The three merchant ships docked slowly on the dock, the boatman shrunk his hands and feet to tie the cable to the stone in the cold, several attendants had already set up the gangplank, and then a middle-aged man in a cloth robe walked down steadily.

Today's Dengzhou Zhizhou Bai Fangyuan with a military general with a cyan birthmark on his face and a group of relatives has been waiting for a long time, Bai Fangyuan and the visitors smiled and bowed to each other, and said: "The envoys are working hard, and the government has prepared a banquet, just waiting for the envoys to return to pick up the wind and wash the dust!"

The middle-aged man was a little flattered, and replied: "How can you be in Xia, dare to bother Bai Zhizhou to greet him in person!" Sin ...... sin"

Bai Fangyuan said with a smile: "Now that the imperial court has decided to make a northern expedition to recover the sixteen states of Youyun, this is a major event that will be remembered for the ages...... The envoy Zhao has made a lot of contributions, and this is the courtesy that the envoy Zhao deserves! ”

Ma Zhi, now he has been given the name by Zhao Ji Zhao Liangsi bowed down, and then saluted with several soldiers and state officials around him, and finally looked up at the military general with a majestic figure and a fierce aura.

"This general is so powerful, once the imperial court uses troops against Liao, generals like generals should be useful......"

The general judge of Dengzhou next to him smiled and said: "This is Yang Zhi, the new soldier and horse envoy of Dengzhou, the descendant of the Yang family back then...... Envoy Zhao, in the midst of strategizing, won a decisive victory thousands of miles away...... It is the scheming courage of His Majesty and my generation of civil servants, warriors...... Just do not hesitate to die and be ordered to fight, the real credit is still on the temple and running for thousands of miles like an envoy! ”

"Yes, yes, yes...... What the adults are saying is ......"

The civil officials next to him thought so, and they didn't look at Yang Zhi, who was a little pale.

Yang Zhi bowed and did not say a word.

A trace of disappointment flashed in Ma Zhi's eyes, and then he also greeted the officials, and then took the carriage back to Dengzhou with Zhizhou and others.

Yang Zhi had no qualifications to attend the banquet at all, and stood alone on the dock looking at the turbid sea in a daze, and did not move for a long time......

"Brother Yang!"

Yang Zhi was startled, and when he looked back, he saw a tall young man standing behind him with an entourage.

"Huh? Song Langjun...... Yang Zhi has seen Song Langjun! ”

Yang Zhi hurriedly bowed his hand, and Song Wen returned the salute: "Why is Brother Yang more polite?" Why do our own brothers bother to see each other?"

Yang Zhi sighed and shook his head.

Song Wen looked in the direction of Dengzhou Mansion and sneered: "But that Ma Zhi ...... Now Zhao Liangsi is back?"

Yang Zhi nodded: "Song Langjun, that Ma Zhi...... Hasn't Lang Jun always been very angry about Ma Zhilian's anti-Liao? Why...... Why didn't you make any move?"

Song Wen shook his head: "Those who should come will always come, and those who want to hide can't hide after all...... The emperor and Tong Guan, together with the ministers of the cabinet, took a fancy to this credit for recovering the clouds! Without Zhao Liangsi, there will be Li Liangsi and Zhang Liangsi, this catastrophe and the Great Song Dynasty can't escape! ”

Yang Zhi was silent for a long time, and suddenly bowed down and said respectfully to Song Wen: "Lang Jun, Lang Jun reinvents Yang Zhien!" Without Lang Jun's mediation, Gao Dianshuai would have long since become disgusted with Yang, and it was only a matter of time before he was deposed or even framed! Pingshui met, but Lang Jun did not hesitate to seek the official position of this soldier and horse envoy for Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi ...... Yang Zhi can't be repaid! I just want to be able to serve Lang Jun in my lifetime! Can? Ke Langjun is so smart, and he also thinks that the imperial court's northern expedition to the Liao State is the way to die...... Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi has practiced martial arts since he was a child, but he can't be a bystander, although there is no hope of victory, but Yang Zhi still wants to rush to the killing field to kill the enemy for the country! Beg...... Ask Lang Jun to be fulfilled! ”

Song Wen sighed, pointed to the big ship when he came, and said, "Brother Yang, do you know that I brought out five such ships this time...... I've always been hesitant to kill Zhao Liangsi directly at sea! Let's see if we can invalidate the alliance between the Great Song and the Jurchens......"

"Huh? This...... This ......" Yang Zhi was dumbfounded, he couldn't imagine that Song Wen actually had such a plan?

intercept and kill the envoys of the imperial court and sabotage the alliance between the two countries...... This is no longer a capital crime, it is a sin full of doors!

