Qu Lingyu returned to Xingqing City overnight and saw Zhang Yuan talking about the conversation on the mountain. Zhang Yuan listened patiently and said: "Ling'er, I have already done the matter of transferring the two hostages to one place, and the people from the bluestone platform will move to Naoshui Dagou tomorrow." Since there is Lu Ziniu's words over there, I can't say it, so I have to think of another way to suppress this in advance and delay it for a few days. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "What is this for? Why do you have to slow down any longer?"

Zhang Yuandao: "I want to put all this credit on Lu Ziniu's head." At my age, in this situation, a false name is harmful to me, but it is still of little use to him, and it can bluff people. If I do it tomorrow, most people will say that he and I happened to think of a place, and if we do it again in a few days, it will seem that I have followed his idea. It's rare for him to believe in me so much, and I will fulfill him. ”| Qu Lingyu said: "This matter is in the past. So how do you manage to get rid of the unhidden Sayi?"

Zhang Yuan said: "Transfer the Wuzang Sayi, this is a must-do measure, otherwise there is no way to save people." We know this truth, how can we not know if we don't hide Sayi? Therefore, this is not to adjust the tiger, nor to attract the tiger, but to force the tiger, it is to drive the tiger, which is difficult to do. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Didn't you hide Sayi before and went to Xingqing City to argue with you for a day and a night? Why don't you provoke a dispute anymore and lead him to argue for even half a day, it will be enough for us to save people." ”

Zhang Yuandao: "Girl, Chu Qingliu was locked up, and you will be in a mess, so you will say such stupid things." The previous hostages were held in two places, and each was guarded by thousands of soldiers. Now we are trying to transfer the hostages to one place, but there are only hundreds of soldiers guarding them, and they are not stupid, will they obediently leave? That's why I said it was difficult. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Can't you adjust, lead, and force diverse people to go together?"

Zhang Yuandao: "No matter what, we still have to focus on coercion." ”

Qu Lingyu said, "Uncle Zhang, did you have an idea a long time ago?"

Zhang Yuan smiled bitterly: "I have a lot of ideas, but after thinking about it, none of them are completely reliable." ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Then use unreliable and imperfect ideas, and at this time, you have to work hard." ”

Zhang Yuandao: "Ling'er, these days, don't go back to the mountains first, just stay in the house." I'm always going to come up with an idea, I'm going to hit the right moment at any time, I'm going to call someone to come to you at any time. If you have my letter, you have to do it as soon as possible with those people in the mountains. Maybe if you don't adjust Zang Sayi, you can't leave for three hours or two hours, you can only turn it aside for one hour or half an hour. ”

"It's too difficult to rescue these 100 people in half an hour. Whether it is difficult or not, whether it is successful or not, this matter must be brought to an end. In a few days, the army will be dispatched, and before the army is dispatched, all these hostages must be brought out. As soon as the soldiers and horses move, I have to concentrate on military affairs and stay by Tuopai Yuanhao's side, so I will no longer be able to take care of this matter. Saving people is more tiring than a fight. Alas, I did this on my own. Yes, there is, Ling'er, I have an idea. ”

Qu Lingyu said happily: "Have an idea, what is the idea?"

Zhang Yuandao: "You don't have to stay in the city anymore, you can go back to the mountains." You go and find all the people, divide half of them out to surround the Niuling Peak, and release the bright and dark sentinels from afar, as long as Tuo Yuan Hao arrives in Niuling, you will have to surround him to the death. ”

"There won't be many of his personal guards, just a hundred and ten people, after surrounding, they will fake attacks and fake fights, and they don't really want to take Tuo Yuanhao's life---- we still have to rely on him to make things difficult with Zhao Song and restore the old Zhou." If they want to break through, they will leave an opening for the soldiers to break through and escape, but they must leave Tuo Yuan Hao. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "I understand, this is called poor Kou Mo chasing, opening the net, in case they have no way to retreat and will fight hard." ”

Zhang Yuandao: "It's not all, I'm going to let these soldiers escape and send a letter to Wuzang Sayi." These people will not run to Xingqing City to move troops, so it is too far, and they will only go to the nearby bluestone platform and Naoshui ditch to ask for help. In these two places, Naoshui Dagou is the most likely, because there is a person who has not hidden Sayi and has a Kongtong faction. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "It's not enough to rely on deserters to send letters, we have to arrange a few more fake deserters, anyway, we don't lack people who can speak party words." ”

Zhang Yuandao: "It's all up to you to arrange all this, I can't take care of it." Didn't hide Sayi heard that Tuopai Yuanhao was surrounded, even if he was bold and refused to leave Naoshui Dagou, he had to leave to save Tuopai Yuanhao's life. This is to adjust, induce, and force the three prescriptions at the same time, and do not worry about not hiding Sayi and being disobedient. If you transfer the soldier first, and then transfer him, you will be able to let go and save people. ”

