Fu Song

Personal power is too small in the face of the tide of the times.

There are only a handful of characters who can control the tide of the times and show their personal coquettishness amidst the turmoil.

And these people are all top figures standing in this era.

Zhou Shuguang knew he was not.

He hides himself very carefully, and just wants to lead his family and villagers to live his own life.

Of course, in such an era, even if you want to live your life quietly, you still need some money.

There is no such thing as if you don't offend others, people won't offend you.

Weakness is the original sin, not to mention the government, even local hooligans, they will rush to bully you!
So Zhou Jiabao has unknowingly grown into a force in these years.

Before the war, the Zhou Family Fort could only be regarded as a local rich man, but now, they are really powerful.

Over the years, the fort wall has become higher and higher, and more and more people live by him, so there are naturally more and more fortresses.

No one paid attention to him before.

Because he didn't rebel.

On the contrary, he also behaved very docile.

If you ask for food, you raise food; if you ask for money, you give money.

Anyone who is not blind can understand Zhou Jiabao's attitude.

Such a person, don't push him into a hurry,

Really urgent, rabbits will bite people.

And at this time, Zhoujiabao was no longer a rabbit, but a real wolfhound.

Of course, no matter how vicious a wolfhound is, it is still just a dog.

When the real golden-haired lion came over, the wolfdog had no choice but to obey.

So Zhou Shuguang could only bring his Baoding to Tokyo.

Because the eyes of the mighty golden-haired lion Yeluzhen and the colorful tiger Yelu Longxu have already been cast on them.

Now that it has been fattened and strengthened, of course it will come in handy now.

In the past, I didn't move you because firstly, I behaved docilely, and secondly, on the ravaged land, I still need some people to farm the land with peace of mind.

No one works the land, and no crops will grow from the soil.

However, local tycoons like the Zhou family and the Sun family still play a considerable role in stabilizing the local area and developing the economy.

But now, they need more effort.

Weakening these local tyrants is also one of Yeluzhen's plans.

Otherwise, the front will be beaten to death, and the strength will be weakened. In the end, they may be manipulated by these local tyrants. This is not something Yeluzhen can tolerate.

Therefore, the first step is to let these tyrannical powers weaken first.

Farmers don't need such a strong castle.

Zhou Shuguang, the master of the Zhou Family Fortress who has been able to come all the way to this day, is of course not stupid. He can guess what fate will meet him next.When confronting the Southern Song Army, there is no doubt that people like myself must be the vanguard.

He has no choice.

Refusal means death.

Liao people will not tell you any reason.

They only ask obedience or death.

So in order to survive, Zhou Shuguang must make himself stronger.

Strong and sharp.

Let those who can make decisions think that a team like themselves can be used more at critical times, so that they will not be thrown out casually and sacrificed for nothing. …

So in the first step, he opened the door of convenience to accept those bandits who came to defect.

The second step, of course, is to organize the 3000 people I brought to Tokyo into a strong army that can be commanded by arms.

In this damn time, everyone is struggling to survive.

On the school field, soldiers are training.

It doesn't take too much thought for two thousand boudin. In the past few years, under their own careful training, they have advanced and retreated in a controlled manner, and they have been in an orderly manner.On the other hand, those newcomers are used to laziness, and they are somewhat dissatisfied with the strict military orders, and there are many thorns.

But now this is the army, not the Zhou family castle, and I am the commander of the capital, not the master of the Zhou castle, so it is naturally much easier to deal with the prickly head.

As soon as the knife was lifted and the head fell, everything was quiet.

Zhou Shuguang now needs an army that orders and prohibits. Of course, he also needs an army that is decisive and thirsty for blood.

Then, the original Baoding and these bandits who are about to be tamed are a perfect combination.

"Brother!" Zhou Shuqiang walked over quickly, seeing his angry expression, Zhou Shuguang knew that things were not going well.

"They refused to allocate weapons and armor for us?" Zhou Shuguang asked, "This was agreed before."

"It's not that I don't give it, but that there are people who come on a first-come, first-served basis, and they have to line up one by one. They said that there are only so many things. Is it possible that our Zhoujiabao has a big face and can be divided as soon as we come?" Zhou Shuqiang angrily imitated the one who was in charge of the ordnance. The yin and yang tone of the assigned doctor said, "Brother, one day, I will cut off the tongue of this doctor."

