The facts are as Xu Shiyang wished.

And it is far beyond Xu Shiyang's speculation.

He originally thought that the Great Zhou court would not turn against Qi at this time. After all, Qi had just defeated the Great Zhou enemy Jurchens, and it was the time to win the hearts of the people.

The King of Jin Province was undoubtedly the traitor's hat was tightly held on his head by Xu Shiyang.

What is the need for the court to offend the most powerful force behind his men for a group of guys who have been completely disgraced?

Xu Shiyang's original prediction was that the court at most would reprimand Qi's forced expansion into Shanxi and Shaanxi, and Xu Shiyang would cry bitterly and pretend to be prepared to withdraw under the pressure of the court. The soldiers on the front line would be excited and demanded that Xu Shiyang continue to fight the war.

In short, Xu Shiyang certainly would not really withdraw his troops, but he would tailor the image of the court in which he deliberately suppressed heroes and compromised with foreign enemies.

In the early stage, he wanted to create an image similar to Yue Wumu, while in the later stage, he was Zhao Kuangyin. In the end, for national justice, he had to part ways with the Great Zhou court, which would only drag the soldiers on the front line and would only compromise with the foreign enemies.

This process will probably last for a few months, and then there will be no more imperial court above Qi State. By next year, or at any other appropriate time, Xu Shiyang will push his father to ascend the throne and fulfill his father's greatest wish.

Of course, history books probably still record the behavior of the Xu family as rebellion, but this hat can only be carried by Xu Muhe. After all, when Qi State "rebelled", he was the first emperor.

Behind Xu Muhe's partial infamy, Xu Shiyang can implement the reforms he expected with a relatively "clean" background.

It should have been implemented step by step.

However, Xu Shiyang did not expect that the Zhao court in Jiangnan would completely break through the lower limit, so that the conspiracy carefully prepared by Xu Shiyang was completely useless.

Emperor Longdao did not issue an order to denounce the Qi army for occupying Shanxi and Shaanxi. He chose to directly send troops north, trying to attack the core territory of Qi Province when the main force of the Qi army was heading to Jin Province and forcefully resolve the Qi problem by force!

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As early as mid-June of Longdao, Jiangnan received the exact news that the Qi army had entered Jin Province, Emperor Longdao issued an order to attack Qi on the front line.

The courts in Dazhou were quarreling about this. Some of the priests agreed and some objected, and refused to give in to each other. After several days of argument, they could not reach a conclusion.

So the emperor, who was worried that he would lose his time, passed the priests of the Political Affairs Hall and directly ordered the front-line generals through the eunuchs.

Among the three military commanders on the front line of Jianghuai, Weng Shuping from Huainan West Road was the most active in this matter and soon ordered his subordinates to start gathering and prepare to attack.

However, Weng Shuping was not a qualified commander, and as a civil servant, he looked down on his generals very much. In addition, the officers and soldiers conflicted between the officers and soldiers mainly composed of refugees from Jiangnan. At this time, the Huainan West Route Army (formerly Xu Shiliu's Shunyi Army) had fallen to a level similar to that of the Jiangnan Imperial Army.

Therefore, although Weng Shuping actively prepared to send troops, the 100,000 troops he had imagined were impossible to directly attack Quancheng. One month after the gathering began, the number of troops under his command could actually dispatch no more than 30,000, so he had to give another discount for the empty salary.

The ones in the frontline who are in the best preparation for war are actually the Huainan East Route Army commanded by Xu Shisong and the Jinghu North Route Army commanded by Xu Shiliu.

However, both of them were from the Xu family and they all opposed the attack on Qi.

Xu Shisong said to the envoy who came to pass the imperial edict that it was inappropriate to attack Qi at this time. It would not only cause the hearts of the soldiers fighting against the Tartars and traitors on the front, but also cause a blow to the reputation of the court, making the people mistakenly believe that the court had some connection with the Tartars and traitors.

However, Emperor Longdao had made up his mind and regarded Xu Shisong's advice as evidence that the eldest son of the Xu family betrayed Zhou and surrendered to Qi.

On the third day of the seventh month, after repeatedly asking Xu Shisong to send troops but failed, the fourth envoy who appeared directly led a team of cavalry to arrest Xu Shisong in the camp of the East Road Army of Huainan.

When he was arrested, Xu Shisong did not resist, but his soldiers were excited. Some even incited mutiny, but they were all dismissed by Xu Shisong himself. He was indeed determined to be a loyal minister of the Great Zhou.

If Princess Renfu had not seen something wrong, she hurried back to Lin'an to cry to the elders of the Zhao clan, she might not have been able to save her life.

Even so, Xu Shisong was imprisoned in Lin'an and was under surveillance, while his Huainan East Route Army was managed by Tong Guan, who later rushed to the front line.

As for Xu Shiliu on Jinghu North Road, he was not as determined to be a loyal minister who had left his name in history like his cousin. After receiving the imperial edict, he directly ordered Lu Wenzhao to put the envoy who came to impose the imperial edict on a sack and sink the lake.

"How could the official family be so stupid? It must be this eunuch who falsely preached the imperial edict!" Xu Shiliu pretended to declare to the public: "The emperor must not do such a thing as a relative who is sad and happy with his enemies!"

Although he knew very well that the eunuch was innocent, he was a civil servant and a Jinshi in the fourth year of Longdao. If the emperor dared to deal with him like Xu Shisong, he would dare to let the Tiqi disappear together.

In fact, the Tiqi did not dare to go to Xu Shiliu's territory. In the Jianxing Nian, Xu Shiliu launched a mutiny, setting a precedent for killing civil officials and prime ministers in the three hundred years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He wiped out the vast majority of the officials in the family of the Lord and Sect. Since then, the story of Xu Shiliu's domineering has been circulating throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In the first year of Longdao, the imperial court held a tribute, and Xu Shiliu passed the Jinshi at that time, but after the rankings came out, some Jinshi in the same rank said that he should not be shortlisted - because he did not have the qualifications of a juren, he directly took the Jinshi exam.

Xu Shiliu was ranked below this person at that time, so he announced on the spot that he was ashamed of this person for the same period and gave up the quota of Jinshi. Three more years passed, and it was not until the fourth year of Longdao that he referred again and was ranked higher than the previous Jinshi.

Xu Shiliu opened up Jinghu Lake, and the Jinghu cave was killed and blood flowed into a river. There were even rumors in the court that fish caught in Jinghu River and Lake a year later could not be eaten, and people's fingers could be found in the fish's belly.

Later, the gentry of Jiangnan tried to invade Yongyefield of officers and soldiers, but Xu Shiliu asked all the people sent by the gentry to Jinghu to "disappear".

Of course, the court knew who did it, but Xu Shiliu must put the blame on Dongman, and no one could verify it - Dongman could make the family of the gentry disappear, and naturally he could make the officials disappear, right?

This is Xu Shiliu, a good leader in the hearts of officers and soldiers, but a thug with a reputation for terror and bloodthirsty in the officialdom.

Therefore, it is impossible to let the Jinghu army go north. The troops that the Great Zhou can dispatch were actually 150,000 troops that the imperial guards could be fought by Tong Guan (it is estimated to be 100,000 if they are deducted from empty salary), plus 30,000 Huainan East Route Army, which was commanded by him, and 60,000 Huainan West Route Army, which was actually able to dispatch 30,000, and then deducted from empty salary, it would be 20,000 if they were deducted).
Chapter completed!