When Liu Hong was thinking about how to solve the Xuhong Group, as the leader of the group, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo were also thinking about how to bring down Liu Hong.

Not from the point of view of the South Vietnamese question, of course.

——The army of Zhou Zao, who was sent by Empress Lu to crusade against South Vietnam, has long been forgotten by the court!

If it weren't for Zhou Zao's borrowing of Chai Wu's hand to express to Liu Hong his desire to 'want the class to return to the dynasty', even Liu Hong, as the emperor, would have almost forgotten that there was an army that was crusading outside...

Chen Ping was sick in the past, but he didn't have any other plans - Chen Ping was really sick.

There may still be different opinions about Chen Ping's physical condition, but Zhou Bo knows very well: since the beginning of spring, Chen Ping has been infected with the wind cold.

In the days before and after the arrival of the Hun mission, Chen Ping even had a high fever for several days!

In later generations, Chen Ping was just a seasonal cold and fever, not a serious illness.

But before the scarcity of material resources, and even Chinese medicine, which was despised by later generations, had not been completely separated from witchcraft and established a dialectical system, a random disease similar to a respiratory infection was enough to take away the fragile life of human beings.

- In this era, not to mention antibiotics, even the Guizhi soup, which has a weak effect, is regarded as a peerless skill by the imperial physician of the court, and it is passed on to men but not women, and not to the outside!

In addition, there are not many types of prescriptions and medicines that can be used for treatment, which makes ordinary people have headaches and fevers, and they don't look down on doctors at all.

If you have a little money at home, please hire a village witch doctor, and if you are lucky, you can meet someone who really knows some medical skills, and you can also pick some herbs to eat; If you are unlucky, you can only let people dance on the side of the sickbed.

As for those who have no money to spare and belong to absolute poverty, they can only rely on their body immunity to carry it; It's just borrowing some fat and bones, boiling soup and eating it as a nutritional supplement.

Chen Ping survived this cold, and half of the credit was due to the strong body he exercised when he was young; The other half of the credit is God's favor, and the luck is bursting...

However, after experiencing this 'serious illness', Chen Ping has also faintly realized something, and Chen Ping is also a little unable to hold his breath for the political struggle with Liu Hong.

——When the Hun mission arrived outside Yanmen and knocked on the pass to ask for a meeting, Chen Ping sent a ghost to the envoy to send a letter to the Hun mission.

Isn't it the key message of betraying the country for glory? Only one sentence: Han Minister Chen Ping, I respectfully ask your envoy to be safe.

After that, Liu Hong was honored as the queen mother? It made Chen Ping let go of the last bit of luck? A request for an 'armed station' was made to the Hun mission, which was still halfway through.

Chen Ping knew very well in his heart, as long as Liu Hong still wanted to be on the throne for a day? It is inevitably impossible to accept such a humiliating demand; Chen Ping also never thought that for the sake of personal vendetta, the Han dynasty conquered by Emperor Gao Liu Bang would be occupied by Hu Lu.

Speaking of which? Chen Ping's move still drew on the wisdom of the little emperor Liu Hong.

- Winter December? The little emperor was placed under house arrest in Weiyang Palace? He took up a letter of edict with blood and handed it over to the then forbidden servant, and now the deputy of Jiuqing, the guard captain Cheng Qin Mu, took it out and summoned the border army covered with a mysterious veil to enter the king of Beijing.

When is it? The little emperor made a triple arrangement.

The first weight? Wang Zhong at the most superficial level: Wang Zhong pretended to be dead to confuse his vision.

The second is also the truth that Chen Ping and Zhou Bo once thought they had seen through: Qin Mu, who pretended to go out of the city to bury Wang Zhong, took his horse and went straight to Xiaoguan after leaving the city? Chen Ping and Zhou Bo's eyes were completely drawn to Longyou, Beidi, and even Shangjun outside Xiaoguan.

How much time has passed? Chen Ping has long been aware of the process of the Flying Fox Army's appearance in Guanzhong: the third arrangement of the little emperor allows the confessor to hide in a low coffin, travel lightly, and go straight to the Flying Fox!

Even now, when the two sides are no longer dead, Chen Ping admires the little emperor's scheming.

However, the tradition left by the hundred schools of thought during the Warring States period also applies to the Han dynasty - your method is great, but now it's mine.

Chen Ping, I also want to pay tribute to a plan in the middle of a plan, so that the little emperor realizes that in the early Han Dynasty, there was no one who relied on strength to stand up for his merits!

On the surface, Chen Ping wanted to use the hands of the Huns to put the little emperor in a dilemma, forcing Liu Hong to 'unite with the outside world', and then make plans.

