Zhang Xiaochun understood that even if he insisted on his own opinion, Huang Di would also use the newly recruited people to make up the number, Zhang Xiaochun arched his hand and said: "Then according to what the two said, recruit 5,000 people to Taiyuan first." ”

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, each holding tea in their hands, Yang Zhi suddenly said: "My lord is dedicated to the country, do you know that Bianliang has already negotiated peace?"

Zhang Xiaochun's hand couldn't help but shake, he knew that Yang Zhi was now a concubine of the dynasty, but he was not married, and he had his own contact channel with Bianliang; Zhang Xiaochun asked cautiously: "Manager Yang has already gotten the news?"

Yang Zhi smiled and said, took a sip of tea and said, "I don't know too well, I heard that Jin Guo wants me and Zhan Du's heads, and King Yun as a hostage." ”

Before Yang Zhi finished speaking, the tea bowl in Zhang Xiaochun's hand had been shattered, and Zhang Xiaochun trembled and said: "Chief Yang, this official has never received such a holy decree, this matter must be a rumor." ”

Zhang Xiaochun understands that the news Yang Zhi said is true nine times out of ten, and the goods in Bianliang can do anything, the problem is that Yang Zhi and Huang Di are both diehards of Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, and the current strength occupies an absolute advantage, and it can be said that it is easy to attack Taiyuan. Zhang Xiaochun secretly regretted that he didn't go out today to look at the Yellow Calendar and get involved in such a vortex of right and wrong; Yang Zhi asked Cai Qing to serve tea again and said: "Don't worry, my lord, I haven't finished speaking, the imperial court asked our army to withdraw from the Yanyun area and cede the three towns of Taiyuan, Zhongshan, and Hejian. ”

"What, it can't be done. Zhang Xiaochun stood up suddenly, and the tea bowl he had just received smashed on the ground again.

Seeing Cai Qing sweep away the fragments of the tea bowl on the ground again, Zhang Xiaochun calmed down, looked back at Yang Zhi and asked, "Manager Yang, you won't deceive the official for your life and death, right?"

Yang Zhi secretly bowed his head, Zhang Xiaochun was still a little bloody in the face of foreign races, Yang Zhi smiled and said: "When you wait for the holy decree, you won't know if it's true or false." Rest assured, Yang will not do anything to rebel, but Yunzhong and Taiyuan are the territory of my Great Song Dynasty and part of the Central Plains, and I will not withdraw from Yingzhou. ”

Zhang Xiaochun understood what Yang Zhi meant, stood in place and pondered for a long time and said: "I will not hand over Taiyuan to the Jurchens, if the imperial court really has this intention, I will stay in this city alone." ”

Yang Zhi shook his head and said: "The adults can't ignore the people of Hedong for their own reputation, I hope that the adults will live and mobilize all their strength to defend Taiyuan, instead of doing their best for their own reputation." You have to believe that as long as we work together, we can drive the Jin people out, and the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty belong to the Zhao family, to the thousands of people in the Central Plains, not to a certain person. ”

Zhang Xiaochun and Huang Di were dumbfounded, Yang Zhi's words can be described as a great rebellion, alluding to the fact that Zhao Huan of Song Qinzong is not worthy of having the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Xiaochun can only smile bitterly; fortunately, Yang Zhi did not embarrass him, and when Zhang Xiaochun did not express his position, he still let Zhang Xiaochun return to Taiyuan with two hundred veterans. Still on the way, Zhang Xiaochun wrote a letter to his son Zhang Hao, the supervisor of the Fenzhou Soldiers and Horses, and asked his henchmen to send the horse quickly, Zhang Xiaochun had to consider his own back road and the crisis that Taiyuan was about to face.

Zhang Xiaochun met Wang Yu at the gate of the city, and learned that Lu Yundi, the secretary of the Privy Council of the Ministry of War, and Teng Maoshi, the servant of the Ministry of Works, had already lived in the post house, and waited for him to come back and read the holy decree.

Lu Yundi didn't expect that Taiyuan was not fighting for the time being, and it was a black line in the post house, and he could only tell the truth after reading the holy decree, saying that he and Teng Maoshi, the squire of the Ministry of Works, were ordered to send an envoy to the Jin State, and the imperial court ceded the three towns of Taiyuan to the Jin people. Lu Yundi bowed his hand again and again, and said to Zhang Xiaochun: "This official looks at the scene in Taiyuan, and he also knows that there is no reason to say about this matter, but he feels that his eyes are full of darkness, and he hopes that the adult will preside over everything." ”

Zhang Xiaochun is angry and funny, you come with a holy decree and I want to make my own decisions, Zhang Xiaochun replied: "Zhang Xiaochun came to Taiyuan, he came to guard this city, and his duty is to do his best." It's just that Zhang Xiaochun doesn't dare to preside over the matter of cutting the land, and he won't agree, what happened in the court, would he come up with such an idea, is Bianliang City broken?"

Lu Yundi said with a smile: "Lord Zhang said that he was joking, Bianliang City is as safe as a rock, but the imperial court doesn't want the people to suffer from the war, so Li Xiang and Tang Xiang negotiated peace with the Jin people." ”

Zhang Xiaochun's eyebrows furrowed into one place, and he kept stroking his beard, if he handed over this city, he would ruin his reputation; Zhang Xiaochun somewhat understood why Huang Di and Yang Zhi had that attitude, because their relationship with Zhao Kai, the king of Yun, had always looked down on the prime ministers of the court and the current emperor's close ministers, so they had been pondering the situation in Bianliang, and even kept in touch, instead of waiting for such a scene as they did.

Zhang Xiaochun was regretting that he didn't listen to Yang Zhi, and after discussing more in Qi County, Wang Yu sneered on the side, pulled out his sword and asked: "Lu Yundi, did you surrender to the Jin Kingdom and falsely pass on the holy decree." ”

The soldiers behind Wang Yu also pulled out their sabers, and for a while the house was full of cold light, Lu Yundi was startled, and knelt down to Wang Yu and said: "General Wang, how could this official do such a thing, it is really a decision of the imperial court, and this official has to obey, you listen to me." ”

Lu Yundi could see that Wang Yu was really going to kill, so he said the matter of Bianliang very clearly, and when Lu Yundi finished talking about Bianliang, Wang Yu scolded angrily: "The monarch should protect the country and love the people, and the subjects should be loyal to the monarch and keep righteousness. Get up and. ”

On the one hand, Wang Yu is out of righteousness, on the other hand, he understands that once the son of heaven and a courtier, his backer Tong Guan has fallen, even if he returns to Bianliang, it is better to get an idle job and often wear small shoes, and the bad one is even regarded as Tong Guan's remnant party, and in the end he does not know what will happen;

Lu Yundi's face was full of shame, but the emperor's order was in his body, who told him to put this matter on his shoulder? Lu Yundi stood up and said with difficulty: "The king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, the world belongs to the emperor, and we just need to obey the order." Master Zhang, you are the pacification envoy of Hedong, you must not go your own way, Li Xiang's suggestion is to move the pacification department and subordinate officials, and the people of Taiyuan to Luzhou. ”