The winter of the five years was even colder than that of later generations, but Zhang Jue's heart was hot.

He had just gotten the news that the envoy of the Song State was coming, although he knew a few months ago that Zhao Ji was going to canonize him as the envoy of the Fengning Army, but he also knew that the Jin State had sent an envoy to the Song State, and he was very nervous about whether the Song and Jin would reach an agreement that was unfavorable to him, but now it seems that no, everything is developing in a good direction, and the reward edict is accompanied by tens of thousands of silver silks, which is something he urgently needs.

Zhang Jue was excited, and decided to go out of the city to meet the Song envoy to show respect, and he invited Zhang Jun, Zhang Dungu, Wei Fu, and Zhao Minyan to discuss the matter together.

Zhang Dungu was the first to object, and said, "I heard that Wanyan Zongwang has arrived at Zhongjing Road, this person is not comparable to Wanyan Yan's mother, and the heart of our army is uncertain, then the canonization of the Song State is just the icing on the cake, and I am not allowed to wait for the announcement, just send a general to go, if the brother can be trusted, the last general is willing to greet him, and please sit in Pingzhou to prevent accidents!" ”

Wei Fu also nodded and said, "General Zhang is right, now that we are in wartime, we should be careful!" ”

Zhang Jun just came from Yanshan Mansion, and said to Zhang Jue, "When I came from Yanshan Mansion, Wang Anzhong was worried about the loyalty of our army in his words. ”

Zhang Jue thought for a while, and finally said, "I will take a thousand light horses, a few officials, you and the other four are here to guard, it should be no big problem, I want to finish Yan Zongwang and use soldiers like a god, and I will not know the news of the angels of the Song Kingdom, I will not go far, only thirty miles, don't go back and forth for a day, I want to come without hindrance." ”

Several people glanced at each other, and could only reluctantly accept Zhang Jue's plan.

Zhang Jun left the General's Mansion and returned to his mansion, a subordinate walked in, Zhang Jun saw him, his eyes shrank slightly, and then waved his hand and said, "Close the door, you come to serve me and write." ”

The man answered, turned around and closed the door, and then raised his head, there was no respect for Zhang Jun in his eyes, but a trace of contempt in his eyes.

"Master Zhang, this is a letter from my general." The man took out a wax pill from his hat, crushed the wax pill, and handed it to Zhang Jun.

Zhang Jun took a breath, since he hesitated and didn't kill the person in front of him, he couldn't turn back.

"Is my mother okay?" After reading the letter, Zhang Jun thought about it and asked.

"Please rest assured General Zhang, in the last battle of Rabbit Ear Mountain, my general learned of the general's prestige and admired it very much, and the general's mother lived in my general's mansion, and it was a noble." The man said hesitantly.

It turned out that this person was a spy sent to Pingzhou by the Jin State, after Yan Zongwang arrived in Runzhou, the first thing was not to send troops to find trouble with Zhang Jue, nor to cure the crime of Yan Yan's mother's defeat, but to send all the secret spies under his own hands, Wan Yan Zongwang is an old man, he knows too well what it means to know oneself and know the other, he thinks that the defeat of Rabbit Ear Mountain last time, the key is not to understand the situation in Pingzhou, which will be ambushed.

Although there was also an official dialect in ancient times, after all, it was not as popular as in later generations, thinking about the great people who founded the country in later generations, they all had a very strong native accent, and they knew that they wanted to be secret spies during the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, and the first thing to solve was the language problem, so Wanyan Zongwang sent all Yanyun locals.

The secret spy in front of Zhang Jun is the person of the Liu family in Yanzhou, and he is still Liu Yanzong's nephew, named Liu Yizhi, and he is also a child of the Yanyun family, he quickly found Zhang Jun, and took advantage of Zhang Jun's dissatisfaction when he was punished, and pulled Zhang Jun into the water, of course, there is also Zhang Jun's mother, Zhang Jun's mother originally lived in Yingzhou, and fell into the hands of Jin Guo when Yan Yan's mother sent troops last time.

"The surname is Liu, if I know that you are lying in the future, I will definitely twist your head!" Zhang Jun clenched his fists, closed his eyes for a long time, and said, "I have done what you said, Zhang Jue will lead the troops out of the city tomorrow to meet the Song envoy, but I don't know the specific time." ”

"Thank you general, as long as the general recaptures Nanjing for my Dajin Kingdom, the reward will not be less in the future!" Liu Yizhi said with a smile: "When the time comes, I will have to promote the general more." ”

"Don't go too far!" Zhang Jun originally felt sorry for Zhang Jue, and when he heard that he had to contribute by himself, he suddenly became a little annoyed and angry.

"Is there a way back for the general? That Zhang Jue can beat the general's military stick, can't he cut off the general's head? Liu Yizhi said coldly: "Or does the general think that Pingzhou can really resist the tens of thousands of troops of my Dajin Kingdom?" ”

The two looked at each other for a while, and Liu Yizhi sighed and said, "You and I are old people, how can a corner of Pingzhou be against the Jin Kingdom?" Zhang Jue only relied on the Song State, but was the Song State really willing to go to war with the Jin State for Pingzhou? The general has also been to the Song Land, and you also know the charge of opening border provocations. ”

Zhang Jun let out a long breath and asked, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Liu Yizhi saw that Zhang Jun had succumbed, and he was overjoyed, if it was done now, would there be less reward in the future? His status in the Liu family can also rise a lot.

