Chapter 386: The Envoy Plays the Messenger
Hedong City, for three days in a row, accidents one after another, the biggest torture for Qin Jin is not the intricacy of the situation between the enemy and us, but that he, as the commander of the army, can only sit in Hedong City, commanding the overall trend, but the specific development is powerless. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
If it weren't for the fact that he had a life experience that didn't match his age, Qin Jin didn't know if he would have enough concentration at the moment to face the current complex situation.
All the plans have been disrupted, but fortunately, there are always appropriate ways to deal with them, but these coping methods are closely related to each other, and any problem in any link will lead to a situation where the whole game is lost. In other words, Qin Jin has been pushed to the single-plank bridge where he is only allowed to win but not to be defeated by various accidents. If Pei Jing can't resist the elite attack of the rebels in Gushan in Wanquan County, if Lu Qi does nothing under the city of Jiangxian County, or even retreats in defeat, if Huangfu Ke's plan is revealed in advance, or if Sun Xiaozhe's plan is calculated......
All this, but if there is one failure, the result that Qin Jin faces will be extremely serious. However, if all these goals are achieved, he and the Shenwu army will completely gain a foothold in the southern part of Hedong Province, focusing on the present can lay the foundation for the Tang Dynasty to completely purge Hedong Province, and in the long run, they can cooperate with Feng Changqing in Hebei Province to contain the rebels of Shi Siming's department, so that Feng Changqing's army will not always fight in Hebei Province as a lone army.
After thinking about it a lot, Qin Jin sighed softly, where is there a 100% certainty of victory in a marching battle, any slight unexpected accident may change the result, and now he completely understands what it means to obey the destiny of heaven. The vast majority of a person's choices and efforts are not inevitable from the expected target results, which is like adding one or even several variables to a fixed mathematical formula, and the results are naturally varied.
"Someone in Tongguan wants to see the envoy!"
The voice of the attendant armor sounded from outside the door, and Qin Jin said:
"Tongguan?"
"Yes!"
Qin Jin didn't expect that Gao Xianzhi, who had always kept his distance, actually took the initiative to send someone to Hedong City to contact, and he was very surprised in his heart, but also faintly excited. If Gao Xianzhi can let go of prejudice and the two sides work together, there will be a lot to do.
"Please!"
However, when Qin Jin read through Gao Xianzhi's handwritten book, he fell into deep disappointment. He put the letter in his hand on the bookcase in front of him in great depression, and raised his head to look at the rather arrogant messenger opposite.
Before meeting Gao Xianzhi himself, Qin Jin had both sympathy and admiration for this famous general who died unjustly in his previous life, and even faintly thought that he was an idol-like figure. But the reality is far from the fantasy, it is true that Gao Xianzhi is an out-and-out loyal minister, and he has never had two hearts for the Tang Dynasty and Li Longji, even if he is treated extremely unfairly, he can stand up in times of distress and save Li Longji from the moment of danger.
However, God is like a tricker, if traitorous eunuchs like Yang Guozhong and Bian Lingcheng are embarrassed and bad with him everywhere, he will not have the slightest depression and bitterness, but even Gao Xianzhi has a deep grudge with him, and it can even be said to be hostile.
No, in a handwritten letter, warnings and deep distrust are all unabashedly revealed.
Gao Xianzhi's handwritten letter mainly said three points, one of which was to warn him that fighting on two fronts would worsen the situation in Hedong, which was gradually improving, and that his greed for merit would only make him ruined. The second is to accuse him of shedding blood and sacrificing his personal fame and fortune with hundreds of thousands of people in several counties in the southeast of the river and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Shenwu and Shuofang armies. At the same time, he also informed Qin Jin that he had written to the Son of Heaven to include Pujin Pass in the defense system of Tongguan, and the implication was that as long as Pujin Pass was kept, he would not support Qin Jin's personal adventures and ambitions.
Finally, Gao Xianzhi still left room for improvement, saying that if Qin Jin could stop in time and no longer risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of people for his personal ambitions, he himself would not rule out the possibility of cooperating with the Shenwu Army. Of course, although Gao Xianzhi did not say it explicitly in the letter, the meaning was already obvious, and he hoped that Qin Jin would listen to the tone of Tongguan and not provoke border provocations without authorization.
To put it bluntly, Gao Xianzhi is very optimistic about Qin Jin's strategy plan in Jiangzhou!
Without waiting for Qin Jin to speak, the messenger from Tongguan spoke impatiently.
"The intention of the Prime Minister is all in the letter, please ask Qin Envoy Jun to give a clear reply to the subordinates, and the subordinates will return to their lives immediately!"
The envoy's tone didn't seem to want to stay in Hedong City for a moment, as if facing Qin Jin was a very painful and uncomfortable thing. But Qin Jin endured the unhappiness in his heart, and politely invited him to have lunch in the city, and it was not too late to leave for Tongguan.
"No need, where can't I eat lunch? The subordinate has a mission, and he does not dare to slack off in the slightest...... Let the king's food be saved and left for the people of Hedong......"
