Xiao Yi didn't seem to bother to look at Zhao Jingming, stretched out his hand and touched the teapot on the table, feeling that the tea in it was warm, so he poured a cup of tea for Xu Jing and said, "If you chase them over now, can you stop them from escaping?" Looking at today's situation, it is likely that after Li Yuan, the former envoy of Hedong Jiedu, was captured by us, they began to secretly dispatch troops to plan today's raid.

And we only began to keep an eye on the Jiang family after the year, and began to send troops to Xijing, and now, before our large army came, the Jiang family's people ran away. ”

Zhao Jingming thought of the Jiang family's strength today, which was far beyond their expectations, and couldn't help but open his mouth and couldn't speak.

Also, what's the use of them chasing after them? At the moment when their large army was not yet in place, and most of the troops remained in the palace to protect the saint, they could only be beaten after them.

Xiao Yi also poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip slowly, and continued: "Xing Guogong is not an idle person, he knew that our large army would come to Xijing in the near future, so he broke through the city gate and escaped today. ”

Zhao Jingming was completely speechless, and saw that Xiao Yi and Xu Jing were drinking tea leisurely, so he pretended to be angry and said: "Xiao Yanci, you are doing the work of pouring tea, why don't you pour me a cup easily?" I've found that you're becoming more and more of a friend and family. ”

Xiao Yi put down the teacup and looked at him with a puzzled expression, "I said that I would pour the same for you before." ”

Zhao Jingming: "......"

Not really!

This guy has had a bad temperament since he was a child, and unless he is in a good mood, he will never condescend to pour him tea.

The corners of Zhao Jingming's mouth twitched, and he poured himself a cup of tea resignedly, glanced at Xiao Yi and said, "Why do I think you're not worried at all?" You and my brother, but they are still hiding from me, what are the tricks? ”

The people of the Jiang family have all run away, Da Chu is about to change the sky, even if he knows that it is useless to chase after him now, it is not the time to drink tea so calmly!

When Xu Jing heard this, she couldn't help but look at Xiao Yi silently.

That's a question she wants to ask too.

Xiao Yi noticed Xu Jing's eyes, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth helplessly, and said, "What can you do?" If your skills are not as good as others, you must admit it. Although they ran, I know that they didn't dare to make any big moves at this time, although our large army has not yet arrived, but it is already very close to Xijing, the Jiang family began to raid tonight, Zhao Shizi sent people to eight hundred miles to expedite the message, let them turn around in place, and chase after the Jiang family and his party.

Several large local defenders, we have also been reminded before, tonight will be the main defense, beware of the Jiang family taking advantage of tonight's chaos to occupy the state town of Dachu. ”

Xu Jing asked, "Then do you know where the Jiang family will go?" ”

He doesn't seem to be busy in vain for a while, and he has indeed done a lot of things.

Xiao Yi nodded, stretched out his right index finger and clicked on the tea in the cup, lightly tapped it in the upper right corner of the table, and said with a gloomy look: "During this time, we have found several existing Jiedu envoys, and the most secretly mobilized troops are the Pinglu Jiedu envoys and Beiting Jiedu envoys located in the northeast of Dachu, according to the investigation of the secret guards we secretly sent into the Jiang family, the Jiang family has always exchanged letters with these two jiedu envoys, but the letters they exchanged are very tightly hidden, and our people have not been able to see the content of the letters.

But it is not difficult to guess that the Pinglu Jiedu Envoy and the Beiting Jiedu Envoy have always colluded with the Jiang family, and the Jiang family's escape this time is most likely to run to join them. ”

Zhao Jingming couldn't help but gasp, "The Pinglu Jiedu envoy is the strongest among the existing Jiedu envoys, with a full 150,000 troops, when the first emperor was in power, the most wanted to cut off was the Pinglu Jiedu envoy, but he was a hard bone, soft and hard."

The forces of the Beiting Jiedu envoy were slightly weaker, but they also had 80,000 troops.

What's more, we don't know if any of the other knots have colluded with them, and if they all collude together, this battle will not be easy to fight......"

Xiao Yi glanced at him and said lightly: "As far as I know, the Jiang family has tried to collude with other Jiedu envoys, but the other Jiedu envoys have not yet given a very clear attitude. This battle should not be expanded, and other sections should be mainly stable at present. In fact, as early as the year later, the Holy Lord secretly sent people to meet with several other Jiedu envoys to test their attitudes, and gave a promise that as long as they assisted him in defending Dachu and protecting the peace of Dachu, the Wei royal family would not cut off their Jiedu envoys for a day during their reign. ”

Zhao Jingming's eyes widened suddenly, "It's okay to do this?!" But...... But isn't it the saint's long-standing wish to cut off all the powerful and monopolistic envoys and return the military power to the center?! ”

"There are priorities, and now for the sake of Da Chu and the people of Da Chu, it is inevitable to sacrifice something."

Xiao Yi tapped his index finger and said, "The Holy One also knows this truth." Moreover, although he promised not to cut off their knots, there was more than one way to eliminate the remaining knots. ”

The people sitting here were all smart people, and they suddenly heard the meaning of Xiao Yi's words.

Although the Holy One promised not to cut them off from the position of the Temperance Envoy, after the war subsided, finding a way to weaken their power and make them an empty shelf, or using other means to make them voluntarily resign from the position of the Temperance Envoy, are all ways to achieve the Holy Lord's wish.

There will never be only one road to your destination.

Xu Jing pondered for a moment and said, "Are they willing?" ”

Among those few knots, there must be no shortage of smart people.

Xiao Yi turned his head to look at Xu Jing, smiled lowly, and said with a rare bit of arrogance in his laughter, "The remaining few knots make the troops relatively weak, and the saint directly asked Cui Han and Ning Yuanjie, who is now the assassin of Yuanzhou, to negotiate with them with the army." ”

After the imperial court cut down the Hedong Jiedu envoy, the other states and counties that were originally under his jurisdiction were incorporated into Yuanzhou, and Ning Yuanjie served as the assassin of Yuanzhou.

Cui Han's troops are not weak, although they are not as strong as the Pinglu Jiedu envoys, but they also have about 120,000 troops, Ning Yuanjie is a henchman of the saint, and he is stationed in the state and town of the frontier, so the troops in his hands will naturally not be weak, with a full 150,000 troops.

The two of them took the army to negotiate with those few envoys......

Where is it called negotiation, it is simply a clear threat!

Xu Jing looked at the sky silently, and for the first time she really felt that her husband was still a powerful minister, and his heart was black when he played zhengzhi!

However, although they couldn't stop the Jiang family's escape, they still succeeded in minimizing the possible impact of this war to the maximum.

Zhao Jingming was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and finally, he pouted a little unwillingly, "I just said that you must still have a trick to hide from me, it turns out that you and Brother They have done so much work before." ”

He—He's just a few years younger than them!

If he had been a few years older, he would have been no worse than them!

Xu Jing suddenly turned to Xiao Yi and said: "By the way, Fang Cai Jiang Erlang also said a few inexplicable words to me, he said that the Wei royal family had oppressed their Jiang family before, and he said that they did all this just to get back what they deserved." (End of chapter)

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