From time to time, some people would get into other people's tents and take out gold, silver, swords, guns, iron pots, salt and other items. Some would even rush into other people's tents, pick up other people's girls, and run out.
This is a day to steal, it is a day to steal!
This almost barbaric custom is still retained in the Liao Kingdom. What its purpose is, Kou Ji can't quite understand.
Several Liao people looked at Ko Ji's tent with bright eyes, but the eight guards guarding the door kept them away.
The people of the Song Dynasty were wealthy, which was a well-known fact in the Liao Kingdom.
In the eyes of the Liao people, stealing a wave of Song people's tents was far more profitable than stealing a dozen Liao people's tents.
But Kou Ji obviously had no intention of letting them steal the tent, so they could only enjoy watching Kou Ji's tent.
Kou Ji used the light of the bonfire to tidy up his clothes and walked into the cheering Liao people in front of the bonfire.
The addition of Kou Ji, a stranger, silenced the joyful Liao people. After a short silence, the Liao people continued to dance and sing around the bonfire.
Someone reached out and invited Kou Ji to join the dance.
There were also people who looked at Kou Ji with sharp eyes, as if they wanted to see through Kou Ji's purpose of joining them.
Kou Ji smiled brightly and agreed to the Liao people's invitation and danced with them.
The dance performed by the Liao people around the campfire was not complicated. Kou Ji only learned it after following them for two turns. Then he accompanied the Liao people to choose a fun one.
It wasn't until a young man from the Liao Kingdom named Agu Nie invited Kou Ji to drink wine and eat meat together that Kou Ji stopped and followed him to sit on the wool blanket next to the bonfire.
Agujie took out a jar of strong wine and two roasted lamb legs, and invited Kou Ji to eat and drink with him.
Kou Ji looked at the two roasted lamb legs, a little at a loss.
Agu opened his mouth surrounded by beards, laughed a few times, took out a small knife from his arms, and handed it to Kou Ji.
It was a small knife with a silver handle, and the handle was engraved with two characters that looked very familiar to Kou Ji.
That's Goryeo's writing.
I think this knife was captured by A Gu Nie during his campaign against Goryeo.
Agu pinched the knife he was holding. It also had two characters on it. Looking at the style of the handle, it was a style unique to the Tang Dynasty.
Seeing Kou Ji staring at the knife in his hand, Agu pinched it and handed it to Kou Ji with some reluctance, "If you like it, you can take it and use it first, but I can't give it to you."
Kou Ji took the knife from Agu Nian's hand and looked at it carefully. The words on it were a little blurry and Kou Ji couldn't see clearly. He held the knife and asked, "Is it very precious?"
Agu Nie nodded seriously and said, "This was a reward from the late Emperor when my father led the horse for him."
Kou Ji nodded slowly and said, "That's really precious."
Hearing this, Agu Nie raised his head arrogantly and said, "Of course, this is my most precious thing."
After saying this, Agu saw that Kou Ji was still fumbling with the knife, and said seriously: "If you really like it, wait until I kill a few more enemies on the battlefield and use their heads to give them to you from His Majesty's hand.
Change the handle. I heard that Your Majesty still has three identical handles in his hand.
This knife was obtained by my father, not by me, and I cannot give it to you."
Kou Ji raised the knife in his hand and laughed in a low voice: "I am very happy to have your intention. But I will not covet your knife, because I can make a better one."
Agu Nie was a little surprised when he heard this, "Can you make a better knife than this knife?"
Kou Ji nodded seriously.
Agu Nie was overjoyed when he heard this. He hurriedly chased Kou Ji and asked, "Can you also make a long sword?"
Kou Ji laughed softly: "Of course..."
Agu grinned and said, "Tomorrow... no, no, no, the day after tomorrow, can I go find you."
He originally wanted to find Kou Ji tomorrow.
However, Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty was going to go hunting tomorrow, and he had to accompany him, so he had to change the time to the day after tomorrow.
"sure……"
"Very good."
"..."
I learned that Kou Ji can make knives, and they are good knives.
Agu Nie became even more enthusiastic.
He also summoned other friends and introduced Kou Ji to them.
Agu Nie had no doubt at all whether Kou Ji could make a knife.
As a Liao person, a traditional Liao person, he was used to hearing people tell the truth and telling the truth, so he took everything Kou Ji said as the truth.
