Out of the north fence gate is the Jingkou pipeline, and the east of the road is the original Wang Anshi abandoned lake to retreat from the land, and almost all changed to a small Xuanwu Lake in Narita, the other side of the official road is Zhongshan.

Further forward between the left water and the right mountain is a smooth and smooth official road, and at this time, as the sound of the fight gradually weakened, Han Yanxuan and Ye Qing finally raised their knives to meet each other.

The smell of blood in the night wind was not very strong, and the two sides were killed and wounded, but at this moment, it was obvious that no one could help anyone.

is also tall and capable, the same robe, not even a helmet, the sword in his hand is still dripping blood, and the two centaurs behind him are also looking at each other murderously.

Han Yanxuan's gaze crossed Ye Qing, looking at the few remaining torches that lit up the quietly parked carriage by Xuanwu Lake not far away under the night, and the murderous aura on his face had not completely faded: "I will take the people, and we will reveal tonight's affairs." If we meet again in the court, you and I will have any affection. ”

"King Xin is in the hands of you and Zhao Ruyu, presumably you will never let that Zhong Ping die easily, a princess of Xin, why do you bother to catch up?" Ye Qing slammed the ground with a knife and wiped the blood that had splashed to the corners of his eyes in the battle just now.

"Zhao Ru treats you well, even if you don't want to help him, you shouldn't stop him from taking revenge. As the commander of the Imperial City Division, I don't believe that you still don't know how Zhao Ruyu's wife died! You asked me to send those two Northern Daoists to Lin'an, and I had already vaguely guessed what you wanted these two Daoists to do. If it weren't for the purpose of dealing with King Xin, how could you have sent people to follow these two Taoists closely on their thousand-mile journey? You, like Zhao Ruyu, have long wanted to deal with King Xin, and tonight is really thankless. Han Yanxuan said with a solemn expression.

Ye Qing shook his head silently, then showed his white teeth and smiled, before he said: "If you can guess something, then naturally there will be other people who can guess it, so I can't give it to you if I believe in the princess." If I can bring Princess Xin back to Lin'an intact, whether it is the Emperor Taishang or the Holy Lord, seeing Princess Xin return to Lin'an unharmed, I guess I won't be too harsh, right? Of course, even if you tell the Holy Lord, those two Northern Dao people were brought to Lin'an by my Ye Qing. ”

"Zhao Xuan is obsessed with Taoist double cultivation, and there is the disgraceful act of seducing Zhao Ruyu's wife double cultivation to death, these years, you should also know how many beauties Zhang Dadao has collected for Zhao Xuan. Zhao Xuan is lustful, and he has been known to the world since he was taken to the palace, and the reason why he missed the opportunity to inherit the throne is entirely because of women. How could a king care about a princess? The Holy Lord, the Emperor Taishang, how could he care about the wife of a child of the clan who was about to be deposed from the title? Han Yanxuan took a deep breath, thinking in his heart that if he fought again, he would have a few percent chance of winning.

Ye Qing looked at Han Yanxuan's deep-set eye sockets, it was precisely because Zhao Ruyu's wife was seduced by Zhao Xuan, the king of Xin, and then died because of the double cultivation of the two, so Ye Qing would not hand over Princess Xin to Zhao Ruyu and Han Yanxuan.

He knew very well that if Zhong Qing fell into the hands of Zhao Ruyu, then the end of Zhong Qing would never be as simple as death.

Zhao Xuan is obviously in Zhao Ruyu's hands now, Zhao Ruyu has endured hatred for so many years, how could he easily kill Zhong Qing in front of Zhao Xuan when he finally got revenge?

I'm afraid that once Zhong Qing falls into the hands of Zhao Ruyu, I am afraid that his fate will be more painful than death.

And at this moment, Han Yanxuan's eyes suddenly looked at the carriage that was quietly parked on the shore of Xuanwu Lake not far behind Ye Qing.

Ye Qing looked at the strange look in Han Yanxuan's eyes, and looked back suspiciously, and then saw a pretty figure wearing a white fur coat, slowly stepping out of the carriage.

"Princess Xin......."

"Stop him!"

Han Yanxuan and Ye Qing shouted almost at the same time, but Han Yanxuan shouted the person Princess Xin, while Ye Qing had insight into what Zhong Qing was going to do.

So just when Han Yanxuan and Ye Qing rushed towards Zhong Qing by the lake almost at the same time, they saw Zhong Qing jump into Xuanwu Lake without hesitation.

"Go into the water and save people!"

In the endless night sky, the sound of Han Yanxuan and Ye Qing roaring and breaking the sound instantly sounded, and as Nankang Jun and the Imperial City Division Forbidden Guard jumped down, no one could find Zhong Qing on the small lake.

Time passed bit by bit, but a jailer of the Imperial City Division suddenly broke through the water, but there was only a white fur coat in his hand, and Zhong Qing was not found.

"Keep looking." Han Yanxuan and Ye Qing, who were standing by the lake, still looked shocked with shock, looked at each other with each other, and then continued to yell at the shivering soldiers in the lake in unison.

Even if the bodies of several drowning soldiers who had drowned because of the cramps in their legs and feet frozen by the cold lake after rushing into the water were found, Zhong Qing seemed to have disappeared, and he couldn't find them anyway.

In the warm Furong Pavilion of the palace of Lin'an City, it is still full of purple and red flowers, and the current saint Zhao Yan's face is slightly sickly, and he looked at the queen Xie Sufang opposite and coughed a few times.

