"How many soldiers are there in my Great China pretending to be merchants and dart masters?" Xu Zhilan asked.

"Back to the king of Yangtao, now the Yangtao grassland is building a large number of civil works, and a lot of manpower is needed. There are more than 20,000 of our Dahua soldiers dressed as merchants and ordinary people. In Lingyun Pass, there will be more than 40,000 soldiers in the end. General Sun's tone was full of excitement.

Xu Zhilan asked: "How many troops has Jingyang Kingdom increased?" ”

General Sun said with a smile: "The people of the grassland are accustomed to living in tents, and they don't understand my Dahua civil engineering skills, even if the king of Yangtao allows the iron cavalry people to participate in the construction of Yangtao City, the number of participants is very small, negligible." ”

"Lou family father and son, can you lead the team through Lingyun Pass?" Although he knew that this was nonsense, Xu Zhilan still asked, he was really afraid that the father and son would not lead the team to Yangtao Grassland, but would go to Yangtao County to seek refuge with Xi'er. It's not terrible to come to take refuge, but the terrible thing is that the father and son of the Lou family are "their own people", and it is not good if they are not reused, and it is very dangerous to reuse.

"The last general sent people to secretly observe near the city gate every day, and he has not yet found that the father and son of the Lou family have passed through Lingyun Pass!"

"Chu Yanqing didn't report the whereabouts of the Lou family's father and son to this king, could it be that they were crossing the Lingyun Mountain Range?" Xu Zhilan unconsciously glanced at the mountains left and right.

At night, Xu Zhilan had nothing to do, so he took Lan Keqing and Xiang'er to pretend to be sons, and came to the Xinghua Restaurant in the city to drink, followed by 20 dragon guards in the dark, but Xu Zhilan only knew 7 of them.

At this time, in the secret room of the General's Mansion, the mighty Xu Zhiyuan whispered to General Sun: "What does King Yangtao mean by coming here? ”

"Back to the crown prince, King Yangtao never mentioned it, and Weichen guessed that most of them came to confuse Jingyang Kingdom."

Xu Zhiyuan thought of Xu Zhilan, sighed in his heart, waved his hand, and General Sun quietly retreated.

"King Yangtao!" Xu Zhiyuan muttered to himself, looking very hesitant. It turned out that after escaping from his uncle Xu Zhao, he thought that he had no hope of returning to Jinling in this life. But he never thought that he was unlucky, and he had no children in his life. Xu Zhiyuan wanted to wait until his uncle Xu Zhao was old and frail, suddenly returned to Jinling, showed the prince's order left by his father, and regained his father's lost dragon chair with blood relations and royal manship. But I never thought about it, and I came out halfway.

When Xu Zhao appointed Xu Zhilan to make Yangtao County Orders for Jinshi, Xu Zhiyuan didn't think that Xu Zhilan could make any waves, even if he realized that Xu Zhao would throw a lot of money into Yangtao County, he didn't think that a woman could make beautiful political achievements, but he didn't think that Xu Zhilan actually did a beautiful job.

When Xu Zhiyuan was just about to kill Xu Zhilan, Princess Huayang went to Yangtao County and was killed by Liu Meier's people. At that time, Xu Zhiyuan thought that there was still a certain Wang brother or Wang brother who was dealing with his uncle Xu Zhao, and he thought that this person would definitely kill Xu Zhilan, so he retreated to Lingyun Pass.

Later, Xu Zhilan was promoted to become the county lord, and it was very difficult for Xu Zhiyuan to kill Xu Zhilan again. So, Xu Zhiyuan continued to wait for the opportunity, and finally asked him to wait until Xu Zhilan was captured by Liu Mei'er, but it didn't take long for the Iron Horse Khan to be deceived by Xu Zhilan's rhetoric, and he also sent a piece of grassland to Xu Zhilan.

Although the plan to attack Jingyang State was concealed from many ministers of Dahua, General Sun, as the general of Lingyun Pass, had to be clear in order to cooperate with Xu Zhilan's actions, so Xu Zhiyuan had already understood the whole plan. Things that are beneficial to Dahua, Xu Zhiyuan, as a descendant of the Dahua Xu clan, will not do anything harmful to the country, so he had many opportunities at that time, but he did not kill Xu Zhilan.

