All kinds of news crossed the mountains and spread north.

Yunzhong Mansion, also known as Datong at this time, May is the best time of daylight, the wind through the city is with a refreshing and pleasant atmosphere, as the core of the "Western Imperial Court" of the Jin State governed by Zong Han, the heroes and nobles in the Yunzhong Mansion gathered. Although with the departure of the Southern Expeditionary Army, the rectification of the lower levels within the Jin State has become more and more strict, but in the upper echelons of society, it is now the season for social gatherings.

In the many mansions and villas around the city, large and small banquets are held every day. In this year, most of the aspirants among the nobles of the Jin Kingdom have already set off with the army, and all kinds of outbreaks and gentlemen who have stayed in the territory have also encountered the best season, feasting guests and friends, and spending a lot of money, which is a means for many young people to show their strength.

In the south of Yunzhong Mansion, a spacious and quaint old mansion has recently become an upstart in the upper social circle. This is a family that has just come to Yunzhong Mansion not long ago, but it has a deep connotation and savings like the sea, although it is an outsider, it has attracted the attention of many people in Yunzhong Mansion in a short time.

This family is from the Central Plains.

The Qi clan headed by the great Confucian Qi Yan, who once entrenched in the east of the Wuchao River, moved to Yunzhong from Zhending last year. For the big family, as the saying goes, three generations look at the four generations to see through the five generations to read the article, the average family is rich for no more than three generations, but the Qi family is a big clan that has been generous for six or seven generations.

Although some people subconsciously did not take the noble families of the Wu Dynasty seriously for the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, the high-level officials of the Jin Kingdom still had the ambition to give the Qi family enough courtesy. For the former high-level of the Jin State, it was easy to win the world immediately, but now, it has become a problem to govern the world immediately, and the problem of the second generation of corruption and insuccess in the Jin State is also in front of the eyes of the founders. Even though there are many people who fight the world on horseback and have a reckless personality, people who are truly knowledgeable have begun to see these things.

Qi Yan received a huge courtesy because of this, and some of the old adults sitting in the clouds often summoned him to ask for advice, and talked and laughed. And for the second-generation young people of the Jin Kingdom who have a hot personality and are easy to compare, although they are somewhat unaccustomed to seeing the Qi family being exalted, the research on pleasure of the young people of the Qi family is far more than that of these stupid sons of the nouveau riche.

After coming and going, although everyone said no, the high-quality banquets held by the Qi family scholars over the past few days quickly conquered and led the trend of pleasure in the city, and became the focus of everyone's eyes for a while. By May, there were already many children of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom and the young people of the Qi family who began to call each other brothers.

Since the beginning of this month, with the arrival of some good news in the south, the visits and banquets of the high-level leaders of the Qi family and the Jin Kingdom have become more and more grand, and even several grand sacrifices and celebrations have been held. The reason is because of the assassination that happened in Zhending Mansion last year and forced the Qi family to go north.

In that assassination instigated by the Huaxia army, Qi Yan's two sons, a grandson, and some relatives were killed. Due to the ferocity of the anti-Jin, the elderly Qi Yan could only move north, however, when Liangshan slaughtered the Su family, the Naning people slaughtered the entire Liangshan, at this time, the black flag slaughtered the Qi family, and Qi Yan, who had accumulated prestige for many years, was willing to give up?

On the one hand, he went north, and on the other hand, he used his influence to cooperate with the Jin State and oppose the Huaxia army. At the end of March and the beginning of April, the Daimyo's Mansion was finally broken, the Huaxia Army was involved, and finally the whole army was annihilated, Wanyanchang captured more than 4,000 bandits, and began to kill them one by one. When Qi Yan heard the news, he was overjoyed and burst into tears, his two biological sons and one grandson were killed by the assassins of the Black Flag Army, and the old man was eager to slaughter the entire Huaxia army, and even killed Ning Yi, and threw all the women in his family into a brothel.

At this point, this revenge is a little bit avenged, but it is always worth celebrating. On the one hand, Qi Yan also sent 100,000 taels of silver to Wan Yan Chang's house in Liaoyang to show his gratitude, he repaired a letter to Wan Yan Chang, and asked the other party to send some of the captives of the Huaxia army back to Yun *** He killed to comfort the spirits of the children and grandchildren in the sky. In May, the letter that Wan Yanchang happily promised had already come, and the Qi family had already thought about many ideas about how to torture and kill these enemies.

In such an atmosphere, the old man didn't know that a shadow that was more vicious than Yan Qing, who was led by the Zhending Mansion in the assassination, and even more vicious than Ning Yi, the heart demon of Liangshan, had already shrouded the Qi family at this time.