The righteousness is awe-inspiring, the color of worrying about the country and the people is all revealed, and the Tang Dynasty officials who are accustomed to groveling and flattering have this kind of stunned young appear, which makes Qin Jin feel quite new. Seeing him behave like this, he couldn't help but laugh.
The messenger was inexplicably laughed at by Qin Jin, and asked angrily:
"What do you laugh at?"
Qin was laughing, there were such timid people under the command of Gao Xianggong. ”
"Please make it clear to you, who is cowardly?"
How could the messenger not hear that Qin Jin was ridiculing him for being cowardly, and there was more anger in his voice.
Qin Jin laughed when he heard this.
"I came to ask you, Hedong City is a tiger's den in Longtan?"
"Naturally, naturally not!"
Qin Jin pointed at the messenger and shouted:
"You're lying, don't you know the content of the letter from the prime minister? Tens of thousands of Shi Siming's elite rebels are in Gushan, Pei Jing's department is clumsy, Gushan is less than 100 miles away from Hedong City, and the army is coming in the morning and evening, are you afraid of being blocked in Hedong City and losing your life?"
After saying that, Qin Jin sneered repeatedly. The envoy was stunned for a moment, he couldn't understand how Qin Jin, who was polite just now, turned his face faster than turning a book.
He was only a little angry, saying that he was afraid of death; If he was afraid of death, why did he have to travel a long way to Hedong to deliver the letter? But at least one thing, the envoy was confirmed, if Qin Jin continued to be obsessed and desperate, Hedong City might really become a lonely city. The so-called gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, not to mention that this wall is still the Qin Jin with the ambition of a wolf? Of course, if it is a high minister, even if it is a dangerous wall, he will not hesitate to choose to advance and retreat together. Therefore, he was unwilling to stay in Hedong City for a long time, not because he was afraid of death, but out of disgust for people like Qin Jin who had wolf ambitions.
However, these derogatory words, he can't say it, years of upbringing make him not accustomed to distinguishing right from wrong before others, in the face of Qin Jin's groundless accusations, he only rose red all over his face, and kept repeating a sentence.
"Bloody ......"
At this moment, his sense of Qin Jin and his people was even worse, he had only learned from rumors that this person's arrogance and wolf ambition had only been seen with his own eyes, not only as rumored, but even intensified.
Therefore, he only thought that after completing the task of the high-level bus generation, he would quickly leave Hedong City, the land of right and wrong, and stay away from Qin Jin, a piece of stinky meat that does not bite and disgust people.
However, Qin Jin did not let him go because of this.
"How? Don't make a word to argue, but your heart is guilty?"
"You, you don't spew blood. ”
Qin Jin said again: "If you dare to stay in Hedong City for seven days, Qin will retract the words of a cowardly man, not only that, but he will also apologize to you for the crime, how about it?"
The messenger had already been angry and angry, and when he heard that as long as he stayed in Hedong City for seven days, this guy would apologize to him and ask for his guilt, so he blurted out without thinking about it.
"Okay, just stay for seven days, I just hope that you don't break your promise!"
Qin Jin smiled narrowly: "What about the matters handled by Gao Xiang Bus?"
One sentence made the messenger's face pale and suddenly flushed, yes, when he was hot-headed, he fell into this couple's language trap, but the gentleman did not break his word, if he retorted, wouldn't he leave a handle?
Just when he was embarrassed and regretful, Qin Jin smiled again:
"Don't be embarrassed, Qin wrote a reply and personally sent someone back to Tongguan, it is not your dereliction of duty! Don't worry, Qin will inform Gao Xianggong that you will occasionally feel cold in Hedong City, and you will delay your efforts for ten days. ”
"This, this ......"
The messenger opened his mouth and was confused again, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in Qin Jin's gourd. Could it be that the Taishou of a dignified county asked him to stay just to play tricks? Could it be that Qin Jin himself also thought that Jiangzhou's strategic plan would fail, and Hedong would not be defended?
So what's the point of him making such a big fuss about mobilizing the public?
Suddenly, the messenger's face turned defeated, and another thought that made him extremely frightened jumped out. Could it be that Qin Jinnai colluded with the traitors and deliberately consumed the strength of the Tang Dynasty by doing so?
In a state of confusion, the messenger was uneasy, and just as he didn't know what to do, a military officer entered the main hall.
"Report to the envoy, it has been found out clearly, there are three people involved in the case of embezzlement of military rations, and they are the history of military orders...... Wait outside the gate of the county court. ”
The military official reported three unfamiliar names, Qin Jin's anger surged, he was ruthless to anyone who had the idea of fighting military rations, in order to form an atmosphere in the army, but anyone who touched military rations would not end well.
"Can the evidence be verified?"
"Envoy, all the facts, everything has evidence to follow!"
Qin Jin Huoran got up from his seat and said in a cold voice:
"All of them are beheaded outside the county court to warn those lawbreakers!"
The envoy's heart trembled when he heard this, the army ordered Shi to do things with his hands and feet on the military rations, more or less, it can be said that it is not a strange thing, even Gao Xianggong turned a blind eye, as long as he didn't open his eyes, he was greedy and insatiable to spoil big things, and he should only turn a blind eye to the small behavior.