When she came to Yanbei to give birth, Princess Biyun had already returned to the small courtyard where Wang Guoming of Nanzhong was staying.

Seeing that his sister was back, he immediately asked, Biyun had to say the conditions proposed by Su You one by one, and added a sentence after speaking, "I don't think that Sui envoy is a good thing, he obviously wants us to have civil strife, so as to fish in troubled waters." ”

Jian Guoming was naturally able to understand Su You's desire to maximize his interests, and nodded and said, "This is also normal, if it weren't for those two old guys who said ugly things in front, why would I have thought of this idea?" ”

Biyun had to ask, "Is that brother going to go all the way to the dark?" ”

"Let's take this thing one step at a time, let's take it one step at a time, we're very passive now." Usurp Guoming nodded, and said, "Even if we take the initiative, it is not good to say that a hot face is attached to a cold ass, then the envoy of the Sui Dynasty is not the emperor, and the Sui Emperor will definitely listen to his words?" Even if the Sui Dynasty really canonized me, what if the Duan clan and Bai Jiao join forces? Will the Sui Dynasty's army have time to come to the rescue? What's more, I still can't be sure whether the Duan clan is in cahoots with the inevitable Pu Bu or not."

Seeing his younger brother's worries, Biyun couldn't help but feel distressed, "Why don't we drag the Sui Dynasty to this side first, and then secretly send someone to contact Pubu?" They can give support to the Duan family, and they can't give it to us. ”

"It's late. Our general trend has gone, it is impossible for Pu Bu to be optimistic about us, and now he shows his intention to win them over, they say that they can't say it and sell our movements directly to the Duan family, isn't this forcing him to do it in advance? Jian Guoming shook his head and said with a sad face.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, are we just waiting for death?" Biyun was also a little anxious, originally wanted to think about ideas quietly, but couldn't help but mutter.

"Think about it again, anyway, now we can rely on the big tree to enjoy the shade, as long as the Sui envoy is not won over by Bai Jiao, we have hope." Jian Guoming looked at Biyun hopefully and said softly.

"My brother" Biyun sighed, wanting to say something, but finally didn't say anything.

Jian Guoming seemed to know what his sister was going to say, and immediately smiled and said, "Then during this time, I have to rely on my sister to deal with that Sui envoy a lot, and after finding out his bottom line, we can also prescribe the right medicine." ”

As if he had exhausted all his strength, Biyun nodded heavily, "What my brother means, I understand." ”

Jian Guoming hurriedly said, "My sister, I didn't mean that"

Biyun said indifferently, "Don't worry, although the Sui envoy looks full of bad water, he may not necessarily look down on me, his wives and concubines are all stunning, but fortunately, his wife is about to give birth."

Biyun's voice fell, but she heard footsteps outside, and when she got up to open the door, she found that it was the woman she had brought to Su You just now.

Before Biyun could speak, the mother-in-law had already said in a few words that she had come to Yanbei to give birth, but she couldn't do anything about it.

As soon as the words were spoken, Biyun's face was already extremely bitter, and he could only wave his hand to let this woman go down.

Seeing Biyun stunned on the ground, Jian Guoming hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"I just brought a fake stable woman to the Sui envoy, who thought that his wife happened to give birth, and then" Biyun had to bite the bullet and tell the order about the production in Yanbei, and said depressedly, "I made a fuss, a good thing became a bad thing, and I don't know how the Sui envoy annoyed me."

"I hope his wife can give birth smoothly, why don't you go and congratulate her?" He didn't expect things to happen like this, so he immediately frowned and said.

Biyun naturally understood his brother's subtext, he just wanted to let himself explain it to Su You.

Thinking that things should have a beginning and an end, Biyun could only fill the hole by himself, so he nodded immediately, and after saying goodbye to his brother, he asked people to prepare gifts.

At the same time, the news that Biyun took Wen Po to Su You's lodging also reached the ears of Duan Ruqi of Daxiangguo.

After Duan Ruqi listened to his younger brother Duan Ruyu finish the information, his old face was a little gloomy and terrifying, and finally he asked in disbelief, "Did that girl from Biyun really go to see the Sui envoy?" ”

Duan Ruyu nodded and said with certainty, "The spy said that she not only went to the courtyard of the Sui envoy, but also stayed in the study with him for about a moment. ”

"It seems that Jian Guoming is determined to be a lackey of the Sui Dynasty!" Duan Ruqi immediately became stunned, and actually pinched the teacup in his hand into pieces.

"Brother, don't be annoyed, think about their situation and understand their choice. Needless to say, he has a feud with him for several generations, and it is impossible for him to endure us gradually encroaching on the few tribes he controls," Duan Ruyu smiled and comforted Duan Ruyu softly.

Listening to Duan Ruyu's comfort, Duan Ruyu immediately calmed down and said confidently, "Yes." Even if he jumps up and down? Not to mention the Pu tribe that we have already said to move, even if there is only our clan, how can the black tribes of Jiao Guoming be able to deal a blow? The eastern capital is separated from the south by thousands of mountains and rivers, and when the Sui Emperor agrees to his surrender and mobilizes a large army to come here, why will it take four or five months? With this time, we have already settled the plan for Guoming and the country. ”

Duan Ruqi is really worthy of being the first wise man in Nanzhong, and since he gained power, he has long been ready to annex Nanzhong.

