Li Ze's most distressing problem in this era is probably the speed of message transmission, the blockage of information, and the poor communication, to a large extent, will affect the specific implementation of policies and orders. Just like when you are in a war, you can only think of all the possible problems as much as possible at the beginning, and then make some corresponding responses, but after the war starts, accidents will still occur from time to time. Sometimes a heavy rain, or the collapse of a road, can affect the situation of the entire battlefield, and the other parties are not aware of such changes.

But sometimes, he likes this kind of information asymmetry very much, because he can take advantage of this information asymmetry to get the greatest benefit.

It's a sharp, double-edged sword that sometimes hurts oneself and sometimes hits the enemy.

He has done his best to improve the decrees and military orders in his system. Because no one knows the importance of information better than him, even if it is only a little bit earlier than the enemy, it can deal the greatest blow to the enemy.

As he does now, he enjoys the benefits of information blocking.

The news sent by Chang'an has confirmed that in Chang'an, the faction that hopes that Zhu Wen will abolish Tang and stand on his own has the absolute upper hand. Jing Xiang's departure made this part of the people find the best opportunity.

Zhu Wen is actually not a person with a clear head, but in the current situation, the extreme desire for that chair is overwhelming him, Jing Xiang can be regarded as an eternal piece of ice beside him, always able to pour ice water on him at the right time when he is most excited, and use analysis to calm him down again.

But now, this man is gone.

The change of dynasty means huge fame and fortune for those civil and military officials under Zhu Wen, and in their opinion, in addition to Li Ze in the north, those jiezhen in the south of Chang'an are all scum in terms of combat effectiveness.

Under the words of these people day and night, Zhu Wen finally wavered.

Now, they have even drawn up the name of the country.

Beam!

Li Ze, who got the news, was so happy that he drank several glasses of wine that day.

At this time, the world is actually not clear. Zhu Wen occupied Guanzhong, Heluo, and seemed to be the most powerful, Li Ze occupied dozens of northern states, and his strength chased Zhu Wen, and after defeating Zhu Wen in Weizhou and Luzhou, he was even more powerful. But at this time, in the north, Li Ze and his great enemy Zhang Zhongwu were recuperating, and others such as An Sui, Fengdu, Zhenwu, etc., although they all sent people to Zhenzhou to meet the emperor, they did not surrender to Li Ze. In the south, Zhu Wen is still facing those large and small festival towns in the south, and these festival towns are also waiting and watching.

Here, there are those who are inclined to Zhu Wen, and naturally there are those who still miss the Tang Dynasty, or there are those who hope to maintain the status quo, and everyone occupies a piece of territory and makes their own fortunes.

If Zhu Wen had adopted Jing Xiang's strategy and made a puppet emperor, Li Ze believed that Zhu Wen would probably have found more allies in the south. Everyone can also play happily together under the unified banner of Datang.

But if Zhu Wen wants to be the emperor himself, it will be very different.

Everyone used to be the same person, why can you be this emperor? Just because you occupy Chang'an, Luoyang? In terms of affluence, some big festival towns in the south are no worse than Luoyang, Chang'an, and the number of people is not less than there. Although in everyone's mind, the northern Central Plains was still the center of the Tang Empire, at that time, the south was no worse than the north in terms of economy. The large-scale development of Huguang and the prosperity of shipping have brought huge economic dividends to the south.

Can you be? I can't be?

Even if I don't do it, I don't want you to be.

How can you say that the Li family has been our emperor for hundreds of years, that is Zhengshuo, respect him, we don't hurt our self-esteem, you Zhu Wen is the green onion?

Of course I don't recognize you.

If you want to fight, then come. Maybe if I win you, I'll be able to take his place!

This kind of situation is actually what Li Ze wants to see the most. This is why he wants to do everything possible to get the emperor to come to himself, even if it is a mud bodhisattva for offering, there are still many people who will worship him.

Once Zhu Wen stands on his own, he will inevitably become a public enemy of the world, even if he can win over some jiezhen, but he is afraid that jiezhen, who has a little strength, will regard him as an enemy.

Calling one by one?

At that time, the military strength of the north was indeed better than that of the south, but the south was not as weak as in the past, there were soldiers and generals who were richer, coupled with the terrain of the north and the south, and the climate were very different.

Attacking from afar and at close range, this provided Li Ze with an opportunity to get up and down.

This news, of course, must be tightly sealed and not let Jing Xiang know. Several groups of messengers have been detained on the border, and the internal security have arrested batches of secret messengers.

This news, except for a very small number of people, is now under the rule of Wu Wei, and it has been strictly concealed.

