The New Year Festival is approaching, but the Songhe Tower is more lively after nightfall, like a good place to drink tea on a snowy night, it is really a good enjoyment.

Qin Wen couldn't stay too long, and the whole thing was too shocking and exciting, and it was difficult for him to calm down the excitement in his heart in a short period of time, and go to discuss things with Feng Yi and Han Daoming.

With excitement and shock, he left the Songhe Tower first, and returned to the mansion with the two old family members waiting downstairs.

The whole thing, the early drama of the Han Mansion is the best, as long as it spares no effort to support all the decisions made by Tangyi, and even tilts the people and resources that can be directly controlled in the direction of "attacking Guanzhong", but the hidden personnel of the secret secretary in Jinling, how to spread some truthful and false news without a trace in their position, and even create some not very eye-catching illusions to mislead the princes of the court, there is too much consideration in this.

The whole thing is divided into two stages: the first stage is to cover up the true intention of Tangyi's elite to enter Henan Mansion, and the princes of the court cannot be alerted in advance; In the second stage, when the whole thing became a fact and was announced to the public, they also had to alleviate the stimulation of the court princes as much as possible, so as to avoid a complete break in the relationship between Jinling and Tangyi, and suddenly step into the point of seeing each other.

Otherwise, not only the Han Mansion and the Chishan Society, whose main foothold is in the Jianghuai Prefectures, may be served first, and the Empress Dowager Changxin is also very likely to directly reveal his identity, not to mention a series of troubles in the future.

Of course, Qin Wen did not inquire in detail about the progress of Tangyi's secret mobilization of soldiers and horses, but guessed that if he prepared according to the worst-case plan of breaking the relationship, the scale of Tangyi's mobilization of troops and horses this time would be unprecedented.

Back in the house, Qin Wen hurriedly ate, sat in the study and watched the snow fall, thinking about the middle of the night, thinking about many things, only to find that it was really complicated, and if he was not careful, the situation could be completely out of control.

In fact, in the end, the time was too hasty, and Tangyi didn't completely think it through, so Feng Yi was asked to sneak back to Jinling in person in order to formulate a more perfect implementation plan in person.

In the early hours of the morning, Qin Wencai fell asleep hastily, and turned over again in the morning, although he didn't sleep for two hours, his whole person was extremely excited, without any sense of fatigue, and if he thought about it carefully, he could only make a fuss about the ownership of the jurisdiction of Deng Jun and the two states of Xu Hou, Zhang Xinchun and others sent to Jinling for trial.

This matter is the current focus of attention of the princes of the court, and the truth and falsehood are mixed with the indisputable news between these two things, so as to hide the true intentions of Tangyi, so that the effect of twice the result with half the effort can occur.

After writing some Spring Festival couplets and preparing some things to worship his ancestors, Qin Wen changed into a civilian robe, went out of the mansion to hang out, found a remote tea shop, and secretly connected with Feng Yi - Han Daoming, as the lord of the Han Mansion, in the past few days before the New Year's Festival, there was actually no way to get out of it casually.

"Shen Xiang also thought that King Xin would promise Zhao Zhen to send troops to the Guanguan, so that there would be an excuse for Kong Xirong to lead his troops to withdraw from Deng Jun and the two states," Qin Wen and Feng Yi sat in the dimly lit corner, and said in a low voice, "If this is indeed possible, and Tangyi wants to fight for control of Deng Jun and the two states, it is logical to send troops to Guanzhong first at this time, right?" I believe that Yang Cong and Wang Wenqian, the princes of the king, are temporarily living in Jinling, and I may encourage Zhang Xian and Zhou Qinian to go to see Yang Cong together, and if Mrs. Jun's father is present, and Yang Cong does show signs of intention, the first chess piece in Jinling City can be regarded as falling into the game - the lord makes the queen thief and Zhang Xinchun and other rebels return to the court, once the news spreads, there will be a lot of discussion in Jinling City, and we can only make some articles in this matter in order to do great things......"

