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Chapter 1211 The Lobbyist
Going east from Xiangyang City, crossing the Han River, and walking for more than ten miles is Lumen Mountain.

Since the Yuan and Song Dynasties, the Yuan army built a fortress here in the name of protecting goods.

It was the first time for Lu Wenhuan to walk into this fortress in person.

In the early winter weather in late October, he was wearing a white robe that looked like a mourning gown, with light armor on top of the white robe, such a plain attire, but it still made him calm and majestic.

His temperament is quite different from two years ago, more like Lu Wende.

Climbing up the stone steps step by step, passed through the first city wall, then passed through the second city wall, and after passing through the third city wall, Lu Wenhuan finally snorted and said: "It can be seen that Meng Yuan lost my heart. "

"Marshal Lu, don't be upset. After all, the Yuan army ceded Lumen Mountain and the cities of Nanyang to Da Song."

The speaker was a civil servant, who came from Lin'an to pass the decree, and his name was Jia Yuqing.

Because his surname was Jia, Lu Wenhuan inevitably suspected that he was related to Jia Sidao, but after several days of repeated testing, Jia Yuqing always smiled and said that he was only talking about official business.

As for official business, it's easy.

Jia Yuqing was very respectful, and replied: "It can be seen that Yuan Ting is now cornered by Li Ni, so he proposed such a condition to the court."

"You are too polite, handsome."

Finally, Wang Luo turned around, walked in front of him again, and said, "If I misread Lu Shuai, Lu Shuai might as well kill me..."

Wang Luo had already walked to the edge of the high platform, took out a binocular from his arms, looked around, and said, "The Yuan army knows how to choose a place, and if they occupy this place, they can easily blockade Xiangyang."

Continue to climb up the steps, pass through the three-story wall, climb up to the high platform, and see Lu Wenhuan.

Suddenly a soldier came up from the foot of the mountain and whispered something in Lu Wenhuan's ear.

Before the Battle of Wuguan that year, Lu Wenhuan actually met Wang Luo. What he thought at the time was that this kind of boastful, arrogant and rude person might not live long, but he did not expect that he is still alive now.

"Enough! What kind of person do you think I am, Lu Wenhuan? Can I be persuaded to surrender easily?!"

This is really not a suspenseful matter, Lu Wenhuan nodded after hearing this, and said: "I borrowed from Jia Xianggong..."

"Hulus are like this." Lu Wenhuan said, "Pulling the weak and fearing the strong."

Lu Wenhuan first looked at the warehouses in the Lumen Mountain Fortress, but they were empty inside, without any food, money or goods.

Lu Wenhuan suddenly yelled loudly, tapped his chest hard, and said: "I will serve the army less, drive in the northwest, shield in the southeast, serve the country loyally, put life and death at risk, and protect the Great Song Dynasty! I am the Great Song Dynasty! Song's loyal minister!"

"What a great place."

"I know." Wang Luo said: "It's all an empty city, with no food and grass. The working population has been moved away, and the houses have been burned down. I will give it to you Zhao Song so that you can meet our army. It is easy for you to take the cities of Nanyang today. , but it is very difficult to hold on, and the funds for military service will be endless, where will Song Ting raise money?"

"I regard you as a person with national integrity and righteousness."

Now the Yuan court is wholeheartedly and sincerely forming an alliance with the Song court, and expresses its willingness to give up the cities of Nanyang in exchange for the Song court to send troops to attack Mengjindu. The Lin'an court sent an official to communicate with Lu Wenhuan.

"Everything in the world doesn't just depend on words."

Two people came from below with their heads down and passed him by.

"It's okay, there are people fighting in the army, it's a trivial matter." Lu Wenhuan said: "Mr. Jia is tired, go and arrange a shoulder boat to take him down the mountain."

"With the current status of the Lu family in Zhao Song Dynasty, it is like a feudal town. Today, Lu Shuai wants to regain the cities of Nanyang, and even defeat my master Wang? Do he still want to make great military exploits? When the time comes, the merits will be overwhelming, but it will not be good. gone."

"That's different." Wang Luo laughed and said, "Our Northern Expedition will at least drive Meng Yuan to the north of Saibei, so Your Majesty will go straight to Yanjing instead of fighting for the city in the east. You know, I was going to Shandong to persuade Yan Zhongji, if you don’t want to go, you won’t go. As long as Kublai Khan is destroyed, Shandong will naturally return, why care about the gains and losses of a city and a place? Unlike you, you are still greedy for the empty city of Nanyang. Let’s put it this way, there are more than [-] cities in the north, When the Yuan army withdrew, it had already been raided. Even if you only garrisoned one thousand troops per city, you would still need more than thirty thousand soldiers and horses. How much manpower and material resources would you need to repair the city and distribute food and grass? Do you still want to attack Mengjindu? ? Your Majesty has expected it, can you fight it?"

The raised hand was lowered, and then placed on the big mouth again, making a very mysterious movement.

Wang Luo smiled again, seeming to be very close to Lu Wenhuan, and even wanted to reach out to pat him on the shoulder, but was intimidated by his eyes, so he had to give up.

According to the report from Tan Ma, the Yuan army in the cities of Nanyang is also retreating, and it is said that they have rushed to Kaifeng for support.

When the surrounding soldiers all backed away, Lu Wenhuan turned his hands behind his back and said in a majestic manner, "You are not timid, are you afraid that I will kill you?"

"You want to drive a wedge between me and the court?"

He is still a hero from Shandong.

"Walk to Lizhou and then divide into two support routes. One route goes down the Jialing River and picks up the ships along the way. The other route goes to Chengdu to pick up the ships from Syria and Shanghai. Your Majesty has already mentioned it in the letter."