- Three days later

Zhang Jue walked in front with his two sons and several officials, and behind them were a thousand light horsemen, who were carefully selected to be well-dressed and well-dressed because they wanted to meet the angels, and Zhang Jue hoped that with these would allow the Song Kingdom to give him greater support.

"Okay, this Pingzhou City will be handed over to you! I'll go back as soon as I go. Zhang Jue's complexion was very good, and he said to everyone.

Zhang Jun and the others bowed to Zhang Jue, and Zhang Jue led the men and horses to the south.

And at the same time as Zhang Jue set off, a soldier and horse appeared not far from Rabbit Ear Mountain.

This is a cavalry team composed of 2,000 men and horses, all of them are in white robes and white hats, and even the war horses are wrapped in white cloth.

At this time, the sky has just dawned, these two thousand people and horses are silently eating the dry food in their arms, led by a general holding Buddhist beads, secretly reciting Buddhist scriptures in his mouth, if Lu Zhishen is here, he will recognize, this is his named disciple, known as the Bodhisattva Prince in the Jin Army.

"It's almost time." Wanyan Yan's mother looked at the sky and said.

Wanyan Zongwang opened his eyes, put away the Buddha beads, and said to Wanyan Yan's mother, "Uncle, this battle will be handed over to you, and the shame of Rabbit Ear Mountain can only be washed away by yourself with the blood of the enemy." ”

Wanyan Yan's mother knew that this was Wanyan Zongwang's hope to give her a chance, if she didn't grasp it, then let alone go up in the future, it would be good to stay in her current position.

Wanyan Yan's mother patted Wanyan Zongwang on the chest and said, "Second prince, don't worry, if you can't defeat Zhang Jue in this battle, I won't have the face to come back." ”

Wanyan Zongwang recited the Buddha's name and said, "My Buddha is merciful, our army will win this battle, most of Zhang Jue's army are from Pingzhou, and it will also be the combat strength of our army in the future, if it surrenders, it must not be lightly injured." ”

Wanyan Yanmu answered, with a swing of the big sword in her hand, two thousand cavalry heard the sound and moved, and under her leadership, they rushed north, and they wanted to bypass Rabbit Ear Mountain and go straight to Pingzhou.

Naturally, there are also Pingzhou troops stationed here to defend the main road under Rabbit Ear Mountain, and a few yawning guards looked at the cavalry rushing in the distance, and at first thought they were dazzled.

"What's that? Blizzard? ”

"I don't know.... Why is the earth shaking? ”

When the guards saw clearly that the comer was a cavalry, it was too late, these two thousand cavalry were all elite soldiers selected by Wanyan Zongwang, each bow and horse were skilled, the guards did not look at the police, several arrows hit his whole body, when this guard fell, the eyes saw several sets of horse ropes in front of the antlers in front of the gate of the camp.

Wanyan Yan's mother looked at the camp in front of her being breached, and shouted loudly, "Don't fight, rush over with me!" ”

Two thousand gold soldiers and iron cavalry like a whirlwind, swept through the camp, when the guards in the camp were nailed to the ground by Wanyan Yanmu's arrow, the morale of the Pingzhou army suddenly fell to the bottom, if it were not for Wanyan Zongwang did not want to fight, the thousands of Pingzhou troops guarding here may not be able to escape.

After Yan Yan's mother rushed through the camp with the cavalry, she looked back at the number of people and found that there was basically no damage, and couldn't help but secretly admire Yan Zongwang's ability to train troops, which was not comparable to herself, and continued to rush to Pingzhou City.

Zhang Jue took the men and horses to the east of Pingzhou City thirty miles, waited for about an hour, and saw the people and horses with the angel guard of honor coming, Zhang Jue hurriedly dismounted to show respect, the angel saw Zhang Jue out of the thirty miles, nodded and said, "Although this Zhang Jue is a northerner, he also knows the rules." ”

"Pingzhou Zhang Jue meets the angel!" Zhang Jue took his two sons and officials to worship.

"Okay, our family has heard of General Zhang's prestige for a long time, and when I saw it today, it really deserved its reputation..."

The angel still wanted to be polite, and suddenly saw a flock of birds flying in the distance, and couldn't help but wonder, "The scenery of your Pingzhou is strange, and our family has never seen so many birds flying." ”

Zhang Jue looked back, his face turned white, he fell to the ground suddenly, listening attentively, the angel saw that Zhang Jue didn't understand what he was doing at all, and was about to ask, Yu Hou, who was guarding the angel, also fell to the ground.

"Not good, at least two thousand rides!" The Marquis of Yu shouted loudly, "General Zhang, is it your people?" ”

Zhang Jue's white face had now turned black, and he shook his head and said, "It's not my people, I'm afraid it's the Jin soldiers who raided it." ”

"What? Jin Bing is coming? How good is that? The angel was so frightened that his hands trembled, he hurriedly took out a box from the carriage, handed it to Zhang Jue and said, "This is the reward given to you by the official family, the general is the envoy of the festival, the envoy of the festival, our mission is over, so there is no need to send it." ”

After speaking, the angel rushed back to the carriage and yelled at the Marquis Yu, "What are you still doing in a daze?" Go back to Yanshan Mansion! ”

The Marquis of Yu was stunned for a moment, then he sighed, turned the carriage and horses, and ran south.

Zhang Jue and the others looked at the angel honor guard who was almost gone, and only felt as if they were in a dream.

"My lord, what should we do?" Seeing that Zhang Jue was still in a daze, an official stepped forward and asked.

