The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 226 Father-in-law knows his son-in-law’s thoughts

Master Zhong put the letter away and said, "Brother Ning, your master doesn't have Bianjing, does he?"

The sound of "Brother Ning" brought the two of them much closer.

Ning Ren nodded: "At the request of the Khitan Emperor, I went north to meet the bride. The Khitan wants to marry a princess to the official family."

"Yes." Zhong Shidao nodded, he was right.

Zhong Shidao asked again: "Let me ask, who will guard Qingtang?"

Ning Ren replied: "My master suggested that the name Qingtang is not good, so it should be renamed Xi-Ningzhou, with Zhang Shuye as its magistrate. I don't know who the governor is, and I dare not hide it from the general. I am in the weapons supervision department. This time, there was no one available in the palace, so I was temporarily transferred back to the palace to do good things."

There is no one available in the palace.

Zhong Shidao is 50 years old. He knows very well that it is not that there is no one available, but that there is no one who is absolutely trustworthy.

Zhong Shidao asked again: "If you leave my place, do you want to return to Bianjing?"

"Go to see Prince Cao."

"I'll send someone to escort you."

There must be something important, Zhong Shidao didn't ask, he already knew everything he wanted to know, there was no need to ask anymore.

Zhong Shidao added: "Before leaving, I'll eat bad water, wine, and some local specialties. I'll also ask my little brother to bring a piece back to your family. It's a little bit of my thoughts. Please tell your family, the Xixia people can only step on me." Only corpses can cross my defense line. There are hundreds of people in my family, and thousands of people in my clan, guarding the line of defense."

Ning Ren took three steps back and bowed.

Zhong Shidao drew his knife in return.

Today is going to change.

However, Zhongshidao doesn't care.

He believed that the Zhe family also cared.

They fought against the Xixia people for generations and survived so many hard days.

Now, there are caravans going west to protect their profits, the weapons are better than before, and there is sufficient food and grass.

Since they have formed an alliance, it is best for the Xixia people to be content.

Otherwise, next time the war starts, Zhong Shidao is determined to fight to the Xixia King's City.

Ning Ren stayed for two more days.

Zhong Shidao led his troops and sent them thirty miles away before turning back.

One of his own lieutenants asked: "General, I'm just a father-in-law from the palace. Is he supposed to be sent thirty miles out of the city?"

Master Zhong replied: "It's not him I gave it to. Does he know who I gave it to?"

"don't know."

"If you don't understand, just follow the instructions."

"The end is here."

Zhong Shidao took a deep breath: "Regulate the army, you will be the vanguard, lead [-] new armored troops, [-] cavalry, and [-] infantry troops to Henan Army Division to take over military affairs. Before this general arrives, the surrounding military villages and fortresses , you have to inspect it yourself, otherwise military law will be engaged."

"I have the order!" The deputy general clasped his fists, turned the horse's head, and led his troops back to the city first.

Master Zhong rode on his horse and watched Ning Ren's motorcade disappear from a distance before returning to the city.

Half a month later, in fact, Liang Xin had not yet left the Song Dynasty. She was still two days away from Cangzhou. The carriage was shaking and shaking along the way. No matter how good the carriage was, it could not withstand the continuous shaking for half a month.

On the other side, Taozhou.

Why must Ning Ren come?

There are a bunch of very confidential letters.

Cao Tan's, Liang Shicheng's, Gao Shilin's, Fan Chunli's, Han Zhongyan's... are all letters to Cao Ping.

In front of Cao Ping, Ning Ren lowered his head and stood at the lower position.

Not to mention the current relationship between Cao Ping and Liang Xin.

Before Cao Ping was released, except for the Grand Duke in the palace, any father-in-law had to lower his head in front of Cao Ping.

Cao family.

Cao Ping looked at the letter and glanced up at Ning Ren.

"Come here, sit down."

"Thank you for sitting down." Ning Ren saluted before he dared to sit down.Cao Ping sighed: "My uncle gave me a big problem. What is war and peace, peace and war, war and peace. What kind of country is Black Khan? What should we fight? Degree, and how should the sum be a sum.”

Ning Ren stood up again.

Cao commented: "Sit down and talk."

Ning Ren: "The Lord has something to say."

At this point, Ning Ren stopped.

Cao Ping looked around: "They are all members of his family. Everyone you see has the surname Cao."

Ning Ren then said: "The Lord said that war serves politics. I thought that as long as the prince knows what he wants, this problem will naturally not be a problem."

"What I want." Cao Ping began to think.

want.

Cao Pingxin said that what Liang Xin wanted was to rebuild the Anxi Protectorate in the first step, and to coerce the Western Regions in the second step, and then...

Cao Ping thought of a place mentioned in Cao Tan's letter.

To the west, the most perfect area that can be defended from a high position, the ones to the north seem to be called the Ural Mountains, with a total length of five thousand miles, and the ones to the south, what are they called?

Cao Ping thought hard for a while.

Well, it's called the Zagros Mountains.

In addition, there is a Kazakh tribe who is a natural cavalry. It is recorded in the Tang Book. According to the records in the Tang Book, he is called Hesa. He was originally a branch of the Gaoche tribe.

The land they currently live on has more than [-] million acres of fertile farmland.

Cao Ping patted his head lightly.

He felt that he would never want to return to the Central Plains in this life.

According to the description in the girl's letter, it will be a journey of thousands of miles, and then go north and south. The size of this territory is comparable to the land area of ​​several Song Dynasties, including hundreds of millions of acres of fertile land, countless grasslands, and countless forests. , countless mountains.

Cao Ping sighed softly and said to the people around him: "This time, I may have married the wrong girl."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present was nervous.

Cao Ping then said: "According to our girl, we need to fight thousands of miles for hundreds of millions of acres of fertile land and tens of millions of horses. You..."

Before Cao Ping could finish speaking, Cao Sheng, who was standing on one side, turned to Cao Ping and knelt down on one knee: "Commander, as a man, I don't dare to hope that I can be a wolf and live in Xu, expand my territory and leave my name in the tribe. Expanding the territory of thousands of miles and establishing a family tree, expanding the territory of thousands of miles? I dare to ask the commander-in-chief, is the clan worthy of the founding of the clan?"

A book is a separate book of genealogy.

For many members of the Cao clan, let alone their own, the whole family would not be able to get such an opportunity.

open.

There is only one person in the Cao family for seven generations.

Cao Bin, the founding general, and his direct descendants took the title of Wu Hui.

Counting further forward, as far as the Han Dynasty, there were only a few people excluding Cao Cao's family.

Cao Ping's expression was calm.

He said in his heart, what do you know?

This is not for the Song Dynasty, but for the Han family, or to put it more lightly, for my unborn grandson.

At this time, Cao Ping just said that everyone in this room has the surname Cao.

Cao Sheng finished speaking.

Everyone knelt on one knee in front of Cao Ping.

Cao Ping closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them again, his eyes were no longer calm.

"Prepare for war and march westward."

In this room, only Cao Ping knew clearly.

Why Qiuci is restored to the country is all an excuse.

Liang Xin wants to build an invincible cavalry and conquer a huge territory.

Then follow the example of the First Emperor, unify writing, unify weights and measures, and send a large number of teachers to let Han culture shine on the world.

(End of this chapter)