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A miserable white lightning streaked across the sky, and the scorching night sky emitted a miserable white light, and then, the bean-sized raindrops fell obliquely on the leaves, and under the pouring rain, even the most prosperous Kaifeng City of this era was deserted, and only the guards and patrol sergeants in the streets were still walking, and all the doors and windows were closed, waiting for the rainy night to pass.

"Wow!!"

A scream sounded in the rainy night, even overshadowing the sound of wind and rain, making those who heard it panic.

"Husband, husband! What's wrong with you? ”

Zhao Yupan looked at Zeng Kun rolling on the ground at a loss, Zeng Kun kept clasping his throat, arching his body, and a mouthful of blood gushed out and sprinkled all over the ground.

The servants and maids who rushed to hear the news outside were stunned when they saw this, but the housekeeper was older, and hurriedly asked people to find Lang Zhong, Zhao Yupan also reacted, took out his personal jade pendant, and asked Xi'er to go to the palace to ask the imperial doctor to save his life.

By the time the imperial doctor and Lang Zhong arrived, Zeng Kun's face was already like gold paper, with more qi coming out and less qi entering.

The imperial doctor checked it, and discussed it with Lang Zhong from outside, these two are famous doctors, and they found that it was wrong after just checking it, but this is a colt, who poisoned it....

"What have you eaten these days?" The imperial doctor asked the butler in a low voice.

"Since the adults were injured, they have eaten all the warm things like rice porridge, and there is nothing... By the way, someone came from the palace yesterday..."The housekeeper didn't dare to say it halfway through, how could the pill sent from the palace be said to be a problem, even if there was, this thunder and rain dew was a heavenly grace, this damn or not, it was also a capital crime!

The imperial doctor and the others all understood, looking at Zeng Kun who was unconscious on the bed and Zhao Yupan, who was anxiously wiping Zeng Kun's sweat, they couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

"How many gentlemen, do you have a diagnosis?" Zhao Yupan saw that the imperial doctor and Lang Zhong were no longer talking, so he got up and came to ask.

"This..."Lang Zhong tugged at his beard, what can I say.

"Your Royal Highness, according to the old minister, the horse has already injured his internal organs, and he should have taken some high-grade medicine during this time to protect his heart, but tonight the thunder was great, and the horse was frightened, and the qi of the internal organs was greatly moved, which made the old injury recur, so it was so." The imperial doctor came as soon as he opened his mouth, pushed the matter to two five or six, and said that it was a recurrence of an old injury, but the real thing was that he knew that there were many obscurities in the palace, and it was only right that he did not know what he should do.

"That might be curable?" Zhao Yupan asked.

The imperial doctor nodded and shook his head and said, "This injury is in the viscera, it is difficult to judge, if you can be fine for five days, it can be improved, otherwise it will be difficult to speak." After speaking, the imperial doctor looked at Zeng Kun, clenched his fist and wanted to say something, but finally gave up and let go of his fist.

The royal affair is better than a few participations.

Zeng Kun looked at the appearance of the imperial doctor who wanted to speak and stopped, and his heart was cold, he was an extremely intelligent person, and he guessed three points in an instant.

"Temple... Your Highness! Zeng Kun's weak voice came, everyone looked over, and saw that Zeng Kun had woken up, Zhao Yupan was overjoyed, stepped forward quickly, sat on the edge of the bed and asked, "Husband, are you feeling better?" ”

The imperial doctor and Lang Zhong glanced at each other and shook their heads, how could they not know that this was just a reflection of Zeng Kun's return, maybe half a pillar of incense, maybe an hour, maybe tomorrow, there will be something unbearable.

"Your Highness, don't cry, I know my body, please rest assured, it's just a recurrence of an old injury, look at Your Highness's face, I'm afraid I can't sleep all night, go and rest." Zeng Kun said with a smile and comfort.

Zhao Yupan was frightened all night, this will indeed be tired and sleepy, was said by Zeng Kun, and was persuaded by others, so he agreed to rest, sent someone to send away the imperial doctor and Lang Zhong lay down in the room next to Zeng Kun, so that he could serve at any time.

Zeng Kun couldn't sleep, he could feel that his vitality was constantly disappearing, he recruited his cronies to go out to inquire about the news of the court, so as to know what happened, so that the official family actually wanted to give him poison.

After all, the Zeng family is the orthodox descendant of Confucianism, relatives and friends are all over the court, and soon the events that happened in the court were passed on. ”

The housekeeper is old in the accident, and now he understands that this is Zhao Ji's hope that Zeng Kun will die early, so as to send Zhao Yupan to Jin Guohe and his relatives, so he said, "Master, it is better to leave Kaifeng and return to Luling for refuge." ”

Zeng's family came from Shandong Ludi, but at the time of Wang Mang, in order to avoid military disasters, the people moved to Luling, and multiplied to this day, although there is a continuous outflow of branches, but Luling is still the ancestral land of the Zeng family, there are thousands of people living there, in this era when the legal system is not sound and the clan is extremely important, it can be said that as long as you return to Luling, unless Zhao Ji dares to destroy the Zeng family, otherwise Zhao Ji will not be able to harm Zeng Kun.

Zeng Kun shook his head and said, "I have already taken the pill, I'm afraid I can't support Luling, if I die, I will die, if I fall into the wilderness, I will not be safe under the nine springs." ”

After that, Zeng Kun looked at the sky outside, and saw that the sky was white, so he said, "Quickly bring pen and ink, I want to repair two letters." ”

The housekeeper wiped his tears while taking the four treasures of the study, looked at Zeng Kun, whose hands were trembling, and couldn't help but secretly curse Zhao Ji's ruthlessness.

The sky is getting brighter, the rain has stopped, and although the sun has not yet risen, it is still a safe walk on the road.

Yue He commanded the various running halls to sort out their clothes and prepare for the new day's business, Yue Fei had been safely sent outside Kaifeng City, and he also put his mind at ease and refocused on business.

"Shopkeeper Yue! Yue shopkeeper! ”

Yue He looked back, doing business in Kaifeng, this is the most important thing to recognize people, not only to know the various dignitaries, the emperor's relatives, but also to know the personal servants around them, the housekeepers and guards, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes.

