Li Shaoyou and Wang Jingchong were summoned to the Hajj, and when they walked to the Chongzheng Palace, they happened to see Wei Renpu and others coming out one after another, with solemn expressions, and they couldn't help but feel a chord in their hearts.

Although the relationship between the two has deteriorated to the point of no return, Wang Jingchong still arched his hands and greeted each other with a smile: "Duke Shouyang is also here by edict?" ”

Snorted coldly, without looking at Wang Jingchong squarely, Li Shaoyou walked towards the hall first. Leaving Wang Jingchong, the smile on his face was still like a spring breeze, but his eyes were clear and cold.

After walking a few steps, Li Shaoyou suddenly turned around, changed his face, stretched out his hand, and happily: "Ren Gong is old, or please first, Your Majesty will summon you, there must be something important, but it's not good to make you wait for a long time!" ”

Li Shaoyou has been getting more and more moody recently, making Wang Jingchong elusive. The strangeness in his heart quickly disappeared, and Wang Jingchong's old face almost smiled like a chrysanthemum.

During this period of time, Wu Desi has engaged in a fierce internal struggle, and in the constant struggle, he has gradually completed his self-purification. Li Shaoyou's subordinates, all knowers, relatives, and detectives, have been eliminated a lot, and Wang Jingchong is certainly not immune, acting under the same set of rules, who can be blacker than whom, and who can be white.

Even Wang Jingchong's loss was greater, after all, his style of acting was much lower than Li Shaoyou's, and his subordinates were caught and killed, and almost no one was spared. The fierce conflict gave the Wude Division a good rectification, and even affected the guards of the two battalions of Wude.

Liu Chengyou saw that it was almost over, and issued an edict to Wu Desi to lower the temperature, called Li Shaoyou and Wang Jingchong into the palace, and severely reprimanded him, and the turmoil ended.

And in this turmoil, Wang Jingchong also understood a profound truth again, Li Shaoyou is not so easy to deal with, because of his background. Originally, he thought that by holding Li Shaoyou's negligence, he could bring him down, and even if he couldn't do it, he could be transferred out of Wudesi, after all, in Wang Jingchong's view, the Son of Heaven is not a person who cares about relatives, and the examples of the emperor's uncle and uncle Guo's rectification can be placed in front.

It's just the final result that disappointed Wang Jingchong. After learning a long lesson, Wang Jingchong also changed his strategy in time, began to avoid a head-on conflict with Li Shaoyou, and turned to welcome the emperor and actively do things, in order to redeem the trust lost on Liu Chengyou's side in this turmoil.

Wang Jingchong is very politically sensitive.

When they arrived at the imperial front, Li Shaoyou and Wang Jingchong resumed their deferential and obedient attitude at the same time and listened to the emperor's teachings.

Liu Chengyou didn't talk much nonsense with them, and directly dismissed the two of them with one sentence: "Next, select the capable detectives and meticulous work under the Wude Division, no matter what method is used, to give me the news of going north to spy on the Khitan and observe its movements." ”

"Yes!" In the face of the emperor's death order, Li and Wang did not dare to say much, but only resolutely responded to the order.

As the sun set, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on Liu Chengyou through the window lattice of the main hall, and the shadow was cast on the glowing map.

"Official, you've been standing for more than an hour, so let's rest for a while!" Zhang Dejun stepped forward and persuaded in a low voice.

Liu Chengyou raised his hand and rubbed his sour eyes, only then did he feel the burden on his legs, after all, he had stood for too long. Directly asked to move a chair and sit down, Liu Chengyou asked Wang Shu, who was waiting in the hall: "Wang, you also heard the discussion in the palace." What do you think the Khitan will choose if it moves in a big way? ”

Liu Chengyou had nothing to say, and when he heard the question, the king looked stunned and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is just a scholar, he doesn't know how to fight horses, he doesn't know about military affairs, and he doesn't dare to speak falsely." However, the history records contain that Hu Lu Nankou chose to be high in autumn and fat in the autumn, when the Central Plains was ripe in the autumn harvest, it was providing him with food! ”

"However, this time, the Khitan thieves rode on the occasion of my spring ploughing, plundered my people, and damaged my acres, but why?" Liu Chengyou asked.

