In the blink of an eye, it was February of the fourth year of Jingkang, and after the Jin army pacified the three prefectures of Ping, Luan, and Ying, they didn't know what they thought, but it took two months to move all the soldiers and civilians in the city to the hinterland of the Jin country, and drove the people to tear down the three cities into ruins, that is, to demolish Yuguan into a ruined wall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the end, after Yan Zongwang once again asked the Great Song Dynasty for 500,000 yuan in military expenses, he quickly withdrew from Yandong and returned this devastated land to the Great Song Dynasty again.

In May of that year, seeing that the Jin army was fighting every battle in Xijing (now Datong, Shanxi) of the Liao State, the armies of the western states of the Liao State surrendered to the Jin one after another. The Great Song Dynasty again started to think about it, and once again sent Zhao Liangsi to envoy Jin to express his willingness to increase the annual coins and ask Jin to return Xijing and its eight prefectures, including Wu (now Shenchi, Shanxi), Ying (now Yingxian County, Shanxi), Shuo (now Shuo County, Shanxi), and Wei (now Wei County, Hebei).

Wu Qimai said that he had followed the intention of Jin Taizu and returned the Yanjing area to the Great Song Dynasty, and now the Great Song Dynasty still wants Xijing and other places, but it is not such a price!

In the end, under the efforts of Zhao Liangsi, Wu Qimai said that he could allow Xijing and its prefectures and counties to return the land and households to the Song, and no longer ask for another annual coin, as long as a one-time military fee, the price offered is 8 million guan, that is, one million guan per state, which is not too expensive.

However, after the news spread, Wanyan Zonghan, the commander of the Western Army of the Jin State stationed in Xijing, strongly opposed it, and Wanyan Zongwang, who personally led the troops to quell Zhang Yu's rebellion, also resolutely disagreed. And Wanyan Zongwang used the Song Dynasty's acceptance of Zhang Jue as a reason to accuse the Song Dynasty of violating the covenant and recruiting rebellion, and he also proposed to Wu Qimai that the West is still unstable, and Emperor Tianzhen, who is far away in Zhenzhou, is recruiting troops and horses and is preparing to attack the eastern front of the Jin State. If Xijing and other prefectures and counties were returned to the Song at this time, the Jin army would lose its cantonment, and in the event of a war, the Jin state would have no basis to defend and it would be difficult to hold on.

After Wu Qimai listened to Zong Wang's opinion, he immediately changed his tune and raised the price in Xijing to 16 million guan, and finally under Zhao Liangsi's arguments, Wu Qimai was forced to make concessions, and spent 3 million guan to redeem Wu and Shuo, which were chicken ribs for the Jin State and had no strategic value.

In this regard, the Zhao official family was naturally still overjoyed, and praised the meritorious minister Zhao Lianghe, first he was already an official to the Yankang Palace, promoted to the Shangqing Palace, and he was named the hereditary Shuozhou Jiedu envoy, and then he was named the Marquis of Wu'an.

However, Zhao Liangsi, who had already been crowned a marquis, was unusually calm at this time, and it seemed that he had keenly smelled the bloody breath that had escaped from the border between Song and Jin, so Zhao Liangsi officially asked Zhao Guanjia to resign at the court meeting on the first day of August in the fourth year of Jingkang.

At the court meeting, Zhao Liangsi said to the Zhao official family and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty: "In the past, in the northern country, I formed a righteous alliance with Liu Fan, Li Shuang, and my brother Ma Rouji, who were heroes in Yanzhong, and wanted to return to the dynasty after occupying the thistle, sprinkle wine under the Arctic Temple, and swear to the heavens, and when I succeed in the future, I will be a common man to express my heart. Relying on His Majesty's Welling, this matter has been successfully accomplished, how can I break my vows when I remember my former vows? I hope that I will be allowed to resign from the government and let me buy land and return to farming, so that people with insight will say: 'This is Pingyan's mastermind, and it is really a good thing in the world to be able to ask for resignation and live idlely.' 'Otherwise, I dare to deceive even the gods, what else can I not do?' ”

However, even this rhetoric failed to impress Zhao Guan's family, and he resigned three times in a row, but Zhao's official family was not allowed. Soon in the winter of the fourth year of Jingkang, he suddenly had a serious illness, even if Zhao Guanjia sent all the imperial doctors in the Ouchi Imperial Medical Bureau to treat him, but it was useless, and at this time Zhao Liangsi's family heard that there is now a Longshan Academy in Huangzhou on Huainan West Road, it is said that there is a Taoist Qi Huang master who can rejuvenate the hand in the academy to give lectures, so he asked the brigadier Zhao Liangsi to send him to Huangzhou for medical treatment.

Zhao Guanjia saw that the imperial doctor in the palace was indeed helpless, so he could only approve it.

But at this time, he also remembered his son-in-law Huang Jie, who had been recuperating in Huangzhou for more than a year, and when he wrote to ask, he also learned that Huang Jie's condition had not improved, and now it was all up to the Taoist Qi Huang Gaoren who sat in Longshan Academy to heal him and continue his life, so Zhao Guanjia also broke off the idea of getting him back to Tokyo.

On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month of Jingkang, a few snows have fallen in Tokyo City thousands of miles away at this time, but Huangzhou, which is close to the Yangtze River, is still shining with warm winter sun.

But seeing that on the two-way four-lane road in front of the city, five well-made four-wheeled carriages were coming rapidly, and the coachman quickly turned into Huangzhou after asking the road at the fork in front of the city.

Soon, the carriage also came to the south gate of Huangzhou not far and stopped, and helped down a richly dressed middle-aged man from the car, but seeing that the man's lips were seriously cyanotic and his face was sallow, he just looked for a passer-by who didn't understand the medicine stone to look at him, but I was afraid that nine times out of ten he would conclude that this person was afraid that he was terminally ill.

It is said that the middle-aged man slowly walked to a lively market in front of the south gate with the support of two maids, but saw that on the market entrance, there was a huge stone gatehouse erected on the side of the road, and a huge plaque on the gatehouse was written with the words "Shihui Street".

And under the plaque, now it is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people, take a closer look only to find that someone on the side of the gatehouse has set up a stall is making porridge, but see that the stall of the porridge is ten zhang long, although the dozen or so ladies who are responsible for the porridge are all dressed in cloth clothes, but the people who received the porridge are respectfully bowing, and the etiquette is not ambiguous at all.

The middle-aged man stood on the side of the road and looked at it for a while, and then he also saw a young man wearing a coarse cotton robe and a sallow face After carrying a bucket of hot porridge to the stall, he hurriedly took two steps forward and said solemnly: "Engong! And be worshiped by the good heir! ”

The young man smiled and grinned, so he hurriedly helped Zhao Liangsi up, and said with a smile: "Why are you in such a hurry?" I'm going to have to do it at least twelve! However, it's better to come early, today my family came to Shelaba porridge, and since you have caught up, why not eat a bowl? ”

Saying that, the young man laughed, and then went to make a bowl of hot laba porridge, handed it to Zhao Liangsi and said: "Come on, come on, eat it hot, and keep the cold on your body to retreat!" ”

Zhao Liangsi came with a bowl, looked at the hot laba porridge in the bowl, and the snow sugar piled up on the noodles, and couldn't help but burst into tears, and said to the young man: "Engong! The good heir is just a person who moves his lips and tongues, what is the use of being with Engong? ”

The young man laughed, pointed to the north and said, "My Longshan Academy is recently preparing to open a new school, called International Relations and Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs. After thinking about it, only you, Zhao Liangsi, are the most suitable to be the professor of this science! (To be continued.) )