"If you came last month or next month, Qiong should treat you with courtesy, but you coming now makes me feel a little uncomfortable."
Yu Yunwen looked at the middle-aged man who was less than forty years old and knew that this was Li Qiong, the leader of the thieves who led the Huaixi Army to Beitou. However, something different from what he imagined was that this man was not only a few years older than him. Even though he became a high-ranking official at such a young age, he was far from the generals he had seen.
There is no rudeness like that of Captain Zhang... Captain Zhang's rudeness comes from his contempt for human life. Maybe he has been fighting for a lifetime and has seen many dead people, so he often has a childish attitude when getting along with others. The feeling of treating insects and birds - you can kill them if you want, without any discomfort.
He doesn't have the straightforwardness of Yang Yizhong, maybe it's because of how he's dressed. This man is wearing a white robe, and he doesn't hold a sword in his hand or a knife on his waist. He speaks with a smile in his eyes, and even raises his head slightly. The corners of his mouth were not too wide or too small, and there was no hint of violence.
If we only looked at his appearance, it would be difficult to connect him with Li Thief.
"I wonder why the marshal is upset? But did the students do something inappropriate?"
As soon as he arrived at the city gate, he was about to be captured by the guard. The reason why he was able to stand here and talk to Li Qiong was because the people here seemed to know him. He only heard his name and stood there. After some hesitation, he still invited himself in.
It is indeed a request. Although the suspicion is heavy, there is no embarrassment in the approach.
After hearing his question, Li Qiong put her hand on her chin, as if talking to herself:
"Yeah, why am I upset?"
After saying that, he looked at Wang De and said, "Yaksha, what do you think?"
Wang De also met this person for the first time, but Wang Qi and Wang Shun on the side came to Suzhou from Lin'an with him. When they were in Lin'an, the scene of this person angrily scolding Zhao Guan's family was still vivid in his mind. Now he Arriving here naturally aroused a little uneasiness among the Wang family and his son.
It doesn't matter that Li Qiong'an is uneasy. This kid even dares to scold the emperor, but now he comes here from Suzhou and he's all alone... If he knows something, he comes to Li Qiong and says something. He's in danger. , which greatly delayed His Majesty's plan.
"I have never seen this person before, but at this juncture, the scholar was able to pass through Linhuan's garrison and come to Bozhou...could it be that he was doing it carefully?"
"Who knows that Zhao Guan's family has already arrived in Suzhou, and the connection between Suzhou and Bozhou has been cut off for several days. Has the scholar seen anyone else during his journey here, except for soldiers from the two places?"
"It's a pity that you have forgotten this reason."
What Wang De deduced was exactly what the generals in this room were thinking. It didn't matter what this person was doing, but the fact that he came here was the biggest doubt.
I just thought that I heard this story from Little Yasha a few days ago, and I met him today. In any case, this man can be regarded as a loyal minister, and now he can risk his own life to come... It's true Too bad it's tight.
Facing the eyes of everyone who looked at him as if he was destined to die, Yu Yunwen's expression did not change, he cupped his hands towards Li Qiong and said:
"Marshal Mingjian, students don't dare to hide it. It was Zhao Guan's family who asked the students to come."
As soon as these words came out, everyone just thought that he had admitted his guilt. Wang Qi didn't want him to say anything. He pulled out his knife and rushed towards him, shouting:
"Careful work deserves death!"
But before he could hit Yu Yunwen, he was stopped by someone. It was not someone else, but the Taoist priest who came with them...a Taoist priest without hair.
Although Liu Zhan had no hair, since he recognized himself as a Taoist priest, he naturally had to have the equipment of a Taoist priest. Just like this whisk, he didn't know what it was made of, but he took Wang Qi's knife abruptly.
Li Qiong watched this scene with great interest: "It is said that layman Yingning is capable of both literary and martial arts. Now it seems that it is true."
The little old man smiled and said: "If I didn't have any strength, I would have been skinned and cramped long ago when I went out to travel."
After saying that, he said to Wang Qi: "Xiao Yaksha is really brave. The old Taoist is still numb at the tiger's mouth."
Wang Qi stared at the old man, knowing his details but not knowing why he wanted to help him, so he asked:
"Why did you stop me?"
Liu Zhan waved his hand: "Even if you are planning to rebel, you still have to give people a chance to speak. Now this guy just lost his life before he even finished speaking. What an injustice!"
When Yu Yunwen heard people saying that this was layman Yingning, he bowed to him and said:
"Thank you, layman, for saving your life. The students will never forget it."
"No need to thank you, just tell me, why did Zhao Guan's family send you here, but to act as a messenger to persuade our Marshal Li to surrender?"
Yu Yunwen's throat moved: "The official Zhao family sent me here to gain the marshal's trust so that I can be convenient with the Song army when they attack the city."
As soon as these words came out, the veterans of the Huaixi Army couldn't sit still, but seeing that he looked normal and didn't look like someone with a brain problem, they patiently continued to listen.
