After a few words of greeting with Fu Rong and Pei Yuan, Emperor Qin looked at Pei Shengqin and the others and praised: "You guys are also very good!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the compliment!" Everyone said in unison.

Except for Fu Rong and Pei Yuanluo, who are the same generation as Emperor Qin, the others are all nephews of Emperor Qin, and even King Nan'an is still a grandchild. In the face of juniors, Emperor Qin was naturally much more casual. A good sentence is already a great encouragement.

"Little Pei Qing, my promise, Pi'er has already told you."

"Weichen will live up to His Majesty's mighty imperial grace, the reward of the Pavilion Marquis, Weichen is bound to win!" Pei Shengqin raised his head and said with a smile, it is necessary to show the arrogance of a young man at this time.

Emperor Qin bowed his head with satisfaction and said, "Your Pavilion Marquis I have ready, waiting for you to pick it up, don't let down my expectations of you." ”

"Your Majesty, the minister also has to participate in Tuoba Jue, when he was in Linyi, the minister's son was captured by gangsters, but fortunately he was rescued by a knight. This move must have been done by Tuoba, he was taking revenge on Sheng Qin for impeaching him, and asked His Majesty to be the master of the ministers! Pei Yuan said angrily.

"I already know about this, and there is no evidence, and Tuoba will not admit it." At the mention of Tuoba, Emperor Qin's face was also cold, and he said: "But it doesn't matter, the matter of fornicating with the Southern Barbarians is enough to convict him." Tomorrow, I will hold an early dynasty, and at that time, Pei Qing and his son can bring Wang Ningzhi into the palace to confront him and see how he quibbles! ”

Fu Rong echoed: "Please Brother Huang must get rid of the evil and give Xiao Pei Gongzi justice!" ”

"I will, don't worry." Emperor Qin didn't know that Pei Shengqin and Fu Rong had discussed with candles, but they only thought that Fu Rong was grateful for the grace of saving his life, so he stood up to speak for Pei Shengqin.

Pei Shengqin's efforts were useful, at least Emperor Qin had now decided that Tuoba Jue was a traitor, and waited for the evidence to be conclusive to clean him up. However, Pei Shengqin is not very optimistic, Wang Ningzhi's side has made proper arrangements, but this letter cannot be taken out. When the time comes, there will be no physical evidence, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to beat Tuoba to death with a stick.

"That's it, if you can't beat him to death with a stick, you can find an opportunity to beat him with a few more sticks in the future!" Pei Shengqin said secretly in his heart.

At this moment, Emperor Qin looked at Zhang Tianxi, who was shrinking in the corner and pretending to be transparent, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhang, is the scenery in Jiangzuo good?" ”

"Qi, Qi, Your Majesty. The scenery is not good, not good... It's better for us to be Daqin! "Zhang Tianxi is about to cry, can't I be a little transparent quietly?"

"No, I've heard that the sound of Jiangzuo is heaven and earth. I also specially invited the Murong brothers to come and listen to Brother Zhang talk about the scenery of Jiangzuo. Qin Huang pointed to a minister standing aside, "Brother Murong, you said yes?" ”

The minister also had a sad face, and his expression was quite similar to Zhang Tianxi, and he said: "What Your Majesty said is very true, and the minister is also very curious about the scenery of Jiangzuo, so let's talk about it!" ”

"This is someone from the Murong family?" Pei Shengqin turned his head slightly and whispered to Wang Guoan on the side.

"He is the emerging candidate Murong Wei."

Oh, Murong Wei, Pei Shengqin remembered, this guy was the last emperor of the former Yan, Pingyan of the imperial court in the seventh year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, and captured him back to Chang'an, and he was a coward similar to Zhang Tianxi. He asked again: "How did Your Majesty call these two cowards brothers?" ”

"Poof." Wang Zhenwei on the side heard the conversation between the two, and laughed out loud without paying attention, and explained to Pei Shengqin with a smile: "Before I swept away the kingdoms, I had a brotherly relationship with Liangyan. Even later..."

