With Xue Boren's defense, Liu Yan of course had to make good use of it, and he immediately issued an order to severely reprimand Wang Hanxin about the unauthorized surrender. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In this way, it will take ten days and half a month to go back and forth from Chang'an to Maozhou City at the earliest, and Liu Yan will have sufficient time to deal with it.

Wu Sicheng's advice to him is that it is still difficult to determine the merits of this matter for the time being, but one thing is clear, that is, no matter what, Wang Hanxin's behavior must be severely punished by national law. Therefore, all the efforts made so far are nothing more than to collect evidence in Wang Hanxin's favor to alleviate this punishment. Then, in addition to the testimony of Xue Boren and Wang Hanxin himself, Liu Yan must also find as many allies as possible to speak for Wang Hanxin.

Regarding this allied army, it may be difficult to expand the team in Chang'an City, so Liu Yan's first thought is the current protector of the northern capital, Liu Xianzhi.

Although Liu Xianzhi and Wang Hanxin are colleagues, there is very little intersection between them. It stands to reason that it is easier for Su Chengdong, the capital of Liaodong, and Zhou Siyi and Mi Yiguo of the Western Regions to stand on Wang Hanxin's side, but unfortunately they are too far away and too late in time. There are two main reasons why Liu Yan likes Liu Xianzhi, one is that Liu Xianzhi has one of the best strategic conception capabilities in the country of silk, and he knows Wang Hanxin's intentions best, and the other is that Wang Hanxin's brother-in-law Gao Dingbian is now serving in the Northland Protectorate, and it is absolutely impossible for him to ignore Wang Hanxin's affairs.

The envoy sent by Liu Yan traveled under the stars and arrived in Sand Lake City in only ten days. At this time, Liu Xianzhi was busy preparing to send troops to fund the war between Hesa and Cheerel.

Speaking from the bottom of his heart, Liu Xianzhi was very reluctant to appoint himself as the protector of the Northland, not that he didn't know how important this position was to the strategy of the Silk Country, but because he knew very well the intentions behind Liu Yan's actions, and more importantly, his physical condition was actually very unsuitable for living in a remote and cold place like Sand Lake City for a long time.

In order to improve his living environment, Liu Xianzhi used a lot of manpower to build a miniature version of Taiyuan Jingluo Mansion in Shahu City, even so Liu Xianzhi was still very dissatisfied with the living conditions here, especially the poor quality of the water source in Shahu City, which made him complain.

Liu Yan's secret decree amused Liu Xianzhi, not for anything else, but because it was really boring and boring in this remote Sand Lake City, and Wang Hanxin's nonsense gave him some fun.

Liu Xianzhi immediately found Gao Dingbian, and then gave the letter to Gao Dingbian for review. Gao Dingbian jumped up before he could finish reading: "Lord Duhu, what do Qiu Yiru and these civil officials want to do?!" Can't they see the strategic value of Fort Eagle? ”

"I don't know if I can see it, but even if I can see it, they will pretend that they can't see it." Liu Xianzhi replied.

"Why is that?"

"It's very simple, now the biggest enemy of the Confucian party led by Qiu Yiru is the princeling, and the prince's side not only has the power of the old posterior party, but more importantly, he also has people who have military power."

"You mean Wang Hanxin?" Gao Dingbian exclaimed.

"It's not just Wang Hanxin, but also that Mi Yiguo. Now Mi Guifei is in charge of the entire harem, although his younger brother is not the protector of the Western Regions, he is also a general who leads the troops, plus Wang Hanxin, who once served as the crown prince's protector, the generals who hold the military power in the empire are no longer exclusive to His Majesty, but the Confucian party does not have this card, so what they urgently need is to cut off the two cards in the prince's hand. This righteous brother of yours happened to give them this handle at this time, so Wang Hanxin's original intention is not important to them, it is important to be able to bring him down. ”

Gao Ding gritted his teeth and said, "Don't they know that Wang Hanxin is an important military talent of our dynasty?" Knocking him down and punishing him, what a loss for my court? ”

Liu Xianzhi shook his head and said: "This is politics, not just military." Wang Hanxin is unfortunate that once he is involved in the whirlpool of politics, it will be difficult to get out. On the contrary, military generals like us can stay away from the quagmire of politics. ”

Gao Dingbian said hatefully: "Wang Hanxin has made great contributions to our dynasty, and his influence among the soldiers is also very great, punish him, aren't you afraid of the soldiers mutiny?" ”

Liu Xianyi glared and said, "Who dares?" This army is the emperor's army, not his Wang Hanxin's personal mercenary! ”

"Yes, the lower official was in a hurry and lost his words, please protect the Lord for forgiveness." Gao Ding hurriedly arched his hand and said: "It's just that today's court has almost become a hall of words, and everyone has to get rid of Wang Hanxin as soon as possible, and I, as a brother, really can't sit idly by." Please be sure to think of a way to protect my brother. Otherwise, the lower officials can only go back to Beijing alone to theorize in front of His Majesty. ”

Liu Xianzhi sneered and said, "If you really go, it will hurt your brother." Let me ask you, why did the emperor send someone to send us such a letter all the way? Is it for you to go back to Beijing and reason with him? ”

Gao Ding thought about it, shook his head, and opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't make a sound.

Liu Xianzhi smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty is asking us for help." Since there are no allies in the court, Your Majesty hopes that we, the generals on the border, can say a few good words for Wang Hanxin. ”

"That's right, so we should argue with the emperor."

"Wrong! It is reasonable to argue that if it is useful, the emperor will not need to go to such great lengths to come to us for help. Do you think that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty did not understand Wang Hanxin's intention to do this? You are wrong, they are just in the way of this matter, Wang Hanxin is the party at fault, and Qiu Yiru occupies the moral high ground and fires with all his might, how can they be willing to stand up for Wang Hanxin and stand at a low place to accept Qiu Yiru's attack? So if we do what you say, it's going to be useless. We want to help Wang Hanxin, but we have to pay attention to the method of helping. ”

"The lower officials are stupid, I don't know what is the best plan for Lord Duhu?" Gaoding side road.

Liu Xianzhi sat on the seat and stretched his body for a while, and then said slowly: "Well, you have to walk in two steps." First of all, we must come up with some decent evidence to prove that the threat posed by Tibet to our dynasty really exists, so that Wang Hanxin's approach is not to provoke friendly relations with the allied countries without authorization, but to take precautions before they occur. Although it cannot exonerate him, it can exonerate him from some punishment. ”

"But where do we get the evidence?"

"You don't have to worry about this, Bendu has some understanding of the situation in Tibet over the years, and some may not be known to the emperor, I will list this evidence to the emperor," Liu Xianzhi stood up with his hand on the table: "This second, as far as I can see, the war between Hesa and Cheerlie will not be able to tell the winner for a while, and the materials we fund are not enough to change the gap between the two, so let them fight slowly." I'm sure you can do something as simple as that. At present, it is quite a waste that the soldiers of my northern capital are idle, so it is better to pick out some of them and lend them to Wang Hanxin for a period of time, so that we can ask the emperor to mobilize this group of troops to the south. There are three advantages to this, first, we can use this to knock and knock those Confucian students, second, I have been away from the capital for a few years, and I just went there to recuperate for a few days, and third, Wang Hanxin is now meat on the chopping block, and he has no reason to refuse my kindness, and I can just use this to blackmail him, and we can also make some benefits, right? ”

Gao Dingbian turned his worries into joy when he heard this, and said: "Xiaguan thank you for Wang Hanxin." ”