The letter of Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, was delivered to Daliang three days later and handed over to the palace of the eldest prince. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After learning about this time, the eldest prince Zhao Hongli was very happy at first, after all, half a month ago, when Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, was still in the area of Qiguan and Qi County, he had written a letter to Zhao Hongli, agreeing to wait for Zhao Hongxuan to return to Hedong, and then write a letter to tell Zhao Hongli about the recent situation of the rectification of the North First Army in Anyi County.

This respect made Zhao Hongli feel more and more that he had no one to trust.

In fact, at this time, the eldest prince Zhao Hongli had already lost control of the Northern First Army, after all, when Zhao Hongxuan and Zhou Yu rectified the whole army, they not only squeezed out the Yongwang Party and the Xiangwang Party, but even the Donggong Party withdrew one by one, making the current Northern First Army all under the control of Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan.

In this case, Zhao Hongxuan still remembered the agreement he had made with Zhao Hongli, and wrote to Zhao Hongli in detail about the progress of the rectification of the Northern First Army, which made Zhao Hongli very moved.

Especially when the Chang Prince's Mansion is now crowded and no one cares.

But when Zhao Hongli opened the letter and glanced at it twice, he immediately had a confused expression on his face, because this letter, although the object of delivery was him Zhao Hongli, it was Luo Ying's name that was written when he looked up.

And the content of the letter made Zhao Hongrun even more puzzled, it was actually a few words of advice to persuade Luo Ying not to be ambitious and not to think about getting something for nothing.

"What does that mean?"

Zhao Hongli thought about it for a long time and didn't figure it out, so he asked the servants in the house to invite Luo Ying out of the study.

After a while, Luo Ying came to the front hall, took the letter in Zhao Hongli's hand and read it carefully, and after thinking about it carefully, he nodded as if he had realized something, and a trace of disappointment flashed in his eyes.

I have to say that Zhao Hongrun underestimated the profit-seeking aristocrats in China.

For those nobles, it was their nature to seek profit, so how could they ignore the treasure house of Shangdang County?

You must know that in Shangdang County, even those who organized people to dig stones by hand in the Tianmen Mine can get rich, not to mention that Shangdang still has a lot of fertile land suitable for farming, as well as "millet", a crop used by the locals to make wine—in fact, "Shangdang millet wine" alone is enough to attract domestic aristocrats to rush to Shangdang.

But why are these aristocrats still waiting?

The reason is very simple, just like Zhou Yu said to Zhao Hongxuan, although Shangdang County is rich in profits, crops need to be cultivated and ores need to be mined, in other words, only by investing manpower and material resources can you get harvested, and you can't get rich in a short time; And what about Hexi? But he can directly rob the wealth of Qiang Hu Rongdi, and rob those countless cattle, sheep and horses, and it is not surprising that the rich side is rich in one day.

In this case, the nobles in the country stretched their necks and looked at the four counties in Hedong, wanting to see if they could once again share a little benefit from the hands of His Royal Highness King Su, only those nobles who thought that they were not capable of wrestling with His Royal Highness King Su honestly organized domestic servants and slaves to go to the party.

Of course, King Yong, King Xiang, and King Qing value the Four Orders of Hedong, not out of monetary profits, but because of authority, or to put it simply, military power.

Now, the domestic aristocratic circles know each other that according to the "Wei-Han Handan Peace Conference", Korea will send troops to conquer the land west of the river for Wei as compensation for this defeat.

This was gratuitous, at least in the eyes of the domestic aristocracy - they would not care, and in order to obtain the land west of the river, Wei had secretly signed a strategic alliance with Korea to jointly expel Linghu.

And there is a problem involved in this matter, that is, the garrison sent to Hexi!

Don't count on the army of the Han people, this group of people has already done their best to defeat Hexi for Wei, and they are still counting on them to help Wei garrison and resist Qianghu's counterattack? Don't even think about it!

On the other hand, if South Korea really did that, I believe that Wei would not be at ease.

Then the question arises: which army in the country is suitable for transferring to Hexi?

For this question, I believe that the vast majority of Wei people will think of 'Su Wangjun' for the first time.

But in fact, the Suwang army could not and could not garrison Hexi, because the garrison of the Suwang army was "Shangshui County", and in the south of the Wei State, Shangshui County had as many as six counties of land that needed to be garrisoned.

If it weren't for the fact that in the country of Chu, the king of Chu Xiong Xu was getting old day by day, and it seemed that Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, Xiong Wu, the king of Liyang, Xiong Sheng and other princes of Chu were fighting with each other, and the Pingyuyi of the state of Chu bordering Shangshui County was the territory of Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, who regarded Mi Jiang and Mi Rui as his sister, coupled with the private alliance between Zhao Hongrun and Xiong Tuo, who was still strong so far, Zhao Hongrun did not dare to send 100,000 Su Wang troops to the north to participate in the war, leaving only 20,000 or 30,000 reserves in Shangshui County.

Another reason is that the territory is too large and the authority is too heavy, which makes it easy for Zhao Hongrun to be targeted.

Don't think that if Zhao Hongrun doesn't participate in the struggle for the throne, no one will deliberately target him, in fact, he gave up the battle for the throne, at best, his brothers don't regard him as a fierce rival, but what about the people Zhao Hongrun has offended otherwise?

Uncle Zhao Tairu, Zhengcheng Wang, Zhengchao Wendong, Yuanyang Wang's father and son, officials, etc., etc., people who can't look down on Zhao Hongrun's good can line up from the west gate of Daliang to the east city gate.

