The famous book tour starting from the Red House

So, when Tong Guan excitedly led the army to the outside of Yanjing City, intending to capture Xiao Qian and others in one fell swoop, and asked the court for credit, he found that things were quite different from what he thought.

What caught Song Jun's eyes was the wide-open Yanjing city gate and the local gentry who welcomed them, but there was no trace of an enemy soldier at all.

It should have been something to be happy about not having gone through a hard fight, but Tong Guan, who was surrounded by the crowd and entered the city, felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly.After all, he originally planned to use this battle to avenge his past humiliation and regain the trust of the officials by the way.

Unexpectedly, this battle did not go according to his expectations from the very beginning. First, the Western Army, as the vanguard, lost its former bravery, and fought a tie with the Liao motley army.

Then he let go of Xiao Qian and Zhang Jue, the culprits who caused Yan land to be lost again.

One must know that before this expedition, he, Tong Guan, boasted to the officials that he would definitely capture and dedicate Xiao Qian and others to the emperor, but now everything has become empty talk.

The more Tong Guan thought about it, the more he felt that he couldn't just return the teacher empty-handed. For a while, he couldn't help but focus on Lu Keming and these Yanjing sitting tigers, thinking in his heart whether he could find some Xiao Qian's accomplices from these people, so as to show respect to the court and peace. Official business.

At the same moment, Xiao Qian, whom Tong Guan was thinking of, had already escorted his elder sister Xiao Puxian and his family to Juyongguan.

In order to avoid misunderstanding, Xiao Qian ordered the team to stop at the same spot when he was still a mile away from the pass, and he himself only brought two of his personal followers to knock on the pass to ask for an audience.

Sun Yi, who was in charge of guarding Juyong Pass, received Xiao Qian immediately. After knowing his purpose, Sun Yi replied, "This matter is of great importance. I would not dare to be self-reliant. I need to ask my envoy for instructions." , Lord Xiao, please wait a moment."

Xiao Qian didn't dare to take it seriously, and quickly clasped his fists and said, "It's natural, but Xiao dragged his family to come here. Once Song Jun catches up, it won't be beautiful after all. I wonder if the general will let me wait to enter the pass?"

Sun Yi glanced into the distance, and said with a smile, "It's okay, Mr. Xiao, don't worry, my envoy is currently in the pass, and I will give you an answer soon."

"What, the general is saying that Mu... Jiedu is here?" Xiao Qian was taken aback, and after the words came out, he realized that it was normal for Mu Xu to pay close attention to such a big event in Yandi.

Sun Yi didn't answer this question, but ordered someone to report to Mu Xu quickly.

About half an hour later, when Xiao Qian was waiting more and more anxious, thinking that something had happened, he heard the sound of horseshoes, followed by a young man with red lips and white teeth riding on the horse. general.

When the man was ten steps away from the two of them, he stopped the horse, turned over with a kite, and jumped off the horse cleanly, his skillful movement immediately drew cheers from the guards.

The man smiled and clasped his fists to express his thanks, and hurried towards the pass.

"General Sun, who is this little brother?" Xiao Qian was also impressed by the equestrian skills of the visitor, and seeing that he was so popular, he couldn't help asking.

Sun Yi replied casually, "This is Yan Qing, the envoy in charge of my envoy and the commander of the guards."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Xiao Qian to reply, he shouted, "Xiao Yi is more agile now, why don't you teach my subordinate son another day, how about I give you double salary?"

Yan Qing smiled and said, "It's easy to say, easy to say! As long as General Sun can speak well, the villain has nothing to do with him!"

"Hey, you know that you can't live without you, but you use this to prevaricate me."

While the two were joking, Yan Qing had already come to the front, and immediately put away the smile on his face, and said solemnly, "The envoy's order is to let Mr. Xiao go to the house, and please meet Mr. Xiao in the pass."

Sun Yi hurriedly bowed to accept the order, while Yan Qing cast his eyes on Xiao Qian, waved his hand and said, "Master Xiao, please come with me, my envoy is here to invite you."

Xiao Qian cupped his hands, "Thank you!" Then he thanked Sun Yi and followed Yan Qing.

Because she wanted to lead the way for Xiao Qian, Yan Qing led the horse on foot during this journey, which also allowed Xiao Qian to have a panoramic view of the situation in the pass.

Compared with the time when the Liao Kingdom ruled this place, the city walls and corridors are all completely new, and there are not a single commoner in the pass, only soldiers come and go.

Xiao Qian is also a veteran general who has led troops for many years, seeing only the tip of the iceberg, he can't help but suspect that Mu Xu is probably ready to fight, as for the target, that is even more obvious.

And this doubt, after Xiao Qian met Mu Xu, became even more certain, because when he followed Yan Qing to the house where Mu Xu was, he saw the map of Yandi on the table in the middle, and the map on the back. Facing Mu Xu who was standing by the table.

"My lord, Mr. Xiao has brought you here."

