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Chapter 16: Counsellors (1): 7.28

Murong Yan's ruse to frame Gao Xingzhou was discovered by Guo Wei, and Gao Xingzhou was naturally grateful to Guo Wei. And Guo Wei, in line with the attitude of not fighting against his face and not fighting against his face, sent Lu Chongqiong, a scholar from Hanlin, to enlighten Murong Yan, hoping that this younger brother of Murong could put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot, of course, Guo Wei's dispatch of Lu Chongqiong, a bachelor of Hanlin, can also be regarded as Guo Wei's desire to further paralyze Murong Yan.

Compared with Ma Yun's Great Chu Empire, the newly established Great Zhou Empire has an extremely bad living environment, and it was Ma Yun who took Xuzhou first, and Great Chu and Great Zhou launched a comprehensive competition in the military, economic, political, cultural and other fields. In the face of this disadvantage, Guo Wei was even more anxious to pull out Murong Yan, a thorn in the flesh, a thorn in the eye, if the Chu State continued Murong Yan's affairs and took the opportunity to make trouble, once the Chu State took Yanzhou, the situation in the entire Great Zhou would become even more dangerous.

However, when you want to deal with Murong Yan, you have to think about whether Great Chu will intervene, how deep can Great Chu's involvement be, and whether the annihilation of Murong Yan in Yanzhou will cause a decisive battle between Chu and Zhou! These things, just from the study of paper, can not be studied at all, just like Ma Yun took the trouble to exterminate the Southern Han Dynasty, and when the interval was a year tight, Ma Yun sent troops to conquer Li Tang again, and now, the army of Chu has also rested for a while, will Chu use Murong Yan as an excuse to fight with the Great Zhou?

To be honest, Da Zhou was not afraid of a decisive battle with the Chu State, but he was afraid that when he was fighting with the Chu State, the Khitan and Liu Chong would stab themselves in the back.

So, Guo Wei made a series of temptations to the Chu State, for example, he sent people to work overtime and horse thieves to make Xuzhou restless, for example, he frequently raised troops on the front line of the Huai River and made war moves. From this series of actions, Chu Guodu maintained a restrained attitude, and even released a certain amount of goodwill. There is no way, the top and bottom of the Chu State are not willing to have a dignified battle at this time and in the Great Zhou. Therefore, in the face of the situation of the Great Zhou poking and prodding, the state of Chu could only temporarily retreat, otherwise it would be easy to misfire and fight a completely unnecessary wrong war at the wrong time.

From Chu Guo's reflection, Guo Wei was finally relieved, he was sure that at this stage, it was impossible for Chu State to have a general battle with Da Zhou. This gave Da Zhou a chance. Mobilize the army, put on a posture of fighting to the death with the Chu State, and under this momentum, attack Murong Yan and erase this scourge from the face of the earth forever.

Guo Wei began to provoke Murong Yan, and Murong Yan was already suspicious, at the end of March, Murong Yan went to Guo Wei and asked to enter Bianjing to meet him, which was actually a temptation, and Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, asked to go to Liaodong to retire after 700 years in the official history. Guo Wei's reaction was the same as Kangxi's, agreeing.

The edict agreeing to Murong Yan's entry into Beijing was sent to Yanzhou, and the Taining Festival made Murong Yan hesitate, he was afraid, he was unwilling to go, so he sent someone to send a letter again, saying that he was full of thieves in Yanzhou, in a word, Yanzhou was too busy, Lao Tzu couldn't leave, and he didn't go.

Although he refused Guo Wei, he was even more suspicious in his heart. On the other hand, he also sent people to Jinling to find Ma Yun and ask for the support of Da Chu, at this time Ma Yun did not have a clear understanding of the situation, he was busy arranging a war against Wu Yue on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was busy sending troops to command a pirate attack on the Shandong Peninsula as a counterattack to the Great Zhou. After all, if the corresponding actions are made along the Huai River, it is easy to be misunderstood by the Bianjing side, and the Shandong Peninsula will have a buffer room to counterattack. At this critical juncture, Ma Yun and the officials of the Chu State underestimated Guo Wei's ruthless efforts to clean up Murong Yan's affairs, which led to the entire Chu State high-level thinking that the first thing Guo Wei had to do when he became emperor was to appease the local government and win the hearts of the people. So much so that Ma Yun and the high-level officials of the Chu State generally agreed to Murong Yan's request, and Ma Yun felt that this matter did not cost a penny, and he could still settle personal favors, so he naturally agreed quickly. Moreover, Murong Yan is impulsive, but he is not stupid, which also makes Chu Guo mistakenly think that Murong Yan will not rebel quickly, he always has to prepare for a period of time, and when his time is sufficient, Da Chu will have the spare strength to help.

This judgment cannot be said to be very wrong, after all, as far as the Murong Yan group is concerned, Cui Zhoudu, the judge of Taining Jiedu, also persuaded Murong Yan: "My lord, our Yanzhou is the country of Lu in ancient times, and this country of Lu is the country of poetry and books. My lord, you are wise and martial, you are a contemporary hero, if you can stand by according to your strength, you can remain rich and noble for life, Li Hezhong (Li Shouzhen), An Xiangyang (An Congjin), Du Linggong (Du Chongwei), all of which can be used for reference in recent years. ”

Cui Zhoudu's words were actually to persuade Murong Yan to be honest, otherwise why didn't he cite Shi Jingjiao and Murong Yan's brother Liu Zhiyuan for example? And Cui Zhoudu's words are indeed a thing, the current Yanzhou is not the Yanzhou of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not to mention the small place, but the folk customs are softer, after all, it is influenced by the Confucian sage. In this way, the quality of the army is poor, and Yanzhou City is not good, the city walls are short, and it is definitely not a difficult place to attack and defend. Coupled with the fact that since the Later Han Dynasty, the imperial court has increased its control, and there is not much grain in Yanzhou City, these reasons together are enough to make people disheartened.

Murong Yan was very dissatisfied after hearing this, but he had no reason to harm him, so he let Cui Zhoudu go. At this time, Murong Yan was already very suspicious of Guo Wei in his heart, and he wanted to rebel more out of self-defense, and the promise of Chu State gave Murong Yan another boost. He also grew bolder, training the army and expanding his strength. This caused Guo Wei to worry even more.

These two people don't know whether Murong Yan rebelled first, or Guo Wei sent people to Yanzhou to force Murong Yan to rebel, in short, this war started in early April, when Da Chu was about to fight Wu Yue.

As soon as this war began, the state of Chu was passive. Ma Yun and the others didn't expect Murong Yan to fight back so quickly, Xuzhou's defense made Cao Bin spend a lot of effort to deal with the horse thief, while Haizhou and other places were strictly guarded, always keeping an eye on the horse thief's moves. The army north of the Huai River simply did not have the strength to send troops to support Murong Yan. Coupled with the violentness of Da Zhou, Ma Yun thought about it, and finally chose to retreat, and he concentrated on dealing with Wu Yue.

And after Murong Yan was defeated by Zhao Kuangyin at Rencheng east of Yanzhou, he had to retreat to Yanzhou City. The Zhou army surrounded Yanzhou.

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