The general was about to leave, but when he heard Shen Tuo's words, he hurriedly turned back.

First looked directly at Shen Tuo with his eyes, and did not move a little for a while.

Shen Tuo was calm and calm on the surface, but his vest was like being pricked by needles and sweating like rain.

After half a ring, the general jumped off his horse, put his hands on the ground, and walked forward on his knees, his armor rattling. When he arrived in front of Shen Tuo, he touched his head to the ground and cried loudly: "Minister, Wu Jue, knock to see Your Majesty!" ”

"Okay, okay." Shen Tuo didn't know how to answer for a while.

Seeing that he was still kowtowing, Shen Tuo hurriedly jumped off the horse and helped Wu Jue up.

After such a while, Wu Jue had already seen blood on his forehead, dripping with blood.

Shen Tuo looked at it sideways in his heart, and couldn't help but say, "Why is the general so bothered." Then he asked, "When did you see me?" ”

Wu Jue's face was already full of tears, but the emperor didn't dare not answer, so he had to let the tears flow on his face, but he replied proudly: "In the first year of Jingkang, the minister was loyal to Xunlang, and he once accompanied the Weizhou Jingluo envoy Xi Gong into the Weijing Division. His Majesty and Prime Minister Li went up to the city to inspect the military horses that day, and the ministers and military attachés had seen the horses together, so please sign up. I think there were too many people that day, and His Majesty didn't remember the minister. ”

He kowtowed and said: "The ministers are incompetent and useless, so that Your Majesty has fallen into the hands of the Hu people, and now you have returned safely, it is the great joy of my Song Dynasty billions of people, the ministers are overjoyed and wept, I don't know what to do, and I still beg Your Majesty for forgiveness." ”

Shen Tuo sighed in his heart. In the eyes of a general like Wu Jue, it doesn't matter whether the emperor is useful or incompetent to mislead the country, what is more important is that the emperor is actually the representative of the country, and the emperor is captured, which is a shame for the whole country, no wonder after many years, the only thought in Yue Fei's heart is to welcome back the second emperor!

Because he only said: "The general is loyal and brave, I am grateful for it!" ”

Wu Jue took the opportunity not to turn his head and wiped his tears with his sleeve. He looked like this, but the Mongols around him were extremely surprised. Only when the Great Khan or a parent died, the Mongols would cut their faces with knives and weep in return. Like Wu Jue, kneeling in front of Shen Tuo, crying like a child, but the Mongolians have never heard of or seen it.

Shen Tuo saw that his mood was a little calmer, so he asked again: "General, what position do you have now?" ”

Wu Jue replied: "The minister is currently the assassin of Zhongzhou, and the commander of the soldiers and horses of the left battalion. ”

Shen Tuo nodded slightly, knowing that this person's class was not very high, and he was only a middle-level officer. At the first level, he was the highest commander of the first-level troops of the Song Dynasty army.

The Song system set up four levels, including compartments, armies, battalions, and capitals, with 100 people each, five battalions per battalion, and three armies per battalion. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the military system was reformed, and the number of generals and deputy generals was set up, and the number of each general was different, all of them were headed by professional soldiers, and each army set up more than 100 generals, and the commander was the chief official and the commander was the deputy general. Wu Jue, this person, should now be the army under the command of the general, and all of them are gathered here.

Then he nodded and said, "In this case, please ask the general to protect my safety!" ”

Wu Jue did not hesitate, and immediately replied: "I am willing to protect Your Majesty's safety with this body!" ”

After that, he shouted loudly to the many ignorant generals in the distance: "What are you waiting for, come and meet His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Most of the generals and colonels here are junior officers, and they have never seen the emperor. Seeing Wu Jue crying and bowing, everyone was already stunned, and when they heard him shouting, they hurriedly rolled off the horse, hurriedly stepped forward, and paid homage to Shen Tuo one by one with a big salute.

After the salute was finished, a general muttered: "General Wu, didn't you say that Your Majesty is in Yangzhou at this time, how did you get here?" ”

Wu Jue glanced at him fiercely, and replied in a vicious voice: "Your Majesty was hunted in the north in the second year of Jingkang, and he has just returned from hard work!" ”

The general was startled, and hurriedly took a step back, not daring to say anything more.

Only then did everyone understand that this was not Zhao Gou, but Emperor Qinzong who was captured to the north. Everyone is a martial artist, and they are all ashamed of Jing Kangnian's affairs in their hearts, and when they heard that it was Zhao Heng's return, they all showed excitement, and many people fell to the ground again, kowtowing again and again, and they were not under the appropriate Wu Jue.

It's just that the martial artists are all straightforward, and while they are grateful, they are all thinking: "This majesty is back, but I don't know what to do with your majesty in Yangzhou." They all thought: "This is the serious emperor, the eldest son of the Emperor Taishang, Emperor Jianyan is just a vassal king, I am afraid that he will give way." But I don't know when His Majesty's edict will be sent. If King Kang doesn't accept it, it will be lively. ”

Shen Tuo couldn't see the thoughts of these martial artists clearly, seeing that their expressions were a little embarrassed, he naturally knew what they were thinking.

