Zhu Tong bowed his hand again and said cautiously: "Lord Li, I am commensurate with Song Gongming's brothers, and I know that Song Gongming is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, let alone Chaolong's predecessors." I'm just trying to remind you that they are aware that the imperial court's measures are wrong?"

Li Gang thoroughly understood what Zhu Tong meant, because he was worried that the imperial court would fail again, Li Gang looked at Zhu Tong and said slowly: "It cannot be ruled out that there is such a reason, Taiyuan has won many battles, and the pressure on us is very great, but the war in Hebei is like this, and the two sides are holding each other, it depends on whose foundation is thick." I don't think Song Gongming's approach is advisable, and we will definitely be able to defeat the Jin army. ”

Li Gang didn't expect Zhu Tong to disapprove of him, Zhu Tong shook his head and said: "Lord Li, Huazhou has been lost, and now the battle is just the Yellow River, Hu Yanzhuo They don't have the ability to fight, whether the Jin people bring ships from upstream or downstream, they can easily cross the Yellow River." ”

Li Gang was a little annoyed, and as a thief catcher, he said what these battles were doing, and raised his voice slightly and asked, "What does Zhu Zhutou think?"

Zhu Tong said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "When Song Gongming left, he said that Zezhou was too far away from Hebei to catch up with the rapid changes on the battlefield, even if Yao Gu and the seed division were all famous generals, and the war was worrying. ”

It turned out that he was here to spread the word, Li Gang was in a slightly better mood, he admired outspoken people, and Zhu Tong in front of him was stronger than that Song Gongming; but this situation was not something that Li Gang could change, otherwise he, the pacification envoy of Hedong and Hebei, should not have stayed in Kaifeng City. Li Gang thanked Zhu Tong and put down the curtain with a wry smile; Zhu Tong looked at Li Gang's sedan chair in the distance, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and the shadow looked extremely gloomy.

Song Gongming wanted Zhu Tong to go with him, but Zhu Tong refused, Song Jiang is a person with the label of King Jing, and it is normal for people to follow King Jing to Runzhou, but Zhu Tong is different, the Song Saburo who crisscrossed the river is dead, and Zhu Tong does not want to become anyone's vassal anymore. The situation in Bianliang was so tense, and Zhu Tong did not allow himself to escape from the battle, but seeing Li Gang's nervousness, Zhu Tong did not know whether his choice was right or wrong.

Huazhou, Qiusheng Building, is the place where Ouyang Xiu made "Qiu Shengfu", the north wind is howling outside, the study in the building is burning charcoal, and there are three people sitting around the case, Wanyan Zongfu, the deputy marshal of the East Road of the Jin Army, sits on the bamboo chair where Ouyang Xiu writes articles, and Zhao Gou, the king of Kang of the Great Song Dynasty, and Zhang Bangchang, the Dazai, sit on the wooden bench opposite. After listening to Zhang Bangchang's explanation of "Autumn Shengfu", Yan Zongfu suddenly asked Zhao Gou: "Would you like to go to Taiyuan?"

Zhao Gou didn't know if it was a temptation for himself, so he looked at Wanyan Zongfu and asked, "Are you letting me go?"

"Don't let it, because you won't go at all, Taiyuan is still nominally the land of Dajin now, Zhao Kai and Yang Zhi are rebels, and you don't have Zhao Kai's courage, and you can't bear the so-called princely identity. Wanyan Zongfu smiled disdainfully and said, "I plan to let you go back as a messenger, but if the Great Song Dynasty is willing to let you go back, you might as well write a letter to Li Lu, and our Dajin asks to rule across the river from the Great Song Dynasty." ”

If the Song and Jin Dynasty really took the Yellow River as the boundary line, then all the land of the Great Song Dynasty from Huanqing Army in the west to Dizhou on Hebei East Road in the east would be assigned to the Jin State; at that time, not only Tokyo Bianliang, but also Chang'an, Luoyang, Qingzhou, Jinan, and other big cities would all face the Jin State across the Yellow River, and the Jin Army would be able to attack at any time. Zhao Gou and Zhang Bangchang fully understood that the asking price of Jin Guo far exceeded the four places last time, and it was a real big deal, Zhao Gou turned around and asked Zhang Bangchang: "I'm going to Taiyuan, that is, the common people, no longer the prince of the Great Song Dynasty?"

Zhang Bangchang sighed, and Wanyan Zongfu smiled: "Zhao Kai and Yang Zhi are real heroes, and they will not agree to our conditions, but your eldest brother should agree, I will send someone to send you back to Bianliang, even if Song Qinzong does not agree, it is not a big deal, we have actually occupied these places, even if we withdraw the army, we can fight back with us." ”

Zhao Gou and Zhang Bangchang reacted at this time, it turned out that there was a mystery in it, Zhao Gou finally wrote a letter to Li Lu, neither of them thought of the true purpose of Yan Zongfu; the messenger was Zhang Bangchang's nephew Wu He, Li Lu asked about the situation of the Jin camp in Huazhou, and immediately sent scouts, and the scouts saw that the Jin army was escorting supplies back to the north, and Li Lu concluded that the Jin army had grabbed a handful to retreat, and now it is continuing to force the Great Song Dynasty to come up with more things.

The battle situation on the front line is getting worse and worse, Li Lu reported that the Jin army has signs of retreat, which made the court happy, who knew that two days later, the Privy Council Governor Xu Han mistakenly heard Li Lu's spy report and made a judgment that the Jin army would withdraw troops on all fronts, urging the seed division to enter Xiangzhou, and even severely reprimanded the seed division for holding heavy troops but staying on the sidelines. After receiving Xu Han's guarantee that Wang Boyan would cooperate along the way, he left behind heavy grain and grass, led the troops to set off lightly, and at the same time wrote a letter to agree that the two armies of Liang Yangzu and Yang Weizhong would go their separate ways.

However, after receiving the news that Wanyan Zongfu sent someone to send King Kang Zhao Gou back, Wang Boyan, Liang Yangzu, and Yang Weizhong all went to Huazhou to meet Zhao Gou, and even did not arrange scouts in Xiangzhou and other places. Wanyan Zongfu did put King Kang Zhao Gou back, but took the opportunity to ambush Li Lu's camp, and Li Lu was captured.

There was chaos in the court, Li Lu was the son of Li Bangyan, Song Qinzong's companion, a seventeen-year-old high school jinshi, and Song Qinzong's most admired courtier, and Li Bangyan's faction all said that they wanted to negotiate peace; Song Qinzong sent Lu Yundi and Wang Yun to negotiate with the Jin people, and Wanyan Zongfu directly drove the people back, brought the conditions for painting the river and ruling it, and asked to send another prince as a hostage.

The attitude of the Jin people is not logical, if they want to take the prince as a hostage and do what they want to do if they let go of King Kang Zhao Gou, is it just to crush Li Lu's army? The early dynasty debated for a long time without results, and Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong summoned the seed master Dao, Li Bangyan, Ye Mengde, Li Gang and others to the imperial study to ask about the plan, and the seed master Dao came with illness, coupled with the stimulation of the death news of the seed master, his face turned pale. The seed master was silent for a long time, and finally raised his head and asked Li Gang: "How about letting King Yun return to the dynasty?" The Jin people are releasing King Kang is a small plan, and now they are obviously delaying time, and their determination to go south will not change. ”

The return to the dynasty that the seed master said was naturally not to let Zhao Kai return to Bianliang alone, but to let Zhao Kai get supplies and personnel from the south in Taiyuan and return to Bianliang with a large army; this suggestion was put forward by Zhan Du, but it was rejected by Song Qinzong in public.