The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 135 Liao Secret Spy
Holding the road recommendation letter, Zhao Tang and others were in front of the barracks, and after half an hour of interrogation, they were able to enter Huining.

Ahead is an open plain, with countless villages on both sides of the road. These villages are large and small. You can see hundreds of houses in the big ones, and dozens of small ones.

Some of these villages are surrounded by wooden fences, some are surrounded by earth embryo walls, and some are only surrounded by branches and sticks inserted in the ground. Those branches and sticks even survived in the soil and grew out. up green leaves.

Zhao Tuan set up an awning and looked into the distance, only to see an earthen city looming in the distance, the terrain was higher than these stockades, it should be Huining City.

Huining is now just an earthen city, neither big nor high, and it's okay to call it a big village, because Wanyan Aguda lived in it, so the Jurchens called it the emperor's village.

Holding the letter of recommendation and thinking for a while, because there is no comparison with the identity and background of the person who wrote the letter of recommendation, Zhao Tian decided to go to the other party first.

The person who wrote the recommendation letter was a spy who had been stationed in the Liao Kingdom for a long time. Yelu Dashi had told him about the basic situation. After several years of operation, he knew many prominent figures in the Kingdom of Jin, and he also had certain rights in his hands.

At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the Bo Jilie system was implemented. Wanyan Aguda was Dubo Jilie, Wanyan Wu begged for buying and knowing Banbo Jilie, Wanyan Sakai was the national opinion Hulubo Jilie, and Wanyan Ci was still true. Guolun Amaib is extremely fierce, and Wan Yanxie is also Guolun Haobo extremely fierce.

It means that Wanyan Aguda is the emperor, Wanyan Wu Qimai is the prince, Wanyan Sagai is the prime minister, Wanyan Ci is the prime minister's first deputy, and Wanyan Xie is also the prime minister's second deputy.

The official position of this vigorous system is difficult to pronounce and obscure, so it will not be used in the following text, and it is directly called the approximate official position it represents.

In the current state of Jin, these five people have the most power, one emperor, one crown prince, one prime minister, and two deputy prime ministers.

The spy in the Liao Kingdom was a civil official under the power of the prime minister, roughly equivalent to the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and was in charge of farming, construction, transportation, casting, and firing in his name.

But at the moment, the Kingdom of Jin doesn’t have so many fortifications to do. There aren’t many farmers, and most of the buildings are large earthen houses. Burn some pottery pots, don't even think about porcelain.

The fortifications of the Kingdom of Jin really developed after Jingkang, because they attacked Tokyo twice and captured many craftsmen from the Song Dynasty to go north. Only then did various manufacturing industries begin.

Although the spy of the Liao Kingdom doesn't have much to do now, any court must have such a position, so his status is not too low.

Zhao Tun and the others inquired as they walked, and after a while, they came to a village. This village was very small, surrounded by a kind of round wooden fence, and there were only dozens of houses inside from the gate of the village, and no one came in or out.

The season was just right at this moment, Zhao Tang and others came all the way, and saw many villages were full of people coming and going, but this place seemed sparse and desolate, obviously because of the lack of population.

There were two Jurchen soldiers standing in front of the gate, Zhao Tang stepped forward to explain his purpose, one of them went in to make an announcement, and after a while the four of them were invited in.

Except for a wooden living room facing the village, the rest of the houses in the village are mostly adobe big thatched houses, without any luxury at all.

Entering this all-wood living room, Zhao Tang looked around and saw that the decoration inside was quite simple. There was a table in front, a few chairs on both sides, and a picture of mountain snow hunting on the wall. Besides some pots and pots and odds and ends in the corner, nothing else.

At this moment, a person walked in slowly through the back door, but he was a skinny old man, he didn't have any official uniform, even Wanyan Aguda didn't have a dragon robe at this moment, let alone the officials below.

The old man wore a linen shirt, had a goatee beard, and had no expression on his face, looking gloomy and cold.

Zhao Tang sized up the old man, but Yelu Dashi had never seen this spy before, so he only said his name was Muzaha.

