1161 World
On the foggy morning of Dading Prefecture, the three thousand army of the Song people gathered and began to slowly march towards Yanjing.
The Gods slave Qi Shilie stood at the gate of the city, quietly looking at Ye Qing's back who had handed the letter to him and turned over and gradually faded away. He thought Ye Qing would not look back at the city behind him, but after not far away, Ye Qing couldn't help but look back and looked at the silent city wall of Dading Mansion.
When Ye Qing turned around, a figure stood on the vague city wall and waved to Ye Qing, while Ye Qing stopped instantly, narrowed his eyes and looked at the waving figure on the city wall.
When he saw clearly who the figure was, Ye Qing's brows became more and more frowned, but the smile on the face of King Xing Wanyan Xun on the city wall became more and more proud, and even a hint of arrogance.
Ye Qing sighed a long time and ignored Wanyan Xun's wave of provocation on the city wall, turned his horse's head and began to move forward.
At this time, many ministers in the Dading Prefecture Palace had already begun to prepare to move to the capital Ning Mansion. However, Wanyan Jing, who was rarely up early in the morning, seemed a little lost and absent-minded at this time.
Queen Li Shier slowly approached Wanyan Jing, who looked a little lonely. Wanyan Jing subconsciously looked up, and her eyes were filled with complex emotions.
"He's gone?" Wanyan Jing looked at Li Shi'er and asked.
Li Shi'er nodded silently and handed the letter given to her by Qi Shilie's Gods Slave to Wanyan Jing: "This is... the letter given to you by Qi Shilie's Gods Slave before leaving."
Wanyan Jing did not reach out to answer the letter, his eyes fell on the letter in Li Shi'er's hand with some emptied eyes. After a while, he slowly took it and put it on the table next to him. He lowered his head and asked, "How are you ready for the return to Huining Mansion?"
"It's basically done. We'll set off soon. Everything here has been taken care of." Li Shi'er glanced at Wanyan Jing, and then unconsciously glanced at the letter that was still on the table by Wanyan Jing.
She thought Wanyan Jing would open it as soon as possible, but the facts were obviously beyond her expectations.
"What he said is not wrong. The major affairs of the country obviously cannot be mixed with any personal emotions." Wanyan Jing did not regret not sending Ye Qing to see him off. He was just a little uncertain. He didn't know if he and Ye Qing would have another chance to meet after today.
Wanyan Jing's lack of brainstorm made Li Shi'er stunned for a moment. Looking at Wanyan Jing who was a little lonely, she didn't know how to go forward to comfort her at this time.
Whether it was the Jin Kingdom or Wanyan Jing, they urgently needed a real capital to stabilize the people's hearts of the Five Capital Roads. Three of the Five Roads fell into war. In addition, the failure of Wanyan Jing's personal expedition had already prompted the Jin Kingdom to be in a shaky desperate situation.
Ye Qing saved Wanyan Jing, which was like a drowning man suddenly got a life-saving straw, but obviously he could only temporarily save Jin and Wanyan Jing. For the destiny of Jin, which was already in a desperate situation, it was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket and it was difficult to play a decisive role.
Wanyan Jing naturally understood this, so when the quell of rebellion on Shangjing Road was about to end, he could not wait to return to Huining Mansion and then slowly plan it.
In his opinion, since the Great Jin Kingdom of that year could enter the Central Plains step by step from Huining Prefecture, as long as he gave himself some time, he would be able to return the entire Great Jin Dynasty to the prosperous era like Emperor Taizu of that year.
Ye Qing obviously didn't think so, and even didn't give Wanyan Jing even a glimmer of hope.
Ye Qing turned a weak Song into a strong Song with his own strength. Wanyan Jing didn't think he could not copy Ye Qing's path to help Song court become stronger.
