The three of them watched as the "mountain of ironclad evidence" turned into ashes under the licking of the tongue of fire, and there was silence in the imperial study.

After Zhou Yuanqing sorted out his chaotic emotions, he coughed lightly and opened his mouth to change the topic:

"Ahem! I don't want to ask about this anymore, as for how to decide after the war...... Just ask Cai Youcheng to take care of himself. In addition, the news of the Northern Expedition of the Bashu Dao was the smoke spread by the Chiwu spies at my behalf; But who released the news that Baili wanted to support the soldiers of the Three Jin Dynasty and establish themselves as kings? Two Prime Ministers, do you know the reason for this? ”

Cai Xi thought for a while, then shook his head, and replied quite incomprehensibly:

Although the old minister didn't know anything about this matter, he also felt that there must be something strange behind the rumors. Although this rumor has helped a lot invisibly, this battle is not allowed to be sloppy, and it is necessary to find out the identity and intention of the person behind it...... Wang cannon, the spies of Chiwu are now at your disposal, don't you even know about this? ”

“…… Someone has been sent to investigate, but there is no definite news yet. But speaking of the Four Highnesses...... Your Majesty, do you need to summon Wang Kenong and His Royal Highness to lead the army back to the capital to help? Although the battle is under His Majesty's control; But Gyeonggi is cautious after all, and if there is a mistake, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Zhou Yuanqing pondered for a long time, and finally said with difficulty:

"Send someone to send a Huang Aya holy decree to Wang Kenong, saying that the strategy of retreating before the battle and attacking and defending is decided by the four princes, and no one is allowed to interfere arbitrarily! Violators will be punished for the crime of falsely spreading military information and bullying the king. ”

It is precisely because of this dialogue that Wang Kenong, who was reorganizing and fighting in the city of Hedong at the time of the fall of Hedong City, also received this holy decree. Of course, at the same time, there are also countless Northern Yan officials who sold their family property and transferred their floating wealth, quietly slipped out of Yanjing City and went straight to Nankang to enjoy happiness. Today, the city of Handan is broken, and those who should go can go are almost gone; And Emperor Tianyou also took advantage of these vacant official positions, replaced a large number of young officials, and injected a fresh blood into the Northern Yan Dynasty.

However, Zhou Yuanqing and Cai Xi's deliberate "gossip" in order to suppress the market price turned out to be a prophecy. When Huang Weide surrendered to Kaicheng, Zhu Yuntao finally under the third urging of Zhou Changfeng, paid homage to the general in Furong City on Bashu Road, and he personally commanded him, raised 50,000 Bashu elite soldiers to the north, and stepped into the Central Plains through Qindi Hanzhong.

The battle of Qin Yan is about to come to an end, and even Feng Ji, a reckless man who was born as a soldier, can analyze it, and Zhu Yuntao certainly knows it. It's just that although this Governor Zhu is a military general, he can go from an ordinary fighting man to a feudal official all the way, so he must not be the kind of simple-minded reckless man.

Of course, there is no trust in this world for no reason. Zhu Yuntao was originally the most loyal gatekeeper under the Son of Heaven of the Zhou family; even made the stupid move of riding alone to Beijing and waiting to be killed.

It's just that the original story of "the gentleman is virtuous and loyal" has come to the point of a complete break because of Shen Gui's casual actions. On the same day, Shen Gui killed Zhu Wenhan, the young governor of Bashu Dao, in the sword pool of Shunan, without paying any price! Poor Zhu Yuntao, an old dog, has guarded the country for the Zhou family for decades, but in the end he ended up in a desperate end!

What's even more infuriating is that Zhu Yuntao, who experienced the pain of losing his son, wept blood to Emperor Zhou Yuanqing and asked for the arrest of the murderer Shen Guifu. This is a reasonable and legal matter, but it has been prevaricated by Emperor Tianyou under the pretext of "related to the covenant between the two norths", and has never been able to give him a reasonable explanation for the father and son of the Zhu family. And what's even more infuriating is that Shen Gui also has a royal fan of Zhou Yuanqing, and the relationship between the two is obviously not simple!

It doesn't take too much imagination to come to a conclusion.

Emperor Tianyou gave the foreign envoy Shen Guiyu a fan, and after the case, he did everything possible to protect and protect him; This is clearly Zhou Yuanqing instigated Shen Gui, so that he relied on his identity as a foreign minister to cut off the roots and seedlings of the Bashu Daozhu family!

suffered such a great shame first, and was cited as a laugh and talk by the world's heroes later; It seems that a bloody man like Zhu Yuntao can be indifferent?

So when Zhou Yuanqing expressed his ambiguous attitude, everyone knew that Zhu Yuntao, the governor of Bashu Dao, who held heavy troops and guarded the border for the Son of Heaven, would no longer be the loyal watchdog he used to be......

If you look at it from another angle, if this pair of monarchs and ministers did not break up because of Shen Gui; How could Zhou Changfeng, the indecisive King of Qin, pour out the troops of the Three Qins and attack Northern Yan on a large scale? After all, the greatest strategic significance of Zhu Yuntao's guarding of Bashu Road is to strangle the back door of the Sanqin Land for Zhou Yuanqing, so that he does not dare to act rashly!

It was precisely because Shen Gui killed Zhu Wenhan that Zhu Yuntao broke with Emperor Tianyou's ministers; Zhou Changfeng, who had already had a whimsical idea, broke free from the shackles of Bashu Dao. So Chen Ziling took command and led the army to attack the Three Jin Dynasty, and had a formal showdown with Emperor Tianyou; At the same time, the death of the old Khan in the Mobei grassland caused civil strife, and the Shenshi army of Chaolu took advantage of the situation to seize the grassland of ASEAN, and sent Guo Xing, a rebel minister of the Northern Yan, to invade the three roads of Youbei.

