Deputy Envoy Fan befriended the Jin general

The head of a thousand households confided the truth

Fan Zuliang made outstanding political achievements in Huizhou, and the praise was endless, and he wanted to be promoted to the health house to stay behind, from the fourth grade, because he wanted to go to the front line, and he had to be rearranged. This time, he was appointed as the deputy envoy, and he was the general of Han Yanxuan. He knew that he had to make a name for himself. As the boss, Li Shumi's focus is on saving people, and his effectiveness should be in finding out the reality of the Jin Kingdom. One light and one dark, it's even more difficult for him to do this.

The deputy envoy of the Jin State was called Machi Dara, in his thirties, and he was a fierce man under Busa, a newly promoted commander of a thousand soldiers, slender and tall, with a gray face. At first glance, you know that he is a hungry ghost.

Since there is plenty of time, there is no rush to travel. The companion envoy Sushi Lie Ziren suggested a few days in Haizhou. Consider the large number of people and act in groups. He Shengchen's envoy was accompanied by the envoy and the prefect of the king, and he, the deputy envoy, was in a group with Machi Dara.

In the afternoon of that day, Liu Sima of Haizhou Mansion accompanied the two deputy envoys to visit Gucheng Mountain. This mountain is not big, located in the east of the city, the northeast foot of Jinping Mountain. During the Tang Dynasty, this mountain was called Longxing Mountain.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, in the area of Tancheng, there was a small country called Tanguo, and the monarch had the surname, the viscount, and the person was called Tanzi. Tanzi Zhitan stresses morality, benevolence and righteousness, and grace and prestige, and the people are happy and convinced, so that the culture of Tandi is developed, the folk customs are pure, and some rules and regulations continue to be maintained, which has a very far-reaching impact on later generations. In the seventeenth year of Lu Zhaogong (525 B.C.), when Tanzi made the second pilgrimage to Lu, Zhaogong feasted and entertained. During the banquet, Dr. Lu's uncle Sun Zhaozi asked about the ancient emperor Shaohao's famous official with birds. Tan Zishu narrated the ancestors eloquently, and his profound knowledge made everyone in the audience admire. Confucius was twenty-seven years old at the time, and he was a petty official in the state of Lu, and when he heard about it, he went to see Tanzi to ask for advice. At that time, the east side of the mountain was the sea, and Confucius climbed this mountain and looked at the sea in the east, so the common people called it Kong Wangshan.

There is a Chengcha Pavilion on the mountain, which is just right to rest and enjoy the shade. According to the Analects, Confucius believed that Dongyi was different from the north, south and west, and that it had a benevolent culture and paid attention to etiquette. So he took his disciples to live in Dongyi. However, the center of the descendants of Shao Hao, the leader of Dongyi, was in the great valley of the OOC, and it was necessary to take a chariot, that is, a raft to cross the sea. When Confucius asked who was willing to go with him, no one answered, only Zilu was willing to take the risk. Confucius sighed very much: Riding on the sea, from my own reason!

Next to it, there is Zhang Lei's inscription poem "Autumn Denghaizhou Chengcha Pavilion", Fan Zuliang recited:

The wind on the sea is high and cool in August, and the water outside the pavilion is vast.

People are warm and fishing, and the mountain road is sunny and pine and cypress are fragrant.

Flying across the water, the sound of the oars is busy when the tide returns.

Where does the abbot of Penglai know? The smoke and waves are uneven in the slanting sun.

Taste carefully, the description of the field scenery is intimate and touching, quite the legacy of Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty.

Fan Zuliang was fascinated, seeing that Ma Chidala was so interested and bored, he couldn't help but feel disdain in his heart: a martial artist, a wine bag and a rice bag!

After the evening was full of wine and food, Liu Sima sent a beautiful woman to the two deputy envoys, Fan Zuliang said to Ma Chi Dara, I have been unwell these days, I have no blessing, this beauty is also yours, you enjoy it, and give him 200 taels of silver.

For three days in a row, this was the case.

Ma Chidala asked Fan Zuliang privately, Deputy Envoy Fan, you take such care of your brother, there is nothing you need your brother to do for you? If you do, as long as you don't go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, my brother will definitely do it for you!

Fan Zuliang smiled slightly, I don't have anything to ask you to do, I just want to make friends with you, a bold and righteous person.

On the way out, Fan Zuliang found that the portraits painted in the Guangwu Temple were all with bare left arms, so he said to the local officials who received them: "Emperor Guangwu was originally orthodox in China, neatly dressed, and his left arm was bare, which is not the style of the orthodox dynasty." "The other party was ashamed, humbly accepted the criticism, and said that the portrait should be revised.

After crossing the Yellow River, seeing that there were many people on the road, they were in a hurry, and asked Machidala about the civil strife in the Xinzhou area. Yang Yuandao saw that Li Shizhang was very calm, so he encouraged everyone: "We are originally officials of the imperial court, shouldering the mission of the imperial court, as a husband, we must be heroes who stand up to the sky." If we go, the worst outcome is just death, death can be left in history, and greed for life will be ridiculed and shamed by future generations. After stabilizing everyone's emotions, the two formulated three contingency strategies.

After arriving in Yanjing, he learned that the civil unrest in Xinzhou had been suppressed, and that Jingshi was in the middle of summer, calm as water, and the Dajin Emperor Wanyan Jing and the concubine Li Shi'er went out to escape the summer.

When Fan Zuliang learned that Ma Chi Dala was going home, he gave him ten colored satin, and took out a golden bracelet and gave it to Ma Chi Dara: this was for Mrs. Ling.

