Three merchant ships docked slowly at the pier. The boatman hunkered down and braved the cold to tie the cable to the stone. Several followers had already set up the gangplank, and then a middle-aged man in a cloth robe walked steadily down.
Now Bai Fangyuan, the magistrate of Dengzhou, has been waiting for a long time with a military general with a green birthmark on his face and a group of followers. Bai Fangyuan and the guests smiled and bowed their hands to each other, and said: "It's hard work for the envoys to travel around. I have prepared a banquet. Just wait.
When the envoy returns, it’s time to wash away the dust!”
The middle-aged man was a little flattered, and answered with cupped hands: "How virtuous and capable I am, how dare you trouble Bai Zhizhou to welcome me in person! It's a sin, a sin..."
Bai Fangyuan chuckled and said: "Now the imperial court has decided to march north to recover the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun. This is a major event that will last forever... Envoy Zhao has made a big contribution, and this is the courtesy that Envoy Zhao deserves!"
Ma Zhi, who has now been given the name Zhao Liangsi by Zhao Ji, bowed and saluted, then met with several soldiers and state officials around him, and finally looked up at the majestic general with a fierce aura.
"This general is very powerful. Once the imperial court uses troops against the Liao Kingdom, generals like General will be of use..."
The Dengzhou general magistrate next to him chuckled and said: "This is the new military envoy of Dengzhou, Yang Zhi, a descendant of the Yang family... Envoy Zhao, who is strategizing and winning a decisive victory thousands of miles away... His Majesty and I
With the scheming spirit of senior civil servants, warriors... all they have to do is to fight for orders at the risk of death. The real merit lies in being in the temple and traveling thousands of miles like an envoy!"
"Yes, yes, yes, yes... what the Lord said is..."
The civil servants nearby were convinced and didn't even look at the pale-faced Yang Zhi.
Yang Zhi bowed and saluted without saying a word.
A trace of disappointment flashed through Ma Zhi's eyes, and he immediately exchanged greetings with the officials, and then took a carriage back to Dengzhou with Zhizhou and others.
Yang Zhi was not qualified to participate in the banquet at all. He stood alone on the pier looking at the turbid sea in a daze, and did not move for a long time...
"Brother Yang!"
Yang Zhi was startled. He looked back and saw a tall young man standing behind him with an entourage.
"Ah? Mr. Song... Yang Zhi has met Mr. Song!"
Yang Zhi quickly bowed his hands and saluted, and Song Wen returned the salute and said, "Brother Yang, why are you so polite? Why do our brothers bother to see outsiders?"
Yang Zhi sighed and shook his head.
Song Wen looked in the direction of Dengzhou Mansion and sneered: "But Ma Zhi... Zhao Liangsi is back now?"
Yang Zhi nodded: "Song Langjun, that Ma Zhi... Hasn't Lang Jun always been very angry about Ma Zhi's alliance with the Jin Dynasty to fight against the Liao Dynasty? Why... why didn't he take any action?"
Song Wen shook his head: "What should come will always come, and what you want to hide will not be able to hide... The emperor, Tong Guan and all the cabinet ministers took a fancy to the credit for recovering Youyun! Without Zhao Liangsi, there would still be Li Liangsi and Zhang Liangsi.
, the Song Dynasty cannot escape this disaster!"
Yang Zhi was silent for a long time, then suddenly bowed and saluted Song Wengong and said respectfully: "Lang Jun, Lang Jun wants to reinvent Yang Zhi'en! Without Lang Jun's mediation, Gao Dian Shuai would have already disliked Yang. It would only be a matter of time before he was deposed or even framed! We met by chance.
, Lang Jun did not hesitate to get the official position of military envoy for Yang Zhi. Yang Zhi... Yang Zhi had nothing to do in return! He only hoped to serve Lang Jun during his lifetime! But Lang Jun was so smart that he also felt that the imperial court's northern expedition to the Liao Kingdom was important.
The way to die... Yang Zhi, Yang Zhi has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, but he can't be a bystander. Although there is no hope of victory, Yang Zhi still wants to rush to the killing field to kill the enemy for the country! Please... please let me do it!"
Song Wen sighed and pointed to the big ship he came from and said: "Brother Yang, does he know that I have brought out five ships like this this time... I have been hesitating whether to attack Zhao Liangsi directly at sea.
Kill! Let’s see if we can invalidate the alliance between the Song Dynasty and the Jurchens..."
"Ah? This...this..." Yang Zhi was dumbfounded. He didn't expect Song Wen to have such a plan?
Intercepting and killing the imperial envoys, destroying the alliance between the two countries...this is no longer a capital crime, it is a crime for everyone!
