Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

After staying in a restaurant in Huanglong Mansion for one night, and letting Yue Fei "realize" his wish of "drinking with all the lords" in Huanglong Mansion in advance, Ximen Qing took Yue Fei and others out of Huanglong Mansion to meet with the brigade outside the city. And, after crossing the Songwa River, the river went straight to Huining City, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin.

When he came outside Huining City by the Hushui River, Ximen Qing's eyes lit up.

At this time, Huining City was still the same as the first time Ximenqing saw it. No large-scale city walls were built, but the villages of nobles were surrounded by wooden fences on the hillside.In the stockade, there are people from the Wanyan tribe living in it.

But what caught Ximen Qing's eyes at this time was that besides the existing villages, many tents with various flags were added outside Huining City.

At first glance, these newly added camps seemed to be in disarray, but when Ximen Qing looked closely, he saw the way.

These camps outside Huining City were divided into more than a dozen groups indistinctly, with some distance between them.

There are dozens of tents in each camp, and these large and small tents surround a large tent in the center.In front of the big tent, a flag with Jurchen written on it was raised high with wooden poles.

Ximen Qing knew without looking at the banners that these temporary tents on the outskirts of Huining City were the Jurchen ministries who had come from all over the Kingdom of Jin.

The flags of those mature Jurchen tribes are usually made of dyed brocade cloth with fine workmanship, and the names of the tribes are embroidered in Chinese and Jurchen scripts.On the other hand, the Jurchen tribe, who came from the bitterly cold place in the northeast, used various animal skins and bird feathers to make flags, declaring their own uniqueness.

Ximenqing had traveled with the Jin army on the Shangjing Road of the Liao Kingdom and had seen some Jurchen tribes. Therefore, he quickly recognized the Wendihan tribe, the Jiagu tribe, the Tudan tribe, the Wugulun tribe, and the Pucha tribe. Tribal banner.The rest of the flags of the Tang Kuo tribe and most other tribes, Ximen Qing, have not seen it yet, and it is too far away to be able to distinguish it for the time being.

These big Jurchen tribes are all in charge of some small tribes, so there are probably no less than a hundred small tribes following these big tribes.Even if only dozens of people from each tribe came, there would be thousands of Jurchens outside Ning City.

When Ximenqing saw it, he sighed in his heart: "It seems that all my rivals in love have come! But, didn't Wanyan Mou Zongxiong say that only a few of his children admired Ulu? Why are there so many tribes here? The secondary one was beaten to the point of bleeding!"

Tudan Dingge from the Tudan tribe, Wugu Lunyeliye from the Wugu Lun tribe, and Pucha Shijianu from the Pucha tribe, these three were Ximen Qing's known competitors.

In addition, Wanyan Zongxiong didn't tell Ximen Qing whether most of the other children would participate in the competition to recruit relatives.

Approaching the camps of these tribes, seeing the sturdy Jurchen warriors walking around in the camp, Ximen Qing always felt that there would be a brawl.

The open space where Ximen Qing brought people to Huining City several times before and set up camp has been occupied by the Jurchen tribe who arrived first.Ximenqing brought more than 200 people with him on this trip, as well as a lot of horses and goods, so naturally he had to set up a separate camp.He looked left and right, but didn't see a suitable campsite for a while.

Just when Ximen Qing was frowning and wanted to occupy an open space to camp at will, suddenly several warriors on horseback came out of Huining City and greeted him.

"Brother Ximen Qing, you kept me waiting!" the leading warrior shouted to Ximen Qing immediately.

When many Jurchens on the road saw this warrior, they retreated to the side of the road and saluted him, calling him "Prince".

Ximen Qing looked intently and found that the person who came was none other than the eldest son of Emperor Wanyan Aguda of the Kingdom of Jin, Crown Prince Wanyan Shenguo, who is now named Wanyan Zongjun in Chinese.

"Brother Shengguo, I'm not late, am I?" Ximen Qing rode forward.

Chapter 688 Ximen Qing's Umbrella

Both Wanyan Zongjun and Ximen Qing jumped off their horses, and after hugging each other, they asked him: "Brother Ximen Qing, I have been waiting for you in the city for a few days! I just saw that you are observing the terrain, but you are choosing to camp. The land? Come with me, I have already sent someone to occupy a camp for you."