The big melee in the Huayu Continent has just begun......

Shen Gui burned down the East Customs back then, and his subordinates had tens of millions of unjust souls, but in the end, he got the honeymoon period between the two norths; In Bashu Dao, he raised and fell with a knife, and only killed an insignificant little person, but it directly led to the sword soldiers in Huayu Continent and wolf smoke everywhere.

Therefore, Zhu Yuntao's death, just like Li Le'an's killing of the Heavenly Spirit Vein, is full of accidents. However, throughout the ages, those key turning points that change the course of history often fall on the heads of some small people......

In troubled times, there is a recklessness, and if there is a sword, he will be king; Any prince who has chips in his hands, everyone wants a piece of the soup. If from the point of view of strength, Zhu Yuntao, who has 250,000 Bashu troops, can completely compare with the Zhou Changfeng of King Qin for a while, and there may not be no chance to win the artifact!

It's just that from the fact that Zhu Yuntao has worked hard and guarded the southwest gate for the Zhou family for decades, it can be seen that he is not here. Therefore, in this troubled time and strife, the wish of Zhou Changfeng, the king of Qin, is to regain the throne of the emperor that should belong to them before entering the ground; And Zhu Yuntao's wish is to capture and kill Shen Gui and Zhou Yuanqing, and avenge Zhu Wenhan!

Therefore, Zhu Yuntao can form an alliance with whomever he wants, and even when the price code is tempting enough, he can also form an alliance with the enemy Beiyan, which is nothing more than receiving benefits and not doing anything, and weakening the opponent's strength on the side.

When the Huayu War officially kicked off, Bashu Dao, which was originally not loved by grandma and uncle, unexpectedly became a "rare treasure" of multi-party competition. As for the matter of waiting for the price to sell, there is not much technical content, it is just to see who gives more benefits.

is the so-called desireless is rigid, anyway, Zhu Yuntao just watched the wolf-hearted Zhou Yuanqing, and the murderer Shen Gui, who died tragically under the knife; As for who shall be king and hegemon, and what shall he do with a widower and a lonely old man?

For such a powerful foreign aid without the slightest ambition, except that Emperor Tianyou is quite self-aware and did not send him to the door to be deceived; The rest of the princes, ghosts and gods from all walks of life, more or less sent people to inquire about the "price".

The more anxious the buyer is, the more calm Zhu Yuntao becomes. When the Qin army captured Fengling Gudu, the price he offered to Zhou Changfeng was to divide the thirteen counties near Hanzhong; When the Qin army fell into a bitter battle under Hedong City, Zhu Yuntao's price was south of Chang'an City and the entire Yizhou; When Chen Ziling unexpectedly fell into a lonely death, with neither food and grass reinforcements, nor siege equipment, the price he offered was Yizhou plus the entire land of Sanqin......

is the so-called sky-high asking price, repaying the money on the spot; Qin King Zhou Changfeng has been trying hard to bargain, but he has never been able to cut the meat ruthlessly.

And now, Zhu Yuntao finally took command in person; And the Qin army also had the absolute upper hand. If there is no accident, in early autumn, Zhou Changfeng can sit on the dragon chair as he wishes, look at the civil and military ministers on the Zijin Palace, bow to him three times and knock nine times, and shout long live the mountain!

Of course, the price of Zhu Yuntao leading an army of 50,000 to exterminate the lone army of the Four Princes was also so high that it was jaw-dropping - all the land west of the Three Jin Dynasty.

In other words, even if he ascends the throne and sits in the palace every day, he can only share the world equally with Zhu Yuntao. However, thinking that Chen Ziling was desperate at that time, the Qin army was about to be defeated; And Zhu Yuntao himself is not young, and he is an "old desperate" who has his only son who died, so he gritted his teeth and trembled and ripped off a piece of bloody flesh......

In the face of Zhu Yuntao's move to raise prices again, Zhou Changfeng can also decisively give up; I have to say that judging from the final result alone, the strategic vision of both Zhu Yuntao and Zhou Changfeng is extremely clever.

Because the lone army in the hands of Zhou Changan and Wang Kenong is the bargaining chip for the Jedi counterattack of the Northern Yan Dynasty. If Zhou Changfeng refused Zhu Yuntao's lion's big mouth, and Zhou Chang'an could keenly catch the fighter and wave his army to attack Chang'an City, then Zhou Changfeng could only sit and wait for death.

After this deal was reached, Zhu Yuntao sent his number one staff, Xiang Qing, the governor of Bashu Dao, to Chang'an City as a hostage; And Zhou Changfeng, in order to show his broad-mindedness, actually entrusted the third reinforcement to Xiang Qing to show his sincerity in forming an alliance.

Today, the news of the instant collapse of Handan City has spread to every corner of the Huayu Continent; And Zhou Chang'an and Wang Kenong, as expected by King Qin, Ren Yanjing City and his father Zhou Yuanqing fell into a desperate situation, and poured the available troops of Jinzhou all the way to the west, and went straight to Longmen Ferry!

Once the Northern Yan army crossed the Yu River, it was only 500 miles away from Chang'an City, the "capital of the Three Qin Kingdoms"; And now in Chang'an City, there are no more available soldiers, and the tigers and wolves under the command of the four princes can only drink blood......

But I wish Yuntao Bashu elite soldiers are already waiting for the arrival of the four princes......