Jing Xiang talked a lot with Tao Blind that night.

In his eyes, whether Tao is blind or Hao Ren, these people have no position at all. They only have money in their eyes, and for the sake of money, they don't care who they trade with.

Fan Sheng told him that he used Hao Ren to obtain some information in the north, and every time Hao Ren sent someone to the north to smuggle, someone from the palace would always follow. And in turn, the north will definitely get some news from Hao Ren from them, and this is a mutual process.

Both sides will once again screen the information they get from Hao Ren, and sift out the large amount of information that is true and false to be useful to themselves.

Therefore, Hao Ren's group of people, relatively speaking, stands on a more neutral position, and what they see is sometimes much more real than what they get.

Especially people like Tao Blind, who often go to the north, will know better.

Jing Xiang couldn't sleep. The blind man beside him buried himself in a large pile of withered grass and slept soundly.

When chatting with Jing Xiang, Tao Blind tried his best to cover it up, but this did not prevent Jing Xiang from knowing what he wanted from his narrative.

Tao Blind was not at all optimistic that Daliang would win in this dragon and tiger battle, and he believed that the Tang regime in the north would be even stronger. The reason why he hopes that the situation in front of him will continue is only because this situation is conducive to people like him to seek greater benefits and make more money in it.

If the world is really unified, whether it is Datang or Daliang to win the final victory, their living space will be gone, and when it really comes to that time, I am afraid that it will be time to unload the mill and kill the donkey. After all, no matter which government it is, it will not tolerate the existence of such a thing.

Jing Xiang did not suspect that Tao was blind. In fact, Tao Blind really didn't know that his boss was a member of the Datang internal guards, and as he continued to export intelligence over the years, his level has become higher and higher. Only this kind of person who really thinks of himself as the leader of a smuggling organization can behave extremely naturally and truthfully in front of a person like Jing Xiang, because he originally thought so.

Jing Xiang also did not suspect Hao Ren.

After all, he knew that Hao Ren's son Hao Meng was once a fierce general under Zhu Youzhen and died in Huguan, and Li Ze's mother, Mrs. Wang, died under Hao Meng's knife.

What he never expected was that a person like Hao Ren, who had struggled on the underworld for many years, left a way back for himself many years ago and gave birth to a son that no one knew about. And Li Ze's words that each is his own master made Hao Ren die down and become a member of the internal guard.

Of course, these little things are actually not within the scope of Jing Xiang's consideration. He thought more about the impact of this Chang'an coup on Daliang, and how he would minimize the consequences of this impact.

You can't hide it. It won't take long for the north to know about this matter, originally Fan Sheng's judgment was that winter is coming, the cold weather, and the difficulty of material transfer will minimize the possibility of war breaking out, if there is really something, or it will wait until the spring of next year. In this way, the girder has a few months to prepare.

But when he looked at the sleeping bag that Tao Blind took out, Jing Xiang suddenly realized that with such perfect preparations of the Tang Army, it was not too difficult for them to start a war in winter.

The real difficulty is the beam himself.

If the war really starts in winter, more materials will be needed, more consumption, cotton clothes and quilts, burning wood and charcoal, all need to be a massive supply, and the loss of grain and grass transportation will be even greater. The road traffic in the north is many times better than that of Daliang, which Jingxiang is very clear.

The Tang people knew where their advantage was, and it would be more advantageous for them to start a war in winter.

Now Jing Xiang only has the last bit of hope, that is, the regime in the north will miscalculate, will think that a civil war will inevitably break out within the Great Liang, Zhu Youyu and Zhu Youzhen will definitely fight, they can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and after watching these two people fight, they will come to fight with each other again, and the fisherman will benefit. If that were the case, they might have endured it and not sent troops.

And he has to take advantage of this rare window to persuade Xu Fu, Zhu Youzhen and their supporters to prepare as quickly as possible to deal with Li Ze's upcoming attack in the north.

The dazed Jing Xiang only squinted for a short time before being woken up by the blind Tao. When I opened my eyes, it was just getting dark.

"Respectfully, we have to hurry."

Jing Xiang nodded tiredly, beat his spirits, hastily cleaned up, and continued to hurry in the company of everyone.

Another day later, to Jing Xiang's surprise and joy, a group of generals in front of the palace that he was familiar with rushed over following the secret summoning order they left, and this person was Shi Hong.

And Shi Hong has always stayed by Zhu Youzhen's side.

And the news brought by Shi Hong made him dumbfounded.

"Tian Guofeng?"

