"Your Majesty is gracious, and it is difficult to repay Weichen's powder!" Zhao Liangsi fell to the ground, raised his hands and took the jade belt, already in tears.

When Zhao Liangsi boarded the sedan chair, his excitement still did not subside, the Son of Heaven's favor and trust to his body was full of strength, he made up his mind to push the behemoth of the Great Song Dynasty onto the journey of Fa Yan as soon as possible, for the Son of Heaven, for the Great Song Dynasty, and for himself, thinking of this, he clenched his fists and ordered the attendants in the outer world: "Go to the Tongxiang Mansion!" ”

Due to the pacification of the Fangla Rebellion, Tong Guan had not long advanced to the Taishi, the Duke of Chu, as a eunuch, it can be described as the most glorious, and his mansion was also renovated, and it was even more magnificent. As Tong Guan's important confidant, Zhao Liangsi did not need to queue up like other officials waiting outside the gate to be received, but went straight in, and this enviable treatment caused a ripple outside the door.

"Where did this important person come from, so that he didn't need to communicate it? Our family has used three or five hundred pieces of door bags alone, but we don't even know where the second door of the Tongfu is opened! An obese, red-faced Tsing Yi official asked others with a foreign accent and envy.

"Poof!" The person on the side was also dressed in green clothes, but he had already washed a little white, obviously a little short of money, but his face was already full of disdain at this time, obviously he despised the fat man's loneliness and ignorance, and his mouth was a serious Tokyo accent, "Even Zhao Longtu, who returned to the south, Zhao Bachelor Zhao doesn't know, you still want to take the road of childhood!" ”

The fat man's cultivation is good, and he sang a fat song with a smile: "Our family is from Kansai." Where do you know so much, dare to explain this Lang Jun! ”

The respect of others satisfied the vanity of this Beijing official, and he laughed twice and said: "This Zhao scholar is a Yan person, because he admires my Chinese kingdom, he went south to my Great Song Dynasty a few years ago, and the Son of Heaven personally appointed him, what a glory, and now the imperial court is dealing with the major affairs of the Liao expedition, he is the key person in it, if the matter of recovering Yan is completed." It's not impossible to be crowned king! "Speaking of which. This Jingguan already had a look of envy on his face, and he looked eager to replace him.

"From the Swallow People? Isn't that a traitor? The fat man's face showed disdain.

"How can you say that you are a traitor-" Jing Guan's face suddenly turned pale, and he stammered and retorted: "Sage Cloud; 'The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister.' Even if it's a swallow person. It's also my great Song people. How can you say that you are a traitor? ”

Zhao Liangsi couldn't hear the quarrel outside the gate, of course, even if he could hear it, he would only laugh it off. This controversial figure of later generations was convinced that he did not need to pay much attention to the comments of these philistines. His personal fate depends on the success or failure of the great cause of Lianjin's expedition to Liao, and so far, although there are still some twists and turns in the middle, the whole thing is still carried out according to his plan. And now that he is about to take a critical step, when he thinks of this, Zhao Liangsi feels that there is a fire burning in his chest.

"Zhao Xianggong, the master is waiting in the room, please come in!" The housekeeper of the Tong Mansion made a gesture of invitation, and this middle-aged man who had a proud expression on his face most of the time was now full of flattering smiles.

"Thank you!" Zhao Liangsi was not polite at this time, and walked quickly to the hall, only to see Tong Guan reclining on the Luohan bed, and two pretty maids on the side were carefully fanning him. Seeing Zhao Liangsi coming in, Tong Guan didn't get up, but raised his chin slightly, and said, "Take a seat for Zhao Xianggong!" ”

"Thank you, Tonggong!" Zhao Liangsi arched his hand and said in a low voice: "I have already seen the official family below, and the matter of Yanjing has been played, and the official family has already agreed to send troops!" ”

"Hmm!" Tong Guan's face was calm as usual, and he sat up: "You have to hurry up with Li Chuwen, as for the Son of Heaven, you must also hurry, if this kind of thing is not finalized, nothing can be done!" ”

"What Tong Gong said is very true!" Zhao Liangsi nodded and said, "Tong Gong, I still have something to do today, and I want to play a person?" ”

"People? Who? Tong Guan asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"An officer who once sent an envoy to the Liao State, both the Mashe and the supreme monk recommended this person." Zhao Liangsi said with a smile: "It is said that this person is extremely courageous, and he has the experience of envoying to Yanjing, he is a rare talent." Originally, I planned to let the Horse House people and the supreme monk come to contact Li Chuwen, but these two people are already familiar with the head of the Jin people, and this matter of contacting Li Chuwen is quite dangerous, so I just let this person do it! ”

"Well, that's fine!" Tong Guan nodded, Zhao Liangsi's meaning was very clear, Ma Kuo and the Zhishan monk had established a very good personal relationship with the head of the Jin people in the process of contacting the Jin people, this kind of relationship was very valuable in the diplomatic liaison between the two countries, it would be a pity if he was put into the action of plotting against Li Chuwen in the uncertainty of life and death, it would be better to use this recommended young man, anyway, it is good to succeed, and it is not a big deal to fail.

