Since the Liao army entered the army, the situation in the Great Song Dynasty has been surging. Among the rising stars of the Society, most of Zhao Xingde's 'door' people threw their pens into Rong and fought bloody battles with Liao thieves, and the world knew their righteousness to protect the territory and secure the people. And most of Chen Dong's 'gates' stayed in the South China Sea, resettled refugees, and opened up territory for the Great Song Dynasty, which was a great achievement if it was in the Taiping period. On the other hand, on his own side, he worked every day, doing some intrigue and party fighting, but his original ideals and ambitions gradually faded and dimmed.

Shi Tingjian thought about it, and couldn't help but sigh, his expression gloomy.

"Do you feel that you are worthless?" Wu Zilong's gaze was like a steel needle, piercing his heart. "It's not...... Teacher," Shi Tingjian instinctively denied, and after a few sentences, he said in a low voice: "The student is ashamed. ”

"Nothing." Wu Zilong shook his head, as if he didn't care.

"At the beginning, Zhang Minghuan was victimized by the 'traitor' party and was sentenced to prison, and he once frankly admitted that the so-called scholars and doctors are not as good as ordinary farmers in plowing fields and weaving cloth, and they are not as good as ordinary soldiers when they go into battle to kill the enemy. However, the responsibility on our shoulders is only to keep the word 'morality' for the people of the world. The so-called victory over the court is this meaning. Morality, that's what we're doing now. ”

"Yes," Shi Tingjian nodded with a look of shame, "The disciple has been taught. ”

"Zhao Zhongxian said to the public: 'China is safe, and the crowd is self-serving. If the deceased husband 'wants' to go outside, he must first settle inside. Wu Zilong continued, "It is the difference between the way of government between large and small countries. Those who are small in a small country are worried about the destruction of the country, and it is easy to share the same hatred for the enemy, and the major affairs of the country are only to resist foreign enemies. China, on the other hand, has a strong national strength, often several times that of its neighbors. There is a tendency for Qunyi to be overwhelmed by Mount Tai, and in the face of the absolute power gap, any tricks are useless. However, precisely because of the vastness of the territory, the situation of each state is very different, and it is often self-fighting, and it is extremely difficult to work together to reach outward. ”

"Heli to the outside world?" Shi Tingjian's face was 'exposed' and his face was different, and what his teacher did seemed to be the opposite.

"Heli to the outside world?" Wu Zilong shook his head and sneered: "It's easy to say, people's hearts are very different, the 'traitor' party is rampant, and I am cheating, if it just stays in words, it is a fate to seek fish." And like Chen Shaoyang and Zhao Yuanzhi, their way of appeasement and accommodation, even if it is stable for a while, it cannot be stable for eternity. His eyes showed a firm look, as if he were teaching Shi Tingjian, and as if he was talking to himself: "What we are doing now seems to be the opposite of each other, but in fact, it is the only way that can make China work together." If the quarrel in the court stops at the quarrel, it will never end. Only by truly eradicating the 'traitor' party can we completely stop the internal strife in the Great Song Dynasty and end the party struggle. ”

............

In February, when the Liao Kingdom went to Beijing, the Gobi steppe was covered with thick snow, and it would not melt until the end of March. Most of the withered grass and trees on the snow surface were eaten by cattle and sheep, and even the grass roots under the snow were cut and eaten. The wind swept through the snow and sand, whistling across the snowfield. More than 200 of the captured ministers of the Southern Dynasty survived the bitter cold weather all winter, freezing and starving, and the corpses were dragged out almost every few days.

Under the pressure of hunger and cold, people gradually let go of their shame. The court officials can speak ill of each other for the sake of a nest, followed by fists and kicks. When a man dies, if he refuses to remarry, he will starve to death. The minister's family is poor, and the county lord and the widow marry the rude craftsman as a wife and concubine, and everyone has become accustomed to this kind of incorruptible and shameful thing.

On the edge of the river, Li Ruobing came to Zhu Ying again, and the two looked at each other.

"Come with me and show you something......"

Listening to his deep voice, Zhu Ying's tears rolled in her eyes. Since she rejected Li Ruobing that day, every time she came to the steaming hot river to wash clothes, she could see him from afar. Although it was only a faint glimpse, it was her only warmth and comfort in this hellish situation. Just ten days ago, Li Ruobing's figure suddenly disappeared, Zhu Ying was disappointed at first, and then couldn't help but worry. When Li Ruobing appeared today, Zhu Ying almost cried with joy, who would have expected him to come over again....... Zhu Ying was stunned on the spot, and her soul seemed to be involuntarily, blindly following him.

The two didn't walk long, and after crossing a small hill, it was the sheep that Li Ruobing was watching, and there was a small felt tent with a dome next to the sheep. The felt tent is surrounded by sheep wool blankets, and a clay kettle hangs from a few pieces of wood in the middle, and hot white steam keeps coming out of the pot, making the tent look very warm. Li Ruobing turned around and looked at Zhu Ying. The tent was a small place, and the two of them looked at each other, and they could almost feel each other's suppressed breathing. Zhu Ying's face turned red as soon as she brushed the ground, and then she turned pale as paper.

"Qingqing, we can't ,......" she lowered her head, avoided the gaze of the other side, and said in a trembling voice, "Can't...... I've ......"

