Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 427
The express road to the south of Nigu Village is well-maintained and is straight and wide all the way to the south.Yelu Zongyun and his party arrived at Changlu Town from Nigu Village, which was probably a hundred and fifty miles away, but Wu Qing arrived at Xijin Prefecture [Nanjing in the Liao Dynasty, modern Beijing], so they estimated the time , but it takes about [-]% less time than the latter.

This is still the speed of a war horse running. If it is replaced by a heavy cart, the time saved may be twice as much!No wonder they saw so many large-scale convoys along the way.

According to Yelu Zongyun's knowledge, this fast road in the southern country is not an official road.The latter can walk freely, but the former has to collect tolls.Moreover, this expressway runs from Niguzhai to Dizhou, and the second half is still under construction.For this reason, the nest of grass bandits in the south used tens of thousands of prisoners of war to build it so quickly.

When the news first spread to the north, many nobles in the Liao Dynasty laughed at the fools of the Liangshan Army, and Yelu Zongyun was one of them.Han merchants are all cunning, the toll fee is not much, but it is money after all, isn’t it?How can someone leave the road of not collecting money and come to take the road of collecting money?Moreover, this smooth road has been built, leading directly to the bank of the Yellow River, which is simply tempting the Liao army to go south.

With the certificate of opening in the trade zone, Yelu Zongyun can go straight to Cangzhou, and they can go to Cangzhou at most.The corresponding Liao people also agreed to trade in Qilu and entered Wuqing.

This is a mutually accommodating ending, and it is also a decision that is in line with each other's interests after the short-term mutual trade between the two parties.

Yelu Zongyun was the first group of Liao people to enter Cangzhou, and he was full of curiosity about everything here.For example, he didn't understand why there are so many cunning merchants from the Southern Kingdom who would rather pay a certain amount of money for the right to pass this avenue.It must be known that the latter are all cunning and treacherous people in his mind, and they must be compared with their peers.

However, after these calculations, he already had the answer in his heart.If it were him, he would also be willing to take this so-called fast track.Compared with the time saved, some tolls are not worth mentioning.If you add the hard work, bumps, horseshoes, and vehicle wear and tear of the wild road, Yelu Zongyun feels that there is still room for improvement in the toll cost.

Of course, along the way, he also discovered some caravans evading fees.The scale of these caravans/vendors is generally small, even three or five people with three or two wheelbarrows, and they are very flexible in walking. At least it is easy to cross the ditch from the fast road to the wild trail.In this case, they often leave the expressway near the checkpoint, go far around the checkpoint, and then return to the expressway.

On the way, although he saw some inspectors in soap clothes, but the number of them was too small and too sparse, at least Yelu Zongyun didn't see them catch a single one who escaped money along the way.So much so that Yelu Zongyun laughed at the stupidity of the Cangzhou government from the bottom of his heart. If this road came by himself, he would definitely send ten times as many people to inspect it, ensuring that none of them could escape.

Changlu Town is the center of the salt industry in Cangzhou. The prosperity of this place is no less than that of Cangzhou City. Now it is one of the transfer stations on the expressway from Cangzhou to Niguzhai, which is the icing on the cake.There is an endless stream of vehicles, pedestrians are in a hurry, and there are many shops beside the road, which seems to be more lively than Xijin Mansion.Seeing Yelu Zongyun and the others were secretly tongue-tied.

By the way, since the Jurchens rebelled, the market in Xijin Prefecture has been in a lot of depression.Therefore, when Yelu Zongyun saw the current prosperity of Changlu Town, he only thought of one word - robbery.

If you grab a sum, you will have money and food, and you will be safe.

This southern country is too rich, and the southerners have always been weak. How long will it take if we don't grab them now?
Yelu Zongyun clearly sees Khitan's plight this year, his father is Yelu Dezhong, a general of the Liao clan, who is the Jiedu envoy of Jizhou, with a high position, he knows how dire the situation of the Liao Kingdom is.It can be said that there is no money for money, and no food for food.There is also a lack of armor and military equipment.

And the Liangshan bandits all have these.

The Liangshan bandits here in Qilu are of course beneficial to the Liao Kingdom. They have recently imported a lot of grain to the Nanjing Road, which can be said to have solved the urgent need of the Liao people.It is really not good to have a bad relationship with Qilu in the long run.But as long as they can be subdued, isn't it the same as letting them ask for it?Bingjia, money and food are all here, and the Liao Kingdom does not need to pay precious war horses for it.Although there are many war horses in Daliao, they are not brought by the wind.

"Mr. Lang is not going to Cangzhou City?"

Seeing that Yelu Zongyun turned around and was about to go back, several followers behind him showed surprise.Isn't this trip just to enter Cangzhou City to find out the depth of the Liangshan bandit army? Why don't they even go to Cangzhou City now?

"A nest of grass bandits, what is there to be afraid of? My Daliao iron cavalry only needs to try to get to the south of the Jiehe River. No matter how many bandits he has, they will be trampled into meat mud under the horse's hooves." Now Yeluzong said that the most important thing is to hurry Go back and convince his father that with his father's support, the southward faction in Xijin Mansion can gain the upper hand.

Regardless of Yelu Zongyun's mental impatience, in fact, among the dignitaries of the Liao Kingdom, there are still a small number of people who advocate going south to attack Qilu, and more people are peaceful.

