"Firearms!"

King Wei gently spit out these two words. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Thinking of this, his mood was a little gloomy, and he said: "This king has asked the craftsman to imitate the arquebus, but so far there has been no progress, which is really a headache. ”

Mi Wenyi said: "Your Highness don't worry, although this musket and artillery are powerful, they are by no means invincible, otherwise why would Xiao Ming guard the Shanhaiguan and not come out?" It can be seen that even with firearms, Xiao Ming is still afraid of the barbarian cavalry, not to mention that there are few people in Qi and many people in Wei, Qi is poor and Wei is rich, as long as he can hold Pengzhou, the army of King Qi will have to retreat in a few months. ”

Xiao Qi frowned, what Mi Wenyi said seemed to make sense, but the battle of Cangzhou and the battle of Jizhou proved the fierceness of the Qingzhou army, and although Wei Di had many people and was very wealthy, the people had been living in a stable life, and the army of Wei had not experienced a major war for seven or eight years, if the two sides fought, the outcome was unknown.

After hesitating for a moment, he said: "Uncle Huang, my nephew thought that he should continue to send envoys and Dutch, the Japanese kingdom, and even went south to find the method of forging artillery and muskets. ”

"What Mi Changshi and the virtuous nephew said make sense, in this case, Mi Changshi is responsible for Pengzhou's defense, and the virtuous nephew is responsible for the method of forging firearms?"

Mi Wenyi and Xiao Qi glanced at each other, and at the same time responded: "Yes, Your Highness." ”

King Wei nodded with satisfaction, he was thinking about going to the city with the two of them, when suddenly a guard hurried outside the main hall.

"Your Highness, the eyeliner of Chu has come to report, it is said that the army of the King of Chu has taken Quanzhou and other royal homelands." The guard said.

"Quanzhou!" King Wei was taken aback, "It's only been a long time for King Wei's feudal kingdom to double, if it goes on like this, won't the southern rivers and mountains be occupied by the King of Chu." ”

"It's not surprising that the King of Chu has worked hard to run the south over the years, and he has long bought off officials from many surrounding states and counties, and if it falls apart today, these officials immediately defected to the King of Chu." Xiao Qi analyzed.

King Wei felt a little sour in his heart, "Hmph, this King of Chu is really tricky and occupies a good place, but it's a pity that the King of Yan and King Qi around this king are not good matches." ”

I have to say that today's King of Chu is the most favorable at the right time, place, and people, although the two have no good impression of King Chu, they have to admit this.

Mi Wenyi sighed and said: "The most important thing is that the sailors of the King of Chu are rampant in the river, this is a natural moat, and no one can do anything about him." ”

The King of Wei snorted when he heard this, and he said: "It's even a disappointment to mention this matter, the King of Chu is rich, and this king is not inferior to him, so it's not certain whose it is in this world." ”

Mi Wenyi nodded, he suddenly remembered something and said: "Your Highness, the lower officials remembered something, this King Qi's warship has to dock at Tongzhou every time it goes south to replenish, this can't be said to be a handle for us to take the King of Qi, after all, if there is no Tongzhou, it will be a little difficult for their warships to go south." ”

King Wei's eyes lit up, he stroked his beard lightly, and said proudly: "Mi Changshi really gave this king a wake-up call, hmph, since this is the case, we can't say that we can take Tongzhou to make an article, if he Xiao Ming dares to make up his mind about Pengzhou, Hugh blames this king for forbidding his warships to dock and replenish." ”

"Not to stop there, Your Highness, I can't say that we can still blackmail King Qi to send us some artillery and muskets." Mi Wenyi said.

The more King Wei thought about it, the more he felt that Mi Wenyi's words were very reasonable, and he said: "Well, since this is the case, this king will send someone to Qingzhou to talk about this matter." ”

With that, King Wei laughed heartily.

……

Qingzhou, Xiao Ming went directly to the government after leaving the Qingzhou camp, his front foot just arrived, and Li San followed him on the back foot.

"Is there any important information?" Li San was in a hurry, and Xiao Ming couldn't help asking.

Now Xiao Ming is also blind to things outside Qingzhou, and can only rely on the news collected by Li San and Wang Xuan to analyze the current situation.

Li San said with a smile: "Your Highness, Yang Zhen honestly explained the eyeliner and secret numbers of Lijingmen, and the lower officials found out a lot of people from Lijingmen in Qingzhou. ”

"It's been explained so quickly, it seems that this Yang Zhen is just a greedy person who is afraid of death." Xiao Ming said disdainfully.

"Your Highness's words are true, as soon as the lower official said these ten tortures, he was scared to pee his pants before the torture instrument was put on, hehe." Li San seemed very proud.

"Getting to the point." Xiao Ming glared at him, this kid's flamboyant tongue still hasn't changed.

Li San smiled and said: "These people from Lijingmen have been arrested by the lower officials, and when they learned that His Royal Highness has the edict in his hands, these people are willing to obey the dispatch of the lower officials under Yang Zhen's persuasion, and the lower officials have already sent people to collect the personnel from other places in Lijingmen. ”

After a pause, Li San continued: "Your Highness, this Lijingmen is really pervasive, all over the Great Yu Kingdom, Yang Zhen explained that there are Lijingmen works around each vassal king, so that we can keep abreast of the situation of other vassal kingdoms." ”

"Other than that, Yang Zhen didn't provide any valuable information?" Xiao Ming is most concerned about this.

Li San said: "Yes, Yang Zhen said that the barbarians agreed to the condition of King Zhao to send troops was to get half of the spoils, and the king of Liang also called the barbarians a vassal in exchange for the support of the barbarians. ”

"King Liang? Hmph, another one who confesses that a thief is a father. Xiao Ming said angrily, he now understands more and more why the Ming Dynasty died, internal and external troubles, and so many traitors leading the party, can it not die?

But thinking about his current situation, he felt that the situation at this time was even more difficult.

"Yang Zhen also said that the barbarians promised to ignore the contradictions between the two, and if there was a conflict between King Zhao and King Liang, the barbarians' soldiers and horses would not participate, but if they used troops against His Highness, the barbarians promised to fully support them."

Xiao Ming frowned, originally he still wanted to play proxy war, but he didn't expect this barbarian to play in advance, he knew very well what the barbarian was thinking, undoubtedly he wanted to use King Zhao and King Liang to consume his troops, and he was waiting for an opportunity behind the two.

"However, Your Highness, King Zhao seems to be more interested in King Shu, while King Liang has a lot of complaints about King Zhao's occupation of Chang'an." Li San said again.

"King Zhao doesn't seem to be stupid, Shu is known as the country of abundance, is the grain production of the Great Chongqing country, if you take Shu land, he will not worry about food, when the Qin King Yingzheng is also the first to take Guanzhong, then take Bashu, and then unify the six countries, it seems that King Zhao has the posture of learning from the first emperor."

Li San said: "No, this King Zhao has always called himself Emperor Xiao Qin. ”

With a sneer, Xiao Ming put aside the topic and asked: "If King Zhao has this mind, he has won time for this king to conquer Weidi, and you can tell me about the situation in Pengzhou." ”