With Agu Nie's introduction, more and more Liao people knew that Kou Ji could make knives and make good knives.
They climbed up to Kou Ji and invited him to drink and eat meat with him.
Liao people are very obsessed with knives.
Even though they have countless good knives in their home, they still want more knives.
In their hearts, the knife is the source of their sense of security.
Therefore, Kou Ji, a person who can make good knives, naturally became the target of their pursuit.
Kou Ji stayed with them until late at night, then drunkenly walked to his tent.
When I walked to the tent door, I fell to the ground.
He drank a little too much.
The guards guarding the entrance of the tent were about to go up and help him up when a figure who had been silently paying attention to Kou Ji quietly appeared in front of Kou Ji, picked him up, and helped him into the tent.
After placing Kou Ji in place.
She stared at Kou Ji's face with a complicated expression.
She has no love or hatred for Kou Ji, only a little bit of guilt.
It was not her original intention to plot against Kou Ji, but after she plotted against Kou Ji, she still felt guilty in her heart.
"sorry……"
She covered Kou Ji with the quilt, whispered something, and quietly left the tent.
The next day.
early morning.
Kou Ji slowly woke up amidst the noise and rubbed his head. Kou Ji opened the tent and took a look. He saw Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty wearing a military uniform and leading thousands of troops from Kou Ji's tent.
Walk away in a hurry.
This is for hunting.
Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty sent someone to bring him a message yesterday, inviting him to go hunting with him today.
But today no one was sent to call him.
It seemed that he had forgotten about him and the agreement to invite him to hunt together.
Kou Ji didn't care about this.
The emperor is like this. When he wants you to use you, he will pamper you at the top of his heart; when he doesn't want you to use you, he won't even look at you.
After Kou Ji washed up, simply ate something, and then started wandering around the camp.
With his status as a foreign envoy, he wandered around the camp, and not many people gave him trouble.
Spent a day wandering around the campground.
Kou Ji carefully understood the weapons commonly used by the Liao people.
Believe in tomorrow.
Agu Nie would bring a large number of people to him to make swords, guns, swords and halberds. He needed to have a good understanding of the Liao people's habits of using weapons, and then create a weapon that would satisfy the Liao people.
What his purpose is, only he himself knows.
Time passed by and it was evening.
Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty returned home with his troops fully laden.
All kinds of wild birds and wild beasts were pulled into the camp one by one.
I heard that someone hunted a black bear and was rewarded by Emperor Yelu Longxu of Liao Dynasty.
After Kou Ji heard the news, he wanted to meet this brave bear hunter.
But he knew that Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu didn't want to see him, so he didn't join in the fun.
After nightfall, the bonfire in the camp was lit again.
The Liao people roasted the prey they caught during the day and once again celebrated with singing and dancing.
But Kou Ji stayed in the tent and did not go out.
"who?"
"I'm looking for brother Kou Ji."
"..."
Kou Ji didn't want to go out, but someone came to the door.
Ko Ji heard a familiar voice and slowly walked out of the tent.
Then he saw Agu holding a bear skin and looking at him with a warm smile on his face.
Kou Ji said unexpectedly: "You are the one who hunted a black bear?"
Agu smiled brightly and thrust the bearskin and a knife he had just pulled off into Koji's hands.
"for you!"
Kou Ji was holding the bear skin and the knife, slightly dazed.
Agu said with a bright smile: "I hunted a bear today and was rewarded by your majesty. I asked your majesty for a small knife for you."
Kou Ji held the bear skin and the knife tightly, and said seriously: "That bear, you should present it to His Majesty the Emperor of Liao Kingdom, right? What about this bear skin?"
Agu said with a smile: "I told Your Majesty when I presented the black bear to Your Majesty that the bear skin would be given to you."
Kou Ji hugged the bear skin and was a little speechless.
This kind of approach would definitely be classified as ignorant in the Song Dynasty, and what would eventually fall on him would be suppression, in addition to suppression.
In the Liao Kingdom, although it was not as serious, it was still disliked by the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu.
Is Agu stupid?
Agu is not stupid.
When Kou Ji talked to him last night, he knew that he was not a fool or a reckless man.
He knew that this move would displease Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu, but he still did it.
This kind of heart-wrenching way of making friends made Kou Ji a little uncomfortable.
Agu saw Koo Ji hugging the bear skin and not saying anything, so he smiled and said: "We are brothers now, right?"
