Song Xian replied: "Yes, that is, the one who gave himself the surname of Hequ, called himself the Xiongnu noble, called Yuanguang, is the second son of Ba Ruoneng." This time, he followed Ba Ruo to rescue Longxi, but at the foot of Baishi Mountain, this dog captive fled to the Qin camp at night,—— I heard that in order to defect, he killed his uncle Koji Zhu, and Qin captives got the military intelligence of Cao Fei and Tian Ju. Cao and Tian were therefore unable to advance and retreat, and were blocked between the two mountains and could not reach Xiangwu. Yuanguang, the dog, later went around Xiangwu County to persuade him to surrender, and Koji Qiu had to abandon the city to break through. ”

Yan Kuan put the letter in his hand on the case, touched his beard, thoughtfully, and said: "In this way, Cao Fei and Tian Ju are not conducive to aid, so that the responsibility for the fall of Longxi is not theirs, but all in Yuanguang?" ”

Song Xian reached out to the fat maid's chest, pulled her gauze skirt away, rubbed her head between the two lumps of meat, and sighed comfortably.

Yan Kuan frowned and said, "Song Lang, isn't it okay to be reserved?" ”

Song Xian's face was attached to the two lumps of meat, squinted at Fan Kuan, and said, "Gong Yan, this is a fun place, and the public doesn't know it!" Wonderful. The fat maid groaned shyly, Song Xian patted her flesh twice, and said, "Don't be naughty!" ”

Yan Kuan really couldn't look at it, and ordered the fat maid: "Get out!" ”

Seeing that the head of the house was angry, the fat maid was terrified, hurriedly pushed Song Xian to sit down, lay on the ground and bowed, and went out in plain clothes.

Song Xian said regretfully: "I just warmed my head, but I haven't warmed my feet yet, but it's a pity that I have been expelled by the public." ”

Yan Kuan said: "I asked you just now, the responsibility for the fall of Longxi, as you said, is actually in Yuanguang?" ”

Song Xian replied, "Exactly." ”

Song Xian was the general of the three armies of the kingdom in the past, and he was quite a former official and ear in the army of Dingxi, and he has always been more well-informed with military information.

But it was said that the fall of Longxi could not be hidden, and there was no way to hide it, and it was not strange that Song Xian and Yan Kuan learned about it. Only the matter of Yuanguang, Xin Er in fact, was already aware of the time, he considered that he might be used by political enemies to attack himself, so after Ba Ruo could be sent to Guyin, he blocked the news as soon as possible, and originally thought that it would be blocked until he led the troops to counterattack Longxi, as long as he could smoothly lead the troops out of the city, as long as he could recover Longxi, even if there was another Yuanguang rebellion, it didn't matter, but there was no impermeable wall in the world, but this news was leaked out after all, and Song Xian learned about it.

After a long time, he said: "Yuanguang is the son of Ba Ruo Neng, and Ba Ruo Neng is the righteous brother of the captivity." The Lu Shui Hu cavalry under the command of Ba Ruo Neng was captured and migrated to Jiankang County more than two years ago, and was Jiankang Taishou at the time of the capture. ”

There was a brief silence in the room.

Song Xian no longer regretted that the fat maid was driven away by Yan Kuan, sat up straight, and said, "What did Yan Gong say? ”

Yan Kuan said: "Song Lang, the responsibility for the fall of Longxi is not in Yuanguang, but in the real capture!" ”

Since Song Fang was killed, Song Hong was expelled from the court, and the Song family's reputation in the court plummeted, Song Xian has been thinking about revenge and reviving the Song family's reputation.

Hearing this, he was in high spirits, and immediately hesitated, and said: "Speaking of which, the responsibility for the fall of Longxi is indeed Xin Agua, but Pan Gong, one, relying only on this handle, we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat him, right?" Second, he will send troops the day after tomorrow, Xin Agua this person, the traitor seems to be loyal, the virtuous and the good, although he is rebellious, but he still has two hands in the war with soldiers, if Xiangwu is recovered by him, then even if we have the handle of Yuanguang in hand, it is expected that we will no longer be able to shake him half a point! ”

Yan Kuan thought about it for a long time, and said slowly: "What you said is right, if Xiangwu is recaptured and recovered, then Yuanguang's surrender to the enemy is not worth mentioning,...... But, yes, but what if he can't take it back? ”

"Why can't he take it back?"

"Didn't he send troops the day after tomorrow? Let's make it impossible for him to send troops the day after tomorrow! He has no soldiers, how to recover Xiangwu? ”

"Why can't he go out of the army?"