"Can't what?" Li Ruobing's warm voice was mixed with a hint of anger, he looked at Zhu Ying's pale face, put his arms around her shoulders, and felt her body tremble slightly, Li Ruobing said in a low voice: "You sit down first." Gently put it down, so that Zhu Ying sat next to the fire. Li Ruobing took off his felt hat and looked at his thin face, Zhu Ying's heart couldn't help but feel sour. These days, Li Ruobing has almost been tortured and crazy, extreme despair, extreme anger, and extreme desire have repeatedly tormented his body and mind. Zhu Ying's words that day kept ringing in his ears, but he couldn't forget them or put them down.

Li Ruobing took a deep breath and silently took out a cleanly wiped celadon bucket bowl, and two white porcelain tea bowls were placed on both sides. When doing these things, his expression was focused, even when he was in Bianliang, Li Ruobing had never been so focused on making tea soup as he was now. The felt tent was so quiet that it was frightening, only the sound of boiling water "cooing" and "cooing", Zhu Ying watched him do all this with some concern, and said in a low voice: "Qingqing......"

"You look," Li Ruobing interrupted her, her tone a little tough, "The 'flower' has withered, and it can bloom again." ”

Zhu Ying was slightly stunned, Li Ruobing took out a thin bamboo tube, opened the stopper, and gently shook the teacup twice, and more than a dozen withered yellow chrysanthemum 'flowers' fluttered into the bucket cup. This tea set and chrysanthemum 'flower' were painstakingly collected by him in the past ten days. Looking at all this in a daze, Zhu Ying's eyes were full of tears. As the boiling water rushes in, the chrysanthemum flowers float lightly, swirling along the current, and dance against the blue tea cups. The withered petals were moistened by the water, and at the same time, a strong chrysanthemum 'flower' fragrance permeated the entire felt tent, and in the center of the dripping water 'color', the 'flower' petals gradually filled and relaxed, and the 'flowers' were open..... In the hazy white mist, she seemed to hear the sound of the opening of the 'flower', and it seemed to be the murmur of the swallow in the 'spring' wind.

"The 'flower' has withered, but it can bloom again," Li Ruobing said in a low voice, "Ying'er, people are the same....."

Zhu Ying didn't dare to speak, she tried her best to endure it, because as soon as she opened her mouth, tears would burst out of her eyes. But when Li Ruobing put the tea water into the bowl, brought it to her, and said softly: "Drink a cup and warm your body." Her tears finally couldn't help but slide down, and one by one the tears fell into the bowl, splashing ripples.

"Ying'er ......"

"I'm fine, really, okay." Zhu Ying picked up the tea bowl and covered her face, the hot and clear tea flowed from her lips and teeth, she only felt warm all over her body, sorrow, despair, sadness, coldness, everything, together with the whole body, seemed to be melted by this steaming heat. I don't know if it was because of shyness or because of the mist vaporization, a faint layer of blush floated on Zhu Ying's cheeks, which made Li Ruobing look a little stupid.

"Ying'er, believe me, we will definitely be together." Li Ruobing grabbed her hand and said in a low voice, "A month later, as soon as the 'spring' begins, the Rilian tribe will go out to drive cattle and sheep out to herd, during this period, I will make some arrangements, and when the nomad returns, I will get horses, at that time, I will take you away, and at that time, we will never be separated again." After finishing speaking, Li Ruobing looked at Zhu Ying nervously, her heart beating hard, just like when the two were in love. There was a sudden silence in the felt tent, and only the sound of two people breathing in low was heard.

"I'll follow you." Zhu Ying agreed softly, but without hesitation. She nodded, and then was held in Li Ruobing's arms, Zhu Ying only struggled slightly, and then let herself fall into his arms, and the emotions that had been suppressed for many years were like a volcanic eruption. The firewood burns, the boiling water boils, the cold wind howls outside, and the felt tent inside is boundless gentleness and warmth......

A few miles away, in the big tent of the emperor of Liao, the atmosphere was even colder than the harsh winter.

Xiao Lira, Yelu Yilie, Xiao Tachi, Wanyan Zongbi, all four of them were naked, their hands tied behind their backs and kneeling on the ground. After the defeat of Jingdong Road, Xiao Lira led the army to retreat all the way, and was harassed by the cavalry and righteous army of the Song State, and discarded all the baggage along the way, most of the foot soldiers died of cold and starvation, and the cavalry also suffered heavy losses. The various units of the Liao army fled all the way back to the three towns of Hebei, and met Yelu Tiege who led the army to come to the rescue, counting the men and horses, the cavalry lost more than 13,000 people, the 'female' Zhen battalion and the Xi army infantry lost more than 30,000 people, the artillery battalion was almost completely wiped out, and the signing army and the people were all lost to the Song army. The Liao army in Hebei was completely disabled, and without a large number of reinforcements, it would no longer be able to recover the Daimyo's mansion in the short term.

Yelu Dashi issued a holy decree, Yelu Tiege temporarily sat in the three towns of Hebei, suppressed the Song army's forces to the north, and strictly ordered Xiao Lila and other four defeated generals to go to Shangjing immediately to accept the guilt, as soon as the four stepped into the imperial camp, together with Yelu Yi, they all took off their armor and tied them up one by one.

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