Hebei Province.

The prosperous land of the past, which has experienced a huge military disaster, is no longer the weather of the past.

Ten rooms and nine emptiness may not be, in the state city occupied by the Yan army and the Sima army, the population is three or four percent less than before the war.

What disappeared with the loss of population was the spirit of a city and a pool, and what remained after the spirit was exhausted was the body that was burned by the Yan army and looted by the Sima clan.

Yes, at this time, Hebei Dao is a person with a clear consciousness, but a dilapidated body.

Such a person, in the spring of the eleventh year of Zhenglong, walked forward in a disgraceful manner, staggering and not talking.

A father and son walked on the dilapidated city wall, and they could clearly see the traces of knife and axe chopping on the city wall, as well as the blood stains on it.

The town was defeated, but the takeover and a lot of follow-up work could not be completed in these days. What's more, the weather suddenly turned cold two days ago and there was a heavy snowfall, at this time the snow has not yet melted, the city is muddy, once it warms, there is a great possibility of breeding malaria and plague, and the focus of cleaning is still in the city.

"I'm very lucky, if it hadn't been laid a day earlier, a heavy snowfall, maybe we would be the ones who are facing the predicament now"

"However, this is not a reason not to seal the knife, and father, you obviously know that since it has begun, Hebei Province will be ours in the future."

The father and son walking on the city wall are Sima Bi and Sima Tan who made the Great Jin Dynasty and even the whole world look sideways and pay attention.

What Sima Tan didn't say, Sima Bi knew what it was.

Since Hebei Province will be ours in the future, then Hebei Province will be its own industry, how can it be so bad for its own things?

Even if it is to appease the anger in the hearts of the soldiers, the whole city should not be closed with knives.

Killing chickens and eggs is in danger!

Sima Bi was pleased with the words of this son who valued him the most, or the only son.

"Not really"

Sima Bi looked at the teams of soldiers and people, transporting waste materials and corpses to the outside of the city, as well as pulling civil engineering and stone materials to the city, looked at the gray sky in the distance, and said, "Do you know why my father wants to raise troops? ”

Sima Tan thought for a moment and said, "For my Sima family's great plan." ”

Sima Bi smiled and said, "Tan'er, what you said is not right or not. ”

"Do you know why?"

"I don't know what's wrong."

"You're not wrong enough."

Sima Bi said in a deep voice: "You are not deep enough, and you don't think enough. ”

"Raising troops for my father against the Jin Dynasty, it was not that Liu Xiang was against Qin back then, it wasn't that the Jin Taizu broke Chu back then, and my father didn't have any big wishes or ambitions."

"The idea of being a father is simple. That is, to leave a trace of fire for my Sima family. ”

That sounds fake. You may say in your heart that your father is a hypocrite, if you don't want to be emperor, why rebel? Why do you want to collude with the Yan people to subvert the rivers and mountains of the Jin Kingdom, and even more so to turn the land of the Jin Kingdom into your own? ”

Sima Tan was silent for a few breaths and said, "Don't dare." ”

"Yes, you don't dare."

Sima Bi leaned on the city wall and said, "Of course you don't dare because you are my son. You have lived in my sight for more than 20 years, and in these 20 years, there has not been a moment when you can disappear from under my nose, so you are afraid of me. I said that you slandered your father's heart, and you said that you didn't dare, but in fact, you didn't dare to say it, but you didn't dare to show it. You're afraid that I know you're disrespectful, but not that you don't dare to say it in your heart. ”

"Father, I" Sima Tan opened his mouth to distinguish.

"But you don't have to say it." Sima Bi stretched out his hand and interrupted Sima Tan.

"You're my son, much like your mother, and of course, more like me, so you don't have to explain anything, I know it."

"Shicai said, why should I rebel and rebel The word is used well, because in the eyes of the whole world, I, Sima, am a rebel thief. Even in the eyes of the Yan people, we are traitors to the Jin Kingdom, not the Sima clan alone. In the future, the history books of various countries will not have any positive accounts of what our Sima clan did during this period. Unless we win, we win everyone. ”

"Why should I do this when I am already a sinner, and I am likely to be sinful forever? Our Sima family is the most powerful family in the Great Jin Dynasty, and I know the harm of this kind of thing best. And yet I did it anyway, and there was a reason for that. ”

"Father, I want to know, what is the reason."

Sima Tan looked at Sima Bi with burning eyes.

"You want to know?"

"Yes, I want to know."

Sima Bi pondered for a while and asked, "You say, does Your Majesty like my Sima family?" ”

This is a question that does not need to be thought about, so Sima Tan quickly replied: "I don't like it." ”

"Why?"

"There is no why, people don't like people they don't believe in."

"Yes, Your Majesty doesn't believe in my Sima family. Despite the appearance of his pretense of believing, he believed us for many years. ”

Sima Bi said: "But if you don't believe it, you still don't believe it. No matter how well he disguises it, no matter how much he trusts your aunt, even if there are few concubines in his harem, even if he rarely criticizes our northern army, even if he almost never asks me to enter Beijing, he doesn't believe me after all. ”

"This disbelief stems from the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of our Northern Army."

"The most powerful thing in our Sima family is not the identity of our relatives, not the excellence of the martial arts family, not to mention the majesty of your uncle in the court and Shilin, but the fact that our family has an army."

