Zhu Bocai left suddenly, leaving Zhao Bufan and Zhu Lian speechless in the dilapidated Flying Dragon Castle, and the atmosphere was very awkward for a while. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Zhu Lian, that ...... Your father said about the marriage, or do you talk about it slowly?"

Zhu Lian breathed a long sigh of relief, and nodded his head like a rattle: "Well, don't agree, I don't want to marry for the time being, besides, we are robes who live and die together, there is no love between men and women, why bother each other!"

"It seems that we have the same opinion, no matter what, let's go back to Bazhou first, Yantou Village still has a lot to do!" Zhao Bufan turned around and left, Feilong Castle is worthless at the moment, the aftermath is the business of the local government, and it is pointless for him to stay here any longer.

"Don't!" Zhu Lian suddenly rushed up and grabbed him, shook his head and said, "My father secretly transmitted a message to me when he left, let us stay here and wait!"

"Wait, wait, wait for whom?" Zhao Bufan stopped in confusion.

Zhu Lian said with a smile: "Of course it's waiting for Yan Zhennan, you forget, we are changing horses all the way to Qingzhou, although we didn't have time to rescue Feilong Castle, but it must be faster than Yan Zhennan, who was seriously injured, my father asked us to wait here for two days, if he didn't arrive within two days, then he would have been intercepted and killed halfway, otherwise he would arrive in two days!"

"Why didn't your father personally arrest Yan Zhennan, why did he tell you quietly?" Zhao Bufan asked strangely.

Zhu Lian grabbed the corners of her skirt and rubbed it a little shyly.

"He was afraid that we would be embarrassed, so he left me a message alone, so that I had to talk to you, as for letting you arrest Yan Zhennan, it was because the odds were too small. He thought that it would be difficult for Yan Zhennan to escape the interception, so he was in a hurry to go to Cangzhou, saying that he didn't have time to gamble on such a small chance. ”

These words made Zhao Bufan really a little creepy, Zhu Bocai was too careful, and he considered things so thoroughly, as if everything was under his control.

"Zhu Lian, your father is such a great person!"

Zhao Bufan sighed sincerely, although Zhu Lian was very happy that he said this, he quickly shook his head: "Although my father is powerful, he is actually very difficult, he didn't lie to you just now, he really wanted to revitalize the dynasty when he was young." A few years ago, when I heard the people denounce my father as a bad person, I went to question my father and asked him why he was a traitor.

Later, my mother told me that when my father was young, he was also loyal, brave, benevolent, and full of blood, when he united Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi and others, looking forward to a rich country and strong soldiers, but in the end he was defeated in a mess, Su Shi and others were degraded one after another, and ended up depressed one after another, my father survived, that is, he finally chose to compromise, this matter is known to many people, but this is not to blame my father, if he did not compromise at that time, then our whole family will be destroyed, and there will not even be me and my sister, he is for the whole family!

After I understood my father, I wanted to work hard to help him and help him support our family, so I insisted on joining the Imperial City Division last year, and my father told me at the time that his ability was limited, not to mention the revitalization of the dynasty, and the struggle for power alone already felt that he had more than enough heart and insufficient strength, just take this Tong Guan collusion with the Liao State as an example, the Imperial City Division was defeated again and again, if it weren't for this matter, Cai Jing, Yang Jian and others had the intention to prevent Tong Guan from succeeding and secretly helping each other, the Imperial City Division would be more difficult, but unfortunately, out of interest considerations, Cai Jing and Yang Jian They were still on the sidelines after all!"

Zhao Bufan felt incredible, frowned and said: "Why do you want to watch, their power comes from the Great Song Dynasty, if the Liao State invades and the Great Song Dynasty perishes, they will have nothing, what are these people thinking?"

"Don't you even know this?" Zhu Lian suddenly looked very surprised.

"What's the matter?"

"Is that the real purpose of Tong Guan?"

"I don't know, I've been checking!"

Zhu Lian rolled his eyes instantly: "You don't even know his purpose, how can you fight him?" Tong Guan didn't want the Great Song Dynasty to perish at all, he wanted to lead the troops to attack the Liao State!"

"Leading the troops to attack Liao, then he still colluded with the Liao State?" Zhao Bufan frowned instantly.

Zhu Lian sighed: "Yes, how did Tong Guan rise in the first place? It was because he was attached to Cai Jing, and then he led his troops on an expedition to Western Xia, broke the Western Xia soldiers and horses, and recovered several military states. In that battle, he did not listen to His Majesty's wrong policy, hid the holy decree of retreat, and resolutely let the soldiers of the Western Army continue to fight, and as a result, he broke the Western Xia, not only won the love of the soldiers of the Western Army, but also was soon promoted to the privy envoy, holding military power, almost equal to Cai Jing.

Since then, Tong Guan's heart has also grown, and he no longer obeys Cai Jing's call, and even secretly instructed others to impeach Cai Jing, and the power struggle between the two has become more and more intense. But you should know that the Great Song Dynasty emphasized literature and light martial arts, Tong Guan was not only a eunuch, but also started with martial arts, his power was supported by military exploits, he tasted the sweetness of the battle of Western Xia that year, so he wanted to cut Liao again, and use his military exploits to maintain his status and power, but His Majesty didn't want to cut Liao, and the vast majority of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty didn't want to cut Liao, so he colluded with Liao and let Liao enter the border pass, causing a major threat, so he could send troops!"

When Zhao Bufan heard this, he was very angry in his heart.

"For the sake of power and status, Tong Guan can collude with the Liao State and let the soldiers and civilians of the border counties be killed and injured all over the field?