Therefore, it is impossible for the Su Wang army to be stationed in the area of the West River.

Of course, at this point, Zhao Hongrun can take other methods, just like he recommended Kou Zheng as the Fenyin Order, and recommended Lintao Jun Wei Ji as the Fenyin General, as long as the two people he recommended stood firmly in his camp, Fenyin was equivalent to being in Zhao Hongrun's hands.

But in any case, the Suwang Army, which is now becoming more and more famous, to be precise, the three armies of the Shangshui Army, the Yanling Army, and the Youma Army, must return to Shangshui County, otherwise, they will be left to Zhao Hongrun's political enemies.

Some people may say that Shangshui County occupies six counties, why did Zhao Hongrun's political enemies not use this matter to attack Zhao Hongrun?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because when Zhao Hongrun took over the remaining five county towns in Shangshui County, except for Leshangshui County, those five county towns had already been destroyed in the battle of Xiong Tuo, the king of Xuancheng, to attack the Wei State, and they could be called ten rooms and nine emptiness.

Even, Zhao Hongrun didn't want those five county towns at all, it was his treacherous and cunning father who gave it to him - in that incident, Zhao Hongrun was really cheated by his father, and the reward he deserved turned into a wasteland destroyed by the war, which is unbearable!

However, because of this, even though the scope of Zhao Hongrun's fiefdom is huge, no one has said anything about this matter, because everyone knows that the remaining five counties in Shangshui County are actually unwilling to invest huge funds in reconstruction, so they dumped the pot on His Royal Highness King Su, and used this to trap His Royal Highness's reward.

In addition to the Su Wang Army, the most famous are the Wei Wu Army, the Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army, but the Wei Wu Army, like the Junshui Army, is the Gyeonggi Army stationed in Daliang, and they didn't even catch the garrison in the border city of Qi County, let alone garrison Hexi; The Northern Second Army and the Northern Third Army are the armies of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, and the general Jiang Contempt, one is a former royal rebel, and the other is a foreign general, so no matter what, the imperial court will not let these two armies be stationed in Hexi - if the Qianghu people launch a counterattack, it is not ruled out that these two armies will be dispatched to resist, but the garrison in Hexi, hehe, there is no door.

In this way, in addition to the six battalions of the garrison, the remaining armies are only the Shanyang Army, the Northern First Army and the Southern Yan Army.

It is a pity that these three northern Xinjiang armies do not have much appetite, and a border city of Qi County is enough to feed them, even if it is Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, and Wei Mu, the general of Southern Yan, who covet the wealth of Hexi, at most, they are at most fighting the autumn wind and making a fortune when Wei attacks Qianghu, as for the garrison in Hexi, these three armies do not have the ability to divide troops and garrison them for the time being.

It's no wonder, after all, with the rest of the armies withdrawing one after another, the three armies of the Northern First Army, the Shanyang Army, and the Southern Yan Army will shoulder the burden of defending the entire northern frontier of the Wei State, and God knows if the Koreans will tear up the agreement?

Therefore, in the end, it is possible to garrison Hexi, and only the "Sixth Battalion of the Garrison" remains.

Among them, the Song Kingdom excluded Nangong's "Suiyang Army" because it has never been the focus of the imperial court's training.

Wei Mu's "Southern Yan Army" was excluded, because the Southern Yan Army was currently stationed in Qiguan, Linxi, Jixian, Xiuwu and other places.

Sima An's "Dangshan County" was excluded, after all, the Dangshan Army was used to deter the army of Song County, whether it was the Song County Rebellion or the Suiyang Army of Nangong.

Bailiba's "Junshui Army" was excluded, because the Junshui Army has always been the Gyeonggi army stationed in Daliang, and even the establishment of the Wei Wujun cannot shake the status of the Junshui Army.

Only the remaining "Fen Army" and "Cheng Gao Army" may have a chance to garrison Hexi, after all, the defense of the former can be replaced by the Su Wang Army, and the latter, due to the creation of the Sichuan cavalry, in fact, the Cheng Gao Army has degenerated into a pass soldier who collects taxes from caravans to and from Sanchuan every day, so that the Chenggao Pass, which was originally used to defend against Sanchuan, has now been reduced to a checkpoint of card tax and has lost its strategic significance.

Of course, despite this, I believe that the imperial court will not rashly transfer the Cheng Gao army, after all, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, what if the Sichuan Alliance turns against the Wei State? It's unlikely, but it's also a matter of prevention.

After such a circle, it was concluded that none of the current army of Wei was suitable for garrisoning Hexi.

What to do in this case?

It's very simple, when you are raising one or more armies!

Where, then, did the land west of the river not yet belong to the Wei state, where to form and train these new armies?

The answer is already obvious: Beiqu, Fenyin, Pi's, Pusaka.

This is the reason why King Yong, King Xiang, King Qing and others want to get these four cities - to hold the new military power!

And Luo Ying also took this into account that he asked Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, to test his brother Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, to see if he could help the eldest prince Zhao Hongli get a place in a new army.

But unfortunately, Zhao Hongrun had vaguely told him: Don't go to this troubled water, and honestly go to Shangdang County to make profits.

Therefore, Luo Ying and Zhao Hongli, the eldest prince who learned the ins and outs of the matter from the former, both chose to stop with interest.

After all, the Quartet wrestled, whether it was Zhao Hongli or Luo Ying, they were not sure what they could take advantage of.

Which Quartet?

That is, the Yongwang Party, the union of King Xiang and King Qing, the domestic princes and nobles, and - King Su!

At present, there are four largest forces in Wei.