On October 15 of the seventh year of Zhenghe, Zheng Fei was reading the newspapers from various states and counties on Jingdong Road in the commander's mansion, when he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and Zheng Fei knew who was coming without raising his head.

"Brother Wu, what's making you like this again?" Zheng Fei put down his pen and looked up and smiled, and saw a figure rushing in from outside the door, sure enough, it was Wu Yong, Zheng Fei couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, this Wu Yong is good at anything, but there is a little, as soon as he encounters an emergency, he can't hold his breath,

Wu Yong entered the door and didn't even have time to take a breath before he hurriedly said, "Commander, the negotiation between the imperial court and Zhu Wu has been reached, Zhu Wu has made a feudal town on Liangzhejiang Road, he is a minister to the Great Song Dynasty, and he also married a daughter of the emperor!" ”

"Oh? So Zhu Wu became the concubine of the Great Song Dynasty? Zheng Fei's face was slightly surprised, "What other conditions did they negotiate?" ”

Wu Yong replied, "At present, we only know that the imperial court can send a total of no more than 20,000 troops to the Liangzhejiang Road, and it can also send civilian governors in some prefectures and counties, and other things are no different from us." But I don't think things will be so simple, the emperor is even willing to give up his own daughter, the reward will definitely not be so much, there must be other secret agreements between them, and this agreement should refer to us! ”

Zheng Fei sneered and said, "I know this Zhu Wu, the city is very deep, he is definitely the kind of person who doesn't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, and he is also very good at disguise, I was deceived by him at the beginning......!" He is willing to make such a big concession this time, it will definitely not be for a princess who has never even met in person, he must also have a very strong unknown purpose, the court cooperates with him, I am afraid that it is to seek skin with the tiger, and in the end, they will cry when they lose their wife and break the army! ”

Wu Yong said worriedly, "Having said that, after all, the imperial court doesn't have to worry about the southeast in a short period of time, and we can't let Zhu Wu contain the imperial court anymore, and the imperial court will be able to free up its hands in the future and gradually start to attack us, we must be on guard!" Commander, do you think we should recruit again? ”

Zheng Fei shook his head, "No, the bigger we move now, the more we will find an excuse for the Great Song Dynasty, now that the people are in a critical period of recuperation, a large number of conscriptions now will only increase the burden of the people, which is not good for the long run!" And through our years of fighting, it has been proved that although the number of troops on the battlefield is very important, what is more critical is the quality and courage of the soldiers. What we can do now is to seize the time to continue training and strive to train the 200,000-strong army into a truly strong army as soon as possible! When the time comes, we will be able to eat as much as the imperial court comes! ”

Wu Yong looked at Zheng Fei's confident face, and seemed to feel an inexplicable strength, hugging his fists, "My subordinates understand." ”

Zheng Fei smiled and continued to ask, "Is there anything else besides this matter?" ”

Wu Yong nodded and said, "There are two more things, one is that there is a rumor in Tokyo recently, that the emperor thinks that the prince is responsible for the defeat of the southeast army, and wants to abolish the prince, and has been approved by many ministers headed by Cai Jing and Tong Guan, but the abolition of the prince is very important, and the emperor can't make up his mind, it just so happens that he is particularly religious in Taoism, so he went to consult Lin Lingsu, a Taoist priest who was believed in by him as a god. is willing to give up being an immortal and follow the emperor, and his deep affection is simply moving. The emperor was greatly moved by this, and immediately changed his decision, and the crown prince was retained in such a way. ”

Zheng Fei was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but shake his head and laugh after looking at Wu Yong.

"Brother Wu, do you believe this rumor?"

Wu Yong shook his head, "To be honest, I don't believe it, if the emperor wants to make a decision on such a major matter as abolishing the prince, it will be ridiculous!" However, there is no wind and no waves, according to reliable information, the matter of abolishing the prince was indeed mentioned in the court a few days ago, but then there was no result, and people who thought it was a good thing for the people made up such a rumor. Do you believe it, Commander? ”

Wu Yong thought that Zheng Fei would also express his disbelief, but unexpectedly, Zheng Fei actually nodded affirmatively, "I believe it!" ”

Wu Yong was stunned for a moment and asked in surprise, "Why?" ”

Zheng Fei didn't plan to answer, because he couldn't answer, of course he couldn't tell Wu Yong that in the near future, when the Jin soldiers attacked the city of Tokyo, the superstitious Taoist emperor did not think of quickly organizing the army and the people to resist, but let a Taoist priest climb the wall of Tokyo City to "cast a spell", and ordered him to scatter beans into a soldier to recruit 100,000 heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals to defeat the Jin soldiers, which can be called a wonderful flower among countless emperors throughout the ages. Compared to that, it was a piece of cake.

