Chapter 155: Meeting the King (5)

This guy is still endless?!

Kong Sheng smiled coldly and turned around to look at Li Chuan without fear.

Although Li Chuan is the prince of King Yu, he is also a protΓ©gΓ© of the Son of Heaven and an official of the imperial court.

Besides, Kong Sheng didn't play music and eat here from the beginning, so he naturally didn't care about offending Li Chuan.

What's more, after the Suiyang Defense War, regardless of success or failure, Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi's two-way counterinsurgency army attacked Guanluo on a large scale, and the recovery of the Central Plains was just around the corner.

The King will still revert to the normal King of the County. There are more clans and royal families in the world, if there is no military power in his hands, King Yu is an ordinary clan prince, and he will not affect the overall situation.

"Shizi, the so-called rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband. Now that the national crisis is at hand, Kong Sheng is not talented, he has received the emperor's grace, and he is willing to put his personal life and death aside and serve the court, is there anything wrong? Kong Sheng's voice was faint, although he couldn't talk about sneering at each other, but he hid a knife in his words, step by step, and Li Chuan was speechless again for a while.

I'm just not afraid of death, I'm just not self-sufficient, I'm just willing to die to save the country, you come to bite me?!!!

At this moment, Kong Sheng himself may not realize that the kind of scoundrel hardness that "Kong Sheng" still remains in his bloodline and bones, the kind of ruthlessness that is not afraid of death and is not afraid of death, at some times, occasionally bursts out.

As for the major affairs of the court and the survival situation of Henan, Kong Sheng, as an official of the imperial court, has his own views and feelings. And as a magistrate. Is it possible to see the suffering of the people of Li and ignore it? Is it the duty of an official? Kong is willing to be a pawn of the imperial court's great cause of counterinsurgency. Bow down and die! Kong Sheng smiled faintly, and his words immediately changed: "Now that Your Majesty Lingwu has ascended the throne, the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin in the world have responded to every call." The armies of Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi are forming a left-right attack on the rebels, and the recovery of Guanluo is just around the corner, and the crisis in Henan can be solved. This is the reason why Kong Sheng believes that Suiyang may not fall to the enemy. ”

Kong Sheng talked eloquently, and Xue Sheng, the county guard of Pengcheng, glanced at him, and remained silent on the surface. In his heart, he secretly appreciated, and said that although this kid was young, he was talented and had some extraordinary knowledge, and no matter what he said right or wrong, just being able to put the general trend of the world in his personal vision was enough to show that he was brave and open-minded.

Li Chuan snorted: "How shallow is the child's opinion!" The rebel army of An, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, backed by Hedong, invaded Henan, and threatened Hexi and Longyou. It has long been large, and the progress of the imperial counterinsurgency army is slow. With the scattered soldiers and horses in Henan alone, it is impossible to compete with the rebels, and Suiyang, a small place, with Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan's thousands of soldiers and horses, cannot be kept at all. ”

"If Suiyang is lost, I hope that Kong County Ling can match his words and deeds, die generously, don't learn from Naling Fox Chao and others, flee or surrender when they hear the wind, and be a traitor who has been stinking for thousands of years!"

Li Chuan mockingly raised his hand and pointed at Kong Sheng, and Li Ju, the king of Yu, had a gloomy face and was silent.

Kong Sheng didn't laugh angrily, he sneered in his heart: You know a fart! If it weren't for Li Ju, the king of Yu, who fled from Henan with heavy troops, retreated to Pengcheng, and dedicated himself to self-preservation, why would the lands of Henan fall so quickly? If it weren't for you standing by and watching the crisis in Suiyang and ignoring Zhang Xun's dispatch for help, how could Suiyang have been ruined after holding out for a year?

From King Yu down, you people are shameful deserters, and in turn, you have to laugh at Ling Huchao and others, isn't this fifty steps and a hundred steps?

But Kong Sheng knew that he could slander these words by himself, if he said them to his face, don't say Li Chuan, even Li Ju and Li Xuan would go on the spot and turn their faces.

To put it bluntly, this is Kong Sheng's historiographical outlook and values as a time-traveler, and he is in this era, and this kind of view and argument is a major taboo in many cases, and it cannot be mentioned.

"Shizi, looking at the world, Suiyang is insignificant. However, Suiyang is also related to the overall situation of Henan and Jiangbei. If Suiyang falls, the whole of Henan will fall into the hands of the rebels. If the rebels carry the power of a great victory and lead the army south, Pengcheng will be in danger. ”

Li Ju's heart moved, his eyebrows raised, and he listened to Kong Sheng's next words. In fact, Li Ju knows better than anyone that if Henan is completely lost, the situation in Jiangbei will become very difficult. But in order to protect himself and preserve his strength, Li Ju didn't want to fight a life-and-death battle with the rebels at all, he had already made up his mind, if the rebels attacked Jiangbei on a large scale, he would not defend Pengcheng, he would continue to retreat to Jiangnan, and extend the war to dozens of states in Jiangnan, with the prosperous Jiangnan as the rear, he didn't care at all.

Regarding Li Ju's thoughts, Kong Sheng is like watching the fire. This was an important factor in his contempt for King Yu. If the Tang Dynasty is as selfish and narrow-minded as King Yu, and is afraid of war, the world will definitely fall into the hands of thieves.

