Zhao State, the capital.
After a secret report arrived in the capital, it was divided into seven and sent to different places.
One of the secret reports was sent directly to a gorgeous mansion, passed through many checkpoints, and was finally placed on a desk and picked up by an extremely well-maintained hand.
Sitting behind the desk was a slightly older man with a dignified appearance and an air of grace and dignity. He read the secret report word by word and seemed extremely focused.
After reading the secret report, he pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said: "We fought 30,000 infantry against 10,000 cavalry, and all the Northern Xinjiang cavalry were wiped out. If it were me... No, I would only lead the cavalry.
.”
He put down the secret report, raised his voice, and said: "Here comes, prepare your horses, I want to enter the palace to meet my father!"
A moment later, he was standing in the royal study room of the palace.
King Zhao, who was still in his prime, set up a sand table, surrounded by models representing infantry or cavalry. On one side of the study stood three princes and a princess, and on the other side were several generals.
At this time, a general frowned and said: "We have deduced it countless times, but we can't achieve such a result. Even if the soldiers hold repeating crossbows and are well-trained, once the cavalry approaches, they will definitely panic. Just a little chaos.
, was rushed into the formation by the cavalry, and the defeat was inevitable."
A prince with a short beard said: "If the infantry joins my Xiaoyun Lieutenants, they may be able to fight. But I have only trained five thousand Xiaoyun Lieutenants."
The other youngest prince said: "Brother, your Lieutenant Xiaoyun has been training for three years, and it has only been more than three months since he established the boundary."
King Zhao, who had been silent all this time, said at this time: "It seems that Qing Ming is not using the usual method. We can't guess anything here. It's best to go over and have a look. Maybe it's the old miscellaneous people in Taichu Palace who are playing tricks and secretly
We piled some big weapons over there. Chonghu, I’ll leave this matter to you.”
A general in the room immediately said: "I obey the order."
King Zhao looked at the somewhat messy sand table and said slowly: "It doesn't matter if you use evil magic or use fairy weapons, but under Lu Ming's eyes, you can't use excessive means. So now Qing Ming has a head-on confrontation.
It is a fact that we can wipe out the combat power of 10,000 elite cavalry. Anguo just happened to write a letter and she said a plan. I think we can give it a try."
"Your Majesty, what is this clever plan?" The generals and princes were very curious.
Before marrying to the Western Jin Dynasty, Li Ruyi's title was Princess Anguo. Although she has become more and more popular in recent years, and has squeezed out the queen to the point where she has no voice at all. The whole Western Jin Dynasty only knows Yuan Fei and does not know that there is a queen, but
In Zhao State, people who knew her back then still used to call her Princess Anguo.
King Zhao said: "Wei Yuan was granted the title of Ningxi Jiedu Envoy, and he was allowed to open his own government accounts and appoint hundreds of officials."
Everyone was shocked, but the more they thought about it, the more they felt it had an endless aftertaste.
The eldest prince said: "Lu Ming must not allow this to happen, but what if he is really stupid and doesn't care?"
King Zhao stretched out his hand and pressed it, and the sand table immediately changed and turned into a map of the Western Regions. Then he stretched out his finger and drew a line on it, connecting Zhao State and Qing Ming together, and then said: "Since you are the military envoy of Zhao State, of course you must
This land is connected back. Let's go west first, then north, and open a road through the Wu Clan area. In this way, the way out to the west of the Western Jin Dynasty will be in the hands of me, Great Zhao!"
The third prince, who had been silent for a long time, said with a graceful manner: "Brother, Lu Ming is not so stupid. But with our reward in front of him, the reward he can give cannot be much lower than ours. But Ningxi Mansion has been established, and the reward is
If the reward is too high, the ministers will be dissatisfied. As long as we send the reward decree to Wei Yuan before he does, we can then sit back and watch the civil strife in the Western Jin Dynasty."
A bookish general said: "Based on my speculation, perhaps the Prince's group had been suppressing Qing Ming before, and they also wanted to suppress Taichu Palace, so they launched the attack. But they didn't expect that they would be defeated so miserably. Now
It's hard to get off the tiger. If you want to pull out Qing Ming now, you will probably have to raise an army of 300,000, and you will have to completely antagonize Taichu Palace, so I think it is impossible. With the reward from King Jin, Princess An Guo may be able to cut off the wings of the prince in one fell swoop.
Much more."
"Pass my message and send an envoy to the Western Regions to set off today!" King Zhao made the decision.
Anzhao County, Ningxi Fucheng.
Chen Dao and Yue Jinshan sat opposite each other, handed over a secret letter in their hands, and said: "Your Majesty is going to issue an order to reduce your salary for three years, demote you to two ranks, and retain your original position for observation."
Yue Jinshan's expression showed no signs of change and he said: "I was stubborn, and I was confused for a moment, so I used troops without authorization. This treatment is already extremely merciful."
Chen Dao took a sip of tea and said slowly: "Lao Yue, I want to hear the truth. Can Qing Ming be broken?"
Yue Jinshan's eyes flashed and he said: "Their spear formation has serious flaws and is difficult to turn. As long as they are surrounded by two wings of the iron cavalry, it is not difficult to win. It was just that I was too confident that day and blindly attacked from the front, which led to a disastrous defeat. As long as you give me
With an army of 200,000 and all the elite troops from the north under my command, Qing Ming can defeat them in a month."
Chen Dao nodded slowly and said, "It's about as good as I expected."
He stood up and paced back and forth, thinking about his words, and said: "Originally, I thought Qingming was just suffering from ringworm, but after this battle, I discovered that they are already a serious problem for me, Da Jin! If we don't get rid of it now, there will be trouble in the future.
