It may be easy to capture a city, but now it is obviously much harder to build a country than Ye Qing imagined.

Standing on the tower of Jingzhao Mansion and looking at the entire northern land that cannot be seen, perhaps the officials and generals under their command can still do something in the northern land, but if you want to rely on your weak family background to seek a country, it is obviously not enough to be used.

The years of weakness in the northern region, coupled with the floods in the past few years after its recovery, is just enough for Ye Qing to gain a foothold here. In this relatively peaceful period, if he wants to use this to make the world, Ye Qing has to think carefully. After all, he does not have the capital to make a profit again after failing once, but may fall into the abyss and never soar into the sky.

In less than a year, Jingzhao Prefecture has not changed much, and the entire mansion has not changed much. Now King Qing and Duke Chong are not in Chang'an, and are still busy with other things around. In addition, the autumn harvest is imminent, in fact, their hearts are even more nervous than Ye Qing. This year, God can do well and give the people in the north a harvest year.

Of course, no matter what, the surrounding area of ​​Jingzhao Prefecture is still much better than that of Jinan Prefecture. Although a large number of victims have been placed, the fields here have not suffered from floods, so they are still quite optimistic about the grain harvest.

In addition, the three Hetao routes have now shaken their hands, and everything in the entire Jingzhao Prefecture can be said to be on the right track. The only thing to worry about is that once a military force is used, the optimistic food may become extremely unoptimistic.

Whether it is to deceive the Xia Kingdom's military battles or to plot against the great mountains and rivers of the Xia Kingdom, in short, no matter what it is for, Ye Qing now needs to adopt the primary strategy of simplifying all lost lands that he has recovered, rather than following all the lengthy and messy systems of the Song court to this day.

Ye Qing in the study room handed over a newly written document to the Honglou and signaled him to send it to the front yard immediately, and Zhong Can sent someone to Lin'an.

After leaving the Red Building, Bai Chun walked in, still with a cold face. After looking at Ye Qing who smiled at her, he said, "Master Liu Ke wants to see you outside."

"What are he here to do?" Ye Qing frowned, and Bai Chun walked out without saying a word. Instead, he smiled at Master Liu Ke and signaled that Master Liu Ke, who was standing under the archway, could go to the study.

Seeing Bai Chun leaving without giving him a good look, Ye Qing could only smile bitterly in his heart. He knew that Bai Chun was still worried about Yelu Yue.

Liu Keshi smiled and was covered in dust. He was carrying a long and narrow wooden box behind him, which was really inconsistent with his elegant image as a literati. The smile on his face became even more intense after seeing Ye Qing, and even a little almost flattering.

Such a look naturally made Ye Qing feel irritated and muttered, I wondered what happened to this guy during this period, could he change his temper all of a sudden? Or, after a few months of quarrel with Li Heng, he even ignored his identity as a scholar.

"Master Ke has met Lord Ye." Master Liu Ke bowed to Ye Qing behind the desk.

Ye Qing waved his hand casually and signaled Master Liu Ke to sit down and speak.

Master Liu Ke first glanced at Ye Qing, then carefully untied the narrow and somewhat weight wooden box on his back and placed it in front of Ye Qing.

"Sir, I hope you don't want to be surprised or dislike me." The smile on Liu Keshi's face was very sincere at this moment.

"Are you bribing me? Would you please me?" Ye Qing asked, looking down at the wooden box that was not as exquisite as that.

"Sir, please open it first. If you think you like it, then what if you are a bribery or a plea?" Master Liu Ke said mysteriously.

"What is it?" Ye Qing asked casually, then opened the narrow box and saw a very good-looking waist knife lying quietly inside the ordinary wooden box.

"Where did you get it?" Ye Qing couldn't help but reach out, grabbed the scabbard in his hand, and began to look at it carefully and asked.

"The Xiaguan personally urged the craftsmen to create this, so after learning that the lord returned to Jingzhao Mansion, he immediately sent it to you." Liu Keshi looked at Ye Qing and looked at the scabbard and said.

The scabbard is very simple, like a bare shank, all made of wood, with only a layer of copper on the front of the scabbard to protect the scabbard. As for the shank, it is also made of wood, but a layer of black cloth has been wrapped around the shank, making the knife look nothing attractive at all.

However, Ye Qing was quite satisfied with the thick black cloth wrapped around the hilt of the knife. In addition, the knife was not damaged, so he wrapped a layer of black cloth to prevent his hands from slipping. He considered it quite thoroughly.

Just like the badminton rackets in later generations, tennis rackets are often wrapped with hand glue. The waist knife that Ye Qing used before has almost been wrapped with cotton cloth or even a layer of cowhide. Such an inconspicuous place was unexpectedly seen by Master Liu Ke.

"You can't beg me for something, right?" Ye Qing held the hilt of the knife and looked at Liu Ke with some vigilance and asked.

"Hehe, sir, you are really right, but please pull out this knife and see what to say?" Master Liu Ke looked extremely confident, which also made Ye Qing feel curious. He wanted to see what kind of knife was hidden under this inconspicuous appearance.

