In the winter of the third year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, five merchant ships with strange origins ran aground on the coast of Cangzhou, and the soldiers of Cangzhou reported to Li Yinggu, the governor of Cangzhou. After asking, I learned that these were all merchant ships of the Jin Kingdom, because the ship was damaged by the sea wind, and they drifted here and ran aground. They sent a few merchants into the city with heavy gifts to see Lord Zhizhou, and asked Li Yinggu for permission to repair the ship before leaving.

Li Yinggu was very strange when he heard about the whole story: "How could the ships of the Jin Kingdom drift to the ground of my Cangzhou? ”

It stands to reason that Cangzhou is on the west bank of the Bohai Sea, very close to the straight-line distance of Jinmen. But Li Yinggu didn't have this kind of geographical concept in his mind at all!

It turned out that in the early years of the Great Song Dynasty, although Taizu cut the feudal towns and collected the military power, he was quite tolerant to the border generals of the West and Beirong, and the border generals had abundant financial resources, so they could motivate the officials and select spies to resist the strong Khitan and spy on foreign news. However, after Song Taizong, this law gradually became popular, and the financial power was returned to the central government, and the local guards had no way to plan and spread it in peacetime, and there was no emergency response in wartime. In the hands of the emperor of this dynasty, there are more guards of important border places than Cai Jing, Tong Guan, Wang Hao, Liang Shicheng and others. Li Yinggu's cognition of the Jin Kingdom came from Bianliang, and Bianliang's understanding of the Han Department came from Dengzhou, from Dengzhou to Bianliang and then to Cangzhou, and the information in all aspects has lagged behind, so although Cangzhou and Jinmen face each other across the sea, Li Yinggu's understanding of the Jurchens and the Jin Kingdom is almost the same as that of the mediocre officials in Shaanxi and Huguang!

Li Yinggu convened the curtain guests to discuss how to deal with this matter, and one of the curtain guests said: "Today, the saint wants to marry a good Jurchen, and everyone knows it!" Their merchant ship was shipwrecked, and they should be taken care of by their lives. "This curtain guest named Luo Xianqi was cast two years ago, this person's other skills are mediocre, but he has a unique way to buy overseas strange goods such as glass, famous horses, and Japanese knives, not only can he buy fine products, but the price is often lower than the market price. Li Yinggu often wants to pay filial piety to Tong Guan and other powerful people in Beijing, so he needs such a guest.

Li Yinggu nodded secretly when he said these two sentences, he was Tong Guan's disciple, and thought: "Now that Jiangnan has been pacified, the imperial court appointed Tong Taishi as the envoy of Shaanxi and Lianghe Xuanfu, obviously to use troops against the Khitan!" Since the use of troops against the Khitan will inevitably borrow from the Jin State, these merchants from the Jin State cannot be neglected. ”

At that moment, he ordered someone to invite those businessmen to meet, these people all spoke Chinese, and their clothes were no different from those of the Song people, Li Yinggu was already much relieved when he saw it, and when those merchants offered treasures, Li Yinggu was even more overjoyed, and he especially loved the glass mirror in it, and thought that it was just used to bribe Tong Guan! When asked where they were going to do business, the businessmen all said that they were going to Dengzhou, and then said that Dengzhou had a large entry and exit of goods, and faintly revealed that Wang Shizhong had a very large income every year!

Li Yinggu said in his heart: "Dengzhou was not a fat shortage, but in recent years, Wang Shizhong has been very favored and has repeatedly excelled in exams, thinking that it is because he spends a lot of money." There was a faint jealousy in his heart: "If there is also a field in Cangzhou, wouldn't it be wonderful!" ”

Only then did he think about it, and a businessman said, "The business in Dengzhou is not so good now." If there was a field here in Cangzhou, it would be great! ”

Li Yinggu asked, "Is my Cangzhou close to your Jin Kingdom?" ”

The merchant said, "Not far! Jinmen is not much different from Dengzhou! My lord, can you ask the court to open another field so that the villains can have more ways to make a living? ”

Li Yinggu said solemnly: "What are these words!" The court has its own decision on the matters of the field, how can it be predicted by one or two words! ”

The merchants hurriedly said yes. The merchants stayed in Cangzhou for about half a month, bought wood from the Cangzhou people and begged for water, and left after repairing the boat. A few days later, several more large ships came, led by one of the merchant ships that had been there last time. Because of the experience of the last time, the Cangzhou soldiers were not so anxious, and allowed the people on the boat to land.

