Chapter 395: Wise Wants to Choose
At the end of September, there is no trace of autumn in Heluo. Six or seven days ago, the wind gradually rose, the weather was fiercely cold, the clouds were dense, and the half moon was blowing up and rolling up the next day of heavy snow earlier than in previous years.
Heluo made the embassy's mansion.
In the silver and white all over the ground, a figure was in a hurry, and they all controlled Zhai Jin to rush to the back court in great strides, his face uncertain, excited, hesitant, excited, gloomy, and so on.
"Big brother!"
In the study, Zhai Xing, the envoy of Jingbei Road, was looking at the newspaper in his hand, this thing was a new thing that arose in the border of Hedong in Hebei.
It is forbidden in the realm of the Great Song Dynasty. But secretly, there are many people who can't put it down, and this Zhai Xing is one of them.
Because this newspaper will not only disclose some policies of the Northland, but also publish the results of the battle between the Northland and the Jurchens, as well as some overseas anecdotes.
For example, Goryeo. It is precisely because of this newspaper that countless scholars and officials know that the Goryeo royal family is so disrespectful, and even many ordinary people know that the Goryeo royal family does not know how to understand people's morality. How inhuman!
There is also the strange caste system of Tianzhu, and the king of the Japanese people dares to call himself the 'emperor', I really don't know what to say. Of course, Li Tang has always called him the king of Japan, but when Ouyang Xiu called him 'emperor' absurdly in the Zhao and Song dynasties, and it was recorded in the official history, it seemed even more ignorant.
Then there are Persia, Egypt, Europa, and so on, names that ordinary people have never heard of, countries that vast beings are completely ignorant of, and a short history that is completely different from Middle-earth, and so little by little a whole new world is spread out before their eyes.
The huge attraction of this to people can be imagined.
The newspaper in Zhai Xing's hand was already an old newspaper eight days ago, and according to the geographical location and importance of Heluo, the newspaper in the north could be sent across the Yellow River in only five days, and no later than seven days. But this thing can't see the light of day after all, and there will be times when it will be delayed.
Zhai Xing had already seen the newspaper five days ago and six days ago, but he only got the newspaper seven days ago today.
Because the content of the newspaper basically does not involve confidentiality, it is meaningless in terms of timeliness, and there is no difference between getting it two days earlier and two days later.
However, Zhai Xing is a person with a bit of an awkward personality, and when he gets the newspaper, he will feel a little uncomfortable if he doesn't finish reading it, and if he doesn't arrange it according to the time point by minute. In 21st century parlance, this is a patient with mild obsessive-compulsive disorder.
"Second brother?"
Looking at Zhai Jin with snowflakes, Zhai Xing's eyes were full of suspicion. What's wrong with him making him look like this?
But in the next moment, he thought about something, and his eyes were fixed on Zhai Jin, "But there's a letter from the North?" ”
Zhai Jin held a small copper pipe tightly in his right hand, and inside was a wax book, which was the letter sent by Liu Zhengyan.
"It's a message sent by Xiao Liu Jingluo."
The so-called Xiao Liu, this refers to Liu Zhengyan, who is now the envoy of Zhangde. There is no strategy in Zhao Gou's system, and Liu Zhengyan's official position internally is the governor of Hebei West Road.
Sitting in Zhangde, which very important figure is to recruit the western army south of the river.
Because his father is Liu Fa.
The leaders of the Western Army, no matter how big or small, few people will not sell Liu Zhengyan's face. Zhai Jin and Zhai Xing brothers are one of them.
And Zhai Jin's relationship with it is even closer. The reason is that when Zhai Jin was fighting in the northwest, he was once a member of Liu Fa's command.
In the first battle of Tong'an City, the Song army was defeated, and there was no trace of Liu Fa in the chaotic army. Although Liu Falai was not rescued from the army, the relationship between Zhai Jin and Liu Fa can also be seen.
Since Liu Zhengyan got in touch with him, he really 'looked' the land of Heluo clearly.
