The Jin army besieged the city, and the Song emperor’s daughter died

Chapter 158: Fooling Yang Zaixing

After finishing my business, it was already evening.

When Li Bangyan came to the Marshal's Mansion, Yue Fei still hadn't returned from training, but he had already ordered Li Wa to prepare food and wine to welcome him.

Li Bangyan asked: "My brother-in-law, do you work so hard every day in training?"

Li Wa smiled and shook her head: "If it had been in the past, it would have taken an hour. Today I learned that Prime Minister Li was coming, so I would have left earlier."

Not long after chatting, I heard Yue Fei's voice outside the hospital: "I'm sorry, I'm late for the training. I kept Li Xiang waiting for a long time."

Li Bangyan stood up to greet Yue Fei, patted Yue Fei on the shoulder and said with a smile: "We are all at home, don't talk about Prime Minister Li one by one, see you outside!"

As he spoke, Li Bangyan took out a letter from home: "I know that I am coming to Taiyuan on business, brother. My godmother asked me to send you a letter from home to my brother-in-law. Everything in the family is going well, brother, don't worry."

Yue Fei took the letter from home, stuffed it into his arms, and took Li Bangyan to the table.

As soon as Li Bangyan sat down, he looked around: "General Yang is not here?"

Yue Fei smiled and said: "When I learned that Prime Minister Li was coming to have a drink, Yang Zaixing disliked the lack of good wine in my house and went to the restaurant to get a drink. He will be there in a moment."

Li Bangyan felt relieved now. When he came to Taiyuan this time, he could not see anyone, but Yang Zaixing must see him.

While waiting for Yang to rise again, Li Bangyan chatted with Yue Fei about some of the recent trivial matters in the court, reminded Yue Fei that war was about to begin, and asked him if he could be sure of guarding Taiyuan.

Yue Fei was not as confident as Zhang Xiaochun. He mentioned some of the current shortcomings of the Song Army, such as the lack of field strength. He had no chance of winning against the Jin Army's heavy armored cavalry. But if he just defended Taiyuan City, Yue Fei felt there was a problem. Not big.

"The Tangdai outside the city makes it more difficult for the Jin army to attack the city. Coupled with the thunderbolts left by Han Shilang, there is no problem in defending Taiyuan City. I just want to eat the West Route Army. I'm afraid it is impossible."

Li Bangyan didn't understand these combat matters and was not very interested.

Anyway, the officials only said that they would defend Taiyuan City, but they did not say that they would eat Wanyan Zonghan.

Not long after, Yang Zaixing came with two jars of wine and smiled. Knowing that Li Bangyan recognized Yue Fei's mother as his godmother, he was his brother. Yang Zaixing was not restrained because of his status as the right minister of the imperial court, and drank. Call me happy.

Although Li Bangyan was good at drinking on weekdays, it was mostly for casual drinking on romantic occasions and cultural gatherings. He had never drank so well.

After drinking, Li Bangyan did not care about his identity as the Prime Minister. As his nature dictated, he talked about the affairs of men and women in the flower streets and willow lanes of Kaifeng City: "The art of courting women, I would say that Kaifeng is second in the world, and no one dares to claim it." First, any one of those oiran ladies had to hold on to the wall when they saw me. Back then, the Supreme Emperor even wanted to worship me as his teacher."

Yue Fei smiled and said nothing.

Yang Zaixing heard this with great admiration, swallowed his saliva, gave a thumbs up and praised: "I have long heard that I have been nicknamed the prodigal son, but I didn't expect that the prodigal would fly."

Li Bangyan laughed and said: "I'm getting old. I was still young. Now I have long since lost my temper and am working for the government wholeheartedly."

Speaking of the official family, Yang Zaixing added: "I heard that the official family favors the elder brother the most in the court. Is this true or false?"

Li Bangyan was proud and raised his head: "If we talk about official favor, then I, Li Bangyan, am the only one in the court, but..."

Li Bangyan picked up the wine glass and looked at Yue Fei with a smile: "If you include the foreign ministers in the army, then my brother-in-law is much more favored than me. To marry a daughter-in-law, the officials will send Chunxia, ​​their personal maid, to Taiyuan to serve as Yue Fei's wife." Brothers act as matchmakers, and with this favor, who else can we look at inside and outside the court?"

"Yue Fei had no merit but was favored by the officials. He was so frightened that he could only kill the enemy on the battlefield and wrap his body in horse leather to repay the emperor's favor." Yue Fei said as he picked up his wine glass and saluted respectfully in the direction of Kaifeng.

