When the king of Shu heard that the prince was taken hostage by the barbarians, he fainted in anger, and there was chaos in the Qingxin Pavilion.

Yang Ling and Zhu Rangjin were the closest, and hurriedly rushed over together, one left and one right to support the King of Shu.

Zhu Rangjin held his father in his arms, and the green tendons on his forehead were all up, and his original elegant and elegant demeanor was completely gone, and he shouted urgently: "Hurry up and call the imperial doctor, hurry, hurry!" ”

Yang Ling actually had ulterior motives, because the doubts in his heart had not gone, and he was still worried that this was another trick played by the King of Shu, but he stretched out his hand and held his wrist tightly with his right hand, although it was only a moment, Yang Ling was relieved of his doubts.

The skin is cold, the pulse is almost invisible, the king of Shu is really fainting, otherwise the faint can pretend to be fake, this pulse and body temperature can not pretend to be fake, unless he is actually some legendary peerless martial arts master. As far as Yang Ling knows, even with Wu Hanchao's authentic internal kung fu, he can't reach the realm of controlling body temperature and making his heartbeat almost stop.

Li Sen touched his nose, looked at Yang Ling quietly with a strange expression, and said in his heart: "It is rumored by the people that Lord Yang is a heavenly killing star and a broom star, it seems that it is really true, wherever he goes to kill and take it, the person he wants to deal with will definitely be unlucky, I am on the right team this time."

The imperial doctor came and pinched people, and applied needles and medicines, after a lot of tossing, the king of Shu woke up slowly, and as soon as he woke up, he said anxiously: "Quick, immediately send Gu to Xuzhou, Gu will personally negotiate with the Duzhang barbarians."

Zhu Rangjin, An Wentao and others repeatedly dissuaded, the current appearance of the King of Shu, how can he still travel a long distance, if he is sent to Xuzhou in a tiring way, I am afraid that the prince has not been rescued, and the King of Shu will return to heaven first.

The king of Shu shook his head again and again, and said impatiently: "No, if you don't go to the lonely prince, you can't win the trust of Du Zhangman, then the son of the world is in danger, fast!" Go and prepare the car immediately".

Yang Ling heard this quietly, and said: "Lord Wang, since Du Zhangman is taking the prince as a hostage and seeking the Han people and Han officials to withdraw from their territory, he must think that the strange goods are to live in, and although the prince is in the hands of the barbarians, he should not be in personal danger. The prince is sick and worried, how can he travel a long distance, it is better to send an envoy, first with the capital to control the brute and the snake, stabilize them, and then plan later."

After this moment of effort, the King of Shu's complexion was much worse, and he smiled bitterly and said: "Du Zhangman has always been cruel, and never put the court in his eyes, they either don't do it, and now they have captured the prince, or they have no scruples, but I am afraid that the Lone King will rush to it now, and it is too late."

When the King of Shu said this, he coughed violently and fainted again. The imperial physician of the palace hurriedly said: "The prince is weak, and he can't be disturbed anymore, so he will stabilize the prince's condition with a medicine stone first, but if the prince faints again in anger, his surname will be in danger."

Zhu Rangjin gasped, grabbed him and said: "Imperial Doctor Wang, no matter what, you must save your father's surname, tens of thousands, you must find a way."

The imperial physician said with a difficult face: "Unless the prince is not allowed to wake up for the time being, or the prince's condition may be stabilized in the future, otherwise Hua Tuo is alive, and there is nothing I can do about it."

Zhu Rangjin was stunned for a moment, let go of his hand in amazement, and looked at Yang Ling, An Wentao and the others hesitantly. The king of Shu is the lord of Shu, and now the prince has fallen into the hands of the capital, and he will not let the prince wake up to discuss matters, so how can it be done? In the event that the son dies because of this, who can afford this responsibility?

Although Zhu Rangjin is the second son of the King of Shu, he is the identity of a concubine, if the prince is not alive, he is the only candidate for the son, it can be said that if the son dies, it will be the most beneficial to him, so at this time, Zhu Rangjin is too late to avoid suspicion, how dare he agree to come down indiscriminately. If you don't agree, what will the King of Shu do?

Facing Zhu Rangjin's helpless eyes, An Wentao, Lu Zheng and other senior bureaucrats in Shu dodged one by one, although they couldn't bear the responsibility of sending the prince to death, but if they were tired of the king of Shu, they couldn't bear it either. In the end, all eyes were focused on Yang Ling.

Among these people, his status is the highest, he can almost compete with the king of Shu, and his status is transcendent, the officials of Shu and the various interest groups of the Shu king family have nothing to do with him, and only he comes forward, no matter how he makes a decision, it will not make people secretly criticize.

