After leaving the Duan Prince's Mansion, Lin Wancheng led the horse over. Wu Haogu turned over and walked towards the inner city with Lin Wancheng.

It was dusk, and golden light filled Kaifeng City. The streets were crowded with bustling crowds, and shouting and hawking sounds were heard from shops on both sides of the road, and there was a breath of prosperity and festiveness everywhere.

Wu Haogu wanted to see Ji Yi soon and find out what kind of spy painting Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu wanted earlier? But they were blocked by the crowd and could only walk slowly with patience.

Ji Yi's mansion is on Rendian Street, not far from the first Tianshui Lane where Wu Haogu originally lived. After passing Yu Street, go east along Panlou Street, reach the intersection of the Cross Street where Christie's Main Store is located and then turn north and you will reach Rendian Street. Of course, the Ji family's mansion is not along the street, but in an alley.

The entrance of the alley is next to the big restaurant called Rendian. As soon as you turn in, you can see the door of a very large mansion, with a magnificent door with flying eaves and brackets hanging on the door. There is also a row of horse-tie pillars at the door. Two servants in short clothes are cleaning the dust. Seeing Wu Haogu and Lin Wancheng coming, they both sang and salute.

A middle-aged man with a spring breeze on his face came out at the door, smiling and holding his fists. Wu Haogu came down from the horse's back. Before he could report to his house, the man said to Wu Haogu with a mouthful of Wu Yin: "Is the official Wu Guanzhao?"

Wu Haogu smiled and clasped his fists: "It's Wu Haogu, you are..."

The middle-aged man also smiled: "In the next Ji Lei, he is Yizhi's cousin."

The Ji family is the richest man in Pingjiang, and naturally has a prosperous population. There are eight houses in total. Ji Yi is just the young master of the eldest house. He is now in Kaifeng Prefecture. Not only has he cursed King Duan Zhao Ji, but he has also become Zhang Dun and Cai Jing's gangster. He has more things to deal with and needs someone to help. Moreover, the Ji family also has transactions in Kaifeng Prefecture that require a dedicated person to preside over it, so he transferred Ji Lei and several other children from Pingjiang to Kaifeng Prefecture.

This is the benefit of the big clan. With their own family members, they can help you, unlike the Wu family now, who are father, son and brother.

"It turns out that I am Mr. Ji, who has been admired for a long time," Wu Haogu asked politely, and said, "Don't you know that Master Ji is at home?"

Ji Yi is also a busy person. There are a lot of things in the north room of the Privy Council. She has to study and prepare for the imperial examinations, and she has to take the time to flatter her busy schedule. It is really not easy for this official!

Ji Lei smiled and said, "I'm back. I just came back from Mr. Zhang's mansion. I'm studying... In addition to the military officer, please come with me first."

As he spoke, he made a gesture of Suke, invited Wu Haogu into the guest hall of Ji Mansion, and asked someone to serve some tea. As soon as the tea came up, Ji Yi quickly walked over. Seeing Wu Haogu, he sang, and then smiled and said, "Brother Chongdao, you can see if you come here, so I won't go to Christie's store to find you tomorrow."

Wu Haogu still has not started to take turns at the Hanlin Painting Bureau. He stayed at Christie's Store during the day every day. While dealing with commercial matters, he was there to give Mo Niangzi, Li Shishi and several other selected courtesans' paintings to Mo Niangzi, Li Shishi and several other selected courtesans' paintings were actually mainly drawn line drawings, all of which were prepared for the "Gui Gu" album. The seven courtesans plus Mo Niangzi, Li Shishi had a total of nine beauties, each with a "photo album". Each photo album has twenty-four paper photo pictures, and a total of 216 pictures. However, it is impossible to draw so few, at least 500 pencil line drawings, and then pick out the best ones from them and hand them over to Su Dalang, Xie Shangbin, Wei Sihai and others to arrange the engraving and binding and distribution.

This work must be completed before Wu Haogu left Kaifeng Prefecture with the delegation visiting Liao, otherwise Christie's picture album business would not be carried out as scheduled.

In addition, Wu Haogu was also working hard to make Liao spies paint. He was not ignorant of Yanyun, western Liaoning and terrain of Liaodong. Because of his previous career, he had painted some oil painting-style maps, including China maps. Since he had repeatedly painted them many times, he still had a little memory. Now he can rip these patterns out of his mind and draw them on paper. When he arrived at Yanyun, he compared them with the map provided by Ma Zhi, and then conducted a field investigation. He could almost draw a realistic image of "Map of the South of Liao Kingdom".

