One of the generals said suspiciously:

"The fourth prince, the prince is the official of the imperial court to recruit in the north of Weizhou, and it is the righteousness to send troops to attack Weizhou, which can not only withdraw money and grain from the imperial court, get rewards, but also expand the people of my Chengde land, why does the fourth prince say that it is a fire?"

Wang Chengyuan walked slowly in front of everyone, his fair face showed a shy flush, he stabilized his breath, bowed to Wang Chengzong, and said:

"Big brother, everyone, haven't you heard of 'praying mantis catches cicadas, and yellow finches are behind'? In the current situation, Wei Bo is the cicada that seems to have no power to fight back, and I, Chengde, am the praying mantis that sharpens the knife, and Wei Bo can easily obtain a large area of land in Beizhou and Weizhou, expand the land, and make great contributions to the imperial court and get rewards. ”

Everyone nodded. Wang Chengyuan said:

"Then have you ever thought that behind my Chengde, there is a huge yellow finch that can peck at praying mantises?"

Wang Chengzong said:

"Fourth brother, do you mean that Liu Ji is an old horseman, afraid that he will take advantage of our army to send troops to attack us in the south? That old horseman, although Youzhou is big, how can it be called a yellow finch? As long as the prime minister sends a general to lead 10,000 troops to defend the key points in advance, what can he Liu Ji do to me? Besides, am I Cheng Deerlang afraid of his Youzhou dog? ”

The generals all laughed when they heard this. At that time, Wang Wujun and Li Baozhen joined forces and broke Zhu Tao in the Battle of Beizhou, killing Zhu Tao 30,000 people, and only a few hundred people fled back. So Cheng Debing is really not afraid of Lu Longbing. Wang Chengyuan sighed and said:

"Where can a mere Liu Ji be called a yellow sparrow? The yellow finch that the younger brother said is referring to the imperial court! ”

As soon as Wang Chengyuan's words came out, Wang Chengzong and the generals were all heartbroken.

In Luoyang Palace, Lu Zhen said:

"As Your Majesty said, after pacifying Yunzhou and Weizhou, what the imperial court lacked in the face of the rebellion was not the strength to fight in a war, but an excuse. Isn't there a shortage of reasons to cut the feudal domain? ”

Li Chanted:

"Yes, at that time, I was a knife warrior, a man for fish and meat, so I could only let me slaughter."

He gently changed the sentence "people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat", but it is very appropriate, and everyone smiles. Lu Yi continued:

"That's why Your Majesty said that he was not afraid of him, and Wang Chengzong took the opportunity to send troops to expand his strength. Chengde will have to clean up sooner or later, rather than being afraid of all kinds of flattery in the future, it is better to suffer a loss now, let him take advantage of it, and lay a foreshadowing for the future to move him. ”

Wang Chengyuan said:

"Therefore, if our army sends troops to Weizhou now, the imperial court will definitely make a big move, give money, food and weapons, and the eldest brother and below will add officials to the knighthood, and the officers and soldiers will not move or fight a little, sit and watch our Zhao army and Wei army fight to the death, occupy the land of two states or even three states, and then calmly send troops to clean up the mess. After the years, when the four sides are calmed down and the imperial court is free, the land of the two or three states of Chengde will be easy to swallow, and it will be difficult to vomit, but I am afraid that even the original land will have to be put in. ”

Lu Zhen said:

"At that time, our army sent troops from Hedong, Shuofang, Zhaoyi, Weibo, Yiwu and even Lulong from all sides, sending more than a dozen elites, and they could trap Wang Chengzong to death."

A prince asked:

"Lu Xianggong, isn't Lu Long also a feudal town? Will they help the court? ”

"Lu Long will definitely not become our foreign aid, and we still have the heart to die early in Youzhou."

Wang Chengyuan continued to talk eloquently,

"If Caizhou, Yunzhou, and Weizhou are not destroyed, even if we have a feud, Youzhou may be able to help us. But now the situation in the world has become clear, Liu Ji's father and son are people who sacrifice themselves to save others? First, the feud is current, and secondly, the court is powerful, and it is fortunate that the Liu family and his son will not step on our Chengde royal family as a paving stone to serve the imperial court. And I expected that Youzhou would definitely be the first to send troops at that time. Looking around Chengde, although the terrain is precipitous, there were elites of the imperial court in the south and west at that time, and Zhang Maozhao and Cheng Quan in the east had already voted for the imperial court, plus 100,000 strong soldiers in Lulong in the north, although the situation could be known without a war. ”

Lu Yi concluded his arguments:

"Therefore, although the war in Yunzhou and Weizhou has not ended, the situation in Heshuo has returned to kinghood."

"Your Majesty is wise!"

