After the marriage was confirmed, Wei Shuo devoted himself to government affairs again, and he finally had time to meet Zu Yue.

Since coming to Liaodong with Yang Tan a few years ago, Zu Yue was shocked by the strength of Liaodong. He didn't expect that the remote and desolate Liaodong would have a bit of a rich county in the Central Plains in just two years under the governance of Wei Shuo.

Whether it is the straight and wide road, or the farms and pastures scattered all over Liaodong, Zuyo feels that there is an irresistible force in Liaodong, and once this force is guided outward, no one knows what kind of destructive power it will create.

When he first arrived in Liaodong, Zu Yue did not immediately see Wei Shuo. At that time, Wei Shuo was either inspecting in various places or presiding over military exercises, and he had no time to meet Zu Yue, so he had to temporarily let Zu Yue stay in the post station and wait, who knew that this wait would come to the next year.

However, Zu Yue didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction, if it was before he saw the reality of Liaodong, he might have maintained a trace of Wei Shuo's inherent psychological superiority of the family, and now that sense of superiority has long been thrown away by him.

In fact, Wei Shuo had mixed feelings about Zu Yue's visit. There is no clearer than him about what kind of situation Zu Ti is facing, and it can be said that Zu Ti has entered a dead end at the beginning. At the beginning of Zu Ti's southward journey, he took the recovery of the Central Plains as his own responsibility, and later the Wang brothers were jealous of his fame and pushed the boat down the river to release him to Xuzhou.

Although he came to Xuzhou Zu Ti was free to build the Northern Expedition team, it also lost the opportunity to integrate into the Langya King system. When King Langya turned to grasp Zu Ti in his hands to confront Wang Dun, he was stunned to find that Zu Ti Group had already become a monolith.

Later, Zu Ti repeatedly slapped King Langya's face on the Northern Expedition, which made King Langya even less favorable. Now Zu Ti can be said to be both feared by Jiangdong's powerful minister Wang Dun, and not trusted and reused by King Langya, which is completely a mortal situation.

After the New Year, the marriage event was decided. Wei Shuo can be regarded as sometimes indirectly meeting Zu Yue. Although he has known Zu Yue for a long time, Wei Shuo does not have a good impression of him, Zu Yue is not like Zu Yi and Zu Gai, not only rich but also ambitious, to put it bluntly, he is an unwilling and pretentious person.

As soon as Zu Yue sat down, he found that Wei Shuo on the opposite side exuded more momentum than in Xuzhou. It's like a different person. If it weren't for the fact that his brother had been treating Wei Shuo very well at Xuzhou, and the ancestral brothers needed to rely on Wei Shuo's elite at that time, Zu Yue might not have looked at Wei Shuo squarely.

But now that he saw Wei Shuo again, Zu Yue suddenly felt ashamed of himself. Who would have thought that Wei Shuo, who was still a small soldier two years ago, would now be on the history of the assassination of a state and become a big man like his brother Zu Ti.

"Brother Zu, don't come unharmed? Some time ago, I was busy with official business, and I neglected my ancestors. ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!"

"Hahaha, Brother Zu is polite! What about General Zu? Two years have passed in the blink of an eye in Xuzhou. Wei was so busy with business that he didn't have time to go back to Xuzhou to visit General Zu, which was really rude! ”

"My brother also misses Lord Wei very much, and he asked me to say hello to him before he came."

"Thank you brother for me! I don't know what the ancestral brothers have to do when they come all the way to the cold land in the north? ”

"Huh?" Zu Yue didn't expect Wei Shuo to be so direct, and inquired about his purpose as soon as they met.

"Well, in fact, I came to Liaodong this time, mainly on the orders of my brother to ask Lord Wei for help!"

"Asking for help? Could it be that General Zu is preparing for the Northern Expedition to Xuzhou? ”

"Yes, my brother has been training in Huaiyin for a long time, preparing to recover the lost territory in northern Xuzhou, which was occupied by the Hu people. It's just that the elder brother feels that his own troops are weak and is worried that he is not the opponent of the Hu people, so he wants to ask Lord Wei to send troops from the east of Xuzhou to contain the Hu people. ”

Zu Yue thought that Wei Shuo would immediately agree. Unexpectedly, Wei Shuo was silent for a while before he spoke: "It is said that there is an alliance between me and General Zu first, and I should send troops to help according to the agreement, but unfortunately the situation in the north will change greatly recently. ”

Zu Yue didn't expect Wei Shuo to refuse so neatly. I couldn't react for a while.

