"Aren't these 55,000 tribal warriors more important than the establishment of a new nation? With the great reduction in strength, how to occupy an important position in the new country? Make peace with the Fire Lin Army? After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the north and the south will jointly attack the Huolin army? I'm afraid we won't be able to wait for that time. Luo Qian muttered to himself.

Since the Huolin army attacked the Yingzhou capital in the south, Luo Gan sent messengers to ask the tribe for help, hoping that the tribe would send troops to Haizhou Prefecture to respond to them, or jointly attack the Huolin army, or plunder the property and population, and withdraw from Weizhou Prefecture. But only now did he reply, and the result was 108,000 miles away from what Luo Qian expected. If the tribe sent troops to Haizhou Mansion when the Huolin Army attacked the Yingzhou Capital, then how could they unite with the Anche Bone Department of the Shunzhou Mansion and flank the Huolin Army. But now, there is basically no play, the Huolin army in the north is extremely strong, and the Jizhou Mansion in the south is threatened by 20,000 troops. To the west is Pingzhou Mansion, although it is not strong, but it is not so easy to fight, even if it is killed in Pingzhou Mansion?

"Someone, please come over Mr. Wen!" Luo Qian said to the soldiers outside the door.

Not long after, a man dressed as a scribe appeared in Luo Gan's room.

"I've seen Lord Dushuai!"

"Brother Wen, this is a reply from the tribe, take a look!" Luo Qian handed over the letter on the table with a blank face.

The scribe took it, opened it and looked at it, "Founding the country, we are going to build a country!" Du Shuai, this is a good thing, according to the above meaning, our Liaodong Kingdom will be built after the Yan State system, which is worth celebrating. By the way, this is the messenger sent by Du Shuai to the tribe to ask for help, right, what did the patriarch say? The scribe said excitedly.

"Brother Wen, keep looking!" Luo Qian said lightly.

When the scribe saw that there was no joy on Du Shuai's face, he knew that the following content must be unusual, so he looked down. Sure enough, the more the scribe looked at it, the worse his face became. After reading it, his face was gloomy.

"How so? Abandoned us? There are 55,000 tribal warriors here, and if you want to establish a position in the new country, whether there are more than 50,000 people or not, it is very different. Don't the patriarchs know that with these 50,000 people, we can occupy more power in the new kingdom? Don't talk about the Han slaves and belongings that you will bring back when the time comes. The scribe said excitedly.

Luo Qian said lightly: "Brother Wen, there are some people in the clan who don't want us to go back. ”

The scribe said angrily, "Don't you even care about the names of these more than 50,000 warriors?" How could the patriarch agree? ”

Luo Qian sneered: "To rescue us, it is possible to confront the Huolin Army, and as soon as some people advocate it, they will naturally dispel the idea of the patriarch sending troops." By the way, after the establishment of the new country, it seems that the four clans take turns to be kings. Therefore, whether there are more than 50,000 of us or not does not affect the great cause of the patriarch. ”

"Hmph...... Take turns as kings? Only those who have strength take turns to be kings, but if they don't have strength, how can they be kings? Rat-eyed people. ”

"Well, it's useless to talk about that now. Our north and south are Li Muzhi's army and the Huolin army respectively, and you can send envoys separately to see if you can spend some money to cut off their idea of attacking us. After all, my army of 50,000 is not easy to greet. If you force me, I'll see if they can ignore these hundreds of thousands of Han people attacking the city? Luo Qian said fiercely.

The scribe sighed and said: "Li Muzhi is the son of Li Huaiyuan, the governor of Youzhou, who did not stop the invasion of our army in the past, and has been deeply reproached by the people and the officials of Yan State, and will definitely not accept us. ”

Luo Qian said: "It is precisely because we have evidence of Li Huaiyuan's concession in our hands that Li Muzhi patrolled the border and did not forcibly attack us, but we must not be unguarded. In fact, what I'm most worried about is the Huolin Army, they have no scruples, and they don't even pay attention to the Yan Imperial Court...... Go ahead, see what they want, as long as they don't attack us, or even let us give up the Weizhou Mansion. ”

"What? How can this be, let go of Weizhou Mansion, where will we stay? ”

Luo Qian sneered: "The premise is that they agree to our withdrawal of troops, tell Zhao Xun of the Huolin Army, and we can also lead them to where he wants to go." Since the patriarch has given up on us, I am not willing to sacrifice myself for him for no reason. ”

When the scribe heard this, his heart moved, and he said in a trembling voice: "Du Shuai, do you want to surrender to the Huolin Army?" ”

Luo Gan's face showed a look of struggle, and finally said: "It's not to surrender the Huolin Army, but to bring these people back intact, so that some people in the tribe miscalculate." ”

"I'm afraid the Fire Lin Army won't agree." The scribe shook his head.

