Chapter 17: The Thunder Pool is Hard to Cross

Today's court meeting is in charge of food, compared with the later Tang Dynasty's early and later dynasties, the ministers who had to eat in a proper manner, and the ministers who were waiting for the battle report in front sat for a long time, and they couldn't help but get together in twos and threes to drink tea and whisper. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Xie An fed Huan Chong with a snack outside the hall, and outside the eaves was a sunny and snowy scene, and the face of the young man in the robe with a long demeanor was as delicate as a jade carving, and the sword on his waist was particularly eye-catching.

Later, the letter sent to him by Sima Yan was still a "condolence" sent from Liaodong thousands of miles away.

Murong Ba's Chinese characters have grown, and the beginning of the letter is to ask him for tea directly, saying that milk tea is very delicious, and everyone is more energetic when he gets up early every day to drink a salty milk tea, but there is no tea cultivation in Liaodong.

"Is the cunning Jin people trying to buy the hearts of my Xianbei people with tea?"

Xie An couldn't help but laugh when he saw this, speaking of the folk popularization of tea also started before and after Wang Dao came to Jiangzuo, before it was either used as medicine or a noble drink, if Xie An hadn't sent tea to the Murong family in advance, it would have taken another hundred and eighty years to become popular in the north according to historical development.

As he was looking at the letter, as soon as he looked up, he saw the inner eunuch coming forward and whispered, "Please also invite San Lang into the inner hall." ”

"Take him there?" Xie An saw that Huan Chong was pitiful and looked at himself with his fingers, so he asked casually.

The inner supervisor was puzzled: "This is not good. ”

Xie An rushed into the inner hall with Huan in his arms, and the people who were whispering suddenly stopped and looked at him.

The inner supervisor chased after him and reminded: "Go sideways." ”

"Wait." Xie An glanced around, they were all elders and acquaintances, but unfortunately Wang Shu was not there, he liked to hold the child so much, he should be able to look at Huan Chong, but in the end, he couldn't, he pushed the child into the arms of his father Xie Bao, and said with a smile, "Huan Wen is not available, and he is bothered by his father to take care of Chong'er." ”

Xie Qi coughed and asked, "Lord Huan's good news, can you send someone to tell that kid?" ”

"The thief is not destroyed, Xuancheng will be in trouble sooner or later, and he will not die until Su Jun and Zu Yue come together, and if you tell him now, he will not be happy." Xie An sneered and glanced at the inner supervisor, "I'll wait for the victory of the left general Sima Liu and the right guard general Zhao Yin before going to report the good news." ”

The internal supervisor is Yu's dogleg, and his words will always be conveyed by the internal supervisor, anyway, he doesn't care about his image in Yu Liang's mind.

In the inner hall, powerful ministers and celebrities gathered, including Yu Liang, Bian Wangzhi, He Chong, Zhong Ya and others, and Wang Biaozhi and Xie Shang looked lazy, especially Xie Shang, after this night, there was still a faint smell of wine on his body.

When Yu Liang saw him, he pondered for a moment and asked, "Why didn't you capture Sima Zongyu Dang Liu Sheng at that time?" I heard that four years ago, he let you go? ”

"Aren't you here to receive your reward today?" Xie An sat down beside Xie Shang, "It seems that Lord Zhongshu Ling is here to ask about the crime." ”

"The reward for sin is clear, you obviously have enough troops to capture Yanagi ......"

Seeing Yu Liang making things difficult for his baby brother, Xie Shang narrowed his eyes, and was about to speak, but Xie An reached out to cover his mouth, "I'll tell you." ”

"Four years ago, Zhao Yin, the general of the right guard of the right guard of the Zhongshu Order, chased most of the Jiangzuo with his soldiers and horses, and was able to chase down the remnants of Sima Zong's defeated generals, and now he is not only not punished, but also because of the rebellion against Su Jun, he was named the champion general and Liyang Taishou, and handed over the safety of Jiankang to such people who have more than enough success and more than failure, and I am very curious whether Lord Zhongshu Ling is suffering from eye disease."

