Chapter 618: Holding a knife and getting on the horse

The eunuch couldn't help but stayed silent.

Discount? What's the point of this? If you ask for a 200,000 taels of silver, how should you go back to the palace to pay the job?

The eunuch was very upset and regretted not to speak loudly.

Chen Ao said unyieldingly: "What? The country of Daxia has abundant resources and abundant treasury. I won't even refuse to discount it, right? It's okay if I can't take it out. I'm not much in the Song Dynasty, but I have a lot of money. Your country's primary school, such a small number is already astronomical for you, and I won't make things difficult for you."

There was no way this eunuch could make the decision. He only said that the prince was young and the family went to ask for the imperial edict, so he hurried away.

In the warm pavilion, Li Ganshun heard the reward. At first, he thought it was Chen Ao who refused to accept the reward. After all, Li Ganshun made a move. On the surface, the reason was enough, but he always felt a little guilty. At this time, he heard that he was going to discount the money, and he was holding a cup of tea in his hand. He had just blown the tea foam, but his hands were trembling by these amazing words. The tea cup fell to the ground with a slam. The tea water flowing out soaked the carpet.

Several eunuchs outside came in immediately. Li Ganshun waved his hand and turned them away before looking at the eunuch who came to repay him, saying, "Why is it 200,000 yuan?"

The eunuch kowtowed and begged for mercy with a look of earth, and said the matter in its original form, and said timidly: "Slave should die, they shouldn't say this."

Li Ganshun smiled and said, "It's good that he is willing to accept the reward. You are also protecting our Xixia. Please pay off our merits and demerits. Go to the treasury to pay 200,000 pounds of silver to exchange for the money from the State of Song from the merchants, and then send it to the Honglu Temple. Since he has asked for it, I have no reason to not give it."

As soon as the eunuch left, someone hurried into the Honglu Temple. Chen Ao saw him in the side hall, took a sip of tea, and smiled faintly: "The King of Yue is so good, why are you sending me this news? Besides, the edict has been issued, and it is too late to send this news."

The visitor smiled and said, "The King of Yue asked me to come, but I still want to ask, the prince is now in vain, but do you have any plans?"

Chen Ao looked at the man with a smile and said, "What? King Yue hopes that I have any plans?"

The person who came was stunned for a moment, then said, "Princess Miaomiao is also the niece of King Yue, and is a relative of uncle and nephew. It's not wrong to care about her marriage."

Chen Ao shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that King Yue will care about himself." After that, he sneered and directly exposed the purpose of the visitor, saying, "If the princess married into the Jin Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom would definitely use the Western Xia to attack the Khitan and the Song Dynasty. While using the Wisdom, he would also go deep into Longxing Mansion. Will the crown prince, the crown prince, still be safe? If there is a princess inside, a princess, and a strong support outside, if you are not careful, the King Yue is afraid that he will not be able to be an ordinary person."

This sentence directly reveals the awesomeness and puts out the problem. Chen Ao is too lazy to waste his time with him.

The visitor smiled embarrassedly: "The prince is also a sensible person. Since he said this, the villain has made it straight to the point. The king of Yue is willing to help the prince with his help to replace Wanyan Zongjie and become the prince of the Western Xia."

Chen Ao took the tea cup and drank a sip of tea, and said slowly: "I wonder how King Yue wants to do his best?"

The person who came said, "Why might as well contact the princes of various countries to create momentum and say that the Emperor of Daxia has gone against his word and made a fuss. The King of Yue will definitely give convenience behind his back. My Emperor of Daxia is also a promising king and loves the national studies of your Song Dynasty. Don't you Song people say that a gentleman is as good as a word? Just use this as a matter of writing. As long as the trouble is big enough, the Emperor has to reconsider it."

Chen Ao's face was calm, but he pursed his lips and refused to speak.

The visitor frowned and said, "The prince doesn't seem to be enthusiastic?"

Chen Ao smiled and said bluntly: "Your King Yue and the Lord of Your Country are brothers, but you don't even understand the intentions of the Lord of Your Country. Can this be changed by just this?"

