After a long time, the emperor asked Lu Zhen if the news of Ma Sui in Hedong had arrived.

Lu Zhen replied that since the last time the Lian Zhengshan soldiers were defeated back to Taiyuan, Ma Sui dug up the river and flooded the east of Taiyuan City, saying that he was using water to replace the troops to guard against the rebel towns of Heshuo, and now the edict that asked him to attack Li Huaiguang had arrived by detour, and Ma Sui also replied, saying that he was preparing soldiers and horses, but he didn't know how to go on the specific "Qinwang route": whether to go directly around Shuofang to reinforce Fengtian, or give priority to Li Huaiguang's Jin, Jiang, Ci, and Xi four prefectures?

When the emperor heard this, he sneered and said that Ma Sui was still the same.

In fact, as long as Li Shi does not command the war, if he is just plotting politics, his IQ is still online.

He knew that Ma Sui had flooded the east of Taiyuan and came to play the ball again, and King Qin actually asked the "route question", and the idea of this horse servant should be "self-protection first".

The emperor simply didn't hide it, and asked Lu Zhen to draft the document immediately, "It's good to follow his wishes." He gave Ma Sui the official position of Situ, promoted his brother and son, and more importantly, promised Ma Sui that once he conquered the four states of Hezhong, he could elect the envoy of Hezhong Jiedu to the imperial court.

The meaning of the emperor's words was to tacitly acquiesce that Ma Sui could "return the official award", as long as Li Huaiguang was pacified, his power could be freely exercised in the river from now on.

In addition, what shocked the emperor even more was Huainan Chen Shaoyou and Xuanrun (Anhui and Zhejiang) Han Rong, these two first took out the money and silk in the general's mansion, frantically built the city within the jurisdiction, hoarded rice and grain, built a large number of ships, set up beacons on the Jianghuai River, and let the fleet carry crossbowmen and armor soldiers to patrol up and down the river bank every day.

Not only that, but the Biandong transshipment envoy Bao Ji's inbound ship carrying millions of money and silk had an accident on the waterway, but it was not the Huaixi thieves or the Ziqing thieves who robbed them, but Han Yun and Chen Shaoyou.

Five million guan, first half of it was robbed by Han Yun, and then the remaining half was robbed by Chen Shaoyou. Bao Ji was almost killed by Chen Shaoyou's soldiers, and he survived by hiding under the table with his wife and children.

Therefore, as soon as Bao Ji fled to Shouzhou, with the support of Zhang Wanfu, he impeached Han and Chen for their banditry in Fengtiancheng.

But after the emperor got the news, he just secretly clenched his fists, but his face quickly turned into a calm expression, and he said to many scholars with a smile: "Chen Shaoyou and Han Rong are just short of money to support the army, so the money will be left to them, and after Xuanrun and Huainan get the military funds, they will expel the Huaixi thieves as soon as possible." ”

After Gao Chongjie and Lu Xiqian died in battle, Li Shi finally learned two things:

Compromise and decentralization.

"This account, Rong Zhen will calculate it carefully in the future." Li Shi silently hid his emotions in his heart.

But in the previous period, there was still exciting news: Guiguan Jingluo made Liu Yan recruit 3,000 Huangdong barbarian soldiers, hurry north to King Qin, and now he has entered the border of Hunan, and sent a letter to Han Yun and Chen Shaoyou, warning them to pay attention to proportions - Liu Yan also wrote a letter to Li Na in Ziqing Fang Town, asking him to abandon the royal title and return to the imperial court.

As for Li Sheng, who was in Yi and Ding, he also took 5,000 Shence vanguard soldiers and quickly marched west to help Chang'an. But Li Sheng did not cross the Flying Fox Pass and enter Hedong, but went south to Xing and Wei, then entered Huguan, traveled to Heyang, and entered Dugi Road.

The reason why Li Sheng did not go to Hedong meant that he did not trust Ma Sui at all.