Yan Kuan had already cleared his mind, had a more comprehensive plan, and his speed of speech returned to normal, and he stroked his beard and said: "Zhu Yeze, Lu Shuihu and other Hun miscellaneous Hu riders and Xianbei Hu riders are the two most suitable Hu riders under the captive tent. Now that Ba Ruo can be his righteous brother, and Yuan Guang is still rebellious, how can the conquest ensure that Zhu Yeze Hu Qi and Xianbei Hu Qi will not rebel?

"He can't guarantee that these two Hu cavalry will not rebel, so how can the imperial court rest assured that he will lead his troops out of the capital? Qin Yu is a strong enemy of our dynasty, if there is another betrayal like Yuanguang, resulting in the annihilation of our three armies, the success or failure of one person is small, and the safety of my Dingxi is a big matter! ”

Song Xian heard his words, clapped his hands and praised, and said with great joy: "Yan Gong is so clever!" ”

Yan Kuan continued: "As for what you said, 'Relying on this handle alone, we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat him', this is also a bit of truth. Only rely on this handle, only rely on us, can't bring him down, if you add other handles, if you add Koji Shuang, Chen Sun, Zhang Hun? ”

Song Xian said: "Other handles? What handle? …… Koji Shuang, Chen Sun, Zhang Hun? Koji Shuang and Xin Agua Su are allies, Chen Sun and Zhang Hun are two old slippery heads, can these three people live? ”

Yan Kuan answered his second question first, and said: "Chen Sun and Zhang Hun are indeed two slippery heads. In vain, I also married Zhang Hun, but he was willing to be used for the capture just because of the small profit of a don't drive and a county guard, which is really unscrupulous!

"Chen Sunben and my comrades, later he was silent on many things, I didn't understand the reason at first, but later I learned that it was the conscription who landed at his door and threatened him!" As he spoke, Yan Kuan shook his head again and again, and said disdainfully, "Chen Sun is actually scared because of this, and he is also a backboneless!" ”

After commenting on the character of Zhang Hun and Chen Sun, Yan Kuan put away his words, returned to the "slippery head", and said, "However, it is precisely because of their slippery head and no backbone, so as long as we have some benefits with them and point out the situation to them, we can get their support." ”

Song Xian said in his heart: "Old guy! I'm embarrassed to talk about marrying Zhang Hun! Why did you marry him? Isn't it to seize power with my Song family? If you and my family don't seize power, our families will unite as one, and the government and the opposition will respond to every call, where will there be a chance for Xin Agua to show his head? ”

He nodded and said, "It's very true. "Asked, "Chen Sun and Zhang Hun don't have any soldiers and horses in their hands, only Chen Sun is a bit of a Lang official and the guards in the palace, but there are not many soldiers, so they can't be of great use, and the key is Lu Shuang." Pan Gong, will Koji Shuang support us? ”

Yan Kuan was confident and said: "It was not Koji Shuang's idea to form an alliance with the conquest, it was decided by Koji Hou for their Koji family. Koji Hou is now deceased, when it comes to vision and insight, Koji Shuang is far away!

"The former Zhang Jin and Zhang Dao will be convicted, and they were polluted to collude with Lu Shuihu to rebel, and the first king ordered Song Gong, me, Chen Sun, Lu Shuang, Song Fang, etc. to gather and discuss, how should they be criminalized? Lu Shuang not only insisted on advocating severe punishment, but also tried to implicate Zhang Hun. Before the death of the Marquis of Koji, he took over the military of the eight counties in the southeast, after the death of the Marquis of Koji, the Marquis of Koji did not go to the stack, and refused to leave Beijing, because of the Koji chapter to Tangxing County, and then wrote to the court, proposed to set up Hezhou, and raised the family of Koji to serve as it. All this is enough to show the greed of Koji Shuang.

"I take Xu Lishuang in Hezhou, and I also allow him to ride in the battalions of the Levy Department, why don't you worry about him not helping me?"

Song Xian said: "But Gong Yan, the koji ball is now in Yinping." Once the captives can't enter Longxi, Koji Qiu may suffer accidents, Koji Qiu is the leader of the Koji family, will Koji Shuang ignore him? ”

Yan Kuan smiled and said, "Song Lang! It is precisely because Koji Ball is the one who enters Zhuo Wei after the Koji family that Koji Ball will not save him! ”

"What do you mean?"

