Chapter 701: How the Living Situation Becomes a Dead Situation

When the team of fighting tigers left Yongbei Province, Du Jianzhou, the governor of Yongbei Province, started to send it from Daozhi City and sent it for 300 miles. This is also the tiger who ignores him, if he is given a good face, he may be sent to Yongzhou City in one go. Now the entire Central Plains knows that the emperor is not the emperor, and the general is not the general.

But the latter is obviously much stronger.

Therefore, in the eyes of local officials, the southward tour of the tiger has more or less the flavor of the southern tour. Therefore, when passing through the southwestern provinces, the governors of each province were groveling, showing an intriguing humility to the tiger. This attitude seems to be somewhat unusual.

After entering Pingshang Road, I thought that Fang Xie would come to greet him in person, but in addition to the state and county officials along the way going out to greet him, even a person with a more prominent position in the Black Flag Army appeared. This not only made Tan Qingge and Flutter Tiger feel a little surprised, but even the girls with red sleeves also felt a little surprised.

"This is a dead solution!"

The little master gritted his teeth in the carriage and scolded in a low voice, looking out the window with a little fluttering eyes.

The wick of the candle sitting on the side glanced at her lightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. The little master got into the carriage with the wick early in the morning, and was silent after entering, and his first sentence was to scold Fang Jie.

"Why are you scolding him?"

The wick of the candle was relieved of the scroll in his hand, and he combed the hair hanging down in front of his forehead and asked softly.

"He has already entered Pingshang Road, and it is only a hundred miles away from Yongzhou, so it stands to reason that he shouldn't come to greet him in person? Was it difficult for him to leave his broken barracks? When he was in Fan Gu, he went to the red sleeves at least once a day to eat and drink. When I arrived in Chang'an City, I had to go once every three or five days at most, and now I am out of breath, and I have become a general, and I heard that the emperor is going to give him an official and a knight, and he is majestic! ”

The little master bit his lip and said.

"If it is only our red sleeves to recruit Yongzhou, he will definitely come to pick it up, don't say a hundred miles, five hundred miles, or a thousand miles. But have you forgotten that it's not just us. And...... Now that we are in the Iron Army, it sounds better to be escorted, but it is not the hostage in the hands of the tiger. ”

The little master was stunned for a moment, and then said with some sadness: "After Master Luo left, outsiders felt that our red-sleeved tricks were bullied. ”

"Master Luo is here, things should happen or will happen."

The wick spoke softly, just like her dancing skills.

"If Fang Xie comes out of the city to greet us, it will be a sign of weakness to that tiger. And once the tiger feels that Fang Xie is really weak, then the tiger will also feel that our red sleeves are particularly important to the other party's solution, and with us in his hands, he can unscrupulously threaten Fang Jie. ”

"But ......"

The little master turned his head to look at the candle wick and asked, "Shouldn't Fang Xie have rescued us early?" ”

"How can I save it?"

The wick of the candlestick asked rhetorically.

Seeing that the little master didn't know how to answer, Xi Candle Wick smiled and said, "Why did the emperor send Tan Qingge to Fang Jiefeng reward?" Why did that ironclad general send a tiger to Yongzhou with him? ”

Without waiting for the little master to answer, she continued: "Because Fang Jie's current location is very important, the southwest provinces have always been the land of fish and rice in the Great Sui, and it is the place where the most money and grain taxes have been paid for the imperial court for so many years. At the beginning, Luo Yao took the four southwestern roads as the foundation, raised an army of millions in more than 20 years, and never cut off what should be handed over to the imperial court, so that even the imperial court couldn't believe that Luo Yao could expand the army so much in private. ”

"Now that Fang Xie has arrived in Yongzhou, although the four southwestern provinces are no longer rich and prosperous in the past few years, as long as this place recuperates for two or three years, it is still the most important place in the Great Sui. During the Zhenzong period, if it were not for the coveting of the wealth here, the Great Sui would not have mobilized troops against the Shang State. ”

She glanced at the Warring States Policy in her hand, which was something handed down from two thousand years ago, when the Central Plains was in civil strife, the princes stood side by side, and the various places sometimes joined forces and sometimes fought against each other. Someone has recorded the most thought-provoking thing in this history to warn future generations.