Therefore, as soon as Yue He saw this person, he arched his hand and said, "It turned out to be Steward Zeng, but you came for morning tea, you came here really early, I don't know how the horse is doing?" ”

Butler Zeng thought of his master's tragic situation, his nose was sour, but he couldn't help but say, "Thank you for the shopkeeper's concern, my master can't get out of bed yet, that golden slave is really cruel and hateful... I'm not here today for morning tea, but to deliver a letter, I don't know if there is a Mr. Xu Guanzhong here? ”

Yue He also heard about Xu Guanzhong and Zhao Yupan, but the strange thing was that if it was Zhao Yupan's letter, it shouldn't have been sent by Steward Zeng, so he only said, "But there is this person, I don't know where the letter is?" Do you want to pass it on in person? ”

Steward Zeng nodded and said, "It must be passed on in person." ”

Yue He snorted, let people look down, and took Steward Zeng to the guest room to find Xu Guanzhong.

Xu Guanzhong had just washed up at this time, and when he saw Yue He coming in with someone, he couldn't help asking, "Boss Yue, who is this?" ”

"In the housekeeper of Xia Zeng Mansion, this is a letter written by my lord, please take a look at Mr. Xu." Steward Zeng took out the letter from his arms and handed it to Xu Guanzhong.

Xu Guanzhong opened it and swept it, and was immediately shocked, and said hurriedly, "How is your master now?" Let's be honest! ”

When Steward Zeng heard this, he understood that Zeng Kun had told Xu Guan of his loyalty in the letter, so he couldn't bear it anymore, his eyes were full of tears, and he covered his eyes and said, "My master vomited blood three times last night, and he vomited blood again today, and I am afraid that his life will not be long in coming!" ”

"Where's your Highness?" Xu Guanzhong had mixed feelings in his heart, and then asked.

"My Royal Highness is fine, but he was frightened, and when I went out, I was still resting."

Xu Guanzhong thought for a while, and said to Yue He, "Shopkeeper Yue, please prepare morning tea and dinner for Steward Zeng to enjoy, the stakes are very high, I will go to Xiaolangjun to discuss this matter, Steward Zeng, please wait a while, I will go back when I go." ”

Butler Zeng was embarrassed and said, "My master is still on the sickbed... This..."

"It's just a moment, please wait." Xu Guanzhong respected the loyalty of this housekeeper, and after bowing deeply, he went to find Jiang De.

Jiang De was boxing in the courtyard at this time, and when he saw Xu Guanzhong coming in a hurry, he collected his fist, took the towel handed by the guard on the side, wiped it, and asked, "Mr. Xu, why is he in a hurry early in the morning?" ”

Xu Guanzhong handed over the letter and said, "Lord, please take a look." ”

Jiang De opened the letter and looked at it, and exclaimed, "Poison? This official is so ruthless? ”

Jiang De thought about Zhao Kuangyi, the ancestor of Zhao Ji, and felt that the means of poisoning at this critical moment were not strange, when the emperor was given the nickname of a poison king, the Zhao family would have it.

"The epistle says... I hope Mr. Xu, you can treat the princess well in the future, it seems that your life is like a candle and she is in danger. Jiang De put down the letter and asked, "Mr. Xu, what do you think?" ”

Xu Guanzhong took a breath, what can he think, you have to say joy, there is, after all, he is also a man, where can he have a good impression of his rival?

But if it's all joy, it's not, Xu Guanzhong still has some worries at this time, what are you worried about? Worried about whether Zhao Yupan would be grief-stricken because of Zeng Kun's death, and worried that Zhao Yupan would really be sacrificed to Jin Guo by Zhao Ji.

Xu Guanzhong arched his hand and said, "Zhao Ji did this, what he did must be Yan Yun, if Song Jinmeng is really good, wouldn't it be a bad thing for the lord, so please ask the lord to take action and rescue His Highness." ”

Jiang De looked at Xu Guanzhong playfully, Xu Guanzhong blushed a little when he was seen, but he still insisted on arching his hands, waiting for Jiang De's answer.

"I, Emperor Ji of Huaxia, how can I be worthy of the King of the Wilderness? Mr. Xu, don't worry, you can arrange this matter, and I will let Brother Xiaoyi, Li Zhong and others cooperate.

Although this Zeng Kun was poisoned, but not dead, maybe there are medicine stones to save, I know a person, is the holy hand of Xinglin, is a person from Jiangnan, named An Daoquan, at this time in Tianfu, I asked people to hurry up and invite, five days to arrive. Jiang De thought for a while and said, "It's just that I don't know if this Zeng Kun can hold up for these five days." ”

Xu Guanzhong thought that Zeng Kun would not die, and Zhao Yupan would not be sent to the Jin Kingdom, but he also thought that Zeng Kun would not die, and he and Zhao Yupan were destined to be inseparable, and his heart couldn't help but be a little complicated, and he said, "There are many good doctors in Kaifeng City, and five days should be safe." If the Jin country can't get peace, it will inevitably go south soon, and we can also profit from it. ”

Jiang De saw that Xu Guanzhong agreed, so he recruited Li Zhong and asked him to send people south to invite An Daoquan, and Xu Guanzhong found Steward Zeng and asked to go with him to see Zeng Kun, and Steward Zeng naturally did not allow it.

- Zeng Fu

Xu Guanzhong disguised himself as a servant, lowered his head, and followed Steward Zeng into Zeng Kun's room, and saw Zeng Kun lying on the bed, only to see that Zeng Kun was bloodless at this time, his eyes were bulging, and the sheets had been torn apart, which showed the pain Zeng Kun had experienced.

"Brother Zeng..."Xu Guanzhong called softly.

Zeng Kun slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw that it was Xu Guanzhong, he couldn't help but struggle to remember, but he was held down by Xu Guanzhong, Zeng Kun sighed and lay down.

"I didn't expect you to come." Zeng Kun said with his eyes closed.

"I have already failed His Highness once, if I don't save my great-brother when he sees death, won't I fail him a second time? My family Langjun has already sent someone south to ask the divine doctor An Daoquan, if he comes, maybe Brother Zeng can be fine, and I also ask Brother Zeng to cheer up and wait for five days. ”

Zeng Kun smiled bitterly and said, "The king wants the minister to die, and the minister's not dying is disloyal, even if I don't die this time, how many days can I live?" I will die without hindrance, but Your Highness is innocent, the north is cold, the Hu people are arrogant, and Your Highness is only suffering when she goes down, so I hope that Brother Xu can leave here with Your Highness. ”

"Brother Zeng, why are you doing this?" Xu Guanzhong said with some unbearability.

"Since Brother Xu is here, it's also the best, I will let His Highness take the potion later, Brother Xu can take it away, and it will be convenient for the foolish brother to deceive the people of the world." Zeng Kun said, suddenly coughed violently, and a mouthful of blood sprayed on his hand, which was terrifying to watch.

