Wen Cheng looked at no one on the left and right, and said in a low voice: "Ah Ping, do you know that the official family has sent Zhao Liangsi and Wang Huan as the chief and deputy envoys, and Ma Zheng and Ma Kuo father and son as entourage, and they have gone to Liaodong by sea to attack Liao with the Jinren Alliance!" ”

"How do you know-" As soon as Zhou Ping's words came out, he reacted, this Wen Cheng has been working in the Ministry of Rites for decades, and he is sure that the door is clear, plus a bunch of old colleagues, if the Great Song Dynasty wants to send envoys to establish an alliance with the Jin people, there will always be all kinds of news revealed, and it is really not difficult for him to know if he has the heart.

"Hey!" Wen Cheng sighed: "It's really a big gamble, but I don't know if it's a win or a loss!" ”

"It's a loss, and it's the kind that even loses the underwear!" Zhou Ping sneered, but a pair of eyes couldn't help but start to look sadly at the people who were drinking and having fun by the stream not far away. If I remember correctly, in another three or four years, maybe five or six years, the mighty Jin people will go south from the north and crush all this, and these people are enjoying themselves, and they are really "singing in the leaky boat, drinking under the burning house!" "What's worse is that it's been almost four years since I crossed by myself, but there are no more than fifty mobile troops that can be commanded at hand, and special approval is required to get the armor out, and other crossing predecessors may have conquered more than half of the entire world in this time. Thanks to the military and political system of the Great Song Dynasty, generally speaking, the supreme commanders who served as the commanders and commanders of the Zhulu armies were generally temporarily transferred generals, and this unlucky military general often did not understand the situation of his subordinate generals at all. Moreover, above this general, there are often bosses such as military officials, pacification envoys, and solicitation envoys who are served by civilian officials or eunuchs, and worse, the opinions of this boss and military generals are often at odds, and both civilian officials and military generals have the right to command the army. Under this strange system, the center of the Song army had no way to coordinate the actions of various departments, so in the previous Song-Xia, Song-Liao, and Song-Jin wars, the Song army often fought well in small-scale battles of one or two thousand, two or three thousand people, but once the scale of the campaign rose to a large-scale battle of more than 10,000 people, it would be defeated. Perhaps the purpose of this military-political system is not to win the war, but to make it impossible for the generals to do anything. As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Ping felt a splitting headache.

"Prison Zhou, so you're here! Come on, come on, let me introduce you to a big man from Beijing, Wu Mu Wu Gonggong! ”

A familiar voice woke Zhou Ping up from his troubles, he raised his head, and saw Zhang Jiahe standing in front of him with a smile on his face, and behind him stood a white and chubby, middle-aged man with no beard under his chin, looking at himself, with a smile on his face.

"Hey, look at what Zhang Daguan said, what kind of big man is our family, it's just running errands for Mrs. Yang!" The middle-aged man smiled, his voice was as sharp as a woman's, but the tone and content of his speech were the opposite, extremely arrogant.

"Mrs. Yang?" Before Zhou Ping could react, Wen Cheng's deep voice had already come from behind him: "He is Wu Mu Wu Gonggong of Kutian Institute, and he is a subordinate of Yang Jian and Yang Taifu in the Jingshi!" ”

Zhou Ping was clever, and then he reacted, and hurriedly got up and bowed down: "The lower official is reckless, and he is rude and dull, please forgive Gonggong Wu!" "As the saying goes, it is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain, this eunuch is a villain among villains, and he must not be offended.

"Get up, please!" Wu Mu smiled and stretched out his hand to help Zhou Ping up, held Zhou Ping's hands, looked up and down and said with a smile: "Zhou Prison is really dignified, our family has been in the palace for more than ten years, and we have seen countless classes, but there are few people with such good looks as Zhou Prison." Our brothers should be closer and closer in the future! ”

Zhou Ping was looked at by Wu Mu's burning gaze, and goosebumps suddenly appeared all over his body, plus the other party's palms were cold and wet, as if he was holding two poisonous snakes in his hands, he didn't care that what was in front of him was a eunuch who had always been known for his narrow-mindedness, so he hurriedly pulled out his hands from the other party's hands, took a step back and saluted: "The villain is from Tianke, and he was cultivated by Xianggong to be this prisoner, and that group of people who are the sons of heaven must have been chosen by thousands of people, how can the villain be compared with it!" ”

"Huh!" Wu Mu was pulled out by Zhou Ping, and he was not annoyed, a pair of hot eyes still stayed on Zhou Ping, as if he had found some rare treasure: "Don't be presumptuous when you are imprisoned, I have heard Han Xianggong say about you just now, and your imprisonment was killed with a knife and a shot." And those classes are straight! Speaking of this, Wu Mu sneered: "If Taizu Taizong was indeed some good men, now he is just a good fetus, thrown into the family of relatives, and used as a clothes rack in the palace, if it is about fighting skills, I am afraid that only ten may not be able to be imprisoned one!" ”

"My father-in-law praised it!" Zhou Ping bowed and replied, but secretly thought in his heart that although this eunuch was a little tired of life, what he said was the truth. During the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, those classes were indeed the elite of thousands of choices, and now, this kind of beauty difference with fast promotion and good treatment will not be able to get the good men who fought on the front line of the Western Army. Maybe there are some people in the middle who practice martial arts well, but they are also used to look good, not the kind of killing skills on the battlefield, and once they start to do it, they will definitely suffer a big loss.

