Liang Yibury stayed in Bianliang for ten days, and the Song Dynasty was very thoughtful to him, but resolutely avoided the substantive issues and refused to respond to the request for peace, and Liang Yibury gradually began to despair.

At noon that day, he was sitting alone in his room drinking alcohol, and suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside, and a subordinate reported outside the door, "Xiangguo, today's newspaper has come out, it seems to be related to Western Xia." ”

"Show me the newspaper."

The subordinates walked into the room and handed a copy of the "Letter Newspaper", Liang Yibury took the newspaper and found that there was a special war report in it, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, a few days ago, the Song army soldiers came to the city of Xingqing Mansion, and they used this kind of special war report, he already knew that only when there was major news or results, this kind of special war report would appear, and he was a little afraid to read it.

He still held back the uneasiness in his heart, pulled out this special battle report, and looked at it with trepidation, the headline was very large, 'The defense of the southern part of Western Xia collapsed on all fronts'.

The content in it turned out to be that the Song army of Shaanxi Road captured Weizhou and Xiazhou in two ways, and the main force of the Western Xia border army retreated north, surrounded by 300,000 Song troops in Yanzhou.

Liang Yi's eyes were dark, and he almost fainted, and the southern defense of Western Xia was actually broken by the Song army.

His subordinates hurriedly supported him, "Xiangguo! Xiangguo! ”

Liang Yi let out a long sigh, he knew that this must be the Song army in the north that crushed the southern defense line of Western Xia from behind, otherwise the Song army on the Shaanxi Road would never want to break through the strong fortress of Western Xia in a hundred years, and any solid defense was really broken from the inside first.

It is no wonder that the Song Dynasty refused to accept his own request for peace, the war situation had reached this point, even he would not accept the other party's request for peace.

Liang Yishu knew that there was no need to stay in Bianliang any longer, so he said to his entourage happily: "Pack your luggage!" We'll go back early tomorrow morning. ”

As soon as Liang Yizhu stood up, he was suddenly attracted by a piece of news in another newspaper.

"Fan's Overseas Purchase of Islands, Want to Build a New Country"

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In the past two days, on the second page of the "tabloid", someone has published a series of articles under the name of "Li Guangbai", "unveiling the black curtain of the Fan family", starting from Fan Ning's appointment as the first governor of Kunzhou, writing that the Fan brothers were panning for gold and getting rich in Kunzhou, and then began to trade with Nanyang in Quanzhou, making the Fan family's wealth reach an astonishing level, and wrote that the Zhu family made a fortune overseas through marriage with the Fan family.

This series of reports caused an uproar in the capital, and everyone knew that these reports stabbed at one person, that is, the commander who fought in Western Xia, Xiao Fan Xianggong, and Fan Ning, the youngest Xiangguo in the Great Song Dynasty.

The report sparked heated discussions in the capital, and today a blockbuster report was published that the Fan family and the Zhu family had purchased an island the size of the eastern province of Jiangnan overseas, preparing to build a country overseas.

In fact, Fanning's purchase of islands overseas was known to the entire imperial court, but ordinary people did not know much, and now the newspaper exposed this matter, which immediately caused a strong reaction in the capital.

Almost every restaurant and teahouse is talking about this matter, and its popularity even exceeds that of the Song army in Western Xia.

In the Qingfeng Restaurant next to the Feihong Bridge, dozens of drinkers are talking loudly about this matter.

Someone said sourly: "I said how could the Fan family suddenly have money, it turned out to be gold obtained with power, and half of the Kunzhou gold may have been drained by his family!" ”

Some people are also angry, "The dignified Xiangguo actually instructed his family to build a country overseas, is this to fight against the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

An old man said: "That's your ignorance, there are not 1,000 people who buy islands overseas, but 800, and nearly half of the thousands of islands in Luzon have been sold. ”

A young man still defended: "Uncle, it's a fact that the Fan family is panning for gold in Kunzhou to make money!" That is the land of the Great Song Dynasty, why can the Fan family pan for gold wantonly? Take advantage of the imperial court? ”

"Young man, that gold was discovered by others, you can find gold anywhere in the Great Song Dynasty, you can buy it, as long as you sell the gold to the government, and then you pan for gold in Kunzhou, not only Fan Ning, but also the Cao family, the Gao family, the Pang family, and even Zhang Yaozuo is also digging silver in the Ryukyus, why don't you mention these?"