"Even if His Majesty captures them back to Chang'an later, he doesn't intend to break the former brotherly covenant?" Pei Sheng Qin understands in seconds, after all, Emperor Qin is still very kind. Change the emperor, let alone continue to call you two brothers, I'm afraid that even your entire family will have to be killed, which is called a desperate disaster.

"Exactly!" Wang Guoan said with a smile: "It's just that His Majesty still calls him two brothers now, but he doesn't dare to call His Majesty brothers anymore." ”

This is a nonsense, in front of the public, if Murong Wei and Zhang Tianxi still dare to call Emperor Qin "Brother Fu", they are afraid that they will be drowned by the spittle of the imperial historian immediately. No matter how respectful or humble the Qin Emperor is, it is leniency and benevolence, and it is preferential treatment of prisoners. If you two rulers of the dead kingdom do not know how to be humble, you will be dead.

Zhang Tianxi, who was on the side, had no choice but to talk about how unbearable the Eastern Jin Dynasty was and how his behavior was to death. He naturally knew Emperor Qin's intentions, and it was obvious that this was to use the fact that he had escaped and been arrested to beat Murong Wei, who was also the king of the fallen country, and he would not be naïve to think that Emperor Qin really wanted to hear about Jiangzuo.

"To be a man is to know enough! Your Majesty treats his ministers well, and the Great Qin Dynasty treats his ministers well! The minister ate lard and blinded his heart, so he was bewitched by the Zhu thief and did such a shameless thing, the minister repented! Xinxinghou, don't learn from me before, that Nanban just wants to use us, where will he treat us sincerely. Your Majesty is still good to us! Zhang Tianxi cried while talking, and slapped himself miserably. The crisp slap sound came into Murong Wei's ears, and Murong Wei was terrified when he heard it.

"This surnamed Zhang looks like this, I am afraid that he will suffer a lot after being captured by the Tiance Army. Fortunately, Zhu Xu didn't find me, the Bodhisattva blessed, the Bodhisattva blessed. Murong Wei was already very happy in his heart at this moment.

Finally, Zhang Tianxi finished speaking, looking at Murong Wei's face like paper, Emperor Qin knew that the goal had been achieved. Then he waved his hand and said: "That's it, Brother Zhang was also bewitched by the Zhu thief, I won't blame it." Brother Murong, you can send Brother Zhang down to rest. ”

"Wechen obeys." Murong Wei kowtowed, and then helped the trembling Zhang Tianxi to retreat, at this moment Zhang Tianxi had already beaten himself dizzy, and no one could help him to walk.

Fu Pi was puzzled: "Zhang Tianxi is disloyal and unjust, and his father let him go like this?" That Murong Wei is also a villain at both ends of the head and a mouse, if Zhu Xu finds him, I am afraid that his performance will not be much better than Zhang Tianxi. From Erchen's point of view, these two people should take the opportunity to get rid of them. ”

Qin Huang smiled and waved his hand: "No need, they can't toss anything, it's better to keep it as an ornament." "Send Zhang Tianxi and Murong Wei, Emperor Qin speaks much more casually. Reading between the lines, the pride is fully revealed, and Emperor Qin has never looked down on those two goods.

"Go down and rest first, I still have something to discuss with the king. Lao Zhang, you go and arrange accommodation for Pei Qing's father and son, Rong brother, and Deng'er. ”

"No." Gonggong Zhang, who was standing behind Emperor Qin, answered.

Pei Shengqin noticed early in the morning that when they came in, there were already a few ministers standing scattered in the study, including Wang Yong, the left prime minister of the current dynasty, that is, Wang Guoan's father.

It seems that Emperor Qin should have been discussing the matter, but because they arrived in Xiangcheng, he summoned them temporarily, and by the way, he summoned Murong Wei to knock and beat.

The group withdrew from the study with Gonggong Zhang, and the brothers Fu Pi and Wang Guo'an originally had a place to live, and left separately after saying goodbye.

