Poor Hongyan always has a thin life, and he is the most ruthless emperor.

Not only the princes of the Son of Heaven, but in a hundred multiplier families like the Zhao family, the love of children is far less important than the affairs of the family and the country.

So just before he got off the horse and had no time to rest, before he could say a few words to Ji Huan, Zhao Wuxian was called by his father Zhao Ying.

Greeted at the door was Zheng Long, the leader of the black-clothed guards, and Zheng Long was about to lead him over, when he heard someone behind him shouting in a sweet voice, "No shirt." ”

Zhao Wuxian was trembling by this voice, he was really panicked!

Now even the nominal lord Lu Hou does not dare to call him by his name, but respectfully calls him "general". The people who are qualified to be called so are basically the elders of the Zhao family.

He turned around slowly, and sure enough, he saw a middle-aged man, short and fat, wearing a reckless shirt and a golden crown, walking towards him with his coat raised. It is the master of Wen County, Doctor Zhao Luo.

"Shirtless." Zhao Luo smiled affectionately and stepped forward: "I haven't seen you for many years, do you remember my uncle?" ”

Zhao Wuxian blinked, looked at Zhao Guangde's face, and saluted the cheap uncle: "Back then, the kid was able to go abroad smoothly because of the hundreds of soldiers provided by his uncle. Competing with the Qi people on the big river, he also borrowed the ship of Wen County, and he forgot who he was, and he couldn't forget his uncle......"

Zhao Luoxin thought it was true, and said with a flattering face: "No shirt, although you are a junior, you have laid a lot of territory in the East, although I am an elder, but my admiration for you is like a river, and I can't ...... it."

Holding Zhao Wuxian's hand, he babbled and talked about it, choked up as he spoke, and began the grievance meeting, exaggerating the economic and trade losses of Wen County in the population in order to support Zhao's Qi, Wei, and Zheng operations over the years.

Seeing that Wuxian was starting to get impatient, Zhao Luocai finally asked with a twist: "The previous sect master handed over the Jixi land of the country to Guangde and Wenxian soldiers to garrison. That piece of land is too far away from the Jin Kingdom to be controlled, so it was included in the Lu Kingdom last year and became Juye County under your jurisdiction, which I can understand......"

"But what about Punan, Pingqiu, and Pu Eryi that were newly captured last year? Can you give it to me to compensate for the losses of Wen County in the past few years of war? ”

It turned out that he was here to ask for benefits...... A trace of unhappiness flashed in Zhao Wuxian's heart. This Zhao Luo, not only has no ability, but also has a blind eye, and now that the situation is undecided, he has already set his sights on Pingqiu and Pu, and wants to participate in the division of interests.

Also, I heard that he gave birth to two sons in the past two years, probably because the concubine room blew a little pillow wind, which made Zhao Luo have a different mind: he wanted his sons to have a yi. Let the Zhao family of Wenxian County spread out.

But the country I worked so hard to fight for is not to throw you this four bodies are not diligent, the five grains are not divided, the battle is repeatedly defeated, and the moths who only know how to eat, drink and have fun are wasted!

So Zhao Wuxian smiled and said: "What my uncle and cousin have done in the past few years, my father and I have seen it, don't worry, you can't write two Zhao characters in one stroke." I will not treat Guangde badly. As for the two towns, their ownership involves the defense of the country. It's not something I can say in a word, so I'll wait until my father convenes the clan and retainers to discuss it. ”

"That's ......"

Zhao Luo's face darkened, he was afraid of Zhao Ying, he was so scared, probably because he realized that he had no chance to turn the garrison of the two towns from his son's hands into his own hereditary territory. He looked a little lost.

Zhao Wuxian didn't have time to appease this incompetent uncle, and followed Zheng Long into the hall gate.

He glanced at Zhao Luo, who was frowning behind him, and thought secretly: "I thought he could be more restrained, but he still didn't change his life, and Wen County may not be appropriate to hand it over to him again." If the timing is right. Zhao Luo still has to be sent to Jinyang or the lower palace for retirement, Zhao Guangde is not suitable to inherit Wen County, it is better to cut two towns in the territory of Weiguo to him as compensation, and Wen County is changed to Jinyang Zhao directly under the jurisdiction! ”

is the most ruthless imperial family, for Zhao Wuxian, compared to the increasingly thin blood relationship, the officials who obey orders and can be removed at any time are more reliable......

