It is true that quite a few people have died over the years.

From the first time he went to sea to the Northern Expedition, there have been too many people who have died in front of him so far.

But how can anyone not die in a war, either he dies himself, or someone else dies, depending on how he dies.

The old Taoist said that the monk in the mountains could save his life, Yang Congyi believed that as long as he completely gave up the power in his hands, Zhao Yan would not kill him, the Great Song Dynasty has never had such a tradition, and it just so happened that he was not greedy for power.

However, if he is really allowed to become a monk in the mountains, it will still be difficult to accept it for a while, because he is not a real cultivator, unlike them, who can stay in the mountains for more than ten years, decades, or even a lifetime.

On the way down the mountain, Yang Congyi quickly put the words of the old Taoist chief behind him, because he had already realized the relationship between power and life, even if the old Taoist chief didn't say it, after seizing Yanjing, he would give up all power.

But before that, he couldn't.

Three days later, Meng Yunniang, accompanied by Gu Qingchen and the maid, went to Wulongguan and met the old Taoist.

Pulse diagnosis, silver acupuncture, luck marrow.

In less than half an hour, the diagnosis and treatment were completed.

Before leaving, the old Taoist also taught a set of simple self-cultivation exercises, and told Meng Yunniang and Gu Qingchen that as long as they practiced regularly, they would be able to smooth their qi and blood.

One morning in May, Meng Yunniang suddenly felt flustered, nauseous and nauseated, but she didn't care about it at first.

After several days of such symptoms, she realized that her body might have changed.

But she didn't tell anyone about it, including Yang Congyi and Gu Qingchen, and quietly asked the maid to go down the mountain to the city to invite the best Langzhong.

Later, after being diagnosed by Lang Zhong, who was invited with a lot of money, Meng Yunniang was indeed more than a month pregnant.

It was only at this time that she told Yang Congyi the good news.

Hearing the good news, Yang Congyi quickly made a decision to go down the mountain and return to the city!

The palace they donated will be completely completed in half a month, and they have already promised to attend the completion ceremony, so they have to refuse.

Fortunately, Zhang Liu and his senior brother Sun Daochang are also reasonable people, and after hearing about such happy events, they did not force it again.

In mid-May, Yang Congyi and his entourage left Wulong Peak, where they had lived for most of the year.

With a pregnant woman, it took more than ten days to get out of Wudang Mountain, and when I came to the county seat, it was the end of May.

Due to the bumps in the first few months of pregnancy, pregnant women can't stand the bumps, and Meng Yunniang's temper has also changed a lot recently, in order to avoid trouble and facilitate care, Yang Congyi and Gu Qingchen discussed it, so he bought a yard in the county to live temporarily, and found seven or eight subordinates to take care of their lives.

Half a month later, a group of people with special identities entered Wudang County and went straight to the gate of Yang Congyi's courtyard.

The person who came was an attendant beside the queen, with a lot of precious health supplements, and there was also a royal doctor of the Tai Hospital.

Listening to their intentions, Yang Congyi did not show any surprise, let alone refuse, and immediately bowed to the north to thank him.

When he left Bianjing, Zhao Yan sent a team of palace guards to escort him, and Yang Congyi knew what he meant, all his actions were above board, and there was nothing unseemly, so no matter whether the guards were reported every three days or every day, he didn't have to worry at all.

Even spending a huge amount of money to donate to build the Wulongguan Palace, Yang Congyi didn't want to hide it, although this cost far exceeded his actual income in recent years, he didn't care too much about the emperor's thoughts and the impeachment of others.

To say that a high-ranking official of his status can't come up with 100,000 yuan, no one will believe it.

Because everyone knows that an official achieves a certain position, and the income of the official position itself is insignificant in the income of the official. For example, if an official earns 50,000 yuan a year, it is not surprising that he earns more than 200,000, 300,000, 500,000, or even one million yuan a year.

Therefore, even if it is far more than the income of Yulu, it will not be able to enter the eyes of the Bianjing court officials at all.

Of course, the officials can still make some fuss about this issue.

Last year, some people impeached Yang Mansion for extravagance and waste, but how many of those high-ranking officials in Bianjing City were more restrained than Yang Mansion?

As far as Yang Congyi knows, there are dozens or hundreds of maids and maids in some high-ranking officials' mansions, not to mention marrying one concubine after another, so many people have to eat and live, and the daily expenses are more than a hundred times that of Yang's mansion?

But he couldn't tell Zhao Yan, who was so poor, that these problems were too poor, because saying it would only increase his troubles, he couldn't solve them, and Zhao Yan couldn't solve them, otherwise it might even cause the Bianjing court to split again.

To recapture Yanjing, without a relatively stable court, without the support of civil officials, it is absolutely impossible, Yang Congyi wants to compromise, Zhao Yan is the emperor, and he has to compromise.

Therefore, in the eyes of the ordinary people of Junzhou, Yang Congyi, who donated a lot of money to build the palace, was nothing at all in the eyes of the officials and emperors of Bianjing, because 100,000 yuan was really not much for them.

With no guilt in his heart, Yang Congyi accepted the tonic sent by the queen with peace of mind, and also accepted the imperial doctor sent by the emperor.

Why does the emperor care so much about a person who has resigned from the opposition, and he is sending precious supplements and gifts, the local officials in Junzhou may not understand, but the old oilmen in the Bianjing court who are good at observing words and emotions can be seen at a glance.

They knew that it was time for Yang Congyi to return to Bianjing.

