Section 6 The Alliance of Rain and Lotus

"Geng Nanzhong and Geng Yanxi, father and son, entered the famous city. Lieutenant Shi lived in Cai Fu's house and sent his subordinates back to report. ”

The marching Sima Zhang Xian heard the spies' return and asked him to retreat.

The marching department has jurisdiction over the left and right departments, the left hall is in charge of combat training, which has long been formed, and the right hall is in charge of intelligence and detectives, and only a few suitable ones have been recruited now.

The lieutenant in the mouth of the spy, whose real name is Shi Qian, is known as the flea on the drum, who was originally a thief and was held by Zhang Yantang. Zhang Xian learned of his talent and put him in the right hall of the marching division.

Geng Nanzhong, Geng Yanxi's father and son, sat on the cold bench at Zhang Yanju's place for a few months, and saw that the siege of Pingyang had been lifted, and there was no longer any possibility of collecting the Hebei army, so they launched the second plan to go north: to implement the alliance with the Jin State.

On the surface, Zhang Yanju did not restrict the freedom of the mission, and Geng Nanzhong led the mission, in the name of patrolling the front, across the Hutuo River and into the area controlled by the Jin soldiers.

Shi Qian followed them, infiltrated the famous city, and found the home of Cai Fu and Cai Qing's brothers. The brothers Cai Fu and Cai Qing were originally the executioners of the Daimyo's Mansion, and when the city was broken, the officials who followed the Daimyo's lowered their money.

Shi Qian first hid in Cai Fu's room, and when Cai Fu returned to the house, he suddenly appeared, his right hand was flat, and the spring of the sleeve arrow hidden in his sleeve had been opened. In his left hand, he holds aloft the token of the Transit Division.

When Cai Fu saw the token, he immediately bowed down without thinking, and said in tears: "I have to see the token of the Great Song Dynasty today, and there will be a day of retribution." ”

Shi Qian has been wandering in the rivers and lakes all the year round, and he has eight points of certainty in watching people and trying faces, and he saw that Cai Fu's performance did not seem to be fake, so he put away his sleeve arrow and selectively explained his identity.

In this way, Shi Qian settled down in Cai Fu's house, pretending to be a handyman, and went to the yamen for Cai Fu every day to find out the news.

Originally, the Yamen of the pacification envoy on the West Road of the Great Song River has become a strong station for Wanyan Liduo. But Wanyan Liduo did not live in it, but lived in Lu Junyi's house earlier.

The Lu family's house is full of clouds, the spring stone is quiet, the pavilion is elegant, the construction is exquisite, and a lot of money has been spent on every foot of land.

Lu Junyi fought against Baojia on Hebei East Road, and after defeat, he simply fled back to the Daimyo's hometown, which coincided with the change of course after Yan Liduo, no longer sending troops to plunder, but setting up a yamen, improving the system, and co-opting the local gentry of the Daimyo. Lu Junyi was originally a famous and powerful man, and he was being wooed.

Lu Junyi in order to please Yan Liduo, specially built a garden, and set up a flower shed, is ordered to master craftsmen to do not peel the pine tree to build, the branches and leaves on the tree are still the same, the tables and chairs in the shed are all made of natural trees and stones, the shed is full of flowers and trees and grass, and then with bamboo to divert water, circulate around the shed, murmuring and sounding, the end is extremely ingenious, during the feast, it is like being in the mountains and wilderness, compared to the rich and noble people's carved beams and jade Huatang, it is a general flavor.

At this moment, a stage was set up in front of the flower shed, and a miscellaneous drama "Summer Rain Lotus" adapted from "Green Palace" was being performed on the stage

Said in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Cong, the fourth son of Liu Yuan, the emperor of the Huns, went out hunting and drank deer blood, and on a whim, bullied a Han girl by the lotus pond, the Han girl gave birth to a son, Liu Cong was killed by Liu Yao, the child changed his name to Xia Yuhe, and defected to Ran Min.

Geng Nanzhong watched from the audience, thinking that this "Green Palace" pretended to be the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but actually satirized the Hu people for killing each other, and they couldn't occupy the country after all; Jin Ren is vulgar, can't you really see it?