……

After taking off his shoes and tidying up his clothes, he entered the hall, but saw Zhao Ying cross-legged on the "bed" dedicated to sitting, playing against a man in black.

Naturally, the game is not a simple chess, but a complex black and white nineteen ways.

Zhao Ying has been a little older for more than a year, and his black beard is a little white, but fortunately, he is full of energy and still looks like a hero.

Although he was playing chess, he didn't belong to his thoughts, he heard Zheng Long's report from a distance, his eyes had already drifted to the door, and when he saw Zhao Wuxian walking in, he couldn't help but smile, messed up the chessboard, and stopped playing.

The man in black opposite Zhao Ying also turned his head and looked at Zhao Wuxian with complicated eyes, he was wearing a mask, it was the Yang Tiger who had self-destructed his appearance, and now he had become the minister of Zhao Ying's humerus!

Before Zhao Wuxian saluted, Zhao Ying suddenly asked sharply with a straight face: "Someone said to me that ice is made by freezing water, but it is colder than water." Now in the eyes of the world, you are separated by Taihang and the big river, and Jinyang is called the East and West Zhao. This time, I was hired in the name of Lu Guozhengqing, but I am only the deputy secretary of Jin, and my theoretical status is quite ......"

He asked coldly: "Official affairs come first, private feelings second, you and I, should we bow to the two secretaries first?" ”

The ordinary son was made difficult by his father as soon as he came home, but he was afraid that he would be stupid, but Zhao Wuxian said calmly: "Zhengqing or second-secretary, the status is only obtained the day after tomorrow, but the relationship between father and son, this relationship has existed from beginning to end." The promotion of the day after tomorrow is, of course, not as important as the natural blood relative, the son will always be the son, and the father will always be the father. ”

He bowed down to the three heads, and his forehead touched the ground: "No Xiao boy has no shirts, I have seen my father!" ”

Zhao Wuxian didn't cry or anything, his strength had already made him out of this kind of relying on acting to win Zhao Ying's sympathy, so as to divide his level of power.

However, patriarchy is still insurmountable, you have to save some face for your father, and you can treat it as a child with an impulsive personality.

Sure enough, Zhao Ying was very satisfied, his stiff face was slowly melted by the spring breeze, and said with a smile: "You are not a good son, but you are back." ”

He waved his hand: "My father and son are talking, you go out first." ”

Yang Hu agreed, saluted Zhao Wuxian respectfully, and strode away.

Zhao Wuxian got up and looked at Yang Hu's back, and said slowly: "Father, is this tiger still usable?" ”

Zhao Yan stroked his beard and said, "In the past few years, Yang Hu has been careful about Zhao. He has come up with a lot of ruthless tricks for me, and has also recommended a lot of talented people with bad reputations. Since I had him by my side as the mastermind, Dong Anyu was able to operate in Jinyang with peace of mind, and Fu Sue was able to get out of Xintian to contact Han and Wei for me. ”

"There are ministers who are at peace with the people, and there are ministers who are strategic. There are also diplomatic ministers, so that with Sima Ziliang (post Wuzheng), who is in charge of the military, Zhao's horses are ready and can gallop thousands of miles! ”

Zhao Wuxian praised and sighed: "The kid can tie up this tiger, but I am not sure that he can be used by me, and only a man as brave and strategic as my father dares to feed the tiger by his side, but he is not worried about his backlash." ”

A little slap on the back. Zhao Ying was very useful, but Zhao Wuxian asked intentionally or unintentionally: "By the way, the sentence 'ice, water condenses, and cold is in water', but Yang Hu said it?" ”

"It's not him." Zhao Ying was defenseless, and he didn't treat his son as an outsider, and said the person's name with a smile.

Luan Exciting ...... A descendant of the Luan family who defected to the Zhao family as a diner. Regardless of whether he was intentional or unintentional, Zhao Wuxian firmly remembered the name.

