Sima Rui moved to Jianye that year, and the southern scholars did not pay attention to him at all, it was Wang Dao Wang Dun who subdued their hearts with a trick, and since then he has returned to Sima Rui, so that when Sima Rui ascended the throne as the emperor, he deliberately made a wide dragon throne and wanted to sit in the world with Wang Dao, which is what later generations often say "the king and the horse share the world".

Director Wang is a sensible person, no matter how meritorious the Langya Wang family is, he is also a courtier, and he can't keep up with the emperor.

To talk about it, at that time, Sima Rui asked Director Wang to sit in the world together, not sincerely, but just to test Director Wang's reaction.

Director Wang's answer made Sima Rui very satisfied, he has been more dependent on the Wang family since then, so that he has formed the disadvantage of having more officials out of the door, the Wang family has actually controlled the Great Jin, Sima Rui gradually felt overwhelmed, he wants to change this status quo, but now Wang Dun is going to be sealed again, do you want to reject him?

Sima Rui thought about it again and again, and decided to promise Wang Dun first, although his military power and official position were great, but after all, he could leave the imperial court, and he could find someone to enter the center of the imperial court, cultivate courtiers who were pro-royal family, check and balance the Wang family, and achieve the goal of gradually squeezing out the Wang family.

"Wang Aiqing has contributed to the society, and I will agree to whatever official position I want, and I will approve it, and I will implement the decree tomorrow."

Wang Dun listened to Sima Rui's far-fetched words, and he replied: "Thank you to the emperor, although the minister has contributed to the society, but he always thinks of the court, and he does not dare to have the slightest thought of credit, and the minister wants to lead several states also to share the emperor's worries." ”

"My heart is like a mirror, Lord Wang can do it with confidence." Sima Rui still has something to say.

Wang Dunxin said, if you don't agree, you have to agree, without our Wang family, how can you, the royal family, be the emperor, if it is really not as good as I want, sooner or later I will end you, so that you don't even have to do the emperor!

The next day, Sima Rui ordered someone to announce his will in the court, and named Wang Dun as the assassin of Xiangzhou in Jingzhou, and supervised the military affairs of Jing, Yang, Jiang, Hunan, Jiao, and Guangzhou, and went to work on the same day.

After announcing the decree, Wang Dao and Wang Dun were very satisfied, in this way, the two brothers, one in the court and the other in the outside to lead the troops, the world belongs to the Wang family.

After announcing this holy decree, the eunuch then read out another holy decree, sealing Liu Kui as the general of Zhenbei, adding servants, Diao Xie as Shang Shuling, and Dai Yuan as Sima, these three people are not afraid of the lords, Sima Rui uses them to suppress the Wang family and balance the power of the court.

Since then, Liu Kui and Diao Xie have become Sima Rui's right-hand men, and they want to give advice to him to concentrate imperial power.

After Zu Ti crossed the river, he came to Huaiyin, which is the ruling area of the Great Jin Dynasty, and after this is the land of Zhao, he wants to recruit troops and horses here, accumulate strength, and march to Qiaocheng.

200 people set up camp, immediately recruited soldiers, the people heard that the emperor sent people to the Northern Expedition, have support, enthusiastically signed up to join, three days to recruit 3,000 people, Zu Ti and open the furnace to smelt iron, build weapons, order military uniforms and armor, buy war horses, busy and happy.

Zu Ti trained the new army every day and established strict military discipline, and if there was a violation, he would engage in military engagement.

After a period of time, Zu Ti's team began to take shape, armor uniforms and weapons were prepared, on this day, Zu Ti made a pre-expedition review, only to see Zu Ti standing on the review stand, with the sound of war drums, the Northern Expedition sabers and guns are bright, the armor is dazzling, and they accept Zu Ti's review with a square pace, they change formation from time to time with Zu Yue's order flag, sometimes round, sometimes square, sometimes round and inside, and sometimes like a long snake shuttling back and forth, no matter how it moves, it maintains an orderly formation, orderly, Zu Ti nodded with satisfaction.

Zu Ti waved his hand, Zu Yue waved the command flag, the team stopped and gathered, Zu Ti said emotionally: "Soldiers, we will be put into the battlefield from tomorrow, our opponent is the brutal Xiongnu Zhao army, we must use the swords and guns in our hands to drive them away, and never allow the Zhao army to do evil in our territory!" We have no way back, only forward, only brave to kill! Soldiers, are you afraid! ”

"Don't be afraid! Unafraid! Unafraid! ”

"Do you have the confidence to kill Zhao Jun!"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! ”

Looking at the passionate soldiers, Zu Ti was full of blood again!

At night, as cool as water, Zu Ti sat alone by the Huai River and thought about things, and said alone: "Big brother, what are you thinking?" ”

As soon as Zu Li heard the familiar voice of Jin Ziyan, he got up and turned to Jin Ziyan and said, "Ziyan, you ...... Here it ......."

"What? Don't you welcome me? ”

"How come, I can help you every day, I am now ordered to the Northern Expedition, and I especially need your help, how about joining the Northern Expedition?"

"I was afraid that you wouldn't accept me, so I gave a meeting gift first, and you also received it, and it played a great role."

"A greeting gift?"

"Big brother still doesn't understand, let me ask you, where did you get the money you used to recruit troops and buy horses?"

"It's official silver, and it's given to us by General Tao."

Jin Ziyan smiled and said, "Big brother, it wasn't Tao Kan who sent you, I sent it." ”

"You sent it? So, you were the thief that day? ”

"Thieves? Do you also make me a thief? ”

"No, no, no, you are the head of the Dilongmen, and you do chivalrous things, and you steal in a good way, hehe."

"Big brother, I won't hide it from you, this money was stolen from the treasury of Jianye Palace by our Dilongmen."

"The treasury? The emperor said that the financial resources are tight and there is no money to spare, so where will the official money come from? ”

"That's the case, the emperor didn't pay you a military salary, I just wanted to see if there was any silver in the treasury, so I sneaked into the palace the night before you left, and after coming to the treasury, I found out the bottom of the court."

"How much silver is in the treasury?"

"There are 100,000 taels."

"One hundred thousand taels! No way! ”

"Really, I'm angry, why don't I give you a penny if I have money, I summoned the people of Dilongmen to move out five thousand taels of silver overnight, loaded three thousand taels on your ship, and two thousand taels on Brother Liu's ship, these are enough for you to spend for a while, I didn't expect the court to find out that the silver was lost, so I searched everywhere, and found your ship, this is what I never expected, if it weren't for General Tao, I would have almost helped, if you were charged with thieves, the Northern Expedition may have died just after leaving the division."

"So, the emperor really doesn't want to go on the Northern Expedition!"

"This is obvious, Sima Rui only wants to favor Jiangdong, and does not want to invest manpower and financial resources in the Northern Expedition, this is the truth."

Zu Ti said: "No matter what, I will carry out the Northern Expedition to the end, Ziyan, join us." ”

"The reason why I came to you is to join you, and the people of our Earth Dragon Gate are ready to call at any time!"

"Okay, great, Ziyan......" Zu Ti kissed Jin Ziyan's face excitedly.

"I'm ashamed...... Big brother, don't ...... like that"

The water flows quietly, the wind is gentle, and the clouds are faint......

The next day, the Northern Expeditionary Army pulled out the camp and marched towards Luzhou, just passing by a dock fort, there was a force of men and horses protruding to block the way, Zu Ti ordered the Northern Army to show their weapons and prepare to fight!

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