Chapter 965: Alliance
Seeing Zhou You being killed, Jing Zhaoyin was the first to react, pointing at the young soldier and shouting, "Take him down!" Take him down! ”
There was a bang, and the soldiers outside poured in.
The young soldier pulled his sword out of Zhou You's body, looked up to the sky and sighed, "Great revenge is avenged!" Haha, today, I'm blind to death! ”
As he spoke, he put his sword across his neck with his wrist, and without the slightest hesitation, wiped it down.
When! Poof! The saber fell to the ground, and immediately after, the corpses of the young soldiers also fell straight to the ground, and the soldiers who rushed in came closer, and saw only two corpses.
The people were dumbfounded, and after a while, Fang turned his head to look at Jing Zhaoyin.
Jing Zhaoyin seemed to have been drained of his strength, and his standing figure fell back on the couch, unable to return to his senses for a long time.
This was the sensational assassination incident at the time.
The whole thing is incredible, Zhou You Feng Kui's life, sent to Luoyang, but only went to Chang'an, and was stabbed to death here.
The strange thing is that he did not die outside Chang'an, but inside Chang'an City, and also died in Jingzhao Yin Mansion.
You must know that Jing Zhaoyin respects Zhou You as a guest, and the Chang'an officials headed by Jing Zhaoyin also specially set up a banquet to entertain Zhou You.
The assassination must have nothing to do with Jing Zhao Yin, but Zhou You did die in Jing Zhao Yin's mansion.
The soldier who assassinated Zhou You, named Wang Bao, was indeed a soldier of Jingzhao Yin Mansion, and he had been working in Jing Zhao Yin Mansion for a long time, for two years, and no one knew that he had a blood feud with Zhou You before.
Zhou You was assassinated by the enemy in Jing Zhao Yin's mansion, which scared Jing Zhao Yin and Chang'an officials a lot.
Jing Zhaoyin sent a letter to Luoyang and reported the incident to Liu Xiu in 1510.
When the news reached Luoyang, the Luoyang court was also shocked.
No matter who Zhou You was killed, whether he died at the hands of the enemy, in short, he was killed in Jingzhao Yin Mansion in Chang'an, and he was directly responsible for Zhou You's death.
Liu Xiu discussed with the ministers of the court and the central government that the matter should be handled in this way, and Fu Zhan and Song Hong both advocated that the imperial court should make corresponding compensation.
Wu Han was not happy when he heard it, he said in a deep voice: "Zhou You died at the hands of the enemy, and the enemy who killed him has committed suicide, why should my dynasty make compensation?" ”
Fu Zhan said meaningfully: "But Zhou You still died in Chang'an after all, in Jingzhao Yin's Mansion!" ”
Wu Han said nonchalantly: "That's his own bad luck!" ”
Fu Zhan saw that he couldn't make sense with Wu Han, so he turned to Liu Xiu and said, "Your Majesty, now the Western Army is fighting against Lu Fang in Daijun, and Sanfu is empty!" ”
At this time, what you do should be to turn big things into small things and small things into small things, and should not intensify the contradictions between the two sides.
Wu Han said disapprerovingly: "Even if Sanfu is empty, if he dares to attack Sanfu, I, Wu Han, am willing to personally lead the troops to conquer Kui Huan!" ”
Song Hong said: "Da Sima, 'go up to the army to attack and plan, then attack the enemy, then attack the army, and attack the city.
There are many things that can be solved without fighting, and we should try to avoid a situation where the two armies are at war. ”
After a pause, he looked at Liu Xiu, and said: "Your Majesty, Kui Huan is willing to send an envoy to Luoyang, which shows that he still has a sense of attachment to His Majesty, and at present, Kui Huan cannot be called the enemy of the imperial court, the biggest enemy of the imperial court, one is Gongsun Shu, the other is Lu Fang, Kui Huan must at least be ranked after the two of them."
It's really not a wise move to fight with Kui Huan now! ”
Wu Han was about to speak, but Deng Yu came out and said, "Your Majesty, do you remember Zhou Fang's envoy to Luoyang?"
