The messenger who had come to herald drank water outside the tent, and as he drank, he looked around. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This was originally the Sultan's big tent, and after the Wushu came, he did not hesitate to occupy the position of the original Sultan. This alone can be said to be a trespass, and the ambition of the vultures is clearly exposed.

The messenger understood this, and his heart sank, but he remained silent on his face.

As a close confidant of Sajar Sultan, he had to look out for the interests of the Sultan, and it was clear that the vultures were no longer reliable, and the Sultan was right in his foresight, and he had to get rid of this ambitious fellow.

In addition, the old man in the mountain may also be a little unstable.

Otherwise, the old man in the mountain would not help the vultures to send him away, but would set off immediately.

Yes, after this defeat, the momentum of the revival of the Seljuk Empire has suffered a serious setback, and it is questionable whether the Sultan will be able to return to Isfahan during such a season.

If the envoy himself was not a relative of Sajar, I am afraid that he would have made other plans.

He was trying to figure out how to get out, when suddenly his body stiffened.

Two black-robed men suddenly appeared beside him, and two sharp blades pierced into his ribs at the same time.

The two Assassins appeared so abruptly that the Emissary had not even noticed them. At the last moment of his life, he knew that the old man in the mountain had betrayed the Sultan!

The assassin sent by the old man in the mountain cut off the enemy's head and left the camp quietly.

A moment later, the emissary's head appeared in front of the vultures and the old man of the mountain.

"This is my sincerity." The old man in the mountain said to the vultures with a blank face.

"Very well, you see, this is my sincerity." The Vulture waved his hand.

Then someone walked in, three people in all, each holding a wooden plate in his hand, and the plate was full of gold bricks.

Above each gold brick, there are also branded with the words "Huaxia Head Office" and "Foot Red One Pound".

There are a total of ninety gold bricks, and this thing was originally the reserve precious metal of the Huaxia General Gold Bank made by Zhou Quan, and only a small amount was circulated in the market, and Wushu got it through some means.

There was a flash of greed in the old man's eyes: with this gold, he could train more Assassins, and even find a way to buy artillery, and also possess this weapon of war, strengthening his strongholds and fortresses in Persia, which would no longer be so easily breached.

And that's just the beginning.

The old man of the mountain saluted the vultures: "My loyalty belongs to Your Excellency. ”

"We must set out at once, we must occupy the Western Regions before the heavy snow comes, gather enough food and supplies there, and rush to Persia after the beginning of spring, here...... Leave it to His Majesty the Sultan, he is at least a good bait. "Wushu Dao.

With his order, the Jin army all went into action. However, it was not an easy task for the army to march, especially many of them, and time was extremely precious to the Wushu, so he did not wait for the whole army to complete the preparations, and left west with his most elite troops and a large number of craftsmen that day.

"Now there is only one question, will that one really allow us to leave?" Riding on the horse, Wushu finally showed a worried look and asked Fang Hao beside him.

Fang Hao smiled reluctantly: "It should be, at least we won't be the first target of his sweep...... That letter is in the hands of His Majesty, and His Majesty's understanding of that person is not below mine. ”

Wushu reached out and pinched his chest, and the letter was placed in the pocket of his underwear.

That one is Zhou Quan.

Zhou Quan asked two people who had joined the Manichaean religion but were now already working for Zhou Quan, and sent a letter to Fang Hao, telling Wushu and Fang Hao very clearly that he was not assassinated, but only cheated to death in order to induce Sajar Sultan to come to fight.

The reason for using this strategy is not because Zhou Quan has no confidence in winning, but just wants to reduce some of his own casualties.

In addition, the Second Army led by Han Shizhong had already set off, preparing to attack Datong, the old nest of Wushu.

The First Army led by Ye Chu will follow Yue Fei and will soon arrive in Yanzhou.

Song Xingfeng, who temporarily took charge of the Seventh Army, supervised the division to Hanzhong and prepared to enter Sichuan.

Half of the warships and transport ships of the South China Sea and East China Sea fleets will be dispatched, and the Fifth Army of the land and sea will attack Tianzhu from the sea and advance into the river.

The news revealed by Zhou Quan made Wushu and Fang Hao panic.

Even if you know that most of this is a bluff, and only half of it can really be implemented, but for the two who have already suffered countless hardships in the hands of Zhou Quan, the threat is real.

"The matter of attacking Tianzhu must be fake, Zhou Quan is not the kind of person who wants to abandon his name, and now he has no benefit to him in attacking Tianzhu, at most, he will go there to get two or three ports as concessions and open up trade routes for the Chamber of Commerce. So this is our chance, if we can control Persia, with its vast land and resources, and implement Zhou Quan's policy, for about ten years, we should be able to have the power of self-preservation in front of him, and at that time, we can negotiate with him, even if we pay tribute to him and open trade routes, we can finally buy time for ourselves! Thinking of this, Wushu muttered to himself.

