To The Land of Nevernight

The next day, Tang Shen came to Zhengxi Marshal's Mansion to pay a visit to Li Jingde.

Li Jingde was not at the mansion. After waiting for about half an hour, General Li in military uniform entered the Marshal's mansion with big strides.When he saw Tang Shen, he opened his mouth and said, "Tang Shen, I heard that you had a big fight with Su Wenyun at the banquet hosted by Yin Ji Zhaosi of Youzhou Mansion yesterday. They fought against each other and broke up unhappy?"

Tang Shen's first reaction: So General Li can say two idioms in one breath?

Tang Shen sighed, and said: "That's true. I didn't expect that even General Li knew about such a scandal. It's true that good things don't go out, and bad things spread far and wide."

Li Jingde waved his hand: "Hey, not many people know where you are. But this Youzhou City is my territory, what kind of troubles can be hidden from the general's eyes? What's the matter, what evil did Su Wenyun do? Come on, tell me, anyway, he is in Youzhou now, and this general has vented his anger on you."

Tang Shen cupped his hands: "Thank you, General Li, it's just a trivial matter, please worry about it, General."

Tang Shen didn't say anything, Li Jingde didn't ask again.Marshal Zhengxi was busy training troops and fighting the Liao Dynasty every day, so he was not free. How could it be possible for him to be idle all day long to repay Wen Yun and vent his anger on Tang Shen as he said?Li Jingde just said casually, Tang Shen didn't appreciate it, so he just let it go.

"You came today, but something happened?"

Tang Shen was silent, and said: "There is indeed something to do." After speaking, Tang Shen stood up, came to Li Jingde, and bent down to make a big salute.Li Jingde hastened to support him: "Master Tang, why is this? You can't do it. You are worshiping the heaven and the earth, and it has nothing to do with me. Don't think that I am a general and you don't understand. If you have anything to do, just say it."

Tang Shendao: "Since the general has said it straight, the officer will no longer hide it. Today, the officer came here because he wanted to borrow the general's token."

Li Jingde narrowed his round eyes, and looked at Tang Shen quietly.After returning to Youzhou for a few months, his rough and handsome face was already covered with beards, covering most of his cheeks.No one could tell what he was thinking from his bushy bearded face, and Li Jingde might not be as stupid and reckless as others thought.

After a long time, Li Jingde asked, "Is it urgent?"

Tang Shen: "It's about taking precautions before they happen."

Li Jingde laughed: "Okay, the general knows. At the end of last year in Shengjing, you helped the general many times. Now it's just a token, a trivial matter, nothing to worry about. Tang Shen, you come with me."

Tang Shen followed Li Jingde to his study.

There are also several large bookshelves in General Li's study, which are full of books.But Tang Shen glanced casually, and found that these books included the Four Books and Five Classics, and even the "San Zi Jing" and "Thousand Character Classics" that children enlightened were placed on the shelves.Every book is brand new and smooth, as if it hasn't been flipped much, just for facade.

Li Jingde took out the Marshal Order of Zhengxi and handed it to Tang Shen.

"This token cannot mobilize thousands of troops, but in Youzhou, it can help you walk on flat ground."

Tang Shen cupped his hands and said: "Thank you, General Li, at most half a month, I will return the original."

Li Jingde laughed loudly and said: "It's not necessary, it's just a token. If I lose it, I'll make a different one, so that others will recognize the different one. If you lose it, I can still find that Wang Zifeng. Lost your temper. That senior brother of yours is really not a thing, don’t think I said this in Youzhou, even if I go to Shengjing, in front of your senior brother, I dare to say that! Yin Yinsi is such a crap , made an inexplicable silver deed, and made the people of Youzhou Daying miserable!"

Tang Shen: "..."

That's not how people live in dire straits.

Li Jingde said two more bad things about Wang Qin, but Tang Shen was short of manpower, so it was not easy to argue with him.Fortunately, Li Jingde didn't say a few words, and started to speak ill of Su Wenyun again.Wang Qin was really impeccable in dealing with people, and he didn't leave any excuses. No matter how Li Jingde scolded him, he could only scold him for being deep-minded and Yin Yinsi for tossing people.

But when he scolded Su Wenyun, Li Jingde said too many words.

"...Let's not talk about you, I don't like that little boy either. When I returned to Shengjing two years ago, he happened to be the young minister of Dali Temple. A soldier in Youzhou City had a case and was sent to Dali Temple for trial. That little white face is so fucking ruthless. In front of Lao Tzu, he tossed Lao Tzu's soldiers until he was breathless. Since then, I have remembered his three words 'Su Wenyun'. Don't underestimate that guy, on the surface The glamorous one is actually more ruthless than Wang Zifeng!"