"Brother Xu, look, how can I still live?"

Xu Guanzhong couldn't help but feel scared of Zhao Ji's ruthlessness in his heart, this is his son-in-law, he can treat him like this, how can such a person treat the people sincerely.

Xu Guanzhong was arranged by Zeng Kun to a side room, and about an hour later, Steward Zeng led him to a carriage.

Xu Guanzhong lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw Zhao Yupan sleeping inside.

"Mr. Xu, please treat Your Highness well, Your Highness is a good person." Steward Zeng wiped his tears and prayed to Xu Guanzhong.

"Your Highness is gone, what will Brother Zeng do?" Xu Guanzhong asked.

"My lord has ordered the old slave to collect the butter candles, saying that they will light some and be at ease." Butler Zeng replied to the question.

Xu Guanzhong immediately understood Zeng Kun's plan, bowed in the direction of Zeng Kun, stopped speaking, and left Zeng's mansion with Zhao Yupan.

- Qiong Lou

Zhao Yupan rubbed his head, feeling a little dizzy, looking at the top of the bed, but found that it was not a style he was familiar with, he couldn't help but feel nervous, hurriedly sat up, pulled open the mosquito net, and saw Xu Guanzhong sitting on the side.

"Xu Lang? How did you end up here? Where am I? Zhao Yupan said with some panic, his hand unconsciously touched his clothes, and he breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that there was nothing unusual.

Xu Guanzhong didn't know where to start, he took out a letter and handed it to Zhao Yupan and said, "This is what Brother Zeng asked me to pass on to you... Please also slow down. ”

Zhao Yupan took the letter, opened it and looked at it, the beginning was okay, all of them were Zeng Kun's memories of the time with Zhao Yupan, and Zhao Yupan smiled on his face, but then Zeng Kun said that the golden vulture was in the court, and the letter wrote, "Zi said, the king makes the ministers courteous, then the ministers are loyal, and the ancestors of the micro ministers are valued by the first emperor, one door and four phases, give marriage and reward, grace such as reconstruction, in the past, my ancestors once said, the land of Yanyun, the relationship between the Han and the land for all generations, if it can be restored, nothing can be done, although the minister is dull, but also knows that state affairs are important."

Today's Beidi is fierce, strong and pro, if otherwise to leave the truth, if you can trap His Royal Highness in fire and water, since ancient times loyalty and righteousness are difficult to achieve, today only Weichen thought about it again and again, got a Li Dai Tao stiff plan, when His Royal Highness got the letter, Weichen has been trapped in Zhurong, Weichen did not dare to ask His Highness to forgive Weichen for the crime of bullying, only ask His Highness to be outside, wait for him to be recovered, and ask His Highness to burn paper to tell, Weichen goodbye.

In addition, Brother Xu is a handsome man in the world, and he can be entrusted for life, please think carefully about His Highness. ”

The letter in Zhao Yupan's hand slowly fell, Xu Guanzhong looked at Zhao Yupan's face full of tears, took out a handkerchief, and wiped it gently.

Zhao Yupan grabbed Xu Guanzhong and said anxiously, "Quick!" Stop Zeng Lang! Stop Zeng Lang!! ”

Saying that, Zhao Yupan stumbled out of bed, and before he had time to put on his shoes, he opened the window and looked in the direction of Zengfu.

Xu Guanzhong hurriedly stepped forward to support him, Zhao Yupan shook his head, and shouted in his mouth, "Why... Why the hell is that..."

Xu Guanzhong helped him to his position, looked at the firelight and said, "Brother Zeng has been poisoned in his body, and sooner or later he will die, if he dies, His Royal Highness will definitely be sent to the Jin Kingdom and relatives, Brother Zeng can't bear this, so he does the thing of the Zhao orphan." ”

Zhao Yupan suddenly looked around, and when he saw that his personal maid Xi'er was gone, he screamed miserably and fainted.

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Zhu Rong descended into the world, the golden crow fell into the world, the huge Zeng Mansion was suddenly shrouded by red flames, and thanks to the servants and maids who were called to the front of the hospital at this time, this was less human life damage, seeing the fire, everyone hurriedly fetched water to put out the fire, but only to see that the fire was raging, people could not approach, more than 40 houses in the seven courtyards of Zengfu were soon all shrouded in this fire, and the Kaifeng sky at dusk was reflected bright red by this fire.

Yin Yanying, the governor of Kaifeng Prefecture, looked at the fire anxiously, and several teams of officials were fighting the fire alternately back and forth, but where was this sky-high fire so easy to extinguish.

This fire not only burned on Zeng's mansion, but also burned on his Yan Ying's head.

As the saying goes, if you were not good in the previous life, you will know the county in this life; In the previous life, he did evil, and the county was attached; The evil is full of evil, and he is even worse than the provincial city of Fukuo, he is the capital of Fukuo.

Kaifeng Mansion Yin is not a good position to sit in, you know, Zhao Kuangyi was in this position in the past, so he got the support of a large number of officials, and finally succeeded in ascending to the throne, since Zhao Kuangyi, Kaifeng Mansion Yin is often appointed to the royal family, but his authority has been greatly reduced, but it is still a position that can be compared with a product of the Lord.

In the Kaifeng Mansion Yin in the past dynasties, there were many famous ministers, whether it was a generation of famous ministers Kou Zhun or Ouyang Xiu who had unparalleled writing or Bao Zheng who judged the sun and the night to judge the yin, they were all the mountains that were difficult for the follow-up Kaifeng Mansion Yin to climb and look up, therefore, I don't know how many people stared at the position of Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and everyone who sat on it, as long as something went wrong, the countless recitals would be thrown into the Great Inner Palace until the emperor was submerged.

The most important thing is that there was an unspoken rule in the Song Dynasty, all the princes who sat in Kaifeng Mansion Yin were basically the ironclad heirs to the throne, such as Zhao Kuangyi of Song Taizong, Zhao Yuankan of Song Zhenzong, and later Song Qinzong, so all the princes who wanted to ascend the throne were also staring at this position.

Now that Zeng's mansion is burned, looking at the fire and the escaped servants, the concubine and the emperor can't be saved, even in normal times, he, the Kaifeng Mansion Yin, is also to blame, not to mention the moment when the envoy of the Jin State came.

