Speaking of the Cai brothers, there is the Song Dynasty, and the two brothers are traitors and did not run away at all.

On the surface, Cai Bian is more stylish than Cai Jing and has a bottom line in doing things, but he has a fatal shortcoming - he is here to take revenge, and with Wang Anshi's grievances, he comes to liquidate the conservatives. After Wang Anshi was idle back then, in order to crack down on Wang Anshi, the conservatives even said that Wang Anshi picked up ashes, and there was no bottom line for slander that no sentient beings had.

You do the first year of junior high school, and I do the fifteenth.

Cai Bian, as Wang Anshi's son-in-law, will definitely not let go of any enemy.

For this reason, he didn't care at all about digging a hole for Zhangdun.

At the same time, Cai Bian is also the only deputy minister in the court who does not have any peeping into the position of prime minister. Even Zeng Bu and others kept making small moves behind their backs, the purpose was to become the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty.

But Cai Bian didn't have any intention of being the prime minister.

Not only did he not, except for the liquidation of the old party, he was not close to people, and he was conscientious to Zhang Dian in other aspects.

can't move Su Shi, can't move Su Zhe, it's aggrieved enough for Cai Bian, and finally put Liu Anshi down, it's when he is chasing and fighting, how can he let go of a group of miscellaneous fish because of his brother's words?

That's right, in Cai Bian's eyes, Qin Guan, Huang Tingjian, Chao Buzhi and others are miscellaneous fish, the purpose is to disgust Su Shi.

Su Shi can't move, is it possible that he can't move Huang Tingjian and others?

Besides, he is not untargeted, Huang Tingjian was very disrespectful when he was ordered to compile the "Records of Shenzong" with the imperial court's Yulu, saying that Emperor Shenzong's governance of the Yellow River and scratching the riverbed with dragon claws was nonsense, just by virtue of this sentence, Huang Tingjian should be unlucky.

Cai Bian of the Divine Sect doesn't care, what he cares about is that Huang Tingjian fell into his hands.

But you can't say that in foreign terms, Huang Tingjian deserves to fall into his hands, doesn't it mean that Cai Bian has a small belly and chicken intestines? He glanced at his brother and said dissatisfiedly: "Brother, I don't believe you don't know, although Qin Guan is a few derogatories, but all the way up the mountains and rivers, it's so comfortable, is that what it should be like to be degraded?" ”

"What should it be like, to go to office with shackles? It's not derogatory, it's exile! ”

Cai Jing retorted that as Li Kui's exploits became bigger and bigger, he, an old dog, had the feeling of a spiritual eagle dog.

Cai Bian remained silent: "This matter is not discussed." And you, the Military Command Bureau, look at who you have called, the ruffians and scoundrels can enter the door of the Military Command Bureau, don't turn a good yamen into a nest of thieves. ”

"It's not my Military Command Bureau, but the Bureau's seat, our Military Command Bureau is the hope of the Great Song Dynasty, this doesn't make sense to you." Speaking of career, Cai Jing and Yourong seem to have done something very remarkable. After all, there are really not many options in the whole world to be rich and be an official.

Don't look at Cai Jing's ups and downs, but he doesn't care about the official reputation at all. He was unlucky for a day or two, when he followed Cai Qu, it was not very smooth, and then he got used to the ups and downs.

Before meeting Li Kui, he had always given people a ruthless character who was decisive and ruthless, but he was a thug at best.

But when he met Li Kui, he finally found that the career he had pursued all his life had a soulmate.

Back then, Cai did have a good situation, and if he said he lost it, he lost it.

And Li Kui will not be like this, as Cai Jing follows Li Kui for more time, the more he discovers Li Kui's advantages. Capable of being superior, but never doing anything that you are not sure of.

This is much stronger than Cai Qu.

At the beginning, Cai did have half of Li Kui's heart, and he would not end up defeated.

Even, now dead, he still bears the reputation of a traitor.

Royal Stadium.

Hao Sui followed behind Emperor Zhao Xu, followed the emperor with the ball, raised his arms and shouted: "Your Majesty is mighty and fierce, invincible!" ”

Zhao Xu's athletic talent is not high, and he plays football, not for hobby, but for ...... In order to tonify the kidneys. For men, especially men who always feel weak, none of the ways to replenish the kidneys can be let go.

Zhao Xu has always been very envious of Duanwang Zhao Ji, who has no other skills, but has good kidneys, and his children are born one after another, as if he is given a woman, and within a few days, this can put a son in the woman's belly, and Zhao Xu's envious eyes are red.

And a large part of the reason why Zhao Ji is in good health is that he likes sports.

Therefore, Zhao Xu's kicking skills are very bad, and he can't be compared with his brother Duanwang Zhao Ji at all, but it does not prevent Zhao Xu from raising his kicking to a height second only to government affairs.

He can't play the technique of combining man and ball, he can only play an improved version of dribbling, and many of the people who accompany him are eunuchs in the palace.

However, he recently has a new little friend, who is a master of Keju, a student, and Li Bangyan, who once served as Li Kui's guest in the curtain. This guy combines Zhao Xu's technical characteristics and keeps creating opportunities for Zhao Xu to catch the ball, so that the emperor can find happiness in sports.

