Two days later, Zhao Wei, the king of Jian, set up a feast in the palace to wash the dust for the white snow. In addition to Yang Cao, Shi Hao, a professor and direct lecturer in the palace, as well as Long Dayuan, Zeng Mo and others were all present.

Zhao Wei wanted to pull Bai Yixue to sit down beside him, Bai Yixue saw Zhu Yuzi in the seat, all of them were dignitaries, and they were much older than themselves, how to be willing, only said that he was young and shallow, and after a few excuses, he sat down next to Yang Cao.

The guests at the banquet knew that King Jian was feasting today, and the person invited by the Lord was Bai Yixue, in order to thank him for sacrificing his life in Mingqing Temple, and seeing him so humble and arrogant, they were also very happy, and they raised a glass with him.

When Bai Yixue and Zhao Wei were drinking, they wanted to ask if there was any news of Mo Lingsha several times, but they finally found it difficult to speak, thinking that if Yang Cao got the information from Zhao Wei, he would tell himself immediately.

When the two were chatting, Bai Yixue remembered the old man she met on the street that day, so she whispered to him the old man's interpretation. Zhao Wei was quite surprised when he heard this, and remembered that he still had Zhang Yandai by his side that day, but now that he had returned to the west, he couldn't help but mourn in his heart, and almost wanted to cry.

When the wine was half-drunk, everyone at the banquet was worried about the current military situation. Zhao Wei's eyebrows were tightly locked, his expression was sad and indignant, and he said: "In recent years, the gold lord Wanyan Liang has done his best to build the people of the world, build a large number of buildings in Tokyo, and renovate the palace, and he has already had the intention of moving the capital. According to the reliable information from the front, he wants to complete the move of the capital in the name of patrolling, depending on the situation, that is, in the past two months. It's a pity that I am towering Shenjing, the mighty imperial city, has been reduced to the dust for a long time, and it is actually ...... It was ......" choked up, and tears couldn't help but flow from his eyes.

When everyone heard this, they all looked at each other, stepped forward to persuade them, and Zhao Wei calmed down a little.

Long Dayuan said: "Wan Yanliang said that he was moving the capital, but in fact, he just wanted to revive the military revolution again and offend my holy dynasty." Last year, Yan Liang forcibly recruited the Han Chinese, Bohai people and Khitans, which was called the signing of the army, and tens of thousands of soldiers were obtained. Who can be deceived by such wolf ambitions?"

When everyone heard this, they immediately began to talk about it. Bai Yixue thought to herself: "If there is really another war between Song and Jin, don't say that I am Han, that is, the Jurchens, Khitans, Xi people, and Bohai people, I don't know how many people will die in battle, and how many people will be separated from their wives and families because of this?"

One person said indignantly: "In the twenty-eighth year of Shaoxing, Sun Daofu served as the envoy of He Jin Zhengdan, and returned to the court to report that Wan Yanliang had the intention of invading the south at that time, but he was reprimanded for his vain words, and he was suspected of being a pretext for recommending Zhang Jun and Zhang Shumi. Sun Daofu was later demoted and became a prefect in Mianzhou. Another person said: "At the end of last year, there was a lot of discussion among the Jin people and the opposition about Wan Yanliang's plan to raise troops to the south, and the Jin Ting also posted a special notice for this purpose, prohibiting the common people from discussing the southern invasion in private. ”

Shi Hao's face was solemn, and he said: "He Zheng of the Jin Kingdom made Shi Yisheng come to Jiangnan last year, and he wrote a secret message, 'The north wind is very strong today. He put the pen on top of several cases and shouted: "Come on, come on!" implying that Wan Yan Liang wanted to take advantage of his minions and invade the south in the near future. I heard that Shi Yisheng was killed by Wan Yanliang because he leaked Wan Yanliang's intention to invade the south, and after returning to China, he denounced it for the deputy envoy Yelu Pili, and I don't know if there is really such a thing?"