Yan Ying is not a righteous person, the reason why he can be the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion is mainly because the horses are good, and the famous Zhaoqing in later generations is what he proposed to Zhao Ji, the reason is that Zhaoqing was originally called Duanzhou, and was regarded by Zhao Ji as his own auspicious land, Zhenghe was promoted to Xingqing Mansion in three years, and Yan Ying was transferred to Guangdong in the seventh year of Zhenghe. He didn't believe that no one in the Manchu Dynasty knew that the capital of Western Xia was also called Xingqing Mansion in the past, and he only felt that only Yan Ying was loyal and honest, so he was promoted to Longtu Pavilion, and later appointed as the Yin of Kaifeng Mansion.

No matter how big the fire is, when it has nothing to burn, it is time to extinguish, when Yan Ying saw the two charred corpses that were moved out, she only felt that the world was spinning, and she was at a loss, so it took a while to clean up her mood and go to Ouchi to report her funeral.

Zhao Jitie blushed, looked at Yan Ying who was bent over and trembling, and took a long breath, he looked at Yan Ying's blackened official uniform and face that had not been wiped clean, although he knew that this was probably Yan Ying's trick, but he was also a little unbearable, after all, who could blame this fire.

"That's it, you go down, so that you can collect the corpses of the colt and the emperor..."

Before Zhao Ji finished speaking, an attendant hurriedly ran in, and Liang Shicheng shouted, "Bold!" What's the alarm, the conflict with the saint, how many heads do you have? ”

The waiter fell to the ground, trembling and not daring to speak, Zhao Ji waved his hand and said, "If you are so flustered, there must be something important, let's say it." ”

The chamberlain got up and replied, "Qi Qi Guan's family, the envoy of the Jin State made a big fuss about Zeng Juma's mansion, saying... said that Emperor Jiade was fake, and he was leading a group of people to make trouble outside the palace at this time! ”

Zhao Ji held his forehead, only felt that his muscles were bursting, Zeng Kun's whole family was burned, but most of the servants were unharmed, this was obviously suicide, Zhao Ji himself knew that this was Zeng Kun's protest to himself that he wanted to wait for him to send Zhao Yupan to his relatives, he actually regretted it in his heart, although again, he would still choose to sacrifice Zhao Yupan, but the method would definitely be softer.

Invisibly, Zhao Ji has already blamed the deaths of Zeng Kun and Zhao Yupan on Liang Shicheng's head, of course, Liang Shicheng, who was standing on the side, didn't know that it was.

Yan Ying looked at Zhao Ji, who was having a headache, thought about it, and arched her hand and said, "Official, the fourth prince of Jin is making a gesture, Jin Guo is greedy, it must be an excuse to ask for more money, and Weichen is willing to go and meet with the fourth prince for a while." ”

Zhao Ji thought for a while, nodded and said, "If you can get back to Yunzhou and other places, Jin Guo can ask for millions of money, and you can also agree." ”

This tone made Liang Shicheng behind him think of Song Zhenzong in the past, and he seemed to say the same thing to Cao Yu back then.

Yan Ying immediately responded, turned around, his mouth was about to crack his ears, he believed that as long as he could persuade Jin Wushu not to make trouble, as long as he had money, he didn't want to kiss, and gave Zhao Ji a face, not only did he have no fault in this matter, but he had merit, maybe his position could be moved.

Kaifeng Mansion Yin sounds majestic, but if Yan Ying chooses it, it is not as good as a waiter.

Out of the palace gate, I saw a group of armor soldiers standing in several rows, to say that these forbidden troops, they may not be able to fight, but this station queue is a good hand, after all, in the palace, the most important thing is to stand good-looking.

Wanyan Zongbi didn't know that these forbidden troops were all showy, he shouted while carefully observing the strongest of these Song army, as for why they were the strongest... Which dynasty and which generation of the strongest military department is not the emperor's own army? The palace guards of the Liao State, the six classes in the imperial siege of the Western Xia, and the Jin State because it had just been founded, the most capable armies were the border troops, therefore, in the eyes of Wanyan Zongbi, these forbidden troops who ran out of the palace because of the riots they created were the strongest soldiers in the Song State.

These forbidden troops are very different from what Wan Yan Zongbi saw before, before Wan Yan Zongbi entered the palace, what he saw was a gorgeously dressed forbidden army, which was for the honor guard, but what he saw at this time was a forbidden army wearing battle armor.

Starting from the Zhao Kuangyin brothers, the forbidden army in the palace of the Song Kingdom is the upper four armies, which are called Zhuri, Tianwu, Longwei and Shenwei, of which Zhuri and Longwei are cavalry formations, Tianwu and Shenwei are infantry formations, and at this time standing in front of Wanyan Zongbi is the Shenwei Army.

Wanyan Zongbi looked at the more than 100 Divine Guards in front of him, and was secretly surprised in his heart, only to see that the front of these more than 100 people was a long tower shield, the back was a spear, and the back was a bow and crossbow, all of them were wearing step armor, which was also the first time Wanyan Zongbi saw the Song army's step armor.

Looking at the armor that couldn't even see his face clearly, Wanyan Zongbi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he knew very well what such armor represented, not only the amazing defense, but also the physical strength and endurance of these sergeants were terrifyingly high, but Wanyan Zongbi quickly thought of the weakness of such armor, this is too heavy, can only defend, not pursue, if he takes the cavalry to fight with such a armor, as long as he does not fight hard, the chance of victory is still very great.

Mobility? Can't run? The Song people don't have war horses, but the Jin people have them!

A terrible thought appeared in Wan Yan Zongbi's mind.

If a sergeant wearing infantry armor is allowed to ride on the best war horse, and then the war horse is also dressed in armor, such cavalry will also be lined up in the same row as the infantry, and such a cavalry impact, who can resist such a cavalry impact?

Later, the Tiefutu that frightened countless Song troops was formed in Wanyan Zongbi's mind.

"Yin Yanying, the Xiaguan Kaifeng Mansion, has seen the fourth prince." Yan Ying said to Yan Zongbi.

"Kaifeng Mansion Yin?" Wanyan Zongbi looked at Yan Ying for a moment, and then asked, "You came just in time, let me ask you, I asked your emperor for the Jiade Emperor, why did he die of fire in only three days?" Burned beyond recognition! If you don't want to say it to your relatives, are you not deceived by me? ”

Yan Ying touched her beard and didn't talk, but looked at Yan Zongbi with a smile, and Yan Zongbi felt uncomfortable.

"You Song official, look at what I'm doing!" Wanyan Zongbi finally couldn't stand being stared at anymore, and shouted loudly.

Yan Ying took a step forward and said in a low voice, "Could it be that the fourth prince is really only one woman in his heart?" But don't want the country? ”

Wanyan Zongbi's eyes rolled, and he asked puzzledly, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Yan Ying said, "I think the fourth prince should also feel it these days, my Song Kingdom's obsession with Yan Yun, now that you and I are willing to make friends, why not show sincerity?"

