Yang Zaixing said: "Yes, it's me! If you want to kill or behead me, it's up to you!"

Zhang Xian pulled out his knife and said coldly: "I'll kill you now!"

"Wait!" Yue Fei stopped him.

Yue Fei asked Yang Zaixing: "Why do you want to rebel?"

Yang Zaixing said: "Who is willing to rebel if he can survive?"

His words silenced everyone because they saw too many refugees along the way south.

Yue Fei said: "You are so good at fighting. I will grant you an official position. Are you willing to serve the imperial court?"

Yang Zaixing said: "You are so ignorant of the imperial court, and a certain seven-foot-tall man disdains the company! I have heard of Commander Yue's righteousness. If I can die in your hands today, I will die without regrets."

Yue Fei said: "When today's emperor is sage and determined to reform the system, what you hear and see is one-sided!"

Zhang Xian said: "Commander Yue, it's useless to talk to these rebels. Let's just chop them down as a warning!"

"Take it back."

Yue Fei felt that Yang Zaixing was a rare and powerful general and could not bear to kill him. Now was the time for the country to employ people, so he should take him back first.

The next day, Cao Cheng was caught and executed in Qingjiang, and his head was sent to Hongzhou.

After Cao Cheng's death, the rebels in the Linjiang Army collapsed without a fight and became scattered bandits and thieves.

This matter is beyond his control, Yue Fei should leave it to the local officials. If the local officials can't do it, the imperial court will naturally send people to come.

Yue Fei knew that his main responsibility was to guard the border. This time he was temporarily deployed to suppress the rebellion. Now that the rebel leader was dead, it was time for him to go north in time.

Instead, he wrote a memorial to Zhao Guan's family, mainly describing what he had heard and seen along the way south.

Early in the morning on July 28th, a group of people entered Yanjing City.

All the people on the road were cleared.

The person who came was none other than Duke Wanyanchang of the State of Lu.

Upon arriving in Yanjing, Wan Yanchang felt that the world suddenly became beautiful.

The main reason was that we had lost the battle in Fuzhou, Liaoyang, and we were afraid of being blamed by Beijing.

He didn't want to go back to Beijing, and he didn't want to stay in Liaoyang anymore, so he wrote to Zong Pan, hoping to come to Yanjing.

Wanyanchang is a typical advocate of harmony and is Wanyan Zongpan's lackey. Wanyan Zongpan will definitely protect him.

He discussed with Zong Wang and transferred Wan Yanchang to Yanjing on the grounds that the war in Hebei was tense.

Shortly after Wan Yanchang arrived at his residence, someone came in from outside and announced: "Duke Lu, someone outside sent a box of West Lake Longjing tea."

"West Lake Longjing tea, what is this?"

Wan Yanchang's aide Zhang Gan said: "The Duke of Lu does not know that this tea is a tea from the Song Dynasty, produced in Hangzhou on the Liangzhe Road. Although it is not a tribute tea from the Song Dynasty, it is quite famous among the people and is quite popular among literati.

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Wan Yanchang naturally didn't understand tea, but tea was one of the favorites of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom.

First, because the upper class of the Song Dynasty loved tea, the nobles of the Jin Kingdom naturally followed suit.

Second, because tea is one of the few things in this era that can relieve constipation, the trading volume of tea was very large whether it was the Song and Liao Dynasties, the Song and Xia Dynasties, or the Song and Qinghai-Tibet regions.

Wan Yanchang asked in confusion: "When I first came to Yanjing, someone brought me tea?"

Zhang Qian said: "There are many merchants in Yanjing, and there are countless people who have dealings with the Song Dynasty. They must know that the Duke of Lu is coming, so that they can meet each other and talk to each other in the future."

Wan Yanchang smiled and said, "Who is bringing the tea?"

"It's Yu Wenxuzhong."

Wan Yanchang was stunned for a moment: "Yu Wenxuzhong? Does this name sound familiar?"

"Forgot, Duke Lu? This person was a hostage held by our army in the fourth year of Tianhui (the first year of Jingkang) when our Heavenly Army of Jin Dynasty went south and was sent by the Song Dynasty to discuss peace."

