In the afternoon, the mountain puppet royal meeting was held, Bortasi and other mountain puppet high-level officials, the left minister Gao Zheng, the right minister Wang Yi, as the representative of the Dajin high-level gathered together to jointly preside over the royal meeting.

Half an hour later, Yang Jin, the head of the inner court, arrived first and sang: "Your Majesty has arrived." ”

All the ministers bowed down and said in unison: "The ministers welcome the holy driver." ”

Mu Sheng Shi Ran stepped onto the throne and sat on it very skillfully, as if he was listening to the government in his own palace.

At this time, the mountain puppet Dazhongzai, Bortasi, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, let the old minister explain to you the recent situation in the entire southern Xinjiang. ”

"Exactly."

Bortas waved his hand, and two attendants carried a map of southern Xinjiang and spread it in the hall, and said: "Your Majesty, my lords, the situation in southern Xinjiang is now an uncontrollable situation of the former people, the former people have fully integrated and annexed the territory of the seventeen states of Taisha, and led the army to attack the core area of Taisha, the Chiang Rai River Valley, and even the direct territories of the Taisha royal family have fallen into the hands of the former people, and now the former people have more than 400,000 troops, and under the leadership of the famous general of the former people, Long She Bald Shah, the city is invincible. Taisha entangled the main forces of each state to fight with the former tribe, and both were defeated by the former tribe, if it weren't for my mountain puppet repeatedly sending troops to help, Taisha would almost not even be able to keep the king. ”

Mu Sheng asked, "Long She Bald Sha?" He is also a member of the Longshe family? ”

Bortas said: "Your Majesty, this person is indeed the rising star of the Long She family, he is also the nephew of the former patriarch Long She Baiye, this person has some ways to train and govern the army, and now even if it is the main force of my mountain puppet and it is difficult to distinguish the victory or defeat, if it is not for the ordnance and materials supported by the previous imperial court, I am afraid that the current situation in southern Xinjiang will be even worse." ”

Zuo Xianggao glanced at the map again, stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency Da Zhongzai, didn't we send envoys to urge all parties to stop fighting before?" Why hasn't it stopped for long, and now the fight is going on again? ”

Bortas said helplessly: "If the previous alliance between the imperial court and Taisha, maybe it would not have reached this point, at that time, the imperial court only sent an envoy to mediate, which could only play a temporary role, temporarily frightened the ambition of the former tribe to expand, and as soon as the envoy left, the former tribe felt that the imperial court should not send troops to interfere and boldly attacked Taisha, so the enemy and me were easy to attack." ”

At this time, the mountain puppet commander Borzong Bi also stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Gao Xiangguo, my lords, I have led the main force of the mountain puppet to fight against this Longshe Bald Sha a few times, it can be said that there are mutual victories and defeats, this person is not a famous general of the former clan, it is indeed very difficult to deal with." ”

Later, General Cheng Pu came out of the column and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to do." ”

"Speak."

The only military general who accompanied the tour this time was the rear general Cheng Pu, and the former general Lu Sheng was very old, so he did not accompany him.

Cheng Pu keenly felt that this was an opportunity for these warriors to make meritorious contributions, so he said: "Your Majesty, the small state of Qier dared to repeatedly disobey the advice of our envoys, so that the people of Li in southern Xinjiang fell into fire and water, and the ministers thought that the former tribe bordered our Chaoyue County and Xiang County, and if they were allowed to develop, they would become a problem for their henchmen sooner or later. ”

Zuo Xianggao stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, what General Cheng said is extremely true, and the minister seconded it. ”

Mu Sheng thought for a while and said: "The general is reasonable, now at the turn of spring and summer, the weather in southern Xinjiang is hot, and a hasty battle is not conducive to our army, even if we send troops, we have to wait until autumn and winter, I am thinking about this matter carefully." ”

Cheng Pu knew that this was indeed the case, so he didn't say anything more.

Mu Sheng turned his head and asked Bortasi: "Tasi, what is the situation in Taisha now?" ”

Dazhong Zai Bortasi stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, now that Emperor Taisha has appointed the Duke of Golibang, Portucci Kakun, as the Prime Minister of Taisha, and now he is the one who commands and dispatches the Central Army on the front line to resist the invasion of the former tribes, and finally barely maintains the situation of Taisha's repeated defeats, of course, a batch of military supplies provided by the imperial court has also helped a lot. ”

Mu Shengqi said: "He actually became the prime minister of Taisha?" Shibetsu should be impressed for three days! ”