"Now, it's like the Warring States of 2,000 years ago."

Xi Candle Core said: "During the Warring States Period, the heroes stood side by side, the court was weak, and the Great Zhao Dynasty at that time had to submit to the princes in order to survive. In the late Warring States period, the Great Zhao Dynasty produced a stunning little emperor named Yin Zhong. At that time, the imperial court had already existed in name only, and after the little emperor Yin Zhong succeeded to the throne, the imperial order could not even be completely implemented in the capital. The princes everywhere did not have the slightest respect for the emperor. ”

"Most of the emperors before Yin Zhong did nothing and followed the waves, and they didn't dare to do anything and ended up depressed. But Yin Zhong thought that since the dynasty was still there, there was a chance to revive the majesty of Great Zhao. He was young, but he was extremely intelligent. Later, he came up with a way to finally weaken the strength of the princes, and at the same time quietly accumulated an army, and after assassinating Guo Mu of Liyang with 800 dead soldiers, Da Zhao began the road to Zhongxing. ”

"Huh?"

The little master asked, "Then how did this Yin Zhong do it?" ”

The candle wick said softly: "It's actually easy to say...... It's dissension. Through various means, he gradually broke down the alliance between the princes, and the princes turned against each other, fighting for years and years, and their strength was not as good as before. Then he won over a group of them through a reward that was not worth much at the time. For example, he named Chuzhou Hou as the king of Chu, and his fief was in the territory of Liyang Hou. Chuzhou Hou did not dare to lead troops to deal with Liyang Hou, so Yin Zhong took the opportunity of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet to use 800 private soldiers to break the 3,000 elites of Liyang Hou and kill Liyang Hou. ”

"Chuzhou waited to see Liyang waiting for death, and immediately led troops to capture Chu and promoted to the king of Chu. Yin Zhong ostensibly obeyed the King of Chu, but tried to hint to the King of Chu that someone persuaded him to kill the King of Chu and invite someone else to defend the imperial capital. After the status of the king of Chu gradually increased, he also became domineering, and was provoked by Yin Zhong to be furious, and immediately sent troops to attack the other princes. ”

Xi Candle Core said: "In this way, the entire Central Plains, all the princes were transferred by Yin Zhong, and the fight was turned upside down, but he benefited from it, and gradually developed, after killing the King of Chu, he began to personally conquer various places, and finally revitalized the Great Zhao Dynasty, so that the Great Zhao lasted for three hundred years. ”

"But, what does this have to do with Fang Jie?"

The little master asked.

"Naturally, don't you think that the Central Plains is very similar to Da Zhao at that time?"

Xi Candle Core smiled and said: "Jin Shixiong is firmly in the northwest, and he is the king of the northwest. Luo Tu led the troops to Jiangbei and was the king of Jiangbei. Gao Kaitai and Wang Yiqu led the troops to Hedong Dao and were the kings of Hedong. The Northeast Dao all looked at Mu Fu's face, and the Mu family was the king of the Northeast. Needless to say, Jiangnan, all forces, all princes. And Fang Xie now occupies the southwest, and in the eyes of the emperor, he is the king of the southwest. ”

"Good headache"

The little master frowned, "I can't think through these things......"

Xi Candlewick smiled: "I'm also idle and bored, so I think more about nothing along the way...... Now there is an ironclad general in the court to support him, don't you think that this ironclad general is a bit like the king of Chu invited by Yin Zhong? Yin Zhong borrowed the power of the king of Chu to deter the Quartet from easily coveting the imperial capital. Then provoke the king of Chu to fight abroad......"

"Huh?"