Long Dayuan said: "Wanyan Liang is arrogant and lascivious, brutal by nature, and he still kills his clan nobles and relatives excessively, without mercy. Cooking and killing Shi Yisheng, nine times out of ten. ”

Zhao Wei said: "He Zheng, who went to the Jin country, made Yu Yunwen say that he went all the way north and saw that the Jin people were building a large number of ships and ships, and the convoys transporting grain and grass on the road were endless, and he looked like he was going to fight a big battle. Wan Yanliang even said to him in person that he was going to Luoyang to see the flowers, and he had no intention of avoiding it. Yu Yunwen said that Wanyan Liang and his people were ambitious, and they would inevitably defeat the southern invasion of the alliance, and the imperial court should make preparations as soon as possible, and said that Huai and coastal defense were important. ”

When Bai Yixue heard Yu Yunwen's name, she immediately remembered the scene of drinking and chatting with a group of scribes at the inn in Wenchong Town, Quzhou that night, and thought secretly: "Yu Yunwen has a very good official reputation in Sichuan, and later was favored by the official family, came to Lin'an, and was entrusted with an important task. He thought again: "Song Jin is going to fight again, and Sister Ling is going north alone, how is it good?"

Zeng Mo said: "'Gu Yu looks at the peony in the third dynasty, and Lixia takes care of the peony. 'It's the first month of the new year, and it's only been a month or two since the rain in the valley......"

Zhao Wei said: "After Yan Liang usurped the throne, he had a bloodbath in the country, vigorously eradicated dissidents, and the position had just been secured, and the current grain reserves were not abundant, and the three armies were war-weary, so I don't think I would use troops so quickly." We should use this time to repair the situation internally and externally, and step up our border preparedness. ”

Shi Hao said: "The king is wise. Wan Yan Liang is a traitor, how can he easily reveal his true heart when he sees Yu Yunwen? However, Wan Yanliang's ambition has been fully revealed, and it must be guarded against. Yu Yunwen said: It is not unreasonable to strengthen the defense of Huai and Hai, and that is good. He said to Zhao Wei: "'Soldiers, the country's major affairs. The land of death and life, the way of survival, must not be overlooked. 'The Song and Jin Dynasty have not started a war for a long time, and now the border defense of the Great Song Dynasty is slack, and the morale of the army is weak. According to Lao Clumsy's opinion, King Jian should make a statement to the emperor that the great enemy is imminent, and he must not take it lightly. ”

Zhao Wei "snapped" on the wine table in front of him and said loudly: "Yes." 'The belligerent is dead, the one who forgets the war is in danger, it is not easy to forget, and the king of the world is also. 'As long as the heart of the gold thief does not die, then the armament cannot be relaxed for a day. If Wan Yanliang's guy really dares to violate the realm, Xiao Wang vows to fight him to the death. The crowd was talking for a while.

Bai Yixue heard that they were discussing military affairs, and it was inconvenient for her to interject, and she thought in her heart: "Everyone said that King Jian hated the mountains and rivers and had always opposed retreat, and he was determined to go on the Northern Expedition. ”

One of the people in the audience said loudly: "The war is already on the line, but it is ridiculous that there are still many people who are afraid of the enemy like tigers, and I believe that Song Jin can get through." ”

Shi Hao drank all the wine in the cup, and sighed: "Tokyo has fallen, the two emperors are hunting in the north, Yin Jian is not far away, and now the border is relaxed, Wen Tian is martial, and in the long run, Jiangnan will be in danger! Not to mention the resentment of Zhongzhou, when will it be peaceful?

Yang Cao suddenly remembered something and said: "King Jian, when he was serving on Huainan West Road last year, he was in the tile shop, and saw the servants singing a miscellaneous dress, thinking about it today, it is also a little interesting, I don't know if I should say it?"

Zhao Wei said: "Oh, at today's family banquet, none of the people present are outsiders, but Yang Duxiao said that it is okay. "In his early years, when Yang Cao was still the deputy commander of the Commander of the Infantry Army, Zhao Wei met him and called him the position of Colonel, and now Yang Cao has become a subordinate of his palace, but he has never changed his words.

Yang Cao said: "The Lingren said, the number of our Han people, I don't know how many times the Jin people, if you want to defeat the Jin people, everyone must be able to fight him, in this way, the Han people can be invincible." For example, the Jin people have sticky han, we have Han Shaobao, the Jin people have willow leaf guns, I have the phoenix bow, the Jin people have chisel arrows, we have chain mail, the Jin people have beating sticks, we also have the same treasure that everyone has, we are not afraid, others are busy asking what it is? Answer: Tianling covers ......

Everyone was stunned, and then some laughed, some were silent, and some shook their heads and sighed. During the banquet, a burly man stood up and said in a rough voice: "Colonel Yang, such a great rebellion is an unforgivable crime, why don't you hurry up and arrest him and send him to the official?"