Sure enough, the forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. Let Er and other diners have fish and cars, and they expect you to work hard, but they don't want you to separate my father and son!

……

Although the east and west are thousands of miles apart, and it takes two months for the news to run back and forth, the contact has never been broken.

So there is no need to say anything about what has happened in the past six months, Zhao Wuxian only picked up what he saw and heard along the way. briefly said it to Zhao Ying.

"The Prince of the Patriotic Kingdom?"

When he heard this name, Zhao Ying suddenly became serious.

Caught between the East and West and the Second Zhao, Weiguo is not only a mortal enemy and an obstacle, but also the most convenient direction for expansion. Unknowingly, half of the country and the population of 1780,000 have fallen into the hands of the Zhao family. Although the core of the anointed land, Emperor Chuqiu, is still there, but the rest alone has already made the Zhao clan eat a lot of fat, which is much more cost-effective than the Zhi clan's waste of energy to gnaw on the revenge of meatless.

However, with the constraints of the Qing Dynasty inside, the protection of Qi and Zheng outside, and even the shadowless but ubiquitous tradition of "survival and extinction", it is impossible for the Zhao clan to destroy the defense in a war.

Therefore, the current strategy of the Zhao clan is still to ******** the contact at the same time, trying to force the defense of the country to submit, in this international situation, to set up a puppet to defend the country and pay tribute, than to face the resistance of the defenders and the anger of the princes after the annihilation.

But Wei Hou Yuan is stinky and hard, and if he doesn't die for a day, it will be difficult for Wei Guo to obey the Zhao family.

Fortunately, the pillow came when he was sleepy, and the prince of Weiguo, Kuai Chen, was frightened by Zhao's offensive, and had no choice after being expelled from the country, but was happy to be the leading party.

Zhao Ying smiled mockingly: "It's a pity that Gongzi Yang Sheng of Qi was a guest in the Qiqi Palace, otherwise with this Prince Wei, as well as the grandsons of Gongzi Yi, Teng, Xue, and Xiao Gongzi you brought, it would be quite like an alliance." ”

Zhao Wuxian knew that his father liked to be lively, which was one of the reasons why he took those vassal children back to Jin in addition to being a hostage so that the princes of Sishang did not dare to make a mistake.

For a big family like the Zhao family, face and lining are indispensable.

But those are the icing on the cake, there are more important things to do, he coughed lightly and said: "This time, the Prince Wei also brought a piece of news, a very important secret. ”

Zhao Ying's spirit perked up: "What secret?" ”

"In January, the envoys of Fan and the Bank of China and the Qi Hou pedestrian will meet in Puyang Xintai and will seek Zhao Ye!"

……

Western Zhao alone was stronger than the Zhao clan in history, and at the suggestion of Wu Xian, Zhao moved the main town to Jinyang, which was easy to defend and develop, and returned the power of Shichen and Xiaozong to the central government, and extended the large mu system to all counties, granting land to the people, and winning a lot of applause. In addition, there was also the military reform of training cavalry and cavalry, and the style of Nashi to attract diners, under the auspices of Deng Xi, from the grassroots to the center, the discipline was also slowly carried out, and the remnants of the ancient patriarchal system were swept out of the Zhao family.

But even so, Xizhao's power is only comparable to that of Fan and Zhongxing, after all, it was destroyed once in the disaster of the lower palace, and it is twenty or thirty years behind the development opportunity.

The reason why it was able to occupy an advantage in the confrontation in the past few years was that it took advantage of the blows of Qi and Xianyu to the two families, and secondly, it relied on the rise of Zhao Wuxian in the East.

But once the four enemies of the Zhao clan, Fan, Zhongxing, Qi, and Wei, unite to plot against the Zhao clan, the advantage will no longer exist, and the consequences will be unimaginable!

