The army of Chen Zhongjing did not attack the city as fiercely as Yanjing, but was defeated in a short time.

Wanyan Zonghan, Xi Yin and others led the army to break through the siege, and the losses of the Jin soldiers were not too much.

Zhao Tan wondered why the other party gave up Zhongjing City so much without dragging his feet, and he couldn't figure it out, so he had to think that the other party had transferred strategically.

Zhongjing is prosperous, although it is not as good as Shangjing, but it is far beyond Yanjing.

The military horses cleared the city, after all, Zong Han and Xi Yin are both scheming, especially Xi Yin, who controls the Jurchen intelligence agency, and it is difficult to ensure that he does not leave some spies in the city.

However, this process was not very smooth, because Zhongjing, like Yanjing, was not inhabited by pure Jurchen people, all of whom were Khitan, Bohai, Tatar and Han Chinese.

There must be spies, that is, among these people, it is not easy to rummage around.

According to Zhao Ta's analysis, the spies left behind should be single-line contacts, countless single lines, and then summarized to several threads, and several threads are also single, and then remitted to Xi Yin.

The head of the line may or may not be in Zhongjing, but even if it is here, where can you start?

So Zhao Ta thought about it, so he had to mobilize the general public, post a notice of hanging prizes, and reward and report it.

As long as you find sneaky words and deeds, or daily weird people, you can come and report it.

If there is a problem, then reward it heavily, even if there is no problem, the result of the report is just the special habit of the other party, or something else that doesn't matter, as long as the person who reported it did not frame and lie, and the other party did behave strangely, then also give some rewards, and do not let the whistleblower work in vain.

In this way, a frenzy of exposure was immediately set off among the people in the market.

After years of war, the lives of the people of Zhongjing were already poor, and they all hated the Jurchens, believing that it was the Jurchen talents who caused such results.

Now that you can find the spies left by the Jurchens to take revenge, and earn some money to supplement your family, why not?

For a time, digging three feet into the ground, the yamen everywhere was overwhelmed.

"The power of the people is greatest." Zhao Ta looked at this situation and said.

Li Yanxian on the other side was puzzled and complimented: "Your Majesty has a good plan." ”

Zhao Ta looked at him: "Shao Yan is here to play chess." ”

In a moment, Bai Ba Bai Zhan put the chessboard on the table, and Zhao Ta pinched the chess pieces in his hand and did not move for a long time: "Shaoyan is playing." ”

Li Yanxian was stunned for a moment: "Your Majesty should take the lead, Your Majesty hasn't made a child yet......"

"I've already fallen behind, Shaoyan, haven't you seen it?" Zhao Ta looked at the empty chessboard and said with a serious face.

The corners of Li Yanxian's mouth twitched, there was clearly nothing on the chessboard, but why did His Majesty say that he had already fallen......

The next day, the sun was shining and it was a good day.

Zhao Ta took the three brothers of the Bai family, Luda and Li Kui, to wander around the city.

The largest and most prosperous street in Zhongjing is called Jinguo Street, and the most lively section of the road belongs to the intersection of Jinguo Street and Minghui Street.

Jinguo Street from north to south, Minghui Street from east to west, the intersection here in the north and south direction is a variety of shops, silk village, rouge shop, decoration shop, fruit shop, silver building, etc., east and west Minghui Street is tea shop, water square, restaurant, Goolan garden.

Zhao Ta got off the horse and walked slowly.

He and the three brothers of the Bai family are okay, they have leisure and elegance to look at all kinds of goods and experience the customs.

Luda and Li Kui looked at Minghui Street without stopping their eyes, it was really a slight east wind at the moment, and the aroma of meat and vegetables in the restaurant over there was wafting in the wind, which was very tempting.

Both of them are drunkards, if there is no military emergency, then they will drink early in the morning, but today they have to accompany Zhao Ta to go shopping, and they didn't dare to drink after they got up, so they couldn't help it without thinking about it, but the aroma of wine and meat that came down the wind immediately aroused the wine worms in the stomach, and secretly kept swallowing saliva.

When Zhao Ta saw the appearance of the two of them, he knew it in his heart, but said lightly: "Didn't Zhishen and Tie Niu eat in the morning?" If I was really hungry, I bought a few cookcakes to cushion my stomach. ”

Luda said: "Childe, this ...... Subordinates are not hungry, and subordinates do not eat cooking cakes. ”

Li Kui didn't leave the restaurant over there, licked his lips and said, "Eat together at noon, eat together at noon." ”

Zhao Ta smiled, shook his head, and led a few people into the Jiayin Building to hang out.

When the war was in chaos, the value of gold and silver appreciated, and the copper money depreciated, and the big families in the city had already exchanged their property for various ingots and jewelry, and fled from Zhongjing.

Therefore, the goods in it are lackluster, and there are very few of them, and it is clear that the silver building actually took all the copper and iron parts to buy and sell.