Bortas said: "The reason why he was able to do the high position of the prime minister of Taisha is that he advocated the implementation of Taisha's internal weakening of aristocratic privileges and strengthening the reform of royal power, which they called the royal reform within Taisha, so Portucci Kakun won the trust of Taisha the Great, and his own Goli Bang took the lead in handing over more than half of the financial benefits and military power to the central government, and now Taisha is the most trusted by Taisha the Great inside and outside the opposition." ”

Right Prime Minister Wang Yi turned to Bortas and asked, "Your Excellency Da Zhongzai, then I am afraid that it will be difficult to get the support of the nobles for this wave of the king's reform, right?" Now that the country is in peril, I am afraid that there will be a big mess while fighting and reforming. ”

Bortasi said with a solemn face: "Wang Xiangguo's words are not bad, but this person is very smart, his Wanghua reform is mainly concentrated in the military field, and he advocates the unification of the command and cooperation between the states and the central army, and now it coincides with the invasion of a strong enemy, and the princes of Taisha have to cooperate with his reform in order to protect themselves, otherwise the front-line war situation is festering like this, and there is really a danger of losing the country, so at present, Taisha's Wanghua reform is going smoothly." ”

Hearing this, Zuo Xianggao's face was solemn, and he stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, this time our dynasty must send troops to the south, if necessary, it is best for our dynasty to form an alliance with Taisha to unite to suppress the crazy expansion of the Xi clan, in this fight, the minister is not worried that the Xi clan will win, but worried that the Wanghua reform led by Taisha will succeed, if Taisha's Wanghua reform is successful, I am afraid that Taisha is likely to become a big problem for me in the south." ”

Bortas naturally understood, since Taisha can become a big problem for the imperial court, it will inevitably become a big problem for the mountain puppet in the future.

Bortasi stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, what Gao Xiangguo said is very true, and the minister seconded the proposal, my mountain puppet will do his best to cooperate with the Heavenly Empire to crusade against the former tribe this time." ”

When Mu Sheng heard this, he instantly understood that the war would not necessarily be able to destroy Taisha if the national strength of the former tribe continued like this, after all, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the people's foundation was thick, and they could withstand the toss, and now the reason why Taisha can reach a consensus to implement the centralized reform, the biggest reason is that the external pressure is too great, if the Taisha reform is really successful, it is not a good thing to stand in the position of the Great Jin, and the success of the Taisha reform means that with the comprehensive national strength and population of Taisha, it is very likely that a super power will rise in southern Xinjiang in the future. Now as long as the imperial court sends troops to intervene, then the external pressure of Taisha will be reduced, and this reform may not be able to be implemented, Taisha is best to return to the state of scattered sand in the past, in the Eastern Regions, there can only be one super power, that is, the Great Jin, other countries have this slim must have a heavy hand to prevent the possibility of its rise in advance, obviously the high-level of the Great Jin and the high-level of the mountain puppet are aware of this problem.

All the ministers watched the emperor open the golden mouth, and made a decision, Mu Sheng got up and frowned a few times, and had a plan in his heart, and said: "Don't wait, send troops to intervene immediately, and send troops now, it just so happens that I have more than 100,000 soldiers and horses around me, and I will join forces with the main force of the mountain puppet, which is enough to make the people of the former tribe jealous." ”

Later, General Cheng Pu stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, now hastily send troops to interfere, absolutely not, our army is only touring around now, the grain, grass and ordnance are still far away in the Central Plains, and the preparation is seriously insufficient, the soldiers who can fight are more than 30,000 elites of our northern army, and the remaining county soldiers temporarily recruited from the counties are not well prepared, and it is not a good opportunity to fight at this time." ”

Mu Sheng said: "I know, who said that I want to really fight?" This time, we want to be forced to make peace without fighting, the soldiers who surrender without a fight, and the good ones who are good, we just make an appearance, first see what the reaction of the former clan is, if you are obedient, then it is easy to say, do not listen to us in the search for opportunities to fight, in short, let Taisha breathe a sigh of relief. ”

Cheng Pu said: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Mu Sheng said: "Since it was Cheng Qing's family who proposed to fight, then you are the coach of this expedition." ”

"No!" When Cheng Pu heard this, his face was overjoyed

Mu Sheng turned his head to look at Boer Zongbi again, and ordered, "Where is Zongbi?" ”

Borzongbi knew that he was going out to work this time, so he stepped forward and said respectfully: "The minister is here, please send it from Your Majesty." ”

Mu Sheng pointed to the map and ordered directly: "Zongbi, from now on, all the troops of the whole country and our army will join forces in the western border of the Chen soldiers and the former clan, and make a feint to attack. ”

"The last general commands!"

