"The villain misleads the country!" Zhao Yan slapped a letter on the table with a 'snap', and his face also showed an extremely angry look, he had written to Zhao Yan before, hoping to take advantage of the current time when the harbor was closed to assist Guo Kui in eliminating Manichaeism.

But what Zhao Yan never expected was that Zhao Yan agreed very much with this matter, but when he summoned Lu Huiqing and others to discuss, he was strongly opposed by Lu Huiqing, and his reasons were also very sufficient, the first is that although the ice-free port in the north is frozen, it may be thawed at any time, in case the forces in Zhao Yan's hands are entangled in Manichaeism, then it is likely to cause the destruction of Yang Huaiyu's army.

For this first reason, Zhao Yan also felt that there was some truth, because the ice-free port was mainly affected by the warm current, even if it was frozen now, but under the continuous impact of the warm current, it was indeed likely to thaw in a short time, but he was confident that he would solve the Manichaean rebellion in a short time, and he would not delay the rescue of Yang Huaiyu at all.

As for the second reason, it made Zhao Yan extremely annoyed, because Lu Huiqing actually said that the Manichaean rebels were just a group of rabble, and they were already struggling under Guo Kui's blow, and they didn't need Zhao Yan's army at all. But those who know the situation know that although Manichaeism was killed by Guo Kui and fled everywhere, the core strength was not too damaged, and it could make a comeback at any time, and with the escape of the Manichaean rebels, it also brought heavy disasters to the people everywhere, but Lu Huiqing turned a blind eye to these and simply opened his eyes and said nonsense.

In addition, what made Zhao Yan even more puzzled was that Lu Huiqing did not agree with him, and he wanted to prevent himself from exterminating Manichaeism and making meritorious contributions, but Sima Guang and Chen Shengzhi were also against Zhao Yan sending troops, only Zeng Gongliang had dealt with Zhao Yan, but said a few fair words. However, his influence alone is limited, and he seems to have some scruples about this matter, which makes Zhao Ji unable to get support in the DPRK at all, and as a result, this matter is over.

Zhao Yan sat there sulking for a long time, and wanted to make an appointment with Xu Yuan and Wang Shi to discuss, but he didn't expect Cao Ying to come in at this time. Seeing his angry appearance, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "I heard from someone just now that my husband was angry, it can't be because of the affairs of the court, right?" ”

Seeing Cao Ying come in, Zhao Yan calmed the anger in his heart, and then handed her the letter in his hand and said: "Lady, look at it, I originally wanted to take advantage of the current situation to help the imperial court exterminate Manichaeism, but I didn't expect to be opposed by a group of people, who would rather watch the people in Henan suffer from the war than let me send troops to quell the rebellion early!" ”

Cao Ying and Empress Xiang are two completely different women, and she has participated in many of Zhao Yan's affairs. And Zhao Yan has never shied away from her, so Cao Ying can be said to be the private military advisor behind Zhao Yan, and she knows Zhao Yan and the affairs of the court very well.

I saw Cao Ying stretch out his hand to take the letter and read it, and then smiled and said: "Husband, you are really confused, you don't have to write to Your Majesty to ask for troops before, because even if such a request is agreed by the eldest brother, those ministers will not agree!" ”

"Huh?" Zhao Yan glanced at Cao Ying a little strangely when he heard this, and then asked eagerly. "Lady, listen to what you mean. You seem to understand the real reason why the ministers are against my sending troops? ”

"Giggle~, my husband was smart and confused for a while, how did you forget what kind of reaction those ministers in the court had when you suggested to your eldest brother to send troops to rescue Yang Huaiyu?" Cao Ying said with a coquettish smile when she heard this.

"The reaction of the ministers?" Zhao Yan was stunned for a moment when he heard Cao Ying's words, and then suddenly remembered that when he asked Zhao Yan to send troops to rescue Yang Huaiyu. Many ministers in the court did not feel happy, but thought that the strength in their hands was too great and should be reduced, and as a result, Zhao Ji was so angry that he almost vomited blood again, and it was after that time. made Zhao Ji's condition recur again, resulting in Zhao Ji still lingering on the sickbed.

"I see!" Thinking of the reaction of those ministers, Zhao Yan also had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and immediately understood the reasons why those ministers opposed his extermination of Manichaeism, and immediately couldn't help but say loudly, "I see, they are afraid of the forces in my hands, and they originally wanted to reduce my strength, so naturally they don't want me to increase my reputation by exterminating Manichaeism, but ......"

When he said the last sentence, Zhao Yan was stunned, and his face showed an angry expression and said hatefully: "But they only care about the interests of the imperial court, and they forget that there are hundreds of people in Jiangnan who are displaced because of the fire, and hundreds of people die due to the war every day of delay, are they really so ruthless?" ”

Cao Ying, who was next to him, saw Zhao Yan's angry expression, and immediately walked over gently to support his shoulder and said softly: "Husband, don't be too angry, those ministers are like this, in their eyes only the Great Song Dynasty and their own interests, as for the casualties of those people, in their eyes they are just boring numbers." ”

In fact, Zhao Yan didn't know that politics has always been one of the dirtiest things in the world, and in order to achieve certain goals, those who play politics don't care about anything at all, and sometimes even they themselves may be exchanged for some benefits, let alone some lives that have nothing to do with them.

Seeing Zhao Yan's angry appearance, Cao Ying also secretly sighed in her heart, originally she wanted to tell Zhao Yan that they didn't have to ask Zhao Yan to send troops at all, they only needed to go north to send troops according to the previous plan to rescue Yang Huaiyu, and stop there when they arrived in Hangzhou, and then said that they just knew that the northern port was frozen and needed to rest there in Hangzhou, waiting for the northern port to thaw, and it just so happened that Hangzhou was the most seriously affected by the Manichaean rebellion, and Zhao Yan didn't need to open his mouth at all. Local officials would ask them to send troops to eradicate Manichaeism.

