Master Tianxin turned his head and said with a serious face: "I know, but Yang Zhi is a Han and Song people, in the eyes of the Privy Council and Prince Yeluchun, if Yang Zhi makes immortal achievements, how can I have the face of a Khitan person." King Jin, there are no outsiders here, if Yang Zhi does not leave, I am afraid that he will have to worry about his life, even the old man will not be able to protect him; Buddha Nanda will take over, Xiao Fengxian will allocate grain and grass materials, at least the resentful army can tide over the current difficulties. ”

Yelu Ao Lu Wei shook his head and said, "People have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries. Xiao Lili and Fu Zun looked for Yang Zhi, they must have taken a fancy to his ability, and it is very likely that they will operate to keep Yang Zhi in Youzhou, after all, the Southern Courtyard is the official system of the Han people, and there is no obstacle for Yang Zhi. ”

Xiao Qide nodded and said, "Lord Wang, I plan to go with Yang Zhi tomorrow, just to go to Youzhou to do some business." ”

Yelu Ao Lu Wei understood that Xiao Qide said that it was just an excuse to do something, but in fact, he was worried about himself, so he stared at Yang Zhi;

Yelu Ao Lu Wei smiled and nodded, "Let's go to the city immediately and discuss with Brother Yelu Ma, since Yang Zhi is going, he might as well let him finish many things at once." ”

Yang Zhi came to his tent in the merchant group, Luo Lu, Liu Kui, and Ji Hong were roasting lamb legs, and they watched Yang Zhi come in in surprise; Yang Zhi sat down beside Luo Lu and said: "We will go to Youzhou early tomorrow morning, you will go to Sha Jing later, and give all the goods in our hands to Tianxiong Temple, and we will wait until we get to Youzhou to buy supplies." ”

Luo Lu and Liu Kui were overjoyed, Youzhou went back and forth, a little delay, a winter passed, how can it be better than staying in the front line of Xianzhou; Ji Hong said with a gloomy face: "Brother Yang, I won't go back with you, I want to stay in the business group." ”

Ji Hong is still a little tender, the statement of staying in the merchant group invisibly exposes his intentions, Yang Zhi understands that something happened to Monk Ma, Ji Hong's current idea is to make a great contribution to return to the Jin Kingdom; Yang Zhi is also ready to find an opportunity to explore the bottom, so he said in a low voice: "That's not good, you ran a lot of things in Zhongjing, and when you return to Zhongjing, I will find a guy to take over, and you will follow the transportation team of Tianxiong Temple back." ”

Yang Zhi said reasonably, Liu Kui and the others knew that the matter of Monk Ma made Ji Hong unhappy, and they all helped Yang Zhi persuade a few words, and Ji Hong agreed; Hong Rirong took four wine bags, followed Xue Libao over, and handed a wine bag to Yang Zhi when they met: "Yang Zhi, the army over there has been handed over, this time I will go to Youzhou with you, I want to eat fragrant and drink spicy." ”

Yang Zhi smiled and said that there was no problem, everyone drank happily, Luo Lu and Liu Kui went out and handed over all the goods. There was nothing to say all night, the next morning, the snow stopped, the sun passed through the clouds, emitting a faint light, Yang Zhi took Hong Rirong five people and ten personal soldiers to set off, one person and two horses rushed to Zhongjing Dading Mansion; ”

"That's great, I'm worried about the road not being busy. Yang Zhi said happily, after reading the official letter at a glance and ten lines, in fact, there is no content, the king of Jin, Yelu Ao, Lu Hu wants two carts of silk and books, Yelu Ma Ge wants fifty jars of spirits, the money is paid in advance by Xiao Qide, Yang Zhi only needs to take Xiao Qide to purchase. How can Xiao Qide be out of such a thing, usually it is estimated that he just sends a manager to do it, but today is just to find an excuse for Xiao Qide, and he wants to cover it up.

The remnant clouds were dim, many places on the road were frozen, Yang Zhi and Xiao Qide only cared about coming all the way, and there was basically no communication; but God still took care of Yang Zhi, and there were only two or three light snows on the road, which stopped in less than half an hour, and almost did not delay the trip of Yang Zhi and his party. Two days later, in the evening, Yang Zhi and Xiao Qide arrived in Zhongjing, and Yang Zhi had an illusion at the first sight of the city wall, like Bianliang City.

When he led the horse into the city, he asked Xiao Qide, and the urban layout of Zhongjing was really modeled after the layout system of Bianliang, with three outer cities, inner cities and imperial cities. On both sides of the street, there are symmetrically arranged streets, three north-south meridian roads, and five east-west weft roads, and the square area composed of these streets is the place where the Han people live, and the northern part of the outer city has temples, corridors, post houses, and government offices;

Yang Zhi looked up, the most conspicuous is the tower that is close to 100 meters, the shape is vigorous, the scale is grand; Luo Lu followed a glance and explained: "That is the relics pagoda of Chongsheng Temple, the tower is built on the earthen platform base of six meters high, octagonal thirteen layers, the first layer outside the tower is inlaid with brick carvings of Buddha, Bodhisattva, Lux and flying statues on all sides, the back is built into a double-layer tower shape on all sides, the upper layer is engraved with the name of the pagoda, and the lower layer is engraved with the name of the Bodhisattva. ”

Yang Zhi praised and said: "Even in the Central Plains, such pagodas are rare, so it can be seen that if the Liao Kingdom really wants to do a good job, it will definitely be able to do a good job." Lao Luo, is there a familiar inn, let's stay first, and then go shopping tomorrow after finishing things. ”

Luo Lu old horse knows the way, did not go far to turn into a medium alley, found a green horse inn, the inn is near the wine shop, very prosperous, the inn owner surnamed He, and Luo Lu is an acquaintance, very diligent to arrange people to stay. Xiao Qide's family has a house in Zhongjing, Xiao Qide took people home after seeing the inn; Yang Zhi asked Luo Lu to go to the wine shop next door to order a table of dishes, and ate in the inn, Xue Libao was a little strange, and asked Yang Zhi during the meal: "Is the general afraid of having an accident outside?"

Yang Zhi nodded and said, "Zhongjing is very complicated, if it weren't for Master Tianxin saying that Master Fu Zun wanted to see me, I wouldn't want to stay for a day." I'll try to finish things tomorrow, and the rest of the time, even if I'm in the city, I'll be resting at the inn. ”

Hong Rirong and Xue Libao both knew about the festival between Yang Zhi and the Xiao family, and now without the support of Master Tianxin and Tianxiong Temple, Yang Zhi has no ability to resist the Xiao family at all, and it is appropriate to be low-key. A few people were drinking, talking about business, talking about guns, Yang Zhi found that Ji Hong was obviously a little absent-minded about eating, and he didn't say anything about this meal; Yang Zhi's heart moved, could it be that Ji Hong was thinking about how to get out and wanted to go to the Jinguo contact point in Zhongjing.

Yang Zhi knew that Ji Hong had no internal skills, and he could not be compared with Monk Ma at all, but if Ji Hong was really a golden vulture, shouldn't he be brave and good at fighting? Could it be that he was wrong in his judgment.