Since Jiang Xing's death and the incident in Luzhou, Li Xia has become the second-largest figure in this team.
Nie Zhongyou's respect and trust in him were not without reason.
Although Li Xia was fished out of death row, this actually means that he is more controlled; his father, Li Yong and Li Shouyuan, once served as the governor of Yuhang County, and he can barely be regarded as an official family with a clean background; as for his ability, it only depends on his ability.
The performance along the way is actually somewhat suggestive of both civil and military skills.
Thinking about Li Xia's age, Nie Zhongyou was actually a little surprised by him from the bottom of his heart. He thought how could he be so good at such a young age? In the end, he could only think that maybe the descendants of officials were so outstanding.
After all, Nie Zhongyou didn't know much about the officials' children.
When the team arrived in Luzhou, there were only twenty-three people left. Among them was an informant from the peace faction who was identified by Lu Fengtai, and Nie Zhongyou sent him back to Lin'an Prefecture.
After that, plus Gao Changshou and his party of five people, as well as a prisoner of the Zhang family guard whom Li Xia proposed to bring, there are now a total of twenty-eight people.
After Gao Changshou joined the team, he immediately saw Li Xia's strange position in the team.
As for Nie Zhongyou, the real leader, he didn't pay much attention to it.
The Gao family has been prominent for generations. Even if the Dali Kingdom was destroyed, Gao Changshou would still associate with famous generals of the Song army like Lu Wende, while Nie Zhongyou was just a Marquis of the Imperial Army.
Gao Changshou failed in his attempt to assassinate Wu Lianghetai and lost a lot of men. Only five of them fled to the Song Dynasty. When they were killed, Nie Zhongyou was passing by on a mission and they met each other. Nie Zhongyou was thinking, "I
I saved you, asked for some information, and took you to the north to see if there is any chance." But what Gao Changshou thought was "Song Ting sent you to cooperate with me..."
This is the pride of Mr. Wang and Sun.
This difference was not apparent at the outset.
Although Gao Changshou was proud in his heart, he was not a domineering person. He was also truly grateful to Nie Zhongyou for his help. As soon as they met, his words were quite decent and polite...
"Remnants of this small country, thank you very much for your help."
"Marquis Yue doesn't need to be polite." Nie Zhongyou quickly returned the courtesy.
Gao Changshou waved his hand and said: "You should not call me like this. I am called 'Mu Ru'. From now on, I will be referred to by the same name. It is safer to go to the north."
Nie Zhongyou didn't dare to take the throne, so he still called himself "Yuehou" for the time being.
The Gao family is known as "Nine Cools, Seven Dukes and Eight Prime Ministers, Three Kings, One Emperor and Five Marquises", most of whom are princes and marquises. After his father died in battle, Gao Changshou took the title of Marquis of Yue on his own, led the remaining troops to resist the Mongols, and was later captured by the Mongols.
The army fought hard and couldn't find Bei, so they turned to cooperate with the Song army, not daring to show their identity anymore.
After a brief exchange of greetings with Nie Zhongyou, Gao Changshou turned his attention to Li Xia and asked with a smile if Li Xia had a name.
Li Xia didn't have a name, so he asked Gao Changshou to call him by his first name. He was not polite and spoke as if he were an old friend for many years.
The reason why he was so close to Li Xia was because Gao Changshou had learned about what happened in Luzhou from Yang Xiong and Nie Ping in the past two days, and he admired Li Xia's performance very much.
For him, there is no need to win over a Forbidden Army soldier, but a young talent who has become a death row prisoner is completely worth befriending.
Thinking further, if we could win over Li Xia and join him in the great cause of Dali's restoration, and if he succeeds in the future, there is no reason to be stingy about high-ranking officials and titles, it may not be impossible to recruit this Song Dynasty person.
Therefore, when he set out to go north, Gao Changshou gave up his horse to others, and walked side by side with Li Xia, talking eloquently.
Facing Gao Changshou's show of goodwill, Li Xia seemed very calm and asked a few questions...