Zhang Jue came to his senses at this time, looked at the distance of the flock of birds and said, "Quick! Get on the horse and go back to Pingzhou City! ”

Before Zhang Juejun could run to Sanlidi, he saw a soldier and horse appear on his flank, and he was still moving closer to him.

Zhang Jue saw that the person at the head was not Wanyan Yanmu, who was it, and the whole person's soul was scared off by three points, the Jin army really arrived in Pingzhou, and he was still intercepting and killing himself, what about the soldiers and horses along the way? Are they all wiped out?

Wanyan Yan's mother didn't give him time to think, he pulled his bow and drew arrows and shot at Zhang Juejun, behind his arrows were nearly a thousand arrows, and there were too many in the Jin army that could be ridden and shot.

Zhang Jue saw the overwhelming arrows flying, and secretly complained, he came to meet Yi Yi this time, the sergeant's equipment was not at all wartime, not even a few shields, and nearly 100 people were shot off their horses in an instant, if Zhang Juejun's morale was sixty just now, now it is not even twenty.

"Zhang Jue'er! Give me my life! Wuyan Puruhun put away his bow and arrows, brandished his mace and took the lead in rushing towards Zhang Jue.

Zhang Juejun in addition to the armor there are a few officials, these officials are the local squire, where dare to fight, they take the lead to escape, the two armies fight, the most important thing is morale, if no one escapes, some people will come forward even if they are timid, but as long as one person retreats, then everyone else will find an excuse for themselves, only to see Zhang Juejun quickly disintegrated like mountain snow seeing the scorching sun, and before the white-knuckle battle, nearly 100 people fled.

Seeing this, Zhang Jue secretly complained, knowing that he couldn't do anything, and said to the left and right, "Pingzhou can't go, now the plan, when Benyanshan Mansion defects to the Song people, the emperor of the Song State has just made me a festival envoy, I think it will protect me, you wait as you wish, and you will join the Song State with me." ”

After speaking, Zhang Jue turned the horse's head and called his two sons to Yanshan Mansion, most of Zhang Jue's army were from Pingzhou, thinking that their families were still in Pingzhou, many people were reluctant to go to the Song Kingdom, the Jin army had not yet killed, there were three or four hundred people dismounted and surrendered, Wan Yan Yan's mother looked at the road blocked by the surrendered army, and wanted to kill people angrily, but thinking of Yan Yan's mother's words, he still ordered to surrender and return to Pingzhou.

- Pingzhou

Zhang Dungu looked out of the city tower worriedly, he had already learned the news of the Jin army's breakthrough of the defense line from the defeated army in Rabbit Ear Mountain, and he was now worried about Zhang Jue, who was still outside the city.

There was a sound of armor rubbing, Zhang Dungu looked back, saw that it was Zhang Jun, and said, "The general has not returned to the city yet, I'm afraid he has met the Jin army, or let's go out of the city to greet him." ”

Zhang Jun lowered his head and continued to walk towards Zhang Dungu, Zhang Dungu looked at Zhang Jun a little strangely, he didn't know what was wrong with him, but he was still intuitively vigilant.

"Zhang Jun, what's wrong with you?"

"Offended!" Zhang Jun suddenly strode forward, pulled out his war knife with a bang, and laid it across Zhang Dungu's neck.

"Zhang Jun! You're going to rebel? Zhang Dungu looked at Zhang Jun in disbelief, and the guards around Zhang Dungu were also surrounded by the armor soldiers brought by Zhang Jun.

"I am a corner of Pingzhou, how can I compete with the Jin country, now Yelu Yanxi has also been arrested, what is the point of us here, it is better to return to the Jin country, and the brothers in the province have lost their lives in vain." Zhang Jun shouted to the surroundings, "If you don't put down your weapon yet, when will you wait?" ”

At this time, a puff of smoke and dust appeared outside the city, and a person next to Zhang Jun said to Zhang Jun, "General Zhang, this must be our army has arrived, and the city gate should be opened." ”

Zhang Dungu looked at the man, found that it was familiar, thought about it and scolded, "Dog thief!" Your Liu family is just treasonous, why do you want to harm my Zhang family! Zhang Jun, don't be bewitched by him, if the city of Pingzhou falls, we will be fish on the board and let others slaughter it. ”

Zhang Jun's eyelids twitched, and he said to the left and right, "Plug his mouth for me, and follow me down to open the city gate!" ”

The rebellion at the head of the city soon spread to the city, Wei Fu, Zhao Minyan and others heard that the city gate had been broken, lamented, and fled out of the city with their soft family members without a trace, and Pingzhou has since returned to the Jin Kingdom.

Wanyan Zongwang carefully flipped through the account books and picture books of Pingzhou, these are the foundation of ruling Pingzhou, only with these can we know whose hands the fields and mountains and forests of Pingzhou are, and whether it is conscription or tax collection in the future, it will be based on this.

