Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the early summer of the third year of Taixing, and history has already become unsightly because of the arrival of Wei Shuo. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although there is still chaos in the Central Plains, on the whole, it is developing in a good direction.

What was in front of Wei Shuo at the moment was two pieces of information, one from Jiang Zuo and one from Xiangguo.

He first picked up the one on his left, the contents on it were all information related to Xiangguo, and Wei Shuo carefully browsed it.

For Shi Le, Wei Shuo has never taken it lightly, even if Zhang Bin secretly took refuge, he still did not dare to relax his vigilance.

In this battle of Qingzhou, although Shi Le was defeated, it was not a break at all, and the strength of Xiangguo was still there, and there were at least 200,000 elites under his command, dozens of generals, and he was still the biggest enemy in Liaodong in the future.

According to intelligence, after the defeat of Qingzhou and the influence of "Traitor Record", although chaos was inevitable in Xiangguo, under the strong integration of Shile, Xiangguo has basically recovered to its original state today.

Moreover, in order to further stabilize the rule of the Qianhu, Shi Le listened to the advice of Cheng Yao, Xu Guang, Guo Yin and other important ministers, regardless of the opposition of the rest of the Qianhu nobles, and still ordered the reduction and exemption of taxes in various places in the face of financial constraints and lack of money and food, so as to win the hearts of the people.

I have to say that Shi Le's hand is beautiful, and it has confused many people in the Central Plains, completely forgetting how Hu Lu caused evil in the Central Plains back then.

This can't all be blamed on the people, the people at the bottom have little knowledge, they only value immediate interests, and never care who is the emperor.

Seeing this, Wei Shuo had to sigh at Shile's strength, no wonder he would become the final victor among the Hus in history.

Compared with Shi Le, Liu Cong, Liu Yao, Fu Hong, Murong Hao, Yao Yizhong and others are worse after all, which is why Wei Shuo has always attached so much importance to Shi Le.

Even in Wei Shuo's opinion, if there was no strong enemy Shi Le, maybe he would have pacified the Central Plains and unified the entire north by now.

"Shall others be allowed to snoer on the side of the couch? What's more, he's still a Hu man! Wei Shuo muttered to himself, and his desire to kill Hu became stronger and stronger.

It's just a pity that at the moment Liaodong is at a critical moment of economic development, it is impossible to go south to the Central Plains desperately, otherwise even if Shile is destroyed, Liaodong's economy may have problems.

Anyway, Xiangguo has Zhang Bin's trump card, and Wei Shuo is not too worried about the other party getting out of control.

In this way, Wei Shuo could only temporarily press down and be ready to move in his heart, and picked up another piece of information on the case to browse, this is information related to Jiangdong,

Unlike the calm Xiangguo, on Jiangzuo's side, Wang Dun and the Son of Heaven broke out again in a fierce conflict over control of Xiangyang.

Since receiving Xi Jian's advice, Sima Rui has been paying close attention to the condition of Zhou Yu in Xiangyang City.

As soon as he received the resignation of Zhou Yue, Sima Rui immediately issued an order to reward Xi Jian as General Anxi to replace Zhou Yu in Xiangyang.

At this time, Fang reflected the benefits of easing relations with Wang Dao, and Xi Jian's appointment was quickly approved by the imperial court.

Originally, Sima Rui wanted to force Wang Dun to acquiesce with a fait accompli, but who knew that he completely underestimated Wang Dun's attention to Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is located in the upper reaches of Xiangshui, along Xiangshui all the way south to the Yangtze River, and then down the river can attack the place of Wang Dun's foundation - Wuchang County from the rear.

In order to ensure that the defenders of Xiangyang would not be copied by the back road, Wang Dun must control Xiangyang in his own hands.

In the past, Zhou visited and contradicted him, and Wang Dun had no choice but to covet Xiangyang again.

Now Zhou Wan is seriously ill, but he didn't expect that before Wang Dun could make a move, the Son of Heaven's hand reached into Xiangyang, which completely angered Wang Dun.

Wang Dun, who was sitting in Wuchang, was furious when he learned about it, and immediately returned to Jianye by boat, broke directly into the palace, and asked Sima Rui, the son of heaven, to revoke the appointment of Xi Jian.

But Sima Rui thought of Xi Jian's teachings, and immediately rejected Wang Dun on the grounds that Jun had no jokes.

Wang Dun sneered at the time: "You still have no jokes? Doesn't Your Majesty know that this is a disorder? Xi Jian's army defeated Huainan, and the imperial court had not punished him for his crimes, which was really lenient, how could he hand over the important town of Xiangyang to a guilty minister? Please ask Your Majesty to quickly take back your fate! Save yourself from being laughable and generous. ”

When Sima Rui heard this, he was so angry that he trembled all over, and he almost didn't come up in one breath.

