Two days later, Bai Liyan continued to sit in Xuan Di to observe the movements of the thunder, and when she learned that she had turned back the way she came, she just breathed a sigh of relief, and then bad news followed:

"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, Lei Ting's cronies arrived in Peicheng last night to see Qin Han, and General Bao has sent him to Xuandi to ask the deputy marshal to deal with it."

The soldier said quickly, and Bai Liyan suddenly felt tricky:

"Got it, you can rest."

"No!"

After Peicheng was handed over to Bao Rui, Bai Liyan dispatched a liaison officer to travel back and forth between the two places to contact the news, which was much faster, but it only took one more day.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Liyan asked Gongsun Yue:

"King Yintian, what is the intention of Thunder's sudden letter, did he see through your and my plan to come to the trial, or did he have other plans?"

"Thunder is self-righteous and suspicious, if he sees through your and my schemes, it is not impossible. But Li Jian's grain transportation is true, and he has a letter from me, even if the thunder is suspicious, seeing this letter will dispel his worries, so I guess he must have something urgent to do, and Qin Han has to do it. ”

"What could that be?"

Baili Yan frowned and pondered, and then Zhou Kong said:

"What are you waiting for, bring Qin Han to ask if it's over."

"What General Zhou said is extremely true." Bai Liyan affirmed, looked at Jiang Jie and said, "Jiang Jie, go and bring Qin Han to see me." ”

"No!"

After Wang Lingshi handed over Peicheng, Qin Han, Gao Heng and others were escorted to Xuandi and detained. He and Gongsun Yue belong to the two factions of the Foolish Argument School and the Eloquent Daoist School, which can be said to be the culprit of the 30-year war in the Xian Kingdom. Among them, not only the causes and consequences of the Black Turban Army uprising, but also Liang Guo.

Qin Han has been following Thunder for a long time longer than Gongsun Yue's promotion to the Heavenly King, and at the same time, he is Thunder's henchman, and he knows much more shady scenes.

Due to the special political and trade status of the Liang State, the Black Turban Army had been laundering money and obtaining strategic materials through the Liang market for more than ten years before the uprising.

And the inflow of large amounts of capital and the export of controlled materials, it is impossible for the official bureaucracy and aristocratic interest groups of the Liang State to be unaware of it, which means that the Liang State should know, and in order to seek political and economic interests, it is openly and secretly releasing water.

This also verifies Bailiyan's judgment that long-term secret war preparation not only requires the long-term accumulation of grain, grass and materials, but also requires political and economic cover and output.

In other words, in the current political environment, the Black Turban Army cannot be a pure peasant army, and it must be backed by powerful political groups and economic interest groups to achieve ulterior purposes.

Now it turns out that the judgment based on the laws of history is undoubtedly correct, and at the same time does not exclude the fact that other princely states, the magnates and the ruling class, were also indirectly involved in this profitable activity.

In the chaos of the Central Plains, theoretically, the biggest beneficiary was the suzerain, Shangbang Liangguo, and before the wave of unification was formed, no one dared to move the precedent of the suzerain.

If the Central Plains falls into large-scale turmoil, and the Liang State, which owns the land of three counties, takes advantage of the chaos to swallow up several counties, even if the vassal states oppose it, after years of war consumption, the financial resources and manpower are not as good as before, and no one will be bored in this stall.

Taking a step back, Liang only needed to make good alliances with other great princes who had already benefited, and could easily obtain reliable alliance guarantees to protect the interests of the land that had already been obtained.

For example, Wei Guo and Changsun, one in the west and the other in the north, on the one hand, promised to defend the country and annex the Sun State, and on the other hand, promised the Changsun State to annex the Sun State.

The Liang State will go from a small country to constantly creating turmoil through acquiescence, so as to achieve the purpose of expanding and annexing the land of the princes, and then after several generations of management, it will become a medium power, or even a large country, and once again realize the great unification of the territory of the Liang State, at least in name.

From the very beginning, Xian was a chess piece in the hands of Liang State, after Sun and Xian destroyed the country, and then destroyed the eldest grandson, and finally formed a stalemate in which the rebel army north of the North Sea looked at the Central Plains, and bordered the four major powers of Zhi, Wei, Jin and Xu at the same time.

However, the appetite of the rebels was far more greedy than Liang expected, and at the same time, the rise of Xian broke the existing interests, and under the power of two evils, Liang made the most stupid decision.

In vain, he tried to use the Xian State to confront the rebels in order to weaken the strength of the rebels, but the result was that the rebels suffered defeats again and again, and soon changed the established strategic policy to counterattack the Liang State.

Now that the war has not ended, Liang Guo has repeated his old tricks and continued to play the game of sharing the cake.

The superstitious fools and the patriotic people who adopted the old slavery system were undoubtedly a match made in heaven. The conspiracy of the arrogant Dao matches the hegemony of Zhiguo.

In this way, two hidden dangers were buried on the two continents of the east and west of the Central Plains, and there was no suspense at all when they waited until a few years later to provoke the Central Plains to compete for hegemony.

At that time, Zhiguo was busy maneuvering with the Jin State and the Xian State, and the Wei State rose strongly, launched an eastward invasion, and finally defeated both sides.

In just over ten years, the Liang State has developed from a land of three counties to a medium-sized power with seven or eight counties, and the speed of development is as fast as a piece of pie falling from the sky, and it takes no effort to get it.

After waiting for a long time, Jiang Jie put Qin Han into the account. Bai Liyan didn't like abuse, and gave him all the treatment he basically deserved, but his mental outlook looked much worse than before.

