In Guihua Prefecture, Zheng Zhi finally arrived here with 30,000 cavalry, and put down the pass to the northwest, which is the vast grassland.

Hu Yanzhuo has been stationed in Guihua Prefecture, and when Zheng Zhi went south, all the henchmen who were not related to him stayed in the land of Yanyun.

Hu Yanzhuo seemed to be waiting for Zheng Zhi's arrival, but the camp tent had not yet been placed, and Hu Yanzhuo had already hurriedly opened his mouth to report: "Lord Wang, the scouts of the last general have found something strange outside the pass in the past few days. ”

When Zheng Zhi heard this, he asked suspiciously: "In addition to naturalization, it should be the Mo Gesi Department, wasn't this department defeated because of helping the Liao people resist Jin?" Why do you dare to go outside the gates? ”

Hu Yanzhuo shook his head when he heard this, and replied, "It's not the grassland Dadan people, but the Jin people. Recently, some ironclad cavalry can always be seen outside the pass, although there are not many of them, but they are not far from the pass, and the last general thinks that this matter must be a little strange. ”

Looking at Zheng Zhi again, he was already frowning, and he was even more puzzled in his heart, it stands to reason that at this time, the Jurchens should chase Yelu Yanxi to the north and west, and there are Jurchen cavalry in addition to naturalization, and there are already some problems with this matter.

"How far can the scouts go?" Zheng Zhi asked again.

"The farthest is only forty or fifty miles, that is, the scout came back and said, I always feel that these Jin people have some problems, as long as the scout goes out, there will be Jin people to follow, and the attitude of the Jin people is also quite bad, but the language is not clear, it is difficult to communicate. So the scouts didn't dare to go any further. Hu Yanzhuo carefully explained the situation again.

Zheng Zhi's face was gloomy, he thought for a moment, and said, "Hmph... It seems that it is difficult to get along. ”

Even Zheng Zhi didn't expect it in his heart, he thought that the Jurchens should not deal with him so quickly, but he didn't think that the Jurchens had already begun to take precautions at this time.

The Jurchens obviously knew that Zheng Zhi was going to enter the grassland, and they said this when Zheng Zhi would not meet with Mu Han and Yu Li. Then there is no need to explain and speculate about the activities of the Jurchens outside the pass now.

When Wu Yong heard this, he said with a slightly sad face: "Your Highness, now that the Jurchens have already prepared, should we also make more preparations?" ”

Zheng Zhi shook his head, and said: "Go out of the pass first, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and the pass is the vast grassland, there is no point in making any preparations, and the brave will win when they meet on the narrow road." For the sake of now, it is necessary to put the logistical baggage and the army together, and not to leave the team, even if the marching speed is slower. The other is to scatter all the scouts, two hundred miles. ”

Hu Yanzhuo heard the words and said: "Lord, the matter of scouts, I'm afraid it's not that simple, the men under the command of the last general are forty or fifty miles, and the Jin people are angry, if the scouts go out for two hundred miles, I'm afraid that there will really be a conflict." ”

Zheng Zhi's face turned grim, and he said coldly: "Let's see how to start a conflict, if you use a knife soldier, you will fuck him." ”

Zheng Zhi had already figured out the mode of getting along with the Jurchen in his heart, and what he said about etiquette and righteousness was mostly nonsense. This matter cannot be coaxed, and the tougher it is, the more beneficial it will be. As long as you coax it, it will only make the enemy gain an inch.

After Zheng Zhi finished speaking, he hit the horse and moved forward, Hu Yanzhuo and Wu Yong glanced at each other, and then followed forward.

Zhao Ji in the south also set off for a long time, 20,000 troops have entered the west of Huainan, stationed in Huangzhou, Qizhou, the two places guarded the main road from Huaixi to the south of the Yangtze River, whether it is land or the Yangtze River waterway, are guarded here. It is to block Wang Qingdong's way.

Zhao Ji himself was stationed in Shouzhou after the army, and it was unrealistic to ask the emperor to go to the front line after all, especially Zhao Ji, who was good at escaping, it was even more difficult, and the gentleman did not stand under the dangerous wall, and the excuse was easy.

After Wang Qing won the territory of Nuoda, he was not in a hurry to expand outward, that is, under Wang Qing, the eighty-six counties were not even worthy of a literate county magistrate in each county.

