Chapter 336: There is a Tiger in the Heart

There are too many accidents in the world, and they are all contained in necessity.

Seven years was a earth-shaking change for the Great Song Dynasty; For many people, it is a rise or a return to stability from the war.

But for Xue Yu, every moment of the past seven years has been torment.

Seven years of arduous road to find his wife made him physically and mentally exhausted through vicissitudes of life, and the originally good "Mei Xue Lang" gradually became abnormally old.

When Xue Yu was transferred to Hebei from Chu Tianya, he concentrated on assisting Yue Fei on the one hand, and on the other hand, he tried his best to find his separated wife in his early years. Fortunately, in the past seven years, the Great Song Dynasty signed an alliance with the Jin State, and there was no war, and Xue Yu was able to find people in the vast northern country like looking for a needle in a haystack.

People who are scattered in the chaos of war are the most difficult to find. Maybe she has already died in the chaos, or maybe she has already found another way to make a living, marry a husband and have children, this is possible. In the past seven years, many people have persuaded Xue Yu to give up, and take advantage of the youth chΕ«n Zhengwang to marry another wife and live a life, but Xue Yu has always insisted on seeing people alive and seeing corpses when they die, and never gave up.

The emperor lives up to the painstaking people.

Seven years later, Xue Yu finally found out the specific whereabouts of his wife. It turned out that after the fall of Yanshan Mansion, Xue Yu's wife was taken captive by the Jin people, and she was once reduced to a "Huanyi woman", that is, the military jì in the Jin **. After several tosses and tribulations, she was bought as a concubine by a petty Liao official who surrendered to the Jin people, and this petty official was still a Han people under the rule of the Liao State.

During this period, she also missed Xue Yu hard and wanted to return to the Central Plains. But at that time, the war between Song and Jin was endless, how could she, a weak woman, have such an opportunity? In desperation, she had to bend down and follow the petty official for the time being. After a few years, the petty official treated her well, so that she gradually settled on the status quo and gave birth to a son and a daughter to the petty official.

But the good times didn't last long, and the petty official was demoted because he angered his Jurchen boss Qianhu Bo Zhuang, and the family was also exiled to the army. As a concubine, her fate can only be to become a slave of thousands of households. After being abused for half a year, she made the Qianhu Bo Jilie a little interested in her because she cooked a good meal, and coincidentally, she was also pregnant and gave birth to a son to that Bo Jilie!

After losing his two sons on the battlefield, Qianhu Bo Jilie was sad, and he celebrated with joy, and also trumpeted that the mother of his son was the wife of a certain general of the Southern Dynasty, and used it to insult Xue Yu and vent his hatred for the Southern Dynasty.

Because of this, Xue Yu found out about her.

After nearly ten years of separation, things have long been different. It would be reasonable if Xue Yu married another wife and started a family, but he was just a man who was obsessed with his wife and insisted on coming home, and after ten years of inquiring about his wife, he didn't care about bringing her back to the Central Plains, even if she experienced all kinds of unbearable, even if she had a few children in the Northern Kingdom!

At first, Xue Yu was completely only a private person, as a man, to negotiate with the thousand households of the Jin Kingdom. Since the two countries are in the midst of an alliance, and the identities of both sides are relatively sensitive, the Jin side is also very cautious. After many negotiations back and forth, Qianhu Bo reluctantly agreed to release the woman back due to the pressure of the upper hand, but the child had to stay; The woman couldn't give up the child, and she was worried that Xue Yu would not be able to accept her now...... All kinds of problems and difficulties made Xue Yu devastated and tortured. He once went north to the Kingdom of Jin six times, but all of them returned in vain.

Men have two major enmities since ancient times, the hatred of killing their fathers and the hatred of taking their wives - for Qianhu Bo Jilie, Xue Yu wanted to take away his woman and his child's mother, and he was also extremely angry in his heart. Although there was pressure to gain the upper hand, he used a lot of brains to get Xue Yu to retreat, including many disruptive methods, such as having his subordinates take turns to take turns with Xue Yu's wife, so as to attack his dignity as a man.

Xue Yu was about to collapse several times, and he also fell seriously ill on the side of the Jin Kingdom and almost died.

