Li Xun sneered: "Zhao Tong, this old bastard, has some means to trick people. ”

Until now, Li Xun still doesn't understand Zhao Tong's intentions, he went to Longyou more than two months ago, and he has been acting lightly, without any action, just hanging around, this is completely a feint, in fact, Zhao Tong is secretly actively contacting and connecting officials belonging to the Yang family and the Wing King, gathering them, and once there is an opportunity, he will immediately launch an attack on Li Xun.

Sima Tu whispered beside him: "Since Zhao Tong has already acted, I am afraid that Fengjing's side has also made a move, so we should act cautiously." ”

"Do you need to be so careful?"

Li Xun said disdainfully: "The Western Regions were defeated by me, and I contributed so much money and food to the imperial court, such a huge contribution, even if I do something out of the ordinary, the emperor will not blame me." ”

"My lord's words are wrong."

Sima Tu shook his head and said: "Lord, please think about it, Zhao Tong is also a prince in what he says, his status is noble, because he is low-key, he rarely makes friends with people, and he usually has the trust of the emperor, as the lord said, the lord occupies the Western Regions and contributes a huge amount of money and food, how great the credit is, the impeachment of the lord in the court, even if the evidence is conclusive, but the merit outweighs the fault, the emperor will never really blame the lord, but everything must have a conclusion, and the emperor can't cover up the ministers with a word, so, Only then did he send Zhao Tong, who had little to do with the forces of all parties, as an observer envoy, to come to Longyou to inspect, but at this time, the assassination of the Wing King broke out, the government and the opposition were shocked, and all the powerful factors were pointed at His Royal Highness the Prince, at this time, the prince could not help at all, without the help of the court, once something happened to the lord, he would fall into an extremely passive situation. ”

Listening to Sima Tu's analysis, Li Xun fell into deep thought.

"Go on."

Li Xun knew that Sima Tu had not finished speaking.

Sima Tu nodded and continued: "The assassination of the Winged King is likely to be his own self-directed and self-acting, this plan has to be said to be very clever, as far as it is concerned, it is very successful, and the prince was caught off guard, and the emperor was furious, and the prince's party fell into an extremely passive situation, but based on this alone, the Winged King may not be able to bring down the prince's position, so he let Zhao Tong come to Longyou and take the opportunity to seize power, this seizure of power does not necessarily have to completely expel the lord from Longyou, as long as the situation in the west of Longyou is messed up, shook the foundation of the lord, and the future drama of competition for the throne was staged, and the lord was unable to help the prince, which was their greatest success. ”

In the end, Sima Tu said: "What Mr. Fan said is very right, what Zhao Tong wants is chaos, we must be stable, and we must not let them mess up the situation in Longyou." ”

Li Xun pondered silently, the two battles of Longyou, he got great benefits, but this benefit, not all, a considerable part of the interests were divided by others, including the forces of the Wing King and the Yang family, just take the current land of the seven states in the west of Longyou, which must have people from these two forces in it, Li Xun used to master some people through the secret guard, but the number was not much, so he didn't care too much, but now I look at it, it is my own carelessness, the two forces of the Wing King and the Yang family have passed the two Longyou wars, I am afraid that there are many more officials who have been placed in Longyou Dao than they have mastered.

After a long time, Li Xuncai woke up from his contemplation and asked Sima Tu, "What do you suggest?" ”

"Both soft and hard, grace and power."

"Let's be clear." Institutions

Sima Tu said in a low voice: "The two forces of the Yang family and the Wing King must have installed many of their own people in Longyou, but there will never be so many, now so many officials echo Zhao Tong, many of them are the kind of opportunists, nothing more than the noble status of Prince Zhao Tong, hoping to obtain benefits through him, what Zhao Tong can give, we can give more, furthermore, although Zhao Tong is an observer appointed by the emperor, he also has three observation deputy envoys under him, although they came with Zhao Tong, but they are not necessarily their own people, the above two points, The lord can be co-opted and divided, this is the soft aspect, as for the hard aspect, although Zhao Tong is an observer, has the right to decide local government affairs, but the lord also has an observer in his body, to put it simply, both of you are observers, Zhao Tong can veto and change the administrative orders of the lord, and the lord can also veto and change the administrative orders issued by Zhao Tong. ”

Li Xun smiled: "Isn't this just!" ”

Sima Tu said with a smile: "It's just a rip-off, the Wing King's move came suddenly, and the prince fell into a disadvantage for a while, but this is only temporary, what we have to do now is to delay, as much as possible to delay the prince or ourselves, and wait for the prince to ease up, Zhao Tong, the temporary observer, I am afraid that it will lose its role in Longyou." ”

Li Xun pondered for a moment, and finally nodded, what Sima Tu said did make sense, putting aside the identity of Prince Zhao Tong, after all, he got Zhao Zhi's trust, if he came hard with him, Zhao Tong's impeachment was passed to Fengjing, maybe what Zhao Zhi would think of himself, in the end, the gains still outweighed the losses, and it was not good for him.

Li Xun's return to Wu'an City immediately caused a burst of cheers from the surrounding soldiers.

Li Xun's eyes swept around, there were many people from the Western Regions and Dashi people gathered in the city, Zheng Chun obviously increased the number of soldiers to stabilize the law and order in the city, and prevent the people from the Western Regions and Dashiren from doing radical things.

When I arrived at the Governor's Mansion in the south of the city, it was very lively, with a large number of soldiers guarding the Governor's Mansion, and at the same time, there were also a large number of people from the Western Regions and Dashiren, who were noisy and shouting, seeking the main officials to come out and talk to them and give them an explanation.

Li Xun squinted at the Governor's Mansion for a while, and then said to Sima Tu: "Go back to the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion first." ”

Sima Tu thought for a moment, nodded and said, "It's okay." ”

Jiedu made the Marshal's Mansion a few hundred meters away from the Governor's Mansion, Li Xun decided to go home first to visit his wife and his daughter who had not yet met, as for Zhao Tong, let him go to make trouble, anyway, for a while, Longyou can't be messed up, hard to hit, in the end, Zhao Tong patted his ass and returned to Fengjing, and the situation of Longyou, which he worked hard to manage, I am afraid that it will be a big loss.

Li Xun slapped open the door, and the soldiers guarding the door were overjoyed when they saw the marshal returning to the house, and they wanted to turn around and inform the family members in the house.

"Don't make a lot of noise, make noise to my daughter, I won't spare you."

Li Xun stopped the pro-soldier and walked into the house.

In the back garden, in a gazebo, You Min was sitting there quietly reading a book, and in the cradle on the side, a month-old baby girl was lying asleep in it.

Cui'er, who was standing on the side, saw Li Xun, and in surprise, she hurriedly stood in You Min's ear and reminded her softly.

You Min looked at Li Xun, with a look of surprise on his face, and the whole person slowly stood up, his eyes suddenly red.