Commanding several truckloads of vegetables and fruits into the backyard of the Qi family, the vendor who escorted the car came down to negotiate a few words with the steward of the Qi Mansion and settle the money. Soon after, the convoy went out of the backyard again, and the vendors sat in the car, smiling a little cold.

The convoy drove to the market, and when the vendors came down, they walked through the streets and alleys, and arrived at a quiet courtyard, when they took off their hats and tore off the beards at the corners of their mouths, and by this time his face had become gloomy. This is Tang Minjie, and his gloomy face is also his usual color a few days after hearing the battle report of the southern daimyo's mansion.

Walking into the room, the gloom on his face faded slightly, and Lu Mingfang was already waiting in the room: "How is it?" You don't look good lately. ”

"The matter of the Daimyo's Mansion is too miserable." Tang Minjie said frankly.

Lu Mingfang was silent for a moment: "There are some things, after all, you and I are not able to turn the tide, or that sentence, you are too anxious in your heart, pay attention to your body, in addition, pay attention to hiding, I know that your previous actions were a little intense, and some people have already noticed you." ”

Since the Jurchens began to prepare for the southern expedition, Tang Minjie has done several major things with radical means, initially instigating the Hannu uprising, asking Shi Jin to go south to send a list of traitors, and later secretly pulling the strings and threatening the Jin officials, hacking the military rations that are preparing to go south, and then connecting with the internal Jin people to resell military funds by virtue of their power......

It is impossible for him to shake the entire southern war situation by doing big and small things alone, but because of the radical means, there have been several clues to the code name "clown", if Shi Jin went north, "clown" was just a mediocre code name in Yunzhong Mansion, and now, this code name is really on the top of the high-level wanted list, but fortunately, in the past few months, Tang Minjie has reined in again, so that the rumors outside have been slightly reined.

"Well, I know it's good to hide." The persuasion of the dual identity of friends and comrades-in-arms still made Tang Minjie smile slightly, "Is there something going on today?" ”

"A great event."

"Huh?" It was rare for Lu Mingfang to speak like this, Tang Minjie's brows moved slightly, only to see Lu Mingfang's eyes complicated, but he had already laughed sincerely, and he said two words: "Zhanmei." ”

"Found it!?" Tang Minjie looked up suddenly, and Lu Mingfang nodded with a smile.

"Found it, found it...... It's not dead yet, she still has a child, it's not dead yet, now that she is in Liaoyang, I'm going to go over ......"

Lu Mingfang's tone was already restrained, but in his smile, the excitement was still overflowing, Tang Minjie laughed and slammed his fist on the table: "This news is great, is it true?" ”

"Mostly true. As soon as that's confirmed, I'll arrange for them to go south......"

The two of them laughed like children in the room as they said this. Zhanmei, full name Wang Zhanmei, this is the name of the last concubine who stayed by Qin Shao's side when Taiyuan City was broken, and has been ranked first on the Huaxia Army's search list over the years.

Speaking of this, the two were overjoyed for a while, as for how the mother and son survived for more than ten years, Lu Mingfang did not speak, and Tang Minjie did not mention it.

After a while, Lu Mingfang said: "This matter is a major matter that cannot be lost, I went to Liaoyang, and the matter here will be handed over to you." By the way, last time you said that the Qi family was going to press a few Huaxia Army brothers here......"

"I'll arrange it, don't worry." Tang Minjie replied, and then said, "I will celebrate with the Qi family." ”

"......" Hearing the ominous aura in Tang Minjie's words, and then looking at his smiling face, Lu Mingfang was slightly stunned, and then didn't say anything. Tang Minjie acted aggressively, many methods obtained the true inheritance of Ning Yi, and Lu Mingfang was not his opponent in manipulating people's hearts and plotting viciously, and he could only look at the overall situation for this kind of subordinate, and the rest did not do much fingering.

"I won't talk about the rest." After a slight pause, Lu Mingfang patted him on the shoulder, "You know what to do, it's still the same sentence, be cautious and take care." The world's major events can only be done by the people of the world together, you ...... Don't get too anxious. ”

"I understand." Tang Minjie smiled, "It's a big deal over there, you can save the bones and blood of the eldest prince of the Qin family, it must not be easy for them all these years, you give a salute to that lady for me." ”

"Yes."

After saying this, Tang Minjie waved goodbye to Lu Mingfang, and when he walked out of the yard, he raised his head with a smile and took a deep breath, the sun was warm, there was such good news, today is really a good day.

