Chapter 204: Split Gall
If it weren't for Dong Zhao's reminder, Su Zhe almost forgot that his biggest advantage on the bright side was to hold the righteous trump card of the Son of Heaven.
With this trump card, he can justifiably give orders to the princes of the world, telling them to attack each other.
Of course, whether they listen or not is another matter.
What he has to do now is to tap Dong Zhuo's potential enemies, and in the name of the Son of Heaven, issue an edict to let them attack Dong Zhuo in order to relieve the pressure he is under.
"Gongren thinks, which way of the princes can be used by us?" Su Zhe asked Dong Zhao for advice and changed the name of his table to show his closeness.
Dong Zhao raised his hand and pointed to the west, "The princes who can be used on the first road are Han Sui and Ma Teng who are entrenched in the Xiliang area. ”
Han Sui Ma Teng!
These two names made Su Zhe's eyes light up slightly.
Dong Zhao continued: "Han and Ma, originally rebels in Xiliang, Dong Zhuo was also ordered to fight, and there was a festival between them, and later Dong Zhuo held the Son of Heaven hostage, in order to maintain the stability of Liangzhou, he recruited Han and Ma in the name of the imperial court, and named them high-ranking officials, so that they were superficially subordinate and subservient. ”
"Now that Dong Zhuo has lost the Son of Heaven, his original reward for Han and Ma is equivalent to losing its meaning, presumably Han and Ma have had different hearts at this moment."
"Therefore, what Su Cheqi has to do, the Lord is to ask the Son of Heaven to issue an edict, promising to reward Han and Ma, and tell them to raise troops to attack Chang'an and threaten Dong Zhao's Guanzhong lair."
Su Zhe nodded slightly, what Dong Zhao said was exactly what he wanted, you must know that Han Sui and Ma Teng, who were restless princes in history, repeatedly rebelled, and were destroyed by Cao Cao after decades of Teng in Xiliang.
"Ma and Han may not just listen to the orders of the Son of Heaven and really attack Chang'an." Li Yan questioned.
Su Zhe brushed his hands and said: "Even if they don't really attack Chang'an, they will respond to the call of the Son of Heaven on the surface and bluff to attack Chang'an, which is enough, as long as Dong Zhuo can be forced to be distracted to guard against the direction of Liangzhou, it will be worth it under this edict." ”
Li Yan realized and nodded.
Dong Zhao took a sip of tea and continued: "This second available soldier is naturally Cao Cao of Yanzhou. ”
"Cao Cao has recently broken Yuan's technique in Kuangting, and he has solved the danger of Yanzhou, and he can already free up his hands to use troops in other directions."
"Yanzhou borders Luoyang Nanyang, once Dong Zhuodong sends a letter to Guguan, it will inevitably form an oppression on Yanzhou, so Cao Cao will have a common enemy with us."
"And when the princes of the Eighteenth Road begged Dong, Cao Cao was also the hardest one, which also proves from the side how much Cao Cao dislikes Dong Zhuo."
"Therefore, if Su Cheqi can ask the Son of Heaven to issue an edict, Ming Cao Cao will be the pastor of Yanzhou, and order him to lead the army westward, coerce the Tiger Pass, threaten Luoyang, and make Dong Zhuo's flank unstable, even if he doesn't dare to really fight Dong Zhuo, it can also relieve our pressure."
The second way of helping, Cao Cao, is also in line with Su Zhe's guess.
Not to mention that when Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, the eighteen princes were all in the wine meeting, and no one pursued them, only Cao Cao, who was weaker, was indignant and led the army to pursue alone, but was killed by Dong Zhuo and defeated.
Although that battle was lost, it was enough to prove Cao Cao's deep hatred for Dong Zhuo.
Moreover, as Dong Zhao said, Luoyang borders Yanzhou, and Dong Zhuo once again comes to Luoyang, if he is destroyed, the next one to suffer first must be Yanzhou under his Cao Cao's rule.
It is impossible for Cao Cao not to understand the truth of cold lips and teeth.
"Is there a third way to go?" Su Zhe asked with a smile.
"The third way is the weakest, but it's barely the way." Dong Zhao raised his hand and pointed to the north, "The soldiers available on this road are the Baibo armies in the east of the river." ”
"Most of the Baibo armies are the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, entrenched in Hedong County for many years, these people are nameless and have no share, and they hope that the imperial court can seal them an official and a half-post, so that they can get rid of the identity of thieves."
"So what Su Cheqi has to do is to send a man who can speak well, take the edict of the Son of Heaven, recruit the generals of An Baibo, seal them with official positions, organize them, go south from Hedong County to Hongnong County, and threaten to cut off the connection between Guanzhong and Luoyang."
"There are many forces on this road, each of them is not subordinate to each other, although the number of people is numerous, in essence, it is a plate of scattered sand, and the overall strength is not strong."
"But Hongnong County is located between Luoyang and Chang'an, it is the only passage connecting the two capitals, once it is cut off, the consequences are unimaginable, so even if the strength of the soldiers and horses along the way is not strong, Dong Zhuo will never dare to take it lightly, and will definitely pay heavy troops to Hongnong to take precautions, so that it can reduce the pressure we are facing."
When Dong Zhao analyzed, Su Zhe's eyes did not leave the map, and he was outlining the interests of various places in his heart.
Soon, the haze in front of me dissipated, and suddenly it became clear.
If these three soldiers and horses can really be used, Dong Zhuo seems to be menacing, but in fact, it is not so terrifying.
After pondering for a long time, a smile appeared on Su Zhe's face, and he exclaimed: "You Dong Gongren is really my timely rain, okay, just use your plan, it's time to add some blockage to Dong Zhuo." ”
At that moment, Su Zhe used Dong Zhao's plan to write a recital and send it to the palace quickly, asking the Son of Heaven to issue three holy decrees and send them to the three places respectively to recruit the three soldiers and horses to besiege Dong Zhuo.