In this big territory, everything came too easily and too suddenly, and it also exceeded Wang Qing's own expectations. If we can't build a basic administrative system, we can't really get real human and material resources. Relying on those bandits under his command to rob the state capital is not a long-term solution after all.

Emperor Zhao Ji blocked the way to the east, and the western army from the north also entered the north of Beijing. A big war is also brewing.

The Daimyo's Mansion goes to the north, the Zhending Mansion goes to the south, and the middle place is Xingzhou (Xingtai), Zheng Zhi's Sun Shengchao is from Xingzhou, but Xingzhou is not far from Taiyuan. There is a figure near Xingzhou, Xu Jing of Hanging Urn Mountain, who is the person who defeated Sun Shengchao with a gun.

Originally, Xu Jing was originally a person from Zhending Mansion (Shijiazhuang) and worked as a guard teacher for a large family, but because his wife was born beautiful, he was coveted by the prefect, so he forced Xu Jing's wife to death. Xu Jing naturally wanted to kill people and take revenge, so he fell into the grass. In the mountains, he fed a group of minions of all sizes, and he had nothing to rob the merchants, so he lived a chic and comfortable life.

But recently, there has been a lot of people in Xu Jing's cottage, and in the state capital and county, everyone knows that Xu Jing's subordinates are strong and strong, and they can't avoid it. I don't want to pay a visit to the mountain recently.

Most of the people who visited the meeting were people wearing Confucian shirts, with a few small people, carrying wooden boxes. Among the people who went up to the mountain to pay a visit, there was one from the big family of Xingzhou Beidi, surnamed Sun, who made a living from medicine in his early years, and was a descendant of Sun Simiao, the self-proclaimed king of medicine, and his family background was quite solid.

When I got this generation of Sun Shouli, suddenly the ancestral tomb smoked, and he actually got a jinshi in Tokyo, and now he has eight out of sixty. If you want to say that this Sun Shouli has also seen the world, it is Wang Anshi Xianggong and Su Dongpo Bachelor, this Sun Shouli has seen it in person when he was in Tokyo, and he has also accompanied him to eat wine and poetry at the last table.

After twenty or thirty years, he has been a parent official in many places. In the end, he got a four-rank from the Tokyo Military Department. Although this Sun Shouli is not a big man in Tokyo. But in the past twenty or thirty years, the Sun family in Xingzhou has become a wealthy family, and it is many times more developed than when medicine was a living. In the north of Xingzhou, there are two or three hundred thousand acres of fields, both good and bad.

Land annexation is all too normal. As for the means of land annexation, there is no need to say more, you and I are too little, and it is more than enough to buy and sell, and if you run into a good land boundary and set a trap to seize it, it is not a problem. Although most of these things were not done by Sun Shouli himself, the family was huge, and the children under the big tree had a lot less constraints, not to mention the government.

As long as you come to Xingzhou to be an official, after meeting Sun Shouli, you can feel at ease with such an official position. If Sun Shouli is not satisfied, it will not be long.

If you want to say that when Sun Shengchao was wandering on the streets of Xingzhou, he relied on the same surname, and he once wanted to climb his relatives, but he was driven out by someone with a stick, and Sun Shengchao, who was not afraid of heaven and earth at that time, only scolded a few words in his mouth, and did not dare to offend more. is such a big belonging, and there are really hundreds of thugs in the yard.

Now Sun Shouli, since a team of knights in the yamen sent a document stamped with the seal of the Yan Wangfu, he has never slept well. Within three days, two or three hundred thousand acres of land deeds will be sent, where is Sun Shouli willing, but now the situation is stronger than people, Sun Shouli has no other way, looking at the one or two thousand ironclad soldiers stationed in Xingzhou City, Sun Shouli can't help but disagree.

The title deed was handed over, and the government also remade the title deed and issued it to the people. But it was the two thousand iron armor that left and went to the Daimyo's Mansion.

Sun Shouli also sent people to Tokyo to send a lot of letters, some to his former colleagues, and some directly to the Criminal Department or the Imperial Historical Tower. All of them are sunk in the sea, and there is no news.

There are also one or two letters back, which mostly mean embarrassment and impossibility, but there are also hints, implying that Sun Shouli relied on the thugs in the home and the fame of the place, and contacted the people of the township party to resist together.