The princes of the ministers said in unison. Li Yu was not surprised, and he didn't even bother to nod his head. Seeing that everyone was in agreement, Li recited:

Since this is the case, he ordered the Ziqing camp to immediately plan to attack Yunzhou, and strive to end the war in Yunzhou as soon as possible. There is also a side plug that can't be empty for too long, Fan Xianggong didn't move, sat back and watched Chengde and Wei Bo fight, and secretly transferred the elite of Hedong Shuofang back to the town. The Sixth Army broke away from the Ziqing camp sequence and returned to Guanzhong in the west. Autumn is approaching, and 8,000 soldiers from Guanzhong, Henan, and Shannan Tuntian crossed the river to prepare for the border, and came under the command of Li Guangjin. Each soldier in the border area is exempt from 30% of the tax. How is it? ”

Everyone said:

"The ministers have no objections."

Wang Chengyuan was still continuing to analyze, and Wang Chengzong had already slapped the table and scolded:

"Huangkou Xiaoer, learned some miscellaneous fur, came to show off in front of everyone, the ambition of the long court, extinguish their prestige, the current situation is undecided, vainly say that the court will win, if this is the case, I became a virtue thirty years ago by the imperial court. Left and right, beat this guy out! ”

The tooth soldiers immediately came up and pushed Wang Chengyuan out. Wang Chengyuan did not struggle to argue, and fled out in a hurry. Wang Chengzong was angry and said:

"Tomorrow I'm going to settle accounts with his bastard teachers - everyone, you can't eat meat to your mouth, but you can't eat too much. Let's discuss how to eat Wei Bo's plate of meat, Hugh wants so many people to be laughed at by the fourth child, a stinky child. ”

After Wang Chengyuan was kicked out of the chamber, his expression was still calm, without any shame or resentment. A staff member quietly caught up and said:

"Fourth son, why bother to ask for hardship? The prime minister is full of desire to expand the territory, but you pour a basin of cold water on your head. ”

Wang Chengyuan said:

"It's okay, the eldest brother is not a stubborn person, and the eldest brother has listened to my words. In the evening, the eldest brother will call me to discuss the matter. They beat me out for fear that I would shake the morale of the army. ”

"Report ······"

"Marshal Qiyu, Luoyang is in a hurry! In the middle of the matter, Lord Duan Pingzhong came to announce the edict, and he was thirty miles away. ”

Pei Du took the paperwork, looked at it, got up and smiled at the civil and military officials sitting on both sides:

"This Duan Pingzhong came so quickly. Ladies and gentlemen, please work your body and go with your own face. ”

Duan Pingzhong really came to announce the edict, and after reading the edict, after patrolling the camp as an angel and encouraging him, he hurriedly set off back to Luoyang, and he didn't even see the faces of Li Guangyan, the Duke of Chen Guo, and Li Yu, the Duke of Liangguo, who came quickly. Early the next morning, after Henghai Jiedu's envoy Cheng Quan arrived at the Ziqing camp, Pei Du officially convened a military meeting for the general attack on Yunzhou.

The moderator of the meeting, Pei Du. Participants: Li Yu, Li Guangyan, Cheng Quan, Wang Pei, Han Yu, etc.

The meeting decided that Li Guangyan would lead the western armies to garrison the west of Yunzhou and attack the west of Yunzhou, Cheng Quan would lead the Henghai Navy to attack the northern city of Yunzhou, and Li Yu would lead the southern armies to attack the east of Yunzhou, while Pei Du would take Wang Pei's Xuanwu Army as the central army and sit at the south gate of Yunzhou. In order to strengthen the Chinese army, Pei Du ordered to transfer 3,000 people from Li Yu's army with 2,000 people from Ziqing's army, with Li You as the main general, and Xiahou Cheng, who served in front of the army, as his deputy general and his own pro-army. The powerful Li Yu naturally did not refuse. It's just that everyone is worried about Pei Du's surrender to the army as a pro-army and Xiahou Cheng as the deputy general. Pei Du Dao:

"It doesn't matter, the focus of quelling rebellion is to attack the heart, I treat him as a loyal minister and a righteous man, and he will definitely serve the court with the heart of a loyal and righteous man. Otherwise, what good will it do to the country if they rebel? ”

Although everyone expressed their admiration for Pei Du's high style and foresight, Li Yu still thought that he had to say hello to Li You when he went back, and asked Li You to put his eyes on the bright spots. But before he could finish thinking about the matter, Pei Du said:

"Fu Zhi, at the moment, Yunzhou's heavy troops are deployed around, Liu Wu's department is the strongest and most powerful, and he is also the last general in Yunzhou, how to eliminate him, it's up to you."

Li Yu came back to his senses and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, Liu Wu is very weak in charge of the army, and the army is called 'Father Liu', and it is easy to clean him up."

