Lin'an Never Night

Chapter 514: Northeast of the sky, northwest of the sky (for JJM leader)

Kong Yanzhou was going to follow Yang Yuan back to Shangjing, and he felt a little uncomfortable at first.

Back then, he was beaten up by Yang Yuan under the city of Yingzhou.

If it weren't for his amazing horizontal training skills, he would have been beaten to a pulp.

However, the situation is stronger than the person, and Yang Yuan is now a celebrity in Huanxiling.

Now he can be sent to Liaodong on behalf of Huanxiling to handle all military and national affairs, which shows how much the Wanyan Luti family values ​​him.

Therefore, such people can only be won over!
Kong Yanzhou has no sense of shame. When he was a bandit, he did all kinds of evil and had lost his humanity long ago.

Dignity means nothing to him. If it is beneficial, he will do anything even if you ask him to sell his ass.

So, Kong Yanzhou selected three people from the more than one hundred women he had carefully selected, either by robbing or buying them.

He decided to give the beauty to Yang Yuan to ease the relationship between the two sides.

Among these three women, according to his aesthetic taste, one had a slightly big mouth, one had slightly small breasts, and one had a hip that was not plump enough to be perfect, so he was willing to give them to Yang Yuan.

Naturally, Yang Yuan refused decisively.

He didn't want to have anything to do with this unscrupulous traitor.

If killing Kong Yanzhou at this time would not make Wanyan Dari suspicious and doubtful, and thus he would not dare to hand over Jiuliancheng and move to Shangjing City, Yang Yuan would have wanted to kill him on the way.

Kong Yanzhou was naturally very angry at Yang Yuan's rejection.

However, when the army passed through Saba Mountain, Kong Yanzhou's mentality changed again.

Because he saw that Ugurun'elun, the hereditary commander of Sabasan, actually sent three of his brothers, nephews, and more than a hundred cavalrymen to meet them from dozens of miles away.

Then they were welcomed to Mount Sabah and received a grand reception.

This Yang Yuan even respects the Ugu theorist so much?
Oh, what a scholar from the Song Dynasty, what moral integrity does this guy have compared to a notorious bandit like me?

It's obvious that this guy has completely surrendered to Huanxiling. Our two eldest brothers, not to mention the second brother, are equally evil.

only……

Kong Yanzhou drank the wine in big gulps, and couldn't help feeling regretful when he thought about the declining competition between Wanyan Dari and Wanyan Luti.

I was wrong at first. When I was in Shandong, I knew Wanyan Darui was stronger, so I joined his school. Who would have thought...

If you change your allegiance easily now, you will definitely be looked down upon.

How can people use me if I am looked down upon?

No, this time, I must not take the initiative to surrender. I must let Huanxiling take the initiative to recruit me.

But if you want to do this, you really can't get around Yang Yuan!

Kong Yanzhou glanced at Yang Yuan, who was chatting and laughing with E Lun and other leaders of Sabashan.

Still have to find a way to buy better than him.

Everyone has different preferences, and all I have to do is cater to their preferences.

……

Yang Yuan rested for a day in Saba Mountain and told Elun and Princess Bi in detail what had happened in Liaodong.

Upon hearing that Wanyan Yong was dead, E Lun and Princess Bi looked at each other in shock.

At this point, Elun was even more secretly glad of his previous decision.

If we had not made a decisive decision to join Huanxi Ridge, after that crazy woman Shangguan Mingyue killed Wanyan Yong, our Wugulun clan would have been forced to join her and would not have been valued. The decline of the Wugulun clan would have become inevitable.

Thinking of this, E Lun and Princess Bi looked at Yang Yuan even more cordially.

When Yang Yuan left Saba Mountain, he took Alihu and Aye with him.

Yang Yuan today is at a completely different level than before.

He won't be bothered by the number of beauties now, and won't look for them deliberately, nor will he reject them deliberately.

Beauty is like the exquisite porcelain pieces placed as decorations in your home.

If you don't have the financial resources, you can put up fewer pieces. If you do have the financial resources, you can put up more pieces. If you are even more financially capable, you can even directly customize a batch and bury them in a sand cellar for easy access.

Only those who are so poor that they have nowhere to live will worry about whether they have more or less every day.

