Ryukyu merchants, with the support of these Liao nobles, gradually began to enter the palace. Empress Dowager Xiao of Liao State believed in Buddhism.
This fall. On a Buddha's birthday, a Ryukyu businessman gave Empress Dowager Xiao a golden Buddha inlaid with various gems. This won the favor of Empress Dowager Xiao, and the Ryukyu merchants also used this to establish relations with the descendants of the Liao Kingdom.
The Tianjing New City Money Bank in Xijing of the Liao Kingdom was opened by Ryukyu merchants with the support of the Xiao family of the Liao Kingdom. When Yang Peng arrived at the door of the Qian Bank, he found that the clerks standing at the door of the Qian Bank in Tianjing New City were looking at people through their nostrils. Even if he is facing the Liao soldiers, he will not bow down at all.
This shows the status of Tianjing Xincheng Qianhang in the Liao Kingdom. When Yang Peng walked to the entrance of Tianjing New City's money store, he was stopped by the money store's clerk because of his shabby clothes.
"You can't go in." The guy was acting snobbishly. He blocked Yang Peng arrogantly, preventing Yang Peng from taking a step into the money store. Yang Peng shrugged his shoulders, took out a gold ingot from his arms, and threw it into the boy's arms. When the guy saw the gold ingot, his expression immediately changed.
"Pah!" The waiter twitched to himself and said flatteringly: "The little man is blind and almost offended the guest. The little man is here to apologize to the guest. Please come in."
Yang Peng shook his head and smiled, not bothering to argue with a snobbery. The money bank is now under the control of Xie Tao. Xie Tao is an official. The shopkeepers he selects for each branch must be trustworthy people. The shopkeeper of this branch of a money bank in Xijing City, Liao Kingdom, must have a purpose for choosing a snobbish person to guard the door.
After entering the money store, Yang Peng threw a jade token at the counter. Then I found a place to sit down in the money shop. After a while, a middle-aged man who was nearly fifty years old and had a short beard hurriedly came to Yang Peng holding a jade plaque. When he saw Yang Peng, the middle-aged man saluted respectfully, "But in front of the noble?"
Yang Peng nodded but said nothing. The middle-aged man made a respectful gesture of invitation, "Your honor, please come in." Yang Peng followed the middle-aged man into the back hall of the money bank. The furnishings in the back hall of the Qian Bank are not luxurious, but rather simple, and everything is neatly placed. The middle-aged man asked Yang Peng to sit down, and after personally serving tea to Yang Peng, he knelt on the ground and said respectfully: "I see the city lord."
Yang Peng was stunned and asked: "Are you from Jinyiwei?" The middle-aged man nodded excitedly and said: "I am ashamed, I have been helping the city leader for more than two years. It was not until the end of last year that I Recommended by Deputy Ambassador Zhao, he joined the Jin Yiwei."
The deputy ambassador Zhao among middle-aged people is Zhao Di. Since Yang Peng transferred Peng Pai to the northwest, all the Jinyiwei in Tianjing New City have been temporarily put under Zhao Di's charge. What surprised Yang Peng was that Zhao Di actually developed Jin Yiwei into a money bank. It can be seen that Zhao Di did not really waste himself when Yang Peng was not in Tianjing New City.
Instead, he did a lot of things in a down-to-earth manner. Yang Peng waved his hand to the middle-aged man and said: "Since we are one of our own, there is no need to adhere to these false etiquette. What is the result of this branch of Qian Bank in Xijing City, Liao Kingdom?" The middle-aged man stood beside Yang Peng. In front of him, he smiled bitterly and said: "If I go back to the city lord, the results are not very good. The Xijing City of Liao Kingdom is no better than other places. Now it is heavily guarded. Basically, the people who save money in our money bank are some businessmen. Local Liao people rarely deposit their money in our money bank. They seem to prefer to exchange their money for cattle and sheep to feel at ease."
Yang Peng nodded and said: "There is a long way to go. Money banking is a long-term business, and it also has a reputation. Unlike other businesses, you can make profits immediately after opening the door. As long as you can stick to it, I will I believe more people will deposit their money in our bank.
When you are in a foreign country, you also need to take care of yourself. The Liao people are barbaric and do not like to be reasonable. Yang Peng patted the middle-aged man on the shoulder and said, "When the critical moment comes, it's better to give up money than life." In my eyes, your lives are more important than money. "
The middle-aged man burst into tears of gratitude and said, "I will definitely live up to the city lord's trust." Many times, when a superior treats a subordinate, they don't need to give too many things.
A heart-warming word is sometimes more effective than more gold and silver from you.
This is a very simple method to win people's hearts in the age of emperor supremacy. Yang Peng accompanied the middle-aged man and chatted about some household matters, the past of Tianjing New City, the customs and customs of Liao Kingdom, etc.