"Even if he is transferred, this is still a vicious battle, especially with Niu Ling Peak to encircle Tuo Yuan Hao, which is even more dangerous and difficult. Whether you can surround Tuopai Yuanhao, after luring you to hide Sayi, can you drag Sayi who doesn't hide Sayi, how long you can surround it, how long you can hold it, you have to fight to know, it is unpredictable. ”

"This fight is too difficult to fight, so poison, hidden weapons, pits, lassoes, smoke and fire attacks, all the means that can be used must be used. However, you must act in secret, and you must not leak the news, otherwise Tuo Yuan Hao will notice that there is a change and will not want to enter the mountain, then his efforts will be wasted. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Uncle Zhang, you were involved by my father and Uncle Shi Wen a few times ago, and you were arrested and put in prison by them, which shows that they have long been suspicious of you. You said that you moved them to send troops, and you said that you moved to send Yuan Hao to Niuling Peak, but we went to the temple to save people, they are bound to blame you, this is a capital crime of killing the head, what's wrong with this? What happened to your family?

Zhang Yuan said: "How dare I deceive them? I just borrowed the general trend, plus a little bit of luck." These hostages in the mountains are of no importance to Tuo Yuan Hao at all, but they didn't hide a move in the hands of the two of them. Even if these people all return to the Song Realm, they will not contribute to the Emperor of the Zhao family, they will only cause chaos for them, and Tuo Yuan Hao may not turn against me because of this. It's one"

"I can run from the Song Kingdom to the Xia Kingdom, and I have a lot of face to expand Yuan Hao, as long as I am not a spy of the Song Kingdom, and I don't want to plot against the Xia Kingdom, there is no benefit in killing me, I can only make him embarrassed, it seems that he does not know people, and he fell for me, this is two. ”

"There are three more, there is only one sentence, that is, I, Zhang, is still a little useful to him to expand Yuan Hao, as soon as the soldier moves, he can't leave me, how can he kill me? As long as this thing doesn't happen on the spot, it won't be good for him to attack again in the future. If he makes it clear that it is my idea to go to Niuling Peak and that it is my idea to go to Niuling Peak, will he not be a puppet when he approves the emperor? Where will he have any face? If this battle is fought well and he can reach Bianliang in Tokyo, he will have to make me an official. ”

"By betting, I mean that all the inferences I have mentioned above are in vain. In that case, as long as you go out to save people from the temple, Tuo Yuan Hao will think of me, and the new and old accounts will finally be counted, and I will be pushed out to cut off my head, and I will be beheaded all over the house. Even if it gets to that point, I lose the bet, I admit it, and I have to gamble. ”

"I'm a frustrated person, who came to Xia from the Song Kingdom, and can get along with your father, your uncle, Uncle Shi, and them, although they are also officials, what is the difference between them and the people of the rivers and lakes? Even if he is the emperor of a country, I have to fight with them to see if I can save people, to see if he can kill me. ”

"In addition, I have a set of rhetoric to get out of. Therefore, when you fight during the siege of the temple, if you want to help me, you must treat me like an enemy, scolding and cutting when you should be. The worse the scolding, the better. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Uncle Zhang, I'll find a few more martial arts experts to attack you, your skills, even if it's a fake fight, you can't see it from the first-class people who Tuopai Yuanhao, and when you don't hide Sayi arrives, then I'll say something else." Uncle Zhang, you are willing to take your own life for these hostages, and they must be very grateful if they know about it afterwards. ”

Zhang Yuandao: "These people were locked up for no reason, and they had to fight to the death to take them out, and they had already suffered a big loss." When I look into this matter, it is all my indiscretion, so why should they be grateful to me? They should hate me, scold me, and laugh at me. I don't want them to be grateful to me, I just want me to be at ease. ”

"When Emperor Zhao and Song treated me unfairly, I left the Song realm and went to the Xia Kingdom to try to recover the Great Zhou. Now Xia Guo's words are untrustworthy and the hostages are detained, which is also unfair. My Zhang Yuan's family is in the Xia Kingdom, but our ancestral tombs are still in the Song Realm, and your Qu family Dazhai and the Central Plains are also implicated, and they are constantly divided. Your Uncle Wu and I have never thought of moving our ancestral grave, and we want to return to our hometown one day. I don't want my ancestral grave to be dug up, my bones to be torn apart, so I have to sacrifice my life to do this. ”

"Xia Guo treats me so unfairly, I should have left, just like when I left the Song Realm. Even if you don't go to Liao, there is always a way to go back to Hui and Tubo, and the so-called endless road is just that. But I'm old, and I'm already weak enough to walk, so I have to bury this old bone in this place. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Uncle Zhang, you are not yet fifty years old, you are in the prime of life, don't say death, it's unlucky." ”

