A few days after Yang Hu and Chen Governor Shi Cao Xiushi arrived in Jinling to play the civil unrest in Sizhou, Wei Qun, the secretary of the Honglu Temple of Shu and Sima Cao Gan of Yuzhou, as envoys of Shu, also marched all the way to the east along the river and rushed to Jinling City to meet Emperor Yanyou.

Shu Chu married and formed an alliance, when Emperor Tianyou died, the Jinling Incident, experienced unimaginable twists and turns, the county lord of Qingyang finally married Yang Yuanpu as a concubine, Wei Qun was a family envoy at that time, and also rushed to Yueyang to witness the wedding.

At this time, in Jinling City, in addition to the assassination case of Shang Wensheng, the prefect of Guangde, and the civil unrest in Sizhou, what really attracted widespread attention from the government and the opposition was the news that the Liang army had broken through Yingzhou and that the Liang blogger Zhu Qi had died in the chaos in mid-May.

The Liang State was the first to quell the civil strife, especially the battle of Yingzhou in which the Liang army broke the fighting spirit of the rebels and captured the city with almost no effort, as if the strength of the Liang army was not only not weakened in this civil strife, but was strengthened.

Shu according to Sichuan and Shu, the national strength is far less than Liang Chu, Shu lord Wang Jian saw that Chu was in trouble, so he thought of joining forces to resist the strong, only after his son-in-law Yang Yuanpu ascended the throne for two or three months, he sent Honglu Temple Secretary Wei Qun to congratulate, and by the way the alliance between the two countries was formally concluded.

Even if Wei Qun is closer to the prince of Shu, Qingjiang Hou, but for the county lord of Qingyang, in the end, his mother's family came over, and he also got the permission of Emperor Yanyou to set up a private banquet in Changxin Palace to entertain Wei Qun, Cao Gan and other Shu envoys - Sima Cao Gan of Yuzhou was the deputy envoy on this trip, and the county lord of Qingyang did not set aside the main envoy and held the banquet alone The reason for the deputy envoy.

Since it was a private banquet, in addition to the officials of the Great Chu Rite Department and Honglu Temple, as well as the female officials and eunuchs of Changxin Palace, Yuan Guowei, the young eunuch of the Inner Servant Province, and the Chongfu Guan Palace, who had a relatively superior status, enabled Yun Puzi to be invited.

Among the female officials and eunuchs used by the county lord of Qingyang in Changxin Palace, five of them were married from Shu and were considered to be former subordinates of Shu, but the moment they stepped into the land of Great Chu, they became subjects of Great Chu just like the county lord of Qingyang.

The rules in the palace are strict, not only the county lord of Qingyang can't leave the palace casually, but these old subordinates of Shu are also strictly forbidden to go out of the palace to see Shu envoys privately.

If there are some words, it can only be conveyed by Yun Puzi, a relatively superior and free person, in the middle.

On the day of the palace banquet, Yun Puzi also rushed to the capital pavilion of Honglu Temple, which belonged to Honglu Temple and accepted envoys and envoys from other countries, with Yuan Guowei, the young eunuch of the Inner Servant Province, as well as officials from the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, to welcome Wei Qun, Cao Gan and other Shu envoys into the palace.

Dutingyi was destroyed in the war, but it is also one of the first buildings in the city to be repaired, after leaving the Dutingyi, passing through the Chongli Gate is in the imperial city, at this time you can still see the traces of burning and the collapsed buildings everywhere.

Wei Qun and Cao Gan were allowed to enter the imperial city and still be able to ride horses, and the two of them sat on horseback at this time and looked at each other meaningfully, but there were many words but there was no way to say them at this time.

Before entering the palace, Cao Gan specially met with Yang Hu and learned some details of the civil strife in Sizhou.

When civil strife broke out in Sizhou, Cao Gan and Wei Qun were on their way to Jinling.

In fact, if it weren't for Yang Hu and Chen Governor Shi Cao Xiushi to come to Jinling by boat for the first time, Jinling City might not know the news of the Sizhou civil unrest at this time, and Cao Gan did not know that Changxiang Hou was in Yuzhou, and he would not know about the Sizhou civil unrest at this time.

Yang Hu and Cao Xiushi privately insisted that the Sizhou civil unrest was Han Qian's work behind the scenes, but Cao Gan had doubts in his heart.