Disaster!"
"But……"
Chen Dao raised his hand to stop Yue Jinshan and said: "I know you want to say that we can fight the Wu Clan together, and there is no need to kill each other. It is important to resist the Wu Clan, and it is also important in whose name we resist. Now raising tigers is a danger, and the second
Thirty years later, the one who resists the Wu clan here may be Wei Guo or Taichu Palace. Lao Yue, we are ministers of the Western Jin Dynasty after all!"
Yue Jinshan was speechless for a moment.
Chen Dao waved his hand vigorously and said: "You and I will work together again! I will lobby the high officials in the court and the political officials to get you enough money, food, troops and horses. There is no need to worry about the Taichu Palace, the Four Saints Academy and
The Sword Palace can take action to contain it. What you have to do is to defeat Qing Ming, and it is best to kill Wei Yuan. If this son is not eliminated, he will be a serious problem for the Jin Dynasty!"
"Isn't this...a bit too much? Wei Yuan is just a minor cultivator now. Even if he can become a true king in the future, the sect and other countries have their own arrangements. Why is this?"
Chen Dao sighed and said: "I have been studying luck all my life, but I am always restless these days, so I keep calculating. A few days ago, the luck of heaven and earth suddenly changed, and it seemed that an incredible treasure appeared in the world.
. On a whim, I made many calculations. Although I didn’t find any trace of the treasure, I accidentally got a glimpse of the secret."
He paused and said word by word: "Wei Yuan's luck is so dark that it conflicts with our fate of the Jin Dynasty. He is either a disaster star or a traitor! But before, his luck was heavily obscured and it was impossible to predict it. Now
Come to think of it, when Taichu Palace sent him to the west, it probably wasn't just for ordinary training, it was really with bad intentions."
Yue Jinshan could only sigh. If Wei Yuan's fate was really like this, he would not be able to stay. This would be the case no matter whether he did anything detrimental to the Western Jin Dynasty or not.
Chen Dao was never one to speak lightly. Since he said this with such certainty, he was very confident. Even if Taichu Palace blocked Wei Yuan's secret, Chen Dao still had a great chance to convince the princes and the King of Jin.
At this moment, the attendant came outside the study and said: "Sir, a secret order from the capital!"
Chen Dao took the secret decree, opened it, and his expression suddenly changed! After a moment, he sighed and handed the secret decree to Yue Jinshan with a bitter look on his face.
This is a secret edict dictated by the King of Jin and drafted by the Political Affairs Hall, which is as effective as a formal edict. The edict requires Chen Dao to mobilize elite soldiers and generals to disguise themselves as horse bandits to intercept Zhao's secret mission that is about to arrive in the Western Regions. The edict must not be allowed to
Wei Yuan sent the decree of Ningxi Jiedushi to Wei Yuan!
Yue Jinshan read the secret decree and instantly deduced all the subsequent changes, but he could only sigh.
At this time, Wei Yuan had already inspected the surrounding areas of Quliu Town, and took a look around the edge of Anzhao County. The defenders of Anzhao County did not flee after hearing the news like Ningxi County, but faced hundreds of masked horse bandits.
The knight also swallowed his anger and retreated.
Wei Yuan did not challenge Chen Dao and Yue Jinshan's bottom line. He tried the response of the Anzhao County garrison, then returned the same way, passed through the deserted Quliu Town, and knocked on the door of the county garrison's mansion.
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This time the Sheriff is really not here.
According to the concierge, the county governor left the city a few days ago to survey the customs and customs of the county. He did not bring his entourage and has not returned yet.
Yuan Qingyan was also a Dharma cultivator after all, and it was impossible for Wei Yuan to catch him in the vast mountains, so he passed through the gate of the county governor's mansion twice without entering. After going back and forth twice, Yuan Qingyan's reputation must have been ruined.
After being shocked outside, Wei Yuan returned to the realm, exchanged a batch of history books, and then compared the map and sand table, and began to look up how the human race determined the ownership of the territory after opening up territories.
At this time, Tang still had great righteousness and was the only emperor in the world.
The land in the world, regardless of whether it is occupied by the human race or not, theoretically belongs to Emperor Datang. This is not only the case for the Nine Kingdoms, but also for the four major immortal sects.
The second is the expansion of the territory of the Nine Kingdoms. Whoever the boundary stone belongs to will own this territory. After the boundary leader serves as the county guard for a hundred years, the boundary will be transferred to the various vassal states. There are also rare cases where it is transferred to the soup room and becomes a big kingdom.
Tang directly belongs to the territory.
It's just that at this time, the princes in the world were strong and the emperor was weak. The territories directly under Emperor Tang were among the bottom three among the nine kingdoms, barely at the bottom.
Most of the newly added territories of the human race eventually belong to the vassal states. From here we can see the separation and balance between the vassal states and the sects. They control the common people and control the borders. The states are the main ones, while the sects are responsible for cultivating advanced practitioners.
The source of his disciples relies on various countries.
The last way out is the mountain gate of each sect. This is the territory directly under the sect. It is a real extraterritorial place. It is not under the control of the Nine Kingdoms and is only nominally dominated by Emperor Tang.
For example, Taichu Palace has three mountain gates. The North Gate in the north of Ganzhou and Yunzhou is the smallest, but its radius is more than 6,000 miles. Among the Immortal Sect, although the Dabaohua Pure Land has only one mountain gate, its radius exceeds 10,000 miles, almost
It can be called a Buddhist kingdom on earth, and no royal decree can be passed in the Pure Land.
At this time, Wei Yuan also had to start thinking about Qing Ming's future and which path he would take in the future.
Chapter completed!