"Your Majesty!"

"Then let's all step down!"

Lin Xi's arrival made Zhao Xu finally stop exercising for a day.

Walking on the court, Zhao Xu walked in front and Lin Xi followed behind.

After Zhao Xu threw the sweat-wiping scarf to the little yellow door beside him, he asked, "Do the courtiers have any discussion about the northern front?" ”

"Officials don't have to worry, what is criticized is just the scholarly spirit, and officials who really know the plight of the court will not criticize the government." Lin Xi replied calmly: "It's just that the courtiers are talking about the emptiness of the treasury, and the household department is about to run out of money." ”

"For the time being, use the inner library to top for a while, Hao Sui-"

"The minions are here!"

Zhao Xu said: "If you go to communicate with Cai Bian, you must support it until the end of the war on the Western Front." Money, money is a big problem. ”

As an emperor, Zhao Xu was quite frugal in his life in addition to following Zhang Di's advice and often waging wars. It's a pity that the Great Song Dynasty launched wars one after another in the past two years, resulting in the accumulation of the treasury being quickly depleted. It is now winter, it can be said that all the last taxes of the year have been collected, and the largest tax of the next year will be waited until the summer, and the whole half year will be the days when there is no money, which is the biggest dilemma in the Great Song Dynasty.

The withdrawal of troops from the northern front can only be one reason for Zhao Xu, there is no money.

No matter how many men Li Kui has, the army of the Great Song Dynasty has already broken through Yanzhou, and for the Great Song Dynasty, no matter what, one problem cannot be ignored to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

Any act of giving up halfway is a surrender that brings disaster to the country and the people.

However, the court had to give up this meat to the mouth, and there was also a bitterness.

On the one hand, the Great Song Dynasty could not take out a combat-ready army to reinforce the northern front. This is equivalent to the death of one less army on the northern front, and if the Liao State really counterattacks, it will not be an attack of tens of thousands of horses, but a large battle of hundreds of thousands of horses, and the imperial court has no troops to send, and it can only become more and more difficult to fight.

On the other hand, the battle of Song and Xia on the Western Front was about to come to an end, and Zhang Dan, as the prime minister, had to make a decision. In the double line, it is necessary to win the first line. The Great Song Dynasty could not afford the military expenses of the two-front operation at the moment.

Moreover, the commander of the Western Front was Zhang Qi, Zhang Di's brother. Even if he values Li Kui again, if he really wants him to pit his brother Zhang Qi, I'm afraid he won't be able to go back to his hometown.

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhao Xu could only follow Zhang Dan's suggestion to protect the Western Army's counterattack on Western Xia, and temporarily give up the fruits of victory on the northern front.

If there is a different emperor, in the face of such a good situation, he will definitely be reluctant in his heart.

But Zhao Xu won't.

He's young, and he's got a chance.

Especially in the years of pro-government, his confidence has grown little by little.

The confidence of the Great Song Dynasty in foreign conquests fell to the bottom from the Sima Guang era. Or during the period of the Empress Dowager Xuanren, the Great Song Dynasty lost the courage to defend the country.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the Empress Dowager Xuanren, she is a woman, a woman who has no concept of war, and just wants to guard her husband and son's country and hand it over to her grandson. But what caught the Empress Dowager Gao of Xuanren off guard was that she met a belligerent woman, the Empress Dowager Liang of Western Xia. staged a scene, the Great Song version of a woman's bitter love drama for a woman.

Since Zhao Xu was in power, the situation of passive beating in the northwest has gained a look under Zhang Qi's two big victories. Especially the big victory in the early years of Shaosheng, which reversed the situation between Song and Xia.

Immediately after, the Western Xia civil strife.

The Great Song Dynasty then recovered the land of Hehuang.

A series of victories made Zhao Xu's self-confidence swell. At the same time, the army of the Great Song Dynasty did have a different improvement.

In particular, after Li Kui came to prominence, he put forward the concept of a firearms army, and this time he put it into the battlefield, which immediately had an immediate effect. The only thing that made Zhao Xu criticize was that the firearms army spent too much money.

The cost of training a soldier of the Praetorian Guard for three months, a set of foot armor, a weapon made of stainless steel, and even the money for a sandalwood bow were missing.

And that's just training, weapons and equipment aren't included in it.

Such an army, after the study of the Dushitang Monk Book Province, gave the answer, the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty can only raise 50,000.

If it is formed according to the standard of field warfare, it can only be two military towns.

Originally, Zhao Xu was also distressed, but he also listened to Li Kui's advice, after all, Li Kui was reliable. Since he met Li Kui, Li Kui has never cheated him.

If all the weapons of the forbidden army were to be developed into firearms, Zhao Xu would not be able to come up with so much money.

But on the battlefield of the northern front, 20,000 on the front line against 70,000 troops, breaking the leather room army commanded by the emperor of Liao, suddenly made Zhao Xu feel the realization that the firearms army is the direction of the development of the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

If the Great Song Dynasty had 100,000 firearms troops, would they still have to worry about the million iron cavalry of the Liao State?

