What Zhao Yan thought in his heart, Yang Congyi knew very well, but there were some things he couldn't change, and he didn't want to try to fight.

The power in his hands is too heavy, and if he is a little selfish, the court and the people will face a catastrophe, which he does not want to see.

After returning to Bianjing for a long time, Wan Yanyong wanted to take Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, so he had to go to Jinan Mansion and Hejian Mansion in person to give Wan Yanyong some pressure.

But before leaving Bianjing, he couldn't say that he was completely ignorant of his family's affairs.

In the hall, Yang Congyi and the two ladies sat opposite each other, without saying a word, and the atmosphere was dull, obviously something unpleasant happened between them.

After a long time, Yang Congyi opened his mouth to break the silence: "My opinion is not to force Siyuan to marry, he doesn't want to come back, and he doesn't have to force it, he can go wherever he likes, as long as he doesn't cause trouble at home." Don't go to him either, when you want to come back, he will come back. ”

"You just let him come by his temperament, and in the end he won't go back to this house, see what you do!" Gu Qingchen's face sank into the water.

"Sister, no, Siyuan is almost twenty years old, and in a few years, he will definitely come back, can he still have this family." Meng Yunniang played a round on the side.

"Yun Niang, if you want to say this, you are also to blame. If we had come to Bianjing and brought Siyuan with us, so that he could stay with us instead of being left in Fujian, it would not have become like this. Gu Qingchen immediately turned the finger at Meng Yunniang.

"Sister, how can you blame me for this. At the beginning, I said that the situation in the north was unstable, and let Siyuan stay in Fujian to study hard, and you agreed, and it was not my idea. Meng Yunniang looked aggrieved.

"Didn't you keep telling me how many academies there are in Fujian, how many great Confucians, how many good gentlemen, and how good it is to let Siyuan stay in Fujian to study, I will agree?" Gu Qingchen immediately retorted, full of anger.

"Okay, stop arguing, what the family is arguing about, spread it out and make people laugh." Yang Congyi hurriedly came out to play a round.

Gu Qingchen and Meng Yunniang stopped talking.

Recently, because of Yang Siyuan, the two have quarreled many times, and Gu Qingchen has always attributed his son's rebellion and disobedience to the fact that he left him alone in Fujian after listening to Meng Yunniang's words.

And Meng Yunniang obviously doesn't want to take responsibility, and she won't put the responsibility on her father, after all, her father is old and can't accompany Yang Siyuan to school.

"A man, a great man, should go out and suffer some hardships, and he is not a woman, and what is he doing all day long at home. Think about yourself, just because you have been going up the mountain with the master since you were a child, enduring hardships, and being tempered, you can carry this family early, can we accompany Siyuan for a lifetime? Is it okay not to let him suffer some hardships? Yang Congyi gave an example of consolation.

Gu Qingchen didn't say a word, thinking of the past, she sighed infinitely, and felt that what her husband said made some sense, but she suddenly remembered an old thing, and she couldn't help but feel sad.

Then he asked: "Husband, the master was killed in Huazhou that day, and you said that you wanted to avenge the master, but now the gold thief is dead or alive?" ”

"The man is not dead. When the army besieged Jingzhao Mansion, he surrendered, and now he is an official of the Great Song Dynasty court, and he still serves in Jingzhao Mansion. Yang Congyi didn't hide it, a few years ago he sent someone to find out the thief who killed Zheng Daochang back then, and when he recovered Guanzhong, he also deliberately asked Ming Fu to pay attention to it, so as not to let the thief escape.

"Still in office?" Gu Qingchen asked in surprise?

"In order to stabilize the surrender of the army and the demotion of officials, and stabilize the place, the imperial court has always treated them preferentially, and I was not able to go to Guanzhong in person, so I am really to blame for this." Yang Congyi, as a commander, as an important minister of the imperial court, naturally it is not good to order the beheading of the demoted officials privately, and it is Yu Yunwen who presides over the situation in Guanzhong, how can he order people to kill people.

"Master can't die in vain! It's been more than 20 years, and I want to give Master an explanation! Gu Qingchen's tone was firm, his eyes staring at Yang Congyi, wanting an answer.

"The imperial court has already made a decision, all officials are treated preferentially, and they are also given official positions again, he is now an official of the Great Song Dynasty, he can't be killed, it's been so many years, forget it." Yang Congyi is a heavy minister of the Great Song Dynasty, revenge for personal revenge and killing officials has always been taboo, he cannot violate it, let alone agree with his family to make mistakes.

The two looked at each other for a moment, then looked to the side, and neither spoke.

Feeling that the atmosphere was abnormal, Meng Yunniang hurriedly came out to play a round: "Husband, sister, you have to be cautious about this matter." Revenge cannot be avenged, but the other party is an official of the imperial court, and he can't do it casually. Husband, see if you can think of a way, he is demoted to a general, he will always make mistakes, find a reason, let the court kill him, this revenge, we will not also make trouble. ”

Yang Congyi nodded after hearing this: "It's only like this, I think of a way, don't worry about this." ”

And Gu Qingchen didn't say anything.

Seeing that Gu Qingchen had no opinion, Yang Congyi then said: "Regarding Qian'er's family affairs, my suggestion is to choose among the descendants of officials below the sixth grade, and don't consider those above the sixth grade." It may take me a year and a half to come back after I leave Beijing this time, so after I settle down, just give me a message. ”

"Okay, my sister and I will choose it well, so don't worry." Gu Qingchen still didn't speak, and Meng Yunniang hurriedly took the words.

"Okay, so be it." After Yang Congyi finished speaking, he got up and left, walking towards his study.

Gu Qingchen and Meng Yunniang didn't say a word, they left separately and went back to their own yards.

