After binding the loving mother system, I was so bad - Chapter 775 Li Yuanhao
After binding the loving mother system, I was so bad
Chapter 775 Li YuanhaoGu Nanxi didn't know much about Western Xia, a country that existed for less than two hundred years.
In later generations, there is a saying that the history of Western Xia is in Russia.
Because the first people to discover the ruins of the Western Xia Heishui City were Russians, many cultural relics were taken to Russia at that time.
Later, when China wanted to study the history of Western Xia, it even had to go to Russia to borrow original materials.
Gu Nanxi is not a Xixia historian, so he knows even less.
Especially a thousand years is enough for the landform to change.
During the Western Xia Dynasty, Heishui City was located near a lake and was a famous oasis. In later times, Heishui City was buried in the desert.
Therefore, when Mei Tang set out for Xixia, Gu Nanxi did not give any advice, but gave Mei Tang the greatest autonomy.
Mei Tang rode on his horse and kept looking around.
The walls of Yinzhou City were also made of mud bricks, but a large section of the city gate had collapsed, and the wooden city gate was shaking.
There were many people entering and leaving the city gate, most of them were merchants from the Western Regions.
"Why don't you repair the city wall?"
Yinzhou City is a border city after all, so why is it still in such a dilapidated state?
Yeli Wangrong glanced at Meitang with a complicated look in his eyes: "That piece was broken by your Yunzhou Gu family army."
Oh, that's it, then it's okay.
Mei Tang would not ask, Yinzhou is still some distance away from Yunzhou, how could the Gu family army fight to Yinzhou.
The pedestrians in the city are dressed differently. Most of them like to wear Hanfu, but the cuffs and trouser legs are much tighter than the Da Zhou uniforms, more like the style of Yunzhou.
Yeli Wangrong did not wear such clothes. Instead, he wore short hair, a cross-collared jacket, a belt around his waist, and huge silver hoop earrings on his ears.
"There are quite a lot of people riding horses." Mei Tang sighed. Xixia produces horses, so half of the people on the road are riding horses. There are also people riding camels, mules, and cows.
If Duke Yun had not recovered the grassland, Yunzhou would have been as short of horses as the Great Zhou.
The horses of the Great Zhou were all purchased from the surrounding areas. In the past, they were purchased from the Tatars and Western Xia, but now they are purchased more from Western Xia.
Perhaps the Emperor of the Great Zhou had some grudge against Duke Yun, and would rather take a detour and spend more money than let Duke Yun make money.
The people who came with Mei Tang had just arrived in Xixia. At first they were curious and looked around, but after looking for a long time, they lost interest.
Yinzhou City is just so-so, not as good as Yunzhou.
Hearing the Han people's complaints, Yeli Wangrong was speechless: "Everyone knows that Yunzhou is good, but we in Xixia are also working hard. For example, our Lord Yuanhao is very capable."
"Yuanhao? Are you talking about Li Yuanhao, the grandson of Li Jiqian, the ruler of Western Xia and the son of Li Deming?" Mei Tang had worked with members of the royal family before.
Yeli Wangrong: "It was him. Last year, it was Lord Yuanhao who proposed to make Xixia copper coins. This year, Lord Yuanhao proposed to reform the military system..."
Having said this, Yeli Wangrong stopped talking and did not say anything further.
The group stopped on a small hillside and prepared to set up tents and spend the night there.
The grasslands here are more fertile than those near Yongzhou.
A wide river, like silver silk, meanders across the grassland.
It is said that the water in the river comes from a sacred mountain in the northwest. There is snow on the top of the sacred mountain all year round. The melted snow water nourishes oases at the foot of the mountain and forms a river. The end of the river is the two lakes in Ejina Banner.
Ejina Banner means Black Water in Xixia language, and it is also the famous Black Water City in later generations.
Yeli Wangrong bought a lamb from a nearby herdsman. When the other party learned that the buyer was from Yunzhou, he came over specially to trade some livestock magic powder.
