Chapter 160: Repair Murong Diao
Just when Wei Shuo was busy cultivating internal affairs and reorganizing the army for war, he didn't expect Wang Jun to make trouble again. Since falling out with Duan's last year, Wang Jun has lost his biggest reliance. Without the support of the Xianbei cavalry, Wang Jun was a toothless tiger. Tigers are not powerful, they are naturally sick cats.
But Wang Jun didn't want to be seen as a sick cat, so he decided to trouble Duanbu. He ignores the threat of his sworn enemy, Shile, and insists on teaching his former allies a lesson! Wang Jun's approach is very stupid, and stupid people are often self-righteous, just as Wang Jun thinks he has come up with a good way to kill two birds with one stone in Bian Zhuang's stabbing tiger style: he bribed Tuoba Yilu with a lot of money and asked Tuoba Xianbei to attack Duanbu.
Tuoba Yilu had no intention of fighting with the Duan clan and resigned from the lack of troops, but Wang Jun vowed to ensure that the Changli Murong tribe would also join the conquest, and the benefits after the war would be divided equally between the two families.
In the first year of Jianxing, in April, Wang Jun manipulated two soldiers and horses to attack the Duan clan in western Liaoning, and the Tuoba army, which did not contribute to the battle, was about to collapse, but Murong Diao successfully expelled the Duanbu forces from Tuhe County and occupied the entire territory of Changli County, becoming the only profiteer
Since defeating Duan's Xianbei last year and forming an alliance with the other party, the idea of eliminating Wang Jun has been haunting Shi Le's mind, but before that, he needs to pacify his newly acquired territory, Jizhou. It happened that Wang Jun died by himself, giving him the opportunity to rectify the interior of Jizhou.
"Damn! Is Wang Jun a fool?! He doesn't have a brain?! Also a family of celebrities! What kind of family are these Tms?! Leave the close Shiler threatening? What do you always compare with the Duan family? This is good, not only offended the Duan family, but also gave Shi Le a chance to recuperate. ”
When Wei Shuo learned the news of Wang Jun, he couldn't help but scold in the direction of Youzhou, although he didn't like Duan's Xianbei, but he knew that the enemy of Youzhou was Shi Le. The most important thing Wang Jun should do is not to trouble the Duan family, but to try to repair the relationship with the Duan family regardless of his previous suspicions.
But now that Wang Jun is doing such nonsense, he has completely offended the Duan family, and completely lost the possibility of reconciliation with the Duan family. What's even more terrifying is that he also allowed the careerist Murong Diao to expand his own strength, and gave his sworn enemy Shi Le plenty of time to recuperate.
Once Shile takes the opportunity to stabilize the situation in Hebei, he can solve Youzhou with all his might without any worries. If it weren't for Wei Shuo still having Shao Xu's hole card in his hand, he could really only watch Shi Le encroach on the entire Youzhou and Hebei states, and then return to the Central Plains and Guanzhong as in history, sweep the heroes, and establish a Later Zhao Empire that dominates most of the north.
Liaodong Wenwu looked at Wei Shuo, who was a little out of shape due to the deterioration of the situation in Youzhou, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this was the first time Wei Shuo had behaved so gaffe in front of everyone.
Pei Wei was also dissatisfied with Wang Jun's stupid behavior, but he didn't forget to think about serious things, and seeing that his lord was so angry, he hurriedly persuaded him: "Lord, this matter has become irreparable, let's hurry up and think about what can be remedied." ”
"Remedy? Remedy a fart! Let Wang Jun die! Wei Shuo was completely annoyed by Wang Jun's brain-dead behavior, and couldn't help but burst into foul language again.
Pei Wei rolled his eyes and continued to persuade: "Lord, although Wang Jun deserves to die, but there can be no mistakes in Youzhou!" Now that Shile has invaded Jizhou, if he occupies the entire Youzhou again, there will be no one in the north to suppress Shile. When Shile returned to the Central Plains and Guanzhong, it would be impossible to stop Shile from unifying the north with the current situation of the two places being divided. Once Shile unifies the Central Plains, Hebei, and Guanzhong, then we can only be blocked by it in the cold and remote Liaodong to fend for ourselves! ”
Pei Wei's inference is not much different from the historical truth, and it is precisely because he understands Shi Le that Wei Shuo feels extremely annoyed with Wang Jun. Whether in modern or ancient times, he has also cooperated with many people, and he has never seen someone like Wang Jun who pits his teammates.
