"Arrangement? Lone's plan is to let him serve as a civil servant in the court, maybe he will be an official of the Sixth Ministry, just start from Langzhong, and be promoted to a squire or a scholar when the time comes, but don't worry, Lone will not let him serve as a university scholar. Yang Wu simply replied directly.

Zhou Mengjie's face turned red, and she said with some disgust: "What's wrong with the concubine?" The left and right are our second brothers, and the concubine body just doesn't want to mess up the inheritance of the country; As for whether the king let him stay in the court as a civil servant, or go to the local domain, the concubine will not care. ”

"Domain? Lone doesn't plan to divide any vassal kings, it will be easy when this vassal king is divided, but it will be difficult to withdraw the vassal in the future. Lonely is not willing to bring hidden dangers to the country! Yang Wu shook his head and said.

The examples of the Han, Jin, and Ming dynasties are right in front of him, and Yang Wu naturally does not intend to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Zhou Mengjie didn't have anything on her face, but secretly she breathed a sigh of relief.

She continued: "Since the king is like this, then the concubine doesn't have to ask much. However, the concubine heard that the king was going to reuse Cheng Zong and Liu Renzhen in the future, and these two grew up with their second brother, and they joined the military together to learn the art of war from Gu Quanwu, will this be ......?"

She was obviously worried about this question as well, and since she had asked it at this time, she also asked it as well.

No way, who let the current prince of Wu be her son? Even if she is indifferent and doesn't like to ask about government affairs, when it comes to her son, she has to worry a little more.

Yang Wu smiled dumbly: "You are thinking too much, Cheng Zong and Liu Renzhen, although they grew up with their second brother, they are both reasonable people, don't look at their young age, but they know who to work for." So you can rest assured! ”

Needless to say, Liu Renzhen is a precocious person, although he is less than thirteen years old, he acts extremely steadily on weekdays, just like an adult.

Cheng Zong is similar, and he is also a stable person.

Although the two of them are good friends with Yang Longyan, when the political situation in the court of Wu is stable and Yang Wu is in charge, both of them will only be loyal to Yang Wu and will not have other thoughts, which Yang Wu is still confident in.

However, Zhou Mengjie was a little dissatisfied, her expression was solemn, and she said very seriously: "King, since you plan to reuse the two of them, then from now on, you can't let them get too close to the clan, this is not a matter of trust or distrust!" ”

After she said this, Yang Wu was also stunned for a moment, and then said: "Since this is the case, then transfer the two of them away from the second brother after a while!" After a while, Gu will personally lead the troops to conquer Jiangling, and let them go out with Gu when the time comes! ”

But then, Yang Wu said a little strangely: "Madam, what's wrong with you today?" Why do you care so much about these things? In the past, you never asked about these things? ”

Zhou Mengjie said with a somewhat evasive expression: "It's nothing, just ask!" ”

Yang Wu naturally didn't believe it even more after seeing it, he knew that if there was nothing to do, even if Yang Wu ordered the prince to listen to the affairs of the court today, she would not ask so much about government affairs, at most just ask one sentence.

So there must be something going on that I don't know.

At his insistence, Zhou Mengjie finally admitted that it was her brother Zhou Ye who came to the palace.

Compared with Li Chengding, who is also close to Yang Wu, Zhou Ye is much more low-key.

When Li Chengding was promoted to governor in a short period of time, Zhou Ye was now just an ordinary commander, equivalent to Liu Chongjing's level, which was obviously too far from his identity.

The main reason for this is that his father Zhou Ben deliberately suppressed him and did not want him to be promoted too quickly.

For Zhou Ben, his daughter is already the queen, the crown prince is his grandson, plus he himself is a meritorious veteran of the Wu State, with heavy troops and deep prestige, in this case, he must be as low-key as possible.

Therefore, although Zhou Ben has a prominent identity, he is extremely low-key in the court of Wu State, and in recent years, he has stayed in Jinling with peace of mind, and he rarely even asks about things in the barracks, and only goes to the barracks to investigate when necessary.

As for his two sons, the eldest son, Zhou Ye, is also extremely low-key, and even many people don't know that the queen of Wu has such an elder brother; And Zhou Ben's second son is still young now, and now he is studying in military studies, and it is obviously still a while before he becomes a general.

After Yang Wu inquired again, he learned that it was Zhou Ye who heard some rumors outside, saying that the prince was a little dull, although he was studying with Taifu Gaomian, but his studies were not very good.

"That's the reason!" Yang Wu couldn't laugh or cry.

However, he can also understand that Yang Jiong is indeed very slow to learn things, much slower than his younger brothers, and he doesn't know who spread the news, but even Zhou Ye, who was outside the palace, knew about it, and hurriedly entered the palace to ask.

Zhou Mengjie naturally felt worried after learning about it, and Yang Wu was indeed very good at her second brother Yang Long, which made her even more worried about whether it would have any impact on Yang Jiong's position as the crown prince.