Pei Du sighed:

"Poor Liu Wu is also loyal and good, how can he be willing to help and abuse him?"

Han Yu said:

"Xianggong thinks badly, and always thinks that loyalty is followed by loyalty, how do you know that people's hearts are different? This Liu Wu was working under his uncle Liu Xuanwu's full forgiveness, embezzled millions of Liu Xuanwu's money, and fled to Ziqing for Li Shigu to take in Li Shigu. ”

In fact, what Han Yu originally wanted to say was that many talents wanted to serve the country, but the country did not give people a chance, so they were exiled to the feudal town for the use of the feudal town. But the words turned over again. Liu Wu's grandfather Liu Zhengchen, formerly known as Liu Kenu, in the last years of Tianbao, An Lushan rebelled, and Liu Zhihui betrayed the imperial court by the Pinglu Army, and actually accepted the appointment of An Lushan. His uncle is Han Yu said Liu Xuanwu Quanforgiving, his real name is Yi Zhun, Zhen Yuan was the history of Song Zhou's assassination, Xuanwu Jie Du made Liu Xuanzuo die, the soldiers mutinied, the supervisor at that time Ju Wenzhen urgently recruited Liu Yizhun Jing difficult, Yi Zhun was a Xuanwu general, quite popular with the public, Wen Wenzhen called, led troops into Bianzhou, pacified the public, and asked the court. The edict conferred Yi Zhun as the envoy of the festival, and gave the name of full forgiveness. It's a pity that in just a few dozen days, Liu Quanliang also hung up, which made Liu Xuanzuo's nephew Han Hong an envoy to the Xuanwu Festival.

And Liu Wu has little courage, serving under his uncle's account, but he stole millions of money hidden by Liu Yizhun in Luoyang, spent it cleanly, and fled to Ziqing in desperation. When Li Shigu saw Liu Wu, he said: "The future will be expensive, and the person who defeats my family will also be this person." ”

(Lao Yan has always thought that this is a fabrication by historians, and he always makes some unpredictable prophets to rectify some celestial and human inductions and the like.) The reason is very simple, since Li Shigu knows that this guy is not a good bird, why use him and let him hold heavy troops? Li Shigu is tired of life? ）

"King, King, something is wrong!"

Lin Ying ran into the water pavilion out of breath. Since the defeat of Dong'e, Li Shidao has been nesting here, and seeing Lin Ying running in with a nervous expression, Li Shidao asked calmly:

"What's the matter, what else could be bad?"

It's also true, Li Shidao is very perceptive now, what could be worse than sitting all day waiting for death?

But Lin Ying really brought this kind of thing, that is, early death. Lin Ying lowered his voice and said:

"The king, your subordinates got the news, saying that Liu Wu, who was entrusted by the king to defend Yanggu, actually had a human face and a beast's heart, and couldn't flinch. His Majesty heard that it was secretly rumored in the army that Liu Wu planned to surrender to the imperial court, and he wanted to take the heads of the king's father and son as a greeting gift! ”

"What?"

Li Shidao, who didn't have a trace of vitality, stood up suddenly, almost fell down, and said:

"Is this true? Darn! Big brother shouldn't have taken in this lost dog in the first place! Now my net worth and life are indeed going to be destroyed at his hands. ”

Lin Ying slandered:

"Not to mention your life, even the turtle made you do it."

The mouth also cooperated with Li Shidao to scold. Li Shidao roared:

"Don't follow this king to scold, give this king an idea!"

Lin Yingdao:

"Your Majesty heard that Liu Wu is still connecting with his henchmen at the moment, and he has not yet controlled the whole army. His subordinates thought that the king could pretend to grant him great power, summon him back to Yunzhou to discuss matters, and when he arrived at the king's mansion, he ambushed the armor and took him down. ”

Master Li said:

"What if his sworn friends mutiny?"

Lin Yingdao:

"The deputy envoy of the camp Zhang Xian (Li Shidao said that the queen set up the camp, the camp made Liu Wu, and the deputy envoy Zhang Xian) was loyal to the king of Qi, and the king could secretly order Zhang Xian to take Li Shidao back to Yunzhou to replace him, collect Liu Wu's henchmen, and then ······"

Lin Ying made a cutting motion. When it came to life, Li Shidao's mind was much more flexible, and he asked:

"Liu Wu has been in Yunzhou for 12 years, and there are many henchmen in the city, what if the news leaks?"

Lin Yingdao:

"The king has nothing to worry about. The king can first pretend to promote Liu Wuzi and Liu Congzhi to the right position of the yamen, in order to show credibility and dispel the vigilance of the Liu family. ”

Li Shidao said "um", his face was gloomy, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he walked out of the water pavilion.

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