"No adults!" The cronies hurriedly persuaded,

"Why not?"

"My lord, I think that there are 5,000 people and horses, but they are also invincible to the Liangshan bandits, and they were attacked by the Liangshan bandits and invaded Zengtou City, destroying the whole door, you can imagine how powerful this Liangshan bandit is, our state soldiers are only 3,000 people, how to exterminate the Liangshan bandits? In case of...... I'm afraid that the state and county will not be protected! ”

"Shhhh......h Gao Lian gasped, yes, what this person said is very reasonable, how strong the Zeng family is at the hands of the Liangshan bandits, he must be cautious, but even if he figured it out, Gao Lian was even more annoyed in his heart, and said with hatred, "I already knew that there were a group of bandits in Liangshan, but I didn't know that it was so strong, could we just watch those millions of people being swallowed by that group of thieves in vain?!" ”

The cronie thought for a while and said, "Your Excellency's top priority is to report to the imperial court as soon as possible, saying that the local Liangshan bandits are in trouble, killing foreign nationals Zeng Lang's entire family, looting Zengtou City, and asking the imperial court to send a large army to exterminate the Liangshan bandits." The imperial court will order several nearby states to jointly send troops, and the lord will ask the captain to act in the court or two, and let the lord serve as the commander-in-chief of the coalition army to suppress bandits, and when the time comes, when we capture Liangshan, even if we have to share some benefits to the governors of nearby states and counties, but the big head is still your lord! ”

Gao Lian's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he thought about it carefully, and immediately nodded, "This plan is very good, good!" I'll send a letter to the court, and then I'll send a letter to my brother. ”

At the same time, the Jeju Mansion, Dongchang Mansion and other local governments around Yangsan have all received the news of Yangsanbo's defeat of Zengtou City, and the governors and county magistrates of all regions are shocked, and they can't understand when this Yangsan bandit has become so powerful! He immediately ordered all localities to be vigilant to strictly prevent the invasion and abuse of the Liangshan bandits, and hurriedly sent a letter to the local road transfer department, the pacification department and the imperial court, requesting the imperial court to immediately send troops to exterminate the Liangshan bandits and robbers to ensure local tranquility.

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More than ten days later, when the urgent music from various states and counties around Liangshan was still passing on the road, in a luxurious mansion in Bianliang, Tokyo, Ma Zhi was sitting on a chair, staring at a bonsai not far from him with a pair of eyes, his brows were slightly furrowed, with a slight hint of nervousness and unease, like a bird that would be frightened at any time.

"Ryoji," an old but confident voice suddenly sounded,

Ma Zhi woke up suddenly, turned his head to look up, and saw an old man with gray hair looking at him, although this person was full of white hair, he was burly, his eyes were bright, full of masculinity, and his whole body exuded a sense of majesty.

Ma Zhi hurriedly shouted respectfully, "Master." ”

That's right, this person is not an outsider, it is the eunuch who is in power, Tong Guan!

For Tong Guan, Ma Zhi has a heartfelt respect, although Tong Guan is a eunuch, but it is the white-haired old man in front of him who helped the Great Song Dynasty court to guard the northwest, led the Northwest Army to isolate the Western Xia from abroad, and at the same time, it was also he who sent an envoy to the Liao State, brought himself back to the Great Song Dynasty, and introduced himself to the emperor, pointing out the general trend for the emperor, and persuading the emperor to restart the ambition of the Great Song Dynasty to subdue the sixteen states of Yanyun that had been sealed for a hundred years!

He is his only reliance in the DPRK and his most trusted mentor and friend! It is the hope of thousands of people in the sixteen states of Yanyun!

Ma Zhi always thought that with his help, the dream of recovering his hometown was within reach!

But because of a letter, a letter from Liang Shanbo, it brought an unprecedented shock to Ma Zhi, subverting many of his cognitions, he was suddenly horrified to find that many things he had always believed in, and the beautiful future he had been looking forward to was very likely to be just a consensual dream, his confidence began to waver, he doubted everything he was doing so far, he panicked, he was confused, he didn't know what to do,

So, he found Tong Guan, Tong Guan is the emperor's most trusted person, he is above ten thousand people under one person, he wants to ask him, whether everything said in this letter is true, he trusts him, he thinks he will not lie to him,

He hoped that he would tell him that all this was a lie, that you should have confidence in our country, in our emperor, in our Manchu civil and military, in our army!

At this moment, the letter was in Tong Guan's hand, and Tong Guan had already read it just now.

"Ryoji, what are you thinking?" Tong Guan's expression was very flat, and his tone was also very soothing, as if the letter that was about to give Ma Zhi to the point of being frightened did not bring him the slightest shock,

Ma Zhi saw Tong Guan's reaction, and his heart immediately calmed down, "Master I'm ...... May I ask the Taishi, what the Jin native named Zeng Lang said in the letter to the Emperor of the Jin State should be ...... Not really, right? After that, Ma Zhi looked at Tong Guan's expression tightly, and his heart was extremely nervous,

I saw Tong Guan smile slightly, and at the same time, a few strands of light beard on his chin also moved, Tong Guan is indeed a eunuch, a eunuch, but he is not only handsome and majestic, but what is more amazing is that he also has a beard, although it is much sparser than the average man's beard of this age, but it is indeed a genuine beard, which has always been surprising, and even more smugglers say that this is because Tong Guan leads the army, and he is a great hero in the world, and his yang energy is extremely sufficient. That's why it can inspire the beard that symbolizes men.