Please also ask the fourth prince to tell the truth, whether your country is willing to cede Yunzhou and other places, if you are willing, please also make a price, our country will try our best to satisfy, if you are unwilling, do not tease our country, although the Song State is not the Han and Tang Dynasties, but it should not be humiliated. ”

Wanyan Zongbi was just shocked by the Divine Guard, thought about it in his heart, and no longer entangled, and said, "This matter is very important, I need to inform Your Majesty of my country, and Your Majesty will decide, but Yunzhou is the Xijing of our country, and I am afraid it will be difficult to meet your wishes." ”

Yan Ying was overjoyed and sent Yan Zongbi away.

Not to mention that Yan Ying happily ran to Zhao Ji to ask for credit after sending Yan Zongbi away, and Yan Zongbi returned to the museum to discuss with Li Yonghe.

After Li Yonghe listened to Yan Zongbi's words, he praised, "The fourth prince made a big fuss at the palace gate this time, and he will definitely be able to get some more money and food for my country in the future, but everything still needs to wait for His Majesty to decide." ”

Wanyan Zongbi and others waited for the news of Huanglong Mansion with peace of mind, but they just went out to play every day, first playing Kaifeng, and gradually walking out of Kaifeng City, wandering around, but they were always in Kaifeng.

- Qiong Lou

Looking at Wanyan Zongbi and his gang who didn't give money after eating and drinking, and made a lot of noise, Jiang De smiled and shook his head, he knew that this was Wanyan Zongbi's loss in Qionglou before taking revenge, but he felt that this was too childish.

Zhao Yupan has already accepted Zeng Kun's death, and even accepted the fact that Zeng Kun was poisoned by his father in order to force him to make peace, if it weren't for Xu Guanzhong having been with her, and Zhao Fujin's two sisters staring at her, I'm afraid she would have followed Zeng Kun because she was disheartened.

Jiang De saw that Yan Zongbi was no longer tossing, and he also understood that Yan Zongbi couldn't make up his mind at this time, the key was still in Huanglong Mansion, Jiang De had less and less good feelings towards Zhao Ji, originally Jiang De still felt that although Zhao Ji would not be the emperor, he was still an uncle who remembered his old feelings when he removed the emperor's identity, but now it seems that Zhao Ji, the emperor, is actually very competent, at least in terms of repaying gratitude, it is enough to be comparable to many predecessors.

When Yan Zongbi's letter was delivered to Huanglong Mansion, Jiang De also left Kaifeng with Xu Guanzhong, Zhao Yupan and others, and Li Qingzhao, Zhao Fujin and others were also worried that if Zhao Jinnu, Zhao Fujin and Zhao Ji met at this time, Zhao Ji would send the two to Jin Guo and Qin, so they followed Jiang De back to Shandong.

In October of the fifth year of Xuanhe, Wanyan Zongbi sent an envoy to the Song State, and the news that the Song State hoped to get Yunzhou and other places and was willing to pay gold and silver money and grain for redemption caused a shock within the Jin State.

Yunzhou has become the Xijing of the Jin Kingdom at this time, since it is the capital, where is the reason to betray, if this had come a few days earlier, Wanyan Wu Begging would not blink his eyes and refuse, but a few days ago, something happened that made Wanyan Wu Begging use his brain.

As mentioned earlier, the Jin country from the tribe to the country, the time is too short, although the founding of the country for several years, but as the emperor, Wanyan Wu begging not only did not have more power than Wanyan Aguda, but because there was no military merit and fell a lot.

At the beginning of the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the family was thin, and Ah Guta was very frugal, and made an oath with everyone: the property in the treasury could only be used during war. If anyone violates it, whoever it is, he will be beaten with twenty sticks. This led to the fact that even the emperor's Wanyan Wu Qimai could not use the things in the treasury privately, and due to the short founding of the country, Wu Qimai did not establish the inner treasury of the emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty, and Wu Qimai did not go into battle to kill the enemy, and naturally did not capture it, these reasons made Wu Qimai's poor eyes red.

Wu begging to buy is already enjoying it, a few days ago I really couldn't help it, secretly let people open the treasury, took some gold and silver, bought some wine and delicacies, and ate a hard meal, as for why not let the palace do it directly... This also has to be bought by Wu begging and having money for the imperial chef to do it.

The matter of opening the treasury was soon discovered by the officials who counted it, and the officials did not dare to hide it, and were ready to report to the Minister of State, but at this time, Wanyan Sakai was already seriously ill at home, and at the same time, Wanyan Zonghan, who was at home, knew about it, and immediately said that the rules could not be abolished, and he led people into the palace with a vigorous attitude, and invited Wu Qimai to come out with a support, and pressed it on the ground is twenty military sticks, and Wu Qimai was beaten a miserable, and the royal robe was broken, of course, this is actually still watered, otherwise it will really be a dead hand, Wu Qimai can basically confess under this military stick.

After Wu Qimai was beaten, he was helped to the position by Wanyan Zonghan, and then, after Yan Zonghan pleaded guilty again, Wu Qimai's mouth hurt crookedly, and he said with a smile on his face that he blamed himself for being greedy, but he was almost angry in his heart.

After Yan Zonghan and the others left, Wu Qimai didn't even dare to smash things in the house, these things were not his, they belonged to the treasury according to the rules, if they were smashed indiscriminately, maybe Yan Zonghan would find an opportunity to beat twenty military sticks.

Wu Qimai was beaten this time, although he didn't say it, but he secretly hated it in his heart, so he wanted to find an opportunity to reduce Yan Zonghan's strength.

The Jin Kingdom was divided into several large blocks at this time, and each place had its own commanders, and these commanders had more effective discourse power in the local area than the central court, such as Wanyan Zonggan's power in Liaoyang, and Wanyan Zonghan was in Xijing Datong Mansion.

This Datong Mansion is the Yunzhou of the Tang Dynasty, so if Yunzhou is to be returned, wouldn't Wanyan Zonghan have no place to stand.

Wu Qimai felt that it was an opportunity, so he convened a meeting to discuss whether to return Yunzhou, Shuozhou and other places to the Song State, and took out the will of Aguta and Song Jin to discuss the matter.

Where is Wanyan Zonghan willing to do it, if he does this, won't he even have a marshal's mansion.

"Your Majesty, this matter must not be done, this cloud, Shuo and other places are all brought back by us with a knife and a shot, how can we cede to others?" Wanyan Zonghan excitedly shouted to Wanyan Wu Qimai, and his excited emotions made his face wine red.