Zhu Lian shook her head bitterly, she was born in a family of generals and grew up in the elite circle in the capital, so she has a very deep understanding of the Great Song Dynasty.

The establishment of the main forbidden army of the entire Great Song Dynasty is 870,000, but in fact, the garrison of the capital and the troops stationed abroad in various places add up to only more than 300,000, and more than 500,000 are empty salaries, only money, food and materials, in fact, there are not so many soldiers at all, all this money is embezzled by officials and generals large and small, and the strategic materials that should be stored in various places are all embezzled, and if there is a full-scale war, it will poke out a big hole, so most of the civil and military are against it. What's more, Your Majesty only cares about calligraphy and painting and strange stones, and just wants to be content with the status quo, and doesn't care about anything else, and will not easily start a war with the Liao State at all!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Lian looked extremely depressed, and said angrily: "People of real insight understand that the problem of our Great Song Dynasty is not that our strength is not strong enough at all, but internal corruption. The general situation is already like this, no one can do anything, it is no longer a generation or two generations of hard work, there are Wang Anshi and others in the front, Fan Zhongyan and others in the back, and there are more sooner, but generation after generation, so many people have died, so many ethnic groups have been destroyed, who succeeds, in the end, either dies, or even himself is forced to fall!"

Zhao Bufan understood, and finally fully understood what Zhu Bocai said to him earlier, and said bitterly: "In this way, the imperial court is already a vicious circle, one generation is forcing one generation to another, and one generation is bad!"

"Yes! There are really not many capable people in the Great Song Dynasty, but it is difficult for anyone to turn the tide, you look at those rebellious grass cowards, if the imperial court is really determined to suppress them, you really have no ability to be a civil and military officer in the imperial court? They used to be loyal ministers and good generals, not to mention others, just a Tong Guan, he broke the record of Western Xia, how many people can do it? Except for Gao Yu, who relied on Keju to play well and get His Majesty's favor, who else has no ability? There are really a lot of famous generals in the Great Song Dynasty, but they are really buried, they are not as lucky as those famous generals in history, they have not met ......"

Zhu Lian didn't continue, she was very taboo about this.

But Zhao Bufan didn't care so much, and took over resentfully: "But none of them met the Ming Lord!"

"My father once said that he only hated being born at the wrong time, but what can he do, loyalty is the most important duty that a courtier should abide by, the king wants the minister to die, and the minister has to die!" Zhu Lian gritted his teeth and said.

Zhao Bufan felt Zhu Lian's understanding of Zhong in his heart and sighed secretly.

Thousands of years of feudal rule is deep-rooted, so that the Great Song Dynasty these outstanding civil and military have fallen into a strange circle, they are loyal to the emperor, but in order to protect themselves, they have to fight in the court, one to force one, one to harm one, a vicious circle, really hurt many loyal ministers and good generals.

In an instant, Zhao Bufan seemed to have grasped the key point, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his heart: My biggest advantage is that I have a vague memory of my previous life, I have a more objective understanding of loyalty, and I am not bound, as long as I can be in power, I can get the support of these capable people, then I can completely reshuffle the Great Song Dynasty, put things right, and lead the entire court to the right track, I don't care what emperor is not the emperor, you are mediocre and incompetent, then you will get off the dragon chair!"

At this time, Zhao Bufan got more secrets from Zhu Lian's mouth, and finally had a more detailed understanding of the Great Song Dynasty, but this also made him feel even more that it is really difficult to fight so many capable people by fighting alone, and the situation in this era in front of him is really too complicated.

Inadvertently, he looked at the beautiful Zhu Lian, and Zhu Bocai's words before leaving lingered.

Zhao Bufan looked at Zhu Lian's beautiful face and kept asking himself in his heart.

"Should I really marry Zhu Lian? She is indeed very beautiful, but if I agree to marry her now, it is just out of possessiveness, just because of her beauty, but out of the power of the Zhu family, can I really be happy in the future? Once I agree to marry her, but I want to walk hand in hand for the rest of my life, is this right or wrong?

But if I am alone in the imperial court, how should I deal with so many people, and how should I realize the ambition I set at the beginning. If it is a rebellion, I will face the Zhejia army, the family army, the elite Western army that has been fighting against the Western Xia all the year round, Li Gang, Zong Ze, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Wu Jie, Wu Lan, and the Manchu Dynasty, there are too many famous ministers in this era, these people are loyal to the monarch, how can I deal with them alone?

No, in this era, in this period, pure rebellion has no chance of winning, it is doomed to fail from the beginning, taking power is the right way, I must be in power, I must pull the faint king down from the dragon chair, chaos from the top, only from the source to set things right, then there is a chance! There are so many capable people in this era, as long as the first evil is eradicated, the general trend is controlled, and the people are led to revitalize the country, then they will definitely be able to create a prosperous era!

The great man of chivalry, for the country and the people, since I have sworn to embark on this road, then I can't retreat, if I can't even let go of my personal feelings, I have to twist and behave, then what do I use to fight, what do I use to fight! Zhu Lian, I'm sorry, it's me Zhao Bufan who owes you!"

Thinking of this, Zhao Bufan stared at Zhu Lian quietly, staring at the peerless beauty in front of him.

said categorically: "Zhu Lian, I decided to promise your father, I will come to propose marriage in half a year!"

Zhu Lian was stunned, the whole person was stunned, when she reacted, she was so anxious that she shook her head again and again: "No, you can't do this, we have just experienced the robe of life and death, I don't want to marry now, and I don't have a relationship with you yet, this is against my will, you do this, it is equivalent to betraying me!!"

Zhao Bufan was silent.

"I'm sorry, in this life, I owe you!"