The truth is also as Xu Shiyang wishes.

And it is far beyond Xu Shiyang's guess.

He originally thought that the Great Zhou court would not turn against the Qi State at this time, after all, the Qi State had just defeated the Jurchens, the enemy of the Great Zhou, and it was the time when it was the most popular time.

And the Jin Province Shihou is undoubtedly and was put on his head by Xu Shiyang's traitor's hat.

What is the need for the imperial court to offend the most capable forces under its command for a group of guys whose reputation has been completely ruined?

Xu Shiyang's original prediction was that the imperial court would at most reprimand Qi for its forcible expansion into Shanxi, and Xu Shiyang would weep bitterly, pretending to be ready to withdraw under the pressure of the imperial court, and the front-line soldiers would be agitated and ask Xu Shiyang to continue the war.

In short, of course, Xu Shiyang will not really withdraw from the army, but he will tailor an image of deliberately suppressing heroes and compromising with foreign enemies for the imperial court.

In the early stage, he himself had to shape an image similar to Yue Wumu, and in the later stage, Zhao Kuangyin, who was finally forced to part ways with the Great Zhou court, which would only drag the front-line soldiers back and compromise with foreign enemies, for the sake of national righteousness.

This process will probably last for a few months, and then there will be no more imperial court over the head of the Qi State, and by next year, or at some other suitable time, Xu Shiyang will promote his father's action to ascend the throne and fulfill his father's greatest wish.

Of course, it is estimated that the history books will still record this behavior of the Xu family as rebellion, but this hat can only be carried by Xu Muhe, after all, when the Qi State "betrayed", he was the first emperor.

Behind Xu Muhe's infamy, Xu Shiyang can use a relatively "clean" background to implement the reforms he wants.

This was supposed to be the case.

However, Xu Shiyang did not expect that the Zhao family court in Jiangnan would completely break through the lower limit, so that the conspiracy carefully prepared by Xu Shiyang would be completely useless.

Emperor Longdao did not issue an order to reprimand the Qi army for its entry into Shanxi, he chose to directly send troops north, trying to sneak attack the core territory of Qi Province when the main force of the Qi army went to Jin Province, and forcibly solve the problem of Qi by force!

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As early as the middle of June of the sixth year of Longdao, Jiangnan received the exact news that the Qi army had entered Jin Province, and at the same time that the Longdao Emperor issued an order to attack the Qi State from the front line.

The court of the Great Zhou Dynasty quarreled over this, and several of the rulers agreed and some objected, and they did not give in to each other, and they quarreled for several days without a result.

As a result, the emperor, who was worried about losing the opportunity, crossed the governors of the political hall and ordered an attack directly to the front-line generals through the eunuchs.

Among the three military commanders on the front line of Jianghuai, Weng Shuping of Huainan West Road was the most active in this matter, and soon ordered his troops to begin to assemble and prepare for an attack.

It's just that Weng Shuping is not a qualified commander, as a civilian official, he also looks down on his generals very much, coupled with the contradiction between the officer team from the Jiangnan Forbidden Army and the soldiers who are mainly displaced people in Jiangbei, the Huainan West Route Army (formerly known as Xu Shiliu's Shunyi Army) at this time has fallen to a level similar to that of the Jiangnan Forbidden Army.

Therefore, although Weng Shuping was actively preparing to send troops, it was impossible for his delusional 100,000-strong army to directly attack Quancheng - a month after the start of the assembly, the troops under his command could not actually be dispatched no more than 30,000, so he had to pay for the empty salary.

In fact, the Huainan East Route Army commanded by Xu Shisong and the Jinghu North Route Army commanded by Xu Shiliu were in the best state of preparation on the front line.

However, both of them were members of the Xu family, and both of them were against attacking the Qi State.

Xu Shisong told the envoy who came to deliver the decree that it was very inappropriate to attack Qi at this time, which would not only chill the hearts of the soldiers fighting against the Tartars and traitors on the front line, but also deal a blow to the credibility of the imperial court, making the people mistakenly believe that the imperial court had colluded with the Tartars and traitors.