Yang Ling came to Sichuan, originally thinking about how to find out the handle of the King of Shu, and at the same time to guard against his plot, he didn't expect that now the situation has changed abruptly, but he wants to plan for the King of Shu.

Yang Ling hesitated for a moment and said: "Can you wake up the prince again, Ben Hou still has something to ask him, if the prince is too emotional to control himself, please ask the imperial doctor to make the prince faint immediately."

Everyone knew that this was the matter of Lord Qincha preparing to take over Shu, so they needed to get the authorization of the King of Shu and understand his basic limit first, and everyone held their breath and looked at him and the imperial doctor nervously.

The imperial physician's face turned pale, and the situation at this time was no less than trying to wake up a king, hanging himself with a medicine stone, urging him to tell him the nervousness of the heir's arrival, he pursed his lips, and then nodded.

The King of Shu was rescued, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Yang Ling leaning over, and said with a serious expression: "Lord, this marquis has been ordered to inspect the world, and in case of urgent matters in various places, he has the right to deal with it on behalf of the Son of Heaven." The prince is sick and can no longer work, presumably the prince also knows in his heart, Ben Hou now has three important things, and he needs to ask the prince to show it, and ask the prince to give Ben Hou a clear answer in front of the officials of Shu land."

The King of Shu's eyes were gloomy, his breathing was short, and he nodded effortlessly for a moment before he nodded in a dumb voice: "You say."

Yang Ling said: "The prince can't preside over the overall situation now, once the barbarians riot, the situation is not trivial, Ben Hou intends to share the worries for the prince and take this responsibility, can the prince allow it?" ”

The eyes of the King of Shu looked at the faces of the surrounding people one by one, An Wentao and Lu Zheng were his right-hand men, but one of them was in charge of civil affairs and the other was in charge of the law. And no matter how powerful and prestige these two people are, they can't represent the Shu Wangfu after all. As for those county king brothers, thinking of the intricate interests between the county kings, the king of Shu immediately left them behind.

The second son, Jean Jin, is now his only blood relative, this child is indifferent to fame and fortune, but he will not covet the position of the prince, but after all, he is a concubine, and it is difficult to convince the public. In addition, he is still young, and he has only seen him chanting poems and paintings, singing and entertaining himself, and he is afraid that he does not know anything about government affairs, and of course, he has never assigned government affairs to him.

Alas! The King of Shu sighed slightly: In order to avoid the brothers' rivalry, except for the crown prince, all the princes will be divided into various places as soon as they grow up, and they are not allowed to return to the capital unless they are edicted. The vassal kings are not the same, but in the end, they can't find a trusted person to help. He nodded gloomily.

Yang Ling said again: "This official will do his best to save the safety of the prince, but Du Zhangman asked the prince to move the Han officials and Han people out of Xuzhou as a condition for the release of the prince, what does the prince think?" ”

"The Lone King understands", the King of Shu said in a weak tone, took a few quick breaths, and then continued: "The Lone King understands what you mean. Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and it is necessary to withdraw from Xuzhou as an exchange condition, as soon as this case is opened, the various departments of Tusi follow this requirement, and Bashu has no day to say. The other conditions can be agreed to as much as possible, and I will pour all that I have in the Shu Palace, and it doesn't matter."

"Yes, if you can't do anything, I hope the prince will forgive me!"

The King of Shu's body was shocked, his eyes widened, and he stared at Yang Ling for a long time, Yang Ling calmly agreed, and the King of Shu finally closed his eyes and nodded painfully.

Yang Ling breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Third, no matter whether you can save the prince or not, you will be in charge of detaining the prince and ruling the court to chaos, there must be a solution to this matter, how to deal with the aftermath, please show the prince."

The King of Shu said in a low voice: "All ethnic groups live together, and it is easy to cause disputes. In the past, Emperor Taizu divided the world, and the vassal kings of all parts of the country were fierce soldiers, to guard one side, only my ancestors guarded the west with etiquette, thanksgiving and education, and got one side of peace, Shu people were happy, and they were said to be rich and prosperous, and they did not benefit from this. As a last resort, don't use your sword! Remember! ”

Yang Ling nodded, and said loudly: "The murder weapon of the soldier has a backlash from time to time, so it is most taboo to restrain and hesitate." When the interruption continues, it will be chaotic, so before the Xuzhou incident, Qingyang Palace is the Pure Land side, and no one is allowed to disturb it! ”

He stood up and said proudly: "Yang Ling is entrusted by His Royal Highness the King of Shu, from this moment on, the Lord Bashu affairs, in the Qingyang Palace, no more miscellaneous matters shall be passed on to interfere with His Highness's Qing Xiu, violators, this Hou will ask the Son of Heaven to cut him with a sword!" ”

He said this, unless the King of Shu recovers from his illness, before the matter in Xuzhou, no one in the Qingyang Palace must be forbidden to enter, and then report any news to the King of Shu. But he is fighting for the sake of the surname of the king of Shu, and dealing with the military, the most taboo is that someone in the rear keeps issuing orders and interfering with the reasons for the generals in front, which can be described as high-sounding, although some officials are dissatisfied with his dove occupying the magpie's nest and monopolizing power, but they do not dare to criticize.

