Fu Song

Chapter 406 What do you want

An adobe house with a big hole in the thatch roof, but even so, it is the best surviving house in the village.

In the war, the people who suffer the most are undoubtedly the people at the bottom.

Even if they escaped their lives and returned to their hometown, what they saw was nothing but ruins.

Everything needs to be overthrown and restarted. The only thing that will not change may be the taxes to be turned over to the government.

It will soon enter December, the weather is already very cold, the wind is whistling, through the big hole above the head, even if there is a fire burning in the firepit, Zhao Yuan still feels that he can't stand it.

Xiao Cheng didn't care, after all, the weather was very hot!
"Won't you buy me a drink?" Zhao Yuan sniffled and said.

Xiao Cheng shook his head: "It's only a thousand glasses of wine when you have a bosom friend! I'm afraid that if I drink with you, I'll pass out after just one drink, so what's the matter?"

Zhao Yuan laughed: "I didn't expect Xiao Erlang's mouth to be so sharp. Well, I understand what you mean. Fortunately, you didn't talk too much, otherwise we might not be able to talk about anything."

"Now that the first half of the business has been completed, and the second half is still unfinished, and you are here again, it is natural to have a good talk." Xiao Cheng said: "Ask, what are you unsure about?"

Zhao Yuan pondered for a moment, organized his words, and said: "This time I missed you, and I failed to take back Qianxinan. I admit it. I really didn't expect you to be here Strong influence, Yang Qing was unwilling to help me, and even tied the Zunyi Army to be unable to move, and Tian Chou stood still. From another perspective, he was also helping you. Of course, what I didn't expect was that the combat power under your command So strong."

"Did Zhao Ziyu ever make mistakes?" Xiao Cheng sneered, "I still think you have no mistakes?"

Zhao Yuan took a look at Xiao Cheng, and said lightly: "When no one has a plan, Xiao Erlang, you don't have to ridicule me, just take you as an example, that is too confident, otherwise, with your ability, Xiao Erlang Why did the bachelor couple pass away? You have always looked down on the world, and this is retribution."

Xiao Cheng's body was always straight, and the tongs in his hand wanted to poke some firewood, but he didn't want to make his hands too heavy, but it directly collapsed the good fire.

Zhao Yuan sighed: "I'm sorry, but in this matter, I was plotted against. Lin Pingzhi is really powerful. The key is that I didn't expect that with his status, he could sneak into the Bianliang, personally commanded, and it turned out that he embedded another bureau in my bureau, which promoted the development of the whole situation. Hehe, I always thought that this matter was my own effort, but in the end, the biggest advantage , but let the Liao people have to go."

On top of this matter, Zhao Yuan was really depressed.

Under his operation, Jing Wang Zhao Zhe was indeed forced to the end, and he was completely defeated in the battle for the reserve position with Chu Wang Zhao Jing, and even lost his life. It seems that Chu Wang won.

But Da Song lost.

The entire Song Dynasty was in turmoil, and countless officials were implicated. If this can be tolerated, then because of the death of Xiao Yu and his wife, Xiao Ding directly rebelled against the Song Dynasty. The entire Northwest is equivalent to being independent from the Song Dynasty. The next expedition team He was defeated by Xiao Ding again, and even the Taiwei Zhang Chao died in front of the battle.

Who's winning?
Xiao Ding?
Of course not, at least Xiao Ding is not the biggest winner.

The biggest winner is naturally the Liao Kingdom.

Xiao Ding broke with the Great Song Dynasty. As a result, Xiao Ding himself had no strength to challenge the Liao Kingdom. What was great was harassment, so that the Liao Kingdom had no worries on the flanks.

Zhao Yuan thought to himself that his talent was unparalleled, but being used to such an extent by Lin Ping, he naturally felt hard to shake off.

"Lin Pingzhi?"

"The most outstanding guy of this generation of the famous Lin family in the Liao Kingdom!" Zhao Yuan said: "Probably ten years older than you, in his thirties. One of the most important ministers, and not in the South Courtyard, but by Yelujun's side."

"I will discuss this account with him!" Xiao Cheng said.

"It's getting too far, Xiao Cheng, since you have already won this battle, then if I don't want to get nothing, your proposal is undoubtedly the best result for me. But I don't understand why you would do this Do it?" Zhao Yuan looked directly at Xiao Cheng and said.