Zhang Jun pressed Zhang Dungu and followed behind Wanyan Yan's mother, Wanyan Zongwang glanced at it, kept flipping through it in his hand, and said, "Uncle fought beautifully in this battle, but unfortunately he still left Zhang Jue." ”

Wanyan Yan's mother clapped her hands, and a few boxes were carried up, Wanyan Yan's mother said to Wanyan Zongwang, "These are all evidence of Zhang Jue's correspondence with the Song State, this Song Emperor is so shameless, on the one hand, he is friendly with me, and on the other hand, he surrenders Zhang Jue, and also seals him to do what he does!" ”

Wanyan Zongwang's political sensitivity is not low, he put down the account book, walked down and looked at it, and found that it was really the case, and said angrily, "I heard that a few days ago, the Song State came to ask for Shuozhou and other places, and my emperor sold Shuozhou to him for the sake of the overall situation, but I didn't expect that this Song State not only did not cherish our sincerity, but did such a bad thing, it is really not a good person!" ”

After speaking, Wanyan Zongwang looked at Zhang Jun and said, "You are Zhang Jun?" ”

Zhang Jun knelt on the ground and arched his hand, "The sin general has seen the second prince!" ”

Wanyan Zongwang nodded and said, "Okay, you have made a great contribution, I naturally will not be stingy with rewards." ”

Zhang Jun bowed again, "The sin will not dare to ask for a reward, only for the reunion of mother and son." ”

Wan Yan Zongwang looked at Wan Yan Yan's mother and asked, "Uncle, what about Zhang Jun's mother?" ”

Wanyan Yan's mother looked at Zhang Jun with a malicious face, and said gloomily, "Oh, do you mean that old cabbage?" After the last time Rabbit Ear Mountain, I rewarded the sergeants, I heard that even three people didn't hold on, and they died, that is alive and dead, Zhang Jun, I'm good to you, right? ”

After speaking, Wanyan Yan's mother laughed, and the surrounding Jin army soldiers also laughed.

Zhang Jun's whole person was stunned, the corners of his mouth twitched, and his hand reached out to Wan Yan's mother, with a smile, but the sound in his throat was like an ice cube, "General... You... You're kidding, right? ”

"Jokes? Zhang Jun, you caused me to lose my soldiers and generals, and it is already a great gift to leave you with a life now, what's the matter? Don't you hurry up and thank you! Wan Yan Yan's mother touched the scimitar with her hand and shouted.

"Finished old thief! You give me your life! Zhang Jun burst into a violent rage, and before he could take a step, he was pushed to the ground by the sergeant who had already been on guard on the side, and several spears pressed him to the ground.

"Uncle, why are you doing this?" Wanyan Zongwang sighed and said.

Zhang Dungu looked up at the roof, burst into tears, and said with a smile, "Zhang Jun, Zhang Jun, are you a son of man?" ”

Zhang Jun was ashamed and angry, screamed, slammed into the ground, a stream of blood jumped out, and the first general of Pingzhou died in the hall.

Wanyan Yan's mother snorted: "It's cheap, this little thief!" ”

Wanyan Zongwang looked at Zhang Dungu and said, "Are you Zhang Dungu?" I heard that the daily military affairs in Pingzhou City are handled by you, are you willing to surrender me? ”

Zhang Dungu puffed out his chest and said, "Since ancient times, there have been loyal and righteous people to accompany the burial of the dead country, and today it is my turn, if you want to kill, you will kill, why bother to say more?" ”

Wanyan Zongwang sighed, "You are a Han Chinese, the Liao lord is a Khitan, what is the difference between the Khitan people ruling you and our Jurchens ruling you?" Why do you do that? ”

Zhang Dungu smiled and said, "The name of the Liao State is Khitan, but it is actually the Han State, the Liao Lord reads Confucius and Mencius, praises the scriptures, opens the imperial examination, and is polite and courteous, which is not different from China, you Jurchen is just a wild man in the mountains, forests, how can it be compared?" ”

After speaking, Zhang Dungu turned around and said to the left and right, "Where is the place to kill the head?" Take me there. As he spoke, he walked out by himself.

The left and right sergeants looked at it and were at a loss, until Wanyan Zongwang waved his hand, and then followed Zhang Dungu and walked towards the execution ground.

"Mr. Liu, since the founding of our Jin country, we have treated the people leniently, why don't the Han people treat me much?" Wanyan Zongwang asked Liu Yanzong on the side.

Liu Yanzong arched his hand and said, "Back to the second prince, if you want to accept the heart of the Han people, Yi Ye, you only need to open the imperial examination and pay taxes lightly." ”

Wanyan Zongwang thought for a while and nodded and said, "Yanyun is the anointed land of the country, most of them are Han people, if you can't win the hearts of the Han people, the country will be difficult to stabilize, and please send a letter to Your Majesty to explain this matter." ”

Not to mention how to stabilize the hearts of the army and the people after Pingzhou was taken by the Jin State, just look at that Zhang Jue, and fled all the way to Guo Yaoshi's army with several horses, Guo Yaoshi saw the embarrassed Zhang Jue, learned that Pingzhou was trapped, was surprised, and hurriedly reported to Wang Anzhong, Wang Anzhong anxiously rushed to Guo Yaoshi's army, saw that Zhang Jue was really there, and said to Guo Yaoshi, "Now that Pingzhou has been lost, most of the Jin people know the connection between us and Pingzhou, and ask us for Zhang Jue in the future, what should I do?" ”

Guo Yaoshi had a temper attack and said, "How can Jin Guo prove that Zhang Jue is in our army, as long as Zhang Jue is not called Zhang Jue in the future." ”

Wang An was uneasy in the center, but he could only hope for this, and he secretly hated Guo Yaoshi, and after returning to Yanshan Mansion, he wrote a letter and ordered someone to send it to Kaifeng quickly.

- Kaifeng

Tong Guan looked at the letter and said to the knight below, "I have received the letter from your lord, you can go down and receive the reward." ”

When the man went down, Tong Guan called a person, this person was dressed in a strong suit, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, less than thirty years old, and his short beard was not messy, and it could be seen that this person often took care of it.

