After the ceremony, they returned to class, Tuoba Shen followed the king of the North Sea, sitting under the king of the North Sea, this dynasty came out of the northern regions, the original court ceremony was not so particular, the old atmosphere was very strong at the beginning, and then it was influenced by sinicization, and it was also important to pay attention to the kneeling and sitting, but these etiquettes are all court meetings, and everyone only abides by the formal occasion of the sacrifice, and does not pay attention to these on weekdays. According to the court ritual, everyone who enters the palace must take off their shoes, just because it is the deep winter season, and the temperature has dropped since October, so in the last court meeting, that is, the frost day five days ago, the emperor ordered that before the beginning of spring in the next year, all the ministers can go to the palace with socks.

Tuoba Shen sat behind Uncle Beihai Wang, looked sideways in the hall, and found that there were really a lot of people, at least fifty people! It's just that this doesn't match the number of people he just saw in the square, and there are more courtiers who can't come in because they can't get in because of their official positions, they have to stand outside on duty, and if the emperor has something to ask them, he will summon them in again, and if they don't summon, they have to blow the cold wind honestly until the end of the court meeting. If the emperor is kind, he can also let them leave early.

The emperor looked left and right and said: "Fang is now close to November, and the winter solstice will be in ten days,——.

"The minister is here!" Feng Dan walked out of class and walked to the hall *** with his hands on his chest, and replied with his eyes looking at the wat version.

"The winter solstice sacrifice to the sky, in order to pray for God to bless the people's livelihood, the stakes are very high, you should take care of this matter personally, do not entrust it to the left. All the salutes must be in unison, and nothing will be omitted. ”

"Command!" Feng Dan bowed and replied

The emperor waved his hand and motioned for Feng Dan to return to class. After Feng Dan turned around, he looked at the left below, Wen Zuowu right, and Wen Ban on the left. said: "Liangzhou Thorn History, Rencheng King Tuoba Cheng, out of class!" ”

Out of the left class came a handsome young man who was about the same age as the emperor, wearing a bearded robe, with a plain belt around his waist and arms, Tuoba Shen knew, this is the king of Rencheng who has been serving as a thorn in the past two years, belongs to the kings of the Jingmu department, and is very famous in the clan, a few years older than the emperor, but according to the generation, he is the emperor's uncle, so the emperor privately called him "Uncle Rencheng", but this is the court, of course, according to the rules, name. I heard that he only returned to Pingcheng last night, and he entered the palace overnight to see His Majesty. I didn't expect to come to the court meeting today.

"Liangzhou Thorn History, Rencheng Wangchen Tuoba Cheng, waiting!" Tuoba Cheng stood up and bowed

"The assassin has been in charge of Liangzhou for two years, the west of the town, and the way to garrison the territory, there will be gains, because Liangzhou is far away from Jingyi, and the details cannot be fully explained in the chapter and the ruler pen. Qing and explained the feelings of Liangzhou in detail. ”

"Liangzhou is connected to the Southern Dynasty Pseudo-Qin Yi Land, which is the hometown of Qiu Chi in the past, since Emperor Shizu mixed a Hebei, Qiu Chi has to return to this dynasty, and admires the virtue of the imperial court. It's just that this place is in the border stopper, there is Jiangnan in the south, there is Tuguhun in the west, and it is also between the Qiang and the Hu, this generation is brave and ruthless, afraid of power but not virtue, the court in the past is difficult to control with its road, so it is more to be soothed by virtue, and the later assassin history every time he sees that he is trapped in his livelihood, he is fed with more food and silk, and he is given the world to keep his duties. ”

"The minister was appointed to assassinate the history, and sent people to go deep into his place many times, visited Zhuqiqiang, and often saw that his place did not comply with the laws of the imperial court, and he was afraid that the imperial court whip was beyond his reach, and privately recruited the people to block the road, opened mines, privately made weapons, opened salt wells, and sold two borders. Looking at his heart, he is trying to sit and watch the north and south, and he is in the meantime. Now I am strong and weak, and my generation does not think it is a problem. It's just that since Liu's defeat in Qingqi, Jiang, Huai, I am afraid that our dynasty will take the land of its Liang Yi again, and increase the army in Hanzhong many times, this place is living in the important place of Tongshu, the southerners are very dependent, the minister sent people to the year, and the city wall has been heightened nearly three zhang, and there are many beacon fires around it, and the grain is stored, and the people are lured into its bow and arrow with money and silk. He has been sent many times to and froze in the Qiang, and he has also had contacts with Tugu Hun, in a vain attempt to use wealth and clever words to bewitch Zhuhu and shake my western soil. The minister has sent letters to his Qinzhou several times, asking them to guard their territories in the future with the weight of the two countries, and not to raise troops from each other, but there is no reply. ”

"Look at it! Did the Southern Dynasties intend to Liangzhou? The Emperor asked

"What the ministers have investigated, I don't dare to say that there will be none, but it has always been common to build garrisons. Maybe the southerners are just afraid that I will take its Bashu, so they will strictly guard against it. ”