Kou Ji nodded stiffly.
Agu Nie burst out laughing. He stepped forward, patted Kou Ji on the shoulder and said, "When you make a good knife in the future, I can take it out to show off to the tribe. This is a knife made by my Agu Nie brother."
.
No one else’s knives can match it.”
Kou Ji smiled, and when he smelled the faint smell of blood on Agu Nian, he frowned and said, "Are you injured?"
Agu Nian nodded seriously and said: "When I was hunting a bear during the day, I was scratched by it."
Kou Ji hesitated for a moment and said, "Follow me to the tent, and I'll help you take a look."
Agu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you still understand medicine?"
Kou Ji nodded.
Agu waved his hands and said: "I didn't expect you to go to the doctor, but you don't have to treat my injuries. When I came, I had already seen the witch doctor in the clan."
The corner of Kou Ji's mouth twitched.
But most of the doctors who are "witchcraft" are some miraculous things. Not only can they not cure people's diseases, but they may even kill them.
"I'd better take a look at it for you."
After saying this, without waiting for Agu Nie to refuse, he pulled Agu Nie into the tent.
Kou Ji threw down the bearskin and knife and asked Agu to take off his clothes.
Agu Nie knew that Kou Ji was concerned about him and that Kou Ji was planning to help him, so he took off his coat without refusing.
Koji saw a deep claw mark on his back.
There was a layer of grass ash sprinkled on top, and traces of blood mixed with the grass ash were seeping out.
Using grass ashes as medicine is probably a witch doctor's method.
Kou Ji asked Agu to sit down in the tent. He left the tent and ordered the guards outside the tent to get a jar of pear blossom white and several bottles of wound medicine.
After the guards brought the things, he carefully cleaned Agu's wound and began to apply medicine.
Agu Nian seemed to be used to being beaten by grass ashes, but he was a little unaccustomed to Kou Ji using wine to clean his wounds and applying gold sore medicine to them.
Finished applying the medicine.
Kou Ji chatted with Agu Nie for a while, and the two of them drank the remaining pear blossom white from cleaning the wound.
Then, Agu beat his chest and left.
Kou Ji kept carrying Agu Nian to the entrance of the tent, looked at Agu Nian's back, and sighed: "Don't be too nice to me. Be too nice to me. When I cheat you, you will easily feel guilty."
After getting to know Agu Nie, Kou Ji had a new understanding of the Liao people.
The nobles of the Liao Kingdom were undoubtedly cunning and ruthless, and the best among them was the Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu.
The people of the Liao Kingdom were simple and honest, so simple that Kou Ji had nothing to say.
Returned to the tent.
Kou Ji put away the bearskin and knife, lay on the bed, and quietly waited for the next day.
The night passed by in a flash.
The next day.
Early in the morning.
Agu Nie is here.
He took Koji to a temporary blacksmith workshop in the camp.
The owner of the workshop was a small official from the Liao Kingdom, and he had no objection to Kou Ji, Agu Nie and others wanting to use the blacksmith workshop.
After just reminding you of some things to pay attention to, I left.
After the clerks in the blacksmith workshop left, Agu Ni's brothers came out from all directions.
Carrying broken iron knives, iron pots, and iron helmets, they approached Kou Ji.
In the Liao Kingdom, to build things, you needed to prepare your own iron materials.
Although they are all members of the Pishi Army, in addition to the ordnance distributed by the Pishi Army as usual, if they want to build other ordnance, they need to prepare their own iron materials.
It’s not that the Liao Kingdom is short of iron now.
After many years of support from the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom now does not lack iron.
Building your own things and preparing your own iron materials was a habit developed in the early days of the Liao Kingdom when it was short of iron.
Kou Ji briefly checked the things in the workshop and found that everything he wanted to use was available in the workshop.
After all, it was a blacksmith workshop accompanying the Liao army, not a private workshop, so they were fully equipped with everything they should be equipped with.
Some of the special tools that Koji needs to use can also be made from existing items in the workshop.
After Kou Ji got into the blacksmith's workshop, he never came out again.
Except for Agu Nie, the rest of the Liao people put down the iron materials and left.
Agu Nie stayed in the workshop and helped Kou Ji.
Kou Ji spent the whole day making tools in the workshop.
In the middle of the trip, I also went out to get some horse urine.
It was not until evening that Koji began to forge iron.