After a few days of travel, Gu Haotian and his party finally arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion.

The Daimyo Mansion was an important town in the north of the Zhou Dynasty, with a population of more than 1 million at its peak, and had a pivotal position in politics, military and economy, so it was also called Beijing.

In "Water Margin", the famous mansion is mentioned several times, and many heroes and heroes are also related to this place, such as: Lu Junyi, Yang Zhi, Suo Chao, Yan Qing and so on. Gu Haotian came to the Daimyo's Mansion this time, and he also wanted to visit his senior brother Lu Junyi, contact his feelings, and inquire about the whereabouts of his master by the way.

After the boat docked at the canal wharf, an officer from the Intelligence Service came to pick it up. Because of the large number of men and the fact that they were armed, they stayed at an inn outside the city. Later, I learned from the intelligence officers that Xu Churen, Zhao Ding and others only arrived yesterday, and that Lord Xu did not seem to be in good health, and now he is continuing to be treated in the city.

What kind of disease did this old man have? If it hasn't been cured for a long time, there shouldn't be any big trouble! Gu Haotian couldn't help beating the drum in his heart, he thought that he had to find an opportunity to meet Zhao Ding and explore the truth.

After the group settled down, Gu Haotian took Xu Guanzhong and Bian Xiang into the city with the personnel of the intelligence department. The Daimyo's Mansion is the Beijing of the Great Zhou, not to mention all kinds of prosperity, a few people shuttled through the streets and alleys for a while, and then arrived at a prosperous inn.

"This is it." The intelligence officer said.

Gu Haotian looked up, but in front of him was a two-storey and three-room façade, which didn't seem to be very high-grade, thinking that this mission was not very popular in this Daimyo's mansion. It was inconvenient for him to go in for a while, so he found a teahouse nearby and instructed the intelligence officer to call Zhao Ding out.

Not long after, Zhao Ding hurried in, and as soon as he came in, he asked in surprise:

"How did Haotian get here?"

"I wanted to go to Cangzhou because I remembered the matter of Senior Brother Lin Chong, and when I passed by here, I happened to hear that Lord Xu was not in good health, so I came over to investigate."

Gu Haotian replied while getting up and inviting Zhao Ding to sit down.

"When Lord Xu left Beijing, I saw that his spirit was not very good, and when he arrived in Liyang County, he began to have a fever, and the mission leaned on Liyang, found a doctor to take medicine for two days, and it seemed to be a little better, and then he started again, and he didn't expect to get here, and he had a fever again, and it seemed to be more dangerous, so he had to stop here and ask the doctor to treat the disease. In my opinion, Lord Xu's illness came out of sorrow, while worrying about the filthy court, and on the other hand, there was nothing to be done, and he was forced to do things against his will, so it was strange if he was not sick. ”

Zhao Ding carefully introduced the cause of Xu Churen's illness without showing a mocking expression.

"Then why don't you see Brother Zhao getting sick?"

Gu Haotian saw Zhao Ding's indifference when he talked about the court, and knew that he was dead, so he joked with him.

"I'm a sesame official, even if I'm sad to death, no one knows, it's just a joke. Besides, with such a cureless court, what is the use of a few people being sad. I really want to learn from Huanzhang and ninety percent of them, and go to Liangshan Manor to be at ease. ”

Zhao Ding replied self-deprecatingly, but his words revealed indifference to the imperial court. Gu Haotian also felt that the time was ripe, and he no longer covered it up, so he said bluntly:

"What kind of hearts did those people in the court let the two envoys to Jin Guo press, you know that I don't need to say much, what I'm worried about is that you still have some loyal thoughts about the Chai family, and you want to exchange your blood for the name of a loyal minister, and you don't dare to say some things directly......"

"Loyalty! Hum! What does it mean to be a loyal minister? We will go to the Kingdom of Jin, and we are loyal ministers after signing the covenant? Or is it to fight for his life and break the covenant to be a loyal servant? In such a dimly lit court, even if you want to be a loyal minister, it is difficult to go back. ”

Zhao Ding didn't wait for Gu Haotian to finish speaking, so he interrupted him angrily, he had already thought very clearly about the gains and losses of the trip to Jinguo, and he had no scruples about what he said.