Zhang Xian had used the rebellion to return to the dynasty to be tried before, creating a rumor to highlight Han Qian's ambition for Deng Jun Erzhou, Qin Wen had previously wanted to secretly find Feng Yi to discuss countermeasures, but now the situation has changed, if such a rumor spreads at this time, in fact, it is more conducive to them to create the illusion that Han Qian sent troops to unite the Liang army to attack Yongzhou.

Even if the whole thing will be detrimental to Tangyi's prestige, there must be a time to make trade-offs, even if some things are temporarily unfavorable to Tangyi's prestige, they must be used - Qin Wen did not say less "bad things" about Tangyi on the back.

Feng Yi nodded, if he wanted to hide from the world, he first had to convince the princes of the court that Tangyi did have the motive and reason to rush to the pass at this time, so that Jinling would not react excessively to Tangyi's next transfer of troops.

Qin Wen invited Zhang Xian and Zhou Qinian to lobby Yang Cong, but if he wanted Yang Cong to show signs of intent, or at least let Zhang Xian and Zhou Qinian think that Yang Cong was intent, and it might affect the decision-making of Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, Qin Wen asked them to do some extra homework before going directly to the door.

The two of them discussed for a long time in the corner of the tea shop before they worked out some details, and then Feng Yi asked: "Sometimes it is necessary to make preparations to tear your face and fight at any cost, so that it is possible to finally reach an end to the war, but in this process, those who stay in Jinling may be persecuted - we will rush to arrange for some people to cross the river to the north bank before the news finally reaches Jinling, and who people in your house really need to withdraw with you, you draw up a list for me." ”

"Will the old man, Lord Shangshu, and Lord Yunguan cross the river?" Qin Wen asked.

"The three of them, Lord Shangshu, and Lord Yunguan will not leave, after all, in the end, it is to be able not to fight, but Han Daochang, Han Duan and others will go to the north ......shore in advance in the name of assisting in the preparation of military funds," Feng Yi said.

"Then you don't have to think about me." Qin Wen said resolutely.

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"Your Majesty's complexion is not good, like the first sign of rubella, but the condition is not serious. Wei Chen saw His Royal Highness King Fu before noon, and the situation was a little more serious......"

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, just because a palace attendant who served the new emperor in the Changxin Palace, he casually said that the new emperor coughed twice in the early morning, and the county lord of Qingyang summoned Hu Yifeng from the Imperial Medical Bureau; After Hu Yifeng's diagnosis and treatment, he prescribed a medicine to catch the torment.

Qingyang's protection of the new emperor Yang Bin is somewhat noisy, and all the procurement and cooking of medicinal soup and food must be supervised, and someone must be sent to try the food in front of her eyes and nose; And if there are any symptoms, it is also required that the imperial doctor of the Imperial Medical Bureau can be summoned and served at any time.

However, in the current palace ban, no matter how cautious it is, it is necessary.

This diagnosis and treatment was originally a very inconspicuous ordinary thing in Changxin Palace, but after being reported to the Xinwang Mansion by someone with a heart, the rumor was that the new emperor Yang Bin and Fuwang Yang Lin were infected with the epidemic at the same time, and the imperial medical bureau was also like a great enemy for the New Year.

The news from the Imperial Medical Bureau is indeed that all the imperial doctors have canceled their rest, and they have specially sent people to the Liyang Doctor's Hospital to ask for the latest epidemic medicine and come back to try the epidemic disease in the city.

Although the matter of canonizing the emperor's younger brother has not been discussed for the time being, but after the new emperor's New Year, Yang Bin was only eight years old, and before Yang Bin had an heir, Yang Lin, the third prince who had just canonized King Fu, was naturally the first heir to the throne; And if the blessed king Yang Lin is sick again, Yang Cong, the twenty-year-old son of the king of letters, is actually more acceptable to the princes of the court than the king of the letter Yang Yuanyan himself.