"This kind of strength is just like the Xie family almost owns the Northwest Army, and at the same time, the old lady Fu is all over the world, and the Wang family is rich and the world is almost the soil emperor of Huaiyang Dao. The three of us are called the Three Lords of the Great Jin Dynasty because the three of us can almost represent the military, officialdom and money and taxes of the Great Jin Kingdom. ”

"You know what kind of situation a country is like if these three things are not in the hands of the emperor, right?"

Sima Tan frowned tightly, thought for a moment, and replied: "If the king does not have enough strength to restrain his subjects, he will no longer have prestige, and the country will fall into turmoil. ”

"Correct. Now, as you said, the Great Jin is in chaos. And this chaos is not only internal chaos, but internal and external chaos. ”

"Since the power is not in the emperor, then the subordinates who have too much power will threaten the emperor's authority, so the emperor must regain power in order to maintain his prestige."

"And so it happened a few years ago."

"Wang Jianghuai died, so the Wang family was in chaos. Huaiyang Dao is still the world of the Wang family, but there is no doubt that His Majesty's words are much heavier than before, and no one dares to disobey the yang and the yin. ”

Xie Daoji died, so the Xie family was quickly targeted, and then the Xie family's strength in the court weakened sharply, and when Xie Yi died of illness on the bed, the Xie family fell. A few days ago, I received a secret report from Jindu that Xie Sheng had been pressed into the prison, and the Xie family was temporarily sealed. ”

Sima Tan was a little surprised, it was not that he hadn't thought about the relationship that might be hidden behind this series of events, but he didn't expect the relationship to be so simple and clear.

Removing the clouds, the sky is actually simple, blue and immaculate, but few people can really see the sky without seeing the clouds, too much of the sight is occupied by clouds that are not decisive, wasting emotions and time, so the eyes are blinded.

However, what surprised Sima Tan even more was the current situation of the Xie family.

"Xie Shenwei kidnapped Zhou Jinmian, the secretary general of the Tiqi Division, and now I don't know where he is, whether it is collusion or something else, it is not clear now, but the northwest is now secretive, and it is not clear what is true and false."

"Xie Shence is said to be dead, but most likely, he is still alive"

Sima Tan asked in disbelief, "Father, are these reliable?" ”

"Even if you don't hit it, it's not far away."

"So," Sima Bi said solemnly, "You should know why your father wants to raise an army." ”

Sima Tan was silent.

With his intelligence, he naturally understood the meaning of what his father said.

The three lords have controlled the government for too long, and His Majesty the Emperor is unwilling. So taking advantage of the critical juncture of the power transition between Wang Xie and the two families, he took back most of the power that had been occupied by the two families for a long time in one fell swoop.

Then it should be his Sima family.

Now that the Wang Xie family has arrived, it is more appropriate to describe the three valves with the city gate and the city rather than the three valves, three, go to the second, and the last rest will follow in the footsteps of the two.

It's a given.

Sima Bi could see clearly that he didn't want to follow in anyone's footsteps, especially Wang Xie's family, so he resisted.

General revolt is useless.

Didn't the Wang family resist, Wang Ding almost imprisoned Wang Zhen, and was not overturned by Wang Zhen in the end? Xie Shence's resistance was much stronger, and he had to die in the end.

If he Sima family wants to preserve, it must be more intense, so that Emperor Jin does not dare to ignore it and dare not deal with it at will.

So Sima Bi rebelled.

The results are surprisingly good. At least for now.

At least sixty or seventy percent of the Northern Army is still in their hands, and this number will be even more in the future as things expand. And at this juncture, although the people of the Sima family in Jindu were under house arrest and detained, at least they would not be killed immediately.

As long as they grasp it, it is still possible for the people of Jindu to survive.

However, Sima Tan was also puzzled.

There are thousands of ways, why choose the rebellion?

Sima Bi didn't wait for him to ask, but asked: "A basket of rotten pears, a good pear, which one do you choose?" ”

Sima Tan stretched his frowning brows and said, "Okay, even if it's just one." ”

"That's it."

A method of sacrificing most vested interests in exchange for a complete family is not recognized by Sima Bi.

Destroy or be reborn.

In Sima Bi's view, this is very simple.

After solving this problem, Sima Tan smiled, and the worries and doubts in his eyes were gone, replaced by firmness and determination.

What can make the people of the Sima clan pay for it is the Sima family itself after all. Since the Sima clan had already made a big gamble on the survival of all the clansmen, then for now, there was actually no way out for them.

Therefore, when you build a city, there is not much difference between sealing the knife and not sealing the knife.

As long as you can win, even if you get an empty city, it's nothing.

With such thoughts, Sima Bi followed his father's acquaintance and looked over, and it was gray over there.

However, the future is bleak, and what I want to do is to use the sword in my hand to cut a bright avenue.

Father and son looked at each other and smiled, and then continued on their way.

Soon, a soldier came up and handed over the military report sent from the direction of Jizhou to the two of them.

"The rebound of the Huafanjin Shi clan is too fierce and Jizhou can't be attacked for a long time"

After reading the military report, a trace of coldness flashed on Sima Bi's ugly face.

"Let Hua Fan come back, Yue Lingjiang led the Iron Harrier Army to the west, opened up to the first line of Jizhou, our army rested for three days, and continued to go south after three days"

A month and a half later, an urgent military report was sent to Jindu through Shandong Province and Shanxi Province.

Sima Bi's rebel army had reached Dezhou, less than 300 miles away from Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province.