It is said that Ma Sui lost his temper over the matter.

On the other hand, several camps of the Shence Army, which were originally preparing to reinforce Luoyang and Ruzhou, namely Xing Junya, Shang Kegu, Luo Yuanguang, Liu Dexin, and Zhu Zhongliang, also hurried back to the west after knowing that the emperor was in trouble.

The emperor was finally in a better mood, and asked Lu Zhen and Wei Ci to help him write and issue various documents, in the form of Wang Yan, to add officials to King Qin's marshals and generals.

"No pen and paper." Lu Zhen replied very carefully.

In order to prevent the emperor from "micro-manipulation", the ministers united and controlled all the paper and pens of the Hanlin scholars in the miscellaneous library of Fengtian City, so that if the emperor had any ideas, he had to discuss with the ministers before he could ask the Hanlin scholars to produce documents.

The emperor laughed bitterly, and secretly said repeatedly, "You must know how to compromise, you must know how to delegate power", and finally he said that it doesn't matter, I will explain these things to the ministers immediately, and it is not too late for you to write a document.

At this time, Huo Zhongtang walked in and presented the map drawn by Duan Xiushi to the emperor, saying, "Duan Taiwei confronted the thief Li Chulin in Fengxiang Jiguan Mountain, and he didn't dare to concentrate on the matter of the military formation, so he specially drew a formation map and handed it over to His Majesty for cutting." ”

The emperor's hand trembled, and he slowly stretched out to the drawing, how eager he was to see this terrain camp map, to give Duan Xiushi and Gao Yue precise guidance.

The surrounding scholars were all worried, afraid that the emperor would have to say something about the frontline battle array.

"Phew!" In the end, the emperor breathed a long sigh of relief, resolutely pushed the drawings away with his hand, restrained his desires, and said: "The general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch, I still have the strength of the emperor of Wenjing, you go and tell Taiwei Duan, saying that he will march and fight in the future, and he can respond to the situation on the spot, and there is no need to consult Yu I for everything." ”

When the emperor was about to announce the end of the sitting council and let all the scholars rest, there was a sudden vibration outside the Xuan window, as if there was some terrible sound in the distance, Li Shi hurriedly got up and looked at the window:

At the foot of Liangshan, outside the north gate of Fengtian City, I don't know when, there was a King Kong-like tall "opposite building", which was built by Zhu Zhu mobilized thousands of people in the north of Liangshan, and this morning crossed the Mogu Valley Road, and quickly assembled it a mile outside the city, that is, the "big cloud beam" that Zhu Zhu said before.

Although Li Shi had long known that the rebels were creating siege towers, he did not expect that the regulations would be so shocking.

This opposite building is seven zhang high, two zhang higher than the wall of Fengtian City, divided into five layers up and down, like the floating tower, which is covered with layers of damp leather, to resist the burning of rockets in the city, and there are 400 people hidden in it on the lowest floor, holding levers in their hands, and making rhythmic shouts in a hurry, cats bent on their waists, sweating like rain to push eight pairs of dark wheels, so that this "big cloud beam" rumbles towards Fengtian City.

Li Shi stood on the highest bell tower in the city, almost at eye level with Da Yunliang, and he froze:

"Duan Xiushi, Gao Yue, Cui Ning, as well as Li Sheng and Liu Yan, no matter who it is, come and save me!"

On the Qianling Plain, Li Huaiguang, Li Xilie and Zhu Zhu stood there, in opposite directions, overlooking the big cloud beam and approaching the city wall of Fengtian City step by step.

They could see that all the horses and walls of the city were connected to each other, and there were soldiers guarding the city hurrying to and fro like ants; They could also hear the mournful and rapid sound of bells, drums, and trumpets in Mukden City.

At the other drum tower, Tang An, who was undressed and fell asleep, woke up suddenly, she got up, and also saw this "big cloud beam".

"Oh my!" Tang An's face was pale.