Yang Zan got off his horse and asked, "Shi Lao, does the Lord have any arrangements for him here?" ”

"Yes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Shi Chonggui trembled and took out a letter from his cuff and handed it to Yang Zan.

As soon as Yang Zan picked up the letter, he immediately read it, his hands trembled excitedly, and after a long time, he looked at the location of the imperial capital Kaifeng, standing in the wind and snow, and sighed: "I see, the Lord is planning ahead and planning ahead!" ”

"The old man only admires the Lord in this life, but unfortunately the old man will not live long." The snow is still falling, Shi Chonggui's face seems to be a little pale, and a faint pain comes from his back, so painful that he can't straighten his waist, but the pain of the (later) Jin Dynasty still lingers in his heart, and now as long as there is a chance, he will avenge this revenge back then, and his hatred for the Khitan people is lifelong.

Yang Zan looked at Shi Chonggui's rickety body and became worried.

"Out of the way, ahem." The crutches in Shi Chonggui's hand knocked on the snowflakes on the ground, and suddenly the crutches fell into the thick snow, and he continued to straighten his waist, "People will say this when they are old, not to mention that I have lived long enough in Liaodong over the years." ”

"Shi Lao, take care of yourself."

"Hmm."

At this time, the snow was white, much brighter than before, and there was a lonely star hanging in the sky, which was the position of the Taibai star.

"It's almost dawn, we're leaving, there's still a long way to go, everything depends on Shi Lao."

"Don't worry, the old man will arrange it."

Yang Zan and they immediately got on the horse.

After a while, the sky has gradually brightened, but at this time the north wind is blowing, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, in the wind and snow, Shi Chonggui's back has become more and more rickety, Yang Zan looked back at Shi Chonggui, and then the snow house in the distance has disappeared from sight.

Leng Wu on horseback asked, "Brother Zan, what did the Lord say in the letter?" ”

Yang Zan's face was serious, and when he heard Leng Wu calling him, he exhaled and said: "The Lord is just borrowing the knife of Goryeo Wang Zhao to kill Yelu, we just need to watch the fire from the other side, and if necessary, we will add fuel to the fire, as for what we have to do now is to control the whole situation, and someone will always come out to change everything after a while." ”

"Oh." Leng Wu nodded as if he didn't understand.

Yang Zan on the side knew that Changchun Hall had been developing in the Liao Kingdom over the years, and Shi Chonggui had also joined Changchun Hall and became a rudder in Liaodong.

Looking at the world, Changchun Hall has spread all over the country and has become a force.

How to use it will become a boost, which is the most important.

It's just that what Yang Zan doesn't know is that Zhao Dezhao, the king of Wei, plans to develop Changchun Hall into an institution similar to the Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei in the future, but now it is still developing in secret, and everything will have to wait until Zhao Dezhao completely controls the power of the Great Song Dynasty.

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At this moment, east of Liaoshui, the snowflakes have been falling, like a big mat, as if it will never end, and the whole world is snow-white and quiet.

To the east of Liaoshui, outside a small village, in the snow, two black black shadows like ants were moving, and I saw two burly men wearing black ferret fur coats and black felt hats on their heads, who were staggering in the snow against the wind.

The north wind mixed with snowflakes whistled, and the two of them went one after the other, and there was a creaking sound on the snow, which was particularly eye-catching.

A person behind him rubbed his hands and walked hard in the distance, his felt hat was full of snow beads, and the brim of the hat was full of ice slag, his steps stepped on the soft snow, and he couldn't pull it out at once, at this moment his emotions became excited, and he began to complain: "General Xie, this snow is too big, since we came to Bohai, it has been raining for three or four days, and when we first came, we also killed Hans Ba'er, the guard of Liaodong, occupied four county seats, eighteen villages, and captured about 100 stones of ordnance and food, but now it has not achieved an inch, was also trapped by a heavy snowfall, delaying the favorable opportunity to attack, if His Highness knew about it, he would definitely offend the general. ”

A burly man with a scarred face in front turned his head around, and his scarred face in the wind and snow looked indifferent, and then said coldly: "I'm afraid, Your Highness (Goryeo's name for the king, Wang Zhao is reigning at this time) is suspicious, these years are good at killing heroes and wealthy families, this northern expedition, His Royal Highness not only wants us to establish meritorious deeds, transfer the pressure of the national capital, but also wants to wait for our triumphant class to return to Beijing, and then kill us, whether it is attacking or retreating, in fact, in the end it is destined to die, and what is more terrible than death is the innocent Zhulian." His Highness now trusts only his guards. ”

He looked very open, his face was not shocked, most of their troops were the sons of meritorious heroes and the meritorious deeds of the wealthy families, and Wang Zhao transferred them out of Beijing out of multiple considerations.

