Around noon the next day, Meng Zhong went to visit Le Yi at the post house in the city as agreed.

When the two met, when they heard Le Yi's title of "Yuncheng Jun", Meng Zhong became conscious, and looked at the room next door in the direction of Le Yi's mouth - if nothing else, the next door was probably where Qi Jiang Tian Touch stayed.

Seeing this, Meng Zhong secretly laughed in his heart.

However, what made Meng Zhong feel even more ridiculous was that when he and Le Yi sat down and just started drinking, Tian Touch, who learned the news, ran over and cheekily intervened in this private gathering between Meng Zhong and Le Yi.

But unfortunately, due to Tian Yi's presence, Meng Zhong couldn't ask Le Yi some questions directly, so Meng Zhong simply put down the matter for the time being, and simply drank and chatted with Le Yi, after all, he and Le Yi had not met for a while.

I have to say that Meng Zhong, Le Yi, and Tian Touch sat down and drank together, and the atmosphere at the beginning was really a little weird.

After all, Meng Zhong and Tian Touch are not friends, but Tian Touch now has a close personal relationship with Le Yi...... At least on the surface.

may have seen that the atmosphere in the house was a little stiff at the beginning, and Le Yi took the lead in throwing out a topic, that is, his wife was pregnant.

Hearing this, not to mention that Meng Zhong was stunned, even Tian Touch was full of surprise, and turned his head to ask Le Yi, "When did it happen?" ”

"Last year." Le Yi smiled and explained: "Last autumn and winter, didn't I go back to Yan Kingdom? That's what happened back then. ”

Tian Touch and Meng Zhong nodded suddenly, and immediately congratulated them.

"Have you figured out what your name is?" Meng Zhong asked.

Le Yi smiled slightly and said, "I thought about it a little bit when I was winter last year, if it was a baby boy, it would be called ...... Let's play it. In the case of a baby girl, I haven't thought about it yet. ”

Space?

Meng Zhong was stunned, and then glanced at Tian Fu, who was smiling and congratulating Le Yi, and woke up in his heart.

He said quietly: "The middle, Zhongya, I'm afraid it is not very suitable as the name of the eldest son......"

On the side, Tian Touch said with a smile: "I think it's not bad, Lejian, Lejian ......" said, he smiled at Le Yi: "When my nephew is born, don't forget to inform me, I will give a generous gift." ”

Le Yi smiled and nodded, and then asked Meng Zhongdao, "What about Yun Chengjun?" You and I have worked together for many years, and your son has to be called the next uncle, right? ”

"Rightfully so, but you'll have to wait a few more years." Meng Zhong said with a smile.

On the side, Tian Touch also teased Meng Zhong and said: "When Le Yi's son is born, does Yun Chengjun also have to express it?" ”

"That's natural, and I'll be a generous gift when I look back." Meng Zhong nodded repeatedly.

Hearing this, Tian Touch smiled and said to Le Yi: "Don't shirk, Yun Chengjun now has three fiefdoms in his hands, and he is rich and rich......."

"Of course I won't refuse." Le Yi said with a smile.

The three of them chatted and ate wine at the same time, and the atmosphere between them gradually became harmonious.

I have to say that wine is indeed a good thing that can win over the relationship between men, a few bowls of hot soup are in the stomach, and even Meng Zhong and Tian Touch are obviously much closer.

No, after a few bowls of hot wine, Tian Tu gasped and said to Meng Zhong: "Yuncheng Jun...... Brother Meng, do you remember the first time I was defeated by my brother, when I was dissatisfied with my brother in my heart......"

Meng Zhong thought about it, and only then did he know that the battle of Zhuke County that Tian Touchzhi was the time when he led five hundred Xinwei troops to attack Tian Touch's tens of thousands of Qi military camps at night.

“…… Even if Zhang Zi later sent an envoy to Zhao Guo and returned to China to mention my brother to Tian Da, Tian Da and I were still unconvinced, but when I forced Yang, I was completely convinced of my brother......" Holding Meng Zhong's shoulder with one hand, Tian Touch recalled with a wine bowl in the other: "That time, our army had a full 80,000 people, and Zhang Zi was also there, but in the end, he couldn't capture the Yang guarded by his brother, and it was clear that the Song army under his brother's command was only 20,000 or 30,000 at that time...... Convincing, brother, I'm convinced. ”

"Brother Tian has a good reputation."

Meng Zhong shook his head humbly and said: "At that time, I only took advantage of my brother-in-law who didn't know what was going on, the art of war said, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and not being defeated in a hundred battles, at that time, Brother Tian Zhang didn't know that it was me, but I knew that Brother Tian Zhang was in charge of the troops on the other side, and I took a great advantage invisibly." ”

Hearing Meng Zhong's humble explanation, Tian Touch nodded with satisfaction, after all, he had great respect for Tian Zhang.