"Speaking of Chun Xia, the personal maid of the official family, she is really cute. I wonder if she is suitable for marriage?" Yang Zaixing asked with a smile.

Yue Fei glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense."

Li Bangyan's eyes lit up, he turned sideways and looked at Yang Zaixing and asked, "Does General Yang like him?"

Yang Zaixing scratched his head and replied sheepishly: "It's not that I can't like it, it's just..." "Pah!" Li Bangyan slapped his palm on the table, which made Yue Fei and Yang Zaixing startled, thinking they had said something wrong.

But Li Bangyan smiled and said: "It's easy to talk, if General Yang likes it, turn back to the matchmaker, brother, I will make the decision for you."

Yang Zaixing had been a bachelor for decades. When he heard that Li Bangyan was going to be a matchmaker for him and was a personal maid of an official family, he immediately beamed with joy. He raised the wine jar and filled it with everyone: "Prime Minister Li, please don't make fun of me."

Li Bangyan said seriously: "Let's talk in detail?"

After drinking and eating, Yue Fei wanted to let Li Bangyan rest in his mansion, but Li Bangyan refused to say anything. He took Yang Zaixing's hand and said, "No, no, no, brother Yue has a rest early. Tonight, I will stay in the city posthouse with you." General Yang, let’s talk in detail.”

When Yue Fei saw this, he didn't force him to stay.

After Yang Zaixing escorted Li Bangyan to the post house, he was about to talk about the spring and summer affairs in detail, but saw that Li Bangyan was no longer drunk, and suddenly said seriously: "General Yang, I came to Taiyuan City this time to find you." your."

Yang Zaixing was startled, and most of his drunkenness had dissipated. He stood upright and said, "Mr. Li, please speak."

Li Bangyan asked seriously: "General Yang, what do you think of the court now?"

This problem is a bit big. Yang Zaixing has only been in the army in Taiyuan for a few months and has never had any contact with the imperial court. However, if he only uses Taiyuan City to judge the entire imperial court, Yang Zaixing feels that the imperial court is very good.

Zhang Xiaochun dedicated himself wholeheartedly, with a breeze on his sleeves; both Han Shizhong in the past and Yue Fei now served the country with loyalty and no selfish motives; farmers outside the city were full of energy after receiving tax exemptions, and the common people in the city needless to say, since the imperial court promoted business To promote work, the whole city of Taiyuan is full of vitality.

How can such a court be bad?

"If there is no official family, there will be no such thing." Li Bangyan asked: "If the official family is in trouble, will we help?"

"The official family is in trouble? Then... I have to inform General Yue!" Yang Zaixing was about to leave in a hurry, but was held back by Li Bangyan: "This matter is not open to outsiders."

"Outsiders? Li Xiang just said that the official family loves General Yue the most..."

Li Bangyan realized that he had said the wrong thing, and explained repeatedly: "That's not what I meant. The truth is that you can only handle this matter, and no other person can know about it. Are you willing?"

Yang Zaixing scratched his head: "What hasn't Mr. Li said yet?"

Li Bangyan then explained as clearly as possible the subtle relationship between King Yun Zhao Kai and the officials, and then said: "Go north to intercept and kill him, and never let him return to Kaifeng."

Yang Zaixing felt his head buzzing, intercepting and killing the prince, this was going to kill the nine tribes.

"I'm so afraid! I want to kill the nine tribes. I am with you. For the sake of the official family and the Song Dynasty, how can we, the ministers, look forward and backward?"

After some deception, Yang Zaixing asked: "What do the officials mean?"

Li Bangyan repeatedly denied it: "How can an official do such a thing? This is all what the truth means."

Although Yang Zaixing had never experienced court affairs, he was by no means a fool. He dared to do such a thing as intercepting and killing the prince. Without the tacit approval of the officials, how could Li Bangyan have the courage?
After thinking about it, I finally made up my mind: "The general will take the order! It's just..."

"Don't worry, I said I will be a matchmaker for you, and I will definitely be a matchmaker for you!" Li Bangyan smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

Yang Zaixing was stunned for a moment, and then explained: "What the general means is that he wants to go north to intercept people, but he can't tell General Yue how to leave Taiyuan City."

Li Bangyan had already thought of all this for him, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, tomorrow there will be a document from the Ministry of War summoning you to Beijing. After leaving Taiyuan City, you go directly north. Remember not to expose anything." Identity.”

As Li Bangyan spoke, he took out two scrolls of paintings from his bag: "These are the portraits of King Yun and the princess of Liao Kingdom. After you memorize them carefully, burn them and leave no clues."

(End of this chapter)