More than 30 miles southwest of Jiangning City, under the continuous hills, there is a huge cemetery.

Tens of thousands of new graves have been erected here, all of which have headstones in front of them, some of which are written by name, while others are written only by the words of a certain ethnic group.

This is the tomb that Zhao Ta set up for the dead scholars, as well as those guards and servants, all of whom were buried in coffins and buried in the ground.

After death, you should enjoy peace regardless of your life.

Tens of thousands of coffins, as well as shrouds, tombstones, and broken corpses require the labor of thousands of stitchers, and tens of thousands of Taoist monks are needed to do things, and tens of thousands of laborers are required to pull and transport them into the ground.

This is an incomparably huge project, costing a lot of money, food and goods.

Zhao Ta can't afford this money, and the Jiangning government can't afford it, and no one can afford the Jiangnan East Road, which has been trampled by Fang La's army at the moment, and the cost is too much.

But how can these gentlemen be exposed to the wilderness? This is absolutely impossible, so Zhao Ta had no choice but to open the mansion of the scholar clan in the east of the north city, and each family carried some money out.

No one can say anything about burying their own family with their own money, not even the families of those who are officials in the court.

You can't let the family members break the mat and still go to the mass grave, right? No one can afford this reputation of unfilial piety, and even that kind of behavior will be questioned.

They also have to be grateful to Zhao Ta, after all, this is wartime, and it may be said that it is kind to be able to bury their people in a decent manner.

In wartime, human life is as cheap as grass, but what about the scholars?

It's just that the inner library is burned to splendid ashes, and the heavenly street is full of public bones!

In times of war, how can there be the slightest status to speak of? Once the building overturned, it was full of grass mustard ants.

Not to mention burial, isn't it normal for the bones to be gone?

Zhao Ta did this, maintaining the most important face of the Jiangnan Shi clan, as for these people all died in Jiangning, that is another matter, Fang La's thief army entered the city, and it was fortunate that the entire city was not slaughtered, this account should be recorded on Fang La's head, and there were two living mouths on the side of Beidong City, and some thieves were also captured on the side of the Mingjiao Branch.

This matter has nothing to do with him Zhao Ta! He has a great merit in killing thieves and defending the city!

Whether the officials of the clan will move the tomb in the future or continue to stay here is not his responsibility, he has already done everything that should be done.

How much money Zhao Ta pulled out from the families of the scholars in the two cities in the north and east for this matter, and no one knew, the matter was carried out at night, and the two commanders of the Dragon Guard Army took care of the whole process, and did not allow any idle people to approach, and the disciples under the Green Willow Zhuangke and Zhao Ta carried it, and they were busy all night.

After all, tens of thousands of corpses are waiting to be buried, and no one dares to risk such a big taboo to do such a stupid thing, which not only delays the burial of these dead people, but also damages the reputation of the living in the court.

What's more, there are still a lot of boxes left in the mansion of the scholars, and they have not all been moved, looking at the number of boxes, most of them should be left, since this is the case, this matter is just that, and they all praise the good deeds of King Qin.

More than a month had passed since the battle, and the weather was getting hotter, and just after noon that day, a convoy of cars came to the cemetery, about two or three thousand people.

Zhao Ta got out of the car first, and then a girl in snow-white plain clothes walked down from the car, the girl was in the color of the city, and her expression was extremely sad at the moment.

When the group came to a large grave, the girl saw the name of the tombstone, and fell directly to the grave with a lotus step, crying loudly.

Zhao Ta looked at her behind with her hand, the girl was Zhu Xiuniang, since that day Zhao Ta left, she seemed to have forgotten the previous search for death and life, but ate on time, slept on time, and no longer beat things, so after seven or eight days, she asked people to find Zhao Ta, saying that she wanted to pay tribute to her family.

Who knew that Zhao Ta did not agree, only said that she was weak and had to continue to raise, so after a few days, she asked people to find Zhao Ta again, and Zhao Ta agreed to bring her over.

