Happy holidays to all!!

Early the next morning, without waiting for Zong Ze to go to the post house to welcome the prince out of the city to offer incense, Nie Shan found the door, saying that the volunteer soldiers who followed them to the north not only clamored to continue to go north to resist Jin, but also asked the prince to ask for weapons, bows, crossbows, and arrows. The prince had no choice but to let Wang Yun go outside the city to appease, and at the same time let him ask for some weapons to stabilize the morale of the army, of course, he would return the money to them.

Before Zong Ze could reply, he received a report from the soldiers guarding the gate, and the volunteers who had just opened the city gate and were stationed outside in the morning flocked into the city, claiming that they wanted to receive weapons and go to the Daimyo to fight against the Jin army.

"The volunteers outside the city were not recruited by Zhang Yushi?" Zong Ze was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked.

"Alas, it's a long story, when the mission left Beijing, the wind in Beijing spread that the prince's peace talks were fake, in fact, it was to lead the troops to save Zhending, so there were many volunteers who followed our mission north, at first there were only a few thousand, but the further north they went, the more people there were, there were tens of thousands, in Cizhou they heard that Zhending had been lost, and the Jin army was approaching the Daimyo's mansion, so they clamored for the prince to go quickly to save the Daimyo!" Nie Shan said with a sigh.

"You went to the peace talks, followed by so many volunteers, not afraid of the impeachment of the courtiers, and the Jin army was suspicious?" Zong Ze wondered, how could there be a peace negotiation mission to cut the land and beg for peace, but at the same time recruit volunteers, he said a little angrily.

"When I left Beijing to say goodbye, the saint saw it in person, and he also sent someone to inquire, but there was no follow-up, I think it was acquiescence. When crossing the Yellow River to Hebei. happened to meet Zhang Suo's order to recruit soldiers, for fear of causing misunderstanding among the Jurchens. He pretended to be a volunteer he had recruited and was ready to return to the aid of the Beijing Division. Who knew that such rights and wrongs were born now! Nie Shan said helplessly.

"That's good. They followed all the way, and the prince didn't stop him? Zong Ze asked.

"You still don't know that the prince of Lu Dao is accustomed to leading troops, and he has always been the main battle in Beijing, beating Shaozai Tang Ke, Geng Nanzhong, Zhongshu Men, and Jin envoy Wang Wei, but the Jin people must take the prince as a hostage, how can he be convinced, and finally pulled Geng Nanzhong's son as his entourage. He often said that in order to take the initiative in negotiations with others, there must be troops to press the formation in order to negotiate, and it is also good to be strong and strong, so it would be good for him not to instigate it. And this matter doesn't matter, why should we talk too much, or..."Nie Shan whispered.

"Anything else?" The more Nie Shan said vaguely, the more nervous Zong Ze became, and hurriedly asked.

"Maybe the prince has given the secret decree of the saint, otherwise he would be so indulgent?" Nie Shan said close to Zong Ze's ear.

"My lord, the prince sent someone to ask, when will you go out of the city to offer incense?" At this time, someone came in and told Zong Ze.

"You go back to the prince immediately, I'll go over after a while!" Zong Han replied with a frown.

"Your Excellency. There was a conflict between the people and the righteous brave who entered the city, and the two sides were about to fight! "Before the man in the first place had gone out, another man came in to tell him.

"Why did there be a conflict, did it take courage to rob the people?" Zong Ze said with a sinking face.

"Tell your lordship. Not because of this, but because the people of this house saw that the prince's car was about to leave the city, so they went to besiege it. happened to see Lord Wang Yun, so he scolded him for being a spy. aroused the dissatisfaction of the volunteers, and the two sides clashed. Insult each other, please show me how to deal with it! ”

"Did Lord Wang incite the conflict between the righteous and the people?" Zong Ze asked anxiously.

"Your Excellency, as far as your subordinates know, Lord Wang was scolded by the people, and he did not argue with the people, but blindly retreated, and now the situation is urgent, please make a decision as soon as possible!" The official replied...

Nie Shan looked at Zong Ze coldly, listened to his questioning, and couldn't help but sigh that the prince was prescient, and as soon as the prince moved, people came to surround him and ask him not to go north. And listening to Zong Ze's words, he didn't leave Wang Yun every sentence, obviously he wanted to find trouble with him, but fortunately, the prince repeatedly told him not to reason with the people, otherwise not only could the reason not be clear, but it might also cause the situation to intensify and provoke greater right and wrong!

"Master Zong, the prince and his entourage were surrounded by the people at the gate of the city, if there is anything missing, will you suffer the sin?" Just as Zong Ze was overwhelmed by what had happened one after another, Geng Yanxi rushed in and pointed at Zong Ze and shouted angrily.

"Master Geng, what's going on?" Nie Shan hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed him and asked.

"This old man said that he invited the prince to incense, but the prince did not wait for a long time to go to the north gate, and rushed over from nowhere A group of grass people stopped the prince's car, not to say that the prince was going to Jinying for peace talks, and he was not allowed to go, and scolded me for sending the prince into the tiger's mouth, and now tens of thousands of people have gathered inside and outside the city, the prince can only retreat to the city wall and order you to go quickly to relieve the siege, the official finally rushed out, Zong Lao'er, you have to quickly send troops to suppress, otherwise something happened to the prince, guarantee that your head will fall!" Geng Yanxi was covered with stains, and his clothes were torn in many places, which showed that what he said was true, and he relied on his father's power to ignore all the officials, and he yelled at Zong Ze unceremoniously.

"It's... How is it good? In the blink of an eye, there was an accident everywhere, and the righteous and brave entry into the city completely disrupted Zong Ze's deployment, which made him confused for a while, he looked at Nie Shan and asked.

"Master Zong, the most important thing at the moment is to ensure the safety of the prince, let's divide into two roads, you take people to the north gate to explain to the people the reason for leaving the city. In addition, you sent someone to give Lord Wang Yun a warrant, and ordered someone to open the arsenal and let Yiyong receive the weapon, and the two parties naturally understood that Lord Wang was not a spy and naturally dispersed. I went to the south gate to stop the righteous and brave from pouring into the city, so as not to mutiny and endanger the people in the city! Then you and the prince go to the incense, and we lead the righteous and brave out of the city first, what do you think? Nie Shan had the bottom in his heart, and after a little groaning, he put forward his own suggestion.

"Okay, then there's Lord Lao!" Zong Ze can only think about it, but the prince is still in Cizhou, and things will take a turn for the better.

Zong Ze followed the plan, ordered people to open the armor warehouse to distribute weapons to the volunteers, and at the same time Zhang Bang Anmin, so that the people dispersed, he rushed to the north gate to drink the people to disperse, took the prince down the city, and then accompanied the prince to the Jiaying Shrine to incense, pray for the country. When Nie Shan arrived at the south gate, he immediately explained the situation, and ordered them to go out of the city, and rush to the north of the city to collect weapons, and then they could set off with the mission and go to the Daimyo's Mansion!

Seeing is believing, the people of Cizhou saw that tens of thousands of volunteer soldiers had gathered and followed the mission eastward to the Daimyo's Mansion, and they believed that the prince had indeed come to fight with the Jin army, not to negotiate peace, so they gradually dispersed. And Zong Ze watched the prince bow sincerely with a few Buddha incense sticks in his hand, and a strange feeling surged in his heart, is it difficult to keep the will of heaven? (To be continued......)