After Chu Tianya learned about this in Luoyang, he wrote several letters to comfort Xue Yu. Xue Yu is still unmoved, he has persevered for ten years, and he doesn't want to give up in the end!

This made Chu Tianya very worried. Originally, this was the family affair of his generals, and he, the king of Wei who held the power of the Great Song Dynasty, should not ask about it, but Xue Yu was his earliest brother who was born and died...... So, in his private capacity, Chu Tianya wrote a letter to Wan Yanchang, the prime minister of the Jin State and the king of Lu, asking him to privately suspend the matter, so as not to affect the diplomatic relations between the two countries because of some personal grievances.

Wan Yanchang is a rare lord and faction above the royal family and the court of the Jin Kingdom. After receiving Chu Tianya's private message, he immediately realized that if Xue Yu's matter continued to make trouble, it might really make a big fuss. So he sent someone to mediate the matter, and ordered Qianhu Bo to release him as much as possible.

At this point, it should have ended. Whether Xue Yu's wife can get along well with Xue Yu after returning is just their private matter, and it has nothing to do with state affairs. But at the last moment, when Xue Yu was waiting for his wife in the agreed place, an accident happened!

A team of thieves suddenly appeared out of nowhere and intercepted Xue Yu's wife halfway!

When Xue Yu found his wife, she was still bleeding and her body was still hot. The thief seemed to have intended for Xue Yu to see with his own eyes that his wife died in his arms.

Xue Yu completely collapsed.

At this time, Qianhu Bo Ji arrived when he heard the news.

When the enemies saw each other, they were very red-eyed. In addition, Xue Yu's wife had just died in his arms, thinking of the past, Xue Yu had reason to believe that it was Qianhu Bo Jilie's last temporary change of fortune and ruthlessly killed the woman - rather for the jade to be broken, not for the tile!

A conflict broke out between the two sides, and Xue Yu's force was already amazing, and he killed more than a dozen people in a rage and rage, and was seriously injured and captured in a bloody battle.

When the news broke, the two countries were shocked!

Xue Yu's matter has been widely spread in the three towns of Hebei, especially in the army, and everyone admires his infatuation and persistence. In addition, Xue Yu's usual personality is very good, so he is quite loved and supported by the soldiers.

After learning what happened to Xue Yu, the three towns of Hebei were already enthusiastic and invited to fight, vowing to rescue Xue Yu and severely punish the murderer.

And Jin Guo also said that they had promised to release people but were killed by thieves in the middle of the road, and they didn't want this kind of thing to happen. But after the incident, Xue Yu killed people in the territory of the Jin Kingdom without asking any questions, which is already a violation of the law and should be punished with death!

Obviously, Jin Guo has no intention of softening down on this matter at all.

The news soon reached the center of the court of the two countries. At this time, Liu Ziyu's triumphant return to China has not been half a year. Chu Tianya hurriedly convened the civil and military senators and decided to resolve the matter through diplomatic means as much as possible. At the same time, Chu Tianya secretly ordered Hebei Yue Fei to actively prepare for the war, ready to deal with sudden events at any time!

The diplomatic envoys of the Great Song Dynasty had just arrived in the Jin Kingdom, and something big had happened in the court on the Jin side of the Jin Kingdom - the Lord and Yan Chang had stepped down!

Instead, it was the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom and the representative of the Yongzhan faction, Wanyan Zongbi - that is, what the folk say, Jin Wushu!

At this point, Chu Tianya already knew in his heart that Xue Yu's matter seemed to be occasional, but it was actually inevitable. Although he still doesn't know the real truth, he can resemble these recent things that have happened in Tong GuΓ² - there must be the hand of the Golden Vulture in them!

Jin Wushu is the generalissimo of the Jin State after Zong Han and Zong Wang, and the idea in his heart must be Sima Zhao's heart, which is known to everyone - the southern expedition, revenge and blood hatred!