The man behind shivered in the cold wind and said, "Then what should we do?" ”

The scar-faced man said: "Cui Xianfeng (Si Tian enshrined Cui Zhimeng) gave me a letter before leaving the capital. Scarface then tells his cronies everything about the letter.

"It turns out that Cui Xian is a person from the king of Wei, a thousand years old!" The man behind him widened his eyes, and only after a moment he asked the scar-faced man, "But?" Cui Fengfeng is collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, if His Royal Highness knows, the general will not also suffer together. ”

"The big deal is death, my uncles and brothers all died in prison, when Goryeo was not unified, my Xie family was the eighth surname in the country, and his Wang family relied on my Xie family to sell horses, so there was Goryeo."

The man in the back didn't speak, he kept looking at the man in front of him.

Scarface didn't care, and he continued: "So what, since Shuangji (Later Zhou people) came to my Goryeo, His Royal Highness has reused this person, encouraged whistleblowers, repeatedly raised prisons, and purged heroes and wealthy families, causing everyone to be in danger, and now that the court has no distinction between black and white, why should I stay here." What's more, compared to life, what is it, and I worship the Central Plains Great Song Dynasty as orthodoxy, and it is a wise move to return to the Song Dynasty, since Cui Fengfeng is a thousand-year-old person of the King of Wei, if we return to the Song Dynasty in the future, we will also be regarded as half of the people of the Wei Palace, and we will be regarded as the ministers of the Qiandi in the future, wouldn't we be blessed by the Great Song Dynasty, so that we can live a long time. ”

The man arched his hand and said: "Since the generals do this, the last general and others will naturally be ordered by the general, but what should the last general do now?" ”

The man with the scar looked up at the sky and said coldly: "I'm waiting here to watch the changes, this expedition, since His Royal Highness wants to give those heroes the appearance of a conquering king, he must hope to go to the Bohai Sea to win, and the generals will be outside, and the military order is not subject to it, of course what we should do, you and I know this; On the other hand, I waited for the letter of Cui's worship. ”

"General Last, everything will be done according to General Xie's wishes."

In the wind and snow, the two continued to walk, not far away, the water of the Liao River rushed in their ears, the surface of the river dozens of zhang wide was white, and the Liao Tokyo City on the opposite bank was like a black spot, which could not be seen really.

The scar-faced man stood on the snowy field, sighing, the past rolling in his mind like a flipper.

His grandparents lived on this land, and he was a former member of the Balhae Kingdom and one of the eight great families of Goryeo.

Once the vast grassland, there were many horses running, at that time, the Xie clan sold horses for generations, as early as the Three Kingdoms era, they were already active in the fertile land of Liaodong.

In the middle of winter, now covered in snow, he thought that his family would become the ruler of Goryeo.

After the death of Taizu Wang Jian, Wang Wu ascended the throne, and within a few years, Wang Yao and Wang Zhao brothers took advantage of Huizong's serious illness to launch a palace coup, backed by Wang Shilian's troops guarding Xijing, and successively eliminated Park Shuxi, who represented Huizong's forces, and Wang Gui, who represented the forces of the foreign relatives and wealthy clans, so that Wang Yao seized the throne, and then forced Wang Yao to pass on to himself.

Since Wang Zhao became the king of Goryeo, nightmares have come little by little.

In the first year of Junfeng (960), the letter of commenting on the history of the agricultural book accused the great minister Junhong and King Zuocheng of conspiring against him, and Wang Zhao deposed the two of them from their official positions.

In the past few years to this day, the traitors have competed, slandered Daxing, the gentleman has nothing to tolerate, and the villain has his will, so that the son rebels against his parents, slaves talk about his master, the upper and lower centrifugation, the disintegration of the monarch and the minister, the old ministers and generals, the successive punishments, and the marriage of flesh and blood, are also extinguished.

The man with the scar remembered what happened in the prison, his face was excited, and the knife in his hand slashed at the snowflakes in the air.

......

Kaifeng, the north wind blows.

In the Wei Palace, the red curtain has not yet been removed.

It was not until the ninth day of the first lunar month that Zhao Dezhao received a letter from the north.

Letter: ...... From Changqing Town, Weihua Town, thirteen towns south of the Qingchuan River, and even Changping, Boping, Gaozhou and other towns in the northeast of Goryeo, there are secret agents of Changchun Hall.

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P.S. Wang Zhao, Gwangjong of Goryeo, the fourth monarch of Goryeo, reigned from 949 to 975. During his reign, he devoted himself to strengthening royal power, promulgating the law of slaves and maidservants, implementing the imperial examination system, establishing a hundred official uniforms, using independent era names, and perhaps even proclaiming himself emperor. In the latter part of his reign, he was harsh in politics, encouraged whistleblowers, injustice, and slaughtered heroes. At the same time, he advocated Buddhism and established many temples such as Guifa Temple. After his death, the temple was called Guangzong, and he was called Dacheng and was buried in Xianling.