"Zichong, come and read this letter." Tong Guan handed the letter to the man and said.

This person's name is Ma Kuo, is the son of Ma Zheng, Zhenghe eight years in the martial arts, after accompanying his father to run between the Three Kingdoms, Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing resigned after the battle of Yanyun and went home, Ma Kuo was left by Tong Guan by his side, often asked, and appreciated.

After Ma Kuo saw it, he said to Tong Guan, "Taishi, but you are worried about the Chang Shengjun?" ”

Tong Guan nodded and said, "The matter of Pingzhou is a foregone conclusion, in the future, there will be dirt between the Song and Jin countries, this Guo Yaoshi is a Liao general, and he has no choice but to surrender to me, there are many lawlessness in Yanshan on weekdays, and tens of thousands of horses under his account are people who can fight well, I am so worried, I want to cut it off slowly, and I am afraid of accidents." ”

Ma Kuo thought for a while and said, "What the Taishi said is extremely true, but the Jin people dare not be presumptuous and have some jealousy, so that there is this army, if it is urgent, then there will be trouble, and it should be appeased first and then done." ”

Tong Guan asked, "Will Ji be released?" ”

Ma Kuo replied, "Now there are 30,000 people in the Changsheng army, most of them are knights, if the Taishi can select 100,000 elite knights in Shaanxi, Hebei and Hedong, and divide them into three teams, with the wisdom and courage of the generals, one team is stationed in Yanshan, and the Changsheng army is opposite, one team is stationed in Zhongshan, and one team is stationed in Hejian Fu or Xiongzhong, staggered restrictions, then Guo Yaoshi has to rely on before, and there are restrictions on retreat, which can be used. ”

Tong Guan praised, "This plan is very good, but 100,000 knights are rare...."

After Zhao Ji learned of the fall of Pingzhou, he was shocked and frightened, worried that the Jin State would attack, so he re-activated Tong Guan's Privy Council, and proclaimed Hebei and Yanshan, hoping that the existence of Tong Guan, a victorious general, could resist the threat of the Jin State.

And Tan Zhi, who originally replaced Tong Guan, was not completely abolished, but was in charge of military affairs in the northwest, and at the same time was responsible for the handover of Shuozhou and other places, it can be said that Zhao Ji's balance technique is becoming more and more skilled.

After Tong Guan got the order, he began to inspect the border defense from Taiyuan, and played Zhao Ji, and set up four governors in Hebei, Zhongshan was Xin Xingzong, Zhending was Wang Yuan, and Yang Weizhong was in the river, and the name was Wang Yu.

- Huanglong Mansion

At this time, Huanglong Mansion was busy, with countless vehicles coming in and out, and they were busy with one thing, that is, moving the capital.

Huanglongfu is located in the territory of Changchun in the later generations, which was originally a small city, and it was too crowded for the Jin State, which had basically inherited the territory of the Liao State at this time, so Wanyan Wu Qimai decided to move the capital to Huining Mansion, which was the Shangjing of the Liao State in the past.

Different from the Huanglong Mansion with a circumference of less than seven miles, Shangjing City is a real big city, with a circumference of nearly eighteen miles, the city wall is four or five zhang high, and the imperial palace of the Liao State in the past is available.

Moreover, if the capital is moved to Shangjing, the military and civilians around Shangjing will inevitably directly accept the leadership of Wu Qimai, which is also very important for Wu Qimai, who is secretly seizing power.

According to Wu Qimai's plan, he will officially leave next month, and many of the ministers and sergeants who are going to leave with him have already sent domestic slaves to Shangjing to prepare.

In the palace, Wu Qimai was checking the homework of the princes.

After laying down the country, the magnates of the Jin Kingdom quickly understood what it was called easy to fight the world, and it was difficult to sit in the world, and when fighting a war, no problem could stop a mace, and if it was blocked, add another one, but sitting in the world had to face money and food, and this thing could not be solved by a mace.

Therefore, from the beginning of Aguta, the children of the clan were required to worship Confucianism as teachers, and they were not allowed to abandon the study of literature and martial arts.

Wu Qimai sighed, threw the scroll in his hand aside, and shook his head, very dissatisfied with these answers.

"Your Majesty, there is a report on the battle of Nanjing." An attendant whispered to Wu Qimai, who raised his head and said, "Take it in." ”

Wu Qimai opened the battle report and read it, not only did he not like it, but he became worried.

The pacification of Nanjing was already guessed by Wu Qimai in his heart, but the role played by Song Guo in it was also guessed by him, but what he didn't expect was that Song Guo was so incompetent, so many letters were seized by Wanyan Zongwang, not that he was afraid of Song Guo, but in Wu Qimai's heart, he actually looked down on Song Guo, and felt that Song Guo could not fight, so he would use conspiracy and tricks, he was worried that if Song Jin went to war, then the authority of the front-line generals would inevitably be further strengthened, he was not a bone fight, and he couldn't suppress these arrogant generals at all, After becoming the emperor, he also read a lot of history books, and he understood what it meant to be a strong soldier and a strong horse.

The true meaning of politics is to weigh and compromise, and Wu Qimai secretly pondered how to get the most out of this incident.

At the court meeting the next day, when Wu Qimai finished Yan Zongwang's letter to everyone, sure enough, everyone exploded on the spot.

