When Director Wang heard from Sima Rui's mouth that he was going to accept the words of the imperial court's adaptation, the whole person was stunned, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad. Since returning from the Northland, Wang Dao has lost his spirit. Taken by the strong military and economic strength of the Northland, Director Wang thought that he did not have the ability to bring Jiangdong back to life, so he could only watch step by step towards destruction.

Moreover, in the past, Wang Dao was burdened with the rise of the Langya Wang clan, but now with the increasingly stable rule of the emperor Sima Shu, the focus of the Langya Wang clan has long been no longer on the Wang brothers, but on the emperor's father-in-law Wang Yan. Wang Dao was not as fanatical as his brother, so after returning from the Northland, he gave up his intention of direct confrontation.

Although sometimes Director Wang also wanted to suggest that Sima Rui change his banner, but there were constraints from the local scholars in Jiangdong and his cousin Wang Dun who strongly obstructed him, so he did not dare to blatantly persuade Sima Rui to accept the transformation of the northland. But now it's different, Sima Rui collapsed first under the pressure of internal and external pressure.

Looking at Sima Rui, who had collapsed, Director Wang couldn't help but feel sad, no matter what, the other party was also the lord he used to be optimistic about, but now he had to reluctantly persuade the other party to bow his head to the former 'enemy'.

"The king, the minister knows that you have been wronged by doing this, but in any case, you are also a member of the Sima family, and your majesty will not embarrass the king when you arrive in the north, so why not be a free prince like the king of Huainan?"

"Maohong, the stakes have already figured it out, hum! Don't think that the widows don't know what the Jiangdong families who are fighting the main battle are having, they just want the widows to be scapegoats. It would be best if the First World War could dispel the ambitions of the Northland to covet Jiangdong. If not, they can push the widow out as a scapegoat, and they themselves will become officials in the Northland! ”

"What a good calculation!" Sima Rui sneered.

"Your Majesty, now that you've made up your mind, we're still going to be careful about keeping it a secret. In case someone else knows that something may happen, the king will continue to act like he will stick to the main battle in the future, and his subordinates will quietly contact the northern land to tell the other party the king's true intentions. As long as you get in touch with the Northland, at least the personal safety of the king can be guaranteed. "Because it is a matter of his own life, Director Wang does not dare to be careless.

Although Director Wang repeatedly told Sima Rui, there is no impermeable wall in this world, which is in response to the sentence 'If people don't know.' Unless you do it'. Soon Sima Rui's movements were known to the Jiangdong family. As a result, it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, Jiangdong people quit, they thought that this was Sima Rui's betrayal of Jiangdong, and for a while, Jiangdong was in turmoil. The dark tide is surging.

The family will not consider the problem from Sima Rui's point of view. They will only think that Sima Rui's actions infringe on the interests of Jiangdong. This is the virtue of the great family, who has always considered only their own interests.

However, although the Jiangdong family is quite loud. But they didn't dare to act rashly, after all, Director Wang was also involved with Sima Rui. Don't look at Wang Dao's unarmed soldiers, but his brother is a powerful figure with an army of more than 100,000 troops, so before finding out Wang Dun's true thoughts, the Jiangdong Shi clan didn't dare to do anything with Sima Rui.

The Jiangdong Shi clan recommended Shen Chong as a representative to go to Jiankang to visit Wang Dun, and as soon as they saw Shen Chong, they provoked: "General, at the beginning, you advocated that this Sima Rui be put on the throne of the Lord of Jiangdong, and now the King of Jin is full of wings, and he wants to kick our family away, and almost wipe out the family family, what does the general think?" ”

Although Wang Dun knew that the other party was stirring up, he was still dissatisfied. Since Sima Rui sat on the throne of King Jin, his relationship with Sima Rui has gradually dropped to the freezing point, and this time if it were not for the purpose of raising military funds, he would not act as the other party's thug. Moreover, he has always advocated a tough face to the Northland, and is very hostile to a series of policies adopted by the emperor Sima Shu to restrict the family.

"Thoughts? I don't have any feelings, but I would like to thank you Jiangdong Shi Clan, if it weren't for your strong support this time, this official would not have been able to raise enough military funds in such a short period of time! Wang Dun was not easy to mess with, he heard the other party's sarcastic tone, so he returned it unceremoniously, anyway, his relationship with the local scholars in Jiangdong was not very harmonious.

The anger in Shen Chong's eyes flashed, and he still said with a smile on his face: "Those guys killed themselves, this is what the general deserves." Let's not talk about the previous grievances, what has already reached the hands of the general, we have no intention of going back. But there is one thing that we local scholars in Jiangdong have to say more. ”

"Huh? What's the matter? Wang Dun asked with a frown.

"I wonder if the general has been in contact with Lord Changshi recently?"

"My brother Shigeruhiro? No, we haven't been in touch for a while, what's wrong? What's going on? ”

"The general doesn't know that King Jin and Changshi are conspiring to accept the adaptation of the imperial court recently!"

"What?! That's impossible! Wang Dun suddenly changed color, he never thought that Sima Rui and Wang Dao, who were actively raising food and grass for him a few days ago, would be sold in the blink of an eye.

