Zhao Xingde also recognized Li Ruobing at this time, both of them were people who had been through ups and downs for a long time, their hearts were shocked, but their faces were silent, pretending not to know. The Han army was weak, and the Jurchen army was strong, but the leader Wanyan Saba was in the hands of Zhao Xingde, and when the two sides were at a stalemate, Li Ruobing said in the middle, Wanyan Saba opened his mouth and ordered, and the Jurchens got out of the way and let the Han army leave slowly.

Li Ruobing fabricated an excuse again, saying that he and the Han people spoke the same language, and that they were from the Southern Dynasties, and they could mediate in the middle and help to return to Lord Meng'an. This team of more than 50 Jurchen cavalry wrapped Zhao Xingde and Wanyan Saba in it, and refused to part with Wanyan Saba after arriving in the Han army. Zhao Xingde asked Wang Tongdeng and Ma Rui to look at Yan Saba and the Jurchen cavalry, and the team slowly disappeared into the mountains and forests, so he and Li Ruobing had the opportunity to talk in private.

Li Ruobing was originally a gentleman in Duanfang, but in the past few years of studying with Huang Zhoushan, he has long been no longer obsessed with the world of one family and one surname, so he does not think that Zhao Xingde is serving the Xia Kingdom, but secretly feels sorry for him: "Xingzhi was harmed by treachery and evil spirits, and he can't serve the court." Kansai is biased and emphasizes martial arts and light literature, looking at his look, it has not been easy to live straight over the years. ”

"I really didn't expect that there would be such a clever thing in the world!" Li Ruobing sighed while looking at Xingde, and couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart. I haven't seen him for many years, compared with the time of Bianliang, Zhao Xingde is much darker, his face is full of wind and frost, and he looks left and right from time to time when he speaks, and he seems to be vigilant about the situation around him all the time. In Li Ruobing's eyes, this appearance and behavior is a manifestation of going to the country to die and being precarious.

The two of them belong to enemy countries, and it is inconvenient to talk too much about official duties, so they only talk about some recent family affairs. Li Ruobing asked about the situation of the couple in Xia Kingdom, Zhao Xingde also avoided the important and said lightly, and also asked Li Ruobing: "Why did the eldest brother come here again, and he is still with those Jurchens?" He only knew that Li Ruobing was exiled to Qiongzhou, but he didn't know what happened to him.

Li Ruobing said lightly: "More than a year ago, with the grace of heaven, I was transferred from Qiongzhou to the deputy secretary of the north side of the Privy Council, and before I arrived in Beijing, I got this errand to observe the situation in Liaodong, and escorted the grain, grass and ordnance to the Jurchen Jin State. He knew that Zhao Xingde was doing things for the Xia State, but the Song and Jin alliances were no secret, and the Liao State had also sent people to protest to the Song State many times, so he also told it calmly.

Zhao Xingde was stunned for a moment, and said angrily: "Damn! just came out of Qiongzhou, and actually sent the eldest brother to this bitter cold place. He paused, and his heart was filled with sympathy for Li Ruobing. Zhu Ying, the daughter of Wu Kangjun, waited hard for Li Ruobing, who had never married, his years were fleeting, and his face was easy to grow old.

Li Ruobing smiled slightly: "Someone has to do everything in the world." He faced Zhao Xingde, his heart was filled with complicated emotions, seeing that he was not only not depressed, but comforted himself, his heart couldn't help but feel a warmth, and said secretly: "Yuan Zhi is still a sincere gentleman by nature. ”

Zhao Xingde and the envoy of the Song State spoke alone, and Wan Yan Saba watched from a distance, but transferred his hatred for Zhao Xingde to Li Ruobing, and said secretly: "It is said that the snake and mouse family, this Southern Dynasty is also with the Han people." At this time, he didn't dare to offend Li Ruobing at will, and only kept his hatred in his heart. Although the other sergeants of Chengying felt that there seemed to be some hidden feelings between the captain and the envoy of the Song Kingdom, they did not take it to heart, only the marching Sima Jin Changtai was thoughtful.

After the two talked for a long time, Li Ruobing asked, "Why is Brother Xian here?" Did Xia Guo actually intend to use troops in Liaodong? He didn't mean to inquire about the military situation, but he was very curious, the distance between Xia and Liaodong was far away, and the people and land were beyond the reach of the whip, but he sent a brigade of lone troops, which was really confusing.

Zhao Xingde sighed: "The Khitan is like a wolf, the Jurchen is like a tiger, and the Liaodong Han'er is fish and meat, and I can't bear to abandon it, so I secretly help it, and it is also for the purpose of containing Liaojin." He pondered for a moment and said, "In my opinion, the imperial court secretly helped the Jurchens with food and ordnance, which is really to add wings to the tiger, but I am afraid that if you can't raise snakes, you will suffer from it." ”

Li Ruobing shook his head and said in a deep voice: "The Khitan is close and the Jurchen is far away, the minister of the court, but it is a strategy to make friends from afar and attack closely." He smiled bitterly and sighed: "It's a pity that they can't come to see the suffering of the Han'er in Liaodong in person." ”

Zhao Xingde hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Big brother, I have a reluctant request. ”

Li Ruobing glanced at him, if it was before, he would have said, "Since it is a reluctant invitation, then don't want to export." At this time, he said lightly: "Say it." ”

