Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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Ximen Qing took a closer look, and saw that Wanyan Gouying was only in his twenties, but he already had the demeanor of a calm general, so he couldn't help but admire from the bottom of his heart that the tiger father has no dogs.

Sitting on Wanyan Yinshuke's right hand is Wanyan Maji, who is the brother of Wanyan Yinshuke's mother.

Sitting on Wanyan Maji's right is Wanyan Ba ​​Lisu, who is Wanyan Yinshuke's half brother.

Wanyan Maji and Wanyan Balisu are both burly Jurchen warriors.

Jurchens' feasts are different from those of the Han people. When they drink, they use a large wooden spoon to fill the wine. After the host takes a sip, it is passed to the guests one by one, and everyone takes a sip.

Maybe it's a custom for them to have a good time with both host and guest regardless of high or low!Drinking a spoonful of wine together is indeed a way to harmonize feelings.

Ximenqing went to the countryside to do as the Romans do, and had a drink with the Jurchen generals.

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Ximen Qing followed the envoys of the Kingdom of Jin and Ma Zheng and his son to have a drink at the mansion of Wanyan Yinshuke, the guard of Ningjiang Prefecture. They drank in a wooden spoon with the generals of Wanyan Yinshuke's clan. harmony.

Wanyan Yinshuke and the others heard that Ximen Qing had crossed the sea to the Kingdom of Jin to do business, so they curiously asked Ximen Qing what good goods they had brought from the Kingdom of Song this time.

Ximen Qing told Wanyan Yinshuke and the others that he had brought a large number of books from the Central Plains and planned to sell them in the Dajin Kingdom.Ximen Qing also told Wanyan Yinshuke and the others that if they liked it, he could give them each a set of classic books from the Han Chinese in the Central Plains.

Wanyan Yinshu was amazing, he laughed, and told Ximen Qing that he didn't know a single Chinese character, so he didn't need these books.Wanyan Maji and Wanyan Ba ​​Lisu are the same as themselves, they only go into battle to kill the enemy.Only my son Wanyan Gouying was still young, so he could accept a set of books, and in the future he would ask a Liaodong Han or Bohai native to teach him.

It seems that for Wanyan Yinshu, these old guys can't use the trick of giving culture!We can only Sinicize their next generation first.Ximen Qing asked his subordinates to go out and fetch dozens of classic Chinese books and gave them to Wanyan Yuying.

After receiving Ximen Qing's precious gift, Wanyan Kuoying immediately expressed that she would give Ximen Qing a good horse in return.

Now that cultural corruption doesn't work, Ximen Qing had to use the second trick.He can tell Wanyan Yinshu that his family produces some fine wines that are hard to find in the world, and he brought some here this time, so he will invite all the generals to taste it today.Ximen Qing said in his heart, Wanyan Yinshu can wait for a rough person not to read books, but to drink!After making them addicted to the high-grade liquor they brewed, they are afraid that they won't be able to make a lot of money, so it's better to drink them and get drunk again?

Sure enough, as Ximen Qing expected, after hearing that Ximen Qing had good wine, Wanyan Yinshuke, Wanyan Maji, and Wanyan Balisu all stared strangely, asking Ximen Qing to quickly bring the wine to the table Come.

Ximen Qing smiled and ordered his subordinates to bring up three altars of fine wine, filled a spoonful of wine with a wooden spoon, and handed it to Wanyan Yinshuke who was already gearing up.

After Wanyan Yinshu took a sip of the wine, he was taken aback and exclaimed: "Good wine! Very strong wine!" He hurriedly handed the wooden spoons to Wanyan Maji and Wanyan Balisu who came over.After Wanyan Maji and Wanyan Balisu impatiently took a sip each, they were also full of praise.

Seeing the appearance of the three of them, Wanyan Gouying, Li Shanqing, Sandu, Boda and others all tasted Ximenqing's newly opened fine wine.After tasting, everyone sighed and said that after drinking Ximenqing's wine, drinking other wines seemed to be mixed with water, and the taste was bland.

Sandu even blamed Ximen Qing for not bringing out such a good wine earlier for everyone to enjoy with a look of resentment.If he had known that Ximen Qingyun's wine was so different, he would have bought dozens of jars from Ximenqing and kept it at home when he was on Hosuguan Road.

Ximenqing promised to bring wine from Dengzhou next time, and distribute it to Sandu first, and then let the Jurchens shut up contentedly.

After Sandu got Ximen Qing's promise, Wanyan Yinshuke and other Jurchen generals at the banquet offered to buy Ximen Qing's fine wine, and even Li Shanqing from Bohai joined the team to buy wine.

