Chapter 304: Chain Reaction (4)
After the person who gave advice to Wang Xuanying received Wang Xuanying's praise, he returned to his residence. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info lit the lamp, and suddenly saw a masked person sitting at the table in the bedroom, and immediately startled, pulled out a dagger from his body to defend it:
"What people!? What are you doing here? ”
"Zhenglun, don't be afraid, it's me!" The lights in the room slowly brightened, and the masked man also took off the mask covering his face, and the man named Zhenglun saw the face of the person who came:
"Ahh Lord Eldest Sun! It's you! How did you come in person. "The person who came is the eldest grandson of the eldest grandson of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and the full name of this person named Zhenglun is Du Zhenglun, who is a member of the Du family in Ducheng, Guanzhong, and was also a man of the year in the former Sui Dynasty, when the emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was in power, he opened an imperial examination, Du Zhenglun and his two elder brothers Du Zhengxuan and Du Zhengzang were admitted to the imperial examination together, known as a three-show talent, and they were in the limelight. He thinks that his talent is not under Du Ruhui, and Du Zhenglun's family and Du Ruhui's family are the same ancestor, but they do not belong to the same family, and the children of the Du family are competing with each other. In order to carry out the intelligence work of Wang Shichong in Luoyang, Du Zhenglun recommended himself to Li Shimin and took the initiative to come to Luoyang, and later after a series of drill camps, he mixed into the door of Wang Shichong's eldest son Wang Xuanying, and later made many suggestions for Wang Xuanying when Wang Xuanying was fighting for the crown prince, and made great contributions to Wang Xuanying becoming the prince. and became Wang Xuanying's most trusted staff:
"Zhenglun! How did King Qin explain your affairs? Du Zhenglun reported to the eldest grandson Wuji:
"Report to the eldest grandson, everything will be done according to the plan! And as far as the humble knows, Wang Shichong has already sent an envoy to Le Shou to discuss the alliance with Dou Jiande. Eldest Sun Wuji nodded appreciatively. It's just that Du Zhenglun was a little worried, but estimated the status of the eldest grandson Wuji, so he frowned and didn't speak, the eldest grandson Wuji saw Du Zhenglun's expression, as if he knew what Du Zhenglun was worried about? The eldest grandson Wuji smiled:
"Zhenglun! Are you worried that if Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong join forces, their strength will be even greater and more powerful at that time, and it will be even more difficult to deal with at that time! Du Zhenglun nodded. The eldest grandson Wuji smiled:
"Zhenglun! You are still young, although you were quite famous when you were young, but you still don't have a thorough understanding of this military matter! Du Zhenglun shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand. The eldest grandson Wuji continued to explain to Du Zhenglun:
"Zhenglun! You should have read the book Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty! Du Zhenglun nodded. The eldest grandson, Wuji, went on to explain:
"At the beginning, since the Zhou Dynasty moved eastward, the princes of the world competed with each other for hegemony, and in the end only the Seven Heroes of the Warring States were left, and after the rise of the Qin State, in order to resist Qin, the Six Kingdoms were once Gongsun Yan, Su Qin, Xinling Jun, Chun Shenjun and others as the longitudinal chief, and they joined forces to resist Qin, and how did they end up in the end. This proves that the world can be unified, but people's hearts cannot be unified, plus Wang Shichong is a hungry wolf, but Dou Jiande is also a tiger, if they are together when the soldiers are in the city, they may work together, but if they relax a little, the tiger and the hungry wolf will find a way to eat each other, even if there is no contradiction, can't you do some behind-the-scenes work by Wang Xuanying's side? Well! The eldest grandson Wuji glanced at Du Zhenglun, and Du Zhenglun immediately nodded:
"The eldest grandson has a clever strategy, and Zhenglun understands."
"Zhenglun, it's not that the official is clever, everything is the plan of His Royal Highness King Qin."