In the end, Yang Peng revealed the purpose of his visit to the bank. "My trip this time is going to Shangjing City in the Liao Kingdom. As a Han, walking in the Liao Kingdom will inevitably cause some unnecessary trouble. So I want you to help me prepare a caravan. Let me go with the caravan. Go to Beijing."
"My subordinates understand." Yang Peng rested all night in the back hall of Qian Bank.
The next day. The shopkeeper of Qian Bank, the middle-aged man, prepared a caravan to accompany Yang Peng to Beijing. It is said to be a caravan, but in fact it is more like a transport team serving Yang Peng alone. The goods escorted by the entire caravan were basically food and drink.
Just enough for Yang Peng to eat and drink on the way to the capital. If Yang Peng hadn't insisted on refusing. The shopkeeper of Qian Bank also plans to prepare ten maids for Yang Peng to accompany him. After the caravan was ready, Yang Peng sat in the most comfortable carriage and rushed to the upper capital leisurely. At the front of their caravan hung a flag symbolizing the descendants of the Liao Kingdom.
With the existence of this flag, the caravan basically encountered no interrogation wherever it went. Since it is winter, the further north you go, the colder the weather becomes. Severe cold always causes a lot of traffic problems. Therefore, the caravan that originally took a month to travel to the capital took more than a month and a half.
When Yang Peng arrived at Shangjing, the most prosperous and prosperous city in the Liao Kingdom, it was already the twelfth lunar month. The closer you get to Shangjing City of Liao Kingdom, the more lively you can feel it. Every day, horse teams pass by Yang Peng's carriage. Liao people seem to like hunting in winter.
And every one of them is a very good hunter, even those fat-headed nobles of the Liao Kingdom are no exception. "Young Master, we have arrived in the capital..." Yang Peng was wrapped in a wide bearskin, his nose twitched, and he opened the curtain on the carriage. What catches the eye is the majestic city wall in Shangjing City.
The walls of Shangjing City are not as tall as those of Bianjing City, but they give people the same sense of oppression. Because on the city head of Shangjing City, there were densely packed black-armored Liao troops.
With that chilling aura, one could tell at a glance that they were the elites of the Liao army. "The Liao Kingdom seems not as peaceful as imagined..." Obviously, Zhou Dayong sacked the two capitals of the Liao Kingdom and caused considerable harm to the Liao Kingdom. The nobles of the Liao Kingdom united to force Empress Dowager Xiao into the palace, which led to political instability in the Liao Kingdom.
The reason why there was no chaos in Shangjing City must be related to the soldiers on top of the city. In order to consolidate the power and status of himself and Empress Dowager Xiao, Brother Yelvxiu should dispatch all the elites of the Liao Kingdom to Shangjing. The Liao army on the walls of Shangjing City was majestic, but it did not seem to cause much oppression to the nobles in Shangjing City.
The aristocratic children of the Liao Kingdom still walked on horseback and rode eagles, carrying the prey they had caught from the wild, roaring past Yang Peng's carriage. "Master, shall we go into the city?" The boy waiting beside Yang Peng's carriage asked in a low voice. Yang Peng lowered the curtain and said softly: "Go in."
The boy immediately followed Yang Peng's instructions. The cavalry parked on the roadside also restarted and began to slowly move towards the capital. …
At the east gate of Shangjing City. Two young men in brocade clothes were on horseback, followed by dozens of well-dressed Liao soldiers. "Zhegu, do we really want to do this?" One of the young men asked the other young man. The young man who was called Zhe Gu pinched the two big braids that were folded and fixed on his head, and said fiercely: "Xiao Taixing, do you still want to back down now? Since Brother Yelu Xiu returned After arriving in the capital, Xiao Zhuo, a bitch like me, brutally attacked our clansmen. Now our clansmen are so forced by the two of them that they don't even dare to leave the house.
If we don't fight back, they will just treat us as lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Xiao Taixing grimaced and said: "But Haijing is your cousin..." Zhegu snorted coldly: "So what about cousin? I am still the emperor's cousin, and my father is the emperor's uncle. But so what?" That bitch Xiao Zhuo did the same thing to us."
"Haijing is only twelve years old..." Zhegu glared at Xiao Taixing fiercely, and Xiao Taixing immediately fell silent. The two people just waited quietly at the city gate.
A few moments. A red carriage, escorted by guards, quietly appeared in the sight of the two people. Most of the people passing by the city gate knew this carriage. This is the frame of Princess Haijing. Princess Haijing is only twelve years old. She has been frail and sick since she was a child. She hides in the house like a little mouse all day long and rarely goes out. But because of this, he was greatly pitied by Empress Dowager Xiao.