"Do you want to live in the city or outside the city?"

Wang Guoan has already introduced that Wuchen can choose not to live in the tents around the county government, but to live in the military camp outside the city, and by the way, the army will be organized.

Fu Rong, as the general of the expedition to the south, is responsible for leading a million-strong army, but he does not have a team under his own direct control. The number of his own soldiers was small, and almost all of them died in the battle. Therefore, Fu Rong lived in the city, and Fu Deng and Pei Yuanluo, father and son, chose to go to the military camp outside the city.

"The king of Nan'an and the right general, father and son, will go out of the city on their own, and the miscellaneous family will not send it." Father-in-law Zhang arranged a tent for Fu Rong and was about to leave. He was a close eunuch of Emperor Qin, and he had to go back to serve Emperor Qin, so it was naturally impossible to send the three of them all the way to the military camp outside the city.

"There is Father-in-law." The three of them resigned to Zhang Gonggong.

After going out of the city all the way, he asked the officer on duty about the location of the Longxi Army and the Tiance Army camping, and the two armies were not together. Hundreds of thousands of Qin troops outside Xiangcheng have a complex ownership system, and in order to facilitate management, many military camps have been set aside. The Longxi army had 50,000 people and was arranged in a large camp in the west of the city, while the Tiance army had only 5,000 people and was arranged in a small camp in the east of the city.

Fu Deng arched his hand and said goodbye: "General Right, Xiao Pei Gongzi." Say goodbye and see you tomorrow morning. ”

Pei Yuanluo and Pei Shengqin also said goodbye in return.

When he returned to the barracks where the Tiance Army was located, Pei Shengqin was in a very good mood, and the Tiance Army was named by Emperor Qin, which was a happy event. But when he saw Magu waiting for him at the camp gate with a nervous face, he thought of the poisonous needle that pierced his wrist today, and his good mood was ruined in half.

"One day, I'm going to clean up you, a female thief!"

It's night, in the dead of night, the Qin camp in the south of Xiangcheng, where the Dugu army is located.

Dugu Army is known as the first strong army in Modong, in the twelfth year of the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court soldiers went out of the Great Wall to destroy the dynasty. The homeland of the country is divided into seven counties, and it is divided into two parts, the east and the west, each with a governor.

The governor of Moxi is Liu Weichen, and the governor of Modong is Dugu Kuren. Dugu Kuren, a native of Xianbei outside the Saiwai, the head of the Dugu family, once took the Han surname Liu for himself, so he was also called Liu Kuren. He was originally a minister of the Northern Dynasty, and after his death, he surrendered to Qin, and was awarded the title of Governor of Modong and General of Lingjiang. Prime Minister Modong's four counties of Yunzhong, Wasteland, Blue Wolf, and Hanhai.

This Dugu army is the army under the command of Dugu Kuren, guarding Modong for Daqin, and it is extremely brave. In this imperial court's southern expedition, all counties in the world had to send troops to fight, and Dugu Kuren divided 30,000 Dugu troops and handed them over to his cronies Dugu Yang to govern them, representing the four counties of Modong.

At this moment, the main tent of the Dugu Army camp was brightly lit, and the main tent was surrounded by a circle of soldiers, in case someone was watching or eavesdropping.

"That damn Pei Shengqin has already arrived in Xiangcheng, tomorrow morning, he will attack me."

A young man sat on the main seat, slapping several cases in the tent fiercely, venting the anger in his heart. Who is this not Tuoba?

There are a few people sitting below, it is Helan Dog, Yuwen Niu, Dugu Sheep and Tall Chicken.

