The three of them were ordered to retreat quickly, and when Lu Shikui went out, he specially bowed to the two ladies before leaving in a hurry.

After Cheng Yue waited for them to leave, he pulled the two ladies over, sat on his lap on the left and right, and said with a smile: "It's really my good wife, just let Lu Shikui go, are you sad?" ”

Mrs. Song smiled: "We are really grateful to them, and we are not sad." ”

Cheng Yue grinned and said, "That's good, it's so late, you still don't take off your clothes?" ”

The two ladies snorted and were pushed to the bed by Cheng Yue, moaning for a long time.

After making out with the two ladies, Cheng Yue immediately returned to the room, with Lilac by his side, he always had to be careful.

After Cheng Yue gets up every morning, he always goes to Fang'er first as usual.

Fang'er is very interesting, since she was delivered by Cheng Yue, she thought that Cheng Yue had seen everything anyway, and when Cheng Yue went to see her, she didn't even avoid breastfeeding, which made Cheng Yue very uncomfortable, and took the initiative to hide away every time.

Cheng Yue walked in the door, Fang'er was breastfeeding again, Cheng Yue didn't have time to wait, Quan Dang couldn't see Fang'er's plump and attractive breasts, and directly asked her about the feeling of the wound. A few more words of advice to Wan'er and Gillian, and as soon as they walked out of the door, Zhang Hongfan also arrived.

The two saluted, Cheng Yue didn't speak, Zhang Hongfan said: "Lord Zuo Cheng, the Great Khan has decided to send troops to conquer the three khanates, please Lord Zuo Cheng enter the palace tomorrow to discuss." ”

Cheng Yue nodded and said, "Okay, is there any news over there?" ”

Zhang Hongfan said: "The lower officials will also enter the palace tomorrow, and they will have their own share of it when the time comes." ”

Cheng Yue said: "You go to see Mrs. Lingru, I'll go to visit the two adults outside." ”

Zhang Hongfan walked by, and Cheng Yue walked to the outer house. Call Xiao Zhen and Ma Fu. Said: "You go and summon Li Ting, Liu Guojie, Toto, and Zhang Xiaozhong to come here in the evening three days later." I have something to explain. Let Li Dashi come over first, I have another thing to do with him. ”

Ma Fu said: "Dadu Governor, have the kings of the north changed?" “

Cheng Yue said with a smile: "It's a matter of time, it's time, Kublai Khan is still late, if it were me, I would have already launched a large army." ”

Xiao Zhen said with a smile: "Dadu Governor, my subordinates see that Kublai Khan is waiting for Dadu Governor." If the Metropolitan Governor made trouble for him, how could he dare to rest assured that he would go north? ”

Ma Fu said: "The Lu family came last night, did you also get the news?" Knowing that Kublai Khan was going to send troops, he went to Dadu to hug his thighs? ”

Cheng Yue smiled slightly and said, "No matter why, we have more people available, a good thing." Go for it. ”

The two took the order and left. Li Ting led the naval army outside the city, and Liu Guojie was guarding the imperial boat, so he had to notify them in advance to come.

Liu Guojie was one of the main generals of Kublai Khan's war with the kings in history, and he was brave and good at fighting. He was full of scheming and made great contributions to Kublai Khan's pacification of the rebellion of the kings. This is exactly the reason why Cheng Yue wants to bring him here this time. Li Ting was not weak, and was the chief general of Kublai Khan's expedition to the north.

Cheng Yue walked to the door of the small courtyard where Lian Xixian and Umar lived, saw the two of them walking in the courtyard, and said with a smile: "The spirit of the two adults is getting stronger and stronger, and they can be healed after a while, which is gratifying." ”

Lian Xixian arched his hand and smiled: "Lord Zuo Cheng's medicine is cured, no matter how bad it is, is it worthy of the care of adults?" ”

The three of them laughed, and after getting along with each other these days, they became more affectionate.

