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Chapter 545
Bozhou.

In an alley not far from Shuangta Temple, Zhang Hongdao walked through the alley alone and stopped at the door of a hut.

He once had a conversation with Li Xia here.

At that time, it was Li Xia who first proposed to him to marry Zhang Wenjing.

And this time, sending someone over again...is a formal marriage proposal.

Zhang Hongdao picked up the door knocker, wanted to knock, put it down after thinking about it, and pushed open the door.

The courtyard door was unlocked, and an old man was sitting in the courtyard making tea.

Zhang Hongdao recognized this old man, a younger brother of Yang Guo, named "Yang Shi", but a useless literati with no practical talent.

Thinking about it, the reason Li Xia chose Yang Shi was firstly because Yang Shi was elegant and decent, and secondly because the Zhang family had friendship with the Yang family, so they would not kill him.

"Goro is here."

Yang Shi elegantly rolled up his sleeves, poured a cup of tea, and said, "Shanquan, the water has just boiled, Wulang, please sit down and taste it."

Zhang Hongdao was not in a good mood, sat down, did not take the tea on the table, picked up a wine bag from his waist, and took a sip.

He remembered that when he met Li Xia here, he didn't even have a sip of wine.

So this time he brought his own.

"Did your father agree to this marriage?" Yang Shi asked.

"Hmph." Zhang Hongdao snorted coldly, and said lightly, "The toad wants to eat swan meat."

Having said that, his mind is heavy.

His father, Zhang Rou, had been summoned to Kaifeng, which made him quite uneasy.

Yang Shi is mediocre and not a very good lobbyist.

But before coming here, Li Xia had already analyzed the matter thoroughly with him, so he could say a few words.

"Wulang, the old man said something from his heart. The reason why he agreed to Li Xia's marriage proposal was because of the Zhang family's consideration... Now that Li Xia has killed the Mongolian Khan, many people are looking into the past. The relationship between the elder sister and him , in case it is found out..."

Zhang Hongdao was furious, and asked back: "So what?! Wouldn't marrying her to Li Xia instead make the Zhang family and Li Xia more entangled?"

"What Li Xia loves is the eldest sister, not the Zhang family."

Yang Shi smiled apologetically, and said again: "Wu Lang just needs to think of a way to send the eldest sister away, whether it is fake death or disappearance. On the surface, the Zhang family no longer has this daughter, but the love between father and daughter and the righteousness of brother and sister , you can get the best of both worlds."

"At your age, you can say such shameless words."

"A good marriage, a good marriage." Yang Shi sighed, "A talented man and a beautiful woman, both love each other. Li Xia was nineteen years old, and he was the commander of Sichuan and Sichuan. How can there be another person like this in the world?"

Zhang Hongdao frowned.

He understands.

This sentence reminds the Zhang family... Zhang Wenjing is also nineteen years old, and if she makes up her mind not to marry Li Xia, she won't be able to afford it.

"Li Xia is already married, can my daughter of the Zhang family still serve her husband with others?"

Yang Shi sighed, and said: "Going back 300 years, the Gao family in Dali is the family of princes and emperors. Li Xia's wife, Gao family, is a true descendant of a famous family. The eldest sister entered the same family with her and will never humiliate .”

Although the words are not clear, it may not mean that... the ancestors of the Zhang family are just local powerful, and their background is far inferior to that of the Gao family.

Li Xia didn't care about these backgrounds, but Yang Shi and Zhang Hongdao did.

Zhang Hongdao took a sip of his wine.

Yang Shi asked: "I have to mention that the Mongols really treat the princes leniently. Brothers Gao Taihe and Gao Taixiang are so anti-Mongolian, but the Mongols are not implicated. Wulang, let's see, Gao Qiongshang is still sitting in Dali now. Why doesn't Wulang follow him?"

"Dali is different, and it is beyond the reach of the whip." Zhang Hongdao is not confused.

"The reason is interlinked."

Yang Shi glanced at the gate of the courtyard, changed his solemn expression, and said again: "Please come closer, Wulang, and listen to the old man's heartfelt words."

What Zhang Hongdao said was always refusal, but he still listened to it.

Yang Shidao: "Nowadays, Kublai Khan and Ali Buge are fighting for such a situation. It's hard to predict who will win and who will lose. Is the Zhang family really going to bet their lives on Kublai Khan?
What kind of person is Brother Ali?I hate the Han system the most, and I wish I could slaughter all the Han people in the north, so that the Central Plains can become a place where Mongolians herd horses again.Once Kublai Khan was defeated, where would the Zhang family go? "

Hearing this, Zhang Hongdao felt unspeakable meaning in his eyes.

He knew better than Yang Shi that Kublai Khan's current situation was very difficult, and it could almost be called "incompatible with Mongolia".

Yang Shi said again: "There are still some things that Li Xia has not said to the old man, but the old man said one more thing from the standpoint of the Zhang family."

"Mr. Yang said."

"The Zhang family marrying a daughter to Hanzhong is a way out. If Kublai Khan is defeated by Brother Alibu, then the Zhang family can also retreat to Hanzhong...

