"The villain doesn't know, but before he came, Wang Dutong had told him that everything was sent by Tong Shuai!" Zhou Ping replied with his head down.

"Hmm!" Tong Guan stroked his beard under his chin, and suddenly sighed: "Prison Zhou, you are really the old man's lucky general, Fang La's disaster star!" ”

Zhou Ping pretended to be at a loss, but he said in his heart: "Where is your lucky general, it's just that Tong Guan's military discipline is too poor." ”

It turned out that after the Song army occupied Hangzhou, a miscellaneous army like Zhou Ping was naturally not qualified to enter such a rich prefecture and county to reap benefits, so he immediately kicked it to the other side of the Qiantang River to alert and investigate the movements of Fang La's army. But he didn't want Zhou Ping to cross the river, and almost every day groups of peasant troops came to surrender. It turned out that these counterinsurgent Song troops burned, killed and looted everywhere they went, and the killing was extremely heavy, not only most of the captured peasant soldiers were killed, but even those who voluntarily surrendered were cut off their heads as proof of reward. Only after Zhou Ping broke the Fang Qi Fei Department under the city of Xiuzhou, whether it was surrendered or captured, all the prisoners were released, and even some rations were issued, and they had a reputation of "Bodhisattva Prison" in Liangzhejiang after coming and going, and many peasant troops who followed Fang La's uprising saw that the situation was unfavorable, so they ran to this "Bodhisattva Prison", handed over weapons and some of the looted property, Zhou Ping counted the number of people, made a roster and sent all the people back to his hometown, but he didn't want a few days later a strange incident.

There is a stone cave called Bangyuan Cave in Qingxi County, Fangla's hometown, which is about 40 miles wide and deep, and is very secret, even the locals rarely know the path. When Fang La rebelled, he used this place as a base to transport most of the plundered grain and treasures here, preparing to retreat here if the war was unfavorable and hold on to the change. But as the situation becomes more and more unfavorable. A leader named Wang Luqiang moved his mind and ran to Zhou Ping to tell the affairs of these source caves. The king Lu Qiang also offered advice, the Manichaeans stored all the old and weak savings in the cave, and the sergeants were stationed in dangerous places outside the mountain, the mountain road was dangerous, and there would be many casualties all the way in, so it was better to send a small team of elites to take the path to the entrance of the cave, and kill the head inside the cave in one fell swoop. Naturally, the defenders outside can be decided without a fight.

Zhou Ping didn't dare to slack off when he learned about it. immediately reported the matter to Wang Yu, and Wang Yu immediately asked Zhou Ping to take this Wang Luqiang to Tong Guan.

"Where is Wang Luqiang?" Tong Guan pondered for a moment and suddenly asked.

"Just by the roadside, with the two villains!"

"Hmm!" Tong Guan nodded. Suddenly asked, "Zhou is in prison." Do you know why the king sent you to me? ”

"The villain doesn't know?" Zhou Ping bowed. After a slight pause, he replied: "But Wang Dutong let the villain come, there must be a reason for him." Since the villain joined the army, the king has treated the villain very well. Although the villain is dull, he also understands it in his heart! ”

"Hmmm! Zhou Prison, you really understand the hard work of Zhengchen! That's easy to say! Tong Guan nodded with satisfaction, it turned out that after Zhou Ping reported this matter, he gave Wang Yu a difficult problem: if it was only for military considerations, Zhou Ping's department was the most qualified to carry out the task of attacking the source cave, after all, the fewer people who knew about this kind of thing, the better. But let a ragtag army like Zhou Ping make such a great contribution as capturing Fang La, how can it not serve the people in the southbound army with the Western Army as the main body. Wang Yu simply kicked the ball to his boss Tong Guan, and he asked Zhou Ping to be the messenger and also asked Tong Guan to reward him and secretly compensate for the loss. Wang Yu vaguely mentioned it in his heart, Tong Guan naturally understood, and at this time, seeing Zhou Ping so clever, nodding his head and knowing the end, he couldn't help but be happy in his heart.

"Prison Zhou, Ben Shuai heard that the situation in Jeju is unstable, and your troops have been going south for some time, so let's return to Jeju as soon as possible!" Tong Guan said this, and a smile appeared on his face: "Don't be in a hurry to pull it out, first sort out the baggage, and then report the list of meritorious generals, the old man will naturally consider it!" ”

"Thank you Tong Shuai!" Zhou Ping shook it to the ground, he already understood the deep meaning of Tong Guan's words at this time, the first merit of pacifying Fang La's turn was not his own, and as compensation for himself, he let himself take away all the wealth and silk he got in his hands, and give priority to the merits of his subordinates.

At the end of February of the third year of Xuanhe, Hangzhou was closed in the north. This is the only north gate of Hangzhou City, and it is also the oldest city gate, the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is here, and the people who sell rice, transport goods, and enter incense are day and night, and gradually become a bustling market. After the Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Wulin Gate, and the famous Hangzhou landmark Wulin Gate in later generations was here. When Fang La fled, a fire burned the place into a white ground, but after all, most of the military resources of Tong Guan's more than 100,000 troops were transferred from the canal, and the tens of thousands of people in the city were fed and clothed, all of which relied on water transportation. Just the daily loading and unloading of firewood and rice for the labor food and clothing is a big deal. So Fang La fled from Hangzhou for just over a month, and there were a lot of grass huts outside the North Gate, and the cries of tea, wine, and porridge cakes were endless, and the atmosphere had recovered a few points of peace.

