People who can truly live and die together don't need to ally with blood. Brothers of life and death gathered through blood alliance are the easiest to betray. No one cares about the few drops of blood they have shed, and no one will think that they have drank blood.
Drinkers are brothers in life and death.
However, everyone needs such a ritual to strengthen their psychological comfort, or to anesthetize themselves. As for what kind of tragic things will happen in the future, we will talk about it later.
The first island that Yun Er wanted was not a dilapidated island like Hailu Island, but a place like Changshan Island. He wanted to find a suitable place to stay before the Yun family began to conquer the ocean on a large scale.
land.
Mr. Yun Da said that the Changshan Islands were the most suitable place, but Yun Er always felt that those islands were too small. Mr. Yun Da said that it was because Yun Er had a big heart...
The power of benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom, and trust is not as powerful as a fist, and it was once again verified on Hailu Island...
With Boss Yan and others, Yun Er had no choice but to be a poet. Evil comes from below and kindness comes from above. Boss Yan believed that evil things such as killing people and seizing power should be done by them. He waited until Shi Zhongxin transported the supplies.
It's time for Yun Er to take action.
Hailu Island is located at the easternmost point of the Song Dynasty. The geography here is very important. When the Yun family's fleet sets out from Changshan Island to go south in the future, it should be an important supply location.
Building this island is also a very important thing, but the most important thing at the moment is to add sand to the island. It is impossible for the Yun family to hand over the built island to outsiders.
Half a month later, the Shi family's follow-up fleet arrived at Hailu Island. Yun Er deliberately downplayed the storm. He didn't want his eldest brother to know that he had already died once.
The shopkeeper of the Shi family obviously didn't care about Yun Er falling into the water. What attracted his attention was this inconspicuous island. There was a small lake on the small Hailu Island. In their opinion, this
It is a gift from God.
Yun Da's letter didn't say anything. He just told Yun Er that the matter was not urgent. The Song Dynasty was now in a quagmire and would not have time to take care of Yanyun Sixteen States for a while. But once the war started, it would not be a matter of time and a half.
The meeting will be over. Only by completely defeating the military power of the Liao Kingdom can the Song Dynasty truly occupy the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun. Otherwise, this area will be the battlefield between the Song and Liao countries. It would be bad if a tug-of-war breaks out.
Because this kind of scene is what Xixia people like to see the most.
Qin Guo's letter made Yun Er's nose sore, so he quickly folded the letter and put it in his arms. It would be best to read it while lying in bed at night, so as not to make a grown man laugh with tears streaming down his face.
The Qin State begged him to go back before the child was born. After careful consideration, Yun Er found that he could not do it. The battle to seize the island had already begun, and there was no way to stop. For the first time, he felt that he owed the Qin State, so he started from his own
He cut off a lock of hair from his head and put it in an envelope along with a letter he wrote, asking the Shi family to send someone to deliver it to Doushaguan.
Shi Zhongxin's supplies arrived at just the right time. The panicked islanders finally calmed down after seeing the mountains of supplies. Just as Mr. Yan said, after Yun Er personally presided over the awarding ceremony, Hailu Island
The people above finally recognized Yun Er as the master.
Winter arrived as promised, and Yun'er led a fleet of six giant boats to Liaodong. In December, Liaodong was already covered in heavy snow, and there were already shadows of sea ice near the coast. If the fleet was still half late,
By the end of the month, it would be impossible for the fleet to get close to the coastline. Once the big ship is surrounded by sea ice, the only fate of the big ship is to be crushed by the sea ice.
Starting from Hailu Island, the fleet drove hard for half a month before slowly approaching Liaoyang Prefecture in the Liao Kingdom. Changshan Island is on the sea near Liaoyang Prefecture.
Yun Er did not approach Liaoyang Mansion rashly and lowered the sails and anchors on the first island they encountered. The situation on Changshan Island was very complicated. It was basically the nest of pirates, criminals of Liao Kingdom, and Jurchens.
Barbarians, pirates from Goryeo, refugees from the Song Dynasty, and merchants from various countries almost formed a country here that was not governed by any force.
Just the slightest touch will attract the intervention of the Liao Kingdom and the Koryo Kingdom. The Liao Kingdom established a state capital at the southernmost tip of Liaoyang Prefecture, named Suzhou. Unlike Suzhou in the Song Dynasty, the city lord here was named Sulla Hague.
He named the city after the first syllable of his name.
Sura Hague was not a Khitan, he was a descendant of Da Zuorong, the leader of Sumo. Yun Da once discussed this person with Yun Er. They agreed that this person was very ambitious. Judging from the various messages sent back by the caravan,
, this person is likely to have the ambition to rebuild the Bohai Kingdom.
The birth of a country is often related to the decline of another country. The reason why Da Zuorong, the leader of Su Mo, was able to establish the Bohai Kingdom and pass it down to fifteen generations for more than 200 years is related to the military decline of the former Tang Dynasty in Liaodong.
In the first year of Long Live Tongtian in the Tang Dynasty, Khitan leader Li Jinzhong and others killed Zhao Wenhui, the governor of Yingzhou, and rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, which provided the new nobles of Mohe in Sumo with an opportunity to establish national power.
This incident occurred mainly because Zhao Wenhui and others, relying on their power, exploited and oppressed the ethnic minorities in the Northeast more and more, which aroused great dissatisfaction among the people of all ethnic groups. Li Jinzhong and others took the opportunity to start an uprising. People living in Yingzhou
The Sumo Mohe people joined the anti-Tang movement.