Soon, a letter of impeachment signed by Zhou Zhen, a member of the Privy Council and Governor of the Council, who had provoked the dispute between the Song and Jin countries, created a border crisis, and attempted to destroy the friendship covenant between the two countries, submitted Zhao Yan's imperial case.

On July 24, the emperor issued an edict to dismiss Zhou Zhen.

On the eighth day of August, the emperor issued an edict to reinstate Yang Congyi as deputy envoy of the Privy Council and immediately return to Bianjing to take up his post.

By the time the edict reached Wudang County, Junzhou, it was already August 12, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching.

The family also brought a pregnant woman who was four months pregnant, and it was impossible to leave as soon as she said it, nor could she celebrate the festival on the road, let alone Yang Congyi to go first.

On August 20, after handling chores and making proper preparations, Yang Congyi and his entourage set off to return north.

Because of the pregnant women accompanying them, the road stopped and stopped until mid-November, when they returned to Bianjing.

After returning to Bianjing to rest for three days, Yang Congyi went to the Privy Council to learn some details about the north.

In one year, the situation in the north has changed dramatically.

In September last year, under the leadership of Zhou Zhen, the Great Song army suddenly sent troops from Jinan Mansion and Yidu Prefecture by land and sea at the same time, all the way to Hejian Mansion, and all the way to Pingzhou and Laizhou.

Zhending Mansion is unknown, fearing that the Song army and Wanyan Yong will conspire to besiege Hejian Mansion and Zhending Mansion, and it will be difficult to defend the two places, so they took the initiative to abandon Hejian Mansion and shrink almost all their forces to the vicinity of Zhending Mansion.

In this way, the Great Song army that went north from Jinan Mansion took Hejian Mansion without bloodshed.

At the same time, the sea route was quite smooth.

They suddenly appeared between Pingzhou and Laizhou, and the Jin troops stationed in the two places thought that the Song army had been killed from the direction of Yanjing, and on the other hand, they thought that the Song army had killed from Liaoyang Mansion, and they all thought that this place could not be defended, and fled all the way west to Yanjing and all the way east to Jinzhou.

The Song army, which went north by sea, also took Pingzhou and Laizhou almost effortlessly, cutting off the convenient passage between Yanjing and Liaoyang Prefecture.

If these results are obtained, they will be harvested, then it is obvious that the Great Song Dynasty will make money.

However, greed is not something that everyone can contain.

The Song army, which seized Hejian Mansion, coveted monstrous military exploits and vainly attempted to seize Yanjing in one fell swoop, and rashly went north.

In October, the Dongjin army stationed in Yanjing sent cavalry to harass and delay the advance of the Great Song army, and then the two armies launched several skirmishes here, each with its own victories and defeats.

It was November.

Almost at the same time, the Song army, which had captured Pingzhou and Laizhou, was not willing to be lonely, and once again divided its troops, attacking all the way to the west and all the way to the east, in an attempt to expand the results of the battle.

However, the city of Jinzhou in the east was warned, the defenders doubled, and the Song army after the division of troops was difficult to conquer in a short time.

There is no big city in the west, and if you want to achieve more results, you can only attack the outer prefectures and counties of Yanjing, but Yanjing has many garrisons in those places, and when you learn the news of the Song army's attack, you have already closed the city gate, and the Song army that went north from the sea is limited, and it is difficult to attack the city for a while.

As a result, the Song army and the Jin army in Pingzhou and Laizhou were in a stalemate, and they could not achieve more results.

Just half a month after the Song army launched a war against Xijin and Dongjin at the same time, Wan Yan Liang, who was in Datong Mansion, did not send troops to support Zhending Mansion, but took advantage of Wan Yan Yong's army to be pinned down in Yanjing and Jinzhou, and quickly sent troops to the east, seizing Beijing Linhuang Mansion and Zhongjing Dading Mansion in one fell swoop.

Once Jinzhou is lost, the Yanjing region, which is surrounded by the Song army and Wanyan Liang, will definitely not be able to hold it.

Wan Yan Yong was in a critical situation, so he had to mobilize a large army to support Jinzhou, and at the same time ordered Yanjing to stay behind and abandon the outer states and counties, shrink the army, and stick to Yanjing City!

In November, the Song army finally arrived at the city of Yanjing, but looking at the thick walls of the high city, there was nothing to be done but to recover the surrounding unguarded prefectures and counties.

In the direction of Jinzhou, the Song army, the Xijin army, and the Dongjin army did not dare to move lightly, the Song army was afraid that the Xijin army would take advantage, and the Xijin army was worried that the Song army would take advantage, and no one wanted to take the lead in attacking the Dongjin army.

Soon, a heavy snowfall broke the deadlock in late November.

The grain and grass carried by the Song army from the north by sea was about to run out, and the north wind was strong and could not be replenished from the south.

As they had expected, the Sijin army did not immediately follow up and join forces to attack the city, but watched them retreat after the siege failed.

Of course, the Xijin Army, which wanted to take advantage of the excitement, did not take advantage of it, and after attacking Jinzhou alone, it also retreated to Dading Mansion.

The Song army that retreated from the city of Jinzhou could not withstand the severe cold in the north, coupled with the fact that the grain and grass were running out, and there was no supply, and the Xijin and Dongjin armies were eyeing Pingzhou and Laizhou, and these two places could not be garrisoned, so they had no choice but to take advantage of the boat south to return to Yidufu.

The Song army outside Yanjing City did not have such good luck, a heavy snowfall, the supply was interrupted, and the soldiers could not tolerate the severe cold, so they could only retreat south on foot to Hejian Mansion, freezing to death and frostbite hundreds of thousands along the way, far exceeding the number of casualties among the sword soldiers.