Yang Cong took his wife and concubine to live in the Xinwang Mansion in Jinling City, which had been vacant for many years, and it was a symbol or proton of the Xinwang Yang Yuanyan to express his submission to the imperial court, and all the princes of the court deliberately kept a distance from it, but Yang Cong still called the few officials in the palace at present, and made friends with the middle and lower-level generals as much as possible.

After the occupation of Deng Jun Erzhou by the Tangyi army, Emperor Tianyou moved into the two states to serve as a soldier for the real side, and there were 12,000 strong Yu Ding who were well-trained at this time, and the Tangyi army and horses rushed westward.

Another unintentional news came to the palace of the king of Xin, that is, Li Xiu had been instructed by Han Qian to send his family to Huayang to see Li Qian, but Li Qian was arrogant and rude, and his words were quite disrespectful to Han Qian.

Of course, the rebellion of the Xu family and the Emperor of Tianyou, Sun Yang Fen, Zhang Xinchun and other rebels were sent to Jinling for trial through Tangyi, and at this time it was also spread in Jinling City.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Qin Wen invited Zhang Xian and Zhou Qinian to visit King Xin's mansion, mainly to lobby Yang Cong, the son of King Xin.

Because of each other's suspicion, Yang Cong could not see the ministers at the level of governor at this time, but although Qin Wen, Zhang Xian, and Zhou Qinian were not among the ministers, their status in Beijing was absolutely important.

For the arrival of these three people, Yang Cong was also extremely enthusiastic and courteous.

Since he was lobbying the Xinwangfu to agree to Zhao Zhen leading his troops to send troops from Wuguan, so as to have an excuse to drive the Tangyi army out of Deng Jun and the two prefectures, Qin Wen naturally wanted to talk about the benefits that Zhao Zhen's troops would bring to the Xinwangfu family.

Qin Wen talked a lot about the relocation of the people in the early years of Emperor Tianyou, and he did not shy away from making it clear that the imperial court directly controlled the two states of Deng Jun, and the first important article was to follow the policy of Emperor Tianyou in those years, and move the exiles and disaster-stricken people from the interior to fill in the two states of Deng Jun, and even accept the displaced people who moved south from Liangdi.

In this way, it is also convenient to recruit and transfer troops on the spot, and make up for the shortage of troops in the Guanzhong Army.

At this time, Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng have not directly separated from the Xinwang Mansion, but at present, as a waiter and guest, they accompany Yang Cong to live in the Xinwang Mansion.

This time, Qin Wen, Zhang Xian, and Zhou Qinian came to visit, and Yang Cong, in order to show courtesy, specially pulled out Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng, two heavyweights whose reputation can be said to be comparable to that of the ministers of the DPRK and China.

Listening to Qin Wen's rhetoric, in the past two days, some news has been transmitted to the palace, stirring people's hearts, Wang Wenqian feels a little strange in his heart, but who would have thought that there would be such twists and turns behind it?

Wang Wenqian's "corpse vegetarian meal", and Yang Cong did not have a strategist who could really judge the situation, so he couldn't imagine that there was such a net behind him to cover him, and he was full of calculations about the pros and cons of Zhao Zhen's dispatch from Wuguan.

At this time, Zhao Zhen was asked to lead his troops out of the pass to take on the important task of containing the enemy army in Guanzhong and relieving the pressure of the Heluoliang army.

However, if we take into account that there are currently more than 12,000 elite soldiers in Deng Jun and the two prefectures that can be recruited and replenished, and more households will move over to Shibian in the future, even if they have to bear huge casualties, it seems that it is not unbearable.

At this time, Li Zhen led 2,000 remnants of the army to stay in Shangluo (Huayang), even if they did not expect to be able to win Li Zhen over, but Li Zhen's generals, his family was mostly in the military palace of the camp in Taowu, Gyeonggi, Zhao Zhen really wanted to lead his troops into Shangluo, and when there was an edict from the imperial court, it was completely possible to directly remove Li Zhen's military power and incorporate this part of the elite generals under Zhao Zhen's command.