If you accidentally break a bowl, you have to find a bowl repairman to fix it so you can continue to use it.

His love was left to the women who supported him when they were in humble circumstances.

People experience and grow through their experiences.

In the process of growth and experience, people will gain something and lose something.

The emotions of a ten-year-old are different from those of a twenty-year-old, and the emotions of a twenty-year-old are also different from those of a forty-year-old.

A changed state of mind will never come back.

Just like the so-called unextinguished childishness, it is nothing more than the recklessness and stupidity of an adult.

He will never be able to have the simplicity and innocence of a child again.

But Yang Yuan loves and is responsible for women like Alihu.

In Li Taigong's eyes, Alihu was just his maid. Even if he had enjoyed her, she was not worthy of being used to hold him hostage.

Therefore, it would be fine to bring them back to Huanxiling, so as to prevent everyone around them from suddenly disappearing and arousing Li Taigong's vigilance.

Yingge naturally would not go back to Huanxi Ridge with him.

Shangguan Luo, Li You and Kong Yanzhou saw the Princess of Bi State with their own eyes.

Princess Bi happily told Yang Yuan that her daughter found out she was pregnant while staying in the mountains.

Therefore, Princess Bi wanted to leave her in the mountains to take care of her personally, and then send her daughter to Yang Yuan and his men after they captured Shangjing City and stabilized the north.

After hearing this, Li You couldn't help but feel regretful. If he had known that Yingge was pregnant, he should not have let her leave Huanxi Ridge.

Li You naturally knew how eager Li Taigong was to recruit Yang Yuan, and he also hoped that Yang Yuan could stay and work for Li Taigong.

But now, in front of He Lun and Princess Bi, even Yang Yuan couldn't say no, so naturally he couldn't say anything.

After going down the mountain, Kong Yanzhou accidentally discovered that a yellow-haired girl was climbing into Yang Yuan's car.

It's really young and hasn't grown up yet.

Kong Yanzhou frowned, then slowly unfolded his brows, suddenly realizing something.

It turns out that the reason I gave him the beauty before was not because he was too proud to accept it, but because it didn't suit his taste.

It turns out that this scholar Yang likes chicks.

Kong Yanzhou had more than a hundred concubines, but not one was so young.

Like small...

Kong Yanzhou secretly kept this hobby of his in mind.

……

As a special envoy, Ke Mushan, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Jin Dynasty, rode at full speed from Yanjing to the west, passed through Datong Prefecture in Xijing, and directly entered the territory of Western Xia. He arrived at Xingqing Prefecture (Yinchuan) of the Great Xia Kingdom and met with the Western Xia Emperor Li Renxiao.

Li Renxiao was 31 years old at the time and was the fifth emperor of Western Xia.

The national policy formulated by Li Renxiao after he ascended the throne was to fully turn to the Jin Kingdom and become a vassal of the Jin Kingdom in order to seek peace.

At the same time, Li Renxiao, like the Jin Dynasty that ruled the Central Plains, admired Han culture very much.

He employed learned people from the Tanguts and Han ethnic groups to manage state affairs, established institutions of higher learning at all levels, and implemented the imperial examination system emulating the Song Dynasty.

He also renovated the Confucius Temple, respected Buddhism, and respected great monks as state teachers. He was indeed a capable monarch. However, there was a powerful official in Xixia at that time, Ren Dejing.

Li Renxiao's various national policies could not be implemented without Ren Dejing's consent.

Such a big thing certainly requires Ren Dejing's approval.

Therefore, after meeting Ke Mushan and understanding the Jin people's intentions, Li Renxiao immediately summoned his father-in-law Ren Dejing to the palace to discuss matters.

Ren Dejing, the father-in-law of the emperor, was not Li Renxiao's father-in-law, but the father-in-law of Li Renxiao's father, Li Qianshun, the fourth emperor of Western Xia.

Ren Dejing was originally the magistrate of Xi'an Prefecture (Xi'an Prefecture, northwest of Haiyuan County, Ningxia) in the Song Dynasty.

In the seventh year of Shaoxing, the Western Xia captured Xi'an Prefecture. Ren Dejing presented his daughter to the Western Xia emperor Li Qianshun and was appointed by the Western Xia as the defense envoy of Jingzhou (now northeast of Yongning County, Ningxia).

