The news that the Jin delegation was attacked and the two countries were annulled, and the news of the annulment of the alliance between the two countries spread all over the government and the opposition in an instant, and there was a lot of discussion everywhere in the capital, who was so bold as to dare to sabotage the alliance between the two countries and oppose the imperial court.

But soon there was news that the Liao people were pretending to be the Song army in order to prevent their unfavorable situation, and the imperial court was preparing to send ministers to the Jin State to rebuild the alliance. So people shifted their attention to the important minister who took on this great responsibility, but the news that came out afterwards was a big surprise, and the candidates for the chief and deputy ambassadors proposed by the imperial court were actually Xu Churen, deputy director of the Privy Council, and Zhao Ding, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, who had just been released from prison.

However, people in the DPRK and China know that these two people are both hard-line opponents of the alliance, and unless they change their attitude, going to Kim is no different from sending them to death.

Gu Haotian also got the news early in the morning, and knew that it was Cai Jing's proposal, and his first thought was that Cai Jing was borrowing a knife to kill people. He knew that Zhao Ding had offended Cai Jing, but the dust had settled on the admission of this subject, and Zhao Ding had not been released from prison for a few days, so what hatred did he pull? As for Xu Churen, he should be too Geng to fire guns everywhere, which is not tolerated by these powerful ministers.

The information learned next basically confirmed Gu Haotian's conjecture. It turned out that after Zhao Ding was released from prison, he was unwilling and continued to write a recital to expose the fraud in the imperial examination, and he became a troublemaker in the hearts of others. Xu Churen is because of the constant criticism of the alliance between Zhou and Jin, and because as an upright minister, his ideas have a certain influence in the government and the opposition, and the bigwigs in the DPRK and China have taken him as a thorn in the heart, pressing on the position of the stable, and they want to take him out as a scapegoat at any time, this time, don't you oppose the alliance? If you are asked to talk about forming an alliance, the result will naturally be death or disrepute.

Just when the relationship between Zhou and Jin was hotly discussed in the city of Tokyo, Xu Guanzhong, Bian Xiang, and Shi Qian returned to the Shanshui Inn. In the battle of Qinglong Gorge in Huaizhou, Xu Guanzhong and others took the members of the horizontal knife battalion, wore the newly bought leather armor of the armor warehouse, pretended to be the army of the Zhou Dynasty, and launched a surprise attack on the Jurchen mission.

In this battle, 37 Jurchens died from Ya'er Sumire down, and the Hengdao Battalion also killed 8 people, wounded more than 10 people, and the battle damage was also quite large.

"Little official, the cavalry of the Jurchens is indeed strong, in an unguarded situation, in the face of the horizontal knife such a sharp weapon to fight more with less, and even break through, I think after they go back, they will definitely think about dealing with the horizontal knife, we must also think more about the tactics of dealing with the cavalry, otherwise we will suffer losses when we meet on the battlefield in the future."

Xu Guanzhong had a more intuitive experience of the combat effectiveness of their cavalry this time in person, and he knew that Liangshan would definitely fight against the Jurchens in the future, so he said his feelings as soon as he came back.

"What Mr. Xu said is that in the next step manor, we should often conduct infantry and cavalry tactical drills and explore a set of effective methods to deal with cavalry."

Gu Haotian also agreed with Xu Guanzhong's statement, there were very few cavalry in Liangshan in the past, and with the continuous increase of war horses, the scale of cavalry must be expanded. At that time, not only the horizontal knife battalion, but also the spear battalion and the bow battalion will have to participate, and more comprehensive drills will be organized, just like the confrontation between the red and blue armies in later generations, and after a long time, they will always find out the tactics to deal with the Jurchen cavalry.

"How are the brothers who were killed or injured settled?" Gu Haotian then asked again.

"The dead brother was transported back to the manor like last time, there were more injured, at that time I was afraid of exposing the target, Li Kui's brothers forcibly kidnapped a doctor in Wuzhi County, I thought it was important to save people and did not stop it, and now I have quietly returned to the courtyard outside the city to recuperate."

After listening to Xu Guanzhong's report, although Gu Haotian understood that fighting a war would inevitably kill people, he felt uncomfortable for a while, and then thought that in the future, he would establish a system of military doctors like the army in later generations, so that he could help the wounded as soon as possible. At that moment, he instructed Zhu Gui to go to the city to find some good medicine for injuries and send them out of the city immediately.

Originally, the destruction of the alliance between Zhou and Jin had been completed, and Gu Haotian and the others had basically ended their mission in the capital, but because of the sudden incident of Xu Churen and Zhao Ding's envoy to the Jin State, he had a new idea, so he postponed the time to leave Beijing.

In this way, after another four or five days, the final decision on the composition of the mission had been made in the imperial court, Xu Churen was appointed as the chief envoy of the privy council, and Zhao Ding was appointed as the chief envoy of the main and guest secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Wai Lang was appointed as the deputy envoy. Three days later, on April 20, they set off and crossed the sea through Cangzhou to the north.

In the next two days, Gu Haotian quietly visited Xu Churen and Zhao Ding, both of whom knew that going to Jin Guo would undoubtedly send them to death, but their attitudes towards the appointment of the imperial court were different.

Xu Churen is fifty years old, and he is already pessimistic about life and death, he is not ready to come back alive at all, he only thinks of Jin Guo showing the integrity of the courtiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty and striving to leave a name in history.

After all, Zhao Ding is young and ambitious, and he is naturally unwilling to die on this end, the key is that after two consecutive blows, coupled with the daily indoctrination of Gu Haotian, Zhang Jiucheng and others, he has despaired of the imperial court, and some of the remaining loyalty to the Zhou royal family has gradually disappeared.

