On this day, the court dispersed early, leaving Zhang Zigu and other backbone ministers to discuss things on the main hall. Without him, a real 800-mile urgent letter in the early morning was sent to the court, saying that Xiao Bo's commander 30,000 Gou Chen Tie rode out of Beiliang and went straight to the northeast military town.

When Bai Xuan saw it, he immediately retreated, leaving Zhang Zigu, Shen Kuo, and the general Jiang Chengzhong in the palace. Bai Xuan'an sat on the dragon chair, above the main hall, a huge sand table was placed in it, and the general Jiang Chengzhong had a baton in his hand, pointing out the rivers and mountains, Bai Xuan's expression was solemn.

"Your Majesty, according to the previous arrangement, the 60,000 troops of the Northeast Military Town are already above the border, and there are still 20,000 in the process of helping, and the rest of the southern army is ready to go north at any time." Jiang Chengzhong, a general who is already in his forties, said.

Bai Xuan looked carefully at the sand table, the forces were divided, and asked, "Is it 60,000 or 20,000?" Jiang Chengzhong thought for a while and said, "Sixty thousand." ”。

Bai Xuan looked at Zhang Zigu, and Zhang Zigu said slowly, "Your Majesty, do you want Bei Liang to rebel now?" Bai Xuanha smiled and said, "Prime Minister, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Zigu replied, "Your Majesty, now that Beiliang is reversed, who of us will be able to send troops to suppress it at that time?" And it is also necessary to prevent Qianxue's homeopathic iron cavalry from going south, according to our current intelligence, there are already 400,000 iron cavalry in Shutian Singer, and the Longxiang army, which has been guarding the Beijing Division, has also had 300,000 soldiers and horses, and they have gone south not long ago. ”

Jiang Chengzhong looked at Zhang Zigu and said, "What does the prime minister mean that you can't force Bei Liang to rebel now?" Zhang Zigu smiled, this Jiang Chengzhong is only forty Yu, he is the upstart who rose in the rebellion of the Seven Kings, of course, compared to Xiao Luotu, whose military exploits are overwhelming, his military exploits are not worth mentioning, among the seven kings, he only killed one king, Cao Bao killed two kings, Xiao Luotu destroyed four kings, and resisted Qianxue.

It's just that Cao Bao was later locked up by Bai Xuan with the military department, and his soldiers and horses were also distributed to the Western Front and Southern Xinjiang. The main variables of Jiang Chengzhong's soldiers and horses are the Northeast Military Town of the two Zhang Zhong brothers, which has already been part of the Huaishui Water Army.

Not long ago, Bai Xuanrang's Cao Bao sent Cao Bao to the Western Front to control the 350,000 troops on the Western Front in order to hold Beiliang with the Northeast Military Town, and Jiang Chengzhong was also transferred back to the capital from Huaishui to take charge of the recent military affairs.

At this time, Shen Kuo smiled and said, "It's not forced, it's just that the southern Xinjiang side of the king of Xiangnan's Erbi army, when can they return to the northern front." Although there are only 30,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of the white soldiers of the king of Xiangnan, the 30,000 combat power is chasing the male soldiers of the Northern Liang Army, and in their eyes should not be underestimated.

Zhang Zigu picked up his friend's words at this time and said, "There is also when the rest of the vassal kings will be able to send troops." After speaking, Zhang Zigu stood up from the chair Bai Xuanci was sitting on and said, "Your Majesty, now is a good opportunity to cut the domain!" ”

Bai Xuan's eyes narrowed, this Zhang Gu and Shen Kuo, the two of them had already handed over an excerpt about cutting the feudal domain ten years ago. It is also in line with Bai Xuan's intentions, this cutting of the feudal domain is also like a woman's green silk in Bai Xuan's heart, and the flirtatious Bai Xuan's heart is extremely itchy, but he can't find a reasonable reason to cut the feudal domain.

Jiang Chengzi heard what Zhang Zigu said about cutting the domain, and he was a little disdainful in his heart, these civil officials, who stabbed in the back of their studies, stabbed them badly, and their ability to cross the river and demolish the bridge was also quite good.

When Bai Xuan heard this, his eyes narrowed, and he said with a smile, "Prime Minister, do you have to hold this list?" When the time comes, Zhang Zigu will stand up and resist this burden, and after he dies, Bai Xuan will give another evil call. When these came to the next emperor, they naturally thought of Zhang Zigu's affection, and he could give the Zhang family wealth without worry.

Zhang Zigu's eyes blinked slightly, and he said in a deep voice, "Weichen is sheng." Shen Kuo frowned, looked at his world friend, this burden is not good, the Zhang family is afraid that someone will point to the backbone and scold, even if it is a feudal domain, then it will still be a prince at that time, this Mo more than a prince secretly made a stumbling block for the Zhang family, and the Zhang family will have it.