"Are you scared?" Tong Guan smiled slightly, with a hint of banter in his eyes,

"Under ...... It's not that I'm afraid, but I'm a little worried. Ma Zhi avoided Tong Guan's gaze,

Tong Guan shook the letter in his hand, "You trust this person who wrote to you very much?" ”

Ma Zhi was stunned and nodded, "It was this person who proposed a revision plan for the Taishi and the emperor last time. ”

"Oh?" Tong Guan's eyes lit up, "It's the person who was searched and arrested by Cai Jing a few years ago, and later caused a storm in Shezhou, and asked the old man to save the two girls of the Li family?" ”

Ma Zhi nodded with difficulty, when he asked Tong Guan to do these things, he didn't say all the details, and hid many details.

Tong Guan's gaze moved to the letter again, and after a short period of contemplation, he actually smiled lightly, "This Zheng Linfeng is interesting...... Hehe...... Interesting! ”

Ma Zhi didn't dare to reply, this Zheng Linfeng is now a thief in the mountains, but he has repeatedly and repeatedly concealed Tong Guan to help him, if it is investigated, this is also a big crime! And this letter is the evidence of the crime!

"That's right, although what this Jin man called Zeng Lang said is exaggerated, it is basically true." Tong Guan gently put the letter on the table at hand, picked up the teacup and took a sip lightly and said, he said very plainly, as if he was talking about an inconsequential matter, but Ma Zhi trembled, raised his head suddenly and stared at Tong Guan with wide eyes, stunned,

Tong Guan put down the teacup and smiled again when he saw Ma Zhi's appearance, "You didn't know all along?" ”

Ma Zhi shook his head in a daze, trying to squeeze a sentence out of his throat, "It's all ...... It's true? Include......? ”

Tong Guan nodded and continued to smile, "The old man always thought you knew, and it's not a secret besides. ”

Ma Zhi doesn't know what to say anymore, since all this is true, it means that the entire Great Song Dynasty is already in a deep crisis, why is Tong Guan not in a hurry at all, and the entire court is not in a hurry at all?

Tong Guan stood up, walked up to Ma Zhi's side, stretched out his hand and patted Ma Zhi's shoulder gently, "Actually, it's nothing, Liangji doesn't have to worry." ”

"The Great Song Dynasty has not been like this for a year or two, but has lasted for nearly a hundred years, but even so, we have not fought with the Western Xia for many years, and even have a slight advantage. This battle has been fought from the treason of the Western Xia to the present, the more my Great Song Dynasty fights, the richer it becomes, and the more the Western Xia fights, the poorer it becomes, do you know why? ”

Ma Zhi shook his head,

"It's because of the Abyss Alliance." Tong Guan's voice was full of confidence, "When we signed the Yuanyuan Alliance, it seemed that our country was humiliated, and we signed a humiliating agreement with 100,000 yuan of silver, but in fact, we took advantage. Do you know how much it costs to fight a big battle of 200,000 people with the Liao State and Western Xia? ”

Ma Zhi continued to shake his head,

"It takes at least 10 million! When we only used 100,000 yuan to buy the border without war for a hundred years. One is 100,000 guan and the other is 10 million guan, which is more cost-effective? It is precisely by taking advantage of the fact that our country has been war-free for a hundred years that it has rapidly developed and become strong. This is a strategy that the Ancestral Emperor and those ministers who are Wen Tao and Wu Strategy have long conceived! The alliance is not a humiliation, but an opportunity! ”

"But Xixia can't, he can't fight, every time he fights a big battle, he has to recuperate for a long time, and we only need to oppress him, he will never be out of breath!"

"Good heir, you scholars don't understand, fighting a war is not only about fighting soldiers, but also about fighting money and food, in terms of money and food, no country is enough to fight against us!"

"The old man has been leading the troops in the northwest all the year round, what the army is like, the old man knows better than anyone else! Officials are greedy for greed, and the saint actually knows it, but the saint doesn't care, why? Because he also has to rely on this Manchu Dynasty civil and military to serve him and establish a great cause for him! ”

"You can never imagine how rich our Great Song has become, don't say it's a small Jin country, that is, Liao, Jinxia and Xia join forces, and we can take out a million male soldiers between hands! The little money that officials are greedy for is just a drop in the bucket compared to our real wealth. ”

"Jin Guo is a small country, and before the threat of Liao State is lifted to him, he dares to peep at our Great Song Dynasty, which is really beyond his strength! No matter how strong he is, even if he is really stronger than the Liao State, he is at most comparable to Western Xia, as long as we can successfully occupy the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and block their passage to the south, who can threaten us? Who can afford us? ”

"I have re-agreed with the Holy Lord, in a few years I will lead the army to attack Western Xia, but not to destroy him, but to use this battle to drag him down! As long as we can drag him across, we will have a few years, more than ten years to concentrate on recovering the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun! ”

"You can wait with peace of mind, waiting to follow the saint with the old man to establish a thousand years of fame!"