Grandma Tong raised her little head and hugged Ye Huan's arm, her immature and lovely face was full of grief, and two lines of tears were left in her bright big eyes, she sobbed and said: "Official, even if you die, the concubine will follow, and you will not be allowed to walk on the road to Huangquan alone." ”

Ye Huan squeezed out a few tears, pulled out his hand and hugged her in his arms, let her sit on his lap, stroked her long soft hair, and tried his best to hold back crying and sob: "Silly girl, why are you bothering." ”

"Official, I don't want to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but I want to die on the same day and month of the same year, the concubine is your person in life, and your ghost is your ghost in death!" Grandma Tong raised her head, and her little face was even resolute.

Ye Huan stroked her long hair even more lovingly, "Idiot, idiot......"

Sima Guang looked at this pair of men and women who were deeply in love, and his heart was very painful, such a good man was about to die before he could make a contribution, and his wife still had the heart of martyrdom, their love was really moving. Sima Guang stood up again and bowed deeply to them, the man's high righteousness, the woman's infatuation, this time, he worshiped willingly.

After a while, Ye Huan seemed to react, this was Prime Minister Sima Cheng's mansion, he turned his head to Sima Guang and cast an apologetic look and said, "Let you see you laugh, Lord Sima." Hearing this, Grandma Tong hurriedly returned to her actions as if she was a frightened kitten, and looked at Sima Guang with a red face.

Seeing this, although Sima Guang secretly wept for these two infatuated men and women in his heart, he said with a smile on his face: "Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, Mr. Ye has this confidante, he is really envious of others." ”

Tong Lao's little face turned even redder, and Ye Huan also showed an embarrassed look, and looked at Grandma Tong gently, all in Sima Guang's eyes. What a pair of golden boys and girls, a match made in heaven, it's just ...... Ay......

Ye Huan took out a letter from his arms and put it on Sima Guang's table and said: "Lord Sima, this letter is also troublesome for you to hand over to the official family, it is best to let you meet with the official family, and you can tell him in detail how to make the Great Song Dynasty prosperous and strong." ”

The next morning, Sima Guang went to the palace to participate in the early dynasty, and after the next dynasty, Sima Guang called Emperor Zhezong's personal eunuch and asked him to tell Emperor Zhezong that Sima Guang had something to look for him. The emperors of the Great Song Dynasty did not have the same high frame as those emperors of previous dynasties, so both officials and ordinary people affectionately called the emperor an official. And the relationship between the officials and the emperor can actually be said to be the relationship between the boss and the salaryman. Sima Guang's seemingly rude behavior was very ordinary.

After being summoned, Sima Guang entered the imperial study and bowed in front of Emperor Zhezong: "Wechen Sima Guang sees the official family." "In the Song Dynasty, there was no etiquette of kneeling, even when seeing the emperor, ordinary people did not need to kneel. In the eyes of the people of the Song Dynasty, kneeling down was full of humiliation. In addition to worshipping ancestors, heaven and earth, it will only be used when surrendering and confessing sins.

As for when did the Chinese people kneel down? I want to sincerely thank Meng Yuan, the prime minister of Yelu Chucai, for his invention. The Mongols originally had a weak concept of respect and inferiority, and the genius Yelu decided to correct this by kneeling. After this, kneeling in Mengyuan was unacceptable, from the most solemn thank you gift in China to a meeting ceremony, the more you kneel, the more you kneel, you kneel at every turn, you have to kneel when you see a higher level, kneel softly, kneel to break the bones, kneel to break the integrity......

Emperor Zhezong was only in his twenties at this time, and he was in the prime of his youth, but he looked very tired, as if he had been sick for a long time. Even so, Zhao Xu still smiled faintly: "Prime Minister, please take a seat, what is your important business, so hurriedly came to see the widow?" ”

Sima Guang didn't sit down in a hurry, but arched his hand and said: "Official, yesterday Weichen met a strange person, he knew that the imperial court was worried about the affairs of Western Xia, and he personally found Weichen and offered a clever plan. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Xu's eyes lit up, but there was still a faint smile on his face, "What's the plan?" ”

Sima Guang told him the method that Ye Huan said to him at night, Zhao Xu frowned tightly at first, and as Sima Guang narrated, Zhao Xu's eyes became brighter and brighter, and his heart became more and more surprised. In the end, after Sima Guang finished talking about all these things, Zhao Xu exclaimed: "Clever plan, a soldier who surrenders without a fight, what a clever plan!" ”

Sima Guang sighed heavily: "Official, although this is how the Western Xia can start to mess up internally, their army is still strong, and our Great Song Dynasty must fight a tough battle if we want to recover the territory of the Western Xia." But you also know that our army officials in the Great Song Dynasty have low combat effectiveness, few equipment, and the generals are extremely corrupt. ”

Sima Guang and Zhao Xu both knew very well how corrupt the Great Song army was, coupled with the uneven quality of the soldiers, and even many people took equipment to exchange for drinks.

Sima Guang took out an envelope from his bosom and put it on Zhao Xu's table and said, "Official, this is the strange man Tuo Weichen handed it to you." ”

Since this person can tell all these things with a sharp point, maybe he has a chance to solve these things. Zhao Xu hurriedly took the envelope, tore it open, and took out a piece of paper from it.

After opening the letter, he was shocked at first, how can such a thin and small word be written in this world? Of course, these questions are no longer important at this point, what matters is what is written above.

The content on the letter paper is not in classical Chinese, chewing the words, but in the vernacular, which is very easy to understand, and Zhao Xu does not have to rack his brains to think about the meaning inside. Still, he was a little surprised, but he continued to watch.

It's okay not to look at it, but I was startled when I saw it, as time passed, Zhao Xu's face became more and more cautious, and fine beads of sweat gradually began to appear on his head, and he stared at it carefully.

"Yes, yes!" Zhao Xu nodded again and again after reading it, his thinking had been completely opened by Ye Huan, and now the most critical thing in the Great Song Dynasty is not the army, but money. Without money, they could not pay the military and land money, nor could they give grain and grass, so they could only let the officers use other methods to make money.

"It is worthy of deducing the Heavenly Machine Wine Sword Immortal, and he can actually calculate the copper ore that has not been discovered and mined in the world." Thinking of the huge copper mine described in the letter, which was almost inexhaustible, Zhao Xu hurriedly asked, "Lord Sima, where is Ye Huan, can you invite him into the palace?" ”