In order to purchase Xuzhou weapons and contact Sizhou to attack the Wu forces on both sides of the Qianjiang River, Cao Gan traveled back and forth between Sizhou and Xuzhou three times, and he was still relatively clear about the situation in Xuzhou.

Han Qian and his father Han Daoxun in the past few years to operate Xuzhou, in the development of craftsmen, water conservancy, outside the large-scale renovation of post roads, to encourage commerce, the largest cotton weaving and dyeing industry in Xuzhou, on the one hand, relying on the surrounding Chenzhou, Shaozhou, Yezhou, Sizhou for its planting cotton, to provide cotton seeds, on the other hand, must through Chenzhou, Shaozhou, Yezhou, Sizhou, the weaving and dyeing of Qianyang cloth sold to the wider area of Qianzhong, Sichuan, Sichuan and Shu, Hunan and even Jiangxi and other places.

In this case, what did Han Qian do in a hurry to find Sizhou, which had a talent of sixty or seventy thousand people?

Doesn't Han Qian know how ugly it will be for the situation of being surrounded by enemies on all sides and Xuzhou being isolated?

Sometimes things are so unpredictable.

Yang Hu, Chenzhou Xishi, and even so many people in Jinling, because of their inherent prejudice against Han Qian, tend to think that the Sizhou civil unrest was Han Qian's manipulation behind his back, but it is more in line with the facts.

And Cao Gan analyzed it from a more objective point of view, thinking that Han Qian had no motive to do anything in the Sizhou civil unrest, but deviated from the real facts.

Even though Cao Gan was puzzled by the fog of the civil unrest in Sizhou, looking at some of the messiness in the Great Chu Imperial City that could not hide the traces of the war, he felt deeper in his heart, and he couldn't guess what the cold handsome young man who was sitting under the bamboo shed in front of the tomb in filial piety clothes thought in his heart, nor could he guess how deep this person's city government and calculations were.

At least when he rushed to Yueyang to participate in the wedding of the county lord of Qingyang, he was far from expecting that the situation in the state of Chu would develop like this, and he didn't even see that Yang Yuanpu had any hope of winning and successfully seizing the throne.

At that time, the whole of Shu also hoped that Yang Yuanpu could divide Hunan or Jingxiang, so that Chu would fall into a situation of fragmentation.

Cao Gan thought to himself that in addition to being jealous of the growing power of the prince Qingjiang Marquis, perhaps a considerable part of the reason was that he supported the marriage between the county lord of Qingyang and Yang Yuanpu for this reason, and did not pursue the abduction of the county lord of Qingyang.

Deep down, the lord of the country should look forward to the fact that Hunan, which Yang Yuanpu divided, will eventually become a vassal of Shu, right?

It's just that who would have thought that Han Qian would sneak into Jinling and lead the Chishan Army to rise, so that the situation in Great Chu would have such a reversal in such a short period of time?

Therefore, even if Cao Gan didn't think that Han Qian coveted the poor Sizhou at this time, he thought of the sudden change in the situation in Jinling, and felt that everything could not be so certain.

After all, there are indeed some suspicious points raised by Yang Hu and Cao Xiushi, as well as Han Qian's reaction after the civil unrest in Sizhou.

Of course, the outbreak of civil unrest in Sizhou also had a great impact on him and Wei Qun's trip.

In addition to congratulating Emperor Yanyou on his ascension to the throne and the conclusion of an alliance, they also sent an envoy to Great Chu, and one more thing was to determine the national boundary between Shu and Chu in the middle reaches of the Qianjiang River.

Changxianghou united with Sizhou to attack the Wu bureaucrats, and completely opened the Qianjiang channel at the beginning of the year.

The strength of the soldiers and horses in Sizhou was weaker, but the strength of the Wu people in the middle and upper reaches of the Qianjiang River was even weaker.

The Sizhou soldiers sent troops from Shiqian County in the south, fought north along both sides of the Qianjiang River, captured more than 40 villages of Wu officials before and after, and advanced the territory from the north of Shiqian County to the north along the Qianjiang River for more than 120 miles, and now almost control most of the areas of Wuchuan County that were set up by the previous dynasty.

During the period of attacking the Wu bureaucrats, Shu transferred the elite soldiers and horses of the three capitals of the Zuoqingjiang army into Yuzhou, and was controlled by the Marquis Wang Yong of Changxiang, together with the state soldiers of Yuzhou, purchased a large number of warships and weapons from Xuzhou, and undertook the main combat task of attacking the Wu bureaucrats, and captured and surrendered more than 100 villages before and after, and controlled the waterway of 300 miles south of Wulong County.