It's just that he didn't want to preach in front of these people, so he just said to Wu Jue: "These Mongols are with them when they are on the run, and I trust them very much, and the general can treat them well, so there is no need to doubt them." ”

Wu Jue said: "How can this be done, since Your Majesty is back, it will naturally be guarded by the ministers, these Mongolians are aliens after all, how can they still be by Your Majesty's side." ”

As soon as these words came out, the Mongols were already angry because of his attitude, and at this time, they heard him insult their loyalty, and they were even more resentful, and they couldn't help but stand up and point at him and scold.

Shen Tuo was also dissatisfied, but he knew that this was also human nature, so he only said lightly: "I have returned thousands of miles, they have been left and right, if they are driven away at this time, how will the people of the world treat me?" The general doesn't need to say much, but they are still guarded by them. ”

After all, it was the power of the emperor, and Wu Jue had no choice but to give up when he saw that he was not good. I just thought to myself: "When I saw Your Majesty in Tokyo that day, Your Majesty was very weak, and he looked like a showman. ”

He was a little uneasy in his heart, and couldn't help but take a closer look at Shen Tuo a few times, but it was not who the emperor was.

knelt on the ground at the moment, invited Shen Tuo to mount the horse, and then ordered all the soldiers and horses to gather and guard around Shen Tuo.

Walking in such a roundabout way, just ten miles out, but I saw the smoke and dust in front of me loudly, obviously a large group of people and horses came.

Knowing that there could be no large number of gold soldiers here, Wu Jue was very cautious, stopped the march of the team, set up a formation, and waited for the other party to come.

After a while, it was a large group of cavalry that came first, a little closer, Wu Jue saw the banner, and smiled at Shen Tuo: "Your Majesty, it is Lord Zhang who is the envoy of Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu. ”

"Oh? Zhang Jun? Shen Tuo secretly broke out in a cold sweat, fortunately, he still liked to read history books at the beginning, otherwise he would be ugly on the spot.

If you don't know it, even if you share a body with Zhao Heng, you will be suspicious.

Wu Jue nodded slightly and replied, "Back to Your Majesty, it's Zhang Jun." ”

Shen Tuo listened to his tone, but he didn't necessarily have it as pleasant as his face. Looking at his eyes again, they were as cold as water.

At this time, it is impossible to care about whether the civil officials and military generals of Shaanxi are harmonious, this Zhang Jun is one of the representatives of the main battle faction at this time, in the court Ren Shangshu right servant shooting, with the Zhongshu Men under the Ping Zhangshi and the Privy Council, all supervised the road military horses, this time to come to Sichuan and Shaanxi, but also took the initiative to ask, this person said to Zhao Gong: Zhongxing should start with Sichuan and Shaanxi. It was also a rare insight at that time, Zhao Gou also trusted him very much, and was the right-hand man of Zhao Ding, the two of them fought in the early years of Jianyan and Shaoxing, and made great contributions to the corner of the Southern Song Dynasty. It's just that this person is loyal, but he doesn't know whether it is for the country, or for Zhao Gou, and how he Shen Tuo is, we still need to see again.

Zhang Jun was the general of Shaanxi at this time, and soon after coming to Shaanxi, he revitalized water conservancy, persuaded Tuntian, and laid off redundant troops.

Seeing that he was near, Wu Jue and below all dismounted to greet him.

Only Shen Tuoan sat on the horse and stood still.

Zhang Jun did not dress up as a court official, an ordinary gentry dressed and hated, riding a healthy horse, and rushed forward. He drove a little closer, and Shen Tuo took a look to see that this person was in his forties, with a yellow face and short beard, and a lean face, but he was not like an ordinary civil official of the Song Dynasty, looking cowardly and pedantic.

This person also saw Shen Tuo, and at first he looked incredulous, but he didn't dare to continue riding the horse and jumped down. After walking a few more steps, a look of certainty finally appeared on his face.

More than ten steps away from Shen Tuoshang, he lay on the ground, signed up to salute, and couldn't cry.

Such a performance is also in Shen Tuo's material. The civil officials of the Song Dynasty, no matter how shameless and cowardly they fought at this time, there were no people who despised the emperor. If a military general can still commit a crime against the emperor, it is absolutely impossible for a civilian official.

He drove the horse a few steps forward, a little closer, but did not dismount, only bent down slightly on the horse, and said to Zhang Junwen: "Qinglai is hard, and get up and talk." ”

If Zhang Jun still has some residual doubts, they have disappeared at this time. He prostrated again and again, weeping incessantly, and it was difficult to control himself.

In the early years of Jingkang, Zhang Jun was too often thin, often waiting for the emperor, and he was so familiar with Shen Tuo's appearance and behavior that he couldn't be more familiar, he knocked like this, and tens of thousands of soldiers behind him fell to the ground and saluted together.

Shen Tuo looked at it, and it was actually a piece of black pressure that fell to his knees, in addition to Zhang Jun, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses obviously knew Shen Tuo's identity, and together with Zhang Jun, they let out a loud cry of grief.

In later generations, he was also a high and powerful person, but he never felt so wholeheartedly loyal, so unreserved, so loyal.

I felt a sour breath, which was close to my eyes, and I couldn't help but burst into tears.