Because Zhao Kuangyin's face was too dark, he couldn't see the complicated expression, he paced around the ground with his hands behind his back. After a long time, he said: "I can't think of a great way for a while, all I can think of is to start from three sides." The first is to expose Guo Shao to the threat of force from the outside, the second is to rebel internally, and the third is to damage his prestige and reputation. ”

Zhao Kuangyin suddenly stood up and said, "Li Yun ......"

Li Jixun's face changed suddenly, and his eldest son Li Shouen's head was cut off by that guy; It's just a matter of killing the son, and Li Shouen originally had good intentions to get married, but he was turned over and cut off his head by that guy, and he was sent to Tokyo to ask for credit! Later, in order to stabilize Li Yun from falling into the well, Li Jixun was killed, but his eldest son was forced to write a letter of apology, saying that the dog was rude and made Li Yun angry...... In fact, Li Jixun couldn't wait to break that guy's corpse into pieces!

Zhao Kuangyin saw Li Jixun's reaction in his eyes, and said kindly: "I know that Brother Li is angry in his heart, but we have to think about this from the other side: like Li Yun, like a person who can sit in the world?" If he just accepted his fate so calmly, waiting for the court to slow down and cut his military power, maybe Guo Shao thought that he didn't turn back at the critical moment, and he would really let him live and give him a fortune. In this way, Brother Li's revenge cannot be avenged. ”

Li Jixun said angrily: "Blacksmith Guo is not a benevolent gentleman, he just pretends to be famous and famous. He was generous to Meng Chang and the others, but he felt that those people were no longer a threat, and whoever really wanted to threaten him, he cut the grass and eradicated the roots without blinking his eyes. ”

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Li Yun is an arrogant and arrogant horseman, if he loses military power, what is the threat?" If we find a way to make him rebel, we will let him kill himself. not only avenged Brother Li's revenge, but also made Blacksmith Guo uncomfortable. ”

"Last time, I raised troops with Li Chongjin and wanted to pull Li Yun into the gang, but he was reluctant. Now let him be alone, how can he be convinced? Li Jixun frowned.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Last time, you couldn't trust each other, not to mention Li Yun's house, Li Chongjin and Brother Li couldn't get together; Besides, Li Yun's rebellion was to be self-reliant, and he raised troops with you at that time, and Li Chongjin was more qualified to become bigger...... Let's think about another thing, when the army started last year, Li Yun dared to kill the eldest son of Brother Li (Li Jixun) to show loyalty to the imperial court, but quietly let go of the envoys of the Northern Han Kingdom. But why? ”

Shi Shouxin listened to the two of them, and at this time he kept nodding his head and muttering, "Brother Zhao is also insightful. ”

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Li Yun's house has never dispelled the idea of doing bigger things, but he knows that his own territory is small and has few troops, and behind him is the Northern Han Kingdom, so he has always left room to come." ”

Li Jixun said: "Didn't Brother Zhao say before that the lord of the Northern Han Dynasty only wanted to protect himself and did not want to forge ahead, how could he be willing to send troops to support Li Yun?" ”

"There is no Khitan looking at the land east of the river, and the people of the Northern Han Kingdom are protecting themselves!" Zhao Kuangyin said, "As long as the Khitan puts pressure on it and gives it some support, the Northern Han Dynasty will obey the Khitan." ”

Li Jixun suddenly said: "I know what Brother Zhao means!" Although the Liao State is now internally unstable and has no intention of forging ahead, Xiao Siwen, the king of the Southern Courtyard, still has a grudge. ”

Zhao Kuangyin sneered: "What Brother Li said is extremely true. Most of the prime ministers of the Liao State are from the Xiao family, and Xiao Siwen controls the sixteen states of Youyun, and he is also a person with deep roots in the Liao State; Otherwise, he should have been executed if he lost his troops in Zhuozhou back then, and now there is nothing to do? In the battle of Zhuozhou, Blacksmith Guo was unrelenting, and slaughtered Xiao Siwen thousands of elite horsemen in one go, Xiao Siwen didn't care about the blood feud? ”

Shi Shouxin listened, and praised: "Brother Zhao is really not a thing in the pool, and now we have been reduced to a fight, you can still lay out the world, very comparable!" ”

"Alas......" Zhao Kuangyin sighed helplessly when he heard the praise.

He walked to the window, looked out the window for a long time, and said without looking back: "Our strategies are all small ways. The avenue has lost its ......"

Li Jixun couldn't help asking: "What is Brother Zhao's so-called avenue?" ”

"Righteousness, people's hearts." Zhao Kuangyin said.

He said, continuing to look outside. The north wind was raging, and the snow on the ground was lifted by the wind like dust and mist; The clouds above the head, as if surging thousands of miles, can be transformed into various images, ever-changing and elusive.

……

Outside the city of Jiangning in the Southern Tang Kingdom, Yuhuatai has been occupied by the Zhou army. Guo Shao lives in a temple in the mountains and forests, and he is writing and drawing, with strange hooks and circles like ghost drawings, and the words are scribbled, only some of the names are still roughly clear...... Li Yun, Fu Yanqing, Zhang Guanghan, Murong Yanzhao, Zhe Deyan and so on.

Guo Shao is not used to pondering the situation in general, and he prefers the judgment of all parties, even to the specific names of people.

There are several kinds of people in this, except for the generals around Guo Shao, who are mainly concentrated in the front of the palace, the positions of the others are more complicated. Some listen to whoever is in power and who gives orders in Tokyo, but they have some good feelings for Guo Shao and others; And it is too slow to rise only by making meritorious contributions on the battlefield, after all, the opportunities are limited, and they also have the idea of moving closer to Guo Shao. Such people as Cao Bin, Murong Yanzhao, etc.