Therefore, for Gu Haotian's proposal to take the two families to settle in Liangshan, the reactions of the two people are also different.

Xu Churen refused at first, but Gu Haotian finally stimulated him and said, Lord Xu will not form an alliance with the Jin State when he goes, it is conceivable that if the alliance between Jin and Zhou is not made because of you, the family will suffer because of you, you are willing to sacrifice your life for such a court, whether it is worth it or not, but the old lady and the old and young in the family are innocent, but they have to suffer this unwarranted disaster, is it difficult for the old man to be for the sake of one person's name, but he has to ignore the life of the whole family? Xu Churen was speechless. In the end, Gu Haotian, as a student, said that he was taking care of his wife for the eldest man, and he reluctantly agreed.

And after Zhao Ding heard that Gu Haotian was going to take his family to Liangshan Manor, he thought that his life and death were uncertain, and his family had no one to take care of, and Zhang Jicheng's family had already arrived there, so he agreed without much hesitation. As for Gu Haotian's suggestion to take him to Liangshan halfway, there was no clear refusal, just that everything was based on Lord Xu.

In the next few days, Zhao Ding dismissed all the irrelevant people in his family on the grounds that the future of going north to Jin was uncertain, and Xu Churen's family had few people, and then the two families sent their families back to their hometown. And because the people in the court and the central government still have to take on the heavy responsibility of two people at present, they have not stopped it, anyway, the world is not the king's land, and if you want to take people, you can't catch people. Of course, they didn't expect that the return of the two families to their hometown was just an illusion.

Soon it was April 20, outside the north gate of the capital, the officials of the Privy Council and the Ministry of Rites "represented the imperial court" and bid farewell to the two of them with false affection. Zhao Ding stood behind Xu Churen's side, looking at the scene in front of him coldly, and the trace of affection that he might still have for this court disappeared in his heart.

Gu Haotian was also preparing to leave Beijing the next day, and that night, he and Xu Guanzhong made a final explanation to Zhu Gui and Chen Yun, especially the matter of Lin Chong's family, he asked the two to pay attention to it at all times, and they must be sent to Liangshan safely.

Let's say that a few people were sitting in the room talking, and Shi Qian suddenly broke in.

"It's strange for the little officials, then Lu Qian and Gao Yu's relatives followed Fu An and the two of them out of the city in the evening, and I followed them all the way out of the city.

Lu Qian: They went north!

Gu Haotian had a question mark in his heart when he heard this, but he was rushing towards Lin. After thinking about it carefully, it has been more than a month since Lin Chong solved it on March 14, and I thought that if Dong Chao and Xue Ba returned quickly, they should also arrive home. If this is the case, then these people must see that Lin Chong is not dead on the way, and then go to kill him.

It's just that Lu Zhishen hasn't come back yet, it stands to reason that he should have arrived home earlier. Gu Haotian thought for a while, and felt that Lu Zhishen's free and easy person might go there to join in the fun, and go to the yamen tomorrow to inquire and see if Dong Chao and Xue Ba have returned. If he has already returned, then the date of his departure from Beijing will have to be planned separately.

The next morning, Shi Qian went out early according to Gu Haotian's instructions. Gu Haotian was eating breakfast when he heard a heroic voice outside the door:

"Third brother, the restaurant is back."

"Big brother!"

When Gu Haotian heard Lu Zhishen's voice, he hurriedly put down his chopsticks and greeted him overjoyed, only to see a fat monk coming in from the second gate, it was his eldest brother.

"Why did it take a long time for the eldest brother to come back?"

"The second brother has a general tofu temperament, I don't feel at ease, I am afraid that the two pinches of birds will be poisoned on the way, so I sent them straight to Cangzhou Prison City, and watched the two pinches of birds come out, before I set off to return, and it was delayed for some time."

So it was, Gu Haotian suddenly realized that this Lu Zhishen was only sent to the periphery of Cangzhou in the original trajectory, but this plus was directly sent to the destination, no wonder he didn't come back first. Hearing him say that those two tolerances must have come back a long time ago, then there is no doubt that Lu Qian and the others must have gone to Cangzhou yesterday.

Gu Haotian thought for a while, it was only April now, and Lin Chong did not have the "Wind Snow Mountain Temple" in this time and space, so the dangerous uncertainty was even greater. So he immediately wrote a note, called an intelligence officer, and ordered him to quickly rush to Cangzhou Prison City and hand it over to Lin Chong.

Lu Zhishen looked curious from the side, and asked, "Why did the third brother do it?" ”

"Big brother doesn't know, Lu Qian's house and Fu'an went out of the city yesterday."

Gu Haotian told him the news he found yesterday and his own judgment, and said his plan, and Lu Zhishen calmed down. Not long after, Shi Qian also returned to the inn, once again confirming that Dong Chao and Xue Ba had indeed returned to the inn.

That's fine, Gu Haotian thought, just before he left Beijing, he did the last thing, and saved Zhu Gui and them trouble, so he said to Lu Zhishen:

"Although you don't have to go to Cangzhou, you still have to trouble my eldest brother to go."

"If it's used to sprinkle the family, the third brother just has to say it."

"I thought that if the second brother's family was left in the capital, it would be a trouble after all, in case the protection was not complete, how could I be worthy of the second brother at that time, it was better to take them to Liangshan Manor before leaving Beijing, but Zhang Jiao was the first old man, although he had a little courage, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to protect him. And I have to go to Hebei first this time, so I have to send it to Brother Lao. ”

"This is the case, but it should be, and the Sprinkle family will go again."

"That's the best, the eldest brother must wait for me to go back on the mountain, then I will bring the second brother with me, and our three brothers will get drunk again."

The two brothers made an agreement on the spot, and Gu Haotian gathered people to send them out, and the last operation in the capital began.