Firmament

Rust can also get on the blades.

- A proverb of the security clan

With the rise of the Grassland Kingdom, the Nüzhi Kingdom, which occupied the northern part of the Eastern Kingdom and the homeland of the Khitan Kingdom, was sandwiched between the Grassland Kingdom and the Eastern Kingdom. The steppe country in the north sharpens its knives and covets the land and property of the female country. The eastern kingdom in the south is always thinking about the recovery of the Central Plains.

In the spring of 1208, the king of Dongfang saw that his army was crushed, and after pondering for a long time, he decided to send Gong Wanli, a descendant of Gong Taiyuan, to the Nüzhi military camp to negotiate peace with a powerful enemy.

Gong Wanli was born in a family of generals, and he was very interested in military affairs since he was a child. When he grew up, he joined the army and became a staunch main battle faction.

The reason why the king sent him to participate in the peace talks was to use his resolute belief in the war of resistance to deter Nü Naokoku, and secondly, to test whether Nü Naokuni had peace sincerity.

Gong Wanli argued with the female officials, expounded the principle of peaceful coexistence in the eastern countries, gave examples of the benefits of friendship between the two countries, patiently stated the disadvantages of the struggle between the two countries, and explained the idiom story of "the snipe and the clam fight, and the fisherman gains" to the female officials, hoping that they can know the stakes of both sides losing and the third party taking advantage.

Gong Wanli's frank words are like playing the piano to a cow and seeking skin with a tiger for a female official. Relying on her military superiority, she was arrogant and rude, asking for a sky-high price, and wantonly humiliating the envoys of the Eastern Kingdom. The peace talks did not achieve tangible results.

In desperation, Gong Wanli sent his subordinates back to Lin'an to report the negotiation situation to the king, and asked the king to send troops to attack the army of the female direct country, exert pressure from the periphery, and create favorable conditions for peace talks.

On the one hand, the king reprimanded Gong Wanli for his incompetence and ordered him to reach a peace treaty with Nü Nao, but on the other hand, he quietly dispatched troops to attack Nü Nao's army according to his advice.

Gong Wanli was ashamed for a while when he was harshly reprimanded by the king, and he was determined to break the cauldron and make a last fight with the female Zhiguo. He talked eloquently in front of the female king, knew it with affection, moved it with reason, and hit the other party's vital point.

He said: "I want to tell you a story called the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch follows. Today, my Dongfang country is like an autumn cicada, and the female country is a praying mantis that is determined to win. You are about to devour our country. But did you know that a ferocious yellow finch is eyeing you behind you? Even if you destroy our country, we will all be devoured by that yellow finch in the end. Do you know who that yellow finch is hiding in the shadows?".

The female king raised his eyelids and asked, "Who is it?"

Gong Wanli replied: "It's the grassland country behind your country!"

At this moment, King Nuzhi received the report of the attack of the army of the Eastern Kingdom, and then recalled Gong Wanli's sharp and wise words, thinking about the grassland country becoming stronger day by day, and suddenly felt a thorn in his back, and shuddered. However, he knew very well that the king of the Eastern Kingdom was weak and eager to make peace, so he continued to stalk and force Gong Wanli to sign a humiliating peace treaty.

Under the tremendous pressure of the main war faction, the king of the Eastern Kingdom imposed the responsibility for signing the peace treaty on Gong Wanli's head, and punished all officials who participated in the peace talks with demotion of their officials.

The king shouted sharply: "You grovel and humiliate the country, so why should I visit my ancestors!".

Gong Wanli has no one to say about his suffering, and there is nowhere to redress his grievances, so he braved the reproaches and insults of the whole country, made compromises, and endured humiliation in exchange for the temporary continuation of the national honor.

And the state capital was transferred from the hands of the female direct country people to the hands of the grassland people. The people still live under harsh rule and brutal oppression. They trembled like frightened birds, and they didn't know when they could return to the Great Song Dynasty.

Among the descendants of Wang Chen, there is a man named Wang Changshun.

Wang Changshun runs a small restaurant in the city of Bingzhou, specializing in selling local snacks, such as haggis, oily meat, dough, sauced meat, mash, millet porridge, old tofu, steamed dumplings, fish and sheep buns and enema, as well as the local people's best at ramen, shaved noodles, dialed noodles, rolled noodles, sliced, picked, stewed noodles, simmered noodles, spiced noodles, fish picking, cat ears, and dumpling. The business of the restaurant is very prosperous.

One evening, several stout soldiers of the Prairie Kingdom staggered to Wang's restaurant and asked Wang Changshun to bring out the best things to comfort them.

Wang Changshun thought to himself: The best taste in our family is naturally pasta, so he quickly ordered the guys to make a few large bowls of various pasta and serve them himself.

The steppe people are nomadic people, and their staple food is beef, mutton and cheese. The soldier was very displeased to see that there were only a few small pieces of diced meat in the rice bowl. A soldier tasted a bite of pasta and felt that it was bland and tasteless, thinking that Wang Changshun was deliberately fooling them. They were so angry that they splashed all the noodles and soup on the ground, brandished sharp knives in their hands, and shouted, "Bring the beef and mutton to Lao Tzu!"

The customers in the restaurant were so frightened when they saw this situation that they put down their rice bowls and flew away without touching the ground.

Wang Changshun saw that the soldiers were angry and knew that he had caused a big disaster, so he quickly explained: "This army is in chaos, and there is a shortage of goods in the state city, and the supply of beef and mutton has long been cut off. "

The soldiers didn't listen to his explanation at all, stared at the bulging black eyes, and ordered sharply: "If we can't bring beef and mutton, we will slaughter your whole family and eat it as beef and mutton!"

Wang Changshun was so frightened when he heard this, he hurriedly ran to the backyard, caught an old hen that was left to lay eggs, slaughtered it with two knives, plucked and washed it, put it in a pot and stewed it over high heat, and then served it with a smiling face.

When the soldiers saw the meat coming, they cried out for wine.

Wang Changshun didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly brought two cans of wine from the inner room.

The soldier was full of wine and food, and walked away with a curse in his mouth.

Wang Changshun stood at the door of the restaurant, looking at their distant backs, and couldn't help muttering in his heart: Earlier they were Tang Wu people, then Khitan people, then female straight people, and now they have become grassland people, but they don't see the Central Plains people. Alas, it seems that there is no hope for the Eastern Country.