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Chapter 24 High Longevity

After Jiang Xing's death, and after the incident in Luzhou, Li Xia had faintly become the number two figure in this team.

Nie Zhongyou's respect and trust in him is not without reason.

Although Li Xia was rescued from the death row, it means that he is more under control; his father, Li Yong, Li Shouyuan, once served as the head of Yuhang County, and he can barely be regarded as a family of officials, with a clean background; The performance along the way has a bit of both civil and military skills.

Thinking of Li Xia's age again, Nie Zhongyou was actually a little surprised by him from the bottom of his heart, thinking how could he be so powerful at such a young age?In the end, I can only think that perhaps the children of officials and eunuchs are so outstanding.

After all, Nie Zhongyou didn't know much about officials' children.

When the team arrived in Luzhou, there were 23 people left. Among them, there was an eyeliner of the Yihe faction who was identified by Lu Fengtai, and Nie Zhongyou sent him back to Lin'an Mansion.

After adding Gao Changshou and his party of five, and a Zhang family guard prisoner that Li Xia proposed to take, there are now a total of 28 people.

After Gao Changshou joined the team, he immediately saw Li Xia's strange position in the team.

As for Nie Zhongyou, the real leader, he didn't pay much attention to it.

The Gao family has been prominent for generations, and even if the Dali Kingdom was destroyed, Gao Changshou would still associate with a famous general of the Song army like Lu Wende, while Nie Zhongyou was just a Marquis of the Imperial Army.

Gao Changshou failed to go north to assassinate Wuliang Hetai, and lost a lot of manpower. Only five of them fled to Song Dynasty. When they were killed, Nie Zhongyou was sent by because of him and they met each other. What Nie Zhongyou thought was "I I saved you, asked for some information, and took you to the north to see if there is a chance.” But what Gao Changshou thought was “Song Ting sent you to cooperate with me…”

This is the pride of Mr. Wang and grandson.

This divide was not apparent at first.

Although Gao Changshou was proud in his heart, he was not a domineering person. He was also sincerely grateful for Nie Zhongyou's help. As soon as he met him, he spoke in a decent and polite manner...

"Small country survivors, thank you Du Yuhou for saving me."

"You don't need to be too polite, Marquis Yue." Nie Zhongyou hurriedly returned a salute.

Gao Changshou waved his hand and said, "I shouldn't call you like that. My humble name is 'Muru'. From now on, it's fine to use the same word. It's safer to go to the north."

Nie Zhongyou didn't dare to take the big name, so he still called him "Yuehou" for the time being.

The Gao family is known as "Nine Shuangs, Seven Dukes and Eight Prime Ministers, Three Kings, One Emperor and Five Marquises", and most of them are princes and marquises.After his father died in battle, Gao Changshou took the title of Marquis of Yue by himself and led the remnants to resist the Mongolian army. After being beaten by the Mongolian army, Gao Changshou turned to cooperate with the Song army and dared not show his identity again.

After exchanging pleasantries with Nie Zhongyou, Gao Changshou focused his attention on Li Xia, and asked Li Xia with a smile if he had a name.

Li Xia didn't have a name, so he asked Gao Changshou to call him by his first name, and he was not polite, as if he was an old friend for many years.

The reason why he is so close to Li Xia is that Gao Changshou has learned about what happened in Luzhou from Yang Xiong and Nie Ping in the past two days, and appreciates Li Xia's performance very much.

As far as he is concerned, there is no need to win over an Imperial Guard Du Yuhou, but a young talent who is on death row is totally worth making friends with.

Thinking about it further, if Li Xia can be recruited to join the great cause of Dali's restoration of the country, and if he succeeds in the future, there is no reason to be stingy with high officials and titles, so it may not be possible to recruit this Song native.

Therefore, when he set off north, Gao Changshou gave up his horse to others, and walked side by side with Li Xia, talking freely.

Faced with Gao Changshou's overtures, Li Xia seemed calm and asked a few questions...

