In August, the weather in Jiangdu City gradually cools down. Han Jian's mood did not improve.

The law is gone, and even its whereabouts are unknown. At this time, the empress also avoided him, which made him very emotionally frustrated, and at this time he could only place his affection on official affairs, so that he no longer thought about these things.

In mid-August, when the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, Luoyang's shape suddenly changed.

The Luoyang rebels and some troublemakers, as time passed, they already knew that they could not conquer the inner city of Luoyang, and the Western Wang Army and the Northern Wang Army were also under the city, so they could only withdraw from the surrounding areas of Luoyang first. In this way, the current situation in Luoyang has stabilized.

At this time, the Wei Dynasty court in Luoyang issued a lot of decrees, while stabilizing the people's hearts, while resuming production, it seemed that they were developing in a good direction.

Luoyang's situation is stable, but it may not be a good thing for Jiangdu.

At this time, the Luoyang rebels, several generals who led the troops were either dead or lost their position, and there were not many soldiers and horses, but some local armed forces in Henan and Shandong rose up because of this. At this time, people realized that during the two months of chaos in Luoyang, the local rebellion was even worse, and many rebels occupied the county seat and even the state capital, and were fighting against the imperial court.

Because at this time, Jiangdu was only responsible for self-protection, not for the affairs outside Jiangdu, and the Luoyang court was concentrating on dealing with the Luoyang rebels these days, so that the imperial court had no time to draw troops and horses to deal with the riots in these places. In the past two months, many places in Henan and Shandong have fallen into the hands of the rebels.

Originally, the suppression of local rebellions was a matter for the Luoyang Imperial Court. After all, these areas where the rebellion occurred were all under the jurisdiction of the Luoyang Imperial Court. But because Luoyang had just quelled a wave of riots at this time, there were still a large number of rebels who had not been swept away, and the Western Wang Army and the Northern Wang Army were eyeing each other, so that they could not withdraw to deal with the local chaos at all. The attitude of the Northern Wangjun and the Western Wangjun was very similar, they both felt that the more chaotic the place, the better it would be for them, and at this time they would rather watch the fire from the other side and turn a blind eye to the local rebellion.

This made the heavy task of quelling the local rebellions in Shandong and Henan fall on Jiangdu.

In Han Jian, he got a report from the officials below. Especially after the people from the Luoyang faction in the imperial court came to play. I began to feel that things were becoming more and more related to him. Han Jian also met Gu Weipan because of this, and with Gu Weipan's meaning, if Jiangdu doesn't care about local riots now, then the entire Jiangbei. No one cares anymore. There will be more and more local riots because of this. People have been displaced. When the time comes, it will add to the suffering of war.

"The soldiers and horses of the East Wangfu have just repelled the rebellion in Luoyang, and the army is in full swing. Why can't we go north in one fell swoop and sweep away the local chaos? It stands to reason that these local disasters are not caused by the war between the Dongwangfu and the rebels in Luoyang? ”

At an ordinary military meeting, people from the imperial court faction confronted Han Jian.

Han Jianquan couldn't hear it, he was busy with the alliance with Nanwangfu these days. There were several groups of envoys sent and received.

Up to now, Yang Luochuan, the king of the south, has already felt that the power of Guangping him and the Nanwang Mansion is no longer enough to control the overall situation. Originally, Yang Luochuan was not blind to the Dongwangfu at all, but with the victory of the Dongwangfu in the battle of Jiangdu, proving that the strength of the Dongwangfu is not weak, Yang Luochuan is also officially preparing to form an alliance with the Dongwangfu. This kind of alliance is no longer just a matter of Han Jianqiang marrying a daughter.

"This matter can be discussed later!" Han Jian said coldly, and left the conference room immediately.

At this time, there were still generals from the imperial court faction who wanted to come over and continue to ask Han Jian, but they had already been stopped.

In the past few days, Han Jian has been annoyed enough, if he hadn't endured it again and again, he wouldn't have let these people from the court kick their noses in the face. What kind of military deployment Jiangdu makes is to focus on the overall situation, and under the overall situation, it is not the time to send troops out of Jiangdu to sweep away rebellions in some places.

Originally, encroaching on the place, and then gradually encircling Luoyang was a strategy. But now is not the right time to do so.

The main reason is that the big trouble in front of Jiangdu today is not these rebels, but the Northern Wangfu and the West Wangfu, as well as Yang Yu's forces and even the Southern Wangfu, even if he pulls his fingers dozens of times, he doesn't feel that these local rebels are a big disaster for Jiangdu.

And now, he is more concerned about letting Yang Luochuan "surrender" as soon as possible. Yang Luochuan's attitude towards the alliance is reciprocal relations, that is, when Yuzhou is one country, Jiangdu is one country, and the two countries are state-to-state exchanges.

Han Jian's meaning was that Yang Luochuan completely submitted to the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and as a loyal minister, he personally came to Jiangdu City to hand over the soldiers, horses, and administrative power to the empress.

Regarding the attitude of the two parties to form an alliance, Han Jian and Yang Luochuan are negotiating. Han Jian knew that Yang Luochuan would not turn back until he reached the Yellow River, and at this time there was no pressure from the surrounding areas in Yuzhou, so he would not lightly agree to the conditions offered by Jiangdu.

Judging from the information obtained by Han Jian from all sides, it seems that the Western Wangfu and the Northern Wangfu have reached some kind of consensus, that is, they will first be loyal to Yang Yu, and then send troops to Jiangdu or Yuzhou under the guise of Yang Yu.

