The eunuch nodded slowly.

Li Deming said lightly: "I use people, and I never look at whether they sincerely seek refuge in me." What I value is their talents, and what I care about is whether they can help me benefit from Great Xia. ”

After a pause, Li Deming's face was a little ugly and said: "But from the current point of view, not only did their father and son not help me get any benefits from Daxia, but they caused my Daxia to fall to where I am today."

If my Great Xia is going to die, their father and son must be buried together. ”

When the eunuch heard Li Deming's words, he said solemnly: "The slave must send someone to keep an eye on their father and son." ”

Li Deming nodded slowly.

A few days after that.

In Xingqing Mansion, the wind is calm.

From time to time, scouts came from outside the house and sent one news after another to Li Deming.

After Zhao Zhen led hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to the border of Western Xia, he did not invade Western Xia, but sent envoys to Xingqing Mansion to send the news to Li Deming.

After Li Deming got the news, his heart beat wildly.

"Zhao Zhen wants to force me to give in, but he didn't destroy my Great Xia's mind?"

"Zhao Zhen deliberately sent envoys to humiliate me?"

"Zhao Zhen led seven or eight hundred thousand soldiers and horses to the border of my Great Xia, and it is impossible to let me go of Great Xia easily."

“……”

In an instant, countless thoughts popped up in Li Deming's mind.

Nine out of nine of them thought that Zhao Zhen would not let go of Xixia easily.

But there is still a trace of thought, thinking that Zhao Zhen will let Xixia go.

Although the hope is very slim, Li Deming's heart is still hot.

What if Zhao Zhen really had the intention of letting go of Xixia?

"Murle?!"

Li Deming put down the secret document in his hand and shouted loudly.

His henchmen and eunuchs appeared in front of Li Deming under his call.

"King, the slave is here!"

Li Deming instructed: "Quickly send people to rush to the outside of Baichi City to meet the Song envoys, and then send people to vacate the largest post house in the city and prepare to entertain the Song envoys."

Then I went to find some beauties, mountain and wild treasures, to entertain the Song envoys. ”

"Song Envoy?"

Murle was slightly stunned.

Li Deming scolded: "Why don't you go quickly?!" ”

Murle hurriedly said, "Slave, let's go." ”

Under Li Deming's orders, Murle hurriedly left the main hall of the Xixia Palace.

After Mu Erle left, Li Deming whispered extremely firmly: "Zhao Zhen, I hope you can be as wise as your father!" ”

As soon as Li Deming's words fell, Mu Erle hurriedly returned to the main hall.

Li Deming saw that Mu Erle was going and returning, and said with a puzzled face: "Is there anything else I haven't explained clearly?" ”

Murle hurriedly entered the palace, and before he had time to give a salute, he hurriedly said, "King, escape!" Escaped! ”

Li Deming said suspiciously: "What escaped?" ”

Without waiting for Murle to speak again, Li Deming's eyes suddenly widened, and he asked, "Xia Zhu and Xia Anqi's father and son escaped?" ”

Murle nodded heavily.

Li Deming shouted excitedly, "God help me!" ”

Mu Erle looked at Li Deming inexplicably.

Li Deming laughed and said: "I'm worried about what gift to take to see the Song envoy, and now I have it." If their father and son keep holding back, I won't be able to clean them up.

Now that they've jumped out, then I have a reason to clean them up. ”

Li Deming instructed Mu Erle: "Quick, go and send someone to arrest their father and son!" ”

Murle hurriedly nodded and said, "The slave has already ordered someone to arrest him." After their father and son disappeared from their respective mansions, the slaves sent the news, and the people must not have escaped from Xingqing Mansion.

The slaves have long controlled all the key roads in Xingqing Mansion, and they will definitely be able to take down their father and son. ”

Li Deming pondered for a moment and said, "Don't despise it!" Xia Zhu is very good at escaping, he can escape from Bianjing City, and he may also escape from Xingqing Mansion. You personally lead people to arrest them, and you must arrest their father and son for me. ”

Murle nodded, and left the main hall of the Western Xia Palace again.

It took two days for Murle to catch Xia Zhu and Xia Anji's father and son.

After the father and son left the mansion, they did not rush to escape from Xingqing Mansion, but hid in the cellar of a flower house.

Father and son must have planned to escape, so they stored a lot of food in the cellar and dug a tunnel in the cellar to lead to another place.

However, even though the father and son had been prepared, Murle still caught the father and son.

Their father and son were clever enough to hide their whereabouts, and they really didn't show any flaws.

But it can't stop Moore's persistence.

Murle left the palace of the Western Xia king, and after sending people to investigate, he found nothing.

So he took a large number of people and began to search inch by inch.