"The rise of Song was not the power of Ye, nor was it the ability of Ye to understand the heaven and earth. The rise of Song was the fruit of wealth, arts, humanities, and people's hearts. The so-called: if you want to do things well, you must first sharpen your tools. You live in this country, serve the wise men of the great officials, and benevolent men of the scholars. Ye was not talented, and although he had the name of a slander and a hero, he also received the help of all wise men, such as Li Heng, Xin Qiji, Yu Yunwen, and Liu Keshi. In the court, Ye was weak and did not have the intention of deviating from the classics and destiny, but because of the overall situation of the world and the orthodox Central Plains, he offended countless people, and what he did was criticized by others, and the name of a slander and hero."
Wanyan Jing's luxurious carriage slowly set out from Dading Mansion. Wanyan Jing, who was half lying in the carriage, opened the letter that Ye Qing had handed over to him a few days ago when he was about to leave.
Unlike the letters written by Ye Qing who used to use in the past, this letter is like a small regular script for fly heads, and is more like a bamboo cone pen that removes its muscles and retains its bones.
Ye Qing has only used a hard pen to write until now. The first time it is already a long time when he wrote a business plan for Yan Qingcheng, the eldest daughter of the Yan family.
"Today's Song Dynasty was prosperous, and it was created by the orthodox system of the Central Plains of Song and the great cause of the world. Qin Ying Zhengshi: the same carriages, the same writings, and the same ties, and the great unification of China was achieved. This was the system of inheritance of Song and the backbone of China. Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty: Abolish all schools of thought, respect Confucianism alone, and build the strong Han of the world, and build the foundation of China for thousands of years. Although the world was in chaos in the north and south of the Jin Dynasty, Confucianism was safe. Zuo Zhuan said: The descendants did not plan for Xia, and the barbarians did not disrupt China. China and the four directions were born in chaos. You have me and I have you."
"The Sui Dynasty once again established the foundation of China, and the Tang Dynasty once again created the territory of China, and the whole world was all subjects. The counties of the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Chinese and the four directions had been integrated into one, so how could they divide each other? Although the Song Dynasty had stolen other people's country, it had been enjoyed for a hundred years, but it was weak but there was no sign of destruction of the country. Now he planned to regain the Central Plains and recovered the mountains and rivers, but the great things had been accomplished, but he was not satisfied because of Ye. Ye's bold words back then were ridiculed, but he achieved Ye's current King of Yan. The Song Dynasty was peaceful, but Ye was ambitious, not to steal the Song Dynasty's country, but because of the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty's strength, and admired the prosperity of China."
"A thousand years ago, the Central Plains were the Chinese, Dongyi, Nan barbarians, Xirong and Northern Di. Today, the great difference is that the Song, Jin, Meng, Xia, Liao, Dali and other dynasties should be one family to resist the barbarians of the world. The world is not China, and can be summarized in all directions, and the barbarians of the four directions are not regarded by the neighbors of the Central Plains. There are island countries in the east, and there are large areas of extremely cold land in the north, and many continents lead directly to the overseas world. The southward direction is the blue waves, and there are many countries at the end of the ocean. This is the barbarians of the four directions and the enemy in the four directions of our China."
"What do the queen thinks if Ye Qing wants me to surrender to the Song court?" Wanyan Jing shook his head. This was the first time he received such a serious letter from Ye Qing.
"Let the Great Jin surrender to the Song Dynasty?" Li Shi'er was shocked and looked at Wanyan Jing with some confusion. He didn't know what this meant?
If we were to surrender to the Song Dynasty, wouldn’t we have bowed our heads to the Song court now?
Wanyan Jing looked at Li Shi'er who was a little confused and smiled and said, "It's not that he is so proud of the Song court, but that he respects the Song court as orthodox, and the Jin Kingdom is not here."
"Ye Qing is simply a fool!" Li Shi'er was not angry when she mentioned Ye Qing. Since leaving Dading Mansion that day, Wanyan Jing's mood has been very depressed even today, as if she has always had something to worry about.
Wanyan Jing sighed slightly, his expression was very calm. He looked down at the letter in his hand, thought for a while and said, "Ye Qing said that the reason why he was able to help the weak Song become a strong Song is not because of how powerful he is, but because of the times creating heroes."
