In the sixth year of Jianxing, at the beginning of February, Pengcheng assassinated the history of the mansion, and since the recovery of Xuzhou, Zu Ti moved the governance office back here.

"Brother, the king of Nanyang has become the emperor!"

Zu Ti had just finished drinking the tea in the teacup in his hand, and when he heard his brother Zu Cai's report, he couldn't help but be stunned, and he took a few breaths before he came back to his senses and asked, "What's going on in Liaodong?" ”

"In addition to condemnation, Liaodong has not heard of a large army mobilization for the time being, and even General Zhenbei is still stranded in Jicheng, and it seems that he has no intention of advancing westward. Now the outside world is rumoring that General Zhenbei has secretly reached a reconciliation with the King of Nanyang, and the condemnation is just for show. ”

Zu Ti was noncommittal, but instead asked an irrelevant question, "Do you think General Zhenbei will be a loyal minister of the Great Jin?" ”

"How can my brother have such doubts? Didn't you find something? Zu Cai's face was full of surprise, and he didn't know what Zu Yi meant.

"Now the policy pursued by Liaodong is completely different from that of the Great Jin, and General Zhenbei is like creating another world. And Liaodong is so successful, who can guarantee that General Zhenbei will not promote the Liaodong model to the whole world in the future. Will there still be a foothold for Dajin by then? Zu Ti was not happy. I wasn't annoyed, I just said lightly.

"Brother, didn't you appreciate the policies implemented by Liaodong in the past?"

"I appreciate it all the way now, but with Hu Lu's weakness and Liaodong's growing strength, I have to worry that General Zhenbei will become the second Wei Wu Jinxuan in the future!"

To put it bluntly, as a loyal minister of the Jin family, Zu Ti was worried that Wei Shuo would usurp the Jin family. This feeling was not obvious before, but now as Liaodong is getting stronger and stronger, this kind of thought in his heart is getting stronger and stronger.

"Can't you? Brother Wei is not that kind of person! Zugai's face was full of disbelief.

"Alas, don't forget that Emperor Wei Wudi's original wish was not to be a general of the Han Dynasty! In the end, this kind of thing is not affected by personal will at all, to be honest, I naturally believe that Brother Wei is not a cunning careerist, but when Liaodong's strength grows to a certain point, there are some things that he does not need to do personally. ”

"You also went to Liaodong with me last year, did you feel Liaodong's loyalty to the Jin family there? Did Liaodong ever put the Great Jin in his eyes? They only look at the general of Zhenbei and look at the horse, and they don't know what the Son of Heaven is! How similar is this to the situation at the end of the Han Dynasty? ”

"I dare to assert that don't look at Liaodong at the moment, it looks like there is no movement at the moment, that's because the strength of the king of Nanyang is not enough to make Liaodong make a big move, and the Shuozhou garrison alone is enough to capture Chang'an and take Sima Bao."

"What worries me the most now is that with Liaodong taking over the two states of Yongqin and Yong, its strength will surely rise sharply, and there will be no one to restrict its development in the future. If it really comes to that point, where do you think my ancestral family should go? ”

Once Liaodong establishes another country, the Zu brothers will be caught in the middle. On the one hand, Zu Ti was trapped by loyalty, and on the other hand, he had realized that the Great Jin Dynasty was exhausted, and the ancestral power was just a mantis arm in front of Liaodong.

"Brother, are you a little worried?" Zu should still not believe what Zu Ti said.

Zu Ti gently picked up the teacup, watched the fragrance of tea slowly float up with the heat, and couldn't help but take a breath to let the fragrance fill his lungs, and after a long aftertaste, he explained with worry: "Do you know what he told me when I met Liu Yueshi in Jicheng a few years ago, when he talked about Liaodong? ”

"As we all know, Liaodong has cultivated a large number of talents through the school system, and then recruited them through scientific examinations, and after some simple training, they were sent to various places to serve as officials. Because the knowledge taught in the school is conducive to the rule of Liaodong, it has nothing to do with the Great Jin Dynasty at all, on the contrary, there are many articles criticizing the policies of the Great Jin Dynasty. ”

As a result, most of the students who came out of the academy did not have a good attitude towards the Jin family, and even had a certain hostility. In addition, the Great Jin Dynasty has really done a good job over the years, far less brilliant than Liaodong. In a few years, when tens of thousands of Liaodong scholars become the real mainstay of Liaodong, the world will really change color! ”

Hearing this, Zu Cai's face changed abruptly, Liaodong has indeed had a brilliant record over the years. First of all, the glory of Youyan, and then the Xianbei in Liaodi, the Dingtuo in Yinshan, the Xiongnu in Bingzhou, and the Annanyang on the sea, all of them are glorious achievements!