"Since Brother Zhao said so frankly, if I hide it no matter how secretive, I will not be a brother, I think that after the mission goes to sea, it will immediately turn to Liangshan Manor, if the mission cannot be consistent, I will send a ship to pretend to be a pirate and rob you, I don't know if Brother Zhao thinks it is appropriate?"

Gu Haotian saw that Zhao Ding no longer cared about the court, and besides, his family members were now in the manor, so he said his own arrangements straight to the point.

After Zhao Ding heard this, he didn't feel strange, he thought for a while, and said:

Originally, I was worried that Lord Xu would object, but now that he is not lightly ill, he can't help but disagree if he finds a reason to let him recuperate. It's just that the forbidden army who escorted over is the head, I don't know what he thinks, and he needs to investigate. Otherwise, it would be a pity that he would be a decent person and fold in the sea. ”

"Who is this head?"

Gu Haotian saw that Zhao Ding valued this person very much, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's called Wang Yu, and it's also a figure who has no ambition, otherwise he wouldn't accompany me to die."

When Gu Haotian heard this, he secretly wondered in his heart, did he meet another cowman, so he said cautiously:

"When I was in Beijing a few days ago, I occasionally heard that there was a descendant of the former prime minister Wang Chuan, also called Wang Yu, but this person?"

"It's not him, who is it, if you talk about family traditions, this guy is a few people who can match, born in Langya Wang's family, ancestors for several generations, but when he comes here, he is under Gao Yu's head any dispensable, which really humiliates the ancestors. In the past two days, I have seen that he is also silent, and he must be unhappy, so maybe I can talk to him. ”

It turned out to be this person, Gu Haotian was shocked after listening to Zhao Ding's reply. This Wang Yu also appeared in "Water Margin", but he was written as a villain, he appeared as a general under Tong Guan, and killed the enemy general Jingde during the battle of Fangla. Later, he framed the living Yama Ruan Xiaoqi for rebellion, so that Xiaoqi had no reward for his merits, and he was dismissed and returned to his hometown.

And the actual history is that when this person attacked the Northern Song Dynasty, Tong Guan abandoned the city and returned to Beijing, he commanded the Xuanfu Division, and the Taiyuan prefect Zhang Xiaochun led the whole city of soldiers and civilians to protect the city, Zong Han attacked Taiyuan for more than 250 days without breaking, and the name of "Wang Zongguan" spread all over Taiyuan. Later, because the reinforcements did not arrive for a long time, and finally the city was broken, Wang Yuzi led the remnants of the army to fight in the streets of the Jin army, and was shot dozens of times, and took his eldest son Wang Xun to die in the Fen River, and died in the city.

Unexpectedly, such a character was also suppressed under Gao Yu's hands, if it wasn't for being thrown out to die with the mission this time, I'm afraid I would never see it. Now that we have met, we must plan well to see if we can pull the mountains together. So he said to Zhao Ding:

"Brother Zhao will take a breath with him first, if we can use this place tomorrow, the three of us will meet."

After that, the two talked about Xu Churen's illness again, and Zhao Ding scolded the officials of the Daimyo Mansion again, saying that the officials of the imperial court mission were sick, and only sent a minor official to come over and ignore them after saying a few words. Gu Haotian persuaded a few words, and the two made an appointment to meet tomorrow, so they went separately.

There was nothing to say all night, and in the afternoon of the second day, Gu Haotian and others came to the teahouse again. Soon after sitting down, he saw Zhao Ding leading a man of thirty-four or five years old to come in.

"This must be the head of Wang Yudu?"

When Gu Haotian saw Zhao Ding leading a person in, he knew that it was Wang Yu, and thought that since he came, most of the matter was done, so he immediately greeted him.

"It's Wang Yu down there." The man replied respectfully.

Later, under the introduction of Zhao Ding, everyone saluted one by one and sat down again.