The person who came changed his face and asked, "What does the prince mean?"

Chen Ao stood up: "It's not interesting. If King Yue wants to help, it's simple. I will deal with this matter in my own way!"

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In the evening, the money from the Summer Palace was sent over, with 200,000 guan, a lot of money, and a hundred guan. There are many big merchants in Longxing Prefecture. Which one does not trade with the Song Dynasty? Most of these families kept the money from the Song Dynasty in order to prepare for emergencies. Even transactions between the big merchants were mostly completed with money. After all, although it was convenient to carry Jiaozi in Xixia, it depreciated too quickly. Except for Xixia, no other countries could use it. Only the money from the Song Dynasty could be circulated anywhere. In some places, even if it was banned by the official, it could not be completely eliminated in private.

Stacks of money were placed on the several cases in front of Shen Ao. Li Qing and more than 100 lieutenants gathered together in this hall. The rest could not enter the city and could only camp in the suburbs and wait for news here.

The candle fire ran a long, illuminating everyone's faces. The captains closed their belly and raised their waists without saying a word. They looked at Chen Ao with their eyes sneered and knocked on a stack of money with their knuckles. Then they slowly said: "We went thousands of miles from Bianjing to get here, crossed the Sichuan River, crossed the edge of the desert, crossed the border town, crossed countless mountains and rivers, why did we come here?"

Silent...

Chen Ao's tone was raised: "It was because I was the emperor's mission, so that I, the Song Dynasty, would not face the Jin people directly, and to prevent the bones from being piled up in the border town, and the blood flowing rivers of blood. For such a big relationship, I am here and you are here too. Who has any complaints?"

Li Qing said: "The humble one has no regrets."

Everyone said with a bang: "No regrets!"

Chen Ao continued to knock on the table with his knuckles: "When we come to Xixia, in order not to let the Jin people succeed, we fought hard, and in that match, we died seven of our robes and classmates. These people were just negligent and were knocked off the horse by the Jin people, rammed and trampled on them, and died. The seven of them died as much as possible. As long as they could promote the marriage between Song and Xia, they would never complain in order to prevent thousands of people from being displaced."

Chen Ao slapped his palm on the table: "We won. With our usual hard work, with our brothers' loyalty to the emperor and our passion for the Song Dynasty, we won a great victory! But..." He paused and said slowly: "But at this time, the Lord of Xixia sent this."

Chen Ao smiled disdainfully and sneered, "Do you want to seal our mouths? Or do you send us like a beggar? Since the martial arts school has come, you must not return without success. The money... I have collected it, and I will distribute it now. Each lieutenant will have two hundred stalemates, and the dead brothers must also be included. But I, Chen Ao, must take away the princess of Xixia! Everyone obeys the order!"

More than one hundred lieutenants stood straight and straightened their chests.

"Get ready immediately, check your weapons, ride a horse, and gather at the door." Chen Ao's face was left with murderous intent, and he said coldly: "Do you want to cheat? I, Chen Ao, can you cheat just by saying "You dog king?"

Chen Ao pulled out Shangfang's sword, held the long sword in his hand, and took Li Qing directly to another courtyard.

This is Yelu Yinde's residence, and there are Khitan warriors nearby defending each other. However, when it was Chen Ao, no one stopped him. But when he saw him holding his sword, he didn't know what to do. For the sake of caution, he followed him far away.

Yelu Yinde's wing room was kicked open with a slam. Yelu Yinde, who had just received the news, was about to put on his coat and go out to welcome the guests. The door was kicked open suddenly, and a gust of wind came in, extinguishing the candlelight.

Yelu Yinde was startled and said ai: "This...this..."

With the help of the bleak moonlight, Chen Ao pulled his sword and approached Yelu Yinde step by step. The two of them had a very good relationship. Seeing him like this, Yelu Yinde couldn't help but be afraid. Chen Ao got closer and closer, and could already vaguely see his expressionless face, with no spirit on his face, no smile like spring breeze, and only a lot of murderous intent.

"Brother Yelu..."