Wulang imagined that although Li Xia was in Hanzhong, he was under the shackles of the Song court; although the Gao family once ruled Dali, he has lost power now.Therefore, the marriage of two surnames is not enough to rule the roost, what is missing? "

Zhang Hongdao said slowly: "Soldiers and horses."

"If you add the Zhang family, how about the marriage of the three surnames?"

Zhang Hongdao didn't answer.

Yang Shidao: "If this is the case, with the troops of the Zhang family, Li Xia will no longer be under the shackles of the Song court, but will have the reality of Sichuan and Shu. Afterwards, connect Dali to the south and Guanzhong to the north, and he will have the power to rule the roost. Or burn down the plank road , for a country of its own."

Zhang Hongdao's eyes flickered, and after a long time, he said slowly: "The roots of the Zhang family are in Shuntian and Baozhou."

He straightened up, looked at Yang Shi, and shook his head.

"Mr. Yang wants to lie to me. It is absolutely impossible to do what you say."

Yang Shidao: "The old man also said that this is a way out. Right now, the Zhang family only needs to marry their daughter to Li Xia, and wait and see what happens, how about it?"

Holding the tea in his hand, he blew on it and sighed again.

"When the old man set off, Li Xia had a few confessions... First, it depends on the elder sister's mind, if she has no intention of paying attention to him, then the matter will be fine."

"Humph."

Yang Shidao: "Secondly, Li Xia sent the old man here to formally propose a marriage, not to secretly kidnap the elder sister. Because of her father-daughter relationship, she didn't want to embarrass her."

"Ah."

"Thirdly, the old man also told your father about this before... don't tell Eldest Sister about this matter, lest if the matter fails, she will be disappointed and sad, which is not beautiful."

"Pretending to be a gesture, why didn't you consider these when you kidnapped people?"

Zhang Hongdao raised the corners of his mouth, half-smiling and mocking. After cursing, he leaned over and said, "Li Xia owes my sister."

"Therefore, I ask Wulang to believe that Li Xia will treat the elder sister well."

"Humph."

Yang Shi stroked his beard and sighed: "For young children, it is a beautiful and good marriage for adults; for Zhang's family, it is not appropriate to obtain the reality of marriage secretly even though there is no name."

Having said all that needs to be said, he sipped his tea and waited for the Zhang family to reply.

Zhang Hongdao got up and paced back and forth in the courtyard.

"How to send relatives?"

Yang Shi was overjoyed, got up and said: "If the Zhang family agrees, the old man will return to A Lang, and he will go to Shouzhou to meet his relatives in the Huaihe River."

He had been persuading from the standpoint of the Zhang family before, calling Li Xia by his name, but now he changed his name.

"I didn't say yes."

Zhang Hongdao snorted coldly, walked out of the courtyard, and stopped when he pushed the door.

"Mr. Yang, let's wait for a few more days. My father has gone to Kaifeng, and we can talk about it when he returns."

"Okay, okay." Yang Shi hurriedly said with a smile: "Wulang, walk slowly..."

This time he came, he miscalculated the time when Zhang Rou would return to his teacher, and he had been waiting in Bozhou for a long time.

But fortunately, things seem to be getting done...

~~
When Zhang Hongdao returned home, he went to the study and saw that the lock on the door had been picked.

"Who did it?"

"Report to Goro, Twelve Lang was hanging on the tree over there just now and couldn't get down. The villains went to rescue... and it became like this when they came back. Please punish Goro."

"Go down."

Zhang Hongdao pushed the door open, looked around, and then lay down on the ground.

Squinting his eyes against the sunlight for a while, he faintly saw a delicate footprint, so he smiled wryly and shook his head.

The younger sister in the family does these sneaky things every day, hoping to find out the whole story of the war against Song Dynasty, especially the war in Sichuan and Shu.

Zhang Hongdao no longer dared to keep such official documents at home, and it was very hard to guard against them.

Fortunately, maybe she will be married off...

Thinking of this, Zhang Hongdao sighed.

"That's what this ghost girl wants..."

~~
Hanzhong.

Li Xia just received a piece of information.

"Shi Tianze arrived at Tongguan? He underestimated Kublai Khan..."

"What did Aaron say?"

Li Xia didn't answer, he was rarely distracted.

……

Some things are still bad.

Kublai Khan was much calmer than expected. For example, when he got the news of Meng Ge's death, he realized where his foundation was and did not return north hastily.

So Song Ting, knowing that Meng Ge was dead, still expressed his willingness to pay tribute.

Regardless of whether the tribute is given or not, how many people realize that the object of the Song court's tribute is Kublai Khan, even if he is not a big sweat?
The tribute silver is not important, the important thing is... how do the princes think about it?

What did Kublai Khan do during the following period of time?
How much have the thoughts of those Han princes who are ready to move have been suppressed?

Li Fen clearly had objections early on, why didn't he reply to the letter for a long time, and didn't take advantage of this golden opportunity to raise troops?Did you get the letter?
Shi Tianze, who clearly contacted Li Fen early on, with the intention of spying on the situation, is now willing to fight fiercely for Kublai Khan's strong soldiers at Asuotai. Why?
Zhang Rou still hasn't given a reply...

(End of this chapter)