Just when Sima Rui was helpless, he saw Dai Yuan, the general of Zhengxi, appear in the main hall, and stepped forward and angrily reprimanded: "The general is also arrogant!" The Son of Heaven is the honor of a country, why do you humiliate Your Majesty so much? Moreover, how can the Son of Heaven break his word and gain weight? ”

Dai Yuan's words angered Wang Dun all of a sudden, if it weren't for the fact that this was the palace hall, his guards were all outside the palace gate, and he couldn't say that he had ordered someone to chop him into meat paste at this time.

Xiangyang is related to the safety of the rear of Wuchang County, and Wang Dun will not retreat no matter what, so Dai and Wang quarreled in the hall.

Just when the two sides were arguing, more than a dozen court ministers appeared under the leadership of Wang Dao, Diao Xie, Lu Ye and others. Originally, Wang Dun thought that Wang Dao was here to help him, but as soon as Wang Dao came up, he blamed Wang Dun for disobedience and caught Wang Dun off guard.

No matter how domineering Wang Dun is, no matter how much he doesn't put the Son of Heaven in his eyes, he can't ignore the opinions of his cousin Wang Dao.

It can be said that without Director Wang's help, Wang Dun would never have today's status.

What's more, Director Wang's influence in the Langya Wang clan is not lost to Wang Dun at all, whether it is to let the Wang family continue to support his rebellion, or he continues to want to control the government remotely, Wang Dun can't do without Director Wang's help.

Wang Dun saw that there were ministers of the court all around, and he didn't want to break with Wang Dao openly, so he pretended to ask the Son of Heaven for guilt and said: "The minister just drank a few more drinks in the house, and he was a little drunk, so he was reckless for a while, and he was willing to ask for a punishment for half a year, and asked His Majesty to forgive him." ”

After speaking, Wang Dun bowed respectfully to Sima Rui, and his attitude was no longer arrogant before, but very humble.

Sima Rui naturally didn't dare to say no, and immediately got off the donkey down the slope and said very generously that he would not be held accountable, and at the same time realized the importance of Director Wang again. He knew very well that if Director Wang hadn't appeared in time this time, Wang Dun would never give up.

With Wang Dao dredged up, Wang Dun was finally appeased, and Sima Rui also got his wish and installed his henchmen in Xiangcheng.

Although Xiangyang fell into the hands of the Son of Heaven gave Wang Dun a headache, what really made him feel uneasy was the attitude of his cousin Wang Dao.

Although Director Wang also supported the Son of Heaven in the past, he had never been so obvious and resolute as he was today, as if he had completely forgotten that he was alienated and neglected by the Son of Heaven before.

In fact, Director Wang has such a change today thanks to Xi Jian's advice, since Sima Rui talked to Xi Jian, he immediately issued an order to summon Director Wang to meet and have an open and honest conversation with the other party.

At the same time, Zhou Yi, who had always been good friends with Wang Dao, took the opportunity to persuade Wang Dao, "Brother Mao Hong, it is rumored everywhere today that the Jiangzuo court is 'the king and the horse, sharing the world', and since ancient times, there has never been such a generous treatment of courtiers as today's Son of Heaven." ”

"Maohong, you are a loyal minister, if the Langya Wang clan is under your leadership, you can guarantee loyalty to the imperial court, and it will definitely become a good story in the future. However, Brother Chu Zhong is ambitious, and he is afraid that he will bring trouble to the Wang family in the future. ”

"It is precisely because of this that the Son of Heaven has alienated Mao Hong, instead of really hating you as a person. Now that the Son of Heaven intends to reconcile with Mao Hong, why don't you take the opportunity to stand on the side of the Son of Heaven, even if there is an accident in the future, it will not overturn the entire Wang family. ”

Director Wang was moved by Zhou Yi's words, and he had no ambitions, but just wanted to protect the interests of the Wang family, so in the face of the kindness released by the Son of Heaven, he quickly took it.

After this turmoil, the misunderstanding between the Son of Heaven and Wang Dao was eliminated, the connection was strengthened, and a close alliance was formed.

When Wang Dun learned that everything was done by Xi Jian, he immediately hated the other party to the root of his teeth. But Xi Jian was born in a high family, friendly with major families, and an important minister of the imperial court, even if he was as strong as Wang Dun, he could not be killed at will.

Although Wang Dun's trouble made Sima Rui lose face, he finally put Xiangyang into the hands of the imperial court, giving the Son of Heaven an extra hole card to balance Wang Dun.

At the same time, Sima Rui also saw Wang Dun's true face thoroughly, and in order to prevent accidents, the Son of Heaven accelerated the layout, on the one hand, he promoted his henchmen to higher positions, and on the other hand, he attracted the famous people in Wang Dun's shogunate who were loyal to the imperial court.

Wei Shuo put down his Chinese pieces and sighed: "Alas, when Jiangdong puts the energy and mind used for internal fighting on fighting for external humiliation, it may not be that he has been trapped in Jiangdong for more than ten years and still achieved nothing." (To be continued.) )