Sun Shouli looked at the fewer and fewer nursing homes in the family, and listened to the complaints of the nearby families, but he hit Xu Jing with his idea. Even I know that I can't rely on my own nursing homes, and it's even more difficult to rely on these big families nearby who only know sighs.

Sun Shouli, who was eight out of sixty, came to see Xu Jing in person with a hundred and ten people and a team of carriages.

Of course, Xu Jing also knows who this Sun Xianggong is, and it is impossible to see it usually, that is, although Xu Jing's subordinates have hundreds of minions, they don't dare to fight the idea of the Sun family, and now that Sun Xianggong has come to the door in person, Xu Jing naturally does not dare to slack off.

In the cottage, Sun Shouli was not afraid at all, and walked straight into the Juyi Hall with his old legs.

Xu Jing got up and bowed to Sun Shouli, Sun Shouli was on crutches, but he only nodded slightly, and then sat down on his own.

"I don't know what the old minister Sun is looking for this time, what's the matter?" Xu Jing doesn't care if Sun Shouli doesn't greet him, it's this society, in people's hearts, people like Sun Lao Xianggong are not ordinary people, such a famous literati etiquette, Xu Jing can't stand it and thinks it should be.

Sun Shouli didn't answer immediately, but picked up the tea that had just been presented on the coffee table, drank a sip, but didn't swallow it, spit it out into the cup, and then put the cup back, before he spoke: "You are really poor in this cottage, and you don't even know what year the cup of tea is old, with a musty smell." ”

When Xu Jing heard this, he was quite embarrassed, so he had to reply: "The old minister forgive me, in this village, it is a place for grass and grass, and I can't pay attention to these things." ”

Sun Shouli pushed the crutch forward and said, "In the past, I heard that you have the heart to recruit peace, but I don't know if there is such a thing?" ”

When Xu Jing heard this, he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The old minister is really powerful, he has told others about this, Zhao'an is a good way, it is better than living in this cottage for the rest of his life, and he can also find a way out for the brothers." After all, falling grass is mostly a helpless move. ”

When Sun Shouli heard this, he nodded and said, "Well, the way of the world is different now, and those who are perverse can even be kings." It is really a misfortune for the family and the country. ”

Sun Shouli naturally called Xu Jing to listen, Xu Jing obviously understood, and hurriedly said: "I have also heard about this matter below, it is this Yan King Zheng Zhi who took it by force and was the one who caused the disaster. Totally hateful! ”

Sun Shouli looked at Xu Jing again, and felt that this Xu Jing was more upright, and said: "Seven or eight years ago, the old man sent a letter from the Tokyo Military Department, and there are still many colleagues in Beijing. ”

Xu Jing didn't understand anything at this time, and hurriedly said: "But according to the orders of the old minister, I will not hesitate to go to the soup and fight the fire." ”

When Sun Shouli heard this, he had already gotten up, that is, everything was expected, and he said: "It's not easy to come here, and you should return later." I brought you some blades and utensils, and some money and food, and you can practice in the stockade. In a few days, I will send someone to tell you about the matter. ”

When Xu Jing heard this, he still had some worries in his heart, and said: "Old minister, I heard that there are one or two thousand iron armors in Xingzhou City, and this matter needs to be discussed in the long run, and more manpower can be prepared." ”

Sun Shouli waved his hand and said, "How can the old man be such a brave and unscrupulous person?" Before acting, it is natural to calculate a lot. Now the iron armor has already left Xingzhou and arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion. Some of the soldiers under Zheng Zhi's command went to Yanyun, because they heard that they had a dirty relationship with the Jin people. Some of them were in the Daimyo's Mansion to guard against the imperial army, and the imperial court would raise a large army to the north at any time. Now this Xingzhou, except for some errands and the old and weak, is an empty city. If you make a meritorious service, the old man will have a good position with you. ”

When Xu Jing heard this, his face was overjoyed, and he arched his hand again and again and said: "Thank you for the old minister's promotion, and I will wait for the old minister's instructions to send instructions." ”

Sun Shouli heard Xu Jing's words, but he also showed a lot of joy, and even some disgust in his heart. It's not that he was forced to be helpless, Sun Xianggong is a son of a saint, how can he deal with bandits and bandits. It's really a loss of identity.

Things went smoothly, and Sun Shouli expected it. is that there is no such thing as Sun Xianggong near Xingzhou.

Seeing that Sun Shouli had already gotten up and gone out of the door, Xu Jing followed behind and asked for a farewell.