Great Song Dynasty, Ying Tiancheng.

The 500,000 troops of Jin and Western Xia were about to descend on the city, and this matter weighed on the hearts of the civil and military officials of the Great Song Dynasty like a thick dark cloud.

Zhao Gou, like his father and brother, called on the military and civilians of the whole country to be kings. The Sichuan and Shu reinforcements have climbed mountains and waded through water to support the western front, and the Jiangnan reinforcements have sent troops from land and water, with a total of 30,000 people about to arrive. The south is not the focus of national defense in the first place, so the daily strength is mainly to maintain law and order, not to mention that after Jingkang, a large number of troops have been requisitioned to the north to resist Jin.

A new round of controversy among the hundred officials of the imperial court has begun again.

Zhao Gou leaned on the dragon chair, holding his forehead with his hands, his brows furrowed.

Li Gang said: "Your Majesty, Wu Jue still has 200,000 horses, Zong Ze has more than 30,000 men and horses in Kaifeng, Yingtian has a total of 10,000 forbidden troops, and 30,000 rescue troops will arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The walls of Yingtian City are thick, and the grain and grass are abundant, so we can hold on to the city and wait for the army of King Qin. ”

Zhao Gou said: "The enemy army of 500,000 people, can you stop it?" ”

"The enemy army is fighting deeply, as long as we hold on and wait for reinforcements, the enemy army will definitely run out of food and grass for a long time, and will retreat without a fight." Li Gang said.

Huang Qianshan said: "Your Majesty, the minister has another opinion. At the time of Jingkang, we were not also high and thick walls, but in the end, there were few troops of King Qin, and the Jin army did not retreat because of the lack of food and grass for half a year. ”

Wang Boyan also said: "The minister has a plan for both. On the one hand, it is better to order all the armies to go north to defend against the enemy, and the emperor leads the imperial court to temporarily move to the south to avoid the scourge of war. As long as there is the emperor, there will be the Great Song Dynasty. There is a way to stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood? ”

Li Gang retorted: "If the emperor moves, the morale of the army will naturally be unstable, and the country will be difficult to protect." ”

Huang Qianshan glared at Li Gang angrily and said, "You are trapping the emperor in danger!" ”

Li Gang said: "In ancient times, there was an emperor who drove a personal expedition, but I have never heard of any soldiers charging into battle, and the Son of Heaven retreated from the battle!" ”

Huang Qianshan said: "Okay, you Li Gang, in this situation, you still want to call the emperor to drive the expedition in person, do you want to murder the Son of Heaven?" ”

Li Gang looked at the emperor and said, "The minister is just making an analogy, please ask the emperor to learn clearly." ”

Zhao Gou was so noisy that his head was loud and said, "Okay! Don't the six books and other Aiqing have any ideas to express? ”

An inspector of the imperial history played: "Weichen has a fundamental reference. The military festival in the imperial camp made Qu Ping expand the army arrogantly, contain the bandits, fight without obeying the emperor's orders, and hide female generals in the army, which is not in line with etiquette and morality......"

Now that the enemy is in the current war, the imperial court is the trace of employing people, and there are still brainless people who dare to make accusations.

Zhao Gou said: "What you said may be true within a certain range, but I need you to go to Yongzhou to meditate on yourself, and you are not allowed to return to the dynasty for ten years!" ”

The two guards in front of the hall dragged him out one left and one right. The man shouted: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Weichen has something to say......"

Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan glanced at each other and shook their heads speechlessly.

After the vignette, everyone returned to the main topic.

The Ministry of Rites Shangshu said: "The emperor and the various ministries of the imperial court can go or not, but the precious cultural relics in the city, the teachers and students of the Guozijian should be transferred protectively, so as not to cause the loss of civilization and culture." ”

The emperor nodded and said: "This is reasonable, Aiqing is responsible!" ”

Lu Ji, a member of the Ministry of Works, said: "Emperor Qi, in the past two months, he has stepped up his supervision to build a number of strong crossbows and catapults, and developed thunderbolts and thunderbolts. ”

The emperor said: "Okay! Qing really lived up to my expectations. ”

Huang Qianshan said again: "Your Majesty, the ministers have the courage to speak out against the world, and the emperor's ninety-five dignity is really not suitable for risking his life. A gentleman is not yet under a dangerous wall, let alone you are the Son of Heaven? The big husband can bend and stretch, and he is not afraid of temporary humiliation, so don't be rash. Even if you retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, according to the Yangtze River, even if you divide the river and govern it, it is better than the city and the country will die! ”

Li Gang said angrily: "Lord Huang, you have read the books of sages in vain, and you have no integrity, you are a traitor seeking glory!" ”

Huang Qianshan said: "If the country is gone, what kind of integrity do you say!" ”

Lord Huang said this a bit too much, and the emperor didn't want to listen to it. Zhao Gou said angrily: "Okay, stop arguing!" If the country is gone, I will be the first to kill you, Lord Huang! Retreat! ”

Huang Qianshan was indignant because he said "the country is gone", which caused the emperor's malice, and he was also indignant in his heart, thinking, I am not thinking about your old Song family, don't be like your father and brother when the time comes, don't blame me for not reminding you.

It was the autumn of September, and Wang Boyan was drinking chrysanthemum tea in his backyard after dinner. , chrysanthemums can clear heat and moisten dryness, so there is a habit of drinking chrysanthemum tea in September 9 Double Yang.