"Lang Jun...... Could it be that Lang Jun hates the Jurchens so much?"

Song Wen nodded: "Don't go, keep your useful body, and save the people of the Central Plains with me when the time comes...... The imperial court's move is just setting itself on fire and killing itself! No matter how bad the Liao people are, they still stabilize the Great Song Dynasty! What about the Jurchens? has long had the reputation of being invincible for the Jurchens, and more than 100,000 Jurchen pro-armies were able to defeat the collapse of the Great Liao River and the scattered tribes...... It is true that the Liao people themselves are eroded and divided, and the combat effectiveness of the various nobles and the military states under their heads is low! Can Da Song do it? Forming an alliance with the Jurchens is tantamount to seeking a dead end with the tiger...... And the Jurchens were ten times more ferocious than the Khitans back then! At that time, the Tanyuan Alliance relied on the heritage of the Great Song Dynasty and Kou Zhun Han Qi and other civil ministers and famous ministers, and barely resisted the Liao...... Look at who is in power in the court today?"

Song Wen pointed in the direction of Bianliang and said: "The commander of the three yas is Gao Yu and Gao Taiwei!" It is Tong Guan Tong Guogong who commands the army! Sitting in the cabinet is the traitor Cai Jing, the traitor Wang Huang! The remaining four eunuchs called for wind and rain to dominate the court...... Zhu Mian Li Yan and the insidious and vicious hidden minister Liang Shicheng who sits in the harem can be described as six thieves! The army is corrupt and corrupt, civilian officials are greedy for power and profit, and the powerful people in Bianliang in Tokyo only know how to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble...... What does it take to fight a war? Relying on the rhetoric of these civil elites? The entire Hebei Road is extremely erosive, and the people are struggling to make a living...... Since Qingzhou, how many people are left in the east of this east and west road?"

Yang Zhi frowned for a long time, raised his head and said, "There is still the Western Army in the imperial court, and there are also old people who are slightly more than a prince...... And also...... There is also Master Li Gang of the Ministry of War! ”

Song Wen sighed...... "Western Army...... You also know the Western Army! But do you think about how many years the Western Army has been fighting the Tanguts in the northwest? The Western Army had indeed made great achievements before, and even the suppressed Western Xia people couldn't raise their heads! But what did the Western Army pay? ”

Song Wen raised his hand and said: "There is not one in the elite of the Western Army!" Especially in the last three attacks on Western Xia, Tong Guan commanded the army to advance lightly and lost tens of thousands of elites of the Western Army in vain in order to gain credit! More than a dozen generals of the Western Army died tragically...... In exchange for the title of Tong Taiwei, the Duke of Tong Guo! Not to mention that it is impossible for the Western Army to be transferred to the north and fight a decisive battle with the Liao State to resist the Jurchens...... If the Liao State can survive for a long time, the Great Song Dynasty can temporarily stabilize for a few years! Once the Liao Kingdom was completely destroyed by the Jurchens, the Jurchens would immediately find that the Great Song Dynasty was tantamount to a flower frame full of brains! Doom is at hand! ”

Yang Zhi was dumbfounded, and finally let out a long sigh...... "Lang Jun is intelligent and unparalleled in the world, can he have a good plan to save the Great Song Dynasty?"

Song Wen sneered: "The traitor should be a faint king...... There is no cure for a long time! It's a pity that all the people of the Central Plains will fall into the hands of Hu Lu, and since then, the backbone of the Central Plains Han'er has been broken......"

Yang Zhi raised his head and looked at Song Wen with red eyes: "Lang Jun, if the Jurchen Tartars really betray the covenant and go south to attack the Song Dynasty, what will Lang Jun do?"

Song Wen said in a low voice: "I am a Song person, and I will always be!" Therefore, I will hold high the banner of Qingshan, accumulate strength, gather heroes from all walks of life, and fight with foreign Hulu for the homeland of my Han family! If the imperial court has a loyal minister in charge, I will return to the imperial court to guard the border passes! If the court is unreasonable...... I will also protect the people alone, and do my best to resist the bloody battle of Hu Lu to the end! ”

Yang Zhi bowed down and clenched his fists, then knelt on one knee and ......, "I hope Langjun will not forget today's oath, if Langjun fights with the alien Hulu, Yang Zhi will not be talented!" I wish to go to the soup before and after the saddle, and then hold the Yang family's iron gun to be the pioneer of Lang Jun! ”

Song Wen pulled up the burly Yang Zhi, looked into his eyes and said, "There will be that day, do the right thing for heaven...... Righteousness comes first! I will not have the blood of the Han family in this life! ”