In fact, Sima Rui also has selfish intentions in his heart, and the collapse of the Luoyang Imperial Court is definitely beneficial to him. First of all, from the perspective of the clan, with the defeat of the eight kings who participated in the struggle for power in the imperial court, Sima Rui, as the rising star of the Sima family, gradually became the new leader of the clan!

Secondly, to put it mildly, once the benefactor Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, dies, it is equivalent to untying the last shackles imposed on Sima Rui, and no one in the court can point fingers at him. In the near future, Sima Rui simply rejected Emperor Jin's request for help.

Therefore, under the persuasion of Wang Dao and Wang Dun, Sima Rui got off the slope and became an ostrich, pretending not to know about Sima Yue's request for help, and continued to nest in Jiangdong to taste his courage.

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"Brother Wei, something is wrong! Just now, the Assassin's Mansion has issued a new order, ordering the conscription of children from good families between the ages of eighteen and forty to form the Qinwang army, and the Assassin Shi is ready to go north to the Qinwang in June. On this day, Wei Shuo was resting in the guest room, and Zhang Erlang suddenly broke in with a shout.

"Erlang, I've told you many times, don't always be frizzy, say something slowly." Wei Shuo looked helplessly at Zhang Erlang, who broke into the door, and said, "Come, sit down and take a breath first, drink a cup of tea, and say something slowly." ”

Zhang Erlang scratched his head embarrassedly, sat opposite Wei Shuo, picked up the teacup and drank it with a snort, then wiped his lips and said, "Brother Wei, you didn't go outside today, I don't know that there is a mess outside." This morning, the Assassin Mansion just issued a new announcement, ordering the conscription of the children of the good family to form the Qinwang Army. ”

"What?! Did the Xuzhou officials get kicked in the head by a donkey? How could such an unreliable announcement be made? Don't they know that the hastily formed army can't go to the battlefield at all, and they want to send the people to the tiger's mouth! ”

Wei Shuo was also shocked by Pei Dun's 'big stroke', Zhu Wen had told him that Pei Dun was extremely unreliable, but he didn't expect the other party to be so unreliable. It seems that the original plan will not work, and he must personally go to the Assassin's Mansion to ask to see Pei Dun.

"No, I have to stop that! Erlang, you accompany me to the Assassin's Mansion to meet Lord Assassin, and it is best to persuade Lord Assassin to cancel this order. Thinking of the tens of thousands of innocent people who died tragically under the iron hooves of the Hu people because of the incompetence of the government, Wei Shuo couldn't help but twitch in distress.

After the rebellion of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the population of China has been greatly weakened, and if it is defeated by the corrupt family bureaucrats, China will really be wiped out.

"But, but, Brother Wei, is it appropriate for you to go to the Assassin's Mansion?"

Although Zhang Erlang was very angry at Lord Shi's nonsense, he also knew that this matter had nothing to do with them. Not to mention whether Pei Dun will meet a little person like them, even if he meets, what can he do? How could Lord Shi, who is a high-ranking assassin, slap himself in the mouth because of the words of outsiders?

"Whether it's appropriate or not, you can't watch tens of thousands of people go to death, Erlang, you are also a person who has led soldiers, don't you know how dangerous it is for an ordinary person without any training to go to the battlefield?"

Even if Wei Shuo had never received military training again, he knew how unreliable Pei Dun's actions were. Pei Dun thought that a person with a knife and gun was a soldier, but he didn't know that such a group of people could only be slaughtered by the Hu people when they went to the battlefield. Pei Dun wants to rely on a group of rabble to defeat Hu Renjingqi, I really don't know if he is too naïve or courageous!

In order to meet Pei Dun of the Thorn Shi smoothly, Wei Shuo gritted his teeth and took out a hundred catties of refined salt and sent it to the Thorn Shi Mansion. Sure enough, as soon as the refined salt came out, all evils were easily dispelled. That night, Wei Shuo received an invitation from the Assassin's Mansion.

At the gate of the Thorn History, Wei Shuo saw from a distance that Sima Ao, the chief historian, was descending to greet him, and he came to Sima Ao with Zhang Erlang Shi Shiran in his whole clothes.

"Qingzhou Weishuo, I've seen Lord Changshi."

Sima Ao looked Wei Shuo up and down, a little shocked by the other party's youth, only to see him holding his hands weakly, and said, "Oh, I didn't expect Lord Wei to be young, but his courage is not small." ”

The courage that Sima Ao said refers to the hundred catties of refined salt that Wei Shuo used to stab Shifu before. A hundred catties of refined salt doesn't seem to be much, but the other party can take it out without hesitation as a guest, which means that the small salt field in front of him makes the energy quite large, otherwise he would not have come to greet the other party in person today.