Two days later, Ma Chi Dara returned and brought Yang Yuandao two mink skins and a box of mountain ginseng. When the two of them drank alone in the tavern.

When the wine was hot, Ma Chidala took Fan's hand and said: Brother Fan, I am a rough person, uneducated, during this time, you have been so good to me, I am grateful, if you don't let me do something for you, I feel uncomfortable.

Seeing that he was sincere, the amount of alcohol was four or five percent, and his mind was still very clear, and he thought that the time was right. He introduced his own situation to him and expressed his worries.

The old father, Fan Chengda, participated in the governor's political affairs, and has been dead for almost ten years, and his mother is in good health, almost eighty. The eldest brother Fan Zuguang is handsome in Hubei, more than 60 years old, and the second brother Fan Zujin was originally an official in Honglu Temple, since this spring, he has been seriously ill and recuperated in his hometown of Yuezhou Shanyin, and there are three sisters and a younger sister, all of whom are married. It is said that this big family, with four generations in the same house, parents are alive and well, and children are complete, and it is also a happy family. But because of the second brother, Gaotang's old mother was worried and didn't know how to eat.

Machidara has inquired about these circumstances clearly, and there is no truth in the slightest. He interjected: The two Changbai Mountain old ginseng I gave are filial piety to the elderly.

Zu Liang thanked the commander of the thousand, and Yang Yuandao hugged his fists and saluted.

Brother, do you know, there are three things that we Han people are most afraid of. One is the loss of a father in a young age, the loss of a wife in middle age, and the loss of a son in old age. For my family, parents are most afraid of their children's misery.

Before leaving Lin'an, Fan Zuliang specially went back to Shihu to visit his parents and second brother, his mother had no problems, the second brother's face was fine, but he was very weak, and the prospects were not optimistic. Hearing that he was going to the country, the old man did not show any joy, and repeatedly told him to pay attention to safety and go back well. Talking about today's major events, the old mother was afraid that the war between Song and Jin would resume. Some time ago, the border sergeants rioted, Jin established the Henan Xuanfu Envoy in Bianliang, with the veteran general Bu Sanyu sitting in the town, many officials and people in the capital were uneasy, the two countries have negotiated a truce for more than 40 years, the people of Tai and the people are safe, how good, don't fight, the war is open, the dead and wounded are all living people. The old father was worried that if the two countries were out of peace, as the boss of Hubei, he would inevitably put on armor and go into battle, he was 63 years old, he had read books all his life, and he was used to holding a pen, how could he dance with a gun and a stick.

The old man told him: Fourth, after you arrive in the Jin Kingdom, take a good look at whether the Jin Kingdom is preparing to attack the Song Kingdom, and make it clear to the emperor and civil and military officials of the Jin Kingdom that our Song Kingdom does not want to fight, and friendly coexistence is the only correct way.

Fan Zuliang explained the situation in one go, and Magdala understood. Speaking of which, it is nothing more than one, does the Jin State currently have a plan to attack the Song State? Yes, to what extent? No, why did you set up a Henan Xingtai?

Ma Chidala smiled, don't you Deputy Envoy Fan want to inquire about our country's military situation, you don't need to go around in such a big circle. I can responsibly tell you that Jin Guo will not take the initiative to provoke war against Song for three to five years. Why? Most people are also reluctant to fight, and now the number one enemy of the Jin State is Mongolia.

These Mongols are very powerful, we fight with them, win less and lose more, just like when the Jin State fought your Song State. I can also tell you that now Mongolia is planning to establish a state, Genghis Khan is going to be the emperor, and he is now sending troops to attack Western Xia, and if he destroys Western Xia, he will take the initiative to attack our two countries.

He stared at Yang Yuandao and said mysteriously, if you don't believe it, you can inquire again, I said something wrong, it is an animal.

The old brother is serious.

As it turned out, what Machidara said was true.

A few days later, Fan Zuliang met Du Youde in the northern suburbs of Yanjing. Since last spring, Du Youde has lived in Yanjing and opened a trading house that trades grain, silk and tea.

This is the second time the two have met in a foreign place. The information that Du Youde has is similar to what Magdala said. Of course, the situation of the Jin army is more specific. At present, the total number of Jin troops is about 200,000, more than half of which are in the northwest and northeast frontiers to deal with Mongolia and Western Xia, and there are still 60,000 or 70,000 troops near the Beijing Division, and less than 30,000 troops under the command of the Henan pacification envoy. In terms of military strength, the strength of the Jin army has declined, and it cannot be compared with the military strength of the southward invasion a few decades ago; As far as the army generals are concerned, the Jin army also lacks good generals, and there are only three famous ones, Wan Yanxiang, Bu Sanhua and Sushi Lie Ziren, and they are all old and frail; Speaking of the financial resources of the Jin State, it is also stretched, in the past, it took a lot to repair the boundary trenches, and the war with Mongolia and Western Xia consumed a lot, plus natural and man-made disasters, it was really overwhelming. It can be said that Jin not only will not take the initiative to provoke Song, but to a certain extent, he is afraid that Song will crusade against him, there will be strong enemies in the north, and there will be old grudges in the south, and Dajin's life will not be easy.

The Mongolian feathers have been abundant, Jin not only helpless, but by its containment, the Mongolian Wujin Mutai told that this time the Mongolian iron cavalry to conquer the Western Xia, is determined to win, do not achieve the goal will not stop, is in the prime of life Temujin personally set out to fight, it seems that the end of the Western Xia has come.