"But what will Bianliang think?" Zhang Xiaochun muttered, his eyes were a little dazed; Yang Zhi sneered in his heart, these people still hope to be recalled by Bianliang to be officials in the end, but they forget that the most important thing in the Great Song Dynasty is officials, and tens of thousands of people in Tai Academy, Jinshi, and idle positions are all waiting for a chance to get ahead, as long as they arrive in the Dingbei Army, they are almost on the blacklist that Bianliang will never hire.

Yang Zhi said lightly: "Bianliang, like Taiyuan, Chang'an, and the Daimyo's Mansion, is a big city in the Great Song Dynasty, so you don't need to take it too seriously. If the Daimyo's Mansion is lost, we will fight with the Jin soldiers; if Bianliang is lost, we will fight with the Jin soldiers, but the war needs not only the army, but also the people, materials, and terrain. ”

The Great Song Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly in the Liao State for two hundred years, and from top to bottom, they all think that the absence of the sixteen states of Yanyun is the key, Yang Zhi's words immediately resonated with most people, Zhao Kai stood up and said: "This matter is so decided, our army must take the three states outside the river and the Yanyan Road, and I will bear everything alone." Let Lord Xu contact the Zhe family, I and Yang Zhi, Seed Master Min, and Zhang Xiaochun jointly wrote to the generals of Yongxing and Qiyan, and the other four roads are beyond our reach, step by step. ”

This is tantamount to officially turning his face with Bianliang, but it is in line with Zhao Kai's intentions, this step can completely destroy his subordinates' hopes for Bianliang; Zhao Kai understands better than anyone else that the relationship between himself and his eldest brother Zhao Huan is irreparable, and he must force the people in Taiyuan to have no way out, so they will follow him wholeheartedly. Zhao Kai immediately took out two letters seized by the seed master Min, which were the correspondence between Zhi Yanzhi and the commander of the Jin soldiers Wan Yan Gao in the confrontation with the Jin soldiers.

Zhao Kai said with a serious face: "This kind of thing is terrible, it seems to be just a general communication, who knows if there is a verbal promise on both sides, so I don't believe in the Zhejia." ”

They are all actors in the officialdom, and they all understand what verbal promises are, and they may also put forward any conditions for themselves, or they may sell their allies in exchange for their own safety. Zhao Kai's calmness and methods blocked the retreat of Sun Ang and others, Sun Ang looked tough, but in fact he was very feminine inside, and immediately agreed. Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Yu also had to agree, Zhang Xiaochun asked Yang Zhi: "What can you do?"

Yang Zhi clenched his fists and replied lightly: "When it is extraordinary, there is an extraordinary method." ”

Zhao Kai was a little nervous, but he still swallowed the words in his mouth, Yang Zhi's "extraordinary method" may be some means that cannot be said clearly; but now there is no time to talk about conscience, if it is according to Bianliang's set, Yangzhou will not be able to obtain the Hetao, if this battle is lost, it may mean that millions of people in Hedong and other places will be displaced.

Sun Ang asked uneasily, "Can you talk about it?"

Yang Zhi shook his head and said indifferently: "I'm for the people of Hedong, I don't care about the rest, you don't want me to do it to a certain extent, I only have one last goal." ”

Sun Ang and the others' faces changed in an instant, and they looked at Zhao Kai in horror, they had already understood what Yang Zhi meant, if those people did not return to Hedong, the end would be more ugly than the other. Zhao Kai's face was as usual, and he seemed to be completely unconcerned, Zong Ze understood that Zhao Kai was also hinting to his subordinates that he did not want to be controlled by anything, Taiyuan was Taiyuan, and it had nothing to do with Bianliang.

When only Zong Ze and Yang Zhi were left in the house, Zong Ze silently poured tea for Yang Zhi, and pondered for a long time before saying a sentence: "This is our only chance to save the situation, but even so, the chance of winning the war in the future is still very small." ”

"How could Zong Shuai think like this?" Yang Zhi understood Zhao Kai's worries, Zong Ze reached this age, he was steady and old in the use of soldiers, and he didn't expect much for conspiracy, so guiding Yue Fei in another time and space was also asking for Zhenghe; Yang Zhi picked up the teacup and said with a smile: "We are different from Bianliang, there is no territory to cede, so if we don't surrender, we can only choose to fight, the opponent's territory is very large, and we can still eat it with the power of Taiyuan." ”

Yang Zhi's expression was calm, as if these things were taken for granted, Zong Ze mocked and said: "I'm old, without your ambition, you don't think about how to stop the war, you just want to fight like Wan Yan Gao, and gamble all the way to the end." Looking at today's people, I am afraid that only Wan Yan Gao can be compared with you, and maybe one day the moment of your decisive battle will be the time to decide the fate of the world. ”

Yang Zhi shook his head lightly, and said with a glint in his eyes: "The monarchs and ministers of Bianliang will help us, if we don't gamble, I'm afraid Taiyuan will be golden now." Our goal is the Qiyan army and the Fuqi army, and if we take these places, we can take Suizhou, Xiazhou, and Youzhou in the west, forcing the Western Xia not to dare to attack Guanzhong with all their might; ”

"Tell me what you think. "Zong Ze is not a hypocritical person, he is emotional, and there will be no less things to do; besides, Liu Xiang's transfer to the pacification envoy of the Jinning Army is a hint that Zhao Kai wants to take Qizhou, Liu Xiang is Liu Qi's eldest brother, a member of the Western Army, and the Zhi family is not far away. Zong Ze understood that if it weren't for the feelings of Xu Huiyan, Zhang Xiaochun and others, Zhao Kai would have started to do it a long time ago, and Yang Zhi was just the person Zhao Kai sent to the front to come to the platform.

Yang Zhi pointed out the difference between Yanyan Road and Fuqi Road, Fuqi Road is the world of the broken family, when the Volcano Army, Fengzhou, and Baode Army were abolished, the people of the three places moved to Fuzhou, and there were more than 10,000 people in the household registration of the original government, but the total number of household registration in Fuzhou is only more than 6,000 people; The Tibetan people of all ethnic groups who are obedient are mixed, self-governing in peacetime, self-protection in wartime, and who is still in charge of household registration.

Fuqi Road is such a hodgepodge plate, with a thousand things to do, and it is still chaotic, but Yanyan Road is different, one government, four prefectures, sixteen counties, more than 200,000 registered people, even Zhang Shen has no way to influence the decisions of the officials and generals below. The key to Yan Yanlu is the general manager Zhang Shen, Zhang Shen is the famous general Zhang Shouyue, who gave up martial arts and literature since childhood for the sake of the future, and belongs to the kind of person who is good at dancing with long sleeves, but relying on the connections left by Zhang Shouyue, he can still suppress his subordinates.