Yan Kuan said: "The Marquis of Koji is the suzerain of the Koji family, why don't you pass on the suzerain to his sons?" Gai is not as famous as Koji Shuang because his sons are also noble. Koji Shuang is specialized, there is no koji marquis, he is forty years old, and now he has a son, his age and young, and the koji ball name has long been famous, for his son, although the ball is koji, such as Qiu Yun also! And when the imperial court set up Shazhou, Koji Shuangyi occupied the Koji family, and because of the Koji Qiu, he was not accepted by the Koji Hou, Shuang and Qiu, the two of them had different political views, and they were originally at odds! ”

In today's world, whether it is Longdi or Jiangzuo, gate valve politics is the mainstream. There are two characteristics of gate valve politics, one is that the gate valve joins forces to suppress the imperial power and control politics, of course, the valve clan in Longdi is not as powerful as Jiangzuo; One is that the struggle between the gate valves is fierce.

Needless to say, the former is needed.

The "fierce struggle" of the latter determines that all the gate lords, including the first- and second-rate scholars, often do not adopt the inheritance method of father's death and son's succession when choosing the suzerainty of their own family, but will select one person from the best of the children of their own clan to take over, so as to ensure and maintain the political competitiveness of their clan,—— large sect and small sect are a relative concept. The distinction between big and small is not in the number of their children, but in their sons and sisters. The main sect is the descendant of the lineage, and the small sect is the side branch. The Linghu Qu and Linghu Jing brothers are the side branches of the Linghu clan.

For example, Jiangzuo's Yu family, after the death of the big Yu, the successor to the Yu clan suzerain was his younger brother Xiao Yu; Another example is Huan Meng, who is in his prime and has several sons, but what he is currently focusing on cultivating is not his sons, but also his younger brothers. ——In a sense, this is a bit similar to the brother of the Hu tribe's chieftain, and it is no wonder that the king is similar, because the harshness of the environment they live in is very similar, except that one is competing for political and power resources, and the other is competing for production and living resources.

The same is true for Longzhou.

For example, in the Song family, the previous patriarch was Song Hong's brother, while the previous patriarch of the Fan family was the father of Song Kuan.

And this kind of selection method of "selecting talents and not relatives" is certainly beneficial to the future of the entire family, but on the contrary, it has also caused fierce internal struggles within the family. In some families, a child is so talented that he may be jealous of his fellow clansmen, or because his political views are different from those of his clansmen, and he will inevitably end up dying at the hands of his fellow clansmen.

For example, Wang Yizhi, who was good friends with Huanmeng, was framed by his brothers, that is, Wang Yizhi's uncles, because his political views were different from those of his brothers, and died in the war, when Wang Yizhi was just six years old; is still the Wang family, one of Wang Yizhi's fathers, who is famous for a while, is the first person among his brothers of the same generation, and as a result, he was killed by his younger brother.

Pan Kuan is the suzerain of the Pan clan, and like Koji Shuang, he is also the head of the clan.

Regarding Koji Shuang's mentality, he thinks that his judgment and grasp are very accurate.

It's quite accurate.

Song Xian, as a child of the valve family, was also very clear about the cruelty of the internal struggle of the gate valve family, and thought about it for a while.

He said happily: "Xin Agua is arrogant in the middle of the court, domineering the royal city, and the people he relies on are none other than his Tang and Hu Buqi, as well as Cao Fei and Lu Shuang's alliance with him!"

"Below, Cao Fei led the troops in Wushi County, and his eagle dogs were strictly attacked, and Lan Bao was in charge of all generations, or in Shuzhong, or also in Wushi, and the soldiers available in the royal city were only three or four thousand people from the bald Boye, Wei Shu, Wei Xian, and Qi Dali! Although Zhang Shao arrived, he was not Xin Agua's sworn friend, as long as the resolution of the DPRK and China was set, a royal decree could be subdued.

"If you want to be a disciple of Xiang Kui, Zhang Jingwei, and Beigong Yue, you don't have to worry about it!

"If you get the help of Koji Shuang, this time you can not only bring down Xin Agua and Fen Gong on the grounds of 'Longxi Fall', but also avenge the loyal ministers and righteous men who were killed by him, for me, and for my brother!" At this point, Song Xian's expression turned to sadness, and he gritted his teeth.

"It may be impossible to send the captives to prison. ”

Song Xian was stunned and asked, "Why?" ”

Yan Kuan said: "Don't you hear the sadness of the dead rabbit and the fox? Although Lu Shuang is greedy for power, he also has some brains, and he is willing to beat down the captives and carry him up, but if he wants to put the captives to death, he will definitely think of himself, and he will definitely not agree. ”

"So, what are we going to do with all this half a day?"

With a scheming face, he twisted his beard and said, "What do you mean by spending half a day? Song Lang, at present, our great enemy is the conquest, as long as we can defeat him first, it will not be easy to punish him for the time being, and for us, it will also be a victory! After the conquest is laid, why should Koji Shuang be worried? We can fool him and clean up the situation at the same time. After the situation is put in order, it is not too late to discuss the rest! ”

Song Xian understood what he meant, and he was unwilling, but he had no better way, so he had to say hatefully: "But let Xin Agua live for a few more days!" ”

Yan Kuan gave him a task and said, "I'll give you three things to do." ”

"Tell me."