The newspapers in Liaodong have been desperately waving their flags and shouting for the general of Zhenbei, and some fanatical and explicit people even compare them to Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, and their exploits have caught up with the sages!

In comparison, the Great Jin Dynasty was more embarrassed.

The huge gap between the performance of Liaodong and the Jin Dynasty is easy to associate with the frequent changes of dynasties since the end of the Han Dynasty, from the former Wei to the Han Dynasty, to the Sima family, and finally Hu Ma to the Central Plains, the speed of the change of dynasties in the past 100 years is simply dizzying.

"Does that brother have a solution in mind?"

"I can't even solve my own problems, so what can I do about it? It's just a step at a time! ”

Recently, Zu Ti has also studied Wei Shuo well, on the surface, Wei Shuo is a wise and martial person who is loyal to the Jin family, and he is also good at seizing opportunities, and he is even better at using opportunities to benefit himself.

In fact, after a long period of contact, Zu Ti looked at Wei Shuo again and was not as simple as before. knows that Wei Shuo is not a selfless person like him, and there is a gap between him and the heroes of Kuang Fu Sheji and Zhongxing Jin in his mind, and he will never become the Duke of Zhou.

Thinking about it carefully, in the past few years, Wei Shuo has acted under the banner of crusading against Hulu to expand the strength of Liaodong and improve his prestige at the same time. In Zu Ti's view, Wei Shuo's actions were all the same as those of Wei Wu and Jin Xuan, all of them were planning to prepare for the capture of the country in the future.

Thinking that Liaodong would raise the banner to overthrow the Jin family in the future, Zu Ti shuddered. Once the Liaodong Army moved south, the first object to be eliminated was the Zujia Army that was in the way. With the strength of the Liaodong Army, how could the Zujia Army be an opponent? At that time, unless you raise your hand to surrender, what awaits the ancestral army can only be wiped out.

……

Just when Zu Ti was worried about the fate of the Jin family, Wei Shuo, who was far away in Jicheng, had quietly kicked off the prelude to the Western Expedition. After Mo Han went to Yongzhou to take up the town, a small number of elite Liaodong troops had begun to concentrate in Pujin.

Feng Yi took the military report handed over by Huangfu Zhen, and after taking a look, he pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "Lord, Jiangdong has begun to accuse Liaodong of being ruthless again, and now they can only get over it." ”

"It seems that Jiangdong is not happy that Liaodong is in the main Guanzhong!" Hearing this, Lu Chang teased.

"Humph! They are worried that Liaodong's strength is too huge, which will threaten Jiangdong's interests! ”

"Desperate?" Wei Shuo couldn't help but smile dumbly, "It seems that Liaodong is expanding too fast, which has already scared Jiangdong!" ”

"It's just that in this world of great contention, how can there be today's Liaodong without war? If you don't fight, will those Hulu be as honest as they are now? How can you drive out Hulu and recover the rivers and mountains without fighting? ”

Wei Shuo turned to say leisurely, "Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the world has been in turmoil for so long, and the people are eager for stability. I don't think in the world of accidents, Guanzhong must be won, but the strategy needs to be different from the past. ”

"Although the targets of this eradication are rebellions, they are also Jin people anyway, so the battle plan must be forced to surrender. Except for Sima Bao, Zhang Chun and a few other leading traitors, as long as the rest of the Qinzhou soldiers are willing to lay down their weapons, Liaodong can open up to them. ”

"In addition, we need to pay attention to the problem of the Hu people in the northwest, the Hu people in the north of Yongzhou have been digested and absorbed, but there are still millions of Qiang tribes in Qinzhou, and their number has exceeded that of the Jin people in Qinzhou. Therefore, the key to the conquest of Qinzhou is not Sima Bao, and the most important thing is how to properly deal with Northwest Diqiang. ”

"Luoyang Fuhong, Wudu Yang Nandi, and Yinping Yang Jiantou are all famous Qiang Hao clans in the northwest, each of them has more than 100,000 people, plus the unnaturalized Qiang people scattered in the deep mountains of the plateau, the strength of the Hu people in Qinzhou should not be underestimated! The Liaodong Army must be cautious when entering Qinzhou! ”

"No!"

The meeting lasted for nearly several hours, and it was not until after noon, when everyone had lunch with Wei Shuo, that they dragged their tired bodies away. (To be continued.) )