Sure enough, when Zhao Ying heard this, his face changed: "Jin and Qi have not yet made a truce, Yiyi is still in the hands of the Qi people, and Fan Jijiao and Zhong Xingyin dare to commit treason?" ”

Wuxian shook his head and said: "Judging from the description of the prince of Weiguo, the two families should not defect to the Qi State, after all, there are many contradictions between them. Its purpose is just to discuss with Qi and Wei how to contain our Zhao clan, and the other generation will ensure that they will not attack each other in wartime, and the Fan clan will also inform the Qi people of the movements of Zhao soldiers in the land of Nanyang one by one! ”

Zhao Ying sneered: "No wonder the armies of the two families did not even cross the river during the war, but unfortunately it was useless, Zheng Guo was pinned down by the Song people, and the Qi army was pinned down by the two armies you left in Lu State. Unless Fan and BOC personally attacked Zhao, that little trick would have no effect. ”

Zhao's offensive last year was a surprise, and with a surprise attack expert like Yu Wuzheng, who was good at using chariots and horses, it was a clever way to break the enemy with force.

Wuxian was not so optimistic, he worried: "Although his generation did not succeed, it is not ruled out that there will be another collusion." The kid's idea was that maybe he could let the prince of Weiguo enter Xintian and ask the monarch to help him return to the country, as long as he was given a Weiyi occupied by the Zhao clan and called a lonely widow, the pro-Jin forces, lords and forces within the Weiguo would have a target to take refuge in. If we use our soldiers to attack him again, in time, we may be able to expel Wei Hou Yuan and make Wei Guo turn against me for my use! This is one of them. ”

At the same time, you can also instruct the prince of Weiguo to denounce Fan and the Bank of China for betraying Jin and surrendering to Qi, and his words are conclusive, which will definitely make the monarch suspicious! If you can get the bow, arrow, axe, and organize a crusade against Zhao Weihan and the Bank of China under the orders of the king, then the second secretary will not have to worry about it, and he will occupy the name of righteousness, and Zhibo will have nothing to say! This is the second one! ”

"But didn't you say that Fan and Bank of China were not traitors?"

"If you want to add sin, why not? Didn't my father forget that the excuse that the Di family and the Luan family conspired with me and launched the trouble of going to the palace was not also Zhuang Ji's so-called Zhao Sanqing rebellion? In addition, the destruction of the three and the destruction of the Luan family, which one is really betrayed? It's not the conspirators! I'd rather seek someone than harm me, father! ”

Zhao Ying pondered for a moment, this Hu Qing, who likes dignified battles and doesn't like to play with conspiracy, easily bypassed his moral barriers, nodded and agreed: "Yes, it's a clever plan, and it's quite consistent with Dong Zi's proposal to strike first." ”

"Dong Zi proposed that the Zhao family should do it first?" Zhao Wuxian was shocked when he heard this.

Since the time of Zhao Xuanzi, the Jin State has always had an unwritten tradition of "the first one to die", and whichever of the princes attacks others first will be regarded as a rebellion and will be eliminated by the monarch and the rest of the families.

This is the most powerful deterrent to curb Jin Qing's firefighting, and more often they can only choose to endure each other for the country, rather than fighting each other.

In the Jin Kingdom, this is something that any weak-crowned prince can understand, why would Dong Anyu, as the wise man of the Zhao family, make such a suggestion?

Dong Zi, Dong Zi, what do you think? Zhao Wuxian couldn't wait to run to Jinyang immediately and have a long talk with him.

Zhao Ying did not elaborate on Dong Anyu's proposal, because even Dong Zi himself was hesitating, and Zhao Ying also vetoed this proposal.

It seems more feasible to strike later, or slowly weave a net against Fan and Zhongxing.

These things have to be discussed in the long run, and in the end, Zhao Ying seemed to be a little tired, waved his hand and said: "It's not too late to talk about these things after you get married, there are only three days before the auspicious day, so you have to prepare well." At that time, except for Fan and Bank of China, who only sent envoys to make a show, the rest of the families will let the children of the great sect come to congratulate in person! ”

Zhao Wuxian's heart moved, and he asked earnestly: "Dare to ask, who did the Zhi clan send?" ”

"Is it Zhiyao?"

PS: There is only one bus today, two small cars on the big roof, in short, there is no time to explain, get on the bus!

(To be continued.) )

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