Tang Shen whispered: "My senior brother may be more ruthless."

Li Jingde didn't hear clearly: "What did you say?"

Tang Shen: "The general is wise and has little insight. The lower officials will pay attention."

Li Jingde waved his hand: "Just talking, this general just likes you, you are not the same as those civil servants who are full of bad things."

Soon, Li Jingde returned to Youzhou Camp, and Tang Shen also left.

Watching the back of Li Jingde riding the steed and galloping away, Tang Shen hid his hand in his sleeve and gently stroked the token.He was deeply moved.

Can Su Wenyun compare to my senior brother?

Su Wenyun back then was so young, he was remembered by Li Jingde for being able to do things well.If you want to change my senior brother, you will definitely kill him with a smile. Maybe you, Li Jingde, will be grateful to Dade and send a pennant to my senior brother!

However, after getting in touch with Li Jingde, Tang Shen and Su Wenyun's acting benefits also showed one or two.

Yesterday at the banquet in the government office of Youzhou, Tang Shen and Su Wenyun turned against each other in full view.Although the incident did not cause a stir in the city, it definitely reached the ears of the few people who should know about it.Including Li Jingde.

With this incident as a foreshadowing, since then, Tang Shen and Su Wenyun have excuses for many things.And they can cover each other without being suspected by anyone.

It is not suitable for anyone to do this matter, only Tang Shen and Su Wenyun.Because many officials knew that when the Cizhou Bridge collapsed three years ago, Su Wenyun and Tang Shen got married. In the past few years, the relationship between the two has always been at odds.With this foreshadowing, it would seem logical for the two of them to quarrel again.

Tang Shen couldn't help thinking, did Zhao Fu think of this when he sent him and Su Wenyun to run errands?

If Zhao Fu really thought of it, then he would be too scary.

After a few days of preparation in Youzhou City, on the sixth day of April, Lin Xu, Secretary of Yinyin Division, came to pay a visit to Tang Shen with a few people.Lin Xu led the man to the post house and put him in the concierge first.He met Tang Shen alone, and said, "I have seen the imperial envoy. Yesterday afternoon, Wang Xianggong's letter came from Shengjing. The matter mentioned in the letter has been done properly. Today, the official will bring The few people who came here are absolutely trustworthy, do you want to meet them?"

"Bring people in to have a look."

Lin Xu quickly brought him into the house.

He brought a total of four people in. These four were middle-aged men with two big arms and round waists, and they looked like they had lived a wealthy life for many years.The other two were a little thinner, but they were hale and hearty, their cheeks were flushed, and they were obviously living a very good life.These four people all looked like businessmen, but when they saw Tang Shen, they didn't shrink back nervously like ordinary businessmen when they saw a high official. What to listen to.

Tang Shen looked at the four of them carefully, and finally his eyes fell on a short and thin man.This lean, middle-aged man had a profound face, somewhat similar to Li Jingde. Although they did not have Liao blood, they all resembled Liao people.The man lowered his hands in front of him in a respectful manner.

Lin Xu noticed that Tang Shen was looking at this person, and immediately said, "The person Wang Xianggong recommended is also this person."

Tang Shen was taken aback, and looked up at him.

Lin Xu: "Wang Xianggong said in the letter that if Mr. Tang has another choice, there is no need to say anything else, because these four people are absolutely trustworthy. But if Mr. Tang chooses this person, Wang Xianggong said, this person you You can use it with confidence, the things you have heard, thought, and guessed are indeed found by this person."

A simple sentence made Tang Shen's heart fluctuate.

It turned out that Lin Xu was really the brother's confidant!

The senior brother didn't even shy away from the fact that "the Yinyin Division has a special way to inquire about the intelligence of the Liao Kingdom", it seems that I can trust him more.

Tang Shen said calmly, "That's him."

The middle-aged man was also clever, and immediately said: "Qiao Yin, a grassroots man, is the ninth in the family, and everyone around him calls him Qiao Jiu. Qiao Jiu is willing to do things for the adults, and will never disappoint the adults."

Tang Shen: "Do you understand tea?"

Qiao Jiu: "Understood. Caomin has done a lot of business. He also went to the south when he was young. He did tea business with his friends, but he didn't do it again for many years."

Tang Shen: "Okay, I want you to become a tea merchant in one day. You come from Gusu Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River, and you sell the top grade Biluochun."

Qiao Jiu responded repeatedly.

Lin Xu led the others to walk first, only Qiao Jiu stayed in the post house for a while.

