Like Yelu Hongji, after returning to the residence that the Liao people were preparing to arrange for the Song envoy, Lin Xi also ordered people to pass the conditions of the Liao lord back to the country through the national channel by fast horses.

The so-called national faith was a channel specially opened for diplomacy in this medieval era.

There were special national channels between Song and Liao, Song and Xia.

However, for security reasons, the national channels between the countries will avoid their respective sensitive military and strategic locations.

Therefore, some sections of the road need to be detoured.

However, messengers who communicate on the national channel can be exempted from all official inspections and ignore each other's tax cards.

Therefore, after the rise of the Song and Liao trade, the Song and Liao Kingdom's channel became a trade channel for the two countries.

Then, it becomes a convenient smuggling channel.

The powerful and powerful on both sides began to use this ready-made duty-free channel to smuggle large amounts of merchant goods.

Even copper coins, silver and gold.

Generally speaking, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty flowed to the Liao Kingdom, while the silver and gold of the Liao Kingdom flowed to the Song Dynasty.

What's more interesting is that the ruling groups of both sides seem to turn a blind eye to this matter.

As a result, smuggling became increasingly rampant.

It may even have reached one-third of Jiaozi's trade volume.

And it is still rising rapidly.

Therefore, whether it is the messenger sent by Yelu Hongji or the messenger sent by Lin Xi, the time spent on the journey is much more than in the past.

Because there are a large number of business travelers filling the national channel, many people are smuggling in large quantities before winter and when the roads are dry.

As a result, congestion directly occurred on some sections of the road.

Yelu Hongji didn't know about this. On the next day, he received an envoy from the Western Uighurs in the palace. When the other party said "Uncle" to the flattery, he lost his direction and agreed to send cavalry to support the Western Uighurs.

Of course—the main reason is that the Liao Kingdom’s national policy of blocking the grasslands and other tribes.

We have tried every means to reduce the population on the grassland and restrict the population from obtaining various technical populations and materials at all costs.

This is a national policy that has been implemented since the founding of Liao.

Every generation of Liao lords, whether stupid or wise, is extremely firm in implementing this national policy.

In Yelu Hongji's generation, because the Liao Kingdom exposed its strength in the war with Xixia that was no longer as good as before, the Zhuzhu tribes gradually began to break away from the control of the Liao Kingdom and began to listen to the tune and not the Xuan.

However, the Liao people still firmly restricted the thief thief on the grassland, obtaining metals including iron and copper utensils. At the same time, they strictly restricted the flow of technical talents such as blacksmiths and carpenters to the grassland.

Therefore, it was not just the flattery and flattery of the Western Uighurs that made Yelu Hongji lose his direction.

It would be better to say that the strategic thinking of Liao's country on the grassland blocking the various tribes driving Yelu Hongji's behavior-

In the past few decades, the people on the prairie have encountered almost no war.

Their population is growing.

The strength of the tribes also began to expand.

This is not a good thing for the Liao Kingdom!

The Liao people knew very well that the population must be reduced! Only in this way can we stabilize the north and stabilize the grasslands.

It is a good way to stop the Bu people from going to the Western Regions, intervene in the Uighur affairs, and participate in the war.

It is also a very effective method that has been proven by practice. During the reunification period of the Holy Sect, the Black Khan Dynasty attacked the Gaochang Uighurs after the destruction of Khotan.

At that time, the Liao Kingdom was tug-of-war with Song Ting in the area of ​​Chanzhou. Faced with the Gaochang Uighurs' request for help, they were unable to provide assistance, so they mobilized tens of thousands of entries of the truce to support Gaochang.

This made the Hei Khan encountered great difficulties when he destroyed Gaochang.

After this battle, the Liao people discovered the benefits of this model.

It can not only reduce the population blocking divination, but also interfere in Western Regions affairs.

It's simply amazing!

From then on, the Liao Kingdom frequently used the power of banning the divine world and continuously interfered in the affairs of the Western Regions and the Western Xia.

Let the people of Shubu continue to bleed in these places, so as to maintain Liao's control over the grasslands, the Western Regions and the Western Xia.

Therefore, when Yelu Hongji met the leaders of various tribes of the Bubu tribes, he directly used the excuse of his nephew (the Western Uighurs) to encounter the Turkic invasion. However, Liao, Bubu and Uighurs were all in their family and should watch over each other.