The first to break out was Wanyan Zonghan, who said to everyone, "The Song people are cunning and untrustworthy, and have deceived our country many times, do we still have to talk to them about faith?" ”

Wu Qimai asked Wanyan Zongbi, "Wushu, you went to the Song Kingdom, what is the strength of the Song Kingdom?" ”

This is the first time that Yan Zongbi has expressed his opinion on such an important issue, and he said with some excitement: "Back to Your Majesty, the Song Kingdom has a large population and tall city walls, but the monarch is faint and treacherous, like a pack of wolves led by a sheep, not to mention that they are not called wolves, the only thing to fear is that the Song State is very well armed. ”

One person came out and said, "Your Majesty, the Song people are good at defending the city with a strong city and a hard crossbow to fight, if you can't understand its geographical advantages and military conditions, you are afraid of war and disadvantage." ”

Wanyan Zonghan looked at the man, and saw that it was Han Qixian, who was about to get angry, he couldn't help but lose his anger and asked, "According to your words, what should I do?" ”

This Han Qixian is now a privy envoy, faintly the head of Hanchen, and he is also close to Wanyan Zonghan on weekdays, so Wanyan Zonghan is also polite to him.

Han Qi first said, "There is a matter of importance, now our country's first thing is to move the capital, and although the Song State has no letter in the first, but the two countries can not fight lightly, not to mention that the Song State promised to give our country money and food has not yet all arrived, when the first send a messenger to ask for Zhang Jue and other rebellions, and then select elite soldiers to prepare for the war in Beijing, and then send a fine work to the Song State to explore the mountains and rivers of the virtual reality, and when our country moves the capital to completion, the money and food gather, and the armament is complete, if the Song State does not repent, when the army is attacked.

In this way, our country's dispatch of troops is justified in name, and it is safe to be prepared for an attack. ”

Wu Qimai nodded with a smile, Han Qixian's words were actually taught by him, don't look at Han Qixian and Wanyan Zonghan are close, but Han Qixian knows the way to be a minister, and he is also very obedient to Wu Qimai.

Wu Qimai's purpose is to allow himself to have an obedient army in his hands, and he has already thought about letting his eldest son Wanyan Zongpan command this army and win the right to speak in the army for his own lineage.

When everyone heard Han Qixian's words, they all felt polite, so they suppressed their anger and sent a messenger to Yanshan Mansion to ask for Zhang Jue.

- Yanshan Mansion

"Woe to you! Woe to you! ”

Wang Anzhong came to Guo Yaoshi's house in a panic, found Guo Yaoshi and said, "The Jin people have sent a messenger to ask for Zhang Jue, and said that if you don't give it, you will have to bring someone to find it, I have already said it!" This feeling can't be kept! ”

Pharmacist Guo pressed Wang Anzhong and comforted, "Don't worry, don't worry, didn't you and I discuss it before?" If the Jin man asks for it, he will give him a head, I have found a similar person in the past few days, as long as I kill and send it, it will be fine. What's more, the Jin people came to ask for General Zhang, but what evidence is there to prove that General Zhang is in my Yanshan? ”

Wang Anzhong shook his head and said, "That's not true, but Zhang Jue fled south from Pingzhou, where else can I go except for my Song Kingdom?" ”

Guo Yaoshi smiled and said, "In this case, then why panic, now Zhang Jue is disguised as a pseudonym in our army, unless it is a close person, it will be difficult to recognize, since the Jin people have no evidence, they can delay a moment or two, just say that we don't know about Pingzhou, Zhang Jue did not flee to our country, my country will look for it first, if it is found, it must be returned, so first look at the arrogance of the Jin people." ”

Wang Anzhong was angry and afraid, feeling that Yanshan Mansion was simply like a volcano, and he couldn't sit down at all, this Guo Yaoshi was a fool and never listened to his own opinions, if the Jin people really went south, no matter whether they won or lost, they would not be able to escape the involvement, rather than this, it was better to leave as soon as possible.

Wang Anzhong, who already had the intention of escaping, used his connections to hope to transfer out of Yanshan Mansion, and at the same time replied to Jin Guo, saying that Zhang Jue would be searched, and if he was found, he would return it.

At this time, the Jin State was moving the capital, and in fact, there was no time to deal with Zhang Jue's matter, but the Song State was so perfunctory and deceived that the arrogant soldiers up and down the Jin State were angry to death.

- Datong Mansion

At this time, Datong Mansion was the Xijing of the Jin Kingdom, and it was the place in charge of Wanyan Zonghan.

If it is said that in the DPRK and China, Han Qi was the first person in Hanchen, then in Datong Mansion, Gao Qingyi was the first person in Bohai.

Gao Qingyi was originally a Liao minister, after the gold was reduced, he made a general matter under the account of Wanyan Zonghan, and made suggestions many times, and was regarded as a think tank confidant by Wanyan Zonghan.

But when Yan Zonghan returned to Xijing, he was still the one standing below and waiting for the call.

"Song Guo has no faith and no righteousness! Why is the money and food not in place? "When Yan Zonghan came to Xijing this time for money and grain, Zhao Ji did not pay all the money and grain he promised to give when he ransomed Shuozhou, but first put part of it in place and then gave the rest after accepting Shuozhou.

Now that Shuozhou has been delivered to the Song State, the Song minister Tan Zhi, who is in charge of this matter, began to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and under the pretext that Western Xia was preparing for war, he suppressed the money and grain that should have been given to the Jin State.

In fact, Tan Zhi also had bitterness and couldn't say it, because the things that Xixia was preparing for war were not fake. Shuozhou and Linzhou are adjacent to each other, if the Song State gets Shuozhou, then the encirclement of Western Xia will be even tighter, and Western Xia has gathered tens of thousands of troops outside Linzhou at this time, looking like they are going to attack at any time.