Cheng Yue said: "Zhang Hongfan said to me just now that the Great Khan is going to the north, do the two adults know?" ”

Lian Xixian nodded and said: "Lord Zhang has already come to us first, I don't know if Lord Zuo Cheng knows, Huozhou was besieged by Duwa for six months last year, the rebels in Hexi were rampant, and the imperial court was fighting fiercely with the Great Song Dynasty at that time, and it was powerless to rescue." After reaching a collegial agreement with Lord Zuo Cheng, he transferred Bei Qilie Lost and Li Heng and others from the army going south to relieve the siege of Hexi. However, the rebel king intensified, taking advantage of the great Khan's vitality, a group of Mongol rebel kings colluded and continued to stir up trouble in the west and north, and those former subordinates of Ali Buge, who had been forgiven by the Great Khan, were also ready to move, and the Great Khan could not wait for them all to launch, so he had to march north. ”

Ali Buge is the seventh son of Tulei, the younger brother of Yuan Xianzong Meng Ge and Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan.

During Möngke's reign, Ali Buge was stationed in Hala Holin, the capital of the Great Mongolian State, and had always opposed Kublai Khan's sinicization measures. Möngke died on August 11, 1259. On May 5, 1260, Kublai Khan established himself as the Great Khan in Kaiping in the Central Plains with the support of elite soldiers; In April, Ali Buge was proclaimed Great Khan of the Great Mongol State by the Mongol nobles in Hala Horin. A fierce civil war ensued between the two sides, which lasted for four years.

In 1264, after Kublai Khan occupied Hara and Lin, he sent troops to attack again, and defeated Ali Buge's army in Ximu Tunaor. On August 21, 1264, Ali Buge surrendered with all his might, and Kublai Khan imprisoned him and poisoned him two years later.

When Ali Buge and Kublai Khan competed for the throne, the Kipchak Khanate, the Chagatai Khanate, and the Ogedai Khanate all supported Ali Buge, and only the Ilkhanate supported Kublai Khan. After Ali Buge's defeat, the major khanates became independent and refused to obey Kublai Khan's will.

At the beginning, Ali Buge's descendants and the kings and subordinates who supported Ali Buge also surrendered with Ali Buge, and most of them went to Kublai Khan's fourth son Namuhan and eighth son Kuokuo. After the death of Ali Buge, the news of his death quickly reached the ears of these people, Kublai Khan said that Ali Buge died of illness, where did they believe it, and Kublai Khan's reuse of Hanchen made them increasingly dissatisfied.

Immediately afterwards, Kublai Khan sent troops to the Southern Song Dynasty and Japan for many years, and his control over the north and the west gradually weakened.

According to the original history, An Tong should have been sent to Alimari, the garrison of Namuhan, and first raided Hehu, the son of Guiyou, and then Hehu rebelled. and because of the uneven distribution, he provoked Totomuer to defect. On the orders of Namuhan, Siriji pursued Totomuer, but was persuaded by Totomur to rebel together, and the Hui army seized the kings of Namuhan, Kukuodu, and Yahudu, and the northwest frontier of the Yuan Dynasty changed color, and after several years of melee, the melee began.

However, because of Cheng Yue's sideways appearance, An Tong did not go to Alimali, and although the situation in the northwest was not stable, the public turmoil of Siriji and others had not yet begun. This is also the reason why Cheng Yue is confident that the northern expedition will end in just a few months.

Since the turmoil in the west had not begun, why did Kublai Khan go west? The reason lies in Haidu.

Haidu was the grandson of Ögedai Khan, the son of Heshi, and later founded the Ögedai Khanate in 1268.