At that time, there were people who were bent on putting Zhou Fang to death and destroying the relationship between Luoyang and Liangzhou, and now Zhou You was assassinated. ”
Hearing his words, Wu Han's old face turned red, is Deng Yu talking about himself?
He cleared his throat unnaturally, and shouted loudly in dissatisfaction: "General Right is talking about ......" Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Deng Yu said: "Don't misunderstand, Da Sima, the people who wanted to put Zhou Fang to death at that time were not a group of people, I thought that Zhou You's death was just a continuation of the Zhou Fang incident." ”
Liu Xiu's fingers lightly tapped on the table, pondered for a moment, and asked, "So, what about the right general's opinion?" ”
Deng Yu Zhengse said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Situ and Sikong said is reasonable, with the current situation, it is indeed not appropriate for our dynasty to have a bad relationship with Kui Huan, for the assassination of Zhou You, Your Majesty should be kind enough to appease Kui Huan, and give Kui Huan a certain amount of compensation." ”
Liu Xiu thought for a while, nodded slowly, and said, "Okay! ”
He turned his head to look at Choshi and said, "Captain." ”
"Wechen is here!"
Cho period out of the ranks, give gifts.
"In the second case, you can arrange some people to send a batch of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin to Tianshui Longcheng, and in addition, send my letters."
"Yes! Your Majesty! ”
Because the Western Expeditionary Army was fighting in Daijun, Sanfu was empty, but at this time, Zhou You died in Chang'an, Liu Xiu did not want to break with Kui Huan at this time, so he adopted the opinions of Deng Yu, Fu Zhan, Song Hong and others, and decided to send a batch of treasures to Kui Huan as compensation to resolve the matter.
Choshi is a guard lieutenant, in charge of the tiger ben, and the subordinates he sent are naturally all tiger ben troops.
There were a total of 100 people in this group of tiger army, escorting the gold, silver, jewelry, silk and silk that Liu Xiu gave to Kui Huan, starting from Luoyang, all the way west, and going straight to Liangzhou.
Zhou traveled to Luoyang, and there was an accident halfway, and the tiger army escorted the treasure to Liangzhou, and there was also an accident on the way.
When the tiger was passing through Hongnong, he stayed in the post house, but when the people woke up the next day, all the gold, silver, jewelry, and silk they had transported were gone.
Realizing that the matter was serious, the Tiger Benjun immediately found the officials of the post house and asked them to explain what was going on.
The officials of the post house were all surprised and dazed, and they knelt on their knees one after another, kowtowing again and again, indicating that they did not know.
The Marquis of the Tiger Army, who led the team, was furious, and immediately found the county order and asked the county soldiers to search for their stolen belongings throughout the city.
The county soldiers searched the city for two days in a row, but they didn't find a single hair, and the gold, silver, jewelry, and silk silk they escorted seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
There is no time to delay here, so the Marquis of Huben can only take his subordinates and return to Luoyang to ask Liu Xiu for his guilt.
Zhou traveled to Luoyang and died, and Liu Xiu gave Kui Huan the compensation and lost it, this series of things seems to be independent events, but as long as you think about it deeply, you can see that there are inextricable links.
It seems that there is an invisible black hand controlling all this, the purpose of which is to make the relationship between Luoyang and Liangzhou deteriorate in an all-round way.
This is indeed the case.
When Kui Huan heard the news of Zhou You's murder, and he was killed in Chang'an Jingzhao Yin's Mansion, the first thing he thought of was that this matter was inseparable from Luoyang, maybe Liu Xiu issued a secret edict and asked Chang'an Jingzhao Yin to wait for the opportunity to kill Zhou You.
Zhou You and Kui Huan have a very good relationship, they are both confidants and close friends, Zhou You's death made Kui Huan scratch and rub his intestines, and he hated Liu Xiu so much that his teeth itched.
However, a few days later, Chang'an Jing Zhaoyin sent him a letter, saying that His Majesty was also very shocked and saddened by Zhou You's assassination, and decided to send a generous compensation to Liangzhou.
After reading Jing Zhaoyin's letter, Kui Huan's mood finally improved, but the left could not wait for Luoyang's compensation, and the right still couldn't wait for Luoyang's compensation.