The little master was stunned for a moment: "Could it be that the little emperor took Fang Xie as Liyang?" ”

"It's not much worse...... However, there are many different changes, but the root cause of the strategy is the same. ”

Xi Candle Core said: "The ironclad general is now in the imperial court, and he has some coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the momentum of the princes, the emperor himself has no strength, and if he wants to get rid of the ironclad general, he can only use external forces." But now looking at the entire Central Plains, no one wants to stand up and fight to the death with the ironclad general. Only Fang Jie, because it seems that Fang Xie is a person who can be wooed, he is not a person from various families, and he is more independent. Introducing Fang Xie and the ironclad general to war, even if Fang Xie died, it would have no impact on the emperor and the families. The emperor now does not dare to openly offend the ironclad general, and he does not want to force those families to join forces, so he can only use the solution to weaken the ironclad general. ”

The little master was confused, but he faintly had some ideas.

She was silent for a while and then said, "What Miss means is that the little emperor sent that Tan Qingge to see Fang Jie, but he actually didn't have a good heart. He gave Fang Jiefeng a reward, in fact, he learned Yin Zhong's routine of rewarding the king of Chu in disguise, but now there is a king of Chu in the court, and he wants to make another king of Chu, so that the two kings of Chu are incompatible with each other, and they fight to the death. ”

The wick nodded.

The little master thought for a while and continued: "Because the little emperor is not sure that he can lead those families to a duel with the ironclad general, he pins his hopes on Fang Jie. If Fang Xie is defeated, with Fang Jie's current strength, he can also severely damage the Iron Armor Army. Good thing for the emperor. Fang Xie died, and the elimination of the princes of one side was still a good thing for him. And if Fang Xie wins by luck, then Fang Xie will inevitably lose his strength, and when the time comes, the little emperor will get rid of Fang Xie again, and he will not offend the people of the family, because Fang Xie originally belonged to any family! The ironclad general went on a killing spree in Chang'an City, and Fang Xie slaughtered all the way to the southwest, all of which offended the people of the family to a ......"

"Hmm"

The wick nodded again.

"It's insidious!"

The little master scolded hatefully, and she frowned: "But, how do you provoke Fang Xie and the ironclad general?" ”

A trace of worry flashed in Xi Candle Wick's eyes, and he lowered his voice very low: "Fighting the tiger seems to be particularly important to that ironclad general, although I don't know what the relationship between the two of them is, but ...... If...... If the tiger dies in Yongzhou, the ironclad general will inevitably be furious. The little emperor said that he would give Fang Xie a secret decree and let Fang Xie lead the troops back to Chang'an. If this is the case, whether the ironclad general leads the troops south, or Fang Xie goes north, war is inevitable. ”

"Ahh

The little master's face changed greatly: "Then we have to find a way to notify Fang Xie as soon as possible, we can't let him kill the tiger!" ”

The wick shook his head: "You don't have to...... Fang Xie can't pick us up, why haven't you already seen through this layer? ”

She glanced out the window and said with some surprise: "I just haven't figured out one more thing...... If Fang Xie saw through this layer and didn't kill the tiger, then this strategy would be meaningless. Unless...... Unless the tiger is here to kill Fang Jie, then this is a dead end. ”

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Fang Xie rubbed his brows, which were a little sour, and played with a jade unicorn with extremely delicate workmanship in his hand: "This is not some unsolvable dead end...... The tiger didn't come to kill me, and I won't kill him...... If you want to make this game from a full of loopholes to an unsolvable dead end, there must be a change that no one expected. ”

Sanjin Hou Wu was silent for a while, and shook his head: "I don't know where this change is. Now we can only wait for the Tiger Fighting Party to arrive in Yongzhou, our Black Flag Army has no conflict with that ironclad general, and there is no exchange of interests, there is no reason to kill him, right? ”

Fang Xie nodded: "The little emperor arranged it like this, which means that he has an arrangement to fight the tiger and die." ”

His brow furrowed deeply, for he could not find where the plan was for the tiger to die.

"We can only wait."

Sanjin Hou sighed: "Try not to let him die in Yongzhou." ”

Fang Xie was silent, and suddenly thought of something in his heart. He turned his head to look out the window, and the vague clue was still confused.