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Chapter 51 The Covenant of Swords (1)

Outside the gate of Honglu Temple, a middle-aged strong man with a bearded face led Xiao Du and three others to stand there. This person should be Xiao Fengshan, an enemy of Liao Kingdom, Liemadustelie Madus.

When Xiao Fengshan saw Lin Feng and others appear, he took two steps to come to Lin Feng, grabbed his waist knife, pulled it out, and raised it to his eyes to watch.

Lin Feng laughed silently. The chief chief of the Liao Dynasty's Ministry of Rites didn't seem to care much about etiquette!

Xiao Fengshan looked over and over for a while, then he reluctantly returned the knife to Lin Feng, and asked loudly with some doubts: "Do you all use this kind of knife?" Although his words were a little awkward, it seemed that he had specialized in learning the Chinese language.

Lin Feng pointed to the brothers behind him, nodded slightly, and bowed to him.

"Good knife! Lord Lin, right? Please follow me into the palace!" Xiao Fengshan raised his thumbs up, turned around and left after saying that.

Lin Feng didn't care about these red tape, so he invited the three masters Lin Renzhao, Chen Desheng, and Feng Jingyun to accompany him with their weapons, and others could team up to "stroll" in the city.

The group of people rode their horses and then walked quickly, crossed the inner city of Nanjing and rushed to the imperial city. Along the way, teams of Khitan patrol soldiers with tiger backs and waists walked past them, their eyes always stared at the steel knives around their waists. As soon as the other party passed by, they began to whisper something.

Seeing Lin Feng's puzzled eyes, Xiao Fengshan from Sitrimadu said knowingly: "There are three rarest things on our grassland: horses, treasure swords, and mellow wine. Your swords can cut off our best steel swords, which will naturally arouse our Khitan warriors' curiosity!"

The group walked to a garden. Except for Lin Feng and Lin Renzhao and the other two were asked to remove the steel knives before entering.

The group passed through the hall and walked to a lake deep in the garden. Lin Renzhao, Xiao Du and others were stopped by the palace guards. Xiao Fengshan and Lin Feng and the others boarded a dragon-headed boat and sailed towards the island in the middle of the lake.

In the middle of the snow-covered island in the middle of the lake, a tall warm-up pavilion stands in the middle, but the surrounding windows are open and there is a voice coming from inside.

Xiao Fengshan and Lin Feng walked into the warm pavilion. The air conditioner entered through the open window, mixed with the heat from the steaming brazier in the pavilion. The two breaths mixed together and rushed towards him, feeling very strange. On the large table in the middle of the warm pavilion, eight people sat, and a young man in a golden robe, a tiger-skinned white hat on his head, with a white face and strong eyebrows. He was the current Liao emperor Yelu Ruan.

Yelu Ruan was born in 918 AD. His little name was Wuyu. He was the grandson of the Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji. He was only 33 years old this year and had just become a four-year-old. Yelu Ruan followed Emperor Taizong of Liao Yelu Deguang to destroy the Later Jin Dynasty and was promoted to King Yongkang. On his way back north, Emperor Taizong of Liao died, and Yelu Ruan ascended the throne in front of the coffin. The Liao historical praised him: "The rituals are beautiful, generous, strict inside and outside, good at riding and shooting, and they are happy to give it to you, and people hope to return."

Lin Feng bent down to salute Emperor Liao Shizong, relied on his clothes wearing the Southern Tang Yunhui General, which immediately caused two cold snorkelings around him.

Yelu Ruan, who was slender, stood up and reached out to signal Lin Feng to sit beside him. Lin Feng naturally did not dare to be arrogant and stood respectfully at the last seat.

At the beginning, Yelu Ruan went south with Emperor Taizong of Liao to conquer the Later Jin Dynasty, and even established the Liao Kingdom in Taiyuan for a long time. Deeply, he yearned for the rich land in the south. After ascending the throne, he launched two large-scale invasions to the south. At the same time, Yelu Ruan always asked the Han scholars to accompany him in the palace at all times, and had long spoken clearly and fluent Chinese language.

Yelu Ruan introduced the seven people at the table to Lin Feng one by one, and Lin Feng greeted each other one by one.

The five Khitan clothingmen were Yelu Wuzhi, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Court, Yelu Hu, the Privy Councilor of the Southern Court, Chache, the Prince of Taining, Yelu Long, the Prince of Xuanhui, and the Prince of Yan left behind in Nanjing. The two Han clothingmen were Gao Xun, the Privy Councilor of the Mizhi Certificate Zhang Jian.

