"Mrs. Dong, that is Damingfu City. You are a rich man, so you should not cross the river. I will just go to the city."
On the bank of the Yellow River, Lu Yihao looked at Damingfu City in front of him, still maintaining the air of a famous minister and speaking slowly.
"What kind of body are we? We are just a woman struggling in troubled times." Guo Tiannu's voice was a little low, and her tone was even colder. She looked like she would not let strangers in. "Our father sent us to protect you. Your name, of course, you need to get accurate information... If you don’t enter the city, how do you expect us to know whether King Yun of the Song Dynasty is willing to give money?"
Lu Yihao smiled bitterly and said: "How dare you refuse to give it... Even though the Crown Prince is so open-minded, His Highness Prince Yun will definitely not dare not to give it."
Guo Tiannv smiled coldly: "Since I dare not deny it, then King Yun still dares to kill me, a military envoy? Besides, we are a prostitute. If King Yun is really a hero, he will not use me to establish his power, right?" ?”
"Of course not..." Lu Yihao sighed, thinking: King Yun cannot be a hero. There has been no hero in the old Zhao family since Emperor Yizu!
"If you don't know it, what do we have to be afraid of?" Guo Tiannu snorted and raised her voice again, "Dong Jingang!"
"The general is here!" A tall and strong man with a black face and beard who looked like a King Kong on a horse responded loudly.
"Deploy 10 people to follow us into the city. You can take the others with you and stay here. If we haven't returned before noon tomorrow, you should go back to find our father."
"Madam!" The strong man named Dong Jingang became anxious when he heard this. "How can you personally take the risk? It is better for the general to escort Mr. Lu into the city!"
"You stay here!" Guo Tiannv said, "With Mr. Lu coming into the city with us, there will be no accidents... Master Lu, what do you think?"
Lu Yihao nodded and said, "That's how it should be."
Guo Tiannu nodded, no longer talking, but picked up the reins and headed towards the ice of the Yellow River.
...
The eighteenth day of the first lunar month of the eighth year of Xuanhe.
Daming Mansion, Miyagi City.
When Guo Tiannv and Lu Yihao came to ask for money, the two factions of "Main War" and "Zhu He" under Zhao Kai were arguing in the main hall of the palace city.
The reason for the quarrel between the main war faction and the main peace faction in Daming Mansion City was that one day ago, the bad news came from Kaifeng Mansion that the gold thieves had crossed the river in large numbers and were approaching Kaifeng Mansion City.
Kaifeng Mansion is about to be surrounded by gold thieves!
After getting the news, the officials in charge of the city immediately entered the palace and asked Zhao Kai to send envoys to the Jin people to beg for mercy... They had to give away the 3 million treasures and an emperor. ?
However, their idea of betraying the country and begging for mercy was immediately rebuked by the war-fighting officials.
Zhao Kai himself looked at these two groups with confusion. Among them, the leaders of the Zhuhe faction were Cai Mao, Liang Fangping and Du Chong, who had just escorted a batch of money and grain to Zhicangzhou.
The leaders of the main fighting faction are Qin Hui and Chen Ji... Chen Ji is just the main battle, but Qin Hui, a big capitulation faction, why are you joining in the fun? You should make peace! Now that the Jindong Route Army has crossed the Yellow River, they will soon surround Kaifeng Mansion. Shouldn't they cede land, pay money, and make marriage arrangements at this time? Why are you still fighting?
But no matter how hard you fight, the lonely king will never be confused by you!
"...The city of Kaifeng is high and the pool is deep. There are tens of thousands of soldiers guarding it, and there are no less than 200,000 men in the city. As long as you stand firm, even if there are millions of gold thieves, it will be difficult to break through the city! Moreover, the gold thieves The number of thieves' soldiers will not exceed one hundred thousand at most! Therefore, Kaifeng's city is absolutely safe, and there is no need to make peace..."
Zhao Kai knew that what Qin Hui said was of course nonsense. He was a traitor, so of course he was talking nonsense! How can Kaifeng Fucheng be foolproof? There are Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan in Kaifeng Fucheng... They are equivalent to at least 100,000 gold soldiers!
