When the chill of the night sweeps in, the same information is fermenting in different places. Zhang Jue's death in the north, in the Wu Dynasty, was the result of a series of complex reasons, but in terms of information feedback, there were no people who were happy that this incident happened.

In the imperial city of Yanfu Palace, the burning lamps and candles surrounded a warm atmosphere, and the eunuchs, guards, and palace maids stood around, but in the night, only the sound of chess pieces falling occasionally sounded. The emperor was not in a good mood, and the queen, who accompanied him to play chess to relieve his boredom, was also silent and did not speak.

"I've made a ...... I don't know if it's right or wrong. ”

After a long time, Zhou Zhe spoke slowly and in a low voice, holding the chess pieces in his hands, and he never fell for a long time. The queen waited for a while: "What Your Majesty does is right and wrong, but the concubine knows that no matter whether it is right or wrong, what Your Majesty chooses must be done." ”

If an emperor is said to have done something wrong, ordinary people will be punished immediately. But the queen has a deep relationship with him, but she knows that Zhou Zhe likes to say this. Sure enough, after the words were finished, Zhou Zhe raised his eyebrows slightly, and after a while, he smiled bitterly.

"I killed Zhang Jue, others don't know, I'm afraid they think I'm mediocre, but how do they know the difficulties in my heart. This Manchu Dynasty civil and military, Cai Jing, Li Gang, Qin Siyuan, Tong Guan, Li Bangyan, Wang Hao...... One counts as one! They...... Mistaken for me......"

He dropped the chess pieces and gritted his teeth to say this, but he put all the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty into it. The queen was silent. It's hard to answer: "They ...... I'm afraid there are also difficulties......"

"Difficulty! I put them in the position of the court officials, I gave them power, I paved the way for them to do things, but in the end, what did they give me. One...... It's a mess-" Zhou Zhe waved his hand vigorously, "In the end, I have to carry this black cauldron for them, these ...... Old stuff! ”

He gritted his teeth, and the pain in his heart was indescribable. As early as the time when the army was actively raised and the Northern Expedition was promoted. He had a great ambition in his heart – an ambition that began at the beginning of his reign. instigated the civil strife of the Liao people, infiltrated the northern country with the secret investigation department, and invested a lot of financial and material resources to attract people's greed, and later the Blackwater Alliance. He really wants to be a ZTE overlord. Levy all kinds of flowers. It is indeed true that the imperial court needs to invest money in the north. Although later he left many. But that's also because the North doesn't need to invest anymore. As an emperor, he had already done a lot of painstaking things, and in hindsight. These things did work.

The Jurchens raised troops, and the Wu Dynasty waited for a good time, so he used Li Gang to restore Qin Siyuan, and asked Cai Jing and others to make way for them, and actively promoted Tong Guan's Northern Expedition. Of course, there are many obstacles and unsatisfactory places, and the sixteen states of Yanyun have only recovered six of them, but Guo Yaoshi's achievements still give him a long face. This was originally a strategy to buy bones, and before Guo Yaoshi made a great achievement, he gave the other party countless rewards, including the other party's mistake in beating Yanjing, and he also forgave the other party. Later, Guo Yaoshi beheaded Xiao Gan in a formation, and he was very happy to prove the correctness of his vision to this world.

As for the Jurchens who were once ambitious and domineering, Zhou Zhe didn't like it in his heart, at least he thought that he must take back the sixteen states of Yanyun. Once it is recaptured, there are many mountains in the north, and it is impossible for Hu Lu to go south, and he will also be able to comfort the spirits of the ancestors and ancestors in the heavens, and become the master of a generation of pioneers. This kind of thinking made him have an aggressive side in his attitude towards the Jurchens, and he accepted Zhang Jue, which belonged to the follow-up of recruiting Guo Yaoshi. However, after this, the huge problem still has to pull him back to reality.

If the Jurchens had an excessive reaction to Zhang Jue's defection, is this battle now fought or not?

After Zhang Jue's defection, in the initial period, I was still very happy here: I used to talk to you about the sixteen states, but you didn't talk about it, now we can sit down and talk. For the Jurchens, the Wu Dynasty was not defenseless, but there was a consensus on some things, that is: there are few Jurchens, and it is not easy to conquer the entire Liao State and manage the Liao State, and there is no spare strength to go south. At the same time, Guo Yaoshi trained outside Yanmen Pass, defeated Xiao Gan, and destroyed Xiao Gan's deployment, at this time Zhang Jue is not a soft persimmon, intellectually speaking, there is a certain deterrent, put it on the table, we are qualified to talk.

