Chen Guoqing hurriedly stopped: "No, general, you are the number one general in the world, your whereabouts will be closely watched by all countries, this time you are secretly cooperating with Qi State, if you appear in the capital city of Qi State, it will be known to the world in a few days, and then you will talk about a sneak attack on Jizhou County." ”

Xiao Daocheng didn't dare to let Deng Yuanjue go, no matter how he wanted to suppress the family and Deng Yuanjue, but Deng Yuanjue was always the national pillar of the Great Song Dynasty, and if the Great Song Dynasty encountered a crisis, he still had to rely on Deng Yuanjue at the critical moment. Shi Luosheng only has this potential at present, and compared with Deng Yuanjue, both his reputation and ability are much worse.

Xiao Daocheng echoed and said: "Yes, what the prime minister said is right, you can't go, general, aside from the cooperation with Qi State, even your own safety, general, I can't let you take this risk, let's send someone else to go for the general." ”

Da Situ Li Yuanqing said: "The minister proposed to let the leading general Liu Zixuan go, General Liu is the general's personal disciple, strong in martial arts, and has been in battle for a long time, so it is just right for him to go." ”

Shi Luosheng took a step forward and said: "The minister also asks the minister to go with the leading general, and the minister has a good relationship with Jiang Huan Chu, the fourth prince of Qi State, and the minister can better listen to some news from Jiang Huan Chu." In addition, Tian Wuji, the general of Qi State, is also the only famous general in the world who is second only to General Deng, and the minister also wants to take this opportunity to contact him. ”

Shi Luosheng and Jiang Huan Chu have a deep friendship, this is not a secret, many people in Song and Qi know it, Shi Luosheng does not hide it, and simply says it generously.

In fact, Xiao Daocheng was reluctant to let Shi Luosheng take risks, but when he thought that if he could defeat a few cities in the Chu State, then he would really become the greatest emperor since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, this temptation was really too great for Xiao Daocheng.

Thinking of this, Xiao Daocheng said: "Okay, then General Wei and the leading generals will go together, the two generals should not only pay attention to secrecy on this trip, but also pay attention to their own safety, our relationship with Qi is not as harmonious as that of Yan State, especially General Wei, you have just defeated the water army of Qi State, you must be careful of their deliberate difficulties." ”

Shi Luosheng said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, this time we will go to Qi Country and take the sea route, the sea area around Xianghu Lake is already all our Great Song Dynasty's sphere of influence, and other countries will not find out by sea." ”

After leaving the palace, Shi Luosheng and Liu Zixuan followed Deng Yuanjue to the General's Mansion.

Deng Yuanjue didn't seem to be unhappy about what happened in the early dynasty just now, and asked the two instead: "How do you plan to talk to Jiang Wushuang when you go to Qi State this time?" ”

Shi Luosheng looked at Deng Yuanjue with some doubts and said: "According to what my father-in-law said to His Majesty in the morning, I asked the Qi State to send at least 150,000 troops, and we will send troops again." ”

Deng Yuanjue shook his head and said: "In this way, we are in danger, I didn't plan to cooperate with Qi State, and Qi Country didn't really want to cooperate with us." It's just that Your Majesty has been too smooth during this time, so smooth that he will actually believe in the Qi State and want to fight Chu with them, which is simply seeking skin with the tiger. Deng Yuanjue did not deliberately hide his opinion of Xiao Daocheng in front of Shi Luosheng.

Shi Luosheng was a little bit cleared by Deng Yuanjue, and he understood a little: "Father-in-law, do you mean that the Qi State will pretend to start a war with the Chu State, and when we join the war, the Qi State will withdraw its troops and let the Chu State take out to concentrate on dealing with us, so that we will have no time to help the Yan State?" ”

Deng Yuanjue nodded and said: "I know Tian Wuji too well, that's what he thinks now, the main energy of the Qi State is now focused on the strategy of the Yan State, how can he still have the energy to take time out to attack the Chu State." ”

"The war between Qi and Yan in recent years is very similar to the war between us and Chu back then, on the surface, Yan has not lost an inch of land, but in fact, the national strength has been greatly weakened, and it will not take a few years, and Yan will not be able to hold on. However, in the past two years, with the alliance of Song and Yan, there has been trade between the two countries, and the phenomenon of food shortage in Yan has also improved. After Tian Wuji found out about this, he sent Jiang Huanyan to lead the army to attack Penglai, just to take Anyang in a battle, but unfortunately he was repelled by you and Ning Buqu. ”

Only then did Shi Luosheng suddenly realize: "If Tian Wuji wants to successfully take the Yan Kingdom, he must first let us also fall into the war, and we are unable to support the Yan Kingdom, so he came up with a way to invite us to join forces to attack Chu." He knew that our Great Song Dynasty had been pressed and beaten by the Chu State for so many years, and if he could have the opportunity to fight back, with His Majesty's personality, he would definitely not refuse. ”

"And as long as we enter the war, they will withdraw their troops from the Chu State, and the Chu State will not dare to retaliate against them, so they can only take this evil breath out of us, and then the Song and Chu countries will re-enter the state of war, and we will no longer be able to support the Yan State."

Deng Yuanjue nodded and said: "That's the truth, it's a pity that Your Majesty can't listen to any advice now, I originally wanted to go to Qi Country in person, and then find a way to mess up this cooperation, but who knows that Your Majesty finally sent the two of you." ”

Liu Zixuan asked a little puzzled: "Master, could it be that we are too worried, in case Qi really wants to fight Chu with us?" Recently, we have also defeated the Chu and Qin coalition armies, and thwarted Jiang Huanyan's army, maybe they see that we are also strong now, so they want to join forces with us to deal with Chu. ”

Deng Yuanjue said with a smile: "Zixuan, your thoughts now are exactly the same as Your Majesty's, Your Majesty thinks so." We might as well do an experiment, this time you go to Qi to negotiate and let Jiang Wushuang send 200,000 troops to fight Changli City, he will definitely pretend to bargain, and he will agree to you in the end. ”

Shi Luosheng said: "If Jiang Wushuang can agree to this condition, it means that he really doesn't plan to cooperate with us, but just wants to trick us into sending troops." If so, how should we respond? ”

Deng Yuanjue sighed and said: "The best way is for you to persuade Your Majesty not to send troops, or after sending troops, let the Qi army fall into the battlefield of Chu and not be able to withdraw." ”

Five days later, Shi Luosheng and Liu Zixuan secretly set off from Xianghu Lake to the Beihai Port of Qi State.

Beihai Port is located in Beihai City of Qi State, which is one of the five major port cities of Qi State, and it is also one of the most developed among them, with thousands of ships entering and leaving the port every day.

Compared with the Song and Yan maritime blockages, the maritime trade of Qi is extremely developed, and they have long-term trade contacts with overseas Siam, Annam, Java and other places, and the annual income of this piece alone accounts for forty percent of the total income of Qi State, which is also the reason why Qi State was able to catch up with and surpass Chu State later, and gradually widen the gap.