"This matter is determined by Taizu, how can I regret it?" Return.

"The first emperor never promised to give Xijing to the Song Kingdom in the past, but only promised to give it to Yanzhou and other places, what? Song people are still not satisfied? Wanyan Zonghan even hated Song Guo, feeling that Song Guo had no ability and was insatiable.

"Our country has been plagued by disasters this year, if we don't cede the land, the Song Kingdom will not give us more money and food, and the people will starve to death when the time comes, will you be responsible? Now that the war is over, do you want them to plunder the people? Wu Qimai snorted.

The Chinese people in Wu Qimai's mouth refer to the Jurchens, as a small and large nation, the Jurchens naturally regard themselves as different people from other ethnic groups, which is the same as the Later Jin Jurchens hundreds of years later.

Institutionally, neither the Jin State at this time nor the later Jin State was not a traditional feudal state, but a slave country, with the Jurchens and later Manchus being slave owners, and everyone else being slaves.

"Xijing can't be allowed! If you want to let Xijing, cut off my head first! Wanyan Zonghan stretched his neck, as if waiting for Wu to pull out his knife.

Wu begged to buy it, but I wanted... But I don't dare.

Wu Qimai smiled and comforted, "It's all for state affairs, why bother, in this case, first cede Shuozhou to the Song State, in exchange for money and grain to help the people, what do you think?" ”

"Not an inch!" Wanyan Zonghan still refused.

"Sticky Han! The people of the country are important! Wan Yan Xian also came out at this time and said, "The land is lost, we can still find a way to get it back, but if the people are starved to death, no matter how much land we have, we can't get it back!" ”

Wanyan Xianye's military exploits are something Wanyan Zonghan does not dare to underestimate, and his position in the army has always been above him, he dares to shout loudly at Wu Qimai, but he does not dare to be presumptuous in front of Wanyan Xianye.

"But that's Xijing!" Wanyan Zonghan muttered, "It's not your place, of course you don't feel distressed." ”

Wan Yan Xian also laughed, and said, "Who said that you want to make your Xijing, Xijing is located in Chong, if it is returned to the Song State, the Song State can unite with Xixia in the west, and the North can unite with Murowei, which is very disadvantageous to me, but Xijing can not be given, but Shuozhou can, although Shuozhou also has mountains and rivers as a risk, but in front of my Xijing, it is a horse Pingchuan, as long as Yingzhou and Xijing are in my hands, if I want to take Shuozhou back, isn't it a matter of three or five days?" ”

After Yan Zonghan thought about it, he felt that it was too, so he said, "It's okay, but this time it is the place of my Xijing, and I want forty percent of the money and grain sent by the Song Kingdom!" ”

"Reasonable!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

The others nodded one after another, don't think that forty percent is less, now the Jin Kingdom is divided into five major parts: Shangjing, Tokyo, Zhongjing, Beijing, and Xijing, and forty percent is already more than doubled.

Seeing that Wanyan Zonghan was willing to hand over Shuozhou, Wu Qimai was not happy at all, he found that his prestige was not as good as Wanyan Xian, he returned to the palace and pondered for half the night, feeling that this was because the war had basically ended when he ascended the throne, and the people had not received their own grace, so the prestige was insufficient, and the idea of rising again in his heart arose.

The will of the Huanglong Mansion was transmitted to the ears of Wanyan Zongbi in the Kaifeng Mansion in less than half a month, when he proposed to exchange Shuozhou for money and grain, Zhao Ji was excited to do three poems in a row, in his heart, this is his great victory, although for this victory, the entire Great Song Dynasty paid two and a half million dollars worth of money and grain, which is still the number sent to Xijing, the real road loss, not less than one million, who let the Jin Kingdom is not rare for gold and silver, only want cloth, grain and iron.

The Song State is different from the Tang and Han dynasties, the opposing grassland regimes in the Tang and Han dynasties have always been weak in smelting, and even after the Turks, who are the best at smelting, were torn apart by Li Shimin's old punch, the grassland has also experienced a long period of time with stone arrows and bone arrows, but the Khitan is different, and the Khitan inherited by the Tang Dynasty is no stranger to iron tools from the very beginning, this point, from the iron smelting place left over from Yanzhou, the Song State knows that there are ten large and small blast furnaces in the Liao State government-run smelter in Yanzhou, The largest can produce 3,000 catties of molten iron per day (the results of the investigation of Yanqing ruins), that is to say, just a Yanzhou government-run smelter can produce more than 20 tons of steel per day, and there are seven or eight thousand tons a year, so there is no shortage of iron tools in Liao.

In fact, as a populous country, China's steel production in the past dynasties is not low, at this time in the entire Song Dynasty, a year's steel output is more than 100,000 tons without Jiang De's concealment, if you add Dali, Jinguo, Xixia, the entire old Han Dynasty steel output is as high as 1560,000 tons, this figure will not be until the 18th century in Europe to catch up.

It is worth mentioning that in 1935, China's steel production was less than 50,000 tons, Jiang De didn't know what to do with these 50,000 tons, the population was 50,000 at that time, and it was just one pound per person, and even the daily replacement of farm tools and kitchen knives was not enough, so he could only say one sentence.... The country is mighty, long live the fruit fans!

But there is no shortage of iron and not lack of high-quality iron is two different things, excellent steel is scarce in any era, after the war, the original heavy industry system of the Liao State has been greatly impacted, Jin Guo before relying on capture to obtain the armor they need, when it was found that there was no place to capture, Jin Guo began to bend down and pay attention to the recovery of each workshop, but this takes time, pig iron is good to recover, high-quality steel is insufficient, so Song Guo took out 100,000 catties of steel ingots, when Jiang De knew, I can only shake my head and smile bitterly, if in normal times, these really don't matter, after all, the original Liao region can also produce steel ingots, and the best steel is produced in Western Xia, and the trade between Western Xia and Jin cannot be stopped by Song at all, but the battle between Song and Jin is about to begin, and I know what these steel ingots will become and return to Song with my ass.

Although Wanyan Zonghan was very dissatisfied with cutting off his own territory, after seeing countless money and grain, he still happily threw Shuozhou to the Song State, but when the Song army entered the city, he found that Wanyan Zonghan not only moved all the Shuozhou people except for the old and weak, but also stripped off the city wall, the entire Shuozhou was like a monk's head, there was nothing, and the disgusting prefect Han Lizhi who came to take office wanted to vomit, although he didn't think about making Shuozhou three feet high, but he didn't think that he could only govern the people he brought.