After walking forward for a long time, he turned across the road, and stood at the entrance of Minghui Street, Li Kui said: "Childe, childe, it's noon." ”

Zhao Ta looked at the sun above, where was noon, there was still a lot of difference, how could this confused person learn to lie?

He said, "I'll take you to the play." ”

As soon as he said that he was very happy to listen to the play, even Luda was happy, but Li Kui was stunned and scratched his head: "The drama ...... Is there any alcohol in the theater? ”

Bai Ao looked at him and said, "There is tea, and the snacks are enough." ”

Li Kui muttered in a low voice: "I don't drink that thing, and a bird will fade out of my mouth." ”

Bai Zhan said: "You can buy your own wine and bring it, the son won't talk about you." ”

Li Kui blinked his eyes, reached out and touched it in his arms, but he didn't find a big son for a long time.

Bai Zhan said curiously: "Gongzi rewarded you with so much gold and silver, and it was enough to drink wine for half your life, why did it not take long for it to be gone?" ”

Li Kui didn't say a word, and he didn't dare to look at Zhao Ta, he just grabbed his body with his hands, there was no money, and there was a lot of hair.

Bai Ba quipped: "Isn't it that Tie Niu has a good relationship, and he will fill it in?" Or go to the goulan and eat flowers and wine, even if there is no enough money. ”

Li Kui was angry when he heard this, his fists clenched, panting, look at this, look at that, he can't beat any of them, he has fought before, he started to be fierce, but in the end he was lying on the ground and eating ashes.

"Aren't you all entertaining......" he said for a long time.

Luda also felt dry at this time, took out half a silver slot, and looked at Zhao Ta: "Childe...... Can you ask Iron Bull to buy some wine to quench his thirst? ”

Zhao Ta nodded, and Luda went over to relieve the siege: "Tie Niu took it to buy wine, and don't ask people to coax people to give more money and buy less wine." ”

Li Kui grabbed the silver horn in his hand, looked at Lu Da and said: "My brother is also here for recreation, who dares to give less wine, so that he can know that the old fist is powerful." ”

After speaking, he peeked at Zhao Ta again, and Zhao Ta said lightly: "Go and go back quickly, go to the theater over there to find it." ”

Li Kui immediately responded: "I know, I know, Tie Niu will go back when he goes." ”

After speaking, he raised his hand and made a pergola, and saw that there was a wine flag in the distance, although he was illiterate, he recognized the curvy appearance, and knew that it was a place to sell wine, so he walked quickly over there.

Here Zhao Ta led a few people to Goolan Garden, this is a special singing opera, the stage is connected to the theater, it is a lively time at the moment, and there are many people outside, although I can't see the face of the stage, but listening to the sound is also enjoyable.

The stage is facing the street in the open air, and you can only look at one side on this side of the street, and there is a small house in front of the door of the building to welcome guests.

Just as Zhao Ta was about to step into the building, the corner of his eye suddenly froze, and he turned his head suddenly, and his gaze fell back into the crowd.

Seeing the figure of a graceful girl in pink clothes disappear in a flash, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and his face showed a trace of doubt.

"Childe ......" Bai Ao saw that something was wrong, and immediately asked in a low voice.

Zhao Ta shook his head: "Go upstairs." ”

There are no tables on the first floor, because it is not easy to watch the show, and the guests are all on the second and third floors.

Go up to the second floor, there are not many people inside, it is really a succession of soldiers, this Goolan theater has not closed down is already a great luck, want to prosper business, almost impossible, just barely maintain, earn a handyman's room fee, people eat horses.

sat down by the window, ordered the seasonal fruits of tea soup and dim sum, and set a full table, Zhao Ta looked at the stage while eating.

After all, under the rule of the Liao State, martial arts are all Khitan heroic stories, or the struggle for hegemony between tribes and clans, and there are few repertoire in the cultural opera city, all of which are love and hatred on the grassland.

At this time, what was staged on the stage was martial arts, probably because it had not been peaceful in recent years, with successive wars, and few people watched literary dramas.

Martial arts dramas are naturally difficult to perform, and the horns who have played martial arts dramas will eat two more cooking cakes than when they are acting in literary operas after they get off the stage, but this is also something that cannot be helped, after all, affected by the war, no one likes to watch literary operas now.

This martial arts drama on the stage is a heroic figure in the history of the Khitan, called Lu Erman, not a Liao clan, but a character in folklore, the history is earlier than Yelu Abaoji, and the existence time is before the founding of the Liao State.

This is also the boss of Goolan moved his mind, although it is acting, but after all, the Great Liao is dead, it is not good to play those generals and heroes when the Liao State existed, and it is not easy to play the deeds of Yelu Abaoji, the Eagle of the Prairie, whether it is Jurchen or Song Guo, the officials do not like it, and then cause the disaster of killing.