However, although the above method is good, it can't be used now, if he tells Zhao Yan again, it will only make him blame himself for it, so Cao Ying buried the above method in his heart and decided never to tell Zhao Yan.

This sudden cold wave not only made Zhao Yan's rescue plan paused, but the second army that was supposed to be sent to Gubeikou on the Liao side was also blocked by the wind and snow, Yelu Renxian's army was even more immobile, and even the Western Xia rebellion in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty was also stagnant, and for a while, the two countries were in a strange calm, as if everything was frozen by this cold wave.

Meanwhile. In the Changbai Mountains in the northeast of the Liao Kingdom, there are countless Jurchen people living here, including Zhao Yan's Wanyan Department who lived for nearly a year, when Zhao Yan was imprisoned by the leader of the Wanyan Ministry, the Wanyan Department was still the most powerful Jurchen tribe within a radius of hundreds of miles, and even annexed the Changbai Mountain Department. Become the most powerful of the Jurchen tribes. However, later Zhao Yan used the alliance as a bait to attract the impeached Libo brothers to go to the sea ship of the Great Song Dynasty, but was killed by Zhao Yan himself, and also shelled the Jurchens on the shore, but only the impeachment of Libo's younger brother Impeachment Sun survived, so the impeachment of Sun became the leader of the Wanyan Ministry without dispute.

In a dilapidated tent in the northeast corner of Wanyanbu, a boy of about twelve or thirteen years old was biting a pig bone with sharp teeth, but the hind leg bone of the pig had long since lost a trace of flesh, but the boy still bit with relish. The hard bones were covered in shallow tooth marks, as if they had been gnawed by a wolf.

Just when the child was concentrating on gnawing on the bones, suddenly the dilapidated tent door was opened, and a thin boy of sixteen or seventeen years old walked in with a bunch of things, and the wind and snow outside poured in at once, making the child who was gnawing bones inside couldn't help but shiver, but when he saw the things that the young man was carrying, his eyes suddenly became bright. threw away the bones in his hand and pounced on him and said, "Ah Guda, why did you get so many pigs into the water?" ”

The thin boy who came in was none other than Ah Guta, the son of the impeachment of Libo. And the boy who gnawed the bones was naturally Wu Qimai, the younger brother of Ah Guda, after the death of the impeachment, Ah Guda was also seriously injured, everyone thought he was going to die, but they didn't expect Ah Gu to die hard, and finally lay on the bed for a few months but slowly came back to life. It's just that Impeachment Sun was worried that their brother would threaten his leader's position, so he deliberately alienated them in the tribe, and Akuta's mother was also killed by Impeachment, which also caused the two Akuda brothers to have a very difficult life in the tribe.

"Phew!" Ah Guda threw the pile of pigs that had been frozen into ice on his back to the ground, and then said to Wu Qimai. "The weather this year is too cold, many of the pigs raised in the tribe have frozen to death, and most of the pork has been distributed to other people in the tribe, and our third uncle only gave us pigs that no one wants!"

When Ah Gu Da said at the end, his face also showed an unforgettable hatred, when he was seriously injured and wanted to die, the impeachment Sun threw him into a broken tent and left him alone, if it wasn't for his mother to take care of him, I'm afraid he would have died a long time ago, but when he was injured, his mother was lazy but because he was unwilling to comply with the impeachment Sun, he was bitten to death by a wild wolf when he went out to collect wild fruits, although it seemed to be an accident, but Ah Gu Da knew that the wild wolf was actually the impeachment Sun sent someone to drive to his mother's vicinity.

Since knowing the truth about his mother's tragic death, Aguda has made a vow to avenge his mother with his own hands, and he has a greater ambition in his heart, that is, to kill the Song Kingdom one day, avenge his father and uncle, and also avenge himself, because he was injured in the lower body at the beginning, so that he has become a eunuch, he was ignorant when he was young, but when he grew up, his physical disability also made him feel extremely humiliated.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that no matter how difficult it is, Ah Guda will grit his teeth and let himself survive, because he knows that he is still young and can't do anything at all, so the most important thing for him is to survive, and when he grows up, he will have the ability to do more.

Although Wu Qimai is young, he follows Ah Guda to rely on each other, and he has become very precocious, and when he heard his brother mention the impeachment of the third uncle, his face also showed a hateful expression, but he was young after all, and he hadn't eaten for a few days, so he quickly circled around the pile of smelly pigs, and when he saw a pig lung that was not very strong, he immediately jumped up excitedly and tore it off, and then stuffed it into his mouth and gnawed it, and the blood that had been frozen into ice was melted into blood. Running down Wu Qimai's dirty cheeks, it looked particularly terrifying.

Seeing the appearance of his younger brother, Ah Guda did not stop it, for their brother, they are hungry for most of the year, and they don't see any decent food at all, so as long as they can eat something, they will immediately stuff it into their stomachs, as for raw meat and cooked meat, it doesn't matter to them at all, anyway, they have long been used to it.

However, after all, Ah Guda is older, and he also prefers the taste of cooked meat, so he patiently waited until the pig was thawed, and then he picked out a pair of pigs into the water, and threw it into the clay pot on the fire to cook without much washing, and waited until it was cooked, and then he ate it in a big gulp, but he was worried while eating, this year the tribe raised a lot of pigs froze to death, and the food in winter was definitely not enough, with their status in the tribe, I am afraid it would be difficult to distribute the food again, and after these pigs were eaten in the water, could it be really starved to death? (To be continued......)

PS: It's an hour later than usual, but I finally made up for the words I owe today.