After the incident, Wu Zetian sent Cao Renshi to lead the army to suppress it. Da Zuorong's father Qiqi Zhongxiang and another leader Qiqi Biyu led their troops to cross the Liao River and fled eastward.
In order to disintegrate the anti-Tang alliance of the northeastern ethnic minorities, the Tang Dynasty carried out military encirclement and suppression of the Khitan. At the same time, it adopted a policy of appeasement of Sumo Mohe, and named Qiqi Sibiyu the Duke of Xu, and Qiqi Zhongxiang the title of Duke Zhenguo. Qiqi Sibi
Yu did not believe that the Tang Dynasty was sincere and refused to accept the order. As a result, he was killed by the Tang Dynasty's pursuing troops.
At this time, Zhongxiang, a beggar, died of illness while running. Da Zuorong took the place of his father and led his troops to continue fleeing eastward. Wu Zetian sent Khitan general Li Kaigu to attack and pursue him. In September of the fourth year of Tongtian, the Tang army pursued Da Zuorong to Tianmen.
At the ridge, Da Zuorong, who was good at using troops, took advantage of the complex terrain of Tianmen Ridge, combined with the troops of Goryeo and Mohe, and defeated the Tang army. Li Kaigu only returned with his own body.
In the first year of Tang Shengli, the Turks invaded Guizhou, Tanzhou, Dingzhou, Zhaozhou and other places in the Tang Dynasty. The Khitan and Xi attached themselves to the Turks, so the road from the Central Plains to the northeast was blocked. Zuorong sized up the situation and established Mohe in today's Aodong City.
He created his own surname "Da" with the honorific title "Da". Wu Zetian named his father "Zhen Guo" as the Duke of Zhen Guo, and the "Zhen Guo" was known as "Dazhen Guo" to the outside world and called himself King Zhen. This created the predecessor of Bohai State.
The reason why Sulla Hague was able to get an opportunity to build a city as the leader of the slave chieftains was related to the decline of the Liao Kingdom's military power.
Song and Liao fought for half a year on the front line from Hebei to Yanmen Pass, suffering heavy losses. Later, they were defeated again by Wu Zangyoupang in the Daheishan area. As a result, the Liao army was stretched thin and had to stop the battle to suppress various tribes in the northeast.
His troops were tightly withdrawn around several capital cities, and a large part of them needed to guard Yelu Xin.
Only then did he have to use the leader of the slave chieftain army to stabilize his border defense.
Sulla Hague can be regarded as a great man of his generation. After he established the city of Suzhou, he recruited troops on a large scale. Regardless of tribe or race, as long as they were talented people, they were within his recruitment scope. However, he still did not dare to offend Liao easily.
After entering the country, he put all the people he recruited on some islands in the nearby sea, quietly waiting for his own time to come.
Liaodong was once again prosperous because of the presence of Sulla Hague, and the best business among them was the sale of weapons. I heard that Sulla Hague offered to buy the Song Dynasty's new weapons at a mouth-watering price.
Gunpowder, so much so that when Di Qing heard about it, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "If it is not related to military and state affairs, there is no harm in selling him some gunpowder."
Gunpowder is an ineffective thing. This does not mean that storing too much is a good thing. The main reason is that it is very troublesome to store. Over time, gunpowder will get damp and its effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
Under the advice of Yun Zheng and Di Qing, the Song Dynasty adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards Sulla Hague. Pang Ji, Han Qi and others also had a happy attitude toward Sulla Hague's establishment of the Bohai State.
Therefore, it did not prevent merchants from the Song Dynasty from doing some transactions with him.
Even the ironware that the Song Dynasty had always strictly controlled did not make special regulations when facing Sulla Hague. Therefore, in Suzhou City and even on nearby islands, merchants of the Song Dynasty were always welcome.
Yun Er's identity this time is that of the nephew of a wealthy merchant from the Song Dynasty. The goods he brought happened to be the highest quality weapons and a small amount of gunpowder from the Song Dynasty. He wanted to use these things as a stepping stone to knock on the door of Liaodong and go there in person.
Let's see if there is any opportunity on the Changshan Islands for the Yun family to settle down and make a living.
The shopkeeper of the Yun family who specializes in Liaodong business is named Sun. He used to be the deputy of the second housekeeper of the Yun family, Lao Zhao. He has been running the Liaodong business for the Yun family for many years and is now considered one of the core shopkeepers of the Yun family.
All the power of the Yun family in Liaodong was controlled by him. After Yun Er came over, he handed over his control and resumed his role as Yun Er's deputy.
"Second Young Master, our business in Liaodong does not carry the Wenxinhou Mansion sign, so except for the shopkeeper of the Shi family who knows the identity of you and the old slave, no one else has any way of knowing.
Nowadays, Sulla Hague is eager to expand its power and has almost reached the point where it is almost hungry. The ordnance brought by the old slave that has been eliminated from the army will definitely be swallowed by Sulla Hague. As for the gunpowder you personally brought, you
You will definitely be a distinguished guest at Sura The Hague.”
Yun Er smiled and said: "Who doesn't want gunpowder in the Song Dynasty? The Emperor of Liao, the Prime Minister of Xixia, and the Emperor of Goryeo, who would not covet it, use gunpowder to bait Sulla Hague, even if it is poisonous, he will swallow it