Because of the experience of the Battle of Jiangdu, the North Wangfu and the West Wangfu obviously used Yuzhou as a soft persimmon when choosing targets. Yuzhou has experienced the "trampling" of Jiangdu soldiers and horses before, and there is civil strife, at this time, it can be regarded as internal and external difficulties, and the West Wangfu and the North Wangfu will not miss such an opportunity. What's worse is that there is still a strong pressure from the Qi Dynasty in the south of Yuzhou, and compared to the relationship with the Qi Dynasty, Yuzhou is obviously inferior to Jiangdu in this regard. Jiangdu has a close relationship with Southern Qi and is well known.

Once the West Wangfu and the North Wangfu engage Yuzhou, Yuzhou will face the siege of many surrounding enemies, which can be said to have no chance of winning. At this time, Yuzhou had to turn to Jiangdu for help. After Han Jian saw this, he was waiting for him, the old man, to "change his mind", and he also decided that only after Yang Luochuan lowered his body and decided to surrender, he would send troops to rescue Jiangdu.

Han Jian was thinking about things while returning to the temporary office of the imperial court in the Chengdong Mansion, and Gu Weipan and Lin Ke, who had not participated in the military meeting at this time, came out, and they had a lot of notebooks in their hands, all of which were written by the officials below asking the empress to send troops to quell the rebellion in Shandong and Henan.

"I've seen the East King." Seeing Han Jian, Gu Weipan was very calm, and he didn't even say hello, after all, the two of them are very familiar, and polite things can be avoided, otherwise they will feel tired when they see each other more than a dozen times a day. But Lin Ke didn't see Han Jian often, and at this time, he first smiled and came forward to salute, which made Han Jian feel that he was a little cunning and cunning.

"Lin Shangshu, I haven't seen you for a long time, what have you been busy with these days?" Han Jian asked without yin or yang.

"It's all trivial." Lin Ke smiled and said, "No, I just went to bother His Majesty, but I was still rejected by His Majesty." ”

Han Jianxin said that it would be strange for the empress to see people now.

The officials below saw that he couldn't open the gap here, so they wanted to "force" the East Palace's troops through the empress's door, obviously the empress had heard the rumors in this regard, and the empress had allowed Lin Ke to submit the recitals of the ministers below at any time, but in the past few days, the empress has even closed this only one channel of communication with the outside.

"Lin Shangshu, you know that Your Majesty has been in poor health recently, so don't bother casually." Han Jian took a sip of tea and said calmly.

Lin Ke smiled, stood to the side, and glanced at Gu Weipan by the way, meaning to let Gu Weipan step forward to speak.

"King Dong, what do you think about sending troops?" Gu Weipan suddenly asked.

"For the time being, let's not send troops yet." Han Jian said, "The current situation may change, if we rashly send troops, when the West Wangfu and the North Wangfu jointly attack Jiangdu, I don't know how long we can deal with it?" ”

"The North and West Palaces send troops? When was this? Why didn't the lower officials know? Lin Ke on the side interjected.

"Is Lin Shangshu in charge of military affairs? Everything could be known to you? Han Jian replied coldly.

"That's right, that's right." Lin Ke smiled again and said, "Two, continue." Don't bother with the lower officials. ”

Gu Weipan glanced at Lin Ke, and then said to Han Jian: "Now is the time to subdue the people, if Luoyang rebels and sends troops to sweep down the local rebellion first, it will make the local people unable to distinguish right from wrong, and the time will ...... The people's will will make it more difficult to sweep away Luoyang's rebellion. ”

Han Jian was slightly silent, when it came to the people's hearts, he had also considered it before.

"Then dare to ask Mrs. Gu, but those who are popular with the people will definitely be able to win the world?" Han Jian suddenly asked.

"Those who win the hearts of the people win the world, the king of the east won't have heard of it, right? Oh, look at me, talk more. Two, go on, go on. Lin Ke on the side expressed his "gaffes" from time to time.

Gu Weipan said: "What does the East King want, just say it." ”

Han Jian knew that it was useless to beat around the bush, he didn't want to send troops, and it wasn't that he didn't want to subdue the people, but he knew that the Northern Wangfu and the Western Wangfu had secretly reached an agreement to prepare to take Yuzhou first, then Jiangdu, and then Luoyang.

Originally, the West Mansion and the North Mansion were separate and could not be united. But the North Wangfu is now Yang Ke's house, Yang Ke is young and vigorous, and Yang Pingju, the king of the West, feels that he is a hairy boy, so he doesn't have to worry about it, and after cooperating with him first, he solves the big trouble with him, and then turns around and kills Yang Ke, and finally Jiangbei is completely owned by the West Wangfu.

And Yang Ke felt that Yang Pingju himself was a side branch of the imperial family, and it was not right to want to ascend the throne as the emperor, so it was better to take the opportunity to win him over, discuss with Yang Pingju to be nominally loyal to Yang Yu first, and use Yang Yu's banner to sweep Yuzhou and Jiangdu.

In the final analysis, neither Yang Ke nor Yang Pingju really wanted to cooperate with each other, but were forced to cooperate with each other when their own strength was not enough to calm the world, which can be regarded as a kind of political alliance, which is no different from the cooperation between the Southern Wangfu and the Eastern Wangfu. (To be continued......)