In the third year of Jianxing, on March 25, King Langya held a grand gathering in the Taichu Palace.

Taichu Palace was originally the residence of Sun Ce, the rebellious general of Eastern Wu, and later Sun Quan built the capital Jianye, demolished the original mansion and rebuilt it into Taichu Palace, as the location of the Eastern Wu Imperial Palace. The king of Langya moved to the town and built Ye, and regarded this place as the palace of the king of Langya.

In the Shenlong Palace, celebrities gathered, and the famous people of the family led by the Langya Wang family, the Chen Jun Xie family, the Yingchuan Yu family, the Wu County Gu family, the Lu family, etc., gathered in the main hall, and Wei Shuo was the old god standing on the side.

Wei Shuo is the first time to see so many famous people from the family, he is both curious and excited, compared with Wang Dao, Xie Kun, Yu Liang, Lu Ye, Ji Zhan and other famous people who are famous all over the world, like Pei Wei, Gao Zhan, Liu Han and the like, they are a little unable to do it.

In the entire hall, the hundred officials of the Prime Minister's Mansion stood quietly, solemnly, and only Wei Shuo's loud and smooth voice echoed around the hall, and he was detailing the current situation in Liaodong to King Langya, as well as the changes in the situation in the north after the Youzhou War.

Who knew that Wei Shuo began to denounce the cruelty of the Hu people as soon as he turned his words, and he stood on the main hall and shouted, asking King Langya to reorganize his armor and send troops to the Northern Expedition. Liaodong will fully cooperate with Jiangzuo's actions to contain the Hu forces from the north.

"The minister asked the king to lead Jiang Zuohu Ben to wave the Northern Expedition, recover the old capital, and reorganize the rivers and mountains!"

One stone stirs up a thousand waves! The celebrities of various families glared at Wei Shuo angrily!

Wei Shuo asked King Langya to command the Jiangdong army to go north, seriously damaging the interests of the family. The southern and northern families and the indigenous clans of Jiangdong, and even the king of Langya himself all needed regional peace rather than unification of China. Even if King Langya is willing, he may not be able to compete with the Hu people in the Central Plains for a long time, and the support of the family must be considered.

Since the end of the Han Dynasty, there have been two ways for the clans to safeguard their interests, one is to support a certain military group to unify China, and the other is to support a certain group of local separatists to maintain regional peace.

On the face of it. If the family can control the whole of China, they will get the greatest benefits, such as supporting Sima Yan to usurp Wei Lijin to unify China. However, the current situation does not allow the family to support King Langya to take this road again, and it is too expensive to unify China with a corner of Jiangdong.

Because a war of reunification requires the support of manpower and material resources, and a war must kill people. Even if King Langya defeated the Hu people and unified Huaxia in the end, the family that had already suffered huge losses due to the invasion of the Hu people might be greatly damaged by this, and what they gained and lost was not proportional to what they gained. This is the main reason why the Eastern Jin Dynasty has not been willing to forge ahead in history.

King Langya knew this, he was well aware of the limited support of the family for him, and it was also conducive to his consolidation of imperial power, so the two sides almost coincided.

As soon as Wei Shuo's words fell, Liu Kui, who was standing nearby, couldn't wait to rush up and tear his stinky mouth, wondering why Wei Shuo wanted to mention this stubble on the occasion in front of him. The Northern Expedition is a very taboo topic in Jiangzuo, and you don't see that Zu Ti, who supported the Northern Expedition, was kicked to Huaiyin by the Langya King and the United Family.

The main hall was full of fierce rebuttals for a while. Officials, big and small, rushed to speak. And Wei Shuo let the outside world storm and rain, and only stood still!

King Langya sat on it, watched the bottom fry, rubbed his eyebrows, and said with a headache: "Okay, stop arguing!" ”

Suddenly the hall fell silent.

"What do you Aiqing have to say, what kind of thing do you want to make such a noise?"

King Langya first reprimanded everyone, and then waved at Wei Shuo with a reluctant smile and said, "What Wei Tingshi said is very reasonable. The Northern Expedition must be supported, but it needs to be considered in the long run. All of you Aiqing have disagreements and controversies about this, all for the sake of the country's social considerations. The words are a little intense, I hope Wei Thorn Shi will forgive me! ”

"Don't dare!"

Wei Shuo didn't expect Jiang Zuo to be interested in the Northern Expedition at all, he was only responsible for lighting the fire, and he didn't care what the fire was burning too much. If they don't find something to do for the family, they have nothing to do all day long and just think about revenge on him Wei Shuo.

The courtiers of various families in the hall were angry with Wei Shuo, and all kinds of ugly words almost blurted out. Wei Shuo can be regarded as having seen what it means to be a cultural person. A mouth, all kinds of allusions come when you open your mouth, it's really scolding without dirty words.

