"Your Majesty, you must not listen to General Cao's words, otherwise a catastrophe will come."

Suddenly, there was a loud roar in the hall, but it was the son of the country who sacrificed wine Ling Jing to the ranks.

This important adviser of Dou Jiande came out and persuaded loudly, "Although the land of Hebei is rich, since the great cause, this is the base camp of the money, grain, soldiers, and people of the Eastern Expedition, and it has suffered a lot. Then the rebel army rose in all directions, coupled with the continuous floods and droughts, Hebei was devastated one after another, the people fled, the fields were barren, once a county of 230,000 households, to now a county is often only tens of thousands of households. ”

"Today's Hebei, the financial resources are insufficient, although there are 200,000 soldiers, and the land is only thousands of miles, the terrain is flat, and the land is dangerous and defensible. On the other hand, Luo Cheng, the lord of Qin, owns Guanwai, Hedong, Henan, Shandong, Huainan and half of Hebei, and even Xi Qi of Saibei obeys his orders. ”

"Now the Son of Heaven of the Qin family has a Beijing division, and he has set the Central Plains slightly, and every attack must be attacked, and every battle must be won, which is protected by the mandate of heaven. If the territory of Hebei is attributed to the imperial court, although it is Dou Rong in the Han Dynasty, it is not enough to compare with us. ”

Ling Jing's words were still very insightful.

Now, it is too unwise to take an egg to touch a stone, but to bet all his net worth like a red-eyed gambler.

Ling Jing is different from Cao Bao, he himself is a local official in Hebei of the Sui Dynasty, and he was forced to fall into summer after the city was broken, at that time, he saw that Dou Jiande was still benevolent and righteous, and he respected them, so he assisted, but now, just a few years after the death of Sui, the general trend of the world is clear again, Luo Cheng has the ambition to dominate the world, and also has the strength to dominate the world.

Dou Jiande sat on the top and was silent.

General Fan Yuan said loudly, "In the past, when Liu Bi, the king of Wu, commanded Jiangzuo's troops, he still called himself the Eastern Emperor, but back then, Yuwentai was only a corner of Guanzhong, and he did not claim to Gao Huan, who owned the north? Although Qin is strong, what can he do to us? As long as we work together and contact Guanzhong, Li Yuanjiang, Han Xiao, Jiangnan Shen Faxing, etc., we can still compete with Luo Cheng. ”

"Ling Jing, as a Xia Chen, but you speak for the Qin State everywhere, could it be that you have already obtained Luo Cheng's official promise and secretly defected to the Qin State?"

Dou Jiande asked Song Zhengben again, "What do you think?" ”

Although Song Zheng was the prime minister of the Xia Dynasty, like Ling Jing, he used to be an official of the Sui Dynasty in Hebei, and the attitude of these ministers was actually similar.

"If Your Majesty attaches to the Qin State at this time, you will not lose the marquis. If you resist and refuse, you are afraid that you will end up like Liu Wuzhou in the future. ”

"Song Zhengben is talking nonsense, tempting my lord!" General Liu Ya scolded.

Dou Jiande sat on it, looking at the clear attitudes of the two parties below, and the generals basically opposed surrender, thinking that they could fight, and some of them could fight.

And Song Zhengben, Ling Jing and other prime ministers and ministers believe that they should follow the general trend, since the general trend is in Luo Cheng, then he is blessed by the mandate of heaven and should be attached to the trend.

Dou Jiande let out a long sigh.

Originally, he wanted to announce his attachment to the Qin State, but now that all the old brothers refused to surrender, he hesitated.

In the end, it will be fruitless and scattered.

Dou Jiande returned to the palace, summoned his daughter Hongxian, and told her the results of the deliberations in the palace.

"Father, since you are determined to be subordinate, then you should no longer be influenced by the left and right, you are the monarch, if you are determined to conform, even if some generals are unwilling, you can still convince them in the end, even if they really refuse, it will not be affected. But now that my father is so vacillating from side to side, doesn't it only add to their thoughts? ”

Dou Jiande shook his head and sighed, "They are all brothers who fight together, and their opinions have to be carefully considered by my father." ”

The red line is to turn around and go.

