Tong Guan was originally drinking and feasting with many generals in the city, but after hearing the news from his nephew Tong Shu about two rare treasures, he hurried here.

The six thieves of the Great Song Dynasty all like money, and Tong Guan is naturally no exception, but for an important minister like him, who has already taken charge of a country's military power, although money is important, power is even more important.

The inspection of the school Taiwei Kaifu Yi and the three divisions is an honorary position in the Great Song Dynasty, similar to the status of the prime minister, is the highest position and the highest honorary title of the military attaché, which is equivalent to the Minister of Defense in later generations.

To do this as an official as a eunuch, Tong Guan has basically reached the peak of a courtier, and normally there is no room for growth, but there is an exception, that is, the sixteen states of Yanyun.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are located on the Yanshan Mountain Range and are divided into seven prefectures in front of the mountain dominated by Yanjing, and nine prefectures in the back of the mountain with Yunzhou as the center of gravity. Since ancient times, it has been an important line of defense for the Central Plains Dynasty to resist the southern invasion of nomads.

In the middle of the Five Dynasties, in exchange for the support of the Khitan, Shi Jingjiao of the Later Jin Dynasty ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun, including the entire Yanshan Tianha, to the Khitan.

Without the shield of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, the Central Plains seemed to be hanging over its head and was seriously threatened. During the Later Zhou Dynasty, Chai Rong took advantage of the Khitan civil strife to recover the three states of Yannan. Just when Chai Rong was about to take advantage of the victory to capture Yanjing, he suddenly fell ill and was forced to withdraw his troops, losing the best chance to recover Yanyun.

After the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Taizu once set up a sealed pile warehouse, expressing his determination to recapture this place. Song Taizong made two northern expeditions, wanting to recover Yanyun's homeland. It's a pity that Song Taizong suffered two defeats in a row, burying hundreds of thousands of elite troops. The Song Dynasty switched from offensive to defensive in terms of strategy, and gave up on recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun ideologically.

There is a well-known rumor in the Great Song Dynasty: Those who win the sixteen states of Yanyun can be crowned king!

Although Tong Guan is an incomplete man, what he has lost is only the ability of men to inherit the lineage, and he has not lost his courage and ambition.

Without the ties of women and feelings, Tong Guan focused all his energy on collecting money and competing for power, so he wanted to go further.

Tong Guan took advantage of the opportunity of the Liao State to get acquainted with the Yan man Ma Zhi, and then Ma Zhi infiltrated the Northern Song Dynasty under the pseudonym Zhao Liangsi and offered the strategy of Lianjin to resist Liao.

For the matter of Lianjin's attack on Liao, the ministers of the central court, such as Chongshi Dao, Zhao Long, Zheng Juzhong and others, all strongly opposed, An Yaochen wrote to Song Huizong and said: "The eunuch temple Tong Guan and his ilk are single-minded, and the ministers of the Northern Expedition are afraid that the ,....... ministers will die when they are different, and there is a provocation on the border, and the strong enemy is preparing for the gap to ......... his desires."

Although all the people of insight in the court were opposed, the sixteen states of Yanyun were too attractive to Huizong, coupled with the instigation of Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, after several years of secret contact, the two countries of Song and Jin hit it off and finally formed a maritime alliance.

The covenant stipulated: Song and Jin each marched to attack the Liao State, of which the Jin army captured Liao Shangjing and Zhongjing Dading Mansion, and the Song army captured Liao's Xijing Datong Mansion and Nanjing Xijin Mansion.

After the Song State promised to destroy the Liao State, it would transfer the old coins that had been lost to the Liao State in the Lanyuan Alliance to the Jin State, and the Jin State promised to return the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to the Song State.

On the eve of the rebellion between Fang La and Song Jiang, the maritime alliance between Song and Jin had been signed, and the Western Army, the Northern Army, and the forbidden armies of the state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty began to mobilize, preparing to send troops to attack the Liao State.

For Tong Guan, it was not important to go to Jiangnan to pacify the Mingjiao Rebellion in Fangla, and it was a big deal to be able to personally lead his troops to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, so he needed a lot of silver and treasures to honor Zhao Ji of Huizong and Cai Jing, the prime minister, and get the position of commander of the army.

