On the second day, Gu Yuanbai had the Hall of Government call up Lin Zhicheng's dossier.
In the scrolls, Lin Zhicheng had written to the late emperor's letters were also recorded in the book, Gu Yuanbai read it, and immediately repaired a letter, so that Lin Zhicheng after the year to return to the capital to report his duties.
A small county magistrate, and in the new land has not completed three years, where the need to return to the capital to report duty. Although the saint did not say will Lin Zhicheng recalled to do what, but the capital and Lin Zhicheng good friends, already in tears waiting to meet with Lin Zhicheng, and secretly look forward to Lin Zhicheng can be reused by the saint.
In December, the temperature plummeted, and winter was completely ushered in in the capital.
This winter is a bit special, first of all, the northern part of the locust plague by the court to suppress the thunder and wind. Then there were the many clashes with the Khitans at the border, and the reports of success came one after another. These major events, by the "Dahengguo Newspaper" radially spread around the trend, also known by the people.
But these things were too far away from the people, who were angry at the nomadic encroachments in the north and proud of the victories of Daheng's soldiers, but after hearing about them, they were still more concerned about the emerging hot beds in the capital.
Those who are close to the capital have already started to invite craftsmen from the capital to come to their homes to make kangs.
However, it is not easy for them to hire even if they want to nowadays, the craftsmen in the capital have been busy for a long time, the capital is full of rich and noble families, and these rich and noble families have dozens of kangs in one plate, and the local ones can't be busy enough, and they still want to go to the field?
No, no, no, no. It's too much of a pain in the ass.
There are some people who have learned kang-making skills and want to go abroad to make kangs for these people, but they cannot get the certificate from the government. The state newspaper has said that if you hire someone who can't give you a certificate to make a kang at home, the court won't be responsible for any bad kangs or smoke in the flue, because these people have not been taught by the royal craftsmen, so if you are greedy and want to save a few pennies, you will have to pay for the crime of making bad kangs yourself.
Because of these words, many people were reluctant to use those who had learned the method of coiling kang by stealing it. Originally, the difference between what a serious kang-making craftsman charges and what a person who learns by stealing is only a few coins, so why take the risk? If they really can't use it, the money will be wasted.
So even if they waited, these people were willing to wait for craftsmen from the capital to come, or for local craftsmen to go ahead and learn.
And at this point, the Western Xia emissaries finally decided that they were going to set sail and leave Daheng.
But before he left, the Western Xia Prince thought of that expression on Chu Wei's face as he watched him in front of the palace gates.
Obviously, he liked Chu Wei, but when he thought of him, a malice would instead rise in the heart of the Western Xia Emperor, which was mixed with an unknown fire. The more it comes to the day of departure the more it burns.
Li Angshun thought about it and found the reason by himself, thinking that it was Chu Wei who was too ungrateful to let him, the seventh prince of Western Xia, rise so deeply malicious.
In Daheng's territory, reason told Li Anshun not to do anything, but the domineering and violent temper he had developed in Xixia made it impossible for him to hold back his anger.
Thus, the Western Xia Emperor was prepared to do something in the dark to get out of this inexplicable fire.
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Gu Yuanbai was waiting for the first snowfall of the year.
Snow in the capital tends to fall in December, and still goose feather snow that kind of down, when the night past, outside has been a foot can cover the foot naked thick snow.
As soon as winter arrives, everyone is waiting for snow, as if it's not winter if it doesn't snow a little. Gu Yuanbai is also waiting, waiting for a snowy year.
He was lying on the fiery kang, and the two wolves that Xue Yuan had given him were also ambling comfortably beside the kang, the heat not only making Gu Yuanbai feel comfortable, but also making these two wolves cozy as well.
Followed Gu Yuanbai for a period of time, these two wolves were raised times as lazy, something on the ground not moving, in addition to eating is to sleep, daily followed Gu Yuanbai out to the wind is the most spirited time of the day, shaking handsome and martial arts. However, although they are lazy, but smart, know who is the master of the meat reward, so extraordinarily pleasing to Gu Yuanbai.
Just like this, as soon as Gu Yuanbai moved his feet off the bed, the two wolves actively propped themselves up and walked over, their fluffy gray hair soft, and the Saint's feet landed directly on the wolves' backs.
Gu Yuanbai cried and laughed, moving away from the wolf's back, "You guys are really resourceful enough."
He reached out and rubbed the wolf a few times, and was about to withdraw his hand when the wolf poked its head over and licked Gu Yuanbai's palm intimately with its scarlet tongue.
The wolf's head was huge, and its sharp teeth were right next to its hand. Gu Yuanbai patted its wolf head, "Licking at the sight of a hand, where did you get that bad habit, is it clean?"
Tian Fusheng pinched his throat and said, "Our saint's hands must be clean."
"I'm saying whether their tongues are dry or not," Gu Yuanbai backhandedly pinched the lower jaw of the wolf's head, wrenching open his big mouth to look at the teeth bared by the wolf horses, "Have they been bathed?"
The eunuch who specialized in taking care of the two wolves came forward, "Your Holiness, it was just washed the other day."
"Still clean," Gu Yuanbai examined the teeth and mouths one by one, looking at the others with trepidation, and finally nodded with satisfaction, letting the two wolves go, "Not bad."
These two wolves didn't have official names yet, so Gu Yuanbai called them big wolf and little wolf, the more handsome one was the big wolf and the other was the little wolf.
