Gao Wei wanted reunification, he couldn't suppress this desire anymore, Jiangling hung at his feet, he could take it with his fingers, but he didn't want to do it.

It's not just because this is his brother-in-law who he personally selected, and it's not just for the good name of those generosity, he just can't bear it, he can give Xiao Cong a chance, this banquet is private, and only a few people know the inside story.

Since Xiao Cong in history can descend to the Great Sui, why can't he descend to the Great Qi?

It is precisely for this reason that Cushman & Wakefield chose not to move.

It is said that Xiao Cong was very drunk after he returned, and it is said that he locked himself up for a few days and nights, and then convened some of his subordinates to discuss the matter, and the content of the deliberations was of course also made clear, and the subordinates suggested that King Liang abscond back to China, although it is reported that Xiao Cong has been hesitating, but the preparations of Liang Guo and others have been quietly carried out in private.

Almost all of the secret saucers who were watching Xiao Cong thought that Xiao Cong was ready to abscond back to Jiangling, and even Gao Wei was faintly disappointed, and when he ordered that Xiao Cong should not be stopped, Xiao Cong actually played and resigned.

At this time, the emperor's frowning brows were slightly stretched.

It must be known that before leaving, resigning and saying goodbye without saying goodbye are two clear attitudes, the same is to leave, the difference between saying hello and not saying hello is very big, if Xiao Cong does this, not only to fight back against Gao Wei's intention to annex Jiangling, but also to slap Gao Wei's face in public! Xiao Cong was invited to Beijing by Gao Weiming's edict, and he was courteous and courteous everywhere, but when he left, he fled back.

Regardless of what Cushman & Wakefield thinks, what will the envoys of various countries think? What will the subjects of the world think?

At that time, even if Gao Wei is reluctant to use troops, the public opinion in the world will force him to use swords!

Xiao Cong didn't mention the matter of offering Jiangling, but he didn't make a fuss about it. This shows that, at the very least, he is still shaken in his heart, which is a good thing. Therefore, Cushman & Wakefield did not do much to stop it, and ordered people to escort it all the way and send it back to Jiangling.

This is one of the few tacit understandings they have.

For the emperor's actions, the left and right ministers were extremely puzzled, and Tang Yong sighed even more:

"Although Your Majesty is also a painstaking man, but Your Majesty's abacus is probably going to fail, no one can be tolerant and generous in the face of such a major event, look at the bearing and style of this King Liang, if this person is not a sincere gentleman, he is a traitor, Your Majesty should still order someone to intercept and kill as soon as possible to avoid disaster!"

Although Gao Gong was also skeptical, he did not say it so bluntly: "The land of Jiangling is lonely by the river, and only one partial division can go down in one drum, so there is no need to make such a mobilization of the army...... We are a big country, and we are the most decent, even if we raise troops to conquer, we still require a division to be famous and upright, and it is not what we should do to intercept and kill vassals halfway while people are unprepared. ”

The implication is that Gao Gong did not object to the capture of Jiangling, he only opposed such a disgraceful move by the imperial court.

There is a truth to what both sides said, and Cushman sat on the throne and quietly watched the debate in court.

After the New Year's Festival, winter goes to spring, everything recovers, and the spring breeze comes in from all the gaps, washing away the rotten gas accumulated in the Taiji Palace. Although it is still cold, a few bushes of flowers in front of the temple have begun to sprout quietly, and they are as vibrant and vigorous as this progressive country...... The emperor's palm rubbed the carved dragon on the chair, and suddenly said:

"I think you are all too careful, I think King Liang will never dare to disobey me, he only has a corner of Jiangling, half of the land is still under the supervision of the Great Qi army, but Great Qi is a big country of 10,000 miles, with a corner of Jiangling is the enemy of a big country of 10,000 miles, isn't it ridiculous and ridiculous?

"But anyone with a normal brain will obey the general trend...... This general trend is not the Southern Dynasty, it is not the pseudo-Zhou, it can only be me, it can only be the Great Qi! In other words, even if he wants to, he will never have the capital, the pseudo-Zhou has been expelled into Shu, the only thing he can defect to is Chen Guo, with the great enmity between the Xiaoliang royal family and Chen Guo, will he give up his face to defect to these usurpers and thieves? ”

"No way!" Pei Shiju immediately shouted.

Gao Wei also bowed his head, his eyes were as sharp as knives, and he said quietly:

"Naturally, there is no such possibility, I am very polite to King Liang, and the world knows my sincerity! I didn't feel sorry for him, and he had to know that he couldn't bear me! ”

The whole palace was quiet, some courtiers thought it was reasonable, but more people didn't think so, especially those noble ministers, who had rolled in the battlefield several times, they didn't quite understand that there was such a truth in the world, in their eyes, all regimes are guaranteed by force, and the territory should be seized by force, not as gentle as these ministers said.

Tang Yong opened his mouth several times, wanting to say that His Majesty and the Right Prime Minister were inevitably a little wishful thinking, but His Majesty probably had made up his mind, and if he continued to talk about it, he was afraid that His Majesty would be disgusted, so he finally stopped mentioning it.

Regarding the matter of Tuyuhun and Gangneung, I will turn the page for the time being. The great court meeting before the New Year festival brought much more than that, such as the Turkic treachery and harassment of the border again, such as Goguryeo's repeated annexation of Liaodong without heeding warnings, these things have been put on the table one by one.

After the meeting, Cushman summoned the envoys of the two countries separately to question them.

The Turks began to fight among themselves after the Tuobo Khan divided the large and small khans, but the Tuobo Khan was not dead after all, and the Turks were still the behemoth on the surface, and Gao Wei did not intend to stimulate their nerves until it showed signs of disintegration; As for Goguryeo, Gao Wei was not so mild, and he directly warned the Goguryeo envoys that if they dared to recklessly attack the territory and vassals of the Northern Qi Dynasty, they would send troops to conquer Goguryeo.

The year before last and last year, Goguryeo twice provoked border provocations, engaged in some petty theft in the territory of Liaodong, in a vain attempt to encroach on the northern territory of Daqi, and was repelled by Gao Baoning twice, the first time Gao Baoning led his troops from Lulong to the north, sweeping Goguryeo's seven fortresses in the east of Yushui, and the second time, Gao Baoning directly united with the Khitan and Jin tribes in Yingzhou, forming a coalition army to attack the border areas of Goguryeo, and burned Goguryeo's tuntian.

At this time, Goguryeo had already expanded westward and began to extend its claws to the Liao River Valley!

Gao Wei wanted to teach the despicable Goguryeo a lesson, but he was forced by the situation to act recklessly.

First, the world is not peaceful, and the national strength should be used to eliminate the remnants of the pseudo-Zhou and Southern Dynasties, and second, if Gao Wei sends troops to attack Goguryeo, the neighboring Turks will definitely not sit idly by and watch the opportunity slip away.

In the war between the Northern Qi and the Turks, although the Turks lost more and won less, they were still behemoths and a huge threat, and he could not sweep Liaodong with all his strength until he got rid of this threat.

This opportunity came quickly.