"It's none of his business!" Zhou Shuguang shook his head and said, "It was King Zhao who sent someone to look for me a few days ago, but I sent him away. King Zhao is holding a grudge against me on purpose!"

"We are here to serve the Supreme Emperor, not him!" Zhou Shuqiang whispered. "Brother, let's not talk about anything else, we really need a stomach! There are too few things like magic arms and bows!"

In the Zhoujiabao, swords, guns, swords and halberds were easy to get. Even the blacksmith shop in your own castle could make them, but it was impossible to get a stomach. If you searched the whole Zhoujiabao, you could only find three or four pairs. Just armor.

As for things like the God Arm Bow, they only obtained dozens of them through cheating and abduction over the years. They are like treasures, and they are usually reluctant to use them at all.

But before defending the fort, there was no armored stomach, and a few wooden boards tied to the body could barely be used. But in the future, everyone will go to the battlefield. Without the armored stomach, how can we fight?
A warrior with armor and a warrior without armor are completely two concepts.

"Be good to ourselves first!" Zhou Shuguang said indifferently: "In Tokyo City, the real master is not he, King Zhao."

There are now two kings in the city of Tokyo.

Zhao Suo, king of Song Dynasty, nominally controlled King Zhao, King Jin, and King Qi, but now he is still a short-headed king. Such a powerful general.

Zhao Wang Quzhen, one of the real power factions in Tokyo, must have been under his control over the years around Kaifeng, and he still has nearly [-] soldiers and horses controlling most of Tokyo City.And around Gyeonggi, there are still many confidantes he promoted. …

But the person who really holds the right to speak here is not Qu Zhen.

In the past, this person was Xiao Bo.

But Xiao Bo and his five thousand Liao cavalry were killed by the Jiangning garrison led by Han Kai, and their heads were turned into Jingguan.

So now this person is called Yelu Chengcai, the observation envoy of the Liao Kingdom in Tokyo, who just took office.

And with him, Yelu Chengcai, stationed in Tokyo, there are still [-] Liao Kingdom infantry.

"After half a month, the troops gathered in Tokyo will have a martial arts performance!" Zhou Shuguang said: "This is our chance to show off. Whether we have armor or good weapons are secondary, but spirit and spirit must be Give me a good job. This Yelu Chengcai is a character, I heard that he was pulled out of the slaves by the Empress Dowager Chengtian, and he became an observer from a slave in ten years, and his ability is quite powerful."

"As long as he likes him, he can get rid of Qu Zhen's threat." Zhou Shuqiang was overjoyed.

"I have already prepared a generous gift, and you will send it to the observer later."

"Ah, didn't you say that it's enough to be energetic and energetic in front of him? This person is a meritocracy, so he can use his abilities?"

"This person also likes gold and silver." Zhou Shuguang said: "Two-pronged approach, there is no danger!"

Yelu Chengcai's appearance is really not good.

He is very short, which is rare among the generally tall Khitan people. With his short body and scarred face, he is really a figure who can stop children from crying at night.

This person was discovered by the Empress Dowager Chengtian in his humble beginnings. Although he hadn't read many books, he was extremely intelligent, and his talent was like a gift from heaven.So much so that the empress dowager once lamented that if such a person really went to study, perhaps the spirituality of this idea would be destroyed.

And as people like Yelu Longxu and Yelu Chengcai were successively sent to Hebei and Henan to hold important positions, we can see the determination of the Empress Dowager Chengtian to launch another southern expedition.

The Empress Dowager Chengtian was still a little worried about Yelu Longxu, so she asked her confidant Yelu Chengcai to come to Tokyo as an observation envoy. Keep an eye on Yelu Longxu, lest the imperial party play tricks.

Yelu Longxu's [-]-jin man has at least a [-]-[-]-jin son, and when it comes to conspiracy and tricks, even Yeluzhen is willing to bow down.

However, Yelu Chengcai is the kind of person who can find the real essentials in a mess. With him watching, he doesn't worry about Yelu Longxu.