Zhao Xingde said slowly: "The Han army of Liaodong Han is short of food, and our dynasty is far away from it, and it is difficult to help it, can the eldest brother take some of the grain and grass given to the Jurchens by the imperial court and give it to the Han army." He paused, he felt that this request was too unbelievable, and reluctantly smiled, "The so-called brothers are on the wall, and they are insulted outside." Now the situation is similar. ”

Zhao Xingde Shicai had twice called Guanxi "my court" and Bianliang "imperial court", Li Ruobing stared at him for a long time, sighed, and did not speak. Zhao Xingde only felt quite embarrassed, and said: "I also know that this is a reluctant invitation, if you embarrass the eldest brother, then forget it." If it is to put the eldest brother at risk, I will not be able to explain it to Ruoxue. ”

The north wind whistled through the trees, and in the silence, there was an occasional "click" sound, which was the sound of the extremely cold temperature freezing the bark of the tree. Li Ruobing asked himself if he was wearing a fur and cotton robe, and it was still difficult to endure the bitter cold in this extreme north, I really didn't know how those Han people who had been captured by the Hu people in the past generations survived under the whipping of foreign swords and axes, and he suddenly remembered the Han army that fought desperately with the Khitans just now, many of them were skinny, and they were afraid that they would never have eaten enough in their lives.

Li Ruobing was silent for a long time, and finally said in a deep voice: "I am soft-spoken, and I can't influence the court and the princes, but the grain and grass escorted can still be lost to your Han army." Even the armaments and weapons can give you a percentage. ”

In the third year of Xuanhe, the Song Dynasty sent ships to cross the sea to receive Jurchen grain, grass and ordnance. The drifted goods were sold for silver money on the spot in Michigan. The subordinate officials also shared a portion. Li Ruobing has always been honest and self-controlled, and after receiving this errand of sending the envoy and handing over the grain, grass and ordnance, he couldn't take care of anything else, but only strictly restrained his subordinates, and reduced the three-percent drift to two-percent, and the one percent that should have been due to his side was loaded onto the sea ship. He is the first person from the official family to appoint Taixue, and there are a few clear streams in the court, and the subordinate officials who work under him can't think about it except for complaining, and they just hope that this Shangguan will be promoted soon, and everyone will continue to make a fortune.

Who would have thought that Liaodong had only been a few days, and Li Ruobing had already seen that the Jurchens were more harsh on Han'er than the Khitan, not only shaving their hair and making it easy to obey, but also tattooing the words "slave" and "maid" and the mark of the master on their faces, and the master could kill the slave and maid at will, and the Jurchen Shangguan did not ask. Li Ruobing is a person who reads the books of sages and sages, and is extremely disgusted by this, and is determined to persuade the imperial court not to help this tiger and wolf clan after returning to the dynasty, and when it is the same as the Xia Kingdom, it is the right way to rescue the Han people of Liaodong from the sea of suffering, and secretly regret that he transported a hundred percent of grain, grass and ordnance to the Jurchens in vain.

So Zhao Xingde proposed the matter of Zhou Ji Han army, Li Ruobing thought about it carefully, although he was a little hesitant, but thinking that the Xia Kingdom was far away from Liaodong after all, maybe the Han army would be used by the imperial court in the future, so he still agreed to him.

Zhao Xingde was overjoyed, stood up and fell to the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Big brother Gao Yi, little brother thank you on behalf of millions of Han children in Liaodong." ”

Li Ruobing calmly accepted his snort, looked at Zhao Xingde and said in a deep voice, "This is not to make a wedding dress for Xia Guo, nor is it for you and me to have a personal friendship, this is the homeland of the Central Plains, and I owe it to these Liaodong Haners." He bit the word "homeland" very hard, Zhao Xingde knew what he meant, but he couldn't tell the difference, so he had to whisper: "Big brother will hand over the drifting Yicheng military supplies to us, I don't know if my colleagues can explain the past, there are some rare local products in Liaodong, only in the deep mountains and dense forests, I can let the Han army dig and collect some, and hand them over to the eldest brother, after the Central Plains is sold, it is better to make good colleagues up and down, so as not to bear the blame." ”

Li Ruobing glanced at him in surprise, but he didn't expect Zhao Xingde, who had not yet entered the official career in Bianliang, to know these officialdom stories, he didn't refuse, nodded and said in a deep voice: "It's okay." ”

The two discussed some details of the handover, and it was not until the Han army was more than 20 miles away from the Jurchen brigade that Zhao Xingde called Wan Yan Saba and threatened him in a false voice, saying that if it wasn't for the intercession of the envoy of the Song State, he would have to suffer a lot today. Wan Yan Saba hated it in his heart, but he was helpless. After this small group of Jurchen soldiers escorted Yan Saba and Li Ruobing away, the Han army immediately changed direction and marched back along the mountain road that was difficult for cavalry to travel.

At the time of parting, Li Ruobing originally wanted to tell Zhao Xingde that although he could be a eunuch in the Xia Dynasty, he must not fail the Kwantung fathers, but he muttered for a long time, but there was still no exit, and he only silently watched Zhao Xingde and the Han army drift away and disappear in the mist of the dense forest. "Every one of you will be faithful to your country." He sighed under his breath.

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