After entering the Assassin's Mansion, Pei Dun was late, and in addition to Pei Dun and Sima Ao, the rest of the banquet were basically the staff and officials of the Assassin's Mansion. After everyone was polite, they sat down one after another.

"First of all, on behalf of Lord Thorn Shi, I would like to give Lord Wei a glass and welcome Lord Wei to come to my Xuzhou as a guest. Everyone, please drink this cup to your heart's content! Please! ”

"Please!" Everyone raised their glasses.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, as the atmosphere at the banquet became more and more enthusiastic, everyone's interest became higher and higher. Although during the drinking, some people constantly wanted to inquire about the origin of the refined salt in Wei Shuo's hands, but they were all prevaricated by Wei Shuo with various excuses.

When the banquet was halfway through, Wei Shuo suddenly asked, "Master Pei, I heard that you are going north to King Qin?" ”

As soon as Wei Shuo said this, the banquet, which was originally quite lively, suddenly became silent. In fact, the local officials in Xuzhou have long been full of dissatisfaction with Pei Dun, but everyone buried their resentment deep in their hearts, and no one dared to question them face-to-face. Now seeing Wei Shuo picking his head, the others immediately looked at the wall and watched from the wall, but no one came out to round the field for Lord Shi.

Looking at the officials present who didn't care about anything, Pei Dun couldn't help but secretly discuss to himself: No wonder Changshi always uses the law to control his subordinates on weekdays, it turns out that these officials are really thorns! At the critical moment, I have to rely on my long history!

After Sima Ao got the signal, he immediately stood up and said: "I didn't expect Lord Wei to hear about this as well, now that the Luoyang Imperial Court is in danger, Lord Assassin Shi is worried about His Majesty's safety, so he plans to personally lead the army to King Qin of Luoyang." ”

"Is there still a warlike soldier in Xuzhou today? When the King of the East China Sea went north, didn't he take away all the elite soldiers in Xuzhou? I heard that there are also world-famous Danyang soldiers among them! I wonder what kind of people Lord Thorn is going to take north? Since he spoke, Wei Shuo didn't plan to give up halfway, even if he offended Pei Dun.

Pei Dun glanced at Wei Shuo with some annoyance, why didn't he find out that he was such a disappointing person! Do you say that you are a small Qingzhou Yantian envoy, and you are always doing something with our Xuzhou? What are we going to do in Xuzhou, can you control it?

Pei Dun put the wine bottle on the table and snorted lightly: "I didn't expect Master Wei to be quite enthusiastic, and he actually paid attention to our affairs in Xuzhou." ”

"Hehe, curious, curious!" Wei Shuo deliberately pretended not to hear the dissatisfaction in Pei Dun's words, and continued to pretend to be stupid and said: "I heard that the northern Hu cavalry is very strong, and the imperial army has been defeated in successive battles. Since Lord Assassin Shi is interested in state affairs, as a member of the imperial court, of course he has to care about it. ”

At this time, Sima Ao took the initiative to stand up and take over the conversation and explained: "Although the Hu people in the north are powerful, they have few people after all, and it is impossible for them to send all the troops to deal with us. I have consulted with Lord Thorn and decided that an army of 100,000 would be enough to deal with all the crises. ”

"Then Lord Changshi thinks that the Qinwang army in Xuzhou will face how many Hu cavalry will face when they come to the battlefield?"

"According to the following estimates, at most 10,000 horses. If there is more, the Hu people's forces to attack Luoyang will be overstretched. After all, the main purpose of the Hu people's southern attack this time was Luoyang, and it was impossible for them to put the main force of the army on us. At the banquet, Sima Ao talked eloquently, with a very famous demeanor, as if the Hu cavalry was nothing more than ants in his eyes.

"That's it, that is, even if the Hu people are all one as ten, we can annihilate each other with crowd tactics!"

"With Lord Changshi strategizing, Lord Assassin Shi sitting in the Chinese army, and nearly 100,000 troops around him, what is there to be afraid of the little bearded people?"

As soon as Sima Ao's words fell, a sycophancy immediately sounded around him. These people are all Sima Ao's descendants, and they and Sima Ao are both prosperous and loss-making. So, they all spoke out to help. From time to time, some people ridiculed Wei Shuo, and for a while the hall was noisy.

Hearing someone make disrespectful remarks about Wei Shuo, Zhang Erlang, who was standing behind Wei Shuo, almost couldn't help but roll up his sleeves and beat people! Fortunately, he firmly remembered what Wei Shuo told him, and he didn't dare to spoil Brother Wei's plan.