Xiao Tianzhen received the letter, and when he looked at the time, it was already a letter from seven days ago, and the attack time given by Tunmi Buzan turned out to be April 20.

"Ten days to go."

After calculating the time, he only had three days left to discuss the matter with the Queen Mother, because even if he sent someone to send a letter back to Sangla, the journey would probably not be shorter than seven days.

Riding a horse and galloping, tired horses on the road, returning to Shengjing, meeting the Queen Mother, but the Queen Mother was ready to go, leading the four-year-old little emperor, the younger brother Xiao Tianjing as the commander, commanding 200,000 troops to support the fish and sheep.

Xiao Tianzhen said: "Instead of helping the fish and sheep to fight Fuyu, it is better to lead the troops to fight the Liang, in the past, the king of Sangla was bewitched by the Empress Dowager Cao and refused to send troops, otherwise the Liang would have been wiped out by Nanjia and Sangla at this time." ”

Empress Dowager Xiao said: "Now it is not only the people who come to fish and sheep. Seeing that the Buyeongs could not take Pyongyang, they brought in the Orientals. The Oriental people are extremely vicious, and if they are not eliminated as soon as possible, they will become a great disaster. ”

Xiao Tianzhen said: "If you can get the land of the Central Plains, what does it matter if you don't want this northern wasteland?" ”

Empress Dowager Xiao said: "Isn't your idea the same as that of the male King Jia?" Are you going to follow in his footsteps? ”

Xiao Tianzhen saw that the Queen Mother refused to let go, so he returned to Youzhou and immediately wrote a letter to ask the Sangla messenger to bring it back.

The letter said: "First of all, congratulations to Tun Mibu on agreeing to be the new king of Sangla, and the people of Sangla, under your leadership, will surely roll up a hurricane and sweep across the northwest of Daliang. I, Xiao Tianzhen, am also very willing to fight side by side with the king, but I sincerely give you a piece of advice here, please don't attack in a hurry. In addition, all kinds of signs indicate that a civil war is very likely to break out within the Great Liang Dynasty, if the king is willing to wait, it will be a godsend. When the time comes, you and I will join forces and take down the beam, which will be like a bamboo, wouldn't it be happy. ”

However, Xiao Tianzhen's letter did not impress the king of Xinsangla, Tun Mi Buzan, saw the letter, sneered and said: "Since the Empress Dowager Xiao refuses to send troops, then the generals don't have to worry, this king has already finished contacting the king of Xinwaihan, Qibi He Lihan, who has led 80,000 grassland cavalry, day and night, and when he arrives, our 230,000 troops will step on Longyou, eliminate Tang Su, and take Chang'an." ”

The news of Tunmi Buzan's killing of the old Sangla King soon spread to the harem of Daliang, and Empress Dowager Cao was stunned, she knew that as long as Tunmi Buzan inherited the throne, this person would inevitably launch an attack on Daliang.

But now that the decisive battle between her and Simon Mainsen is on the line, how can this be good?

Late last night, she verbally agreed to Meng Zong's "request", and allocated 5,000 iron armor and 100,000 stone grain to Meng Zong, and was on the way at this time. As soon as the morning dawned, she received this message, which put her in a deep predicament.

Empress Dowager Cao pondered for a long time, and suddenly ordered to take back the iron armor and food, and summoned the three major gate valves to urgently enter the palace to discuss major matters.

In order to prevent Simon Mamori from not coming, he also infiltrated him with the news that King Sangla had been poisoned, and Simon Mamori had just returned home and was thinking about a big thing, and when he heard the news, he fell into a new round of contemplation.

"It's hilarious." Simon Mamori's veteran hand pinched it and said with a wry smile: "It seems that it can't be fought again." In the past two hundred years, how many times have the three major gates been about to tear their faces with the royal family, and there will always be some foreigners to make trouble, which is really ridiculous. Perhaps this is the fate of the Liang Dynasty, and it is also the fate of our three major valves. ”

"Father! Do you want to enter the palace? "The second son, Ximen Lang, has begun to deploy his family to disperse, some hiding in the basement that has been built for a hundred years, and some are scattered in various markets in Luoyang City.