Yan Qing's voice interrupted Xiao Qian's thoughts, and when he was about to salute Mu Xu first, Mu Xu said without looking back, "Got it! Master Xiao, don't be too polite, just come and talk."

Xiao Qian resisted doubts and walked to the table, and saw Mu Xu's hand heavily pointing at the position of Luanzhou, and asked, "Master Xiao, after Yan Zonghan conquered Luanzhou, he suddenly stopped his front. What do you think he plans to do next?" ?”

"Ah, this..." Xiao Qian was a little dumbfounded, he didn't know which song Mu Xu was singing, but after all he was well-informed, he quickly collected his mood, looked at the map carefully and replied,
"It should be waiting for Wanyan Zongbi's other army to encircle Pingzhou. After all, Pingzhou is not comparable to Luan and Yingzhou. The city is tall and populated, easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you attack rashly, it will only cause Wanyan Zonghan to lose troops."

Mu Xu nodded slightly, and then, as if remembering something, with regret on his face, he said to Xiao Qian, "I have some bad news to tell Mr. Xiao. I got a report from a scout a few days ago that Wanyan Zongbi is capturing Tanzhou Afterwards, the soldiers were allowed to massacre the city for three days, and it is said that the blood flowed in Tanzhou, almost turning into ghost land."

"This... these beasts!" Xiao Qian's vision immediately went dark when he heard about it, if it wasn't for Yan Qing who helped him from behind, he would fall to the ground.

The reason why Xiao Qian was like this is because Tanzhou city is the largest gathering area of ​​Khitan and Xi people in Yandi, and there are no less than [-] people of the two ethnic groups living in the city.

It was for this reason that Xiao Qian acted so unbearably when he first heard about it.

"Master Xiao, please be sorry! To be honest, although I have heard that the Jurchens are barbaric, but today I know that compared to the rumors, what they did is worse than the rumors."

Xiao Qian had already regained his strength, he thanked Yan Qing for his help first, then knelt down in front of Mu Xu without saying a word, kowtowed three times, crying with tears in his eyes,

"Xiao Qian, a survivor of the Xi people, begs the general to take him in. As long as the general is willing to be an enemy of Jurchen, the villain is willing to be an ox and a horse, and will never betray!"

"Master Xiao please hurry up, I promise you."

Mu Xu helped Xiao Qian up with empathy, and said in his mouth, "The golden man is barbaric and brutal, but also ambitious. It is only a matter of time before he plots against the sky, and I am incompatible with myself!"

"If you are going to fight against the Jin people, Xiao please be the vanguard!"

Hearing Xiao Qian's address change quietly, Mu Xu immediately responded with a smile, "Okay, General Xiao has confronted the Jurchens many times, and he is exactly the talent I need."

Speaking of this, he suddenly changed the subject, and continued, "But right now, General Xiao is going to be wronged, and he will hide his name in Yundi for a period of time, lest the Song court ask me for the general and others."

Xiao Qian knew that Mu Xu was still a Song official at the moment, so he naturally expressed his understanding.

Now that the title of master and servant has been determined, Mu Xu speaks casually, and after asking about the current situation in Yandi, he asks Yanqing to take him down to resettle.

Looking at Xiao Qian's leaving figure, the corners of Mu Xu's mouth curled up slightly.

To be honest, when Xiao Qian would come to join him, Mu Xu really didn't think in advance that this person was a rare diehard in the Liao Kingdom in the official history. After the fall of the Liao Kingdom, he still refused to surrender The two kingdoms of Song and Jin were finally killed by their subordinates.

But no matter what, the arrival of this person was definitely a surprise for Mu Xu.

It all stems from the fact that Xiao Qian is the last king of the Xi family. With the help of his status, Mu Xu will surely be able to get twice the result with half the effort when he recovers You Yun and the Xi people from Liaodong in the future.

After this little episode, Mu Xu still stayed in Juyongguan, always paying attention to the changes in the situation in Yandi, because he had a premonition that something bad would happen in Jin Kingdom, and he would never hand over Luanzhou and other places to Song Dynasty so easily. .

Everything was exactly as Mu Xu had expected. After forcing Zhang Jue, who was driving back to Pingzhou, to surrender, and looting the occupied area, the Kingdom of Jin really refused to give up. With the reason that the Song army did not contribute much this time, it unexpectedly The lion opened his mouth and asked the Song Dynasty to move all the people from the six prefectures of Yanshan Prefecture to Liaodong.

As the representative of the Song Dynasty in negotiating with the Kingdom of Jin, Tong Guanzi dared not agree to such an excessive request.

You must know that the Jin people massacred the people of Tanzhou and plundered the population of Luan, Ping, and Ying, which already aroused complaints from the people of Yandi, thinking that the Song Dynasty was too weak.

If he dared to agree to this again, and let them migrate away from Yanjing and other six states in front of the mountain, not to mention whether the people here would rebel immediately, even the Song court could not accept the result of getting a few empty cities.