At this time, Meng Zhong also took the opportunity to ask Tian Touch: "Having said that, I don't know what is the condition of Brother Tian Zhang now?" As far as I know, Brother Tian Zhang is not feeling well, but for some reason, it is difficult for me to visit him......"

"It's mainly heart disease."

Tian Feng burped and said to Meng Zhong: "These words should not be revealed to outsiders, but Brother Meng's words, it should not hurt to talk about them...... Zhang Zi is old, and Rong Ma will naturally have some hidden diseases in his life, which is inevitable, but in the final analysis, it is because Zhang Zi and the king are not compatible......"

Speaking of this, he looked at Meng Zhong and Le Yi, and immediately lowered his voice and said, "I don't know if you two have heard that I am the current monarch of Qi Dynasty...... How to say it, compared to King Wei and King Xuan, it is quite strict internally......"

As he spoke, he began to tell some secrets of the Qi Kingdom, most of which were the debauchery of the Qi king's fields and his harshness in treating his courtiers.

For example, the king of Qi ordered the confiscation of the fiefdoms of the nobles of the public office.

To tell the truth, the royal family ordered the confiscation of the fiefdoms of the public office and the nobles, in fact, this is nothing new in contemporary times, for example, in the Wei State, the Wei State has confiscated the fiefs of many nobles over the years, because these noble families have not contributed to the country, so the Wei State confiscated the fiefdoms of these people and rewarded them to the meritorious people, which itself belongs to a part of the reform.

But the Qi country is different, the king of Qi's fields confiscated the fiefs of the public office and the nobles because the king of Qi has no money in his hands.

Mentioning this incident, Tian Yan couldn't help but scold: "That damn Su Qin, relying on his once some fame, was regarded as a guest by the king, and under the pretext of filial piety, he instigated the king to build a large number of buildings for the dead...... No, I mean to build palaces and pavilions for the kings of the past...... Zhang Zi questioned Su Qin in person several times, but was reprimanded by the king......"

……

Meng Zhong glanced at Le Yi quietly, but saw that the latter's face was calm.

Su Qin is the internal response of Yan State in Qi State, Meng Zhong learned all this from Le Yi's mouth a long time ago, and today it was confirmed from Tian Yi's mouth that Su Qin did a good job in Qi State, of course, it refers to making Qi State spend most of its money on useless aspects.

"Brother Meng, do you know why the king wants to fight the Song Kingdom?" Tian Yan turned his head to look at Meng Zhong.

Meng Zhong shook his head slightly.

Seeing this, Tian Touch burped, lowered his voice and said, "It's just because the domestic public offices and nobles have united to resist the royal family...... I won't tell you, right now that Zhangzi is still alive, those princes and nobles in the country don't dare to act rashly, if one day Zhangzi is gone, hehe......"

Looking at Tian Touch's mocking expression, Meng Zhong was also a little surprised.

Originally, he hadn't thought about it, but when he heard Tian Touch say this today, he realized that in fact, there were also big problems within the Qi State.

And this internal problem is mainly one word, money.

In view of Su Qin's instigation, King Qi Tiandi wanted to show his filial piety, build a large number of buildings in Qi State, and build a palace and pavilion no less than the palace for the deceased King Xuan of Qi as a yin hall.

This incident caused a strong backlash from the domestic princes and nobles, and the Tianjia robbery that broke out a few years ago was because of the civil strife that broke out because of the intensification of contradictions.

Although Tian Jia was later ambushed, the contradictions between the royal family, the princes, and the nobles were not eliminated, but Tian Zhang, who was fighting abroad, led the army back to China in time to cause a larger-scale civil strife.

Of course, those princes and nobles were afraid of Tian Zhang on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was also because of Tian Zhang's appeasement.

Tian Zhang has always been opposed to the confiscation of domestic princes and aristocratic fiefdoms, and even questioned Su Qin in person for this reason, suspecting that Su Qin wanted to use this matter to provoke discord within Qi State, but unfortunately, King Qi Tiandi did not think that he was coaxed by Su Qin, and used Su Qin's filial piety to refute Tian Zhang, which made the relationship between King Qi Tiandi and Tian Zhang also stiff.

After the Battle of Qiyang, Qi was forced to truce with Song, and Tian Zhang, as the commander of the Qi army this time, was inevitably reprimanded by the king of Qi.