What Xu Zhiyuan needed to do was to destroy the princesses who might succeed to the throne one by one, but he couldn't do it too obviously, for fear of arousing suspicion, so he used Xu Zhilan to investigate Qin Yougui's affairs, sent assassins to kill the important witnesses who testified against Qin Yougui, and forced Xu Zhilan to destroy Qin Yougui and then fight down Princess Ziyang.

Princess Ziyang was forced out of the battle for the throne by Xu Zhilan, but it also led to the fact that Xu Zhilan pretended to be the Empress of Orchids, and Xu Zhao took advantage of Xu Zhilan's momentum to seal Xu Zhilan as the king of Yangtao, and ranked the three princesses in a seniority, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty could accept it. can accept the woman Xu Zhilan as the king, and naturally may accept the princess as the emperor in the future.

Xu Zhiyuan now regrets not getting rid of Xu Zhilan early, he can almost foresee that if Xu Zhilan's plan is finally implemented, Xu Zhao will let a certain princess lead an army to attack Jingyang Kingdom in the case of almost a win, after winning, the princess has made outstanding achievements and ascended the throne as the emperor, who can object?

For now, Xu Zhiyuan and all the ministers believe that although Princess Jinyang is ranked, she has no ability to govern the world. The reason why Jin Yang was able to ascend the throne was that she was the daughter of the queen. All Xu Zhiyuan had to do was to destroy Princess Luoyang and destroy Dahua's plan to attack Jingyang, so that Princess Jinyang would not be able to get the merits. As for Princess Chongyang, who was shy and blushing when she spoke, Xu Zhiyuan directly excluded her.

Princess Jinyang, who has no ability to govern the country, has no military exploits, and is a woman, in the eyes of the ministers, must feel that he Xu Zhiyuan is more suitable to be the monarch! Therefore, Xu Zhiyuan is hesitating, should he disclose this plan to Liu Mei'er?

Of course, there is another strategy, that is, Xu Zhiyuan borrowed Xu Zhilan's plan, and after Lingyun Pass accumulated a large amount of grain and grass and enough elite soldiers, he led General Sun to send troops to counterattack Dahua, and used strong means to knock Xu Zhao off the throne and replace him. This has a big drawback, that is, when he attacks Jinling, Liu Mei'er's soldiers will chase him and fight, and when the time comes, he will be attacked by the enemy! If it doesn't work, Dahua will be lost in his hands.

Xu Zhicheng slapped his palm on the bookcase, and the self-deceiving person said: "Hu Jun has already leaked the plan, if this prince doesn't say it, others will also spread the news to Liu Mei'er's ears!" ”

A little later, after Xu Zhilan rested, General Sun was once again summoned to the secret room by Xu Zhiyuan.

Hearing Xu Zhiyuan's plan, General Sun also knew that even if Xu Zhiyuan didn't say it, this plan was likely to be heard by Liu Mei'er's meticulous work. General Sun is loyal to the line of Xu Zhiyuan, but he is also loyal to Dahua, no matter what, this is hurting Dahua's interests, he hesitated. And after doing so, it is likely to kill Dahua Neng Chenxu.

"If the crown prince is the emperor in the future, and General Sun is the king of Yangtao, the descendants of future generations will enjoy the throne forever!" Xu Zhiyuan made a promise to the hesitant General Sun.

General Sun believed that Xu Zhiyuan would not lie to him, after all, over the years, he was taking care of Xu Zhiyuan, even if Xu Zhiyuan killed Princess Luoyang, Xu Zhiyuan wanted to return to Jinling smoothly, without the backing of his General Sun's strong forces, whether Xu Zhiyuan could return to Jinling was a question mark.

"It's a pity for the King of Yangtao who worked hard for the country!" General Sun sighed in his heart!

In the early morning of the next day, Xu Zhiyuan pretended to be a merchant early and went to the Yangtao Grassland in person.