Since Tong Guan said that this Fengyun bottle is worth 300,000 yuan, the result of this gambling battle is clear at a glance.

Cao Dalang wanted to repay the debt, and he didn't want Tong Guan to personally supervise it, so he didn't dare to deny it, so he had to grit his teeth and order someone to return home, and handed over the real estate title deeds of the entire Huancui Building and several mansions in the city to Li Nan's hands.

Li Nan is not an ignorant person, Tong Guan is not a person like him who will help himself for no reason, what he wants is naturally a Fengyun bottle, if he really dares to ask for money from the eunuch Tong who commands the 150,000 army, it is estimated that he will not live tomorrow.

This bottle is very precious in the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, it is not difficult to make, it is nothing more than putting some ethanol, camphor and distilled water in the glass bottle, which is worth about eighty-eight yuan in later generations.

Carefully put the Fengyun bottle into the wooden box, Li Nan came to Tong Guan with the box in his hand, and said with a smile: "Although Xing is working hard overseas, he has also heard of the great reputation of Lord Tong in the northwest to resist Liao's resistance. ”

"Hahaha......" Tong Guan hadn't seen someone who could give gifts and talk for a long time, and when he saw Li Nan being so sensible, he immediately laughed.

There were a lot of people present, so Tong Guan pretended to refuse: "Protecting the family and defending the country is a matter of Tong's responsibility, and I really love your treasure bottle today, but not a penny of money is missing." Tong Harvest, hurry up and get the money ready! ”

"It's shameless!" Seeing the performance of the Tong family's uncle and nephew, Li Nan scolded secretly.

These two bastards obviously don't want to give money, but for the next plan, they still have to cooperate with them to act.

Li Nan pretended to be sad and indignant on his face, and said loudly: "Lord Tong's words are wrong, how can the mere Fengyun bottle represent the gratitude in the hearts of the people of the world such as me?" If the adult doesn't accept it, then Xing will smash it on the spot! ”

"Alas!" Tong Guan sighed helplessly, pretending to be embarrassed and said: "I really can't help you, since this is the case, then a certain family is disrespectful." ”

Without Tong Guan's instructions, Tong Shu hurriedly walked over and took the mahogany box in Li Nan's hand.

Today, just by paying some useless prisoners, he got three priceless gifts, Tong Guan couldn't help but be overjoyed, you must know that he is celebrating his second birthday, and the money he received is only hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Thanks to these gifts and Li Nan's identity as a mysterious sea merchant, coupled with his being so knowledgeable, Tong Guan immediately invited him to his mansion for a banquet.

Li Nan made these things outside the prison today, firstly, in order to quickly publicize the fame of his goods with the help of Tong Guan's name, and secondly, he wanted to be able to get Tong Guan's protection when he was looking for people on the northbound road.

Nowadays, the corrupt officials and corrupt officials of the Great Song Dynasty are rampant, and there are bandits and bandits everywhere, and it is said that there are two groups of people who have raised troops to rebel, and it can be said that the territory of the Song Kingdom is in chaos.

Li Nan and others have now come to the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, and if they want to continue to move forward with these priceless goods, he is not afraid of bandits and bandits, but if they want to avoid being taken advantage of by the government and the army to kill people and rob money, they must be protected by powerful people in the DPRK and China.

Cai Jing and Cai You's line has been completely broken since the news of Li Nan's rebellion came; Gao Yu and Li Nan had a hatred of killing their sons, so he chose Tong Guan, the first person in the military.

Things went well, and after paying the price of ten glass mirrors, Li Nan was accompanied by a steward from the Tong Mansion.

As the saying goes, there are seven officials in front of the prime minister, with this Tongfu steward, as long as Li Nan is in trouble, the officials and garrisons of the state capitals along the way can be mobilized at will, from this point of view, the corruption of the officialdom and army of the Great Song Dynasty has been extremely serious.

The 150,000 army was quickly assembled, and the Song army was divided into two routes, led by Wang Yu and Liu Zhen, all the way to Hangzhou, all the way to Shezhou.

After temporarily placing the purchased prisoners in several mansions that he had won, Li Nan also took the steward and guards of the Tongfu Mansion to the north by boat.

With the Tongfu steward present, no one dared to stop the official ship along the way, and after a few days, Li Nan finally saw the long-lost Tokyo City.