Yang Ling made such a decision, in fact, because he found that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, 'take advantage of your illness, take your life', and want to justifiably monopolize the power of Bashu, there is no better opportunity than this.

He turned around and transferred his own troops to guard the Qingyang Palace, so that the king of Shu was isolated from the world, and this time he immediately turned the passive into the active, coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and his personal danger was minimized.

However, looking at this situation, Yang Ling became more and more suspicious of the rebellion of the King of Shu, and was willing to hand over the handle of the knife to him, although it was because of an accident, but it was still difficult for people with ghosts in their hearts to do it.

Unless this Zhu Binhan has a city as deep as Yue Buqun, but if he has such scheming and city, when the prince goes to Xuzhou, I am afraid that he has already secretly taught the opportunity, how can there be a kidnapping of the prince, so that he is so passive?

When the King of Shu heard Yang Ling's words, he just smiled bitterly and was silent.

Yang Ling took a long look and said, "Please rest in peace, I have everything with me." ”

After saying that, Yang Ling took three steps back, arched his hand, and walked away.

Li Sen picked off his nails, gave a salute: "Please rest in peace", and then retreated, and after a while, all the officials said goodbye and left one by one, leaving only Zhu Rangjin to support his father and stay in the empty hall.

The King of Shu looked at the door and said slowly: "The Lone King has just agreed to delegate power, Yang Ling can make a decision immediately, seize this fleeting opportunity, do not avoid suspicion, and take all the power in his hands, this is a character." Maybe Xuzhou's difficulty, this person is really the best person to solve it."

Zhu Rangjin also said with a look of appreciation: "There are many tribes in Shudi, although the imperial court has the intention of grace and care, but for more than a hundred years, these tribes have not been able to educate and refuse to integrate.

It can be seen from Lord Yang's suppression of the East China Sea and the bandits that Yang Ling is the best at grace and power, soft and hard, can pull, can not pull, and can not be pulled, all of them have always been arrogant, ten ** Lord Yang is going to move troops, with strong suppression, deterring all ethnic groups in Shu, I only hope that Lord Yang will rescue Brother Wang first, otherwise the soldiers will fight together."

When the king of Shu heard this, he said nervously: "If you can not move the army, you can't move the army, these barbarians live in danger, 100,000 troops have been fighting for ten years, and they may not be able to defeat a clan, when the Hongwu Dynasty I wanted to 'change the land and return to the stream' of these barbarians, set up flow officials, and moved the Han people, but the result was no result in successive years of conquest, so the Tusi was set up to rule the raze, and now some tribes are ready to move, picking quarrels and provoking troubles, how can they change their course and cause trouble? ”

He said so many words in a row, and his strength was no longer exhausted, but he still grabbed Zhu Rangjin tightly and said: "If you really make a big move, Bashu and Bashu will no longer have peace." Although I gave him power, I didn't say that the Shu Wangfu would not interfere with this, you go quickly, you must accompany Yang Ling to Xuzhou, act at the opportunity, and try to avoid swords."

Zhu Rangjin said worriedly: "My father is so sick, how can my son not be by his side?" This".

"Bastard! You're not Langzhong, so why don't you stay here? Go and bring the princess and Xiang'er here, and let them stay with your father."

"Yes, yes", Zhu Rangjin was furious when he saw his father, and he didn't dare to say it again, so he had to say yes.

"I am against adults going to Xuzhou in person!" Wu Hanchao, who had just heard Yang Ling confess the true purpose of his trip to Sichuan, said worriedly: "My lord has a more important purpose in Sichuan, so if I am the king of Shu, and I do have objections, but all aspects are not ready, at this time, I know the real purpose of my lord's visit to Sichuan, and in a panic, I retreat as an advance, hand over the military power, and kill the adult by the hand of the man, or use this to confess that I am open-minded, and it is not impossible to come without selfishness."

