There are many people who returned to Tokyo City in Kaifeng Mansion with Tang Ning, Qi Fu, Lin Wei, Xu Ning's mother and son, and the angel group who originally came from Tokyo City.

Seeing a gray-faced boy follow Tang Ning on the road, the angel speculated very maliciously in his heart whether Tang Ning had taken a fancy to someone else's wife.

But when he saw Mother Xu, this idea was extinguished.

Everyone in Tokyo knows that there are five wives and concubines of the Marquis of Danyang, each of whom is a beautiful woman with a beautiful national color. This woman's appearance is too ordinary, and she can't get into the eyes of Danyang Houfa.

Canzhou is the closest state capital to the Great Song Dynasty in the sixteen states of Yanyun, and geographically, Canzhou is like a nail that has been driven into the North Road of the Song Kingdom.

Therefore, the road back to Kaifeng Mansion from Canzhou is not very far, but the road is very urgent, and I don't enjoy any scenery.

Tang Ning was suddenly transferred back to Kaifeng, and his mood was naturally not very good. Xu Ning had just been accepted as an apprentice by Tang Ning, and he looked at Tang Ning's black face every day, not to mention how apprehensive he was.

Fortunately, Tang Ning threw him a book and told him to read it first, and if he encountered any questions or unusual words that he didn't understand, he didn't understand, and then asked him.

All the way lightly and simply, fast and fast. Half a month later, the group returned to Kaifeng Mansion.

Knowing that Tang Ning was back, Zhang Dian immediately sent someone to invite Tang Ning to his house. After Tang Ning asked Qi Fu to bring Xu Ning's mother and son home, he went to visit Zhangdun Mansion with Lin Wei.

Seeing Zhang Dun, Tang Ning's brows furrowed. In Tang Ning's eyes, this guy who is planning to calculate others all the time actually looks like he is being calculated.

This is not a good thing, at least Zhang Dan has a good relationship with himself. If he is calculated, then he will have a good helper.

So Tang Ning didn't care about drinking tea, and asked directly: "Zhang Xiang's face is melancholy, but what thorny problems have you encountered?" ”

Zhang Duan looked up at Tang Ning, then sighed deeply, lowered his head again, and did not answer Tang Ning's question, but said: "The Marquis of Danyang led the troops to fight this time, and the results were quite fruitful. The eastern part of the sixteen states of Yanyun is all in the bag of my holy pilgrimage.

A long-cherished wish that has not been fulfilled for more than 100 years is now finally possible. All of this is thanks to you, Marquis Danyang!

The old man still has something to do today, and it is not appropriate to drink, otherwise the old man will definitely float a lot of white to celebrate the Hou of Danyang! ”

"Zhang Xiang, you have an overreputation, and it is not my work to fight to the death. Moreover, being able to occupy the eight eastern states is just opportunistic.

These eight states are still nominally the land of Liao, and some efforts are still needed to make these eight states officially become the territory of our Great Song Dynasty. Tang Ning said modestly.

As soon as Zhang Dian heard this, he nodded and said with a wry smile: "Danyang Hou, you may not know yet." The land of these eight states does not belong to us in name, so it belongs to the Liao State

And the messengers who came took these eight states to trade with us.

What they mean is to give us the land of the eight states, but with two conditions. First, they will ask for 2.5 million taels of silver in each state, a total of 20 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to us using 20 million taels to redeem the land rights of these eight states. ”

"Twenty million taels?" Tang Ning was shocked: "The Khitan people really dare to speak, our annual income, without deducting all kinds of messy payments, is only 5,000 to 80 million taels of silver." ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" Zhang Duan sighed.

"What about the second condition?"

"The second condition?" Zhang Dian raised his eyes and looked at Tang Ning, took a deep breath and said, "The second condition is your head. ”

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When he left the Prime Minister's Mansion, Tang Ning always felt that someone was secretly staring at him, no wonder, the Khitan people asked for their own heads by name, how could no one take a fancy to their heads?

Those who are secretly staring at themselves are probably also looking for an opportunity to take off their heads and go back to the errand.

Zhang Dian knew that Tang Ning was in a hurry to come back, so he specially sent a coachman to send Tang Ning home.

After boarding the carriage, the coachman asked, "Danyang Hou, where are we going?" ”

"I went to find a restaurant for a meal first, I didn't eat much along the way, and my stomach was hungry." Tang Ning replied with a smile, the coachman answered, and when Lin Wei jumped on the frame, he shook the reins and walked towards the nearby restaurant.

