At this time, in the palace, the military officials of the Jin State were gathered together, discussing the recent military situation.

The king of Jin, Li Cunqiao, sat on the top, and below was Li Sizhao, Li Cunzhang, Li Siyuan, Li Cunjin, Yan Bao, Yuan Xingqin, Meng Zhixiang and many other generals on the side.

The key issue in today's deliberations is, of course, the handling of Zhang Wenli's rebellion.

When Zhang Wenli had just launched a mutiny to kill the Zhao Wang Rong family, he immediately sent people to Weizhou to make a presentation to Li Cunqing, first, to express his submission, second, to request canonization, and third, to persuade Li Cunqiao to be emperor.

At that time, although Li Cunmiao had the intention to raise troops to fight against Zhang Wenli, the generals believed that now the Jin and Liang hegemony had reached the most critical time, and although the Jin side tried its best, it could only barely suppress the Liang State, in this case, it was really not appropriate to fall out with the Zhao State.

Therefore, the generals thought that Zhang Wenli's status should be recognized, as long as Zhang Wenli could continue to maintain an alliance with the Jin State.

At that time, although Li Cunmiao was unwilling in his heart, for the sake of the overall situation, he could only admit it in the end, and sent someone to canonize Zhang Wenli as the queen of the Chengde Army.

However, now that more than a month has passed, Li Cunqiao found that his previous forbearance did not seem to have played the expected role, because Zhang Wenli was still secretly colluding with the Liang State and even the Khitans.

killed King Zhao's family, Li Cunqiao could bear it; But in collusion with the Khitans and the Liang State, this is unbearable.

"At the beginning, all the generals persuaded me that Zhang Wenli's rebellion was certainly killable, but as long as he could continue to maintain an alliance with Gu, then his status should be recognized. Now that he is canonized as the queen of the Chengde Army, but he is not grateful, but secretly colludes with the Khitan and Liang people, what else do you have to say? ”

Li Cunmiao pointed to a few white silks on the table, which were Zhang Wenli's letter to Liang Guo intercepted by the soldiers patrolling the banks of the Yellow River, which clearly proved that Zhang Wenli and Liang Guo were colluding.

As for the Khitan side, although no actual evidence has been caught yet, it can be felt from all signs that Zhang Wenli is also colluding with the Khitans.

The generals' faces were a little unsightly, and they obviously didn't expect this result.

After a while, Li Sizhao spoke: "Great King, the last general thinks that the main purpose of canonizing Zhang Wenli as the queen of the festival is to prevent him from falling to the side of the Liang State. But now that Zhang Wenli has fallen to the side of the Liang State, the king might as well immediately send troops and destroy him with lightning speed. ”

Li Cunqiao nodded, a little moved.

But then Yan Bao said: "Great King, the last general feels that it is a little inappropriate to immediately send troops to raid Zhang Wenli. ”

"What's wrong?" Li Cunmiao frowned and asked.

"First, the king has just canonized Zhang Wenli as the Chengde Army, and now he immediately sends troops to fight, which will inevitably make people criticize. Second, the king thinks that since the chaos, Zhang Wenli has been worried in his heart, and he is always on guard against the king, and our army hastily sent troops to raid, just afraid that it will not only be difficult to succeed, but also completely force it into the side of the Liang State. Yan Bao said.

"Could it be that this person has not completely joined the side of the Liang State now?" Li Sizhao asked rhetorically with some dissatisfaction.

"The last general thinks that although he has the idea of joining the Liang State now, he has not yet made a complete decision, and if the king fights again, he may not be able to change his mind."

When Li Cunmiao heard this, he finally became a little interested.

Now that there are enough enemies in the Jin Kingdom, the Liang State in the south has contained a large amount of military strength of the Jin army, and the Khitans in the north are even more eyeing the enemy, thinking of going south to plunder at any time.

In this case, although the Jin army has a large number of troops and a strong strength, there are not many troops that can really be used to maneuver.

Therefore, if you can continue to maintain the alliance with Zhao without using troops, this is naturally the best choice.

He asked in a deep voice, "You said to fight again, I don't know what you plan to do?" ”

Yan Bao hurriedly said: "King, the reason why Zhang Wenli wants to collude with the Liang people and the Khitan people is that he is afraid that the king will send troops to fight. Now that the king has intercepted Zhang Wenli's letter to the people of Liang, he might as well send someone to send this letter to Zhang Wenli. If this person knew what was wrong, he would naturally send someone to ask the king for his guilt. ”

"Then what if Zhang Wenli doesn't know what to do, and he still wants to continue to collude with Liang Guo?"

"King, the last general has already said just now that it is not advisable to send troops to raid, and Zhang Wenli must be prepared. Therefore, even if you want to use troops to fight against Zhang Wenli, it will take a while to prepare. The king might as well send a letter to Zhang Wenli to see how he reacts; On the other hand, preparations are made for the mobilization of troops, so that neither side is delayed. ”

"Okay, just do as you say." Li Cunmiao quickly made a decision.

Soon, in the city of Zhenzhou, the letter intercepted by the Jin army was quickly sent back to Zhang Wenli.

"What? was actually intercepted by the Jin army? As soon as he saw these letters, Zhang Wenli was shocked.