When I arrived at the place where the Song people lived, I simply dug three feet into the ground to find it.

Even if Xia Zhu's father and son can hide it again, they can't stand Mulle from looking for it like this.

After Mu Erle captured Xia Zhu's father and son, he escorted their father and son into the palace of the Western Xia king.

Xia Zhu met Li Deming again, and the situation was completely different.

Li Deming stood on top of the hall with his hands behind his back.

Xia Zhu's father and son were escorted like thieves and knelt on the ground.

Li Deming stared at Xia Zhu and sighed: "I remember that when I saw you for the first time, you were very arrogant, not only did you not give me a gift, but also asked me to give you a gift.

I know that you are talented, so I turned over and gave you a salute, hoping that you could help me revitalize Western Xia.

But you seem sorry for my salute. ”

Xia Zhu's face was gloomy and he didn't speak.

Li Deming stared at Xia Zhu and continued: "Why did you run away from my Great Xia? I treat you well. But when my Great Xia was in danger, you left me in Great Xia? ”

Li Deming saw that Xia Zhu was still silent, and said: "I also chose such a time." You Xia Zhu is a smart person, you should know how much chance you have of being caught if you escape at this time. ”

Xia Zhu finally spoke, he stared at Li Deming and said in a deep voice: "If I don't run away now, I will definitely die." ”

Li Deming was puzzled: "How come?" I will not die in Great Xia, who can hurt the lives of your father and son. ”

Xia Zhu stared straight at Li Deming.

"You!"

"Me?!"

Li Deming was slightly stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Why did I take the lives of your father and son?" ”

Xia Zhu said decisively: "Because you have already had murderous intent against my father and son?" ”

Li Deming subconsciously narrowed his eyes, "When?" ”

Xia Zhu snorted coldly: "When I propose that you send someone to assassinate Kou Ji. ”

Li Deming nodded slowly, stared at Xia Zhu and asked, "How did you find out?" ”

Xia Zhu didn't hide it, and said frankly: "From that time, you began to send people to spy on me, as well as my son. It was at that time that I guessed that you were going to kill our father and son, and I also guessed that you know that I and Cheyenne are father and son. ”

Li Deming paced in front of Xia Zhu and asked with a smile: "Then tell me, why do I have murderous intent towards your father and son?" ”

"Because you want to use the heads of my father and son to appease the anger of the Great Song Emperor!"

Xia Zhu said bluntly.

Li Deming nodded with a smile and exclaimed, "You are really smart." ”

Xia Zhu snorted coldly and said, "I'm not smart, I know it in my heart, but you are stupid and pitiful." ”

"Presumptuous!"

The loyal Murle heard Xia Zhu's disrespectful words and shouted angrily.

Li Deming waved his hand, without any anger on his face, he stared at Xia Zhu and said, "Tell me carefully, why am I stupid and pitiful?" ”

Xia Zhu snorted coldly: "The Great Song Dynasty has already arrived in the city, and seven or eight hundred thousand soldiers and horses are hoarded on the border, how can it be easy to stop." In this case, you don't think about retreating from the enemy, but think about using the heads of my father and son to appease the anger of the Great Song Emperor, isn't it stupid enough?

It is true that our father and son are the Qin criminals of the Great Song Dynasty, but our father and son are not important enough to make the Great Song Dynasty stop fighting. ”

The smile on Li Deming's face slowly faded, replaced by a cold face, he stared at Xia Zhu, and snorted coldly: "Xia Zhu, are you still here to talk like a spring?"

Do you really think you're the only smart person in the world?

Do you really think you can count the whole world?

If that's the case, you won't escape from Bianjing City in embarrassment, and you won't be caught by me.

What you can think of, I can't think of.

I also know that the Great Song soldiers are coming to the city, and they will never stop.

But the elite soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are as big as seven or eight hundred thousand.

I have no more than 100,000 elite soldiers.

How do I compete with Da Song?

Now that the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty has sent envoys to my Great Xia, he has given me a glimmer of life.

Even if I knew there was little hope, I had to fight for it.

Because I fought for it, I have a chance to continue to survive in Daxia.

If I don't fight for it, I won't have the slightest chance to survive. ”

Xia Zhu sneered: "It's useless if you're fighting." Da Song will never let go of the meat that comes to his mouth. ”

Li Deming stared at Xia Zhu coldly, "There are some things that you don't know until you do it." Do nothing but wait for death. On the one hand, I was showing weakness to the Great Song Dynasty, begging the Great Song to let me go of Great Xia; On the one hand, I gathered all the troops in my Great Xia, and prepared to fight to the death with the Great Song Dynasty when the Great Song soldiers approached the city.