Bai Xuan waved his hand when he heard this, and said, "Let's discuss this matter later." Zhang Zigu put down his arched hands, and his hands shrunk into a sleeve robe, but they were fine sweat.

Bai Xuan stood up and said, "Now that I have 150,000 Praetorian Guards, 50,000 of them are also ready to be pulled." After speaking, he turned to the back of the hall and said, "That's all for today's discussion." ”

Zhang Zigu and Shen Kuo saw the figure of Bai Xuan disappear, glanced at each other, and both walked out of the Jinluan Palace. And Jiang Chengzhong, who was dressed in armor, walked in front of the two of them in great strides, and the three of them usually didn't even say hello, as the saying goes, civil and military have been light since ancient times?

Zhang Zigu and Shen Kuo stepped out of the Jinluan Palace, and they felt that the sun was dazzling. Shen Kuo retreated and wanted to follow the two of his little eunuchs, and walked side by side with Zhang Zigu. After waiting for his eyes to get used to it, Shen Kuo asked Zhang Zigu and said, "Why did you take the initiative to ask for help?" This is not like your style, cutting the domain, but standing on a dangerous wall, if you can't say that the saint will take you to calm your anger. ”

Zhang Zigu shook his head and smiled, "No way, I don't ask for help, I'm afraid that the Zhang family will be suppressed all the way in the next life, and they won't be able to raise their heads, and if they are exhausted, the gains will outweigh the losses." ”

Shen Kuo looked at his friend and said, "Is it just for that kind of affection?" Zhang Zigu nodded and said, "Don't you see, which of my sons is promising?" This can at most govern a county, and after I return to the land in a hundred years, I may not be able to find what point by other parties will seek revenge. ”

Shen Kuo also knows that the wall above the officialdom is pushed by everyone, don't look at the dirty water that is very polite to you one or two, and can't wait for a wreck. And over the years, Zhang Zigu has been the prime minister, I don't know how many people have been sold, and how many pits have been dug for people to jump into. But when it came to the treasury tax of Jiangnan Province, Zhang Zigu sent someone to liquidate and liquidate and then raised the treasury tax up, not counting the salt and iron monopoly was rectified by Zhang Zigu, and those officials from Jiangnan Province regarded Zhang Zigu as an enemy who killed his father.

Shen Kuo sighed and said, "Also, if you don't stand up now, the emperor will also carry this black cauldron on you, and then there will be no love." ”

Zhang Zigu smiled lightly and said, "Yes, let's go, the cabinet may guess what it will look like." Shen Kuo nodded, and the two of them walked side-by-side, towards the cabinet of the people, behind them were pavilions and sunshine.

In the twilight, it was the bookish atmosphere of reading.

Outside the Shanhai Pass, the scorching sun is in the sky, and the 50,000 troops behind Xiao Luohe have been pulling out for half an hour, Xiao Luohe received a letter yesterday, which is also very simple and clear two words, this morning, Xiao Luohe sent 20,000 infantry first, and 50,000 cavalry followed.

Behind Xiao Luohe is no longer Qu Jing, but Liu Wei, **, two brothers, Qu Jing is now sitting in Shanhaiguan and does not pass with Xiao Luohe.

An army of 50,000 troops, the cavalry marched forward, the flag was like a cloud, and under the sun, the black pressed a piece. A mile ahead was the 20,000 infantry sent by Xiao Luohe in advance.

Xiao Luohe's face was expressionless, taking the lead, behind him was Liu Wei, who was half a horse behind, ** two, and then Xiao Luohe's personal guards, and finally the 50,000 Shanhaiguan cavalry.

Xiao Luohe didn't say anything this time, just led an army of 70,000 and pressed towards the border line of the Western Front Army. Liu Wei and ** glanced at each other behind him, and Liu Wei plucked up the courage to ask Xiao Luohedao, "Marshal!" Our brothers can hear the words and don't know whether to say them or not. ”

Xiao Luohe looked back at Liu Wei and **, turned his head and said, "Say whatever you want." Liu Wei and ** hurriedly pulled out their horses and walked side by side with Xiao Luohe for the time being.