These letters were written on white silk, sealed with wax, and carried to Liang by Zhang Wenli's henchmen in person, but he didn't want to be intercepted by the Jin army, which even made him wonder if someone under his command had revealed the news to the Jin State.

"Father, since King Jin has intercepted the letter to Lord Liang, what does it mean that he will return this letter to his father?" The person who spoke was Zhang Wenli's eldest son Zhang Chujin, who was less than 30 years old this year, but he was young and promising, and he often went out with his father and was deeply loved by Zhang Wenli.

"Well, maybe King Jin wants to use this as a warning to me, right?" Zhang Wenli was worried in his heart, and he was a little uncertain.

"And what is my father going to do?" Zhang Chujin then asked.

Zhang Wenli pondered for a long time, not knowing how to answer.

Zhang Chujin then said: "Father, since the King of Jin sent someone to send the intercepted letter back, presumably the King of Jin did not make up his mind to use troops against his father, otherwise he would have already begun to mobilize the army, so why bother?" So the child thought, why didn't the father continue to maintain the union with the Jin Kingdom? If you want to come to the King of Jin, that's it. ”

"How can it be as easy as you think?" Zhang Wenli smiled bitterly.

Of course, he knew that Li Cunmiao had not made up his mind to deal with him at present, which could be seen from the fact that Li Cunmiao sent someone to canonize him as the Chengde Army.

However, the reason why Zhang Wenli still wanted to collude with the Liang people and the Khitan people was because of two considerations.

First of all, one aspect is to completely control the Zhao State.

Although Wang Rong's family has been killed, this does not mean that Zhang Wenli has completely controlled Zhao State, and many of Wang Rong's old subordinates still want to kill Zhang Wenli to avenge Wang Rong.

It's just that at present, Zhang Wenli has been officially canonized by Li Cunxuan, and he controls most of the army of Zhao State, in this case, those old departments of Wang Rong do not dare to come out at will for the time being.

But these old departments of Wang Rong are now basically moving closer to the king of Jin, and if Zhang Wenli wants to completely control the Zhao State, he must try to get rid of these old departments of Wang Rong, and in this way, there is an irreconcilable contradiction with Li Cunmiao.

In addition to eradicating Wang Rong's old department, another question that Zhang Wenli was worried about was whether Li Cunmiao would settle accounts in the future.

After all, the relationship between Wang Rong and Li Cunmiao was extremely close, and the two were sons and daughters; Not only that, since Wang Rong turned his back on Liang and switched to the Jin Kingdom, he has always maintained a close relationship with Li Cunqing.

Every time the Jin army went on an expedition, King Zhao would send troops to accompany him, and the relationship between the two families was like a family.

It can be said that the relationship between Wang Rong and Li Cunqiao is both an ally and a friend at the same time.

So after the news of Wang Rong's killing reached Weizhou, Li Cunqiao immediately cried bitterly and wanted to raise troops to avenge Wang Rong, although in the end for the sake of the overall situation, he barely endured this breath, but the idea of revenge in his heart still exists.

Zhang Wenli is naturally very clear about this, so even if he has obtained the canonization of Li Cunmiao and has the orthodox name of controlling the German army, he still does not dare to get too close to Li Cunmiao, but thinks about colluding with Liang Guo.

"So, it's not as simple as you think. It's not that my father doesn't want to maintain an alliance with the Jin Kingdom, but the King of Jin can't let me go at all, so I can only hope to use the Liang State to contain the Jin Kingdom. Zhang Wenli smiled bitterly.

When he launched the mutiny, he still considered the problem too simply, thinking that as long as Wang Rong's family was killed, he would be able to use the situation in the world to slowly find a way to unify the Zhao State and become a prince.

However, after the big thing was done, many things came one after another, and at that time he realized that it was really not so easy to control Zhao Guo.

So now he feels a little difficult to ride a tiger.

"Father, are the people of Liang reliable? Didn't they lose year after year? How much strength is there to help us today? Zhang Chujin is not very optimistic about Liang Guo.

"Whether the people of Liang are reliable or not, there is no way, we can only contact them." Zhang Wenli shook his head, and then said, "By the way, how are the Khitans in contact?" ”

If the Liang people are unreliable, then the only people he can rely on are the Khitans.

As early as five years ago, the Khitan leader Yelu Abaoji changed the traditions of the Khitan people as he wished, officially established the Khitan State, and established an empire similar to the Han dynasty.

Since then, the Khitans often went south to plunder Youzhou and other places, becoming a major problem for Li Cunqing's henchmen.

Four years ago, Yelu Abaoji sent troops to besiege Youzhou, but was defeated by Li Cunxian, the general of the Jin army; In the past two years, Abaoji has not wanted to go south again to avenge the revenge of the year.

If Zhang Wenli can persuade the Khitans to go south, maybe he can protect himself; If the Liang people are ultimately unreliable, and the Khitans are unwilling to go south, then he will really have a big rest.

Zhang Chujin hurriedly replied: "Father, our envoy is only afraid that he has just arrived at the Khitan side, and even if there is any good news, I am afraid that it will not be able to come so quickly." However, Lu Wenjin is extremely friendly to us, and seems to be willing to help us persuade the Khitans. ”