The Three Spirit Stones

The loyal and brave Marquis revealed another big news!

He actually let his second son take his mother's surname. You should know that his son's mother was from Liao.

Not to mention the other races, even if they were the same race, this was quite explosive.

He is not a son-in-law, so why would he be willing to do such a disadvantageous thing?

Could it be that he was so sad about his wife's death that his brain went bad?

Because of this incident, Mrs. Cheng had a big quarrel with him and even invited the elders of the Cheng clan to persuade her son, but they could not overcome his firm attitude.

Then, Cheng Yan changed his name to Yelu Yan, and while the Cheng family tree remained unchanged, he was also included in the Yelu Royal Jade Spy family tree.

When Cheng Yan found out, he burst into tears.

The relationship between the father and his two sons has always been very good. The father is very dignified but also very kind. He would lower himself to play some very childish games with the two brothers, and tell them many philosophical stories.

They know that their father is a great one, and the two brothers have always been extremely proud to have such a father!

Now that his surname has been changed to Yelu for no reason, it is hard for him not to have wild thoughts.

He cried and asked Cheng Yu,

"Dad~~"

"Don't you want Yan'er anymore?"

"Yan Er, tell me what I did wrong and I will correct it~"

Seeing his son crying, Cheng Yu felt both amused and distressed.

He hugged his son, wiped his tears and said, "You are my biological son. How could I not want you?"

"Even if your last name is not Cheng, does that mean you are not my son?"

"Then why..."

Cheng Yan asked while sobbing,

Cheng Yu explained to him,

"Because Dad wants to give you an important task, it will be more convenient for you to change back to your mother's surname."

So that's it! Cheng Yan stopped crying immediately.

"Dad, what exactly is that mission?"

"You are still young now, I will tell you when you grow up."

"Good dad."

The following year, Emperor Shizong of Liao issued an imperial decree to appoint Yelu Yan, the son of the Ninth Princess Yelu Yuan, as the King of Yan, with the fief of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. He was required to return to his fiefdom to perform his duties when he turned eighteen.

When the news came out, both Song and Liao countries were shocked!

No wonder Cheng Yu invested a lot of money in the Yanyun area. It turned out that he was paving the way for his son.

Where is the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun?

A strategic location that holds the throat of the Song Dynasty tightly.

His son became the King of Yan. As long as he could take root and expand in Yan, his family would become the most prominent family in the world.

In fact, before the imperial edict was issued, this decision was opposed by many people in Liao, the most fierce of whom was the Su clan of the royal family.

They are united in a rare way.

Everyone knows that Lord Cheng is extremely powerful and possesses unfathomable martial arts.

But this is a matter of right and wrong.

Agreeing to enfeoff his son as the King of Yan was tantamount to selling out the country.

Everyone is happy with his investment here, but no one can agree that he should rule Yanyun!

For this reason, the Liao royal family and nobles reached a consensus that even if Cheng Yu killed them all, they would not allow his son to become the King of Yan.

Moreover, they also believed that Cheng Yu would not dare to kill innocent people indiscriminately.

What if he really dared to use this method to make his son the King of Yan?

Then his son will be cursed for all eternity!

Yelu Ruan threw this problem to Cheng Yu and asked him to solve it himself.

Then, Cheng Yu got furious!

Of course he won't kill innocent people indiscriminately, but he will use his ultimate weapon!

He blacklisted all those who opposed him, including their family members.

His assets in Yanyun were frozen, and the money in the bank was not allowed to be withdrawn for various reasons, and their loans were collected...

After so many years of development, Yanyun has become accustomed to using paper money. Gold, silver and copper coins must be exchanged for paper money before they can be circulated. Everyone will keep some cash for daily expenses, and the rest will be deposited in money shops.

Then the problem comes!

Those who were blacklisted had run out of cash and could not withdraw money from banks. They could not buy daily necessities with gold, silver or copper coins, unless they exchanged them on the black market, but they would lose a lot of money.

People who have to pay off their loans are even worse off. They are about to pay off their mortgages and car loans, but they can’t get the money out. The money in their pockets is getting less and less, and even their lives are becoming a problem.

This group of people were miserable and complained.

This evil star's methods are so despicable!

A few who had the guts to move their families back to live outside the Great Wall.

But many people have gotten used to living here, so who would want to go back to those bitter and cold places outside the Great Wall?

Those who oppose it also have to face pressure from those around them.

Gradually, some people could not bear it anymore and began to compromise. Those who compromised were blacklisted. Later, more and more people changed their positions, and finally the voices of the small number of people who persisted became insignificant.

In this way, Cheng Yu used this shameless method to help his son clear the obstacles.

When Cheng Yan was eighteen years old, he moved into the Prince of Yan's Palace in Yanjing and began his life of managing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!

When the Prince of Yan was eighty years old, the Liao Dynasty began to decline, and the Jurchens gradually rose between the Baishan and Heishui regions in the northeast. Wanyan Aguda led the Jurchens to resist the rule of the Khitans and won many battles.