Liu Wei and ** squeezed each other's eyebrows, and in the end, Liu Wei compromised and asked Xiao Luohe in a low voice, "Marshal, it was you who brought our group of brothers out, and when we say these things today, it is not that we don't talk about brotherhood, benevolence, righteousness and morality, but some things are very uncomfortable in my brother's heart." ”

Xiao Luohe didn't make a sound, and quietly listened to Liu Wei continue to say the following. Liu Wei said slowly: "When you took us out, Marshal, you beat Qianxue and drove them out, we have nothing to say." On the battlefield, we are all in a relationship of life, we have both carried knives for each other, and we have all crawled from the pile of dead, marshal, if you tell me to go east, we will go east, and if we go west, even if we just give us a soldier and tell me to resist the other side with a thousand people, we have nothing to say, but we all believe that you are our marshal. ”

Liu Wei said that he felt a little unable to say any more, ** At this time, he took over and said, "Marshal, when I returned to Beijing, you helped the coffins of 80,000 brothers, we were all uncomfortable, I know that Marshal you are also uncomfortable, so you have to think about letting them meet their families." At that time, we also knew that the emperor was probably going to remove you, brothers, and we either didn't make trouble in the capital, or we didn't make trouble in Shanhaiguan, just to keep the marshal behind. ”

Looking at Liu Wei, he also felt that he couldn't go on. Liu Wei knew that he had said it again, Liu Wei opened his mouth several times, but he couldn't open it, and finally he was ruthless, gritted his teeth, and said, "Marshal, brothers have heard some gossip recently. Say, say. ”

Liu Wei said that in the end, it was still stuck, Xiao Luohe turned his head and said, "Say, we Beiliang are going to rebel." Right? ”

Liu Wei and ** lowered their heads in shame, they felt that they didn't have the face to see Xiao Luohe. Xiao Luohe looked at the two of them and said, "Raise your head." ”

Liu Wei and ** raised their heads at this time, and Xiao Luohe said, "Beiliang, have you been there?" Liu Wei and ** both shook their heads.

Xiao Luohe said quietly: "That's a place that is not good or bad. Every step you take at the Beiliang border, you dig down, maybe you have to dig out some bones and armor. There, the Beiliang soldiers don't know how many bones are buried, you ask the Beiliang people, ask them how their ancestors died, maybe they will tell you that they died in battle, how they died in battle, and died in the battle on the border of Beiliang. There are even no bones of some ancestors, but a mound of clothes was built, and Qingming Chongyang went to worship. In the past few decades, they simply did not go to the mound to worship, but ran to the border. You haven't seen it, I've seen it, a row of people passed, kneeling were all people, and they all kowtowed three times one by one. ”

Liu Wei and ** were even more ashamed.

Xiao Luohe said again, "The soul of the Beiliang million army is indeed true, how many of the Beiliang troops who died on the border of Beiliang are more than one million?" Our Xiao family was scolded by those civil officials in the court, saying that we were chaotic ministers and thieves, saying that we had bad intentions, saying that we were oppressive to the lord with power, and when our Xiao family entered the capital, the spitting stars of those civil officials were about to drown us, and those scholars and Beijing officials will work with us as a symbol to prove that they are the ministers of the humerus. Do they know how many men in our Xiao family are buried in other places, and their bones are not there? Do they know how many women in our Xiao family are wearing their bodies and charging into battle? Do they know how many soldiers of our Xiao family fought bloodily to protect the country? ”

Xiao Luohe paused, and after a while, he said, "Twenty years ago, my brother was assassinated by Bai Xuan, and on the way home to see my newborn nephew, my sister-in-law was secretly forced to death by Bai Xuan. A few days ago, the only third generation of my Xiao family was seriously injured by Bai Xuan's faction, and his life and death are unknown. Yesterday, the Northeast Military Town sent troops to close the Beiliang Border Line, and Cao Bao was even more in charge of the Western Front, and the soldiers and horses of the Western Front counterattacked our Shanhaiguan at any time and rushed straight to Beiliang. ”

Liu Wei and ** were shocked, they didn't know these things.

Xiao Luohe's horse whip pointed to the north and shouted, "Back then, our Xiao family fought to the death, guarding the land with corpses and bones, and protecting the safety of the people. Now the Bai family, if you want my Xiao family to die without a place to be buried, my Xiao family is cold! ”

After Xiao Luohe finished speaking, what a kind of flesh and blood flying, it was the flesh and blood of the Xiao family that was flying, but it was the heart of Beiliang that hurt.

Liu Wei and ** raised their heads, pulled out the handle of the Daqian standard sabre and smashed it in their hearts, and shouted, "Today, I, Liu Wei, **, made a blood oath to guard the land with corpses and bones, protect the safety of the people, and join the Beiliang Army from now on, if this oath is destroyed!" ”

Xiao Luohe waved his hand, pulled his horse forward, Liu Wei and ** followed, and behind him were 50,000 iron horsemen, lonely and speechless, and the aura of slaughter spread in the sky.

Looking at the black line, I only felt that there was a breath of martial arts heroism, which was pervasive, and I don't know if it was the military soul that died on the border lingering on it, surrounding this bloody man. I just feel that they don't seem to worry about anything anymore when they stand in this sky, maybe, it's just that according to what they say, he is the Northern Liang Army, guarding the land with corpses and bones, and protecting the safety of the people.