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Chapter 11

"If I cherish my life, then after Du Xianggong passes away, I will never return to Luzhou City!"

Lu Fengtai let out a drink, looked at Nie Zhongyou for a while, and finally sighed: "The situation in Huaiyou is not as good as it was back then, among other things, even I know that the military salary has been delayed for a year, and the security guards at the top of the city are three years old. It hasn't been repaired for a year. These years, the Huaiyou army and the people have worked together to fight against Mongolia, and it is really coming to an end. You ask me what to prepare? I can't say, but at least...wait for the money transfer from the Transit Department?"

Nie Zhongyou shook his head, picked up the knife, and began to draw on the ground.

What he drew was a simple map, and he was talking while drawing.

"Do you know why there is no military pay? After the Mongolian army wiped out Dali, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hunan became the front lines. The imperial court had to divide its troops to go south and build a new line of defense. This caused a big financial deficit..."

Nie Zhongyou may have just heard some important officials say something about it. He obviously didn't have a deep understanding of wealth and wealth, so he could only use words like 'a big deficit'.

As he spoke, he had finished drawing the map.

Li Xia was a little puzzled at first... Mongolia is to the north and Dali is to the south. How could the Mongolian army not destroy Song first but Dali first?

But now that he saw it, he understood.

Now the Mongolian Khanate has conquered most of Asia, and its territory can surround the entire Song Dynasty.

In other words, its territory was completely connected to the west of the Song Dynasty.

Anyway, according to Nie Zhongyou's painting, after the Dali Kingdom was destroyed, the Song Dynasty bordered the Mongolian Khanate as long as it was not near the sea.

Of course, this was only painted by Nie Zhongyou.There should still be some small countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia, but he is too lazy to draw them.

After Nie Zhongyou finished drawing the map, he tapped on the southwest position on the map.

"You said that Huaiyou's army is not well paid, but if the problem of Dali Kingdom is not resolved, the deficit of the court will only increase year by year. And I was ordered to come here precisely because the ministers in the court are trying to solve this matter."

"Excuses." Lu Fengtai shook his head, sneered, "Using the incident of a foreign country thousands of miles away as an excuse to lose money, and fooling us big soldiers, isn't it ridiculous?"

He waved his hand, and said again: "Brother Nie, don't be deceived. How did the deficit come about? Does it have anything to do with the destruction of the Dali Kingdom? I don't care what the important ministers say about these things. At that time, Huaiyou can't afford to fight this battle."

"In any case, we should do our best to help the survivors of Dali to fight against the Mongols." Nie Zhongyou said again: "Do you know 'good offices'? The Mongols hunted their prey by encircling them from all sides and attacked their soft abdomen. They destroyed Dali, for the sake of What I want is to be able to attack the hinterland of our Great Song Dynasty. And what I do is not to control the fate of other countries, but to protect our own hinterland."

"The Kingdom of Dali has been destroyed. This is an irreparable matter. What is the most urgent task? It is to arrange the defense of the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River to delay the Mongolian army from going south, instead of acting recklessly like you and giving the Mongolians an excuse."

"Don't lie to yourself, can you count on being a man with your tail between your legs so that people won't beat us? Ever since Du Xianggong left, Huaiyou soldiers have become such greedy people who fear death?!"

"Did you mention Du Xianggong? Let me tell you something. When the Jin Kingdom was newly destroyed, the court insisted on recovering the three capitals. Du Xianggong strongly opposed it, but he couldn't stop those 'passionate' people like you at that time, so he vowed He sent troops to Heluo, regained the three capitals, and the court was full of excitement. But what happened? The border quarrels were lightly opened, and the Mongolian army came to attack. Half of the [-] troops were killed in the north of the Huaihe River. Without an inch of land, the officials blamed themselves, and the soldiers and the people were terrified! "

Lu Fengtai's eyes turned red at this point, he calmed down his anger, and said earnestly: "I don't know who is behind you, but to be able to participate in this matter and have contact with Lv Taiwei, he must be an important official in the court, why can't you eat a piece of it?" Learn from the pit? Don’t use that reckless enthusiasm to hinder the great cause of the family and the country, okay?!”

