Three days later, on Chinese New Year's Eve, most of the soldiers in the Blood Knife Fort were locals, and each received three taels of silver, three pounds of pork, and two altars of soju, and the holiday was until the fifteenth day of the first month. Most of the soldiers happily went home for the New Year, and the few who didn't leave gathered in Lu Fei's Black Rain City, guessing boxing orders all day long, drinking and having fun, and it was very lively.

Lu Fei, Jiang Feiyan, Gu Yao, Zhu Yushi, Yan Weifeng, and Dongguo Wendao gathered in Gu Yao's Immortal Pavilion for several days, eating at the same table, sleeping at the same bed, drinking and competing, chanting poems and appreciating the snow, so happy, but they were busy with Gu Yao's five wives, cleaning the 'battlefield' every day after their hangover.

On this day, the pavilion was as warm as spring, they sat on the ground, and they talked about everything in the south and the north, and all the sages and traitors talked about it. The tandoor is lit with flames, the barrel is warm with hot wine, and the glass is filled with green plums. After Dong Guo Wendao ate a bowl of wine, he praised: "I have never been so happy to wander for half a life, and I can meet so many good brothers, even if I don't change it for Emperor Lao Tzu!" Yan Weifeng said: "It's a pity that Xiao Luo is not here, otherwise it would be more interesting." Dong Guo asked the knife and shouted: "Yes! Xiao Luo has been alone all day since he became the owner of the village, Xiao Zhu, you go and ask him to come out to eat and drink, and if you don't come, you will pull him out together." Zhu Yushi was too drunk to drink, his face was flushed after eating, and he shook his head and said: "Don't go, he doesn't have his reasons, I don't want to disturb his hard work." Gu Yao said: "He used to love to play, but now he is diligent, and he has really changed a lot." Dongguo asked the knife: "It's just a matter of hard work at ordinary times, and the New Year is no exception, how can it be counted as the New Year if it is not lively." ”

Lu Fei leaned his back against the wall, closed his eyes and said slowly: "The worries of the world first, the joy of the world after the world, Xiao Luo's heart hides big things, and he has no intention of having fun." As leaders, we should not waste our time. Dong Guo asked Daodao: "What do we have to do with the world's major affairs? Brothers, if they are drunk today, they are called happy." Lu Fei sighed: "If there is chaos today, the north and the south are opposed, the Western Xia, the Tubo are divided, and even Huxiang Yang Tai is also dividing the city." I have a collection of talented people and tens of thousands of soldiers, but I live in this small place, and it is a long thing? The big husband should do something, my generation does not want to make progress, and I should be ashamed to drink and have fun all day long. Let's go back, let's go back and think about it. ”

At noon, after Luo Tianchu came back from sweeping Zhong Yuanpeng's tomb, he leaned over the case to look at the map, and punctuated the map with a red pen, and suddenly heard someone outside the door: "Is Xiao Luo there?" Luo Tianchu heard the voice of Gongsun Mingyue, and hurriedly opened the door and said: "Master, please come in." Gongsun Mingyue carried a bamboo bucket into the house, dusted off the snow, and said with a smile: "I heard that you are bored in the house every day, so I warmed two pots of good wine to take a look, don't bother." Luo Tianchu hurriedly said: "No, no, master, please take a seat." Gongsun Mingyue took out two pots of flower carvings from the bamboo bucket and placed them on the table, and after Luo Tianchu filled the cup, the two drank it all. Gongsun Mingyue inadvertently glanced at the map on the case, and said, "You already know the terrain of Shuzhong, why do you still look at the map?" Luo Tianchu replied: "The apprentice is looking at the map of the world. Gongsun Mingyue said: "What do you do by looking at the map of the world?" Luo Tianchu said: "The disciple has an idea recently, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." Gongsun Mingyue said: "That's right." ”

