The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Another autumn is coming, the grassland is covered with a layer of dimness, and the leaves are beginning to fall. Xijing has a good harvest this year. Zhao Jie urged all departments to go to the border to prevent autumn, while asking people to purchase the surplus grain from the people and inspect the pastures.

The horses paid up. Now the clouds of war are once again over Xijing, and he cannot help but prepare for the sudden outbreak of the war.

Zhao Qi had just returned to the mansion and had not finished a cup of tea. Fengxi came in and reported to the Minister of Rites Ma Kuo, who had come back and asked for a meeting. He could only shake his head, thinking that his negotiations with the Jurchens had made a comeback.

I also sighed that Ma Kuo is really dedicated. It is dark and he is still rushing to report, but he can only go to the front hall with exhaustion.

But Ma Kuo agreed to go to Hebei to recruit soldiers in Taiyuan that day. Because he bluntly said that Wuji offended Liu Wei's son, he was detained and imprisoned and imprisoned in Zhending Prison. He once bluntly advised Tong Guan, and Tong Guan wanted to

He was willing to give in and thanked him, thinking that Liu Yu's son was as tolerant as Tong Guan, so he offended him in his words and offended Mr. Liu. Unfortunately, this young master was not tolerant and accused him of recruiting troops to rebel.

Liu Wei did not dare to take the initiative to deal with it himself, because he knew that Ma Kuo was a rare diplomatic genius in the Song court, and the Zhao official family also valued it very much. By the time he submitted to the court to tell the matter, the new emperor was already in power. Zhao Huan

Ordered people to go to the trial, but they were worried that Liu Wei had already been appointed as the Hebei government history and sent Hebei officials to organize the case. If they were to use public service for personal gain, wouldn’t the country lose one talent? So they sent another Jingdong Road official to go there, but it has already been delayed to seven.

month.

Although Ma Kuo is a civil servant, he is a martial artist. He is a versatile talent in civil and military affairs. He has been in prison for several months, and he has no choice but to sigh and regret. He has the desire to serve the country but cannot perform it. When he has already

When I gradually got used to life in prison, after noon in prison one day, no one was sent to me. I was puzzled. After thinking about it, I still didn’t see anyone. Then I asked all the prisoners next to me that this was the case.

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Ma Kuo became nervous. In the area under Liu Wei's jurisdiction, if you want to kill him, you don't have to play "hide and seek" at all. You won't use the despicable means of starving to death. You just need to find someone to come in and chop him directly.

He was a martial arts master. He was at least in his body, otherwise he would not even pass the first item of the assessment, so he turned away his ward and sneaked out of the cell.

When Ma Kuodu was about to leave the gate, he did not meet a prison guard. He found that there was no one around. He saw an old prison guard sitting at the gate. When he was puzzled, the veteran also saw him.

He smiled bitterly: "Don't be surprised, Lord Ma, the foreign soldiers have entered the city! Everyone has run away, you might as well escape from this place of trouble!"

The old man was also worried that he did not die at the hands of the Song people and among the Jin soldiers. Isn’t it impossible to explain the crime he has been carrying for the rest of his life? Ma Kuo didn’t care about thanking him. He returned to prison again and released all the people in the prison.

There is no shortage of people in the prison who occupy the mountains and become kings, and bandits gather in the mountains and forests in troubled times. These people are very grateful for Ma Kuo's gratitude for saving his life. So under his leadership, they all pretended to sneak out of Zhending City with him and escaped.

In the nearby cottage.

Although Ma Kuo was arrested and imprisoned, he had been an official in the court. He was able to be civil and military, and was deeply trusted by everyone, so he supported him as the leader. Ma Kuo thus united the heroes of the Two Rivers and often robbed and killed small groups of Jurchen troops.

, guerrilla warfare was launched in the enemy-occupied area. However, with the retreat of the Jurchens, these people became rebels, and some were recruited to eat military rations. Some went home, but Ma Kuo could not. He once

It is the official who is responsible for robbing the bandits.

So Ma Kuo could only continue to be the king of the mountain with a group of unforgivable or homeless people, and they would also live. Then there was only one way to go - rob, but when the Jurchens left, the target of the robbery could only be the common people.

He was with the official army. And these were things he didn't want to do. When the Jurchens went south again, he gathered tens of thousands of troops to fight against the Jurchens, but the ending was still disbanded.

Ma Kuo was unwilling to live a life of robbing the house, so he left the thief's cave. However, Liu Li was still the deputy envoy of Hebei Xuanfu. At this time, Tong Guan was executed and was cleaning up the rest of the party. He did not dare to return to the court and could only hide his name.

He hid in and out, but was discovered by the people from the Intelligence Department and reported to the prince. Zhao Qiong was short of such diplomatic talents, so he ordered people to contact him.

When Ma Kuo was in Taiyuan, he met the prince several times and admired his reputation for a long time. Now he is desperate, so he agreed. Zhao Qi arranged for someone to send him to Xijing and appointed him as the Minister of Rites and in charge of the position of serving as the Minister of Rites.

I haven't been in diplomatic work for a long time, but I have done my best to do a good job...

"Thank you, Lord Ma, please sit down and have tea!" Zhao Qi came to the hall and stood aside and said, seeing Ma Kuo's rules.

"Thank you, the matter is urgent, I have to disturb you!" Ma Kuo thanked the prince before sitting down, but his heart felt warm. He followed Tong Guan for more than a few years and had never enjoyed this treatment.

"Mr. Ma doesn't have to be polite. I am a rough man and don't have so many rules. It's okay to be the first thing to do!" Zhao Qi said with a smile.

"Then you are welcome!" Ma Kuo said again, "Today, the Xiaguan has already seen the Jin envoy Wanyan Yinshuke, and he came to discuss peace under the order of Emperor Jin!"

"Oh, they want to make peace with us, what do you mean?" Zhao Qiong asked after taking a sip of tea.

"They want to jointly attack Song with us and divide the Central Plains equally!" said Ma Kuo.

"Haha..." Zhao Qi laughed after hearing this, and it took a while to stop laughing, "What did he really say?"

"Yes, he said that the Song Dynasty was unkind and betrayed, and the two countries jointly attacked it. He also brought a secret letter from the deposed emperor of Liao Yelu Yanxi to the princess to order her to obey the Jurchens!" Ma Kuo said, pulling out of her sleeves

When he sent a letter, he was a little surprised why the prince was laughing.

"Hmph, you're such a wolf, you just say it back!" Zhao Qi took the letter and opened it, scanned it and handed it to Ma Kuo for him to see.

"Prince, the Jurchens threatened Yelu Yanxi and forced us to surrender. What do you think?" Ma Kuo looked at it and asked. This kind of thing is really not easy to deal with. After all, Xijing is a land of remnants of Liao, and there are still some Khitans.

The power, Yelu Yanxi was the old master and the prince's father-in-law, and he was inevitably forced to deal with it.

"He will bring up this matter tomorrow, even if he orders people to beat him out and tell him that if he dares to do something bad to him, I can launch an army to attack him!" Zhao Qi said with a stern look.

"Your Majesty, it's probably inappropriate to do this. If you really attack him, you will hit him with the counter-arrangement plan!" Ma Kuo said, smiling bitterly in his heart that the prince's temper was not changing, and he would fight and kick and kick.

"He dared not!" Zhao Qiong sneered, "Yin Shu is a person who knows the truth. The tougher we are, the more guilty we are. The Jurchens meant to fight, not to fight. Just let it go and find out their true meaning!"

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