"There is nothing to say about the use of soldiers." Yang Luo smiled disdainfully: "If you really don't want to be famous, why do you spend so much effort to attract the chief manager to come and see him?" ”

Zheng Yunming waved his hand to disagree: "What is the difference between having real talent in the chest and learning to retreat to the world, and the pearl drowning in the mud?" Treasures must be glorified in front of people to be called treasures, if they are covered in dust, and ordinary stones and mud pills, it is called disobeying the way of heaven. ”

"Don't gossip too much, come with me to meet this Mr. Bai."

With that, he got straight on his horse, gently knocked the horse's ribs, and led everyone towards the bamboo forest.

Sure enough, there are a few neat grass huts hidden in the sparse bamboo forest. Peonies and peonies are planted outside the fence, and naturally it is not yet open during this season. Only a tall red plum tree in the courtyard is unscrupulously exuding its fragrance.

Zheng Yunming listened carefully, and clearly heard that someone seemed to be playing the yaoqin in the grass house.

Everyone dismounted and came to the front of the village, Zheng Yunming raised his hand and knocked on the firewood a few times. A boy in a green shirt opened the door and bowed to Zheng Yunming: "You are finally here." ”

Zheng Yunming straightened his clothes, stepped forward to salute, and said respectfully: "Zheng Yunming, the head of the camp under the Jinghu pacification envoy tent and the right to know Xiangyang Mansion, has visited Mr. Bai. ”

The boy sighed: "It's good for the manager to come early for a moment and a half, my husband suddenly moved Yaxing when he was sitting idle just now, and he was playing the piano in the hall, and it was strictly forbidden for others to disturb him when he was playing." ”

Yang Luo said coldly: "Therefore, I played with so many mysteries and deceived the big fish into the door, but I put this shelf for no reason, your master is inevitable."

Wang Deng tugged at the sleeve of his robe fiercely. Zheng Yunming turned his head and glared at Yang Luo, then turned to the boy and said, "It's okay, it's not too late to see each other after Mr. plays, can you let us wait in the courtyard?" ”

The boy nodded yes, but then said, "You are not allowed to carry armor and weapons in the cottage, and when the generals want to enter the door, they must take off their armor and take off their swords." ”

Wang Deng raised his eyebrows, and said loudly: "The general removes his armor from the dead side, and the strong man has a broken arm sword on his body, doesn't your master even understand this!" ”

The boy quickly responded: "Sir said, if you enter the grass house, you will not be the general in charge, but the gentleman of the master, and the battle is not the sword and armor, but here." He pointed to the location of the heart.

Zheng Yunming looked at the little boy's articulate appearance, and knew that Bai Yijie usually interacted with celebrities, even if he was a child servant, he was used to seeing the world.

He commanded, "Remove all your armor!" Take off your swords and bows! So saying, he took the sword from his waist and handed it to the boy.

After removing the iron armor and skull, everyone came to the courtyard and waited.

The sound of the piano was light and soothing when Zheng Yunming first heard it, as if it made people in a leisurely countryside, stable and peaceful. After everyone entered the hospital, a string sounded, and the melody turned sharply, tight and urgent, and the string sound was high-pitched, as if thousands of troops and horses suddenly swept in. Between the sound of the piano, the sound of Jin Ge could be heard, mixed with countless low wails, as if the people were struggling and shouting in the arms. Suddenly, the sound of the piano turned, and a short bass sounded in the high sound of the piano, as if one side had suddenly sent a surprise army in the midst of a battle, embedded in the other side's formation.

The short bass resounded a few times, then drowned out the high sound like a storm, and the high sound was washed away by the low and short sound, and the rhythm of the play gradually became slow, then the sound became lower and lower, and finally after a moment and a half died down in the mixed bass. The bass finally soothed, and it returned to the soft and peaceful melody it had been before, accompanied by a long trill, and the song came to an abrupt end.

The boy hurriedly pushed the door open and went in. The clear voice of a young man in the room asked, "Have the guests from Xiangyang arrived?" ”

The boy said, "Manager Zheng has been here for a long time, and he is waiting in the courtyard now. ”

The man said with a little dissatisfaction: "Why don't you report it early?" Wait for me to open the door and greet you! ”

When the wooden door creaked open, Bai Yijie walked out of the thatched house and descended to greet him.

When everyone looked at it, they saw that this young scholar was only of medium height, with a face like beautiful jade, a few short beards under his chin, a scarf and Confucian clothes, and a white feather fan in his hand. If it is compared with Zhuge Liang in the commentary, no matter how similar the god form is.

Zheng Yunming straightened his crown and stepped forward to salute: "Zheng Yunming, a subordinate of the Jinghu System Envoy and the head of Yingtian, has not had the opportunity to know Mr. for a long time, and he made a special trip to visit today. ”

Bai Yijie returned the salute and said with a smile: "Yijie mountain and wild villager, how can the labor manager be in person?" I should have gone to Raven Mountain to meet earlier. ”

Behind Zheng Yunming, Yang Luo snorted again.

Bai Yijie just didn't know, waved his fan and said: "Don't think it's shabby, please sit less in the grass house." ”

He smiled at Wang Deng and Yang Wei again, and said, "Jing Song and Chun's father also come in, I know that you must have something to say in your hearts." ”

Yang Luo and Wang Deng showed a trace of contempt on their faces at the same time.