"When he talked to me about the Jurchen trip yesterday, he also sighed deeply for this trip, and deeply hated the traitorous ministers who were in charge and the emperor was mediocre. When he heard that Haotian was the originator of the theory of "tigers, wolves, and horses" between the three kingdoms, he was anxious for me to bring him over for a gathering. ”

It turned out that Wang Yu was desperate for this trip, and Zhao Ding was already moved when he showed a little bit of tone yesterday. But Gu Haotian must only hear his name, but he doesn't know the truth, and he has to meet to find out the truth before he can rest assured. At this time, when people were in front of him, Wang Yu took the opportunity to speak.

"Little official, in my opinion, it is imperative for the imperial court to form an alliance with the Jurchens, even if we can't go this time, there will be a second or third time, what if then?"

This Wang Yu looked far away, Gu Haotian secretly praised himself, then straightened out his thoughts and said:

"What is certain is that when Jin destroyed Liao, it was the period of its southern invasion of the Zhou Dynasty, when the Jurchens destroyed the power of Liao, and the Great Zhou Dynasty could slightly block its troops except for the Western Army, and I am afraid that there will be no opponents. In this way, the north of Huaishui is afraid that all will fall, and the Jiangnan River may be able to support it for a while with its water network and water army, but the Han people in the north will be wiped out again. ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard Gu Haotian analyze the consequences of this war for the first time. Wang Yu was stunned for a while, but asked unwillingly:

"We have tens of millions of men in Huaxia, can't we deal with tens of thousands of Jurchens!"

As the saying goes, a wolf with a flock of sheep, the sheep will become a wolf, if a sheep with a group of wolves, the wolf will become a sheep. Just like Lord Xu, he is also a man of great talent, but he was sent to his death because he repeatedly opposed the alliance; Another example is Captain Wang, but you are under Gao Yu and Tong Guan with all your skills, when will you have the opportunity to show your talents? ”

Wang Yu was speechless by Gu Haotian's words, but he felt that this little official was reasonable, wasn't the Great Zhou Dynasty stolen by this group of "sheep" in a high position, and the country's prestige was weakened? I thought that this little official was knowledgeable, but it was better not to only "talk on paper", so I thought about it and asked:

"Regardless of the imperial court, could it be that we can only watch the Jin people and horses set foot in the Central Plains, and the lives of the Han people will be ruined?"

Gu Haotian didn't answer immediately, he was silent for a while before he said slowly:

"When will our descendants of Yan and Huang be willing to be slaughtered, but without the righteousness and resources of the imperial court, it will be more difficult, in fact, if we can get the warriors to lead the elite to occupy Liaodong and Goryeo, step on the tail of the Jurchens, and then stick to Shandong, Guanzhong, hold the two wings of the Central Plains, and then migrate the people of Hebei, even if the Jurchens invade the Central Plains, there are strong cities in front, ambushes in the back, and the side can not be safe, only with more than 100,000 people, how long can they be arrogant. It's just that this matter is easy to say, but how to unite people with lofty ideals in the world and work together to go to the country. ”

Gu Haotian's words made everyone deeply feel the difficulty of fighting against the Jurchens, but they also saw hope and grew confidence. Wang Yu no longer had any doubts, he immediately bowed and saluted, and said firmly:

"The king is not talented, and he is willing to fight against foreign captives with the petty officials, and die without regrets."

Everyone was overjoyed when they saw this, but in order to solve the worries of Wang Yu and others, Gu Haotian asked them to go back to find out the bottom of it, counted the sergeants who were willing to go to Liangshan, wrote letters, and sent people from the manor to Beijing to pick up everyone's families.

Wang Yu couldn't imagine that Gu Haotian was so thoughtful, and he was moved, and immediately said that all the people who followed him this time were from his capital, and all the thirty people were his henchmen, and now he took care of his family, and there was no one who was unwilling to leave.

Let's talk about the return of Zhao Ding and Wang Yu, there is only one Xu Churen left in the mission who is still sick, and it can be said that Gu Haotian basically controls the mission. At that time, Gu Haotian agreed with the two of them to let the mission rest for a few more days in the Daimyo's Mansion on the grounds of medical treatment. Wait for Gu Haotian to wait until Cangzhou has arranged the ship and Lin Chong's affairs, and then set off north.