I heard that my sister was sick on the road, and I don't know if she has recovered, so sit down and say? He Shuying smiled faintly. When women reach their thirties, they basically don't dare to laugh casually, because when they smile, their faces are prone to wrinkles. But He Shuying's face is very well maintained, and there is no trace of lines.

"It's good to have my sister's concern." Zhang Jiujiu also smiled slightly. You can't expect a fù person in Shaanxi to be as well maintained as he is in Jiangnan. The two sisters sat still, He Shuying's gaze never left her cousin's face for a moment, and Zhang Jiu slowly lowered her head slowly and habitually did not look at her cousin.

"It's been more than ten years, right? Since my cousin went to Shaanxi with Xu Wei, "I haven't moved around again." I wonder how my cousin has been doing all these years? He Shuying asked.

"Fortunately, although your cousin-in-law is a soldier, he still takes care of his family. The brothers and concubines of the Xu family, three relatives and six dependents are all in Shaanxi, taking care of each other, and life is better. Zhang Jiujiu replied.

He Shuying still looked directly at her sister: "I can see that my cousin is very different from before, and Xu Wei should be very good to you." After the queen summoned her sister, the orders were all discussed, saying that Mrs. Xu had a good life, just marry a man who promoted Xuanang, and Xu Wei would guard you, and even a concubine would not be accepted. In this world, this kind of person is really rare. ”

Zhang Jiujiu didn't know if his cousin was really envious of her, or if he was sarcastic about her, and argued: "Your cousin-in-law has been carrying the safety of Sichuan and Shaanxi on his shoulders, and he has been fighting all these years, how can he take care of those?" At this point, without waiting for my cousin to speak, he rushed to say, "Besides, this is not a stalk I made." ”

He Shuying covered her mouth and smiled, and she didn't say anything more on this issue. Seeing this, Zhang Jiujiu asked rhetorically: ", I wonder why my brother-in-law didn't go back to his parents' house with his cousin? ”

"Oh, he'...... I can't get out of it. He Shuying said casually.

"I don't know where my brother-in-law is?" Zhang Jiujiu asked again. In her guess, with the status of her uncle He Guan, "my cousin must have married into a wealthy family."

"The Jin people returned Huaixi, and my officials led the army into the station." He Shuying replied vaguely.

Hearing this, "Zhang Jiujiu was the first to think of Li Xianzhong. Because a few days ago, Li Xianzhong also sent someone to worship her husband, saying that he was given the name of Xianzhong by the emperor, and led his troops to enter Huaixi Yunyun. But Li Xianzhong has just returned to China" is obviously impossible.

"Oh? I don't know who my name is? Which family? Your brother-in-law has an old friend in Huaixi, so you can take care of one or two. Zhang Jiu said.

He Shuying's face suddenly turned red, "She thought that her cousin's words were souring her, and replied lukewarmly: "My family official is the son of the general, and my father-in-law is now in charge of the Privy Council, and the uncle is the pacification envoy of Huaixi." ”

Zhang Jiujiu didn't mean anything else, just said it casually, but he didn't want to anger his cousin. She is in Hefu, although she is a cousin, she is actually no different from a master and servant, and she usually can't say a few words. Now seeing that her cousin is angry, she doesn't know what to say.

The two sisters were silent, and in the end, He Shuying opened her mouth to break the deadlock: "It's rare for my cousin to come back, so it's okay to stay at home for a few days." ”

When Zhang Jiujiu came, he planned to give a gift, "Say a few words and leave." Now I see that my aunt is rude, "I have nothing to say to my cousin, why do you want to stay longer?" When he was about to excuse himself," He Shuying said again: "By the way, when my cousin got married, some old things were never taken away. My family brought it from Tokyo when they moved south, and the next person sorted it out a few days ago, why don't you go and see it? ”

I have some interest in this September," He Shuying saw that she did not refuse, so she called the servant fù to take Zhang Jiujiu to go.

"Ma'am, please." The round face was less fù and waited for September to get up and go out, "turned around and glanced at He Shuying, and was looked at by her. As soon as her cousin left, she hurried away.

Speaking of this, Xu Wei was invited into He Guan's study. In fact, in the past few years, He Guan has spent most of his time in Jinghu and rarely goes home, and this study is in a sealed state. After Xu Wei came in, "I saw that although the room was neatly furnished, the door was covered with a layer of dust", obviously he hadn't cleaned it for a long time.

There are some books upside down on the shelf, but I believe that even He Guan and Xu Wei are not very interested, "It's just pretending." There are a few bows hanging in the city, and there are several knives lying on the shelf, which is estimated to be used by He Guan in the old days. After turning around, I went to the desk, and I wanted to sit behind the table, but I guessed that the chair could only wipe the ashes for others, so I gave up. In front of the bookshelf again, his eyes swept over the rows, wanting to see if there was any "Tongjian" written by this dynasty, which was the history book that Xu Wei had been reading in the recent period. As a result, he didn't find "Zizhi Tongjian", but he unexpectedly found several essays by He Guan.