The young man snorted heavily while holding the soup bowl, "Humph! They are all raccoon dogs, the powerful eat meat, and we ordinary people can't even afford to drink soup. ”

"Aren't you just drinking soup, young man?"

Immediately, the hall burst into laughter, and some people said: "It's a bit inappropriate for the Fan family to occupy such a large land in Jiangnan Dongdao!" Shouldn't the imperial court limit it? ”

"Huh! If I tell you that there are cannibalistic natives on the island that the Fan family bought, would you be willing to go? ”

Everyone was so frightened that they stuck out their tongues, obediently, there was actually a legendary cannibal, "Uncle, this incident is not written in the report!" Someone shouted.

The old man shook his head, stood up and said solemnly to everyone: "Everyone, there is a problem with these reports, it is obvious that they are aimed at Xiao Fan Xianggong, the purpose is to provoke the dissatisfaction of the court and the people against Xiao Fan Xianggong, everyone think about why?" This is obviously a counter-strategy, using the dissatisfaction of the people to force the court to change the commander, I tell you, if the court really changes the commander, then the Great Song Dynasty's plan to destroy the Western Xia will fall short, who is behind this, can you not guess? ”

The restaurant suddenly fell silent, and everyone drank silently, and no one mentioned what was reported.

The old man was Zhu Yuanfeng, he was eating in the restaurant next door to his grandson-in-law, and he happened to encounter this incident, so he couldn't help but get up and refute.

Zhu Yuanfeng was in a depressed mood, got up to check out and left, and came directly to the Fanning Mansion across the bridge, Zhu Pei was chatting with his aunt Zhu Jie, and when he heard that his grandfather was coming, he hurriedly greeted him.

"Why don't you let the Economic Journal refute this?"

Zhu Yuanfeng said to Zhu Pei dissatisfiedly: "This matter has spread all over the city and destroyed your reputation as a father-in-law, why should you endure it?" ”

Zhu Pei said calmly: "Grandfather, if you want to refute the rumors, it shouldn't be up to the Fan family to do it!" Everyone knows that "Hong Kong Economic Journal" is the newspaper of the Zhu family, and "Hong Kong Economic Journal" will only make people look down on it if it comes to refute rumors. ”

"Then let them mess around?"

Zhu Pei said coldly: "If the court refuses to refute the rumors, then let the prime minister resign, I am not uncommon with this princess hat, return it to the court, and our family will move to Beidao." ”

Zhu Yuanfeng and his daughter Zhu Jie glanced at each other, and they realized that Zhu Pei had hated Zhu Pei to the extreme, Zhu Yuanfeng sighed, "Then the princess will make a statement!" ”

"No!" Zhu Pei said unusually stubbornly: "I want the court to make a public statement and return my reputation as a minister." ”

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Zhu Yuanfeng and his daughter returned to the mansion in a carriage, and Zhu Jie said hatefully: "Father, these articles attacking the Fan family published in the tabloids are obviously aimed at our "Hong Kong Economic Daily", we can't stand by like this, even if Zhu Pei refuses to defend, we should take action." ”

Zhu Yuanfeng sighed, "Ah Pei is using silence to resist, if the court does not come forward again, I am afraid that the matter will be big, this matter is up to Zhu Pei, let's not act without permission." ”

After a pause, Zhu Yuanfeng said again: "You go and join forces with "Military Daily", stop all cooperation with "Tabloid Newspaper", and you send someone to investigate the background of this Li Guangbai, who is this person?" ”

Zhu Jie nodded, "I'll go to the newspaper right away!" ”

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