Time flies, and time goes by.

The white cloud and the dog, the black flying rabbit goes.

In the blink of an eye, summer has passed.

Zhao Ta was sitting in the study looking at the embroidered script, the name of the book was "Night Bead Curtain", and he wore a black gauze hat on his head, which he would never take off at any other time except for resting.

His hair hadn't grown much, after all, he had shaved it all before, and it would take years to keep it long enough to pull it up again.

After taking a sip of tea, he fell into deep thought, just yesterday, the envoy sent by the imperial court to the Jin State returned, and brought back the letter and alliance conditions that Wanyan Wu had begged to buy.

The negotiation with the female straight went very smoothly, and the conditions proposed by the other party were not very harsh, after all, Da Song just wanted Yan Yun, and he didn't want to get involved in other places.

Naturally, there are New Year's coins, but there are some objections to the amount of New Year's coins, because the female wants to have more than Liao.

In fact, this success is nothing in the mind of Emperor Daojun, after all, he took back the sixteen states of Yanyun, how can it not be worth a hundred years of coins?

But Tong Guan's meaning is to fight for a fight, and negotiate again, if it is really impossible to negotiate, he will agree for the time being, and then make a difference after the war.

At that time, the female straight is really as strong as rumored, then add a percent, if it is not much stronger than Liao, this adult coin will make another plan.

Emperor Daojun agreed when he heard this, this is not a big deal after all, and the other issues have been finalized by both sides, so there is nothing to continue to talk about.

So he personally wrote a letter to Wanyan Wu Qimai, agreeing to discuss again at sea at the beginning of spring next year.

This discussion is to settle the matter, whether the Jin State agrees or not, it will form an alliance, and then the two sides will send troops to destroy the Liao State.

In other words, an alliance will inevitably be formed at the beginning of spring, and troops will be sent in the summer at the latest......

Thinking of this, Zhao Ta put down the notebook in his hand, slowly retracted his thoughts, and then said, "Ouyang Bei!" ”

Ouyang Bei walked in from outside the study when he heard this: "What does the son command?" ”

Zhao Ta said: "Go to the Broken Jade Building and call Ding Da Crab and Bai Ao." ”

Ouyang Bei was ordered to go out, and Zhao Ta then began to write letters, which were very long, a total of three, and he wrote while thinking about them, until Ding Da Crab and Bai Ao came over, he still didn't finish writing.

The three of them waited quietly, and the sun outside had already reached due south, so Zhao Ta let out a long breath and put down his pen.

After another moment, when the ink dried, Zhao Ta personally sealed the envelope into the wax pill, and then solemnly handed it to the three of them, saying, "The letter is here!" ”

The three of them said in unison: "The letter is ruined, and people die!" ”

Zhao Ta nodded: "This letter is extremely important, after sending it over, the three of you don't have to come back, Ouyang Bei, you stay in Longyou, Ding Da Crab is in Fujian, Bai Ao you stay in Xizhou, I have an explanation in the letter, and Huang Jue, Liu Suiyun and Yao Pingzhong will make arrangements." ”

The three of them glanced at each other and said, "Lord Wang......"

Zhao Ta smiled: "Go back and pack up, take everything with you, but you three singles, you have nothing to worry about." ”

The three of them immediately embarrassed, said "yes", and then turned to leave the room.

Zhao Ta then stood up and walked out of the door with his hands in his hands, the weather was a little cool at the moment, and he couldn't help sighing: "It's really cool and autumn." ”

Fujian Road, Fuzhou pacification embassy.

After reading the letter, Huang Jue looked at Ding Da Crab with a solemn expression: "Childe, do you have anything else to explain?" ”

Ding Da Crab shook his head: "It's all in the letter." ”

Huang Jue took a deep breath, opened the fire fold and burned the letter, and then said, "Rest for one night, and follow me into the mountain tomorrow." ”

The next morning, Huang Jue took more than a dozen people and 300 soldiers with Ding Da Crab out of the city and into the mountains.

Fujian is mountainous, and so are the surrounding areas of Fuzhou, and there are too many wolves, insects, tigers and leopards in some mountains, and even the hunters dare not go too deep.

But Huang Juejin's mountain is rarely disturbed, it is obvious that the path has been deliberately cleaned, and at intervals, wooden houses are built, which are manned, and there are water and dry food supplements.

About an hour later, gradually reaching the depths of the mountain, Ding Da Crab saw green smoke rising in many places, and couldn't help but wonder: "Lord Huang, what are you doing here?" ”

Huang Jue smiled: "I'm making iron!" ”

"Ironmaking?" Ding Da Crab nodded abruptly.

Huang Jue said: "Armor and weapons are necessary in wartime, there are a number of weapons in the capital, the prince can't intervene, the number of people in my Fujian forbidden army is less than 10,000, even if I do more accumulation, I can't save a few pairs, so I made my own iron." ”

"Lord Huang, but don't all special craftsmen need to be used to make iron and make armor?" Ding Crab was puzzled again.