It seems that it should have been written by He Taibao when he returned to the dynasty" is written about some of his stories and experiences on the front line. One of them is dedicated to writing that after the Jin people captured Xiangyang, "He and Li Gang urged Jiangxi Xuanfu again and again to send troops to counterattack, but Zhe Zhonggu's attitude flickered. In this essay, He Guan believes that "although the Zhe clan is loyal to the west", Xuanfu has the meaning of self-respect...... "directly criticizes Zhe Yan's suspicion of supporting the army and self-respect."

The other is an analysis of the situation of the enemy and the enemy, "I believe that although the Jin army is numerous, it is no longer as brave as it used to be, and it can be defeated." There is another one that particularly caught Xu Wei's attention, and this one was obviously only halfway through before he stopped writing. Among them, there is a sentence "Good ministers are loyal and brave, Pengju Shen Eagle, after Zhang's", these two people can rely on to do great things. ”

Pengju is undoubtedly Yue Fei, Liangchen Xu Wei is estimated to refer to Han Shizhong, his cousin is Liangchen, and Zhang's refers to the Zhang brothers. It seems that Han Yueer will also fight his way out of Jinghu all the way. He Guan is very old, and has rich experience in leading troops, and he is also the courage of Han Yue, the support of the imperial court, and the Shenwu rear army on Jinghu Road has a great future in the future.

The Shenwu front army of the Zhe family has always been the first-class main force in the south, and the Shenwu army led by Zhao Ding has also expanded to Huaixi. It is estimated that as long as the current strategy can be implemented smoothly, the period of the Northern Expedition will not be far off.

Xu Wei looked at it and put it back in place. Suddenly, he heard a slight sound of footsteps outside" He turned his head to look, and a moment later, a figure appeared at the door of the study.

The last time I saw her, the Xing Dynasty was still set up in Zhenjiang Mansion, and after a few years, she didn't seem to have changed much. Even compared with the first time I saw her more than ten years ago, "except for her body and face, she is almost still like that."

"Shuying, it's been a few years since I saw you." Xu Wei chuckled lightly. "What about cousin?"

He Shuying moved the lotus lightly and stepped into the room, "Her strange gaze never left Xu Wei.

She didn't pay attention to Xu Wei's clothes that marked the highest-ranking military minister, nor did she see the wat head gold belt specially given by the emperor on Xu Wei's waist, she only cared about Xu Wei's well-defined face, the skin and bones that made the wind and sand on the border soaked as strong as iron, and the eternal resolute and calm expression on that face, "Can't you leave her for a moment?" He Shuying asked softly.

Xu Wei was indifferent and said with a smile: "Shuying" This is not what my aunt should ask her brother-in-law, "call people......"

"Xu Wei." He Shuying's title made Xu Wei not very calm.

"Even if you don't call me a captain, you have to at least call me a cousin-in-law, and it's inappropriate to call me by my name." , Xu Wei is still laughing, but he feels a little weird in his heart.

He Shuying didn't respond" She stared at her cousin-in-law intently, and her face that couldn't find any flaws was gradually covered with sadness. Xu Wei saw the tears in her eyes, and saw her hands that were gradually clenched in front of her abdomen, this commander of the mighty Northern Kingdom was a little overwhelmed.

People like Xu Wei "basically didn't have any serious emotional experience in his previous life, but when he met Zhang Jiujiu in this life, he fell in love at first sight, and his lover eventually became a family, and it was relatively simple to talk about feelings." But that didn't mean he didn't understand, and he seemed to understand something when he thought of his cousin's strange behavior the last time he returned to the Hajj.

"Where's your cousin?" , Xu Wei asked again.

"Captain Tang, you shouldn't be afraid of me." , He Shuying glared at a pair of tearful eyes" and laughed in a mocking tone.

Xu Wei looked directly at her: "Then what do you want to say to your cousin-in-law?" ”

At the end of November of the fifth year of Jianwu, Xu Wei ended his pilgrimage and set off to return to Shaanxi. Before he left Hangzhou, Zhao Chen issued two edicts in succession. The first is to commend Xu Wei for his contribution to the restoration of Shaanxi, saying that he is the giant of the northwest, the Great Wall of the country, and "the imperial court relies on it", so Xu Wei was specially awarded the "Privy Deputy Envoy...... Of course, this is a fictitious title, Xu Wei's own post is in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it is impossible for him to stay in the Privy Council of the Xing Dynasty.

Although it is a false title", it is of great significance. The Privy Deputy Envoy, who belongs to the governor of the Western Prefecture, has always been mostly filled by civil servants. At present, the privy envoy Xu Han is a Taiwanese scholar and a standard civil servant. However, the privy deputy envoy was Liu Yanqing, the former commander-in-chief of the Song army who was defeated in the Liao attack more than ten years ago, "a serious veteran of the Western Army." Although Liu Yanqing used Wuchen as the privy deputy envoy to "enter the ranks of the governors", there is a difference between him and Xu Wei.