Zhu Xiuniang fell to the ground and cried bitterly, and someone next to her put on offerings, dozens of kinds, and lit the ingots incense candles, all kinds of paper utensils, and it was very grand for a while.

Zhu Xiuniang looked at the firelight, everything flashed in her mind from childhood to adulthood, and now all of them are as if they were burned by this fire, all of them have turned into smoke and dust, there are no relatives in the world, except for a clan brother, she is lonely in the world, and she will be so lonely and helpless in the future, and her life has been more than ten years, just like a dream of Nanke.

Zhao Ta stood behind her and said lightly: "Xiuniang Mo is too sad, although I wish Taigong to suffer, but there is still this king, this king will avenge them and take care of Xiuniang you!" ”

It's okay if he didn't say this, as soon as he said this, Zhu Xiuniang cried even more, and after looking back at him, she even howled, and finally lost her strength, choked and fainted to the ground.

Zhao Ta asked her to help her back into the car, and then she was silent in front of this grave for a long time, until the sky was gloomy and seemed to be about to come to the storm, and then she turned away expressionlessly.

After a few more days, the military reports from Suzhou came from time to time, and the western army led by Tong Guan and Fang La had clashed more than a dozen times, although they took advantage of it, but they still couldn't win it in one fell swoop, and the war continued to be entangled.

Tong Guan personally wrote a letter to Zhao Ta and sent one of his godsons to send it to Kuaima, asking Zhao Ta to send troops to help.

The letter also made it clear that it was not that the Western Army could not defeat Fang La's thief army, but that Fang La's men and horses were too many, all the way from Hangzhou, until he reached Suzhou, there were already three or four hundred thousand people, while the Western Army was only 150,000, and it had not yet been replenished, but Fang La's military horses could be supplemented in situ through the way of Mingjiao, which made Tong Guan have a headache.

Tong Guan said to Zhao Ta in the letter that he didn't need to go directly to Suzhou, but only needed to lead his troops south, recover Hangzhou, Huzhou and other places, and cut off Fang La's retreat, so that Fang La would naturally panic and have no intention of fighting, and the war in Suzhou would be broken.

The relationship between Zhao Ta and Tong Guan is not bad, he has no party in the court, and the court is basically the Three Kings Party, even if there are few people in the prince's line headed by Liang Shicheng, and Tong Guan does not belong to either.

Zhao Ta knew Tong Guan's thoughts, this person was proud when he was young, although he is old now, but he has made great achievements in holding power and military affairs, and his pride has not diminished at all, Cai Jingjing looked down on him, and prevented him from sealing Kaifuyi and the three divisions that day, and the two were evil, but Cai Jing didn't know what Tong Guan really wanted.

This boy wants to be crowned king!

Since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has been no king with a different surname, but the legacy of the Divine Sect is the king of Yanyun!

This is a testament, not a posthumous edict as later generations say, the "History of the Song Dynasty" does not include the edict of the Northern Song Dynasty, only in the "Song Dynasty Imperial Decree Collection" is recorded.

In the "Collection of Edicts of the Song Dynasty", the full text of the edict of Shenzong does not contain such words as "the king of the king of Yanyun".

However, Song Shili said that the edict of Shenzong had been said, and Tong Guan did indeed crown the king in the end, that is, the edict and the edict were confused.

However, there is not much difference between this, after all, the Daojun Emperor of this dynasty is the son of Shenzong, and if someone can really recover Yan Yun, he will definitely do it!

Tong Guan is proud by nature, and the first sentence in "The Biography of Tong Guan in the History of the Song Dynasty" is, "Less out of Li Xian's door".

Who is Lee Heon? It is the creator of the martial arts of the sun, the leader of the first resumption of the Xihe River, and Wang Shao jointly recovered the Huangshui of the Xihe River, the strategic significance is extremely significant, he has supervised the army in the northwest for many years, whether it is to expand the border or defend the city, there are too many achievements.