Yan Kuan said: "The day after tomorrow, the army will be dispatched, and if you want to stop him, you must go to the court tomorrow." You gather Song Pian and other children of all the families who are officials in the court, make friends, and old officials, and ask them to write together tomorrow to impeach and levy prisoners! The whole impeachment is played and the movement is like snowflakes, and it is a pioneer for us! Then I'll wait and then I'll go back to the book. That's the first thing. ”

Pan Kuan and the others are generals, and they can't go into battle first, they have to have small soldiers and pawns to open the way and make a vanguard for them. This is the proper meaning of the question, Song Xian has no doubt, and responds: "Yes." He asked, "What about the second one?" ”

Yan Kuan said: "Chen Sun, Zhang Hun, and Lu Shuang, I will personally go and say it, but if you want to bring down the captives, you only use enough force from the court, it is better to have a clear stream of public opinion, you go to encourage the celebrities in the royal city, please create a momentum for us,...... Then he went to mobilize the students of Pan Palace, and told them to lie down at noon tomorrow, saying that they had heard the public opinion of the royal city and were loyal, so they denounced the captives. That's the second thing. ”

The Song family was the first-class lord clan in Longdi before, and now the clan's voice is still high, and Song Xian himself is in the circle of Wang Chengqing talking about celebrities; Pan Gong refers to the highest institution of learning in the country, and there is no shortage of children of famous families in it, and Song Xian is also very familiar with many of them.

These two things, for him, are not a problem.

He asked, "What about the third piece?" ”

"You choose to pick a powerful guest, immediately rush to Xijun, go to Wangdan Pavilion, and bring its pavilion chief to Guyin secretly."

"What did you bring him to Guyin for?"

"Jia Zhen died in that pavilion."

"Jia Zhen? I know this, I heard that after he resigned, he was killed by a thief on the way home. Did you die in this pavilion? But Gong Yan, what does this have to do with the pavilion chief? What does it have to do with us to bring down Xin Agua? ”

"It has nothing to do with the pavilion chief, and it has a lot to do with us to bring down the captives! Song Lang, how did Brother Ru get captured and killed? Zhenglu said that Ji Wei's death was because of Brother You's mastermind, I don't believe Brother You would do such a thing! But why did Brother Ru go to prison because of this? Isn't it because of Duan Chengsun's accusations? Jia Zhen has a feud with the captives, although I don't know how the two of them got married, but Jia Zhen has always said a lot of bad things about the captives, which is well known to the government and the opposition. You take the pavilion chief to the royal city and let him ......"

Song Xian's eyes lit up and said, "Let him be a witness!" It turned out that it was the conscripts who sent people to kill Jia Zhen! Jia Zhenshi died at the hands of thieves! I couldn't help clapping my hands again and again, and said, "Gong Yan, this strategy is wonderful, wonderful!" ”

remembered begging for a strong effort, and said in his heart, "This dog eats my brother's money, but he doesn't do anything for my brother, and he has never had a chance to rectify him, so this time he will be blamed on his head!" said that he was instructed by Xin Agua and was the one who harmed Jia Ziming! It's called killing two birds with one stone. ”

The plot of Fen Kuan and Song Xian to make a fuss about Jia Zhen actually blinded Jia Zhen's cause of death and the murderer who killed Jia Zhen.

Yan Kuan touched his beard and showed a smug smile: "Song Lang, this is what I just said, other tricks!" ”

Song Xian rethought Pan Kuan's entire plan from beginning to end, praised it, and said: "Fan Gong is really a big plan!" Starting from Yuanguang, first block Xin Agua from sending troops, and then follow the strength of Helu Shuang, Chen Sun, and Zhang Hun to mobilize public opinion in the government and the opposition, and jointly pull Xin Agua! Finally, he ended with Jia Zhen's death and dealt a fatal blow. Xin Agua this time, even if he is lucky enough not to die, he will also peel off three layers of skin! ”

Yan Kuan looked at the sky outside, it was almost noon, and said, "Without further ado, you can do these two things now." I'll also go see Chen Sun, Zhang Hun and Lu Shuang right away! After a pause, he said, "I will send a letter to Song Gong to inform him of this matter and ask him to help him at his discretion." ”

Song Xian promised, jumped off the couch, and hurriedly went.

Yan Kuan sat in the hall, was quiet for a while, and rethought his plan, thinking that there was no loophole, so he ordered the car to be prepared outside the hall.