"These scholars have so much to do!"
Li Yuan outside Bozhou City was one of the "Ten Families with Seven Surnames" during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shen's ancestral home was naturally very luxurious. Although hundreds of years have passed, only a few isolated houses remain here. There are still many ruins in the house, but the vast area and the depth of the pavilions make it possible to feel the former prominence of the Li family even from today's perspective.
Later, Li Shen moved to Wuxi, and the chaos in the last years of the Tang Dynasty was really severe, so today's Bozhou students were given the opportunity to experience "the old days when Wang Xietang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people."
You know, this place is only five or six miles away from the camp where the Song Dynasty's forward army is stationed!
But even so, Li Qiong still agreed to Liu Zhan's request. Not only did Wang Shizhong and Jin Sai come to protect him personally, they couldn't figure it out. Even Liu Zhan, Xinzan and Yu Yunwen were also a little surprised.
The main reason is that Li Qiong agreed too readily and agreed to the matter without any hesitation. Only in this way did fifty students have the opportunity to come here to observe today.
In order to create this opportunity, the soldiers of Bozhou City risked their lives and moved the sentry post ten miles forward in advance, and added more troops to tightly control the situation within a radius of twenty miles. It took three days. , and only after confirming that nothing was wrong, Jiao Didi's students were allowed to leave the city.
Even though the control had reached an almost outrageous level, Li Qiong was still worried and called his two right-hand men, Jin Sai and Wang Shizhong, to watch, which showed that he valued people like Liu Zhan.
At this time, Wang Shizhong stood bored under a broken wall, leaning against the wall that might collapse at any time, holding a piece of grass in his mouth, looking at the white clouds that were slowly moving in the sky. Stay... I don't know which immortal grandfather is on the road. He is walking so slowly. It will take him a year to get home.
Jin Sai was squatting next to him, looking at the ants on the ground in a trance. Behind him was the sound of students talking, getting louder and louder, waking him up from his own world, and he was so angry that he picked it up. He threw a stone on top of the pile of ants. Looking at the black ants fleeing in all directions, he complained:
"What a damn bad luck! The marshal has been getting more and more wrong lately. So many villagers have died, so it's okay not to think about revenge. He still has this free time to waste on these students."
"What the hell are they just broken walls and rubble? I don't know if there is a good-looking one. According to me, nine out of ten scholars should be killed!"
Wang Shizhong thought the same thing, and felt that the hero had the same view, so he echoed:
"The marshal has only been a student for a few years? He has only been alive for five or six years, but he has been a soldier for more than ten years, and he still can't forget his identity as a scholar. What do you think of those polite-speaking birds? , I traveled all this way to find a poem written by a dead man, so what if I find it? It’s not too troublesome, and it’s not too tiring to panic!”
"Right now, Bozhou City is a piece of cake on someone's chopping block. The marshal has not asked anyone to notify the fourth prince, and secondly, he has not asked anyone to step up the defense. From what I see, our city cannot be defended."
Jin Sai spat on the ground: "Stop saying such depressing words, what's the use of having more people? You are also from the Huaixi Army, how can you not understand the soldiers of our Song Dynasty?"
"The person who came is not Marshal Yue, nor Marshal Liu, nor even Marshal Han, but the Taiwei soldiers of that Taiwei Zhang. We are not even afraid of the elites of the three yamen, how can we defeat those Taiwei soldiers?"
He didn't know whether he was comforting himself or Wang Shizhong, but no matter who he was comforting, the effect was not very good. At least judging from the fact that Jin Sai was becoming less and less confident as he talked, he didn't seem to believe it.
Wang Shizhong glanced at him sideways: "What does the marshal think? If others don't know, how can you and I not know?"
"What do you mean?!"
"Then last year, no, the year before last, when Wang Yaksha came, didn't the Marshal already give you the answer?
"What you mean is..." Jin Sai lowered his head and thought, and then heard Wang Shizhong add, "The marshal didn't even think about fighting. He also thought about handing over Bozhou City!"
Jin Sai's eyelids jumped when he heard these words: "If that's the case, then we can just withdraw. Why bother to put on a show here?"
"I don't want to defend, and I don't want to retreat. Could it be that the marshal wants to avoid offending both sides? Isn't he afraid that by then neither the north nor the south will be able to get any favors, but he will no longer be a human being inside and outside."
"Who knows?" Wang Shizhong shrugged, "We are not marshals. Anyway, we can do whatever he arranges. We can't go wrong."
This was true. As serious confidants, neither of them had anything to say about Li Qiong. No matter how hard he planned, there was no way he would sell himself out.
The two people on the other side of the wall were chatting lively, and the students inside were even more lively... God knows how famous Master Yingning is, and becoming his student, even if he didn't learn anything, just had a name, it would still be... Enough for these people to enjoy for a lifetime.
What's more, there are ministers of the Jin Kingdom like Xin Zan, who was sent to be the prefect of Kaifeng! After pleasing these two people, his official career is already smooth.
