Chapter 709 Letter to Bazhou (2)
It is both a memorial service and a reward.
Although this expense would make the Song Dynasty court even more stressed, Zhao Dongting was not heartbroken.
The soldiers fought bloody battles and now they have already made peace with the Yuan Dynasty. They are about to take down their weapons and let them eat some big fish and meat?
Zhao Dongting not only wanted to let the She people eat good food, but also had to reward the three armies after returning to Leizhou.
If the money is gone, you can make another profit.
As long as the war is over, with his head, there is a complete way to make the Song Dynasty's economy develop at an extremely fast speed.
That night, the sound of firecrackers kept ringing, and it was late at night.
That night, countless soldiers were slightly drunk, crying and laughing.
The night wind blew, like weeping and complaining, as if the fallen soldiers were crying and laughing with them.
When the dawn light illuminates the earth, you can see that there are many soldiers lying in the streets of Nancheng District. They fell asleep on the ground last night.
Among them, there are even Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain.
Lizhou East Road.
A carrier pigeon fell in Bazhou, and fell in a blacksmith shop on a remote street in the city.
Bazhou is located on the south side of Lizhou East Road, which is very close to Tongchuanfu Road and Kuizhou Road. After Li Wangyuan led tens of thousands of Xixia soldiers to Lizhou East Road, he stationed here.
The carrier pigeon is naturally a carrier pigeon from Leizhou. The blacksmith shop is the stronghold of the Military Information Office in Bazhou City.
Ten days ago, Zhao Dongting asked Wen Tianxiang to send a message to Leizhou, and took the Pearl Princess Tulando to Minqing, and asked Lu Xiufu and others to urge Li Wangyuan to send troops quickly to stop the white horses in Shu from continuing to occupy Kuizhou.
At the speed of a carrier pigeon, it took only two days to arrive in Leizhou.
In the court, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie, Zhang Jue, Chen Wenlong, Xiang Dongyang and other state affairs, supervision, punishment and the deputy military officers were very happy to learn that the Song and Yuan peace talks were discussed. Then they quickly asked Huang Liujia and other Wudingtang dozens of masters to escort Princess Mingzhu out of Leizhou and go to Minqing to meet with Zhao Dongting and others.
A few days later, the pigeon was sent to Bazhou and asked the Bazhou Military Information Office to hand it over to Li Wangyuan.
Why did it take a few days to send a message to Bazhou? This is Zhao Dongting's explanation.
The peace talks were still confidential. Before Turandot and others left the palace, he did not want the news to leak out.
If you have to calculate the time and postpone the transmission of Bazhou for a few days, when Li Wangyuan receives the news and waits for the news to leak out, Tulando should be about to arrive in Minqing so that no accident will happen.
Although Zhao Dongting also urgently hoped that Li Wangyuan would block the white horse in Shu, he could still wait in a few days.
There must have been detailed works of Dali in the Song Dynasty, let alone the Western Xia?
However, letting the white horses in Shu continue to rage in Kuizhou for a few days is better than the interception and killing of Tulando and his party in the middle.
Zhao Dongting knew very well that Dali and Shu would never be happy to see themselves discuss peace with the Yuan Dynasty, because what they always held was the idea of a fisherman fighting for the snipe and clam.
The carrier pigeon fell on the wall of the blacksmith shop.
When a guy who was thrusting in the shop saw that his face changed slightly, he hurried to find the shopkeeper.
Then, the blacksmith shop suddenly closed the door.
The shopkeeper is a burly man with a big and thick man who looks more like a blacksmith than a blacksmith. His bronze skin seems to be full of explosive power.
He hurried to the backyard, holding some rice in his hand, and clucked twice at the carrier pigeon with wings on the wall.
The carrier pigeon spread its wings and then landed on his palm.
The shopkeeper carefully stroked the back of the pigeon and gently removed the two letters tied to the pigeon's legs.
Among them, the seal was tied with three red ribbons, and it was sealed with mud seals, with a secret character printed on it.
The shopkeeper was slightly stunned.
Three red ribbons are the most advanced military information. The word "Mian" means that even he cannot read it.
Then he looked at another letter.
This letter was tied with only a green ribbon, and there were no secret words on the ink mud on it.
Obviously, this letter was given to him. A green ribbon represents the lowest level of military intelligence.
The shopkeeper handed the pigeon to the clerk with a little doubt, and ran towards his house, then took out the book full of secret codes from the secret compartment.
After dealing with it one by one, he understood the content of the letter.
If you hand over the secret letter to Li Wangyuan of the Western Xia, you must not expose the hall.
Looking at the content of the letter translated by himself on the desk, the shopkeeper fell into deep thought. It was also a matter of no effort to send a message but not expose the hall.
After about dozens of minutes, the blacksmith shop opened the door again. The man hurried out with a secret letter.
On this day, a group of little beggars suddenly ran to the outside of the Xixia military camp and knelt down, begging for Li Wangyuan.
"We want to see Marshal Lee!"
"We want to see Marshal Lee!"
The little beggars shouted, and some of them still had the crumbs of white flour steamed buns on the corners of their mouths.
The soldiers guarding the camp were naturally a little surprised, and then drove away impatiently: "Go and go, go and play elsewhere! How could you see the marshal just by saying that you can see him!"
At this time, Li Wangyuan did not restore the throne, so the soldiers in the army did not call him the title of His Majesty or the Emperor.
But the little beggars didn't leave and still just shouted.
The soldiers guarding the camp were even more impatient and said with guns: "If you mess around, do you believe me to repair it?"
This scared the little beggars.
Many little beggars ran to the back.
But one of them raised his hand and threw the secret letter that was wrinkled by him to the soldiers, and stuck out his tongue and said, "This secret letter is handed over to you Marshal Li."
Then, he ran away.
Some soldiers picked up the secret letter, took it seriously, and threw it away casually.
"Slow down!"
At this time, the centurion spoke and said, "Let me see."
He took the letter from the soldiers, but he was a little confused and thought to himself, "How could the little beggar have such a letter? Where did they come from the ribbon? Where did the ink mud?"
This obviously doesn't look like a prank by the little beggars. Moreover, with the courage of the little beggars, I am afraid that they will not dare to use the army to attack.
After thinking about it, the centurion said, "I'll go see the marshal, you are here to stay."
He felt that it was better to report this to Marshal Li.
As he said that, the centurion walked into the barracks.
The camp commander's tent.
Li Wangyuan was wearing glamorous armor, a tassel helmet and a cloak on his back. He was majestic and could no longer see the dull and dull look like before.
He sat upright in the position of commander, and the lower head in the tent were mostly old literati, and some were young people.
These people are old ministers of Xixia or descendants of old ministers.
Chapter completed!