Princess Haijing is obviously a princess from the Liao Kingdom, but she has the same heart and heart as a Song Dynasty person. She is kind-hearted and always goes out of the city every month to distribute rice porridge to the places where Han slaves in the Liao Dynasty stayed. Zhegu just saw this opportunity and took the opportunity to attack.
"Here we come!" Zhegu smiled sinisterly and winked at his men. Those people who were hiding in the crowd suddenly took out bamboo tubes one after another from their backpacks. There was a fuse on the bamboo tube, which was lit and thrown into the crowd.
"Boom boom boom~" Explosions sounded at the city gate. Although the explosion was loud, its damage was limited. It should be the gunpowder used in the artillery room to make firecrackers. After the explosion, people were only blackened. Occasionally, those who were injured were scratched by the exploding bamboo tubes. The explosion of the bamboo tube will not cause any huge harm to humans, but it will be extremely lethal to animals. The horses, cattle and sheep passing through the city gate seemed to be stimulated and began to run wildly.
For a time, the entire east city gate was in chaos. The animals went on a rampage, injuring many people. The horse pulling Princess Haijing's carriage seemed to be frightened. It pulled Princess Haijing's carriage and began to run wildly. She instantly shook off the guards following her carriage.
The horses under the mounted guards were also in a mess, so the guards could only run wildly on foot to catch up with the carriage. "Ah~" The frightened Princess Haijing screamed in horror in the carriage. Zhegu Nie laughed wildly as if he heard the sound of nature.
A trace of unbearability flashed in Xiao Taixing's eyes. Princess Haijing's carriage can be said to be the best in the world. After rushing out of the city gate, they ran around like crazy. The carriage kept bumping. …
When the explosion sounded, Yang Peng opened the curtain of the carriage. Although the horses helping Yang Peng pull the carriage were a little flustered, they were quickly restrained. Because of the distance, the horses were subject to limited fright. Yang Peng is also proficient in gunpowder.
The explosion of Liao gunpowder really startled Yang Peng. For a moment, Yang Peng thought that his gunpowder formula had been stolen by the Liao people. When he saw the effect of the gunpowder used by the Liao people, Yang Peng became calm inside. He could tell from the damage caused by the gunpowder that the Liao people only used gunpowder for making artillery.
As for the panic at the city gate, Yang Peng didn't care at all. No matter how great the chaos was in Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom, it had nothing to do with Yang Peng. When he saw a frightened carriage approaching, the boy who was serving Yang Peng said in horror: "Master, the horse is frightened. For your safety, let's get out of the way."
Yang Peng nodded, wrapped his bear skin tightly, jumped out of the carriage, and took the others with him to avoid the frightened carriage. "Master, there seems to be a girl in the carriage." Because the injured horse was jolting the carriage around, the curtains on the carriage were also raised.
Through the curtain, you can see a little girl sitting inside. The carriage flashed past Yang Peng's eyes. Yang Peng saw a pair of frightened, weak and helpless eyes from inside. Like a frightened rabbit. A snowflake fell down and landed on Yang Peng's cheek. Yang Peng seemed to feel the tears of the frightened little rabbit in the carriage falling on his face.
"Sinful conscience..." Yang Peng laughed bitterly, drew out the horizontal knife from his waist, cut the ropes tied to the horse's back on his carriage, and chased away on horseback. Before leaving, I left a message to the boy at the money shop. "You guys go to the money store in Shangjing City and wait for me." Yiqi Juechen.
Yang Peng chased the carriage on horseback and disappeared into the heavy snow. The boy from Qianxing was left with a confused look on his face.
"Drive!" Yang Peng slapped the horse on his crotch and chased it for a mile before catching up with the carriage.
"Whoosh~" Yang Peng jumped onto the carriage and cut off the ropes tied to the frightened horse with his knife. The frightened horse lost its restraints and quickly disappeared into the wilderness. The carriage shaft hit the ground, slid for several meters, and suddenly stopped.
Yang Peng suddenly fell to the ground. A small figure fell out of the carriage and landed on Yang Peng.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Before Yang Peng could recover, he heard a burst of crying. The cry was full of panic. After Yang Peng got up, he saw a twelve-year-old girl rolling off him and falling to the ground. She was clutching the skirt of her clothes tightly with her small hands, her eyes widened and she was crying.
"Stop crying..." Yang Peng shouted. The little girl suddenly came back to her senses, looked at Yang Peng, then quickly buried her head between her legs and continued to cry. Yang Peng shrugged helplessly, looked up and found that his horse was missing. There was only a carriage left in the wilderness, him, and the little girl who had been crying.