At the same time, the two also have a division of labor. Yelu Chengcai's main focus is on Zhao Guo, while Yelu Longxu concentrates more energy on Qi Guo Liu Yu.

On Zhao Guo's side, whether it's Song Wang Zhao Suo or Zhao Wang Quzhen, they are all honest characters and easy to manipulate.But Liu Yu of Qi State was not so obedient.

Yelu Chengcai unceremoniously accepted the 5000 taels of gold sent by Zhou Shuguang.

As a rising star in the officialdom, he really doesn't have much money, so whenever he can get money, he is not polite.

Therefore, he is still an out-and-out corrupt official.

If it hadn't been for the Empress Dowager Chengtian to protect him, he would have collapsed because of this. …

But he collects money because he collects money, and when he does things, he is not sloppy.

His belief is that money can be collected, but things may not be done for you.

Unless you really have a few brushes.

Qu Zhen and Zhao Suo were fighting each other, Yelu Chengcai naturally didn't bother to care about it.

Deep down in his heart, he even favored Qu Zhen a bit.

Zhao Suo, you are just a mascot, but you still want to hold military power, this is a bit too much.

You just stay in the palace and sleep honestly. When you need you, just pull you out to swim around twice and yell a few times.

What do you want military power for?
Want salted fish to turn over?
Therefore, Yelu Chengcai was indeed prepared to collect money and not do anything because of the issue of Zhou Shuguang's army.

However, after half a month of military exercises, Yelu Chengcai overturned his original decision.

Because Zhou Shuguang's army, among the newly reorganized Han army, is really outstanding.

When many optimistic Liao generals thought that the southern expedition would be easy, Yelu Chengcai didn't think so.The deaths of Xiao Bo and Yelu Dashu have already proved the strength of the Southern Song army, and Lu Ben'an's defeat made Yelu Chengcai even more vigilant.There is nothing wrong with the Empress Dowager's strong fear of the Southern Song Dynasty. For such an opponent, you must kill him in his infancy to be the best.

The Daliao army alone is not enough.

The territory of Daliao is too vast, and there are too many places that need troops. Yelu Chengcai calculated for the queen mother that there will never be more than 20 people who can be invested in the southern expedition.

Therefore, it is inevitable that vassal states such as Zhao and Qi can take on more military combat tasks in the future.

But judging from their performance in the early stage, I'm afraid it will be a bit embarrassing.

But Zhou Shuguang's army caught his eye.

Although the entire army didn't have a few similar armors, and their weapons were really weak, but as soon as they entered the field, the formation and the momentum immediately compared with the several teams with bright armors that had already appeared in front of them.

If you want Yelu Chengcai to say, the ones in the front can be regarded as the crown of the monkey at best.

"What's going on with this army?" He turned his head to look at Qu Zhen who was on the side: "After looking for a long time, I finally got a decent army, but it looked like a beggar in tatters. When the governor left , clearly stated clearly that you want to arm those old-style armored stomachs and weapons in the warehouse to the reorganized army, could it be that you have embezzled all these things?"

"The observers misunderstood it. It's just that the time is tight, and I haven't had time to send it to them. It will be done after the military exercise!" Qu Zhen Xiaoyi smiled, but she also regretted it in her heart.I should have seen this army with my own eyes. If I had known it was like this, I would have pulled them over no matter how low it was by three points.Now that Yelu Chengcai has taken a fancy to him, he probably won't have anything to do with him anymore.

Yelu Chengcai nodded: "Turn back and let the general of this army come to see me!"

After saying this, he stood up, and said coldly to Zhao Suo who was sitting in the middle: "Don't be too tired, King Song, you are not in good health, you'd better rest more, like these things related to the army, Don't worry about it any more, if something happens to you, I won't be able to explain it to Zhao Wang, right?"

Zhao Suo's face suddenly turned pale.

"Like a few days ago, the article you sent against the false emperor in Jiangning was done very well. The article calling on the scholars and bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River to fight against the false king is now widely circulated in the south of the Yangtze River. King Song can do these things well."

Looking at Zhao Suo, who was dripping with sweat, Yelu Chengcai snorted coldly and walked away.