Some of them really believed that the Han people should not be underestimated, while others believed that the Liao Kingdom was already in big trouble. How could there be another border trouble?However, the Liangshan Army and the Khitan exchanged information and played a huge role, so they must not be easily offended.

Yun Shen was disgusted by Yeluzong, telling them that a group of moths who had forgotten the glory of their ancestors were timid towards the southerners.Khitan's iron cavalry is the best tool for bargaining with the southerners. Wherever the iron cavalry steps, it is invincible.Looting money, food and soldiers can settle the people inside and train a strong army.It can calm down Jurchen and reshape the glory of Daliao.With such great significance, how could such a good opportunity be missed?

Yelu Zongyun has no heart in the Central Plains, and he even looks down on the Qilu Liangshan Army, thinking they are a group of grassroots bandits.The Jurchen is his natural/mortal enemy.But now the wealthy Cangzhou forced him to look back.

Because he knew that the current Khitan had to "fall in a windfall" in order to recover quickly, and only then could they suppress Jurchen.The ambition in his heart to exterminate the entire Jurchen family, and destroy all their bones and ashes, is actually maintained by Qilu's financial resources.

But now, after seeing the extraordinary prosperity of Changlu Town, it seemed like a spark fell into his heart, full of flames burning, which made him unable to calm down anymore.He turned around and ran towards Nigu Village.

He is the eldest son of Yelu Dezhong, how can he be persuaded by a few servants behind him.If so, the group had no choice but to return with Yelv Zongyun.

But this time Yelu Zongyun didn't go on the fast road, but went off the wild road.

This is said to be a wild road, but in fact it is an official road. It was the military grain road built by the Zhao and Song Dynasties. Due to years of disrepair, the roads are mostly potholes.When Liang Shanjun built the fast road, he also made some repairs along the way, but it was still far behind the fast road.

When he came here, he hadn't seen a Liangshan Army team, but on the way back to Nigu Village through Junliang Road, he bumped into one within ten miles.

Yelu Zongyun reined in the horse, and retreated to the side of the road. There happened to be some vendors around, and they were dressed in Han Chinese costumes.

They lined up in a neat queue, striding across the other side of the official road in high spirits and high morale.But when Yelu Zongyun saw this team, he laughed.An army that has never seen blood cannot be called a truly strong army.There were thousands of people under his father's command who were elites who had fought to the death with the Jurchen thieves in Liaodong. Every time they formed a formation, a chilling aura would hit their faces.But the current southern army is a bunch of weaklings compared to them.

But what Yeluzong Yun envied was that their uniforms were uniform, everyone was wearing armor, and it looked like a complete set of armor!Although most of them are leather armor, the wealth of the southerners is not comparable to that of Khitan.

Yelu Zongyun thought of his subordinates, the battalion head with more than 300 riders, only a hundred sets of leather armor pieced together from odds and ends, and couldn't help feeling angry.Daliao is the meaning of iron. At that time, there were 30 leather troops, and everyone wore fine armor, which made the southerners afraid to do business.And now the battalion he leads doesn't say he doesn't have fine iron armor, even the leather armor is hard to match. Has Daliao really fallen to this point?
Although he is well aware of this.In the early stage of the Liao Kingdom, the main combat force was 30 Pishi Army, but in the middle and later stages, it was transformed into the Gongfen Army. Although the latter had 40 people in name, it actually had only 30 Jingqi Army.Since the alliance of Chanyuan, the Liao and Song Dynasties have settled and repaired each other, and neither side has heard the sound of swords and soldiers.In the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the [-] elite Hebei army had become too decayed in the middle and late stages, and the force of the Liao army also experienced a major decline in peace.

The cruel reality and the haughty spirit formed a sharp contrast, causing Yelu Zongyun's eyes to be filled with blood before he knew it, and his eyes were blood red.

Looking at the Han Chinese costumes they were wearing, they were even more ashamed and annoyed and wanted to draw their swords to kill.

"Sure enough, Liangshan's army is elite, mighty and majestic, so people should not stare at them!" At this time, a merchant beside him sighed.Isn't that right? Compared with the original official army here, isn't such an army more majestic and mighty.

Yelu Zongyun heard it in his ears, but a smile suddenly brewed in his chest, which dilutes the anger in his heart a bit.

Before he could taunt, the other merchants on the other side had already shouted: "This is considered elite? It's just a garrison army. It's an army from the bottom to the bottom. It's far worse than the soldiers of the Liangshan Army. It can't be compared with the group I met on the way to Nigu Village last time!"

"This is the garrison. It's not as good as the previous group?" Yelu Zongyun said in surprise.If such a team is just a garrison, then the combat effectiveness of the Liangshan Army is another matter.

He knows the Liangshan military system.The garrison can only be regarded as the Hanzhou town troops of the Liao State. The gap between them and the regular soldiers of the Liangshan Army is just like the gap between the Hanzhou town troops of the Liao State and the Pishi Army and Gongfen Army.

"That's natural. The last batch of garrison troops I met were soldiers from other states, but the current ones are local soldiers from Cangzhou. They have just been recruited and trained in January. My child was transferred to the capital earlier. The head is inside it." Although the trader was full of derogatory words, there was a suspicion of showing off between his brows.

Yelu Zongyun's face couldn't help but darken.

(End of this chapter)