"Why did you risk your lives to save Gao Qiong?"
"Firstly, my cousin is the eldest son of the Gao family, and his mother is the princess of the Duan family. Only with his help can we call on more survivors to resist the Mongols; secondly, my cousin is a hundred times more talented than me. My uncle was the great minister when he was in charge of Dali.
Many matters such as horse sales, trade, and tribute in Song Dynasty were handled by my cousin..."
Li Xia then asked Gao Changshou about the details of his journey north, and Gao Changshou knew everything about it.
"We got mixed up with the Zhang family in Yizhou. The Zhang family was a powerful force in Hebei when they were in the Jin Kingdom. Now the head of the family is called Zhang Rou. This person is very good. During the war between Meng and Jin, he formed a stronghold to protect himself and gathered thousands of his neighbors.
. Therefore, the Jin State tried its best to win over him and continuously awarded him official positions until he was appointed as the marshal of the capital. As a result, he surrendered as soon as the Mongolian army came. In turn, he destroyed the Jin State and achieved great success. After that, more than thirty cities in Henan
All are under his jurisdiction.
The Zhang family sends people to Hara and Lin City every year to deliver gifts. After I infiltrated the Zhang family, I wanted to go north with the team to rescue my cousin. Unexpectedly, I met Wu Liang Hetai in Hebei. He happened to be going from Hara and Lin.
Southwest guard..."
"Wait a moment." Li Xia asked, "Where are Hala and Lin?"
Gao Changshou asked: "Don't you know the capital of Mongolia?"
Not only Li Xia in this team didn't know where the current capital of the great Mongolian country was, but even Nie Zhongyou couldn't explain it clearly. Mongolia was really too big, and its various names were very difficult to pronounce.
Gao Changshou was different. He was from a noble family and was much more knowledgeable than Nie Zhongyou.
Seeing Li Xia shaking his head, Gao Changshou said: "Hara and Forest are in the remote Mobei. It takes more than five thousand miles to go straight north from Dali."
Li Xia thought for a moment and thought it must be in Outer Mongolia, so he asked: "Then Wulianghetai is going to the southwest, why does it pass through Hebei?"
"I must go to Kaiping City to meet Kublai Khan."
As Gao Changshou spoke, there was hatred in his eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said: "It was Kublai Khan and Wu Liang who joined forces and led their troops into Dali. In the Battle of Jiuhe, more than dozens of heroes from my Gao family died in the battle. This hatred...
We are irreconcilable."
Li Xia could feel the deep hatred in Gao Changshou's tone.
But the issue he was concerned about was not here. When he came to this unfamiliar era, he really had too many things to know, so he asked again: "Where is Kaiping City?"
"Kaiping City is a city that Kublai Khan is building on the grassland. It is his summer resort." Gao Changshou said: "This city has just started to be built. I also heard about it when I was in the Zhang family."
"In other words, Kublai Khan is not in Kaifeng now?"
"It's time to build the city in Kaiping."
Li Xia suddenly felt relieved. Only then did he realize that he was afraid of Kublai Khan...
Gao Changshou turned his head and glanced at Li Xia, and then asked: "Do you think that my assassination of Wu Liang Hetai was too impulsive? Not only did I lose troops and generals, but I also attracted the Zhang family to pursue me, which caused you a lot of trouble."
"Yeah." Li Xia was not polite to him and said truthfully: "You are too impulsive. Don't do this next time."
"It's not that I'm impulsive," Gao Changshou said, "but I think my cousin Gao Qiong might be in Wu Liang Hetai's team."
Li Xia said: "You think that Wu Liang will bring your cousin with him to stabilize the situation in Dali when he goes to guard the southwest."
"It's possible, so I took the risk to test it out, and my whereabouts were exposed." Gao Changshou said: "But now if we can get to Kaifeng in time, we still have a chance to meet them again..."
After hearing this, Li Xia turned to look at Nie Zhongyou, vaguely aware that with the addition of Gao Changshou and his team to this team, he was afraid that there would be more trouble...