On the last day of the sixth year of Yongjia, Liaodong was full of joy, and Wei Shuo and Liaodong Wenwu gathered together to celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve. In the captain's mansion, the lights are bright, and there is laughter and laughter everywhere.

The sixth year of Yongjia was a year of great development of Wei Shuo's own strength, this year he successively defeated Goguryeo and Cui Yu, owned two territories of Liaodong and Xuansu, and finally had the foundation to determine the world.

The Chinese New Year's Eve banquet was held in the evening as usual, and the contracted servants of the Captain's Mansion placed the banquet on the table one by one, each with two meat and two vegetarian dishes, which was indeed a bit shabby compared to the banquet that Wei Shuo attended in the Cao Ling Mansion. However, at the moment, Liaodong is not rich, and this little cost is also saved by Wei Shuo and the head of the tax Cao from a large amount of expenses.

At the beginning of the banquet, Wei Shuo took the lead and toasted the soldiers who died before. Everyone raised the wine bottle to wish the robe under the nine springs, and then poured the wine on the ground to comfort the heroic soul.

Wei Shuo raised the wine bottle again and said loudly: "This second glass of wine, please drink it with Wei Shuo, and thank the farmers who have worked hard throughout the year; Thanks to the craftsmen who made the weapons and armor for the soldiers; Thank you to the merchants who are traveling around the world; Thanks to the soldiers who stuck to the border to defend Liaodong; Of course, I would like to thank all of you here, without your hard work, I would not be in Liaodong where we are today! Everyone, please drink this cup to your heart's content! With that, Wei Shuo tilted his neck and drank this glass of wine.

"My lord, please!" Everyone toasts to Wei Shuo!

"Good wine! Next, please relax and have a drink. ”

"Hahaha, I have been in Liaodong for so many years, only this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is the happiest!"

"Yes, yes, if I hadn't met the lord, I wouldn't know where to hide and get drunk and dream!"

Hearing everyone's flattering words, Wei Shuo waved his hand and smiled: "Speaking of which, Wei Mou also wants to thank everyone, if you didn't dislike Wei's official position and sacrifice your life to follow, how could you have such a foundation today?" ”

"The lord has a good reputation! The most important thing is that the lord is wise and wise, and he is good at accepting good words. ”

"Forget it, let's not flatter each other! In short, the new year is coming, and next year we will work harder and strive for greater results! ”

"Needless to say? As long as we are under the leadership of the lord, we are not afraid of anything! In the future, the Xianbei people in Liaodong will be leveled first, and then the Huns in Bingzhou will be wiped out, and the Hu trouble will be completely wiped out! "This one is obviously drunk and full of nonsense.

The banquet didn't end until late, and in the end Wei Shuo didn't know how he got back to his residence, and it wasn't until almost noon the next day that Wei Shuo came to his senses. As soon as he woke up, he came to Pei's Mansion to greet the chief strategist under his command, but he didn't expect to meet Pei Ying'er as soon as he arrived at Pei's Mansion.

Seeing Pei Ying'er again, Wei Shuo couldn't help but tremble. I haven't seen her for a long time, and Pei Yinger looks more and more moving. I saw her bow down with a red cheek, "Happy New Year to Wei Langjun!" ”

"I didn't expect to meet Pei Xiaoniang here, are you still used to it in Liaodong?" Looking at Pei Ying'er, who was a little shy, Wei Shuo said with concern.

"I have Lao Weilangjun worried, my uncle, aunt and cousin are very good to me, but the climate in Liaodong is a little cold, which makes me a little uncomfortable, and I can only stay in a room with a kang in winter. By the way, is Wei Langjun here to visit my uncle? ”

"Well, yes, what about Mr. Pei?"

"Oh, my uncle just got up, and he's talking to his cousin right now!"

The Pei family is a top family, and the tutoring is very strict on weekdays, even after the Chinese New Year, Pei Wei did not forget to guide the younger generations in their studies. As an elite, Pei Wei knows that the education of the younger generations is related to the prosperity of the family, and how many families have disappeared in the long river of history due to the lack of succession caused by the unscrupulous children of the younger generations.

The reason why a top wealthy family like the Pei family has been prosperous for a long time has a lot to do with the family's emphasis on the cultivation of future generations. Like Pei Wei himself, he received a good education since he was a child, and he became famous in one fell swoop when he grew up, and now he is deeply trusted by Wei Shuo and entrusted with important tasks.

After receiving the report from his niece, Pei Wei put down his nephew's teachings and hurried to the front hall to greet Wei Shuo.

"Pei is late, please atone for your sins!"