However, Emperor Longdao had already made up his mind, and he took Xu Shisong's advice as evidence that the eldest son of the Xu family had betrayed Zhou Touqi.

On the third day of the seventh month, after repeatedly asking Xu Shisong to send troops to no avail, the lieutenant envoy who appeared for the fourth time directly led a team of cavalry to arrest Xu Shisong and take him to prison in the military camp of the Huainan East Road Army.

When he was captured, Xu Shisong did not resist, but his soldiers were excited, and some even instigated a mutiny, but they were all dismissed by Xu Shisong himself - he had indeed made up his mind to be a loyal minister of the Great Zhou.

If it weren't for Princess Renfu seeing that things were not good, she hurriedly returned to Lin'an and cried to the elders of the Zhao clan, I am afraid that Xu Shisong's life would not be saved.

Even so, Xu Shisong was imprisoned in Lin'an and placed under residential surveillance, while his Huainan East Route Army was managed by Tong Guan, who then rushed to the front.

As for Xu Shiliu on Jinghu North Road, he is not like his cousin who wants to be a loyal minister who will leave a name in history, and after receiving the decree, he directly ordered Lu Wenzhao to put the envoy who came to deliver the decree into a sack and sink into the lake.

"How can an official be so stupid? It must be this eunuch who is falsely preaching the holy decree! Xu Shiliu pretended to declare to the outside world: "The saint will not do such a thing that the relatives and enemies are happy!" ”

Although he knew very well that the holy decree was true and that the eunuch was innocent, he was a civil official, a jinshi in the four years of Longdao, and if the emperor dared to deal with him like Xu Shisong, he would dare to let Tiqi disappear together.

In fact, Ti Cai did not dare to go to Xu Shiliu's territory to spread wild, when Xu Shiliu launched a mutiny in the first year of Jianxing, even opened the precedent of killing civil officials and killing prime ministers in the three hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and shoveled the vast majority of the main and faction officials in one breath, and since then the entire Great Zhou has spread the story of Xu Shiliu's domineering and domineering.

In the first year of Longdao, the imperial court opened Enke, and Xu Shiliu was admitted to the Jinshi at that time, but after the ranking came out, some Jinshi of the same department said that he should not be shortlisted - because he was not qualified to lift people, he was directly admitted to the Jinshi.

Xu Shiliu was ranked below this person at that time, so he announced on the spot that he was ashamed of this person for the same period and gave up the Jinshi quota, and another three years passed, until he referred to it again in the fourth year of Longdao, and was not satisfied with the ranking higher than the original ranking of the Jinshi last time.

Xu Shiliu opened up Jinghu Lake, and the Jinghu Cave he killed was full of blood, and there were even rumors in the court that the fish caught in the rivers and lakes of Jinghu Lake a year later could not be eaten, and human fingers could be found in the stomach of the fish.

Later, the Jiangnan gentry tried to encroach on the Yongye field of the officers and soldiers, and as a result, Xu Shiliu asked all the people sent by the gentry to Jinghu to be "disappeared".

Of course, the imperial court knows who did it, but Xu Shiliu must put the blame on Dong Man, and everyone can't verify it - Dong Man can make the gentry's family disappear, and naturally make the government personnel disappear, right?

This is Xu Shiliu, a good officer in the hearts of officers and soldiers, but a thug with a reputation for terror and murder in officialdom.

Therefore, it was impossible for the Jinghu Army to go north, and the troops that the Great Zhou could dispatch were actually 150,000 combatable soldiers of the forbidden army led by Tong Guan (estimated to have 100,000 people after deducting the empty salary), plus 30,000 Huainan East Route Army under his command, and 60,000 Huainan West Route Army under Weng Shuping's command (30,000 can actually be dispatched, and 20,000 after deducting the empty salary).

The total number of troops is 240,000 in name, but the actual strength is about 150,000.