And Huaidong asked to cut the domain, and the follow-up focus is no longer the competition for one city and one pool, but more important than raising hope, if Zhao Zhen can gain a firm foothold in Shangluo, how much will the momentum of the Xinwang Mansion rise?

And the new emperor and King Fu are young, and it seems that they are indeed very easy to get infected and die, how can people not be moved?

Moreover, Yang Cong is not willing to live purely as a proton, living in the palace of King Xin, and he also longs for a moment of shining performance in his heart.

He thought he was calm and reserved in front of Qin Wen, Zhang Xian, and Zhou Qinian, but after Qin Wen and the three left, he couldn't wait to invite Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng into the secret room, and saluted each other with tea: "Mr. is loyal to his father, and my father can't trust Mr.'s words, I deeply regret - I don't know if Mr. can help me persuade my father to send troops to Shangluo with Zhao Commander?" ”

Wang Wenqian said noncommittally and indifferently: "The prince is wise and decisive, sending troops from Wuguan really has all the benefits that Qin Wen said, the prince will not fail to see it, and he doesn't need the prince to persuade him hard......"

Wang Wenqian's answer was naturally difficult to satisfy Yang Cong, but he couldn't do anything with Wang Wenqian.

Wang Wenqian and Yin Peng said goodbye and returned to the West Cross Courtyard where they lived.

Except for the concubine Xu, more than a dozen servants and maidservants, and Wang Liuyun, the youngest son born to the Xu family who was only 12 years old, Wang Wenqian did not ask the other sons and nephews of the Wang family to move into Jinling with him; Yin Peng dragged more than a dozen people to Jinling, plus slaves and maids, and more than 30 houses in the West Cross Courtyard were full and crowded.

Xu is taking two maids and maids, sitting under the eaves of the backyard, and personally making lanterns that can be used for the Lantern Festival.

Wang Wenqian had nothing to do, sat under the eaves, and picked up the bamboo scorn to tie the rabbit lamp.

"But I have found a suitable house in the city, and I have been chattering for half a year, why haven't I seen a single movement?" Xinwang's mansion is narrow in the west, and the Xu family is bent on moving out to live, but Wang Wenqian didn't want to trace it, and when he had the opportunity to catch it, he nagged a few words, and said, "Wang Yuan ran to East Lake a long time ago, what suspicion do you have to avoid, some suspicions can be avoided if you want to, according to me, it is better to simply move to East Lake to live?" ”

Wang Wenqian quietly tied up the rabbit lamp, as if he didn't listen to Xu's words; Yin Peng sat aside and didn't say anything, and it was not easy to answer casually.

Although the adult had already made up his mind not to enter the ranks in this life, he knew in his heart that Mrs. Xu had to think about the young son's way out.

Except for Wang Jun, Tangyi has no restrictions on children entering the ranks, and Yin Peng also knows that this should be a key reason why Mrs. Xu wants to go to Tangyi.

Outside of Tangyi, Mrs. Xu is unable to officially continue to become the step-wife because of her background - although this is not a special case in Dachu, there are also a few cases of women born as concubines being given orders, such as Su Hongyu was born in the late Red Mansion before, but as a child of the Late Red Mansion, she still had to be named Hao before the palace change, but the adults have no intention of re-entering the office, so they don't have this ability - this also leads to the fact that the twelve-year-old boy is always a concubine, not to mention Enyin, and there will be no chance to be promoted to the office in the future.

Seeing that Wang Wenqian pretended to be deaf and dumb again, Xu Shi complained and threw down the work in his hand and took the maid into the house.

Yin Peng squatted in front of the stone steps, looking at the thin ice in the shallow pool, which seemed to be melting under the sun, turned his head to see Wang Wenqian's hand stopped there, his mind seemed to have diverged to another place, and asked, "Your Excellency is thinking about Deng Jun's two states?" ”

"It's not my turn to worry about it." Wang Wenqian said.

