Chapter 356 Renzong's Courage
When Renzong heard the good news, he immediately became happy: "Why can't you explain the good news clearly?"
Wang Yanling hesitated for a moment: "This has to start from last year. After the Liao and Dangxiang war last year, for some reason, the price of wool suddenly soared, and it would have more than doubled in less than a month! By winter, it had doubled several times and it did not stabilize until the beginning of spring this year."
Renzong frowned and said, "This, is it good for us to have a higher income from the Liao people?"
Wang Yanling said: "Weichen did not pay attention to this problem at the beginning, but not long after the beginning of spring this year, the price of wool began to fall, and the rapid decline was unexpected to everyone! The trade in Liao Kingdom was turbulent, which was originally a matter of people's livelihood, but what Weichen did not expect was that just last month, the Jurchens saw that the Liao people had more flocks of animal husbandry than in previous years, and actually went down the mountain to grab them. This year, the rebellion in Liaodong came much earlier than in previous years."
Renzong was very happy after hearing this: "Okay! OK! No matter what, the Jurchens were in chaos, and the Liao Kingdom didn't care about us anymore. It was just right to deal with Li Yuanhao first with peace of mind!"
Wang Yanling continued: "Not only in Liaodong, when the price of wool was the highest, many Liao people placed orders to the herdsmen in order to hoard wool. However, when the price fell, they could not sell the goods in their hands, so naturally they would not buy the *** people again. This made *** very angry. Seeing that the Jurchens dared to rebel, these ***s were not willing to fall behind. More than a dozen small tribes gathered together and they actually rebelled! Long live, I don't know why the wool suddenly rose and fell sharply, but I can be sure that the wool caused by this wool is enough to make the Liao people unable to protect themselves now, and they will never get involved in our affairs with Dangxiang."
Chen Yuan had always controlled the wool speculation and did not dare to contact the bottom line of Liao Xingzong. But he did not expect that even the experts of the Song Dynasty did not know how to deal with such malicious hype, and Liao Xingzong certainly did not take it seriously. The Liao Kingdom's willing attitude led to the development of the matter being out of Chen Yuan's control, and eventually triggered a war caused by wool!
What are the *** merchants? They are all the leaders of the tribe! After you ordered the goods from Liao, he tried his best to raise sheep. Now the sheep are fat and the hair is coming out immediately. You said you don’t want it? Are you kidding me and you are playing with it?
If a merchant is like this, that is the problem of the Liao Dynasty merchants. But all the Liao Dynasty merchants are like this. These top leaders thought, are you, Liao Dynasty, and are you, and you are having fun with us? So, first, you first contacted the Liao Dynasty.
Liao Xingzong didn't take it seriously, saying it was a private transaction, but he didn't care. This attitude made the people even more angry. He happened to hear the news that the Jurchens had rebelled again. Everyone concluded: "The Jurchens dared to use the knife without any reason. We were cheated and swallowed our anger. Will we still come out to make trouble in the future? Fight!"
Song Renzong didn't know that Chen Yuan was involved, but since the Jurchens rebelled and the *** people rebelled, the Liao Kingdom must have no choice but to take care of itself. This situation, and Mu Guiying was in charge of the three passes, Renzong was really relieved.
"I will issue an order to Fan Aiqing, and I will mobilize another 100,000 soldiers and arrive in Xijiang in one month. Let him teach me a good lesson!"
Renzong was in a good mood, and he would never be able to say this before. When Fan Zhongyan left Bianjing and went to Western Xinjiang, Renzong just held his hand and said, "My dear, the crisis in Western Xinjiang depends on you."
At that time, his greatest wish was to save the crisis in Western Xinjiang and recover the lost territory, Renzong was already very satisfied.
There are cowards in this world, but no one is willing to be a coward. A coward is because he cannot find something he can rely on. Just as Renzong did not believe that those generals could win at all.
But now, Chen Yuan has sent him confidence, the most elite Harrier Army in the Liao Kingdom! Ten thousand people attacked 10,000 Song troops, but they were defeated by the Song army! This result was very satisfying to Renzong.
Especially at the end, he said that if there weren’t two small leaders greedy for merit, Li Yuanhao might even lose his life. Boasted? The captured Dangxiang soldiers were already on the road, and the heads could be faked, but Chen Yuan sent back this time a living prisoner!
It hasn't been many years!
Renzong's tone also changed as he spoke, and his pace of walking after going to court was different! He felt that he had become much younger in an instant. It turned out that Song Jun could still fight, and he seemed to have known it just now!
"Father!" Zhao Yi suddenly jumped out from the side, shocking Renzong, who was silent in joy!
Zhao Yi laughed: "Father, what do you think? He laughs while walking? Is there anything happy?"
Renzong was in a good mood and pointed her forehead with his hand: "Of course I'm happy. Your Chen Shimei won the battle in the west! Defeating seven or eight thousand Dangxiang in one battle was a blow to my anger!"
