun cleanly and efficiently.

Next, he continued to conquer the tribes of Hubudagan.

Yang Yuan reminded Li Taigong that he had to take control of Hubudagang quickly in the capacity of Wanyan Luti's father-in-law, before the Erwang family returned.

The military system of this kind of place is different from that of the Song State, so the methods of implementing control are also different.

If Hubudagang was a place of the State of Song, Li Taigong wanted to control the army stationed there.

In addition to division and bribery, the most effective means is to appoint one's own confidants as officers in the department.

But this method is totally infeasible in Hubudagang.

The military system here is still Meng'an Mouke, and the soldiers are civilians in peacetime and soldiers in wartime.

There was no need to pay the soldiers or anything like that. The patriarch would summon them to fight, and all he needed to be responsible for was subsidies for purchasing weapons, death pensions, and rewards for meritorious service.

Furthermore, they were not required to surrender anything they had taken in battle.

The officers who led them were the small leaders of their villages or tribes.

If these small chiefs were not the most powerful families in the villages or tribes, they would not be able to command the support of the people.

Therefore, in the Song army, the practice of appointing one's own confidants to replace their positions or serve as their deputies was completely ineffective.

However, if we only adopt the method of buying off and dividing, it will be difficult to achieve results in such a short period of time.

Therefore, Yang Yuan gave Li Taigong an idea, to select the strongest men from these tribes and follow them to suppress and intimidate other tribes and attack the unruly tribes.

As long as this military operation is not over, these troops will be under the control of Li Taigong.

No soldiers or horses drawn from any village, town or tribe could cause any trouble in such a group.

However, this action cannot be stopped until Li Taigong has complete control over them. Otherwise, Li Taigong will not be able to support them.

But as of today, Hubudagan and its surrounding areas are under our control.

The question is under what name to continue to recruit them.

You have to establish an enemy and let these soldiers gain something from it.

Yang Yuan was very serious, he seemed like he was "simulating stock trading".

He would be very happy if he made money because that proved his vision.

If he is stuck and has to sell his money at a loss, he won't feel bad because he hasn't touched his original capital at all.

Regardless of success or failure, the experience of gains and losses will be very helpful to his growth.

If he had not come to Shangjing, he would not have had this opportunity for trial.

Alihu and Ata stood aside, secretly observing their new master.

They didn't know what Yang Yuan was doing, but that didn't stop them from admiring their new master.

As he watched, a hint of shy joy appeared on Alihu's face.

She was heartbroken when her gambling husband took the purse from her yesterday and pushed her out with the other.

But now, she felt that she shouldn't observe the damn code of conduct for a woman just for that gambler.

Will the master want me tonight?

Thinking of this, Alihu's heart couldn't help but jump up, like a running pony.

With the sound of horse hooves, a team of carriages and horses sped up outside the town of Huanxi.

Wanyan Luti's family and the people who had migrated to Shandong returned.

Yingge was sitting in a carriage, watching the outside through the window. She turned her head and saw Ah Man looking a little nervous, and she couldn't help but glared at her:
"Look at you, you're such a loser. I told you, he has a good temper, you don't have to be afraid of him.

Now, just treat him as the idler who sends the call."

Ah Man said with a sad face: "I dare not. I am afraid that he will kill me with one knife..."

"Bah! He can only shoot you at most!" Yingge said, blushing first.

PS: I feel sad when I think about the two chapters I still owe JJM. I don’t know if I can pay it off with Alihu and Ata…

(End of this chapter)