Mr. Shusun's own courage is 'amazing', especially afraid of sending envoys to the enemy camp, but the blue is better than the blue, whenever Xiang Kang has a more dangerous diplomatic mission, and there is no need to appoint a special envoy candidate, Mr. Shusun's disciples, but every time someone comes forward, rushing to serve Xiang Kang for the teacher, even if it is very likely that he will not come back, he is willing.

This time it was the same, after some repeated deliberation and careful discussion, Xiang Kang asked Mr. Shusun to recommend a disciple to himself from among his disciples to serve as the envoy of the Han army, and the uncle and grandson Tongcai told Xiang Kang's meaning to his disciples, and his many nerdy protégés immediately fought for this messenger, and almost didn't fight on the spot, and finally Mr. Shusun had no choice but to hand over this glorious and arduous task to his protégé Xia Wan through the form of lottery. The envoy who accompanied Sima Wei returned to Luoyang to present his credentials, and persuaded Sima Wei to abandon the secret and surrender to the Ming on behalf of Xiang Kang, and abandon Xiang to form an alliance with the Han army instead.

Zhao rebel general Sima Wei was originally too deep with the Han army, and the overall strength of Xiang Yu is obviously stronger than the Han army, Sima Wei will be in this east and west unless he is stupid, and he will ally with the Han army instead, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this trip is not only almost impossible to succeed, but also is likely to be given to Xiang Yu as a gift by Sima Wei, but the proud disciple Xia Wan, who was completely brainwashed by the teacher with the righteousness of Confucian monarchs and ministers, was not afraid at all, and accepted the task with joy, and at the same time, he also nodded to Xiang Kang again and again, assuring that the trip would complete the task. No matter what method you think, you must persuade Sima Wei to fall to the Han army.

Xiang Kang also did not treat this uncle and grandson Tong disciple who was fooled by the teacher so that he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, in addition to personally giving him an official title, he also promised to give the reward to his family when Xia Wan didn't come back, and he also personally walked out of Xianyang Palace to see off Xia Wan, a disciple of Shu Sun Tong, who was so moved that Xia Wan was in tears, and he just wanted to give birth to his wings, and immediately flew to Luoyang to meet Sima Wei, emulating Su Qin Zhang Yi, and said with his own three-inch tongue that Sima Wei would abandon evil and follow righteousness, and help Xiang Kang send troops to fight against Xiang Yu - even if it doesn't work, It can also leave a good name for all generations.

It's a pity that after the gorgeous float scenery came to Luoyang with Sima Wei's secret envoy, Sima Wei did not immediately summon Xia Wan, who was promoted by Xiang Kang to be the Han army's confidant, but first summoned the secret envoy of the self-army who was forced to be sent to Xianyang to carry out the dissension plan for Xiang Yu, and asked him about the envoy's journey, and the envoy truthfully reported that he had been under house arrest by the Han army for a period of time, and then said:

"Later, when Weichen finally saw Xiang Kang's traitor, Xiang Kang's traitor not only ordered Weichen and his envoy to go back abroad, but also asked the envoy to bring you a sentence, saying that he also knew that the king you arranged for Weichen to envoy Xianyang, which was a helpless move forced by the king of Western Chu, not from the king's original intention, so he will definitely not take it to heart, nor will he worry about you the king, he also has some heartfelt words, and will let his envoy report to the king in person."

Sima Wei vaguely understood Xiang Kang's voice, and hurriedly turned to Li Zuoche, who was worshiped as Situ, and asked, "Guangwujun, what do you think?" Listening to Xiang Kang'er's tone, he seemed to already know the truth of the matter. ”

"That's how it should be." Li Zuoche replied: "If nothing else, the discord plan of the King of Western Chu has failed, and Xiang Kang also guessed that the king was forced to do this by the King of Western Chu." ”

"Shaft! How did he see through it? Sima Wei scolded, and then without thinking, he immediately ordered: "Pass the decree and announce Xiang Kang'er's entry into the palace." ”

"Slow down, big king." Li Zuoche hurriedly stopped and said: "Xiang Kang saw through the divisive plan of the King of Western Chu, and took this opportunity to send an envoy to visit him, he must have wanted to plan and take this opportunity to provoke the relationship between us and the King of Western Chu. In the opinion of our subordinates, it is best for us to take down Xiang Kang's envoy immediately, and send it to Pengcheng together with his national letter to the king of Western Chu, so as to clear the suspicion and prevent the king of Western Chu from becoming suspicious of us. ”

Sima Wei was a little shaken, but after thinking about it, Sima Wei immediately said: "It doesn't matter if you see each other, find out what tricks Xiang Kang Xiao'er wants to play, and we can be on guard." Otherwise, Xiang Kang's envoy was directly handed over to the king of Western Chu, and the envoy of that child said something unfavorable to us, and we didn't know how to be fooled. ”

Li Zuoche, who had carefully studied Xiang Kang's style of acting, persuaded again, but unfortunately Sima Wei refused to listen, and still resolutely ordered the summons, Li Zuoche was helpless, so he had to remind Sima Wei not to listen to Xiang Kang's words, so as not to be fooled by the notoriously shameless Xiang Kang.