Fang Hao nodded: "After the strategy of Persia, I have prepared it for Your Majesty, according to what I see, Persia is located in the east-west traffic rush, after we go, it will be the guest army, we must govern its land, and change its people first." I heard that Tianzhu has a large population, but none of them unify the country, and the people of his country have a poor livelihood, which is suitable for my use! ”

"Why don't you just go through Tianzhu?" The two of them talked, and the Wushu side interjected: "I am willing to go through Tianzhu!" ”

"The news about Persia and Tianzhu is known from Zhou Quan's "Geographical Chronicles of Mountains and Seas", and in the "Donghai Business Daily" in recent years, there are quite a few advocates of opening up concessions in Tianzhu to open up trade roads. According to my understanding of Zhou Quanzhi, if he wants to do something, he must first advocate it on the Donghai Business Daily in order to create public opinion. This matter of the Tianzhu Concession is very likely to be his will. If we go to Tianzhu, we will have to risk fighting with Zhou Quan again -- within three or five years, we will have no chance of winning, so it is better to take someone else and abandon his land, so it will also be beneficial to Zhou Quan, and he will not be embarrassed by us. Fang Hao Xiang did not explain.

He pouted, although what Fang Hao said was reasonable, there was another reason, he didn't know it. Fang Hao was still a little uneasy about him, worried that if he let him go to Tianzhu, he would break away from the vulture and stand on his own, after all, when it came to the original power and strength, the separation was not stronger than the vulture.

"That guy really ate us." Wushu sighed and said again.

Zhou Quan sent them this letter, in which he clearly asked Wushu to cooperate with his actions, and was not afraid that Wushu would tell the Seljuk Sultan about his fake death, which made Wushu both angry and helpless.

He revealed the news to the Seljuk Sultan, but the result was that Sajar withdrew his army, and he and Li Qianshun were sure to stay behind the palace to face Zhou Quan's terrible army. And concealing this news, and even cooperating with Zhou Quan to bully Sajjar, he was able to get rid of the seljuk and get a chance to occupy the magpie's nest for the main dove.

"A good fighter can not only mobilize his own people, but also mobilize the enemy, there was this paragraph in the textbook of the martial arts hall, I always felt that this was Zhou Quan's nonsense, now it seems that he does have this ability!" Fang Hao also feels the same way.

He stayed on Jeju Island for many years, and no matter how perfect the system developed by Zhou Quan, he still peeked into some secrets, such as the teaching materials used by the lecture hall to train officers.

Wushu sighed again: "This guy ...... Can we really deal with him? ”

"If he doesn't make mistakes and there are no internal problems, we really can't deal with it, but how can anyone not make mistakes, especially Da Song, I know very well, no matter how great he is, if a few problems on Da Song's side are not solved, sooner or later he will still be dragged down!" Fang Hao was full of confidence: "Moreover, within the Great Song Dynasty, there are still people who oppose him!" ”

"He has achieved great momentum at this time, and after this victory, his prestige is so high that it surpasses the ancient and modern, who else can oppose him?" He sighed.

"Naturally, within the Great Song Dynasty, there are indeed people who oppose Zhou Quan, and there is more than one. The first to oppose him was the Confucian scholars of the Great Song Dynasty! ”

In the past few years, Zhou Quan's various policies, especially the implementation of the "public election" system in the four provinces he ruled, made some people in the Great Song Dynasty who wanted to support him in exchange for wealth change their minds.

"Public office" refers to the government office, and "election" refers to the selection and appointment of officials at all levels. Zhou Quan clearly stipulated that he could not be an official without being a clerk, which blocked the way out for scholars to ascend to heaven through the imperial examination and obtain the position of a high-ranking official. Then the public election will also be examined, but the content of the exam has little to do with the Confucian classics, let alone poetry and songs.

Some of the content of the Confucian classics will appear within the scope of the exam, but the proportion of the score, I am afraid that it is less than one-tenth, and more tests are real and famous, that is, natural science and logic, which account for as much as 50% of the score, and the rest is basic mathematics, history, economics and other content.

Those Confucian scholars who had read books for half their lives and only wanted to be officials were of course mad when they found that what they had learned suddenly became less important. It's okay that Zhou Quan only rules the Four Elements Province, but if he annexes the Great Song Dynasty, with the number of scholars in the entire Great Song Dynasty, there will be some people who will take risks.

"The second group of people who opposed Zhou Quan were those farmers under his rule, the rich were one after another, and the poor had no place to stand, and as the rich became richer and richer, this kind of thing became more thorough, and one day, the poor had nothing but to rise up and rebel. Those who praise Zhou Quan today will be the ones who will overthrow him at that time! ”

In Fang Hao's view, this contradiction is unsolvable, Zhou Quan's development of industry and commerce, created a large number of rich people, these rich people want to turn money into real wealth, naturally want to buy land, to compete with the poor for land resources. Where can the poor fight these people, and when the contradictions intensify, the only way for the poor to survive is to take up arms and resist.

"Third...... Among Zhou Quan's own subordinates, I'm afraid that everyone may not be satisfied with him, but some people are hidden more deeply. Fang Hao said this and smiled.

This smile makes Yu Li not very uncomfortable, this guy is always like this, he has a dark line under the rule of Da Song and Zhou Quan, he must know something, but he refuses to say it!