"Oh, there is really Brother Lao Shenguo!" Ximen Qing thanked.Because of Wanyan Wulu's relationship, this future brother-in-law helped Ximen Qing a lot in the Kingdom of Jin, and Ximen Qing was very satisfied.

"Come with me, to tell you the truth, this is also Wulu's intention. Before you came, the Tudan Division and the Wugu Lun Division had already proposed marriage to my father and decided to participate in the contest to recruit relatives. They also inquired about you This Song man wanted to propose a marriage, and he was very unhappy. Although this is the capital city, people from the Tudan Division and the Wugu Lun Division dare not do anything wrong, but it is inevitable that they will come to your camp to harass and provoke trouble. Therefore, I give You chose a safe place to camp." Wanyan Zongjun said in a low voice.

"Do they still dare to fight privately in the capital?" Ximen Qing asked.

In fact, considering that the Jurchens are naturally martial and aggressive, such as Wanyan Yinshu would kill people when drunk, Ximen Qing was also prepared.This time, Shi Jin, who is also young and aggressive, "Jiuwenlong" came here, maybe it was to deal with such troubles.

"Hehehe~ On the territory of my Wanyan tribe, which tribe dares to do anything wrong? I, Wanyan Zongjun, led thousands of pro-armies and was responsible for suppressing riots in Huining City! The Tudan tribe and the Wugu theory tribe are all from my Wanyan tribe. The in-laws of the Ministry of War are loyal to my Wanyan Department. They will not openly cause trouble and cause a large-scale private fight here. However, they can send someone to challenge you individually before the martial arts competition to suppress your spirit. This is not a violation." Wanyan Zongjun said.

Although the Wanyan Department received the unanimous support of the Jurchens and established the Dajin Kingdom.However, many Jurchen tribes used to fight each other endlessly, and there were deep grievances in the past.The Dajin Kingdom was founded, and there is still a legacy of tribal alliances, and the autonomy of each ministry is still quite large.These tribes all obeyed the orders of the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda, but that didn't mean they had forgotten their enmity with each other.Now that we meet in the capital, there will inevitably be some bumps and bumps.

Obviously, the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda had anticipated this situation, and had already deployed troops in advance to maintain law and order inside and outside the city, strictly forbidding the tribes from fighting each other for their past personal enmity.Wanyan Zongjun's thousands of cavalry were of course not just to protect a small Song businessman Ximen Qing.

However, Jurchen's martial arts habits have not changed, and Jurchen warriors are allowed to ask their opponents for contests or duels openly.With the consent of both parties and the supervision of notarization by city officials, these Jurchen warriors can fight one-on-one.

In the past few days, there have been several martial arts competitions between Jurchen warriors outside Huining City, and it can be regarded as an appetizer for everyone before the official martial arts contest to recruit relatives.

Now that Ximen Qing, a Song native, came to participate in Princess Jin's martial arts competition, several tribes openly expressed their opposition.

However, Ximen Qing already owned a territory and a tribe on Jin Guopo Sulu. As the head of a tribe, he proposed to the Emperor of Jin, and it was not against the rules to participate in this martial arts competition.In the end, those tribes failed to prevent Ximen Qing from attending the conference.

Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Wulu worried that these tribes would have nowhere to vent their dissatisfaction, and after Ximen Qing's arrival, they would send people to challenge them and intentionally humiliate Ximen Qing.

What Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Wulu meant was to let Ximenqing temporarily avoid conflicts with these tribes, and not to conflict with them before the martial arts competition.All the skills are reserved for display in the martial arts arena.

After hearing this, Ximenqing decided to follow the arrangement of Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Wulu brothers and sisters, and not to be as knowledgeable as those Jurchen barbarians of the bird tribe.

These idiots still want to compete with me, Ximen Qing, an official?Your eldest princess Wanyan Wulu and her own brother Wanyan Zongjun are all on my side, advising and escorting me, what chance do you bird people have?

However, where exactly is Wanyan Zongjun taking me?I have more than 200 horses here, it is impossible for him to take me to live in his village, right?If that's the case, wouldn't they want to kill a few Jurchens in anger?

After riding through the camps of several tribes, Wanyan Zongjun brought Ximen Qing to an open field.He told Ximen Qing that by building the camp here, he could avoid being harassed by several big tribes such as the Tudan tribe, the Wugulun tribe and the Pucha tribe.

