Zhao Xingde was stunned for a moment, and said in a lost voice: "There is such a thing?" ”

"Exactly," Li Sihai said slowly, "Song Guoxin's Henghai battalion army is very powerful. In just one month, there are already dozens of Han villages in the South China Sea that respect the Song Dynasty as Zhengshuo, although they are all foreign vassals who pay a penny of tribute every year, but abandoning Xia and joining the Song Dynasty greatly damaged the prestige of our dynasty. He sighed and said with some regret, "If it weren't for the tight war in Liaodong, my gunboats would have to be transferred south, hum." I heard that Yue Fei, the commander of the Henghai Xiang Army, is a general, and if there is a chance in the future, he will meet him. He paused for a moment and said with a smile, "However, I have inquired clearly, and the person who gave advice to Chen Dong to train the new army was Zhao Yuanzhi, who was famous in the Southern Dynasty. This bad debt can't be planted on Brother Zhao. ”

Zhao Xingde's brows furrowed tightly and he didn't answer. He didn't expect that Song Guogang had just trained a new army of firearms, and before he could recover Yanyun and consolidate the north, he would open a border provocation and make enemies with Xia Guo. Now that the Jin army has been defeated, the Liao State has no worries about the future, and the army is strong. The Song and Xia in the south had their own hidden worries, and the two countries exchanged troops, wouldn't it give the Liao State an opportunity to take advantage of.

Li Sihai saw him bow his head and was silent, and sighed secretly in his heart, although this gentleman is talented, but after all, he was born in Kanto, and his foundation in the DPRK is not deep, and he is worried about a little wind and rain. Although he is also a captain of Chengying, Li Sihai's news is not known how many times better than Zhao Xingde, he gave Zhao Xingde a good idea today, and he also had the intention of making friends, so he comforted: "Brother Zhao has been promoted to captain in a few years, and some trees have become popular. Some people in the court took advantage of this to slander Brother Zhao and tried to recreate the injustice of Li Ling and Li Xu. Li, as a colleague of Chengying, also decided that he could not allow others to refer to the deer as a horse. ”

Zhao Xingde raised his head when he heard this, and said with a reluctant smile: "Thank you Brother Li for mentioning it." He no longer calls him a lieutenant, which means that he has inherited Li Sihai's favor.

Li Sihai waved his hand, he looked at Zhao Xingde, and said in a low voice: "Okay, I am eclectic in employing people in Daxia." Although you were born in the Kanto region, although the reward for accumulating merit and promotion to the knighthood is fast, no one else can say anything, but you have to hold it in your own heart. Zhao Xingde's heart sank, but he paused when he heard him, and sighed, "The world will be divided for a long time, although the Xia and Song Dynasty Liao Dingli has been established for hundreds of years," Li Sihai turned his gaze to the outside of the cabin, the blue sky could not be seen, and said in a low voice, "Now that Liaodong is swinging, Yelu Dashi is breaking the game with his strength, who would have thought that this would be the first opportunity for the unification of the world?" ”

Li Sihai's age and Li Ruobing seem to be not much older than Zhao Xingde, and he usually doesn't stick to his shape, but when he said this, it was like a tone that had experienced vicissitudes, Zhao Xingde was a little uncomfortable, and he was speechless for a while, and only said: "What Brother Li said is true." ”

Li Sihai seemed to come back to his senses, took out a letter from his arms, and said with a smile: "I have a problem with being distracted, and I don't know the boundary." This is a letter from his brother to Brother Zhao, which is forwarded on his behalf. Although Li Yong set up his own door, he did not dissociate himself from the Bowang Marquis Mansion, so the business with Zhao De did not hide this brother, which was briefly mentioned in the family letter.

Zhao Xingde's heart suddenly burst into his heart, and secretly said, could it be that Li Sihai also knew about the partnership with Chen Dong. He didn't know that it was already an open secret that the powerful people of the Xia State and the Song Dynasty joined forces to make profits in the trading house, even if it was the Cao family in the Xijing camp and the Zheyang family in the Hedong camp, they still had a lot of dealings with the Xia State in the caravan, and the Yajiao line had Chen Dong's participation, in Li Sihai's eyes, it was nothing more than that. Zhao Xingde took the letter, Li Sihai handed over the paper cutter, opened it in front of him, and read it, but his face changed slightly.