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Palace.
In the inner sanctum, the Son of Heaven is having a family feast.
The people present, in addition to the queen, also included the national abbot Fu Wan, as well as the Wei general Dong Cheng, and his daughter Dong Yan.
Now that the danger of Wancheng has been solved, in order to win over Dong Cheng, Liu Xie has put his daughter Dong Yan as a concubine and put it on the agenda.
The father and daughter of the Dong family can actually be regarded as relatives and a family.
As the queen, Fu Shou should have been jealous of the Son of Heaven's concubine, and even if he didn't object, he wouldn't try his best to promote it.
On the contrary, this time, it was Fu Shou who took the initiative to ask Liu Xie to accept Dong Yan as a concubine as soon as possible.
She also can't help it, in the emotional let, of course, a woman is unwilling to share her husband with another woman.
But reason told her that the Son of Heaven urgently needed this marriage to gain Dong Cheng's desperate support.
You must know that Dong Cheng, the general of Wei, has nearly 800 Lin Su Guards, which is the only force that Liu Xie, the son of heaven, can directly mobilize.
Only by turning Dong Cheng into a relative and firmly tying the Dong family and the Liu family together can we ensure Cheng's diehard loyalty and ensure the absolute command of the Son of Heaven over the 800 Yulin Army.
In order to do all this, the queen of Fushou can only take into account the overall situation, rationally urge her husband to accept another woman as a concubine.
As for whether this woman will compete with her for favor in the future and pose a threat to her status, that is a later story.
"If General Dong has no opinion, the fifteenth day of next month will be an auspicious day, and the ceremony of accepting concubines will be held at that time." Fu Shou took advantage of the harmonious atmosphere and proposed with a smile.
Dong Cheng looked at Dong Yan beside him, Dong Yan's face was slightly dizzy, she bowed her head and said nothing, and she had no opinion.
Dong Cheng arched his hand and smiled: "Everything is up to the mother's arrangement." ”
Fu Shou nodded with satisfaction: "That's good, then the palace will send someone to the ward Su Che to ride, and ask him to offer more money and goods, so that this concubine gift can be held in a beautiful and lively manner." ”
Dong Cheng praised it again and again.
In the end, Fu Shou remembered Liu Xie, so he turned around and asked, "What does Your Majesty think the concubine arranged?" ”
"The queen has arranged it very well, I listen to the queen." Liu Xie nodded with a smile.
Everyone was satisfied, and the atmosphere in the hall was happy and harmonious.
At this moment, a eunuch outside the hall broke in in a hurry and presented a piece of Su Zhe's recital.
Liu Xie didn't think much about it, he took it and took a look, and was immediately frightened and changed color, and the watch in his hand actually fell off his hand.
The Son of Heaven changed color, and everyone was shocked, and immediately quieted down, and looked at Liu Xie in surprise.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Fu Shouhu said suspiciously.
"It's over, it's over, Dong thief is here, Dong thief is here!" Liu Xie shouted in a hoarse voice, and his face was so frightened that it was distorted.
As soon as they heard the word "Dong thief", everyone changed.
Fu Shou's face also changed, and he was anxious to grab the watch, and when he looked at it carefully, his face couldn't help but become more and more solemn.
It is clearly written that Dong Zhuo led 60,000 iron cavalry to invade the south, and asked the Son of Heaven to quickly issue three holy edicts, ordering Cao Cao, Ma Han's two generals, and Hedong Zhubaibo to send troops to besiege Dong Zhuo on three sides.
"Queen Mother, what the hell is going on?" Dong Cheng also asked uneasily.
Fu Shou took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the fluctuations in his heart, and slowly recited Su Zhe's recital.
In the hall, there was a deathly silence in the blink of an eye, and everyone's expressions condensed into a moment of fear.
It's as if the nightmare that no one wants to recall buried deep in my heart has come back to my mind.
Especially Liu Xie, how Dong Zhuo poisoned his brother Liu Bian, how he wantonly raped and insulted the widow of his father Emperor Lingdi across the wall from him, how he openly insulted him as a yellow-mouthed child in the court, and how he smashed the ministers loyal to him in front of him......
The terrifying scenes instantly came to his mind, followed by endless horror, the kind of fear that made him hairy, and even oppressed him to the illusion of suffocation.
"What to do? Queen, what should I do? I don't want to be caught by the Dong thief! I don't want to live like that again, I don't want to! ”
Liu Xie, who was frightened and oppressed, was so frightened that he lost the basic demeanor of the emperor, and held Fu Shou's hand tightly, begging for Fu Shou's help like a frightened child.
He looked so panicked that Fu Wan and Dong Cheng under the stairs looked stunned.
"Alas~~" Dong Yan shook her head and sighed secretly, and there was a trace of helplessness on her pretty face.
Fu Shouxiu frowned deeply, like a gentle persuasion from his mother: "Your Majesty, you calm down first, don't be afraid, don't we have Su Ziming, the Optimus Pillar, hasn't he already thought of a way to deal with Dong Thief, Your Majesty should not be too alarmed." ”
"It's useless, no one in the world is the opponent of Dong Thief, no one can beat Xiliang Iron Cavalry, then Su Zhe can't do it, I don't want to be caught by the old thief, I don't want it~~"
Liu Xie was like crazy, and Ben didn't listen to Fu Shou's advice, and still ignored the emperor's prestige, and shouted at the bottom of the fight.
"I'm telling you to shut up!"
Fu Shou, who couldn't bear it, raised his hand and slapped Liu Xie's face fiercely.