And in this way, the adults are bent on quelling the rebellion, and there is no time to investigate the rebellion of the King of Shu, and you can't stay in Sichuan for a long time, and drag you until you leave I see that the King of Shu has ** This is the idea."

"Oh? Hehe, it seems that it is not unhelpful for this official to tell you about the matter, three stinkers, Zhuge Liang, Han Chao's idea is very good, it seems that you and General Song are fighting bandits alone in Jiangnan, and you have grown a lot, and you are no longer a martial artist who only knows how to use force" Yang Ling said with a smile.

Wu Hanchao said embarrassedly: "There is no strategy to talk about lowly duties, but adults often say that we must analyze a person's psychology from his behavior." I remembered that when I was a child, I was naughty at home, I once went to the house to play, stepped on the roof tiles, and was afraid that my father would beat me, so I pretended not to know.

When my father got home, I pretended to go up to the house to get the dried fruit in front of him, and then I told my father that the tiles were broken without knowing it. When my father went to the room to check, I told him as if I had just remembered that Lord Yu of the Inspection Department was looking for him in a hurry, but my father forgot about it, and in hindsight, he just found someone to fix it.

If the king of Shu has a ghost in his heart, this series of seemingly upright actions is quite in line with this kind of psychology."

Yang Ling listened to it interestingly, and couldn't help laughing: "Yes, what you said, I also think that if the King of Shu does have objections, there is a great reason to show openness and divert attention." However, under the official's observation, the fainting of the King of Shu is not fake, and the risk of using the prince as bait is too great."

Song Xiaoai was angry when he heard him say 'my father', An Wentao left Qingyang Palace or reprimanded Wu Wending fiercely, Song Xiaoai saw that his future father-in-law was so embarrassed by others in public, and he felt remorse in his heart, and when Yang Ling returned to Qin's errand, he bought a gift and Wu Hanchao went to apologize to him.

Lao Wu didn't come out with a knife to cut people again, but the door was closed, and he didn't answer them at all, and even his wife came forward to intercede and refused to let go, which caused the neighbors to come out to see the excitement, Song Xiaoai was angry and ashamed, and the anger came up again.

Although her parents also have to come forward to marry men and women in her hometown, men and women are completely independent in love, how can there be so much interference? Song Xiaoai felt that the old man deliberately made things difficult, and Wu Hanchao was afraid of his father like a tiger, and even had a grudge against him.

At this time, as soon as she heard Wu Hanchao's words, Song Xiaoai immediately said in the opposite tone: "I approve of adults going to Xuzhou." As the adults said, if he controls the King of Shu, even if he really has any objections, he will become a toothless tiger, and the danger of the adults will be minimized. Taking advantage of the mobilization of the army and the command of the battle, the soldiers can form a habit of obedience to Lord Li, and they can also establish the prestige of Lord Li in the army as soon as possible, so as to master the force.

As for the danger, the adults are full of wisdom and invincibility, whether it is the Tatars, the Japanese or the Western pirates, all of them are invincible, and the total number of men, women and children in charge is only more than 30,000 people, what is there? If the King of Shu really holds the purpose you said, I'm afraid it will be self-defeating."

Liu Biao coughed lightly and said: "Everyone, please listen to me, Duzhang is a soldier who can really be a soldier, even if you add the Han people, bandits and robbers and escaped military criminals, there are only more than 10,000 people, they are stationed in the three cities of Jiusi, Lingxiao, and Duduzhai, each city is only more than 3,000 people, but the terrain there is dangerous, one man is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open, which is the reason why Xiaoxiao Duzhang dares to go against the imperial court." ”

Yang Ling took a deep breath, sat down slowly behind the table, and said: "Qingyang Palace, I have sent a big stick mallet to lead my three hundred guards to guard, this guy has a tendon, unless I personally appear and cancel the order, it will be difficult for anyone to enter and exit, the King of Shu does not have to worry anymore, whether he is open-minded or deliberately to show his innocence, in short, this knife handle is in my hand, and now Bashu is my home."

Let's first consider the situation in Xuzhou, the prince of the dignified domain was taken hostage, this matter must be solved, Lord Li, do you know anything about Duzhangman? ”

Li Sen said: "After the humble post arrived, I reviewed the military archives and made a detailed understanding of the Tusi tribes in Sichuan. It is said that Du Zhangman is the descendant of the servants in the Han Dynasty, they are a village of 100 people, living in the Xuzhou area for generations, they worship the 'frog god', like to paint on the cliff, and the deceased is hung on the cliff with a hanging coffin.