Therefore, the leaders of all tribes should send troops to support the Western Uighurs, the Great Liao nephew, to save him from the fate of being destroyed by the Turks

Of course, Yelu Hongji also knew that it was impossible for the Khitans to work in vain.

Therefore, he picked up the homework of his grandfather Liao Shengzong and directly awarded a huge reward to the people who stopped the divine.

Whenever a cavalry was launched in each unit, the Liao Kingdom would give rewards based on the heads.

Every knight can get a reward of a piece of silk cloth and a bucket of salt every month!

Although the leaders of the various ministries of the Bubu tribe were not very willing, they traveled thousands of miles to the Western Regions [helping the Uighurs to resist the Turkic invasion].

Because they knew very well that the Liao people were taking the opportunity to reduce their dynasties.

Let the warriors of their tribe go to the Uighurs thousands of miles away to bleed.

However, in the face of the pressure from the Liao people, they had no good idea!

Because the current Liao Kingdom is very powerful from the perspective of trump!

During the eastern expedition to Goryeo, they sang triumphantly all the way and even crossed the sea to Japan. The Japanese continued to send envoys to seek peace.

When confronting such a Liao Kingdom, they dare not refuse.

You must know that the Liao Kingdom stationed heavily on the grassland.

The northwest road of the recruitment camp was located in the Burrowing Ridge, Timucheng and other places.

At the same time, the Liao Kingdom also has four nails on the grassland, namely Zhenzhou, Fangzhou, Victoria, and Zhaozhou (all are located in the strategic pass of the grassland, blocking important pastures and water sources of the various ministries, Zhaozhou and even in today's Mongolia).

It can be said that you can intervene in the divination department anytime and anywhere.

The Bubu tribes are originally a pile of loose sand and are hostile to each other.

Mogus and Basi's mother tribe (Naman tribe) obviously can't pee in a pot.

The so-called Eight Enemy Tribes such as Uguzha and Dalidi also have deep hatred with the Yeduoji tribe in Mobei.

The Liao people only need to recruit one faction and fight another, which is enough for the tribes to drink a pot of food.

What's more, in the various ministries of the Bubu tribes at this time, there was a leader of the Liao Kingdom, Mogus supported by the Liao master Yelu Hongji.

This is Yelu Hongji's confidant, and Yelu Da, the recruiting envoy from Liaoxi North Road, also recommended the loyal dog to Yelu Hongji.

He was supported by the Liao people all the way, and he was appointed as the governor of the Shubu tribe, and the chief of the Shubu tribe (probably the ancestor of Wang Han, the leader of the Kelie tribe).

Over the years, Mogus has been loyal to the Liao people.

The Mogus tribe also grew stronger with the support of the Liao people, and now it is the most powerful of the Shubu tribes.

Therefore, although reluctant, the leaders of various tribes could only bow their heads and answer Yelu Hongji's request.

Of course, they were not stupid either, so they directly asked Yelu Hongji to pay a part of the reward first.

Yelu Hongji naturally agreed generously to this.

At the same time, in order to commend the leaders of each tribe to "know the great righteousness", the leaders of each tribe were given frosting, cotton and other expensive goods in the Southern Dynasty.

As a model and benchmark for divination set by the Liao people, Mogus received a generous reward of 100 kilograms of frosting and 500 pieces of cotton.

But there is a small problem here.

That is, when the envoys of the East and West Black Khan communicated with these divine leaders later.

They were embarrassed to find that the Great Food Education they believed in seemed to be slightly different from the Shubu tribes opposite.

Especially - Mogus, Uguza and other tribes, they believe in the Cross religion that seems to be hostile to them (actually the Christian Nestori faction).

However, there is only one thing.

Because Xihei Khan is now facing an invasion from his own brothers.

The Seljuk Turks and the East-West Black Khan were nominally part of the Abbas dynasty.

All the Caliphs in Baghdad are the common rulers.

But I didn't see Seljuk being gentle to his own people.

In the past few decades, how many dynasties of the same brothers have been destroyed by Seljuk?

How many more emirs and sultan's heads were cut down?

A few years ago, it was even said that the bastard Maliksha led his troops into the sacred Baghdad, coerced the great caliph, established him as the common ruler, and tied his blasphemous name with the great caliph!

It's simply unforgivable!

So, it doesn't matter to them.

If you unite with the pagans, then unite!

Anyway, the Black Sweat people have long been used to it.
To be continued...