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Chapter 561 The Journey North

The current Liao emperor, Yelü Yanxi, had a life that was vastly different from that of Zhao Ji from a young age.

The previous emperor of the Liao Dynasty, Yelü Hongji, was Yelü Yanxi's grandfather. Yelü Yanxi's father was killed by the treacherous minister Yelü Yixin when he was about twenty years old. If it weren't for his grandfather Yelü Hongji's foresight, his grandson Yelü Yanxi would also have been killed by the treacherous minister Yelü Yixin.

A year after Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty ascended the throne, Yelü Yanxi, the Grand Marshal of the Liao Dynasty's Armed Forces, also ascended the throne and became the new emperor of the Liao Dynasty.

Emperor Yelü Yanxi of the Liao Dynasty was also a man who could not distinguish between loyalty and treachery, and he himself enjoyed hunting all over the Liao Dynasty.

Emperor Huizong ordered people to collect the best things and send them to Bianjing, while Yelü Yanxi went wherever the best places were.

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Shi Jin traveled north, but he did not enter Liao territory alone; he was accompanied by Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun.

Shi Jin never smiled a single day while he was with these three enemies.

At the Heroes' Gathering, Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun, who had been crippled, also became disabled, but Shi Jin ultimately did not take their lives.

At this moment, Lu Bian walked out from the side, pulled Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun to the edge of a corner, and healed the three of them.

It's a pity that it's sitting by the roadside.

Either give them a quick death, or let them live and do their jobs properly. Torturing people to the point of being half-dead is not only torturing others, but also torturing yourself.

By the roadside, Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun were given a chance to reform. A magnetic field lock was placed on them, binding them to Shi Jin's control, and they were forced to accompany Shi Jin to the Liao Kingdom.

Shi Jin became a tight headband around the heads of Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun.

Shi Jin, who wields a staff, has a man surnamed Zhu and another surnamed Chen in his group, plus one more to make up the numbers. We could write a "Journey to the North" about their trip to the Liao Kingdom.

Shi Jin led the three from Shaohua Mountain on a journey north, partly to gather intelligence on the Liao Kingdom and partly to act as an inside agent in the future Song-Liao war.

Emperor Huizong of Song was spurred to reclaim the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun, and Wang Jin's next target was also to reclaim the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun.

Wang Jin launched an attack on the Liao Kingdom from the perspective of the martial arts world, while Zhao Ji declared war on the Liao Kingdom from the national level.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun refer to sixteen prefectures, mainly Youzhou and Yunzhou, encompassing the most important Yanshan and Taihang mountain ranges in the north. Without the natural barrier of these two mountain ranges, the armies of northern tribes could have easily advanced into the Central Plains.

"My lord, the lives of the people in Liao don't seem to be very good either," Yang Chun whispered to Shi Jin.

The three of them squatted under an earthen wall at the entrance of the village. The fields next to the village were all abandoned, which made Yang Chun sigh.

Shi Jin, along with Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun, disguised themselves as beggars and wandered around villages and towns in Yunzhou, observing the lives of ordinary people.

During the Song Dynasty, when ordinary people could no longer make a living, they could become outlaws and accept the imperial court's offer of amnesty. However, in the Liao Dynasty, the situation was somewhat different.

The Liao Dynasty had a system of ethnic hierarchy, and the systems differed between the north and south.

"The Liao Dynasty governed the Khitans with its own system and the Han people with its own system." The northern part of the Liao Dynasty belonged to the Khitans, while the southern part was inhabited by Han people who adopted the Han system.

The Khitans were aristocratic rulers who held a high position. Only a very small number of Han Chinese were able to obtain official positions through their talents to help the Khitans manage the country, while the rest were oppressed and exploited.

"My lord, hurry, hurry, let's go!!"

Chen Da ran out of the village as if he had seen a ghost, urging Shi Jin, Zhu Wu, and Yang Chun at the village entrance to run quickly.

"Chen Da, I sent you into the village to check the situation, why did you tell us to run?" Shi Jin asked.

"Everyone in this village is dead!!" Chen Da exclaimed in horror.

"How did he die?!" Shi Jin asked anxiously.

"They died of disease!" "It was the plague; everyone in this village died in their homes!"

After Chen Da explained, Zhu Wu and Yang Chun ran like madmen, trying to keep their distance from Chen Da, who had entered the village.

"How long has he been dead?" Shi Jin asked Chen Da calmly.

"I pushed open the door and saw a corpse that was already rotten to the bone," Chen Da said to Shi Jin, stopping five meters away.

“They’ve been dead for so long, the plague won’t stay in this village forever,” Shi Jin said.

"My lord, what should I do?"

"Are you going to leave me here to die?" Chen Da asked nervously.

Chen Da was afraid that Shi Jin would kill him with a single blow; he now had a reason for Shi Jin to kill him.

“It would be good if you could contract the plague,” Shi Jin said.

"My lord, is there any need to torture me like this? Your master also told you to accumulate good deeds. If I'm going to die, let me die a quick and painless death," Chen Da said.

“If you contract the plague, I will observe your condition and search for a cure. If we find a way, we can save people when we encounter places with the plague again,” Shi Jin said.

"Young Master Shi, you truly have the heart of a bodhisattva," Chen Da exclaimed.

"Shut up, Chen Da. The plague doesn't spread out of thin air; it has fixed transmission channels. When you talk to me, the spittle that flies onto others is a form of transmission."

As soon as Shi Jin spoke, Chen Da immediately covered his mouth and nose.

“If you do not show any symptoms of the plague within three days, then I will take Zhu Wu and Yang Chun into the village to bury the deceased.”

“I’m not doing a good deed, but corpses are also a way for the plague to spread, and they must be buried.”

Chen Da nodded to Shi Jin.

The previous village that Shi Jin and his companions visited was a village suffering from famine.

Those who could escape from the village went elsewhere, while those who couldn't escape engaged in cannibalism within the village. The four of them were nearly cornered and eaten alive by a group of villagers.

"First there was famine, then plague. What do you think we'll encounter in our next place, my lord?" Yang Chun asked.

"It might be a disaster caused by war," Shi Jin replied.

Zhu Wu looked at Shi Jin in surprise.

"That's all," Shi Jin said calmly.

After five or six days in the Liao Kingdom, they found that most of the people they encountered were either starving or dying of disease.

“If this is the case for all of them, even if we take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun, we will only be inheriting a huge mess,” Zhu Wu said.

"It can't always be like this."

“We are still on the edge of the Liao Kingdom, not in the prosperous north. In these peripheral areas, the lives and deaths of the local people are not of concern,” Shi Jin said.

"I always feel uneasy," Zhu Wu said.

“Han people living outside the Song Dynasty cannot be considered Han people,” Shi Jin said.

Chen Da spent three days and three nights in quarantine at the village entrance. Seeing that Chen Da had no symptoms of the plague, Shi Jin, Zhu Wu, and Yang Chun entered the village to collect the remains of the dead and bury the dead deep in the earth.

(End of this chapter)