Wei Shuo forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, glanced at the staff under his command, and said in a somewhat heavy tone: "Everyone, the situation in Youzhou has deteriorated suddenly, which is completely beyond our expectations!" But as Wen Ji said, Wang Jun's life and death can be ignored, but we must not let the entire Youzhou fall into the hands of Shi Le. ”
"The gains and losses of Youzhou are related to the future strategic development of Liaodong, but how to alleviate the current situation, Wei is helpless, please teach me!"
I don't know how long it took, but Song suddenly stood up and said, "My lord, can you consider forming an alliance with the Murong tribe?" As long as Murong Diao agrees with us to use Changli, we can open up the land connection between Liaodong and Youzhou. In this way, not only did we save ourselves the trouble of having to go by sea, but we could also quickly dispatch cavalry to assist Wang Jun in times of crisis. ”
Repair Murong Diao! Wei Shuo moved, this is a good idea. He is not a pedantic person, and he will not refuse to have any dealings with Murong Diao just because he is a fierce rival. On the contrary, as long as it is conducive to the development of Liaodong, he does not refuse to cooperate with it. Moreover, Wei Shuo believes that in the treatment of Shile, the interests of the two are the same.
"My lord, I also think that Song Pengshi's suggestion can be tried. Thinking that Murong Diao would be the same wary of the powerful Shi Le, if he lent the road to Liaodong, he would have every chance to use Liaodong's hand to consume Shi Le's strength, and with Murong Diao's wisdom, he would not fail to see the pros and cons. ”
To everyone's expectations, it was Gao Zhan who first echoed Song Gai's suggestion, and since Gao Zhan joined Liaodong, the contradiction between him and Song Gai is a well-known secret. It is rare to see the two of them have contact on weekdays, and even when they are deliberating, the two rarely communicate.
In order to make peace with both sides, Wei Shuo and his subordinates didn't know how many ways they thought, but it didn't work. Gao Zhan was better, and he also expressed his desire to reconcile with Song Cai, but Song Gai never pretended to Gao Zhan.
Gao Zhan's face did not change in the face of the strange gaze, as if it was not him who had just spoken. In fact, Gao Zhan agreed with Song Gai, although he had the intention of easing relations with Song Gai, but the most important thing is that he would not abolish the public for personal reasons, as long as he thought it was a good suggestion, no matter who made the suggestion, he would speak out to support it.
However, the kindness released by Gao Zhan was not accepted by Song Cai. Song Gai still looked cold, and didn't make any response to Gao Zhan at all. Wei Shuo, who was looking forward to the easing of the relationship between the two, couldn't help but be disappointed, and at this time, even if Wei Shuo's temper was good, he couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied with Song Cai, who didn't enter the oil and salt.
I'm afraid that even Wei Shuo didn't know that a trace of dissatisfaction that he unintentionally revealed happened to be looked at by Song Cai. Sometimes misunderstandings arise unintentionally, just like this time, it's not that Wei Shuo really thinks about Song Cai, but it's another thing in Song Cai's eyes.
At this time, Song Cai's mind was like turning over the river and the sea, and his mind was full of the lord's opinions on him! Song Cai thought about it and felt that he had fallen to this point today, all thanks to Gao Zhan. If he hadn't joined Liaodong, Song would not have annoyed Wei Shuo because of this.
But in the end, Song Gai somehow suddenly became dissatisfied with Wei Shuo. I always feel that since Gao Zhan came, Wei Shuo's attention and enthusiasm for him have decreased a lot. Not to mention that Song should be thinking crankily there, just saying that everyone said that it was a good way to form an alliance with Murong Diao.
In the end, Wei Shuo made a final decision and prepared to send an envoy to Changli, but at this time, it was Song Gai who stood up and took the initiative to take over the important task of envoying the Murong tribe. Originally, Wei Shuo's preferred candidate was Yang Tan, who had shown extraordinary diplomatic talent during Cui Yu's siege of Xi'an.
But this is the first time that Song should take the initiative to stand up and take on the heavy responsibility, and Wei Shuo is not easy to refuse. Besides, the proposal to form an alliance with Murong Diao was still put forward by others, and with him as the envoy, it should have a better chance of success. After some consideration, Wei Shuo finally agreed that Song should send Changli.
Although everyone was a little surprised that Song should be too active today, they didn't think much about it. Even Wei Shuo took it for granted that the reason why Song should do this was nothing more than to suppress his old rival Gao Zhan, and at the same time show him that he was no worse than Gao Zhan. But everyone didn't notice the weird smile on the corner of Song Gai's mouth.
"Humph! TZG ...... Wei Shuo......"
When Song returned to his home, the smile on his face quickly disappeared, and was replaced by a grim face, and the sound from his mouth was like a night owl in the cold wind.