But it turns out that these are the considerations of the civilian officials, and they are really thinking too much. You can weigh it a thousand times and feel that the strength of the Wu Dynasty has increased greatly, but for the Jurchens, they are unhappy, so there is only one way to solve it: come, we have done it once, and see who loses and who wins.

After Yan Yan's mother directly crusaded against Zhang Jue, Zhou Zhe's side had to seriously consider this matter.

In those months or two, he asked many people about their views and opinions, including Tong Guan, Cai Jing, Gao Yu, Li Gang, Qin Siyuan, all kinds of senior officers of the military department, and some ministers who had served as envoys in the Jinliao situation all night. The impression that came together after the most reluctance made his heart half cold.

On the surface, when asked if we could fight, of course the other party said that we could. But Zhou Zhe is not a fool, at least he can hear some of the voiceovers of these ministers clearly, he can see that Tong Guan, Cai Jing, Gao Yu and others have doubts about the combat strength of the army, and Li Gang and Qin Siyuan expressed: No matter what, we have to fight to the death now, we must fight!

What are you kidding, you can die now, even if you die, you can be a straight-necked minister, can I be so sloppy as an emperor? The situation was comprehensive, and he suddenly found that he had been fighting for so long, and on his side, he still looked like a paper tiger, and he really wanted to do it with Jinren, all the preparations, are we ready?

He then issued a secret decree in the capital, informing Wang Anzhong that if the Jin people were not too excessive, they must not provoke lightly, and when necessary, Zhang Jue could give up - and could only give up, behind this, his painstaking solitude, who can understand.

He hates Cai Jing and Tong Guan these people, they are in charge of the overall situation, at least in the army, and they are still like this at the moment. He also hated Li Gang and Qin Siyuan, and he gave them so much support. At the end of the day, they didn't do anything decisive and satisfying. It is difficult for the army to win, so they know that they are shouting to fight and fight to the death. What if you lose this first battle?

He thought about these things, and remembered that he had really given Qin Siyuan and them too much power and convenience in the matter of disaster relief. In the recent period of party struggle, I have leaned towards them and suppressed many opposing voices, and the influence of the two prime ministers in Beijing has become higher and higher. Master Cai, they all have to avoid the edge. That's a bit too much.

After weighing it, the disaster relief still has to be done, Zhang Jue's matter, but it can be regarded as a means to suppress them. Otherwise, it is their credit to recruit Zhang Jue. After the surrender, he fully supported Zhang Jue. For the sake of one, Zhang Jue went to war with the Jin people with the power of the whole country. After all, he seems too reckless, and his own emperor seems to be inferior to a puppet. I can support all the ministers in their work. However, this kind of move to put pressure on the national fortunes cannot be done indiscriminately after all.

On the other hand, the disaster relief is not small, but compared with the Northern Expedition, there is a difference in severity after all, Li Qin and the two have invested heavily in disaster relief, which is a good thing, but there are too many people who have offended. After this incident, he pressed the strength of Li and Qin and asked Taishi Cai to get up a little, in a way, it was actually to protect their positions. Hint a few words in private, and they should also understand my painstaking efforts......

All kinds of hearts, all kinds of considerations, even in front of the queen, some can say it, and some cannot. After arriving at the most, he can only turn into a sigh, as the Son of Heaven, he is really in a high place, and I only hope that his hard work can finally be exchanged for good results in the future, and he can get a fair evaluation in the history books......

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After receiving the news of Zhang Jue's death, Zhou Zhe's mood was complicated, in the right minister's mansion, Qin Siyuan could hardly stand the blow and fainted on the spot, and the left minister Li Gang was also stunned and speechless after seeing the news. Taishi Mansion, Cai Jing read the news after writing a word, and the complication in his eyes turned into a sigh. Tong Guan looked at the map in front of his house for half a night with his hands behind his back, and sighed to others: "After all, it is a last resort." "He is about to be a leader, the merit has been decided, but there is no psychological pressure.

Yushitai, when Qin Hui received the news, he hadn't returned home yet. He narrowed his eyes at the news, his teeth clenched, and his guttural voice trembled: "Stupid, stupid......"

He returned to his room where he was on business, unfolded a blank piece of paper, and wrote down the beginning of a letter of exhortation. He had been captured by the northerners, and because of this, knowing the ferocious and savage nature of the people on the other side of the road, for this kind of person, how could he blindly retreat, show weakness, and show weakness to the enemy, which would only stimulate the ferocity of the other party, and get into a difficult situation at the end of the day.

Passionate and straightforward, this is his usual state, and many members were also pulled off the horse by his impassioned participation because of this. However, there is always something more that he needs to consider. Halfway through the excerpt, he felt that the wording was too strong and stopped. I took out a few new pieces of paper and wrote the beginning twice, but the next two articles didn't even go past the beginning.

