Li Shanqing shouted loudly: "This is Song Gou's trick! They will never dare to make a five-way northern expedition!"

Xilin Helu also wanted to say the same, but couldn't help but said: "What if it is true? It has already been published in the newspapers."

Yes! It’s all in the newspapers!

Li Shanqing said angrily: "In the morning, we talked about maintaining peace, and after dinner, we talked about a five-way northern expedition. How could there be such a fast newspaper? This is obviously prepared in advance!"

Xilin Helu blinked his big eyes and looked at Li Shanqing, as if to say: That's right, it was prepared in advance. What can we do?

"There's trouble happening in the south! Song Gou will never dare to make the Fifth Northern Expedition! Absolutely not!"

Xilin Helu sighed, and he was even a little proud when he saw Li Shanqing making a fool of himself.

Previously, he, Xilin Helu, was in charge of diplomacy with the Song Dynasty. After the Battle of Taiyuan, he was so angry that Yu Yunwen vomited blood. The superiors believed that his abilities were limited, so they sent Li Shanqing over.

Although I cooperate on the surface, I am definitely dissatisfied in my heart.

"What if, what if the Song army goes to war?"

"Then fight!" Li Shanqing was furious, "My golden heavenly soldiers are invincible, why are we afraid of a bunch of Song dogs?"

"But this is not the order given by the Second Prince?" Xilin Helu suddenly became calm, "Just think about it, none of us know how many troops Song Gou has transported in Liaodong. What is the Second Prince's defense deployment?

What?"

Li Shanqing was stunned for a moment, and cold sweat began to break out on his forehead. He became a little hesitant: "This matter is confidential."

Xilin Helu said: "You don't say it, which makes me very embarrassed. We are completing a very important thing in Tokyo now. If, I mean if, the second prince sends too many troops to Liaoyang, so that it really

If Ding, Hejian, or even Yanyun is empty, there will be trouble."

"What nonsense are you talking about! How could the second prince make such an arrangement? Liaoyang itself has heavy military deployment!"

"Then there's no need to worry. The Song army wants to make its northern expedition, so we'll fight them." Xilin Helu said.

"No! The bottom line given by the second prince is a truce."

Xilin Helu guessed correctly. Now it is either true, or there are insufficient troops in Zhongshan or Hejian, or the court has not yet adjusted its new strategy to deal with the Song army, or...

Zong Wang and Zong Pan wanted to suppress the war and had their own political intentions.

Prevent Zong Han from regaining power by fighting against Song Dynasty?

"Now what?"

"Let's talk again!"

Xilin Helu said: "How to re-negotiate?"

"What do you think?"

"Recognize Song's territory in Fuzhou?"

"This is the only way, otherwise you have to return Yanyun to the Song Dynasty?"

The newspaper about the declaration of war against Kim was published in this turbulent noon.

At this time, the craftsmen stationed in Tokyo could not sit still.

Secret reports were sent northward one after another frantically.

The government and the public in Tokyo were still enjoying tax reductions and exemptions in the morning, but in the afternoon they came to declare a full-scale war on gold.

And the news was sent out like crazy, especially to the south.

What does the imperial court’s Five-Road Northern Expedition mean?

Does it mean sky-high military spending?

Where does military spending come from?

Where can military spending come from?

Come from those places that don’t have tax exemptions!

Of course, what the ordinary melon-eaters see is that now Zhao Guan's family has turned the tables and is about to embark on the Northern Expedition.

But what about actually?

Official: I'm just distributing news. Don't get excited. I want to tell everyone that we want peace. Now the Jin people don't want peace. We are fighting a counterattack.

Well, the news that the peace-loving Zhao Guan family was going to launch a counterattack was quickly distributed to all parties.

In fact, it was only sent to Huaidong and Jiangdong.

From this moment on, public opinion within the Song Dynasty changed suddenly: You want peace, and I, the Zhao Guan family, agree to it, but the Jin people do not agree to us! Everyone has seen it!

In the past few days, Li Shanqing and Xilin Helu wanted to see Zhao Ding again, but Zhao Ding refused to see them because of their busy official duties.

The first day of July, Jiangning Mansion.

Yang Bangyi was lying at home, and people outside hurriedly ran in: "Yang Tongpan, something serious has happened!"

"What's the matter?"

"The five town officials in Jiangning County were all injured, and two of them died!"

"What! Who did it!"

"I don't know, they say they are a group of gangsters!"

"This is a rebellion!" Yang Bangyi was furious, "You dare to kill even the imperial officials! Most likely it was someone sent by Liu Biao who did it!"

Yang Bangyi stood up and got dressed.

"Sir, your injury has not healed yet."

"These people are really lawless!" Yang Bangyi put on his official uniform.

"Official, please don't go out now. It's very dangerous outside. Many people are making trouble. It is said that there are many thieves and gangsters outside the city..."

Yang Bangyi refused to listen and walked out with several government officials.

Those government officials were also extremely frightened.

When Yang Bangyi went out, the once bustling streets of Jiangning City were now in chaos. The vendors on the roadside were all gone. Someone wrote on the wall the words "If you want peace, kill the traitorous ministers".

There were people in front shouting loudly: "The imperial court is going to fight the gold thieves again, and the imperial court is going to increase our taxes! We won't be allowed to live!"

The person shouting was a scholar, who looked humanoid.

"If we don't unite to resist now, those traitors will take away our last rations!"

Yang Bangyi walked over and cursed: "You are talking nonsense! Let's disperse immediately! Stop gathering people to conspire!"

The man immediately shouted loudly: "This man is a traitor, beat him to death!"

Everyone immediately rushed forward.

At this time, in a manor in the south of Jiangning City, Liu Biao summoned the influential businessmen of Jiangning Mansion.

"Brother Liu, things have become so big now. This is different from what you told us at the beginning!" Wang Chu said dissatisfied.

"Yes! The matter is so big. If the court investigates it, how will it be explained?" Another businessman also said.

Liu Biao said: "Why are you afraid of this! We have Lu Sicao and Magistrate Chen supporting us!"

"So the court won't pursue any further investigation?"

"When things get serious, the imperial court will choose to keep things quiet. Now that the northern front is tense, the imperial court will never dare to take action against us!" Liu Biao was quite confident, "This time, all the parties in the south are preparing to take action, and we are not the only ones in Huaidong, so

Don’t worry! After the matter is completed, our fields will be tax-free!"

He looked at these people and emphasized again: "You remember, children who cry are fed by milk. Everything we are doing now is to prevent the imperial court from implementing the New Deal in Huaidong, otherwise we will all go bankrupt!"

Everyone couldn't help but nodded.

Wang Chu said: "Now that the Jiangning City government is surrounded, thieves and bandits from other places have begun to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble. There are even some salt traders who want to negotiate business with us. Once this matter is out of control, think of Fang La back then!"

Liu Biao slammed the table angrily and said, "Didn't I tell you? There is a war on the northern front now, and the imperial court will not take action against the south at all. The imperial court's appeasement documents will come soon! Let your people surround the Yamen better.

We’ve built enough momentum!”

A cavalryman came back quickly and said: "Mr. Zong, we have discovered that there is chaos in Jiangning City."

Zongze asked: "Is the city gate closed?"

"The gates are not closed."
Chapter completed!