"Who is hindering the great cause of the family and the country?!"

"Nie Zhongyou, can you listen to my advice?!"

"Lu Fengtai, are you now a dog under the feet of the peace-seekers?!"

Li Xia thought that the two were going to fight, but seeing them staring at each other for a while, their chests heaving, they finally calmed down.

Lu Fengtai said: "I advise you, if you see those fugitives, leave them to me."

Nie Zhongyou said: "Having said that, you still refuse to let them go? They are also resisting Mongolia. You want to hand over our comrades who fought side by side to the enemy?"

"Dali people are foreigners, not my comrades who fought side by side."

Lu Fengtai dropped this sentence, turned around and walked out, thought for a while and then sighed: "Brother Nie, I followed orders, don't blame me."

Nie Zhongyou said lightly: "I also follow orders."

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When Lu Fengtai left the guest room, Nie Zhongyou turned to Li Xia and asked, "Do you understand everything?"

"Probably." Li Xia said, "I don't know the really meaningful details yet."

Nie Zhongyou asked: "Do you think Lu Fengtai has caught the person we are looking for?"

Li Xia asked back, "How many people are there in the remaining members of the Gao Clan?"

"Five."

"Lu Fengtai definitely didn't catch everyone, otherwise he wouldn't have left that old man waiting on Changfeng Street, and wouldn't have come to test you."

"Do you think he came to me for any other purpose?"

Li Xia said: "He sent someone to watch us, and you found out, otherwise he might have been watching us all the time. He came to you to scare the snake away, and asked you to find the rest of the Gao family as soon as possible, so that he can catch people. This shows that he His errands are time-limited, and he is in a hurry than us."

"I don't have much time to spend here."

"Oh."

"I'm going to leave this to you."

"You believe me?"

"At least, you will definitely not be inserted into the team by the peacemaker."

Having said that, Li Xia suddenly felt that it was not easy for Nie Zhongyou, and pondered: "But Lu Fengtai has already met me just now."

Nie Zhongyou said: "I did it on purpose, I will give you the token, and you will come forward to find someone. At the same time, I will send a soldier to visit secretly. In this way, you are in the light, and he is in the dark. Let Lu Fengtai think that the dark place That's the point."

"Oh."

"But in fact, you on the bright side are the one who really wants to contact Gao."

Li Xia said: "Your tricks are not very good, Lu Fengtai will definitely send someone to monitor me."

Nie Zhongyou: "But you are very smart, I believe you can avoid his eyeliner and find Gao."

"Then what do you do?"

"I will restrain Lu Fengtai, and I will join you after you bring Gao Shi out of Luzhou safely."

"Okay." Li Xia reached out to take the copper token, and said, "Tell me the characteristics of those people."

Nie Zhongyou said: "I don't know..."

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Lu Fengtai left the inn, walked around the long street, and after making sure that Nie Zhongyou didn't send anyone to follow him, he walked into a tea house.

There is only an alley between this teahouse and the back door of the Taiping Inn. Looking from the teahouse, you can just see the guest courtyard where Nie Zhongyou lives.

He drank a cup of tea, looked at the guest courtyard in the distance, and saw a man dressed as a caravan guard walking into Nie Zhongyou's room.

After a while, Li Xia in white came out of the house, stood in the courtyard for a while, looked around, and left the inn.

"Fan San, go and watch him." Lu Fengtai ordered.

"Yes."

Fan San cupped his hands in response, and hurriedly left the teahouse.

Lu Fengtai was still sitting upright drinking tea, and continued to stare at Nie Zhongyou's room in the distance.

However, after drinking a whole pot of tea, the caravan guard never came out.

Lu Fengtai smiled slightly, turned his head and looked towards the stairs.

After a while, one of his subordinates came up quickly and reported in a low voice: "Dutou, as expected, someone sneaked out from the courtyard wall of the Taiping Inn. They are very skilled, and two brothers have already followed..."

(End of this chapter)