"Ye Qing is treacherous, insidious, unfathomable and ambitious. He said he would help Song. According to me, Song's name will be the first one day," Li Shi'er said with a lip.
"This is the best era, and it is also the worst era." Wanyan Jing looked down at the sentence in the letter and read it, then looked at Li Shier and said, "Ye Qing said... the era we live in is the lonely era of the horse-backed nation. Do you still remember the sharp weapon in his hand called a gun?"
Li Shi'er frowned and nodded silently. Of course she remembered and was very curious. Since Song Ting had such a powerful weapon, why did she rarely use it? Moreover, during the period of Dading Mansion, she only saw a few people, while the rest did not have any. Even the Hua family army, who was now on Shangjing Road to Beijing Road, did not have that powerful weapon.
"Ye Qing said that bows and arrows and war horses will gradually be abandoned by people in the near future, just like the military chariots in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. He said that he could see what the future will look like in a thousand years. He said that he knew very clearly that whether it is the Song Dynasty today, the Dajin Dynasty, the Mongols, Xia, Dali, and even the Tubo, it is one. He said that the world a thousand years later is a world that we cannot imagine now. He said that the Chinese nation does not refer to the Song people with Han nationality, but to all of us. He said that one day, the destruction and humiliation of the Chinese territory is a nation that we have never understood now. He said that the Japanese in the east should throw all the people on the island into the sea to feed turtles. He said that the Goryeo people are really barbarians and idiots..."
Wanyan Jing looked down at the letter, and Li Shier listened quietly as Wanyan Jing recited, but their minds were about each other's thoughts.
"He also said, be careful of King Xing Wanyan Xun..." Wanyan Jing put down the letter in his hand, looked up and thought about the serious letter. Is it written by Ye Qing for the whole night that night when he left.
"I only believe that under the leadership of the priest, the Great Jin Kingdom will definitely become stronger again." Li Shi'er looked at Wanyan Jing with a lonely expression and said firmly.
"Heroes have their twilight years, beauties have their days of old age, and their country's luck... Maybe, maybe it was Song Bing's Confucianism that allowed the Song court to revive the dead." Wanyan Jing felt helpless. Before reading Ye Qing's letter, he was quite confident. But after reading Ye Qing's serious and sincere letter of surrender, he suddenly felt that everything seemed as Ye Qing said, and that no matter how hard he struggled, he would not break away from the cultural label that was gradually assimilated.
"Do you say there are really many places in this world that we don't know?" Li Shi'er kept thinking. Just now Ye Qing told Wanyan Jing what the world looked like. The place they are now is just the tip of the iceberg.
"What is unclear about the other end of the sea south of the Song court, but the gods of Qi Shilie had followed Ye Qing to fight westward, so it is certain that there are countries we don't know all the way west." Wanyan Jing was also unclear, but he was thinking more about what Ye Qing said in the letter, what he would look like in the world in a thousand years.
"This world... is very big? It's beyond our imagination?" Li Shi'er asked.
"There were merchants from the West in the Song Dynasty, but they have never come back after many years. But Ye Qing had dealt with some people from...European in Lin'an." Wanyan Jing shook his head and said.
Although Ye Qing did not specifically describe what the world in this era looks like, nor did he describe in detail how prosperous the world was a thousand years later, whether it was Wanyan Jing or Li Shi'er, they did not doubt what Ye Qing said was fake, and even... they were willing to believe in the future world that Ye Qing mentioned.
"Even if one day, only one person in the world can proclaim himself emperor, then it should be my Great Jin Kingdom, and you should be the Lord." Li Shi'er looked at Wanyan Jing and then added: "Even if we can't beat Ye Qing now, who dares to assert that our descendants will not be able to become the lord of the world?"
Wanyan Jing looked at Li Shi'er's appearance and shook his head silently. He did not take Li Shi'er's words seriously, but if Ye Qing was by his side at this moment, he would probably worship Li Shi'er's prophecy.
Chapter completed!