Xie An said in one breath, Xie Shang couldn't stop laughing when he heard it, Bian Wangzhi shook his head beside him, and he almost couldn't hold back his laughter, Wang Biao patted Xie Shang's back helplessly, telling him not to laugh, in such a quiet and serious place, you should be more restrained.

Xie Shangren smiled and asked, "Ahri, what is the solution to the eye disease?" I fancy that the book Ling adults are not old enough to suffer from eye diseases, right? ”

"Compared to the teacher, your ability to recognize people is really ordinary." Xie An didn't smile, there was no smile on his eyes, his face was tense from the beginning of entering the hall, "Your Excellency should understand a truth, when you play a game, if you make a mistake, you will lose the whole game." ”

Seeing that Xie An fooled the question of letting Liu Sheng go, Yu Liang was well-cultivated, and he was a well-known humble gentleman, and he really had no way to deal with the young man who was occasionally brute.

Although Yu Liang's political IQ is low, he can become a celebrity and has his own ability, he asked in a deep voice: "You say, ******** this official?" ”

Xie An got up, stretched out three fingers and said:

"There are three mistakes."

"First, I insisted on calling Su Jun back to Jiankang."

"Second, I missed the opportunity, I didn't send troops to cross the river to stick to the Dangli Ferry, I didn't dare to suppress the troops and take Liyang directly, which directly led to the rebel generals Han Huang and Zhang Jian successfully crossing the river and slaughtering the city."

"Third, Zhongshu Ling's skill of recognizing people is really ordinary, not to mention your waste firewood right guard general Zhao Yin, the left general Sima Liu is timid in temperament, it is not suitable to lead troops into battle, I don't think there is any need to wait, we will lose this confrontation, instead of waiting here, it is better to think about what to do next."

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"San Lang's words are really ......" He Chong has always been a peacemaker, he knows that among the few people here, Wang Biao's Xie Shang Xie An was brought out by Wang Dao, especially Xie An, Wang Dao gave him the Qilin Bronze Talisman silently, this is not to announce the world, Wang Dao's successor is not a person from Langya Wang's family, and Xie An.

Xie An's words, even if the words are not tactful enough, are also in a certain sense on behalf of Director Wang's words.

And except for the third article, the first two are all things that have happened, and they are the result of Wang Dao's ministers persuading each other, but Yu Liang insisted on going his own way.

Xie An's words fell on Yu Liang's face like several slaps, because after the incident, no one had dared to speak out about his mistakes so bluntly.

For a while, the hall was so quiet that it seemed that the sound of breathing could be heard, and Wang Biaozhi and Xie Shang were even more surprised, thinking that Xie An was just playing tricks, but they didn't expect that they were really counting Yu Liang's crimes.

Yu Liang stared at Xie An, the age difference between the two is very large, but Xie An has really surprised him again and again over the years, first he was imprisoned on behalf of his father, trying to protect his brother, and now he has the support of Director Wang, and he is even more arrogant.

Xie An thoroughly implemented Huan Wen's meaning of "greeting Yu Liang for me", and said expressionlessly: "Why don't we bet that if the army in front is defeated, the adults will change out of this gorgeous dress and wear a white robe, so that they can comfort the innocent people and soldiers who died......"

White clothes are common clothes, and if they are made of the thickest raw linen parts, they are mourning clothes.

"Xie Renzu, take him back!"

Yu Liang finally roared in a low voice, wishing that Xie An would disappear in front of him immediately.

Xie An sighed lowly, "When Su Jun attacks the city, I hope that the Lord of the Chinese Book will not leave the Queen Mother and the little lord, orphans and widows, and run away......"

