Chapter 141: I, Cao Bin! Loyal ministers and good generals, plotting secretly
The first paragraph of the secret report said that as soon as the Great Song envoy arrived in Western Xia, he was ordered by Yuan Hao to kill the sacrificial flag.
The emperor could already see Yuan Hao's ruthlessness and determination to use troops.
The Western Xia was independent during his own dynasty, and defeated the Great Song army several times, which made him lose face.
I didn't expect that it was not over yet, and I didn't take myself seriously so much?
This made the emperor both humiliated and worried.
Yuan Hao is too capable of fighting, since the founding of the country, almost every battle against the Great Song Dynasty must be won, if it continues, he doubts that Yuan Hao will fight Kaifeng.
"Li Tang actually wants to commit treason?"
When he saw the performance of the mission, the emperor almost had a heart attack in anger.
A dignified waiter of the Ministry of Rites, a member of the imperial court, is so spineless.
If even the mission defects to the enemy and treason, then his face will be lost, which is more humiliating than even losing a war.
The defeat can also find out various reasons, and the envoy's defection to the enemy is equivalent to directly saying that he is not good as the emperor.
He has no knowledge of people, and he is not worthy of the loyalty of his courtiers.
Then he will be nailed to the pillar of shame in the history books.
"Greedy for life and afraid of death, shameless villain, despicable, shameless!"
Seeing this, the emperor's eyes turned red, and he looked up at the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty, and there was an unprecedented coldness in his eyes.
"Uncle Zhongjing said solemnly: The foreign minister's knees are hard, and he can't kneel!"
Just when he was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, he suddenly saw a statement that the agent had embellished.
The emperor's tense heart suddenly relaxed, and he couldn't help but admire:
"Good! Uncle Zhongjing is a loyal minister! ”
Even if all the members of the mission were martyred, it would be better than surrendering to the enemy.
Cao Bin was facing the sword and axe, and he could still say such tough words, which made the emperor feel relaxed and quite moved.
There is no harm if there is no contrast, especially under the premise that Li Tang is so spineless, it is even more rare for Cao Bin.
Seeing the drastic change in the emperor's face, the lowly ministers couldn't help but get nervous, they looked at each other, and each guessed the content of the secret report.
Only Pang Ji knew the contents of the secret report well and knew why the emperor reacted so much.
Ji Yi Si is the body under the control of the Privy Council, and the first stop for secret messages to the imperial court is Pang Ji.
When he first saw the secret report, he was also in a cold sweat.
He didn't put himself in the emperor's shoes, he was just worried about Cao Bin, and he had secretly issued orders to the border soldiers, asking them to fully cooperate with Cao Bin.
He even regretted a little that he didn't persuade Cao Bin to resign and go home.
Even if there is no future, it is better than losing his life, he didn't expect Yuan Hao to be so barbaric and rude, and he was going to kill the envoy as soon as they met.
Although he has stood in the court for decades, he also thinks that it is a difficult situation to solve in the face of such a situation.
I didn't expect my own son-in-law to crack it.
While he was afraid, he was inevitably relieved and joyful.
At this time, the emperor suddenly became indignant and said:
"Okay, kill well, the car crack is cheap Li Tang!"
When Cai Jing heard this, he was first shocked in his heart, and then his face was bitter.
Li Tang was recommended by him, and now that the emperor hates this person so much, I am afraid that he will also be implicated.
Especially thinking of his contribution to Li Tang, his always calm and waveless face involuntarily twitched a few times.
"Zhongjingbo stated that Song Xia won and lost, Western Xia was full of worries, and Yuan Hao was speechless......"
The emperor looked at Cao Bin's detailed analysis of the advantages and disadvantages between Song and Xia, nodded incessantly, and said to himself:
"Cao Bin said it well, Western Xia is a small country, and he disregarded his own survival and insisted on provoking my Great Song Dynasty."
"This is beyond my strength, the monarchs and ministers of Western Xia should be able to introspect themselves...... Zhang Yuan? ”
The next name made the emperor's pupils suddenly bloodshot.
Xixia Junchen, the person he hates the most is not Yuan Hao, but Zhang Yuan, the second and fifth boy.