The local people don't know about the theft of gold, silver and jewelry, and it is impossible for the Tiger Army to spread the news of such a humiliating thing, but will do their best to block the news.
I heard that Liu Xiuming had sent someone to transport compensation to Liangzhou, but halfway through, he turned around and went back, and the anger that had just calmed down burned to the top of his head.
What does it mean to deceive too much?
Liu Xiu, this is too much deception! You don't want my envoy to go to Luoyang, you can say it bluntly, why do you send someone to intercept and kill you halfway?
You don't want to pay compensation, but you can also make it clear why you sent someone halfway through and called them back?
Liu Xiu doesn't even want to give herself face now! Kui was hustle and bustling in his own mansion, so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded Liu Xiu for being ruthless and unjust, and he was a complete villain.
When his forces were weak and there were strong enemies on all sides, he surrendered to Liu Xiu, helped Liu Xiu defeat the Red Mei Army, and helped the Han Army capture Sanfu in one fell swoop, consolidating the western border.
Now that Liu Xiu's wings are full, he wants to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and he wants to put himself to death, which is simply shameless.
In Kui Huan's heart, all he thought of was Liu Xiu's bad treatment of him, but he never thought that he had obviously submitted to Liu Xiu, but he took Liu Xiu's holy decree as a fart, he did his own thing, and refused to obey the holy decree, did he really treat Liu Xiu as an emperor?
Or did he really think of himself as a courtier?
If a person wants to rebel, he can find thousands of reasons, and Zhou You's assassination and Liu Xiu's compensation for the theft are just an introduction.
When Kui Huan was furious in his own house, Gongsun Shu's envoy and Mo Yan visited again and once again proposed to Kui Huan about the alliance between the two sides.
This time, Kui Huan made a clear statement, he said that he could accept the alliance with Gongsun Shu, but since it is an alliance, there must be a principal, that is, the leader of the alliance, so, should he be the leader of the alliance, or should there be Gongsun Shu as the leader of the alliance?
The attitude of the envoy is also very clear, you Kui Huan is just a Hou, and Gongsun Shu, that is the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven and Hou are allied, of course the person in charge must be the Son of Heaven, but Kui Huan is also good, and he can be crowned king.
And Gongsun Shu has thought about his royal title, King Shuoning.
After listening to the messenger's words, Kui Huan fell into deep thought and did not speak for a long time.
Now his status and Gongsun Shu are equal, he has Liangzhou, Gongsun Shu has beneficial state, both of them are the lord of a state, but after the alliance, Gongsun Shu will become the master, and he will become a servant, what is the difference between this and his attachment to Liu Xiu?
The envoy saw what Kui Huan was thinking, smiled slightly, and said: "Duke Kui attached himself to Liu Xiu and only got an inconspicuous position, but in today's world, how many marquis are there?"
There are not a hundred of the marquis of the Luoyang court alone, but there are dozens of them, and Duke Kui is just one of them.
And if Duke Kui submits to His Majesty, he will be the king, the dignified King of Shuoning, under one person and above ten thousand. ”
Kui Huan's eyes flashed, this was indeed what made his heart move.
He really doesn't look down on the throne, if he can get the throne, it will be different, it's the king! "What's more, Liu Xiu is now both suspicious and hostile to Duke Kui, the reason why Liu Xiu hasn't started against Duke Kui now is just because the army to conquer the west was dragged by Lu Fang in the north, and when the war in the north is over, Liu Xiu will make a free move, and the next unlucky person will be Duke Kui! The alliance between Kui Gong and His Majesty is the best way out for Kui Gong, and I hope Kui Gong will think twice! ”
The messenger sent by Gongsun Shu was indeed able to speak the Tao, his thinking was clear, and his words were very convincing.
Mo Yan, disguised as an entourage, knelt behind him, his head lowered, the corners of his mouth raised, and a smile.
As long as Kui Huan is not a fool, as long as he still has a little brain, he is bound to accept the alliance with his own side, and he is bound to accept Gongsun Shu as the leader of the alliance.