It's not that Wei Shuo is unwilling to keep his promise, but politically speaking, now is not the best time to send troops to the Northern Expedition. In Wei Shuo's view, any military action must take into account political factors, and military action must be subordinated to political needs. Why didn't King Langya support Zu Ti's Northern Expedition. Quite simply, Sima Rui's biggest political need at present is not the Northern Expedition, but the consolidation of imperial power.

In the eyes of King Langya, the consolidation of imperial power was more important than the Northern Expedition. Jiangzuo ****** is the continuation and development of the politics of the Western Jin Dynasty, although the king of Langya has the respect of the south, but there is no general rule.

The military and political power is all vested in the Langya Wang family: politically it is presided over by Wang Dao, and it relies on Wang Dun militarily, and even rumors of "the king and the horse, the world together" appeared in various parts of Jiangdong!

The imperial power is not obvious, the emperor's authority is not raised, the ministers are strong and the monarch is weak, which is rare in history, as a generation of masters, King Langya hates it!

Sima Rui was dissatisfied with the fall of power, and cited Liu Kui, Diao Xie, and Dai Yuan as confidants in an attempt to exclude the power of the Wang family.

Of course, the consolidation of imperial power will inevitably be fiercely opposed by everyone in the powerful clan, and so far, the efforts made by King Langya have not succeeded. However, judging from a series of measures taken by King Langya, consolidating imperial power should be the first place, which is naturally much more important than the Northern Expedition.

Now that Wei Shuo is not ready to turn his face with King Langya, he will not risk offending King Langya to support Zu Li's Northern Expedition. Besides, even if he supports Zu Ti's Northern Expedition to recover Xuzhou, those territories will not be Wei Shuo's turn to receive them, and I'm afraid that even Zu Ti may not be able to get much in his hands, and the final benefits are likely to be obtained by Wang Dun Weishuo's family.

Like this thankless task of making wedding dresses for others, it is impossible for Wei Shuo to be killed.

In addition, Wei Shuo didn't want to expose his strength in front of King Langya too early and end up in the same fate as Zu Ti. Since the king of Langya himself did not control the military strength, he had always relied on and had doubts about the generals with heavy troops in various places. For example, Zu Li, King Langya valued him very much at first, but unfortunately, as Zu Ti's strength became stronger and stronger, it gradually caused King Langya's uneasiness.

"Zu Zhi, if Wei is unwilling to support the ancestral assassin history, he is really powerless. Since the defeat of Wang Jun at Shi Le last year, Shi Le has been eyeing Youzhou, and he has frequently mobilized troops recently, and it is very likely to launch a fatal blow to Youzhou in the near future! ”

"Once Youzhou is lost, Liaodong will definitely face great pressure, in this case, how can I have the extra troops to support the ancestral assassin Shi?"

Although Zu Yue knew that Wei Shuo was making excuses, he couldn't refute anything, once he did that, it would be tantamount to tearing his face, there were enough enemies of the Zu family at the moment, and he would not set up enemies like Wei Shuo no matter what.

As if he didn't know that there was a conflict between Zu Ti and King Langya, Wei Shuo continued to 'kindly' give Zu Yue a suggestion.

"Actually, the ancestral assassin can ask the king of Langya for help, the king of Langya sits on the land of Jing, Yang, Hunan, Jiao, and Guangshuzhou, and the soldiers are wide, and he has the ability to give more help to the ancestral assassin than he has the ability to do so."

Zu Yue smiled awkwardly and explained: "Jiangdong is unstable, and King Langya can't give his brother more help!" ”

Since he couldn't convince Wei Shuo to send troops to help, Zu Yue no longer wasted his words, and he focused on investigating Liaodong. The more he investigated, the more Zu Yue felt that his brother was too timid and afraid.

Look at Wei Shuo and Wang Dun, isn't that one daring? One does not take King Langya in his eyes, and appoints cronies and children at will; The other does not take the family in his eyes, and suppresses and squeezes the wealth of the family at will. But the strength of these two people is getting stronger day by day, and one controls most of Jiangzuo's military power; The other monopolized Liaodong and was not bound by anyone.

But what about my brother? Not only was he loyal to the imperial court, but he was also dedicated to the public and only wanted to recover the Central Plains as soon as possible, but in exchange for the ruthless suppression and suspicion of King Langya.

After coming to Liaodong, Zu Yue figured it out, whether he wanted to expand his strength or live more comfortably in these years, he had to be courageous! And you have to be bold! Only promises, looking forward and looking backward will not be able to do great things!

Zu Yue thought about it, and after he went back, he persuaded his brother to do the separation. (To be continued.) )