"That's true, but the method of ironmaking has been taught to me a long time ago, it's not complicated, it's not as cumbersome as steelmaking, as for the ...... of making armor," Huang Jue smiled: "This is not a difficult thing, it just requires skilled manpower and time." ”

"Is it that easy to build armor?" Ding Crab wondered.

"As long as there are some masters who teach them, the disciples will learn by themselves after a long time, and they don't have to play any delicate chain mail or the like." Huang Gu nodded and said: "As for the blade, it's simpler, even I can create it, but it's just good or bad." ”

The group continued to walk inside, and at this time, Ding Da Crab saw green smoke in more places, and there were people quenching iron billets in the stream, all of them were young and strong, and none of them were old or weak.

He was suddenly surprised: "Lord Huang, this ...... It's all blacksmiths? ”

Huang Jue laughed when he heard this: "You can strike iron in plain life, you can go to sea in your spare time, and you can get on the horse in wartime. ”

Ding Da Crab's eyes widened: "Lord Huang, how many such people are hidden in your mountain?" ”

Huang Jue thought slightly when he heard this, and then said: "There are three such mountains, there are about 10,000 people here, and the other two are less, each with five or six thousand people, and as for the other side of the sea, there are more than 30,000 in total. ”

"More than 30,000?" Ding Da Crab sighed: "There are so many people, and they have to pay more silver, and I don't know if the prince's money is enough, the prince lives a very simple life, not to mention that compared with other princes, even some courtiers are inferior." ”

Huang Jue looked at Ding Da Crab with a smile when he heard this: "Ding Family Lang, do you really don't know or don't know?" Childe is the richest man in the world. ”

Ding Da Crab was stunned: "I don't know this, why did Lord Huang say this?" ”

Huang Jue shook his head and said: "After the conquest of Wang Qing, the prince quietly transported all the millions of taels of silver from Wang Qing to Fuzhou, until the year before last, I went south to Guangzhou again, and destroyed the largest maritime merchant in the southeast, the Hu family, and got tens of millions of silver, but it is a pity that the Pu family has too many houses and shops, and they can't be moved, otherwise there are tens of millions, not to mention raising more than 30,000 soldiers, even if it is more than ten times, it is enough to support a few years." ”

Ding Da Crab woke up like a dream and said: "I don't know this, the prince has never talked about these things." ”

Huang Jue looked at the northwest direction at this time, and said leisurely: "What's more, the prince is still running Longyou, how can he favor one over the other, and lose over there, after the previous year, there are many items of income, and they are all transported to the land of Qingtang......

Hehuang Longyou, Xining Prefecture, Longyou Dadu Hufu.

Liu Suiyun sat behind the case, and after reading Zhao Ta's letter, a look of great joy appeared on his face, and he laughed: "Finally waited for this day, finally waited for this day!" ”

Below, Luda dragged Shi Jin aside and whispered: "Da Lang, what kind of crazy hair care is the vice-capital?" ”

Shi Jin's eyes flickered, and he lowered his voice and said, "Isn't it like this today, don't you go crazy every once in a while!" ”

Luda thought for a while, nodded and said: "Yes, yes, I remember that the last time it was still summer, he took us to ride a horse from Xining to Jiezhan City for more than a thousand miles, and he laughed like this on the horse, and sang what I laughed at, I laughed at that......"

"I laugh at Zhou Yu for being unscrupulous, Zhuge Shaozhi ......" Shi Jin covered his mouth with his palm, revealing only a gap and said.

"Look at my brain, why can't I remember, don't you drink on weekdays?" Ruda patted his head vigorously and said irritably.

"Brother, does he want to quit drinking?" Yang Zhi interjected with a smile.

"No need to quit drinking, no need to quit drinking." Ruda wiped his face: "Drink more at night and you'll wake up, sober ......"

Liu Suiyun put down the letter in his hand at this time, looked at Ouyang Beidao in front of him, and said: "Ouyang Daxia, does the prince have anything else to order?" ”

Ouyang Bei said with a smile: "Liu Duhu, there is indeed one more thing, the prince said that he can build construction and repair the mansion!" ”

"Good, good!" Liu Suiyun shouted hello twice, and then said: "Ouyang Daxia, the prince gave you a position in the letter, but he is not in the capital protection mansion, and he will follow me to see it tomorrow." ”

Ouyang Bei nodded yes, and then turned around to catch up with Luda and Yang Zhi.

In the evening, the Duhu Mansion held a feast, Liu Suiyun, Ouyang Bei, Luda, Yang Zhi, and Shi Jin sat down separately, and recalled Hong Qi from the racecourse, and the six of them drank until midnight.

The next morning, Liu Suiyun ordered a hundred soldiers in the Duhu Mansion and led everyone out of the city and went straight to the West Sea.

At this moment, it is the autumn high and refreshing, the temperature is pleasant, the scenery of Longyou area is beautiful, the water and grass are fertile, the grain is harvested, and it is a good scene.