Yang Congyi is not good at handling housework, and only two wives make it difficult for him to deal with himself. Since the housework is not clear, I simply don't care, out of sight is clean, a huge mansion, two rooms have their own way, there is nothing wrong with it, anyway, sooner or later they will have to live separately.

A few days later, Yang Congyi left Bianjing and quickly rushed to Jinan Mansion.

Just five days after he left, Gu Qingchen ignored Meng Yunniang's dissuasion and ran away from home alone.

After Gu Qingchen left Bianjing, he went all the way west, passing through Henan Mansion to Luoyang, and then entering Guanzhong.

A month later, Gu Qingchen returned to his home in Bianjing.

Not long after, news came to Bianjing in Guanzhong, saying that an important official of Jingzhao Mansion died violently at home, and his head was missing, and the government did not find many clues at the scene, but from the limited clues, it can be inferred that the official died of vendetta.

It is said that the official who was killed was a demoted official of the Jin State, and for a time many demoted officials were panicked, and other demoted officials in Guanzhong were affected by this, and they closed their doors and did not dare to move.

Half a month later, under pressure, several demoted officials fled from their homes and left Guanzhong, where they were missing.

The news of the demotion and escape was sent back to Bianjing, and the imperial court, under pressure, ordered Zhou Bida, the prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, to conduct a thorough investigation to appease the hearts of Guanzhong, Hedong, Bianjing and other places.

However, after three months of investigation, there was no result, and it finally became an unsolved case.

Fortunately, after that case, all localities strengthened the protection of officials, and there were no more cases of demotion and killing in Guanzhong, and the adverse effects caused by the unsolved cases gradually subsided.

Just when Guanzhong and Bianjing were attracted by the Jingzhao Mansion murder case, the garrisons of Jinan Mansion and Hejian Mansion once again made new moves.

On the fifth day of the first month of March, 20,000 garrisons under the personal leadership of Yang Congyi set out from Jinan Mansion to the north, because each team of soldiers had two large carriages to help, their armor and weapons did not need to be carried by themselves, and the marching speed on the smooth official road increased a lot, and after three days of rapid marching, the army rushed to Hejian Province.

This time the incident happened suddenly, the army had to take the first step, and the grain and grass materials of the imperial court were expected to lag behind for more than a month, so in the face of the Xijin army, they could only contain it, and could not attack on a large scale.

After the army arrived at Hejian Mansion, it immediately set up a formation, divided the troops into five routes, and made a posture of attacking the county towns around Yanjing and Pingzhou.

On 12 March, the armies were ten miles away from their respective targets, and then they stopped and did not attack rashly.

On 14 March, the armies approached the city according to the plan, first persuaded the target county to surrender, and when they saw that the other side was unmoved, they launched a huge offensive.

Dongjin's troops in the Yanjing area were only seventy or eighty thousand, and after leaving the troops stationed in Yanjing City, the troops that were really stationed on the front line of Zhending Mansion and Hejian Mansion were very limited.

In addition, in recent years, the Xijin army stationed in Zhending Mansion has always been at a disadvantage, only focusing on defense, and did not dare to launch any attack to the north, and although the garrison of the Great Song Dynasty in Hejian Mansion has been dispatched to train every three or five times, the drill is also huge, but it is only thunder and no rain, since three years ago after attacking Yanjing and Pingzhou, it has never launched an attack on any city in Dongjin.

From this, Liaoyang Prefecture judged that the three forces in the Yanjing area were intertwined, and it was difficult to have a war in the short term.

The defensive pressure on the front line in the south of Yanjing has decreased, and Dongjin and Xijin are tense in Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion, Wan Yan Yong always does not want to snatch back the Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion that Wan Yan Liang took the opportunity to snatch, so he secretly transferred the troops in the Yanjing area to Pingzhou, Laizhou, Jinzhou and other places, and prepared in advance for the standby capture of Dading Mansion and Linhuang Mansion.

Sure enough, in the summer and autumn of last year, when he heard that the Great Song Dynasty and Wan Yan Liang had a rift in Hedong, Wan Yan Yong's mind was budding, but considering that Wan Yan Liang's army could still be strong, he did not rashly send an army to seize Dading Mansion.

No, a few months later, I heard that Wan Yan Liang had lost the entire Hedong, Guanzhong, and northern Shaanxi, and Wan Yan Yong suddenly felt that the best time had come, so he immediately began to prepare grain and grass, preparing to take the opportunity to launch a counterattack and give Wan Yan Liang, who was weakened, a fatal blow.

But what Wan Yanyong didn't expect was that Wan Yan Liang was actually angry and died of anger, and then the hairy boy Wan Yan Guangying took over, and it was difficult to control the power of Datong Mansion in the short term, which was a good opportunity for a counterattack.

So Wan Yan Yong, who was not fully prepared, mobilized a large army and hurriedly launched an attack on Dading Mansion.

As soon as his army was dispatched, the Xijin defenders fled when they heard the news, and directly evacuated Dading Mansion and fled to Linhuang Mansion, which gave Wan Yanyong great confidence and immediately decided to drive the expedition in person.

Dading Mansion is easy to take, Linhuang Mansion is naturally not a problem, and even the army is thousands of miles away from Datong Mansion, it is not impossible!

As soon as his sworn enemy Yan Liang dies, who else is his opponent in the entire Xijin?

As long as the news is released, the thief will be promoted to the third level and ten thousand households will be sealed, and I am afraid that Datong Mansion will be in chaos immediately!

Wan Yan Yong sat in the imperial chariot and went north to Linhuang Mansion with the army, planning how to quickly take Datong Mansion in his heart, and he was full of confidence in the future.