"It's just that the southerners have overhauled the border equipment so much, which is really not conducive to the heart of the two countries. I fought with the Southern Dynasty, originally in Jianghuai, Jingxiang, the army of its land, half of the Great Wei, if so connived at the Southern Dynasty so full of troops Liang Yi, our country must also raise a large army to defend the Liang, Qi, Yong Zhuzhou, so that the border is panicked, the agricultural affairs are defeated, and the national funds are wasted. The geography of the Southern Dynasties, the Jianghuai River in the north is its natural danger, there is no great enemy on the back, I have a worm in the north, and Jiangnan in the south. The minister entered Beijing yesterday, and heard that there was an envoy from the Southern Dynasty in Beijing, and asked His Majesty to summon him into the palace, and the minister asked him to be reprimanded. ”

Tuoba Shen was in the front, and he could hear these words clearly what King Ren Cheng said, but with his own meaning, even if Southern Qi increased its troops in Hanzhong, most of them were still afraid that the imperial court would attack their Bashu land.

In the past, Shu and Han were based on beneficial states, Sun and Wu all had Jing, Yang, and Jiao three states, and Cao Wei had most of the land of Kyushu in the world, and its national strength was not comparable even if the Han and Wu countries were combined, even so, Cao Wei was also because Sun and Wu were geographically close to the Central Plains, and they were given priority militarily, and Guanzhong was mainly a defensive counterattack. Later, Cao Wei fought with Sun Wu many times in Jianghuai and Jingzhou, winning and losing each other, and the overall situation was still a confrontation, and both sides had no way to take each other. And because Shu Han launched military operations in Hanzhong many times, Cao Wei was in the situation of dividing his troops into three places. So that the accumulation of years is fruitless.

In the period of Qi Wangfang, the Sima clan took all the Wei politics, changed the idea of giving priority to Sun and Wu, and changed to take Shu Han first. Later, a naval army was built in Yizhou, relying on the momentum of the upper class, with Jianghuai, Jingzhou, and Bashu three roads at the same time, and finally eliminated Sun Wu in a short time.

Now the strength of the Southern Dynasty is of course stronger than Shu Han and Sun Wu combined, and the strength of this Dynasty is only comparable to Cao Wei, it is not difficult to suppress the Southern Dynasty, and it depends on the opportunity to make great progress. Now to attack the Southern Dynasties, it is still mainly in the two main battlefields of Jianghuai and Jingzhou. These two battlefields belong to the home battle of the north and the south, each with its own advantages, and the southern dynasty has the advantage of the naval army that the current dynasty does not have, and can rely on the Yangtze River to block the imperial army, so their first battlefield is still in Jianghuai.

Since the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty has set up many military towns in the Jianghuai area, Huanwen's Xifu and Xie Xuan's Beifu are military towns used to defend Jianghuai, and many people who fled south were also placed in Jianghuai Tunzhong by the Southern Dynasty, so as to strengthen the defense force of Jianghuai. In this case, it was even more difficult for Jianghuai to be taken by the Northern Dynasties. Later, the emperor Shizu of this dynasty marched south to Liu Yilong, although he broke the Song army and hit the Yangtze River, in the end, because of the important town of Shouyang in Jianghuai, Xuyi could not take it, and the imperial court did not have a naval army to help the war, so he could only send envoys to Liu Yilong on the bank of the north of the river to welcome relatives, migrate the Song people, and lead troops back to the north.

Later, the Southern Dynasty fought among themselves, the children of the clan fought each other, and the country had many civil wars, so that the imperial court had the opportunity to capture the land of Qingqi and gain a certain advantage on the battlefield of Jianghuai. It's just that the dense water network here makes the cavalry, which is the best at restraining the infantry of the Southern Dynasty, useless, and to this day, the Southern Dynasty can still fight against it.

The land of Jingzhou was a place where the Southern Dynasty had a dense naval army, and it was also an important town of the Southern Dynasty, where a large number of soldiers and horses were concentrated, and the imperial court could not gain power here.

In the end, it is natural to focus on Bashu, if you can get Bashu, build a naval army here, go down the river, and send it all together, even if you can't take all the Jing and raise the whole territory, you can also consume more than half of the national strength of the Southern Dynasties, and you can naturally pinch them round and flatten them in the future.

How could the Southern Dynasties not know this, so the defense of the Liangzhou soldiers of the imperial court was also their top priority. Therefore, conscription and construction of city walls are their means of defense, and they don't really want to march from Hanzhong, this kind of thing has Zhuge Liang of Shu Han, Jiang Wei can be used as a reference, Shu Han can not take the pass from this, not to mention that their management in Bashu is not as strong as Shu Han, so they will not have this kind of thought.

It's not that these Ren Cheng kings don't know, and he is not wrong, the Southern Dynasty keeps increasing troops, even if it is out of defense, the imperial court can't ignore it, in case something happens in the western border and the Southern Dynasty sees the opportunity, then the defense will become an offense. This is something to take into account, even if it is unlikely. Therefore, even if King Ren Cheng knew that the Southern Dynasty was on defense, he would suggest that the imperial court put pressure on the Southern Dynasty, demanding that the Southern Dynasty not make the two armies Jianghuai in Liangzhou.