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The temptation given to Cai by the Northern Song Dynasty court was so great that Cai still couldn't bear this temptation, and changed his original intention of not mixing with the Song Jiang rebels.

Soon after, Cai still personally took Song Jiang to Zhang Liangshan with the front battalion and the personal guard battalion.

Along the way, Song Jiang saw a lot of familiar figures.

Not to mention Mu Heng and Yan Qing, who were accompanying them, many subordinates who were originally subordinate to Qin Ming, Dong Ping, Mu Heng, Yan Qing and even Yang Zhi, Hu Yanxuan and others were all in the Jinwu army at the moment.

And what surprised Song Jiang the most was that he actually saw Hua Baoyan and Cheng Wan'er in the banquet hall, and Hua Baoyan and Cheng Wan'er seemed to be pregnant.

Song Jiang did not hide his own surprise, he asked bluntly: "...... they?"

Cai still said generously: "Many of you are forced to follow the uprising, and some of these people have certain talents or potential, I selected these people and let them join my Jinwu army." ”

Cai still looked at Hua Baoyan and Cheng Wan'er, who helped arrange the feast, and said, "They are my newly accepted concubines. ”

Song Jiang listened, his expression moved, but he didn't say anything.

Cai still did not continue, but directly feasted Song Jiang.

During the banquet, Cai still talked to Song Jiang and Zhang Xian and others about a lot of governance, but this time Cai still talked about the international governance, such as Liao, Song, Western Xia, Goryeo, Japan, Dali, Li Dynasty, Zhancheng, Tianzhu, Dashi and even the distant Seljuk Empire, the more distant Byzantine Empire.

This made Song Jiang feel as ridiculous as a frog at the bottom of a well.

Not only Song Jiang, but even Zhang Xian and others also felt the shallowness of their own knowledge, and were shocked and admired Cai Ying's profound knowledge.

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After the feast.

Cai still invited Song Jiang to his temporary study to talk about it.

After the guests and hosts of the two sides sat down, Cai still got straight to the point and said: "I am a person who does things, and I hate to waste time in beating around the bush, so before I talk to you about Zhao'an, I will explain that Zhao'an you wait, I will only talk to you this time, this time if you and I can talk about it, I will recruit you and wait, if you can't talk, I will give up Zhao'an and you and wait, and make every effort to exterminate you and so on." ”

When Song Jiang heard this, he couldn't help but say, "The general is too confident, right?" ”

Cai still said leisurely: "I'm not one of those people from the Hebei Recruitment Division, they don't know the root of your food shortage, so they will throw a mouse bogey device at you, if they know that you have run out of food, they will definitely encircle and suppress you to the end." ”

Song Jiang was silent for a while, and asked, "Why didn't the general tell the people of Hebei to discuss the fact that we have run out of food?" ”

Cai still said: "I have my own intentions, you don't need to ask, you just need to know, if I want to destroy you and others, it will be easy." ”

Song Jiang was so easily frightened, he said decisively: "Although Xiao Ke is not as knowledgeable as the general, Xiao Ke still knows the battle of Suiyang, if you insist on attacking Wuma Mountain, Wuma Mountain will become the second Suiyang." ”

Song Jiang meant: "Yes, we have bottomed out our grain and grass, but we still have war horses, and when the war horses are eaten up, we can still eat people, in short, you don't want to attack our Wuma Mountain easily." ”

I didn't want to, but Cai was still unmoved, and he said bluntly: "Believe me, if I want to capture your Wuma Mountain, you can't even hold it for three days." ”

Song Jiang said in disbelief: "Impossible! Although the general knows how to fight well, and the general's Jinwu army is the strongest army in the world, it is impossible for you to easily capture the Wuma Mountain, which we strictly defend! ”

Cai still waved his hand and said, "I will find an opportunity to prove to you what I said when I go back, and now, you just need to know that if I want to capture your Wuma Mountain, it won't take three days." ”

Song Jiang still didn't believe that Cai could still capture Wuma Mountain in three days.

Thinking that Cai is still not the kind of person who talks rhetorically, Song Jiang hesitated for a moment and then chose to believe Cai Ying's big words for the time being.

On this basis, Song Jiang's heart moved: "He has the ability to fight Wuma Mountain without fighting, does that mean...... He and Zhao Song are not of the same heart? ”

This speculation made Song Jiang still have some expectations for Cai, and he asked bluntly: "Since the general can attack our Wuma Mountain, why don't you fight?" ”

Cai still said perfunctorily: "I don't want to fight." ”

Song Jiang asked, "The general is unwilling to die for the Zhao family?" ”

Cai still glanced at Song Jiang and said, "Don't be tempted, I won't admit all your guesses." ”

"If you don't deny it, that's enough." Song Jiang said secretly.

Song Jiang immediately poured bitter water and said: "The internal relationship between the state and the internal relationship of the family are the same truth. The son and younger brother ploughed the fields and fished, and they worked hard all year round, with a slight surplus, and the father and brother all took it and wasted it; If he was slightly unsatisfactory, he would be whipped with a whip and a bamboo plank, brutally abused, and tortured to death without mercy. Is this fair? ”

As soon as Cai still heard it, he knew that Song Jiang was complaining about Zhao Ji's extravagance and excessive oppression of them.