Not to mention, the two of them are not hands-off people. They almost do everything by hand. Many people have studied for more than ten or twenty years, but they have not gained as much as they have learned in the past few days. Therefore, everyone treats their teachers as They admired and respected Xin Zan very much. At this time, Xin Zan was talking about Li Shen being involved in the Niu-Li party struggle. Everyone was listening intently.
"The two poems "Compassion for the Farmers" contain a lot of compassion. If it is not from the heart, even if you deliberately want to imitate it, it is not easy. Just based on these two poems, Li Gongchui is He is not a good person, but he is definitely not a treacherous person."
"It's a pity that he became more and more arrogant and licentious later on. Both Han Changli and Liu Mengde always sneered at him. Liu Meng even wrote a poem to ridicule him and said, 'A high bun with a palace-like makeup, a spring breeze singing Du's. Wei Niang. It’s commonplace to see noisy things, which will break the heart of the governor of Suzhou.'"
"He lived a luxurious life, was cruel as an official, and abused his power. He was a cruel official. After his death, he was stripped of his three official positions, and his descendants were not allowed to serve again. After all, he got a deserved end... And today I will tell you that These are actually just one sentence, that is, when you look at a person, you need to judge his deeds regardless of his heart. Don’t care about what he says. Look at what he does. If you can do that, A gentleman is a true gentleman if his words and deeds are consistent, and even if he is a villain, he is also a true villain."
The students seemed to have gained something. They each lowered their heads to comprehend Xin Zan's words. Liu Zhan looked at the soldiers around him and saw Wang Shizhong and Jin Sai scolding them over there. He didn't notice the movement here, so he He greeted everyone and said:
"Have you brought your homework?"
The students saluted him one after another, and each took out paper from their sleeves and waists. It was the painting of Gunxue Road that everyone had made. Each person only painted one section, and it took almost half a month to modify it. , just so that everyone can put their paintings together and see them clearly.
While Yu Yunwen was collecting everyone's homework, his heart was beating very fast. He knew that this was Bozhou City's troop transportation road. With this thing, no matter how strong the Bozhou City Wall was, and no matter how stubborn Li Qiong was, it would be useless. .
The King of the Song Dynasty could enter Bozhou without anyone noticing, and he could also take the lives of these Huaixi rebels without anyone noticing.
When he saw the painting that day, he was still a little puzzled. Fortunately, Liu Zhan believed in his father's reputation and told him the truth. As a person from the Jin Dynasty court, Xin Zan originally wanted to flee south early in the morning, but Unfortunately, the large number of people in the family tied up his hands and feet, so he wasted so many years.
Although he had been successively appointed in recent years, his focus had always been on the Northern Expedition of the Song Dynasty. On the one hand, he was mapping the terrain, and on the other hand, he was sorting out the secrets of the Jin Kingdom. The troop transportation route in Bozhou City Since it had appeared in history books, Xin Ciying had an impression, so naturally it could not be hidden from his attention.
So he left the governor of Kaifeng alone and came here to give an instruction. Firstly, Bozhou was in an important position, and he also wanted to explore the reality of the troop transportation route here.
Huangtian paid off and actually let him discover the existence of the Gunxue Road, so the old man made preparations more than half a year ago. He would take a student down there every day and draw a section every day until the painting was full. After fifty sections, the Gunxue Road was completed.
This matter could not be hidden from Li Qiong, so Xin Zan gave him instructions on how to transport troops, and also gave the students a reason to draw pictures to find out the reason for Marshal Li's mapping, but his method was different, and his method was indeed It is possible to walk, but it is only a backup road, which was built in the late Han Dynasty. The real main road was renovated in the Tang Dynasty. Xin Zan used the excuse that the Yellow River changed its course and the eddy water surged and it was blocked.
There was only a wall between the two, but even so, Li Qiong didn't notice that the troop transport map in his hand was drawn by Xin Zan himself and by the students, and he only took it out now. out.
Not to mention Li Qiong, even many of these students still think that they are working for Marshal Li. Even those who have smart minds to react pretend not to know... They all have smart minds, who would? What if you give up this opportunity to reach the sky?
If it fails, Xin Zan will be responsible, but if it succeeds... they are the heroes of the Song Dynasty King's division taking down Bozhou.
After collecting the painting, Yu Yunwen respectfully handed it to Liu Zhan who was standing aside. The monk-like Taoist priest was also very happy, but he didn't realize at all that Wang Shizhong and Jin Sai had already looked this way and were walking towards him. come over.
"Old layman, what are you holding in your hand?"
"It's just homework for the students, it's not a rare item."
Wang Shizhong said with a smile: "In that case, I would like to ask the old layman to let the young general take a look."
"Look, it doesn't quite fit, does it?"
"Appropriate, appropriate!"
Yu Yunwen frowned. He looked at Liu Zhan with some worry, and when he was thinking about whether or not there would be a decisive blow, he heard Wang Shizhong suddenly raise his voice:
"bring here!"
(End of chapter)
