Chapter 420: A Nest of Snakes and Rats

Lin Ke is very familiar with the affairs of the Qi Dynasty, he doesn't say it, in Han Jian's opinion, he is blindly "pretending to be confused". Although Lin Ke is sleek and sophisticated, he is much higher than Gu Weipan in terms of work ability, but after all, he is only a minister of etiquette and music, even if he has the ability, it is difficult to reuse.

"It seems that Lin Shangshu doesn't know much about the affairs of the Southern Dynasty." Han Jian said casually.

Lin Ke smiled, and he didn't say anything about the topic of "Linjiang Wang's Son", so as not to continue to be questioned by Han Jian.

He was very shrewd in his heart, knowing that Han Jian would not say anything about King Linjiang for no reason, and the deepest allusion to King Linjiang himself was the rebellion of King Min of the Southern Dynasty before, and King Min and King Linjiang were close. Three years ago, the case of Fu Siqi's rebellion in the Qi Dynasty involved King Min, and then the King of Linjiang was implicated and sent out of Jinling, and it is precisely because of this that in the eyes of some people, the deepest enemy between the Southern Dynasty and the Empress Dowager He is also this Linjiang King Xiao Tong.

"His Royal Highness the King of the East, about this prince......

"Go back and tell Your Majesty that the king is still trying to rescue the prince. The civil strife in the Qi Dynasty is over, and it is difficult for the Qi Dynasty to release people. ”

Han Jian originally thought that as long as Zhu Tongjing still had a place to use Jiangdu, he could exchange it for the crown prince. But at the moment, the internal disputes in the Qi Dynasty ended in a strange and amicable way, so Zhu Tongjing was not so easy to comply. Even if Zhu Tongjing still wants to use Jiangdu, he will leave Yang Xi as a hostage, or a kind of coercion.

In Zhu Tongjing's eyes, Han Jian would not save Yang Xi lightly. Jiangdu is now two imperial courts, and Yang Xi went back. It will definitely stabilize the Luoyang Imperial Court, and Han Jian will not tolerate such a thing. Zhu Tongjing's idea is that Yang Xi will be killed if he can't return to Jiangdu, and the biggest role he has for Yang Xi is just to warn Han Jian, you have a big trouble in my hands.

But it is obvious that the people in the power plot field have misunderstood what Han Jian meant.

Everyone regarded Han Jian as a hungry tiger who ate people and didn't spit out bones, but Han Jian didn't intend to deny his relatives like this.

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Sima Yu, who was in Jinling, fell into a cage again.

But it was not Zhu Tongjing who imprisoned him this time. It's not Xiao Ling. Bong is not a Cao Gang. It's himself.

It was he who decided to stay and help Xiao Ling "tide over the difficulties".

It goes back to the dawn of August 16. When the Venerable Zuo Gu and Ke Qu'er came to the secret stronghold of the Cao Gang and wanted to rescue Sima Yu, Onishiliu also arrived with the Cao Gang.

Meanwhile. It was when the imperial city of Jinling changed.

At that time, Empress Dowager He had two guards and horses in Jinling City. About four or five thousand soldiers. But it has been blocked in the outer city and cannot enter the inner city. At this time, the three guards and horses under the command of Xie Rumo did not go south to the imperial city, and at the same time. Zhu Tongjing's soldiers and horses transferred back from abroad also arrived outside Jinling City.

At this time, Xie Rumo had a feeling that the general trend had gone. He was very clear about Zhu Tongjing's position, although this person had courage and ambition, he was quite loyal to the royal family of the Qi Dynasty. Even if he could lead his soldiers and horses into the imperial city and kill the Empress Dowager He and the little emperor, Zhu Tongjing would support another royal man to be the emperor. This person is likely to be the eldest princess Yongdan Princess Xiao Zhan, who has a close relationship with Zhu Tongjing.

Xie Rumo is not familiar with Xiao Zhan, but he knows that this Princess Yongdan is also his "confidant". As the sister of the little emperor and the eldest daughter of the Empress Dowager He, Princess Yongdan has a lot of prestige in the Qi Dynasty, and she also has the solid backing of Zhu Tongjing. This Xiao Zhan is obviously more dangerous than the little emperor. Once he succeeded in capturing the imperial city, he would no longer be able to control the entire Qi Dynasty, and even if he could trap Jinling, he would only hold the inner city of Jinling City, because there were still two guards in the outer city, and Ma Ke was dispatched by Zhu Tongjing, and he no longer controlled the scope at all.

On the night of 15 August, Xie Rumo made a decision to send people out of the city to contact Zhu Tongjing to discuss "peace talks."

In this hand, Xie Ru meditated a lot. He did not send someone to contact the Empress Dowager He in the palace, because he wanted to make a gap between Zhu Tongjing and the Empress Dowager He, so that the Empress Dowager He began to doubt his daughter and Zhu Tongjing. In this way, Empress Dowager He will not be able to put all her mind on how to deal with herself, and the consequences of his failure in this rebellion will be unlimitedly suppressed.

At this time, Zhu Tongjing, who was outside Jinling City, was also unable to transfer soldiers and horses into the inner city to rescue Empress Dowager He and the little emperor. He could only wait for the opportunity, waiting for Xiao Zhan, who had secretly entered the city, and some fine works to give news, hoping that through the lobbying in the city, the people within Xie Rumo's party would collapse. Only in this way can the transferred soldiers and horses enter the city.