Although the Wu bureaucratic forces on both sides of the Qianjiang River have been cleared out, there are still a large number of Fanzhai in the deep mountains and old forests on both sides of the river, as well as in the southern Sichuan region in the southwest, and the bureaucratic forces are also extremely strong.

Therefore, even if the areas along the Yangtze River were controlled, the military pressure on both sides in the middle reaches of the Qianjiang River was still quite large, and from time to time Wu people came out of the deep mountains and old forests to attack the strongholds along the Yangtze River controlled by the two sides.

Even Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, was still a courtier of the Dashu court, and most of them still advocated that the new state boundary between Sizhou and Yuzhou should be determined based on the actual occupation of the two sides at present.

However, Yuzhou is the economic state of Dashu (Shu State Manager System State, Zhengzhou, equivalent to a directly governed state), Sizhou is a state of Great Chu, and the new state boundary is equivalent to the national border between the two countries in the middle reaches of the Qianjiang River, so it still needs to be confirmed by the court of the two countries to be considered truly effective.

This is also a task to be completed by Wei Qun and Cao Gan to Jinling to conclude an alliance between the two countries.

Regardless of whether Han Qian was acting behind the scenes, Wei Qun and Cao Gan could not ignore the civil unrest in Sizhou and interfere with this matter.

"Lord Cao, what are you thinking?" Yun Puzi was old, sitting in a carriage, noticing that Cao Gan's mind was wandering, and he opened his mouth to ask.

Even if Yun Puzi won the trust of the county lord of Qingyang, Cao Gan went to Dachu with the Changxiang Marquis for the first time, and he also had Yun Puzi's guidance, but the county lord of Qingyang was the concubine of Dachu at this time, and his mind could no longer be as good as before.

"It's nothing, I just thought that when I was in Yueyang, I had a few encounters with Chen Jingzhou, the Marquis of Duyu, and I thought that this time I came to Jinling, I could talk to Chen Du, but I didn't expect that Chen Du would be transferred to Guangde Mansion as the prefect. The fate of life is really like a white cloud and a dog, unpredictable. ”

Yun Puzi said: "Shang Wensheng, the former governor of Guangde, his wife and son were killed by assassins and traitors in the former residence of Lishui, and the case was boiling, but it was said that the murderer fled to Guangde Mansion, which dragged on for two or three months, and arrested hundreds of people in Guangde Mansion, but he failed to catch the murderer, His Majesty was very angry, and decided to send General Chen to sit in the town, hoping to avenge the family of Lord Shang as soon as possible......."

Dashu Heiyundu was also responsible for collecting intelligence on Chudi, but he was far from finding out all the stakes involved in Shang Wensheng's assassination.

Cao Gan and Wei Qun had just settled in Jinling, and their contact with the outside world was also restricted, so they didn't know enough about many situations, so although some meanings were revealed in Yun Puzi's words, he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Niangniang should have waited a long time, let's speed up." Yuan Guowei diverted the topic, so as not to let Yun Puzi, who had an old friendship with Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, reveal too much news to the Shu envoy.

Shen Yang initially recommended Xue Ruogu to go out of Guangde Mansion, but was opposed by many people, His Majesty also had doubts, civil unrest broke out in Sizhou, and the ministers of political affairs knew that Guangde Mansion was in chaos, and after weighing it, they finally recommended Chen Jingzhou to go out of Guangde Mansion.

Chen Jingzhou and Zhou Yi are from the Junzhou cottage forces, and the two of them are quite close to Han Qian, and using Chen Jingzhou or Zhou Yi is conducive to stabilizing the current situation of Guangde Mansion.

Compared with Xue Ruogu, Chen Jingzhou has one thing that is very clear.

That is, Chen Jingzhou led his forces out of the mountain, although it was Han Qian who brokered, but he directly joined His Majesty, and it was His Majesty who made great achievements when he was sitting in Xichuan City, and he got a heavy responsibility.

After the Wang Lin incident, Xue Ruogu, who had served as a long-term historian under Han Daoxun, although he was expelled from Xuzhou by Han Qian, he must have no problem with who can guarantee the vote, not Han Qian's counter-strategy?

