All the leaders stared at the guy with idiot eyes, and the guy was inexplicable, and then felt miserable, and there seemed to be a knife against his back, which could kill him at any moment. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Song Jiang's face was full of sadness, and his eyes moved away from the guy: "Brothers, what do you think?" ”

"Brother Song Jiang also asked for condolences, this matter is not the fault of my brother, it is the brothers who misunderstood Shi Xiu. Brother, Brother Shixiu has a pure heart, we can only comfort his spirit in the sky by realizing his will! ”

"Yes, yes, Brother Shixiu still has a few wives and concubines, and the brothers will definitely raise them for him!"

"If you have a son in the future, you can also pass it on to Brother Shixiu to inherit his incense."

"By then, we will all be officials, help that kid, let him also be an official, and if he has made meritorious contributions in the future, he can also beg the court to pardon the crimes of Brother Shixiu."

Everyone is gossiping, each with their own ideas, and the core of it is one sentence: Shi Xiu can't die in vain!

Why didn't he die in vain, of course, he gave his head to Zhou Quan in exchange for Zhou Quan's understanding and achieved the goal of recruiting An.

However, to cut off Shi Xiu's head, although everyone meant this in and out of words, they all looked at Song Jiang and waited for Song Jiang's decision.

At this time, Song Jiang sat down on the seat, his eyes closed, and tears rolling, as if he had lost his mind because of grief.

Everyone was pondering what he really meant, and when they saw him like this, they guessed most of them, and the smarter ones were smarter, and then they thought about it in detail, but they felt creepy, Shi Xiu's death, but I was afraid that there was still a problem in it.

It didn't take long for Xie Bao to come out of the crowd, pull out his waist knife, and cut off Shi Xiu's head with a single sword.

Song Jiang opened his eyes and exclaimed, "Brother Xie Bao, why are you doing this?" ”

"Hmph, do what everyone wants to do." Xie Bao said in a rough voice.

Everyone was suddenly embarrassed, and this sentence really said everyone's thoughts directly.

Song Jiang was about to say something more, but Wu Jialiang stepped forward and patted Xie Bao's shoulder gently: "Brother Xie Bao is right, although he and Shi Xiu have never been on good terms, but everyone knows that it is a brotherly dispute, and only then did they learn that Brother Shi Xiu committed suicide, if the owner of the village is the most heartbroken, then he is the second heartache." But the deceased is dead, and only by doing so can the Shixiu brothers rest in peace in the spirit of heaven, for this reason, the Xie Bao brothers bear this infamy...... Brothers, this knife was not cut by him, but for us! ”

"Yes, Brother Xie Bao is benevolent!"

"If it weren't for Brother Xie Bao's action, Brother Shixiu would have died in vain!"

"In my humble opinion, Brother Shixiu's wives and concubines must also be taken care of by Brother Xie Bao, so that we can rest assured!"

After a moment of silence, everyone praised Xie Baolai. Song Jiang's face twitched twice, originally he wanted to pretend that he couldn't bear it, and finally cut off Shi Xiu's head for the sake of the brothers, but now Xie Bao and Wu Jialiang sang and harmonized, but all his acting skills were useless.

Xie Bao's status among the leaders has never been high, why did Wu Jialiang want the leaders to owe him a favor? Wu Jialiang's words were clearly a gesture of goodwill to Xie Bao......

Then Song Jiang was shocked.

Xie Bao is the old man of the old Liang Cottage, and in Zhou Quan's hands, there are many captives of the old Liang Cottage characters in the past, and they and Xie Bao are the real old friends! Wu Jialiang is now desperately holding Xie Bao to the top position, obviously trying to understand this, hoping that through the relationship of Xie Bao, he can get Zhou Quan's favor.

No, no, it's not just Xie Bao, at the time of the conflict that day, Xie Bao was persuaded out of the Juyi Hall, and he didn't know what happened in the Juyi Hall, except for Xie Bao, there were other people among these leaders......

With his mind racing, Song Jiang's eyes looked at everyone one by one, and he only felt that everyone seemed to be a spy who had been bought by Zhou Quan a long time ago.

Then he sighed, what can he do if he finds out, the cottage has reached this point, it can be said that it will collapse without a fight, and there is no way to continue to be independent.

"Alas!" He sighed heavily, and reluctantly continued the play: "That being the case, give the first achievement of the Shixiu brothers to Zhou Zhizhi......"

When Shi Xiu's head was placed in a wooden box and sent to Zhou Quan, Zhou Quan didn't even look at it, and let people dig a hole outside and bury it.

He had a letter in his hand at this time, which made him look a little strange.

"Japan sent envoys, bypassed Jeju and Haizhou, landed in Mingzhou, and complained to the coastal envoy of Mingzhou, there were illegal profiteers in the Great Song Dynasty, pretending to be pirates, robbing and killing good people in Japan, smuggling contraband, and plotting to cause chaos?"

"Mingzhou system envoy did not dare to be arbitrary, reported it, the news fell into the hands of Zhu Mian, Zhu Mian obtained the treasure, concealed the matter, hid the Japanese envoy in the Huashi Gang to cover people's eyes and ears, and sent it to Beijing, but the Huashi Gang ship was obtained by the Xuzhou inspection and fell into the hands of Miao Zhongxian!"

The person who sent this letter was Mu Qi, the head of the so-called iron-clad official, after getting Zhou Quan's permission, this incompetent person continued to serve as the head of the Xuzhou Mansion, and there was no outstanding performance for several years. But today, he had an unexpected gain.

The so-called one who waits for the rabbit refers to him.