This play tells the story of Luerman who was born in a large Khitan tribe and was the son of a patriarch, who often went to war with other Khitan tribes, resulting in fatigue and lack of peace.

Later, another larger tribe wanted to annex the tribe of Lürman, and the crisis was highlighted, and Lürman came up with a plan, intending to change his face and infiltrate the big tribe to gain the trust of the other party, and then assassinate the other party's patriarch in one fell swoop to solve the crisis of the destruction of his own clan.

Then Luerman acted according to the plan, and after careful preparation, he successfully infiltrated the other tribe, but he never had the opportunity to approach the other party's patriarch to assassinate him.

Later, he met a young girl named Horisher in the other tribe, who was the daughter of the patriarch, and the two fell in love, but Lyrman never forgot the purpose of his trip.

In the end, he chose between his lover and the survival of the tribe, approached the other party's patriarch through Horisher, and then burst out to kill him.

Then, taking advantage of Horisher's affection for him, he fled the tribe, and Horisher sent him outside the tribe to watch him leave, and then committed suicide.

And Lurman returned to his tribe and became a hero admired by everyone, after all, he saved the tribe so that the tribe did not perish.

But Lyrmann never forgot Horisher, and he buried Horisher deep in his heart, wanting to wait for the day when he rode a horse and carried a longbow to pick up Horisher and marry her.

A few years later, this day finally came, and after non-stop battles, the tribe of Lürman defeated the other tribes around and became one of the best tribes in the Khitan clan.

At this time, he thought of He Lishe again, because the patriarch was assassinated back then, the tribe of Helishhe was reduced to a small department little by little, barely surviving, he planned to take He Lishe over, after all, now that he has the final say, no one can stop him from marrying He Lishe.

But when he came to Holish's tribe with his soldiers and horses, he learned that Horisher had committed suicide after he left, but he never knew the news.

Under the sunset, in front of Holish's grave, Lyrman was holding a scimitar, his face was confused, and he didn't know whether it was pain or remorse......

The more Zhao Ta watched this play, the more unpleasant it became, what kind of drama is this? Heroes are not heroes, love is not love, the key is to wake up some memories that have been dusty in his heart for a long time and do not want to remember.

"Call their treasurer."

Bai Ao observed his words and looks, and heard Zhao Ta's unkind tone, so he immediately got up and went to find the shopkeeper of this Goolan Theater Garden.

In a moment, the shopkeeper was brought in, generally speaking, this kind of business can be opened, the people who do this kind of business are not ordinary, the white and black three religions and nine streams are very wide, and there are people behind them, but now it is different from the past, the city head changes the king's flag, the war continues, and he has long dared not be arrogant, and when he saw that Bai Ao was still carrying a sword, he spoke with a Song accent, and he came over obediently.

Zhao Ta looked the shopkeeper up and down, the shopkeeper was actually blind, and he didn't know why he was called, so he hurriedly said: "This son, I don't know ......."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Ta interrupted and pointed to the stage outside: "Is there indeed a legend in that scene just now, which has been around for a long time, or is someone making it up now?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, originally thinking that it was because of the poor service, and the other party was angry, but he didn't expect it to be because of the singing.

He hurriedly looked at the play card, compared the time, and knew that it was a play by King Lvman, so he said: "This son, this play is an ancient legend, which has been circulated in the grassland for a long time, and is not made up now. ”

"Ancient legends?" Zhao Tan frowned: "But what has changed, has the story been rearranged in this play?" ”

The shopkeeper shook his head: "Childe, the legend of King Ryerman has always been this plot, no one arranges it, this ...... If you don't believe it, you can ask others, the Khitan and the Khitan people basically know this story. ”

"You're not honest, you can't fight!" Luda slapped the table: "My son-in-law asked you, and you called to ask others!" ”

The shopkeeper hugged his head in fright: "Childe, Childe, I am telling the truth......"

Zhao Ta waved his hand at Bai Ao and Bai Zhan: "Go and ask others." ”

The two went downstairs, came back after a while, and said in a low voice: "Childe, I asked inside and outside the building, it is indeed an ancient Khitan legend, and it is almost the same as that one." ”

Zhao Ta squinted, and just as he wanted to speak, he heard a sudden noise outside the window.

At this time, the stage was resting, there was no sound, and the movement elsewhere was still loud.

Zhao Ta looked out the window and saw two people fighting together not far away, and the people were watching and cheering.

One of them is not someone else, it is Li Kui, who has not returned for a long time after buying wine, and the other is the girl in pink who looked back at the door of the building, but disappeared into the crowd.

At this time, the girl turned around, revealing her appearance, Zhao Ta stood up from the chair, staring at the girl's cheeks in the distance, and slowly spit out two words in her mouth.

"Baohua!"

(End of chapter)