Among them, Helan Dog said: "Don't panic, Lord, we clearly did not fornicate with Nanban, we were wronged." It's a non-existent thing, and the emperor will definitely be able to see it. ”

Tuoba Jue sneered: "Although I don't know how I offended the person surnamed Pei, he made it clear that he wanted to wronged me." If he wants to wronged me, how can he not prepare? In the current situation, the emperor must believe in him more. ”

Yuwen Niu said in horror: "In this way, tomorrow will be more and less auspicious, if the emperor really believes that Pei Shengqin's nonsense, will he kill us?" ”

Tuoba Jue shook his head and sighed: "If you are convicted of fornicating with the Nanban, even if you don't die, I'm afraid you will have to be imprisoned." So how do we go back to rebelling in the cloud? I'm the one who wants to be the emperor, and if you don't let me rebel, then you might as well kill me!" ”

"Or... Shall we sneak away tonight and return to the clouds? Gao Ji weakly suggested, as soon as his words came out, he was retorted by Dugu Yang: "Hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court are guarding here, and even flies can't fly out, how can we escape?" It's better to order all the 30,000 soldiers of my Dugu Army and kill them directly! ”

Tuoba Jue was so angry with Dugu Yang that he scolded angrily: "Idiot, you also know that there are hundreds of thousands of troops here, and our 30,000 people can be killed from hundreds of thousands of people?" Even if a few people really rush out with me, the imperial court will definitely send troops to chase and kill all the way, can I still keep killing from Xiangcheng back to Saiwai? ”

Helan Dog and the others looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Tuoba Jue is a descendant of the Tuoba clan of the Northern Dynasty, and the status of their families in the Northern Dynasty was the same as that of the Langya Wang clan and the Chenjun Xie clan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is precisely because they can't let go of their former glory that after the Northern Dynasty fell into the country, they have been hooking up with Tuoba. Now they and Tuoba are grasshoppers on the same rope, and if Tuoba is cold, their family will also be cold.

"In this way, you will find a credible soldier, hide in the night incense barrel, and mix out of the army outside the city early tomorrow morning." Tuoba thought for a while and said, the so-called night incense bucket is a large bucket containing excrement, which will be dragged to a distant place and dumped every day.

"Hide in the night incense barrel and get out? What a great idea! Yuwen Niu slapped his ass, and then wondered: "The Lord can think of such a good way, why don't you go out by yourself?" ”

Tuoba Jue explained with a wry smile: "We are all officials of the imperial court, especially those who are awaiting trial, if we escape, Your Majesty will not find us tomorrow, and we will definitely be searched and pursued in anger." Do you think we are running fast, or are these hundreds of thousands of troops chasing fast? There are only ordinary soldiers, even if there are one or two people missing, it is difficult for the imperial court to notice, so that they can smoothly return to Modong to report the news. ”

Only then did everyone understand, and they cried out in unison, "Lord wise! ”

"However, we have been punished by the imperial court here, even if we successfully report to Modong, what use can we have?" Gao Ji asked with a bitter face.

"Since this Pei Shengqin is wronging us and others, he will definitely not be able to come up with ironclad evidence, so it will be difficult for His Majesty to kill us. Tomorrow morning, I will deal with him more, even if it is difficult to get rid of the crime, as long as I am not betrayed by His Majesty. Tuoba Jue calmly arranged: "Let the soldiers who escaped take my tokens and go back to Modong to find Dugu Kuren, and tell him to start an incident immediately and send troops to the Great Wall to threaten the imperial court." ”

Dugu Yang's eyes lit up, and then he said: "Let the head of the family come to the Great Wall with a large army, and tell Fu Hui that if the emperor does not let us go, he will attack the Great Wall!" In this way, Fu Hui will naturally report to the emperor, and the emperor can only let us leave for the sake of the peace of the Great Wall. ”

Fu Hui was the second prince of Great Qin and was responsible for guarding the Great Wall. After the destruction of the dynasty, the Great Wall was no longer an important border pass, but became an insignificant hinterland, and the defenders were much sparser. In addition, the imperial court dispatched troops and horses to the south, and the troops of the states and counties near the Great Wall were also transferred. If Dugu Kuren really raised troops and attacked the Great Wall in the south, it would be absolutely difficult for the second prince to resist.