"Sorry, we are the vanguard and we don't have the magic powder with us."
After hearing this, the herdsman felt disappointed for a moment, but he still generously gave Mei Tang a bunch of chives: "Use this to dip the mutton, it's delicious!"
Mei Tang accepted it with a smile.
Except for Meitang, most of the people in the group grew up on the grassland, so they naturally knew how to make roast lamb delicious.
The firewood pile made of branches was half a person's height. Yeli Wangrong added fruit charcoal into the charcoal pit, and sparks popped.
Chen San brought over the prepared sauce; the spicy aroma of wild onions from the grassland mixed with the numbing taste of mountain peppercorns formed an invisible web in the evening breeze.
Yeli Wangrong stuffed more than a dozen spices into the lamb's abdominal cavity, and coarse salt grains rolled down the lamb's spine, like a handful of broken salt seeds sprinkled on the amber skin and flesh.
Amid the dull sound of the branch piercing the sheep's body, fat flowed down and splashed golden and red flowers in the charcoal fire.
When the first drop of mutton fat fell into the fire, the whole grassland trembled.
The blue flames of burning fat licked the crispy crust, the cumin seeds burst in the high temperature, and the aroma rushed into the nostrils like a wild horse.
Mei Tang couldn't help but swallowed.
Bright moon, grassland, fire, roasted lamb.
At this moment, everyone let down their guard and moved closer to each other.
Chen San and Yeli Wangrong worked together to turn the roasted lamb over: "Yeli Wangrong, what kind of person is Li Yuanhao?"
Yeli Wangrong's mind was shaken, but his hands did not stop moving: "He is... a very unique person, both civil and military, with extraordinary wisdom and strategy."
Li Yuanhao, whose nickname is Weili, means cherishing wealth.
"He and his father, Li Deming, have many disagreements. Li Deming likes the Great Zhou, and his policies are all based on friendship and harmony with the Great Zhou."
The lamb was ready. Chen San cut the first piece for Mei Tang and asked Ye Li Wang Rong, "Where is Li Yuanhao?"
Li Jiqian was old, and Crown Prince Li Mingde was the next ruler of Western Xia.
Li Yuanhao was one of Li Jiqian's favorite grandsons.
Yeli Wangrong lowered his eyes to hide his emotions, and his strange-toned Chinese voice spread throughout the camp under the night wind.
"Li Yuanhao once had a dispute with Li Mingde over the affairs of the Great Zhou. Li Mingde said, 'I have been leading troops in battles for a long time and I am already tired. Our tribe has been dressed in fine clothes and enjoyed wealth for 30 years. This is the grace of the Great Zhou and we cannot let it down!'"
"Li Yuanhao refuted his father, saying that wearing furs and engaging in animal husbandry is the nature of our tribe. When a hero appears, he should do something to become the king and dominate the world. How can he only do it for Jinqi?"
"At that time, Cao Wei, who was a general of the Zhou Dynasty, admired Yuan Hao very much, but he could never see him. So he sent someone to secretly draw a picture of Yuan Hao. After seeing his appearance, he was sincerely amazed, what a hero he was!"
Meitang...
How come he hasn't heard of such a big thing?
However, judging from these words, Li Yuanhao, like his grandfather, was an ambitious man.
The mutton of Xixia is delicious, smells good and tastes even better.
"Yeli Wangrong, do you really have any acquaintances in Xingqing Prefecture? Don't worry, the agreed twenty taels is twenty taels. We Yunzhou men stick to our word and never regret it. If you don't have any acquaintances, just join us."
Meitang extended an invitation to Yeli Wangrong.
This Dangxiang man is a capable person, and they need such Xixia people.
Yeli Wangrong and Meitang toasted: "Thank you for your kindness. I went to Xingqing Prefecture to seek refuge with my good friend who works under Lord Yuanhao."