"Tangyi made a rebellion and Zhang Xinchun returned to the dynasty to be tried, but it was very surprising, the news spread, and there was a lot ......of discussion in Jinling City," Yin Peng said.

Wang Wenqian sighed lightly and said: "Whether Han Qian wants to correct his father's name, or kill the evil eunuch after the rebellion to vent his personal hatred, although there will be entanglements, but in the end it is not surprising - what I was thinking about just now is the mind of the son of the world, and it seems to be a lot more active after the year?" ”

"What are you thinking about? Now that the princes of the political hall have asked for Chuzhou, the prince does not want to be trapped in the palace, and wants to make a difference, and it is a matter of course for him to be active......

"In the five or six days before and after the New Year's Festival, the news that has come to the palace is too dense?" Wang Wenqian asked with a frown.

"Is there something wrong?" Yin Peng thought for a while and said, "No matter what is wrong, the prince does not have much weight to speak in front of King Xin, if someone really deliberately spreads the news here, I am afraid it will not play a role......"

"Whether it works for the prince to speak in front of King Xin, this is just a matter of speculation in everyone's hearts, or the intention of the people behind the scenes is here-of course, this has nothing to do with us, don't care about anything wrong, tomorrow we are really going to go out to find a house, this side is too crowded, and if it drags on any longer, my ears will be calloused by the mother-in-law's nagging." With so much news, Wang Wenqian was most suspicious about Li Xiu's dispatch of people to see Li Mo, but he only laughed at this time, and asked Yin Peng to hand him a pair of red-dyed rice paper, cut out a piece, and stick the paste to the bamboo cage tied into the shape of a rabbit......

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Under the deliberate guidance, when the vast majority of officials were still at home and spending the New Year's Festival, the letter king Yang Yuanyan wanted Zhao Zhen to send troops to force the Tangyi army to withdraw from Deng Jun Erzhou.

At this time, the news that the Marquis of Qianyang, in order to seek Deng Jun Erzhou, so as to be caught by the imperial court, even did not hesitate to temporarily give up his father's enmity, and also sent Empress Yi, Zhang Xinchun and others to Jinling for trial also spread secretly.

These two kinds of news also made Jinling City during the New Year Festival rumorous and panicked, worried that the relationship between the imperial court and Tangyi would be tense, and this day would not be able to live in peace.

On the 10th day of the first month of the second year of Taihe, Han Qian officially issued a mobilization order in Tangyi, and Kong Xirong was in Deng Jun Erzhou to collect all the soldiers in the two states that surrendered a year ago, and directly expanded the northwest camp army from the current 20,000 to 32,000; And made Su Lie, as the vanguard general, lead the forward army to go out of Wuguan on the day of receiving the order letter, enter the Shangluo area, and join up with Li Qi's department and Liangluo's Wang Zhu Zhen's department to strike at the enemy's defense on the northern flank of Shangzhou, and open a passage for the large army Shangluo to attack Weinan and attack Yongzhou.

In addition, the elite of the three brigades originally stationed in Huaiyang, Donghu, and Tangyi must be expanded to 8,000 men and horses on the basis of the original one; In addition to Zhao Qi and Lin Zongjing's Shuibu Army, which continued to be stationed in Donghu and Tangyi, Feng Zhang and He Liufeng's troops and horses moved north to Shiliang and Huoqiu while expanding their formation to strengthen the defense along the Huai River.

Led by Zhou Yi and with Feng Xuan, Wen Bo, and Han Donghu as deputy generals, an advance marching army of 18,000 elite soldiers and 2,000 artisan battalions was formed, and went north through Cai Ru and Liangzhou to enter Heluo, preparing to assist the Liang army to leave Huazhou and attack Yongzhou from the east flank.

At the same time, Han Qian went to Jinling to explain the expansion and transfer of troops and horses to attack Yongzhou, and urged the imperial court to allocate 800,000 stone grain and grass this year in advance to make up for the shortage of military funds this time.