In the evening, Wang Qin's letter to Tang Shen was also sent to Youzhou Posthouse.

Tang Shen got the letter from the official and hurriedly opened it.On the thin rice paper, Wang Qin's elegant and unrestrained handwriting slowly stretched out, even if the writing was in rather delicate lower case letters, it couldn't hide the cleanliness of the person who wrote it.

In the letter, Wang Qin said that he sent Lin Xu to help Tang Shen select candidates. He asked Tang Shen not to think too much. The errand was handed over to Tang Shen.

"...Today, I saw a begonia with my husband, and it had ten thousand green hairs hanging down like a beautiful woman. I remembered that Jingze was still in Youzhou, and I saw yellow sand all over the sky, and the spring breeze was not over, so I couldn't help sighing. My husband asked Zifeng why Sorrowful, I miss my junior brother. Knowing that you always like to tease me, but you don’t get the point, and you fail repeatedly, why don’t you tell me how the master made troubles.”

The long paragraph in the front of the letter was all serious business, and Tang Shen read it intently.At the end, when Wang Qin suddenly mentioned something interesting about himself, Tang Shen's eyes lit up.In the half month since he came to Youzhou City, Tang Shen was tense almost every day, and never let up.Seeing this letter from Wang Qin now, his heart warmed up, and he murmured in a low voice: "Senior brother, I miss you too."

Then look down.

"Sir, there has been a saying since ancient times, it is appropriate to give it to Zifeng."

"I said, what are you talking about?"

"Mr. looked up to the sky and sighed, and said, my mother is worried when my son travels thousands of miles!"

"Junior brother, do you think I should be concerned about you, or not?"

Tang Shen looked at the letter dumbfounded, and he groped for Wang Zifeng's words with his fingertips.At first I was still smiling, but after a while, the smile on my face slowly faded away.Tang Shen was touched and said: "Senior brother told me such a joke, and even made fun of himself, didn't he just hope that I can be more relaxed and not push myself too much?"

The yearning for Wang Zifeng in his heart was much stronger, just like the Shaodaozi wine that soldiers in Youzhou loved to drink, it made Tang Shen's mind tremble.

However, within a moment, Su Wenyun's words came to mind, and Tang Shen's expression turned cold again.

Three days ago, Su Wenyun probably never expected that Tang Shen would categorically and unquestionably reprimand him, saying that he had slandered Wang Qin and ruined Wang Qin's reputation.Su Wenyun was actually bluffed by him, and believed Tang Shen's nonsense, thinking that he really misunderstood Wang Qin.He even apologized to Wang Qin.

Who would have thought that even Tang Shen would be shaken by his words that day!After that, he justly accused Su Wenyun just to defend Wang Qin, without any real evidence.

Wang Qin is in his twenties this year, and he is still unmarried for three reasons.

First of all, he has no one to look up to, and his vision is too high, and he refuses to give in, so he has not married so far.

Secondly, he didn't mention it, although some people may fool the past, marry a wife and start a family casually, and even blame the woman for having no children after marriage, and shirk responsibility.But Tang Shen knew that Wang Qin was not such a person, if his senior brother really refused, he would never harm other girls.

Three to...

"Wang Zifeng really likes men?"

Tang Shen's eyebrows were wrinkled, and his whole face was wrinkled into a bitter face.He was in a dilemma, thinking hard for a long time, and finally heaved a long sigh: "Which is better, not lifting or cutting off the sleeve?" Anyway, he is still my senior brother."

His eyes lingered on the thin letter paper for a long time, Tang Shen didn't even notice it. When he was thinking about whether Wang Zifeng would not lift up his sleeve or whether he would break his sleeve, his fingers subconsciously pinched the rice paper, almost crushing the paper. broken.However, when he figured it out, he was actually relieved, and even had an inexplicable expectation deep in his heart.

Tang Shen raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile, "I'll be with him for the rest of my life and treat him like a family member."

Tang Shen made up his mind as if comforting himself.He took out the rice paper and began to reply to Wang Qin.

In the early morning of the second day, Tang Shen quietly packed up the salute and put it in the posthouse room.In order to deceive others, he ordered the book boy Feng Bi to stay in Youzhou and enter Liao alone.In the morning, Tang Shen summoned an official and handed over the letter he had written to Wang Qin: "How many days will it take to reach Shengjing?"

The official said: "Returning to my lord, this is not a military situation, so don't take the rush. Normally, it will take six days. If the lord needs it, you can tell me specifically, and it will take about four days."

"Four days...no need, just six days."