He thought of the Qi family again.

It's a pleasure.

……

It's time to kill.

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When Lu Mingfang received Wang Zhanmei's message from the north, the water in the southwest was still roaring.

Dujiangyan, the rain stopped and stopped, stopped and fell.

In the evening, in the grass shed on the edge of the Minjiang River, Ning Yi and Cheng Zhouhai, who had been walking together for the past few days, waited here for the rain to decrease, and when he was bored, Ning Yi handed him a handful of fried broad beans.

Cheng Zhouhai didn't come to break the embankment, he came to talk about business, although if he could break the embankment, he might do it, but the main purpose was to talk to Ning Yi about some practical things on behalf of Zhou Pei.

For many years, this was the first contact between the Eldest Princess's Mansion and the Huaxia Army. The subordinates brought by Cheng Zhouhai and the personnel of the General Staff of the Huaxia Army were responsible for specific negotiations, and between Ning Yi and Cheng Zhouhai, the words were much easier to say, of course, these days, most of the things that the two talked about were some trivial matters.

On the southwest side, the situation of Ning Yi's family, the worries about the future of the child, the defeat in the Daimyo's Mansion in the north, the situation of Wang Shanyue and Zhu Biao. In Cheng Zhouhai's mouth, most of them talked about the situation of the Xiangfu family in the more than ten years after Ning Yi left, the situation of the princess's mansion, and the situation between the princess and the concubine......

“…… Alas, the world is like this, children have to grow up, adults have to grow old, old people have to die, things are not people......"

"Lin'an City is more prosperous than Bianliang before, it's a pity if you don't go to see it......"

"Lin'an, Lin'an, temporary security, the name is unlucky, and you will suffer next...... In the past few days, I have been controlling the water, otherwise I will take you to Jishan to have a look, so that you can feel what is called industrial prosperity...... The water outside the paper mill is no longer drinkable. ”

"In my early years, I felt that there were always some messy new names in your mouth, and I couldn't understand it, so it was difficult for you to get along with people."

"I'm a little more extreme, I can't stand you."

"After you killed Emperor Jing Han, I don't think it's strange. Like you said, it's not a neurosis, and you can't do such a bad thing. ”

The rain fell like a curtain from the edge of the grass shed, and the two of them knocked on the broad beans, clattering and rubbing, speaking of this, Ning Yi couldn't help laughing, and his body trembled with laughter: "That bastard, do you know what I was talking about when I went to court...... I haven't told anyone, I'll learn it to you......"

He learned what Zhou Zhe said in the Jinluan Hall that day, and Cheng Zhouhai stopped knocking broad beans, raised his head and sighed. After all, he couldn't accept this kind of words without a king and no father, so he was silent for a moment and said, "Do you remember, I went to look for you a few days before you started." ”

"Hmm...... Zong Feixiao found out something, my people killed him, and you also thought I was going to do it at that time. Ning Yi nodded, "It's really going to happen." ”

"I thought you were going to deal with Cai Jing or Tong Guan, or you had to take Li Gang and whoever else...... I can stand it and want to do it with you. Cheng Zhouhai smiled, "I didn't expect you to do that kind of thing later." ”

"At that time, I guess I won't live to be today."

"Hmm." Cheng Zhouhai nodded and put a broad bean into his mouth, "If I had known back then, I would have found a way to kill you." ”

"And now?"

"Now...... What's the use of killing you? "Chengzhou Haidao," as you said, there is a problem in this Confucian world, Li Pin wants to kill you, and he has a reason, but I don't want to, since you have already started, and you have made such a big plate, I want to see what you look like in the end, if you win, as you said, what everyone awakens and everyone is equal, it is also a good thing. If you lose, we can have some good experience. ”

"Brother open-minded."

"It's just a little disheartened." Cheng Zhouhai paused, "If the teacher is still here, the first person to kill you is me, but the teacher is no longer there, and his words have encountered a dilemma, and now even if we push it, I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the public." Since I don't teach, I have done some pragmatic things over the years, so I can naturally see that everyone in the court ...... Helpless, those who went to the front learned your martial arts. ”

He put a broad bean in his mouth: "It's just Junwu's way, it's too strong, and once the external troubles disappear, it will be difficult to last long." Your side...... I don't understand it, and I don't have to......"

Cheng Zhouhai said this, and between his lowered eyebrows, there was actually a deep exhaustion. Although he was evaluated by Qin Siyuan as ruthless and unscrupulous in his early years, on Cheng Zhouhai's side, one of the biggest backbones was Qin Siyuan as a teacher. Qin Siyuan was killed and imprisoned, and finally died in exile on the way, it is impossible to say that Cheng Zhouhai has no hatred in his heart.