So Tian Zhang resigned from the position of Da Sima in a fit of anger and went back to Kuangyi to recuperate, and it was after this incident that Tian Touch replaced Tian Zhang as the general of Qi.

"That damn Su Qin, he is definitely a spy sent by another country." Tian Zhi swore and said: "It's not just Zhang Zi who thinks so, in fact, the ministers in the court all think so, if it weren't for the king protecting Su Qin, then Su Qin would have died ten times, I'm afraid it would have been more than ......."

"Tentacles are angry." Meng Zhong smiled and poured wine for Tian Touch, and then spoke comfortingly.

But in the bottom of his heart, he secretly admired Su Qin.

Su Qin is a figure of the same era as Zhang Yi, but his achievements are not as good as Zhang Yi, and the most talked about is to help Zhao Suhou promote the alliance between the countries to fight against Qin, and Su Qin was also regarded as a guest by Zhao Suhou and as Wu Anjun.

But then, Gongsun Yan, who had not yet been replaced by Zhang Yi at that time, used the diplomatic relations between Qin and other countries to undermine Su Qin's strategy of joining forces with Qin, and Su Qin faded out of the eyes of the world, and then the Central Plains became the era of Zhang Yi and Gongsun Yan, and finally ended with Zhang Yi's victory - although Zhang Yi's final fate was also bleak.

Therefore, in the eyes of the world, Su Qin's achievements are far inferior to Zhang Yi, at least Meng Zhong thinks so.

But now in the matter of covering Qi, Su Qin, as a spy of the Yan State, has done an extremely good job, successfully making an originally powerful Qi State incompatible and riddled with internal discord and holes.

…… Wait a minute!

Suddenly, Meng Zhong was stunned.

Just now, Tian Feng explained to Meng Zhong the reason why King Qi Tiandi conquered the Song State, that is, King Qi Tiandi lacked money to build a luxurious palace for his deceased father, that is, the late King Xuan of Qi, and wanted to confiscate the fiefdoms of the domestic princes and nobles but was strongly resisted by those princes and nobles, in other words, the reason why the Qi State attacked the Song State was because the Qi King Tiandi fell in love with the wealth of the Song State.

Then the question arises, is there any instigation from Su Qin in this matter?

Su Qin is a spy of the Yan State, but he has been seriously suspected by Zhang Zi and other Qi courtiers, so it stands to reason that he is unlikely to go too far, for example, when the princes and nobles in the Qi State strongly resist the royal family, he will instigate the Qi Wangtian to confiscate those people's fiefs with tougher means, which should be unlikely, after all, it has gone too far, and a discerning person can see at a glance that Su Qin is destroying the foundation of the stability of the Qi State, and even if Su Qin uses the so-called filial piety to cover it up, it may not make the courtiers of the Qi State acquiesce.

In this case, it is not impossible for Su Qin to instigate the king of Qi to attack the Song State and use the Song State to weaken the Qi State, after all, Su Qin is a spy of the Yan State, and he will probably not care about what happens to the Song State because of this.

And if Su Qin had indeed instigated the king of Qi to attack the Song Kingdom, then Le Yi, who was entrusted by the king of Yan to be responsible for the overhaul of Qi...... Does he know the whole thing?

Thinking about it carefully, although Le Yi once said to Meng Zhong that he Yan Guo already had a specific strategy for the destruction of the Qi Kingdom, out of trust in Le Yi, Meng Zhong did not ask about the specific strategy.

But today, after listening to Tian Zhen's words, Meng Zhong suddenly suspected that Su Qin, no, it should be said that it was Yan Guo's strategy to overturn Qi, and it was very likely that Song State would be involved.

Glancing at Le Yi, Meng Zhong suddenly asked Tian Touch: "Touch, according to what you said, your country's crusade against the Song State was actually instigated by Su Qin behind his back?" ”

……

Le Yi was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously glanced up at Meng Zhong.

As if he had thought of something, he changed color slightly.

How could Tian Touch know the deep meaning behind Meng Zhong's question, and said with a smile when he heard this: "I want to admit this matter, instigate you Song State to send an assassin to kill Su Qin, and by the way, eradicate this scourge for my Qi State." …… But I really don't know about it. ”

Meng Zhong nodded slightly, and then asked Le Yi, "Le Da Sima, what do you think?" ”

……

Looking at the smile on Meng Zhong's face, Le Yi couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

He knew that Meng Zhong obviously had doubts about Su Qin because of Tian Zhen's words after drinking, and then, he also had doubts about him and Yan Guoxin.

With his lips moving slightly, Le Yi shook his head and said, "Under the ...... Don't dare to assert. ”

“……”

Meng Zhong stared at Le Yi for a moment, nodded slightly meaninglessly, and then said with a smile: "Okay, it's not too early, I'll leave now." ”

"Huh?"