The following year, Ren Dejing's daughter was made queen, and Ren Dejing began to be promoted continuously.

Now, Ren Dejing has become the father-in-law of the Western Xia Kingdom, the Minister of the Chancellery, and the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and has become the prime minister of the Western Xia Kingdom.

His second brother Ren Decong was the Grand Marshal of the Western Xia Palace, his third brother Ren Degong was the Prefect of Xingqing Prefecture, his cousin Ren Deren was the Envoy of the Southern Court of the Western Xia, and his nephew Ren Chunzhong was the Deputy Chief Secretary of the Western Xia Privy Council.

The Ren family naturally has great power in the court.

As Li Renxiao grew older, his power was restricted by Ren Dejing in every way, and the relationship between the monarch and his subject gradually became tense.

However, starting from the summer of the previous year, Ren Dejing's temperament suddenly changed drastically.

This powerful official, who was so powerful that even the Western Xia emperor had to avoid him, suddenly stopped being keen on power and became obsessed with various metaphysical studies.

He searched everywhere for talented and extraordinary people, including Buddhist masters, Taoist celebrities, and even folk alchemists and strange people, all of whom were hired by him with large sums of money.

To this end, he also built a magnificent manor named "Yipintang" specifically for these extraordinary people to live in.

Ren Dejing often went to "Yipintang" to visit these strange people and study with them the techniques of reincarnation and soul transfer.

As a result, he was too lazy to care about national affairs, which greatly eased the tension between him and Li Rencun.

However, although Ren Dejing was obsessed with metaphysics, his three younger brothers and one nephew still held several extremely critical positions in Western Xia.

Therefore, whether to accept the land donated by the Kingdom of Jin, whether to go to war with the Song Dynasty (at least to create friction and contain the Song Dynasty. This was the gift condition proposed by the Jin Dynasty's special envoy Ke Mushan), Li Renxiao could not decide unless Ren Dejing nodded.

Therefore, Li Renxiao had to take the initiative to invite him to discuss the matter.

"Your Majesty, please make your own decision. I am currently studying the art of soul transfer with a strange person, so I cannot be away."

As soon as Ren Dejing entered the palace, he started complaining and looked unhappy.

After hearing this, Ren Decong, Ren Degong, Ren Deren, Ren Chunzhong and other ministers of the Ren faction could only look at each other and smile bitterly.

Their "leader" has changed his temperament drastically in the past two years, leaving them helpless.

He started to become obsessed with metaphysics when he was nearly sixty years old, which is... okay, he is indeed not young anymore.

But you should at least be studying how to achieve immortality, right?

Studying reincarnation and soul transfer is a bit outrageous.

After hearing this, Xixia Emperor Li Renxiao smiled bitterly but complained in his heart.

Of course he is very happy that Ren Dejing no longer seizes power, but why don't you spare all your brothers and nephews!
They only listen to you. If I don't consult you, how can I implement my national policy?
Li Renxiao could only smile and say, "Thank you for your hard work, Prime Minister. This is a matter of great importance. I am still young and have limited experience. I need the Prime Minister to help me make a decision."

Ren Dejing asked impatiently, "What does your majesty want to discuss?"

Li Renxiao said: "The Kingdom of Jin intends to cede Lintao Prefecture to me, Daxia."

Ren Dejing said, "That's great. Just agree to it. What else is there to discuss?"

Countries in this era did not attach as much importance to territorial division as they did in later generations.

Just a few decades ago, Emperor Huizong of Western Xia had thought about returning a large area of ​​Song territory that he had occupied to the Song Dynasty just for the reason of weakening the power of his foreign relatives, so as to use the power of the Song Dynasty to weaken Western Xia's foreign relatives.

However, the plan was exposed in advance, and the foreign relatives immediately launched a counterattack, killing the ministers who had offered advice to Huizong and imprisoning Huizong, thus causing a series of turmoil within Western Xia.

The Northern Song Dynasty also sent troops for this purpose. First, it occupied Xihe Road in the Battle of Xihe, and then attacked Xingqing Prefecture with five armies led by Li Xian, Zhong Yan and others.

The Empress Dowager Liang led her relatives to preside over the government affairs, and used the strategy of fortifying the city and clearing the fields, supplemented by the strategy of cutting off the food supply, to continuously fight with the Song army.