Kong Sheng smiled slightly, and said, "So, Suiyang can't be lost." If you keep Suiyang, you can keep Henan, that is, you can keep Jiangbei. From the perspective of the overall situation, the imperial court ordered Jiangnan Yang to purge Jiangnan soldiers and horses and go north to fight against thieves. Li Gong went to Jiangnan this time for this. ”

When Kong Sheng said this, his eyes were deep at Li Fuguo.

Li Ju and the others also turned their heads to look at Li Fuguo with some surprise. Li Fuguo's real mission to Jiangnan has not yet reached Jiangbei because the news is blocked.

The corners of Li Fuguo's mouth twitched, his face was slightly embarrassed, but he still nodded slowly, and said in a deep voice: "That's right, the miscellaneous family came to Jiangnan this time to summon, and the imperial court crowned Yang Qi as the general manager of the two soldiers and horses marching in Jiangnan. ”

Li Ju sighed lightly, because of the war, the news was blocked, he didn't know that Li Heng's court had added Yang Qi to the knighthood, and he also ordered Yang Qi to lead the army north, and he was a little shocked when he heard this.

At the same time, he was still a little dissatisfied and jealous. He thought that he was on the front line of fighting thieves, but the emperor did not give him any praise, which made him resentful.

"Therefore, when Yang makes Junjiang's Jiangnan soldiers and horses go north to join the Jiangbei army, the Henan rebels will not be worried." Kong Sheng's voice became low, and the corner of his eyes swept over Li Fuguo, whose face was gloomy and the corners of his mouth twitched: "When the national disaster is at hand, if all parties and people from all walks of life unite as one to fight against the thief, why worry about the thief not being destroyed?" ”

Others couldn't hear the deep meaning of Kong Sheng's words, but Li Fuguo could hear the words and sentences, his heart was secretly trembling, if Kong Sheng had no hidden warning words, he suddenly realized, even if he said that Yang Qi was suspected of rebellion, but he couldn't come up with conclusive evidence, the emperor is currently employing people, how can he force the rebellion all the way because of the words of a eunuch?

On the other hand, if Yang Qi really led the army north, even if it was a false response, the suspicion of rebellion would be immediately cleared. Li Heng's throne as emperor has not yet been secured, and he will definitely not easily move a feudal town official like Yang Qi, who holds the local military and political power.

And at that time, I am afraid that the unlucky one will be Li Fuguo.

Li Fuguo secretly broke out in a cold sweat, and sat there, a little upset.

Kong Sheng looked at Li Fuguo quietly. From the subtle changes in Li Fuguo's expression, he probably knew it in his heart. He knew that his goal of meeting King Yu to test Li Fuguo today had basically been achieved, and with his own words, with Li Fuguo's gloomy and fickle character, he would not easily report Yang Qi's rebellion to the imperial court.

At least, on the premise that Yang Qi's rebellion did not form an established fact, he did not dare to report it falsely.

Kong Sheng secretly said in his heart that after leaving the palace of King Yu, he must immediately write a secret letter to Yang Qi, warning Yang Qi that he must take action to clarify and clear Yang's suspicion with practical actions.

In fact, Yang Qi is not a fool, with his political wisdom and scheming, it is impossible for Li Fuguo to flee Jiangning without any countermeasures.

At this moment, Yang Qi had actually submitted a report to the imperial court, claiming that Li Fuguo had disappeared inexplicably on the way out, and he had sent troops to search everywhere to no avail. Yang Qi took the initiative to ask the imperial court for guilt, and at the same time issued a declaration of armament in Jiangning, and will be ordered by the imperial court to lead 100,000 elite soldiers from the two provinces south of the Yangtze River to fight the thieves in the north.

Yang Qi said it beautifully, but to put it bluntly, it was just a false response, and there was no substantive action at all. However, it is true that the mobilization of grain and grass and the reorganization of armaments for war, as for whether he went north to fight the thieves or had other plans, only he himself knows.

Of course, in order to make things solid, avoid criticism in the future, and make this scene more realistic, Yang Qi ordered 3,000 elite guards under his command to leave Jiangning and go north to Runzhou, under the banner of the vanguard team of the Jiangnan army going north to fight against thieves.

Just as he agreed in secret talks with Kong Sheng that day, if the defense of Taiyuan under Li Guangbi's personal command failed, it would mean that the Li Tang court would no longer have the ability to recover Guanluo and the Central Plains. And once this happens, the world will inevitably rise again, and he, as the emperor of the Jiangnan area, will not be willing to be left behind, and raise the banner of self-establishment as the king in the south of the Yangtze River.

And the 3,000 people who went north to Runzhou will also take advantage of the situation to attack the line between Runzhou and Shannan, and take advantage of the chaos to bring most of the areas south of the Yangtze River and Shannan and Huainan under the command of the Yang family, and fight against Li Ju, the king of Jiangbei.

Of course, if Li Guangbi succeeds in keeping Taiyuan and marching into the Central Plains, then these 3,000 vanguard troops are important evidence for Yang Qi to ask for merit and reward from the imperial court.

Kong Sheng suddenly realized that Li Ju, the king of Jiangbei, had preserved his personal strength so much, didn't he also have the unscrupulous intention of sitting back and watching and even taking advantage of the fire to rob?

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but look at Li Ju, the king of Yu with a gloomy expression, and thought about it for a long time, feeling that it was not impossible.

The world is in turmoil, all kinds of careerists are in vogue, and all this, all the leaders of the big forces who hold the military power in their hands have the idea of raising troops to seize the yellow robe of the world, in fact, it is also very normal. (To be continued.) )