"Oh!" Zhou Ping nodded: "Your cavalry team should hurry up!" ”

"Hold on?" Xue Liangyu was stunned: "Are you going to send troops?" "It turned out that after Zhou Ping took office, he selected warriors from the surrendered thieves and officers and soldiers, and reorganized his troops, and now there are two commanding foot soldiers, one commanding archers, and two hundred cavalry, although the establishment has not yet been completed, but it has also set up a shelf, adding up to 1,500 people, and Xue Liangyu himself is a cavalry general.

"Hmm!" Zhou Ping did not hide it in front of Xue Liangyu: "Fang La will be captured, the Mani thief is a matter of time, as soon as Tong Shuai returns to Beijing, the matter of cutting Liao will begin, and it will be the end of this year and the beginning of next year." The Khitans are not easy to deal with! ”

"Big brother, please rest assured, it's up to me when the time comes!" Xue Liangyu waved his arm excitedly, turned around and rushed out the door.

"Husband!"

Zhou Ping turned around and saw Yun Niang looking up at him, her eyes full of concern. He smiled slightly, walked to his wife's side and sat down, reached out to hold his wife's hands, and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, I am also for our children." After defeating the Khitans, I will return to you and never be separated again! ”

"Hmm!" Looking at her husband's gentle eyes, Yun Niang nodded.

Time flies quickly, in a blink of an eye, it is September of the third year of Xuanhe, a month ago, Yun Niang gave birth to a boy for Zhou Ping, his identity at this time is no longer what it used to be, and he is no longer a field guest on Xuejiazhuang back then, so he naturally has to set up a banquet to entertain his colleagues and subordinates who came to congratulate him.

"It turned out to be Judge Hu, please come in quickly. My lord is waiting in the hall! In front of the gate of Zhouping Mansion, Xue Liangyu changed into a robe, wearing a 10,000-character head and a smile on his face, standing in front of the mansion, dressed like a housekeeper, greeting all kinds of guests, and was busy sweating.

"Brother Xue!" A voice came from the right, Xue Liangyu turned his head, squeezed out a habitual smile and asked, "May I ask who the guest officer is-" At this point, his voice suddenly stopped. A genuine smile appeared on his face. took a few steps forward and grabbed the other party's arm, and said with a smile: "Isn't this Ma Jialangjun?" Why are you here today? ”

The person who came was Ma Kuo, who was throwing the reins in his hand to the entourage behind him, and said with a smile: "Why can't you come?" A certain family and the Zhou brothers negotiated a deed in Tokyo. already regarded him as a close friend. Today he is a child with a full moon. It's not too much to bother with a glass of water and wine, right? ”

"Not too much, not too much!" Xue Liangyu said with a smile: "I heard Brother Zhou say that you and the Supreme Zen Master are doing a national event, and you may not be able to come." I just posted a post to the Zen master, but I didn't expect to be able to find time! ”

"Huh!" Ma Kuo smiled and said: "The Zen master is not here, so a certain family came for him." Speaking of this, he suddenly lowered his voice: "By the way, I also have some business, I want to come and ask Brother Zhou for advice." ”

Xue Liangyu immediately understood what the other party meant, hurriedly nodded, called Luo She'er on the side in a low voice, and said in a low voice: "This horse envoy is an important person in the capital, you take him to the side courtyard, and then go and tell the general, understand?" ”

"Got it!" Luo She'er answered, hurriedly led Ma Kuo and his entourage into the door, went to the side courtyard and sat down, and then went to Zhou Ping to complain and not mention it.

Ma Kuo sat down, his own maidservant brought hot tea, he took a sip of tea, looked at the spacious and bright house and the neatly trimmed flowers and trees in the yard, and muttered: "I don't think I will see him for a few years, but he has a good life!" ”

While he was talking, a person had hurried in from outside, and before anyone entered the door, laughter had already come in.

"Sin and sin, Brother Ma came in person, and a certain family never greeted each other outside the door!" Zhou Ping walked into the door quickly, and looked up and down at Ma Kuo, who was getting up from the chair, compared to two years ago, this young man's face became rough and dark, like the hardest granite on the top of the mountain, and his shoulders and back were also a lot thicker, obviously the other party had not spent the past two years in the Washe Restaurant in Tokyo City. Zhou Ping couldn't help but stop and said in a deep voice: "Brother Ma is really working hard for national affairs!" ”

"My generation of warriors, eating the king's luck, running for the king's affairs, this is a matter of duty, what is the hard work?" Ma Kuo smiled, his eyes were shining, his expression was radiant, he got up and bowed to Zhou Pingchang, got up and said: "As long as you can repeat Hanjiang and calm the sea, you can work harder!" “

"Good, good, good!" Zhou Ping couldn't help but say hello three times in a row, sat down with Ma Kuo, and asked, "I heard that She'er said that you have something important to do this time, I don't know what it is?" ”

Ma Kuo nodded, but didn't speak, just swept his eyes over the open door, Zhou Ping nodded knowingly, stood up and walked to the door and said to his entourage in a deep voice: "You don't need to wait here, go to the courtyard gate, don't let others in!" When the people were far away, Zhou Ping took the door and returned to the seat: "Brother Ma, you can talk now!" ”

"Without him, for Yan Yun's business!" Ma Kuo said in a low voice: "I won't hide it from Brother Zhou, this matter is very dangerous, you have to think twice!" ”

Zhou Ping didn't answer immediately, just lowered his head and thought about it, and after a while, he raised his head and said, "Some things have to be done even if they are dangerous, don't you say?" Brother Ma! ”

