On the night of March 25, Wei Fusi secretly visited Cui Hongsheng.

Originally, Wei Fusi suggested that King Qi personally visit Cui Hongsheng, but this idea was really dirty, and King Qi refused. It's just that you deliberately disgust Cui Hongsheng, why do you want me to stick my hot face to other people's cold butts, it's boring to find myself? Once Cui Hongsheng misunderstood, thinking that he deliberately harmed him and closed the door, wouldn't he become a laughing stock?

So the two soldiers of the monarch and the minister divided into two ways, the king of Qi went to visit Yu Wenshu and Guo Rong, and explained in detail to the headquarters the reason why he went north to meet Li Pingyuan, and sought the consent of the headquarters, won the authorization of the headquarters, and first grasped the initiative from the ceremony, while Wei Fusi secretly visited Cui Hongsheng, and did his best to win Cui Hongsheng's cooperation and increase the chances of destroying Goguryeo.

When Cui Hongsheng heard that Wei Fusi was visiting, he immediately had all kinds of speculations, and at the same time, he was worried and hesitant, and he didn't want to open the door and admit customers, so as not to be calculated by King Qi and cause trouble.

Cui Xiaoren saw that Cui Hongsheng was gloomy and silent, understood in his heart, bowed down and said, "Ming Gong, I went to find a reason to refuse." ”

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he saw Cui Yu walk in. Cui Yu dressed as a man, wearing a well-cut yellow dress, showing her heroic spirit in her delicateness. Cui Yu first shook his hand at Cui Xiaoren, motioned for him to wait for a while, and then walked to Cui Hongsheng's side and said in a low voice, "My lord, I just got the news that King Qi visited Duke Xu (Yu Wenshu) and Duke Pucheng (Guo Rong) overnight to discuss confidential matters, and at this time, Duke Dangyang (Wei Fusi) quietly rushed to the adult, so it can be seen that there must be a mystery. ”

Cui Hongsheng stroked his long hair, groaned for a while, and asked, "What's the mystery?" ”

Cui Yu hesitated for a moment and said slowly, "Li Pingyuan." ”

"You mean, the King of Qi sent Wei Fusi north to urge Li Pingyuanhuo to go south to Huaiyuan?" Cui Hongsheng shook his head, "We can't help with this matter, take a step back and say, even if we can help, we can't help, so as not to get burned." ”

"My lord, I suddenly have a guess."

Cui Yu's words made Cui Hongsheng inexplicable, "What speculation?" ”

"Bai Xiang'er said that his strategy for the eastern crusade has been informed to the Holy Lord and the center by Pei Shiju, that is to say, now in Huaiyuan Town, those who know that Li Pingyuan is rushing to Pyongyang by the intermittent road, there is Xu Guogong Yu's writings, there are you, and others such as Pucheng Gong Guo Rong, Huaguo Gong Li Jing and Wuyin Gong Xue Shixiong do not know, and judging from what King Qi is doing today, he also knows nothing, which is worth scrutinizing." Cui Yudai frowned, and said suspiciously, "King Qi and Bai worked closely together, and both participated in the Third Eastern Crusade, so they should cooperate tacitly, but today King Qi strongly asked Li Pingyuan to go south to Huaiyuan to rendezvous, which is obviously unreasonable." ”

Cui Hongsheng's expression was solemn and he didn't say a word.

"Bai may have to cross the river and tear down the bridge." Cui Xiaoren, who was standing next to Cui Hongsheng, spoke, "Bai has taken Anton, Li Pingyuan has also made a successful comeback, at this moment King Qi has no use value, if the two sides continue to cooperate, Li Pingyuan will get into trouble, and he will be attacked by the Holy Lord and Pei Shiju before and after, so Bai must unload the mill and kill the donkey, cross the river and tear down the bridge." As long as Bai promises to no longer support the King of Qi and no longer help the King of Qi to cut off his hegemony, then the King of Qi will be weak on the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade, and in the end he can only be tied under the pressure of the Holy Lord. ”

Cui Hongsheng looked at Cui Yu, then turned his head to look at Cui Xiaoren, and asked, "If your guess is right, why did Wei Fusi visit tonight?" ”

"If King Qi wants to live well, he must win the imperial throne, and there is no second choice at all." Cui Xiaoren continued without thinking, "There are too many bloody examples, so the King of Qi has been unnormal in the past two years, not only taking the opportunity of the Holy Lord's personal expedition to escape from the Eastern Capital, but also when Yang Xuangan mutinied, the Eastern Capital was in chaos, and the Holy Lord was caught off guard, he cooperated with Bai Yiming and secretly to go north to the Great Wall, trying to divide the feudal town, so that even if he could not win the imperial unity, he could also stand on his own according to the northern frontier and dominate one side. ”

"However, now the situation has changed, Bai's strength is strong, and he can cross the river and tear down the bridge, but the king of Qi can't do without Bai's support, so from the standpoint of the king of Qi, if the Eastern Expedition implements the decision of advancing with water 6 and attacking at the same time, Li Pingyuan and Andong's army will no longer go south and Huaiyuan, and no longer give strong support to the king of Qi, the king of Qi will be passive, just wait for the holy lord to arrive, he will be finished."

"The King of Qi is absolutely impossible, since he has openly confronted the Holy Lord, he can only go one way to the black, and as far as the current situation is concerned, the King of Qi has only one countermeasure, hold on to Bai tightly, even if Bai is determined to jump off his boat, he must resolutely drag Bai on, and he will also pull on the back of the white pad when he dies, so that Bai will be passive, he is not trusted by the Holy Lord and the center, and now he is breaking his promise, not only continuing to support the King of Qi and joining forces with the King of Qi to attack Goguryeo, but also openly confronting the Holy Lord and openly deceiving the Holy Lord and the center, The results can be imagined. ”

The more Cui Yu listened, the more frightened he became, and his pretty face was cloudy.