Holding the hilt of the knife, he slowly pulled out his waist, but only half of it was pulled out, and his eyes immediately lit up. He stared at the blade and the blade, which actually gave people a feeling of coldness.

As the complete waist knife was drawn out of the sheath, Ye Qing, who was knowledgeable, couldn't help but be surprised: "What a murderous knife."

"Sir, I still like it." Master Liu Ke looked at Ye Qing's surprised and joyful gaze and asked hurriedly.

"This knife is very heavy. No wonder you carry it on your back. It's really sharp." Ye Qing couldn't turn his eyes and praised the waist knife in his hand in amazement, especially the sharp blade, which made people feel a little numb: "It's worthy of being a... it's just that. Actually, do you know that there are several knives in my mansion that are a little better than yours... but I forgot to bring it here in Yangzhou."

Master Liu Ke's expression, who was originally full of smile, turned around with Lord Ye's words, and instantly froze on his face: Can this still be done?

I could not pull it out of my eyes just now, but why did the subject suddenly change? The knife he ordered the craftsman to forge for nearly half a year became an ordinary waist knife.

"So that's the case, why don't you give me the Lord to the lower rank? I'll go again... and try my luck with Lord Yu Yunwen?" Liu Keshi acted as if he was about to take over the waist knife that Ye Qing was still holding in his hand.

"In front of me, I'm bluntly speaking, you're going to bribe Yu Yunwen, Master Liu Ke, you really don't take me as an official!" Ye Qing glanced at Master Liu Ke, but the knife in his hand was still not put down. From time to time, he gently stroked the blade with his thumb, and then pulled out a hair, with the blade facing up, looking at the hair falling from his hand, and it broke into two softly after touching the blade: "What are you talking about first? If it's too rare, I won't give you this knife back. How can I go back for the gifts to someone?"

Liu Keshi laughed. In his opinion, this matter was almost done, but he was still unsure. After all, this matter was big or small, and he did a good job in the Longcheng Barracks. However... he obviously didn't expect that until this point, he still hoped that there would be a bigger place to enable him to realize his ideals and ambitions. Therefore, Liu Keshi, who has never given gifts and has never given gifts, finally took the first step of his bribery.

"You Liu Keshi entered the imperial examination and entered the imperial examination, but because you couldn't stand the frivolous people in the officialdom, you angrily resigned from the imperial court. Now... what's wrong? Is it so much that you, a pedantic scholar, have you, a pedantic scholar, figured it out?" Ye Qing put his waist knife back into the scabbard, weighed the weight in his hand, and asked with satisfaction.

"Sir, you are not suitable for this. Isn't it all thanks to the Lord?" Liu Keshi still laughed and said, "If it weren't for the cultivation of the adults in recent years, the officials would not have seen the officialdom and the hearts of the people at once. Especially the adults were very relieved to let the officials go to Lin'an, which made the officials understand that whether it is for their own selfish interests or to serve the court, it is completely impossible to rely on conscience and morality alone. It is still necessary to rely on those who are greedy to gain a foothold, and then to display their talents and realize their ambitions. Therefore, the reason why the officials are like this today is also your credit."

"Let me talk about the matter first. Let me give me such a good waist knife. What do you want to ask me to do for you?" Ye Qing wiped the wooden scabbard and said, "You can't say it. I have been an official for so long, and it seems that I have never done anything to other officials. From this perspective, I can be regarded as a clean official of my Song Dynasty court. The fools in Lin'an were simply blind and even dared to criticize me for forming cliques and private affairs. It's simply stupid."

"Sir, let me agree first. The reason why the subordinates made such a request was not because the emperor's dispatch to the subordinates now makes the subordinates dissatisfied, but because the subordinates... The subordinates want to go further and hope to do more." Liu Keshi is no longer the pedantic scholar of the past. Although he is still a bit roundabout in his words, even so, Liu Keshi is already a person who is very cunning and scheming in front of others.

Especially in the North, whether it was to appease the people or sort out the local officialdom, Liu Keshi could do a very good job, no worse than Yang Huaizhi and Chen Cishan. In some aspects, Liu Keshi was even more sharp and decisive than Yang and Chen, and even had a faint shadow of a cruel official.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Qing asked him to go to Lin'an after Guanshan, and then placed him on the mission to build a military camp.

"Sir, I'm not hiding it. Although I haven't said it clearly yet, Li Heng asked for troops from the barracks a few days ago, and the various actions of Guanshan now... the lower officials... the lower officials have already guessed it, so the lower officials hope that the higher officials can give the lower officials a chance to show their ambitions." Liu Keshi respectfully stood up from the chair and said frankly to Ye Qing with a serious expression.

"So what did you see?" Ye Qing's heart was slightly shocked. Although he was not surprised that Master Liu Ke saw his purpose, he still did not expect that Master Liu Ke, who was as pedantic as a piece of wood, had now become so keen.

Mr. Liu Ke did not sit down, but kept standing and pondering for a while, raised his head and looked straight at Ye Qing, and said with a solemn expression: "Sir, the official has been in Jingzhao Mansion for a long time. He has also been to Lin'an before and has served in Shandong and other places. Although he dare not say that he knows the current situation around him well, at least he can still know it."