Almost every important family member has a false identity and hides in the prepared market, and no one can find out what is wrong.

You must know that there are 90 markets in Luoyang City, and each market has nearly 10,000 people, so it is too easy to hide a few people.

Simon Mason sneered: "Not only do you want to enter the palace, but you also have to swagger in, I think now the Empress Dowager Cao is more awkward than me, and we will meet in a while, maybe she will have a handful of snot and tears, and complain to me." ”

Soon after, the patriarchs of the three major gates came to the apse of the palace to meet the queen mother, this time the queen mother also took the emperor Zhao Ce with her, the emperor sat in front, and the queen mother sat behind the curtain.

As soon as they walked into the apse, everyone felt that the atmosphere here was depressing, and the big Sima Tang Zhen's face sank like water, because in the face of Sangla, this was also the top priority of the Tang family, after all, it was the Tang family who was stationed in Longyou. The five sons Tang Su, the righteous son, the veteran Wang Caotian, Zhen Badao, and Shi Jin Chong all garrisoned Longyou, at this time, the Longyou Army had three armies of 90,000 people, and it was necessary to face the 230,000 Sangxin coalition army, which must be extremely dangerous.

Meng Zong heard that Empress Dowager Cao had withdrawn his material support for him, and his face was not very good-looking, but now that Tang Zhen and Ximen Zhensen were in the house, he couldn't get up, after all, these two were old rivals who had competed with their father for decades, and when it came to seniority, they were still far behind.

Perhaps this time the Empress Dowager Cao also called the emperor Zhao Ce to avoid his embarrassment, after all, according to the convention, His Majesty the Emperor and Meng Zong are the same generation, and although the Empress Dowager Cao is fourteen years older than Meng Zong, she is a generation older than Meng Zong.

This year, the Empress Dowager is 37 years old, Meng Zong is 51, and Emperor Zhao Ce is 17.

Da Sima Tang Zhen 73, Prime Minister Ximen Masen 75.

In fact, Zhao Ce was not the eldest son of the Queen Mother, and the eldest son died young, so Zhao Ce was appointed as the crown prince and later inherited the throne.

As soon as Ximen Mamori sat down, he immediately heard the Queen Mother crying, and the Queen Mother cried: "I heard that the Prime Minister secretly recruited troops and horses, expanded armaments, hoarded grain and grass, and imprisoned Zhao Ting, the Tiger Prison Army, is the Prime Minister bullying my orphans and widows and trying to overthrow Daliang?" ”

Hearing this, Ximen Masen immediately stood up, angry and said, "Which bastard is this bastard spreading rumors to scare the Queen Mother?" My Ximen family was originally the founding merit of the Liang Dynasty, the mainstay, in the two hundred years since the founding of the dynasty, how many good men have sacrificed for the Liang, and now they are slandered and loyal, and their hearts can be punished! ”

"In this way, the prime minister has no intention of rebellion?"

"The old minister is loyal to Daliang, how can he rebel, the queen mother must not listen to the villain's words."

If this is the case, then the person who maliciously spread the rumor should indeed be killed. It's just that I haven't received Zhao Ting's calendar for a long time, I don't know why? ”

"Zhao Ting has been seriously ill for a long time, and a few days ago, Huainan came to report that Zhao Jianjun had died in the army. I also asked the Queen Mother to mourn, and then sent the powerful prison army garrison Tiger Ben to lead the Tiger Ben army against the Southern Jin Dynasty. ”。

"I heard that the Tiger Ben Army has expanded its military strength to 200,000 people, is this true?"

"It's true." Simon Zhensen not only did not conceal it, but said impassionedly: "The old minister is prepared for danger in peace, taking advantage of the bumper grain harvest in the country last year, so he recruited more soldiers, just to deal with the barbarians from all directions. ”