"The queen can rest assured that Jiong'er is the eldest son of Lone, and if Lone does not make him the prince, who will he appoint? As for those rumors, you don't have to take them to heart, Gu asked Taifu, although Jiong'er is slow to learn things, but he is diligent and studious, which Gu especially likes. ”

"As a lonely heir, the smarter the better, and sometimes being dull is not necessarily a bad thing; What's more, he is so studious, as the so-called ten horses are driven, and the merit is relentless; As long as he continues to work hard, he will definitely be able to achieve something in the future! Yang Wu smiled and comforted.

Hearing what he said, Zhou Mengjie's face finally improved a lot.

……

The next day, Yang Wu officially announced in the court that he would send troops to quell the Li Qiu Rebellion.

At the same time, Yang Wu once again summoned Wang Dingbao, the envoy of Lingnan, who had been staying in Jinling for more than half a year, and asked him to inform Liu Yan that he should immediately cede the lands of He and Zhao, otherwise he would be punished for the crime of rebellion.

Originally, Wang Dingbao's main purpose in coming to Wu was to seek Wu State's approval of Liu Yan to inherit the Qinghai Jiedu envoy, but what he didn't expect was that Yang Wu agreed to Liu Yan's status very happily; However, at the same time, Yang Wu asked Liu Yan to cut the land.

Wang Dingbao naturally did not dare to agree to such conditions, and under his arguments, in the end, Yang Wu agreed to only ask for the cession of Hezhou and Zhaozhou in the north.

However, even in the land of two states, Wang Dingbao did not dare to agree, so he had to stay in Jinling and prepare to continue negotiations.

The reason why Yang Wu proposed the condition of cutting the land at the beginning was just to find something for Liu Yan to do, so that he would not take advantage of the war between Wu and Chu to send troops to seize Ma Yin's territory.

However, what he didn't expect was that after this, Ma Yin suddenly surrendered to Wu Guonatu, and without Ma Yin's constraints, Yang Wu's confidence was naturally more sufficient.

Especially now, the territories ceded by Ma Yin have basically been received, and whether the army of Wu will point to Lingnan or Jingnan will be the focus of attention of all parties.

Although all the ministers of the Wu court have already made a decision, the problem is that Liu Yan does not know Wu Guo's plans, and he does not dare to gamble.

Under the strong pressure of the Wu army, Liu Yan naturally had to consider whether he wanted to fall out with the Wu State for the sake of the land of the two states, which led to the Wu army going directly south to crusade.

Yang Wu's purpose was actually to take advantage of the period before sending troops to Jingnan to exert strong pressure on Liu Yan and make him obediently cut the land.

However, what Yang Wu didn't expect was that after Yang Wu made this request again, this time, Wang Dingbao agreed without any hesitation.

"It seems that Liu Yan has prepared in advance! Thinking that it should be after Ma Yin surrendered, he realized the danger and did not dare to take the risk of sending troops to fight alone, so he sent someone to inform Wang Dingbao in advance. Seeing this situation, Yang Wu naturally guessed the reason inside.

Since Liu Yan is so knowledgeable about current affairs, Yang Wu naturally laughed at the land of the two states he ceded.

Now that Lingnan has no other foreign aid, and it is completely surrounded by Wu State, Wu State can annex it whenever it wants, and there is no need to rush for a while.

Therefore, Yang Wu sent people to receive the newly arrived land of the two states, and on the other hand, he quickly accumulated grain and grass in Yuezhou and Ezhou to prepare for the attack on Jiangling.

At the same time, Liu Xin, who was stationed in Jiangxi, had already received Yang Wu's military order and began to assemble south, preparing to crusade against Li Qiu, the "rebel general" of Qianzhou.

……

While Yang Wu was preparing for the attack on Jiangling, the Liang and Shu kingdoms were also preparing for the rescue of Jiangling.

Although the mobilization of Wu's army is not obvious, it is not difficult to find out the news of the large-scale hoarding of grain and grass in Yuezhou and Ezhou.

From the geographical point of view, the purpose of Wu State's hoarding of grain and grass in Yuezhou and Ezhou was obviously to prepare for the attack on Jiangling.

At the same time, if a small number of troops are dispatched, the supply of grain and grass hoarded by Wu Guoping in Ezhou can basically be guaranteed, and there is no need to deliberately hoard grain and grass; Therefore, from this news, it can be inferred that this time the Wu army will inevitably attack Jiangling with a lot of troops.

In the face of such a large-scale attack, the two families of Liang and Shu naturally did not dare to slack off.

Zhu Wen soon ordered the appointment of Kou Yanqing as the new Shannan Dongdao Jiedu envoy to replace Kong Qing, the previous Jiedu envoy.

Rushing to Xiangzhou with Kou Yanqing to take office, there were also 40,000 Liang troops mobilized from all over the country, plus the original garrison of Shannan Dongdao, so that Kou Yanqing's troops reached more than 50,000 people.

As a result, Kou Yanqing went from an ordinary general to a feudal town with an army of 50,000 in a short period of time.

Almost at the same time as Kou Yanqing's assumption of office, Wang Jian, the lord of Shu, also began to gather troops to the front line of Kuizhou, so that the garrison near Kuizhou reached 60,000 people, all of which were handed over to the Zhenjiang military envoy and Wang Zongshou, the king of Jia.