After entering the restaurant, Tang Ning asked for a bowl of noodles and a bowl of wontons for Lin Wei. The coachman didn't want to eat it, but Tang Ning asked him for a bowl of wontons, and the coachman sat down and sighed and finished eating, then got up and went outside to wait.

He had only been out of the house for a short time when a man dressed as a farmer came in. Sitting beside Tang Ning with a big grin, he grinned and showed a mouth full of yellow teeth, and asked Tang Ning: "Noble, can I sit here?" ”

Tang Ning saw that his appearance almost squirted out one by one, forced himself to hold back a smile, and finally nodded and said, "Sit down, it's okay." ”

"Thank you, noble!" The yellow-toothed farmer hurriedly thanked him, and the shopkeeper came over to ask him what he wanted to eat, and he pointed to Tang Ning's noodle bowl and said, "Give me a bowl of noodles that is exactly the same as the nobleman!" ”

Xiao Er rolled his eyes and left, and the yellow-toothed farmer lowered his head to tidy up his clothes.

"The Khitans paid five hundred taels of gold to buy your head, you must be careful."

Tang Ning nodded as he lowered his head and ate his noodles.

Then the yellow-toothed farmer took out something he didn't know from his arms, pressed it on the table, and threw it in the direction of Lin Wei. Lin Wei quietly put the thing in his sleeve, and then continued to eat wontons.

After the two of them finished eating the noodles and wontons,

Tang Ning beckoned Xiao Er to come over and settle the bill. He threw down a tael of silver and pointed to the yellow-toothed farmer who was eating noodles and said, "His share is mine, and the rest will be yours." ”

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" Xiao Ermei smiled and sent Tang Ning out cordially.

Then the two got into the carriage again, and Lin Wei handed over the things he had just received from the Yellow Tooth Farmer to Tang Ning.

When I took it out, it turned out to be a letter.

Tang Ning opened the envelope and squinted at it.

"The Khitan envoy came and asked my Holy Dynasty to spend money to buy the ownership of the eight eastern states of Yanyun.

The DPRK and China are now divided into two factions, one faction for peace and the other faction for attack. The Lord and the faction thought that since the Khitans had given this opportunity to make a deal, they should not get an inch, and agree to the other party's conditions and settle the matter, which was originally the first thing to lose.

The other faction believes that now that the Khitan is in decline, it is a good time to forge ahead. If we can take advantage of the fact that we can get back the eight states in the west now, we can do it once and for all. When the time comes, if we help the Khitans defeat the Jurchens, the Khitans will naturally hand over the ownership of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun to us.

The Lord and the faction now have the upper hand, but one of the conditions of the Khitans is to have your head.

And on the way they came, they put out a reward of five hundred taels of gold for your head. Returning to Tokyo is dangerous, so be careful. ”

The more Tang Ning looked at it, the more chilled he became, or he said that it had rotted to the roots since the beginning of the party struggle.

He led his troops to fight outside and expand the territory for the country, but there was a group of people behind his ass who wished that something would happen to him. Even if you don't have an accident, someone has to do something to come out.

I thought that I was called back to the city of Tokyo, and it was these people from the Lord and the faction who were responsible for it. They wanted to see their heads move anyway in order to make a deal with the Khitans.

Because he is the safest in the army, even if the Khitans spend a lot of money to get a lot of assassins, they don't want to make any waves in the Zhenguo army.

But it's different when you return to Kaifeng Mansion, this is their territory, with their convenience, why worry about Tang Ning not dying?

Tang Ning hated it so much, this group of people must not let themselves be caught, otherwise they will not have good fruit to eat.

"Danyang Hou, where are we going?"

"Go to the Marquis of Danyang's Mansion." Tang Ning said in a sullen voice: "Go home!" ”

After speaking, Tang Ning began to close his eyes and recuperate, and now Tokyo City is already a tiger's den in Longtan for him. In this case, you need to do something about it.

Senior brother has lived a peaceful life in Runzhou for so many years, and I don't know if my kung fu has fallen. On He Yu's side, if you spend some money yourself, you can always get some helpers.

And the Khitans spent five hundred taels of gold for their own heads? That's enough for them, more than money, Tang Ning really hasn't been afraid of anyone except Zhao Xu......

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