Facing the aggressive Jin State, Tong Guan also sensed that something was wrong at this time, so he could only deal with the Jin envoy as best he could, while sending people to ask the court for instructions.

After receiving Tong Guan's urgent report, the Song court was naturally shocked.

Zhao Ji was even more troubled by this, and finally realized the pain that it is easy to invite God but difficult to send God away.He wanted to say no to it, but in the secret letter Tong Guan gave him, he said the golden man was too scary, which made it difficult for him to make a decision for a while.

Reluctantly, after discussing with a group of ministers, Zhao Ji first secretly dispatched [-] forbidden troops from the Daming Mansion to go north to deploy defenses in Xiongzhou, and then sent a mission headed by Li Bangyan to Yanjing to renegotiate with the Jin people.

How should I put it, Zhao Ji's dispatch of Li Bangyan is definitely a failure. This man is an ignorant prodigal son, and he can occupy a high position only because of his flattery. How can he know about important national affairs?
This guy arrived in Yanjing, and after hearing from Tong Guan how cruel and invincible the Jin people were, he immediately lost his timidity. When negotiating with the Jin envoy Gao Qingyi, instead of arguing with reason, he made a fool of himself. Show the slightest integrity.

In the end, under the threat of force from Gao Qingyi, Li Bangyan agreed to Jin Guo's overall conditions after consulting Zhao Ji.

These conditions include:

First, the Kingdom of Jin retains the land of Pingzhou in the pass, but the garrison must not exceed [-].

Second, Song Dynasty needs to bear all the military expenses of the Kingdom of Jin for sending troops this time, which is equivalent to five million taels of silver.

Third, Zhao Ji, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, begged to buy from Wanyan Wu, the emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, and called him his brother. From then on, the Song Dynasty served the Kingdom of Jin as his brother.

According to common sense, the Song Dynasty was not incapable of fighting, and it was completely unnecessary to agree to such an outrageous treaty.

And anyone with a discerning eye can see that the first article of this treaty is obviously a trap. If the Song Dynasty agrees to let the Jin Kingdom keep Pingzhou, it is tantamount to letting it bury a nail in the pass, and it may backfire at any time.

But the Song Dynasty is so different. Since the Tanyuan Alliance, there has been a tradition of spending money to buy peace. Therefore, after some discussions, Zhao Ji and his ministers thought that as long as they can spend some money, they will send the Jin people away from Yandi , is a pretty good deal.

As for the matter of begging to buy from Wanyan Wu, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, to be called his brother, this point has not aroused controversy.

Because in the eyes of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty, it was nothing more than transferring the old treatment of the Liao Kingdom to the Jin Kingdom, and it also lacked the item of old coins, which can be said to have made a profit.

Of course, it's not that no one has suggested that Pingzhou cannot be granted to the Kingdom of Jin.But on the one hand, Jin Guo insisted on this point, and on the other hand, the military represented by Tong Guan and Gao Qiu confidently believed that as long as they mastered the dangerous passes such as Gubeikou and Yuguan, Pingzhou was just an enclave, and they were not afraid of it. Jin Guo used this to play tricks.

In this way, after paying a large sum of silver, the Jinren left Zhang Jue, who had just surrendered, as the general of Pingzhou, and returned to the place outside the pass as promised.

Seeing the retreat of the Jin army, the kings and ministers of the Great Song Dynasty celebrated this, thinking that a military disaster had been avoided.

But Mu Xu, who was far away in Juyongguan, was not so optimistic. Reminiscent of Zhang Jue's vote for Song in history, he thought that the Jin people still had this idea, but it was just a different way.

Otherwise, how do you explain why there are so many powerful generals in the Kingdom of Jin, but Zhang Jue was left to guard Pingzhou? Could it be that the Jin people trust a surrendered general so much?If you think about it, you will understand that there is probably a big problem.

Thinking that the Kingdom of Jin would go south in a big way soon, Mu Xu didn't dare to relax his vigilance. On the second day he rushed back to Yunzhou, he called all the generals to discuss the matter.

At the meeting, he also refused to explain to everyone, so he passed the order against all opinions, ordering all the main troops under his command to stand on guard from today, waiting for his general's order.

At the same time, he also secretly mobilized [-] troops, [-] of whom were transferred to Feihukou, commanded by Zhu Wu, with Lu Zhishen, Hu Yanzhuo, Yang Zhi, and Guan Sheng as assistants.

The remaining [-] people will be led by Hua Rong to reinforce Juyongguan, and will be temporarily handed over to Sun Yi. After he settles the government affairs of Yundi, he will rush to sit in the town in person to deal with the ensuing great changes.

After arranging these things, Mu Xu basically stayed at home for the next six months, except for handling official business every day, and spent the rest of the time at the house with his wives and two children.

During this rare peaceful day, Mu Xu not only took time to accept Zheyuemei, the daughter of the Zhe family, but also made the three wives Zhao Fujin, Zhao Yuannu, and Hu Sanniang pregnant successively.