Wang Yu walked into the staff room, only to see the King of Jin standing in front of a map in front of the contemplation and silence, he stepped forward to take a closer look, it turned out to be a map of Jingzhou, Wang Yu suddenly understood, the King of Jin was worried about changes in Xiangyang.

"Your Highness, we can't be sure that Dong Xizhi has the intention of rebellion." Wang Yu said in a low voice.

Guo Song smiled faintly: "In fact, I hope Dong Xizhi will rebel!" ”

Wang Yu hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "Your Highness wants to take Jingbei first?" ”

Guo Song nodded slowly, "It is extremely inconvenient for Bashu materials to come and transport, if you take Jingbei, Bashu's materials can take the Yangtze River waterway to Xiangyang, and then take Danshui to Shangluo, and then it will be much easier to go north from Shangluo on a large scale, in fact, taking Jingzhou will form a strategic triangle of Bashu, Jingzhou, and Guanzhong, echoing each other and forming a closed loop." ”

"Your Highness is right, taking Jingbei will form a situation of attacking Jiangling from the north and west, which is good for defeating Liu Pi."

Guo Song thought for a while and said, "You can help Dong Xizhi and force him to rebel." ”

"But Dong Xizhi's rebellion and Zhu Zhu's army marching south to quell the rebellion, will it affect our capture of Xiangyang?"

Guo Song said with a smile: "The so-called fishing in troubled waters, muddy the water, I can touch the big fish!" ”

Wang Yu gave a thumbs up and praised: "Your Highness! There is a plan for the lowly position, but it can force Dong Xizhi to rebel! ”

Wang Yu whispered a few words to Guo Song, and Guo Song said happily: "This plan is very good! ”

He immediately turned around and said, "Su Xuan Jin Wei Mansion Guo Yuniang came to see me!" ”

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Xiangyang City, since Zhu Zhu captured Jingzhou, increased the exploitation of the people of Jingzhou, all kinds of taxes are extremely heavy, so that the people's grievances are boiling, the year before last Zaoyang County peasant Wang Shun could not bear the oppression, unveiled the rod, the responder tens of thousands, quickly captured Zaoyang, Wang Shun by the way set himself up as the king of Shuntian, but less than a month, the uprising was brutally suppressed by Dong Xizhi led 20,000 troops, more than 3,000 rebellious people were killed, Wang Shun and other seventeen rebellious generals were beheaded on the street, and the head was sent to Luoyang.

After the failure of this uprising, the people of Jingzhou were completely silent, and since they could not break out in silence, they could only die in silence.

The city of Xiangyang has also become decrepit due to heavy commercial taxes, and most of the time it is deserted except for noon and evening.

Although it was still the first month of the year at this time, there was no New Year's breath in Xiangyang City, not even the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, it was completely the same as usual, lifeless, but the frequent movement of troops in the past two days added a little tension to Xiangyang City.

At noon, more than 20 cavalry escorted a carriage from the west gate of the city and slowly drove towards the direction of the official office in the north of the city.

In the carriage sat the prison army Wang Tai, Wang Tai is one of Zhu Zhu's henchmen and eunuchs, two years ago when he became the Jingzhou supervisor, he actually has nothing to do, Dong Xizhi constantly took out money to bribe him, and his life is at ease.

However, he was a little troubled during this time, the reason was that the Son of Heaven suspected that Dong Xizhi was going to rebel, and Wang Tai also found that Dong Xizhi was abnormal, and he was indeed suspected of supporting the army and standing on his own, but if he was ready to openly raise troops to rebel, it was unlikely, Dong Xizhi also hoped to be a feudal town, and his children and grandchildren could sit in Jingzhou.

Wang Tai didn't know how to talk to the Son of Heaven, don't force him too much, otherwise he will really force Dong Xizhi to rebel.

At this moment, Wang Tai only heard 'whoosh!' in his ears. Before he could react, an arrow pierced his head, and Wang Tai immediately fell into the carriage.

This is the main street, with houses on both sides, and when a crossbow arrow is fired, a dark shadow on the roof on the left disappears.

"There are assassins!"

The soldiers on both sides of the horse guard suddenly became chaotic, some soldiers opened the car door, pulled Wang Tai out, only to see a crossbow arrow stuck in his temple, Wang Tai's whole face was black, and the arrow was highly poisonous, Wang Tai had already died of anger.

The cavalry were terrified and rushed towards the mansion with Wang Tai's corpse.

A short time later, a carrier pigeon flew up, and before Dong Xizhi could block the news, they sent the news that the prison guard Wang Tai had been shot and killed by the assassins in the street.

Not long after the carrier pigeon flew away, thousands of soldiers rushed to surround Wang Tai's mansion, and the army snatched Wang Tai's body and ordered no one to divulge the news, otherwise there would be no mercy.

In the hall of the Jingzhou Jiedu Envoy's Office, Dong Xizhi looked at Wang Tai's corpse under the hall in a daze, he was so confused that he couldn't figure out how Wang Tai could be killed and who killed him? How do you explain to Zhu Jun?

The only thing he could think of now was to block the news and try to buy himself a little time to deal with it.