There was no report, and Huang Qianshan came in on his own, because he was already a regular visitor.

Wang Boyan stepped back and said, "Maohe, come, drink some chrysanthemum tea, clear the fire." ”

Huang Qianshan is good at the word Maohe, and generally calls each other's words only when they are close.

Huang Qianshan snorted, sat down and drank a cup of chrysanthemum tea, and said: "Tingjun, now that the enemy is current, the emperor is stubborn and self-serving, and good words are difficult to enter. ”

Wang Boyan said: "The emperor has respected the same heavenly position and has too strong autonomy, you and I can only follow the emperor's thoughts." ”

"If the Jin army repeats the shame of Jingkang, you and I will become prisoners, and it will be difficult to see the light again." Huang Qianshan said.

"If you have any ideas, please tell me and hear them."

"Now the emperor can't see the situation in the world clearly, he is stubborn and self-serving, biased to listen to and believe, and in the face of the vast Jin Army, he even uses his mantis arm as a car, which is really a grasshopper shaking the tree, which is ridiculous." Huang Qian's good and evil are born from the side of the guts, "Now that the little prince is young, Pan Guifei is mellow-hearted, we simply don't do anything, support the little prince as the son of heaven, escort him to retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, and also protect the royal blood and half of the country for the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Wang Boyan broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this, he looked around to make sure that there was no one, and then said in a low voice: "Maohe, you are blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, if the news is revealed, you will punish the nine clans!" ”

Huang Qianshan said: "What are you afraid of, if you succeed, you and I are really above ten thousand people under one person!" ”

Wang Boyan thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are used as dogs, and people are not destroyed for themselves." If this can be done, you and I are heroes, otherwise we are bears. I wonder how sure you are? ”

"With you and me alone, the chances are zero. But don't you have a good brother-in-law? "Wang Boyan's good brother-in-law is one of the five major festival envoys of the new imperial camp, the envoy of the forbidden army, Miao Fu. Huang Qianshan said: "I look at Miao Fu Jiedu to make the adult's brain have a backbone, and Liu Zhengyan's deputy Jiedu is not an ordinary person, as long as Lord Wang, you know the pros and cons, big things can be done." ”

Wang Boyan nodded and said, "I'll give him a try, if we don't get the help of the forbidden army, we will still be our prime minister honestly." ”

Huang Qianshan said: "On the ninth day of the ninth month of the day after tomorrow, if you can say that Miao Fu will be moved, he will mutiny on the same day. ”

There was a "click" on the roof, and Wang Boyan exclaimed: "What a person! ”

There was a "meow" on the roof, and the nervous hearts of the two relaxed.

On Qu Fu, the housekeeper and Xiaohong Xiaolu fed the carrier pigeons, and were about to turn off the lights to rest, when they suddenly heard a "sudden" knock on the door. The huge general's mansion is now inhabited by the three of them, and they usually go to bed early after feeding the pigeons.

"It can't be the general's return, right?" Xiaohong said.

"No," said Steward Huang, "if you listen softly, it's either a scholar or a girl." ”

Xiao Lu pouted and said, "That's the girl, which scholar will come to the general at night." ”

Each of the three grabbed a wooden stick, and Butler Huang opened the door carefully, and a woman quickly squeezed in sideways.

"Hey, hey, who are you?" Xiaohong looked at her hair bun, figure, age and face, and turned out to be a mediocre-looking woman of about twenty-six or seventeen years old. Xiaohong was a nymphomaniac, it turned out that the general was not just a beautiful woman who liked flowers and moons, and he still had a chance.

Seeing the three of them staring at themselves vigilantly with wooden sticks, they smiled and spread their empty hands, and said, "Relax, if I were a bad person, I would have come in over the wall a long time ago." She introduced herself, "I am the wife of General Han Shizhong, Liang Hongyu. ”

Steward Huang was fortunate to see Han Shizhong in his early years, but now that he is equal to the old man's military ranks, how can he be lazy. The three of them threw their wooden sticks and said that Liang Hongyu welcomed them into the room, and Steward Huang asked, "Mrs. Han, I don't know if you came late at night, please forgive me for being presumptuous!" ”

"It doesn't matter." Liang Hongyu said, "I overheard that Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan were going to join forces with the forbidden army to plot a rebellion, so I came to your mansion to borrow a few pigeons and pass on the news." ”

Steward Huang said in his heart, how do you know that we have carrier pigeons in our house. He said: "Mrs. Han, there are pigeons in the house, but now they are not carrier pigeons, just suckling pigeons, which can only be eaten and cannot be used." ”

"Really?"

"Madame doesn't believe you can go to the pigeon pen and have a look. However, there are a pair of large pigeons, but they only fly back from the outside, and do not go from home to their owners. ”

Liang Hongyu was disappointed, and Steward Huang said again: "Madam, why don't you go to Prime Minister Li?" ”

"That's all there is to it." After speaking, Liang Hongyu went to find Li Gang non-stop.

Steward Huang waited for Liang Hongyu to leave, thinking that there was no one in charge at home, so it was better to go to the general's good brother, Wailang Luji, a member of the Ministry of Works.

Liang Hongyu arrived at Li Gang's mansion, and the doorman said that Prime Minister Li went to the palace to find the emperor and had been there for an hour.

Liang Hongyu was helpless, asked for a pen and paper and hurriedly wrote a letter, and told Master Li Gang to hand it over to him as soon as he came back.