In fact, Xixia is also helpless, Xixia is the weakest of the three kingdoms of Song Liaoxia, located in the northwest, no money and no food, if it weren't for the smuggling of green salt, it would have starved to death, in the past, Tong Guan attacked Xia, although the losses were heavy, but it also consumed half of his life in Xixia, Liaojin fought, Xixia helped Liao attack Jin, and was defeated by the Jin State, and now Xixia is almost almost crazy by these two wars, if you look at it from the perspective of later generations, the current Xixia should recuperate, but Xixia has no capital to recuperate, He had to use war to deplete the population in order to ensure that the country would not be torn apart by famine.

The use of war to solve the problem of famine has always been the magic weapon of nomads.

Tan Zhi's worries soon became a reality, tens of thousands of Western Xia troops rushed to Linzhou, Fuzhou, Shuozhou and other places, Tan Zhi hurriedly mobilized Li Siben to meet the battle, the two armies fought for nearly a month, regardless of victory or defeat, or the Western Xia did not want to win at all, they were just looting and depleting the population.

Wanyan Zonghan learned of Wang Anzhong's reply at this time, which made the grumpy Wanyan Zonghan unable to bear it any longer, and did not wait for the news of Huining Mansion, and found out that the Song army's money and grain were hoarded in Daizhou, so he ordered his general Tongxian Wenlang and his eldest son Zhenzhu King Wanyan Shema also raided Ulzhou in the north of Daizhou, and even broke the order Feihu and Lingqiu counties to drive away the guards Su Jing and others, and claimed that if Song Guo did not send the promised money and grain, he would go to Daizhou to get it himself.

Due to the surprise attack of the Jin State and the unwillingness of the Song army to face the battle, the entire battle was over, and the Jin State lost less than 100 people, which made Wanyan Zonghan look down on the Song State even more.

Tan Zhi, who was commanding the battle against Xia in Linzhou, learned that Ulzhou was lost and Daizhou was in danger, so he hurriedly withdrew his troops to various big cities, sat and watched the Western Xia cavalry plunder the countryside, and then sent an envoy to Datong Mansion, hoping that Wanyan Zonghan could give himself some more time and give money and food after the Western Xia army retreated.

After Yan Zonghan heard the envoy say this, he laughed and said, "It's just a Xixia child, why are you afraid?" Wait for me to write a letter, and see if Li Qianshun retreats or not! After speaking, he sent a letter to Western Xia.

In the destruction of the Liao State, in order to save the Liao, the Western Xia was strangled by the Jin State tens of thousands of elites, and was originally afraid of the Jin State's force, and the Jin State waved a big pen and gave a lot of land that originally belonged to the Liao State to the Western Xia, so he was grateful for the kindness of the Jin State, and the Western Xia army was originally sent to plunder, after receiving Yan Zonghan's persuasion letter, he obediently withdrew the army, because of this matter, the Western Army of the Song State was more afraid of the Jin State's combat power, and did not dare to imagine how strong the Jin State was that even the Western Xia was afraid of.

When Zhao Ji learned of this, he was furious, but it took him a lot of effort to recapture this Ulzhou from the mouth of Jin Guo, and he sent it out at this time, and ordered Tan Zhi to be dismissed, and Tong Guan was in charge of the overall affairs of Jin.

Tong Guan, who had just arranged the affairs of the four towns such as the daimyo, could only go to Daizhou non-stop, hoping to persuade Yan Zonghan to withdraw from the army.

- Newport

Unlike the chaotic northwest, the new port in the South Seas is full of life at this time.

Unlike later generations, the Nanyang kingdoms at this time were not the territory of the Heavenly Sect, but the complete Buddha country, just like the northwest at this time.

Tianfangjiao was originally the latest of the three major sects, until the period of Emperor Yang of Sui, Tianfangjiao was officially born, the background of the emergence of Tianfangjiao was that the Arabs were jointly oppressed by the Persian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, in order to unite the Arabs to fight together The sect was born, which is similar to the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the history of the Central Plains.

In order to fight, the Celestial Sect attached great importance to intra-Catholic unity, and soon used its teachings to organize the poor Arabs, and within a decade, the Celestial Sect had unified the Arabian Peninsula with scriptures and scimitars.

As if to fulfill his historical mission, Muhammad died of illness a year after the unification of the peninsula, and the originally united Celestial Sect quickly split because of his death, because Muhammad did not have time to appoint his heir.

Muhammad had no sons of his own, but he had several daughters and, of course, sons-in-law, and after his death, the church was divided into two factions.

One faction believed that Muhammad's son-in-law Ali should be chosen as his successor, so that Ali could give the position of caliph to the grandson of Muhammad, who was also Muhammad's cousin and adopted son, and that he was undoubtedly the most suitable choice from the point of view of blood, and this faction was called a sect.

However, the other faction believed that the caliph should be elected by a public election and recommended that Muhammad's father-in-law, Abu Abu should succeed him, which was fully supported by Muhammad's widow, and this faction was called the Hadith.

These two parties actually represent two forces, Ali represents the Persians and the emigrants, Abu represents the Arabs and the helpers, naturally in the end Abu won the support of more people in the religion, Ali did not want to cause civil strife because of the controversy, so he pinched his nose and admitted, but also supported the army and respected himself, listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement, and lived in simplicity every day to sort out the scriptures.