"What's the second thing?" Zheng Fei continued to ask,

Wu Yong saw that Zheng Fei was reluctant to answer and didn't ask, and then replied, "The second thing is that the batch of horses in the Liao State has just arrived, and there are a lot of thousands of horses, and all of them are good horses in the prime of life, but ......, Yelu Geli, the Yanjing military general in charge of escorting the war horses in the Liao State, said that they are preparing to form a new army and also need a large number of war horses, so from the next batch onwards, they can only provide us with two hundred horses at a time, and the price will rise by another three percent!" ”

Zheng Fei couldn't help frowning, money is secondary, what he has is money, but now it is at the critical moment of forming the horse army, and a thousand horses per month still feel that it is not enough, if there are only two hundred horses, it is not even enough to stuff the teeth, it is bound to seriously hinder the process of the establishment of the horse army!

Wu Yong continued, "Commander, do you want your subordinates to go to Yanjing again?" ”

Zheng Fei shook his head, "The prairie of Liao is full of cattle, sheep and horses, will they lack horses?" It's impossible, the reason why they do this is to watch out for us, they don't want to feed us too early, make us dependent on them, so even if you go, it's useless. ”

"These Khitan bastards," Wu Yong scolded, "are we going to let them lead the way?" ”

Zheng Fei didn't answer immediately, only to see him close his eyes and lean on the back of his chair and ponder,

Wu Yong also closed his mouth when he saw this, but his face was still full of helplessness, because he had already racked his brains to think of a way to this on the way here, but he had gained nothing, and he had always been quite confident in his wisdom, so he naturally wouldn't believe that Zheng Fei could come up with any way.

I don't know how long it took, suddenly, I saw that although Zheng Fei's eyes were still closed, the corners of his mouth were inexplicably curled, Wu Yong was shocked when he saw this, and then saw Zheng Fei open his eyes and smiled at him, "You go and write a letter to Yeluchun, and let that Yeluge bring it to him, just say that we also urgently need war horses, two hundred horses at a time is too little, at least one thousand two hundred!" ”

Wu Yong stood up from his seat in shock, and his eyes widened and exclaimed, "Will he agree?!" "People have made it clear that they want to deliberately sell less war horses to us, not only do you not buy it, but you also want to buy more war horses than before? How is this possible?!

Zheng Fei smiled mysteriously, "Of course he won't agree with just one mouth, so you tell him that according to the reliable information we have received, the Jin State will soon tear up the peace treaty and relaunch an attack on Liao, and the target of the attack is the various places where their resentful army (Note 1) is stationed, and you let them prepare in advance in case of accidents." As long as Jin Guo can cooperate with me to fight such a battle, Ye Luchun will definitely not dare to offend us more in the future for more timely information, and I will ask him for 1,200 horses! ”

"What? Didn't the two countries just sign a peace treaty? How is this possible? We haven't received any such information! Wu Yong thought that Zheng Fei was talking about it, "In case the Jin State does not launch an attack on Liao by then, won't we be exposed?" ”

Zheng Fei smiled confidently, half-jokingly and half-seriously, "This commander will know how to calculate the god of the valley, just close his eyes and pinch his fingers, the Jin State will definitely tear up the peace treaty and start a war against Liao again, you just go and write." ”

Wu looked at Zheng Fei with wide eyes and stunned, he felt that Zheng Fei must be crazy, what the hell Gu God counts, isn't this nonsense? But there was no way, the commander asked him to write that he could only write, he nodded stupidly, but did not leave immediately, but rolled his eyes, and looked like he wanted to speak and stopped,

Zheng Fei said suspiciously, "Anything else?" ”

Wu Yong hugged his fist at Zheng Fei and smiled, "The subordinates haven't congratulated the commander yet." ”

Zheng Fei reacted at this time, and he couldn't help but have a happy face, "Your news is quite fast, you got it from An Daoquan's big-mouthed wife, right?" ”

Wu Yong smiled and nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, I heard it from Mrs. An Shenyi this morning, my subordinates congratulated the commander, the more prosperous the commander's heirs, the more stable the hearts of the soldiers!" ”

Zheng Fei smiled and nodded, "Then thank you." ”

"The subordinate has taken his leave." Wu used this to give a salute and walked out,

Zheng Fei picked up the pen again and read the newspaper, but the joy on his face could not fade, yes, the third lady and the third lady were happy.

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Resentment Army: In order to prevent the invasion of the Jin soldiers, in the sixth year of Liao Tianqing (1116), the Liao Emperor ordered Yan King Yeluchun to recruit hungry people as soldiers, named the Resentment Army, and intended to repay the resentment of Jin. In seven years, the eight battalions of the resentment army were deployed in the area from Yanjing (now Beijing) to Yinlianghe, with a total of more than 28,000 people.