Overnight, non-flying smoke.

In the future, it is only a matter of time before the Great Song Dynasty restores the prosperity of the Han and Tang dynasties.

However, all this needs to be explained to Li Kui slowly after Li Kui returns to the capital.

More than ten days later.

On this day, in the Bachelor's Lane near Baokang Gate, Li Kui, who had been away from home for almost half a year, secretly took advantage of the night to climb over the wall and enter his yard.

Ruan Xiaowu followed his master, and for some unknown reason, he also followed over the wall.

He couldn't understand why Li Kui didn't leave the door, but he wanted to climb over the wall?

"Wow-"

In the middle of the night, a thief who didn't look like a good person broke into the house, and the first thing to be alert to was not the old dog at home, nor the guard who guarded the house, but Li Kui's daughter.

Li Kui, who scared his daughter into crying in the middle of the night, faced his wife's complaining gaze and smiled: "I wanted to surprise you, but I didn't expect to mess it up." ”

The lights in the back house were lit up one by one, and Liu Qingqian sadly thought that Li Kui didn't trust her, but Li Kui was pacing back and forth in the hall of his home, and suddenly said, "No, I have to find someone to ask." ”

"You come back to me!" Liu Qingqian was about to cry, pointed at Li Kui's nose and scolded angrily: "Do you not trust me? ”

Li Kui was stunned, shook his head and said, "There is no such thing." ”

"Lady, you don't want to think about it, you just want to raise wild men, and someone has to dare to risk their lives......"

"What did you say?"

"No, I mean I'm relieved to have you in the back house." Li Kui finally got to the point, but his anxious appearance didn't seem to be fake, and he said instead: "My husband came this time, and he is secretly whereabouts, and no one knows." It stands to reason that His Majesty should not summon me and the Praetorian Guards back to Beijing. The timing was not right, but His Majesty not only issued an edict, but even the Metropolitan Hall gave an order. There's definitely something in this that I don't know. No, I have to go to Cai Jing. ”

"Is it okay to disturb people in the middle of the night?" Liu Qingqian hesitated.

Li Kui shook his head: "I don't understand this, I'm afraid that the 100,000 soldiers on the northern front will be unlucky, and they can't be delayed." ”

In Kaifeng Mansion, if you want to cause trouble in Li Kui's back house, no one really has a chance. Li Kui's former little follower Li Qing is the biggest force leader on the street, with countless eyeliners.

Besides, what is Li Kui doing!

The commander of the Military Command Bureau, if he can't even settle the back house, what kind of energy can he mess with!

There is a reason why he came to the capital secretly.

Li Kui wanted to withdraw his troops, on the one hand, to test the attitude of the court, will the court tilt its war resources on the northern front?

The result of the temptation is no.

No disappointment.

After all, now that the two fronts of the Great Song Dynasty are at war, it is understandable that they cannot afford it.

But letting him return to Beijing disrupted his plans.

For this reason, Li Kui left Liu Fa and Hu Yanzhuo's 5,000 soldiers to Renduo to protect his loyalty.

He didn't leave this infantry to Anton, because Anton didn't know how to use troops at all. Leaving him to be a curse is also for him.

And there are many benefits left for Renduo Baozhong, at least Renduo Baozhong will not order Liu Fa to do a battle that is impossible to win.

Later, he left Li Yun's cavalry and a battalion of 3,000 musketeers to Gao Yu. The troops on the northern front were insufficient, so he tried to take some soldiers and horses as little as possible to avoid falling into a passive situation on the whole front after the Liao counteroffensive. The artillery was also left by him in Daizhou.

In addition, he brought less than 5,000 Janissaries back to Beijing.

This army took the war horses captured from the Liao State and galloped all the way, and now it has probably reached the boundary of the Daimyofu.

And Li Kui left the army ahead of schedule and went south lightly, just to find out the news of the capital.

Bianhe, Caijiaqiao, Cai Jing's mansion.

Cai Jingjing leaned on the stove and looked through the ledger by the bright light of the kerosene lamp. Seeing the numbers representing money on the ledger, it was as if I heard the beautiful heavenly sound of gold leaves falling together. Only at this time would Cai Jing feel great satisfaction, the door was suddenly pushed open, and the biting cold wind entered the room along the door, making him suddenly tighten his fur fur, and raised his head and said dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter?" ”

"Dad, Master Li is here."

Cai Jing couldn't remember that there was that Lord Li in the capital, and the second son Cai Yu explained: "It's Master Li Kui." ”

"Hurry up, please, open the middle door."

"No need." Before Cai Jing could stand up, Li Kui's voice came from outside the house.

After entering Cai Jing's study, Cai Jing let Li Kui sit in the host and guest seat, while he stood.

After listening to Li Kui's inquiry, Cai Jing said leisurely: "My lord doesn't know, the court has no money." ”

Li Kui thought about the possibility of the imperial court letting him withdraw from the army many times, such as the emperor was sick and the crown prince died...... But he didn't expect it to be this reason, which made him a little disdainful: "That's it? ”