"How is it impossible, doesn't the general still believe in the power of my Jiangdong family? The Jin Palace's Mansion is completely undefended for us, and no matter what happens inside, we will soon find out. A few days ago, Sima Rui and the two had a secret conversation for a long time in the Jin Palace, and after our investigation, we found that the King of Jin had made up his mind to surrender, and the person responsible for contacting the northern land was Lord Changshi. Shen Chong categorically told Wang Dun a piece of news that shocked him.

Wang Dun has always advocated the use of force against the Northland, and if Sima Rui really planned the surrender behind his back, then he Wang Dun would be the most hurt except for the local warriors in Jiangdong.

"Then what does Lord Shen mean by coming here today? It's not going to be a joke to see the official, is it? ”

"Hahaha, what is the general talking about, no matter what, we are all from a big family, and we are enemies with Sima Shu in the North. Once the northern land is really allowed to enter Jiangdong, then the good days of our family will really come to an end, so we should put aside our previous suspicions and work together to stop King Jin's plan completely. ”

Wang Dun fell silent when he heard this, and Shen Chong was not in a hurry, he knew that Wang Dun was weighing the pros and cons. After some careful consideration, Wang Dun decided to cooperate with the Jiangdong Shi clan. In any case, Wang Dun could not accept Sima Shu's rule in Jiangdong, he had a deep prejudice against Sima Shu, and when the Beidi liquidated the Central Plains family, many of his friends were cut off by Sima Shu without hesitation. For example, the reason why the status of the family has declined sharply today is inseparable from the suppression policy that Sima Shu has been pursuing in the north.

"So what should we do?"

"It's very simple, the general just needs to be like this, like this!"

"Okay, it's a deal!"

In the twelfth year of Hongwu, at the end of September, Wang Dun officially raised troops to advance to Wu County in the name of 'Qingjun side'. Shen Chong, a local scholar in Jiangdong, also raised troops in Wuxing County to respond to Wang Dun. Sima Rui was very angry at Wang Dun's behavior, so he decided to fight a decisive battle with the other party, to personally lead a large army to confront Wang Dun, and summoned Wang Dao, Liu Kui and Dai Yuan back to Jiankang to prepare to defend against Wang Dun's attack, and ordered that Wang Dun be killed and he could be named the Marquis of 5,000 households.

Wang Dun also called Jingzhou Assassin Shi Wenxian and asked him to attack together, Wen Xian originally agreed, but in the end he did not lead the troops to come, but sent a soldier to Jiankang to admonish Wang Dun. This made Wang Dun shocked, he thought that Wen Xian was going to fall to Sima Rui's side, and finally he had to write a letter to Wen Xian in person and ask for support from the other party as a duke, but Wen Xian had already accepted Wang Dao's persuasion, so he hesitated about Wang Dun's position.

Wang Dun also wrote to his cousin Wang Dao asking him to take over the military secretary, trying to win over the other party, but Wang Dao refused without hesitation. In order to avoid the scourge of the sword soldiers, Wang Dao instead sent his henchmen to Jiankang to persuade Wang Dun to stop his troops and plead guilty to the King of Jin.

Although Wang Dao persuaded him many times, Wang Dun still held his own strong army and was stubborn with the support of the Jiangdong clan. Then Wang Dun asked Shen Chong to lead an army of 20,000 from Wuxing County to the east to attack Jiaxing, an important town in Wu County, because the city of Jiaxing was unstable and lacked military reserves, everyone was very afraid, Jiaxing City rumored that the rebels had arrived, everyone was shocked and dispersed.

After the news of Wang Dun's rebellion came, Sima Rui, the king of Jin, was both angry and afraid. On the one hand, he was angry with Wang Dun's disrespectful actions, and on the other hand, he was afraid that Wang Dun would settle accounts after he broke through Wu County. Although some people suggested that he kill all the Wang family members in Wu County to retaliate against Wang Dun, Sima Ruisi still rejected the other party's suggestion after thinking about it.

In order to resist Wang Dun, Sima Rui only needed to appoint Wang Dao as the forward governor, and Dai Yuan as the hussar general and the military governor of Wu County. At the same time, he ordered Wang Xuan to persuade Wang Dun, but Wang Dun did not listen, and left Wang Xuan to appoint him on his own. When Wang Dun approached Wu County, Sima Rui personally led the army on the outskirts of the city to prepare for the battle.

Wang Dun defeated Sima Rui's army in the suburbs, and then approached the city of Wu County, and before Sima Rui could rearrange the defense of Wu County, the Jiangdong clan in the city opened the city gate and surrendered to Wang Dun. Wang Dun thus successfully occupied the county seat of Wu. Sima Rui fled east in embarrassment under the protection of Wang Dao.

After Wang Dun took Wu County, he was complacent, and did not pursue Sima Rui in the first place, and as a result, the other party escaped smoothly. In Wu County, Wang Dun indulged his soldiers to loot everywhere, which led to local chaos and the escape of officials, which intensified his relationship with the local scholars in Jiangdong, after all, Wu County and Wu County were the foundation of the local scholars in Jiangdong, and Wang Dun could only lose the strength of the local scholars in Jiangdong.

Let's not talk about the intensifying rebellion in Jiangdong, just say that after Sima Rui and Wang Dao fled to the sea, they were intercepted by the Dajin Royal Navy cruising in the waters east of Wu County. (To be continued......)