The broken drum was beaten, and the wall fell down and everyone pushed it.

When a person is high-spirited and prestigious, he may not be aware of the crisis and sinister people around him, but once he has a crisis, you will immediately find that the people and things around him will become like beasts one by one in an instant, grinning at you, hating to drink your blood and eat your flesh, and completely lose the docile appearance in your impression.

At this time, Ye Qing was more and more able to understand the isolation and helplessness of Yue Fei and a large number of other loyal ministers and good generals in the last stage of their lives, as well as the sad state of mind at that time.

Human beings are social animals, and within an interest group, they are obviously reluctant to have alien voices within them, and to have different voices from the public.

And when the aliens are strong, it's better to say something, they will be afraid of your strength, and choose to be silent and smile on weekdays, but when you are no longer strong and fall into a desperate situation, they will immediately show their hideous faces, desperate to attack you.

Fortunately, Ye Qing is not Yue Fei, whether it is the Song Dynasty, the Jin people, or the Xia people, they all know it clearly and clearly now, especially after Ye Qing originally recovered the four roads in the Northland, this point has become their consensus, so they are much more "grand" than Yue Fei when they deal with Ye Qing.

Yue Fei will resist the decree and disrespect, but in the end he will still submit to the court and abide by the way of the courtiers, while Ye Qing will also resist the decree and disrespect, even more than Yue Fei.

But Ye Qing will not be as cautious as Yue Fei to abide by the way of courtiers, although after the victory of the Northern Expedition, on the way back to Lin'an from north to south, he was shouting all the way in his mouth that he was a loyal courtier of the Great Song Dynasty, but I am afraid that even he would not believe in such words, otherwise, he should be like Yue Fei back then, and return to Lin'an alone, instead of returning to Lin'an with five thousand elite iron horses.

So when Ye Qing returned to Lin'an, did he go to his life to ask for guilt, or did he use the five thousand elites to show off his might in front of the imperial court?

Most people are inclined to the latter, and then Ye Qing was out of control, alone in Lin'an Taishang Zen throne, when the new emperor ascended the throne, he actually persuaded the Xia, Jin, and Tatar people to join him to help Liao fight against the Khorezmian people for the princess of Liao, for a woman? Is there still the consciousness of being a human minister? Or did he want to rebel against it?

Ye Qing smiled at Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm with heavy faces, and continued to say lightly: "So when you think about it like this, then it's not surprising why Hot Gongji will deal with us cautiously as if it were a war between countries, right?" ”

"But what you've done, my lord...... But it's all for the Song court, for the people not to be bullied by the barbarians, not to rebel. Mo Xiaobao said unconvinced.

"It's your own opinion, but we can't make everyone feel the same way as us, everyone has their own understanding, and we can't ask everyone to understand us." Ye Qing said calmly.

"So, in fact, whether it is the Jin Kingdom, or the current Xia Kingdom, even our Song Court, they actually regard you as a ......." Zhong Silkworm frowned, and after saying half a word, he swallowed back the next words.

The lice on the bald man's head, now this is a clear thing, the court ignores Ye Qing and the affairs of the four roads in the north, and has completely expressed its attitude, now Ye Qing, if he can come back alive, then he is still a courtier of the Great Song Dynasty, and everyone will continue to fight in the future.

But if he is defeated, then Ye Qing is the rebel of the Great Song Dynasty, a traitor who wants to build a country with five roads in the north and get rid of the Song Dynasty! Everybody gets it!

Mo Xiaobao slapped the table depressedly, and hummed unconvinced: "It's still Uncle Liu, what they said is right, Marshal Yue was dedicated to the court back then, and wanted to welcome back the second saint, but after all, he was wronged to death by his own people!" Therefore, we should be tough on the imperial court, anyway, we have a clear conscience. The people of the old Weiwei army also often said that if Marshal Yue did not die, they would not be able to recover the lost territory, but at least the dignified seven-foot man would not live so badly, let alone watch the people of the north being oppressed and humiliated by the Jin, but they could not help in any way, they could only watch. I knew that I shouldn't have returned to Lin'an to die, with the Yellow River and the Yangtze River as the boundary, it is good to be a country of its own, although I have to be infamy, but at least the people in this place can live a stable life. ”

"What else did they say?" Ye Qing asked Mo Xiaobao quietly.

"What else can I say, is to tell us that the brutality of the Jin soldiers who went south at that time was simply an extermination of humanity! Talking about the deserted villages they saw in the north, the corpses on both sides of the official road, even if it was a three-year-old child, the Jin people did not let go. An old man said that he had seen a three-year-old child with his head still there, his arms and legs, but his stomach was complete

It was dug through, a big hole, so not scary, that he couldn't sleep for several nights, as long as he slept, it was the pitiful appearance of the child. Mo Xiaobao clenched his fists tightly and said.