Luo Tianchu sorted out his clue for a while, and said slowly: "Our ancestral dragon mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can block millions of soldiers, but after all, it is only a land of projectiles, and its development is limited. Now my fort has more than 40,000 soldiers, the mountain is almost unbearable, the food and salary are also quite tight, after the New Year, the treasury is empty, if there is no long-term plan, I am afraid that the mountain will be empty. Gongsun Mingyue nodded and said, "What I am very worried about is that you have a long-term plan?" Luo Tianchu said: "I think only having your own city and foundation is a long-term solution." Gongsun Mingtou said: "That's right, I won't tell you, I and the castle lord also have this intention, but the current situation is different from the chaos and uncertainty of the Five Dynasties and the early Tang Dynasty." In addition to the state of Qi, which is a servile state, the foundation of Jin, Song, Tubo, and Western Xia has been inherited for several generations, and the people's aspirations, the court situation is stable, and the army is well-trained. If they wanted to take the city from them, they would provoke them to send troops to attack them, so they did not act. Luo Tianchu said: "Mrs. Yang swept through the nineteen counties of the seven states of Dongting, with 200,000 troops, and the hegemony has been achieved, and they are also righteous troops, where are we inferior to them?" But Dongting is located in the hinterland of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the enemy is only the Southern Song Dynasty. There are not many generals in the Southern Song Dynasty who are good at water warfare, and they have to take into account the threat of the Jin State, so there is no way to take Yang Tai. And we are surrounded by the Jin Kingdom, the Tibetan Kingdom, the Qi Kingdom, and the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is difficult to stretch our hands and feet, and it is really difficult to make a difference. Luo Tianchu thought for a while and said: "What the master said is that among the countries, only the Qi State is unstable, and it is manipulated by the Jin State, the army has no combat power, and the people's hearts are turned back, can we replace it?" Gongsun Mingyue laughed and said: "Although the Qi State is weak, it is located in the Central Plains where there are ten thousand battles, and it is the lackey of the Jin State, we fight the dogs, and the master will stand by and watch?" Luo Tianchu muttered: "If the south is connected to the Song Dynasty, what if the north resists the Jin?" Gongsun Mingyue was stunned and said, "Go on." Luo Tianchu said: "The Jin State uses the Qi State as its barrier, and we can also use it as a barrier for the Southern Song Dynasty to resist the attack for the Southern Song Dynasty. If we can form an alliance with the Southern Song Dynasty, we will have no worries and will be able to take the opportunity to develop and grow. Gongsun Mingyue said: "It's a way out, but it's too early to start a war with the Jin Kingdom, we don't have that strength." Luo Tianchu said: "Although the Jin country is strong and strong, it is inevitable that we will lose in a frontal war, but we have the danger of mountains and rivers, as long as we guard the key points, it will not help if we have thousands of troops and horses, and when their vitality is greatly damaged, it is a good opportunity for us to turn defeat into victory and expand the results of the war." If you can join forces with the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, the chances of victory will be even greater. Gongsun Mingyue said: "Planning is in the people, and the success is in the sky, it depends on the luck." If everything is what you say, how will it progress next?" Luo Tianchu said: "First take Jingzhao Mansion to settle down, Jingzhao Mansion is Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, where the king of the world is, last year Jin Guo rebuilt this city, I hope it is a dowry for us." Then take Fengxiang, Baoji, Xianyang and other important towns, so that Guanzhong is all mine. Gongsun Mingyue praised: "The plan is very good, but how to solve the grain and grass, if it fails once, there will be no power to turn over." Luo Tianchu smiled bitterly: "I am also worried about this, so I must have a good relationship with Wu Jie, Shaanxi, and I can only rely on them for grain and grass." ”

Gongsun Mingyue understood that the alliance he said was only an expedient measure, and the ultimate goal was to dominate one side and establish themselves as kings, not that they were against them and did not want to serve the country, but that the Great Song Dynasty made them no longer hopeful. After the official family of Huizong ascended the throne, they spent extravagantly, arrogantly and lasciviously, and overthrew the great power in the ascendant state in only 20 years. The people's grievances under Shenzhou were boiling, the national strength was greatly declining, and after Jin destroyed Liao, he also saw the decay of the Song Dynasty, and he was about to die, so he simply tore up the contract and waved his troops south, which was like a broken bamboo, and broke through Bianliang, so that he had the shame of Jingkang. After Zhao Gou ascended the throne, he did not think about recovering the lost territory, and only cared about the wind and snow in Lin'an, and the Jin soldiers fled to the sea as soon as they came, abandoning the people and the community, which made countless people with lofty ideals disheartened. People hated the Jin Kingdom, and they hated the weakness and incompetence of the monarchs and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty. Through this chat, Gongsun Mingyue found that Luo Tianchu's strategy and ambition were not trivial, and in time, he might really be able to lead the Blood Sword Castle to dominate the world as he wished.