A torrential rain suddenly covered Qingzhou. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The sound of the rain dripping outside the study and the damp smell of the rain soaking the land came to his face, allowing Xiao Ming to find some childhood memories for a while.

When I was a child, I would always smell this natural fresh breath when I sat under the eaves and watched the rain, but now the breath is more intense and refreshing.

At this time, in the face of the pouring rain, Xiao Ming frowned, a few days ago, he asked the caravan to send fifty cannons to the King of Huainan, and the King of Huainan must have received it at this time.

With these cannons, the King of Huainan will have fewer casualties when attacking the city, and once the city is broken, the rest will be much simpler.

In his opinion, King Yan is just the end of the strong crossbow, and the performance of the Tian family and the Ji family is enough to see the speculative nature of the Hao family.

For these wealthy families, they don't care who rules them, all they want is the prosperity of their own family.

Now that King Yan has lost Bozhou, the remaining wealthy families must also have different thoughts, and it is impossible to resist King Huainan at this time.

Perhaps when the King of Huainan breaks the city, King Yan's army will collapse, so in his opinion, the fall of King Yan is close at hand, and King Liang will not be able to hold out for a month.

In this way, he eliminated two of the three kings of the north, and only King Zhao was left.

King Zhao has the least number of people in the Three Kings Alliance, which shows that this old fox didn't look at the Three Kings Alliance at all, maybe for King Zhao, what he really believes in is only the barbarians.

At this time, he got rid of King Yan and King Liang, but he followed his wishes and saved him from doing it himself.

Sending fifty artillery pieces to King Huainan this time was not Xiao Ming's impulse, but because in Xiao Ming's opinion, he still needed the helper of King Huainan to help him deal with King Chu, he didn't want King Huainan to collapse after this battle, all he needed was for King Huainan to shrink his forces back to the south of the Yangtze River.

He was thinking about it, when an official eunuch suddenly walked from the rain to Qian Dafu with an oil-paper umbrella, and after saying a few words, the eunuch left.

Qian Dafu walked in at this time, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Li Chuyuan, the prince of the King of Chu, detained the three princes to Qingzhou. ”

"When the rain stops, let him come to see me." Xiao Ming didn't show a look of surprise, because he had received an urgent letter from the King of Chu three days ago.

In the letter, the king of Chu made up a whole set of prevarications, implying that the three princes were the culprits of the farce of ascending the throne, and he was just deceived.

The second is that he is willing to be a minister, and then there is the matter of letting Li Chuyuan live in Qingzhou, simply put, letting Li Chuyuan be a proton to show his sincerity.

Xiao Ming can only sneer at this trick, if he can't see this kind of delaying tactics, this emperor doesn't have to be the emperor.

However, the King of Chu also bet on the right treasure this time, Xiao Ming really doesn't have the heart to move the King of Chu now, after all, the most important problem now is to solve the problem in the north.

The least he wanted from the king of Chu was to make his fiefdom a dumping ground for commodities, and for the time being he didn't want the wealthy south to be a mess.

The rain continued from early morning to two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three o'clock Li Chuyuan arrived at Xingyuan with the third prince.

"Li Chuyuan, the son of the king of Chu, see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

In the main hall, Li Chuyuan bowed and shouted.

"No courtesy."

Xiao Ming smiled, although he hated Li Chuyuan from the bottom of his heart, he had to do the kung fu on the surface.

Li Chuyuan raised his head at this time, this time he came to Qingzhou to shock his heart, and the prosperity and wealth of Qingzhou exceeded his expectations.

This also gave him a deeper understanding of Xiao Ming.

"The criminal minister Xiao Zhen sees the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!"

The three princes and Li Chuyuan entered the main hall together, and after Li Chuyuan shouted long live, the trapped three princes suddenly knelt down and shouted.

Xiao Ming was a little surprised, he looked at the three princes, the three princes at this time were very embarrassed, and their bodies were also a lot thinner, how could there be the infinite scenery in Chang'an.

Li Chuyuan took the opportunity to say; "Your Majesty, the three princes pretended to pass on the edict, if he didn't believe him, it would be impossible for my father to serve him as the king, I hope the emperor will see it."

Xiao Ming laughed, and he said: "The king of Chu and the prince have bothered, such a rebellious person, I will be severely punished." ”

A smile appeared on the corner of Li Chuyuan's mouth, and so far their strategy has not shown any flaws.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "In the letter, the King of Chu said that the prince of Chu would live in Qingzhou for a few years, I don't know what the prince thinks? ”

Mentioning this matter, Li Chuyuan was prepared, he said: "Thanks to the emperor's trouble, the minister has always longed for Qingzhou, and it is also the wish of the minister to stay in Qingzhou." ”

"Very good, in this way, the prince will live in Qingzhou." Xiao Ming said lightly, he didn't need to be too polite to a proton.

After saying a few more casual words, Xiao Ming sent Li Chuyuan away, but left the third prince in the main hall.

At this time, Xiao Ming looked at the third prince and said, "Do you know why I left you alone? ”

"Because the guilty minister still has some use for the emperor." The third prince seems to have been aware of it for a long time.

"When I was in Chang'an, the ministers said that the three princes were talented and intelligent, and now it seems to be true." Xiao Ming laughed.

"It's just a minister raising a guilty minister." The third prince lowered his head, he knew that the smarter the prince, the sooner he died.

Snorting lightly, he said: "King Yan is an outsider after all, but you are a member of the royal family, now that the Great Yu Kingdom has become like this, how can this king choose to believe in the King of Chu and not believe in you." ”

The third prince's expression moved slightly, and he sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the false edict was done by the criminal minister, but this was all instructed by the king of Chu, otherwise there are no soldiers and no power, how can the criminal minister dare to ascend the throne as the emperor." ”

"Even so, your crime is enough for me to cut off your head ten thousand times, but now that the Great Yu Kingdom is in danger, if you can atone for your sins, this king will spare you from death."

The third prince's voice was a little excited, and he said: "The criminal minister will send a letter to the king of Shu, asking him to hold back the soldiers and horses of the king of Zhao." ”

Xiao Ming nodded when he heard this.

This is the purpose of his leaving the three princes, the king of Chu abandoned the three princes and the five princes at the same time, after all, the three princes and the five princes are brothers.

The five princes have always respected the three princes very much, and they have always obeyed the words of the three princes, and the king of Chu's plan is just a delaying tactic, which makes the king of Zhao get Shu is undoubtedly an opportunity to plunge the north into continuous war.

Seeing this, Xiao Ming naturally didn't want the King of Chu's trick to succeed, and lost the support of the King of Chu, and the Five Emperors didn't know what bastard things they could do.

"This time it's not as simple as a letter, the king of Shu is already at the end of the crossbow, this king will send 20,000 horses to follow you into Shu, whether you want your life or power, you can only choose one of them."