Ye Qing let out a long sigh, and then said, "You go down to rest, tomorrow I will say goodbye to the hot Gongji, and we will set off to return to the Song court early the day after tomorrow." ”

Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm glanced at each other, and finally nodded without saying anything, and walked out of Ye Qing's room.

This is already the second night they have stayed in Xingqing Mansion, and tonight Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm appeared in Ye Qing's room, originally wanting to persuade Ye Qing to directly give Yu Yunwen an order to attack Xia, and then give them a chance to return to the Song Dynasty, but such a proposal was rejected by Ye Qing.

Of course, Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm also knew that their suggestion seemed to be very safe, but in fact it also had a huge hidden worry, that is, just like the half of the sentence that Zhong Silkworm swallowed back after saying half of it.

Once Ye Qing ordered Yu Yunwen to attack Xia, presumably Yu Yunwen at this time would never have any hesitation, but in this way, it would cause Jingzhaofu Road, and even including the Beidi Fourth Road, to completely break away from the Song Dynasty and become a de facto independent territory, which would also make them have only one way to go in the future, that is, rebellion.

Obviously, Ye Qing didn't want to do this, and didn't want to be a traitor, but if he didn't want to be a traitor, or a Song minister, Ye Qing could only resist all this independently, or use his net worth and life in exchange for the recognition of a Great Song court, just like Yue Fei back then, after being rehabilitated after a trumped-up charge.

"I really don't understand what the adults are worried about, is the identity of the courtier of the Great Song Dynasty so important? Is it heavier than life? Mo Xiaobao didn't dare to complain in Ye Qing's room, but as soon as he walked out of Ye Qing's room, he began to complain indiscriminately outside.

"yes, what the hell are you thinking? What's more, he has a lesson like Marshal Yue, in order to prove that he did not rebel, he was a loyal Song minister, and he did not hesitate to risk his life to prove it. But when a person dies, there is nothing...... Or...... Shall we persuade the adults again? Zhong Silkworm stopped and turned around, looking at the room behind him, which was still lit, and immediately turned black after they left.

"The lights are dark, and I can't see what the adults mean, do you dare to go in at this time?" Mo Xiaobao also turned his head, looking at Ye Qing's room was already dark, and said angrily.

"Ugh......." Zhong Silkworm sighed, and then simply squatted down on the spot, looked at the dark window, and muttered: "It stands to reason that adults should not be pedantic people, they should not be the kind of people who are bound because of Song Chen's identity, why did this time, they become hesitant at the most critical time." ”

"Do you think the adults have other plans?" Mo Xiaobao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he squatted down and bumped into Zhong Silkworm and asked.

Zhong Silkworm glanced at Mo Xiaobao and said lightly: "What else can I plan?" Now we are in the net of heaven and earth, and there is only one bloody road to go now, either to kill or to fall asleep on this bloody road and never wake up. ”

"So, what if we could kill it? Just rely on our five thousand people, even if they are all dead, as long as we escort the adults back to the Song Court, wouldn't it be another way? The more Mo Xiaobao thought about it, the more reasonable he felt.

"What's the difference between that and where you're now?" Zhong Silkworm pouted, what he was worried about now was what kind of attitude Song Ting would have towards Ye Qing even after killing Song Ting.

After all, Ye Qing now cares a lot about Song Chen's identity, so in Zhong Silkworm's opinion, even if they can kill and return to the Song court, then judging from Lord Ye's current attitude, it is likely that they will immediately return to Lin'an and show their loyalty to the court, just like Yue Fei back then, so in the end, isn't this still a dead end!

Ye Qing in the room, standing in front of the window, silently looked at the two guys squatting on the ground not far from the window, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily showed a gratifying smile.

It's easy to be self-reliant, but how do you move on after being self-reliant? This is something he needs to consider, not like Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm, who think that things can be decided so simply as soon as the upper lip touches the lower lip.

Once he relies on the Beidi Five Roads to stand on his own, then he Ye Qing is equivalent to being under the attack of the Jinxia and Song Kingdoms, with the current foundation of the Beidi Five Roads, coupled with the tragic disaster of the Yellow River in the past two years, it is difficult for him to lead these people to survive in the Beidi Five Roads, and this is not the result he wants, nor is it his ideal.

Recovering all the lost territories in the Central Plains, seizing the sixteen states of Yanyun, preventing the Tatars from moving south, and causing catastrophic damage to the orthodoxy of the Central Plains were what he Ye Qing wanted to do the most, and it was also the ideal height he wanted to reach since the date of the Northern Expedition.

