In the middle of autumn, the night is quiet and cool, the moonlight is shallow, and the stars are like diamonds.

The bamboo forest in the courtyard is reflected in the small pond, there are occasional frogs chirping on the edge of the pond, and in the flower garden not far away, the yellow chrysanthemum and red orchid add a little warmth to this faint autumn night, and the low grass has gradually faded to green, and it is still like velvet covering the ground from afar.

The woman's soft song came from the next room.

It is a nursery rhyme of the Rong people.

The tone is murmuring, but the lyrics are quite powerful.

Translated into Tang dialect, it means: "Seven-foot horse, three-foot child, which hero dares to come?" Seven-foot horse, three-foot child, this hero dares to come! I dare, I'm coming, everyone rush with me! This is a song sung by Rong children when they play the game of "Breaking the Horse Formation".

It was Pu Mao's wife who was singing, and their young son had just woken up and was making trouble, so they sang to lull him to sleep.

Pu Mao was already preoccupied, and when he heard this song, he became more and more unhappy, walked quickly to the door, and loudly ordered the slave and maid who were far away outside the door, and said, "What are you singing?" Can my son fight with Hu'er in the streets, fights, etc.? Go, call for a change of singing! ”

A big maid received the order and hurriedly went to ask Pu Mao's wife to sing differently.

Not long after, a new ballad sounded, and this ballad became much warmer, singing: "The cow has gone up the mountain, the raccoon has drilled a hole, the hole has grown grass, the grass has been eaten by the cow, and the cow has gone up the mountain." ”

The simple lyrics and warm melody, although they are sung to children, fall into the ears, but they also make Pu Mao's irritable mood be slightly soothed and relaxed.

Meng Lang, who was sitting on the couch, said with a smile: "The opportunity is right in front of you, and the king can seize it with his hand." The ambition to dominate the industry is close at hand; To do or not to do, in a word. The king himself hesitated, so why did he anger the queen and give birth to this nameless fire? ”

Pu Mao turned back to his seat and said with a wry smile: "Master Meng's words are like knives, it really refers to loneliness, and there is really no room for loneliness. ”

Meng Lang said: "When the king was born, the clouds were like a dragon, and he was ordered by heaven. The king has the ambition of deep diving. Today, it is frivolous, there is no image of the owner, in this troubled era, the king has been worried about the safety of the 'countrymen' for a long time. Now that the opportunity has finally come, Lang doesn't know why the king hesitated! ”

Pu Mao said: "Master Meng, Gu Fei is hesitant, but he is really worried. ”

"What is the king worried about?"

"If Wei wants to attack Rouran in the north, I am like leading the troops to the west to fight for Ranxing, as the teacher said, the country has no worries about the east.

"However, Ranxing is a small country, so those who have not been destroyed so far are because it is sandwiched between my Qin and Dingxi. Longzhou Malaysia, rampant in the world'. Dingxi is dominated by Tang soldiers and cavalry, driving Zhuhu in the territory, Taima Battalion, Peony Cavalry, well-known at home, and military strength should not be underestimated; The governor of Longdong is known as a soldier and a famous general. In the past, I fought with Dingxi and did not have the upper hand. Master Meng, what I am worried about is if I am not good at going out of school, or if I return in vain? But what should I do? ”

Meng Lang understood and said, "The king is worried that if he is defeated, it may be difficult to compete with Jinshang for the throne in the future. ”

Pu Mao was silent.

If you don't say anything, you admit that Meng Lang guessed correctly.

Meng Lang said in his heart: "The king is heroic, since elementary school, I have Tang classics, three tombs and five classics, all of which have been intensively studied, and the foundation of being the holy lord is already there, but in the end, he is young, less tempered, and lacks tenacity. ”

Xun thought and said, "Taking advantage of the opportunity of capturing Wei to attack Rouran in the north and taking Ranxing in the west is a good opportunity for me Pu Qin and for the king to expand my strength." I have to cheer up the king and help him make up his mind. ”

Thinking about it, Meng Lang picked up the tea bowl, drank the buttermilk, took another snack and ate one, and then said calmly: "In Lang's foolish opinion, Dingxi is not enough to worry." ”

"Oh? What did Master Meng say? ”

"Although Dingxi soldiers and horses are fine, it now has three drawbacks."

"What are the three drawbacks?"

"Linghu Feng usurped the throne and gained power, it is already wrong, Fang Jin he usurped the throne for less than a year, and first dismissed Zhang Hun, led Longshi to centrifuge, and then established the Song Dynasty, so that one country and two queens; All kinds of political actions, wanton behavior! Lang expected that the situation in the country would be unstable. One of the drawbacks is this. ”

Pu Mao nodded and said, "Not bad." ”

"In the spring of this year, Linghu Feng used the fortunate disciples to attack Lu Shuihu, and collected and canals and other departments as soldiers; This summer, he forcibly conquered Beishan Xianbei and forced them to form righteous subordinates. Lu Shuihu, Beishan Xianbei tribes, all over the Longdi County. They were just fettered in the past, but now that they have become slaves, how can they be willing? Lang expects that his counties will also be unstable. The second disadvantage is this. ”

"What about the three evils?"

"Three disadvantages, Koji Shuo is indeed good at fighting, but he is nearly sixty years old! King, have you forgotten the allusion of 'one meal and three arrows'? ”

Pu Mao smiled unconsciously, and said: "One meal and three arrows, the villain's slanderous words should not be true." ”

"That being said, if a famous general is incorruptible, he can't use it if he is old, and he can't use it, besides Koji?"

