"Is it my time?"

In the dark and smelly cell, a forty-year-old man wearing a soft-footed hood and covered in blood, but with a calm face and an uproar, sat on the ground with his back to the door of the cell, and did not look back.

"Hurry up and do it, the way of heaven is falling, Hu Lu is raging, if I, Li Ruo, am brave and loyal, how can I help the abuse to betray China!"

He didn't even look at the rebels at the door of the cell, and he didn't notice at all that it was the new army that had come recently.

"You guy, are you stupid, what crazy things are you talking about here?"

The officer opened the cell door and shouted: "Fanzi has been beaten away, it is time to go home and go home, it is time to eat, don't occupy a place here!"

The officer turned his head and shouted at all the prisoners in the cell.

"Folks, hurry up, it's time to go back, it's not a good place!"

One by one, the cells were opened, and the surprised and unkempt people walked out, and many people were in tears.

A long-shirted soldier endured the pain on his body and bowed solemnly: "Thank you general, dare to ask where the general is the righteous army, has Fanzi really been driven away?"

"It's true, this can still lie to you!"

The officer's face remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "We are the loyal and righteous army under the command of Wang Song and Wang Xianggong. Fanzi raged, burned, killed and looted, and Wang Xianggong waved his troops to come and relieve the people from hanging. Don't ask, hurry home, it's more comfortable than here. ”

"General, isn't Wang Xianggong already dead?"

The man in the long shirt looked puzzled, and arched his hand: "General, I am the county governor of this county, please take the trouble to introduce me, and I want to meet this prince in the next place." ”

The officer saw that his words were extraordinary, and he seemed to have some identity, so he was patient.

"Cheng Xiancheng, right, Wang Xianggong is very busy, it's not that you can see it if you want to. Let's go back quickly. ”

Hearing the conversation outside, the soldier sitting on the wall in the cell turned his head sharply and shouted angrily.

"You soldier, don't talk nonsense! Wang Xianggong has died for the country in Fuzhou, how can you be his subordinates? It's just nonsense, how can it be justified!"

The people who were leaving also stopped and looked at the officer together, with a suspicious look on their faces.

The officer was a little proud in his heart, but he was not angry, raised his head, and said in a loud voice:

"You man, you know something about the loyal army. But you only know one thing, you don't know the other. In the first battle of Fuzhou, Wang Xianggong was seriously wounded, but he was not killed. Now that he has recovered, he is in command in this Handan city. How could the general deceive you? ”

The scholar got up from the ground, staggered, and did not bother to brush the dust off his body, and stepped forward in a few steps and walked out of the cell.

"This general, in the next song Zhou Li Ruoxu. Troublesome general introduced, I want to meet Wang Xianggong in the next. ”

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the cowardly Song Dynasty was golden, Shenzhou was up and down, the clear stream was turbid, the loyal ministers and traitors, the civil ministers and military generals, all kinds of faces, wonderful.

In history, on the eve of Jingkang's shame, Li Ruoshui, a servant of the ministry, accompanied Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong to Jinying outside Tokyo. After Yan Zonghan humiliated the second emperor, Li Ruoshui scolded, was cut off by Yan Zonghan, gouged out his eyes and broken hands, and finally died at the age of 35.

"The death of the Liao State, more than a dozen righteous people died, and Li Shilang was the only one in the Southern Dynasty."

This is Li Ruoshui's death, Jin Ren's evaluation of him who died unyieldingly.

In the history of the two Song Dynasty, there was also a staff member of Yue Fei, Li Ruoxu, Quzhou, Hebei, that is, Li Ruoshui's second brother, who was also vigorous, a great Han in Hebei, and could be called a national soldier.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140 AD), the Jin people betrayed the alliance and invaded the south in a big way, and the whole country of the Southern Song Dynasty was shaken. Yue Fei raised troops in response to the edict and threw himself into the Northern Expedition.

But this Northern Expedition that shook the Jin people almost died before leaving. "Don't lift the Son of Heaven" Zhao Gou was shocked under the threat of the Jin army, and after ordering Yue Fei to send troops, he immediately stopped him.

