Chapter 81: The Tiger Ben Army of 100 Households
The matter was deduced here, and the two people in the room suddenly fell silent together.
The Xu family is a behemoth nourished by the Liang Kingdom, and the power of the Xu family is all over Youzhou, and even extends to the capital, so to speak, in addition to the royal Gu family, the Xu family can be called the first family of the Liang Kingdom.
Others, such as the He family in Jiangzhou, the so-called wealthy families with a long history that have been inherited for hundreds of years, have only influence in the land of a state, and it is only in the aspect of Confucianism, Taoism and scriptures, affecting some literati and Confucian scholars in the south, but what about the Xu family?
The Xu family has developed to this day, there have been four generations sitting in Youzhou, and his subordinates directly control two well-known border armies, Huben and Yuyang, which are two forces that no one can ignore.
Only those who use force have the right to speak, and the weak do not even have the right to decide their own life and death, which is an eternal iron rule.
Those literati and writers who like to stand and talk without being afraid of backache get together to praise each other, criticize the facts, and play tricks, but if they really want to put a knife on their necks, these people shrink faster than anyone else.
The imperial court can destroy the He family with a wave of the hand, and even create a horrific killing in Jiangzhou for this reason, in short, it will not shake the country's foundation, but the imperial court will never dare to easily touch a hair of the Xu family, this is the importance of military power.
Even if he Gu Xuan was canonized by the imperial court, the righteous king of the county, and the son of His Majesty the Emperor of the dynasty, he didn't dare to stand up and confront the entire Xu family head-on, which was similar to Gu Canglai, so even if the two had reasoned to the Xu family and found the root of the problem, there was no good way to solve it.
Because the Xu family can not reason with them.
Gu Xuan supported his forehead with one hand, sat at the table, shook his head slightly, and sighed helplessly in his tone: "If what we speculated before was correct, then it would be useless to take the initiative to summon the court now, this kind of thing, I am afraid that I will be deducted by the Xu family on the way, and then it will be a stone sinking into the sea, and there will be no news, and if there is no edict summoned by the imperial court, I can't return to the capital without permission." β
The prince must not leave his fiefdom without permission, this is an ancient rule, there is no way to disobey, the last time he secretly went to Kanmengan to find the local general soldier, it was already a big crime that could be deprived of the title, but Wanyan Keni wanted to use him as bait to catch some fish, so he didn't take the initiative to report it.
If the previous speculation is all correct, and now the news is transmitted through the post station, the Xu family will definitely know immediately, and if the Xu family is in the way, the news will inevitably not reach the capital, and if Gu Xuan sends ordinary people to run back to the capital to deliver the news, he is afraid that he will be hit by a gang of "horse bandits" on the way intercepted and killed, and even the corpse capital will not be found at that time, so unless it is him Gu Xuan himself, and he must make a big fanfare and make it known to the whole city, he will let the Xu family throw a mouse and dare not touch him, the titular prince, but according to the laws of the imperial court, he can't easily leave the fiefdom.
It's an endless loop.
When Lu Yi heard this, he nodded heavily and said, " Indeed, if this matter is really done by the Great General's Mansion, then the Xu family must have sent someone to lurk around, staring at us, if there is any action on our side, it will inevitably be known to them immediately, no matter what means are used to summon the court, it will inevitably be detained halfway, even if the prince returns to the capital in the future, we have no evidence in our hands, and there is no way to take them, and even if there is evidence, they have a way to find someone to do to deceive the dead ghost, in short, the responsibility will definitely not go to the head of the Xu family. β
Gu Xuandu has been in Huangsha County for so long, and he is no longer the fifth prince at the beginning, and he has a very clear understanding of the yin damage methods.
"It's a little slower, it's actually easy to explain, as long as you tell the court that the carriage transporting supplies is broken on the road, and it's broken all the way, even if it drags on for a few more months, it's not a problem, but we can't wait. β
Lu Yi sighed in a deep voice: "Alas, yes, time is not waiting for me, one step is slow, one step is slow, if you don't seize the opportunity to recruit the Rakshasa clan at this moment, wait for the senior brother to come back to his senses, and then free up his hand to make a hindrance from it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to succeed, I don't know if the prince has a way?"
Gu Xuan frowned, stood up from the seat all of a sudden, walked all the way to the closed window, supported his chin, paced, and thought carefully.
If he makes a rash move, so that the Xu family is completely hostile to himself, and even begins to take the initiative to target himself, then this is definitely not good news, Huangsha County is too small, there is no strategic depth at all, and it is impossible to withstand the comprehensive suppression of the Xu family, and the location of Huangsha County is on the edge of Youzhou, too far away from the capital, and all parties will not have time to rush to help if something happens.
If, as they speculated, the border army really had a deal with the Rakshasa clan, then it only needed an order from the Great General's Mansion, and I was afraid that Huangsha County would become a dead city, and they didn't need to do it themselves.
Although it is imperative to recruit the Rakshasa clan, but he moved the interests of the Xu family, which is also an indisputable fact, and now that the Xu family has begun to do it, he has no ability to fight back.
Gu Xuan hung his head and walked back and forth in the room, silent.