"It's very simple. If the tens of thousands of troops led by Annan are not completely defeated, then although the next Luo Shi Ghost Country will fall into chaos, it is not something I can easily eat up in a short time." Xiao Cheng Said: "If you want to eat and digest the entire Luo family's ghost country in the shortest time, this is the only chance. What about the tens of thousands of troops, if you don't join hands with you and want to kill them so cleanly, Basically impossible!"

"Xiao Cheng, to put it bluntly, what is your purpose?" Zhao Yuan said, "If I were in your position, maybe I would raise the flag to rebel like your elder brother? But why didn't you do that? "

"Did my elder brother raise the flag to rebel?" Xiao Cheng asked rhetorically, "He was just fighting back in self-defense. If the court doesn't attack him, naturally he won't cross Hengshan to attack the court."

Zhao Yuan chuckled, "Xiao Cheng, under such circumstances, why are you still willing to attribute the entire former Luo family ghost country and other places in the southwest of Guizhou to the territory of the Song Dynasty? Why do you still cooperate with us and come to Taiwan again What about you? Even if you don’t show your face and hide behind the scenes, you can also control this land?”

"Because I have to do more things." Xiao Cheng said: "That's why I have a good reputation, and only in this way can I let go of my hands and feet. Zhao Ziyu, if I had been the pacifier of Guizhou Road earlier, you would still be able to swim. Go around and organize such a siege of me? Can you still send people to threaten those merchants so that they don't dare to send all kinds of materials to Qianzhou, and dare not do any business with us?"

Zhao Yuan nodded, "Of course not."

Xiao Cheng continued: "I want to govern this land in a legitimate way, because I believe that the Great Song Dynasty will inevitably usher in a great catastrophe in the near future, so I want to leave a place in the south for Chinese civilization. In order to prevent nothing from being preserved after the catastrophe. Let me tell you this, Zhao Ziyu, what I value now is that our entire Chinese civilization will not be destroyed because of the incompetence of this imperial court. I don't care who is sitting on the emperor's seat, so, do you understand what I mean? This is the basis of my willingness to trade with you."

Zhao Yuan stared at Xiao Cheng with wide-eyed eyes for a long while before laughing: "Xiao Cheng, do you think we will have a big battle with the Liao people next time, and we will definitely not be opponents?"

"Naturally!" Xiao Cheng said coldly, "Whether it's Zhao Suo now, or your master Zhao Jing coming to power now, you will only let Da Song sink deeper and deeper into the abyss, Zhao Ziyu, what are you doing?" You are good at conspiracies and tricks, but you are far behind in governing the world."

"That's not necessarily true!" Zhao Yuan was angry in his heart, "If I wasn't asked to try, how would I know? Xiao Cheng, you are the same as in the past, and your eyes are still so high above the top. It seems that you haven't learned your lesson. , There has never been a shortage of talented people, and there has never been a shortage of brave people. The Song Dynasty has tens of millions of people. Even if we have suffered setbacks in the Northwest and Hebei, we will be able to recover in five years at most. "

"In five years, you will only be worse than now!" Xiao Cheng disagreed.

Zhao Yuan sneered, and stood up, "Xiao Cheng, I understand what you mean. Don't worry, the Guizhou Road appeasement envoy you want will be available. Even if it is not an envoy, you will be able to govern this land in a legitimate way. You Since there is no intention of rebellion, why not let you show your strengths in the south? No matter from which aspect, you are a talent. If you can create a richer and more powerful south for Song Dynasty, then Why would the imperial court not do it?"

Zhao Yuan left angrily.

But at the same time, a big rock fell in his heart.

From the perspective of the imperial court, Xiao Cheng is really a loyal minister. Under such circumstances, he has not turned against the imperial court, and what he is doing now is certainly to expand his strength, but from another From a perspective, why not stabilize the southwest for the Song Dynasty?
In the past, there were dozens of Jimi prefectures in the southwest of Guizhou, which had no benefits or benefits for the imperial court, but now, they have been reformed and returned to the people, and have become the real territory of the Song Dynasty. It will also be merged into the territory of the Song Dynasty. This is rare good news for the Song Dynasty, which has been sluggish for the past two years, and it can boost the morale of the government and the opposition!

The current Xiao Cheng, compared with Xiao Ding in the northwest, is in dire straits.Xiao Ding was willing to stop fighting and not leave Hengshan, but now, Xiao Cheng was still willing to wear the official hat of the Song Dynasty, which made Xiao Cheng still have some fetters in terms of name and righteousness.