Fortunately, Wei Shuo was very thick-skinned, and he looked like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and let the famous people in the hall spray saliva on his face. Several gray-haired old guys surrounded Wei Shuo in the middle, blowing their beards one by one and glaring at each other, eager to punch Wei Shuo to death.

King Langya was afraid that a few old guys would be angry with Wei Shuo. Busy asking Liu Kui and others to separate them.

And Liu Kui took the opportunity to pull Wei Shuo's arm and whispered, "Zhiyuan, what are you doing here?" What is there to mention about the Northern Expedition? Aren't you looking for trouble? If you continue to mess around like this, do you want to go back to Liaodong? ”

Seeing Liu Kui's sincere concern, Wei Shuo was very grateful in his heart, and hurriedly leaned into Liu Kui's ear and whispered: "Boss, if you don't make such trouble, how can you have the opportunity to fish in troubled waters?" ”

Liu Kui was stunned! He didn't expect Wei Shuo to have such a plan!

After Wei Shuo stirred up like this, it completely disrupted the deployment of the previous families. Originally, the families planned to criticize Wei Shuo as soon as they came up, and then force Wei Shuo to hand over the right to issue new currency, and it was best to hand over all the rare treasures in the hands of the Laoshan Trading Company.

As a result, I didn't expect that most of the day's effort was wasted on arguing, and when everyone calmed down, they realized that they had already digressed.

Looking at the celebrities around him who rolled their eyes in anger, Wei Shuo smiled secretly, and continued to put on a righteous and awe-inspiring appearance: "King, if you don't go north to the Central Plains and don't recover the old capital, how can you be worthy of the royal ancestors and ancestors?" I heard that the mausoleum of the former emperor has been destroyed by the Hu people, as a subject of the Jin family, if we do not rebuild the imperial mausoleum, how will we go to see the emperor after a hundred years? ”

King Langya and the ministers of the Jiangzuo family were told by Wei Shuo, and their faces were full of embarrassment. As a member of the royal family, King Langya naturally has the obligation to promote the Northern Expedition to restore the imperial tomb, who dares to say that Wei Shuo is not in this matter? People have a good reason.

Liu Kui saw that the atmosphere was not right, and hurriedly said: "King, the minister thinks that this matter is too complicated, and it is difficult to deal with it properly for a while, besides, today is to celebrate Lord Wei, why don't you discuss the matter of the Northern Expedition later?" ”

"Well, what Aiqing said is very true, this matter will be discussed later!"

"The king is wise!"

Looking at the ugliness of Jiangdong up and down the main hall, Wei Shuo smiled slightly, and a trace of mockery flashed on his face.

Liu Kui wiped the sweat on his head and pointed to the noisy Shenlong Temple and smiled: "Zhiyuan, how is it?" Lively, right? ”

Wei Shuo nodded and smiled: "It's much more lively than Liaodong, my lord, I now know why the famous people of the family want to be an official in Jianye." ”

"Zhiyuan, if King Langya has the ambition to go on the Northern Expedition, will you support it?" Liu Kui asked casually.

"If King Langya has the ambition to reorganize the rivers and mountains, and then build Guangwu Zhongxing, he will naturally support his subordinates!"

Liu Kui was stunned at first, then glared at Wei Shuo fiercely, and scolded in a low voice: "Duplicity." ”

Wei Shuo smiled but didn't refute, he knew that his careful thinking couldn't hide from Liu Kui, but he didn't worry about anything, but smiled: "Don't be angry, adults!" ”

"You know what! There is an unknown saying in Jiangzuo that the Northern Expedition is equivalent to the theory of destroying the country and exterminating the species, do you know? In order to satisfy their own interests, the family will never support the Northern Expedition, they will only guard one acre and three points of land in Jiangzuo to live their own lives, how can they care about the life and death of the people in the Central Plains! ”

Just as Wei Shuo and Liu Kui were whispering, King Langya, as an auxiliary minister, issued an order on behalf of the imperial court to add Wei Shuo Tejin, General Zhenbei, Anton Daduhu, Kaifu Yitong and the Three Divisions, the Envoy Jie, the Governor Youjiping and the Four Prefectures Military, Youzhou Mu, and Xiangping Marquis, and the county affairs under his jurisdiction can be done cheaply.

As soon as the edict was written, there was an uproar in the hall, and they all exchanged heads. Even Wei Shuo was a little stunned, he didn't expect King Langya to come to this show. Although the edict said that it was to reward Wei Shuo for his contribution to recovering Youzhou, it didn't matter if the previous long list of official positions and rewards was awarded, but the last sentence "The affairs and duties of the prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction can be exercised cheaply" has a lot of articles.

Wei Shuo knew that today's edict said that although King Langya officially recognized his sovereignty over Youping, it also meant that the simple relationship between him and King Langya had ended, and it had become a complex relationship between the local feudal town and the central government. (To be continued.) )