Taiyuan, Yunwangfu, the garden is completely a picture of the garden style of the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the stone path on the rockery is meandering, the ancient trees transported from the outside are verdant, the vines are hanging on the mountain stone and the low wall, the corner of the wall and the wild flowers by the flowing water are clustered, the scenery is lush; Zhao Kai heard that Zhang Xiaochun asked to see, left a few beauties, and came to the octagonal pavilion alone to learn from it. Seeing Zhang Xiaochun running in a panic, Zhao Kai had a bad premonition that something must have happened; Zhao Kai asked half-jokingly: "Jincheng has been lost?"

"Lord Wang, it was Suizhou that was lost, and Quduan captured Xiazhou on the same day. Zhao Kai was even more surprised, took the official document and opened it, and said: "It's not good to recover Xiazhou? Suizhou itself is a piece of chicken ribs, which we have designed a long time ago." ”

Zhang Xiaochun did not say nonsense, Yang Zhi, Cao Qianli, Zhang Shen, Zhe Kewen and others all confirmed the news; Zhang Xiaochun said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, the grain and grass have not yet been settled, Yang Zhi has already sent someone to urge, but the transfer department has not arranged it. ”

"It's not arranged? Or is it not arranged at all. Zhao Kai sneered, Zhang Xiaochun went to Taiyuan and he knew very well what he did; Originally, Zhao Kai didn't want to ask, there are some things you can settle by yourself, but now Zhang Xiaochun admits it, Zhao Kai is not willing to carry this black pot. Unexpectedly Zhao Kai's attitude, Zhang Xiaochun said honestly: "The minister did not make arrangements, the minister thought that no matter whether he won or lost, the front line would end the war soon, but he didn't expect Yang Zhi to capture Xiazhou, and the commander said that Quduan had already begun to attack Xingzhou." ”

Zhang Xiaochun's mouth is the seed master Min, Zhao Kai understood, Zhang Xiaochun and others found a mistake of their own, Suizhou is not under the control of Shaanxi Fusi, and the transfer of Suizhou Army is Taiyuan's order, Suizhou's responsibility to defend the territory has nothing to do with Yang Zhi, at this moment, at most, Yang Zhi is accused of improper arrangement, but Yang Zhi's task is to attack Xiazhou, and now not only annihilated more than 20,000 Western Xia troops under the city of Youzhou, Quduan really defeated Xiazhou.

If Yang Zhi strikes the war at this moment, he can use the lack of supply of grain and grass as the reason, then Zhang Xiaochun will definitely not be able to eat and walk around, and become the object of accusations from all sides; you must know that arranging Zhang Xiaochun to serve as the transfer envoy of Shaanxi is Zhao Kai's meaning, Zhao Kai does not want to be so passive, thought about it and said: "Xiazhou is in hand, I can let Abbot Yang Zhi talk with Western Xia, and recover Suizhou and Lingzhou as a condition, whether it can be negotiated or not, to gain time for you to mobilize grain and grass, you can go to the transfer department to find Lu Yihao to discuss." As for Suizhou, he urged Zhang Shen to solve it as soon as possible. ”

Zhang Xiaochun was overjoyed when he heard this, as long as Lu Yihao was willing, it would only take three or five days to transport grain from Fuzhou and Yinzhou to Youzhou, which could completely make up for this gap. Zhang Xiaochun was also anxious, he didn't hear Zhao Kai's worry, now Yang Zhi's lone army has recovered Xiazhou, and he can send troops to Suizhou, although he is taking the initiative to do things, but there is no lack of arrogance among them, expressing his dissatisfaction with Taiyuan.

Originally, this was nothing, but if the Jin army captured Jincheng and Yue Fei captured Lingzhou, then Zhao Kai would face tremendous pressure, from both military and public opinion; Zhao Kai agreed to negotiate peace, and also hoped that Yang Zhi could send people to the clouds to resist Jin Wushu when necessary, Xu Huiyan and Han Shizhong did not meet Zhao Kai's expectations.

Yang Zhi couldn't cry or laugh when he received Zhao Kai's warrant, how could he fight and make peace if he wanted to fight on national affairs, he really wanted to make peace when the Xixia people were muddy, and he could do whatever he wanted; Cao Qianli, Li Guang and others also looked at each other, the world was changing too fast, but Cao Qianli could guess a few reasons, and said slowly: "Yang Shuai, it seems that Xu Huiyan's side is under a lot of pressure, and King Yun must be worried that there will be a big war in Taihang Mountain and Hanoi, so he feels that peace talks with Xixia are also a good thing." ”

Yang Zhi doesn't believe this, Zhao Kai's change of mind only represents one thing, that is, Zhao Kai is not sure what step he can do now, and he doesn't know if the materials can keep up; As for the negotiation, whether the result is satisfactory or not will be used as a reason to suspend the negotiation at any time, Yang Zhi felt uncomfortable, like a caterpillar crawling on his body, and said thoughtfully: "Lord Cao, the key is that the lower officials are not suitable to be in charge of such negotiations, unless it is to conquer Lingzhou and force the Western Xia to make an alliance under the city." "Battle

Compared with Cao Qianli, Li Guang is still a bit reserved as a literati, and after listening to Yang Zhi's words, he can't help but be a little embarrassed; he naturally understands Yang Zhi's thoughts, and he is unwilling to be thankless, Li Guang asked: "Is Yang Shuai sure to take Lingzhou?"

"Of course. Yang Zhi said lightly: "As soon as the war in Suizhou is over, I will let Sang Zhong come to meet us, kill under Lingzhou City together, and find an opportunity to fight Brother Richard." ”

Yang Zhi is not a big deal, Qu Duan has begun to cross the river to harass Xingzhou with the help of Liu Ziyu, and Yang Zhi is the same, but he is only worried that the enemy of Suizhou has not crossed the river with all his strength; if Qu Duan attacks Xingzhou, there will be no more reinforcements in Lingzhou, then Yang Zhi and Yue Fei join forces, and the certainty of defeating Brother Richard is still very large, after all, under the threat of balloon attacks, the Western Xia army will avoid decisive battles most of the time.

"Yang Shuai, attacking Lingzhou is just a matter of time. Cao Qianli smiled lovely, he was deeply unworthy for Yang Zhi in his heart, but there was no expression on his face, it seemed that he was persuading Yang Zhi: "Yang Shuai, think from the other direction, can you get Lingzhou through peace talks?"

"Let Wu'er Siqi return to Xingzhou will become an inevitable condition. How could Yang Zhi not know what Cao Qianli meant, and said along the water: "But Suizhou is not under my jurisdiction, and I can't be the master." ”

Li Guang's mind directly skipped the nonsense of the two, and he didn't care about the humility of the upper and lower levels, and his face changed drastically and asked: "If this is the case, the captives of Xiazhou and Youzhou still have to be released, and how is it possible to increase tens of thousands of male soldiers in Western Xia at this time; ”

Yang Zhi smiled bitterly: "I still plan to survive the Western Xia economically, isn't it also unsuccessful?" Lord Li, I can only say a lot of things, so I said that I am not suitable to preside over the negotiations." ”

Yang Zhi turned the topic back, and the smiles on everyone's faces instantly faded completely, they were not fools, they laughed at Zhao Kai's intentions, and they also understood Yang Zhi's intentions; Cao Qianli was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, stood up and walked around the hall: "Yang Zhi, you can't let King Yun not get off the stage." ”

Yang Zhi was silent for a moment, then stood up and said, "Lord Cao, it's not that there is no way, I need to know the real plan of Suizhou, it's been four days, Zhang Shen is going to attack, or is it like this?"