Speaking of this, Wu Mu laughed twice and said, "Zhang Daguan, please take two glasses of wine, our family wants to thank Zhou for his imprisonment!" ”

Zhang Jiahe responded, and the maidservant had already presented the wine glass, and Zhou Ping hurriedly said: "It's only been a month since the lower official became this deputy prisoner, where have you done anything, you can't deserve it!" Deserved! ”

Zhang Jiahe smiled on the side: "Brother Zhou Xian, do you know what Gonggong Wu is sending?" ”

"It seems to be Kudasho?"

"Then do you know what this Kuda does?"

"I don't know!" Zhou Ping shook his head blankly. Zhang Jiahe then explained with a smile, it turned out that the original name of this Kutian Institute was "Xicheng Kutian Institute", and at that time, Song Huizong adopted Cai Jing's words of "Feng, Heng, Henan, and Da", and spent the country's wealth and squandered it. In order to make up for the financial deficit, Yang Jian, who was the governor of Da Nei at that time, got a way from a Xu official named Du Gongcai, and made a special decree to put forward a contract to the people to inspect the land, because many people's land was transferred from place to place, or came to reclaim wasteland, and there was no land deed at all, Yang Jian took this land as public land, and increased the rent, and Yang Jian took out a part of the huge wealth Yang Jian paid to Emperor Daojun for his squandering, and the rest was included in his private pocket. As a result, he won Zhao Ji's favor, and later became the official master. Later, this method was widely promoted in Jingdong, Jingxi and other provinces, and in Liangshanbo, the entire water area was taken into public ownership, and it was stipulated that all the people who entered the lake to fish, harvest lotus roots, and cut pu should be taxed heavily according to the size of the boat, and if there were violators of the ban, they would be punished as thieves.

"Brother Zhou Xian, thanks to you for exterminating Song [***] Kou, these annihilators have nowhere to escape, and the Kutian Institute can enter the lake to collect taxes, do you say that Gonggong Wu should thank you a lot?" Zhang Jiahe said this and said with a smile: "Gonggong Wu will mention your great achievements in front of Mrs. Yang when he returns to Tokyo this time!" If Mrs. Yang can mention the name of the virtuous brother in front of the official family, then why is it difficult for the virtuous brother to rise to the top? ”

Hearing this, Zhou Ping couldn't help but be stunned, he couldn't imagine that he helped Han Xiaoxuan to eliminate Song Jiang, but indirectly helped the dead eunuch in front of him. He didn't need to read many history books, he also knew that the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty was indispensable to the credit of the Duke Wu and the Yang Taifu in front of him, and his own actions could also be said to have added a spade of soil to the grave of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhang Jiahe saw Zhou Ping in a daze there, and hurriedly reminded: "Brother Xian, aren't you faint with joy, and you haven't thanked Gonggong Wu?" ”

"The villain is overjoyed, please forgive my father-in-law!" Zhou Ping hurriedly bowed and saluted, he was unwilling to test the belly of the Wu Gonggong in front of him.

"That's it, that's it!" Wu Mu said with a smile: "Our family is also a sensible person, like a majestic and good man like Zhou Prison, our family is very happy when he looks at it, but there is a little rudeness, and our family just didn't see it!" Speaking of this, Wu Mu covered his mouth and laughed sharply.

"Grandpa Wu really has a belly like the sea!" Zhang Jiahe greeted him, and Zhou Ping had to force himself to suppress his nausea, and he smiled and agreed.

Wu Mu laughed a few times and said, "Prison Zhou, as soon as I see you kindly, I will treat you as my own family, and I won't talk to the two families." In today's world, if you want to be promoted, you don't have the ability to do it, you have to have someone above! Do you understand? ”

Zhang Jiahe on the side smiled and said, "Brother Xian, don't you want to thank Gonggong Wu?" As long as Gonggong Wu's errand is done well, Mrs. Yang casually mentioned it in front of the official family, that the supermobility of the meritorious service is not a casual thing, and others can't ask for such an opportunity! ”

"I also know that the thighs of the eunuch party rise quickly, but the problem is that it didn't take a few years for the golden soldiers to fight, and this dead eunuch is also disgusting!" Zhou Ping slandered, but the current situation is stronger than people, although he didn't spend much time in the history of the Song Dynasty before the crossing, but thanks to the "Water Margin", the reputation of the "Xuanhe Six Thieves" has been heard. If I stick to my principles at this time, I am afraid that I will be killed immediately. After thinking about it for a while, he bowed down and said: "Gonggong Wu, if there is any use for the villain, just give orders, and the villain will not dare to refuse!" ”

"Good, good, good!" Wu Mu smiled: "But please rest assured, a good man like the prisoner, our family is reluctant to let you scratch a little oily skin, let alone smear your liver and brain!" ”

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