Do you need to talk about it?

After entering the hall, the two sides sat separately. The child presented a peach wood tea cup, and the young leaves of Bifeng were newly boiled in the cup, and the room was full of fragrance.

Before Zheng Yunming could speak, Wang Deng preemptively said: "Mr. Su Wen has great ambitions and a sincere and patriotic heart, why did he help the villagers to fight against the imperial court?" Although this is not a blatant surrender to the enemy, but everyone is like Mr., didn't the Mongols decide Jinghu with their hands? ”

Bai Yijie waved his feather fan and said: "Otherwise, after the destruction of Junzhou, Hu Qi haunted the state border, and the defeated officers and soldiers also lost their command and became bandits. The people can only barely protect themselves in the rebellion, how can they clearly distinguish who is the official and who is the official and who has become a thief? The Xiangyang Rebellion was just settled, and the villagers united to guard against the attack of the rebellious army. ”

Zheng Yunming said with a smile: "Although Ge has been on the battlefield for many years, after all, he is a straight character, and he can't win if Mr. plays tricks with him." But I didn't expect that with Yang Chun's father's intelligence, it would be so easy to fold in the hands of Mr. ”

"Yang Chun's father has a problem, maybe he doesn't know the way himself." Bai Yijie completely ignored Yang Liang's ugly expression, and said directly: "He is too conceited, and always thinks that no one can match his strategy, when he thinks about strategy, plans carefully, and prepares carefully, I can't compare this to beauty." But when a strategy succeeds, that's when he lets his guard down. The so-called blue light is black at the bottom, and I have grasped this point. When Chun's father broke through Baijiazhai, he thought that the plan had been accomplished, and he suddenly lost his vigilance. Where did he know that I had hidden a secret compartment in the wing of the Confucian Temple, and there were armor soldiers hidden in it, waiting for him to take the bait? ”

Yang Luo rolled his eyelids and said coldly: "Yes, it was indeed Mr.'s strategy that beat me before, but with such a small trick of kidnapping characters, he can't beat the millions of Mongolian elite soldiers on the battlefield." ”

Bai Yijie said flatly: "That's right, the students have another plan in their chests, but I don't know if the visitors are destined to make these plans come true." ”

Zheng Yunming leaned forward and said solemnly: "The country is unfortunate, first invaded by the Khitan, and then attacked and occupied the Central Plains by the Jin. If this is just the case, Zheng Yunming does not have the heart to fight to the death. I am not one of those true heroes who take the world as their own responsibility, and I think I can't do it by exchanging my own body and bones for the perfection of mountains and rivers. But the Mongols were different from the Khitans, the Jin, and all the Hu people before them. ”

His expression was heavy, as if he was narrating the major events of life and death: "Most of the Hu people in the past were complacent after occupying the Central Plains, leaving a way for the Han people in the south of the Yangtze River to live. But after the rise of the Mongols, it was completely different, they attacked one country, destroyed another, set up a Daru Huachi to supervise, and slaughtered the city if there was a slight resistance, completely not giving the other party any chance to survive. And they didn't care about the old civilization system of the occupied land, and I heard that they recruited singers into mosques in the Western Regions, and they were lascivious, digging up the pages of the Qur'an with gold covers and feeding them as mangers. I've heard that they use the Temple of Literature as a stable in the north, and it's full of horse manure. They also toppled the statue of Confucius, urinated on it, and burned the books of the sages as firewood. ”

"Putting up officials and collecting taxes, you can endure it, you can endure the oppression and humiliation, you can endure it, and even as a pariah, you have to swallow your anger in order to survive. However, if we dig out the roots of our consistent civilization, so that our children and grandchildren will not be able to read and write, learn the teachings of the sages, and become muddy people, so that we will never know where we came from and where we are going, and what is the difference between living like this and the dead. ”

"There is only this one that we must not bear," Zheng Yunming gritted his teeth and said: "In order for the descendants of the future generations to inherit the spirit of the sages and bathe in the elegance of the Tang Dynasty and Song bones, we will never retreat, we must fight to the death with the Mongols!" ”

Bai Yijie shook his fan gently: "But it is much more difficult to defeat Mongolia than to deal with the Xiongnu, Turkic and Khitan Jurchens." ”

"Exactly, this half of the rivers and mountains, although it is known as the southeast shape victory, is rich and prosperous." Zheng Yunming shook his head slowly: "In fact, from another aspect, it is an out-and-out poor country. ”

"Today's wars are very different from those of the Qin and Han dynasties. Today's warfare requires more than just farmers and food, and today's warfare requires well-trained professional sergeants, sophisticated weaponry, a large number of mounts and pack animals, skilled mechanics and shipbuilders, and huge sums of money. ”

"It's a pity that the Great Song Dynasty is not as good as the Mongols except for the last one. We have expanded our army by sheltering displaced people, and the training of the army cannot be guaranteed, and unqualified non-commissioned officers cannot be eliminated in time. Not only did the land south of the Yangtze River lack gold and silver, but also high-quality copper, iron, lead, and tin, and the Mongols occupied areas that were not only in astonishing quantity but also of the highest quality. We lack horns, timber and feathers for bows and arrows, iron for armor, wood for spears, and even brass for coinage! ”