After hearing this, Zhao Yi was immediately excited: "Really? I told you that he would do it! What about the memorial? Show me the memorial."
Renzong looked dark and said, "Did you read the memorial too? A princess, you are more calm! There is a like your sister..."
He originally wanted to say that he looked like a princess like the eldest princess, but suddenly he thought of the current eldest princess. Renzong couldn't say what happened later. The eldest princess was very dignified, filial, and pure, so why did he become like this now? Renzong didn't know.
Seeing that his father's face changed, Zhao Yi wanted to retreat aside. Renzong suddenly asked, "Is your sister okay with Chen Shimei?"
Zhao Yi was stunned and asked timidly: "Father, do you know everything?"
Renzong smiled bitterly: "If I were deceived by your little tricks, can I still be the emperor?"
Zhao Yi said truthfully: "It's okay. I've gone to see her every day. In addition to being in a bad mood, I feel much more stable."
Renzong sighed: "Shimei did a good job in this matter. He is younger than Li Wei, but he is more sensible than Li Wei. I am not afraid that he will treat you badly when he gives you to him."
Zhao Yi immediately smiled: "He dares! If he dares to be like Li Wei, I will implement the family law immediately!"
Renzong smiled: "Isn't the family yet? My princess is going to implement family law? Let's tell you the truth, Chen Shimei is much more courageous than Li Wei. At most, Li Wei dares to protect his mother, and his methods are clumsy. But Chen Shimei is different. I am not afraid that he will aggrieved you, I am afraid that you will be deceived by him and you will be wronged by yourself!"
Zhao Yi pulled Renzong's arm: "Isn't there any father to support me?"
Renzong patted her hands: "When you get married, your father won't care so much about you. You have to learn to deal with things in marriage by yourself. Like your sister, I used to be too doting on her, and she couldn't bear it and didn't know how to deal with the marriage. When you meet Li Wei again, you will be like this now."
He suddenly stopped talking about this place, paused for a while and said, "Are you here to be a lobbyist for Chen Shimei?"
Zhao Yi's face turned red: "Father, I'm not talking to Shimei. When I went to see my sister yesterday, I happened to meet those businessmen. They wanted to ask me to ask something."
Renzong corrected his face and said, "Tell me."
Zhao Yi bowed slightly: "Father, Shimei asked the second batch of supplies prepared by the merchants. Yesterday, the merchants came to the villa. First, they asked the father where the supplies were transported to. Second, they wanted to be responsible for building the city that was destroyed by the Dangxiang people in the Western Xinjiang of the Song Dynasty."
Renzong thought for a moment: "It's also their intention. Every time they raise materials for me, they even pay for the shipping fee. It's time for them to make some money back. So, go back and tell those people that I will hand over the materials for building the city to mine and transport, but the price will not be too high."
Zhao Yi was happy after hearing this: "Father, what price should I give? They want to ask me what I said?"
Renzong looked at Zhao Yi and shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I'm really afraid that Chen Shimei will sell you! You don't need to say anything. Chen Shimei must have discussed it with them before leaving. They will do whatever price I pay! Otherwise, how would they know to ask you to pass the message? Stupid girl!"
More than 200 miles southeast of Xiliang Prefecture, there is a village called Jisang. The north is the Tengger Desert, and the east is indeed a vast water and meadow, so there are always some grazing people passing by here.
It is said that hundreds of years ago, the land here was filled with Han and Qiang people. At that time, the Han people were very good at farming, and the crops were originally full of crops on the aquatic grassland. However, with the war, the Han people were killed and the fled and fled. The crops fell into the hands of the Qiang people. In a few years, they became fertile aquatic grassland. The crops could not grow and could only be used for grazing.
Haki lived in this small village. He was born here. Except for being recruited to Helan Mountain for a war last year, he had never walked out of this land. He felt that life was good here. Except for sometimes starving in winter and spring, there was nothing that made him dissatisfied.
Today he helped a caravan transport goods, and the Uighur gave him a bag of wine in return, which made Haki very happy. His father raised five sheep at home, went back to squeeze out the milk of the goat, mixed the wine into the milk, and then went to dig some wild vegetables. Yesterday I remember that there seemed to be some barley left, so I could have a good meal.
He put the bag of wine in his arms and showed a satisfied smile on his face, just as a rich man suddenly made a lot of money.
When he just walked to the entrance of the village, Haki suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves. It was not a horse, but a sound of many horses walking towards here together!
"Is it going to fight again?" Haki was very happy. Last year, the voice also came to the village, and then the men in the whole village were taken away. Haki liked to fight because there was food for war, and the white rice was delicious.
His eyes looked in the direction where the sound came, and a team of cavalry slowly appeared in his sight.
As the troops got closer, Haki suddenly realized that this was not Dangxiang's army!
He quickly turned around and ran away, wanting to report the news in the village!
Chapter completed!