Yu Liang naturally couldn't hear this, because Xie Shang couldn't wait to leave this internal meeting where Yu Liang was alone and everyone else was stunned, Wang Biaozhi glanced at He Chong, and also slipped away.

"Meetings are held every day, and there may not be any flowers, this thing is to take the lead, don't be cowardly, listen to Kong Tan's words, there is Xi Jian in the east and Wen Qiao Tao Kan in the west, this is a few thousand soldiers and horses, plus his Yu army, I see that the ancestral covenant has not come down from Shouchun, Su Jun's Liyang has already been served by us. This Han Huang and Zhang Jian were making trouble in such an orderly manner at the door of their homes, waiting for Su Junzu's 20,000 soldiers and horses to converge and attack the city......"

It's too beautiful to look at.

Wang Biaozhi and Xie Shang listened to his nagging all the way, and felt more and more that the situation was not good.

Sima Liu's army was really defeated by Han Huang's army, and the dignified Sima clan died at the hands of the exile army, and the bones were thrown into the wilderness.

As for Zhao Yin, of course, he slipped away quickly, and immediately decided to withdraw in the direction of Jiankang.

Han Huang and Zhang Jian naturally did not pursue again, but went towards the Huan Yi rebels who had just occupied Wuhu.

……

What is happening now is all told by Xie An one by one.

Xie An hesitated whether to go to the Eldest Princess's Mansion again to tell Huan Wen the news, hesitated for a long time, or just that.

Now the vanguard battle is still a small fight, but it was the failure of the first head-to-head confrontation that woke up the people who were still dreaming in Jiankang City.

The Sima clan was killed with his troops, and the two Sima princes defected...... Sima Zong is still alive, and Su Jun and Zu Yue are about to converge, with an army of 20,000.

Now Xie An, who is sitting in the house and teasing the children, is also restless, and today he is in danger of offending people, and scolded Yu Liang, hoping that he can be sober, face up to his shortcomings and stop making strategic mistakes, but this powerful minister who is good at infighting, I don't know if he still has selfish intentions for his next move?

Is history repeating itself again? Xie An looked at the carefree children at home, and began to discuss with Xie Shang whether to send them out of the city to live in the countryside of Huiji first.

Xie Shang reprimanded fiercely at this time: "If you are concerned, it will be chaotic, if someone sees that my Xie family leaves the city first, it will definitely cause chaos in the city." ”

Xie An sighed: "Just let the child go, we must not go, we have strength and energy, when the city is broken, I want to go into battle to kill the enemy, but Ah Xuan Daoyun has just been born, and my sister-in-law is not well, Sister Garlic is all there, not to mention sending it to the countryside, at least it has to be sent to my brother-in-law." ”

"I also know that I am a little selfish like this, but Su Jun is coming for the Shi clan, I think he will not be embarrassed by the people in the city, but it is difficult for the children of the Shi clan to say."

"Anyway, if it continues like this, sooner or later it will be chaotic, this military power is in his hands, we can't take him, if we want to change his selfishness, it is better to change the current situation, how about I find someone to injure him? Let him be in a coma for ten days and half a month. ”

Xie An knew the tragic situation of the scholar clan after Su Jun entered the city in history, even if he knew, so many brains in the court were making ideas for Yu Liang, but he chose the wrong answer.

"The front is reasonable, but the back is all crooked." Xie Shang said helplessly.

The days of waiting for the war were extremely difficult, Wang Xizhi was busy practicing calligraphy these days, and wrote stacks of books and sent them to him, so that he could slow down his thoughts a little, people often don't want to see each other when they grow up, Xie An has his own things to do, Su Jun's rebellion will inevitably cause economic turmoil in Jiangzuo, and Shen's family can't be chaotic as an imperial businessman, these days, Shen Jin is also very busy.

Xie An went to the West Garden again, originally to find Huang Chuping, but he didn't think that Guo Wen, who said he was leaving, was still there.

