Early in the morning.

The sky was still gray.

Lu Chen rode his horse and went straight to the place where the craftsmen lived, and then handed over some materials on coal mining and processing to Mo Fei and them, and asked Mo Fei and them to study it.

After that, Lu Chen and Mo Fei discussed the construction of the earthen kang and the conservatory, and Lu Chen discussed the details with the craftsmen for a whole day.

This also once again made the craftsmen of Dayu City feel the sincerity of the North King, generally speaking, what the North King wants to discuss with them, just let them go to the North King's Mansion, as a result, the North King came to their place of residence early in the morning, against the cold wind, to discuss things with them.

A few days later.

North Palace.

Lu Chen was looking through the information collected by Jinyiwei in the study, when the voice of the maid sounded at the door, "Lord Wang, Commander Qin asks to see you." ”

Lu Chen immediately said, "Come in." ”

Then Qin Yushan pushed the door and entered, at this time Qin Yushan was covered with snow, and it was even colder today, and it was snowing heavily.

After Qin Yushan entered the room, he simply saluted.

"Meet the prince."

After the salute, Qin Yushan immediately put the bamboo tube containing the information in his hand on the desk, "Lord Wang, the capital is urgent!" ”

Hearing this, Lu Chen, who was looking through Da Yue's information, was stunned for a moment.

After coming back to his senses, Lu Chen immediately swept aside the other information on the table with his hand, and then immediately opened the bamboo tube on the table and took out the information from it.

Qin Yushan continued: "Winter is coming, and none of the carrier pigeons released by the capital have flown to Yancheng, and they can only let Jinyi Wei ride a horse to deliver the message, so the intelligence of the capital is many days later than before. ”

After Lu Chen took out the information from the bamboo tube, he took a serious look at the content on the information, and as his gaze gradually moved down, Lu Chen's face became more and more serious.

After reading the contents of the information, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said to Qin Yushan: "Immediately inform Li Rui that they will come to the Northern Palace, and discuss important matters." ”

"Yes, lord."

Half an hour later.

Li Rui and other officials and a group of generals from Beijun appeared in Lu Chen's study.

They were all a little curious, today is not the day of the meeting, why did the King of the North call them, could it be that the King of the North Xian has already gone south?

After everyone arrived, Lu Chen didn't speak immediately, his eyes were still sweeping the map on the desk, as if he was thinking about something.

Everyone saw that Lu Chen's face was a little serious, so they didn't speak, just stood quietly in the study and looked at Lu Chen, waiting for Lu Chen to speak first.

After a while, Lu Chen realized that the people had arrived, he glanced at the crowd, and then said to them: "The information that this king received just now is that Great Xia and Great Wu are at war. ”

Hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone was stunned.

How is this possible?

Several dynasties have been at peace for an unknown number of years, and although there is constant friction between them, there has never been a major war.

How could a war suddenly break out between Dawu and Daxia at this time?

Mu Changtian immediately asked, "Lord Wang, did Dawu take the initiative to attack?" ”

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Emperor Xia's original plan was to deal with those families in Great Xia, so Emperor Xia would definitely not take the initiative to provoke a war at this time, so it could only be Great Xia that Dawu took the initiative to attack.

Hearing Mu Changtian's question, Lu Chen shook his head, and then said: "It's strange to say, it was actually our Great Xia who provoked the war, and after this king saw the information sent by the capital, he didn't react for a while. ”

This......

Everyone in the study, you look at me, I look at you, and they don't know what to say.

They also couldn't believe that Great Xia actually took the initiative to provoke a war at this time, so Emperor Xia still didn't deal with the family?

At this time, Li Rui opened his mouth and asked, "Lord Wang, could it be that the information is wrong?" There was already an undercurrent surging in the territory of Great Xia, how could His Majesty choose to attack the Great Wu Dynasty at this time? ”

Lu Chen said: "There is a high probability that there is no problem with intelligence, and if there is a problem, it is the person who provoked the war." ”

"A month ago, the major dynasties were already secretly transferring troops, and there were 200,000 soldiers stationed in the places bordering the Dayue Dynasty and Beijun."

"This king suspects that someone colluded with the Dawu Dynasty and took the initiative to provoke a war, and then gave the Dawu Dynasty an excuse to attack Daxia."

Hearing Lu Chen say this, everyone reacted instantly.

Indeed, Emperor Xia is definitely unwilling to wage war against the outside world at this time, he wants to purge the internal Gu family, if he launches a war against the outside world at this time, how to clean those Gu families.

Therefore, it is only possible that there is a collusion between the family and the Dawu Dynasty and took the initiative to provoke a war.

The Dawu Dynasty does not necessarily really want to defeat the Daxia Dynasty, but as long as it can put enough pressure on Daxia, those families in Daxia will give Dawu a lot of benefits.

Under external pressure, Emperor Xia could only compromise with those families in the end and give up the idea of purging the ancient families.

However, Lu Chen didn't think it was that simple.

At this time, Lu Chen looked at Mu Changtian and said: "General Mu, although you are a military general, you have also been an official in the capital for decades, and you have a good understanding of the political environment in the capital. ”

Hearing this question, Mu Changtian replied: "According to Yichen, there are three possibilities. ”

"The first possibility is naturally to use external pressure to put pressure on Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty does not dare to make a big move against the family."

"The second possibility is that the family wants to take advantage of this opportunity to unite with other princes and directly force His Majesty to abdicate and replace him with an obedient emperor, of course, this possibility is the least, because now the factions headed by the princes still exist, and no one will obey anyone at this time, so wanting to elect any prince to the throne may lead to the split of Great Xia."

"As for the third possibility......"

Speaking of this, Mu Changtian wanted to speak again and again, but he finally spoke: "The minister has often heard such an argument recently, saying that you were sent by His Majesty to Beijun, so the 50,000 black cavalry are actually not the prince's, but Your Majesty's. ”

"Even the people of North County think so, and those families probably think so too."

"Therefore, the minister believes that the family is likely to take advantage of this opportunity to ask His Majesty to transfer 50,000 heavy cavalry to the front line and consume it head-on with the Dawu Dynasty."

"The Dawu Dynasty has been exhausted in military force, maintaining an army of millions all year round, and their strength is not weaker than the barbarians in the north, and even more difficult to deal with than the barbarians."

"Although the strength of these 50,000 heavy cavalry is very strong, if you go to the front line and fight a war of attrition with Dawu, in less than a year, these 50,000 heavy cavalry may be consumed."

In fact, not only the common people and those families, in fact, some time ago, even Mu Changtian also wondered if Lu Chen was a chess piece specially sent by Emperor Xia to Beijun, after all, Lu Chen did not have the ability to build 50,000 heavy cavalry in a short period of time.

However, when Mu Changtian learned of the existence of Dayu City, this idea was dispelled.

But the rest of the people in Great Xia didn't know about the existence of Dayu City, so in their opinion, only Emperor Xia currently had the ability to let Beijun have 50,000 heavy cavalry, so in the eyes of others, these 50,000 heavy cavalry were actually Emperor Xia's personal personal soldiers.

(End of chapter)