He knew in his heart who was the rear promoter of this matter, and he also understood that it had already happened, and the Holy Lord would not want his people to give advice like an afterthought.

What's the use of writing this kind of thing yourself, it's just annoying......

Rubbing his forehead and thinking about it for a long time, he started writing again, but this time he wrote it as a thoughtful excerpt from Qin Siyuan's recruitment of Zhang Jue. Halfway through the writing quickly, he stopped again: his thinking is still not right, Qin Xiang recruited Zhang Jue, it was not wrong at that time, although the one who killed Zhang Jue was a saint, but with the wisdom of the saint today, he may not be complacent about it, he can't join Qin Siyuan too much, but if you want to calm down some doubts, what should you do?

After thinking about it like this for a while, the content of the third excerpt was changed to Wang Anzhong, the Xuanfu envoy who killed Zhang Jue, but the rhetoric was not too intense. He understands that the saint does not want Wang Anzhong to be questioned for doing wrong, he can't really nail Wang Anzhong to the pillar of shame, use the words gently, there is room for discussion, once it can be discussed, it can lead Wang Anzhong to the image of correctness and painstaking solitude, when the time comes, he will be this wicked person, but the saint can take Wang Anzhong and himself out of the slime, I believe that he will reprimand himself, but in his heart, remember his intentions.

At the same time, in the court, the matter can also be characterized, and everyone calms down again, working together to plan for the future. After thinking about it in this way, the excerpt was also written very smoothly and quickly, so he finished writing the fold and handed it the next day.

In Yanjing City, Wang Anzhong is also in a huge entanglement.

For the matter of killing Zhang Jue. He is also the same helplessness and grievance, Guo Yaoshi shouts all day long to fight with Jinren, but whether he can win a fight is the real big question. After killing Zhang Jue, the atmosphere in Yanjing City was very bad, the atmosphere in the Changsheng army was sluggish, the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and they seemed to treat these civil officials as traitors. During the initial period, Pharmacist Guo almost wore white clothes to mourn Zhang Jue, and Wang Anzhong visited him several times. The other party said that he was sick and closed his door. There was a burst of fire in the Wang An Center. If it's in the south, a military general like you, look at me......

But he was unhappy in his heart, and he still had to try his best to smooth out the impact of this matter. Think about being this official yourself. It's really done benevolently. I came to visit Pharmacist Guo every day. The cold ass with a hot face and close to people, what are you for, isn't it just for the peace of this northern land?

Fortunately, Pharmacist Guo didn't lose his temper for too long. Three days later, I opened the door to see him. Wang Anzhong told him bitterly, compared the strength of the two sides, and told him the order of the imperial court not to provoke lightly, and the haggard Guo Yaoshi finally said: "After all, it was the young general who was not thoughtful, so that Lord Wang was wronged." ”

"It's all for the country, General Guo is dissatisfied with this matter, and Wang can also empathize, but it's just a matter of national fortune, we can't be reckless and fast, we can only seek stability. After that, I hope that General Guo can still do his best to fight for national affairs, and Wang will definitely fully cooperate with General Guo. ”

"Lord Wang is noble, it is Guo who is stingy, and after that, Guo will offer local products and come to the door to make amends, and I hope Lord Wang will forgive ......me."

Guo Yaoshi replied like this, and then prepared a large amount of gold and silver to send to Wang Anzhong's mansion, Wang Anzhong knew that the other party must have a mustard in his heart, but these things can only be slowly dissolved, and for a while, it is impossible to think.

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The fluctuations caused by Zhang Jue's death have not been calm one by one, and the people in the north and south of the Wu Dynasty, who are qualified to understand this matter, are mostly complicated and indescribable. And in this complexity, in the north, in the royal court of the Jin people, it is a different kind of thing.

Shangjing, the city that has only recently experienced war is not as prosperous as it was at the beginning, after the Jin people came in, most of the original Liao nobles were killed or reduced to slaves, and now the imperial city is also in disrepair. The Jurchens were still busy fighting and had not put the restoration of the city on the agenda, but when the New Year was approaching and the snow came, they still returned to the originally prosperous city, waiting for the snow to pass and make plans for the new year.

The triumph of Wanyan Zongwang was a surprise for all the Jurchens.

Although speaking of which, in recent times, the Jurchens have looked down on the people of the Wu Dynasty who can't fight, but subconsciously, the impression that the other party is a strong and prosperous kingdom is still there. Zhang Jue's rebellion made Ah Gu angry, and everyone clamored to give Wu Chao a little color, but when it really started, everyone was still cautious.