Cui Hongsheng is not shocked, he has experienced many political storms, and he is accustomed to this kind of struggle of deceit and life-and-death.

Whether Bai turned his back on the King of Qi, Cui's didn't know, but Cui's was sure of one thing, that is, Bai had been out of control since the banner rebellion, and even if Pei Shiju could still exert influence on it, but how big this impact was, it depended on whether the interests of the two sides were the same, such as the Great War between the North and the South, the two sides had the same goal, Pei Shiju had a great influence on Bai, on the contrary, such as the Imperial War, the two sides had very different demands, and Pei Shiju couldn't convince Bai.

"My lord, since Yang Gong is here, you should meet him." Cui Yu cautiously persuaded.

Cui Xiaoren hesitated for a moment, and also persuaded, "Ming Gong, it's good to meet and find out." ”

Cui Hongsheng pondered for a while and nodded, "Good! Invite Dangyang Gong to the partial account. ”

It didn't take long for Cui Xiaoren to invite Wei Fusi to the side account. Although Cui Hongsheng looked calm, he was not enthusiastic, and even a little cold, and seemed to be very dissatisfied with Wei Fusi's hidden approach and ill-intentioned intentions.

After a few words of greeting, Cui Hongsheng stopped talking and waited coldly.

Wei Fusi was also interested, outspoken, and directly revealed a major secret, the king of Qi had just made a decision, and decided to personally lead the army north to Fuyu, one to inspect the border fortress, to comfort Liaodong, and the other to urge Li Pingyuan to go south to Huaiyuan.

Cui Hongsheng looked surprised, and then turned his head and exchanged glances with Cui Xiaoren who was standing beside him, and Cui Xiaoren was also surprised, the facts were obviously very different from his speculation, he guessed the result correctly, but the reason for this result was not guessed.

Under the current situation, the King of Qi is indeed worthless to Bai, but this does not mean that Bai will turn his back on the King of Qi, because even if Bai betrays or even betrays the King of Qi, he will not win the trust of the Holy Lord and the center, on the contrary, the contradiction between him and the Holy Lord and the Center may become more intense.

From the point of view of the King of Qi, the King of Qi does need the support of Bai, and needs to maintain cooperation with Bai, and the two sides happen to have a common interest base on the battlefield of the Eastern Crusade, Bai needs to destroy Goguryeo to strengthen himself, and the King of Qi needs the martial arts to expand the territory to consolidate and strengthen his political position 。

If this is the case, Choi's will be in trouble, and if Choi's continues to carry out the agreement with Bai and give strong support and tacit cooperation at the critical moment when Paik attacks Pyongyang, it will be equivalent to supporting and helping the King of Qi, and in the end it will inevitably offend the Holy Lord and the reformers, and the consequences will be very serious.

Choi Hongsheng and Choi Hyo-in's minds invariably crossed the thought that Choi might have been deceived in vain.

Wei Fusi was sitting precariously, looking at Cui Hongsheng and Cui Xiaoren for a long time, as if he was observing the surprised reaction of the two to this sudden major news, and there was even a hint of pride in his eyes.

A little later, Cui Hongsheng said unhurriedly, "The big war is imminent, the king suddenly decided to go north to patrol the border to comfort, the time is too hasty, once there is an accident, delayed, delayed the expedition, the holy lord is angry, it is not good for the king." ”

Wei Fusi smiled, "The king is the pacification envoy of Liaodong, although he is responsible for supervising the army, but the main task is to patrol the border to ensure the stability of Liaodong during the Eastern Expedition, so this time the north patrol is the king's duty, and he can't help but do his best, and coincidentally, it happens that Anton's army is on the way south to Huaiyuan, and the king will definitely meet them when he goes north, and he can also exercise the responsibility of supervising the army, urging Anton's army to go south to Huaiyuan, so that you can kill two birds with one stone, isn't it just right?" ”

Cui Hongsheng's expression was grim, and his brows were furrowed.

"Of course, accidents can happen at any time, and the king is also prepared for both, whether it is encountering a rebellion of various tribes on the way north to patrol the border to pacify the country, or Andong's army is delayed in the southward journey due to various unpredictable reasons, the king and Andong's deputy capital Huli Pingyuan will overcome all difficulties and attack Goguryeo in mid-April, killing Pyongyang." ”

As soon as these words came out, Cui Hongsheng and Cui Xiaoren both knew Wei Fusi's intention.

Whether or not Choi Hong-seung can kill the Yalu River within the scheduled time and whether he can effectively contain the Goguryeo army in the direction of Pyongyang City has a direct bearing on whether Andong's army can "surprise the enemy and attack the enemy unprepared" and take Pyongyang by surprise.

And this is the secret agreement between the Cui family and Bai, and now the king of Qi has come to publicly put pressure on the Cui family, which is problematic, although this cannot prove that Bai deliberately deceived the Cui family, but as far as the current facts are concerned, once the king of Qi and Bai openly join forces, it will inevitably cause major harm to the interests of the Cui family, which is unacceptable to the Cui family.

The next conversation was meaningless, the two sides were perfunctory, Wei Fusi's words were mysterious, Cui Hongsheng was false and wronged, and each said his own thing.

As soon as Wei Fusi left the side tent with his front foot, Cui Yu appeared in front of Cui Hongsheng and said angrily, "Immediately go north and question the white thief face to face." ”

Cui Hongsheng pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you believe him?" ”

"Believe him." Cui Yu said without thinking, "It is a matter of success or failure of the Eastern Expedition and the survival of Anton, and he will never be able to deceive his son." ”

"Good!" Cui Hongsheng said decisively, "Early tomorrow morning, we will set off for the north." ”

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