"That's just as well."

Meng Lang sat up straight, looked at Pu Mao with a blazing gaze, and said, "Great King, Taiwei Buqi is dead, the biggest obstacle to the king's military power has been cleared, and now all the king lacks is prestige. The capture of Wei attacked Rouran in the north, and the instability in Dingxi, this is a God-given opportunity for the king to succeed in the first battle! Don't miss the opportunity, and never miss it. He bowed down and said sonorously, "Lang Fu asks the king to make a decision quickly!" ”

The news of the civil strife in Rouran has already been learned by Xianbei Wei and Pu Qin one after another.

The birthplace of the Puqin clan is the Ranxing area, and later part of it moved to Longxi and Guanzhong, Mobei has never had anything to do with them, the enemy in their eyes is Wei, and the second is Dingxi, and they have no interest in Rouran at all.

This was not the case with the state of Wei.

Mobei is the birthplace of Xianbei, and the rise of Rouran in Mobei took advantage of the opportunity of Xianbei to go south to the Central Plains. Although the Xianbei Wei State looked down on Rouran, who had been "captives" for them, contemptuously called them "worms", and regarded them as low-level and uncivilized like insects, they still maintained a lot of vigilance and disgust from the bottom of their hearts for the Rouran forces that were now the kings and hegemons in Mobei.

Because of this, the relationship between Xianbei Wei and Rouran has always been bad. The two countries are not less at war. It's just that the main energy of Xianbei Wei was used to compete with Pu Qin and Jiangzuo Dongtang for the fertile land of China, so it was because he couldn't free up his hands to carry out a large-scale expedition against Rouran.

Now, the situation has changed.

First of all, there is the external situation.

Although the Eastern Tang Dynasty said that it was peaceful, the people's hearts were in the Tang Dynasty, and it was still the right thing in the world, and it had moved to Jiangzuo for a long time, and it had also gained a firm foothold in Jiangzuo, with Jiang and Huai as obstacles, with the current strength of Wei, they found that it was difficult to destroy it.

Pu Qin is not as rich as the Eastern Tang Dynasty, not as rich as the Xianbei Wei State, and the population is less than these two countries, but the national nationality in its country is the Rong people, Pu Mao admires the Tang culture, is the outlier among the Rong people, the vast majority of the Rong people still maintain a simple and rude tradition, illiterate, competitive and aggressive, and have mountains and rivers as solid, to be honest, it is not easy to fight.

In short, the changes in the external situation, that is, the Eastern Tang Dynasty, Pu Qin, and the lower ones were not something that the Xianbei Wei State could easily eliminate.

Secondly, there is the internal situation.

He Hun, who sat in the border area of Huaibei and the Eastern Tang Dynasty, had long been disobedient, and some time ago, he entrusted him with auspicious rui and used the words of the picture to brazenly claim to be the king of heaven. Tianwang is the customary reverence of the Hu people in modern times, it is not the emperor, but it is higher than the king, and the nature of the emperor is similar. The founding monarch of Pu Qin proclaimed himself the King of Heaven before he became emperor. He Hun called himself with this, and his intentions were already clearly revealed.

As soon as He Hunxie's move, which was tantamount to "rebellion and self-reliance", was made, there were only two choices in front of Lord Wei.

or immediately requisition him; Or hold back and wait for a better opportunity.

It's not that Lord Wei hasn't thought about conquest, but when he comes, He Hun is evil and brave, and his subordinates dare to fight, and there is no certainty of victory; Of the two, the location of He Hun is also too critical and sensitive, close to the Eastern Tang Dynasty. That is to say, if he rashly attacked He Hun evil and defeated, then He Hun evil would defect to the Eastern Tang Dynasty nine times out of ten,—— it was rumored that He Hun evil had already formed an alliance with the Eastern Tang Dynasty envoy; If the war is defeated, there will be fierce turmoil in the domestic situation of Wei. It is not advantageous to win, and it is even more unprofitable to lose. Therefore, Lord Wei decided to take a later strategy and forbear it for the time being.

In short, the change in the internal situation, that is, He Hun evil self-proclaimed Heavenly King, brought a deep crisis to the Wei state.

When both internal and external situations are changing, it is appropriate to hear the news of civil unrest.

At that time, Lord Wei said to the ministers on the left and right: "He Hun forged a diagram and jumped the clown ear!" Providence is still in my Wei! ”

It is difficult to expand the territory externally, and it is in a stalemate with the Eastern Tang Dynasty and Puqin; Internally, He Hun is self-reliant. At a time of internal and external troubles, at this time, Rouran suddenly had internal turmoil, and it did look like the gods of the Xianbei people had appeared, giving them a chance to solve their troubles.

So there was the incident of Pu Mao and Meng Lang's "captivity and Wei wanting to attack Rouran in the north".

Investigating the intention of the Lord of Wei, he really hoped that through this move, he wanted to increase his national strength by attacking Rouran, so as to gain military superiority over the Eastern Tang Dynasty and Puqin, and at the same time, the imperial authority and prestige could also be enhanced, so as to achieve the purpose of deterring and subduing He Hun evil.

Lord Wei's calculation has its reason.

But he said Pu Mao.

After Meng Lang's detailed analysis, Pu Mao was full of confidence, swept away the worries of Shicai, and said angrily: "Heaven gives Fu to take, but he is to blame." Master Meng, I will ask to see the court tomorrow and ask myself to attack Ranxing! ”

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