At the same time, Song Shuli also made it clear that Donghu had ordered that the merchant ships of the Chishan Society be distributed all over the country to purchase the strategic materials in short supply in Huaixi as soon as possible, and then concentrate on Donghu, Tangyi, and Xichuan estuaries to support the subsequent war attrition.

Therefore, in the next period of time, the ships of the Chishan Society will be highly concentrated in Donghu, Tangyi, Xichuan and other places, and they will also ask Zhuzhou County for convenience.

The Lantern Festival has not yet passed, the end of the Hehuai war has not been completely eliminated, the generals of Tangyi have just experienced the Hehuai war for only two months, and once again expanded the soldiers and horses to more than 100,000, and 50,000 elite soldiers and horses from Wuguan Road and Hangu Road to cooperate with the Liang army to attack Yongzhou, like a boulder smashed into a calm lake.

Tangyi, which is close at hand, carried out such a large-scale expansion and mobilization of troops and horses, especially the merchant ships of the Chishan Society successively concentrated in Xichuan, Donghu, and Tangyi, and secret reports from all parties were transmitted to Jinling City two days earlier.

Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Yang En, Zheng Yu, Zhang Chao and others were hesitating whether to send people to Donghu urgently to question the matter, or to order Zhuzhou County to strengthen the inventory and detention of the transit merchant ships of the Chishan Society.

Qin Wen got the fold handed over by Tangyi at this time, walked into the political affairs hall, waved the fold in his hand with "indignation", and said to everyone in the hall:

"In order to seize Deng Jun's two states, Han Qian squeezed the troops like this, he can really be called a poor soldier!"

On duty in the political hall today are Zheng Yu, Huang Huixiang, and Zhang Chao, the three governors of political affairs, but Zhang Xian and Zhou Qinian, as members of the Zhongshu House, respond to the political affairs hall on weekdays, and they took the Tangyi fold from Qin Wen's hand with a heavy look and read it.

As the Zhongshu Sheren, they have to go through the folds that are directly sent to Shangshu Province according to the rules, and the unimportant matters are sent to the ministries and departments for proposal, and the ministries and departments can not decide on the folds will be handed over to the governor on duty in the political affairs hall to give a preliminary handling opinion, and finally they will be summarized to Shen Yang and the empress dowager of the two palaces, and the important government of the military state must also convene a privy council in the political hall to decide.

Zhang Xian was convinced of Qin Wen's words, because he was at Yang Zhitang in the Xinwang Mansion last night, and he had just received news from the inside, saying that Liang Jun invited Tangyi to assist Yongzhou this time, on the condition that Tangyi would help the Western Liang Army recapture Yongzhou and other Guanzhong hinterlands, while the Western Liang Army would cede Caizhou and the western part of Yingzhou to Tangyi.

At other times, the value of Tangyi to Caizhou and Yingzhou is not large, but the inclusion of Cai and Yingzhou in Tangyi will make Deng Jun and Yingzhou more closely connected with Tangyi.

When a lot of news comes together, they can't help but believe it.

And once they believed it was true, and saw hundreds of merchant ships and thousands of shipwrights and sailors of the Chishan Society gathering in Xichuan, Donghu, and Tangyi, their reactions were hesitant, and Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang only ordered all localities to keep an eye on the movements of the Chishan Society.

In just over ten days, more than 40,000 boatmen and sailors gathered in Xichuan, Donghu and Tangyi were assembled in the Chishan Society, and there were more than 2,000 boats and boats.

When this news reached Jinling, Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and others suddenly realized that the Chishan Society had developed to such a scale in just six or seven years, but they did not expect that the information held by the Salt and Iron Transshipment Envoy had long been outdated, and they had always thought that the number of shipwrights and sailors in the Chishan Society was only seven or eight thousand.

Since the merchant cargo ships, shipwrights, and sailors of the Chishan Society were usually scattered in the streams, rivers, lakes, rivers and many large and small wharves in the counties of Dachu Prefecture, no one noticed this abnormality......

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