The fourth month of arrival in Si Binh Province.

One day, Li Deming suddenly sent someone to invite Zhu Shang to share dinner, saying that he wanted to explain all the things that had not been clarified.

Zhu Shang was accompanying Hu Ling to shoot arrows on his horse in the grassland, and after hearing the words, he shot the arrow in his hand into the bull's-eye in the distance, then turned over and jumped off the horse, and told Hu Ling to go back earlier and then left with the attendant.

Hu Lingzheng was having fun, nodded and drove his horse in another direction.

Li Deming prepared good wine and meat to entertain Zhu Shang, and the two watched the graceful woman bounce the pipa and dance while eating.

After three rounds of drinking, Li Deming raised the wine cup leisurely and leaned closer to Zhu Shang, until the wine in his mouth could spray on Zhu Shang's face, and then said: "Mr. Beijiang, I have always respected you, but I really can't agree to your request, but I don't want to refuse your request, so I want to use an exchange method to reach this agreement." ”

"King Xiping, please speak. ”

Zhu Shang's eyelids jumped, he felt that he was as cunning as Li Deming would not give a good quid pro quo.

Zhao Heng, the official family of Jingde, gave Li Deming the title of King of Xiping, and also gave 10,000 taels of silver, 10,000 horses of silk, 20,000 yuan of money, and 20,000 catties of tea, and allowed him to set up a field in the security army.

In the third year of Song Dazhongxiangfu, there was a great famine in Western Xia, and Li Deming dared to ask the Song Dynasty for a million stone of food.

"Mr. Beijiang, you left the servant girl next to me, and I agreed to your request, what do you think?"

Li Deming's eyes were full of excitement, and he grinned as he spoke, and he said it extremely casually, as if he was exchanging two items.

Zhu Shang squinted and stared at Li Deming, a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his heart, but there was a smile on his face, like a fox.

He clearly sensed that the excitement in Li Deming's eyes was only revealed after suppressing it with all his might.

He had never noticed that Li Deming had paid attention to Hu Ling, and in the past few months of conversation, they had never talked about her, and he had never brought her to Li Deming in order to protect her.

Only Li Deming's sister met Hu Ling, who was dressed as a man, by chance, and later became friends. Perhaps, she talked about Hu Ling to her brother?

Li Deming definitely didn't really want to exchange, but he definitely paid close attention to Hu Ling, what was he going to do?

Between the lightning and the fire, Zhu Shang thought of many things, and the whole person became more vigilant.

He said slowly: "It's just a handmaid, it's not worth making such an exchange, and what kind of stunning handmaid you want, just tell me, I'll find it for you." ”

"I want this one!"

Li Deming leaned back, put down the empty wine cup, and looked at Zhu Shang through the candlelight, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Zhu Shang shook his head.

Li Deming's smile faded in an instant, and his palm slapped on the dining table with a bang.

At this time, the dancing girls had all retreated, and with a "pop", the banquet was surrounded by warriors with swords and armor.

"This matter can't be a child's play, after all, it is a major event for the Western Xia and Liao to break up and really belong to the Great Song Dynasty, such an important decision should not be exchanged with a maidservant. ”

Zhu Shang's face did not change, poured mellow wine into the wine cup, and raised it to salute Li Deming, his eyes were deep.

"I have always been decisive in doing things, if you promise me at this moment, then I will write a book to surrender to the Song Dynasty, be my king of Xiping in peace, and I can also send troops to attack Liao and help you regain the sixteen states of Yan!"

Li Deming stood up and said extremely heroically.

The warrior's sword is unsheathed all around.

The firelight reflected off the sharp swords, and the reflected firelight intertwined in the room, making the room brighter and the atmosphere tense.

Zhu Shang did not have the slightest fear, stood up with a full cup of wine, and looked at Li Deming at eye level.

He looked around, and finally his eyes fell on Li Deming, and said: "Yan Sixteen Prefecture is not necessary for me, but the servant girl you are talking about is something I must not lose." Moreover, if the Xixia enemy Liao will be completely defeated, if the king of Xiping only makes verbal promises and does nothing practical as in the past, then this agreement does not need to be negotiated. ”

After speaking, he poured the whole glass of wine into his belly, turned around and walked away. In a row of soldiers, he calmly moved forward.

Li Deming was so angry that he kicked over the food table, frowned, and shouted at Zhu Shang's back with his fists.

"Back then, Zhao Guangyi held my relatives hostage to Bianjing, if it weren't for my father knowing that the entry of the family into Beijing is tantamount to Jiaolong's loss of water, and there is no possibility of turning the tables, so he fled under the pretext, otherwise my clan would have been completely wiped out under the sword of your Song people!"

"Back then, Zhao Guangyi sent the Fifth Route Army to attack Xia, but they were all defeated by my Xia people, you Song people are not at all against my Xia people, why do you dare to despise my Xia people so much! Song people will always owe me! Now they dare to come to negotiate an agreement, it's really an inch!"

The soldier looked at Li Deming with his sword raised, waiting for his instructions, ready to take down Zhu Shang at any time.

The sky was as black as a cloud of ink, and it covered the ground with paint. There is a big road in front of Li Deming's living room, which extends outward, and on both sides of the road, there are two columns of torches, the flames are extremely red, and they keep swaying, like the red hair of a bewitching witch.

Under the sky, in the firelight, Zhu Shang stood still and turned around calmly.

He looked at Li Deming, who was standing outside the door of the meeting room and raised his arms angrily, across the flaming torches on both sides of the road, and a smile drifted through the corners of his mouth.

The person in front of him was so shameless and cunning, if he didn't remind him, this person would probably really think that Da Song owed him something.

"King Xiping, do you know why the Song Dynasty sent the Fifth Route Army to attack Xia?"

"It's because your father intercepted 400,000 yuan of grain and grass from the Great Song Army! Siege Lingwu City! How can this be what the Song people owe to Western Xia?"

"Today's Song Dynasty has no Zhao Guangyi, and today's official family is Zhao Heng, who ceded Xia, Sui, Yin, You, and Jing to your father, but your father captured Lingzhou, an important town in the Song Dynasty, and then captured Liangzhou, an important town in the northwest, and cut off the trade route between the Song Dynasty and the Western Regions, cut off the tribute from the Western Regions to the Song Dynasty, and at the same time forbade the Western Regions to sell horses to the Song Dynasty, what is the explanation for this behavior?"

"A few years ago, there was a great drought in Western Xia, and what kind of support and sacrifice the Song Dynasty made to understand the famine in Western Xia, you must have not forgotten it!"

"Who has to inch in, I hope you will think about it more!"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and left again, without the slightest hesitation, and a white figure quickly disappeared at the end of the road.

Li Deming was so angry that his eyes were about to pop out, and the generals around him asked if he needed to take down Zhu Shang, but he waved his hand with a black face to let all the soldiers retreat.

This person is brave and strategic, obviously arrogant like a peacock, but he has long covered the dazzling light and is willing to be an ordinary person. When he saw it today, it was far better than he had ever heard.

And he was not an official in the Song Dynasty, maybe he could......