In the era without Cheng Yu, the then Song Emperor Huizong saw the Liao Kingdom being defeated by the Jin Army. Song Huizong, who had always been obsessed with the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, had the idea of ​​recovering the Chinese homeland.

He sent people to the Jin Kingdom to negotiate and agreed to jointly attack the Liao Dynasty. After more than a year of talks, the two sides reached the "Maritime Alliance".

Today, Yanyun is ruled by the King of Yan.

His hometown is the Song Dynasty, his family and brothers are in the Song Dynasty, and he has a close relationship with the Song Dynasty.

The two places had frequent business and trade exchanges. Although Yanyun did not belong to the Song Dynasty on the surface, it was actually a brother country. If Song Huizong wanted to attack Yanyun, the people of the Song Dynasty would not agree first.

One year before the death of the Prince of Yan, Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi was captured by the Jin Kingdom, and the Liao Kingdom was destroyed.

Prince of Yan, Yelu Yan, passed the throne to his son, Yelu Huaisong, and asked him to return to his homeland to recognize his ancestral roots. He changed his name back to Cheng Huaisong, and also changed his own name back to Cheng Yan.

At this time, a large number of Liao people had already flocked to Yanyun to seek refuge.

King Cheng Huaisong of Yan was nearly sixty years old. Following his father's teachings, he immediately increased the number of troops, added armaments, and made all preparations for war as soon as the Liao Dynasty was destroyed.

After the Jin Dynasty conquered the Liao Dynasty, they found that the truly wealthy place was the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, where most of the Liao Dynasty's wealth was concentrated. The Liao Dynasty's land outside the Great Wall was large, but most of it was poor and remote.

The Jin people couldn't help drooling at the sight of Yanyun, this piece of fat meat.

Finally one day, they launched a war against Yanyun on the grounds that Yan had taken in a large number of Liao people.

……

……

It is better to let rivers of blood flow than to let Yanyun be lost!

The descendants of Chengmen should take it as their responsibility to protect Yanyun!

This sentence is engraved in the most conspicuous place of the Cheng family ancestral temple in Bian Jing. Every descendant of the Cheng family has been kneeling in front of it since childhood. The ancestors of the Cheng family are enshrined in it, with the statue of Cheng Yu sitting in the center.

After seeing off his mother, Sun Yuechan and Yelu Yuan, he disappeared.

He was going to look for Ah Cai. He didn't want to care about worldly affairs anymore.

He has given a lot to this land!

They have to bear the consequences of their own actions!

During this nearly one hundred years, the Cheng family has had many descendants.

With more people, there are naturally more grievances and hatreds.

Some are united and friendly, some are enemies, and some fight to the point of bloodshed for family property.

There are all kinds of things,

Infighting is always difficult to avoid.

But now, it’s an alien invasion!

The descendants of Chengmen, who seemed to be a loose group, immediately united to fight against the Jin Dynasty. Those who had money contributed money, and those who had strength contributed strength.

The Cheng family is a wealthy family with wealth comparable to that of a country. Countless people hold important positions in the court, and their relationships are like a spider web throughout the Song Dynasty.

When the war in Yanyun broke out, the head of Cheng family raised his arm and called for action, which was immediately echoed by the government and the public!

Song Huizong immediately issued an edict, and the Song army fully supported Prince of Yan Cheng Huaisong in resisting the Jin invasion of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!

It must be said that Cheng Yu has a very thorough understanding of human nature.

Interests are always the greatest internal driving force of human beings!

He built Yanyun into a prosperous place and turned it into a super city. The siphoning power of the super city attracted the wealth of countless people.

In the Song Dynasty, many wealthy people had assets in Yanyun. No one wanted their industry to be destroyed by war, and no one wanted their wealth to be seized by foreign races.

Therefore, where the people support us, we will be invincible!

On the day of Cheng Yan's death, he remembered what his father had said to him.

"The Jin Dynasty rose rapidly, and the Liao Dynasty fell in just ten years."

"The Khitan people were almost completely slaughtered, and the royal family, concubines, princes and nobles suffered great hardships and destruction,"

"Then the Jin soldiers marched south, captured the capital of Bianliang, and successfully captured the two emperors, Emperor Huizong and Emperor Qinzong of Song."

"The Song Dynasty must pay the Jin Dynasty 1 million taels of gold, 10 billion taels of silver, and 1000 million rolls of silk as compensation."

"The Jin army also proposed to use the women of the royal family to pay off the debts... The people were displaced, nine out of ten houses were empty, it was a tragic scene,"

“…This is the Jingkang Shame!”

"We in the Song Dynasty can fight among ourselves and make a mess, but we cannot be invaded by foreign races. There is a limit to how much we can fight among ourselves, but an invasion by foreign races will lead to the destruction of the country."

"The most tragic thing in the world is the destruction of a country and the ruin of a family!"

……

"Fortunately, Da Song has a father..."

"I hope the Jingkang Shame will never happen..."

As Cheng Yan thought about it, his eyes slowly closed forever!