But the most obvious layer, Chen Ping never expected the little emperor to believe - regardless of grievances, judging from the little emperor's performance so far, the Han family has at least ushered in a 'master of shoucheng'.

And that's just the floor.

As for the upper limit, Chen Ping doesn't want to think about it anymore...

The second layer is what Zhou Bo has been able to see so far: this move puts pressure on the little emperor, so that he can put aside his political mistakes in his diplomacy with the Xiongnu, and his political prestige is hit.

To tell the truth, Chen Ping also had a fluke about this - the little emperor, who was only fourteen years old, in the face of foreign military threats, may not have made some mistakes that 'young people' would make: timidity.

But not surprisingly, Liu Hongdi's performance once again disappointed Chen Ping.

From Zhou Bo's dictation, Chen Ping even had an absurd idea: if the little emperor was here when Mao Dun passed the book to Empress Lu and was extremely humiliating, he was afraid that before Ji Bu said 'Bu can be killed', the little emperor would be able to shout 'Bu can kill also'!

The little emperor not only did not show cowardice as Chen Ping expected, but instinctively made the kind of "I'll talk about it later", and even took the Xiongnu army!

- Chen Ping still hasn't figured it out, how did the little emperor know that the Hun Shan Yu Maodun was about to die?

Judging from the reaction of the Hun envoy and the determination in the attitude of the little emperor, this matter is only afraid that it will be eight or nine!

But this was completely beyond Chen Ping's expectations!

Liu Hong's explanation of 'the first emperor's eyes are like torches, and he arranged for undercover agents to go to the Xiongnu more than ten years ago' can't hide from Chen Ping's eyes - the first emperor filial piety emperor Liu Ying, the emperor has never signed any edict alone in his entire emperor's career!

Not to mention the decrees related to national affairs and the livelihood of the people, even the edict of rewarding his courtiers, Emperor Xiaohui has never been the master.

At the time when Prime Minister Cao Cheng was eyeing the tiger and was always ready to take away another imperial sword, to say that Emperor Xiaohui could reach out to the grassland was as ridiculous as Tou Manshan Yu was able to destroy Qin.

However, whether it can be explained or not, this matter is an established fact - the Xiongnu Shan Yu is indeed about to die, and this news was first obtained by the little emperor, and used in response to the blackmail of the Xiongnu mission.

Chen Ping, who originally hoped that the Huns would enter and muddy the waters, now has no confidence in the Huns - the Huns, who are about to face the transition of power, will definitely not launch an attack on the border wall of the Han family in the past two years, at least before next autumn and September.

At this point, Chen Ping has no way out; The only thing that the Zhuhong Group can count on is the last plan.

Thinking like this, Chen Ping let go of the last hesitation in his heart, and in his slightly weak complexion, he gradually brought an indomitable determination.

Around Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and Liu Jie sat separately, also full of caution.

In the past period, although the Zhuhong Group has not had a good time, Liu Jie's life is barely passable - after all, it is Liu Hong who personally divides the Chehou, and this tiger skin alone is enough for Liu Jie to avoid many troubles.

In comparison, Zhou Bo's life can only be described by the word 'bleak'.

The most obvious evidence is that at today's discussion meeting on the ultimate move of the Zhuhong Group, the general who is the second person in the Han military was not present!

Although he understands that Guan Ying wants to continue to lurk, or even return to a neutral position at any time, Zhou Bo still has to admit that in today's military, his captain has almost been hollowed out.

There is no other reason - since the beginning of Emperor Taizu Gao, the Taiwei officer has only the actual command of the soldiers and horses in the world in wartime; In peacetime, most of the Shogunate would be dismissed, and most of the military affairs would be handled by the Shogun.

There are many people in Guanzhong, Zhou Bo is not easy to overstep, and the army outside the Guanzhong can barely be mobilized.

Well, originally.

After the Flying Fox Lieutenant Department was officially promoted to the Flying Fox Army, and the main general Flying Fox Commander was added to the rank of general of the chariot cavalry, not to mention Zhou Bo, even the general who could justifiably meddle in military affairs has never received even a battle report from the side wall!

It is true that the Xiongnu are in the period of power transition, but the plundering of the Han family by the southern tribe of the Xiongnu is almost the same as the land cultivated by the Han people - once a year, at the beginning of autumn and the end of winter, the thunder cannot be moved!

In other words, the Han border was actually attacked by the Huns every year, but the attack strength, number, and Han losses were different.

But this does not mean that throughout the winter, there will not be even a single war report sent into Chang'an - the Han military system, where more than 50 troops are mobilized, the emperor's edict + the transfer of troops and tiger talisman double insurance can be transferred!

