Time in a blink of an eye to noon, the meeting was delayed without a conclusion, the princes wasted their tongues for a long time, said empty words, tired and tired, and a little hungry, King Xian arranged for the meal to be sent to the palace, put it in front of the monarchs for him to enjoy.

At the same time, King Xian left the table in midtime and summoned Bailiyan to the apse to discuss:

"Marquis Yongxing, now the princes are cowering, the widow has said what he should say, and he has tried everything he should try, but no one has said anything, how to act next, you have a good way to deal with it."

"King Qiqi, the current situation is really instructed by the Son of Heaven, it is the Son of Heaven who does not want to continue to fight for a long time, and the small princes have limited national strength and are coerced by it, but the king does not need to worry, he only needs a little punishment in the afternoon to suppress the princes."

"Oh, how to punish him?"

"Withdraw our country's military advisers to various countries, reduce economic exports, stop military trade, withdraw troops from Changsun, and let the war erode."

"Is that possible?" King Xian asked.

"It works. Most of the minor princes did not receive much assistance from our guns and artillery, and once they lost our military, economic and technical assistance, they would not be able to protect themselves at all. If it is not in favor of sending troops, there is no need for our country to continue to arm them. ”

At present, the armed forces of the Xian State are Wei Guo, Yan Guozhi, and the Liang State Governor Sun Wuguo, Sun Guo is only half armed, and the Jin State has not yet obtained the spot, and Xu Guoqi Guo, Chen Guo, Zhao Guo, Song Guo and other countries have only received more than 20,000 old guns and a small number of artillery pieces for training, and they have not officially accepted the reorganization, and once they lose the arms and economic input of the Xian Army, they will have no power to fight back.

At this time, the front hall was full of people like a street market, and the princes and envoys were very diligent in shuttling back and forth, and Jia Zhou had just returned to the side of the Son of Heaven from the banquet and brought a message from Mo Jianzi:

"Your Majesty, Master Mo Chungzi asked people to say, the previous Xian King and Baili Yan sang and made the princes extremely passive, and the Xianguo is now determined to want the princes to go on a northern expedition together, Your Majesty might as well agree to the conditions of the Xianguo as an expedient measure."

"But if you promise to send a large army, how can you do it expediently?"

"Our country is in the west, and if we want to send troops, we will also march from the west to the north, and whether the attack will be fast or slow is not up to the Xian country. Therefore, His Majesty only needs to seize the power of sending troops on the Western Front to avoid the loss of our country. ”

"I see, the widow understands."

Xianguo is strong, and it was designed by Baili Yan in the morning, and it is very difficult to turn the tables.

When he was young, King Xian and Bai Liyan returned to the banquet, and they were still dining at this time, and the food supervisor of the Xianwang Palace served lunch according to the status of the guests, but the difference was not very big, neither decent, nor extravagant and wasteful, more decent, except that no wine was prepared, but juice was prepared.

It is now the first month of the year, although the latitude of the capital is low, but the temperature in winter is generally lower than ten degrees, and it is not easy to grow vegetables, let alone melons and fruits.

In the past few years, the envoys of the princes have also seen the vegetables and fruits enjoyed by the King of Xian in winter, and they are very envious. Today, not only is there a limited quantity, but a large amount of fresh juice can be supplied, which makes the princes feel a sense of disappointment, and the Son of Heaven obviously feels even more gloomy in his heart.

The dignified "lord of the world", the living conditions are not as good as the princes of one side, how angry it is.

When the lunch was exhausted, a team of palace maids and wrestlers entered the main hall to collect the tableware and utensils, and replaced them with pastries and tea for everyone to kill the time. Bai Liyan also came to Gongliang's side and talked:

"Brother Gongliang, is it still good for lunch?"

"Hehe, it's good that I didn't get human flesh, otherwise you would have asked me how human flesh tastes by now."

Gongliang Xiu's words are thorny and sarcastic, which means that if you get cheap, you still sell well, and if you stab the princes, you still ask if it hurts.

