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Chapter 23

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    "Come on, come on! The nobleman has fallen into the water!"

    "Mr. Douyuan has fallen into the water!"

    Suddenly, the bow of the ship was in chaos.

    ?Master Xie was caught between the secretary, his subordinates and all the guests, he didn't know what to do, so he was naturally flustered.  He subconsciously took a peek at the real third son, Tong Guan, and was immediately pierced by the master's gaze, so ashamed that he almost jumped into the river to commit suicide.

    Tong Guan couldn't help being surprised: Why did Zhang Luo fall into the water so early?  !

    ?This afternoon, when he asked to see the emperor, in addition to the general arrangements for entertaining the Jurchen envoys tonight, and how Zhang Luo accompanied him out of the palace, he also had a report:

    "Officials, Jurchen is a barbarian on the frontier. If I only arrange some ordinary rituals and music tonight, I am afraid that these barbarians will not be able to accept me. I need the best musicians in Bianliang to educate them with music."

    Zhang Duzhi's apprentice and eunuch Xiao Niu'er muttered in a low voice:

    "Look at Zhen Sangong's words. Who in the whole world is better at rhythm than Your Majesty"

    The emperor turned his head and glanced at Xiao Niu'er: "Little hozen! I spoiled you", and then asked Tong Guan expressionlessly:

    "Aiqing thinks which musician in Bianliang can teach music theory and educate the barbarians?"

    Tong Guan hurriedly lowered his head: "Your Majesty, Sheng Ming has no faults!"

    The emperor thought for a while, and the corners of his mouth curled up happily.  He came up with an interesting way to scare the Jurchen envoys: the banquet originally hosted by the emperor himself was replaced by Tong Guan, so as to suppress the Jurchen's arrogance.  Then, the emperor himself came over in another boat, pretending to be a musician, and asked Li Shishi to dance with another geisha friend outside the palace, Cui Yunu, to "shock" the Jurchen messenger.

    By the way, I can educate Mr. Zongze who was invited to welcome tonight.

    After hearing this idea, all the internal eunuchs praised the idea, because they were all childcare workers hired by Tong Guan with money.

    There are no more than two reasons why Tong Guan went around in this circle.

    One, do what the emperor likes, the emperor likes all kinds of novel ideas the most.

    Second, Wanyan Zongjun wanted to kill Zongze, Brother Huzi and Yue Yuhou, so he came up with a way to borrow a knife.  He wanted to find someone to throw Zhang Luo into the river, and then in front of the emperor, let Yue Yuhou and Brother Beard go into the water to save the beauty, and have a jealousy.

    For the sake of face, the emperor had to deal with them.

    At that time, with Zongze's upright personality, he will definitely stop the emperor from killing people by saying "Zhang Luo is an accountant, not a concubine".

    Just in time, we can solve all three troubles together.

    Now, the emperor, Zong Ze and Brother Beard didn't even show up, how could Zhang Luo fall into the water?  !

    Tong Guan hurriedly asked people to get his "props".

    But tonight the Bianliang River flows very quickly, and it is also dark night and the twelfth lunar month of winter.  The steward searched for a long time, but couldn't find a boatman who could fall into the water and save people.

    Just when everyone in the boat was sweating profusely, in the distance, the singing boat approached:

    This is also a painting boat with lights.  It's just that the top of the cabin is an open-air platform.  On it sat more than a dozen musicians with Heipu headbands and Tsing Yi, and two women, one white and one red, dancing under the moonlight.  The sleeves of the two are flowing and entangled with the wind, like a goddess.

    Wanyan Zongjun patted Tong Guan: "These womendance so beautifully."

    Tong Guan nodded in embarrassment. Here, he is trying to catch someone, but he hasn't figured it out yet.

    Wanyan Zongjun held him back again: "Don't worry about saving people and other chores, Mr. Laotong won't be distracted. Don't you have business tonight?"

    "Thisis from the palace after all."

    Wanyan Zongjuan acted as if he didn't hear: "That woman in red is really slim, who is she?

    Master Tong, hurry up!  Ask someone to pull the boat up, so don't miss my business.  "

    Tong Guan listened to the sound of the turbulent river, and saw that it was dark under the boat, and Zhang Luo could no longer be seen, so he ordered to continue sailing.

    The big gold bracelet (Gesmey) behind Wanyan Zongjun was sweating from nervousness.  Although he knew that old man Zongze, Brother Huzi and Yue Yuhou would be eliminated tonight, the whole matter had nothing to do with Zhang Luo.  It is too weird to say that this woman is some kind of court ruler in the palace, and now she has fallen into the water and no one has rescued her.

