Chapter Twenty-Three: Mountains and Rivers Rekindle Old Smoke and Dust III

The opportunity should not be missed, since it is impossible to recapture Chengde, then weaken it. Li Chun racked his brains to come up with a divide-and-rule countermeasure, handing over the two states of De and Di under the jurisdiction of Chengde to the Xue Chang Dynasty, and the remaining four states were still under the jurisdiction of Wang Chengzong.

This Xue Changchao is the son of the late Xue Song, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Festival. This Xue Song is the grandson of the famous Tang Dynasty general Xue Rengui, and the prototype of the protagonist Xue Gang in the commentary "Xue Gang Against the Tang Dynasty". In this way, Xue Changchao can also be regarded as the queen of the gate. More importantly, this Xue Chang Dynasty is the son-in-law of Wang Shizhen, the former envoy of Chengde Festival, and Wang Chengzong is a close relative of Uncle Lang, and he is a family. Therefore, although Wang Chengzong was a little reluctant, he was still ready to hand over the two states of De and Di to Xue Changchao in accordance with the order.

But the tree wanted to be quiet and the wind did not stop, and Wei Bojie made Tian Ji'an jump out and fan the flames. Under his instigation, Wang Chengzong began to suspect that Xue Changchao had colluded with Chang'an and wanted to deal with him. In the face of rights and interests, the so-called family affection became pale and weak, and Wang Chengzong was ready to make a move against Xue Changchao. Hundreds of his iron horsemen swept into Texas and kidnapped the unsuspecting Xue Changchao, while the envoys of Chang'an were intoxicated by the smell of wine and glamorous singing and dancing. When the heavy sleep dissipated the residual wine, the envoy of Chang'an rode to Texas and was about to read the holy decree, but found that the shadow of Xue Changchao could no longer be found.

The envoy of Chang'an was tricked, and the Son of Heaven who was far away in Chang'an was also tricked. is tolerable or unbearable, the young and vigorous Li Chun took the case.

Everything is irreparable, war is imminent.

What is intriguing is that Li Chun did not send any senior generals to attack Hebei this time, but handed over the military power to a eunuch. Of course, this eunuch is Li Chun's most favored one, and his name is Tutu Chengxuan.

Tutu Chengxuan, from distant Fujian, came to Chang'an when he was a child, became a eunuch, and became a small yellow gate in the East Palace. Because of his talent and intelligence, he was soon favored by Li Chun and became Li Chun's confidant and friend. On that cold and rainy night in the first year of Yuanhe, it was this Tutu Chengguang who swept away the biggest threat to Li Chun's throne, Emperor Taishang Li Yu. Since then, the former obscure little yellow gate has become the most powerful eunuch in Chang'an, and has become Li Chun's extremely trusted and favored person.

As Li Chun's most trusted and favored person, Tutu Chengxuan understood Li Chun's mind very well, and in order to cater to the emperor, he went to the court many times and asked to crusade against Chengde. Of course, he also has his own wishful thinking, which is to seize the opportunity to seize more power.

In fact, he is not the only one who understands Li Chun's thoughts, at least one more, the Zhaoyi Army's festival envoy Lu Congshi.

Lu Congshi had just died of his father, so he was very sad. Not because of filial piety, but because according to the law of the time, he had to hand over his power and go home to keep the system, and the period was three years. This is undoubtedly a huge psychological torture for the power-hungry Lu Congshi, so it is better to cut him directly with a knife.

Of course, if you want to escape the system, there are still ways, but there is only one, and that is to win the favor of Jin Ge. There is a premise for the Golden Revolution, that is, the country must be in a state of war. At that time, in addition to the powerful feudal towns in Hebei, other large and small festivals had been cleaned up by Li Chun, where did the country come from? Therefore, despite being very reluctant and unhappy, Lu Congshi still reluctantly defended the system.

But sometimes luck comes and you can't stop it, like when you just dozed off and someone stuffed you with a pillow. There are sometimes pies falling from the sky, and this pie happened to fall on Lu Congshi's body. Chengde Festival made Wang Shizhen die, and Wang Chengzong wanted to take over his father's class, but Li Chun refused to let him. For a time, there was tension between Chang'an and Chengde, and a big war was about to break out. The opportunity must not be lost and never come again, Lu Congshi decided to seize this opportunity, frequently wrote to Chang'an, asking for a crusade against Chengde, and his unremitting efforts finally brought him the result he was most looking forward to. Soon, Li Chun issued an edict to restore Lu Congshi as the general of Jinwu. The goal was achieved, Lu Congshi regained the power of the army, and his mood was cool.