"What's important?" Yang Shidao.

"Mr. Yang, let me give you an analysis of the situation in Hanzhong first! At present, in Hanzhong, it is nominally His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who has the highest status, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is young after all, and it is Li Gang, Zhe Keqiu and others who are really in charge! Zhao Ding said.

"Not bad!" Yang Shi nodded.

"Especially if you want it, he has more than 100,000 troops in his hands! Today, we entered the Han Palace, and the guards in the Han Palace are all subordinates! In troubled times, military power is the heaviest! In my opinion, Zhe Keqiu now has the greatest power in Hanzhong! Whether it is the crown prince or Li Gang, it is actually impossible to compete with Zheke! Zhao Ding said.

Yang Shi nodded again!

"We don't know if Zhe Keqiu is really loyal to the crown prince or if he has other intentions, so we have to stay here and observe!" Zhao Dingdao.

"Other thoughts?" Yang Shi was puzzled.

"The prince is young, and when the prince ascends the throne, he can coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, just like Cao Cao in the late Han Dynasty!" Zhao Ding sneered.

"Ahh Yang Shi stayed there, incredulous, and said, "In this way, isn't this the biggest traitor in the world?" ”

Zhao Ding nodded and said, "Not bad!" If he really has such a mind, he is the biggest traitor in the world! Emperor Jianyan is a child of the royal family, a descendant of Taizu Taizong, even if he inherits the throne, people all over the world talk about it, it is nothing, the Great Song Dynasty is still in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty! Whether it is Emperor Jianyan or the crown prince, they are all family! It's worth it, this is a real outsider! ”

"It's so ambitious! Why didn't I see it? Yang Shi said.

"Just a guess! So, we're going to stay and watch for a while! Let's see if Zhe Keqiu is really loyal to the prince! If Zhe Keqiu is loyal to the crown prince, then Hanzhong will naturally be monolithic, and it will be very difficult for Emperor Jianyan to deal with Hanzhong in the future! If we have other thoughts, and there is civil strife in Hanzhong, it will be much easier for us to deal with Hanzhong! Zhao Ding said.

"Not bad! Not bad! Lord Zhao, it seems that you are quite wise! Yang Shi said in surprise.

Zhao Ding smiled and said, "There is a second reason why we stay here!" ”

Yang Shi frowned, he thought carefully for a while, couldn't think of a reason, and said, "Lord Zhao, tell me quickly!" I can't guess! ”

Zhao Ding said: "This second reason is Quduan!" ”

"Curved ends?" Yang Shidao: "What does it have to do with him?" ”

"Qu Duan is in the northwest, control 100,000 troops! If Quduan can be used by Emperor Jianyan, then he can go south to take Dasanguan, enter Hanzhong from Dasanguan, and destroy the prince! Even if the prince can't be destroyed, Quduan is in the northwest, blocking the prince's exit, making it difficult for the prince to come out of Hanzhong, and the prince will not have much development in the future! When the crown prince ascends the throne, Qu Duan is likely to go south to watch the ceremony, so we will take the opportunity to persuade Qu Duan! Zhao Ding said.

"Not bad! Lord Zhao's idea is extremely second! If we can convince Quduan, then the prince will be like a fish in his throat, and he will always face the threat of Quduan! Qu Duan is a general of the Western Army, and his courage is more than he can seek! At that time, it will be the end of the prince and the bargain! Yang Shi said happily.

"These days, we still have to move around Hanzhong a lot and contact the officials in Hanzhong a lot! If the officials of Hanzhong are willing to follow Emperor Jianyan, then it is the best! Zhao Ding said.

"Yes! Let's do it! Yang Shi said.

At the moment, the two discussed how to persuade Qu Duan and contact the officials in Hanzhong, not to mention it!

*** ***

At this moment, in the distant northwest Jingyuan City, it turned out to be a scene of rolling yellow sand!

There are many deserts in the northwest, and it is normal for sandstorms to occur in spring and summer.

Dozens of miles east of Jingyuan City, an army is advancing! The formation of this army is very neat, even if the sandstorm comes, there is not much confusion in the formation! The soldiers all bowed their heads and strode forward!

"It's too windy, let the brothers find a place to rest for a while!" The leader was a tall general, who was riding on a horse, wearing an ordinary military uniform, and holding a Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand! At this moment, he waved the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand and said loudly!

He looked to be in his forties, and his face was resolute and chic! He has a shaven beard on his face, and he hasn't shaved it in a long time, but that doesn't affect his handsome appearance! He always seems to have a smile on his face, and he looks extremely chic!

Soon, under his leadership, the army found a ruined village, and the soldiers took refuge in the village's houses!

The middle-aged general also got off his horse and came to a dilapidated house!

A literati in his twenties followed the middle-aged general into the dilapidated house, this literati looked a little thin and pale, but his eyes were unusually bright!

The middle-aged general had already sat down at this moment, he took out a huge gourd from his waist, he opened the lid of the gourd, and suddenly the smell of wine filled the entire room!

The middle-aged general sighed and praised while drinking a big drink, and after a while he put down the gourd and said with a smile: "It's really good wine!" Wang Shu, do you want to have a few bites? ”

The young literati shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I can't drink those spirits in the general's gourd!" I've got clean water here! ”

The young literati took out a skin bag, which was filled with water, he took a few sips, and breathed a great sigh of relief, and then stopped!

"Wang Shu, you say, will there be danger when we go to Hanzhong this time?" The middle-aged general said.

The wind outside was whistling, but the middle-aged general didn't seem to hear it at the moment, he just looked at the young literati intently, waiting for the young literati to answer.