All the barbarians are untamable, never obey the indoctrination, even if they surrender, they often steal the border and harass, invade the surrounding counties, the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 100 years, Hongwu, Yongle, orthodox, Jingtai dynasties have used troops against them. The Lingxiao City where they are entrenched is a castle built by the Song Dynasty to resist the Mongol army, surrounded by cliffs, and it is extremely dangerous.

The old nest of the man is standing on the cliffs on all sides, it is steep and difficult to climb, there is only a rugged sheep intestine path in a radius of more than 30 miles, the officers and soldiers are difficult, but they can walk on the ground as if they were on the ground, shuttling back and forth in the grass and thorns, and people are unpredictable. During the Chenghua period, the imperial court sent 200,000 troops, and it was here that they encountered obstacles, fought for four whole years, and returned in vain."

When Yang Ling heard this, he gasped, he is a modern person after all, a modern army, how can there be any natural dangers that can be relied on, airplanes, artillery, missiles and rockets, no matter where, it can be scorched in four days, but on a thirty-mile journey, 200,000 troops can't get it for four years, so what kind of dangerous path should it be?

Li Sen continued: "In March of the first year of Chenghua, Duzhangman Zhuzhai raised troops to plunder Jiang'an and other counties, and the imperial court sent the governor Rui Cheng to appease, and the governor Rui announced that all the owners of the villages in charge of the barbarians were awarded official positions, enjoying the imperial court, and the chieftains of the barbarians were greatly happy, and led nearly 300 village owners to the banquet to surrender.

Unexpectedly, Wang Hao, the imperial envoy of the prison army, rushed to Xuzhou, thinking that these village owners were all heroes on the battlefield, and they should take the opportunity to kill them to prevent future troubles, so they killed more than 270 people who came to pay homage to the chiefs and village owners, and they all formed an indissoluble enmity with the court from then on, and no longer believed in the court's intention to recruit peace.

In October of the same year, Du Zhangman went to Guizhou to surrender fraudulently, Guizhou commander Ding Shi did not know that Wang Yu's envoy lured and killed nearly 300 leaders of Duzhangman, so he went out of the city to meet, and the result was an ambush in all directions, more than 5,000 officers and soldiers were wiped out, and Du Zhangman did not understand his hatred, and the next month he designed to induce Wang Yu's envoy to travel to Changning at night, as a result, the officers and soldiers got lost in the mountains at night, and countless people and horses fell off the cliff and died.

The imperial court was furious, and then sent a large army to gather in Xuzhou, and adopted the method of gradual encroachment, burning more than 700 villages within five days, forcing all the Duzhangman into the deep mountains, the two sides were deadlocked, and the result was that the Duzhangman was miserable, but the imperial army could not afford the money and food consumed by the long-term siege, and finally the two sides tacitly did not do it. ”

Yang Ling was dumbfounded, sat there for a long time, and suddenly remembered that before the founding of the country in his era, the battle between the two armies was often at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.

But this is such an army, at the beginning of winning the world, in the face of the existence of several bandit teams in the deep mountains and old forests, but painstakingly, the army could not enter, heavy firepower weapons could not be transported in, it was really a cannon to fight mosquitoes, useless, and had to guard against their sneak attacks and robberies from time to time, what method was used to exterminate them?

Yang Ling stood up and paced back and forth in the room, but after thinking about it for a long time, his mind was nothing but "Heavenly King Gaidi Tiger, Pagoda Town River Demon." Mohamoha, when you talk at noon, no one has a home", it is the godlike Wang Ba box gun when the bandit Tian Da opened the bow left and right. No way, watching the drama and watching the excitement, who paid attention to this at that time.

However, in Yang Ling's heart, at least one correct impression was left: fighting the capital was barbaric, which was different from fighting with the Tatar army, and also different from the battle against the Japanese in the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River, no matter how many the government army was, it was difficult to rely on it. The soldiers talk about the right fit and the odd victory, and if you want to deal with the barbarians, you have to go off the beaten side and get out of the way.

Thinking of this, Yang Ling ordered: "Liu Biao will go to Xuzhou first and try to collect all the information, and this battle will greatly rely on the information obtained by your people." Lord Li, please immediately return to the camp to gather the generals, mobilize all the troops of Bashu to go to Xuzhou, whether it is fought or not, in short, the greater the momentum, the better. Wu Hanchao, immediately sent the political envoy, the envoy, the Chengdu prefect and other civil and military officials to the Qin mission to discuss matters, and the Qin mission wanted to levy grain and grass. ”

Everyone hurriedly stood up and said yes one by one.

Song Xiaoai stood up, blinked her big eyes and said, "My lord, what about me?" ”

"Are you", Yang Ling smiled slightly, and said: "Come with me to the inner study, and the official will talk to you alone."

(To be continued)