Everything I can do, everything that can keep me alive in Great Xia, I'm trying.

Even if I really lose, I will be defeated in the hands of the Song people.

I also died standing up.

And you, Xia Zhu, will only escape.

Escaped again and again.

In the end, he was destined to die on his knees.

You are not afraid of me now because you understand that you will succeed in the king.

Since I have been caught, there is absolutely no chance of survival.

But I can tell you right now that I'm not going to kill you.

I'm going to hand you over to the Song people, so that they can take you back and hand you over to Kou Ji.

I also want to tell Kou Ji that it was the idea of your father and son to let the Liao people cross the border.

The tragic death of tens of thousands of people in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty is also the sin of your father and son.

It was also the idea of your father and son to send someone to assassinate him.

Guess what Koji will do to you when he sees your father and son? ”

Xia Zhu's face changed drastically.

Li Deming didn't take care of him anymore, but looked at Xia Anqi with a complicated expression, "How good it would be if you were my son, if you were my son, even if my Great Xia was destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty, it would soon come back."

It's a pity that you are not my son, and you have an unconscious father.

Not only did they not enjoy happiness with him, but they had to flee and die with him. ”

Li Deming really appreciates the Xia An period.

Because he felt that Cheyenne was very similar to when he was younger.

He likes to be left and right, likes to dance on the tip of a knife, and likes to fight between others to his own benefit.

Although there was a huge flaw in the planning of the Xia An period in the northwest, Li Deming knew that he couldn't complain about him.

There is nothing wrong with Cheyenne's planning, it can even be said to be perfect.

Otherwise, Li Deming would not have used his plan, let alone give up the rich territory to lead the Liao people into the northwest.

The plan of the Xia An period in the northwest was defeated by the incompetence of the Liao people, and the defeat was defeated by the variable Kou Ji.

If Kou Ji hadn't appeared in the northwest, the plan of the Cheyenne period would definitely have come true.

If the Liao people let go of their arrogance and contempt, and pay a little attention to Kou Ji, the plan of the Xia An period will also come true.

Xia Zhu wanted to take revenge with the power of Western Xia, but he didn't give much effort to Western Xia.

On the contrary, it was the Xia An period, and he was frequently helping Western Xia to give advice.

Although Cheyenne and his father have the same purpose.

But his approach was completely different from his father's.

Li Deming could see it.

Xia Anqi gritted his teeth, stared at Li Deming and said, "The lord of the country...... Can you ......?"

Before Xia Anqi's words were finished, Li Deming shook his head decisively, "I won't give your father and son a happy ...... It is more beneficial to give two living people to the Great Song Dynasty than to give the Great Song two human heads......

In the next few days, I will send people to serve your father and son with good food and drink.

When the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty arrive, I will send someone to hand over your father and son to them. ”

Cheyenne sighed, gritted her teeth and hung her head.

Li Deming waved his hand and instructed Mu Erle: "Take their father and son down and take strict care!" ”

Mu Erle agreed, and let Xia Zhu and his son leave the hall.

Li Deming stood in the middle of the hall and sighed: "I hope your father and son can be of some use." ”

Li Deming's voice slowly dissipated in the main hall.

After Xia Zhu's father and son were escorted to a very tightly guarded cell.

Xia Anchi gritted his teeth and said, "Dad, you know that escaping at this time is the most dangerous. ”

Xia Zhu closed his eyes painfully and said, "It's my father's fault...... It's your dad who hurt you......"

Cheyenne sighed in his heart and was speechless.

Xia Zhu opened his eyes, stared at the dark cell, and muttered, "If our father and son wait until the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty reach Xingqing Mansion before escaping, they will definitely flee from Xingqing Mansion."

When the time comes, the soldiers and horses in Xingqing Mansion will come out, and it will definitely be very chaotic.

If we take advantage of the chaos and run away, no one will find us. ”

Xia Zhu glanced at Xia Anji, gritted his teeth and said, "But our father and son will not live to that time." Li Deming has his eyes on our father and son, and he will definitely kill our father and son before the big war starts, so as to prevent future troubles.

I thought our father and son could plan for a few more days before escaping.

But when I learned that the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty had sent envoys to Western Xia, I knew that if our father and son had not fled, they might have died earlier.

Our father and son have become useless to Western Xia.

Li Deming will definitely be a favor, send our father and son to the Great Song Dynasty, and let Kou Ji kill.

Li Deming didn't want to start a war with the Great Song Dynasty, and he didn't have the strength to start a war with the Great Song Dynasty.

So he will definitely use all means to curry favor with Da Song.

To grasp the silver lining that doesn't exist.

Although I was in the palace and talked back to Li Deming everywhere, his words were no different from what I speculated. ”