Luo Qian sneered: "If this Zhao Xun is a hero and has great ambitions, he will agree, we can give him an excuse to annex the territory, is there anything he can't agree?" ”

The scribe now understood that what Luo Qian had said earlier about luring the Huolin army to the place they wanted to go was originally an excuse for the Huolin army to capture the place.

Youzhou City, the Governor's Mansion.

After half a month of travel, Li Xinyan, who had been in the Li family for a year, returned home again, and it was naturally another comedy of family reunion. Li Huaiyuan scolded Li Xinyan a few times, and after running around, he asked his wife to lead him to the back house and recount the past of the year. And the more than 100 guards sent by Zhao Xun to escort Li Xinyan were also arranged in the Governor's Mansion. At this moment, Li Huaiyuan looked at the young man in front of him with a smile.

"The Huolin Army is all under the command, Situ Liang! I've seen Lord Governor! After the young man saluted Li Huaiyuan, he said.

Li Huaiyuan smiled and said, "The Huolin Army is all in charge? It's strange, who gave this official position? It seems that in my Yan country, there is no unified position. ”

Situ Liang said with a smile: "Yes or no, this is not the point, the important thing is that my Huolin Army defeated foreign enemies and recovered the territory This is an indisputable fact, and it is also an achievement that cannot be erased." I think that if the imperial court does not want such a capable, prestigious and strong army like Xuzhou and Liangzhou, the official position of my family will rise higher and higher. ”

Li Huaiyuan's face was stunned, this Situ Liang was clearly saying that he had lost his territory.

"Can you represent Zhao Xun with full authority to discuss with me?"

Situ Liang said: "In the next place, I am trusted by my family, and I have my plenipotentiary representative for this discussion." However, I think that the Governor has family affairs to deal with today, and the deliberations are inconvenient, so I am waiting for the Governor to summon me at any time. ”

Li Huaiyuan said with a smile: "It's okay, you have come for a long time, and you are tired, so after I take care of the family affairs, I will discuss it." Come on, please go to Tianxiang Pavilion to rest. ”

"Proud!" Li Muyuan looked at the back in the distance and said in a deep voice.

Li Huaiyuan sighed and said, "That's because he has the Huolin Army standing behind him!" The recent movements of the Huolin Army are not small, and now not only is Youzhou famous, but I am afraid that it is also a sensation in Chang'an City. ”

"Father, you've decided? Can this Huolin Army really protect our Li family? Li Muyuan said in a deep voice.

Li Huaiyuan's upright figure was a little lonely, and said: "It depends on how big this Zhao Xunxin is, besides, who around us can be trusted except for this Zhao Xun?" Cao Xiong has been waiting for me to fall for a long time. Forget it, let's go ask your sister, he knows the most about the Fire Lin Army, and we should be able to get something from him. Besides, didn't that Situ Liang mean the same thing just now? ”

Yanzhou City.

"What do you say, what do you mean by this Evil Army?" Zhao Xun asked.

In front of Zhao Xun, there were four people, Lu Ziliang, Yang Wangqing, Liu Wenqi, and Zhang Yuanjing, who were counselors of the military. The reason why Zhao Xun brought them together was because the Wei Dynasty army in Weizhou Prefecture sent a messenger.

I didn't want to see it, but I wanted to see what the Evil Army wanted to do, so I casually met the messenger of the Evil Army. But the result surprised Zhao Xun. If the army wants to leave Weizhou Mansion, they can even do something for Zhao Xun, but beg Zhao Xun to let him return to the tribe. Zhao Xun originally intended to launch an attack at the beginning of next month, to attack the Yan army in Weizhou Mansion with all his might, and to take Weizhou Mansion as quickly as possible, so that the Youzhou Government or the Imperial Court had not yet reacted, causing an established fact.