Shi Hong nodded with a heavy face: "Yes, now we can speculate, Tian Guofeng, Xu Xiang, Chen Fu, these people are not Taishan bandits at all, they are a nail that Li Ze has long been ambushed in Mount Tai, in order to give us a heavy blow at a critical time." His Royal Highness asked me to return to Chang'an as quickly as possible, just to report this matter to you, but I didn't expect that such a big thing happened in Chang'an. ”

Jing Xiang was stunned for a long time before shaking his head and said, "Li Ze can't think of such a trick, this is Gongsun Changming's vicious old man!" ”

Gongsun Changming, a poisonous snake hidden beside Li Ze, easily does not show his fangs, but once he spits out his tongue, it is the time to kill people.

Who would have thought that the Taishan bandits would be Li Ze's people? A person who anticipated the follow-up development several years in advance and laid out chess pieces, so that everything went step by step according to his expectations, such a person is terrible.

Now his purpose has been achieved. Li Ze almost effortlessly destroyed Dai Chao's 50,000 Gong navy, took Shannan Dongdao, and next, I am afraid that Xiangyang will not be able to hold it. After something like this happened in Chang'an, even if Dai Chao gathered a group of remnants of the defeated generals in Xiangyang, he would never stay there anymore, he would definitely lead his troops back to Chang'an to stand for Zhu Youyu. But the loss of Xiangyang is another bad news for Chang'an.

Now that Shannan Dongdao and Jingnanjie Town are connected, they have gained a firm foothold, and next, the other party will inevitably go all the way east along the Yangtze River, and the situation that His Royal Highness finally found in the south has become bad all of a sudden.

"Before Xu Xiang absconded, he also burned a large number of ordnance, grain and grass stored in the treasury of Wuning Mansion." Shi Hong sighed and said: "Now the form is really bad to the extreme, Huainan Gong Yunda was already wavering, after this happened, he no longer refused to provide a grain to His Royal Highness, and even began to gather soldiers and horses in the pass, so we had to divide our troops to guard against him." Respect, to be honest, aside from the views of both sides, for the layout of the other party, I admire the five-body throw, we this time, we lost unjustly, I never dreamed that there would be such a thing. ”

Speaking of this, Shi Hong's face was full of frustration. Since Tian Guofeng defected to the Third Highness, he has been charging forward, that is not a show, it is really fighting with his life, especially the Battle of Ezhou, after the end of the war, the arrow that came out of Tian Guofeng's body weighed two catties, and that Chen Fu was also scarred, and Xu Xiang, although he was in the rear, whether it was in Tai'an or Wuning, he kept the place in good order, and raised a lot of military funds and food for His Royal Highness. Who would have thought that such three dishonorable people with outstanding abilities and outstanding performances would actually be spies sent by the enemy!

"How did the Third Highness arrange it?" Jing Xiang didn't have time to think about this, the matter had already been discovered, and he now had to think about how to deal with the aftermath.

Shi Hong's arrival finally solved why Zhu Youyu hurriedly launched this coup. In his heart, he is afraid that he thinks that this one thing is deliberately done by Zhu Youzhen, in order to cut off his wings, and Jing Nan must have fallen into Zhu Youzhen's hands a long time ago, if he doesn't do it again, the comparison of strength between the two sides will change dramatically.

If all this is true, then there is no doubt that whether Da Liang, whether it is Emperor Zhu Wen or other courtiers, even if he is angry at Zhu Youzhen's move, he will pinch his nose and admit this matter, and even force Zhu Youzhen to be appointed as the prince immediately. Because of Zhu Youzhen, who took Jingnan, Shannan Dongdao, Eyue, Huainan, and Wuning, plus Tianping and Xuanwu's support for him, his strength has long surpassed everyone, and even the emperor is inferior. If this is the case, Jing Xiang actually doesn't matter, he originally supported Zhu Youzhen. Such a result, he can accept,

If all this is really manipulated by Zhu Youzhen behind his back, he will even think that such a Zhu Youzhen has the talent of a male master.

It's a pity that all of this is being fiddled with by the enemy, and Zhu Youzhen is just a chess piece in the opponent's hand. Liang's losses were huge, but Zhu Youzhen didn't get anything, except for his eldest brother's monstrous hatred for him.

"His Royal Highness left Liu Xinda to garrison Eyue, here must not be lost, fortunately, the sailor has arrived, plus we have also prepared a sailor division in Eyue, the two sides combined, more than two hundred warships, and all of them are experienced sailor teams, now they are all under the unified command of Liu Xinda, under the premise of holding Eyue, I hope that Jin can plot Yueyang again, take Dongting, and retreat to threaten Huainan, so that Gong Yunda will not immediately fall to the north." Shi Hong said: "And the Third Highness himself has retreated to Wuning to reorganize the army, and the Third Highness is worried that the north will attack immediately." ”

"This arrangement is not bad!" Jing Xiang nodded respectfully.

"But Respect, now that something like this has happened in Chang'an, what should we do next?" Shi Hong asked.