Tuoba Jue nodded: "One more thing, if the imperial court doesn't release people, the seven counties outside the Saiwai will all be opposed!" It depends on whether the emperor wants me to Tuoba Jue, or whether he wants to go outside the seven counties. ”

Gao Ji said: "However, the three counties of Moxi are in Liu Weichen's hands, although Liu Weichen is also my former minister of the Northern Dynasty, he has not accepted the invitation of the lord, I am afraid he will not cooperate with us." In addition, although the four counties of Modong are controlled by Lord Dugu, the officials and people may not be willing to rebel with them..."

After all, although Dugu Kuren is the highest governor of the four counties of Modong, the senior officials of the four counties are all appointed by the imperial court, and the officers and soldiers of the four counties are also the officers and soldiers of the Great Qin Dynasty.

"Even if there is no Moxi, it doesn't matter, the four counties of Modong are enough. I don't believe that the emperor would rather rebel in the four counties than let me go! Tuoba Jue said coldly: "Although the county guards are appointed by the imperial court, each county also has its own garrison. But Dugu Kuren is the governor of Modong, and he has the Dugu army in his hands, which is completely enough to suppress the officers and soldiers who refuse to follow the four counties. As long as those hard-core officers and soldiers are suppressed, the people below can only obediently obey orders. ”

"However, once the head of the family is threatened with an army, this nature can change. Even if the court really lets us go back to Modong, we will become thieves. Dugu Yang said worriedly.

"That's right, the imperial court is now pressed in the southeast, and the strength is not enough, maybe it will temporarily bow its head and let us go back. But in the future, the war in the southeast will end, and the imperial army will return to the north, and we will not be able to see tens of thousands of soldiers in a few counties! Yuwen Niu said in fear.

"Or, or take a long-term view?" Gao Ji asked tentatively,

"Yes, yes, in the long run, in the long run, maybe the emperor has a clear understanding of everything, sees through Pei Shengqin's frame, and sentences us not guilty?" The last to speak was the Helan dog.

Obviously, Tuoba's four younger brothers are a little cowardly. Although they have been discussing the usurpation of the throne, when it came time to really rebel, they all thought of the strength of the imperial court. It's been less than ten years since the bloody battle of the former Qin to destroy the Northern Dynasty...

Their worries are correct, in history, Tuoba Jue was able to successfully rebel and establish the Northern Wei Dynasty, but also because of the internal collapse of the former Qin caused by the defeat of the Weishui War, countless traitors were rebelling, and the imperial court could not be completely exterminated. But now that the situation in Qianqin is quite stable, everyone has not rebelled, if it is just the Tuoba family who rebels, it is really not too simple for the imperial court to quell the rebellion. Not to mention the four counties of Modong, even if he really gave him the seven counties outside the Saiwai and the hometown of the Northern Dynasty, the Northern Dynasty had all this back then, but it only took a few months for the former Qin to destroy the Northern Dynasty.

"I've made up my mind, I don't need to persuade again!" Tuoba Jue said decisively: "No matter what, sooner or later, I will rebel, how can I surrender to his Fu Qin clan in my dignified Northern Dynasty!" That Pei Shengqin just forced me to rebel a few days earlier, and when I won the world, I would break this dog thief into thousands of pieces. ”

As in history, he was confident in the rebellion and convinced that he could succeed in plotting to usurp the throne.

"As long as I can escape back to Modong, I will rebel as a royal descendant of the Northern Dynasty, and the people of Saibei will be able to block the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court! After I open the country, all of you will be the founding heroes, and your family will also rest with the country! Tuoba was afraid that a few people would refuse to work with him, so he hurriedly painted them a big pie.

The four Helan dogs looked at each other and sighed helplessly. They had the intention to draw a clear line with Tuoba, but the family was too deeply involved with Tuoba, and it was really difficult to clarify.

There is no way, I can only follow him all the way to the dark, and if you start an army, you will start an army, and then find a way to surrender when the court encircles and suppresses it in the future.

So the four of them said: "Subordinates obey orders!" ”