"What? King Yan has already recovered Yanjing? He remembered that it had only been a few days since King Yan sent troops.
"The power of earth-shattering thunder is beyond human power. Jin Yu can't stop the earth-shattering thunder, and he can't defend the land of Yanyun. According to Xiao Liu's slightly public opinion, King Yan is afraid that he will turn around and go south in the coming year......"
The people sent by Liu Zhengyan told him a lot about the fighting in the north, and the Jurchens were at a disadvantage as soon as the war began. In the first battle of Zhuozhou, they gathered more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, and there were 20,000 small horse troops inside. But what is the result?
It's just a mere 500 horse army, so that the tens of thousands of cavalry of Jin Wushu can't be defeated - the tens of thousands of cavalry of Jin Wushu are defeated, it is purely defeated in the hands of Yue Fei, so that Wanyan Lou Room, who was hiding behind Zhuozhou, had to come out in advance to meet Jin Wushu, and asked Guo Yaoshi, who was hiding in the city, to catch him blind. The fault is not that he saw the opportunity quickly, and first led the army to escape from Zhuozhou City, even this contemporary slave with three surnames is indispensable for his life!
"It is worthy of the invincible Yue praised by King Yan, it is really amazing!"
Zhai Xing is not better than his brother Zhai Jin, he has never been out of office in the past few decades, but some people's ability is really innate, earlier Wang Xiang, the prefect of Henan and the governor of the West Road, left a small number of soldiers and horses to teach Zhai Xing to lead before fleeing for his life, nominally to protect the royal mausoleum of Gong County. When the Jin people swept Heluo, Gao Shiyou surrendered to the Jin people in Zezhou and was appointed by Mu Han to stay in Xijing. Then Sticky Han led the Jin army to kill Ben Bianjing, and after Zhai Xing heard the news, he and his brother Zhai Jin led hundreds of light soldiers, rolled up their armor and rushed to Luoyang overnight, and effortlessly captured Gao Shiyou and others. And because Wang Xiang fled south with the main force of the Song army in the Heluo area, coupled with the attack of the Jin people, the order of Heluo prefectures and counties was chaotic. The thieves Ji De and Han Qing haunted between Ru and Luo, and Zhai Xing made a sneak attack on light horses and captured Ji De, so that Han Qing was only spared by himself, and then captured and killed Han Qing in the second battle.
His war experience was all that, far from being rich, and it could not even be compared with his own brothers.
But in the end, he knew the war, and how difficult and powerful Yue Fei's series of works in the Battle of Zhuozhou was, he knew very well.
This ability, Zhai Xing's conceit is far inferior.
"The second brother used to be a fierce general under the command of the old Liu Jingluo. How is the conceit compared to the invincibility of this Yue? Zhai Xing was a little curious. He can have the ability of his brother Zhai Jin today, but with Zhai Jin's ability, he doesn't seem to be as good as this young Yue Pengju.
At the beginning of the defeat of Tong'an City, Tong Guan put all the blame on Liu Fa, Zhai Jin was a general under Liu Fa, and he was also implicated and was demoted and suspended. Although he was reinstated soon after, he was accepted and appointed. But Zhai Jin still missed the battle of Xuanhe in the fourth year of the Liao War, but he was reappointed as the fourth general of Hebei within half a year after he resumed his official position. When he arrived in Suicheng, when the Liao army came, Liu Yanqing was commanded to take Zhai Jin as the vanguard, and the Liao army fought in Youzhou Shiliugang and Lugou River, and all of them won.
In a sense, Zhai Xing's experience in leading troops and fighting in battle formations is far more than that of his eldest brother Zhai Xing. It's just that the foundation of the Zhai family brothers is the local righteousness and courage of Heluo, and Zhai Xing's influence is far greater than Zhai Jin's, not to mention that he is still Zhai Jin's brother. Therefore, among the two Zhai, Zhai Xing is the leader, and Zhai Jin hides behind his brother.
