Time flies, and it has been three years since Yang Lin ascended the throne as emperor.
In the third year of Daxia and Chongming Dynasties, Yang Lin ordered the capital to be moved to New City and renamed it Longcheng.
In three years, this originally barren borderland became prosperous.
However, unlike Bianliang in the Song Dynasty, there seemed to be no less than a dozen such prosperous towns in the Xia Dynasty at this time.
Even Bianliang, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Jinling and other places still have it.
In the Dragon City, the imperial palace is very grand. It has an inner forbidden area and an outer imperial city, a bright hall, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the government offices of the six ministries are all located in the imperial city.
On a lake on the outskirts of the city, a fence was pulled up, and it looked like wealthy families were outing and having fun here.
One of them was a man with a graceful bearing, his face was like a crown jewel, his brows were handsome, and when he looked around, he had the air of someone who had been in a high position for a long time.
He was holding a pamphlet in his hand, reading it with gusto and being fascinated by it.
This is the most popular book on the market recently, called "The Soul-Seducing Bell", which specifically explains the beauty of women in the world.
A beautiful face looks like a peach blossom, which is pleasing to the eye;
A beautiful hand is like a willow, delicate and soft in every detail;
A beautiful woman's feet are like Magatama, possessing a thousand wonderful qualities;
...
The more Yang Lin read, the more interesting the book became. Moreover, the descriptions contained many unheard-of gameplay methods that made people curious and eager to try it.
Next to him was a beautiful woman with a delicate face and slim figure. She smiled knowingly at him from time to time, and was very curious in her heart.
This girl is none other than Liu Yao, the concubine of the two dynasties. Now is the time when a woman’s style and appearance are at their most mature and beautiful. She can be described as charming and charming.
Little Concubine Liu moved her delicate body little by little, leaning towards Yang Lin, and opened her eyes wide.
She quietly came to Yang Lin's side and saw only one sentence in the book: "If it is the fine magatama, delicate and delicate, it must be seen from the palm of the hand. It is as soft as boneless, and the closer you are, the more resistant it is to being touched." She immediately screamed.
With a cry, Pink Fist hit Yang Lin's arm and said shyly: "What kind of bad book are you reading?"
Yang Lin disagreed and said seriously: "This is an excellent book, how can it be a bad book?"
“Can a good book write these unseemly things?”
Yang Lin sighed: "The human heart is so unbearable. It is obviously a beautiful thing that all living things yearn for. It is like a flower blooming and the rain hanging on the rainbow bridge. It is a wonderful and beautiful place, but you want to forcefully describe it as dirty.
If you are not allowed to speak or write, then that is really dirty and serious."
"Oh, the more you talk, the more angry you become. When will people's hearts become clear?"
"If such a good book is not allowed to be read after it is written, how can the author of this book be embarrassed? What's more, if he is ridiculed and suppressed, then he still has nothing to say."
After all, Little Concubine Liu is not a person like Yang Lin who has emerged from the mud and is untainted. She does not have his lofty ideological realm where the whole world is drunk but I am alone. If she falls into the cliché, she has no choice but to scream and run away in shame.
Yang Lin didn't care much and said in a dreamy voice: "Good book, good book. In my opinion, this book is no worse than the Analects of Confucius!"
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Yang Lin took Concubine Liu to the outskirts of Longcheng for a spring outing. Not long after they came out, Lu Wang, the commander of the palace guards, came looking for her.
After Lu Wang found Yang Lin who was studying hard, he clasped his fists and said, "Guan family, there are people from the Liao Dynasty from the west who have sent envoys, saying they want to meet with Guan family."
"Yelu Dashi is ready to make some moves recently. His business in the West is prosperous. Maybe he has forgotten his past embarrassment and came to show off his wealth to his old friends?"
Lu Wang was stunned on the spot and asked: "Guan family, are you seeing me or not?"
Yang Lin smiled and said: "Let them come here, I will summon the Liao envoy here."
After a while, the envoy from the Liao people arrived with several deputy envoys. Yang Lin saw that they were all old acquaintances.
The leader was none other than Yu Shinan, who opened a polo league in Bianliang and prospered under the management of Gao Bian.
Nowadays, there are horse breeding fields everywhere in Daxia, and there is one horse for every twenty households. This is a grand situation that has never happened in the past dynasties.
What followed was the rise of polo, and Yang Lin was happy to see spontaneous equestrian training among the people.
Once there is a war, this is the best source of troops, and he and Cai Jing have been committed to improving the physical fitness and cultural quality of the people of Daxia.
Yu Shinan stepped forward with a somewhat complicated look. He looked at Yang Lin and finally bowed: "The foreign envoy has met His Majesty the Emperor of Daxia."
Yang Lin smiled and said: "Come on, let's say goodbye to Bianliang, but we haven't seen each other for several years. The former Khitan general is now able to act alone and go on a mission to a big country."
Yu Shinan felt bitter in his heart. In fact, they were not reused in Daliao.
After all, the Liao Emperor had a problem with them, and he looked down on these young men from the bottom of his heart. Yelu Dashi always believed that they were bewitched by the Song people and assassinated the Jin envoys, which cost Daliao the final preparation time.
The reason why we go to such great lengths to get these people back is to allow them to balance the westward-moving faction in the DPRK.
Today's Daliao has occupied the entire territory of the old Dashi, Persia, and Byzantium. Although its territory is not as large as that of the Khitan in its heyday, it is not far behind.
He has countless soldiers and horses under his command, and he has endless money in his hands.
Some ministers in the court also gradually had the idea of going eastward. In their opinion, their Liao Kingdom was already the strongest empire in the world.
As a result, the status of Yu Shinan and others became less and less valued.
However, Yelu Dashi, who had been reading intelligence from the Central Plains every day for several years, gradually cooled down on Dongjin.
Daxia... is no longer the Song Dynasty it used to be. The background of this behemoth is unfathomable.
Despite Daxia's current disarmament, there are less than 800,000 fighting men in the country, but he can easily recruit two million soldiers and horses!
What's even more terrifying is its money, food, supplies, weapons, armor... and all kinds of new weapons, which are even more daunting.
After careful consideration, Yelu Dashi sent these people who had lived in Daxia for ten years as envoys to Daxia this time.
They were sworn brothers with Bai Shizhong, the chief prime minister of Daxia, and Gao Bing, the powerful minister, and they once competed in the famous polo league.
Yu Shinan stepped forward bravely and said: "Guan family, our emperor sent foreign ministers and others here this time because he wants the two countries to open up broader mutual markets and exchanges in the Western Regions."
"We, Daliao, hope that both countries will cancel border crossing taxes, and then allow Daliao to send hundreds of people to study at Longcheng College in Song Dynasty."
Yang Lin rolled his eyelids, pondered for a moment, and then said immediately: "Okay, you can discuss the specific details with Bai Shizhong."
A prosperous nation opens its doors to you and allows you to learn.
As long as we find the right direction and don't go in the wrong direction, other ethnic groups will have no chance to catch up.
After all, what you learn is only the surface, not the core.
If Yelu Dashi has no intention of advancing eastward, he does not want to drag the empire into the quagmire of war for the time being.
Because the gap between the two countries is widening at a speed that is visible to the naked eye. In a few years, they will not have the strength to fight.
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