Ximen Qing had no choice but to apologize to everyone in the Kingdom of Jin that he didn't bring much wine this time, so he could only sell ten jars of wine to each person first, and the rest of the wine would be brought to Huining City in Shangjing for people to taste.If everyone likes the wine brewed by their own family, after returning to the Great Song Dynasty, they will immediately arrange for people to send a few more boats to the Great Jin Kingdom.

Although he knew that Ximen Qing was here to do business, Ma Zheng was quite surprised to see that the goods Ximen Qing brought were so sought after by everyone.It was only after he took a sip of the wine brought by Ximen Qing that he realized the truth.

Liaodong is a place of bitter cold, and the high-alcohol baijiu brought by Ximenqing is undoubtedly much stronger than other liquors, which just suits the temper of the Liaodong people.Perhaps Ximenqing's wine may not be popular in Bianliang, Tokyo or places with many literati in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is absolutely difficult for people in Liaodong to refuse such spirits.

The official Ximen Qing came here to sell wine in Liaodong, it really is a good business!But why did he come here to sell books in this humble place?Ma Zheng suddenly became clueless again.

Ma Kuo once drank this kind of fine wine brewed by Ximen Qing in Ximen Fort, so he was not surprised by the reaction of everyone in the Kingdom of Jin.Brother Ximen can undoubtedly establish a long-term relationship with the nobles of the Jin Kingdom through his exclusive possession of this fine wine, which makes Ma Kuo admire him.Ma Kuo thought to himself, if he wants to make great achievements in the relationship with the Jurchens in the future, maybe he needs the great assistance of this brother Ximen!

After Ximen Qing successfully sold a lot of good wine, he generously told Wanyan Yinshuke and others that he would provide the rest of the wine for free during the feast today, and hoped that everyone would not get drunk and return home.

After hearing Ximen Qing's words, Wanyan Yinshu suddenly yelled at the Jurchen warriors waiting outside the door: "Come on! Bring up the chains and lock them up for me!"

The Jurchen warriors outside the gate yelled in unison in response, and then, a group of Jurchen warriors rushed in, holding iron chains and ropes, and rushed towards the banquet.

Seeing Jiao Ting, he rolled his strange eyes and was about to explode, but Ximen Qing quietly stopped him.Although the incident happened suddenly, Ximen Qing knew it well, he didn't show any flaws at this time, instead he had a happy chat with Wanyan Yinshu and others, predicting that Wanyan Yinshu would not be harmful to him.

Sure enough, after the Jurchen warriors rushed forward, they did not touch Ximen Qing, Jiao Ting and the others, but tied the feet of Wanyan Maji and Wanyan Balisu with ropes, and tied them together. Their sabers were taken away.Putting himself in Wanyan Yinshu himself, he even locked his whole body with iron chains, leaving only one hand for eating meat and drinking.After binding the three of them, the Jurchen warriors took away all the weapons from the banquet and hid them, and guarded behind Wanyan Yinshu and the three of them carefully to serve them.

Seeing that Ximen Qing, Ma Zheng and other people from the Song Dynasty were puzzled, Wanyan Yuying, Li Shanqing, Sandu, and Boda smiled wryly and were about to explain, Wanyan Yinshu Ke first laughed and said: "Dear guests, don't take offense! The three brothers were born addicted to alcohol, and they like to act recklessly when drunk, and even kill people after drinking. People in the tribe will tie up the three of my brothers after they get drunk, and wait for me to wake up. Today The wine brought by Brother Ximenqing is too strong, I was afraid that I would hurt the honored guest after getting drunk, so I had the three of my brothers tied up first, so that I can drink as much as I want, hahaha~"

There are such drunkards in the world!Ximen Qing and the others were amazed for a moment.When Boda told Ximen Qing and others that many of the Jurchens were the same as Wanyan Yinshuke brothers when they were drunk, and he and Sandu were appointed as envoys to the Song Dynasty precisely because they would not mess around after drinking. At the time of the courtier, Ximen Qing was completely speechless.

From this point of view, Ximenbao's brewery has to expand its scale!No, a new winemaking workshop should be built directly in Ximenzhuang, Dengzhou!

Chapter 441 The Simple Capital

Before the three Wanyan Yinshuke brothers were completely drunk, Wanyan Guoying finished the banquet and sent Ximen Qing and the envoys of the two countries out of the mansion.In the end, Ximen Qing still failed to see how violent Wanyan Yinshu Ke, who needed to be bound with iron chains, could be drunk.

After a day's rest in Ningjiang Prefecture, Wanyan Yuying sent troops to escort the envoys across the Lailiu River and Pressuhu River to the northwest, and arrived at Huining City in Shangjing under Hukai Mountain.