Chen Jingzhou's knowledge of Guangde Mansion will be due to his close relationship with Han Qian, and he will deal with many chaotic and complicated affairs, and may be biased towards the retired soldiers and families of the former Chishan Army and Zuo Guangde Army - this is also conducive to alleviating the current tense situation in Guangde Mansion - but one thing is also clear, Chen Jingzhou and Zhou Yi are still loyal to the imperial court and will not be Han Qian's people.

Now that the internal undercurrents of Da Chu are turbulent enough, Yuan Guowei, who also very much hopes that Da Chu can be stable and the country and the people can be safe, will never want Yun Puzi to reveal too much inside information to Shu envoys Wei Qun, Cao Gan and others, so that Shu will have nothing to do and come in again.

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The private banquet of Changxin Palace is held at noon, that is, to let the county lord of Qingyang and his mother's family talk about family life, in order to comfort homesickness.

Qingyang is pregnant with Liujia, don't say that he is out of the palace gate to play, even Changxin Palace rarely steps out, and he is really panicked.

At first glance, when she saw Wei Qun and Cao Gan, thinking of the old things in Shudu, her eyes couldn't help but redden.

After the banquet, the county lord of Qingyang also left Wei Qun and Cao Gan to sit in Changxin Palace for an hour.

Since it was a conversation, it was impossible for the county lord of Qingyang to keep looking for Wei Qun and Cao Gan to ask about the recent situation of Shu and the eldest brother Changxiang Hou Wang Yong, and he would also tell Wei Qun and Cao Gan about her situation in the Chu Palace.

When you speak, you will inadvertently reveal a lot of mysteries.

In the end, Yuan Guowei couldn't look past it, reminded the Qingyang County Lord that the meeting was over, and personally "gifted" Wei Qun and Cao Gan back to Dutingyi, not daring to ask Yun Puzi to have more contact with the Shu envoy.

Yun Puzi continued to stay in the Changxin Palace and talk to the county lord of Qingyang.

"Cao Gan seems to be a little absent-minded, is there something going on on the eldest brother's side?" Qingyang's mood was stable, and he also noticed some trivial things, and deliberately left Yun Puzi to speak in Changxin Palace.

"But I haven't heard of any changes in Yuzhou, maybe after General Cao arrived in Jinling, he heard that civil unrest broke out in Sizhou, so he was a little uncertain." Yun Puzi said.

"How?" Qingyang asked suspiciously.

"Wei Qun is the envoy, Cao Gan is the Sima of Yuzhou, but he also sent an envoy to Dachu, naturally it will not be the lord of the country and Cao Gan and the county lord have an old relationship, in fact, this time the two countries have concluded an alliance, to determine the boundary between the two countries in the Qianjiang River, no one can be more familiar with the situation there than Cao Gan," Yun Puzi said, "At present, the territory of the Wu people in the middle reaches of the Qianjiang River is obtained by the separation of Sizhou and Yuzhou, and now that such a large-scale chaos has broken out in Sizhou, it will naturally have some impact on the demarcation......

Qingyang is also very familiar with the affairs of Qianjiang, and when he heard Yun Puzi say this, he can also understand the interference.

There was a civil unrest in Sizhou, and the scale was so large, no matter whether it could be suppressed in the follow-up or not, Yang Xingfeng would inevitably draw back some of the elite soldiers and horses under his control of Wuchuan County first, and strengthen his control over the foundation of Renshan County.

Not to mention that Sizhou's control over Wuchuan at this time has been greatly reduced, and even if it succeeds in suppressing the civil unrest in the territory, its vitality will be greatly damaged.

At this time, whether it is necessary to demarcate the territory under the actual control of the two states, and everyone will make new considerations.

"Do you think Cao Gan would suggest that Wei Qun have a greater appetite when discussing the demarcation?" Qingyang asked.

"Wei Qun and Cao Gan came with a letter of state, they have no right to change their course without authorization, but they can delay time and wait for the new decision of the lord of Shu to pass the order," Yun Puzi said, "But according to the old way, Sizhou is only sixty or seventy thousand people, and at its peak, there were only five thousand troops, and the Wu bureaucrats did not contribute much, but at this time, they had to take away more than one-third of the territory of the Wu bureaucrats, and it was impossible for no one in Shu to have no opinions." From another point of view, Sizhou is only the state of Chu, and the territory of Sizhou is a little smaller, which does not have much impact on the state of Chu, and even worries that the territory of the state is too large, and it will become more unresponsive and ambitious, but it is different for the state of Shu, and there may still be some variables......"