"Good, good!" Ma Kuo smiled and said: "The Zen master really didn't see the wrong person, and listen to me tell you what happened!" So Ma Kuo told the story again. It turned out that although the attitude of the Northern Song Dynasty towards the alliance with Jin and the invasion of Liao was wavering, the diplomatic and intelligence work headed by Zhao Liangsi never stopped, and although he was born in the Yandi Han clan, he had fled to the Southern Dynasty, but he still maintained inextricable ties with the Yandi Han bureaucracy. If the attitude of these Han bureaucrats in the past few years is not so clear, but in September of the third year of Xuanhe, Emperor Liao Tianzuo not only defeated the Jin army in successive battles, but more importantly, under the bewitchment of Xiao Fengxian, the minister Xiao Fengxian, executed the Liao Concubine Wen and the son Jin Wang, who had always been virtuous, and the wife of Yelu Yujian, the deputy commander of the Liao army who was commanding the battle on the front line, was the sister of Concubine Wen, and immediately led the troops to surrender to the Jin army, and led the Jin army to attack the Mandarin Duck Bo where the Liao Tianzuo Emperor was located, and the Liao Emperor fled to Xijing in a hurry. It has completely lost control of Yanjing Dao. At this time, there were actually only two paths left in front of the Yandi Han people: to take refuge in the Song Dynasty in the south or to the Jin Kingdom in the north. And the progress of Zhao Liangsi's rebellion work is also advancing by leaps and bounds, so a plan has gradually taken shape, that is, to contact the Han bureaucrats in Yandi, and at the same time as the Northern Song Dynasty army pressed the border, launched a military coup in Yanjing City, captured the thief and captured the king first, and restored Yandi in one fell swoop.

After listening to Ma Kuo's narration, Zhou Ping couldn't help but be dumbfounded, who said that the ancients had little knowledge and even played the beheading operation.

"Brother Zhou, please rest assured, I just heard from the Zen master that Brother Zhou is good at the method of civil construction, and he has been to Youzhou City, and he wants Brother Zhou to help, but he doesn't have to go to Brother Zhou in person to do the specific thing!" Ma Kuo saw Zhou Ping bowing his head and thinking about it, thinking that he regretted it a little, and hurriedly said.

"It's not that a certain family is cowardly!" Zhou Ping shook his head slowly: "It's just that I've also been to this Youzhou City, the Khitan people have been running this place for more than 100 years, and most of the households in the city are Xi and Khitan clans, which can be said to be the same clan as the country, but there are a few internal responses, and in fact, it is so easy to succeed?" It's not a good thing to lose your life and my life, and it's not good to spoil the country's major affairs! ”

"Juncheng doesn't know! The elite soldiers of the Liao people are all Khitan and Xi tribes, if my army goes north, he should go out to fight, then you and I will naturally take advantage of it, you don't know how many people are there with my Great Song Dynasty! Speaking of this, Ma Kuo's voice suddenly stopped, obviously he thought that it was not good to tell Zhou Ping too much at this time, and his face couldn't help but show an uncomfortable look.

Zhou Ping waved his hand generously: "The king does not lose his country, and the minister does not lose his body, so it is better to be careful about such things." Brother Ma can go back and tell Zhao Xianggong that as long as it is beneficial to the country, Zhou will not be left behind! ”

After about half a cup of tea, Luo She'er's voice came from outside: "General, the envoy of Chen Yun's envoy is outside the mansion." ”

Zhou Ping responded, and smiled at Ma Kuo: "Shangguan is here, a certain family has to go out to greet each other, Brother Ma, please go to the mansion to take care of yourself, if you don't get drunk today, you won't return!" ”

"Brother is at his own convenience, the younger brother will definitely bother!" Ma Kuo also stood up and hugged his fists to send him off. Zhou Ping went out to welcome the boss into the door, and just when he was free, he met Luo She'er who came over quickly, and asked in a low voice: "The master, the person surnamed Ma is a little strange!" ”

"Strange? How so? ”

"What do you say?" Luo She'er frowned, and replied, "It doesn't look like anything roughly, but if you look closely, there is a smell of blood, it looks like a person from the old resentful army!" ”

Zhou Ping smiled slightly, but did not answer, he picked up this young man from Yandi is a good dog, and he smelled his own kind from a distance.

"She'er, if you are given a chance to go back to Yandi, will you go?"

"Go, naturally I want to go!" Luo She'er's eyes immediately turned red: "I have never forgotten the blood feud with the Khitan dogs, and the dog thieves who killed my father will definitely cut them off inch by inch!" Although several years have passed, Zhou Ping can still hear the sound of gnashing teeth when he mentions this matter.

"Hmm!" Zhou Ping patted him lightly on the shoulder and said with a smile: "That's good, it won't be long before we can go to Yandi!" Speaking of this, Zhou Ping raised his head and looked to the north, in the autumn sky, a group of geese were flying from the north, making bursts of goose chirping, presumably the sky of Yandi at this time was also so bright, thinking of this, Zhou Ping couldn't help but clench his fists.

Yanjing, for this Xiongcheng located at the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, the three years of Xuanhe were not a quiet year. Since Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitans in the third year of the Later Tang Dynasty, although Yanjing is not the political center of the Great Liao State, it is the economic center, with cattle, sheep, and furs outside the fortress; wood, ginseng, pearls, pine nuts from Liaodong; Goryeo bronze and paper fans; Ironware, medicinal herbs, and cloth from Yandi, as well as porcelain and lacquerware from the Southern Dynasties, are all gathered here. (To be continued......)