Genghis Khan once said before his death that as long as Ogedai has a descendant who eats milk, they will inherit the Mongolian throne in priority over others, but after the death of Guiyu Khan, the Mongol kings violated what Genghis Khan said at the Kuritai Congress, and elected Möngke, a descendant of Tulei, as Khan, and after the death of Möngke Khan, Kublai Khan was not elected by the Kuritai Assembly and proclaimed himself Khan, so he constantly opposed Kublai Khan. Since Möngke was elected as the Great Khan of Mongolia, the descendants of Ögedei gradually lost power. Haidu was a clever and cunning man, and gradually gathered his people. At this time, Haidu was divided into Haizhili (present-day Tardi, Kazakhstan) west of Mongolia. Kurgan), growing in power, became the leader of the kings of the Ögedai lineage. After the death of Möngke Khan, Haidu supported Ali Buge to compete with Kublai Khan for the throne of Khan, but finally failed. However, Haidu hoped that the throne of the Great Khan belonged to the descendants of Ogedei, so he accumulated strength, united with the Kipchak Khanate, and plotted to compete with Kublai Khan for the throne of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire.

In view of this, Kublai Khan sent Chagatai's heir, Bara, back to Chagatai Khanate to compete for the throne of Khanate, in an attempt to cause civil strife among the kings in the west so that he could concentrate on the war against the Southern Song Dynasty. To Kublai Khan's surprise, although Haidu fought fiercely with Bara in the early days, he quickly reconciled. In the sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1268), Timur, the busy brother of Haidu, Bara and the Kipchak Khanate met in the Talas River, openly opposed Kublai Khan and the Ilkhanate, and discussed with Haidu as the leader of the alliance and the alliance of the kings.

The alliance alleges that Kublai Khan has been assimilated by the Han Chinese, and states that he will use troops against Kublai Khan to restore the nomadic nature of the Mongols. Since then, the two sides have been at war. Although the Yuan army always had the upper hand, it was unable to completely defeat Haidu.

Kublai Khan's hidden danger in the northwest was not eliminated, and the three khanates led by Haidu were still eyeing the Central Plains, as evidenced by the siege of Huozhou by his son Duwa after the death of Bara. The only good thing was that Cheng Yue, the governor of the Southern Song Dynasty, was about to become his concubine, and he came with 5,000 elite cavalry with weapons. Since sooner or later we will send troops to the west, if we can strike first and use Cheng Yue to achieve our goals, why not?

Umar said: "Xiaguan wants to ask Lord Zuo Cheng, is Xiaguan's illness not too important?" The lower officials wanted to ask the Great Khan for his life and went west with the Great Khan. ”

Cheng Yue said: "Your illness is no longer serious, so let's go and ask the Great Khan to let you serve under my account, so that I can take care of you at any time." ”

Umar smiled: "The lower officials can't ask for it, and they will discuss it tomorrow when they go to court." ”

Cheng Yue checked their physical condition. The two are recovering well because they are in excellent physical condition, much faster than the average person.

Cheng Yue chatted casually with them for a few words, and then turned around to leave. Umar stretched out his hand to stop Cheng Yue and said, "Lord Zuo Cheng, there is something in the lower officials, and I have always wanted to tell Lord Zuo Cheng, but I didn't say it for fear that Lord Zuo Cheng would be suspicious." These days, Xiaguan Guan Zuo Cheng is open-minded, and he should not suspect that Xiaguan has other intentions, so he dares to recommend a talent to Zuo Cheng. ”

Cheng Yue suddenly became interested, and said with a smile: "Lord Umar, you have talents who don't recommend to the Great Khan, but want to cheapen me, aren't you afraid that the Great Khan will scold you?" ”

Umar smiled: "This person can't use the Great Khan, he is a person from the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Cheng Yueqi said: "Who are you talking about?" Let's hear it. ”

Umar said: "When the lower official was in Sichuan, he had confronted Lord Zhan Wanshouzhan, although the lower official defeated Lord Zan with his military strength, but the lower official thought that the Great Governor was all-round in the humanities and martial arts, loyal and credible, and it was a pity that the Metropolitan Governor missed such a powerful help. (To be continued......)