The situation on the border is a little special, and it is naturally impossible to send people to Chang'an when the Huns are approaching the city.

However, the decision-making power of the border troops in the event of a war is limited to the extent of 'making a reasonable response first and reporting it to Chang'an for the record as soon as possible'.

Whether the Huns are running in large clusters or sneaking in small groups of cavalry, their numbers will not be less than 100 - this is related to the Xiongnu military system: the lowest military establishment of the Xiongnu is the cavalry led by the 'centurion'.

In other words: this winter, the Huns must have attacked the Han border; In order to cope, the Han border guards must have mobilized more than 50 armed forces on more than one occasion.

However, since the beginning of the year (October), as the prime minister of the actual ruler of the empire, Chen Ping has only one military report in the clouds that has returned to the 'changes in the southern part of the country'.

What about the rest of the military newspapers?

What about reporting military movements to Chang'an to avoid suspected treason?

It wasn't until the end of February that Chen Ping got a glimpse of the notes presented by the local county - the general of the Che Cavalry, the Flying Fox Lieutenant Chai Wu, was ordered to lead the border wall defense, and all the military reports from Longyou in the west to the right of Beiping in the east should be reported to the Border Pass Army, all of which were presented to the Che Cavalry General!

To put it simply: the garrisons near the entire side wall of the Han Dynasty are already in the hands of Chai Wu (Liu Hong)!

As for the troop transfer tiger talisman pinched in the hands of Zhou Bo and Guan Ying, it has completely become an ornament.

——Today's little emperor is no longer the puppet who can be forced to write the edict of troop transfer...

There is only a tiger talisman, no edict, and the only thing Zhou Bo and Guan Ying can do is to use the tiger talisman to enter a certain military camp and rebel against this army with their personal prestige, just like when they destroyed Zhu Lu at the beginning.

This choice is actually almost equivalent to non-existence - whether it is Xulu or the righteous banner of 'Emperor Hui', they have lost the possibility of existence.

The Huns were unreliable, and the central troops could not control them, so Chen Ping's attention was naturally attracted by another armed force that could not be ignored...

Princes and kings!

So far, Chen Ping has let go of all luck and arrogance, and clearly realized that under the current situation, the only chance he can turn the tables is war!

Only war can make Liu Hong fall from the gradually stable throne!

Today, Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, and Liu Jie gathered in the Qu Shunhou Mansion to settle this major event that is related to everyone's net worth and even the future direction of the Han family!

Thinking of this, Chen Ping suddenly straightened his waist, and the laziness and a trace of bookish aura exuded in the past completely disappeared from Chen Ping's body at this moment.

"The old man has repaired several volumes, and presented all the reasons for this period before the son of the king of mourning; As for the delivery of the book, it is necessary to bother the captain to send someone to Linzi! ”

Seeing Chen Ping's abruptly changed temperament, Zhou Bo, who had some complaints in his heart, was suddenly overjoyed, and got up and bowed: "The prime minister can be worry-free, if he can't even send a few letters to Guanzhong, he will be a contemptible captain." ”

Seeing this, Chen Ping only nodded solemnly, turned his head, and said to Liu Jie: "The responsibility of internal history is more difficult than that of the Taiwei, and please don't relax in internal history." ”

"If the general of the chariot cavalry moves troops to the south, the old man must tell him to the internal history; Those who work hard in the internal history should strictly guard the roads and bridges in the pass, so as not to re-enact the story of the flying fox outside Chang'an City. ”

Looking at the vague determination in Chen Ping's eyes, Rao is Liu Jieye couldn't help but be stunned, and then hurriedly said, "Huh..."

Seeing the strangeness in Liu Jie's face, Chen Ping didn't have time to think about it, and added to Zhou Bo: If something happens, the captain only needs to ensure that the northern army does not move.

After arranging all the affairs, Chen Ping straightened his knees and pulled the wrists of the two of them with seriousness: "This matter is our net worth and life, and if we are not careful, it will be the result of a catastrophe." ”

"From now on, we must not make any mistakes!"

After receiving the reply from the two, Chen Ping high-fived and shouted: "Good! ”

"The Marquis of Jiang needs to remember: if the kings raise troops from the ground, the Taiwei must take the position of commander of the rebellion; Only in this way can we lead the northern army outside the pass, and our affairs will be put in a circle. ”

Hearing this, his face was already red, and his eyes were full of fighting spirit, so Zhou Bo suddenly bowed: "Only the prime minister is the first to look forward!" ”

Looking at Zhou Bo's appearance of bowing his head and bowing his head, Liu Jie's several entanglements finally followed Zhou Bo: "The trust of the prime minister, the contemptible people dare not bear it..."