Dou Hongxian walked out of the palace, riding a horse and being escorted by a group of female soldiers, ready to go out of the city and return to the women's barracks, but halfway through, he heard shouts of killing from there.

"What's going on?"

There was chaos ahead.

Soon a female soldier came back to report, "Song Nayan was assassinated halfway, and he was killed by several arrows, some people say that it was done by the assassins of the Qin State, and now Uncle Cao Guo is leading his troops to search for the city." ”

When Hongxian heard this, he couldn't help but say angrily, "If the assassins of the Qin State want to assassinate him, they will assassinate him first, how can they assassinate Mr. Song, it must be Cao Bao secretly instructed his subordinates to pretend to be the assassins of the Qin State, these lawless guys." ”

She turned her horse's head and went back to the palace.

Dou Jiande had also received the report at this time.

Red Line came in and reported to her father, saying that it must have been Cao Bao's doing.

"Not only was Song Nayan assassinated, but more than a dozen Wenchen were killed, and Cao Bao reported that they were all committed by the assassins of the Qin State."

Song Zhengben was shot dead in the street, Ling Jing's house was on fire, and now there is no one alive or dead, and more than a dozen other ministers who are in favor of Qin are also killed.

Now Cao Bao and many other generals of the main battle faction are leading the whole city to search and arrest, which makes people panic.

Dou Jiande didn't understand that this matter was definitely not done by the Qin State, but now the key is not this, but Cao Bao and the others have not hesitated to use such drastic means to warn the emperor.

They dare to hunt down the prime minister like this, like a mutiny.

If Dou Jiande still insists on surrendering, I am afraid that he will be the next one to be killed.

"Red Line, Father wants you to leave."

"Leave, where are you going?"

"If you leave Leshou and Hebei, you can go anywhere, it's not safe here." Dou Jiande stroked his daughter's head, "My biggest regret is that I didn't see you get married, and I couldn't see you as a wife and mother." ”

Saying that, Dou Jiande actually shed tears.

"Father, daughter, please order, willing to lead troops to quell the chaos, kill Cao Bao Liu Yafan, and wish these great rebels to commit chaos!"

Dou Jiande shook his head.

"It's useless, it's too late, it's late, it's too late."

"Why?"

Dou Jiande smiled bitterly and told his daughter that before Cao Bao and the others were launched, Wang Fubao had already noticed the instability of the army, so he personally went to Cao Bao and Fan Yuan, Liu Ya and others, hoping that they could restrain and calm down.

But as a result, Cao Bao and others actually killed Wang Fubao directly.

"Red Line, you listen to the noise outside, it's the soldiers who have been agitated, they are going crazy right now. Although I am the emperor, I am afraid that it will be difficult to appease them at this moment. ”

"Mutiny? Father, did they rebel? Dou Hongxian was stunned.

"Sort of, but they won't do anything to me just yet." Dou Jiande knew that at this moment, he had been kidnapped by his generals, his most loyal brother Wang Fubao was taken, and another old brother Liu Heimin was captured in the clouds.

"Red Line, you leave quickly."

"No, I'm not leaving!"

Dou Jiande begged, "It's my father begging you, let's go, the only thing my father can't let go of is you, you have to take care no matter what." If you don't know where to go, go to Luo Cheng and bring Qin Jun back, maybe you can save my life then." He can only persuade his daughter like this, otherwise, he knows that his stubborn daughter will definitely not leave, maybe he will have to go to Cao Bao and them, if he doesn't get it right, he will end up like Wang Fubao again.

Dou Hongxian hesitated for a long time, and finally knelt down and kowtowed to him a few times, "Father, I will definitely come back to save you." Looking at the background of his daughter's finally leaving, Dou Jiande sighed, he never thought that one day, he would be kidnapped by his brothers.