Although the Song army initially won a small victory and captured Lanzhou, it was ultimately defeated in Yongle City, ending the turmoil.

Li Renxiao couldn't help but choke when he heard Ren Dejing's words. He couldn't tell whether Ren Dejing was being sarcastic or teasing, so he said carefully:
"But the Jin people asked us to send troops to attack Song, or at least create friction to contain Song."

"Ok?"

Ren Dejing, who has been obsessed with metaphysics in the past two years, really doesn't understand the current situation very well.

He changed his sitting position to cross his legs, picked up the tea, and said slowly: "What's the matter? Jin Kingdom can't beat Song Dynasty? Are they going to ask us to help fight a group fight?"

Li Renxiao said: "Prime Minister, you don't know that a few months ago, the Jin people were more powerful than the Song Dynasty. But since the Song envoy Yang Yuan entered the Jin..."

"Who? Ahem..."

Ren Dejing choked on his tea and quickly interrupted Li Renxiao and asked.

Taiwei Ren Decong said dissatisfiedly: "Brother, you have really neglected government affairs in the past two years. You don't even know such a prominent figure in the Song Dynasty."

Ren Decong tells how Yang Yuan became the first top scholar to pass the imperial examination after the Song Dynasty moved south.
How to use the new emperor's accession to the throne to reverse the Song Dynasty's foreign policy?
He then went on a diplomatic mission to the Northern Kingdom, but the two princes of the Jin Kingdom who entertained him in Jinan Prefecture rebelled the next day.
He also took him to Liaodong and told Ren Dejing in detail about the series of events that led to the subsequent split of the Jin Dynasty.

Ren Dejing held the tea in his hand, his eyes lost in thought, and murmured, "Twenty-five years old, his name is Yang Yuan?"

Li Renxiao nodded and said, "Yes, he is only 25 years old. He is indeed a young man with great potential."

Ren Dejing suddenly put down his teacup and said solemnly, "Your Majesty, immediately mobilize all of our Great Xia's spies lurking in Song and Jin to investigate the details of this Yang Yuan.

I want to know all about him, the more detailed the better. Hmm... it would be best if I could find someone who is familiar with him and bring back a portrait."

After Ren Dejing finished speaking, he seemed to mutter to himself: "The portrait... may not be useful?
In short, to understand his detailed information, don’t look at what he said in court, but the many details in his life.”

Li Renxiao was surprised and asked, "Why does the Prime Minister care so much about Yang Yuan?"

Xingqing Prefecture Governor Ren Degong's expression suddenly changed, and he blurted out, "Brother, you don't think that the current situation in the Jin Kingdom was caused by this Yang Yuan, right?"

Ren Dejing was stunned. Yes, this is a good reason.

Ren Dejing nodded immediately and said, "Yes! I do have this suspicion."

Everyone changed their minds and realized that after Yang Yuan won the top three places in the imperial examination, he changed the Song Dynasty's foreign policy.

Afterwards, he went on a diplomatic mission to the Jin Kingdom. Wanyan Luti and Wanyan Dayu rebelled the day after he was welcomed.

After arriving in Liaodong, this person disappeared and there was almost no news of him anymore...

This is very strange. No movement at all is even stranger than some movement.

Could it be that the current situation of the Jin Kingdom was really caused by this person?
Is he so powerful?

Although Li Renxiao competed with Ren Dejing for power, he did not dare to underestimate Ren Dejing's abilities.

Li Renxiao immediately clapped his hands three times, called the guards in front of the palace, and said in a deep voice: "Issue an order to order my Great Xia 'Flying Kites' to do their best to investigate all the circumstances surrounding Yang Yuan, the number one scholar of the Great Song Dynasty. The more detailed the better."

The Flying Harriers of Western Xia were an important spy organization controlled by the emperor.

Ren Dejing added: "It would be best if we could get his portrait!"

The guard agreed and hurried down to convey the order.

Li Renxiao coughed and said to Ren Dejing: "Prime Minister, regarding the conditions proposed by the Jin people..."

"Promise him!"

Ren Dejing interrupted and said.

There was a strange light in his eyes, and he said slowly: "You can't just take advantage of others for nothing, right? Beat them up if you want."

(End of this chapter)