Chapter 41: Things about Liao Kingdom

One year after Song Taigong passed away, major events in the world occurred.

First of all, Dali Emperor Duan Zhengming passed the throne to his nephew Duan Yu, admonishing him to love the people and accept advice, and instructing him not to make a rash move in national affairs and not to use wars without mercy. Duan Yu, who had newly ascended the throne, has long been the top master in the world. Not only did he know the Beiming magic skills, but he also knew the two unique skills of Lingbo Weibu, but also the Six-Meridian Divine Sword. He can be said to be the number one master in Dali and is powerful in the world.

The Gao family of Dali rebelled and wanted to take advantage of the unstable situation of the new king ascending the throne and seizing the throne. Duan Yu took the head of the Gao family among the ten thousand troops in front of the palace, killed more than 1,000 people, defeated the rebels, suppressed the rebellion overnight, stabilized the throne, and at the same time made the people of Dali feel at ease, and praised the new emperor of Dali as a great hero.

Duan Yu became the top master in the world and was intimidating.

Duan’s ‘Six-Meridian Divine Sword’ was powerful and aroused people’s impressions a hundred years ago. Only then did they know that Duan’s unique skills were not only one yang finger, but also the more powerful ‘Six-Meridian Divine Sword’.

At the same time, the Song Dynasty also ushered in a turning point. In the Bianliang Imperial Palace in the capital of the Song Dynasty, the Empress Dowager in Chongqing Palace, who ruled the power of the imperial court for more than 20 years, the high-level empress dowager, who had been in charge of the imperial court for more than 20 years, was a war. Zhao Xi ascended the throne to the throne for nine years, but the actual emperor was the Empress Dowager, the commander of the Imperial Guard was the confidant of the Empress Dowager, the eunuch leader was the confidant of the Empress Dowager, and the minister of Chaowu was appointed by the Empress Dowager, and the emperor Zhao Xi was just a puppet emperor.

Zhao Xi had long been dissatisfied, but he knew that the general situation was not his, so he did not dare to do something casually, and said something casually. Now that the Empress Dowager was seriously ill and the imperial power was about to return, he had already wanted to display his great cause in his heart and had no idea that the undercurrents in the world were surging, and if he was careless, he would be doomed.

Zhao Xi turned around and walked to the window, and saw the Big Dipper shining in the sky. His eyes followed the Doulao, staring at the North Star, and murmured: "I have sufficient soldiers and food, and I have a large number of people. Why are you afraid of the Khitan? He won't go south, but I want to go north to compete with him!"

The Empress Dowager's ears were not effective and asked, "What did you say? What kind of competition?"

Zhao Xu walked to the sickbed and said, "Empress Dowager, our Song Dynasty has ten times more people than the Liao Kingdom, and the food and grass are thirty times more. Isn't it? With ten against one, can we still beat them?"

The Empress Dowager said in a trembling voice: "You said you would go to war with the Liao Kingdom? Emperor Zhenzong was so brave and personally led the army to form the Chanzhou alliance. How dare you... act without placing troops?"

Zhao Xu said angrily: "The Empress Dowager always looks down on the child, just thinking that the child is still a baby who has not done anything and knows nothing. Even if the child cannot reach Taizu and Taizong, he may not be as good as Emperor Zhenzong."

The Empress Dowager whispered: "Even Emperor Taizong was defeated in the northern country back then and returned seriously injured. The wounds and sores were hard to heal, and finally he died because of this."

Zhao Xu said: "How can we generalize the affairs of the world? We could not defeat the Khitans back then, but we might not be able to defeat them forever."

The Empress Dowager had a lot of words to say, but Jueye left his body bit by bit, white mist swaying in front of him, his mind was confused, and it was extremely difficult to speak. However, deep in her heart, there was a strong and clear voice constantly sounding: "Soldiers and wars are dangerous, and life is in trouble, so you must not act rashly."

The Empress Dowager passed away, and the city of Bianjing was covered with white whiteness. After Zhao Xi personally fought, he ordered Shaoshu and implement the new laws of Yuanfeng, abolished the old party prime ministers Fan Chunren, Lu Dafang, etc., and appointed Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu and other new parties, so that they could show their skills. In terms of military affairs, they were also ready to restart the war.

A major event also happened in Liao Kingdom.

Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao was intended to lead his army to march south, unify the Central Plains, surpass the previous emperors of the Liao Dynasty, and create a great cause. In order to maintain peace between the two countries, the King of Chu of Liao and the King of Nanyuan could not bear to have the people of the two countries displaced due to the war, so he repeatedly advised him. The Emperor of Liao was furious and rebuked Xiao Feng for not knowing the general principles, and asked him to think about his mistakes in the palace.

Xiao Feng was discouraged and resigned from the throne. He was the king of the South Courtyard and wanted to leave with his wife and children. As a result, he was discovered by the Liao soldiers. Facing thousands of troops, if Xiao Feng was alone, he would naturally leave easily, but it would not work with his wife and children. Xiao Feng had to go back to the palace. Yelu Hongji arrived at the palace and did not meet Xiao Feng, and ordered the commander of the imperial camp to detain him. The commander thought that King Xiao was born with divine power, so how could he be kept in an ordinary prison? He had a plan and ordered people to take the largest and heaviest iron chains and handcuffs, locked his hands and feet, and then imprisoned him in a large iron cage. Each steel bar in this big iron cage was as thick as a child's arm.

In addition to the iron cage, a hundred imperial camp soldiers were sent to each hold spears and surrounded four circles layer by layer. If Xiao Feng had any abnormal movement in the iron cage, the soldiers could stab the spears into the cage. No matter how strong he was, he could not break away from the iron locks and handcuffs in an instant and break out of the cage. Outside the royal palace, there was a group of personal soldiers who were closely guarding. Yelu Hongji transferred all the soldiers who had originally stationed in Nanjing out of Nanjing to prevent them from being loyal to Xiao Feng and trying to rescue him.