And that Zhao Huan recently claimed that he had recovered! It’s dangerous to think about it! Zhao Kaixin said: What if the second emperor is accidentally captured by the Jin people again, what will this filial son of the Gu family do? Should I wear a yellow robe and ascend the throne? Or should I wear sackcloth and mourn to ascend the throne?
When Zhao Kai was thinking about how to ascend the throne, the commander-in-chief He Guan and the commander-in-chief Wang Yuan, who were in charge of the city defense of Daming Prefecture, came hand in hand. After Zhao Kai took office as the marshal of the Hebei army and horses, he immediately appointed He Guan as the marshal commander-in-chief. , nominally in charge of the armies, and Wang Yuan, the commander of Daming Mansion, naturally became He Guan's subordinate.
Seeing these two people coming together, Zhao Kai hurriedly coughed, stopped the quarrel in the palace, and then asked the two of them: "What happened? Why are you two here together?"
He Guan said: "Your Majesty, Lu Yuanzhi, the transfer minister of Yanshanfu Road, has come to your name! He also brought a woman with him..."
"Yanshanfu Road Transfer Envoy..." Zhao Kai thought for a moment, "Lu Yihao? Didn't he fall into the hands of a gold thief? Also, who is that woman? Is he his wife or a concubine?"
Wang Yuan explained: "Your Majesty, it was the gold thief who sent him to deliver a message to you. That woman was neither his wife nor his concubine. She was Dong Guo, the daughter-in-law of Pharmacist Guo, who was sent to Lu Yuanzhi on the order of Pharmacist Guo. Return and leave with the king’s reply.”
"On the order of Pharmacist Guo?" Zhao Kai asked confused, "What does this matter have to do with Pharmacist Guo?"
"It has something to do with it," He Guan said. "According to Lu Yuanzhi, he was sent to Daming Mansion by an army of 10,000 soldiers led by Medical Master Guo!"
"What?" Zhao Kai was shocked, "Guo Yaoshi's 10,000 troops have entered the Daming Mansion? Where are they? How come no one reported to the lonely king to know about it?"
An army of 10,000!
Although Zhao Kai now has the title of Marshal of the Hebei Army, the number of available imperial troops at hand is not much more than 10,000.
"It should be on the west side of the Yellow River," He Guan explained. "Our rangers are relatively cautious and only operate on the east bank of the Yellow River, so we don't know the situation on the west bank."
"I know!" Zhao Kai thought for a while, "Please invite Lu Yihao and Dong Guo into the palace!"
Zhao Kai used the word "invite", which was of course polite, and respectfully invited Dong Guo to the main hall of the Daming Palace.
Waiting to see Dong Guo in the main hall was Zhao Kai, who had changed into the clothes of a Song Dynasty prince with wide clothes and long sleeves.
When Dong Guo met Zhao Kai, of course he would not salute. He just stood there in a grand manner, with his hands on his hips and his eyes leveled at Zhao Kai.
Zhao Kai frowned and looked at this rather tall masked woman. The woman's face was covered, so of course he couldn't see her face clearly, but Zhao Kai still found that the woman's eyes were big and bright, and she was staring at him.
Their eyes met, and after a while, Lu Yihao, who had already finished his salute, was heard to say: "Your Majesty, I have brought a letter from the second prince of the Jin Kingdom. The second prince met with the official envoy Zhao Liangsi on the north bank of the Yellow River. I know that your Majesty has three million goods here, which are all used to pay for peace, so he sent Medicine Master Guo to lead his troops to get it."
"The second prince of the Kingdom of Jin agreed to withdraw his troops?" Zhao Kai couldn't believe it and was a little nervous. It shouldn't be such a good thing, right?
"No... the second prince wants another 30 million in goods and 10 imperial concubines!" Dong Guo interrupted, "So he has already led his troops to Kaifeng Mansion to get it! If the king is not willing to take the official family of the Song Dynasty If the property and the emperor's concubine promised to the second prince are taken away by his father, then the second prince will lead his troops to take it for himself!
If the king is willing to give money to others, then the second prince promises not to attack Daming Mansion! "
Zhao Kai breathed a sigh of relief, it’s good that the Jin soldiers didn’t withdraw! He laughed continuously and said: "You have money, you have money... As long as Pharmacist Guo comes, you will have money!"