"Continue talking." Ye Qing took the knife in his hand and unsheathed it back and forth, returning to the sheath.

"Yes, sir." Liu Keshi said solemnly: "Xiaoguan thought that since Temujin unified the grassland and established the Great Mongolian Kingdom, whether it was my Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty or Xia Dynasty, it was actually at a disadvantage. Even if we have not had any conflicts with Mongolia today, there are even Jin and Xia countries for our natural barriers to the Great Song Dynasty, but Xiaguan could still feel that since the founding of Mongolia, you... are panicked."

"During this period, the Mongols sent envoys to Jin and Xia countries almost at the same time. In addition to their pressure, they also used the means of mercy. In the eyes of Xiaguan, the reason why the Mongols did this was because they had always been afraid of the power of the adults in the north, so they had to use the hands of Xia and Jin to restrain and suppress your growth in the north. Xiaguan had been sent to Lin'an once because of the adults' dispatch, so in the eyes of Xiaguan, the Lin'an court was just a person who could eat people and had no

The human touch is even more cruel and ruthless than the battlefield, and the situation of the adults in Lin'an is also not optimistic. After all, Shi and Han are now mortal enemies. Now that the adults return to the north, they must make small moves behind the adults to weaken the adults' influence in the north. The adults are in mind the orthodox Chinese. As mentioned back then, all actions such as the adults' Northern Expedition are to prevent the Chinese civilization from being destroyed by foreign races. Now the officials still believe it."

Looking at Ye Qing who lowered his head to study the knife in his hand, Liu Ke took a deep breath, and then continued: "After returning to Yangzhou from Lin'an, he had a short rest, but everything in Xia State never stopped. Then, the Lord went to Jinan Prefecture, and the Jin people sent envoys to Jinan Prefecture, but unfortunately... they parted with the Lord. Now the Lord has returned to Jingzhao Prefecture again, so according to the officials, the Lord will never plan to sit and wait for death. He must have no chance, and he will also create opportunities for himself to face difficulties and strive for greater interests to safeguard our Chinese orthodox orthodox from being invaded by foreign races."

"Sir, the second time the lower official was given an opportunity for the lower official. The lower official was like opening up another world, so that the lower official would not dare to claim to be a good official in his heart, but... it is definitely a useful official to the higher official. The Northern District has been sent for four years, and the lower official appeases the hearts of the people. The skills of the Northern District’s officials often criticize the lower official for being too cruel, but the lower official knows that just like using heavy dictates in troubled times, if you always have gentleness and not toughness, it is difficult to shock the people and the officials under the rule of the Jin people. I believe that the higher official also understands the difficulties of the lower official, and this is the most needed official under the command of the higher official today."

Ye Qing took a deep breath, looked at Liu Keshi with a little lazily, and smiled and said, "Have you said so much, is it to recommend that you be able to follow me into summer one day?"

"In the past year, the officials of the Longcheng City have helped the Longcheng Army camp get on track. Even if there is no official, it can still bring better military sources to the adults. There is absolutely no need to worry about this." Liu Keshi nodded seriously. His purpose was indeed to follow Ye Qing to conquer the summer together, and then watch the territory of the Song Dynasty continue to grow, to experience the sense of accomplishment of creating history, to experience the heroic sense of being the top of the mountain and looking at the small mountains.

"Is there a suitable candidate?" Ye Qing asked with a smile on his head.

"Wang Chong and Xie Lun are enough to take on this great task. If the two of them have dereliction of duty in the Longcheng Barracks, the subordinates are willing to serve the superiors." Liu Keshi said firmly.

"So you think we Mouxia is desirable?" Ye Qing's smile on the corner of his mouth was still easy-going, and his expression still asked calmly.

"Getting gold will only attract the Xia people to use troops to us. When taking Xia, Jin may not necessarily use troops to go south. So the officials thought that instead of waiting for death, it would be better to try a plan for Xia that ordinary people could not guess. Moreover, Xia State is not a solid piece now, and the prince of Zhenyi is flirting with us. Although Li Chunyou is no longer young, he has been in the position of emperor for a few years. The court is still difficult to sort out for a while. It is a good opportunity for us to take this opportunity to plan." Liu Keshi began to shine. Although Ye Qing's expression was extremely calm, he could still feel that Ye Qing was very moved by his recommendation to him.

"I'll give you a night to write down your strategy for Xia. I'll give it to me when the sun rises tomorrow. It's my wish. I'll leave you with me to plot against Xia. If it doesn't suit me, I'll continue to go back to Longcheng Barracks as your barracks commander and governor." Ye Qing said with a brush, and his waist knife entered the sheath like lightning.

"Thank you, sir, I will not let you down." Liu Keshi bowed happily to Ye Qing who was walking out of the study.

As Ye Qing walked out of the study, Liu Keshi, who looked happy, waved his fist excitedly, and then hurried out of the study and ran towards the front yard.
Chapter completed!