The horses are running happily here, not at all like the surroundings of Tokyo, as if there are always some shackles and shackles that prevent them from running to their heart's content.

Liu Suiyun said on the horse: "The prince is far-sighted, prescient, occupy the right side of Longhe, this Xihe Longyou area can be attacked, retreat can be defended, the lower river loop produces grain and vegetables, and the grassland above raises horses to prepare for war, and it is a treasure land of feng shui." ”

Luda listened to it, and immediately said: "Liu Duhu, what you said is not right, Longyou is indeed ours, you can raise horses at will, and you can also grow grain, but the Hetao is from Xihe Road, let's not count." ”

Shi Jin pulled him on the side and said: "My brother is confused, although he is not now, but after the gun and horse are beaten, isn't it?" ”

Lu Zhishen touched his beard and suddenly realized: "I was drunk last night, but I forgot about this stubble, and I think that the officials of Xihe are very hateful, especially the one called Xin Xingzong, who is just the commander of the soldiers and horses of Xihe Road, and the head is actually bigger than the old Yao Jingluo, and those who don't know think that he is the commander of Xihe!" ”

Liu Suiyun sneered when he heard the words immediately: "If the sky wants to die, it will make it crazy, his Xin family brothers have been entrenched in Xihelanhui for many years, eating food and eating horses, I think Yao Jingluo is also looking at him unpleasantly, and will secretly reduce his power, I am afraid that it will not be rampant for a long time, if it is really in the future, it will be used to ask for guilt." ”

Yang Zhi was following behind a few people at the moment, his heart was "banging", he knew what everyone was talking about, he couldn't help but be a little excited and a little frightened, if it was really the two kings who took the world, then is he also a minister from the dragon? When the time comes, can you be crowned a prince and a wife?

Ouyang Bei was parallel to Liu Suiyun at this time, and sighed: "The official family has no intention of being the crown prince and the prince, and the prince is not willing to lower his rank to fight for this position, and always thinks about his own business." ”

Liu Suiyun said: "That's how it should be, now that the official family is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, even if he takes over the crown prince, what can he do?" Don't you have to wait until you know the destiny of heaven to ascend to the pole? What's more, the northern Jinliao is unstable, the war will be launched at any time, and it doesn't matter what he says, how constrained, he can't always follow the Xuanwumen mutiny, now it's not as good as Li Tang, the official system has changed too much, the prince only manages the soldiers and can't transfer the soldiers, and it is estimated that there are only more than 1,000 people in the hands of the Beijing Division, and the Manchu Dynasty is full of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and treacherous people are rampant, even if they can really act? It's not a sludge road, it's a dilemma! ”

Ouyang Beidao: "That's true, that's why the prince wants to retreat and take the first step to operate." ”

Liu Suiyun said: "The prince is far-sighted, and Liu admires the five-body ......."

Everyone said while walking, about noon when they came to the shore of the West Sea, they saw that the scenery here was better, and the scenery was like a fairyland.

Liu Suiyun looked at the clear blue lake and said with a smile: "In the affairs of Longyou, Xihe has never sent anyone to intervene in the past few years, but it can be regarded as an acquaintance, and no one has come to see this place in the West Sea." ”

Ouyang Beidao: "Since the prince is far away from the capital, Xining Zhizhou naturally has no right to ask, as for the Xihe side of the mind I don't want to know, now the Western Xia is not as good as a few years ago, Li Qianshun's eyes are all in Liaodi, I am afraid that I am thinking about changing the master, naturally I have no time to change the Song, Xihe is at ease about this, and I don't want to offend the prince, so I naturally do it smoothly." ”

Liu Suiyun nodded when he heard this, Longyou is a place, since it has been governed by Xihe Road, and most of the protectors of Longyou have always been the governor of Xining Prefecture, but after King Qin Yao led it, it was different, Xining Prefecture no longer had the right to ask, and as for the Xihe River, he did not interfere with the pacification envoy along the border, probably because of what Ouyang Bei said.

At this time, the people rode around the shore of the West Sea, and then after a dozen miles to the south, they gradually saw many houses, and there was no end in sight.

In addition to the houses, there are also large tracts of reclaimed land in the distance, and there are yaks barking, bowstrings ringing, the sound of weapons colliding, and the sound of the shouting trumpets of the Tibetan people.

Ouyang Bei's eyes suddenly lit up: "Liu Duhu, how many people are there now?" ”

Liu Suiyun said with a smile: "Not much, not much, there are more than 10,000 here, but those soldiers in the military city on the front line of Longyou have also been collected in recent years, and the total number should be about fifteen thousand......"

Xihe Road, Xizhou.

In an old stone house, Yao Pingzhong was sweating profusely as he held the letter in his hand.

Bai Ao said: "What did General Yao say? ”

Yao Pingzhong glanced at him, suddenly put the letter together, threw it directly into his mouth and swallowed it, then gritted his teeth and said, "It's done!" ”

(End of chapter)