[Southern Song Dynasty] Splendid mountains and rivers

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The knock on the door was urgent and heavy, and it was very clear in the quiet night.Zhao Yuan looked at the young general beside him, and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to avoid it?"

He shook his head, and said in a low voice, "I must have been heard by that person a lot when I talked to you just now. Now I want to avoid suspicion, but it seems to be trying to hide it." After speaking, he got up and put away the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and the crumpled After re-arranging the food boxes and small dishes on the table, he raised his voice slightly and said, "Come in."

The door opened with a creak, and a middle-aged man with a white face and beardless, wearing a scarlet official robe rubbed his hands and walked in anxiously.

It's him?

Zhao Yuan's heart that had been suspended just now fell down again, and he put his hands together in front of his knees, and the large robe embroidered with dark patterns hung down by his side, and asked a little arrogantly and displeasedly: "Does this Emperor Ji remember you?" , you were the eunuch that Brother Nine served before?"

"Emperor Ji has good eyesight." The middle-aged man saluted her solemnly, and adjusted his scarlet official robe by the way.A series of subtle movements were noticed by Zhong Yi, gradually he smiled, narrowed his sharp black eyes slightly, lowered his head and cupped his hands to the eunuch in scarlet robe: "Master, I have seen you."

The eunuch in scarlet robe laughed, but stared at Zhao Yuan without blinking, as if waiting for her to speak.

Zhao Yuan leaned back a little later, with an even more arrogant expression: "Oh? Then why don't you continue to serve Brother Jiu, and come to this barren land in the northwest? Could it be that you heard that the Western Army is brave, so you came to see it? "

"Yes, that's right." The scarlet-robed eunuch wiped his sweat, and secretly complained.He has seen with his own eyes how powerful this little aunt is and how much she hates civil officials overreaching her authority.Earlier when I heard that this little aunt died in Huangquan, the big guy sharpened his head and wanted to squeeze into the army, trying to use the name of the official to pretend to be a tiger; he finally squeezed into this position, how could he think This little aunt...

Alas, this little aunt even despises civil servants and grandparents, let alone a eunuch who is proficient in writing and does not understand the art of war?

Now, it's better to find a way to clean yourself up first.Don't want to be like Master Qin Hui and Master Qin, dictating every day to make a private contract and sell half of Yan Yun...

"The old slave heard earlier that Roufu Emperor Ji is talented and unparalleled in the world. I saw you today...uh...it really is that one, well-deserved reputation, well-deserved reputation haha." He continued to wipe his sweat, and under Zhao Yuan's increasingly arrogant expression, Unknowingly took half a step back, "Look at this old slave's old cold legs again, do you..."

"Heh." Zhao Yuan smiled softly.She suddenly realized that pretending to be a pampered Emperor Ji seemed quite interesting.

"Hey, this old slave knows that he is weak and sick, so he can't be a military supervisor, so he asked Emperor Ji to speak a few words for the old slave in front of the officials, and teach the old slave to return to Bianliang for a few days. Besides, the overall situation in the Northwest is very important. Yes, there is another Empress, you are sitting in Shuozhou... that old slave...cough cough..."

"That's right."

"Old slave... huh?"

"I said, sure." She glanced at the eunuch in the scarlet robe, ignored the expression of Zhongyi's smirk, and said leisurely, "The Supreme Emperor has given me the right to specialize in Yanyun, and the emperor's brother has also granted me the right to work in Yanyun." There are many things in the cloud test'. If you ask yourself to be old, then I have no reason not to refuse."

The eunuch in scarlet robe breathed a sigh of relief, his body was dripping with sweat as if he had just been fished out of the bottom of the water.

"It's just this old book..."

"Don't worry about the emperor's concubine." The eunuch in scarlet robe said hastily, "This old slave has drawn up the paper early in the morning, and now I just need to wait for the emperor's concubine to seal and sign the document, and then I can go to Bianliang with the old slave."

Zhao Yuan shook his head lightly: "No need."

"Ai?"

"You were sent by the Privy Council, so you don't have to go through me." If it really went through her hands, maybe you would be impeached by Yushitai for being audacious. There is an extremely delicate balance between "specialized" and "not specialized".If this balance is broken...

"Thank you Di Ji, old slave." The scarlet-robed eunuch bowed to the ground with joy, and hurriedly left, as if there were some ferocious beasts and wolves behind him waiting to eat him.

When the scarlet-robed eunuch walked away, Zhao Yuan let go, put away the arrogant expression just now, and shook his head helplessly.

There was muffled laughter beside him.

Zhong Yi went forward to close the door, came to sit next to her again, stretched out his hand to brush her hair, froze in mid-air again, and gradually let it go, a low voice echoed in his ears: " You acted quite alike just now."

"Huh?" Zhao Yuan raised his eyebrows.

"I see, he is about to cry from your fright." He shook his head with a grin, and put away the dishes and food boxes again, and asked her while tidying up, "Are you sure about the matter between Xixia and Liao?"

Zhao Yuan nodded and gave a soft "hmm".

Compared with the Mongols, Xixia and Liao are actually not too difficult a problem to solve.

"Okay." He nodded and stood up, his tall figure cast a long shadow in the candlelight, "Then I will tell Yelu Dashi directly, never miss Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures."