Yajiaoxing united with the wealthy merchants in the southeast to traffic the treasures to the Great Song Dynasty, and trafficked the silk and porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty to the Great Food Princes, this back and forth, some of the Great Food Princes wanted the goods of the East, and there were not enough treasures to exchange, so they took the Kunlun slaves and orchids captured in the war to make up the number. Li Yong also collected all the money, sending Kunlun slaves overseas for reclamation, and the orchids were transported to Jiangnan in Hebei Province and sold to Qinlou Chu Pavilion or wealthy families. Although the Song State is known as the state of etiquette, it can not help but accept concubines, and the government and the opposition are good prostitutes, and they are in short supply. Li Yong even sent the princes of the Great Food to attack and war, plundering slaves to make up for the difference in trade between the two sides. In order to expand the results of the war, he even sent people to operate in the Protectorate Mansion, and sold ordnance to the princes of Dashi. Because slave ownership has long been prohibited in the Xia Kingdom, this letter is also specifically seeking Zhao Xingde's support for Yajiaoxing's slave trade business in the Protectorate Mansion.

"It's, it's ridiculous, it's ridiculous." Zhao Xingde folded the letter and muttered.

"I didn't expect that Xingzhi's business is also doing so much, and I will have to take more care of my foolish brother in the future." Li Sihai handed the letter to Zhao Xingde, just to see his expression at this time, and his heart could be described as extremely happy. Secretly said, "When the fourth battalion opened the Linjiang Building, you pretended to be a righteous gentleman, but now the business you and your second brother have partnered with is even better than mine." ”

"Doesn't this violate the laws of the court?"

"Both ends of this human trafficking are outside the territory of our dynasty, can the law of our dynasty still control the great cannibals and the people of the Song Kingdom?"

Zhao Xingde muttered: "It's just ......, whether it is ...... or not, you should ......, and don't do to others what you don't want." In his letter, Li Yong regretfully mentioned that because of the poor cabins of the ships and the slaves trafficked, sometimes sixty or seventy percent of them died of illness and thirst at sea, all of which had to be converted into costs. Zhao Xingde remembered that these people's homes were broken, they died in a foreign land, and they were buried in the belly of a fish.

"You have lived in the Great Song Dynasty for a long time, you don't know, the barbarians in the world are endless, and you don't obey the king, although you can't kill them all, how much can consume their vitality, and you can't make their evil breeds multiply and grow, otherwise, you will tolerate and raise traitors and tigers." Li Sihai pressed his hand on the hilt of the knife, and the smile on his face was a little cold, "The Jin Dynasty will move the barbarians inward, resulting in chaos in the five Hu China, and the former Tang Dynasty will go to the Han with Hu, and there will eventually be the Anshi Rebellion." The luck of the world grows and wanes, and it may not always be in the Han family, and I will not take advantage of the sharp edge of the knife to prevent future generations from suffering from this trouble, let alone when! Although he regarded himself as a courtier of the Xia Kingdom, as a relic of the Tang Dynasty, he would not delve too deeply into the mistakes of Tang Xuanzong, and only counted the decline and fall of the Tang Dynasty on the heads of the Anshi Hu people.

Zhao Xingde said: "Born in sorrow and dying in peace, leaving half a leeway in action, luck may not always be in the Han family." He was seriously injured and just recovered, and he raised his spirit to fight with Li Sihai, although his voice was hoarse, his voice was weak, but it seemed like he was exhausted.

Li Sihai was silent for a moment, his eyes changed several times, he sighed, and said slowly: "Go straight, you have the kindness of a woman, and it is not suitable to be in charge of the army." The battlefield of the heroes is full of tigers and wolves, although the world is big, but there is no benevolence. I'll say more, when the matter of Liaodong is over, it is better to resign from the military and return to Chang'an with Mrs. Zun, you take this thought of benevolence and get an errand in the bachelor's mansion. Although these words were a little abrupt, they came from the bottom of their hearts, and after Li Sihai finished speaking, he stopped talking and looked into the distance. There was limited fresh water on the ship, he didn't have a beard, his cheeks and chin were shaved with a knife, and at this time he suddenly became serious, and it was very different from usual, he didn't look angry and arrogant, like a general statue in a martial temple.