But in any case, Shuozhou was returned to the hands of the Song State, and the time at this time had entered the sixth year of Xuanhe.

——Huangshi Village, Dongping County

The origin of the name of Huangshi Village is because it is located in the place where the three mountains meet, and there are many yellow rocks on the land, so it is named after it.

Liang Fa is an old man in Huangshi Village, and he didn't run to see the excitement like the younger ones.

Yes, today's Huangshi Village is much more lively than in the past, since a year ago, a group of scholars who don't dress like a scholar at all ran here, and found that there was something wrong with the rocks here, and soon a wave of people came to dig here and take a look there.

Listening to the president of the village cooperative and the village head, these people are all people from Pingyinhou, that is, people from Liangshan, Liang Fa has no bad feelings towards Liangshan, but because he also has a Liang character, there is some intimacy invisibly.

Liang Fa is a poor man, nearly fifty years old did not marry, not because he didn't want to marry, but he couldn't afford to marry, a lifelong tenant, how could he have the money to marry, it was also the establishment of rural cooperatives in recent years, it turned out that the landlord of this field was also killed in a Liang Lin who borrowed usury because of the burial of his father, and was finally forced to go to Liangshan in desperation, so he was assigned to the field, and life began to be better.

"Boom!!"

The huge explosion made Liang Fa, who was repairing farm tools, tremble, Liang Fa shook his head, this is not the first time he has heard such an explosion, and he will not be as frightened as the first time to lie on the open ground with his head in his hands and dare not move.

Liang Fa still remembers that after the first explosion, he also went to see the excitement, it was a group of sergeants with knives and guns that startled him, if he hadn't seen Liang Lin walking out of the village, he would have to flee home.

According to Liang Lin, it was the discovery of iron ore in the underground where they were cultivating day and night.

The iron ore is good, everyone knows that this iron is a valuable thing, but no matter how you think about this iron ore, it was also taken away by Liang Shan, and Liang Fa was worried about whether the field he was assigned would be in the soup like this.

Fortunately, I heard Liang Lin say that if this iron mine is really completed, it will be regarded as a dry stock of the cooperative at that time, and the people in the village will be able to eat and drink just with the money from this dry stock in the future.

He listened to the president of the cooperative, and when the mine opens, the mine will need miners, blacksmiths, and many people to do things.

Liang Fa is a bachelor, naturally he is also an independent household, he doesn't plan to get married, he will get married at the age of nearly fifty, in this era of sixty years of longevity, he is harming others, after all, he has not won any awards, and there is enough money to compensate the young girl.

As for whether there are women in their fifties who are not married, this is basically non-existent in ancient times, even if they are born with disabilities and mental problems, they will be married off because they can have children, as for whether they themselves are willing, whether they have violated human rights... What are human rights? Is it tasty?

Liang Fa repaired farm tools at this time because he was still planning to plant some melons and fruits in the yard of his home, and the family business of the peasant children was not accumulated little by little.

"Liang Fa! Liang Fa! The blast furnace is out of iron! News from the factory! We're getting ready to work! A man happily ran in and said to Liang Fa that today is the day of blast furnace ironing, and it is also a big day to verify the quality and content of the ore dug out of Huangshi Village.

China's iron ore is actually not a lot, in the world's ranking later generations can also be ranked in the top five, many later generations do not understand why China's steel mills are willing to import iron ore from Australia is not willing to use their own, some people are still saying that China's environmental awareness has been strengthened, in fact, this has nothing to do with environmental awareness, although China's iron ore is more, but most of them are small and medium-sized mines, and the grade is poor, how bad? China's iron ore is basically about 30% grade, and in Australia, more than 50% of people are willing to mine, and the export to China is basically more than 60% grade concentrate, so China can indeed be said to be large, but thin is more suitable for China than Wubo.

Liang Fa heard that he was going to work, so he hurriedly changed into the work clothes issued to him by the factory, and found out his work permit, the iron factory is not the same as in the farmland, if he does not meet the requirements or does not bring his work permit, not only can he not enter the iron factory, but he will also have to deduct his salary after verification, and the most terrible thing is that this will definitely become a joke in the village, which is not good.

Coming to the iron factory under the Huangshi cliff, Liang Fa saw that it was already a group of villagers surrounded outside, because of the initial construction, the wall has not been built, just a simple fence, the villagers can barely see the inside on tiptoe, for the villagers who have nothing to do in winter, it is a rare entertainment to see the scene inside the iron factory, but Liang Fa does not need to, he has already obtained the work permit given to him by the iron factory, he took out the work card, hung it around his neck, and the sergeant guarding the door compared it, and put him in.

When Liang Fa walked into the factory, he deliberately looked back at the other villagers with envy, this was an experience that he had not experienced in his nearly fifty years of life, which made his adrenal hormones secrete like crazy, of course, he didn't know what adrenal hormones were, but it didn't prevent him from feeling excited and happy.

The area of the iron factory is not small, the light area is divided into mining area, washing area, smelting area, warehouse, workshop, etc., Liang Fa came to the mining area, he is already a little old and he does not need to go to the mine, his position is to wash the mine, but this does not delay him to see the scene of blast furnace iron, he has not seen such a scene, he believes, this will become his future talk under the big tree.

Liang Fa came to the refinery area, and the high blast furnace gave people an inexplicable shock, and it was not enough to see it a few times.

But this time he was disappointed, the refining area had been sealed off, he saw Liang Lin who was on guard, and ran to ask, "Xiao Linzi, what's wrong?" Is there some big guy coming? ”

Liang Lin saw that it was Liang Fa, and looked around helplessly, when he escaped, Liang Fa had helped him cover up.

"Uncle Fa, there is indeed a big shot, don't smoke the excitement, go and do things, if you want to go in, you have to change the color of your hat first!"

Liang Fa touched his hat, smiled, shook his hand and said, "I'm this age, what color to change, yellow is good." ”

Like later generations, the hats of iron factory workers are also divided into different colors according to the type of work and grade, yellow is ordinary workers, blue is technicians, white is security personnel, red is management personnel, black is foreign personnel, in addition to color, the hat will also have different lines according to different levels, such as Liang Fa, is a third-level worker, is the most basic worker, above him there are second-level workers, first-class workers, special workers, if he is willing to go to the assessment, you can participate in the technical assessment organized regularly in the factory, if you pass, You can upgrade to a technician, this is the craftsman, usually there is a problem or improve the process will be dispatched.