"Hey~" Yang Peng squatted down and sighed: "Stop crying, you are no longer in danger." The little girl timidly raised her head, glanced at Yang Peng, and quickly buried her head in her legs. The crying was weakening, but the little girl kept choking.
Yang Peng raised his hand and put it on the little girl's head. The little girl's whole body was stiff, as if she was under a immobilizing spell, and she didn't dare to move. She is as timid as a mouse and seems to be afraid of anything except stealing food.
Yang Peng helped the little girl up. The little girl was so stiff that Yang Peng helped her up. If he hadn't felt the warmth on the little girl's body, Yang Peng would have thought he had lifted up a wooden man. The little girl was obviously frightened and full of fear of everything around her.
"I'll take you back." Yang Peng put his big hand on the little girl's head again. Yang Peng took the Hengdao away from its scabbard and strode towards the capital. The little girl was behind Yang Peng. When she heard Yang Peng's footsteps getting further and further away, she quietly raised her head and looked at Yang Peng's back.
Yang Peng walked for a while and found that the little girl had not followed. Turning his head, he saw the little girl looking at him. The little girl was caught peeping and lowered her head in panic.
"Let's go quickly..." Yang Peng called. The little girl hesitated for a moment, then took a step forward and followed Yang Peng's pace. Two figures, one big and one small, left a line of footprints in the snow.
The little girl didn't know what to think. Every time she took a step, she subconsciously put her foot into the footprints made by Yang Peng. The two people were walking quietly, just a foot apart. In the silent wilderness, there was only the sound of falling snow. After walking for a long time, the little girl trembled all over.
"Ah sneeze~" Yang Peng turned around. The little girl blushed and lowered her head, looking a little shy.
"Come here." Yang Peng opened the bear skin on his body and called out. The little girl quickly raised her head and glanced at Yang Peng, then moved hesitantly on the spot. "If you keep lingering, I won't care about you anymore." Hearing Yang Peng's voice, the little girl's heart trembled, she hesitated, and moved step by step to Yang Peng.
Yang Peng opened the bear skin, wrapped the little girl in the bear skin, and took her along. Yang Peng could clearly feel the little girl trembling all over.
Eighty percent of it was frozen... Yang Peng thought so, because the little girl was not wearing thick clothes. The little girl huddled in Yang Peng's arms, like a well-behaved cat, following Yang Peng with stiff steps.
The warm breath enveloped her, and her little face turned red. The heart was beating crazily and seemed ready to fall out at any time. She subconsciously leaned against Yang Peng, feeling the warmth from Yang Peng's body, and greedily sucked in Yang Peng's breath. Yang Peng could feel the little girl pulling him tightly.
He shook his head and smiled. The little girl was timid, weak, and panicked. Yang Peng always reminds Yang Tong of his family. When Yang Tong was frightened, his eyes were the same as the little girl's. This is why Yang Peng took action to save the little girl. When I was young, I followed my master. When I felt wronged or frightened, I would always come to him and ask for a hug...
"It seems...the person looking for you has arrived..." Yang Peng suddenly stopped, leaving the little girl a little confused. After hearing what Yang Peng said, the little girl suddenly felt panicked. Yang Peng lowered his head and said to the little girl in his arms: "I don't want to deal with the Liao officials. So, we'll see you again." Yang Peng removed the bearskin that was covering the little girl's body. The little girl panicked and opened her hands, trying to grab something, but finally stopped abruptly. Yang Peng wrapped his bear skin tightly and walked along the wilderness on both sides of the road, preparing to leave.
"You..." The little girl hurriedly opened her mouth and asked: "You...who are you..." "Yang Ping..." After the words fell, Yang Peng's figure had disappeared into the wilderness. The little girl stared at the direction Yang Peng was leaving.
"Yang Ping..." The little girl murmured in a low voice, as if she wanted to remember these two words clearly.
"Crash~" A group of black-armored soldiers appeared here in a hurry, stepping on the snow. When they saw the little girl, they threw themselves in front of the little girl happily. "I'm here to see the princess. I failed to protect the princess, which frightened her. Please forgive me, princess."
The little girl didn't seem to hear them, she just focused on looking at the place where Yang Peng disappeared. Several guard commanders looked at each other. The leader shouted in a low voice: "The princess must be frightened. Please escort her back home quickly." There were several women among the casual guards. They wrapped the little girl in a fox fur coat and hugged the little girl. He got on the horse and quickly headed to Shangjing City.
The group of people hurried back to the princess mansion. Princess Tie Jing, who came after hearing the news, was already waiting at the door. After seeing the little girl, she asked anxiously: "Fourth sister, fourth sister..." After calling several times, Princess Iron Mirror angrily cursed: "You guys all deserve to die."
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