The first step is to depose a king of Nanzhong and return the throne of Nanzhong to the hands of the branch of Jian Guoming; This method of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes not only showed his authority and means to Nanzhong, but also greatly weakened the power of the royal family.

Duan Ruqi's second move was to appease Xijiao in the open and secretly collude with Pubu. Therefore, he has always wanted the Duan family to suppress Guozhao, but he has always been just a hypocrisy and a snake, and has shown favor to Guozhao many times.

Duan Ruqi's overtures, of course, were not to unite with Guozhao to attack Dongjiao, if he only attacked Dongjiao, Duan's was enough.

Duan Ruqi has been wooing and courting Guozhao, just to delay time, once he reaches an agreement with the Pubu in the south, it will be the time for him to stick out his fangs.

At that time, it was the best time for Duan Ruqi to annex Dongjiao and Xijiao.

Duan Ruyu naturally believed his brother's words, and said with some concern, "Let's unite the Pu Department, and it is not a problem to eliminate Fu Guoming and Fu Guozhao, the key is that there are Sui envoys." If the Sui Dynasty is involved, their revenge will be met."

"I don't think the Sui envoy will be as brainless as you!" Duan Ruqi looked at his brother and said indifferently, "Could it be that the Sui envoy will still help the two of them defend the city?" As long as Kunchuan is taken, can't we ask the Sui Dynasty for a seal? Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, I really don't believe it, as long as our gold and silver are in place, they really have to recognize this Guoming instead of getting along with us? ”

"Brother is polite, so when are we going to launch it?" Duan Ruyu listened to his brother's words, and immediately became enlightened, "It's to take advantage of everyone thinking that we have to wait for the Sui envoy to leave, but if we start it now, we can take it by surprise!" ”

Duan Ruqi also said with some concern, "This will not be the time when the fish is dead and the net is broken, if we don't declare war, most of the people who are going to fight will join forces with the country, and we will lose eight hundred of our own losses if we hurt one thousand enemies, or wait, the situation will be clearer." ”

Duan Ruyu then suggested, "Fu Guozhao is very tempted by the plan to divide and conquer that thing, so let's continue to confuse him?" ”

"I'll tell him these things personally, what does Pubu say over there?"

"It has been said that as long as the king of Pubu gives him the promised land, he will send 20,000 troops at that time."

"That's good. Isn't it just asking for land? Four thousand miles of land in the south and central, land is still a thing? Duan Ruqi gritted his teeth, he was also persistent enough about his plan.

At this time, Nanzhong is a bit like the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Nanzhong is the king of Zhou who is responsible for the sacrifice, and the nobles of Nanzhong are like various vassal states; Obviously, the Duan clan and Xi Jiao were the two largest princes and kings, just like the Qi and Jin kingdoms in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Pubu is more like the Chu State at that time.

The state of Chu did not respect the Zhou dynasty as the king, so the state of Qi and the state of Jin united the surrounding younger brothers to attack the state of Chu under various pretexts.

The Pu tribe also did not respect Dongfu as the king, but the difference was that the Duan clan colluded with the Pu tribe to seize Nanzhong.

At this time, Nanzhong was also a little different from the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes and kings of the Spring and Autumn Period were all in their own fiefs, but the nobles of Nanzhong were collected by the King of Nanzhong to the national capital Kunchuan, and the only nobles who could be stationed in their own territory were Zhenxi Wang Guozhao.

When Guo Zhao received the news that Biyun was visiting Su You, he was only half a cup of tea later than Duan Ruqi.

After hearing the news, Jian Guozhao was not as excited as Duan Ruqi, but said indifferently to his son Jian Ziheng, "It seems that Jian Guoming is ready to be a lackey of the Great Sui, and we must also be prepared to deal with it." ”

Ji Ziheng immediately asked with some doubts, "Let's do our best to be a landlord and invite the Sui envoy tomorrow?" ”

"Of course it's going to be a banquet, the more times like this, the more you have to have a good relationship with them." Jian Guozhao glanced at his son and said with a smile, "We have time, take your time." ”

Fu Ziheng nodded a little blankly, although Su You had only been in Dali for a few days, he could deeply feel the changes in the situation in the recent period, he could no longer see where the road ahead was, but he was like a god to his father.

The two were about to continue to discuss the movements of Jian Guoming and the Sui Dynasty in depth, but they heard the news of Su You's wife giving birth from the spies.

Jian Guozhao immediately said, "You take your woman and take this opportunity to see the Sui envoy." ”

"Will Duan Ruqi be cranky?" Fu Ziheng felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked.

"Forget it, we just don't know about it." Jian Guozhao thought about it and immediately smiled.

What they didn't know was that Duan Ruyu had returned to the south with more than ten subordinates under the nod of his brother at this time, and the next time he arrived, there would definitely be more than ten people behind him.