Zhao Liangsi's words stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, causing controversy in the Manchu Dynasty, and the Manchu Dynasty civil and military had both agree and oppose, among which the opposition accounted for the majority, the reason was that with the divine power of the Heavenly Empire, he took the initiative to discuss with a group of thieves who stole the rivers and mountains, and it was really a great shame.

The emperor also hesitated and hesitated, Zhao Liangsi looked at it coldly, and sneered in his heart, this group of people can neither beat others, nor dare to fight with others again, and they can't put down the shelf to negotiate peace, so how can you be satisfied? Celestial Empire? How can you be defeated again and again by others if you are so powerful? The defeated army still expects the victorious side to take the initiative to beg for peace, is their brain kicked by a donkey?

The Manchu Dynasty discussed for several days without results,

But just five days later, two successive military information was sent to Tokyo, the first was that the Jin State had started a full-scale war with the Liao State, almost won many battles, and the Great Liao State was powerless to fight back, and now it has occupied the entire Liaodong region, and its strength has increased unprecedentedly. The second is that the Xia State suddenly stationed 300,000 troops on the northwest border, and the Northwest Army's urgent document despised how the imperial court should respond.

When the news came, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked again, in the past six months, although the Western Xia has made many moves, but it is only a small-scale transfer of troops in the border area, but now they suddenly have such a big move, at first glance, it is planned for a long time, is it because they have learned that there is a civil unrest in the Great Song Dynasty, so they take the opportunity to renew the war? If that's the case, then they couldn't have chosen the right time!

In fact, according to common sense, since the enemy has moved, what choice can the Northwest Army have, and immediately strengthen the defense according to the actual situation, but the Song Dynasty passively accepted the lessons of the military coups that emerged one after another at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and focused on advocating the importance of literature over military force, and the military was governed by literature, and the prevention and taboo of the generals and the army became the unswerving family rules of the Zhao and Song dynasties. If it weren't specifically authorized by the emperor, any army in the Great Song Dynasty to carry out any military action must first consult the imperial court, and act according to the will of the imperial court, this kind of behavior that completely violates the laws of the battlefield was popular in the two Song Dynasty, so in the face of such a clear military action in the Western Xia, the Northwest Army still had to consult the imperial court before making defensive actions, and the emperor and the ministers hurriedly issued an order, ordering the Northwest Army to immediately launch an action to defend the Western Xia, this back and forth, I don't know how much precious time the Northwest Army has been delayed.

And the continuous growth of the Jin State is also conveying a strong signal to the Great Song Dynasty, the Jin State is growing at an incredible speed, and the seemingly powerful Liao State has begun to show the appearance of a "paper tiger", so the planned strategy of "Lianjin to destroy Liao" must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

As soon as these two pieces of news came, in addition to shocking the court into a cold sweat, it also produced another unexpected effect, that is, the voice of agreeing with the Zhao'an Liangshan bandit suddenly increased a lot, because now for the Great Song Dynasty, it is urgent to quell the domestic turmoil as soon as possible, at least temporarily remove the threat from the rear, otherwise the war with the Western Xia will really break out again, and the Great Song Dynasty will fall into an unfavorable situation of multi-front warfare, not to mention that the current finances are already stretched to make ends meet, and now that the Eastern Expeditionary Army has been defeated, Tong Guan's war in the southeast is also very unfavorable, so whether or not he can recruit the Liangshan bandits is particularly important to the Great Song Dynasty, and for this consideration, it is not surprising that the voice of the Zhao'an Liangshan bandit has grown.

Finally, in the face of the grim situation, the emperor made a decision, he appointed Zhao Liangsi as the envoy of Zhao'an on the East and West Road of Beijing, and went to recruit Liangshan thieves on behalf of the imperial court.

The emperor thought that this was really the case, and immediately agreed to Zhao Liangsi's request, and immediately issued an order to release Zhang Shuye, and appointed him as the deputy envoy of Zhao'an to accompany Zhao Liangsi to Jingxi Road and make meritorious contributions.

So Zhao Liangsi had to bring Uncle Zhang, did he really want to think about the face of the Great Song Dynasty? The answer is, of course, no, this kind of self-deception Zhao Liangsi also felt disgusting, but the reason why he did it was because the last time he saw Zhang Shuye in prison, he felt that Zhang Shuye did not tell him the truth completely.