Mr. Uncle Sun's proud disciple Xia Wan finally had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to Xiang Kang, and after being summoned to the so-called Henan National Palace, Xia Wan, who got the true transmission of Mr. Uncle Sun's etiquette, was also polite and polite, and expressed his respect to Sima Wei with cumbersome and complicated Zhou etiquette, but unfortunately Sima Wei, who was born in a martial arts, did not know how to appreciate the ancient style more than Xiang Kang, and soon interrupted: "There is no need to be so polite, let's say, what do you Han King send you to do?" ”

"Back to the king of Henan, the king of my family sent a small envoy here." Xia Wan replied politely: "I want to persuade the king to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, respect our Han king as the leader of the rebellion alliance, and join forces with our Han army to march eastward to fight against the rebellious pseudo-overlord Xiang Yu." ”

Before Xia Wan's words fell, several civil and military officials who accompanied Sima Wei to meet him couldn't help laughing, and Sima Wei couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "Xiang Kang Xiao'er wants this king to respect him as the leader of the rebel alliance and join forces with him to crusade against the overlord of Western Chu?" What kind of thing is he, and he dares to let this king respect him as the leader of the rebel alliance? ”

"The king's words are wrong, why can't my lord Han be the leader of the alliance?" Mr. Shusun's protégé Xia Wan asked rhetorically, and then said: "At the beginning of the world's anti-Qin, it was my lord King Han who raised the banner of righteousness under the prime minister, and led the people to oppose Qin one day earlier than Chen Sheng, the king of Zhang Chu. After that, our lord was invincible, and continued to resist the tyrannical Qin after the defeat of King Zhang Chu, creating an opportunity for the princes of the world to restore the six kingdoms! Breaking the martial arts pass for the first time, capturing the child to pacify Qin, and destroying the violent Qin for 600 years with his own hands, who can reach the world with high merit? And how can you not rebel against the alliance leader? ”

Speaking impassionedly, Xia Wan said even more proudly: "What's more, now Emperor Yi has also issued an edict to my lord Han King, ordering my lord to entangle the loyal and righteous people in the world to fight against the puppet king of Xiang Yu who bullies the lord with his ministers. ”

Hearing this, Li Zuoche, who was sitting on the side, immediately stiffened his muscles on his face, and he cried bitterly in his heart, knowing that Sima Wei had still fallen into Xiang Kang's trap. Sima Wei's heart jumped, and he hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" What did Emperor Yi promulgate to you Han kings? ”

"Cloth and belt edict!" Xia Wan replied loudly to the term invented by Xiang Kang first, and said: "The emperor of the Communist Party of the world was deceived by the pseudo-king Xiang Yu, and he was rewarded and punished, and he could not be autonomous, and he could only hide the edict in the brocade belt, and let his henchmen send it to Guanzhong to hand it over to my lord, so that my lord acted according to the edict!" My lord is edicted to rebel, so naturally he should become the leader of the rebellion! ”

Sima Wei's face changed even more, and he smiled after a while: "What nonsense!" Xiang Kang Xiao'er is really bold, he dares to forge the edict of the righteous emperor, and he is not afraid that heaven and earth will not tolerate it, and there will be no place to die in the future! ”

"My lord, my lord Han knows that you will not be gullible." Xia Wan immediately replied: "As long as my lord Han King asks you, why did you help the pseudo-overlord Xiang Yu design a partition between the monarchs and ministers of my Han Kingdom, and I will see through it in advance?" ”

"Bear Heart's Child's Secret?!" Sima Wei's heart jumped again, and he immediately suspected Xiang Kang of the unlucky Chuyi Emperor Xiongxin.