After going to Yue Fei's army, the messenger who conveyed the edict of the withdrawal of the army voluntarily assumed the responsibility of correcting the edict and sent Yue Fei's whole army to set off after having a detailed discussion with Yue Fei. After that, the envoy returned to Lin'an on his own and asked the imperial court to support Yue Fei's Northern Expedition.

This person who is not afraid to disobey the emperor's orders and complete Yue Fei's Northern Expedition at a critical moment is the Li Ruoxu in front of him.

Li Ruoxu, as Yue Fei's staff, did his best to assist him. Later, Yue Fei was wronged, and Li Ruoxu was also degraded, dismissed from office, and died in a degraded place.

The relics of the ancestors, the color of the ancient road, this is the real national "scholar", a well-deserved "Song scholar".

In the lobby of the Yamen of Handan County, Wang Song looked at the rough man standing in front of him with thick eyebrows and big eyes, five big and three thick, and felt a trace of emotion in his heart. The sage of the ages, who was heroic and upright in history, stood alive in front of him at this moment.

If you get this king, it will really be a blessing for the loyal and righteous army and a blessing for the nation.

Li Ruoxu also looked at the strange man in front of him in surprise. For no other reason, this legendary hero is too young.

At the age of twenty-four or five, he used to be a high-ranking and powerful prime minister and the commander of thousands of troops. The heroic boy made Li Ruoxu feel a little old.

"In Xia Wang Song, I have seen Mr."

Wang Song walked down the hall and gave a solemn salute to Li Ruoxu.

"How dare you get a big gift from the mountains?"

Li Ruoxu hurriedly returned the salute and bowed to the end.

Historically, he was also over forty years old, and because of the heroic death of his younger brother Li Ruoshui, he was hired by a small official. Nearly fifty years old, he served as the senator of Yue Fei's Xuanfu Division, reaching the peak of his life.

At this time, he was just a low-ranking scholar, without any fame, at best, he was only a Confucian in the countryside. A celebrity like Wang Song saluted him, and he was naturally flattered.

The Jin soldiers went south and attacked Hebei, and Quzhou County, not far from Handan City, was not spared. Li Ruoxu was taken captive to the Jin soldiers, and Yelu Ma Wu saw that he was a scholar and well-informed, and wanted him to be golden.

Li Ruoxu naturally did not comply, even if he was tortured by the Jin people, he failed to do so. Jeruba had no choice but to put him in prison for the time being. Who would have thought that before they could kill, the rebels had already broken through the city.

"The villain has seen Xianggong. The villain is the local county Cheng Qiang, the minister rescued the people from hanging upside down, and the lower official thanked the minister. ”

"Cheng Xiancheng, you don't give in to the Jin people, and you are quite admired. You have a wound on you, go down and rest. Although there are not many people in the city, they still need you, the parents, to take care of them. ”

"Thank you."

Cheng Qiang bowed solemnly and said: "I heard that the imperial court is going to issue an edict to cede the two rivers to the Jin people, and the imperial court's edict may be coming." It is a Handan person below, and he also asks the prime minister to allocate military horses and station them here, so as not to let the Jin people come to poison him."

"Cheng Xiancheng rest assured."

Wang Song's heart sank, nodded and said: "The foundation of the two rivers country, the imperial court will not be so confused. If the thief wants to harm Handan and Hebei again, he must first pass the official level. ”

Cheng Qiang was overjoyed, gave a deep salute, and left. He doesn't care what the attitude of the imperial court is, as long as Wang Song is here, he can keep a county safe.

"The villain has seen Xianggong. Xianggong has now been expelled by the imperial court, and his notoriety has been decided. Now that the people are raging, the people are suffering, and the sea is full of white bones, I don't know what the prime minister should do next?"

The six brothers of the Li family are all hot-blooded men who are both civil and military, and of course Li Ruoxu will not miss it. The blood stains on his body have not dried, and the pain has not disappeared, but he has already cared about the military affairs and the people.

"Let the military medic come up and heal the gentleman."

Wang Song thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Wang Song is loyal to the country, only for the people of the world, and the court treats me unfairly, so I can only do my own thing." Everything the loyal and righteous army did was to recover the mountains and rivers and expel the Jin people. ”

Li Ruoxu's heart moved. Although he is in the countryside, he knows a little about the situation of the two rivers. Wang Song's ability to train and command troops, he has also heard of it, and today's breakthrough of Handan City and defeat of the Jin people is proof of this.