In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, Shenzong launched an army of 300,000 to attack Xia in five ways, and directly took Li Xian as the marshal.

Leading the generals, such as Chong Ge, Wang Zhongzheng, Liu Changzuo, Gao Zunyu, Yao Lin and other generals, this was the most gorgeous lineup at that time, after all, this can be said to be the full force of the Divine Sect.

Li Xian's ability to become the marshal of such an expeditionary force shows how well he can lead troops and command his strength.

And Tong Guan is Li Xian's godson, and he is almost walking in Li Xian's footsteps step by step.

Tong Guan and Wang Hou are the second son of Hehuang, he is Li Xian's godson, and Wang Hou is Wang Shao's second son, how similar is the lineup to the first resumption many years ago?

100,000 broke the Qiang to take the Qingtang Dynasty, fought all the way to the Uighur border, and opened up the territory of the Longyou Protectorate, which was comparable to two-thirds of the Western Xia.

Tong Guan's famous Tibetan decree disobeyed the Qing Tang Dynasty, which was born at this time.

He fought for most of his life, from west to north, from north to south, with his character, how could he be left behind? Not even your own godfather! He wants to jump out of Li Xian's influence, but how can he jump out?

Unless you recover Yanyun and become the king!

He has always done this, sent an envoy to the Liao State, passed through Lugou, saw that Ma Zhi recommended himself to destroy Liao, and talked to Daqi, so he recommended it to the imperial court, and Ma Zhi offered the notorious sea alliance strategy in later generations!

It's a pity, but the result was a big defeat in Liao, spending money to buy Yanyun, and barely sealing the king, and later Song Shicun made a fortune, but the beginning was "less out of Li Xian's door", and he never jumped out of the shadow of his godfather.

Zhao Ta pinched Tong Guan's letter, flipped through it a few times, and suddenly said to Tong Shi Min who sent the letter: "Zhu Mian is still in Suzhou?" ”

This Tong Shi Min is familiar with Zhao Ta, and when he was in Tokyo, he passed back and forth on both sides, and when he heard the words, he said: "Your Highness, this person has not left, and has been sitting in Suzhou." ”

Zhao Tan frowned, it stands to reason that it shouldn't, this Zhu Mian is not a person of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, in the name of the bureau, he monopolizes the power of the southeast, not to mention, and the people of fish and flesh, heavy and strict labor, stirring up the miasma of the south of the Yangtze River, this kind of person is mostly greedy for life and afraid of death, knowing that Fang La will definitely have a thousand cuts to catch him, but why didn't he flee Suzhou?

It was inconvenient for him to ask Tong Shimin about this, but after thinking about it, he just asked about the military situation and the like, and the two sides were damaged in battle, so he asked Tong Shimin to go back and send a letter, saying that he would go south on the same day, and once he recovered Hangzhou, he would copy Fang La from the rear, so that Tong Guan could fight steadily over there, and there was no need to be greedy for merit.

After Zhao Ta practiced his soldiers and horses for a few days, he felt that the time was almost up, so he decided to send troops the next day to go down to Xuanzhou and Guangde first, and then go south to recapture Hangzhou.

In the evening, he came to the guest room behind the mansion, and Ding Da Crab was still guarding in front of the door, and when he walked in, he saw that Zhu Xiuniang looked good, and was reading, but what she read was what she said she had never seen before.

This Huo Si is not a single booklet, but a set of dozens of books, which are all romance stories adapted from the more attractive passages in the Three Kingdoms, which are vivid, interesting and fascinating.

At this moment, Zhu Xiuniang is reading one of the first few volumes, called Diao Chan Worshipping the Moon.

Although Zhao Ta has not read this book, he has heard Huo Sijiu tell it in the Dingjia Vegetarian Tea Shop, this paragraph is about Diao Chan worshipping the moon and making a wish, Wang Yun designed the separation, Lu Buhuo and Dong Zhuo's story.