Gu Yuanbai had someone lead them down to feed them, and as the palace staff brought warm water to purify their hands, he casually asked, "Are there many people in the capital who plate kangs?"
"It sounds like a lot," Tian Fusheng said joyfully, "What the Emperor thinks is good, the people also think is good. I've heard that there's a lot of excitement out there, with people who have kangs bragging about the wonders of the kang, and those who don't have kangs listening with growing curiosity, and the carpenters in the capital are so busy that they only have a few mouths to feed."
Gu Yuanbai laughed, "It really made the Minister of the Household open another entry. Look at this iron rooster appearance of the Minister of the Household today, it's really a big difference from the past."
"The Minister of the Household is becoming more and more devoted," said Tian Fusheng, "a good minister at the top."
Ever since Gu Yuanbai had reminded the Minister of Households not to marry the Secretary of the Imperial Households because he loved his talents, the Minister of Households had begun to shine in his position, doing his best for Gu Yuanbai and working several times harder than even before.
Gu Yuanbai nodded his head and was about to speak when someone outside suddenly came to report, "Your Holiness, the border gate has sent something and a folded document!"
Gu Yuanbai immediately said, "Present it!"
The person who informed him hurriedly walked in and presented a heavy wooden box, and after the palace attendant examined it, he opened it to see that inside was actually a bloody human head frozen in ice!
Gu Yuanbai's breath hitched as he stepped forward to fix his eyes on the man, and although he had never seen him before, he quickly recognized him, "Sydney Wandan!"
"Yes," the informant said, "news came from the northern border, Syvandan's tribe had no food in winter and tried to sneak attack our army, but was discovered by our army, and in a melee Syvandan was beheaded by our army under the sword."
Gu Yuanbai was blessed in a moment, "Who is the man who cut Sydney Wandan?"
"General Xue." The informant said.
This General Xue, is it Old General Xue Ping Xue, or General Xue Yuan Xue?
Gu Yuanbai suppressed these words, his heart intuited that it was not Xue Yuan who could do this thing of sending people's heads, "What is Syvandan's head sent to me for? After Syvandan's death, what happened to the other eight Khitan tribes?"
A Sydney Wandan dead is dead, and what happens afterward is only trouble if it's not handled well.
The man who briefed them presented the thick envelope, "You'll know it when you see it."
Gu Yuanbai took the letter paper and unfolded it, reading it at a glance.
It turned out that Sivandan's tribe had also been affected by the locust plague, which was better than Rilianna's but not much better. After receiving the remnants of Rilianna's army, soon, Sivandan ran out of food.
But Syvandan is not a reckless person like Rilianna, he set up an ambush in advance, and then led the soldiers of Daheng to fight, intending to take prisoners to exchange for food. The person who took the battle was Xue Yuan, in deliberately provoking Xue Yuan, Syvandan had laughed and taunted: "Your master is a small hairy man who has not left the breast milk, so sick that the wind will kill him, if he comes to me, I will pinch him to death with one finger!"
Xue Yuan, who had previously been smiling no matter how much he was scolded, turned expressionless at these words and stared at Sydney Wandan with gloomy eyes.
He did not suffer from agitation, Sydney Wandan had to lead the withdrawal. And when the late night, but also sound east to attack the west, sent Rilianna, his own son and his generals Wu Nan four attack, ready to drive in from the pass to grab food and return.
That night was a big melee, the most ridiculous thing is, Syvandan's son suffered an ambush, Syvandan went up to save, but was always on Syvandan's son hidden murderous intent of the general Unan as his son, so sent soldiers to release arrows in the dark of the night, intending to be killed by a stray arrow in the name of the boy and he did not deal with it, who had thought that when the soldiers of the Great Heng lighted up torches later, Unan realized that he killed actually is Syvandan. .
Unan was stunned.
Unan's men were also stunned.
At that moment, the entire Syvandan's tribal men were frozen in place with mixed emotions. It was only when the archers of Daheng's soldiers began to attack that they panicked and fled out of the pass in a hasty manner without a leader.
This head was precisely what Xue Yuan had chopped off in order to give Gu Yuanbai a chance to vent his anger.
Dare I say that Gu Yuanbai will die early, then Xie Wandan will die early.
After Gu Yuanbai saw how Sydney Wandan died, he instantly knew what was going on.
Sydney Wandan was hit by this arrow that killed him, on the surface it looks like it was caused by Unan, but in reality 80% or 90% of the probability is that Daheng's people took advantage of the chaos to shoot, and in this way framed the blame on Unan.
The process of the matter was written in extraordinarily detailed on the letter paper, and Gu Yuanbai could almost feel the swords and shadows and heavy crises of that night from within the letter paper. After he finished reading, he let out a long breath and lowered his hand to look at the head in the wooden box.
Regardless of the process, the result was beautiful. Sivandan died at the hands of one of his trusted generals, and regardless of whether the general tried to kill his son or him, the fact is that Sivandan's clan is in turmoil.
Two of the eight divisions of the Khitan have already been disorganized, and the rest of them should be in a hurry. Perhaps the goal of exchanging markets with the border and building trade routes can be accomplished faster than expected.
Gu Yuanbai looked at Sydney Wandan's head, looked at the pair of eyes that were no longer alive, and said compassionately, "You won't die in vain."
"And I have you to thank for laying such a great foundation for me to stir up your civil unrest and invasion later. Wait and see how this one-finger pinch of a yet-to-be-weaned brat in your mouth," he said, "is going to make you all disappear into the annals of history."