"Oh! I remember, it's him!" Wan Yanchang was quite surprised, "Why is he in Yanjing?"

"This person was originally detained in Yunzhong Mansion. Later, the imperial court wanted to do some private business with Song Ting, so he sent this person to Yanjing. However, he relied on his own connections to do a lot of business over the years. The nobles of Yanjing

It's all thanks to him that we can drink tea."

"Quick! Give me a drink," Wan Yanchang said hurriedly.

Not long after, the people below served Wan Yanchang a cup of West Lake Longjing.

Wan Yanchang took a sip and was quite surprised: "How did Yu Wenxuzhong manage to bring tea from Hangzhou to Yanjing?"

"This is unknown."

"Where is Yu Wenxuzhong?"

"Just left."

"Let him come to me."

Not long after, Yu Wenxuzhong arrived at Wanyanchang's residence.

"Common people see the Duke of Lu."

"Yu Wenxuzhong, how did you get tea from Hangzhou to Yanjing?"

Yu Wenxuzhong said: "If I don't hide it from Duke Lu, it was by sea."

"Sea freight?"

"It was a sea ship that departed from Hangzhou, docked in the Zhigu Village (Tianjin) area, and then entered Yanjing."

Wan Yanchang nodded and asked, "Can we get anything else?"

"What does Duke Lu want?"

"Silk, ceramics, calligraphy and painting, treasures, etc. I heard that the soap produced in the Song Dynasty is also good, much better than that of my dynasty. Can you get some?"

"It's possible, but it's a bit difficult. Hangzhou Bay is now very strictly controlled."

“What kind of support do you need?”

Yu Wenxu remained silent. Wanyanchang stepped back and said, "It doesn't matter if you just say it."

"It's not that the common people are unwilling to satisfy Duke Lu, it's that it's really becoming more and more stringent, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless the two countries negotiate a peace and can trade normally, the common people can use their connections to get a lot of what the Duke of Lu wants."

Wan Yanchang said: "This matter is simple. Now there is actually an internal intention to maintain peace. The envoys are negotiating in Tokyo."

"But the common people have heard that the imperial court has always wanted to go south, and Marshal Zong Han is preparing his troops."

"Humph!" Wan Yanchang smiled, "You only know the surface, but don't know the deeper meaning. But these are not what you should ask. If the two countries negotiate a peace, can you bring me more goods from the Song Dynasty?"

Yu Wenxuzhong didn't expect to hook up with Wan Yanchang so quickly by giving him tea.

Wan Yanchang had needs in this regard, and even if the two countries negotiated peace, most trade between the Song and Jin Dynasties was carried out in fixed settlements, which would greatly limit the private needs of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom.

Wanyanchang can be satisfied just from the sea.

"If that's the case, it's certainly possible." Yu Wenxuzhong said.

"Okay, you go back and wait for the news."

"The common people resign."

"etc!"

"Do you have any other instructions from Duke Lu?"

"If you follow me in doing things from now on, I won't lose any benefits to you."

"Does the Duke of Lu want to stay in Yanjing permanently?"

"Not just me, many people will come."

"Yes, it is a blessing for ordinary people to be appreciated by Duke Lu."

After Yu Wenxuzhong returned, he immediately started writing letters.

This letter was quickly delivered to an inconspicuous tofu shop in Yanjing City, and after many twists and turns, it was brought into the Song Dynasty by the Military Intelligence Department.

Once they entered the territory of the Song Dynasty, they rushed 800 miles to Tokyo.

By the seventh day of August, Zhao Ning had already seen this letter.

The amount of information in this letter was far beyond Zhao Ning's imagination.

In particular, it is mentioned that many nobles of the Jin Kingdom are migrating south.

This indicates that a fierce restructuring is actually taking place within the Jin Kingdom.

Although the crown prince Wanyan Dan is still young, he has definitely shown his ambition for restructuring.

It seems that the Jin Dynasty really felt the passivity of the power center in Shangjing, and wanted to gradually move south to counter the slowly rising Song Dynasty.

Early in the morning of the eighth day of August, the Xixia court became uneasy.
Chapter completed!