When the opera came to an end, Wan Yan Liduo shouted in Chinese: "Okay." ”

Geng Nanzhong's father and son immediately followed up and applauded loudly. Wanyan Liduo ordered to reward the servants, and then turned to Geng Nanzhong and said: "The alliance with the Great Song Dynasty was originally operated by the fourth master, but why did you come to Hebei?" ”

Father? Geng Nanzhong heard Yan Liduo learn to speak in the tone of the play, and he was disdainful in his heart, but his face was silent: "The third master and the fourth master are all the sons of the first emperor of the kingdom, and the third master is in the front, so he naturally has to make up his mind for the head of the Dajin Dynasty." ”

Geng Nanzhong said this, and he also felt strange in his heart, when he also used such market language according to the tone in the miscellaneous drama.

"This kind of drama is crude and easy to understand, no wonder Jin people are willing to learn." Geng Nanzhong thought about it, and discussed with Wanyan Liduo with a smile on his face: "My Southern Dynasty has its own positive traces, can you not be called the king, but the emperor?" ”

"There are no two days in the sky, there are no two lords in the people, you Nanbang people have called the emperor, where will you put my Dajin Emperor?"

"If you don't call yourself the emperor, how can the lord of my family serve the people? How to Surrender to the Nations? ”

Wanyan Liduo sneered: "Ernan Bang has its own positive trace, that is also in Bianliang, you have to go to Bianliang to ask for it, why rap here with me?" ”

The smile on Geng Nanzhong's face became even greater: "The kingdom of Shang is the orthodoxy of inheriting the Great Liao, the Great Liao and my Great Song are the country of brothers, and the monarch and the year call each other brothers, it is better to ......"

"If you and Da Liao are brothers, how can there be an alliance on the sea? I have destroyed your brother's kingdom with great gold, and you should raise an army to take revenge. ”

Geng Nanzhong finally stopped talking, and Wanyan Liduo put him aside, and continued to order a play to listen to, which was "Yuanmen Chop" in "The Romance of the Hu Family".

The content is that after Shi Jingjiao ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Liao State, Zhao Zun, the assassin of Jizhou, wanted to move to Zhuozhou, and the eldest son Zhao Chuanguang stopped at Yuanmen and did not let the army set off, and Zhao Zun wanted to behead Zhao Chuanguang.

It has been several years since "The Romance of the Hu Family" came out, and now everyone knows that Zhao Zun is Yizu Zhao Jing, and Zhao Chuanguang is Xuanzu Zhao Hongyin.

When Zhao Chuanguang sang "Shi Jingjiao became the emperor", Wanyan said with a smile: "Emperor, it's not impossible." ”

Geng Nanzhong saw that things were still turning around, and he was thinking about talking, but he couldn't continue the topic of "Emperor Er".

This is, Geng Yanxi gently pulled Geng Nanzhong's sleeve, and said softly in Geng Nanzhong's ear: "The Emperor of the Jin Kingdom is a person of the same generation as the Daojun Emperor, you can accept it first, and in the future, you will only say that the monarch and the current Emperor of the Jin Kingdom are the righteous father and the righteous son." ”

Geng Nanzhong thought about it as soon as he was reasonable, and said: "Let my monarch respect the emperor of the kingdom as his father-in-law, and you can still discuss." ”

"As long as father and son are commensurate, your lord and I will have brothers."

Geng Nanzhong didn't pick up the stubble, and found a father for Zhao Gou, he didn't want to bear this responsibility. Wanyan Liduo urged him: "Emperor, this is the biggest concession, and you must not retreat." ”

Geng Yanxi pulled Geng Nanzhong's sleeve, Geng Nanzhong didn't move, Geng Yanxi jumped up and said: "Congratulations to the third master and my family for becoming a humerus, please prepare blood wine and pack Mao, we are a blood alliance." ”

The soil wrapped in lotus leaves was sent over, and Wanyan Liduo's heart moved, and he said: "Uncle I have a wild son like this, just like that summer rain lotus, it is better to call it the rain and lotus alliance." ”

Geng Nanzhong, Geng Yanxi's father and son praised without thinking: "The rain is cloudy." There are clouds in the Book of Poetry: the mountains have Fusu, and the yin has Hehua. The lotus flower is dense and does not show people's meaning. This is a secret covenant, and it should be based on lotus flowers. ”

Geng Nanzhong, father and son, wanted to bring the secret agreement back to Zhao Gou. Wanyan Liduo instructed: "Once this agreement is completed, you and I will be like a family, and I will send people to Jiangnan for business in the future, and I will rely on the two of you more." ”

Geng Nanzhong said a few polite words. Wan Yan said to Liduo: "Come here with your ear, I'll tell you." ”

Geng Nanzhong leaned over and said with a straight face: "If someone says to you in the future, 'Do you remember the summer rain lotus in the famous city', it will be like I am in person, and you can't slack off." ”