At the same time, Zhu Tongjing was also prepared, once it was said that the palace was lost, and the little emperor and the Empress Dowager He fell into the hands of Xie Rumo, he was also ready to support the new emperor. At this time, he is no longer a "little white face", and is regarded as the forbidden "face" of the Empress Dowager He. He was injured and had the right to soldier, and once the new emperor was established, he would become the second Xie Rumo. He is different from Xie Rumo, who is a civil minister, his courage and strategy are deeper, and no matter who he supports, he will be relied on, and his power will not be able to be disintegrated in just a few years or even more than ten years.

Although Zhu Tongjing knows very well that if he does not save the palace, he can be more famous than saving the palace. But he still didn't want to be so "risky".

After all, there is a stalk in his heart, which is Han Jian in Jiangdu. He has been used by Han Jian many times, and he has already felt that the time for the unification of the world is not far away. The chaos in the north was the best opportunity for the south to unify the north, and the biggest obstacle to the unification of the north came from Jiangdu. He did not dare to risk plunging the Qi Dynasty into turmoil, which would only make the people of the Northern Dynasty profit from it, and he could quickly calm down the internal troubles, and then the Southern Dynasty would not be able to unify the world, that is, when the Northern Dynasty unified the world.

So Zhu Tongjing was thinking more about how to quickly solve the disaster in front of him. It is not easy to kill Xie Rumo, and now Xie Rumo has already controlled the inner city of Jinling, and he will enter the palace at any time. And it is not easy to rescue the palace.

When he was most entangled, Xie Rumo actually took a step ahead of him and sent someone to "make peace" with him. This made Zhu Tongjing feel surprised at the same time, but also felt that Xie Rumo was forced to the point of "jumping off the wall".

Indeed, no matter whether Xie Rumo broke through the palace or not, he could not completely eradicate the Xiao royal family. As a result, Zhu Tongjing, who supported his own troops outside Jinling City, will be the next powerful minister, and after the Empress Dowager He and the little emperor "suffered", he will support the new emperor. At this time, Xie Rumo could also choose to attack the palace instead of killing the little emperor and Empress Dowager He, but instead used this as a threat to designate Zhu Tongjing as a thief. But he is clearly unlikely to have more support.

The northern army was under the control of Zhu Tongjing, and Xiao Ling, the actual ruler of the southern army, was still "missing" at this time, Xie Rumo found that he, who was originally deeply rooted in the army, could only completely control the three guards and horses in Jinling City at this time. Even if there are "his own people" outside the city, because Zhu Tongjing quickly transferred troops back to Jinling, he has cut off his contact with the outside world.

In this case, negotiation and peace have also become his best choice.

Two people who are scheming and have their own scheming, in this critical situation, they will hit it off. Zhu Tongjing immediately agreed with Xie Rumo's proposal and allowed him to continue to "surrender" to the Empress Dowager. At the same time, the blame for this rebellion was also placed on the four auxiliary ministers of Song, Huang, and Li Yue. At the same time, this is equivalent to eradicating the hidden dangers of some powerful people in Jinling City, and dividing the power of Jinling City from the confrontation between the two sides.

After the discussion was completed, Xie Rumo, in order to "show sincerity", withdrew the soldiers and horses attacking the palace, and at the same time took out some middle and lower-level generals to take the blame. At the same time, he also tied up some of the city ministers he had detained and handed them over to "apologize".

It was also the dawn of August 16. Zhu Tongjing's vanguard soldiers and horses have entered the inner city of Jinling City.

After Da Xiliu learned the news, although he didn't know that it was the Qi Dynasty people who negotiated peace internally, he felt that he had to end the "incitement" immediately, and if he couldn't rescue the prince, he had to bring Sima Yi back first, plus a Xiao Ling. This transaction Jiang is all profitable.

But Da Xiliu didn't expect that Master Zuogu and Ke Qu'er would come, and the purpose of their master and apprentice was not as simple as "saving people". It is more close to a kind of "coercion".

The Southern Dynasties were not "peaceful" in the first place, and there was famine and chaos in some parts of the Southern Dynasties, and those who led these were also the Jianghu organizations that were identified as chaotic parties. Among them, those who were identified as leaders were also some people from the rivers and lakes represented by the people of Zuo Gu.

Onishiliu took the Cao Gang brothers to the secret stronghold of the Cao Gang, and after discovering the Zuogu Shangren and Ke Qu'er, he realized that this seemed to be a "kidnapping" operation carried out by the Zuogu Shangren in order to calm the local suppression of the "rebel army". Yang Yu, the son of the Southern Wangfu of Yuzhou in the Northern Dynasty, was also in the hands of the Zuogu master.

When the Zuogu Master found out that a large number of people and horses were killed, and it was also from the Northern Dynasty, with her martial arts, it would not be difficult to escape.

But if she wants to take people away, she herself knows that it is impossible.

In this case, the best way is to maintain a "gentle" relationship with Jiangdu, after all, Han Jian is still pursuing her apprentice at the moment, and maintains a very subtle "courtesy" towards her and Ke Qu'er.

"Take it away!"

Master Zuo Gu just said a word, and then withdrew with Ke Qu'er.

Come as fast as you go. From beginning to end, it makes people feel that their master and apprentice just came to save Sima Yi and Xiao Ling.

"Miss Xiliu, it's a good thing you came just in time." In Sima Yi's opinion, he just thought that when the people of Zuo Gu saw the comer, they felt that they could not kill people, so they had to withdraw first.

But in fact, he didn't know about the relationship between Ke Quer and Han Jian at all.

At this time, Da Xiliu already knew that Jinling City could not stay, so he had to quickly take advantage of the chaos to escort these people out of the city. (To be continued......)