Although Xiao Feng is the most powerful master in the world, he can only swallow a poison pill when facing his wife and children's safety. He was imprisoned in an iron cage. Xiao Feng leaned on the railing of the iron cage, gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain in his abdomen, and had no time to think about it. After twelve tomorrow days, the poison gradually disappeared and the severe pain decreased. Xiao Feng's strength gradually recovered, but in this situation, how could he get out of trouble? He thought that it was useless to worry, and no matter how dangerous the dangers were in this life, he had experienced many heroes in my life. Could it be that I, Xiao Feng, would really be trapped in this iron cage? Fortunately, the personal soldiers respected him heroes, and although the guards never slacked off, they would be good wine and good meals, and there was no shortage of etiquette. Xiao Feng put a glass of wine and jars next to the iron cage after a few days.

Xiao Feng's sister-in-law "A Zi" was originally a disciple of Ding Chunqiu. She stole Ding Chunqiu's treasure king Wood Ding and fled from the Xingsu Sect, which also saved A Zi from his death. A Zi was very clever and took a month to escape from the Chu Palace and went to the Central Plains for help. When the martial arts heroes learned about it, they were all impressed by Xiao Feng and thought that Xiao Feng had gone to the Liao Kingdom. There was no war in Liao and Song Dynasty. This time, Xiao Feng suffered another disaster because of the peace of Liao Kingdom, so they went to Liao Kingdom to rescue Xiao Feng.

Master Xuanku of Shaolin Temple personally led a thousand Shaolin monks to the north, and the elders of the Beggars' Sect took 10,000 disciples of the Beggars' Sect to the Liao Kingdom. Duan Yu, the Dali Emperor who was sworn with Xiao Feng, personally led a thousand imperial guards to rescue Xiao Feng.

"Xiao Feng is Xiao Feng, it's really admirable!" Song Ming also received the news and personally led the young and middle-aged man from Sanbaizhuang to leave Songjiazhuang. Shandong heroes continued to join along the way. After leaving the Shandong border, there were more than a thousand people.

Song Ming and his group arrived first. Thinking that if so many people entered the city, there would be too much noise. The Liao Emperor stationed a hundred thousand troops in the city for the sake of the southern expedition. Once he was trapped in a siege or attracted the attention of the Liao Emperor, Xiao Feng would probably be sentenced to death.

Although Xiao Feng was the King of Chu of the Great Liao Dynasty and the King of the Southern Court, he had a high position and a powerful position, if Xiao Feng was a big hidden danger, he would never have been ruthless. In the original trajectory, Yelu Hongji planned to kill Xiao Feng.

Song Ming arranged for others to prepare for a retreat so that he could leave quickly and smoothly after rescuing Xiao Feng. After some arrangements, Song Ming entered the city alone and sneaked into the royal palace. He found that the royal palace was extremely strict. There were probably four or five thousand guards in a royal palace, so he attached great importance to Xiao Feng.

Song Ming followed Xiao Feng's breath and came to a hall with extremely bright candlelight. Seeing that the hall was extremely harsh, hundreds of people were watching it. Xiao Feng was locked by thick iron chains. It was obvious that the Liao army was very afraid of Xiao Feng.

But that's true. If this is not the case, even if the army is stationed in the royal palace and Xiao Feng is leaving, no one can stop Xiao Feng. This is the terrible thing of the top masters in the world.

"Brother Xiao!" Song Ming shrank into a line and clearly came into Xiao Feng's ears. Xiao Feng looked in the voice and saw that there was nothing strange in the guards. Then he saw Song Ming on the dark wooden beam. Xiao Feng was secretly moved. The two had no big friendship. Unexpectedly, Song Ming would take the risk to rescue him.

Xiao Feng knew very well that he was imprisoned, and the royal palace was stationed in the elite Liao Dynasty, and they were the personal soldiers of the Liao emperor. They only followed the orders of the Liao emperor. His confidants and subordinates had long been transferred from Nanjing.

"Brother Xiao, I'll go and save your wife and children first, and come to save you later!" Seeing that Xiao Feng was worried, Song Ming knew in his heart that Xiao Feng was worried about his wife and children's comfort, otherwise Xiao Feng would not have been imprisoned here with his martial arts skills.

Song Ming left and found the residence of Xiao Feng's wife and children. Compared with the guards in Xiao Feng, there were obviously fewer people in this courtyard, and there were only a dozen guards. Song Ming easily located the acupoints of these guards without any sound.

"Miss Azhu?" Song Ming was surprised to see Azhu wearing luxurious clothes and holding a baby. Unexpectedly, Xiao Feng was still with Azhu.

"Song Hero?" Azhu looked at Song Ming who broke into the room in surprise. At the beginning of the Xingzi Forest, Song Ming left a deep impression on Azhu.

"Azhu, you prepare and I will save you." Song Ming said.

"Song Daxia, Brother Xiao is still being detained, I..."

"Miss Azhu, if you don't save you first, how could Xiao Feng leave?" Song Ming said.

Azhu is also a smart person. He knew that Xiao Feng would have to leave with his seal. If it weren't for their mother and son implicating Xiao Feng, Xiao Feng would not have given up against the Liao army and was imprisoned in the royal palace.

Azhu simply packed up and nodded slightly to Song Ming, indicating that he had packed his luggage.

Song Ming took Azhu and his son to avoid the many guards, and then handed them to the Songjiazhuang children in a nearby inn. They simply drew out the costumes and went out of the city to avoid chaos and accidents later.

Song Ming felt relieved when he saw Azhu and his son being taken out of the city and returned to the royal palace.
Chapter completed!