"Ahh His Royal Highness the King of Qin is clever. Eldest Sun Wuji nodded. asked Du Zhenglun again:
"Zhenglun! You've been lurking in Luoyang for so long, is there any news? ”
"Lord Eldest Sun, although Wang Xuanying has been made the crown prince now, Wang Xuanying has always been very jealous of Wang Ren, Wang Ren has the highest military achievements and the strongest ability among the Wang clansmen, and every time Wang Shichong is Wang Renze as an example, so Wang Xuanying has always been afraid that Wang Renze will take away his crown prince, Wang Xuanshu, Wang Xuanqiong and some Wang clansmen are behind the trouble, in addition, last time Wang Shichong was in the battle of Tongguan with us Li Tang, Wang Shichong suppressed some Wang clansmen in order to make Shan Xiong believe in his prestige, Therefore, some Wang clansmen are also very dissatisfied with Shan Xiongxin, and in order to protect himself, Shan Xiongxin has attracted many old Wagang generals such as Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, Niu Jinda and others. Because of these factions, the situation in Luoyang is very complicated, but it seems that Wang Shichong knows about it, but he doesn't interfere. The eldest grandson Wuji said in his heart - this is Wang Shichong's imperial mental technique, the imperial mental technique pays attention to balance, how could Wang Shichong interfere!
"Zhenglun! You are lurking in Luoyang very well, and after the official returns to Chang'an, he will report to His Royal Highness the King of Qin. ”
"Then the future of the future depends on the eldest grandson."
Shandong Leshou, Dou Jiande's palace, Dou Jiande was meeting with the envoys from Ma Yi and Luoyang, and brought Ling Jing, Liu Heimin, Cao Dan and others to discuss:
"Ladies and gentlemen, you are all the pillars of my court in Great Xia, (Dou Jiande has been renamed the emperor by King Changle under the bewitchment of Cao Dan, the country name is Daxia, and the year name is Ding Chou) The widow has gotten the news, and now Li Tang is ready to make a move on Liu Wuzhou of Mayi, Liu Wuzhou of Mayi sent someone to ask for help from the widow, but Wang Shichong of Luoyang said to the widow that he hoped that the widow would rescue Luoyang when Li Tang attacked Luoyang. What do you think? Ling Jing first objected:
"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that our Great Xia should do our best to help Ma Yi, because after Li Tang Zhi agrees with the Central Plains and eliminates Ma Yi, Li Tang will inevitably attack Wang Shichong in Luoyang in the south and attack the land of Qilu in Hebei Province in the east where my Great Xia is based. Therefore, Weichen thought that he should go west to support Liu Wuzhou in Mayi. Help them resist Li Tang's attack. Cao Dan immediately spoke out against it:
"Your Majesty! Wechen thinks this is inappropriate! Dou Jiande asked Cao Dan:
"Oh! What do you think about Lord Cao Dan!? Cao Dan explained to Dou Jiande:
"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that we should promise Liu Wuzhou and let Liu Wuzhou feel at ease, but we can't send troops to deal with Li Tang!" Ling Jing objected:
"Lord Cao, don't you know the truth of cold lips and teeth?" Since Wang Fubao's death, Ling Jing has looked left and right at this Cao Dan unpleasantly, and Cao Dan also looks at this Ling Jing unpleasantly, and he wants to get rid of Ling Jing and hurry up. But Cao Dan said in his heart - you, the remnant of Wang Fubao, have always said bad things in front of my brother-in-law, Wang Fubao I have already gotten rid of, if it weren't for my brother-in-law to keep you, say that you are the prime minister's talent, Lao Tzu would have already attacked you, but fortunately, labor and management now have a think tank, so labor and management are not afraid of you now! Cao Dan thought of this and continued:
"Lord Ling Jing is really hearty, although this official is not as rich as Lord Ling Jing, full of wealth, but he is not a mountain village man who is not a literal, of course the official understands the truth that Lord Ling Jing said. However, Lord Ling Jing has thought about it, according to the news from the Turkic steppe in our court, that Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang neglected the 100-day banquet of the little prince of Ashina of Lingli Khan and An Yi Kedunsheng, and did not go to the banquet, but only sent a small partial general as a messenger, so An Yi Kedun was very angry, and drove the partial general out on the spot, and Lingli Khan had already sent Ashinas Mobi as an envoy to discuss the alliance with Li Yuan of Chang'an, if we help Liu Wuzhou, Isn't it a loss of joy for the Khan of Lingli!? ”
"Then Lord Yicao means that it's just words, don't we send a single soldier?" There was anger in Ling Jing's tone. Cao Dan saw Ling Jing's angry appearance, and he didn't know how proud he was in his heart - little sample, he finally made you Ling Jing villain angry like this.