Of course, these hats are specially made, more expensive than the sergeant's helmet, for Liangshan at this time, the worker is much more valuable than the sergeant, so there will never be any helmet shattered, not to mention that in this era without plastic, these colors are the last to be brushed, before the color, no one knows who wears this hat.

Under the blast furnace, a group of people with colorful hats are watching the red molten steel flow out, and a group of craftsmen with blue hats are nervously calculating something.

"Hou Ye, although the ore of Huangshi is not of high quality, but it is easy to mine, after digging out the floating soil, are ore veins, now a day can collect more than 100,000 catties of crude ore, after picking and washing, you can get 70,000 catties of concentrate." Yang Guangxue, the new director of the iron factory, introduced the situation of Huangshi to Jiang De.

Yang Guangxue is one of the earliest students of Tianxiang College, learning the minerology of the natural branch that few people care about, in mineralogy, Jiang De can't find any teacher at all, he himself is also half a catty, can only find some old miners, blacksmiths to tell the difference and characteristics of ore, and then rely on the recollection of some smelting principles, but in any case, Yang Guangxue and others have also become Jiang De's hands at this time is proficient in mining and smelting.

"Seventy or eighty thousand catties, what is the grade of this ore?" Jiang De asked about the group of blue hats, they are craftsmen, they get a high salary, and they do technical work.

Led by a man with white hair and beard and others confirmed again, this person is the master craftsman of this iron factory, the blue hat and three white triangles form a mark to represent his identity, he replied to Jiang De, "Back to the Hou Ye, the ore of this Yellowstone Mine is not high-grade, about 30%, it may be slightly lower, and there are more impurities, there are a lot of Yellowstone here because of pyrite and chalcopyrite, but it is mainly magnetite." ”

China's iron ore mainly has magnetite, hematite, other types of large and small have more than 300 kinds, China's magnetite accounts for about 55% of all iron ore, in comparison, hematite can directly enter the blast furnace, as for pyrite, it is sulfur-containing, can not enter the blast furnace at all, otherwise it is easy to die.

This means that the picking cost of Yellowstone iron ore is much higher.

But this iron mine is already the best iron mine under Jiang De's rule.

This is not to say that there are no better iron mines in the entire Jingdong Road, but those iron mines are all old mines, all under the rule of the government, and there are often inspectors sent by Kaifeng, which cannot be used by Jiang De at all.

Huangshi Village is located in the middle of nowhere, and it is completely under the rule of Jiang De, and there are Jishui and Wenshui on the side for water conservancy, which is very convenient for sorting or grinding, or building after smelting steel.

After so long of experiments and improvements, Liangshan water hammer training technology has matured, don't think that the hydraulic forging hammer and the water cone that has been used in agriculture is the same thing, this is basically the difference between machine guns and bird guns, at this time the Liangshan water hammer can be hammered up and down nearly two hundred times within sixty breaths, only such a fierce hammer can quickly make iron products, of course, the accuracy of such a hammer can not be guaranteed, and the craftsman needs to adjust at any time, Now a large-scale manufacturing workshop using water hammer to make iron tools has been established next to Jishui in Liangshan Bobian, this time it is no longer a small fight, but a large factory with more than 1,000 craftsmen and a monthly output of more than 100,000 pieces of iron and steel products.

These 100,000 pieces of iron can be scissors, shovels, sickles, knives, guns, arrowheads, and armor.

You must know that Jiang De has a lot of troops on paper now, but many people are still wearing uniforms.

"According to the current progress, how many catties of steel can the iron plant produce in a month?" Jiang De asked again.

The master craftsman replied, "The current blast furnace can produce more than 600,000 catties of steel per month, including 200,000 catties of good steel. ”

Due to the use of a variety of advanced technologies such as the hot blowing method of later generations, the steel quality and cost of Liangshan are much better than those in other parts of the Song Kingdom at this time.

600,000 jin is about 380 tons in later generations, that is to say, this steel plant has a monthly output of 300 tons of iron, 100 tons of steel, and an annual output of 4,000 tons, which is considered a small steel plant.

But Jiang De was not satisfied.

"What is limiting steel production now? Is it a blast furnace? Ore? Or coking coal? Jiang De asked.

"It's ore and coking coal, and we can build a blast furnace at any time." Yang Guangxue replied, "We now have no less than 500 miners, unless we call in more miners, there is still a supply of coking coal, in order to further increase steel production." ”

Jiang De said to Xu Guanzhong on the side, "Pass my order and let Li Jun catch 3,000 strong men from Nanyang to work here within three months, didn't Li Jun write a letter saying that the Three Buddhas organized another attack on Xingang?" Xingang can not only defend, but also fight out, and let Li Jun look for forces that can be supported in Sriwijaya, Sriwijaya has no idea of great unification at all, as long as it is profitable, the people there can become our friends at any time.

In any case, within five months, the steel output here will be increased to two million catties of steel per month, of which one million catties of good steel will be produced. ”

Jiang De's will is the highest order, Yang Guangxue hurriedly said that he would immediately organize new equipment such as mineral processing, ore washing, blast furnace, etc., so that equipment and other materials are not allowed to be used for materials.

After leaving the iron factory, Xu Guanzhong asked, "The lord is judging that the wind and rain in Pingzhou are coming?" ”

Jiang De looked to the northeast and nodded, "Jin Guo will not give up Pingzhou, the news from Jin Guo that Wanyan Zongwang has arrived at Zhongjing Road and is dispatching troops, wait, if it is fast, it will be three months, and if it is slow, it will be half a year, and Zhang Jue will be defeated." ”

Xu Guanzhong believed that Jiang De's judgment would not be wrong, and quickly deduced the next possible situation in his mind, and said, "I got the news in Kaifeng before, saying that the official family wants to canonize Zhang Jue, if Zhang Jue's army is defeated, the Jin State will get the truth, and the sound of the Jin State going to war will inevitably sound, and the battle of Song and Jin is just around the corner." ”

Jiang De nodded and said, "That's right, it's ridiculous that the imperial court has not arranged elite soldiers in Yanzhou until now, and completely relies on that Guo Yaoshi, who could have surrendered to the Song Dynasty to attack Liao in the past, can't he reduce gold to attack the Song Dynasty today?" ”

Jiang De does not reject the surrender of generals, but he still has great contempt for those who have just surrendered and bravely turned back and slashed the old master, and it is normal for a good minister to choose the master and things are normal, but it is a wolf's heart and dog to cut down the old master immediately after the old master did not change jobs, which is why Lu Bu was scolded as a slave with three surnames, and Liu Bei, who jumped more jobs, was praised as benevolence and righteousness by the people of the world.