"Your Majesty, you should understand what the heart desires, right?" Xia Wan took the opportunity to persuade Sima Wei and said: "Xiang Yu has no way, bullying the king with his ministers, first privately abolishing the covenant of the righteous emperor, wanting to make my lord Han King enter the customs first and not be rewarded, and then divide the unfair, wantonly bullying the princes of the world, and now he is using power to form a party, wantonly bullying the world's co-lord Chu Yi, polluting the country and harming the people, poisoning people and ghosts, and everyone in the world is together!" Everybody gets it! As a courtier of the righteous emperor, you should rectify the righteous soldiers, raise your might, and fight against the pseudo-king Xiang Yu with my lord Han Wang, Kuang Fusheji, and create a hard-won achievement for all generations! ”

Of course, Xia Wan's impassioned efforts were in vain, Sima Wei didn't listen to half a sentence at all, blinked his eyes and just went to look at Li Zuoche, Li Zuoche remained silent, and only said after a while: "King, you might as well take a look at Xiang Kang's national letter." ”

Sima Wei thought about it, and hurriedly ordered Xia Wan to present Xiang Kang's letter of state, but unfortunately on the letter of state, Xiang Kang did not mention the so-called edict of clothes and belts at all, just laughed at Xiang Yu's whimsy, and tried in vain to use the trick of carving insects to divide the monarchs and ministers of the Han Kingdom. So after reading it, Sima Wei couldn't help but ask curiously: "Why didn't you Han King mention the edict in the national letter?" ”

"Of course, it's to protect Emperor Yi." Xia Wan immediately replied: "Xiang Yu pseudo-king is treacherous, he must have sent an eyeliner to monitor the king Yu in Luoyang, and when he learns that my lord Han King has presented you with a letter of state, he will inevitably ask to watch it, if my lord Han King mentions the matter of the edict of clothes and belts in the national letter, the puppet king Xiang Yu will inevitably be poisoned, kill the righteous emperor, and trap my lord in the land of unkindness and injustice, so my lord Han King is for the safety of the righteous emperor, so he deliberately did not mention the edict of the cloth and belt in the national letter." ”

After speaking, Xia Wan hurriedly added: "Don't worry, my lord Han Wang is definitely not a mouthful, if the king doesn't believe it, you can send a confidant to Xianyang to ask my lord Han King for clothes and ribbons to watch." ”

Sima Wei was suspicious, but turned his gaze to Li Zuoche, Li Zuoche first took Xiang Kang's letter of state to read the contents, and then gave Sima Wei a look, Sima Wei understood, and hurriedly ordered Xia Wan to retreat for the time being, and then asked Li Zuoche: "What does Guangwujun want to say?" ”

"Xiang Kang is really tall." Li Zuoche sighed and said: "Speaking of dividing the enemy, the king of Western Chu really doesn't even deserve to lift shoes for him, he just found an opportunity, and immediately counterattacked, and pointed directly at the heart of the king of Western Chu, now it is the turn of the king of Western Chu to be in a dilemma." ”

"What exactly does Guangwu-kun want to say?" The more Sima Wei listened, the more confused he became, and said: "Is the matter of the edict true or false?" ”

"Of course nine out of ten is fake." Li Zuoche replied without thinking about it: "And just now, this envoy of the Han State is definitely a dead man who also doesn't know the inside story, and it is likely to be a stubborn dead man, even if he is tortured, he will definitely not admit to the king of Western Chu that he once mentioned the edict in front of you, which makes the king of Western Chu even more suspicious and unable to judge." ”

Speaking of this, Li Zuoche suddenly understood something, and said with a smile: "It's really powerful, originally Xiang Kang could have allowed our envoy to directly see the so-called edict he forged, and he didn't need to send the dead to bring us the fake news, but he must have considered that our envoy was afraid of being implicated, and he didn't dare to report it truthfully when he came back, so he simply sent the dead directly." It's so thoughtful that it's simply creepy. ”

"Guangwujun, please make it simpler and more plain, this king can't understand it." Sima Wei smiled bitterly and said, "Are you really sure that the edict is fake?" ”

"Absolutely." Li Zuoche replied: "Emperor Yi is not a fool, even if he has the intention to kill the king of Western Chu, he will never fall into words, leaving the danger of leaking the news, and even if he really hopes that Xiang Kang will lead the princes of the world to break through Pengcheng and rescue him from the king of Western Chu, he will never send someone to directly pass the edict to Xiang Kang, so that Xiang Kang will have the opportunity to get rid of him through the hands of Western Chu." ”

"Then we don't have to worry about it." Sima Wei was immediately relieved and said: "Just hand over Xiang Kang Xiao'er's letter of state and the envoy to the King of Western Chu, anyway, it can't be fake, and the King of Western Chu only needs to ask Emperor Yi to know whether it's true or false." ”

"King, we don't believe it, but the king of Xichu may not believe it." Li Zuoche said with a wry smile: "The king of Western Chu took away the power of Emperor Yi, and he and Emperor Yi have long formed a grudge against each other, and he must be always wary of Emperor Yi, and when he heard about the edict of the cloth, can he not be suspicious of Emperor Yi?" At that time, no matter how Emperor Yi explains, the King of Western Chu will definitely think that Emperor Yi is quibbling, and he will only hate Emperor Yi even more. ”