However, the paper covenant between the Song and Jin countries and the existence of Wan Yanchang, the prime minister of the Lord and the faction, were the biggest obstacles to the Jin Wushu. Chu Tianya assumed that if he was a golden vulture, he would definitely try his best to provoke a dispute between the two countries, and it was best to involve Wan Yanchang. Xue Yu's matter seems to be small, but he and Qianhu Bo Jilie of the Jin Kingdom are both people who lead troops, and their identities are extremely sensitive. If Jin Wushu knew about this, he only needed one sentence to make his thousands of households obey. As for how to provoke Xue Yu, how to intercept and kill his wife, and finally how to force Xue Yu to let him kill people, these are some less important details.

The matter has come to this point, Chu Tianya and most of the people around him are no longer naΓ―ve and have a good idea in their hearts - war is inevitable!

Xue Yu's search for his wife can only be regarded as an excuse at most, or a fuse!

Seven years of peace, seven years of comfort. Now, the eyes of the people of the world have once again condensed to the three towns of Hebei, and to the young Wei King of the Great Song Dynasty - Chu Tianya!

Whether it is war or talk, it was once again put on the paper of the Great Song Dynasty; For this reason, the court was once again divided into two factions, one main battle and one main peace.

At this time, Chu Tianya no longer blindly supports the main battle faction, nor does he blindly despise and suppress the main peace faction. The starting point of the arguments and differences between the two sides is no longer the selfish fear of war when Zhao Ji was in power in the past, but they both focus on the long-term interests of the country and the nation!

This is the change that Chu Tianya has brought to the Great Song Dynasty in the past seven years!

No matter how the court argued, Chu Tianya never relaxed his attention to Hebei, and never stopped sending soldiers, horses, money and food to Hebei openly or covertly. The reason why he connived at the endless controversy in the court was that he wanted to see what kind of reaction these people in the Qing Dynasty would have in the face of major rights and wrongs, so as to make it clear that Jiān was a pseudo-virtuous and mediocre. On the other hand, he also wanted to use this to release some smoke to paralyze the Jin Kingdom.

Therefore, Chu Tianya very much hopes that the court will be as lively as possible.

Gradually, some careful people discovered that Yang Zaixing, the tiger general who used to follow Chu Tianya's side, didn't know where to go, and Chu Tianya's statement was that he had returned to his hometown to worship his mother; In the past, Wang Xun, who accompanied the capital of Kaifeng Mansion, left Kaifeng, and Chu Tianya sent him to Taiyuan to exchange Ma Kuo back; But Ma didn't go back to Luoyang at all, because he was suddenly replaced, he was found guilty by Chu Tianya, and kicked into the clouds on the edge of the Great Wall to raise horses and guard the frontier. In addition, the money and grain taxes in the treasury are always invisibly missing, and the people below have found out and reported to Xu Han, the prime minister, but they are always like mud cows entering the sea without reply. For this reason, there are many rumors about "Xu Han's personal gain" in private. Chu Tianya also made a gesture to knock Xu Han on the mountain and shocked the tiger, and he was almost about to "withdraw the investigation" against him.

After Xue Yu's incident, there seemed to be a bit of chaos in the court of the Great Song Dynasty.

At the same time, Qingwei is also very busy and busy. They shuttled between the Jin Kingdom and the Great Song Dynasty like ghosts, as if they were everywhere, and no one seemed to be able to really tell where they had gone and what they were busy with......

The current Da Song is like a computer, and Chu Tianya is the CPU sitting in the center. Everything is in his hands. In Jin Guo's view, the Great Song Dynasty once again fell into the party struggle between the main battle and the main peace, from the court to the people, there were many thoughts and chΓ‘o at war, and the interior of the Great Song Dynasty seemed to be in chaos and had a big problem.

On the other hand, in the Jin Kingdom, with the fall of Wan Yanchang, the prime minister of the Lord and faction, the new generation of young and brave military commander Jin Wushu has risen as strongly as Xu Rì Dongsheng, and soon monopolized military and political power. The shame of defeat seven years ago, the life and death blood feud between Zong Wang and Zong Han, made the Jin people's fighting spirit unprecedentedly inflated!

War is finally on the verge of breaking out......

Winter rì in the clouds, always cold. It seems that except for the majestic Great Wall, no one dares to face the bitter cold wind - except for the iron horsemen of the Kingdom of Jin!

A trip to Jinguo raided the market on the border of Yunzhong, killed people and washed the whole city with blood, and then set fire to the corpses, chickens and dogs were not left!