"Go, go! Beiling (a contemptuous name for northerners at that time) is here! With a burst of exclamations, the vendors outside the North Gate who were carrying flat poles and baskets to sell were packing up their belongings and fleeing in all directions. Even those who could not escape from the huts also closed their doors one after another, looking like a great disaster was coming.

A moment later, a group of sergeants came out of the city, and behind them were groups of laborers carrying burdens and wheelbarrows. The people of Hangzhou, who had no time to escape from the shops on the side of the road, looked at the heavy burdens and deep ruts with complicated expressions, and they were already familiar with the banner of the Northern Army, and they knew that this was the team of "Bodhisattva Prisoners" who were not good at killing, but the burdens and the goods on the wheelbarrow were also demanded from them.

"Brother Chang, send each other for thousands of miles, and there will be a farewell!" In the pavilion outside the North Gate, Zhou Ping raised his wine glass to Chang Zongtian on the side and said, "You and I have this glass of wine today, so let's say goodbye here!" ”

"Good!" Chang Zongtian drank all the wine in the cup and said with a smile: "Our family is a rough embryo, so I won't say anything about crepe." Brothers of the Zhou family, cherish your life! ”

"Thank you, Brother Chang!" Zhou Ping also drank all the wine in the cup and put the wine glass aside: "The rebellion of Fangla, but it can be pacified in the tenth month, and on the day of the triumphant return to the teacher, I also invited Brother Chang to come to Jeju, and the younger brother greeted him as a sweep and conspired with Brother Chang to get drunk!" ”

"Good, good!" Chang Zongtian laughed and said: "At that time, you were at least a ruler, a commander or something, so naturally you wanted to disturb!" ”

Zhou Ping smiled slightly, but did not answer, there were some words in his heart at this time that were naturally not suitable for outsiders. According to the customs of the time, the two of them each folded the willow branches on the side of the road and gave them away, and Zhou Ping got on the boat, and the boatman immediately took anchor. As soon as he entered the cabin and sat down, Luo Sheer stepped forward and whispered: "Lang Jun, all the important things are loaded, some of them are on your boat, and the rest are on the next few boats." ”

"Good!" Zhou Ping nodded with satisfaction and asked, "No one else knows, right?" ”

"Please rest assured, Lang Jun only said that it was some local products from the south of the Yangtze River, and Lang Jun brought it back to give it away, and no one else knew!"

"Okay, that's good!" Because the draft of the boat walking in this canal is not deep, and the cabin is relatively cramped,

Zhou Ping saw Luo She'er standing aside and bowed his back slightly, and said with a smile: "She'er sat down and spoke, you are now also a Chengxinlang from Jiupin, an envoy of the imperial court, you don't have to be like a servant." It turned out that after Zhou Ping returned from Tong Guan's side, he listed all the powerful people around him on the success document, and Tong Guan was also happy, and he accepted all the orders, and Luo Sheer is now also a small envoy (a low-level military attache in the Song Dynasty).

"She'er even gave her life to Lang Jun, what is an official body!" When Luo She'er said this, she suddenly smiled slightly: "Besides, just seeing that Lang Jun is not greedy for money, but collects those useful things, you will know that Lang Jun is definitely not a thing in the pool one day, and it is a blessing for a kid to be able to follow Lang Jun!" Speaking of this, he sang a fat song to Zhou Ping: "The villain goes outside to see the sailors, so as not to get any mistakes!" ”

Zhou Ping nodded, it turned out that the goods in his bilge were not the Jiangnan products that were trafficked back to Jeju for sale as claimed, but eighty pairs of iron armor. The cargo placed in the bilge of the other three ships was a large amount of horns and tendons, both horns and tendons, which were necessary materials for making horn bows, which were very important military materials in ancient times. For the Chinese civilization, where agriculture is the foundation of the country, slaughtering cattle without permission is a big crime, and even if you have money, it is very difficult to get a lot of horns and tendons. After the Fang La uprising, in order to make weapons, a large number of cultivated cattle were slaughtered, and before they had time to make bows and crossbows, they had to flee, and these horns and tendons also became a petition presented to Zhou Ping by the leader of the peasant army. Zhou Ping hid it privately, and he also knew the sensitivity of these tendons, so he only told Luo She'er alone, and only said that it was a native of Jiangnan and was going to be shipped back to give to relatives and friends.

There was no one in the cabin, Zhou Ping lifted the bottom cover on the side, and dozens of boxes were tightly placed on the bottom floor, and he opened a wooden box casually, and there were silver ingots stacked on top of each other. Zhou Ping picked up a piece casually, weighed it twice in his hand, and there was a rough texture from his fingertips, these silver ingots were still utensils and jewelry not long ago, and they were squeezed into blocks for easy carrying, brought back to Jeju and then re-cast. Zhou Ping put the silver ingot back into the wooden box, there were more than thirty wooden boxes like this, and under these wooden boxes were tightly bandaged rattan boxes, which contained the eighty-collared iron armor. Zhou Ping looked at the cargo in the bilge and couldn't help but think.

Now there are two paths in front of Zhou Ping: either he will be a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty honestly, and use his knowledge of the future to let the Great Song Dynasty overcome the difficulty of Jingkang's shame. But if you want to take this road, don't think about not doing anything big in your life, because according to the system of the Great Song Dynasty, there are only two ways for ordinary people to enter the core of power: take the imperial examination, or cut the glorious path of Tong Gonggong below, and Zhou Ping will never be able to take these two roads. (To be continued......)