"The land of Hebei has been repeatedly poisoned by the Jin people and is dilapidated. The fertile land is barren, the people are hungry and cold, the Tao dies on the way, and the corpses are everywhere. ”

Wang Song was worried and frowned.

"This official wants to take the brothers to take root in Hebei and fight against the Fanren, but it is only a matter of grain and grass, and it is a big trouble for my loyal and righteous army, if it is ......"

"Xianggong is saying that Hebei is dilapidated, and if you want to fight against the Jin people and lead the army to the north, the supply of grain and grass will inevitably be poor. When marching and fighting, if there is no money, grain and grass, the big thing will be done. Xianggong is worried about this?"

Wang Song's words were not finished, and Li Ruoxu had already taken over the conversation.

Wang Song couldn't help but be happy. This gentleman is really as fierce as fire, quick to talk, and has a fight with Ouyang Che, who denigrates Lingnan.

Thinking of Ouyang Che, Wang Song frowned slightly. It seems that we have to find a way to bring Chen Dong and Ouyang Che back.

"Speak quickly, don't vomit or be unhappy, and please forgive me."

Feeling that he had interrupted Wang Song's conversation, Li Ruoxu was also slightly red and a little embarrassed.

"Sir's right. The official wants to restore Hebei first, camp fields, tuntian, and store the benefits of the value of goods, and then wave his troops to the north to recover the land of clouds. Sir, can you go with you, I don't know what to do?"

Li Ruo was humbly grateful, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Xianggong, he was captured by the Jin people, if it wasn't for Xianggong to save him, I'm afraid he would have already become a soul under the knife." It's just that I'm sloppy in the next class, and I'm afraid that I will miss the great cause of the public. ”

Wang Song laughed, stood up and said, "So, Mr. is agreeing?"

Li Ruoxu stood up and bowed solemnly: "The villain is a grass people, and he has to be loved by the public, and he dares not to die for his life." The villain must do his best under the public account, and his liver and brain will be smeared to the ground, so as to imitate the work of dogs and horses!"

The soldier dies for the confidant, and the woman is the one who pleases herself. There is Bole in the world, but there is Maxima. Wang Song treated him as a national soldier, and Li Ruoxu naturally did his best.

Wang Song came down and returned the salute and said: "Mr. is a great talent in the country, and I know in my heart that Mr. must not be arrogant." In the future, Mr. will be a staff member under him, and he will serve as a senator, what do you think?"

Even if it is a grass platform team, it must be small, complete, professional rather than amateur.

"The villain dares to disobey his fate."

Li Ruoxu was overjoyed and once again went to the end.

Senators are confidants and aides who can directly influence decisions in the military. Wang Song was so important to him, he was naturally ecstatic.

The military medical officer came up and bandaged Li Ruoxu's wound, and Wang Song saw that there was no big problem, so he was relieved.

"Xianggong, the two rivers have a lot of iron and charcoal, and the land is fertile. The iron smelting obtained, the tuntian camp, enough to supply 100,000 troops, the public without worry. ”

Wang Song nodded, since he came to this era, he also knew some economic things in this era.

Since the third year of Song Xining (1069 AD), the Great Song Dynasty court minted more than 5 million copper coins and more than 800,000 iron coins every year. The weight of iron consumed annually is about 12,000 tons.

The amount of iron used by the people of the Great Song Dynasty is at least 30,000 tons per year.

Even Handan and Wu'an, which are rich in iron ore, have an annual output of only about 60,000 tons.

The annual iron output of the entire Great Song Dynasty is 150,000 tons, Xingzhou accounts for nearly 4 percent, and Cizhou, where Handan is located, accounts for nearly 4 percent. The two adjacent states and counties of Xingzhou and Cizhou accounted for more than seventy percent of the iron smelting in the Great Song Dynasty.

If you control the land of Hebei, you will control the steel lifeline of the Great Song Dynasty. No wonder it is said that Hebei is rich and does not lose to Jiangnan. In addition to the abundant iron and charcoal, the Hebei Plain is also a grain producing area.

The gift of God, the Great Song Dynasty did not make good use of it, and it could only be said that the country was destroyed and the species was wiped out, and the blame was taken by himself.