Before Yang Cao could reply, Bai Yixue couldn't help but say: "The performance of the servants is just a folk joke, I don't know who started with it, and who are saying it? If you want to catch them one by one, can you catch them all?"

The man said angrily, "What are you talking about......"

Zhao Wei waved his hand and said, "Little brother is right, you sit down." The man didn't dare to disobey, glared at Bai Yixue a few times, and had to sit down angrily.

Zhao Wei thought for a moment and said: "The wind knows the grass, and the board knows the Chengchen." Now Yi Di is arrogant, the thieves are blazing, and my Great Song Dynasty has constant internal troubles, if there can be ten Han Shaobao and Yue ...... How dare the Jin people violate the boundary? Why should the Central Plains be upset?"

When everyone heard this, they were silent, and some of them showed shame on their faces. Bai Yixue thought to herself: "The country is in trouble. However, generals like Yue Fei, Yue Yun, and Zhang Xian, who were good at leading troops to fight, were killed as traitors. ”

Shi Hao said loudly: "Not bad. I, the Han people, don't say that one enemy is one, if we can fight one with ten, the gold thief will not be rampant. When everyone heard this, they echoed it, some scolded the Jin people for being cruel and vicious, and some lamented that the Han people were cowardly and timid.

After everyone's voices and emotions calmed down a little, Shi Haolang said: "The Middle Earth is isolated, Shenjing has fallen, and there are no heroes and heroes in the Central Plains, if there is, why not rise up and destroy the Jin people in one fell swoop?"

Bai Yixue was silent, but she was very disappreciative in her heart: "Even the emperor, civil and military ministers and soldiers, when they saw the Jin people, they all fled in despair, blindly retreating, how do you tell the common people to fight with the Jin people? Isn't that just life?"

Shi Hao glanced at Zhao Wei and said loudly: "When Qin Hui was alive, he once advocated the policy of 'southerners return to the south, and northerners return to the north', and he only knew peace and sought peace, and had no intention of being aggressive. He was even more involved in the party and the central government, and all the civil and military officials who were interested in the Northern Expedition were regarded by him as dissidents, and they were all overturned, so that the Northern Expedition was difficult to carry out, and the royal industry was in peace. ”

The corners of Zeng Mao's eyes were moist, and he said: "Yes, since ancient times, Han and Hu have not been separated. Qin Hui's dictatorship misled the country, and the female guarded the weak, which made the great rivers and mountains of the Central Plains all belong to other surnames, and this thief is very hateful and hateful!" Zhao Wei was silent.

Long Dayuan stood up and said, "That's a good point! Such a traitor and a person who wields power can only relieve the hatred in our hearts by eating their flesh, drinking their blood, gnawing their bones, and sleeping on their skins!"

During the banquet, everyone was indignant and scolded Qin Hui one after another. Bai Yixue's heart was at a loss: "Qin Hui has only been dead for five or six years, and now he is putting all the responsibility for the defeat on him, it seems that it is all his fault, and everyone will be pushed cleanly." ”

Finally waited until everyone's emotions calmed down, Shi Hao said: "Today, the heart of the jackal and the fox is known to the whole world, and I have already committed an offense to my Great Song Dynasty, and it is almost impossible to make peace and avoid war, only to actively rectify the defense and fight with it to the end, it is the right way." ”

The rest of the people echoed and said, "What Professor Shi said is extremely true. ”

Shi Hao said to Zhao Wei: "King Jian, now my Great Song Emperor is favored by the Quartet, subduing the sea, and the people who have returned from the north are endless, Your Majesty is kind and generous, and has hired many of them, and even entrusted them with important tasks. However, the current situation is chaotic, and it is difficult to ensure that there are no dissenting people, and even if there are no dissenting people, most of these people who come to surrender are greedy for life and afraid of death, cowardly and incompetent. According to the old clumsy opinion, these reformed people can be sent back, if they really have the heart to serve the country loyally, really have the ability, they might as well go back, and fight to the death with the Jin people, they are real heroes, real heroes. ”

Shi Hao made a generous statement, Zhao Wei was silent to himself, but Bai Yixue couldn't hold it anymore, stood up, and said loudly: "The professor's words are wrong!" Everyone was shocked, and dozens of pairs of eyes looked at him together.

Yang Cao even made a look at him and shouted: "Brother!" Shi Haode looked at him, even Zhao Wei admired him very much, since he went to Jianwang's Mansion as a professor and direct lecturer, he was even more obedient on weekdays, and suddenly saw Bai Yixue speak against Shi Hao, and hurriedly stopped it.