Everything is going smoothly now, albeit will

encountered all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, such as the predicament he was in now, but Ye Qing did not think that because of the predicament in front of him, he should change the goals and ideals in his heart.

The old Beiwei army has seen a lot of the brutality of the Jin people who rode south, and now the generation of Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm can only know from the mouths of the older generation, and they can only get a glimpse of the brutality of the Jin people back then.

But obviously, none of them can predict the future like themselves, and clearly know that in the future, the Tatars will be more brutal than the Jin people, and the destruction of the orthodoxy of the Central Plains China will be even more than the Jin people who went south.

Ye Qing can't stand on his own, he can't stand on his own, and he doesn't have a strong strength to support his self-reliance, the disaster of the flooding of the Yellow River has turned into thousands of thin and hungry people, looking for him with their mouths open to eat, if there is no food, then at least two of the five roads in the north will inevitably repeat the mistakes of the Song Dynasty, and a large number of people will rebel and fall into the grass, shaking the foundation of the ruling class.

Therefore, Ye Qing couldn't give up the long-term meal ticket of the Song court at this time, he also needed the proverb: Su Changshu and the world are full to ensure that the people of the four roads in the north can eat, instead of being independent of the Song court and supporting the army to become a prince.

Of course, he didn't care about the identity of a courtier of the Song court, and he didn't care how bad his reputation would be in the future, but he had to use this identity to achieve his own ideals and goals.

But no matter what, tonight's intention of Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm still made Ye Qing feel extremely gratified, the old back Wei army not only exists in the flower planting army, but also in the other armies, there are old back Wei army to help the various armies lead the expanding armies.

Mo Xiaobao's words can be regarded as a microcosm of the armies of the five roads in the north, and it can be confirmed from the side that as the old Beiwei army gradually grew old, at the last moment when they withdrew from the stage of history, when they were telling about the atrocities of the Jin people back then, they also unconsciously took the position of the five roads in the north and gradually pulled away from the Song court, thus forming today's army of the five roads in the north that is relatively independent and only loyal to him Ye Qing.

Since Mo Xiaobao and Zhong Silkworm dared to suggest Ye Qing to be self-reliant so boldly, it was enough to show that at this moment, not only in the army of the flower planters in front of them, because of Song Ting's inaction, but after being dissatisfied, such emotions arose, and I am afraid that there would also be such emotions spreading in the army of the Five Roads in the North.

Ye Qing wanted to take advantage of such emotions, and finally make the emotions in the army become a position and stand on his side Ye Qing, so he had to pay the price that he should bear to get such an army that was loyal to him in terms of position.

This is a gamble, but also a game, there is absolutely life hidden in the predicament, it depends on whether you dare to gamble, dare to fight once.

Victory, relying on the support of the army of the five roads in the north, Ye Qing can walk sideways in Lin'an, and from then on, the front will basically be a smooth road.

Jin and Xia, including the Lin'an court, will live in trembling, fearing that they will be unhappy and send troops to attack them, and they are afraid that they will be dissatisfied and stomp their feet on the court to cause turmoil in the court.

But if it fails...... Ye Qing couldn't help but smile bitterly, the result was also unbearable for him, if he died, Bai Chun and the others would be an important reason why he would not be blind, Yu Yunwen, Li Heng, Xin Qiji, Xiao Zhen and other like-minded people would also become another reason why he died because he was ashamed of them.

On October 7 of the first year of Shaoxi, Ye Qing bid farewell to the hot Gongji in Xingqing Mansion, and the hot Gongji, who was hospitable and retained, sent Ye Qing to the gate of Xingqing Mansion despite his old age and frailty and the obstruction of others.

The customs clearance documents were handed over to Ye Qing in person, and then he took Ye Qing's hand, and said with a serious and reluctant look: "Today's farewell, when I meet the adult again, I don't know what year and month it is...... Forget it, the old man is this old bone, I'm afraid he won't live long, maybe he will have to be in the underworld when you and I meet again. ”

"Don't worry, the prime minister can wait for me in the underworld first, and my life will be very fast." Ye Qing said jokingly, causing a hearty burst of laughter from the hot Gongji.

"Well, it's a deal! If you go to the underworld first, you will wait for the old man next to the bridge, and if the old man goes first, he will wait for you next to the bridge, and he will not be gone! Hot Gongji took Ye Qing's hand and said with a smile.

Ye Qing, who was already covered with goosebumps all over his body, silently withdrew his hand, he had never said such a sensual word when he was separated from Yeluyue from Liaowangcheng, and now he was holding hands with a dry old man, talking about the fleshy words of being together in the next life and meeting next to the Nai He Bridge, it was disgusting!