Although Zhang Shuye was very depressed at that time, and his words inevitably revealed his anger at Zheng Linfeng for deceiving him and using him, when Zhao Liangsi asked him about the situation of Jingdong West Road occupied by Liangshan thieves and the current living conditions of the people, Zhang Shuye's inadvertent praise clearly told Zhao Liangsi that Zhang Shuye did not hate Liangshan thieves as much as he showed, and even on the contrary, he seemed to be very sure of Jingdong West Road under the rule of Liangshan thieves.

As a result, Zhao Liangsi was keenly aware that this matter was probably not as simple as it seemed, so he wanted to take Zhang Shuye with him and find another opportunity to find out what Zhang Shuye really thought, he wanted to find out, what kind of medicine was sold in the cunning Zheng Linfeng gourd?

At the end of July, Zhao Liangsi and his entourage left Bianliang and headed towards Jingxi Road.

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Since the news of the defeat of the Eastern Expeditionary Army came to Tokyo, the attention of the entire city of Tokyo, from the government and the opposition to the people, was focused on this matter, so that some other things that happened during this period did not attract much attention, one of which was the disappearance of a firearms master named Ling Zhen from the Jingshi Gunpowder Bureau.

The officials of the Gunpowder Bureau found that Ling Zhen had been on an errand for several days, and went to his house to take a look, only to see that the door of the house was locked, and there was no response to the shouting in the courtyard. Ling Zhen's parents are dead, and he has not yet started a family, Ling Zhen's colleagues felt that something was not quite right and hurriedly reported to Kaifeng Mansion, and Kaifeng Mansion sent a catcher to Ling Zhen's house to forcibly break in, only to see that the home was very neat, there was no trace of fighting, and his property was not lost, and there was even food on the table that had just been moldy, and then asked his neighbors around his house, and also said that he had not noticed anything abnormal in Ling Zhen's house these days, and he had not seen him for a few days,

It seems that Ling Zhen is really missing. Kaifeng Mansion immediately arranged for someone to look for Ling Zhen, but there was no progress in searching for several days, and several nameless corpses newly found in the city also proved that it was not Ling Zhen.

So where did Ling Zhen go?

It turned out that when people found out that Ling Zhen was missing, he had already stayed away from Tokyo, tied hand and foot, gagged and masked in an extremely ordinary carriage and marching in the direction of Jingxi Road, it turned out that he was kidnapped, and the person who kidnapped him was none other than Pang Sheng, who Zheng Fei specially sent to "invite" Ling Zhen, and several soldiers of the independent division,

On the same day, after Pang Sheng led the independent division to disguise themselves and blend into Tokyo, they quickly found Ling Zhen's home, after a few days of observation, finally, in the morning when there were few people, in a remote corner less than 100 steps away from Ling Zhen's house, Ling Zhen, who was walking towards the mission hall, suddenly found that there were two more people around him who followed him inch by inch, he was shocked and wanted to speed up his pace to leave, but the two people smiled at him and caught him left and right, Ling Zhen knew that something was wrong and was about to shout for help, The object on his waist instantly told him clearly that if he dared to move, the consequences would be very serious, Ling Zhen didn't dare to shout, he didn't dare to move, he could only be pale and was supported by the two of them, like an affectionate old friend, he got into a carriage from the side of the road, and when the three of them got into the carriage, the carriage started again, and the whole process was completed in one go, and Ling Zhen left Tokyo Bianliang quietly.

Five days later, when Zhao Liangsi had just been appointed by the emperor as the Zhao'an envoy of Jingxi Road, Pang Sheng and others had successfully "invited" Ling Zhen to Yunzhou City and met Zheng Fei.

Zheng Fei expressed a warm welcome to Ling Zhen's arrival, and the frightened Ling Zhen knew that it was actually the Liangshan thief who kidnapped him, and he naturally did not want to join the gang, but Zheng Fei knew that he was affectionate and reasonable, and after the persuasion of his old friend Peng Qi, Ling Zhen finally recognized the current situation, and before the choice of either joining the gang or going to see the king of Hades, Ling Zhen made the right choice and joined the Tiandao Army,

Zheng Fei immediately officially appointed Ling Zhen as the president of the newly established Tiandao Military Firearms Academy, which was specifically responsible for establishing the Firearms Academy, training firearms masters, and manufacturing various firearms, and the Heavenly Dao Army officially entered the era of "firearms".

Seven days later, an urgent piece of information was delivered from distant Tokyo to Yunzhou City with the best carrier pigeons, Zheng Fei looked at the content written on the note, and said to himself with some surprise,

"It's actually Ma Zhi? Hehe, interesting. ”