Tian Touch was stunned when he heard this, although he was half drunk, and he also sent a complaint to Meng Zhong about the fields of the King of Qi, but he did not forget the heavy responsibilities on his shoulders, such as keeping an eye on Meng Zhong and Le Yi, lest Le Yi reveal some important information about his Qi country to Meng Zhong.

It was precisely because he still had some numbers in his heart that Tian Yan thought that Meng Zhong would stay for a while longer, trying to be alone with Le Yi in order to ask about the situation, but unexpectedly, Meng Zhong proposed a farewell.

To be honest, this made Tian Touch feel a little regretful.

After all, putting aside each other's positions, he also wants to befriend Meng Zhong, after all, there are many friends and many paths, who knows if he will be planted in Meng Zhong's hands again in the future? If the relationship between the two is good, even if he falls into the hands of Meng Zhong at that time, his life will not be in danger.

Facing Tian Touch's retention, Meng Zhong said with a smile: "I am already very satisfied with being able to turn enemies into friends with Tentacle today, and there will be a long time to come, and there will be a chance to get together in the future." ”

Tian Touch nodded, and then sighed: "As Zhang Zi said, Brother Meng is indeed worth befriending...... Brother Meng, in the affairs of Qi and Song, I really can't say anything, if there is any offense in the future, please forgive Brother Meng. ”

"Of course, the matter of eating the king and seeking the king is the master of each." Meng Zhong said with a smile.

"Well said." Tian touched and nodded, and together with Le Yi, sent Meng Zhong out of the post house.

Watching Meng Zhong walk away on the street and walk towards a carriage in the alley in the distance, Tian Touch said to Le Yi with emotion: "This Meng Zhong is indeed worth handing over, but it's a pity...... Alas! Not? Le Yi, what's wrong with you? He didn't look very good. ”

"It's just too much to drink." Le Yi shook his head slightly, his gaze kept falling on Meng Zhong, who was gradually moving away.

He knew that the purpose of Meng Zhong's coming today was to find out the intentions of Qi from his mouth, and it was obvious that at the military assembly yesterday, the attitude of Tian Touch and Gai Gong Chen Dai aroused Meng Zhong's suspicions.

Fang Cai, he thought that with Tian Touch by his side today, there were some things that he could fool around and there was no need to reveal them to Meng Zhong, but he didn't expect Tian Touch's complaint after drinking to pull Su Qin from Tian Zhang, which made Meng Zhong suspicious of Su Qin.

Then, he also became suspicious of him and Yan Guo.

In his opinion, Meng Zhong's farewell and departure meant that Meng Zhong had given up his intention to probe the Qi State from his mouth, and what did it mean behind this matter?

"First...... Let's go back. Le Yi suddenly asked with some thoughts.

At this time, Meng Zhong had already walked to the alley not far away, and in that alley, a carriage he had borrowed from the Duan Gan clan was parked, and several guards were standing beside it.

"Yun Jun, did you meet Le Yi smoothly?" One of the guards asked.

Meng Zhong shook his head and said lightly: "It's not very smooth, Tian Touch, that guy is very weak-hearted, and he refuses to let me meet Le Yi alone, which shows that Qi Guo does have bad intentions." ”

"What then?" The guard frowned and said, "Come back to see you another day while Tian Touch is away?" ”

Hearing this, Meng Zhong looked back at the post house deeply, shook his head and said, "No need, what can be verified, I have already verified, and what cannot be verified for the time being...... I don't think it will be possible to verify it for the time being. ”

As he spoke, he jumped into the carriage and ordered, "Let's go, go back to Duan Gan's mansion." ”

"Whoa!"

On the way back to Duan Gan's mansion, Meng Zhong sat silently in the carriage.

At this moment, he was really a little disappointed in his heart, and as for the reason for the disappointment, it was nothing more than that he saw that Le Yi was obviously hiding something from him.

Of course, he would not blame Le Yi for this, after all, as he said at the beginning, Le Yi, as the great Sima of Yan State, should put the interests of Yan State first, which is the quality of a courtier.

Even if he is Meng Zhong, even if he doesn't put the interests of Wei State in the first place now, he doesn't dare to damage the interests of Wei State for any other reason?

But even so, he felt a little unwell.

Not only because Le Yi has something to hide from him, but also because after today, his attitude towards Le Yi must be adjusted accordingly.

For example, this time when the countries jointly crusaded against the Qin State, he not only had to be wary of Tian Touch, but also had to keep an eye on Le Yi.