Dong Xizhi is about fifty years old, a native of Youzhou, originally a general in Youzhou, he has been following Zhu Zhu for so many years, Zhu Zhu is rewarding meritorious deeds, Dong Xizhi was able to sit on one side, but after a long time, he also had ambitions, so he wanted to take the six states of Jingbei as his own, and his children and grandchildren would pass them on and become the town of Jingzhou Domain, but because his son and father were pledged in Luoyang, although he was ambitious, he did not dare to come out easily.

Just a few days ago, his old father and eldest son actually fled back from Luoyang, Dong Xizhi was suddenly ambitious, a little difficult to suppress, he originally wanted to send Wang Tai out of the country, but Wang Tai was assassinated on the street, disrupting his plan and making him a little at a loss.

At this time, staff member Huang Qian hurriedly walked over and whispered in Dong Xizhi's ear: "I just got the news that several of Wang Tai's henchmen have already sent pigeon letters to Luoyang. ”

"What!"

Dong Xizhi was taken aback, when the news came out, didn't Zhu Jun know right away? This is a big problem.

"What does the envoy think?" Huang Qian asked.

"You mean Wang Tai's death?"

Huang Qian nodded, Dong Xizhi hesitated for a moment and said: "I guess it was Liu Feng's doing, Yuan Xiangguo died violently halfway, obviously he was killed by Liu Feng, he was afraid that he would not be able to explain to the Son of Heaven, so he sent someone to assassinate Wang Tai and framed me, he wanted to force me back!" ”

"Then what are you going to do next?" Huang Qian asked again.

Dong Xizhi sighed and said: "I plan to go to the Son of Heaven and make things clear, Wang Tai's death has nothing to do with me, I have no intention of rebelling, I just want to sit in Xiangyang for him for a long time, I didn't betray him back then, and I don't want to betray him now." ”

Huang Qian pondered and said, "Do you want to hear my opinion?" ”

"Of course you have to listen, you say it quickly!"

Huang Qian said slowly: "The heart of the Son of Heaven cannot be controlled by ordinary people, so if you want to win Zhu Jun's trust, you think there is only one way. ”

"What's the solution?" Dong Xizhi asked anxiously.

"The envoy personally sent his son back to Luoyang, and explained to the Son of Heaven that the child was ignorant, and then the envoy asked the Son of Heaven to take the blame again, saying that he was just bent on attacking Liu Pi, and had no intention of betrayal, only by doing so, the Son of Heaven would probably forgive the envoy."

"Will the Son of Heaven let me go back to Jingzhou that day?"

Huang Qian shook his head, "I'm afraid that the envoy will be arranged to go to other places, and Jingzhou will definitely not." ”

Dong Xizhi's face sank, "Let me give up Jingzhou and let my son continue to be a hostage, I might as well rebel directly." ”

Huang Qian sighed, "In fact, the meaning of the humble position is that as soon as Wang Tai dies, the king has no choice, the father and son of the emperor have fled back, and there are no worries, the next step is naturally to kill the prison army and stand on its own, no matter how the king explains, it is useless, and Liu Feng is in control of the court, the Son of Heaven must believe his words, and the army will definitely press the border, so that the king is not pinning his hopes on reconciliation, it is better to prepare for war as soon as possible." ”

Dong Xizhi took a few steps with his hands in his hand, "This matter is very important, there is no turning back when I open the bow, let me think about it again!" ”

...........

The carrier pigeon flying from Xiangyang took the lead in giving the letter to Liu Feng of Xiangguo, and Wang Tai was killed, this news really startled Liu Feng, and he hurriedly brought his staff Yang Mi to discuss.

Yang Mi smiled and said: "This is in my expectation, Yuan Xiu was deposed, Dong Xizhi has no one in the court, he can only take risks, Wang Tai was killed, Dong Xizhi can't explain it anyway." ”

"I'm afraid that the Son of Heaven doesn't want to send troops, and he still has hope for Dong Xizhi, after all, Dong Xizhi has been with him for more than 20 years." Liu Feng hesitated.

"It's okay, I'll make another plan to ensure that the Son of Heaven won't have any luck."

He whispered a few words to Liu Feng, and Liu Feng applauded again and again, "I'll send someone to implement it immediately!" ”

In the afternoon of the same day, children began to sing nursery rhymes on the streets of Luoyang, 'Luoyang has an emperor, Xiangyang has a king, Jiugai's carriage goes to Nanyang, there is a emperor during the day, a king at night, and the phoenix and the phoenix are reversed day and night........"

This children's song was quickly sent to the palace by Zhu Jun's secret agents in the people, and at the same time, Liu Feng also reported to Zhu Zhu that Wang Tai was assassinated by Dong Xizhi.

Dong Xizhi's last ray of hope was drowned by Zhu Zhu's anger, when Zhu Zhu learned that the prison army Wang Tai was killed, there was a proverb in Luoyang, Zhu Zhu's rebellion was seriously offended by Dong Xizhi, he immediately ordered the general Li Hongxin to lead an army of 50,000 from Luoyang to the south to crusade against the Xiangyang traitor Dong Xizhi.