There was silence in the hall.

Everyone looked at Xu Shiyang with complicated eyes.

In fact, dying for the sake of admonishing the king should be regarded as a great honor for Confucian scholars, and it is an honor that can be remembered in genealogies or local chronicles.

What's more, everyone is the main battle faction, how can it be possible to allow such humiliating conditions?

Even if you can't stop it, you have to be dead!

"Haven't asked this lord yet?"

Since he came out, Xu Shiyang couldn't retract it anymore, he stepped forward and handed the yellow silk in his hand back to Wen Zhong.

"This is Lord Wen Zhongwen, a bachelor of Hanlin, and the eldest son of the elder minister."

Someone next to me immediately introduced me.

Xu Shiyang smiled and arched his hand at the man to show his gratitude.

"It turned out to be Lord Wen."

Xu Shiyang continued:

"Master Wen is really a generation of heroes, but I think that it is a pity that Lord Wen wasted his precious life on such meaningless things."

"You're Xu Shiyang, right?" Wen Zhong asked rhetorically.

"Exactly down there."

"I heard you're called 'Juzhou Tiger'?"

"It's all praise from others." Xu Shiyang said modestly: "I can't afford to be in the future." ”

"Since you have this title, and you are also the son and son of Lord Xu Muhe, you should be able to understand this truth, right?" Wen Zhong frowned and said, "Our generation must not succumb to the unreasonable demands of the Tartars!" ”

"But, seeing that you lords are like this, ...... the Holy One has already succumbed, right?"

"That's why I'm going to die!"

"Admire!" Xu Shiyang first complimented, and then asked, "But Master Wen, there is something unclear below." ”

"Xianggong Wen, you and all the adults, do you not want to submit to the Tartars at all, or do you just not want to make peace with the Tartars?"

To say that you don't want to submit to the Tartars at all is lying.

Otherwise, when last year I promised to raise the annual coin to 300,000 yuan each of the silver silk and 1 million yuan in the army, someone should have admonished the king with death, why do we need to wait until now?

More than ten years ago, at the moment when the humiliating years began, when Da Zhou was forced to pay the New Year's coin to the Jin State, Wen Xianggong himself was still in the court.

"My ......."

Wen Zhong obviously hesitated for a moment, and then regained his firmness:

"To tell the truth, it's not that the New Year's coin can't be given, and it's not impossible to be friendly, the saint is ......called a minister, and he has already weighed it once anyway, and these things are easy to solve."

"But six hundred maids, eight hundred monks, three thousand craftsmen, so many people, if they move north, it will inevitably involve a lot!"

"I don't know how many people want to ruin this family, not to mention, so many craftsmen have come to the hands of the Tartars, so that the Tartars can be strong and strong, how will this Great Zhou deal with itself in the future!?"

"I see."

Xu Shiyang nodded and understood:

"At the very least, you can't send the craftsman to the Tartars."

"It's better not to have this thing at all, the craftsmen don't set off, and they don't need to be recruited, everyone stays in Jiangnan to work for Da Zhou, right?"

Although he felt that this tasted a little wrong, Wen Zhong still agreed:

"That's right! But the Holy One would definitely agree. ”

"If the Holy One promises, let it be."

Xu Shiyang said indifferently:

"What Lord Wen wants to do now is not something dead, it's really not worth it."

"You just need to drag the team north for a few months."

"Then, you find a way to advise, first let the New Year's coins and the army money promised to the Tartars last year go north, and I will lead the troops to stop them in Qi Province, so that the Tartars will not get a penny."

"After that, Lord Wen reasoned to prevent the team from going north on the grounds that the canal road was not smooth."

"At that time, I'm afraid that even the surrendering princes in the court will not let the peace team set off in this situation, right?"

The crowd blinked stupidly and looked at Xu Shiyang.

For a while, they seemed unable to digest the meaning of Xu Shiyang's words.

"Shi Yang, you mean, you will cut the canal in Qi Province?"

is worthy of being the spiritual leader of the main battle faction, and Wen Xianggong figured out Xu Shiyang's plan earlier than others.

"Yes, I will cut off the canal, so that Da Zhou will not be able to communicate with the Tartars, and even if the princes of the court want to surrender, they will not be able to find the Tartars who can surrender."

Xu Shiyang smiled and said:

"At that time, I promise that even the Tartar envoys will not be able to come to Jiangnan, and these bastards in the province will stain your eyes."

"Can you do it?" The person who introduced Wen Zhong's identity just now asked stupidly: "Cutting off the Grand Canal and intercepting the ...... of the New Year's coin, this is a robbery, right?" ”

"Who is this brother?" Xu Shiyang asked.

"This is Lord Mingyi Zhang, the superintendent of Yuhang County." This time, it was Moon Zhong who introduced it on his behalf.

"Master Zhang." Xu Shiyang smiled confidently: "The article is not as good as you, but if you talk about training and fighting, you are still a little confident in the bottom." ”

"My Xu family has thousands of elite soldiers, tens of thousands of Ding Zhuang, and Qi Province is full of heroes, if we can join forces, it will be easy to cut off the canal!"

"We have already defeated the Tartars more than once." Xu Shiliu added softly on the side: "The Tartar outside the door is the Jurchen people who were arrested last year. ”

Facts speak louder than words, and a kneeling Tartar slave swears better than a gambling curse.

"The old man has heard about your family."

Wen Xianggong nodded slowly and asked:

"Can you guarantee that you will intercept the fleet of coins?"

"It will take a few months to prepare, and you will need an adult to inform you of the departure time of the fleet." Xu Shiyang replied with a smile.

"None of this is a problem, but what's missing?"

"If there's anything missing, that's a lot." Xu Shiyang said with a smile: "Jiangbei lacks everything, we have been fighting alone in Qi Province, resisting the Tartars for more than ten years, and we have nothing there except for the hearts of 100,000 pure children." ”

"We lack the population, and we have people to grow food, restore production, and form troops."

"We need craftsmen, and now our armoured soldiers are entirely from captures, and eighty percent of our soldiers have no armor."

"We need pig iron and steel, we need coal, we need saltpeter and sulfur."

"We also need food and cloth to keep the soldiers fed and clothed before we can go to tartars."

"None of this is a problem!" Wen Xianggong said categorically: "As long as you can cut off the Grand Canal and prevent the team of the New Year Coin and the relatives from going north, these are not problems!" ”

"The old man still has three points of thin noodles in Jiangnan, so it's not a problem to raise some grain and grass materials for you!"

"It's just that you have to ensure that you have no way to go north with your team!"

Xu Shiyang smiled, bowed deeply to Wen Xianggong and said:

"It's May, and by the end of September or the beginning of October, I promise that the Grand Canal will never be open again!"

"Good!" Wen Xianggong stood up from the chair suddenly, walked in front of Xu Shiyang, and praised loudly: "Since you have won the Tartars, then the old man will believe you once!" If you need anything, you can discuss it directly with Zhong'er! ”

"The child must do his best!" Wen Zhong hurriedly agreed.