Shi Hao was displeased, and said, "Oh, what's wrong with the old clumsy's words? ”

Bai Yixue said: "Don't dare." The professor's evaluation of the people who returned to the north was inevitably arbitrary and unfair. Most of them were just ordinary people, who could not bear the exploitation and oppression of the Jin people, and became slaves of foreign tribes, so they had to leave their homes and move all the way south. On the way, there are starving to death, and I don't know how many people are dying. Why are they like this? The common people just want to live a stable life and do not want to suffer from war and chaos anymore. If the imperial court drove them back to the north again, wouldn't it tell them to be sent to death? As for those civil and military officials who had returned, since they had come from thousands of miles to surrender, as long as they treated each other sincerely and used them according to their qualities, they were afraid that they would have any different intentions?"

He talked eloquently, so that Zhao Wei was silent, and there were many people in the audience who nodded in approval. Yang Cao couldn't help but be taken aback when he saw him bluntly contradict Shi Hao, grabbed Bai Yixue's arm, and said, "Brother, you drank high......"

Shi Haotie's face was blue, and he was annoyed in his heart: "This stinky kid was just invited by King Jian because of his meritorious service, but he didn't want to be so ignorant of the sky and dare to talk nonsense here." But he finally got in the way of Zhao Wei's affection and his identity, so he snorted heavily in his nose and said coldly: "I heard that the little brother is also from the north?"

Bai Yixue puffed up her chest and said loudly: "Not bad." ”

At this moment, a man with a burly body stood up, came to Shi Hao's side, and whispered a few words in his ear. After Shi Hao heard this, his eyes narrowed, and he sneered: "You are a disciple of Hu Wanggui of Suihan Mountain Villa?"

Bai Yixue glanced at the big man, but he didn't know it, and after thinking about it, all the people in the seat were Zhao Wei's cronies, among them, there were also many military attachés, their own teachers, most of them knew about it when they talked with Yang Cao on weekdays, and they didn't care about it at the moment, and said: "Exactly." ”

Shi Hao said "hey" and said, "That's it......! Forget to ...... Forget to be corrected, this name is good, very good. The little brother who dares to make a statement is just to excuse your master who has fallen into a foreign country, which is really ridiculous. After saying that, he laughed, and some people in the room laughed together.

Bai Yixue's face changed, and he was about to attack, when Yang Cao beside him stretched out his hand, held his hand, and secretly shook it hard. Bai Yixue knew his intentions, so she held back her anger at the moment and said, "It is precisely because I am from the north that I understand the situation of the remnants in the north that I can say a few fair words for them. He was young and vigorous, and his hands couldn't help but tremble slightly under his strong anger. The poplar grass held on tightly.

Shi Hao's face sank, and he sneered: "The old man said before that there are no heroes in the Central Plains, and they dare not fight to the death with the Jin people, and respecting the master is the proof." When I saw it today, I would only take advantage of my tongue. ”

Bai Yixue's blood surged, and she said loudly: "Is the professor telling these remnants to fight with the Jin people with their bare hands?"

Shi Hao said coldly: "The Jin people are as cruel as tigers, why do they all go against the grain and don't resist? All the bloody Chinese disciples should rise up and resist and regard death as home." A martial arts practitioner like Zunshi should fight hard to kill thieves and repay the country with death. ”

Although Bai Yixue was drunk, her heart was clear, she shook her head slightly, and said loudly: "Professor Shi, how mysterious is it to blame people with high righteousness? How easy is it to be a person with great virtue? If you want to ask them why they don't resist, the Gainjin people are as cruel as tigers and as vicious as jackals." Our Great Song Dynasty has an army of millions of troops, and we still have to avoid its edge, but instead we want these defenseless ordinary people, all of whom go to fight for their lives against the gold thieves, and sacrifice their lives for the country? I can't agree with the professor's criticism of such a harsh student. ”

Yang Cao was shocked when he heard this, grabbed his arm, and shouted: "Brother, you said that you can't drink alcohol on weekdays, but you are happy today, but you drank too much......" While holding Bai Yixue, he said to Zhao Wei: "King Jian, Brother Bai is drunk and has some nonsense, I will take him to take a step first...... Confess!" said he dragged and dragged Bai Yixue and hurriedly left the Jianwang Mansion.