"Miao Zhongxian's guy is interesting, detain this flower and stone gang, and neither send it to Jingshi, nor ventilate to me, this guy ...... Hmm, he's waiting for a price to sell, right? After pondering for a while, Zhou Quan smiled: "Mu Qiyong is a person, Miao Zhongxian has done a lot of tricks over the years in order to make money, don't talk about him, even Qi Nian and Ji Chun didn't find out, but this time the matter of the Japanese envoy leaked out, and Miao Zhong sent me the news first......

Originally, Zhou Quan was very disdainful of Miao Zhongxian, because this person loved money too much, and his methods were also very unbearable, but because he was quite obedient and had a big boss behind him to take care of, Zhou Quan allowed him.

Now it seems that since ancient times, corrupt officials have been many capable officials, and this guy actually still has some skills.

"The Japanese envoy...... Let's see each other. ”

At this time, the time was gradually ripe, and the arrival of the Japanese envoys, to a certain extent, just gave Zhou Quan an excuse.

After the land was apportioned, the money shortage in the Great Song Dynasty became even more serious, and the Japanese silver, gold, silver and copper mines that relied on smuggling and private mining were no longer enough to support the annual growth of nearly double the demand for money. In the absence of direct printing of paper money, it was necessary to intensify efforts to obtain gold, silver and copper ore from Japan.

So...... It was time to conclude a treaty with Japan in favor of China.

The Japanese mission to the Great Song Dynasty numbered more than 30 people, and they were able to avoid the battleships of the Donghae Chamber of Commerce on Jeju Island, which really took a lot of effort and suffered a lot.

But it was all worth it, and in Suzhou, they finally learned that Zhou Quan, the coastal envoy of Haizhou who seemed to be supported by the whole Song Dynasty, actually had a powerful political enemy.

Zhu Mian, who controlled the most prosperous southeastern half of the Great Song Dynasty, the southeastern king of the merchants who traveled between the Great Song Dynasty and Japan, was willing to support them and help them to meet the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

It's just that this has also caused some changes, originally they were going to find a way to see Cai Jing, but Zhu Mian said that Cai Jing and Zhou Quan are the same party, so the gift to Cai Jing was transferred to Zhu Mian, and there was only one letter, and it would be sent to Cai Jing's mansion.

It's just that when they arrived in Xuzhou, Zhu Mian's subordinates, who were originally protecting them, were transferred away by a group of very cunning people, and they who were hiding in the gang boat were discovered by the Xuzhou Taishou.

As a righteous envoy, Ping Zhongsheng felt confused at this time, and he didn't know what to do. He thought about it again and again, and could only come to the house where the deputy envoy Yuan Weiyi lived.

Gen Wei Yoshiben is a local tyrant-like figure in the Kanto region of Japan, and Genji's power in the Kanto region has expanded rapidly in the past few years, but he mainly relies on the land. Taira Tadamori somewhat looked down on Genji at that time, because in Ping's view, there was not much income by digging in the fields, and the real source of wealth was the sea.

That is, smuggling.

The Ping clan controlled the smuggling trade between the Song Kingdom and Japan until the rise of Jeju Island, bypassing the Ping clan, and joining forces with Genji's rebel branch Gen Yoshitsuna, through Gen Yoshitsuna's high-ranking officials Takakyung and Ishibashi Junjutsu, rebuilt a larger and more well-organized smuggling network, and smashed the Ping clan's smuggling network.

This also allowed Minamoto Yoshitsuna, who was exiled to Sado, to accumulate considerable wealth and manpower, and he deeply hated the defilement of the Genji family against him, and he could raise the banner of rebellion at any time, which shocked Minamoto Yoshitsuna, who inherited the Genji family and became the so-called "pillars of the Genji".

The relationship between the Taira clan and Genji is quite complicated, and Genta, who is more qualified to inherit Genji than Gen Weiyi, is now adopted by the Taira clan, and Taira Tadashi is the uncle of this Genta. In this regard, Yuan Weiyi was extremely jealous in his heart, and always felt that one day, the Taira clan would support Genta to come back and compete with him for the position of the pillar of the Genji clan, plus the two belonged to different factions politically, so even if they were both envoys, the relationship between them was really not harmonious.

When Ping Zhongsheng came to the Yuan Weiyi house, the two looked at each other, first silent, and then Ping Zhongsheng spoke: "Although this Xuzhou Taishou of the Song Kingdom is polite to us, he has not sent us to Beijing for a long time, nor has he let us see the subordinates of the King of the Southeast, I suspect that he has other plans." Yuanjun, what do you think, what should we do? ”

"You are the right envoy, of course, such a big thing, of course, it is up to you to decide." Yuan Weiyi bent his mouth and said.

The two were silent again, and after a while, Ping Zhongsheng said: "Yuanjun, I, the main envoy, and you, the deputy envoy, have spent a lot of effort to get them, do you want to return empty-handed this mission?" I can also cooperate with the Jeju thieves, what about you, can you cooperate with them? Don't forget, the one on Sado Island is not a small amount of noise right now! ”

Yuan Weiyi didn't answer yet, the courtyard door where the two of them were suddenly kicked open roughly, and then, the sound of hurried footsteps came, and the entourage of the two of them was about to stop it, when they heard the sound of ping-pong, and when they came out, they saw that their subordinates had fallen to the ground.

Standing in front of them was a group of extremely young Song warriors, these warriors were athletic and powerful, and they were not at all able to stop them by their retinue. Among these Song warriors, there was also a young official of the Song Kingdom, with a purple gold fish bag tied around his waist.

This is the most high-status jewelry of the Song Kingdom.

Before the two of them could speak, the young Song official shouted, "Who are you waiting for, who dare to sue this official again...... Hey, why do I say again? (To be continued.) )