The brothers of the Lu family were born as charcoal husbands, and they were always looked down upon by scholar-bureaucrats in their early years.Because Lu Wenhuan was still young when Lu Wende made his fortune, so he could be regarded as a literati after reading some books.

Both were silent for a while.

He asked a rhetorical question, and then answered with a sigh.

Wang Luo took a deep look at Lu Wenhuan, but turned his back and looked at the rolling Han River again.

The corner of his mouth twitched, as if he wanted to laugh, but he restrained himself.

One of them turned his head to look at the Da Song official, and smiled with the corner of his mouth raised, as if he thought it was quite interesting.

Jia Yuqing was overwhelmed by the flattery, and wanted to accompany Lu Wenhuan, but he was a civil servant after all, his body was weak, and he really couldn't bear such a trek, so he still accepted the care.

Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui are now literate, but they can understand letters, but they haven't realized it yet.

Jia Yuqing said: "When two tigers compete, at least they must be about the same strength to be interesting. It is said that Li Ni is almost at Yanjing now. That's why the imperial court agreed to the Yuan court's request to send troops to Meng Jindu."

"Looking at Lumen Mountain in the south, there is a lingering fragrance in the air, the old hidden place is unknown, the clouds are deep and the trees are green."

So Jianyu staggered down the mountain, Jia Yuqing looked at the mountains along the way, became interested, and even stroked his beard and recited a Tang poem.

Lu Wenhuan frowned slightly and thought for a while.

"But ships can't take them there."

"Yes."

Wang Xi took two steps closer, and said, "Anyway, I really hate these scholars in the south, all of them are arrogant, only your elder brother is a real hero."

"You don't intend to let me go, but you want me to let you go today?"

"The last general took the order, but there are still some doubts... We are so far away, is there time for us to support it?"

In fact, as expected, he climbed up to the high platform on the top of the mountain, looked at it for a while, and pointed to Jia Yuqing.

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"You all go down."

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At the same time, Xia Yangdu.

After hearing this, Lu Wenhuan felt a little bit of agreement in his heart.

Zhang Shun walked quickly to the edge of the map, pointed it out, and said: "Since the Song army has attacked Sichuan and Shu, will they attack Mengjindu? We are the only navy along the Yellow River. If we are transferred, no one can Support Meng Jindu."

Lu Wenhuan's hand was still on the handle of the knife, but he didn't pull it out.

Lu Wenhuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and stretched out his hand to press the handle of the knife, as if he had murderous intent.

But Lu Wende never wanted to learn how to read. Lu Wenhuan used to think that his elder brother was not motivated. Looking back on it in the past two years, he can realize Lu Wende's stubbornness and arrogance in not bowing to literati.

"His Majesty the South has already made arrangements."

"That's different." Wang Luo laughed softly: "You are you, Zhao Song is Zhao Song. If we don't let Zhao Song go, we might not let you go."

"It's just a few words of persuasion to Lu Shuai. Now that my king and teachers are united to restore the Central Plains, if Lu Shuai sends troops to the north to help the foreign captives, it will not only arouse the hatred of my Tang soldiers, but also attract the suspicion of the Song court. Where do we go from here? Look at those smart people in the north The situation in the world is still unclear, so Lu Shuai just needs to wait and see what happens. First, he can protect the people of Jinghu from the disaster of war, and second, he can protect the whole Lu family from being implicated. Why do more mistakes? Are you to blame?!"

"Unfortunately it's empty."

As soon as Jia Yuqing arrived here, the Yuan army over there actually withdrew from the fortress of Lumen Mountain as promised.

"enough!"

"But the Yuan army has already given up Lumen Mountain. If you come from the north, you should know that they also gave up all the cities in Nanyang."

"Marshal, what happened?" Jia Yuqing asked with a smile.

"What's wrong?" Huo Xiaolian asked.

Lu Wenhuan smiled faintly, and said: "According to what you said, Li Xia doesn't need to go to the Northern Expedition. It is easy to take the Central Plains, but it is difficult to keep the principles of the Central Plains. The military funds are endless. Where can he raise them?"

"Go ahead."

"Would you like to persuade me not to send troops?" Lu Wenhuan said: "After you drive Meng Yuan to the north of the Great Wall, won't you turn around and plunder south?"

"As a lobbyist, I must be better than that old trash just now."

"understood."

"Of course it will!"

"There is one more worry at the end."

"You see, the Yuan army has occupied this place, and in the future, they can take advantage of the trend to build fortifications in those places, cutting off the imperial court's support for Xiangyang's water and land routes. By then, Xiangyang will be a lonely city, and the wolf is ambitious."

Huo Xiaolian said: "Except for the Chang'an garrison, you are already the nearest force, and you are still navy. In the terrain over there, navy is more useful than cavalry."

"Who am I when Lu Shuai is?"

"Shuai Lu think twice, in case you are deceived by Lin'an villains, colluding with foreign captives, and the bad Han family restores their great cause, and Wang Shi's southern expedition will not only destroy the Lu clan, but also leave a bad name for thousands of years, you must be careful!"

"Then congratulate the commander in advance for recovering the cities of Nanyang and making an indelible contribution to the Great Song Dynasty."

Brothers Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui had read Li Xia's long letter, and they seemed much duller.

Wang Luo was not afraid, and his tone became more and more sincere.

Zhang Gui raised his hand, hesitantly said: "Let me ask another unlucky word...in case...there is no navy, in case the army in the north is defeated, how can we come back?"

Huo Xiaolian was silent for a while, because Li Xia hadn't talked to him about this issue.

But after thinking about it, he thought of a sentence that the army had been saying before.

"If you don't break Yanjing, you won't pay it back."

(End of this chapter)