Chapter 575: The Gate of the Tax

As long as the monarch who is famous in history and has a little brain, he will know that he relies on his own strength to fight, and he must not pin his hopes on the reinforcements of his allies, especially the aliens, but it is a pity that in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is extremely strange, especially when Zhao Ji of Song Huizong was in power, once there is something to ask for reinforcements, he will take the initiative to think of those aliens.

Although in this time and space, it was not that he took the initiative to contact the alien race to attack Yanyun, but when Cai Jing had just started, he immediately thought of the "humiliation" he suffered in Lu'an City, and even did not need Gao Yu, Liang Shicheng and others, he agreed, and things went smoothly, which made Cai Jing feel quite surprised.

So, after sending Zhao Liangchen and others to envoy the Jurchen, Bianliang sent envoys to the Jurchens and Dangxiang again, asking the two parties to jointly send troops to conquer Yanyun At the same time, he also sent a special envoy to Qingjian City at the headquarters of the Western Army, and ordered the nominal commander of the Western Army to mobilize the elites of the Western Army, and be ready to send troops together with the imperial court, Jurchen, and Party Commanders.

Cai Jing, Gao Yu and others thought that they had a plan this time, and the Tang Dynasty would definitely be unable to escape again, and they were celebrating with the crown in the retreat of the dynasty, and they haunted the major Fengyue places in Bianliang together, as if Li Junchen, Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and others were already their prisoners, of course, at this time, the lost prince who was rescued by someone had long been forgotten by them.

However, it was this person who was forgotten by them, accompanied by Li Zhu, who slept in the open along the way, and suffered a lot, and when they arrived at Deqingjian City, the former prince was already dark and thin, looking like a dusty man, where could he still see a little bit of the prince's appearance.

Glancing at the city of Qingjian City from a distance, Zhao Kai never thought that in the seemingly rich Great Song Dynasty, there was actually a rammed earth city, and it was such a rammed earth city that blocked the ferocious party members for decades.

Zhao Kai's complicated expression all fell in Li Zhu's eyes, and Li Zhu also knew that what he had seen and heard along the way had a great impact on this former prince, and he reached out and gently patted him on the shoulder, "Hurry up and enter the city, if you think this rammed earth city is not good, then let us build a city like Bianliang here in the future!" ”

Zhao Kai didn't look back, but nodded vigorously, raised his feet and walked forward firmly, Li Zhu saw him like this, he was slightly stunned, and even though he knew that Zhao Kai was going to give birth to right and wrong.

Although in the era of Zhao and Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Western Army was the strongest in the Song Army, but it also confirmed a sentence, "Poor mountains and bad waters produce elite soldiers", the current imperial court allocates less than one-tenth of the military salary to the Western Army every year, but it requires the Western Army to do this, do that, there is a way It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, even if he has the ability to go to the sky, it is impossible to make money, in order to feed the brothers of the Western Army, the brothers are trying every means to get money and food, such as the city gate tax is one of them.

Li Zhu is used to running the rivers and lakes, and he is naturally clear about these things, but Zhao Kai turned out to be just a prince who stayed at home, and occasionally went out, and someone also made a good front stop, and where would he know this, I saw that he was still striding towards the city, and before he could walk into the city gate, he heard a neutral voice behind him, "Stop!" Who let you in! ”

Zhao Kai listened to this voice in his ears, but he didn't think it was with him, and still walked in by himself, the owner of the voice was the little leader in charge of collecting the city gate tax, and he was also a pawn of the Western Army, he was not happy to get up at the moment, rushed over in two steps, and stretched out his hand on Zhao Kai's shoulder, "I said that you don't have donkey hair stuffed in your ears, grandpa can't hear you talking to you or whatever, don't you want to find it!" ”

"Presumptuous! What kind of thing are you, how dare you talk to Prince Ben like this, why don't you hurry up and give Prince Ben your claws away! Although Zhao Kai said that he was out of Zhao Song, but the habits of so many years, where could he change all of them for a while, after listening to the extremely harsh words, the former prince's temper came out again, and he roared without looking back.

The leader was stunned by Zhao Kai's roar, and then he became happy, looked at Zhao Kai up and down, pointed at him and smiled at the gatekeepers: "Brothers, you all come and see, just like this, you dare to call yourself a prince, don't you really think that our brothers have not seen the prince!" ”

"That is, don't pee and take care of your own virtue, and dare to call the prince without that life?"

"Isn't this guy crazy about something, he came here to talk nonsense!"

"Head, let's get rid of this guy, if it's not enough today, the whip will be enough for our brothers!"

When the previous few words were heard by this leader, the last sentence came into his ears coldly, but he immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and suddenly saved himself Several old buddies were whipped fiercely because the city gate tax was not collected sufficiently, and they are still lying in the camp tent and screaming.

secretly called a fluke, and then with a lot of strength in his hand, he pulled Zhao Kai out of the city gate hole, stretched out his hand and pointed to the place where he was queuing up to pay the money, and shouted: "Give Lao Tzu to the side to pay the money, if you don't have money, you can give Lao Tzu as far as you want, don't come to Lao Tzu again!" ”

Although Zhao Kai is not a scholar who is powerless, but compared to these soldiers, it is still a lot worse, and he was immediately pushed and stumbled, when did Zhao Kai suffer from such anger, his handsome face turned red, and he suddenly stepped up and slapped the leader in the face.

Although this is not the first time that this boss has been beaten, but in the past, those generals beat him, but now he was a little stunned by Zhao Kai's slap, stretched out his hand to cover his hot face, pointed at Zhao Kai fiercely, and roared, "Beat Lao Tzu to death!" ”

The soldiers of the Western Army may be the most united group in the Zhao Song Army, and they immediately rushed up, Zhao Kai's previous slap was more of an impulse, and now seeing so many soldiers coming, he was also a little overwhelmed.

Just when he didn't know what to do, he saw a figure pass by him, like a butterfly through the soldiers, and between the fists and palms, it was not long before the soldiers curled up on the ground one by one, and their mouths were wailing.

"This is the so-called strongest Western army? Today, it seems that this is not the case! Li Zhu gently flicked the sleeves of his robe and said arrogantly.

The leader saw that all his subordinates were all knocked to the ground after such a while, and he couldn't help but subconsciously take two steps back, and had the heart to step forward desperately, but he knew that he was also a person who was overturned, and he was hesitating, but he saw Li Zhu's expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and suddenly felt that a nameless fire rushed straight to Tianling Gai, and with a shout in his mouth, he swung his fist towards Li Zhu.

Li Zhu smiled lightly, and just as he was about to catch up, he heard a loud shout from the door, "Which grandson who doesn't want to die, rushing to spread wilderness in Qingjian City, I don't know if this south gate is covered by your grandfather Wu!" ”