Cai Suitian brought a letter from Zhao Kai, in which Zhao Kai said one of his own meanings: Now the use of Zhao Ding and Li Guang has a very good effect, Yang Zhi defeated the Jin army under the city, and the Dingbei army is in the limelight for a while; Zhao Kai, considering the possible situation in the future, will recall Zhang Suo to Taiyuan to take up a post, and Wang Ping will serve as the Hebei transit envoy; now the Dingbei army has passed the most difficult period.

It can be seen that Zhao Kai is no longer as careful about the gains and losses of one city and one place as he was at the beginning. Zhao Kai wanted to prepare for the future changes in the situation, and said that the next step was to go to Shaanxi Wulu, so he instructed Yang Zhi to use all means not to withdraw from Bianliang. After reading the letter, Yang Zhi looked at Cai Suitian and smiled and said, "Explain." ”

Cai Suitian glanced at Liang Xun, then at Lu Yihao and said: "The prince thinks that the Shengshang's dismissal of the post of generalissimo of King Kang is probably to hand over Hebei to Bianliang and use it to urge you to send troops to the north; ”

Lu Yihao nodded and said: "So we are very important in Bianliang, King Yun wants us not to leave our posts easily, nor to easily go on a northern expedition, so as not to become a stalemate with the Jin army, after all, with the power of Bianliang, it is impossible for us to compete with the entire Jin country." This is similar to the judgment we made, but after all, we came to Bianliang to be appointed by the Holy God, and no one dared to guarantee some things. ”

Cai Suitian breathed a sigh of relief, the three in front of him are all people who understand, if you want to say that any person is scheming, Yang Zhi nodded and said: "I understand what the prince meant, then we will control this business line from Yunzhong to Bianliang in the future, enrich our strength, Runzhou, I will continue to show goodwill, and continue to come up with some ideas." Suitian, you go back and tell King Yun that even if there is a holy will, I will bargain and seek another place to live for the Dingbei Army, and try to be on the fifth road in Shaanxi according to King Yun's wishes. ”

Cai Suitian and the three of them all laughed, Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, did not believe in Yang Zhi's ability, but was worried that Yang Zhi would not be able to erase his face as a son-in-law, and finally let the interests of the Dingbei Army suffer losses, Yang Zhi's statement was to tell Zhao Kai that he would do everything. As for the idea, Yang Zhi's idea of salt tea division and the construction of Hangzhou, Bianliang didn't spend a penny, but Hangzhou was launched under Zhu Shengfei's planning, and Runzhou was full of praise.

Cai Suitian also brought a list of materials, which were the materials that Taiyuan continued to buy in the south, and Yang Zhi handed them over to Lu Yihao to handle; Lu Yihao didn't bother much, and Zhu Baizhou and Shen Chun, the salt merchants from the south of the Yangtze River who followed Zhao Yingluo, were in Bianliang, and as soon as they heard that most of the goods in the list purchased by Taiyuan came from all over the south of the Yangtze River, the two of them promised Lu Yihao at a cursory glance that they had all of them.

When Chen Dong heard that he went to Li Gang again and said that Taiyuan had robbed the market of materials, Li Gang said angrily: "Taiyuan was bought with money, don't you know what is going on in Chuzhou now? I understand, you want the merchants to go to Tianfu to trade more, but we can't force it, you really have time to persuade Wang Boyan and them in Tianfu, they are the same military and political power as here, don't dry up and fish. ”

Chen Dong was obviously more upset than Li Gang: "Li Gang, don't you know, Zhao Kai arrived in Chuzhou, and now it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and in the final analysis, there is still no money." ”

Hu Yin shook his head and said: "It's not that there is no money, it doesn't care about money, the Dingbei Army is very concerned about the materials, and the responsibilities of the transfer envoys are clear, but those people under King Kang always want to transfer materials from Runzhou, Xuzhou is lost, and there are too many grains and copper coins too much, even if they transport gold and cloth." And the army, you can't just recruit people to be soldiers, you have to take a lot of pains to train, you just look at the captives who built twenty-four castles. ”

Hu Yin once went to the Yellow River to see that Yang Zhi's army was strict with the prisoners, but there was no abuse, and the food and clothing were guaranteed, that is, one piece, and the prisoners had to participate in drills, learn to sing, and learn to write their own names. Now we have seen the results, that is, among the first batch of more than 10,000 prisoners, more than 5,000 people have volunteered to join the Dingbei Army, and more than 1,000 people are willing to participate in Bianliang Tuntian, and only more than 3,000 people have received money and food to find their families.

Li Gang said to Hu Yin: "Yang Zhi's small actions are effective, I don't know how many of them can stay in the next batch." ”

Hu Yin shook his head and said: "Don't get your hopes up, the original defeated soldiers were unwilling to surrender to the Jin people, and the later Jin army prisoners were all surrendered from Hebei and other places, and their families were still in the north, and the proportion of those who were willing to stay would be much smaller; Xu Jingheng also said that Lu Yihao was consulting him on whether he would like to go to Taiyuan to take up his post. ”

Li Gang and Chen Dong immediately understood that Xu Jingheng's appointment as the judge of the Gyeonggi Road Transit Division must be Qu Cai, but Yang Zhi could not give many high positions here, and coupled with the tension of the war, Yang Zhi did not dare to give Xu Jingheng some positions. It is different on the side of Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, Taiyuan, as long as Xu Jingheng recognizes Zhao Kai as the main prince, and Zhao Kai is the prince of Kaifu, there are many more suitable positions that the Marshal of the Dingbei Army can give.

During the Qinzong period, the struggle between the main battle faction and the surrender faction in the imperial court was acute, and Xu Jingheng firmly stood on the side of the main battle faction, supported Chen Dong's letter, and demanded that Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong use Li Gang as the prime minister to take charge of the defense of Beijing; Li Gang was driven out of the capital by the deposed prime minister, and Xu Jingheng was also dismissed by the Yihe faction. Thinking of the past, Li Gang couldn't help but feel confused and sad, sighed and said, "I don't know how the Qinzong and other clans are doing in the Jin Kingdom now?"

After Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong was named the Marquis of Dude by Wu Qimai of Jin Taizong, he had been living in Youzhou, but after Yang Zhi repelled the 150,000 Jin army under Bianliang City, he heard that he had been moved to Huining Mansion in Shangjing. More than 300 people under Concubine Wei Xian entered the laundry courtyard, and all the men in the clan were incorporated into the military register; after Zhao Huan's empress Zhu Lian wore a sheep fur and went to the Aguda Temple of Jin Taizu to perform the sheep ceremony, she was bought by Wu and entered the Golden Palace to give a bath, and she was humiliated and threw herself into the water and died.

Chen Dong choked up and said: "Today, what can we say; I stoop to humiliate Zhixi, hate He Kexue; I vow to return to Huangquanxi as soon as possible, and this sorrow is avoidable! This is a quatrain left by Empress Zhu, can the situation of Qinzong and the others be good? Lord Li, isn't Yang Zhi an invincible general? Didn't the Dingbei Army never lose a battle? Why didn't you urge them to lead the army on a northern expedition all the way to Youzhou to relieve the people of Li from their misery?"