The first prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1220 Meeting Fan Lin
"En? You just came to Jinling, why are you leaving? Your original plan has not been completed, how could you just leave?" Zhao Xu really didn't know what Zhao Kuangyin was doing.

The two of them, father and son, were talking here, and it was also lively outside, but there was a different situation on the mountain outside the city.

There is a pavilion on the mountain, and a man in white clothes is sitting inside. Opposite him is a pair of stone benches with a jug of wine and two cups on it.

A man in white clothes came towards him. The sitting man raised his hand and said, "Lin Renzhao, please!"

The so-called Lin Renzhao was fully dressed, sat on the stone bench, and asked with great interest, "Who is your Excellency?"

The man in white filled the two wine glasses on the table with fine wine, put them lightly beside him, and said with a smile, "I'm a passer-by in Xiasha. I wonder if Lin Renzhao would dare to drink this wine?"

"Why don't you dare!" The visitor laughed loudly, picked up his wine glass, and raised his glass to the man in white, "Please!" He raised his head and drank the wine in the glass.

"Good wine!" Lin Renzhao yelled loudly after finishing his drink, and then babbled.

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for the man in white to speak, he poured another glass for himself, raised his head and drank it, and he drank a lot after several glasses in a row.

When he had drunk five or six glasses, he put the wine glass in his hand on the table, looked at Fan Ruoshui and said, "Thank you for the good wine, sir, just tell me if you have anything to say!"

"General Lin is indeed General Lin. He speaks without sloppiness. I admire you! My surname is Fan, and my humble name is Ruoshui."

Lin Renzhao, General Lin is Lin Renzhao, a general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the other man in white is Fan Ruoshui, but he doesn't know what Fan Ruoshui wants to see Lin Renzhao.

"Mr. Fan has a few things to ask the general for advice. I wonder if the general can explain it to me?" Fan Ruoshui said with a smile
"Oh? What's the matter? But the old man made a statement in advance, don't get involved in state secrets, otherwise I'll forgive the old man for being merciless!" Lin Renzhao said in a deep voice.

"Fan wants to ask the general about Tang's fortunes. I don't mean anything, I just want to hear what the general thinks."

"Of course my country in Tang Dynasty is thriving, and the country's affairs are getting better day by day. I have confidence in the court of my Tang Dynasty."

Lin Renzhao said firmly, but when he said this, he didn't have much confidence in his heart. His family knew about his own affairs.

"Oh, does the general really think so, but I'm not as optimistic as the general, so doesn't the general have other ideas?" Fan Ruoshui asked.

"Bold, are you a spy from another country? If you do this again, don't blame the old man for being rude." Lin Renzhao stood up abruptly.

"Don't be angry, general. I am also from Tang Dynasty, and I live in Jinling for generations. How could I sell my country? You are too worried." Fan Ruoshui explained.

"Oh? That's the old man being rude!" Lin Renzhao was also open-minded. Since he knew he had misunderstood, he apologized directly. As long as it didn't harm Tang Guo, nothing would happen.

"General, please sit down!" Fan Ruoshui stretched out his hand and invited Lin Renzhao back to the stone bench, and said, "To be honest, the general is one of the people I admire, and I know that the general is extremely loyal to the Tang Dynasty. You are a loyal minister, and so is the boy." I want to make friends with the general."

Hearing what he said, Lin Renzhao's expression softened. Since he was from Datang and wanted to make friends with him, let's see what he said.

"Just say what you have to say. The old man is listening, but you must not play any tricks, otherwise it will still be the same sentence. Don't blame the old man for being rude."

Fan Ruoshui was not angry at all, he knew that Lin Renzhao was an upright and honest person, and he would say whatever came to his mind.

"Well, I just want to ask why you are so loyal to Datang. You must know the current situation of Datang. Don't get me wrong. I just want to hear the general's reasons. Of course, you don't have to say it."

Lin Renzhao twitched his mouth a few times, but he couldn't speak. This man spoke well. The state affairs of the Tang Dynasty are indeed not very good now. The leader of the country, Li Yu, is not at all...

Fan Ruoshui looked at Lin Renzhao and said sincerely: "I know the general is loyal, so I want to record this loyalty and pass it on to future generations, so that the world will remember the general's loyalty, and let the general's reputation be passed down forever!"

"Thank you!" Lin Renzhao sincerely thanked Fan Ruoshui

"Please!" Fan Ruoshui raised his glass.

"Please!" Lin Renzhao happily drank the wine in his glass.

Upon hearing this, Fan Ruoshui looked at Lin Renzhao firmly and said:
"I won't hide it anymore. I asked the general to be so loyal to Datang. I remember that you didn't have gray hair on your head a while ago, but now you have gray hair. What is it like? Isn’t this just loyalty to the emperor and patriotism?”

Lin Renzhao was stunned for a moment, his face changed and he said loudly: "Since you want to know, I will tell you!"

Lin Renzhao's eyes flashed with reminiscence, and he said softly:

"This current king is entrusted by His Majesty, let me ensure the safety of the king, and the future generations of the Tang Dynasty. This is promised, and we must do it!"

But this is not the point. Lin Renzhao is not a lonely and important minister. Why would he try his best to be loyal to Li Yu because of such a thing? Look at what Lin Renzhao has become now. Although he calls himself an old man, he is really not old enough The old man's stage. .

But he calls himself an old man, and his current appearance is no different from that of an old man. Is he really so loyal and patriotic?
In fact, what everyone doesn't know is that it's all because of Li Yu's mother, who is the empress of the current Tang Dynasty. This woman is about the same age as Lin Renzhao, and she is very familiar with Lin Renzhao.

Of course, there is also the most important point that Lin Renzhao had pursued him before, but everyone knew that it was unsuccessful, but Lin Renzhao had always been secretly in love with him and never married.

Now for her, he is also very loyal to Li Yu, which is the ultimate goal. Zhao Xu arranged for Fan Ruoshui to follow Lin Renzhao to exercise when Fan Ruoshui came here today.

Although Fan Ruoshui was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he was young and mature. He looked like someone in his 20s. Lin Renzhao was amazed by some of the things he said, this young man was really talented.

"The general kid really has no way to serve the country, so he took the liberty to invite the general. I have a plan to prevent Song Dynasty. I want to talk to the general face to face."

After chatting with Lin Renzhao for so long, Fan Ruoshui finally revealed his most attractive thing, that is, he has a strategy to resist the Great Song Dynasty. Let's see if Lin Renzhao is tempted or not.

This was the first meeting between Lin Renzhao and Fan Ruoshui. This meeting made Fan Ruoshui famous all over the world and laid the foundation for the Song Dynasty to expand its territory.

(End of this chapter)