Xu Wei is a foreign minister, "At the moment, none of all the local officials who led troops outside had the title of "Zhongyang", including the king of Fenyang County. Xu Wei sat in the local area with the title of governor of the privy government, one showed the emperor's "favor" to him, and the other indicated that he was directly sent by the central government.

As we all know, the Song army in the south has completed the reorganization, and all of them belong to the sequence of the Imperial Camp Division. However, the Western Army still maintained its previous military name and habitually used the name of the commander to represent the army. The reorganization of the Western Army was beyond the reach of the imperial whip, so Xu Wei was awarded the title of "Privy Deputy Envoy" to show that the Western Army was also a "royal teacher".

Some people in the DPRK and China talked about "conferring Xu Wei as a privy deputy envoy" as a kind of comfort to him. Because Zhe Yan was crowned king with military merits, and Xu Wei's military merits were by no means under the king of Zhejun, he took the opportunity of returning to the court to enter the Hajj this time and gave him the title of governor of Xifu to show the trust of the official family and the imperial court in him.

Interestingly, "when Xu Wei and Yao Pingzhong were at odds", Yao Pingzhong was known as "Captain Xi", and Xu Wei's supporters gave Xu Wei a nickname called "Captain Xi"-for-tat, in order to overpower Captain Xi. Now, "Xu Wei has finally gotten mixed up."

In the second edict, the emperor ordered all localities to pacify the Division, the Transit Division, the Punishment Division, the Changping Division, and the administrative officials of the Fuzhou Army, and listen to the control of the Division. This edict does not seem to be specifically aimed at Xu Wei, "but now in the area controlled by the Great Song Dynasty, there is only one place in Shaanxi." This is tantamount to concentrating all the power in Shaanxi, such as administration, military, prison, and wealth, into Xu Wei's hands.

As soon as Xu Wei left Hangzhou, the imperial court received a major news from the north. "There was another bloody battle within the Jin court. Not long ago, Yan Zongpan, the minister of Dajin Guoquan, who had presided over the Song-Jin peace conference, was arrested and killed for the crime of treason. The direct commander is Wanyan Zonggan, who is very different from his political views, and the direct commander is Zonggan's younger brother, Wanyan Zongbi, the Jurchen name Wushu. These two brothers are cousins with Zong Pan.

Not only was Zong Pan killed, but dozens of his cronies and friends were implicated. There is a reason why the southerners scolded the Jurchens for being cruel and unkind, and there were constant internal strife in the Jurchen court over the years, and bloodshed occurred from time to time. There are political struggles in the south, but they will never be as bloody as in the north, and the big deal is to demote the "central government" to local posts, and the most serious thing is only residential surveillance.

The Jurchens are different, they are a fierce and warlike people, and what they believe in is not only the shaman, but the scimitar in their hands. Therefore, once a coup d'état occurs, it is often a river of blood, and it is a clean killing.

After Zong Pan was executed, Emperor Jin suffocated Zong Gan as the king of Liang, led the three provinces, and completely controlled the administration. He also named Zongbi as the king of Yue, appointed as the marshal of the capital, opened the marshal's mansion, and controlled the military power.

Originally, "the internal strife in Jin was his family's business, and it had nothing to do with the Great Song Dynasty." But Zhao Chen and the courtiers were shocked when they heard the news. Wanyan Zonggan, who was killed in the coup, was the first to advocate the peace talks, and it can be said that he vigorously promoted the peace talks. It's only been a few months since it was signed? He was dismantled? No, are the Jurchens sincere in their lives? This founding father finished Yan Zonghan's bones were not cold, "Take another one?" If you continue to kill like this, when will bloody politics be a head?

The most important thing is that "the killing of the Zonggan, who advocated peace between the north and the south, will it affect his established line?" Is it possible for the newly appointed brothers to change their course and start again?

Zhao Chen felt that the matter was very serious, and immediately convened the minister to discuss the countermeasures. At the imperial meeting, "Prime Minister Zhu Shengfei, Governor Huang Qianshan, and Deputy Privy Envoy Liu Yanqing believed that although Zonggan was killed, Song and Jin were forced to make peace" It was not Zonggan's efforts. Even if Zong Gan is killed now, it should not affect the relationship between Song and Jin.

However, the privy envoy Xu Han and the imperial envoy Yao Gu believed that the death of Zong Gan was very likely to affect the relations between the north and the south, and "even blamed the possibility of triggering a war again!" I have to hurry up and issue an edict to Hu He to irrigate and let him prepare in advance.

But something surprising happened at this time, and soon after the Great Song monarchs received the news of the infighting in the Jin court, "another Jin delegation came from the north." They came on behalf of Emperor Jin and Zonggan Zongbi, "mainly to inform the Southern Dynasty of Zonggan's affairs." At the same time, appease the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty and reassure them that the peace negotiation is an alliance reached between the two countries, and it will not contradict each other!

Maybe Zhao Chen has heard too many stories about the Jurchens turning their faces and turning their faces ruthlessly, so he extremely doesn't believe Jin Guo.