"Rest assured, general, there will not be the slightest danger! We have an army of 100,000 in Jingyuan Road! With these 100,000 troops, who would dare to disadvantage the generals? Besides, although the general's martial arts are not the best in the world, there are few enemies! Even thousands of troops will not be able to stop the general! What is the general afraid of? The young literati laughed.

"Not bad! You're right! I joined the army when I was more than ten years old, and I have experienced hundreds of battles in the past 20 years, and I have never been afraid! This Hanzhong is the Longtan Tiger's Den, and I want to break through! The middle-aged general smiled!

It turned out that this middle-aged general was none other than the world-famous Jingyuan Road Envoy!

Among the Western Army, Quduan is definitely famous!

If it is said that among the older generation, the most famous are the Seed Master Dao, the Seed Master, the Folding Keqiu and others, the most famous among the younger generation are Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and others, and among the middle-aged generation, the most famous is only Qu Duan! In the middle-aged generation, there is no one who can compare with Qu Duan!

At that time, Qu Duan was a subordinate of the Seed Master Dao, and he was trained by the Seed Master Dao as a "successor"!

Historically, in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a popular saying "There is a literary and martial arts is Qu Da, and there is courage and resourcefulness is Wu Da", which refers to the two strongest people in the Western Army at that time, one is Qu Duan, and the other is Wu Jie! At that time, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and others followed Zhao Gou to Jiangnan, and they were no longer considered to be in the Western Army, and Wu Jie's repeated defeats of Jin Bing made him famous, but he had only just caught up with Quduan!

Qu Duan is upright and arrogant, so he is not popular in officialdom! Especially later, he offended Zhang Jun (not Zhang Jun), the then Sichuan-Shaanxi Xuanfu envoy, and was killed by Zhang Jun, when Qu Duan was only 41 years old!

When the people of Guanshan learned that Qu Duan was killed, "don't hesitate to do it"! Before he died, "many Shu people have written to sue for grievances"! After the death, "the soldiers and people near and far, all of them were hateful when they heard the death, and there were those who could not go down for several eclipses", "The soldiers of Shaanxi were all sobbing and hateful, and there were defectors"!

The young scholar next to him is Quduan's strategist Wang Shu! This Wang Shu is a jinshi of the Huizong Dynasty, who once served as a magistrate, and was later recommended by Qu Duan to become a member of the Jingyuan Army! Qu Duan's trust in Wang Shu is abnormal, and the two of them almost have nothing to say, nothing to talk about!

"Wang Shu, you said that if I followed the seed master to Hebei back then, and the Hezhong family army and the Jingyuan army were together, would I be able to compete with the Jurchens?" Qu Duan laughed for a while, and then suddenly said.

"I'm afraid I can't!" Wang Shu said.

"Why not? The Seed Army is the strongest army in the Western Army! Although my Jingyuan army is not as good as the family army, it is not far behind, far better than the Zhejia army, the Yao family army and other departments! With the two armies combined into one, with a total strength of more than 200,000, can't they still compete with the Jurchens? Qu Duan said.

"When the family army encountered the Jurchens, they were defeated by thousands of soldiers and horses of the Jurchens' vanguard before they encountered the main force of the Jurchens! General, you're gone, I'm afraid it's the same! Wang Shu shook his head and said.

"Humph! I don't believe that the Jurchens can defeat the adults so easily! I heard that the seed master was seriously ill at that time, which must have been a reason for the defeat of the seed army! Qu Duan said.

"Not bad!" Wang Shu nodded silently and stopped talking about this topic.

"Wang Shu, do you think the Jurchens will go south? Can they destroy our Great Song? After a while, Qu Duan asked again.

"Naturally, the Jurchens will go south! They are greedy and have repeatedly gone south to rob wealth and population, and they will naturally do so in the future! However, they want to destroy our Great Song, but they are afraid that they can't! Wang Shu said.

"Oh? Why? Qu Duan said.

"One, we have a large number of people in the Great Song Dynasty, the Jurchen invasion, and the people have resisted! The further south the Jurchens, the greater the resistance! Both, His Royal Highness King Kang and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince seem to pay a lot of attention to force, King Kang has hundreds of thousands of troops under him, and His Royal Highness the Prince has the danger of the Folding Army and Sichuan Shu! Of the three, the Jurchens are not the same as they were back then! Wang Shu said.

"How are the Jurchens different from back then?" The way of incomprehension.

"The Jurchens had just come out of the deep mountains and old forests, and they only had a population of hundreds of thousands, but they wanted to challenge the Khitan Great Liao! At that time, they could only win if they were united and fearless of hardships and dangers! Now the Jurchens have destroyed Daliao and occupied Hebei, Hedong and other places! They are no longer the barbarians who once lived in the deep mountains and old forests, but the strong clans that own the northern flower world! There are few people in the world who can compete with them, and they are afraid that they will have a good time! Wealth erodes people, I think the Jurchen's military strength is going to drop greatly! Those Jurchen generals are afraid that many people are also greedy for wealth and refusal to continue to fight in the south! Wang Shu said.

Qu Duan thought for a moment and nodded!

Wang Shu seemed to be thinking about something at the moment, and after a while, Wang Shu said violently: "General, the world is chaotic, you have to plan early!" ”

Qu Duan was stunned for a moment and said, "Make plans early?" What are you going to do? ”

Wang Shu said: "King Kang ascended the throne in Shangqiu, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is about to ascend the throne in Hanzhong!" The Great Song is no longer the Great Song of the past! As the saying goes, there are no two days in the sky, and there are no two masters in the country, how will the general choose? ”

"This ......" Qu Duan frowned and said, "The Jurchen invasion is eyeing my Great Song Dynasty, and King Kang and the crown prince are actually arguing at this time!" I don't know what to do anymore! Ay! ”

"General, I've been thinking about this all these days! I have three strategies for the general! Wang Shu said.