Wang Zhu pondered for a while, shook his head, and replied sincerely: "Forgive the ministers for being stupid, although they know that Hu Lu must have a plan, but they really don't know what it is. ”

Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, the king has no city, and his heart is simple, and he acts like a gentleman on weekdays.

Listening to his words, Liu Chengyou said: "The Khitans' move is either to take a summer offensive, but if they want to move troops in autumn, then their plans will be even greater." Bad for my spring ploughing, that is, I want to make the autumn grain in the north of Hebei not continue, such as the army at that time......"

Liu Chengyou's conjecture shocked Wang Zhu, and then he said angrily: "Khitans, their intentions are so insidious? ”

Liu Chengyou muttered coldly: "Wen Na Yelu Ruan, I like the culture of the Han family, learn from my Han family system, and use the people of my Han family, such an enemy is much more difficult to deal with than ordinary Hulu." If Beikou adopts the method of attacking in spring and plundering in autumn for a long time, it will be a great harm to our dynasty! ”

"Your Majesty, can't you curb the ambitions of the Khitans?" At this time, Wang Shu behaved like an angry young man, angry and angry.

Liu Chengyou looked up at the picture that was almost engraved in his mind, his eyes changed from calm to sharp, he got up suddenly, clenched his fists, and said domineeringly: "In a few years, it seems that the Khitan people have forgotten the lessons of the Battle of Luancheng!" If the Khitans really dare to go south, even if I desperately suspend the Huainan strategy and scrap Hebei, I will personally step up the cavalry army and hit it head-on, and it hurts to the bone marrow. ”

"Your Majesty's pride, bow down!" Wang Zhu felt something in his heart, and excitement appeared on his face.

Due to the Khitan changes, Liu Chengyou is already building a big strategic blueprint in his mind. If the Khitan moves a large army to the south, it will take the entire Hebei as the battlefield, lure it into the hinterland of Hebei, and take Yeduji, Shan, Hua, Pu, and Bozhou as the points, gather 200,000 horses, and have a strategic decisive battle with it in advance. Solve the Khitan threat once and for all, at least let him avoid the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy in the process of reunification.

Of course, this is just an immature idea of Liu Chengyou, and it is also a thought that he deeply feels the great threat of the Khitan to his "first south and then north" strategy, and is forced out. Even if he can make the trip, using the whole of Hebei as bait, not to mention the outcome of the decisive battle, it will be a huge harm to the Han who is in a state of rejuvenation, and it will seriously delay his process of leveling the countries.

However, it is still the same sentence, how the situation develops and changes, and how the Northern Han responds, ultimately depends on the actions of the Khitan.

Under the map of the Han Dynasty, Liu Chengyou stayed until the evening, and the clearer his mind was, the more depressed his mood became.

Walking to the front of the hall, blowing the night breeze, looking at the starry night sky, so high and quiet. Between his faces, there was a little doubt and incomprehension.

Liu Chengyou is thinking about how Guo Rong annexed the Southern Tang Dynasty to avoid being attacked on his belly and back, you must know that Zhou Shizong is facing in addition to the threat of the Khitan that has the land of Yanyun like a sword hanging around his neck, and the "Northern Han" who occupies Hedong.

On the side of the "Northern Han", Liu Chengyou was able to figure it out, the battle of Gaoping almost broke the backbone of the "Northern Han" and extinguished the ambitions of Liu Chong's father and son.

The question is why the Khitans did not move their troops and allowed him to annex the fourteen states and millions of households in the north of the Yangtze River during Guo Rong's large-scale invasion of Huainan. Guo Rong fought Huainan, but he fought three expeditions and fought for several years......

What happened to the Khitan? Or is it something else?

Liu Chengyou was deeply puzzled in his heart, of course, if he dabbled more widely, he would be able to solve his confusion.

At the time of Guo Rong's southern expedition, the Khitan was already the reign of the sleeping king Yelujing.