"Lord Ling Jing, don't be angry? This is the court of the Great Xia Kingdom, everyone is discussing together, how can you be arrogant! Could it be that he accepted some bribes from Ma Yi and Liu Wuzhou to help Liu Wuzhou and them speak? ”
"You ......" Ling Jing was slandered by Cao Dan, and his face turned pale with anger. Immediately explained to Dou Jiande:
"Your Majesty, the ministers have a heart for Daxia, if the emperor doesn't believe it, Wechen is willing to put aside his chest and take out his heart to the emperor to see if Wechen is loyal." Saying that, he was about to grab the guard's saber, where did the guard dare to give him the saber, and snatched it with Ling Jing, causing a mess, Dou Jiande angrily slapped his dragon chair and scolded:
"Bastard! Ling Jing, you don't have to be too presumptuous. As soon as Ling Jing heard Dou Jiande's reprimand, he quieted down as if he had taken a sedative, Ling Jing tidied up his messy clothes and hair, and apologized to Dou Jiande:
"Your Majesty, Weichen has lost his honor in front of the emperor, please forgive the minister for the crime of losing his honor!" Dou Jiande comforted Ling Jing and said:
"Forget it, Ling Jing! You are also too sensitive, Cao Dan, you are too, Lord Ling Jing is innocent, his sleeves are clean, how can he compare to your family's wealth, this joke can't be messed around! Dou Jiande has also heard a lot of Cao Dan's small reports recently, saying that Cao Dan has been accepting bribes, deducting military supplies, raising market prices, and bullying the market, but for the sake of Mrs. Cao's face, Dou Jiande didn't care about anything, but he still wanted to beat Cao Dan in his heart. As soon as Cao Dan heard Dou Jiande say this, he knew in his heart that this was a warning to himself:
"Your Majesty, Weichen received some gifts, but Weichen is loyal to the emperor's brother-in-law!" Cao Dan knelt down and cried, while desperately pulling the relationship. Dou Jiande didn't want to pursue anything, motioned for Cao Dan to get up, and said to Ling Jing:
"You two don't quarrel anymore, Ling Jing, you let Cao Dan finish speaking! Cao Dan, if you make your words clear, you will also let Lord Ling Jing gain a long insight! Cao Dan received Dou Jiande's encouragement and continued:
"Your Majesty, in the opinion of Weichen, we will first promise Liu Wuzhou, once Liu Wuzhou gets our promise, he will definitely fight to the death with Li Tang, as the saying goes, the trapped beast is still fighting, let them fight to the death with Li Tang, and we will use Luo Yi of Youzhou to collude with Li Tang in the name of entering Youzhou, so that we will not lose the hearts of the people in front of the heroes of the world." Ling Jing continued to object:
"Lord Cao will fabricate charges! Youzhou and Li Tang are thousands of miles apart, how can they collude with Li Tang? ”
"Lord Ling Jing, I got a secret report that Luo Yi took Xue Wanjun, Xue Wanche and his cousin Luo Shixin as envoys, and now Xue Wanjun, Xue Wanche and Luo Shixin have all joined the Tang Army." As soon as he heard Cao Dan's words, Dou Jiande's face showed an excited expression:
"Cao Dan, is what you said true?"
"Wechen is true!"
"Good! The order was sent down, and the troops were quickly recruited, and the various departments immediately raised materials and ordered the Qin Tianjian to choose an auspicious day to send troops! Cao Dan looked at Dou Jiande and Ling Jing, and his face was also red with excitement.