This is a great contribution!

In addition, Wu Haogu thought that he could "mov" Yanjing City onto paper, draw a pencil sketch of dozens of papers or hundreds of papers, and then get the Yanjing floor plan from the Ma family. After returning to Kaifeng Prefecture, he could make a scaled-down model of Yanjing City.

With this model, in theory, one-to-one copy of Yanjing City...

"Brother Yizhi, what's the matter with me?" Wu Haogu asked with a smile when he heard Ji Yi's words. "But there is another big deal to take care of me."

"No, how can there be so many big deals? And... you are so busy now? You can't do business even if you have one." Ji Yi smiled and shook her head, "It's Mr. Zhang who wants to see you."

"Ah..." Wu Haogu was stunned, "Yizhi, did you say Mr. Zhang want to see me?"

"That's right," Ji Yi said, "You will wait at Christie's tomorrow. When I finish my business, I will take you to the Prime Minister's Mansion to pay my respects."

"Remember my brother, can you tell me why Mr. Zhang is summoned me?"

Wu Haogu asked nervously.

Zhang Dun is definitely more difficult to serve than Zhao Xu and Zhao Ji! The two of them behind are still young people after all, and they are in the palace of the Deep Palace, and their experience is different from Zhang Dun!

Moreover, Zhang Dun is famous for being fierce and difficult in official battles, and is also quite strict with his subordinates. He will be punished if he makes any mistakes. However, Wu Haogu has neglected his job at the Hanlin Academy these days, and is busy with private work and hooking up with Duan Wang Zhao Ji all day long...

Ji Yi smiled and said, "Good Lord Zhang naturally summoned you and me to make the Liao affairs... Speaking of which, I really have nothing to do with you. Isn't that Ma Liangsi the one you brought from Haizhou to Daming Mansion? Without you, Daguan Tong would not have seen him. If Ma Liangsi was really from a great family in Liao and was in love with our dynasty, you would have made contributions. Mr. Zhang has always had a clear distinction between rewards and punishments, and he would be rewarded if he had merits."

"This..." Wu Haogu's face suddenly changed when he heard this, and he lowered his voice and asked, "Is it because Mr. Zhang intends to restore Yan Yun?"

He didn't remember that Zhang Dun had proposed the Northern Expedition to Yan Yun in history, perhaps because he had no chance to propose it, and perhaps the historical books did not record this plan.

Ji Yi smiled: "Who doesn't think about this? It's just that I couldn't do it in the past, but now... it's a little bit possible."

Is it possible?

Wu Haogu thought to himself: This matter was messed up in the hands of Zhao Ji and Tong Guan! However... Zhang Dun is not like Zhao Ji and Tong Guan. The former can do everything, so he will not be an emperor, while the latter is actually a bit of a general, but he is not a coach like Zhang Yu.

Tong Guan could only command 100,000 Northern Expedition Army, and could only command the generals of the Western Army and the Hebei Army. He could not command the local civil servants in the east and west routes of Hebei. If he could not command the local civil servants, it would be difficult for the Northern Expedition Army to obtain full cooperation from the east and west routes of Hebei. The Song army's usual tactic of "promoting the fortress step by step" in the battle against the Western Xia was inseparable from the light cooperation of local civil servants.

Historically, Hebei's local ability to support wars was not comparable to that in Shaanxi. During the Northern Expedition of Xuanhe, civil unrest occurred in many places in Hebei... This shows that the preparations for the Northern Expedition of Xuanhe were too bad and could not support a long and arduous war against Liao.

If Xuanhe's Northern Expedition could be led by Zhang Dun, he would definitely make full preparations, first rectify Hebei, and then "propelle fortress" along the Border River-Sanggan River, and grind it steadily. Yelu Dashi had no choice but to three heads and six arms.

In history, Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan fought repeatedly with the Song army, which was just a group of thousands of people, with Tong Guan. With this little force, field raids can still be fought, and fighting fortresses will definitely not be able to be killed. That is a real consumption. In the Battle of Hengshan, Empress Dowager Xiaoliang's hundreds of thousands of soldiers could not defeat Pingxia City, which was only 5,000 guarded by 5,000 people. Can Yelu Dashi's tens of millions of people still be defeated?
Chapter completed!