Autumn went to winter, and in a blink of an eye, at the beginning of December, a first snow fell one after another, making Kaifeng Mansion a world covered in silver.

On the morning of this day, a group of Song cavalry appeared on the side of the Yellow River in the north of Renqiu County, perhaps because of the winter, the number of people in Hebei who could not escape has been significantly reduced, and it has been half a month in a row, and the people of Hebei who have fled south every day are less than 100 people, and many porridge sheds have been canceled, leaving only the porridge sheds of the government and a very small number of people's porridge sheds.

Bao Yan Zhai's porridge shed is still in the Yellow River side of the White Horse Ferry, Li Daqi spent 20,000 yuan in Tangyin, the Yellow River north and south ferry and the capital to set up five porridge sheds, the Yellow River south of this porridge shed is one of them, but also the largest porridge shed, by Bao Yan Zhai a small steward is in charge, and recruit ten people to cook porridge every day, porridge.

At this time, there was only a short line of fugitives lined up in the greenhouse, only about fifty or sixty people, although the number was not large, but the people in the porridge shed were still very busy, and the little steward Zhang Jie maintained the order of the team before and after.

"There are good things today, the porridge is full, and there are two meat buns per person, but I have a word first, the buns can only be received once, and the porridge can be drunk casually!" Zhang Jie's voice was very high, and he specially said to a few people, these guys have been queuing up three times, aren't they just going for the meat buns?

Everyone laughed, and a middle-aged man said: "Don't be stingy, it's such a cold day, give a few more meat buns!" ”

"No! There are only two per person, and if you want to eat meat buns, you can go to Renqiu County in front of you to buy them, and Jiajialou has a big meat bun, ten cents a piece, which is much more delicious than our buns. ”

"What's the price going on?"

Someone screamed strangely: "Last year, it was only six cents a piece, why has it risen to ten cents this year." ”

"Now silver is expensive and cheap, every household takes out the money they save for silver, and the copper money on the market is several times more than before, of course, the price will rise, and a bun of ten cents is already a conscience price."

After Zhang Jie finished speaking, there was another heated discussion in the porridge shed, and the fugitives talked about the prices in their respective counties.

At this time, a guy shouted: "Steward Zhang, there is a team of officers and soldiers over there!" ”

When they looked back, they saw a troop of cavalry, about twenty people, walking in the snow to the east, in the direction of their porridge shed.

The leaders of this team of cavalry are Li Yanqing and Li Gang, Li Yanqing and Li Gang are here to investigate the freezing of the Yellow River, the situation is as they expected, the Yellow River has been completely frozen, and they can directly ride across the Yellow River, which makes Li Gang's mood extremely heavy, they have received information, the wolf lord of the Jin State is still in Yanshan Mansion, the Jin State has gathered 200,000 troops, and now the Yellow River is frozen, which means that the danger is getting closer and closer.

Li Yanqing is relatively calm, he has done what should be done in the past two months, if the Jin soldiers go south, they will not be caught off guard, although the current 30,000 township soldiers defending the city are still very lazy and do not have any training, but Li Yanqing does not expect the Xiang army to be able to hold the capital, if you want to hold the capital, you have to rely on 20,000 Jingzhao troops and 30,000 New Taipei Army.

"Li Shilang, there is Baoyan Zhai's porridge shed over there, why don't you go and sit down! Warm up with a few bowls of hot porridge. Li Yanqing pointed at the porridge shed two hundred steps away with a horsewhip and said with a smile.

Li Gang nodded, and everyone urged the horse to go to the porridge shed, and soon, the group arrived in front of the porridge shed, and the steward Zhang Jie greeted him, he recognized Li Yanqing at a glance, and couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, "Ah! It's the young proprietor. ”

"The villain Zhang Jie is the steward of the porridge shed, see the young proprietor!" Zhang Jie hurriedly saluted Li Yanqing.

Li Yanqing smiled and nodded, "Set up a few tables and stools, let's sit down and rest for a while." ”

Zhang Jie hurriedly arranged for his men to visit the table and bench, and asked people to take bowls of porridge, Li Yanqing and the others tied the horses outside the shed, and a group of soldiers walked into the shed and found a place to sit.

Li Yanqing and Li Gang sat down opposite each other at a small table, and Zhang Jie came up with a plate of steamed buns, "The young proprietor will eat a few steamed buns first, and he is scalding wine, and there will be two braised vegetables later." ”

"There's still wine here?" Li Yanqing asked in surprise.