"Hehe, Wen Ji's words are heavy! It was Wei who didn't tell him, how could he blame Mr.? There is nothing else to do in Pei's Mansion today, just to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. and thank Mr. for his teachings to Wei Shuo in the past six months. Wei Shuo hurriedly stepped forward and picked up Pei Wei, who was about to bow down.

"Actually, it is Pei's three lives lucky to meet the lord!"

Just as Wei Shuo and Pei Wei were chatting in Pei's mansion, they were suddenly interrupted by Pei Kai, who hurriedly broke in. Seeing that his nephew, who had always been steady, actually broke in out of breath, Pei Wei frowned and scolded: "Kai'er, what happened to be so flustered?" Have you forgotten how your uncle educated you before? ”

Unexpectedly, Pei Kai had no time to argue with Pei Wei, only to see him come to Wei Shuo, and said anxiously: "Lord, I just received an urgent report, and bad news came from Pingyang, Bingzhou: Your Majesty has died!" ”

"What!?" Before Wei Shuo could react, Pei Wei next to him stood up with a shocked face, stepped forward and grabbed his nephew's arm and said urgently, "Where did you get the news?" Is this news true? Is it fake? ”

"Uncle, can this kind of thing be fake? Now that the two states have spread, the bad news came from Youzhou early this morning. At first, I didn't take it seriously, but after noon, the news intensified, and the scouts quickly confirmed the truth. ”

"What the hell is going on? Hasn't Your Majesty been imprisoned in Binh Duong all the time? Why did Liu Cong suddenly have murderous intentions? ”

"My nephew didn't know what happened, but I heard that at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet last night, His Majesty hated Liu Cong. At the beginning of the new year, His Majesty was given a cup of poisoned wine by Liu Cong! ”

It was only at this moment that Wei Shuo reacted to who the Pei family's uncle and nephew were talking about 'Your Majesty', it turned out to be Sima Chi, Emperor Huai of Jin, who was captured by the Huns in the fifth year of Yongjia. Although Wei Shuo didn't care much about Sima Chi's life or death, he also had to admit that Sima Chi's death would inevitably trigger a new round of political crisis.

The year before last, Sima Chi was captured, resulting in the emergence of Youzhou, Guanzhong, Jiangdong three platforms, although later Sima Rui was forced to merge with Guanzhong Xingtai, but there are still two parallel platforms on the land of China. Now that Sima Chi is dead, the imperial court will inevitably choose one of the clans to inherit the throne.

No matter who is chosen to be the emperor, there will definitely be people who will not be convinced, and if someone establishes himself as the emperor, the only remaining majesty of the imperial court will be gone!

By the end of the afternoon, more details had reached Liaodong. Wei Shuo and the others also have an understanding of the whole incident. It turned out that on Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Cong, the emperor of the Xiongnu Han State, held a banquet in the palace, and in front of the hundred civil and military officials of the Han State, let Sima Ji, the emperor of Jinhuai, wear the green clothes of the play, and pour wine for the ministers present.

Although Emperor Sima Chi of Jin Huai felt humiliated, he had to pretend to be smiling in order to survive, and did what Liu Cong said. But this scene fell into the eyes of those former ministers of the Western Jin Dynasty who cherished their homeland, but they were sad and unbearable, and they couldn't help crying loudly on the spot.

This cry was fatal, and it annoyed Liu Cong on the spot. Crying and mourning on New Year's Day, who is this for? At this time, someone secretly told that the old ministers of the Western Jin Dynasty wanted to support Sima Chi as the emperor! In fact, after thinking about this for a while, I knew that someone was making false accusations, but unfortunately Liu Cong didn't think about it so much when he was angry.

Just after Chinese New Year's Eve, Liu Cong gave Sima Ji a cup of poisoned wine!

"As soon as the first emperor died, the only people who have a chance to inherit the throne now are Sima Ye, the king of Qin, and Sima Rui, the king of Langya in Jiangdong, but I don't know which of these two will ascend the throne and become the emperor?"

"It should be that King Langya has a better chance, right?" Wei Shuo said casually, in fact, Wei Shuo didn't know, although he came from modern times and knew that Sima Rui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the future, but he didn't know that there was a Jin Emperor Sima Ye before that.

"The lord is wrong in what he said! In Pei's opinion, King Qin has a greater chance, and King Langya is a distant relative of the clan after all, so he is not as good as King Qin! And with the wisdom of Wang Dao and Wang Dun, they should not agree to King Langya competing for the throne at this time. Although the emperor's reputation is good, it is also easy to attract the Hu people to attack, and King Langya should not want to face the Hu people too early! ”

"Forget it, it doesn't matter who ascends the throne, it doesn't matter to us! We can't influence the decision-making of the imperial court for the time being! Liaodong's top priority this year is to prevent Shile from taking Youzhou. ”