However, supporting the Wu Dynasty is the core thing in Qin Siyuan's thinking, as he said, if Ning Yi confessed to him before he rebelled, even if Cheng Zhouhai had hatred in his heart, he would kill Ning Yi as soon as possible, this is Qin Siyuan's Taoism, but due to excessive scruples, Cheng Zhouhai himself did not have his own Taoism in his heart.

After Qin Siyuan's death, the road was no longer clear to him. After Yao Zunian's death, Jueming, Kang Xian and others also went, Wen Ren followed this Jun Wu to take a relatively radical path, Cheng Zhouhai assisted Zhou Pei, his methods of action were clever, but the goal in his heart gradually changed from protecting the Wu Dynasty to protecting the two sisters and brothers - although in some senses, this is a two-in-one thing, and it is a little different after all.

At the beginning of the year, Zhou Yong's foolery made Zhou Pei feel very confused, but after his heart calmed down, Zhou Pei had to admit the weakness of the Wu Dynasty under the situation of this Jurchen Southern Expedition, and finally sent Cheng Zhouhai to decide to secretly exchange interests with the Huaxia Army forces to a certain extent, which was also the greatest effort made by Zhou Pei to let go of his knot under the premise of the attack of foreign enemies.

At the beginning of the year, Zhou Yonghu came to the background, Cheng Zhouhai knew a little, but in front of Ning Yi, he naturally wouldn't mention it. He just mentioned the grievances between Zhou Pei and the concubine Qu Zonghui over the years, and when it came to Qu Zonghui's murder and Zhou Pei's handling, Ning Yi nodded: "The little girl has also grown up." ”

Cheng Zhouhai looked at Ning Yi: "Her Royal Highness the princess is not a little girl for a long time...... Speaking of which, I know about your last meeting with Your Highness. ”

"Huh?"

"That was before you went to Liangshan, in Bianliang, His Highness was almost killed by that...... Gao Muen is light and thin, in fact, it is a game I made. Then that night, she said goodbye to you and went back to get married......"

The broad beans clicked, and Ning Yi nodded: "Hmm, it's been many years since I said this." ”

"Her Royal Highness the Princess, she ......" Cheng Zhouhai wanted to say something, but finally shook his head, "Forget it, don't talk about this......"

"Of course I know about her." didn't notice what Cheng Zhouhai wanted to say, Ning Yi just said casually, "Don't say anything about hurt and angry, after so many years, she is like a widow alone, can't she find a suitable man." You elders don't deserve it right. ”

Cheng Zhouhai laughed out loud: "With the identity of His Royal Highness, how to find it, who dares to come?" Who does His Highness dare to look for? And you also said that you know all about Your Highness, and when the two sides fight, what should you do if you release the news. ”

Ning Yi smiled: "Look down on people, right?" I promise that I will not do this kind of thing. ”

"Aren't there still Jurchens?"

“…… That's right. ”

Speaking of the Jurchens, both of them were silent for a moment before diverting the topic again.

The sky was gloomy, in the heavy rain, the river roared in front of him, in the seemingly casual chat, each other under the grass shed actually understood that Chengzhouhai came to the southwest this step, extremely difficult, although all the business is still carried out in secret, but this is already the biggest sacrifice and effort that Zhou Pei can make after letting go of the knot, and the premise of sacrifice and effort is because the overturning of the world is close at hand.

At the moment when they were chatting, Lou Shuwan of Jindi burned the entire Weisheng City, and she and Yu Yulin stepped into the mountains with the army, looking back at the past, it was full of fireworks in the city. Thousands of Huaxia troops in Xuzhou, together with tens of thousands of defending the city, also began to withdraw to the surrounding areas after resisting the offensive of Wushu and others for several months. The imminent Battle of Yangsan in the north was only a minor episode in such a situation.

Next, the defense line of Xiangyang and Zhenjiang of the Wu Dynasty, led by Junwu and led by Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others, will be in close contact with the 300,000 troops on the Jurchen East Road.

There are nearly two million troops, crammed into this defense line that stretches for thousands of miles, and they are here to block the Jurchen's two-way army, but at this moment when the test is coming, for the combat effectiveness of the Wu Dynasty army, everyone's hearts are sweating.

In May, the water of the Minjiang River roared down, even in the heavy rain of the mountains and chatting leisurely with broad beans, what the two of them smelled every day was actually the smell of gunsmoke from the wind and rain.

It's like the whole world,

- all burning.