The Jurchen Wanyan tribe has lived in the Yinchuhushui River for generations. After Wanyan Aguda led his tribe to fight against the Liao Dynasty and found the country, they made their capital in Huining Prefecture on Shangjing Road.

After arriving at the so-called capital city of the Great Jin Kingdom, Ximen Qingfang was surprised to find that there was no tall city wall here, but only villages surrounded by wooden fences, separated from each other and scattered in scattered places.

According to the different Jurchen nobles living in the villages, these villages are called Emperor's Village, Guoxiang Village, Prince's Village, etc.The villages are only connected by dirt roads made by people stepping on horses. No matter the emperor, the nobles of the country, or the tribal civilians on the road, they all come and go, regardless of high or low.

Walking in the "capital" of the Dajin Kingdom, perhaps inadvertently, the rough man passing by on horseback, or the person sitting on the grass outside the wooden fence of the stockade eating wine and singing, will be the future Dajin Kingdom. Wang Baixiang's big shot.

This place is so primitive and simple!

Because they were all villages one by one, the envoys also set up camp on the outskirts by themselves, leaving behind Ximen Qing and his party.Li Shanqing, Sandu, and Boda, envoys of the Kingdom of Jin, took the Song officials Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing who sent them back to the emperor's village to report to Wanyan Aguda.

Ximen Qing, Jiao Ting, and Ma Kuo had nothing to do, so they got out of their tents and wandered around, looking at the crude capital curiously.

I saw that although the buildings in Huining City were simple and crude, the Jurchens who came and went stood tall, full of energy, and sharp eyes, showing a kind of vitality from their bodies.

Recalling the prosperous and luxurious scenes he had seen in Bianliang City in Tokyo, Ximenqing had to admit that compared with the young and enterprising Jin Kingdom, Song Dynasty was old and decayed.If you want to come to Khitan and Liao Kingdom, which was established earlier than the Song Dynasty, it is also depressed!

In this era, the Jurchens of the Kingdom of Jin were able to sweep the Liao and Song Dynasties and look down on the world, and there is a reason for it!

Not long after wandering among the various villages, the three of Ximen Qing saw that the Jurchens around them were rushing in the direction of the emperor's village. From their mouths, they learned that the execution was going to be carried out outside the emperor's village, and everyone was ordered to go and watch.

The three of Ximen Qing also followed the Jurchens with four braids behind their heads to the Emperor's Village.Want to see what happened.

Arriving at the foot of the small hill in Emperor's Village, Jiao Ting suddenly said, "Isn't that Boda? Why was he escorted out?"

Ximen Qing raised his eyes and saw that it was indeed Boda who was escorted out of the emperor's village with his upper body naked, and stood outside the wooden fence with his back turned to the crowd of onlookers.Immediately afterwards, Sandu and Li Shanqing were also stripped of their shirts and escorted out, standing in a row with Boda.

Ximenqing saw in the crowd that Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing also followed Li Shanqing from a distance to the wooden gate of the emperor's village, looking at Boda, Sandu and Li Shanqing with embarrassing expressions.

At this moment, a tall Jurchen general with a thick beard and hair and wearing a gold medal walked out of the gate of the emperor's village, and led three soldiers with wicker sticks to the side of Boda and the others.The three of Ximen Qing heard from the Jurchens beside them that the Jurchen general was Jiagu Xienu, the chief guard of the left-wing bodyguard next to the Lord Jin Wanyan Aguda.

Jiagu Xienu publicly announced why the three Bodas were punished.It turned out that it was the self-proclaimed sentimental Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty who bestowed officials on Li Shanqing, Sandu and Boda, which harmed these three people.

As an envoy of the Dajin Kingdom, how can he accept an official position in another country?Wanyan Aguda, the lord of the Kingdom of Jin, never regarded his country as a vassal state of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it was extremely inappropriate for the Song court to bestow officials on the Jin people. Li Shanqing and the others were not cautious enough in diplomacy, and accepted He was an official in the Song Dynasty and received a salary from the Song Dynasty, so he offended Wanyan Aguda and was punished with [-] sticks of whipping.

After listening to Jiagu Xienu's words, Ximenqing, who didn't know the truth of it, was once again shocked by the arrogance and stupidity of the gang of big turbans in Huizong's court.Ximenqing didn't know at this time that the Song court was planning to issue an edict to Wanyan Agu condescendingly!

Following Jiagu Xienu's order, the three Jurchen warriors who were executing the execution raised their wicker sticks and lashed the backs of the three Bodas firmly.

The wicker stick slapped the back, making a "cracking" sound, which was really merciless.

Ximen Qing said in his heart, these Jurchen warriors are really sincere, unlike the princes of the Song Dynasty, they can lie when they kill the powerful sticks.