Jing Xiang has asked to see him several times, but Li Ze has avoided it, and now Li Ze is ready to lead the civil and military officials to set off to Zhenzhou to meet the Son of Heaven.

The political reform and military reform have been completed at the court level, and of course, some superficial articles will be made to show loyalty to the emperor in order to obtain the emperor's approval.

This comes and goes, and it doesn't take ten days and half a month, and it always can't come back.

Jing Xiang is getting more and more uneasy.

He is a smart person, and he has found out that Li Ze is deliberately not seeing him and dragging him. If Li Ze was so busy that he couldn't pay attention to him some time ago, he could understand it, then at this time, Li Ze didn't see him, and there was a ghost.

More importantly, every five days after he arrived in Wuyi, a messenger from Chang'an was supposed to report the corresponding news to him, but now a full fifteen days have passed, and none of the messengers have come.

"Wu Jian!" Jing Xiang shouted, something must have happened in Chang'an.

Wu Jian entered in response.

"You, go to Taifu's Mansion immediately and ask to see Li Ze again, if you can't see Li Ze, it's okay to see Gongsun Changming, we have to resign." Jing Xiang commanded.

After Wu Jian left, Jing Xiang pondered for a moment and summoned another guard. This guard has always looked like an extremely ordinary one among Jing Xiang's personal guards, but standing in front of Jing Xiang at this moment, it is obviously different from usual.

"Go, contact all the hidden piles we have under Wuwei, I want to know what happened?" Jing Xiang commanded.

"Strategist, this will expose them." The guard hesitated.

"Something big must have happened." Jing Xiang took a deep breath, "Compared to their exposure, I want to know more about what happened in Chang'an. ”

"We can go."

Jing Xiang smiled bitterly: "If Li Ze deliberately did this, deliberately trying to drag me down, would we be able to go?" Where is this? This is Wuyi. He has a hundred and a thousand ways to delay our journey. ”

The guards hurried away.

An hour later, Wu Jian came back dejected.

"Military advisor, I didn't step into the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion at all, and their people told me that after the political reform, the people who received us had been taken over by the Ministry of Rites. I went to the Ministry of Rites again, but the people there told me that their Shangshu, Shilang and other officials had to go to Zhenzhou to meet the emperor with the prime minister, and there was no time to see us, so let us wait with peace of mind. ”

Although he had expected it in his heart, Jing Xiang was still extremely disappointed.

"Strategist, when I came back, outside the post house, there were suddenly more soldiers on patrol, and there were some people in regular clothes, but at a glance, I knew what they were doing, and they didn't seem to care about revealing their whereabouts." Wu Jian was a little worried. "Is Wuwei going to be against us?"

Jing Xiang shook his head: "I'm afraid they just don't want us to know something, Li Ze still can't do such a thing as killing the envoy." It would ruin his reputation. ”

After three full days, Jing Xiang finally understood what had been sent.

"The military advisor, our people, heard the news from Tian An, who is still staying in Wuyi." The guard whispered: "For this news, we paid 10,000 yuan. ”

"What happened to Chang'an?"

"Festival Shuai, Festival Shuai abolished Tang Zili, and the country name is Liang!" The Guard lowered his voice.

"What did you say?" Jing Xiang Huo stood up, Cao Xuan, who was drinking tea, trembled, and the cup in his hand fell to the ground and shattered.

"Is the news true?" Jing Xiang asked word by word.

"That's right." The guard said: "Moreover, this can't be hidden for long, because the Zhenzhou Imperial Court will soon issue a letter to ask for Zhu Xuan, and that Tian An is very proud that he used a news that is about to be made public and sold it for 10,000 yuan." ”

Whether it's Jing Xiang or Cao Xuan, at this moment, where do you care about 10,000 yuan? The two glanced at each other, and they both saw a trace of despair and a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes.

"Strategist, you shouldn't come to Wuyi!" Cao Xuan sat down on the chair and said with a wry smile.

"When I left, I had a good talk with the marshal, and the acting marshal was also in Chang'an, how could such a thing happen?"

"The acting marshal is the son and daughter of the handsome." Cao Xuan reminded, "Or he will stop it, but what if someone tells him that after the commander becomes independent, his son-in-law can become the crown prince?" ”

Wu Jian was dumbfounded for a moment and said, "Strategist, are we going back immediately?" ”

"What else can I do when I go back now? Can the water that was spilled be recovered? Can the marshal, who has ascended the throne as the emperor, automatically abdicate? Jing Xiang shook his head and said, "Now, it's time for us to think about what to do in the future." ”