Thinking of Xiang Yu's fiery temper, of course Sima Wei didn't dare to deny this possibility, and after thinking for a moment, Sima Wei simply said: "Otherwise, let's not mix this kind of thing, just kill Xiang Kang Xiao'er's messenger with a knife, just don't know about it." ”

"Xiang Kang had long expected that we might do this." Li Zuoche sneered and said: "He deliberately let his envoy take a float and come to Luoyang with great fanfare, just to let the king of Western Chu know that he has sent someone to contact us. In addition, in addition to us, the other princes, he will definitely send people to spread the so-called rumors of the edict, and when the other princes tell the king of Western Chu, the king, you will never mention this matter, and the king of Western Chu must not suspect that you and Xiang Kang are secretly colluding and plotting against him? ”

Finally, it was Sima Wei's turn to be disgusted and diaphragm, and said in great embarrassment: "Then what should I do?" Could it be that we can only strike first and tell Xiang Yu the details of the matter first, lest that grumpy puppet suspect us? ”

Li Zuoche quickly weighed the pros and cons, and found that no matter whether he helped Xiang Yu to expose Xiang Kang's shameless separation, the self-army could not avoid being driven by Xiang Yu as cannon fodder in the front, and fell to the side of Xiang Kang, who was still accumulating strength, and would definitely immediately summon Xiang Yu's troops to retaliate.

"Lord, it seems that this is the only way we can do it now." Li Zuoche said: "Your Majesty, write a letter to the King of Western Chu for you, tell him the details of the matter, and clearly point out Xiang Kang's vicious intentions and sinister purpose of deliberately spreading rumors, and try to persuade him to act calmly, regardless of whether the edict is true or false, and not to pursue it, let Emperor Yi make an edict to the world, condemn Xiang Kang's rebellious and rebellious crimes, and in turn seize the moral upper hand first, and then slowly try to do it." ”

"What about Xiang Kang'er's envoy?" Sima Wei hurriedly asked.

"An innocuous death, you can decide for yourself, the king." Li Zuoche said: "If the king is determined to cut off contact with Xiang Kang, he will be handed over directly to the king of Western Chu." If the king wants to leave room for him, he can also directly refuse Xiang Kang's request and drive his envoy back to Xianyang, the king of Western Chu, and you can use the two countries to fight each other to make an explanation. ”

To Li Zuoche's surprise, after a little calculation, Sima Wei actually said: "Then drive Xiang Kang'er's envoy back, we still have to rely on him to sell us salt, completely tearing our faces, we not only have to rely on Qidi thousands of miles away to supply salt, but also have no way to communicate with Xiang Kang Xiao'er secretly, sit down and discuss." ”

Li Zuoche didn't speak, but sighed in his heart: "No wonder the Qin State was able to unify at the beginning, for the benefit of a little salt transportation, they were reluctant to completely tear their faces, how can the princes outside the customs talk about working together?" ”

Sighing and sighing secretly, at present, eating Sima Wei's Yulu, Li Zuoche, a typical professional strategist in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, still did not oppose Sima Wei's decision, but just wrote a book, and told Xiang Yu about the so-called edict in Sima Wei's tone, clearly pointing out that Xiang Kang spread this rumor in order to divide the relationship between Xiang Yu and Xiong Xin's monarch and minister, and even wanted to use Xiang Yu's hand to get rid of Xiong Xin, completely kill Xiang Yu and coerce the Son of Heaven to make the princes have a moral advantage, so that Xiang Kang will be famous for Xiang Yu's military division in the future.

In addition, Li Zuoche of course had to go all out to persuade Xiang Yu to act calmly, and made it clear that even if the edict was really true, he could not poison Xiong Xin, and he had to wait until Xiang Kang, who posed the greatest threat to Xiang Yu, before deciding how to deal with Xiong Xin. The words are conclusive, and he is bitter, but he is afraid that Xiang Yu will not listen.

After reading Li Zuoche's brilliant letter, Sima Wei applauded, saying that even if Xiang Yu still had a little sense, he would definitely act calmly after reading this letter, and would not let Xiang Kang's vicious intentions succeed. It's a pity that Li Zuoche shook his head helplessly, and said: "It's just a matter of obeying the destiny of heaven, with Xiang Kang's treachery, he will never expect to completely anger the king of Western Chu through a rumor, and after he uses us to release the news, there must be more vicious tricks." ”

"What other poisonous tricks does Xiang Kang have for children?" Sima Wei asked curiously.

"I don't know." Li Zuoche replied very directly, and said: "I am only sure that Xiang Kang'er's subsequent move will be extremely dangerous, which will make people unguardable, and even if the person who is in the plot understands his intentions, he will inevitably fall into his calculations." That little vertical boy is really good at this. ”