But it is impossible for Zhai Xing to really open a hall of words and take his brother as his subordinates. The relationship between Zhai Jin and Liu Zhengyan was difficult to give up, and Zhai Xing's persuasion was ineffective twice, so he simply stopped persuading.
This is the real way to get along with the brothers of the Zhai family.
Moreover, Er Zhai is a person with a strong personality, and he looks down on the monarchs and ministers of Bianliang City, but it is the heroic King Yan who can make the two of them have a good impression.
If you don't look at it, Zhai Xing is also boasting about Yue Fei now, and he doesn't hide it at all.
"It's a natural seed. If you sharpen it for three or five years, the future is limitless. The little brother didn't dare to pick up his edge. Zhai Jin said this, and there was no unhappiness on his face.
Is Yue Fei at the center of the matter? It is clear that King Yan's recovery of Yanjing is the most important.
A few years ago, in order to get back Yanyun, Emperor Taishang wasted so much effort and how much grain and soldiers he lost, so that the entire northern land exhausted the people's strength. Even the Jin people's broken covenant went south, because they saw that the Song army performed too badly on the battlefield of Yanyun.
But now, it seems to be very easy, Yan Yun has re-entered the hands of the Central Plains.
"This news is about to get out, and I don't know how the official in Bianliang City will be angry." Zhai Xing thought of Zhao Huan again.
What does this master think in his heart, these days, who in the world still can't see clearly?
Restricting the northward movement of rice from the south and the northward movement of grain from the Central Plains is restricted, and if it is even possible, it is desirable that the north and south will be separated by a great wall, so that there will be no half of mutual trade between them.
Whether it is from a personal point of view or from the interests of his Zhai family, Zhai Xing is not very angry with Zhao Huan.
As a human monarch and a herdsman of Shuntian, he can't protect the people for stability, and second, he can't recover the lost land and reorganize the mountains and rivers; Third, you can't be cowardly from outside, such an emperor is really unbearable compared to Zhao Gou.
What's more, Zhao Huan secretly connected with the Jin people, and he couldn't hide too many people at all. This is an emperor whose behavior and style are not in line with Zhai Xing's wishes, and Zhai Xing naturally has no loyalty to him.
"What about being angry, the Son of Heaven, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong. Now that the King of Yan is sweeping Yanyun, I am afraid that he will be able to recover the sixteen states in the near future, and this Jurchen person can't resist his soldiers, what can the Zhao official family in Bianliang do? ”
"In my opinion, once King Yan goes south in the coming year, there will definitely be a new person on the throne of Bianliang City......"
Where will the Zhai family go then? Zhai Jin looked at his eldest brother and asked wordlessly.
Zhai Xing sighed. "What do you have to do with that little Liu Jingluo? Can you still see each other? ”
"Naturally, I can't." Zhai Jin cut the railway.
"If that's the case, what choice can you make for your brother?" Zhai Xing said angrily.
Not to mention that he doesn't have a good impression of Zhao Guan's family, even the relationship between Zhai Jin and Liu Zhengyan, that is also inseparable.
Zhai Jin was overjoyed when he heard it. For the first time in such a long time, his eldest brother relented.
But Zhai Xing's choice is not a general trend?
He is not only for one Zhai Jin, but also for the entire Zhai family.
If the King of Yan recovers the sixteen states of Yanyun, the prestige of the world will definitely skyrocket. Once stabilized, will he continue to attack and kill the Jurchens in the complex and changeable terrain and vast northeast, or will he turn around and kill Ben Bianliang and stabilize the way back?
That would be self-evident. Everyone knows what to choose!
And can the Zhao official family in Bianliang City be more powerful than the Jurchens, or can they get the top secret of the earth-shaking thunder in this short period of time?
The war has not yet begun, but the final outcome is already very clear.
Zhai Xingcai didn't want to block the car with his mantis arm, so he sent the entire family to the monarchs and ministers in Bianliang City for burial.