The old man's eyes fell on Zhao Tun, but he didn't speak.

Zhao Tong saluted hurriedly, and said, "But Uncle Muzaha is in person?"

The old man nodded slightly, and Zhao Tun hurriedly stepped forward, took out the pass and recommendation letter, and said loudly: "Uncle Muzaha, my father is Yuan Long, and I am your nephew Yuan Yi!"

The old man's eyes quickly scanned the names of the people on the road, and then he said in surprise, "You are Yuan Yi's nephew? Why did you arrive in Huining so quickly, and you thought it would be a few days later."

Zhao Tong said: "It's not that I am anxious to go to my uncle, there is nothing to clean up in the left and right families, the whole family is moving, day and night, it is more urgent."

The old man narrowed his eyes and glanced outside the door, and said, "Nephew Yuan Yi, follow me."

Zhao Tang followed immediately, and followed the old man out of the back door. About two quarters of an hour later, Zhao Tang came back holding a box, and said as he walked, "Uncle Muzaha, don't give it away anymore."

The old man behind nodded, called soldiers, and ordered Zhao Tun and others to go to Wanyan Xiyin stockade. Seeing their backs gradually disappear, he was about to turn around when a five or six-year-old boy came running from behind. Tong, come over and pull the corner of his clothes: "Grandpa, grandpa, who came just now, is daddy back?"

The old man shook his head, bent down to pick up the little boy, and walked slowly to the rear.

Zhao Tun had a secret conversation with the old man just now, and explained his current identity. As for the recommendation letter, he had rewritten it. The previous letter was just a proof that the road would not be easy to use. Taurus's name was not written at all, it was just called his nephew, and he couldn't really show it to Wanyan Xiyin.

The box in Zhao Tong's hand is actually a piece of salted deer leg, which was prepared by the old man for Zhao Tong, and asked him to give it to Wanyan Xiyin as a gift, saying that it is more valuable than gold and silver, and Gu Shen loves this thing the most.

After leaving the door, the soldiers escorted them to continue to the east, they could not live in the old man's village, if Zhao Tun was recruited by Wanyan Xiyin, he would definitely live in Gushen's village and could not live anywhere else.

The soldiers escorted them all the way, seeing that the Huining Tucheng in the distance was getting closer, and there were more villages around them, the soldiers suddenly pointed to one of them and said, "That's the residence of Dadutong."

Zhao Tong looked in the direction of his fingers, and saw that there was a big village occupying a place a little higher than the main road.

Dazhai is a fence of round wooden fences, which are tightly knotted. Zhao Tun sat on his horse and looked up at it. He could vaguely see no less than two hundred houses sprawling inside, many of which had independent courtyards. It was unknown who lived there.

Jun Ding said: "Your honored guest comes with me." The four of them followed up and arrived in front of the village in a blink of an eye. They saw that the gates of the two big villages made of rough wood were closed tightly, and there were several times more Jurchen soldiers standing guard outside than the old man's side. , all armed with knives and guns, menacing.

Wanyan Xiyin's official position at the moment is Dadu Tong of Quanxi Northwest Road, but right now there is no war in the northwest of the Kingdom of Jin, and he has been assigned to create the Jurchen script, so he has been staying in the village.

The soldiers went up to greet the Jurchen soldiers at the gate of the village, Zhao Tang took out the old man's newly written recommendation letter, and the Jurchen soldiers took it and went inside to report.

After a while, he came out and said to Zhao Tong, "You go in alone."

Zhao Tang nodded, followed the Jurchen soldiers into the gate of the village, and saw several rows of wooden houses in front of him, but they were much more heroic than the old man.

When he came to the door of the hall, Zhao Tun straightened his clothes and walked slowly in, only to see a different scene inside the hall.

Imitating the layout of the Spring and Autumn Period, the long hall is quite spacious, with eight wooden windows around it, shaded by green gauze, a long wooden couch in the innermost part, and wooden tables on both sides of the floor, behind which three people sit.

And on the couch in front, there was also a person sitting half leaning and half sitting, looking at him with piercing eyes.

(End of this chapter)