After all, Abu was old, he died within a few years, and after his death, Umar, who was on the same level as Abu, became a caliph, because Umar was extremely prestigious, Ali did not object, and the second caliph was smooth and excessive, but in order to compensate Ali, Ali was also appointed as one of the members of the next caliphate.

This time, ten years have passed, Umar was assassinated, and Uthman, who was also a son-in-law, was elected as a caliph, because they were all sons-in-law, and the Ali faction did not object, but Uthman's talent was obviously insufficient, first a large number of his cronies were installed in the upper echelons, and then they were questioned about deleting scriptures, this kind of cronyism was aroused in the celestial sect that pays attention to promotion, and in the twelfth year of his reign, he was besieged by rebels and hacked to death at home.

After the death of Uthman, but Ali was elected as the caliphate, at this time there were many factions of the Celestial Sect, fighting with each other, in order to maintain the unity and stability of the Celestial Sect, but also to avoid the influence of the elders, Ali moved the capital to Kufa, which was more economically and culturally developed, and reappointed a group of governors, and cleaned up the high-level who had been installed by the original Ottoman cronyism, and Osman's nephew Mu'awiya began to preach that Ali was the murderer of Ottoman, which led to the rapid intensification of the contradictions between the two factions, and finally met each other. The two sides quickly went to war, Ali was able to fight well, and quickly defeated the rebellious Muawiyah, but Muawiyah skillfully used tricks and asked for a truce based on the words in the scriptures, so that Ali let the tiger return to the mountain, and also made Muawiya see that Ali was too heroic, and when Ali sent troops abroad, Muawiya took the opportunity to send troops to occupy Egypt and Hijaz, which made Ali's rear lose and his strength was greatly reduced.

Ali did not escape the fate of the caliph in the end, and was assassinated on the way back to the mosque, along with Ali's son, that is, the blood of Muhammad was killed, and from then on, the sect and the Hadith became mortal enemies, the sect was later the Shia, and the Hadith was later the Sunni.

After Mu'awiyah defeated Ali, he established the Umayyad Dynasty based on blood, which was called the country of the White Food by the Central Plains, but due to the opposition of the Shiites and other factions, the country was in turmoil for a long time, and many caliphs were assassinated and died, and they were overthrown in less than a hundred years, and the Abbasid Dynasty was established, which is called the Black Clothes and Great Food in the Central Plains, and the main power of the Black Clothes and Great Food came from the Arabs, Persians and Shiites in Iraq.

After the unification of the Arab Empire, these forces also began to fight each other, and the huge Arab Empire was divided into more than a dozen large and small forces.

In the end, the Shiites established the Fatimid dynasty in Tunisia, called themselves the caliphate, and fought against Africa, soon conquered Morocco and other places, and finally conquered Egypt, which was called the green food by the Central Plains Dynasty, the sixth caliph of the Fatimid dynasty, Hakim, abandoned the religious tolerance policy of his predecessor, began to brutally persecute monotheism and hexagram, and even demolished the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The Seljuk Turkmans led their army to capture Baghdad, forced the caliph to confer the title of "sultan", established the Seljuk Empire, and eliminated the Shiite dynasty founded by the Persians, the Bouweishi.

The Turks founded the Ghaznavid dynasty, which occupied most of Iran, Turkmenistan, parts of Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India.

All in all, the entire celestial world was greatly powerful at this time, but it was also divided, and as representatives of the two largest factions, the Shiite Fatimid dynasty in Egypt and the Sunni Seljuk Empire, both regarded each other as the first heretical regime to strike. Syria and Palestine have become a tug-of-war between the two countries. The various Turkic nomadic groups from Asia Minor to the valley of the two rivers were also at odds.

Because the Celestial World monopolizes the entire East-West trade, most of the countries of the Celestial World are rich, for money, for money, for money... Well, also in order to resist the invasion of the Celestial World on the monotheistic world, the monotheistic world united, and after the Pope used the bait of indulgences to drive people of all classes crazy, the First Crusade opened more than 100,000 crusaders in four ways, first defeated the Celestial Army that was constantly attacking Byzantium, and then victoriously occupied the Seljuk Turkic capital Nikaia and other cities, plundered them on a large scale, and slaughtered more than 70,000 people after entering the city in Jerusalem alone, This crusade not only made the Crusaders the savior of the monotheistic world, but also established the four crusader kingdoms of the Principality of Antioch, the Kingdom of Idessa, the Count of Tripoli and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and also made the Celestial World and the Monotheistic World enter a real all-out war, and the Fatimid Dynasty, which was also one of the Celestial Worlds, supported the Seljuk Kingdom with its navy and constantly attacked the coast of the Crusader countries.

It can be said that at the beginning of the twelfth century, the whole world was at war or preparing for war, and the peaceful era of the eleventh century was gone.

Due to the blockade of the Celestial World Navy, the merchants of the Monotheistic world could not reach the East at all, and there were only Eastern Merchants and Celestial World merchants here in Newport.

A flotilla came from the west, and the flag on it represented that it was a Fatimid flotilla.

The fleet consisted of more than a dozen ships, large and small, and in this era, the fleet acting together represented safety, at least in the event of pirates.

"My master, you see, there is Newport in front of it, the place of the Srivijaya people, which has recently been occupied by the Esin people."

On a sea boat, an older Arab said to a young Arab.

Esin is the Arabic word for China.

"My faithful servant, I am not interested in Essien in the East, I am now worried about the war in the Mediterranean, and the fleet of the serpent-like merchants of Venice has reached Acre, and now my father has asked me to come to the East, not because of his fear of this war?"