Lin Feng had a rough understanding of the Liao Dynasty's official system before: the Northern Privy is similar to the Ministry of War, the Southern Privy is similar to the Ministry of Personnel, the Yili Bi is similar to the Ministry of Justice, the Xuanhui is similar to the Ministry of Works, the Di Liema is similar to the Ministry of Rites, the Northern and Southern Prefecture Prime Ministers in short. Ti Yin is responsible for governing the clan, Lin Yaxiu's statement, and Yu Yue sits and discusses it.

After the group sat down, Xuan Hui made Yelu Long speak in a stiff Chinese first: "Mr. Lin, borrow a knife and look."

Yelu Ruan laughed twice, suppressed Yelu Long who was about to get up, pointed to the full table of wine and dishes and said, "Is it a pleasure to have a guest coming from afar? Come on, drink a bowl of wine first! Let's talk about the knife later!"

Lin Feng was not polite either. He took a bowl of white horse milk wine and dried up with the people at the dinner. The warmth, spicyness, milky aroma, and a slight mutton smell were mixed together and rushed to his nose. Lin Feng almost choked and took a deep breath and suppressed the smell that the taste buds were not used to.

"Mr. Lin is also a generous person! Do another bowl!" Yelu Ruan brought another bowl and did it first.

The Emperor of Liao Kingdom is also very good at drinking! Lin Feng, who has an amazing alcohol content, is even more afraid of this milk wine, so he has another bowl of it.

"New History of the Five Dynasties? Appendix to the Four Barbarians" says: "I want to be handsome and handsome, and I am also good at painting, able to drink and treat scholars well." Today's scene is very consistent with this record. It is not as majestic as the Middle Earth emperor when he met the ministers from the Gentiles. Instead, it is like a few friends having a casual dinner and drinking.

After two big bowls of wine, the stomach and intestines suddenly became warm, and the atmosphere during the meal became warmer.

Xuan Hui sent Yelu Long to drink half a bowl of wine, then glared at Lin Feng and said, "Knife!"

Lin Feng also drank half a bowl with him and handed over the steel knife around his waist with both hands.

Yelu Long rubbed his hands on his clothes a few times, wiped away the stains, and then he carefully took the knife over, took a deep breath, and pulled it out gently.

The blade was solemn and silent, and it was dark all over. It was nothing special when you saw it. Yelu Long held the knife, looked up and down, left and right, listened to the sound, gestured the thickness, wiped the blade lightly, and exclaimed in his mouth.

At the end, Yelu raised his body, asked a guard in the pavilion for a knife, and chopped each other hard.

The right judgment is right! The place where the blades of Lin Feng's sword hit each other was just a little crooked, and the guard's sword had been cut out nearly a finger deep.

"What a magic weapon!" The people in the house couldn't help but exclaim. The word "Khitan" originally meant to be iron, and it means hardness. Naturally, it is also very proud of the quality of the self-produced steel knives, but they are afraid of comparing goods. The guard's knife is already the best among the Khitan iron knives. No one would have thought that the difference between the two knives was so obvious.

"How to forge this knife?" Yelu Long asked immediately.

"How valuable is this knife?" Wang Cha, who had been smiling and silent, asked.

"Can this knife be mass-produced?" Zhang Jian, a scholar in Mizhi, also asked at the same time.

Of course, Lin Feng would not answer Yelu Long's question and said with a smile: "Sir, the cost of each knife is currently more than three stakes of the Tang Dynasty Tongbao. My Tang Dynasty can already be mass-produced. I believe the price will drop slightly in the future!"

Lin Feng increased the cost of the steel knife by nearly five times as soon as he opened his mouth! Of course, he had to ask for a huge price in business! In international trade, who would do the profits if they were low? For a sword, Sanguan was not high at all, but if it was used as a daily weapon for soldiers, Sanguan seemed too high.

Yelu Wu, the Privy Councilor of the Northern Court, who was about the same age as Yelu Ruan, asked: "Mr. Lin, what conditions should be required to make a deal for such a good knife?" Yelu Wuzhi and Yelu Hu were both advocated that the then Yongkang King Yelu Ruan was taken to the position of the powerful ministers at that time, so they naturally received high returns from the powerful ministers of the dynasty at the time.
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