For the imperial court, Xiao Cheng, a pacifier from Guizhou Road, is obviously much easier to deal with than Xiao Cheng, a wanted criminal who hides behind the scenes and has unpredictable thoughts.

Xiao Cheng, who is hiding behind the scenes, no one can guess what he will do next. The failure of this force attack also means that the imperial court has completely lost the chance to successfully take down Xiao Cheng.

So we can only compromise.

And Xiao Cheng, a pacifier of Guizhou Road, means that Xiao Cheng is still willing to do things within the rules.

This is what Bianliang can't wait for today.

Even the official in Xiaoyao Palace, no matter how uncomfortable or unwilling he was, he had to admit that this was the best ending.

Of course, don't expect Xiao Cheng to be loyal to you.

But as long as he still claims to be a courtier of the Song Dynasty, Bianliang will be satisfied.

Today's Da Song, the most important thing is to lick his wounds, take a good rest, build up his strength, make his body strong, and let his fists regain enough strength to be as weak as they are now Where is the Song Dynasty so hard?

Reappointing Xiao Cheng, and directly promoting Xiao Cheng to the position of the chief official of the frontier, and the purple-robed minister who appeases all the way, naturally there are disputes, but if you want to come to the officials in the Xiaoyao Palace, the two governments have a dispute over this issue. On top of that, a consensus will be reached soon.As long as these places agree, the rest of the people don't care.

Xiao Cheng didn't think that the imperial court would not agree to this matter, because it was a good thing for them.Of course, it doesn't matter if they really want to make a mess of it. With this title, they can do things more conveniently, and they can be more secure in certain plans for the future. Without this title, wouldn't they be able to do things?
"Zunyi is a good place!" Yu didn't even give Zhao Yuan a cup of hot water. When Zhang Lin, the Zhijun of the Zunyi Army, came to visit, Xiao Cheng gave enough face, eight bowls of big fish and meat, a jar is good For wine, Xiao Cheng treats each other warmly.

To be honest, Zhang Lin, as a well-known soldier in the army, is much higher than Xiao Cheng in terms of qualifications and grades, but when he saw Xiao Cheng, he was very respectful and gave the subordinate salute. , but Xiao Cheng accepted it calmly.

Zhang Lin felt a little guilty.

Because he was persuaded by Zhao Yuan to deal with Xiao Cheng's matter, he didn't think he could hide it from Xiao Cheng, and now that bastard Zhao Yuan turned himself into Xiao Cheng's ally again, and cooperated with Xiao Cheng to destroy it. Luo Shi ghost country.

This dog day turned his hands into clouds and hands into rain, and finally Youzai Youzai slapped his ass back to Bianliang, but he didn't know that people like himself were left in extreme pain?

Originally, the Zunyi Army was sandwiched between the Bozhou Army and the Qianzhou Army to survive, but because of their own humiliation, life was still going on. Now it's good, and I don't know what the other party's attitude is?
The only luck is that at the last moment, when that old man Yang Qing was about to abandon him and enter the Luo family's ghost country alone, he followed up resolutely. The next thing Cheng has to clean up is himself.

"At the end of the day, I respect the signing and judging a cup." Zhang Lin stood up and raised the cup: "What is called both civil and military skills, and what is called strategizing? This time, the last general has really seen it. I will ask the signing and judge for more advice in the future."

Xiao Cheng laughed loudly, raised his glass to clink a glass with Zhang Lin, drank it in one gulp, and said, "To tell the truth from Zhang Zhijun, after the Chinese New Year, I'm afraid I will have to change my hat as an official signing the judgment."

"It's natural, it's natural. With the ability to sign a judgment, it is possible to appease the envoy all the way. In a few years, the heads of the two governments will still be able to run the hand of signing the judgment?" Zhang Lin Flattering and authentic, who cares, it's flattering anyway, as long as the other party is comfortable, Zhang Lin can't care about face now.This one in front of him is now pinching his own neck, which really makes the other party unhappy, and he can be himself easily.

More than [-] Zunyi troops, in the eyes of Xiao Zhupan, are nothing!
"How did Zhang Zhijun know that I was going to be a pacifier?" Xiao Cheng had a look of surprise on his face.

Zhang Lin looked bewildered.

Pacifier?
All the way to appease, at least from the purple-robed minister of the third rank!
Xiao Cheng who is just in his early twenties?

"The imperial court is about to establish Guizhou Road, and the current Luoshi Guiguo, Bozhou, Sizhou, Qianxinan, and of course your Zunyi Army are all on the newly established Guizhou Road!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)