But Bai Liyan disagreed, he said:

"I have to eat the food, and the vegetables must also be eaten, but I'm afraid that this human flesh will not be blessed. To be honest, Yan is not a bitter person, everything is easy to say, and there is something to discuss. What's more, at the moment of the great enemy, everyone should focus on the overall situation, right? ”

Gongliang Xiuqi's eyes blackened his heart and blood surged, and he said:

"You don't have a backache when you stand and talk, if all the princes are as powerful as your Xianguo, who still has worries."

"Eh, Brother Gongliang's words are wrong, I think that the princes and my Xianguo began to change the law together, and our country was in Gongsun Yue's failure to change the law, and the black turban soldiers changed the law when the city was approaching, the situation is bad, the prospect is confused, unprecedented, except for Sun Guo, other princes can be better than my Xianguo more than a hundred times.

But today's countries are still the same as they were more than 30 years ago, and only the success of the reform of the Xian country cannot be blamed on Yan. ”

"Who knows where you got these crafts, unheard of, unseen, how the princes can follow them."

"Hehaha...... Drama people will change, and the ingenuity is different, which is to blame. ”

The reform of Xianguo is to fundamentally realize the traditional primitive agricultural production, into early industrial production, and even local electrified production, the core driving force is the knowledge and cognitive concept of Bailiyan, the vassal states do not have this piece, how to change the law is impossible to have today.

At this time, the hall was boiling and the fryer was chattering, and the reason quickly reached the ears of the Son of Heaven:

"Your Majesty, King Xian ordered the cabinet to send a message to the princes, if you don't prepare for the Northern Expedition, Xian will also withdraw people from various countries and stop giving benefits."

"Humph!" The Son of Heaven snorted angrily, and then said: "How can it be reasonable to threaten the princes with the safety of the world." ”

At this time, Jia Zhou said again:

"It seems that Master Mo Jianzi expected it well, if he didn't agree, Xianguo would really do anything."

Whether the war is or is fundamentally still economic interests, the princes of various countries send troops to fight all consume their own economic resources, and most of them have flowed into the pockets of the Xian State, and the domestic aristocratic forces and private capital forces can only enter and exit, and even face a deficit and cannot get any benefits, so they are naturally unwilling to support the dispatch of troops.

At this time, King Xian was sitting on the couch, but his eyes kept looking around at the princes on the scene, and then Xue Zhong leaned over and said:

"The king, the Son of Heaven said that the Liang State agreed to send troops, but asked for the full authority to send troops on the Western Front."

"Oh, it seems that the princes really can't hold it back. Go, pass this word to the Marquis of Yongxing. ”

"No."

When he was young, Xue Zhong said the original words to Bai Liyan, and Bai Liyan shook his head and sneered:

"Hmph, it's just a small skill of carving insects, so don't worry about it. Reply to the king, this proposal can be agreed. ”

Xue Zhong returned to Jiang Yu's side again and said:

"Lord Si Nong thinks that this is designed by Liang Guo, but he might as well agree to the conditions."

"In this way, Master Si Nong has a plan to deal with it."

"It should be so."

"Well, reply to the Son of Heaven, the widow agrees to his request, the Son of Heaven presides over the Northern Expedition on the Western Front, and the widow presides over the Northern Expedition on the Eastern Front."

"No."

got an affirmative reply from King Xian, because it was too easy to come, the Son of Heaven couldn't help but be suspicious:

"Xiangguo, King Xian agreed to the widow's request so easily, is there any fraud in this?"

"There may be deception, but at that time, the Western Front will have the military power in hand, and how to send troops will be in my country instead of Xianguo. Moreover, as long as it continues to cut off the supply of arms, plus the large amount of armpit arms obtained in the previous period, it can be used for two years.

As long as it drags on for two years, if the Northern Expedition fails, the Northern Expedition will be able to shirk the vitality and be unable to fight again. ”

"In that case, then inform the princes that the widows agree to the Northern Expedition, so as to promote negotiations and reach an alliance as soon as possible."

"No."

The news that the Son of Heaven was in command of the Northern Expedition on the Western Front reached the princes, and the reactions of all parties were mixed, and the small princes lamented that their arms could not twist their thighs, and they could only obey the orders of the powerful. The great prince thought to himself, after this battle, he would not die and shed his skin.