Traitors are always more hated than real villains.
The emperor has seen Zhang Yuan.
The last time he participated in the imperial examination, he had already reached the palace examination, but his essay was a little flawed, and he could only return from the list.
It was only after this time that he took refuge in Western Xia.
Because of this incident, the imperial court also changed the rules of the imperial examination, and in the future, all candidates who participated in the palace examination will no longer be dethroned and all will be admitted.
It is to prevent this kind of thing from happening again and let the imperial court miss talents.
At this time, seeing Zhang Yuan retort loudly, and tried his best to pry Yuan Hao to attack the Song Dynasty, the emperor hated it so much that his teeth itched.
"Okay, hahaha...... Good scolding! Isn't it Zhang Yilun? ”
Seeing Cao Bin scolding Zhang Yuan to vomit blood, the emperor couldn't hold back anymore and laughed.
At this time, he drank a large glass of iced sour plum soup as if it was a hot summer, and he only felt that it was refreshing from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
The depression and depression seemed to dissipate in an instant, making his face flush with excitement, and he kept praising the case:
"Juncai, Juncai, the loyalty of the country, the humerus of me!"
Seeing this, Pang Ji hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has an overreputation, this is the duty of a courtier, and it is also what a talented person should do." ”
The emperor nodded at Pang Ji and shook his head and smiled:
"Taishi doesn't have to be too humble for Juncai, he has done a good job, I want to reward him, reward him again!"
Pang Ji said with a bitter face: "Official, now that Juncai is still in the tiger's den in Longtan, the minister wants to order the border soldiers to take the initiative to attack and try to rescue them." ”
Only then did the emperor gradually suppress his smile, nodded solemnly, and said:
"What Taishi said is right, Juncai went to danger for the country and went deep into the land of tigers and wolves."
"Now his situation must be difficult and difficult, walking on thin ice, I can't live up to Zhongliang, how do you say to save him?"
At this time, he had already finished reading the secret report, and he didn't pay much attention to the matter of the elixir.
He may be a little weak, but he doesn't have the same obsession with immortality as other emperors, and he doesn't believe that there is really an elixir of immortality in the world.
After taking a look, he thought that Cao Bin was deceiving Yuan Hao to save his life.
As for the scene of fighting the crowd naked, he only thought it was funny and angry......
At this moment, the eunuch guarding the door suddenly ran in and reported:
"Your Majesty, Yanzhou is eight hundred miles urgent, and it is a chapter written by Zhongjingbo himself."
"Huh? Submit it quickly! ”
The previous secret report was sent by the secret agent of Jiyi Division a few days ago, and it only recorded the scene of the envoy meeting Yuan Hao.
Now that six or seven days have passed, Cao Bin actually wrote his own chapter, which must be the latest news.
Hearing this, not only the emperor and Pang Ji, but even the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty became nervous.
The emperor opened it and saw that he saw Yuan Hao on the other side of the chapter, but he only brought a few strokes, but instead talked about Yuan Hao's assassination in detail.
Finally wrote:
"As Wei Chen expected, Yuan Hao's life and death were only in the middle of nowhere."
"Now that there is civil strife in Western Xia and few soldiers in Hengshan, it is an opportunity to break Western Xia!"
"I hope that the imperial court will send a large army quickly, cooperate with the internal and external ministers of Weichen, and fight in peace."
After reading this secret recital, the emperor suddenly stood up, kept turning in circles, and muttered:
"If Yuan Hao dies, Western Xia will definitely stop his army......"
This piece of music was written by Cao Bin when he had just hooked up with the Wuzang clan, and it was then that he had the opportunity to send letters.
Now there are only 30,000 or 40,000 horses left in the Yokoyama battalion. As long as Yuan Hao dies and the army's morale is unstable, it is the best time to attack Western Xia.
Even if the Western Xia can't be destroyed, as long as the Great Song Dynasty occupies Hengshan, it can occupy a geographical advantage, threaten Xingqing Mansion from above, and clamp down on Western Xia.
At that time, the initiative will be in the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Western Xia will no longer have the confidence to take the initiative to provoke.