Yang Wangqing said: "It seems that the Wei Dynasty Army in Weizhou Mansion knows that it is not the opponent of our Huolin Army, and wants to withdraw safely." also gave up the Weizhou Mansion. ”

Lu Ziliang said with a smile: "What we can't refuse is that they are willing to kill Pingzhou Mansion, turn east to Haizhou Mansion by the way, and go back from Haizhou Mansion to the north." Let's not talk about Pingzhou Mansion, just this Haizhou Mansion is the gateway to our east, which is connected to Haikou, and many merchants from the north and south are shipping from here. More importantly, if we take this place, we will have the mouth of the sea, not to mention commerce, we will have the ability to cultivate our own naval army. ”

Zhang Yuanjing also nodded and said: "Actually, I agree to let them withdraw from the east, and it is best to take Pingzhou Mansion and Haizhou Mansion as well." Especially Haizhou Mansion, because of the prosperity of commerce and trade here, it is the Haizhou Mansion government that wantonly exploits merchants. Many businessmen have already reported to us that they hope that we can communicate with the Haizhou government and let it collect taxes reasonably. But the government of Haizhou Mansion obviously did not take us seriously, and completely ignored our good intentions. ”

Liu Wenqi frowned and said: "I also agree to take these two prefectures, but we must be prepared to be condemned by the imperial court." Even if it is to pursue the Yan Army, but to occupy the land of the two provinces again, it means that it will not deal with the imperial court, if this Yan Yan Army will talk about the matter of joining hands with us, it will be ......."

Lu Ziliang said with a smile: "Don't be afraid to say it, it's an ironclad fact that we killed so many Evil Warrior Army." Regardless of this, what we are doing now in the land of the Three Mansions, which one is in accordance with the laws of the imperial court? In fact, it is already in opposition to the imperial court. ”

"Yes, but I think the imperial court should not have time to deal with us, the rebellion in Xuzhou, the rebellion in Liangzhou, these are enough for the imperial court to be busy. Especially in the Liangzhou Rebellion, if one is not good, Kyoto is in danger of being attacked. Taking advantage of the fact that the imperial court has no energy to think of us now, why not occupy the land of the two provinces and operate it properly? Yang Wangqing said.

Lu Ziliang said: "I think what Brother Yang said is reasonable, take these two places as soon as possible, and use them for your own use one step earlier." Now not only us, but also the governors and generals of Yan Kingdom are rapidly expanding their power, and it is estimated that they have also seen the weakness of the imperial court. In particular, Cao Xiong, the general of Zhenbei in the western part of Youzhou and the junction of Bingzhou, has been making a lot of noise recently. I think that this Cao Xiong is also a person with bad intentions. ”

"Besides, what is the court's reproach? The stronger the person, the less afraid of the court's criticism, and the court does not dare to criticize the most powerful person. ”

Zhao Xun listened to the words of the four people, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "You guys." This is clearly encouraging me to be the one with bad intentions. ”

Lu Ziliang said with a smile: "How big the hearts of adults are, adults themselves understand, we don't dare to encourage adults to be those who have bad intentions." Besides, what the adults do in the land of the three mansions, in the eyes of some people, isn't it just a person with bad intentions? ”

Zhao Xun Zhengse said: "I can agree to their request, but I also have to tell them that if you want to go back smoothly, you must do what we say, you can't slaughter innocent people, and you can't wantonly destroy!" ”

Liu Wenqi nodded and said, "I also want them to solve some troubles for us, so that we can better take over these places." ”

Zhao Xun smiled: "You said well, we really need them to solve some troubles for us, we can't have to bear the infamy ourselves this time." Let these Tatar armies do it, and benefit us. Well, I will be responsible for this matter, and I will negotiate the conditions first, and then talk about the rest. ”

"Obey!"

Looking at the three people who left, Zhao Xun smiled bitterly. It seems that things have changed again, how should Li Muzhi solve it? Once the Yan army retreats eastward, Li Muzhi's problem will be a big trouble......