"But you directly stated your intention to come, so you really want to surrender?"
Yu Yunwen saluted Li Qiong again: "The marshal is wise, that's true."
"First there was Yaksha, who would never rebel even if he died, and then there was the loyal minister who served the king several times..."
Li Qiong seemed to be thinking about something: "Then Zhao Guan's family, are they really so unpopular?"
Wang De interrupted: "Scholar, don't talk nonsense. The one I hate is Zhao Mi. When did it become related to Zhao Guan's family?"
Li Qiong looked at Yu Yunwen: "You also heard that Wang Yaksha was wronged because of his dispute with Zhao Mi. What about you? You must have an explanation, right?"
"After all, these two times, King Qin, the Zhao Guan family has known and supported you. It is clearly a situation where both the king and the minister care about each other, but why has it become like this?"
Yu Yunwen paused, with a look of hesitation on his face. After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind and said:
"The Zhao Guan family knew that Su and Bo were deeply involved, so they threatened the people of Suzhou and asked them to cooperate with the Song army."
He was quite honest and told everything about how the emperor used the location of the Confucian Temple to intimidate everyone and asked them to help, and even included some chips offered by the family.
The amount of information is undoubtedly huge. Li Qiong's two capable generals, Jin Sai and Wang Shizhong, exchanged glances and quietly exited the place. As soon as they left the Bozhou government office, they immediately ordered their troops.
Li Qiong seemed to have seen it, but he didn't say anything. He just said:
"If that's the case, it's understandable that you feel unfair, but..."
He was speechless and said: "When we defected back then, we waited until Lu Zhi officially arrived in the army and took up the position of military governor. We really had no choice but to retreat before we did this."
"No one knows the traitor's thoughts better than we do..."
His words seemed to be mocking himself, and the word 'traitor' seemed extremely harsh. Everyone frowned and looked at their marshal with some worry, but they didn't notice at all that Li Qiong had replaced 'you' with Instead of 'you', an honorific was used.
"It's not enough. If you want to convince me, it's enough. But if you want to convince the tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the city, it's still not enough. It's far from enough."
Yu Yunwen let out a long sigh: "I didn't want to say it at first. After all, this matter is related to someone's innocence. If the student talks about it, others will be criticized. This is not what I want."
"But since the marshal asked each other like this, the students don't dare to lie to each other."
So, he told the story that the emperor fell in love with the Yu family's young lady. After his request was unsuccessful, he sent Zhang Jun to kidnap the girl and take advantage of her innocence... He described the emperor as a The lustful Hunjun described Zhang Jun as a sycophant who flattered his superiors and bullied his subordinates. He also vividly described the story of the Yu family being bullied by the Xiang family. For a moment, he really outlined an unjust case. come out.
Talking about the Confucian Temple is naturally of no use to these Qiu Ba who do not know how to read or understand etiquette, because they cannot understand the importance of this matter, and naturally they do not know the impact of the emperor's actions on the etiquette and law, and may even I feel that Yu Yunwen's reasons are a bit far-fetched, and these literati are extremely pretentious.
But if you talk about this kind of thing between men and women, everyone can understand it, and with Yu Yunwen's description, he has been brought into the side of the Yu family, and they are originally doing things as rebels. , the more stupid and unprincipled the emperor is, the more it will prove their helplessness and correctness.
So the following incident really convinced a lot of people, especially when Yu Yunwen said that the Suzhou Yu family was the same ancestor as him, which made him so angry that he decided to defect.
"I don't know this reason, is it enough?"
Li Qiong listened with interest: "I said, for me, the first reason is enough."
"As for others..."
He looked at Wang De: "Does Yasha think it's enough?"
Wang De really didn't expect that Zhao Guan's family would act recklessly at this time. He wanted to criticize a few words in his heart, but then he thought that the emperor had brought him a lot of greeting gifts from Lin'an... They were all powerful men's medicines, and the effect was stronger than Huichun Powder. Ten times or even a hundred times, knowing that Zhao Guanjia remembered his jokes when he was in Yingzhou, he immediately took back the curse words, feeling extremely helpless.
He has now determined that this person is really a traitor, and he also thinks that the emperor has spent countless efforts to establish terms with the Suzhou people, and now all the efforts have been in vain... and the Zhao Guan family must not know it yet. The bastard scholar's rebellion gave Li Qiong an advantage.
Somewhat said angrily: "That's enough, you are qualified to be a traitor."
Li Qiong didn't think there was anything wrong, and asked the generals below: "Do you think it's enough?"
Everyone did not hesitate at all. For them, the defection of such a loyal minister who had served the king proved that everyone was not so wrong, so they all agreed:
"enough!"
"enough!"
The voices kept coming and going. Li Qiong looked at Yu Yunwen, and the latter boldly looked at him. In the intersection of their eyes, it seemed that he said a lot, but at the same time he seemed to say nothing.
"In that case, please take a seat, sir... and also tell us what the Zhao Guan family's plan is."
(End of chapter)