Looking at the queen who hurriedly got up and wanted to pat him on the back, Zhao Yan hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "I'm fine, I'm afraid I just suffered some cold this morning." ”

As the queen ordered someone to prepare some hot soup to replenish qi and nourish the body, Zhao Yan let out a long sigh and waved his hand to signal Guan Li and other eunuchs and palace maids to retreat first.

"Is there something going on with the Holy One?" The queen watched Zhao Yan's actions and said after sitting down again.

"It's nothing, it's just...... Suddenly, I wanted to talk to the queen about this matter in the court. Zhao Yan was covered with a thick blanket and looked at the queen and said.

After hearing this, the queen smiled gently, and said lightly: "Don't be joking, although the concubine is the queen, how dare she interfere in political affairs, it is difficult to become a saint to see the concubine's ......." ”

"Haha, where did the queen think." Zhao Yan smiled heartily, and then his expression gradually became solemn and said: "As the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, since my father's throne, whether it is above the court or local officials, most of them were promoted, appointed and dismissed by my father back then. Although many years have passed, I have been wondering whether the Northern Expedition since I succeeded to the throne has been in vain, is it related to the lazy government of the officials above the officialdom today, who have no concern for the country and the people, and the ambition to resist gold? ”

"Holy Lord, this ......." The queen's face was a little embarrassed, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Let's hear me finish." Zhao Yan waved his hand and continued: "I don't mean that the courtiers left by my father are disloyal, but I am thinking, if my Great Song clan wants to recover the old mountains and rivers, regain half of the country, and hate my clan, is it a little too dependent on these ministers who follow my father to the south?" ”

Without waiting for the queen to open her mouth, Zhao Yan continued: "Now that my Great Song Kingdom is rich and the people are rich, but the soldiers are not strong and the horses are not strong, and if I want to go north to recover the lost territory, I obviously can't rely on these ministers who have crossed to the south, and now above the court, except for a few courtiers from Nandu, if I want to go back to the north again to recover the mountains and rivers, should I rely on those courtiers to go to the battlefield for me?" ”

"Holy Lord, these court political concubines don't understand it anymore. If it is a holy ....... The queen began to become a little restless, not knowing what was going on with the saint today, and suddenly talked to a woman from her family about the great affairs of the country.

"I think about it, if I want the Northern Expedition to be successful, if I want the Great Song Dynasty to no longer be oppressed by the Jin people, I can only use some young talents above the court. As the saying goes, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and now there are a few people who are not bad in my opinion, and the queen still knows them, so why not help me refer to them? Zhao Yan's somewhat sickly face still had a relaxed smile.

"It's ......." The queen smiled, personally put the hot soup in Zhao Yan's hand, and then sat down again and groaned.

"In order to let you be unrestrained and talk freely, have I asked everyone to step down?" Zhao Yan said with a smile: "Now above the court, there are few young talents who can be called young talents, brave and courageous, and there are very few people who are not in their positions. Shi Miyuan, the grandson of Shi Hao, the Duke of Wei, Han Yanxuan, the son of Han Cheng, the secretary of the ministry, and then Ye Qing of the Imperial City Division and Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple. Although this person's family background is not as deep as Wei Guogong and Han Cheng, if you talk about it carefully, it can be regarded as the queen of a famous family, although it is only a remote side branch of Ye Heng's family, but just like when I was connected to the palace, that Ye Qing can barely be regarded as a famous family. I don't know what the queen thinks of these three people? ”

And when Zhao Yan was discussing Ye Qing, Han Yanxuan, and Shi Miyuan with the queen, Zhao Gou in Deshou Palace also looked down at the names of Ye Qing and the three of them who had just written it himself.

Among these three people, only Ye Qing was the most incomprehensible, hesitant, and relieved.

Among the three of them, Ye Qing is the most rootless and has no background at all, so it stands to reason that he should be the most reassuring one, but Zhao Gou doesn't know why, there is always a faint birth in his heart, Ye Qing seems to be more dangerous to the Zhao Song clan than the other two.

Shi Miyuan and Han Yanxuan are all famous families, and they are all inextricably linked with the royal family, if they become big one day, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not become Qin Hui and Tang Sihui, but after all, the historian is a civil official, even if there is a different heart, but it will not endanger the foundation of Zhao and Song Jiangshan.

And Han Cheng and Han Yanxuan's father and son, both of whom were born as military generals, although they are not powerful now, coupled with the deliberate suppression of themselves and the queen mother, they will not do anything to endanger the court and the country for the time being, but if they are a hundred years later...... I'm afraid it's hard to say, right?

The Northern Expedition of Longxing failed, and Zhao Gou originally thought that Zhao Yan's will to regain the lost center of the earth and resist Jin was dead, and the heart of a corner of peace had been decided.

However, with Ye Qing's envoy to the Jin State, he frustrated the Jin people's spirit, fought the officials of the Jin State, forced the Jin State to exempt the New Year's coin, and went through the grassland and sent the Xia State to punish the traitor Ren Dejing of the Great Song Dynasty, which made Zhao Yan's Northern Expedition now have some signs of resurgence.

Now a large number of ministers who followed him to the south above the court were either transferred out of the court by Zhao Yan and went to various roads further south, or they were only appointed officials and not sent, and some fresh faces began to appear in the court.

This is enough to show that Zhao Yan's ambition to go on the Northern Expedition has revived.

And if he wants to fight hard again and go north, then the three people in front of him, I am afraid that they are indispensable, will become the backbone of Zhao Yan's dependence.