Everyone is waiting for the outcome of this battle.

After the duel between Yan Yan's mother and Zhang Jue, there were two wins and one loss, but this is not something that everyone attaches too much importance to, and what is really waiting for the rear is the behemoth in the south. The first battle with the Wu Dynasty really touched everyone's minds. Therefore, the one who then withdrew to lead the troops was Wanyan Zongwang, who was the most proficient in fighting among the Jurchens. At this time, the wind and snow have arrived, and it is not easy to attack the city, if the southerners hold the city, theoretically speaking, it will not be until next spring, and this battle will have a result.

Therefore, most people think that Wanyan Zongwang will spend this year in Yanjing City.

Who knew that the result of Lu Dao was so easy to force the other party to give in, even they were a little surprised.

In the golden hall of the imperial city, a blazing bonfire was lit on the huge furnace, and in the staggered banquet, Wanyan Zongwang smiled and strode over. At this time, those who were able to participate in this banquet were not only Zong Gan, Zong Yao, Zong Bi and others of the Aguta family, but also many ministers who initially rebelled with Aguta, such as Gushen Wanyan Xiyin, Lou Mur, Yinshuke, Bali Su and others. In a sense, they will be the brightest new stars of this era.

Of course, as people in the bureau, they may not see themselves like this, but as a member of a new dynasty, Ru Mao's blood-drinking savagery can't hide their high-spirited vitality. Although it is above the Golden Palace, but this kind of banquet does not pay attention to too many rules, everyone drinks and sings, and when Yan Zongwang came in, several brothers also jumped up to greet him, you and I spoke word by word.

Wanyan Zongwang walked forward with a smile, came to a table, put a human head in his hand on the table, and raised his chin: "Ha Luha, how!" Then he went to the side and said goodbye to his father.

On the other side of the table was the only person in the Golden Palace, who wiped his greasy mouth and looked at the heads on the table with a smile. Wanyan Zongbi walked over: "Ha Luha, Zhang Jue...... Wumu, what's the matter, I told you a long time ago, the Nanren are weak and incompetent, vulnerable, what's the matter, dumbfounded. ”

The Wumur is the Jurchen name of Wanyan Xiyin, he is the most knowledgeable person in the Jurchens, he is tall, both civil and military, and recently directly created a set of characters belonging to the Jurchens under the order of Aguta. In the past, because of his admiration for Han culture, he also admired the Wu Dynasty the most, so everyone should not take it lightly, but at this time, he was also a little helpless: "Probably I thought wrong, find a place to bury him." ”

"What is there to bury?" After Yan Zongbi waved his hand, Zhang Jue's head flew out of the golden hall with a bang, and he propped himself up in front of the other party's table, "Wumu, you have nothing to say...... Hey, I said brothers, after defeating the Liao State, let's also beat the Wu Dynasty by the way. ”

This sentence caused everyone to shout, and someone said: "After all, we have few manpower." There are also humanitarians: "It's too far to go south after all." At this time, Ah Guta, who was in his fifties, sat on the throne in a robe, said a few words to Wanyan Zongwang, and said with a smile: "Although this separation did not allow the Wu Dynasty people to send Zhang Jue, but after all, they have not really fought, and our lack of people is also one thing." The Liao country is undecided, just talk about it, don't be too arrogant. Careful warriors will not be eaten by bears, and arrogant warriors will be eaten by bears. ”

Everyone happily agreed, and soon after, the banquet dispersed, and everyone walked out of the Golden Palace in twos and threes, Wanyan Zongbi looked at Wanyan Xiyin over there, and snorted coldly, in later generations, people are more familiar with his formidable Jurchen name: Wushu. But at this time, he will even be afraid of the Wanyan Xiyin who is both civil and military, Jin Wushu has been warlike since he was a child, and he has a good impression of many brothers with strong martial arts, only this Wanyan Xiyin, the Han people have read too many books, and he is uncomfortable when he does things, but he can't beat the other party even in martial arts.

At this time, in addition to them, there are people who will leave their names in the history books of later generations, either to open up a career, or to be the emperor of the Jin Kingdom. Most of them have experienced a sea of corpses and blood. Outside the Golden Palace, there was snow everywhere, the north wind was howling, no one frowned at such weather, for them, such cold was the norm in this world.

On this day, the group of people set their sights on the Wu Dynasty in the south, and then retracted it indifferently, focusing on the piece of fat that was still in their mouths.

Liao, after all, is still big......

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In the south, it was quiet in the courtyard of the Zuo family, and Zuo Duanyou finished reading the information in his hand, leaned back in his chair, and closed his eyes...... (To be continued......)