"Yes."

While delivering the letter, Tang Shen ran into Su Wenyun.

The two met in the hallway and glanced at each other.

Su Wenyun said with a half-smile, "Master Tang, what a coincidence."

Tang Shen cupped his hands and saluted: "Your Majesty, I have seen Mr. Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry."

Su Wenyun glanced at him and walked away.The moment the two passed by, Tang Shen whispered, "Today is late at night."

Su Wenyun paused, continued to move forward, and walked away.

At night, Youzhou City is silent, only the strong wind that often blows in spring whizzes and blows the Populus euphratica trees in the city, making the sound of rattling.

In the east of Youzhou City, two carriages loaded with military pay rattled past.

The carriage went to the gate of the city, and the guards stopped the carriage, and said loudly: "What kind of carriage, why did you leave the city in the middle of the night?"

The officer accompanying the car immediately took the approval document and sent it to the soldier. He apologized and said with a smile: "My lord, the younger one is an officer of the Yinyin Division. The Yinyin Division has received a new batch of military salaries. General Li, the Marshal of Zhengxi It is urgent, so I have to send it in the middle of the night. Look, this is the official seal of Yin Yinsi and General Li's token approval seal."

The soldiers of Youzhou City and Yin Yinsi had always been at odds. The soldier guarding the city looked at the approval document and found that it was indeed Yin Yinsi's official seal, and the badge seal of Marshal Zhengxi on it was probably true.

The reason why the Yinyin Division is so annoying is that apart from being in charge of all the military expenses of the Youzhou camp, there is another point that the Yinyin Division always does not play cards according to common sense.Needless to say about the silver deed, the Yin Yinsi had really done it in the middle of the night to deliver the military salary, and not only once.

The soldier wanted to be embarrassed, but another soldier guarding the city said: "Hey, it's General Li's job. It's not like you and I don't know the general's temper, so let's go."

The soldier thought for a while and said helplessly, "Let's go."

The city gate opened with a creak, and the soldiers let the two carriages go out without even checking the contents of the carts.

The fact that the military salary carriage left Youzhou City did not attract the attention of anyone in the city.This matter didn't even reach Li Jingde's ears, Li Jingde himself didn't know, he went to Yin Yinsi in the middle of the night to ask for a batch of military pay.

On the eighth day of April, the clouds were dense and the stars and the moon could not be seen.

In the posthouse in Youzhou, Su Wenyun stayed up all night. He sat at the table and poured tea for himself cup by cup.When the sky was bright, he wanted to pour himself another cup of tea, but suddenly found that the teapot was empty at some point, and he had already drank a full stomach of cold water.

On the other side, Tang Shen led his troops out of Youzhou City smoothly without alarming anyone.

When they arrived at the border between Song and Liao, the two carriages changed their appearances. The young man who said he was the servant of Yinyin Division turned out to be Qiao Jiu's own son.They transformed themselves, Qiao Jiu became a tea merchant from the south of the Yangtze River, Tang Shen and others transformed into fellow tea vendors, and Lu Shen and other generals became military masters accompanying the team.

The military pay on the carriage is a bag of tea.

Arriving at the border between Song and Liao, Qiao Jiu took out the approval document from the government of Youzhou that he had prepared a long time ago, passed the customs smoothly, and entered the Liao Kingdom.

When I first entered the Liao territory, everything was the same as the folks in the Song Dynasty, and there were everything you could expect from restaurants in towns and cities.When you go further in, the capital city is getting smaller and smaller, and most of the tribes are gathering and migrating along the way.Every time they encountered a small town, everyone would stop to supply supplies.

However, there is one thing that is quite the opposite.

Tang Shen had just entered the Liao Kingdom. At the border between the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty, the Liao people they saw glared at them one by one, as if they had been enemies for many years.But in the depths of the Liao Kingdom, those Liao people who had never experienced the Song and Liao battles were not so hostile to them. They just showed a contemptuous and arrogant attitude in their words and deeds, which was undisguised.

A group of people braved the wind and sand, and arrived at Xijin Mansion in Nanjing, Liao Kingdom six days later.

When entering the city gate, Qiao Jiu stooped and kept giving money to the Liao soldiers guarding the city gate.Tang Shen stood in front of the tall and majestic Xijin mansion, he slowly raised his head, and looked at the huge word "Xijin" on the city gate, his mind was shaken and he couldn't get back to his senses for a long time.

"My lord, what did you see?"

Tang Shen turned his head to look at the other party.It was Qiao Jiu's son who was talking, but now in their caravan, Qiao Jiu's son played the role of a fellow, while Tang Shen played the role of Qiao Jiu's son.