Seeing Bai Liyan looking at himself expressionlessly without speaking, Qin Han had no bottom in his heart, so he asked first:

"I don't know what the Marquis of Yongxing needs to do when he summons the old man to come."

"It seems that Qin Caidong is still very smart, but Ben Shuai has something to ask Qin Caidong, I hope Qin Caidong knows everything, don't do any luck."

"Don't dare, don't dare, the old man is already a prisoner of the Marquis of Yongxing, how dare he be lucky."

"That's good, Ben Shuai asked you, in addition to letting you monitor the grain and grass in Peicheng, Thunder has other opportunities to grant you."

"Shhhh This ......" Qin Han thought hard for a moment and shook his head: "There are a lot of secret things, can Yongxing Hou make one or two clear." ”

"That's right, Thunder has already accepted Qin Caidong's letter and returned to Fangling County by the same route, but he sent someone to send you a secret letter, and the person who came can arrive this afternoon. Qin Caidong thinks that what urgent needs will be? ”

"This ...... It's hard to say, but ......."

Qin Han wanted to speak and stopped, looking at the Yin Heavenly King who was still wearing a mask and speaking Sun Guo's dialect on the side, as if he was afraid. Bai Liyan saw that his face was jealous, so he asked:

"But what?"

"Uh......"

Qin Han looked at the Yin Heavenly King again, and Bai Liyan suddenly realized that this matter must be related to Gongsun Yue, if he said it, it would definitely be a disaster.

"Ben Shuai is here, and Qin Caidong's life is guaranteed, but it doesn't hurt if you say it."

"Okay, that was two months ago, Lei Ting instructed the old man, after the arrival of the Yin Tianwang's army, to contact Wang Tianshi, in the name of protecting grain, to order the Yin Tianwang soldiers and horses to cross the river, and let Wang Tianshi stay in Dekang under the pretext of transporting grain and grass."

"In other words, it's a betrayal!" Bai Liyan asked.

"It's not all, control the grain and grass, then hold the army hostage, although the thunder did not say it explicitly, but the old man guessed that once the Yin Tianwang crossed the river, the Shentong who had already suffered the defeat would retreat back to Ganfu, Shangguan and other counties, and then ordered the Yin Tianwang to come forward to fight, and if there was any change in the Chengdao faction, he could cut off the grain as a threat to continue to control it.

Because whether it is Xianguo or Zhiguo, it is impossible to raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses and hundreds of thousands of slave troops overnight, once these horses are taken in, whether it is Xianguo or Zhiguo, it is extremely difficult to reduce power in a short period of time, so a large amount of money and food will be consumed in raising soldiers, so they are unable to take care of the people's livelihood. ”

"Hmph, let's talk about it, it's still the old trick of Thunder to "eat grain" in Beihai back then, trying to drag down Xian and Zhi. ”

"Alas......" Qin Han sighed and said: "But who would have thought that Huang Che would descend on you, if it weren't for this accident, how could Dekang's granary be lost, it's really better to count people than heaven." ”

"Now that it has been lost, what will Thunder do after learning that the Yin Heavenly King controls the grain and grass?" Bai Liyan continued to ask.

"The old man guessed that Lei Ting was worried that the Yin Tianwang would occupy the grain and grass but not the river, so he wanted the old man to conspire with Wang Tianshi to instigate the Yin Tianwang to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to the north for the eldest grandson."

Hearing this, Bai Liyan suddenly felt that what Qin Han said was not unreasonable.

The male argument and the foolish faction are not in unison, and the king of Yin Tian occupies the grain and grass, but the battle of the river is a high probability event.

Because the thunderous navy is contained in the territory of Changsun, and the Chitose navy can be said to be at war with the Zhi army, so Jiang is completely standable, so it is miserable.

But if it was to go to the northern front, the Yin Tianwang did not have any legitimate excuse to refuse to send troops.

First, Yin Tianwang has little qualifications, and second, the eldest grandson army was defeated in April, and it is reasonable for Thunder to invite him to go north to rotate.

Of course, the Yin Tianwang can be dragged out, but the result may become a confrontation between Wang Tianshi and the Yin Tianwang, and the Yin Tianwang will be deposed.

But if Gongsun Yue couldn't resist the pressure and led his troops to the northern front, the result would not be much better. At that time, Thunder can be deduced to go to Ganfu to reinforce the supernatural powers, and Shengyan will retreat south by deception, so Gongsun Yue's men and horses were invisibly transferred to the outside line, nailed to the front and fought to the death with the Changsun army.

Most of the infantry of the Changsun Army was still inferior to Gongsun Yue's weak brigade, but the advantage in numbers and firearms was enough to make Gongsun Yue difficult to take care of.

Thinking through this layer, it is not difficult to understand why the always suspicious Thunder can be easily fooled this time, in fact, he is now eager to preserve his strength and go south to repair, so that the Yin Tianwang can be this substitute for the dead ghost on the front line.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and Bai Liyan looked at Jiang Jie:

"Prepare a set of Saint Commander's outfits for Qin Caidong, and then choose a few horses and people, and wait for the commander's orders."

"No!"

After Jiang Jie escorted Qin Han away, Zhou Kong said angrily:

"I really didn't expect that the thunder would be so sinister, I don't know how to advance and retreat together at this moment, but I still want to harm my comrades, it's despicable."

"General Zhou, you only know now that the black scarf is despicable and shameless, isn't it a little late?"

Bai Liyan said sarcastically, Zhou Kong's face flushed, and Zhiwu said:

"You're no better, little lotus, let's go!"