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Zhao Yuan fell asleep comfortably.

When I woke up the next day, the sun was just right.

The supervising army in name has already packed up and left, and the new supervising army has not yet been dispatched. Now the entire Shuozhou is dominated by generals.It is said that the conversation between General Zhong and Yelu Dashi broke down last night, and the two broke up after a quarrel. Of course, the matter of the Song and Liao countries joining forces to encircle Xixia was also in vain.

Zhong Yike politely sent Emperor Liao and Yelu Dashi out of Shuozhou.

Before leaving, Zhao Yuan smeared flour pimples on his face, and with a bumpy face, he went to see off the envoys of the Liao Kingdom.Yelu Dashi didn't seem to recognize her, but stood aside with a livid face, allowing Emperor Liao and General Zhong to practice Tai Chi with each other.Zhao Yuan looked at Yelu Dashi carefully and carefully for a long time, and found that this unsightly General Daliao seemed to be holding back something.

Not right, very wrong.

Since he has the ability to exchange thousands of stallions for thousands of hard-earned horses, how could he bear it so easily, how could...

You know, as a nobleman of the Liao Kingdom, what Yelu Dashi never forgets most in his heart is also the Sixteen States of Yanyun.

Zhao Yuan took a Western Army soldier by his side, whispered a few words into his ear, and handed him a small note.The man took it, and passed it to a soldier beside him... One by one, it didn't take long before it was passed to Zhong Yi.

Zhong Yi was still arguing with Emperor Liao, and he didn't pay much attention to the note when he got it.When he saw those two lines of familiar and beautiful small characters, his expression gradually became dignified, and after a while, he returned to his original calm.

"&￥%%&%￥￥..." Emperor Liao said something loudly in Khitan, then nodded at Zhongyi, turned and left.

Zhong Yi suddenly called Emperor Liao to stop, and said a few words of Khitan dialect to him calmly.

Emperor Liao also nodded calmly, but Yelu Dashi's expression changed.However, his expression only changed for a moment, except for a few people around him and Zhao Yuan who always noticed him, the others basically didn't notice it.

What Cai Zhongyi said to Emperor Liao just now was: "I heard that apart from Tubo and Xixia, in the far north, Song and Daliao also have a common neighbor, Mongolia. These days Shuozhou is sleepy, and I want to If we want to make two armies and cities with the Mongols, I hope that Daliaomo will block it."

In fact, this sentence is not a big deal at all.

The army city has existed since ancient times. The Song Dynasty was able to open an army city with the Mongols, and the Liao Kingdom and Xixia could also open an army city with the Mongols.Even during the period when Song, Liao, and Xixia pinched the most fiercely in the past, there still existed a black market secretly among the three parties.After hearing this sentence, ordinary people will only think that this general is talking too much nonsense.

But what about Yelu Dashi?

His reaction...something is not quite right...

Zhao Yuan lowered his head, and together with the soldiers of the Western Army around him, they respectfully sent the Liao Emperor away in unison.

After the Liao people had gone far away, she took a few steps forward, came to Zhong Yi, and said in a low voice: "I think you should send a few people to visit Mongolia. People under your command will say that Mongolia talk?"

"There are a few who can talk about it." Zhong Yi turned his head, looked at her and smiled, "What's the matter? Ever since the word 'Mongolia' was mentioned, you have always been a little bit wrong. I heard that Mongolia has always lived for water and grass. It hasn't changed in thousands of years, and it hasn't gone south. You—don't worry too much."

It's not that they haven't gone south for thousands of years, but that they haven't met a powerful sweat.Zhao Yuan silently read Temujin's name twice, then said with a light smile, "Aren't I testing them?"

"Yeah." He lowered his head and looked at her tenderly, "Then, shall we go back?"

"Okay." Zhao Yuan agreed, while rubbing the flour bumps on his face.After wearing this flour for a long time, even she herself was not used to it.Rubbing and rubbing, she suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance.In a short while, a sergeant in black and black armor rode to the front, his face was pale, and he was just shaken from shock.

"What's the matter?" Zhong Yi asked warmly.

"Mr. Lang!" The black-armored sergeant hurriedly got off his horse and said to him, "The king of Xixia ordered someone to send a few heads, saying it was... that it was an apology for the family!"

Zhong Yi was shocked, and his smile disappeared without a trace in an instant.

"Apology?" He gritted his teeth, pressed his hand on the hilt of his sword, and there were hideous veins on his forehead. "The two armies are fighting, and death in battle is destiny. There is no need to make amends, so why bother? Haha... ...If you really want to make amends, I'm afraid they will make amends, or not."

He laughed coldly twice, his voice gradually hoarse.

Zhao Yuan took two steps forward, wanted to hold his hand, but held back abruptly.

She had never seen such a ferocious and ruthless expression on his face, it seemed that all the blackness in the world had gathered in those eyes, like a stormy sea.

"If I hadn't been in Yanzhou at that time, I'm afraid that now, the Northwest Zhong family would only have a side branch outside the five clothes." He slowly clenched the hilt of his sword, the color of his thin lips faded, and his eyes were as black as ink. In the eyes, there was a faint light of water, and there was a trace of ferocious blood red.

"Let's go and meet the envoy of the King of Xixia."