How did Wang Jun deal with Chai Rong? Wang Jun skillfully used his authority to press Chai Rong to the death in Lanzhou, as for Chai Rong's regular report to Guo Wei and the meeting. Then just skip it, you just stay in Lanzhou honestly, and don't go there.

In the past three years, Chai Rong waited for an opportunity to meet Guo Wei in addition to New Year's celebrations and special days. In the days when Wang Jun led the troops to the battle, he secretly walked into Kaifeng and met his father Guo Wei. This expedition was a very important event for the Later Zhou Dynasty. We'll talk more about that later.

Therefore, Wang Jun's arrogance can be seen. Wang Jun's way of being an official is similar to Li Hongzhang in later generations. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, who said that Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan of the Qing Dynasty were higher and who was lower? As you all know, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang have a teacher-student relationship, Zeng Guofan trembled every day after becoming an important minister in the court, self-denial, for fear that he would be finished because of a trivial matter. And Li Hongzhang is just the opposite, he is happy and arrogant every day, but no one can help Li Hongzhang, and he calls himself a hero who cannot reduce his wings. Although later generations suppressed Li, who is high and who is low, it can be seen that it is average.

As a high-ranking official in troubled times, Wang Jun is following the path of Li Hongzhang, and he would rather die for the sake of fame than live. Wang Jun immediately played his role in a major battle of the founding of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but the gap between him and Guo Wei was immediately revealed, which made him immediately go to death. Wang Jun forgot how he became a high-ranking official and how he came all the way. To put it bluntly, he forgot about Ben.

The first serious test faced by Hou Zhou was Liu Chong, who was played by Guo Wei.

Guo Wei proclaimed the emperor, and the new emperor was killed, and Liu Chong decided that he had been seriously insulted. Liu Chong's first reaction was to immediately put himself and Guo Wei on the same level, Liu Chong also called the emperor Jianguo, the country name Han, in order to distinguish it from the Later Han established by his brother Liu Zhiyuan, historians named Liu Chong's Han as the Northern Han. However, the Northern Han Dynasty is congenitally insufficient, Liu Chong's Northern Han Dynasty is based on Taiyuan, and there is only land in 12 states, if Liu Chong is a festival envoy, the land area is definitely large, but if Liu Chong wants to be the emperor, this land area is too small.

In the face of such a big Hou Zhou, Liu Chong felt the crisis that Shi Jingjiao was facing, and then, just like Shi Jingjiao, Liu Chong also asked the Khitan to send troops to jointly attack Hou Zhou. It's just that at this time, the Khitan can no longer be called the Khitan, and he has a more widely spread name, Da Liao. Liu Chong wrote a letter to the Khitans, in which he said, what Shi Jingjiao promised you, I can also agree, but Liu Chong said, I will never be as shameless as Shi Jingjiao, I am not called the emperor, I am called the nephew emperor. Everyone, look at it, I will never recognize a father, I recognize an uncle.

In this way, the Liao State sent a Khitan army of 50,000 men and Liu Chong's army of 20,000 to besiege Jinzhou (present-day Linfen, Shanxi) and raised the slogan that they would destroy Hou Zhou in this battle alone.

Soon, Hou Zhou reacted, Guo Wei guarded Kaifeng, and Wang Jun was ordered to go on an expedition. This is already the best deployment that can be made in the coming week. Guo Wei still trusted him very much, asked him to supervise all kinds of military horses, and gave him the right to act cheaply. The military needs are as satisfied as possible, and the generals are left to his choice. Before leaving, he rewarded him with a lot of things beyond the norm, and finally set up a banquet in person, gave him a royal horse and a jade belt, shook hands and said goodbye.

However, Wang Jun has led his troops out for two months, and he has not yet reached the battlefield, that is, the city of Jinju has been besieged and isolated for nearly two months.

So where is Wang Jun? Wang Jun led his troops to Shaanzhou (present-day Sanmenxia, Henan) and halted his army. Alone, away from the battlefield. When asked why, Wang Jun said: "There is no outbreak of plague in my army, and there is no shortage of food and grass, I just don't like to go." ”

When the capital got the news, Guo Wei couldn't sit still, and hurriedly sent someone to urge him to march into the army and relieve the siege of Jinzhou, otherwise he would have to conquer in person. Wang Jun said to the envoy: "You go back and tell Your Majesty, just say that the city wall of Jinzhou is strong and not easy to capture, and Liu Chong's army is strong, so he can't fight with him." The reason why I didn't advance was because I waited for his morale to decline before attacking, not because I was afraid of the enemy. When the time comes, not to mention the unsuccessful army of the Northern Han Dynasty, even the Liao people, I will let them not return to their hometowns. Your Majesty has just succeeded to the throne, and it is not appropriate to act rashly. Now there are only a few generals in the court who obey the order, Li Gu and Fan Zhen, if Your Majesty personally goes out, then Murong Yanchao will take advantage of the situation to attack Kaifeng, and then the big thing will be done. Wang Jun could see the signs of Murong Yanchao's rebellion at that time, and he was indeed scheming. The envoy went back and quickly grabbed Guo Wei, who was about to conquer in person, and told Guo Wei what Wang Jun said.

The rest of the story was almost the same as Wang Jun expected.

Wang Jun waited for a while, and it suddenly snowed heavily in the sky, and Wang Jun felt that the time was ripe, so he suddenly pounced on the Northern Han army attacking Jinzhou. After a long siege, the Northern Han army was already exhausted, and its morale was also very low, as soon as it heard that Wang Jun's troops were coming. Without waiting for the battle, he was scared away. After entering Jinzhou, all the generals asked to take advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy the enemy, but Wang Jun hesitated at this time, did not dare to send troops, and waited until the next day before he ordered the pursuit, and the military plane had already missed it. If he was in a hurry at that time, there was a possibility of total annihilation, Wang Jun felt that there was no record, so he repaired the old city of Pingyang, and then the class came back.

In any case, Wang Jun retreated from the enemy and relieved the siege of Jinzhou, after all, he made a contribution. Soon Murong Yanchao really rebelled in Yanzhou, and Guo Wei first sent Cao Ying and Xiang Xun to suppress it. Wang Jun wanted to lead his troops to the crusade by himself, and said to Guo Wei several times: "Murong is a giant thief, and Cao Ying is not good at defeating him." Guo Wei didn't say anything, and it didn't take long for Guo Wei to go on a personal expedition. Wang Jun also accompanied the expedition, and the troops he led took the lead in attacking Nancheng, and made great contributions to breaking Murong Yanchao.

In this way, Wang Jun, who has repeatedly made military exploits, became the first person in the court, and then Wang Jun became extremely arrogant and domineering, and finally Guo Wei had no choice but to start wanting to move to Wang Jun. What happened next? How arrogant is Wang Jun? We'll talk about that next time.