    How do you know that Tong Guan will not arrange for people to assassinate Yan Zongjun?

    The other Jurchen messengers also looked at each other: Someone fell into the water, and they accelerated to leave the boat.  Isn't this trying to harm people?

    Two braids in the Mediterranean Sea, sweating profusely looking towards the side of the boat, looking at the dark water.  He couldn't swim, but he couldn't bear Zhang Luo to drown like this.

    Just waiting in the crowd, anxiousWhen I looked around in the water, some smaller boats with lights on appeared before and after the painting.

    These smaller boats lined up in an eight-diagram formation and approached Tong Guan's main boat.

    Immediately, fireworks from all directions continued to rise into the sky, illuminating the entire river.

    Yue Yuhou, who ran to the stern of the boat, saw that Zhang Luo had fallen into the water behind and was about to disappear by the light of the fireworks that lifted off.  He knew that if no one came to rescue her, this accountant jumping up and down would drown.  He really didn't have time to think about it, so he tied the rope he got from the boatman to his body and jumped into the river.

    It's just the twelfth lunar month, when a drop of water can freeze, the river water is as sharp as a knife, scraping people all over the body, and it hurts like a layer of skin has been peeled off.

    Faintly, he heard someone shouting from the stern:

    "Someone fell into the water again!"

    "Come on, someone fell into the river again, hurry hurry save him."

    In addition to being icy cold, the water was also pitch black.  Yue Yuhou soon found it difficult to raise his head to take a breath, so he could only rely on the rope on his body to connect him to the boat.

    Suddenly, underwater stretched out two hands and grabbed him.

    Yue Yuhou looked hard, and there were really two hands, although they were covered with strange leather goods.  He instinctively wanted to draw the knife.  But those two hands cut off the rope connected to his body first, then grabbed his back, and pushed him fiercely into the water.

    Yue Yuhou struggled hard, and heard the two hands behind his back talking:

    "Damn, this business has lost money. It was originally agreed to be a woman, but now why is there such a rascal again?"

    "Old man, the water is very cold, don't struggle with him anymore."

    Hearing this, two more hands grabbed Yue Yuhou's two calves from below, and a loach came to the bottom of the river, and Yue Yuhou muttered, completely changing his surname to "Chen" and his first name to "Die".  up.

    On the other side, Tong Guan heard that Yue Yuhou went into the water to rescue Zhang Luo, but disappeared, and looked at the approaching boats on both sides, and there was still a distance between the big painting boat that was performing music in front of him, and couldn't help but stumbled.  :

    He lost the deal tonight.

    The emperor didn't see the three of them saving the beauty, even if he heard Yue Yuhou saving Zhang Luo back, as long as he didn't see the two of them drenched in water, he would naturally believe that it was just saving lives.  How can I meet the extra requirements of the Jurchen envoy?

    Wanyan Zongjun didn't care, and slapped the white and red dancers vigorously: "Beautiful, beautiful!"

    On the opposite ship, the emperor dressed as a musician, heard the shout, and walked to the platform from the warm cabin.  Tonight, he played the Jiegu to his heart's content, and laughed at Wanyan Zongjun:

    "Your envoy also thinks that I am a Chinese character? Is it worth more than ten million even if it is a singer?"

    "Sure enough, it's the Central Plains! The land is vast, the resources are rich, and the beauties are like clouds. The emperor of Song Dynasty is so lucky."

    Wanyan Zongjuan had never been so sincerely happy.  At first, he was a little worried about how Song Guo would pay him so much "tax money" every year.  Now, he has seized an opportunity from the emperor's words.  If Song Guo doesn't have enough money to give him, he can use a woman to pay for it!

    The younger brother's head hasn't landed yet, so it doesn't matter so much.

    In the first year of Jingkang, Song and Jin signed an alliance under the city, and they really used women to compensate for the compensation.  The asking price of the gold man is 1,000 ingots of gold for each of the emperor's concubines, princesses and concubines, 500 ingots for the prince's daughter, 200 ingots for the daughter of the clan, and 100 ingots for silver for the daughter of the nobleman.  According to records, a total of 11,635 women were finally selected to be sent to the Jin Army for discounted money, including 83 concubines (of Song Huizong and Song Qinzong), 24 princesses, 22 princesses, etc., with a total of 607,700 ingots,  There are 2,583,100 ingots of silver, and 4,000 court ladies and singers are counted as gifts.  Even so, plus the gold and silver that had been tributed, the Northern Song Dynasty still owed "342,780 ingots of gold and 871,300 ingots of silver" to the Jinren.  Therefore, no matter how happy a person is, he must be careful about what he says.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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