Zhang Yuandao: "I, as a person, also believe in fate, and I don't believe in fate, and I still don't believe in fate." That's why I will do what others dare not do, refuse to do it for others, and sacrifice my life to come to the Xia Kingdom. But I also accept my fate, since I came, no matter what fate will end up in the end, I will also admit it, and I don't regret it. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "It's not easy for you, few people can do what you do." Uncle Zhang, I heard them say that Emperor Zhao and Song have a long memory, and when they take the Jinshi exam and the palace exam, they are no longer dethroned at will, and everyone who can enter the palace exam is all Jinshi, and you are very angry with the world's scholars. ”

Zhang Yuandao: "The surname Zhao has a long memory, and whether he is dethroned or not, all have nothing to do with me." I didn't come to Xia Kingdom to be angry for others, but just to be angry for myself. ”

"Ling'er, I get together with your father and your Uncle Wu less and leave more, and I only have a few days of fate with your master, and I haven't seen each other for more than 20 years. As I get older, I don't talk to my family more and more. It's been a long time since I've said so much. Niu Lingfeng's incident, I can probably get out of the whole body, but I may also be caught and cut off on the spot, this is my last words. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "Uncle Zhang, this is not a last word, it's just a gossip." Let's talk about some happiness, you have become a national teacher in Xia Kingdom, and you have personally arranged a few major battles, and your talents have long been seen by those who have eyes. Although Emperor Zhao Song said that he had no talent and no courage, he always had eyes, and he must have seen them a long time ago, if I were this fool emperor, I would definitely have to hit my head against the wall every day. ”

"You failed to pass the Jinshi, this is a shame for the Zhao Song official family, not a shame for you, your tone has already been clean. Now that Tuo Yuan Hao is such a scoundrel, it can be seen that the world is as black as a crow, and the emperors are all the same, and none of them are good. You're an official, it's not interesting to do it, and when this big battle is fought, you might as well resign and don't do it, let's go back to the Song realm, you can join forces with my father and Uncle Shi Han, and focus on the embarrassment of the surnamed Zhao, then it's fun to have fun. ”

"It doesn't matter if he Zhao Song or Xia Guo, whether he is an emperor or an official, we only treat them as enemies. Even if Emperor Zhao knew that you had gone back, they would be afraid that they would not have the face to arrest you again, and if they wanted you to go back, should they give you a jinshidang? or give you a taishi? You see, isn't this very difficult? ”

These half-truths and half-truths made Zhang Yuan laugh and said: "The girl is right, when this big fight is over, I will resign from the official position and follow you around the rivers and lakes." You have to save people now, and in the face of major events, you must not be worried, you can be angry, you must not vent, and you can tell some jokes. Chu Qingliu was imprisoned, you can't rest assured, if you don't say it, I know it. But I can only transfer the hostages to one place, and then transfer the Wuzang Sayi away, and I can't do anything about the rest. Even if I raise my sword and play, it's useless. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "As long as you can transfer the Wuzang Sayi, it will not be difficult to save my senior brother." We already have five sharp tools for sharpening iron, and even if we cut hard, we will be able to use them by then. Uncle Zhang, why do you want us to go to Wai Niu Ling?"

Zhang Yuandao: "You should be able to think of a little, you are different from that Lu Ziniu, people don't know about Xia Guo, but you know." Tell me about it. ”

Qu Lingyu said: "What's so hard to guess about this? There is only one Juezhao Temple on Niuling Peak, and if you ask Tuo Yuanhao to go to the peak, you will naturally go to the master of Wei Mingxian Sheng to make a fortune for him." However, didn't you say that the matter of sending troops was decided, then why did you still ask God for divination, isn't it an extra move? Is it that Tuo Yuan Hao is uncertain, and there will be regrets about this matter?"

Zhang Yuandao: "The matter of sending troops has been decided, and the soldiers and horses have also moved, and there will be no changes." It is necessary to calculate which two roads to send troops from. To put it simply, you have to choose two of the three paths, one has been decided, there is no need to negotiate, and one is undecided. Of the remaining two roads, the one that is easy to walk has more Song soldiers, and the one that is difficult to walk has fewer Song soldiers, so there is a debate.

"I haven't said much in the past few days. According to my original intention, I want to take that road that is difficult to walk with fewer soldiers, and there are many people who hold this opinion, so I don't need to say more. However, the words have not been said to die, and it will not be difficult to change the rudder in the future. Tomorrow when we discuss the matter again, I will say that it is better to take the road that is better for the army to take, and stir up a dispute over this. After a day or two, when the dispute continues, they say that it is better to divination, who to find for divination? Naturally, if the name is famous, will there be anyone else?"

When Qu Lingyu heard this, he couldn't help but be sincerely impressed, and said: "Uncle Zhang, those two words of praise for Prime Minister Cao should also be given to you---- capable minister who rules the world, and a traitor who is in troubled times." ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head slightly and said: "I can't compare, I can't compare, I'm too far behind Cao Cheng." Far from it, far from it. Prime Minister Cao Cheng coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, everything is up to the heart, I send people under the eaves, and I can't move freely, how can I compare?"