"This ..... Isn't it cold in a nearby village, drinking to keep warm? ”

Zhang Jie said very vaguely, but he looked embarrassed, and Li Yanqing immediately understood, but he just smiled and didn't delve into it.

Zhang Jie was a little unable to hold on, he knew that the young proprietor must have understood, if he didn't make it clear and uncover this matter, he would not be able to eat and walk around in the future.

He had to blush, and explained: "Not all the people who fled south are poor, many are large families, they are not used to eating gruel, they want to drink a few cups, eat some side dishes, and are willing to spend money, but there are no taverns and teahouses nearby, so the villain ......"

"So you just make it easy for them and make a little money by the way, right?" Li Yanqing said with a smile.

"Exactly! But I definitely have no black heart, and I only make a small profit of 30%. Zhang Jie hurriedly explained.

Li Yanqing smiled dumbly, earning 30% is still called a small profit, it is estimated that it is compared with Baoyan Zhai's rouge perfume! He waved his hand, "Then bring out all the food and drinks, and we'll all wait!" ”

"The villain is going!"

Zhang Jie ran to prepare the wine and food in a panic, and Li Yanqing smiled and said to Li Gang: "The true character of a businessman, of course he will not let go if it is profitable." ”

But he didn't get a response to this, Li Yanqing was slightly stunned, and he realized that Li Shilang on the other side didn't listen to him at all, he didn't know what he was thinking, and he was completely distracted.

"Yanqing, I don't think this is good!"

Li Gang suddenly came back to his senses and said to Li Yanqing solemnly: "We must not let Yao Pingzhong's 30,000 Xiang troops defend the city, those Xiang troops have no training at all, and they have no actual combat experience, once the Jin people kill them, I am afraid they will collapse, and we must take back the right to defend the city." ”

In fact, what Li Gang is really worried about is Tong Guan, Yao Pingzhong is a little better, after all, he is from the Western Army, but he has been set up by Tong Guan, Tong Guan is a well-known general of the defeated army, and has been defeated repeatedly in recent years, half of the army of the Great Song Dynasty has been lost in his hands, if Tong Guan is allowed to preside over the city defense, I am afraid that Tokyo City will be broken by the Jin soldiers in half a day.

Li Gang has been thinking about this matter for the past two months, and the military council hall has never received military power, which makes his heart as heavy as pouring lead, until today he saw with his own eyes that the Yellow River has been frozen solidly, Li Gang finally has a sense of urgency, he must take over the power of city defense.

At this time, Zhang Jie brought the wine and food, Li Yanqing lifted the wine jug and poured a full glass of wine for Li Gang, and filled his own wine glass, so he said unhurriedly: "I didn't take this matter to heart from the beginning, Tong Guan got the command of the 30,000 Xiang Army, but it is only the current city defense right, once the war breaks out, the city defense power will change hands, I believe that Tong Guan will also throw it away quickly like hot coal." ”

"Not necessarily!" Li Gang shook his head, "Tong Guan takes power too seriously, and asks him to give up the military power of the 30,000 Xiang Army, how can he be willing to do it?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "I can't help him then." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Li Gang suddenly became interested, and he heard that Li Yanqing had something to say.

"It's not a secret, you can think of it."

Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "It's just that what almost happened half a year ago happened again." ”

Li Gang was stunned for a while, and then said cautiously: "It won't be that the official family is going south for the winter!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, Li Gang frowned, "But...... I heard that the palace in Hangzhou is far from being repaired, how can the official family go south? ”

Li Yanqing still shook his head, "If Jin Bing kills the Yellow River, he will have to leave if he doesn't leave." ”

Li Yanqing knew that when the Jin soldiers were killed, Zhao Ji would definitely abdicate and flee south, this is not a question of whether history has changed, but Zhao Ji's nature decides, he doesn't want to bear the historical responsibility that the Great Song Dynasty may lose the country, so he abdicated and let his son bear it for him, otherwise, with Zhao Ji's love stack, how could he be willing to give up the throne in his prime.

Li Gang understood what Li Yanqing meant, once the official family went south, Tong Guan would never stay in Beijing to be cleaned up, he would definitely follow the official family to the south, and at that time, the power of city defense would naturally return to the hands of the military council.

Li Gang sighed softly, "I hope it's as you say!" ”