"Mr. Lang...does Mr. Lang hate the Jurchens so much?"
Song Wen nodded: "Don't go, stay useful and work with me to save the people of the Central Plains... This move of the imperial court is just setting fire to oneself and seeking death! No matter how bad the Liao people are, they will still suppress the Song Dynasty!
What about the Jurchens? The Jurchens have long been known as invincible. With more than 100,000 Jurchen soldiers, they were able to defeat the Liao Dynasty and collapse the tribes... Although the Liao people themselves were corrupted and fell into pieces, the various nobles and their subordinates' military and state combat capabilities
Low! But can the Song Dynasty do it? Forming an alliance with the Jurchens is tantamount to seeking the skin of a tiger and seeking death... and the Jurchens are ten times more ferocious than the Khitan people back then! The Tanyuan Alliance relied on the foundation and foundation of the Song Dynasty.
Kou Zhun, Han Qi and a group of famous civil servants could barely resist the Liao people... Then look at who is in power in the imperial court today?"
Song Wen pointed in the direction of Bianliang and said: "The one who leads the three yamen is Gao Taiwei! The one who leads the army is Tong Guantong! The one who is in charge of the cabinet is Cai Jing, the traitor, and Wang Fu, the traitor! There are four eunuchs left.
Controlling the court...Zhu Meng, Li Yan, and Liang Shicheng, the sinister and sinister hidden minister in the harem, can be said to be the Six Thieves! The army is corrupt and corrupt, the civil servants are greedy and greedy for power, and the powerful people in Tokyo and Bianliang only know how to eat, drink, whore, gamble, and have fun...fighting relies on
What? Relying on the rhetoric of these civil servants and dignitaries? The entire Hebei Road is extremely corrupt, and the people have no way to live... This Beijing East and West Road starts from Qingzhou, how many people are left in the east to survive? "
Yang Zhi frowned for a while, then raised his head and said: "The imperial court also has the Western Army, and Mr. Zhong, the manager...and...and Mr. Li Gang from the Ministry of War!"
Song Wen sighed... "The Western Army...you also know the Western Army! But think about how many years the Western Army has been fighting with the Xixia people in the northwest? The Western Army had indeed made great achievements in the past, and even suppressed the Xixia people and couldn't hold their heads up.
!But what did the Western Army pay?”
Song Wen raised his hand and said: "There are not even ten elites of the Western Army left! Especially in the last three attacks on Xixia, Tong Guan led his troops to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly. In order to gain credit, he lost tens of thousands of Western Army elites! More than a dozen Western Army generals died tragically... in exchange for
Tong Taiwei conferred the title Tong Guogong! Not to mention that it is impossible for all the Western Army to be mobilized to the north to fight with the Liao Kingdom to resist the Jurchens... If the Liao Kingdom could survive, the Song Dynasty could be temporarily stable for a few years! Once the Liao Kingdom was completely defeated by the Jurchens,
If attacked and destroyed, the Jurchens will immediately realize that the Song Dynasty is nothing more than a fat flower shelf! The disaster of annihilation is close at hand!"
Yang Zhi was stunned, and finally let out a long sigh... "Mr. Lang is a man of unparalleled intelligence. Does he have a good plan to save the Song Dynasty?"
Song Wen sneered: "The treacherous and sycophantic king is ignorant and has no moral principles... There is no cure for it! It's a pity that the people of the Central Plains will all fall into the hands of the barbarians. From then on, the backbone of the Han'er in the Central Plains has been broken..."
Yang Zhi raised his head and looked at Song Wen with red eyes: "Lang Jun, if the Jurchen Tatars really betray the alliance and go south to attack Song Dynasty, what will Lang Jun do?"
Song Wen whispered: "I am a Song person, and I will always be! So I will hold high the banner of Qingshan, accumulate strength, gather heroes from all walks of life, and fight bloody battles with foreign barbarians for the sake of my Han family's homeland! If there is a wise and loyal minister in the court,
If you decide, I will submit to the imperial court and guard the border! If the imperial court is unjust... I will also protect the people of one side alone and do my best to resist the barbarians and fight to the end!"
Yang Zhi bowed and clasped his fists and then knelt down on one knee... "I hope you, sir, will not forget the oath you made today. If your husband fights with foreign barbarians, Yang Zhi will be incompetent! I am willing to go through fire and water before and after, and hold the Yang family's iron gun as my husband again."
You will be the pioneer!"
Song Wen pulled up the burly Yang Zhi, looked into his eyes and said: "There will come a day when I will do justice for heaven... Righteousness comes first! I will never betray the blood of the sons of the Han family in this life!"