Yelu Yinde's legs became weak, and Pu Ran sat on the chair behind him: "Brother Chen... Brother Chen..."

Chen Ao said: "What does Jin and Xia's marriage mean to the Song Dynasty and the Khitan? Do you know what your Highness knows?"

Yelu Yinde was stunned for a moment: "This is naturally..."

"Since you know, Brother Yelu, as the Khitan Crown Prince, can you sit and wait for death? I heard that the Khitans are all warriors. Your Highness, take out your sword, bring your guards with you, and follow me!"

This sentence was almost said in an orderly tone, and Yelu Yinde could not be rejected.

"Go...where to go..." Yelu Yinde breathed a sigh of relief and said.

Chen Ao smiled indifferently and said, "Kill."

Yelu Yinde dared not ask again, but he had another question: "It's night now, Longxing Mansion is curfew, and ordinary people are not allowed to go to the streets, let alone so many of us are dispatched?"

Chen Ao smiled at Yelu Yinde and said, "I know that the command at night will not be investigated. The officials who are taking care of the Honglu Temple have been controlled by me. Brother Yelu, let's go."

Chen Ao turned around and went out. Yelu Yinde still didn't know who to kill. After a moment of staying up, he thought to himself, could he be going to assassinate the king of Xixia... Thinking of this, his face was tragic, and he stomped his feet, and he still had some courage in his bones. Chen Ao said nothing wrong. The survival of the Khitan was maintained on him, so how could he retreat?

Yelu Yinde immediately ordered the guards to ride on horses and gather at the door with the captain of the Song army. A team of 300 people rode on the horses, with a huge momentum. Chen Ao held a sword and beat the horse in front, and the people behind immediately followed him. The horse's speed became faster and faster. The horse's hooves hit the bluestone bricks, making a shocking sound.

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The Song Jun camp outside the city was during night classes. Each camp had its own large camp to teach. Doctors usually sat on the top with rulers and books, while the lieutenants sat cross-legged, holding books in their hands, or taking notes with charcoal pens.

Today is the Xunzi chapter. The doctor talked freely and chanted a few sentences: "A gentleman knows that a man is not complete and not pure is not enough to be beautiful, so he recites it through several things, thinks about it to understand it, treat it for others, and eliminates the harm..."

Then he said: "Xunzi advised learning, and he said more than a thousand words, but he spread to the world and never faded for a thousand years. Why is that?"

The captains thought deeply.

The doctor sighed: "That's all about today..."

I just talked about the exciting part, why don’t the doctor say it? Every night class, incense burns next to me. When all three incense sticks are burned, the doctor is willing to teach the lieutenants to go back to the barracks to rest. Today, I only talked about two incense sticks, so why don’t I teach it? What a strange thing.

The lieutenants looked at each other, and at this time the doctor held the book and said, "When is it now?"

"Report to Mr. Wu, three minutes."

The doctor stroked his beard and nodded: "It's getting late." After that, his face changed, he threw down the ruler and book, and said loudly: "The Prince of Penglai has an order!"

Hearing these six words, everyone stood up, raised their chests, and didn't dare to speak out.

The doctor said: "At the third hour of the lunar month, hold the knife, get on the horse, kill someone!" The doctor took out a letter from his sleeve and said: "Who has any objection to the handwriting here?"

The captains agreed: "Abide by the order!"

Then they spread out, went back to the barracks, put on leather armor, Fanyang hats, put on boots, hung bows and arrows, and Rushu swords, and hurried to the horse shed to lead the horse. In just a moment, more than 800 people were ready to go. Under the flags and in the faint light of torches, no one made a sound, but just pressed the knife and carried the reins.

The battalion officer ran back and forth in front of the team. The flag officer behind him held the flag and followed him. The battalion officer shouted: "Penglai County Prince's order, no one is left, cut off the weeds and set off!"

The horse team began to move, without any passionate slogans or loud singing. They just followed the steps and left the yard, and then the battalions lined up, and the war horses roared towards the dark sky and the endless night.

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Chapter completed!