Song Jiang said again: "Squander and waste the rest, and take it all and dedicate it to the enemy." The enemy is getting richer and richer on our money, but he robs and oppresses us. However, the money and silk that is given to the enemy every year will never be forfeited because of the enemy's insult. ”

This is complaining that Zhao Song gave the Liao State and the Western Xia New Year's coins every year, and even if the Liao State and the Western Xia made trouble with Zhao Song every year, Zhao Song never avoided the New Year's coins given to the Liao State and the Western Xia.

Song Jiang simply said: "The taxes and labor are so heavy, the officials plunder and extort, and the agricultural income is no longer enough to meet our needs. Heaven gave birth to the people and set up officials for them, which was originally used to raise the people, but the government was so vicious and cruel! Can providence and the human heart not be angry? In addition to squandering on singing and dancing, hunting with dogs and horses, building palaces, sacrificing ghosts and gods, expanding armaments, and collecting strange flowers and stones, the silver silk bribed by the two enemies in the west and north every year is calculated in millions of numbers, and these are the blood and sweat of our people. The two great enemies, who have obtained these riches, despise us even more, and continue to harass us year after year. However, the imperial court's dedication to the enemy was never abolished, and the rulers also considered it a long-term strategy to stabilize the frontier. And our people work hard all year round, and our wives and children are cold and hungry, and we can't eat enough for a day. What else do we want from such a court? ”

Cai is still not a short-sighted Song Jiang, he knows that the matter of the New Year's coin is not useless as Song Jiang said.

In fact, for the Northern Song Dynasty, whose fiscal revenue has exceeded 100 million yuan (the peak is 16,000 guan), it is quite cost-effective to buy the Liao State and the Western Xia for a few million.

In other words, if you really fight with the Liao State and the Western Xia every year, the money spent in a year will not be worth millions.

Of course, this does not hide the essence of the Great Song Dynasty as a great coward, if the Great Coward can destroy the Liao State and Western Xia, then even these millions will not need to be spent.

Song Jiang concluded: "In the past 30 years, the demotion of the old ministers and the death of the old ministers, there are almost no left, and those in power are despicable, dirty, treacherous and flattering guys, they only know how to use singing and dancing women and building palace gardens to confuse and bewitch the emperor." Local officials outside the capital were also corrupt and extravagant, and did not consider local political affairs as important issues. The emperor is also mediocre, they don't care about national affairs at all, they only know their own pleasure. The people have been suffering from exploitation for a long time. Song Jiang just followed the will of the people and ascended to the heights. ”

After listening to Cai, he looked at Song Jiang and said leisurely: "People are self-aware, you also ascended to the heights, and you also led people to rebel, what did you do in the end, and what did you change?" ”

Song Jiang listened, and his momentum suddenly stopped.

After a long while, Song Jiang opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything.

What did he do? What has changed?

It seems that he and his followers seem to have done nothing except kill some corrupt officials they believe are corrupt officials and fight with the Song army for two years.

Seeing that Song Jiang was speechless, Cai still directly stabbed Song Jiang's fibula pipe: "So you can't do it, you don't have the qualifications to chase the deer at all." ”

Without waiting for Song Jiang to refute, Cai still said again: "I will directly say that I will recruit you:

1. When you become a civilian official, you will never be allowed to contact the army again.

Second, your people unconditionally accept my reduction and reorganization, I will not lie to you with lies, it doesn't count, forget it, it's not my style, so, I tell you clearly, although you still have nearly 10,000 people, but in the end I will only keep the 2,000 people I selected, and those I didn't pick, I will give them severance pay, and send them all back to their hometowns, so that they can return to their hometowns, so that they can return to good citizens.

3. I will draw 1,000 people from my Jinwu army to become the skeleton of this new army and lead this new army, and at the same time, I will also train some of you, draw them out, and then fill them into my Jinwu army.

Fourth, as long as you accept my arrangement in its entirety, I will make arrangements for you and your people in the future, including those who have been eliminated by me, and I can assure you in my own name that those who have left will be satisfied with all of them. Those who remain, as long as they remain loyal to me, I guarantee that they all have a bright future. ”

"What?"

Song Jiangzhen didn't expect that the conditions that Cai still put forward were even harsher than those of the Northern Song Dynasty Imperial Court and the Hebei Recruitment Division.

You must know that the Northern Song Dynasty court did not say that it would deprive Song Jiang of the right to command the army, nor did it say that it would reduce the Song Jiang Righteous Army to only 2,000 people, let alone mix sand with the Song Jiang Righteous Army.

Therefore, in Song Jiang's view, the conditions for recruiting security that Cai still put forward are no longer harsh, but have no sincerity in recruiting security.

Song Jiang couldn't help but say, "General Cai, are you sure, you're not joking?" ”

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