Ximen Qing looked around, and there was a large tribal camp next to the open space Wanyan Zongjun had designated for him.Around the big tribal camp, there are also several small tribal camps.If Ximen Qing camps again, it will form a trend of staring at the big tribe's camp.

Reminiscent of the layout of the camps we passed by just now, many small tribes gathered around the camps of the big tribes that led them.Outside of Ning City, a delicate balance was maintained among the various tribal alliances.

Ximen Qing understood that Wanyan Zongjun had found a powerful tribe as a protective umbrella for himself!Presumably, this tribe was not easily provoked by the Tudan tribe, the Wugulun tribe, and the Pucha tribe.

Based on Ximen Qing's superficial understanding of Jurchen's various tribes, he had an answer to this powerful tribe that he guessed in his mind.

Sure enough, Wanyan Zongjun introduced to him that the large tribe next to the Ximenqing camp is the Tang Kuo tribe, the descendant of the Dajin Kingdom.Wanyan Zongjun had already negotiated with Tang Kuo's tribe in advance to let Ximenqing set up camp within their sphere of influence.

Ximenqing remembered that this Tang Kuo tribe was not only the closest ally of the Wanyan tribe, but also a powerful tribe among the Jurchens of the Dajin Kingdom who mastered the power of shamanism.Except for the Wanyan tribe who is the royal family, the other Jurchen tribes really dare not easily provoke the Tang Kuo tribe.

The mothers of Wanyan Zongjun and Wanyan Wulu were the empress Tang Kuo who was born in the Tang Kuo tribe, so the two brothers and sisters also have half of the blood of the Tang Kuo tribe.This Tang Kuo Department is their solid backing.

For the so-called fairness on the surface, Wanyan Zongjun couldn't bring Ximen Qing and his party directly to his stockade.It is indeed the best choice for him to arrange Ximenqing and his party here to use the power of Tang Kuo's department to deter other departments that are about to move.

In fact, in the eyes of discerning people, Wanyan Zongjun's move is already partial enough.However, as long as people from the Tang Kuo Department are willing to protect Ximen Qing, who can say anything wrong?

There are people in the court who are easy to handle, Ximenqing will not be a hero at this time, and refuse Wanyan Zongjun's kindness.It didn't take long for Ximenqing's camp to rise up next to Tang Kuo's camp, and all the people he brought settled down.

It's a pity that these few days are the most sensitive time, no matter how bold Wanyan Wulu is, he dare not show up to meet Ximen Qing privately.

Life is so lonely~

Chapter 689 I'm Hiring a Horse

It has to be said that the camp that Wanyan Zongjun arranged for Ximen Qing saved him a lot of trouble.

After the warriors of Tudan, Wugulun and Pucha learned that Tang Kuo intended to protect Ximen Qing, they had no choice but to scold them as "cowardless rats" and reluctantly gave up the idea of ​​harassing the disgusting Ximen Qing.

There were also children from some big tribes who originally wanted to join in the fun and participate in the contest to recruit relatives.But when they found out that Prince Wanyan Zongjun had a close relationship with Ximen Qingguo, and they were so partial that they used the power of their uncle's family Tang Kuo to help them, they couldn't help but understand a little bit.

After these aristocratic children secretly inquired, they more or less found out that some eldest princess Wanyan Wulu had a special liking for Ximenqing from the Song Dynasty, and suddenly lost interest, and lost interest in participating in the martial arts competition to recruit relatives.

Of course, there are also tribal children who know the inside story but still stand up to ask for marriage, and want to participate in the competition to recruit relatives, such as Jiagu Xie Nu from the Jiagu tribe.

Ximen Qing arrived in Huining City, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, five days before the Martial Arts Competition. Before he arrived, there were already Tudan Dingge from the Tudan Tribe, Wu Gu Lun Erlun from the Wu Gu Lun Tribe, and Pu Cha Tribe. The three servants of the Pucha Shi family proposed marriage to the emperor, wanting to marry the eldest princess Wanyan Wulu.

The day after Ximenqing arrived in Huining City, Jiagu Xie Nu from the Jiagu Department also joined the ranks of the contest to recruit relatives.