Mu Sheng turned his head and instructed Gao Chongdao: "Gao Aiqing, you immediately plan to let Deng Qi, the lord of Lingnan, immediately raise troops from Xiangjun to the south, in order to make a momentum of going south to conquer the former tribe, and before sending an envoy to question the former tribe, Taisha also sent someone to contact them, so that they can send an envoy over to discuss the alliance." ”

Gao Zhong said: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

Mu Sheng glanced at the civil and military officials and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, do you still have objections?" ”

"The ministers have no objections." The ministers said in unison.

Mu Sheng said: "Well, let's retreat." ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty."

The ministers received the order and went to do things without mentioning it.

The left minister Gao Zhong and the right minister Wang Yi withdrew from the back of the conference hall and looked at each other.

Gao Zhong leaned over and whispered, "Wang Xiangguo, don't you think it's strange? His Majesty actually commanded the mountain puppets and the foreign ministers of the state to give orders directly, and the prime minister thought that he would at least have to discuss and communicate with the mountain puppet Da Zhongzai. ”

Wang Yi couldn't figure it out even more, and said, "Isn't it? It is really strange that the mountain puppets and magnates actually obey His Majesty's words, as if they are more like His Majesty's subjects than we are. ”

Zuo Xianggao was puzzled and said: "Could it be that these foreign ministers of Fanbang are also afraid of the majesty of our dynasty, so they obey His Majesty's words?" ”

Wang Yi, the right minister, said with an incredulous face: "Maybe...... Maybe that's it, it's unbelievable......"

The left and right sides of the Great Jin Dynasty couldn't figure it out, so they simply didn't want to, and the things that the emperor explained were important.

After the crowd exited the council chamber, Bortas was left alone, knowing that the emperor must have something else to ask.

Sure enough, Mu Sheng asked, "Tasi, recently my mountain puppet should have gained a lot of benefits from the war between the former clan and Taisha, right?" ”

Bortas's face turned pale when he heard this, and when he saw that there were only the two of them, he changed his words: "Enlighten the old ancestor, now my mountain puppet has helped Taisha to fight, at least let Taisha unilaterally cede twenty-one cities to us, and now that the state is strong, our army has successfully expanded its troops by about 250,000, these cities were ceded to us by Taisha on his own initiative, even after the war, they have no excuse to get them back." ”

Mu Sheng was satisfied: "Okay! Very good, very good, this is equivalent to the territory of a large state in Taisha, it seems that I did not choose the wrong person in the first place. ”

When Bortas heard this, he said humbly: "It's still the old ancestor you have set a clever strategy, acting like this, my mountain puppet can naturally expand its power, even if Taisha repents, our mountain puppet is not afraid." ”

Mu Sheng encouraged and said, "Tasi, do you know what the status of this wolf lord Suchanur is in the former clan now? ”

Bortasi said: "Enlighten the old ancestor, now this Suchanur is very valued within the former clan, the combat power of a group of warriors under the command of the wolf castle is very amazing, in the process of the former clan's southern expedition to Taisha has made great contributions to the former clan, every time the former clan attacks Taisha Jian City, it is the vanguard of the cockle slave group under the command of the wolf lord, and the city often falls within a few rounds, in addition to the Taisha army is really useless, the combat power of this cockle slave group is indeed very amazing, and now the former clan Taishang elder Long She Baiye has sealed the seven cities of Suchanur, Now the strength of Wolf Castle can be compared to the great nobles of the former clan. ”

Mu Sheng bowed his head, asked a key question, and said, "Well, has the wolf lord joined the Elders of the Past Clan?" ”

Bortas shook his head and said: "No, it is rumored that Long She Baiye gave the wolf lord this promise, but there is no follow-up so far, but I think it is impossible for the wolf lord to join the elders of the former clan, his background is too low, even if he is a commoner, he may be able to grant the title of nobility and join the council of elders after making such a great contribution to the former clan, but he is only a slave from a background, not even a pariah, what a pity!" ”

Mu Sheng seemed to have expected it, and said: "I will tell you one thing, you send someone to secretly contact the wolf master, let him come to Yucheng to see me, and we will have a good relationship." ”

Bortas's eyes flashed, and he asked, "Old Ancestor, are you planning to secretly win over the wolf master?" But the people of the past have already given a lot. ”

Mu Sheng smiled slightly and said: "I will give more, I will give him the price, I believe he can't refuse, you can just do it with confidence." ”

Bortas bowed down and said, "Ancestor, I'll do it right away." With that, he turned around and exited the main hall to go about his errands.