At this time, the news spread to all factions, and the reaction was mostly mediocre, no matter how the princes sent troops, except for the royal guests, they did not need to send a single soldier, but they would inevitably be knocked out again.

At this time, Mo Gongzi came to Xiao Gongyi's side and talked to him:

"The Son of Heaven is in command of the Northern Expedition on the Western Front, what is Master Xiao's plan?"

"My faction has suffered a big injury, and I have no plans to use troops in a big way in the near future, and I am afraid that this year's Northern Expedition will not be enough."

"Yes, your faction is not a prince, and it is difficult to use troops for a long time due to the limitation of capital, so it is time to recuperate and recuperate. It's just that this Northern Expedition plan cannot be abolished, and it is still necessary to work together to fight against the tyranny. ”

"Hehe, that's nature, my faction has always taken the righteousness of the world as its own responsibility, and the Northern Expedition is duty-bound. But as Xiao Moufang said, my faction is unable to do it at the moment, and I am afraid it will be difficult to share the worries of the Son of Heaven. ”

"It's okay, Your Majesty still needs to summon the princes with troops, and there is still time, after your faction repairs, it is time to send troops."

"That's, Xiao also thinks so."

Xiao Gongyi did not refuse Mo Gongzi's kindness, and readily agreed to his hint of staying in Liang and sending troops from the Western Front.

He knew very well that the war on the Western Front would not be as fierce as on the Eastern Front, and the royal guests could be fully cultivated, and at the same time, the Western Front was full of miscellaneous princes, and it was difficult to form a strong offensive force.

The reason why Bailiyan agreed with Mo Jianzi's proposal was that he also expected that the Western Front would not take the initiative to attack, so as long as the situation of the Western Front was consolidated, the Eastern Front could focus on the Northern Expedition and attack, and there was no shortage of two or three hundred thousand imperial guests in Xianguo.

In the end, the Son of Heaven was in command of the Western Front, and the Xian State led the troops to the Eastern Front to reach a compromise.

Shortly after the meeting in the afternoon, Bailiyan asked Xiao Gongyi to talk on the Fenglin River:

"I expected that you should think of Mo Lingzi's intentions, so you promised to stay in Liang Guo, don't be angry."

"If you are not a reasonable person, you can not worry about this trivial matter. Master Xiao can rest assured that as long as there are no major mistakes on the western front, the eastern front will definitely win a big victory. ”

"I think you must have a good plan, but after all, this time it was my Central Plains who took the initiative to attack, and the casualties will not be small, you have to be prepared."

"Well, I know this matter in my heart, and Master Xiao doesn't have to worry about my country. In addition, there are two other things, please be careful when Xiao Zhangmen fights on the Western Front. ”

"What two things?"

"First, Sun Guo and Qi Guo also hope that Xiao Zhangmen will take care of him, Sun Guo is my in-law, and in the future, Ben Hou intends to set up education and light industry in Sun Guo, so Sun Guo must not be seriously injured. After all, the country is our mother country, and in the future, the West Sea will be unified, and the country will be very important. ”

"Yongxing Hou rest assured, this matter is on Xiao. And the second thing? ”

"The second thing is to take Liang County as the center, west of Gyeonggi County, north of Guanling County, operated by our Xian State, and now agriculture and local commercial markets have begun to take shape. In the future, the Northern Expedition retreated and was also stationed here, known as Guardian of the Son of Heaven.

In this way, not only can the local agricultural business obtain gold and silver baggage, but also have a foundation in the Central Plains, laying a solid foundation for the final Northern Expedition in the future. ”

"Well, this method is good, although the economy of the Liang State on the Western Front is prosperous, it is not enough to support the million coalition army alone, without the help of the Xian State, it may be difficult to win in the past three years. Or did you have the foresight to anticipate the dilemma of the Northern Expedition on the Western Front. ”

"Alas......" Bai Liyan sighed for a long time, and then said: "Our Xianjun originally wanted to take this as the foundation and go north together from the east and west, but the situation is forced, and now it can only do this expedient measure.

But that's fine, as long as the western front can move step by step, our eastern front will be able to smoothly assault and push the front as far north as possible until it can't be beaten. ”

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