What is this person's name? Where do you serve now? Tong Guan made a gesture lazily, which was nothing more than a gesture for him, who was already in charge of the Privy Council.

"The surname is Zhou Mingping, and now I am doing the recruitment of Jingxi Road."

"Zhou Ping?" Tong Guan's face showed a puzzled look, and after a while, he patted his head: "It turned out to be this person!" ”

"Could it be that Tong Gong knows about this person?" Zhao Liangsi asked.

"If this person is fine, it will be a blessing!" Tong Guan said with a smile.

Tokyo, Lincaiguan. Located in the southeast of Kaifeng 40 miles, five dynasties of Zhou Xiande, Jun Min water into the Cai River, along the Ying into the Huai, in order to cut down the Southern Tang Dynasty, once placed about this. It is the southeast to the key to the Beijing Division, to the Xuanhe period, the southeast has long been calm, this pass naturally no longer exists, only a tax bayonet remains, there is a large number of people, there are many inns and tea shops along the river, food stalls, it has become a small market town.

"Big brother, I'm in Lincaiguan, rest here for one night, and I can go to Kaifeng tomorrow morning!" Xue Liangyu pointed to the ferry road not far away with a horsewhip, he had been to Tokyo several times when he was in Guide and was quite familiar with the road.

"Hmm!" Zhou Ping nodded, he turned back to everyone: "Everyone will be here for one night, and when you arrive at a certain house in the capital, you are inviting everyone to have a good meal!" ”

Everyone got up and answered, Zhou Ping jumped off the horse and threw the reins to the shopkeeper who came up: "All the horses are fed good food, and we will be on the road tomorrow!" ”

"Don't worry!" Xiao Er answered, took the reins, and said with a smile: "The guest officer is so angry, there are so many good horses, the small one is the first time I have seen it in my life?" "It turned out that Zhou Ping's group was only more than 30 people, but there were more than 100 horses, in addition to everyone's main horse and slave horse, there were more than 20 camel horses with luggage and more than 20 mules, which was indeed very rare in the Northern Song Dynasty, which lacked horses."

"Modozui, send the beans quickly, if you swallow the whip of the little master!" Li Cheng, who was behind him, shouted, took half a piece of money from his waist and threw it over.

"Well said, well said!" The shopkeeper smiled: "But the livestock shed of the small shop is not big enough, I'm afraid it can't fit so many horses, can some of it be stored in the livestock shed of the shop next door?" ”

Zhou Ping and his entourage entered the store, and someone had already delivered food, and everyone ate six or seven tables. Zhou Ping ate a few bites, and saw that several of his subordinates on the table who entered Beijing with him were smiling, and his heart couldn't help but move, and asked, "Liangyu, are you happy to enter Beijing with me this time?" ”

"Happy? Of course rejoice! ”

"But you have already been sent to Guide Mansion, and you have two hundred cavalry under your command, and you are also a battalion commander, this time you will enter Beijing with me, and the result is still unknown!" Zhou Ping said at this time but his own heart, after he was appointed as an official in the Guide Mansion, while training the sergeants, while from the surrender of the thieves to concisely train brave and healthy people, a few months down there is already a quite effective army at hand, but a piece of paper from the imperial court broke all this, he was transferred to Beijing to serve in the Xuanfu Division, although in the eyes of others is a promotion, but in his own eyes is suddenly become a light commander, this feeling is really uncomfortable.

"What's that?" Xue Liangyu said with a smile: "Everyone in the world knows that if a martial artist wants to be promoted, it is best to be under Tong Xiang. The eldest brother was transferred to serve under the Xuanfu Division, which was a blessing that fell from the sky, and as a subordinate, he naturally wanted to follow it. If you don't believe it, ask Yang Wu and Kong Yanzhou, who stayed in Guide Mansion, which one doesn't want to follow you to the capital? ”

"Yes! When we leave, Lao Kong is going to cry! Li Cheng on the side said: "Is it reluctant to let me be this old man?" It's obvious that you lost the opportunity to come to the capital to be happy! ”

Looking at the smiling faces of his subordinates on the table, Zhou Ping couldn't help but show a wry smile on his face, it seems that he is still too worried, these men in front of him still have no trace of warlord consciousness at all, but this is fine, after all, the era when martial artists support self-improvement and those who are strong and strong are the sons of heaven are really terrible. If you can eliminate that catastrophe invisibly, even if you can't control the heavy army, wouldn't it be a good thing that the people of the world can be healthy?

Zhou Ping was thinking about it, and suddenly there was a shouting and scolding outside, he raised his head and looked at the place where the sound came from, only to see that the shopkeeper was holding a wooden stick, driving the two unkempt men at the door out, and scolded: "Where did the poor ghost come from, don't you take a long look at this is the place where you should come in?" ”

One of the two men seemed to be in a semi-comatose state, and was held in the arms of his companion, using his body to block the sticks that fell like raindrops from the shopkeeper, and shouted: "My brother is sick, please give the store a mouthful of hot soup to drink, just pity our two brothers, and save a life!" (To be continued......)