"If Wei Qun and Cao Gan don't delay time and directly dedicate my father's letter to His Majesty, there will be no variables, right?" Qingyang stared at Yun Puzi and asked.

Yun Puzi nodded and said: "That's true, the lord of the Great Shu Kingdom will not be untrustworthy for this small piece of remote land, but the problem is that Wei Qun and Cao Gan knew that there was such a big change, and they didn't wait for time to delay, and when they returned to Shu State, they might be impeached - Cao Gan's mind wandered, maybe it was here." ”

"Yun Dao Chief, do you think Cao Gan should delay?" The county lord of Qingyang asked.

"The civil unrest in Sizhou is very likely to involve the Marquis of Qianyang, the intricacies behind this are not something that Lao Dao can see, and Lao Dao can't answer this question from the county lord." Yun Puzi said frankly.

"Does Han Qian really have the ambition to annex Sizhou?" The county lord of Qingyang asked.

"Lao Dao can see through the mind of Qianyang Hou, and he will not be reduced to a lost dog back then," Yun Puzi said with a wry smile, "But I don't know if Lao Dao did anything before, but before Yang Xingfeng, Yang Hu asked for help in Xuzhou, Han Qian was embarrassed in every way, seeing that the situation was favorable to Xuzhou, there was a chance to weaken Sizhou, and bad intentions were also certain." ”

"If I want to help the Marquis of Qianyang to seize Sizhou, how can I persuade Cao Gan?" Qingyang stared at Yun Puzi and asked.

"......" Yun Puzi broke out in a cold sweat on his back, his ass didn't dare to sit down anymore, and said in a trembling voice, "This matter leaked out, the old Taoist was different, and the county lord was deposed, and he was imprisoned in the cold palace from now on, and his life must not be unbearable!" ”

Qingyang gently stroked his already bulging belly and said, "I heard that Li Yao's cheap maid and Concubine Shu's belly have also moved, Yun Daochang feels that this palace will do nothing, how far is it from the days of seclusion in the cold palace?" ”

"General Li remembered the kindness of his mother...... Yun Puzi said.

"Cloud Dao Chief, are you really bullying this palace and don't understand anything?" Qingyang's eyes suddenly became fierce, and he stared at Yun Puzi, "If it weren't for the other people behind the scenes, Yun Dao Chang really thought that if the palace handed a broken book to His Majesty's desk, His Majesty would finally make up his mind to use Li Zhihe to replace Du Chongtao in Shuzhou?" Yun Dao Chang really thought that this palace would be so arrogant that he couldn't tell the weight at all, and he really thought that after Li Zhihe gained power, he would only think about my own good? ”

"The old way is stupid, but he definitely knows everything about Niangniang, and there is no deception, but the Marquis of Qianyang may not be able to understand Niangniang's love......" Yun Puzi said.

"It doesn't matter if you deceive the palace or not, unless the chicken flies and the egg is beaten, the palace can't help you," Qingyang walked to the window and said, "When Your Majesty was trapped in Yueyang, this palace thought that Your Majesty would always rely on the support of my Dashu, so that it would be possible to hold Hunan, confront King Xin, and Anning Palace, at that time, this palace had Shu and a brother to rely on, so there was no need to have anything to do with Han Qian, it turned out that this palace still underestimated the Marquis of Qianyang, and perhaps made the Marquis of Qianyang have a gap with the palace." At present, the Marquis of Qianyang is deeply affected by His Majesty's speculation and the exclusion of the ministers, His Majesty does not like the palace to think too deeply, and the ministers of Dachu are destined not to like the foreign lord of the palace, speaking of which, the palace and the Marquis of Qianyang have some sympathy, and it is not very important if the Marquis of Qianyang does not appreciate it - the palace asks you, can the palace believe you in this matter? ”

"Niang Niang can always trust Lao Dao." Yun Puzi said stubbornly.

"Then you will give a message to Cao Gan for the palace, and say that if the palace and Yuzhou want to be worry-free, only Xuzhou can be ......," Qingyang said.

"This ......" Yun Puzi was stunned, and for a while he didn't know what the consequences would be if he passed these words in the center.

"You go out, before Cao Gan leaves Jinling, he will come over to say goodbye to the palace, have you said this out, and you will see it later." Qingyang stared at Yun Puzi warningly, and waved him to leave.