Lu Yi on the other side was also thinking seriously, in fact, he had already thought that the Xu family might intervene, so he was not too surprised by this matter, for this reason, he also arranged a lot of secret hands, he just didn't expect that the other party was obviously sitting in the land of a state, as the first family of the Liang country, he should be furious when he was directly touched by the Chinese food, and he would shoot head-on, but he didn't expect the other party to be so cautious, and he would shoot so silently, and even there was no trace at all.
According to his original idea, to move the interests of the Xu family so directly, it may not even be possible to report this matter, but this kind of interception of emergency military information, as long as he operates a little, the Xu family can only reap the consequences, and when the time comes, this side can also cooperate with the prince and directly seize power.
He knew that the crown prince Gu Cang had wanted to eradicate the hidden danger of the Xu family for a long time, but he had been suffering from no good reason, and after randomly messing around with the founding heroes, he was afraid that when the time came, he would provoke a comprehensive counterattack from the government and the opposition, and it would affect the whole body.
Because the Xu family has been operating in Youzhou for too long, once the head of the Xu family is moved for no reason, the entire Youzhou is afraid that there will be chaos, coupled with the hereditary title rewarded by Emperor Taizu, Danshu Iron Coupon, as long as the Xu family does not take the initiative to rebel, the court will never move the Xu family, and even His Majesty the Emperor of the Dynasty will inevitably intervene at that time and place the Liang civil strife, so Gu Cangcai has been dragging it out without moving, but if he creates this opportunity, Gu Cang will definitely take the opportunity to shoot directly with the power of thunder, but it's a pity.
Luo Weaving is trapped, it is against ordinary people, if you want to move the Xu family, you must come up with a reason that can convince the people of the world.
To put it bluntly, the imperial court needs a reason to divide the connection between the Xu family and the border army, if there is not enough evidence to make a rash move, then the Xu family will fight back, and the two iron armies loyal to the Xu family will counterattack, then it will really be a big mess in the world.
It is a felony to detain the emergency military information, which is enough to take the opportunity to pull out some of the Xu family's minions, and the iron bucket-like Youzhou is equivalent to a gap, and when the time comes, the imperial court will send people to station, and it will be much simpler to slowly encroach.
In fact, Gu Cang asked Gu Xuan to come over, and there was also this reason, the court was a fief for the prince, which was justified, and your Xu family was not the prince in the end, but just for the ministers of the imperial court who guarded the frontier, and a piece was assigned to the person surnamed Gu, no one dared to say that it was not, one county at a time, slowly, the Xu family's business could be completely dismembered.
But the General's Mansion did not carry out any direct counterattack, they just quietly seized the baggage and the imperial decree, and even this was not a seizure, it was just a slow coming, and the reason was as I said just now, just say that the carriage was broken, if it was said that the horse bandits robbed, it would still be the problem of the Xu family at that time, but with this reason, who can be punished at that time? The road is too rough? Or is it the punishment of the craftsman for not caring about repairing the car?
After a while, Gu Xuan suddenly turned around and asked in a deep voice, "Sir, what if we send someone to pick it up in person?"
Lu Yi shook his head, and said in a calm tone: "Then the Xu family can directly be a killer, let's just say that the thieves peeped into the imperial court's baggage, so they killed our people, and the baggage was stolen by the thieves, since this thing has already reached our hands, it has nothing to do with them, and the Xu family will be a sin at most if the rule is not strict, and the entire Youzhou will be rectified for a few months, and the matter will pass, and the court will have to redistribute it when the time comes, which is not appropriate." β
When Gu Xuan heard this, he felt even more constrained, without him, it was really that the Xu family could use too much power in Youzhou, and the two sides were not opponents of the same level at all, so how could they talk about the move?
He sat back in his chair, and suddenly his eyes flashed, and he said happily: "Yes, I know someone, speaking of which, it is still Mr. Lu's own family." β
Lu Yi suddenly became interested, who can handle this matter?
He immediately said, "Oh, please speak up, lord." β
Gu Xuan recalled: "This person is the person who escorted me to Huangsha County at that time, originally a member of the Tiger Ben Army, Lu Dengyun of one hundred households!"
Lu Yi's heart was full of doubts, but he didn't show it.
100 households?
There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Tiger Army, and a hundred households are considered a fart, what can they do.
Gu Xuan saw that the other party didn't speak, even if he didn't show a puzzled and contemptuous expression, he knew what he was thinking, and immediately smiled: "Sir, don't underestimate this person, let's put it this way, when I first saw this person, I felt that this person is by no means simple, he must be a fierce general, this kind of person, even if he is in the border army, he should stand out, not to mention, this person is the favorite general under General Zuo, although he is a hundred households, but his status will never be low." β
At the moment, Gu Xuan roughly talked about the original matter.
Lu Yi arched his hand and said: "If this is the case, there should be something to be done, as long as the operation is right, this person will definitely bring back this batch of imperial baggage, tiger army, tiger army, tiger army, in this way, the prince, the minister will set off immediatelyγγγγγγ β
Before the words were finished, Lu Yi immediately shook his head and said: "No, it's too abrupt to go like this, in this way, Lord Wang, you will repair the book and send someone to send it over, the letter only needs to be read and missing, and then vaguely mention some troubles, this person will definitely come." β