After Zhao Tan came in, Zhu Xiuniang didn't look at him, didn't get up, just looked at the book.

Zhao Ta said: "Good-looking? ”

Zhu Xiuniang said: "The right is a pastime." ”

Zhao Ta motioned to the maid to go out, and then went to get a copy and took a look, which said that three points and the famous book of later generations are a lot of differences, in fact, after saying three points, before the famous book came out, there is also a Three Kingdoms, called the Three Kingdoms Zhiping, that book records Diao Chan is a Kansai Lintao person, surnamed Ren, Diao Chan is a nickname, and in the Yuan Dynasty miscellaneous song "Serial Meter", it is directly said that Diao Chan's real name is Ren Hongchang.

Zhao Ta looked at it for a while, and suddenly said, "Xiuniang, rest in peace." ”

Zhu Xiuniang was shocked when she heard this, and the booklet in her hand almost fell to the ground: "Zhao Tan, what are you going to do?" ”

Zhao Tan smiled: "It's getting late outside, I said it's time to rest." ”

Zhu Xiuniang stood up in a panic, stepped back, blocked in front of her with a notebook, and said, "I don't want it, I still have to read a book for a while." ”

Zhao Ta walked over, picked her up by the waist, came to the couch and put it down, and then began to drop the silver hook curtain......

At midnight, Zhao Ta got up, and after staying there, he turned back and said: "Tomorrow, the army will go south, Xiuniang doesn't have to stay in Jiangning, and she will go out with this king." ”

After saying that, he went out and left, and a low voice came from the curtain: "Beasts, beasts are not as good as ......"

On the morning of the second day, Zhao Ta ordered 50,000 troops and went directly out of Jiangning, among the 50,000 troops, more than 20,000 were the local forbidden troops in Jiangning, and the men and horses he brought from Gyeonggi were not greatly damaged.

The army went all the way south to Xuanzhou first, Xuanzhou has mountains and lakes in this place, the scenery is excellent, but Xuanzhou City is surrounded by no natural danger and reliability, before Zhao Ta frequently sent scouts to investigate, knowing that Fang Qifo's 100,000 or so defeated army did not stay here at all, at this moment there are only three or five thousand soldiers here barely guarded.

And Xuanzhou City is actually not small, and later this place was promoted from the state to the government, how can three or five thousand soldiers be able to defend it?

It only took one day for Zhao Ta to lead his troops to recover Xuanzhou, and then rest in the city for two days, waiting for the original Xuanzhou Zhizhou to bring troops from Taiping Prefecture to regain control of the city.

Then Zhao Tadong went to the Guangde army, which also fell into the hands of thieves, and the situation was similar to that of Xuanzhou, which was also thousands of soldiers and horses, and it was taken in one day, and then entered the city to continue to rest.

At this time, he still did not find the shadow of Fang Qifo's defeated army, and Zhao Ta had already determined that Fang Qifo's defeated army should not be in Huzhou or in Hangzhou.

Originally, after fighting the Guangde army, he wanted to go south directly to recover the important town of Hangzhou, but at this moment he felt that something was wrong, after all, Huzhou is also a big city, and above Hangzhou, if Fang Qifo's rout army is in Huzhou, then he will attack Hangzhou on his side, and Huzhou will be backstabbed from top to bottom, and it will be a big deal.

Therefore, he went out from the Guangde army, and then went east to fight Huzhou first, Huzhou really had a part of the defeated army, about 10,000 or 20,000 people, but they were all like frightened birds, and the willingness to defend the city was not strong, but the Huzhou city defense army was too strong, and it took seven or eight days to fight down, and the men and horses were also greatly damaged, and only about 45,000 people were left from 50,000 people.

After resting in Huzhou for more than ten days, Zhao Ta directly waved his army south and sent troops to Hangzhou.

(End of chapter)