It was still a lightning attack, and it was still the first Jin country to provoke the war. This time, it was they who took the initiative to tear up the peace covenant between the two countries!

In Jin Guo's view, the defenses in Yunzhong, which had just returned to the rule of the Great Song Dynasty, should be the weakest. The terrain was also the most familiar to them, and there were even many Jurchens living there. Therefore, in order to break through the Great Song Dynasty and take Yunzhong first, we must first open the breakthrough for them to go south - compared to the three towns of Hebei with iron walls, Yunzhong is like paper paste!

Broke through the clouds and went south to Taiyuan, and went straight to Luoyang to capture Chu Tianya - this is the strategy of the Golden Vultures!

At first, their tactics seemed to be very successful. Attacking more than 380 miles in one day, the mobility and super winter combat ability of the Jin cavalry were undoubtedly revealed.

But when they hit the city of Yunzhong County, they finally bumped into a hard bone. A middle-aged man like a horseman stood on the city wall in the wind and snow, and his beard was about to freeze, and he seemed to be very excited to see the ferocious Jurchen cavalry killing. One punch smashed into the city wall, one word-

"Hit!"

Close the door and hit the dog's "hit"!

On the city wall, a big "horse" word was erected - the new Hedong Xuanfu of the Great Song Dynasty made Ma Kuan, and he took office again!

The city gate was opened, and eight thousand green clouds roared out!

jΔ«ng rode countless left and right attacks and killed, and the leading general was supposed to go to Huainan to worship his mother, and the fierce general Yang Zaixing!

Almost at the same time, Wang Xun of Taiyuan led his troops to the east and went out of Taihang to Yanshan Mansion to cut off the back road of the Jin soldiers; The army of the three towns of Hebei swore to the army, and Yue Fei, the Hebei military division who had been dormant for seven years, led the most sharp tiger army of the Great Song Dynasty to advance to the north, and the vanguard general - Han Shizhong!

……

The Jurchens, who had been brewing for more than seven years, took a rusty flower needle and pierced the Great Song Dynasty in the clouds; The reaction given by Da Song was: A trident was beaten back!

The person who wields the halberd is the one who sits high in the palace of Luoyang, the king of Wei, Chu Tianya.

The cold winter has arrived, and the snow is fluttering, and he is enjoying the snow. Sitting beside him was Xue Yu.

It has always been that the people who Qingwei want to kill cannot live past the established period; The people who Qingwei wants to save must not die.

After this big change, Xue Yu is almost half dead; But after drinking less than three cups of tea with Chu Tianya, he felt that he was about to come back to life again.

"Lord, I ......was wrong," Xue Yu said in a low voice, "Because of my own selfishness, I caused a war between the two countries." I was wrong, very wrong.

"You're not wrong." Chu Tianya looked at the snow scene outside the window and said, "Even if there is no you, there will be a war between Song and Jin, sooner or later." You've done what a man has to do. In all things, do your best to obey the destiny of heaven; What has happened, no matter how you feel, you can't change the outcome of it. ”

It's like a person who wakes up in a dream!

Xue Yu stood up suddenly, and then knelt on the ground: "The teachings of the lord, let the subordinates remember the empowerment!" …… subordinates have done what a man should do; But as a general, there are still many things that his subordinates have not done! ”

Chu Tianya smiled and turned his head to look at him.

Xue Yu burst into tears and looked up at Chu Tianya.

"Dang", a tiger talisman token fell in front of Xue Yu.

"I've got it ready for you." Chu Tianya said, "The 30,000 Qingyun of Hejian Mansion have followed you for seven years. Now no one but you can bring them to the fullest. ”

"Thank you, lord!" Xue Yu held the tiger talisman in both hands, and suddenly cried loudly, crying like a child. Then he ran away, stripped naked in the blizzard, and roared with his chest exposed!

Snow fell from the eaves.

"Go, Xue Yu." Chu Tianya looked at Xue Yu outside the window with a smile on his face, and said to himself lightly, "You have a tiger in your heart to sniff the rose...... Now, it's time to let that tiger out! "Song Xiao

―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――

When the body is finished, you can return to the list.