Zhao Xingde was stunned for a moment, and before he could answer, at this time, a shout came from outside the cabin: "Suzhou has arrived!" ”

Li Sihai's eyes lit up, and when he stood up, where the water and sky met in the east, there was a faint line of green mountains, which was the ridge of the old iron mountain in Suzhou. The ships of the 4th Battalion of Chengying traveled to and from Liaodong, and they were already familiar with the important mountains and landforms along the coast. The Han army lookout post on the shore had not yet responded, and the sailors on the ship had already shouted loudly. At this time, the sailors were far less disciplined than the later navy class, and when they were about to dock, the sailors were running on the deck to tell each other.

Not long after, the Han army fort on the Iron Mountain also sounded the horn cannon. In order to prevent the enemy from deceiving the camp, although the scouts saw the banner of the Xia State clearly from the clairvoyant mirror, the Han army still strengthened its vigilance. It wasn't until Han Ningshuang sent the signal of the general order that the Han army opened the gate of the dock village, and hundreds of wooden boats sailed out of the water village. The Han ships were divided into ten teams and lined up on the sea to meet each other. At the same time, the generals of the Han army also led their own soldiers to come, and thousands of people waved the banner of the battalion and gathered at the dock to greet them.

Although the news of Han Ningshuang's rescue had already been informed to the Han Army Marshal's Mansion through the flying pigeon, the generals of the Han Army were always worried. Jin Guo had just died and finished fighting Yan Agu, and he immediately killed each other, but he was coveted by the Liao people and defeated, which is a lesson from the past. After the defeat of the Jin State, the Liao army pressed the border, and the Han army could not be left without an owner, and after learning that Han Ningshuang finally returned to Suzhou safely, the hearts of the generals were finally relaxed.

The closer you get to shore, the more turbid the water becomes. The shape of the gunboats of the Xia Kingdom was different from that of ordinary merchant ships, with long and narrow hulls, loaded with iron cannons, ammunition and cargo, and the draft was much deeper than that of ordinary wooden ships. I saw two turbid waves ploughed out of the hull of the ship and slowly moored into the port. The sea ship approached the port, the Han sailors on both sides of the waterway, and the Mabu soldiers on the port wharf saw the banner of the unicorn clearly, and they all cheered loudly, and the Han military camps near and far also cheered together, and the whole Suzhou Guannan was very lively, as if it had won a big victory.

"The Liao army is pressing the border, if it is not so fanfare, I am afraid that it will lose morale." Han Ningshuang waved to his subordinates on the shore and explained in a low voice.

Zhao Xingde nodded, he and Li Sihai each changed into soft armor and stood on both sides of Han Ningshuang. Li Sihai's ear sounded Trene, and he smiled slightly when he heard it. The sergeant of the fourth battalion of Chengying temporarily acted as Han Ningshuang's personal soldier, the armor was clearly clustered around her, and the unicorn flag of the Han army was played.

At this grand welcome ceremony, the dependents of the eighth battalion of Chengying were all sheltered in the cabin, and Zhao Zhuo and Zhao Yong, two children, squeezed their heads into the window, looking at the strangeness with wide eyes. Zhao Zhuo looked at Han Ningshuang being guarded in the middle by the generals like the stars holding the moon, and said enviously: "Ah Niang, when I grow up, I want to be like General Han." ”

The daughter had a star in her eye. Li Ruoxue looked at the radiant Han Ningshuang, and her gaze returned to the cabin, landing on the fine linen belt that had been untied from Zhao Xingde's wound. She recognizes that this is a woman's thing, but should she pay her back, or will she not pay her back? How can this love be returned? Rao is ice and snow are smart, Li Ruoxue still sighed softly.

Author: Yuan Ji returned as promised, and he would like to thank his friends who have insisted on supporting this book during this time. Really, I will try my best to write well, I hope you will continue to support, and I wish you all the best!