Li Yinggu asked the merchant who asked to see him, "Why are you here again?" ”

The merchant said, "Not long after the merchant ship of the villain went to sea, they met Lord Ouyang's ship. Lord Ouyang was about to come to Cangzhou, so he asked the villain to lead the way, and presented a letter by the way. ”

Li Yinggu asked, "Which Lord Ouyang?" ”

The merchant said with a look of admiration: "It's our Dajin's Jinghai general, Lord Ouyang Shi!" Those of us who are begging for a living at sea rely on Lord Ouyang's protection. ”

Li Yinggu sighed and said, "The general of the Jin Kingdom? After taking the letter, I saw that it was written "Ouyang Zifu of the Great Song Dynasty Cangzhou Assassin Master Li", opened it, but it was Ouyang Shi who invited him to the ship to talk, the letter claimed to have a good relationship with Tong Guan, I heard that Li Yinggu was Tong Guan's protégé, and he was invited to meet.

Li Yinggu asked the merchant, "You, General Ouyang, invited me to come on the ship and talk?" I don't know what the purpose is? ”

The merchant said, "Where did this villain know?" However, General Ouyang said that although Dajin and the Great Song Dynasty were good friends, he was a general who led the troops after all, and he was not an envoy, so it was not appropriate to set foot in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty without authorization, so he asked Master Li to move to the ship for a while. ”

Li Yinggu said in his heart: "This general of the Jin Kingdom claims to have a relationship with Master Tong, but I don't know if it's true or not. If it's true, it's time to make friends. The affairs negotiated by the Jin State were originally presided over by Master Tong, and it was possible to come to his old man's house to get to know the generals of the Jin State. It's just that this happened too suddenly, and if it's a scam, wouldn't it be inconvenient for me to become a prisoner when I rushed on the ship? After thinking about it, he didn't dare to refuse, so he decided to send the curtain guest to the ship with his own reply letter to find out.

The other curtain guests listened to this dispatch with a difficult face, only Luo Xianqi volunteered, Li Yinggu sent a box army to escort him on the boat, and Luo Xianqi came back and died on the second day, asking the owner to retreat left and right, and then said: "Parents! This General Jin Guo seems to be true! ”

"Oh? How so? ”

Luo Xianqi said: "When I got on his ship in my later life, I saw that the pomp and circumstance on the ship was very rigorous, not like a thief pretending, nor like a Khitan spy." However, he was cautious in his later life, for fear of mistaking adults, and he didn't dare to be credulous, but he just respected him and wanted to see if there were any flaws in his words! ”

Li Yinggu bowed his head and said: "Not bad! Mr. Luo is really cautious. ”

Luo Xianqi continued: "Then General Ouyang saw that you didn't arrive, and only sent the late student, and the boss was unhappy on his face!" said to the late students: 'I and you Master Tong are also sitting on an equal footing, and today I invited him to a banquet as a protégé, but I couldn't invite him!' Hey! What a big shelf! ’”

"Oh? So how do you cope? ”

Luo Xianqi said: "I thought later, it doesn't matter if they are fake, if they really have a relationship with Master Tong, then they can't be offended." For the time being, when they were real, they acted tactfully for the adults, and said, "Master Li is in an important position, and he can't leave. Moreover, he is a member of the imperial court, and he cannot go to sea without the permission of the imperial court. He also euphemistically said that adults have never heard of Master Tong having a friend named Ouyang Shi. Unexpectedly, although the late life was tactful, General Ouyang was also a stakeholder, and immediately said: "When you say this, you suspect that I am impostored!" 'Shout' Someone! ’……”

Although Li Yinggu knew that he must be safe, otherwise he would not be standing here now, he still couldn't help asking: "Does he want to demonstrate against you?" ”

Luo Xianqi sighed: "I thought this was the case at the time, but I was really shocked, but fortunately, he didn't want to embarrass me, but asked someone to bring a box made of gold and pearls, took out a letter from the box, and said to me: 'This is the handwriting of your Tong Taishi!'" But forgive me, this staff member has never seen Master Tong's handwriting, and show it to your Lord Zhizhou! You will know the truth and falsehood! ’”

Li Yinggu sighed and said busily: "Where is the letter?" ”

Luo Xian took it out of his arms and said, "The letter is here." Along the way, he was born late, but he didn't dare to look at it. ”

Li Yinggu took the letter and saw that it read "The Great Song Jianghuai Jingzhejiang Xuanfu Envoy Tong Zhi Dajin Jinghai General Ouyang", and at a glance he could see that these words were not Tong Guan's handwriting, but the handwriting of one of Tong Guan's staff. When I opened the letter, it was full of questions, and there was no important content, but the handwriting was the same as the handwriting on the envelope. ”

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