Others, who are also watching the fire from the other side, but out of jealousy or simply dislike Guo Shao, they are very happy to see Guo Shao unlucky. These people are not willing to act rashly when the situation is good, and they are not willing to take risks, but once Guo Shao encounters a disadvantaged situation, he is very likely to fall into the well and fan the flames. If he folds the German wall, Guo Shao doesn't think that he looks at himself well.

More are extremely dangerous, such as Li Yun, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Army in Hedong.

There are many more powerful and powerful soldiers in their hands, most of whom are accustomed to fighting for power and profit, and they are all people who act when they see opportunities. But because they were not familiar with each other, they did not show a more obvious position, and Guo Shao couldn't figure out what those people thought.

Guo Shao stopped his pen and rubbed his temples. In history, Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao's mutiny are quite famous, and Guo Shao also wants to paint a scoop according to Hu, but there is no way to imitate it...... Because Zhao Kuangyin was added to the dragon robe by his subordinates in Chenqiaoyi, and then said that the emperor Jianguo was just an appearance, the real deployment considerations must be very complicated; Guo Shao didn't know so much about it before, and now he naturally has no way of knowing. But he can at least be sure of one thing: it is completely impossible for a person to become an emperor "innocently" without extremely careful deployment in advance, and it is so easy to claim that the emperor can still sit on the throne? In history, from Chai Rong's death to the Chenqiao Mutiny, what did Zhao Kuangyin do during this time?

As soon as Guo Shao was distracted, he heard the sound of ......rain on the roof of the tiles. In this place, it snowed for a long time in Layue, and it didn't take long for it to rain again.

He got up and walked out of the room, and Qin Shishi, a veteran in his forties at the door, bowed slightly. Guo Shao ignored him, walked outside under the eaves to watch the rain, the sound of the wooden fish in the temple "tuk tuk" came, and there was a sense of tranquility in the rain.

"Boom, boom, boom......" Suddenly a cry of birds came, only one of the calls, lonely and high-pitched, indeed a little ethereal. The sound went from slow to urgent, from near to far, and there was no more than one voice. Guo Shao looked up, but he didn't see any birds flying.

But I saw a large military camp under the mountain. The rain curtain in the air is cloudy, and you can see the "thatched huts" in the barracks from a distance; It was not a thatched hut, but because of the thatched tent, there was a lot of rain in the south, and Zhou Jun's oilcloth tent would leak if it was soaked in the rain for too long, so it became such a scene.

At this moment, I saw two umbrellas on the stone steps appear in the rain. Guo Shao retracted his gaze from a distance and stopped to look at it for a while; Qin Shi and other guards next to him also looked sideways.

An umbrella was raised, revealing Zuo You's face, and Zuo You immediately shouted: "The Lord is watching the scenery outside!" ”

The person next to him also showed his face, it turned out to be the military general Cao Bin, who was busy saluting this side on the wet steps with Zuo You. Guo Shao said: "Come and talk." ”

The two of them continued to walk this way with umbrellas. Guo Shao was also a little puzzled at the beginning, Zuo You and Cao Bin had nothing to do with each other, why did these two people walk together alone? After thinking about it for a while, I remembered one thing, Wu Yuejun made progress on the Eastern Front, and Zuo You would intentionally or unintentionally say that Cao Bin had made great contributions.

Guo Shao really didn't think much about it at first, but then he suddenly realized that Zuo You was recommending people and also wooing party henchmen.

However, Guo Shao doesn't mind this, if Cao Bin is friendly with Zuo You, his position will be closer to him...... More help and little help, the pros and cons are clear at a glance, who thinks that there are too many people who help themselves? And Guo Shao also wants to promote Zuo You, but Zuo You's foundation is too thin and his prestige is too small, and it is a good thing that he can have a group of people to support him; Zuo You's talent is much worse than Wang Pu and others, and he has been with Guo Shao for a long time.

Cao Bin walked to the eaves and bowed again: "Wu Yuejun set out from Runzhou, from the north of Tangshan, along the west of the Great River, and now the troops are stationed in the northeast of Jiangning City. The last general sent Wu Yue's mission to complete and returned to resume his life. ”

Guo Shaodao: "General Cao not only completed the mission this time, persuaded Wu Yueguo to mobilize the army, but also repeatedly made strange plans in many battles, which is really a great talent!" ”

Cao Bin hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "The subordinates are just doing their own business. ”

Guo Shao nodded solemnly: "Mr. Zuo often says hello, and I also think that General Cao has both ability and political integrity, which is not bad." He said that he paid attention to Zuo You's expression, and sure enough, he saw Zuo You's very useful look.

"How about we go to the room and make a cup of hot tea?" Guo Shao said again.

Cao Bin's face flushed, and he hurriedly said, "Guo Dashuai, please." ”

Guo Shao took the two people into the room and said directly: "Let's not talk about Wu Yueguo first, and when Wang Zhijun (Wang Pu) arrives, you can talk about it." He will establish archives for the people of Wu Yueguo. ”

Cao Bin nodded in agreement.

Zuo You said: "The Southern Tang Kingdom is already in this situation, why don't you surrender?" ”

Guo Shao said: "Li Yu sent someone to assassinate me, and my heart is weak. However, the Southern Tang Kingdom really has loyal ministers, otherwise it would be difficult for Li Yu to surrender or not to surrender embattled. ”