When Song merchants came to Liao, they all liked to wrap themselves in linen to keep out the wind and sand.

Tang Shen's face was blocked by the brown linen cloth, only his eyes were exposed.He nodded, pointed to the two characters on the city gate of Jinfu, and said: "These two characters are written well, but they are still Chinese characters."

Qiao Xing said: "Nanjing was not originally called Xijin Mansion. It was changed by the Prince Taishi of the Liao Kingdom more than ten years ago. I heard that he also wrote these two words." He said in his ear: "My lord likes the calligraphy of the Liao prince Taishi? It's not impossible to ask for the calligraphy of the Taishi. If you want it, you can get it."

Tang Shen laughed lowly.

Liao people write Chinese characters, no matter how beautiful they are, where can they be seen?

The handwriting of the Prince of Liao Taishi is not bad, but it is only at Tang Shen's level.Compared with Fu Wei and Wang Qin, it's like playing tricks.

Qiao Xing realized that he had kissed the wrong ass, so he didn't speak anymore.

Qiao Jiu stuffed three money bags and finally fed the greedy Liao soldiers.But being able to spend money is always a good thing, these few Liao soldiers put them into the city casually, without much questioning at all.

After entering the Xijin mansion, everyone stayed at the inn that Qiao Jiu had arranged early.

Tang Shen stood by the window, looking down at the Xijin Mansion.The guy behind him who helped him pack his things didn't understand what he was looking at, but Tang Shen knew that what he was looking at was not Xijin, but the extremely prosperous Beijing city thousands of years later!

That's right, the Xijin Mansion in Nanjing in the Liao Kingdom is exactly what Beijing will be a thousand years later.

Most of the Liao Kingdom is a tribal alliance, and there are not many metropolises in the country, the most important one is Wujing.They are Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing, Dading Mansion in Zhongjing, Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, Datong Mansion in Xijing and Xijin Mansion in Nanjing.Shangjing Linhuang Mansion is the capital of the Liao Kingdom, and the other four capitals are the accompanying capitals.

Coming to Xijin Mansion, Tang Shen was filled with emotions.However, he doesn't even know whether the land under his feet will become the Beijing in his memory after thousands of years.

Closing his eyes and sighing heavily, Tang Shen asked, "How is Qiao Jiu?"

This guy also knew about it, and it was said that he was Qiao Jiu's confidant.He said: "The preparations have already been made at the master's place. It's getting late today, so I would like to ask your lord to rest for a while. Waiting for tomorrow, we will go to the commercial firm in the Liao country to find a way."

Tang Shen nodded, and after the guy left, he blew out the candle, and the room fell into darkness.

At the same time, in the city of Shengjing thousands of miles away, there is the House of the Minister of the Household Department.

Wang Qin came back from the palace, today he was summoned into Dengxiantai by the emperor, and talked for more than an hour.

Since the death of the queen mother and Zhao Fu's serious illness, his temperament has changed a bit.Tang Shen has been in Youzhou all this time, so he is not aware of this matter, but Wang Qin has the deepest understanding.When he came back from the palace today, Wang Qin opened his hands and asked the book boy to change his clothes.At this time, the butler knocked on the door and came in, holding a letter, and said, "My lord, it's a letter from Youzhou."

Wang Qin frowned, and his voice was elegant: "Jing Ze's?"

"Yes."

The corner of his mouth couldn't help but rise, Wang Qin said softly: "I won't change clothes for now, you go down first."

The book boy answered in a low voice.

Wang Qin was wearing this half-removed dress, and he didn't care whether his appearance at the moment lost the air of a nobleman, he walked up to the housekeeper and picked up the letter.Pressing the front of the letter with his slender fingers, Wang Qin stared at the words "Senior brother's personal letter" for a while, and then opened the envelope.

However, just after seeing the first line of words, Wang Qin burst out laughing and was stunned for a while.

At the beginning of this letter, Tang Shen used the same handwriting as Wang Qin to write——

"Brother please:

Lu An respectfully kowtow..."

Wang Qin didn't look down, he looked at the first two lines with deep eyes.After a long time, he turned his head and asked the housekeeper with a gentle smile: "When you were in the Langya Wang family, you also read a lot of books. Is it because I remembered wrongly? For the parents?"

How could the housekeeper know what Wang Qin was talking about, he said honestly: "If you go back to your son, yes."

The implication: You remember correctly, these two words are used by children to their parents.

Wang Qin smiled leisurely, and shook the letter paper in his hand: "You should read my son's letter carefully, you go down first."

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