"Why do you risk your life to save Gao Qiong?"

"For one thing, my cousin is the eldest son of the Gao family, and his mother is Princess Duan. Only with him can we call on more survivors to fight against the Mongols; second, my cousin is a hundred times more talented than me. When my uncle ruled Dali, he was a Many affairs such as horse trading, trade, and tribute in Song Dynasty were handled by my cousin..."

Li Xia asked Gao Changshou the specific process of going north, and Gao Changshou knew everything about it.

"We infiltrated the Zhang family in Yizhou. When the Zhang family was in the Kingdom of Jin, they were powerful in Hebei. Now the head of the family is Zhang Rou. Therefore, the Kingdom of Jin tried its best to win over him and continued to give him official positions until he was appointed Marshal of the capital. As a result, he surrendered as soon as the Mongolian army came, and in turn destroyed the Kingdom of Jin and made great contributions. After that, more than [-] cities in Henan are under his jurisdiction.

Every year, the Zhang family sends people to Hala and Lincheng to deliver gifts. After I got into the Zhang family, I wanted to go north with the team to rescue my cousin, but I didn’t expect to meet Wuliang Hetai in Hebei. He happened to go from Hala and Lincheng. Southwest guard..."

"Wait a minute." Li Xia asked, "Hala and Lin? Where are they?"

Gao Changshou asked back: "Don't you know the capital of Mongolia?"

Not only Li Xia in this team didn't know where the current capital of the great Mongolian country was, but even Nie Zhongyou couldn't tell. The Mongolian country is really too big, and the various names are very difficult to pronounce.

Gao Changshou was different, he came from aristocratic family and was much more knowledgeable than Nie Zhongyou.

Seeing Li Xia shaking his head, Gao Changshou said, "Hala and Lin are in the faraway land of Mobei. It takes more than five thousand miles to go straight north from Dali Kingdom."

Li Xia thought for a while, thinking that it must be in Outer Mongolia, and asked, "The Wulianghetai is going to the southwest, why did it pass through Hebei?"

"It must have gone to Kaiping City to meet Kublai Khan."

Gao Changshou said, with hatred in his eyes, he gritted his teeth and said: "Back then, Kublai Khan and Wu Liang led the army to Dali. In the Battle of Jiuhe, dozens of heroes from my Gao family died in battle. This hatred... We can't live together."

Li Xia could feel the deep hatred in Gao Changshou's tone.

But the problem he was concerned about was not here. He came to this unfamiliar era, and there were really too many things to know, so he asked again: "Where is Kaiping City?"

"Kaiping City is the city that Kublai Khan is building on the grassland, and it is his summer resort." Gao Changshou said: "This city has just started to be built, and I also heard about it when I was in the Zhang family."

"That is to say, Kublai Khan is not in Kaifeng now?"

"The city should be built in Kaiping."

Li Xia felt a sudden sigh of relief in his heart, and only then did he realize that he was afraid of Kublai Khan...

Gao Changshou turned his head and glanced at Li Xia, and asked again: "Do you think that I was too impulsive in assassinating Wu Liang Hetai, not to mention the loss of soldiers, and it also attracted the Zhang family to hunt down and kill you, which caused you a lot of trouble."

"Yeah." Li Xia was not polite to him, and said truthfully: "It's too impulsive, don't do this next time."

"It's not that I'm impulsive." Gao Changshou said, "It's that I think my cousin Gao Qiong might be in Wuliang Hetai's team."

Li Xia said: "You think that when Wu Liang goes to guard the southwest, he will bring your cousin with him to stabilize the situation in Dali."

"It's possible, that's why I took the risk and found out." Gao Changshou said, "But now if we can reach Kaifeng in time, we still have a chance to meet them again..."

After hearing this, Li Xia turned to look at Nie Zhongyou, vaguely realizing that after Gao Changshou and his party were added to this team, he was afraid that there would be more unexpected troubles...

(End of this chapter)