When facing him, Guo Wen was still a little embarrassed, Xie Jian forgot about the past, explained it, and went to see Bai Zhou.

Bai Zhou's eyes have been treated by Huang Chuping recently, but these days are all sunny days, and the strong light effect of the sun falling on the snow can't even stand ordinary people after looking at it for a long time.

So Bai Zhou was still hiding in his small dark room, and was doing research with the plan that Xie An had given him before.

"The restoration of Master Ma Jun's fifty-arrow repeater has been explained, and it is easy to rely on the Langya Wang clan with his back, and it is necessary to have manpower and materials." Bai Zhou is concentrating on improving the diagram of the fifty-arrow repeater, according to Xie An's idea, it is to make this repeater into a cannon and the like, and there will always be a time when it is necessary to attack from a distance and a large area.

Unfortunately, the idea is beautiful, but it is not so easy to put it into practice.

"Actually, this is already good, if I get any machine gun cannon drawings from Penglai Pavilion and don't have this technology to do, I'm not a genius, now it's good to be able to remember the multiplication formula and basically do the math, let me do what angle and speed calculation formula, it's completely blind, it's a waste for an engineering talent like you to follow me."

Xie An said a bunch of things that Bai Zhou didn't seem to understand, but he had also heard a lot of such complaints over the years, and he had seen Xie An's real machine gun sketches, but unfortunately Bai Zhou couldn't even make a perfect crossbow for him now, let alone that kind of hot weapon.

Bai Zhou seemed to think of something, and asked: "Xiao Huang said, you recently gave him a prescription to study what pills, and also set aside a courtyard for him to study, and also gave him a set of armor to defend himself...... This is to practice some kind of elixir, as if you are going to go into battle. ”

Xie An asked Huang Chuping to study the natural gunpowder, a necessary weapon for crossing male pigs.

The gunpowder formula had a prototype as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, mainly saltpeter, and the real invention of gunpowder was not until the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years later, Xie An could only rely on the historical knowledge of his previous life to know that the gunpowder was made by alchemists by mistake, which can be regarded as the result of long-term practice by generations of alchemists since the Jin Dynasty.

He only knew that the materials were sulfur, realgar and saltpeter, as well as charcoal and the like, and the proportion was unknown, so he had to rely on experiments to really make it, because gunpowder was powerful, and he didn't dare to let his second brother get it at home before. The West Garden is empty, Huang Chuping is clever and interested, Xie An is worried about his safety, and repeatedly told him to put on armor, and when he sees that the Dan furnace is not moving, he must run away immediately.

"When you hear a fire in his yard, you'll know what I've asked him to do."

Xie An said.

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In the next few days, bad news came from the battle ahead, and the first thing was that the Huan Yi rebels occupying Wuhu were defeated by Han Huang's army and retreated all the way back to Xuancheng, while Han Huang pursued all the way and approached the Xuancheng gate.

Huan Yi knew that Xuancheng's city defense was insufficient, so he decisively led his army to withdraw to Guangde.

Han Huang no longer pursued deeply, and was very clever in looting and collecting supplies all over Xuancheng County, in order to wait for Su Jun to join Zu Yue.

At this time, it finally made the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty uneasy.

Once Su Junzu's 20,000 soldiers and horses were gathered, plus there was enough food and grass, it was enough to fight a protracted war.

When the time comes, not to mention the misery, Jiankang City will be broken sooner or later.

Wen Qiao, the general of Pingnan in Wuchang, finally couldn't help it, he ignored Yu Liang's ban and wanted to lead the army east, Yu Liang learned that he immediately ordered Wen Qiao to retreat to Wuchang, and he was not allowed to cross the Lei Chi step in case Jingzhou assassin Shi Taokan became chaotic......

Such a shadowless thing, Yu Liang took it into consideration.

However, at the same time, Su Jun and Zu Yue finally met in Jiangbei, and more than 20,000 rebels were about to cross the river.

(To be continued.) )