After Wei Zeng said goodbye and left, Gao Yuan asked, "Xiaofang, how is the situation of the beam now?" ”

Zhang Liang shook his head and said, "It's still not much better, it's still complicated." ”

Gao Yuan frowned and said, "Is it difficult that the news of the victory in the Battle of Xingkou has no impact on Daliang City at all?" ”

Zhang Liang smiled bitterly and said: "To say that there is no impact at all, of course it is impossible, but the change is not big, in a sense, the situation we are facing in Daliang is even worse." ”

Gao Yuan couldn't help but be puzzled, and said, "What's worse? ”

Zhang Liang nodded and said: "Because the lord defeated the Qin army, the threat of the Qin army in Daliang is much smaller, and as a result, some people think that they can make trouble, but it turns out to be more fierce, so according to the following opinion, the lord should rush to Daliang as much as possible to take over the Xiangyin of the Wei State, so that these people can die." ”

It turned out that the king of Wei was forced by the pressure of the Qin army to remove the minister of state Wei Xing, and worshiped Gao Yuan as the state minister of Wei State, although this was only a fictitious title, but it still caused Wei Xing's hostility to the plateau, thinking that it was the plateau that took away his position as the state minister. Moreover, Wei Xing has served as the minister of Wei for more than 20 years, and he is the clan of Wei State, with many henchmen, all over the government and the opposition, and there are also some people who are not Wei Xing's henchmen, but they are not used to seeing the phase of Wei being controlled by outsiders, and they belong to absolute conservatives, so they have also stood on Wei Xing's side.

As a result, although the King of Wei pretended to send Wei Zeng to invite Gao Yuan to ask Gao Yuan to be the minister of Wei, but after all, Gao Yuan has not taken over the Xiangyin of Wei, and he has not officially become the minister of Wei, so every day there are people attacking Gao Yuan in front of King Wei. And there are very few people who support the plateau, and among the important ministers, there is only Wei Zeng in Shichen.

At this time, the news of Gao Yuan's defeat of the Qin army at Xingkou and his victory reached Wei, which did improve the morale of Wei's army to a certain extent, and there were more people who supported Gao Yuan, but it did not suppress the opposition voice, on the contrary, it became greater. Because the people who supported the plateau were basically middle- and lower-class officials and scholars, and the victory of the plateau made the conservatives of the Wei state feel very nervous.

So Wei Xing brought several ministers of the Wei family into the palace to cry and admonish the king of Wei, and resolutely opposed letting Gao Yuan serve as the minister of Wei. There were even a few people who even made false promises to the King of Wei that it was better to capture the plateau and dedicate it to the Qin State in exchange for the Qin State to withdraw from the army.

In all fairness, the King of Wei didn't want Gao Yuan to be the minister of Wei, but after all, he was the King of Wei, and he naturally had to think about one more layer than the ministers, and he couldn't help but think about the survival of Wei, and now the only person who can command the army to resist the Qin army is Gao Yuan.

In addition, this reversal action, in fact, is also the King of Wei pretended to use his strength to suppress Wei Xing, as early as when Wei Wang Fake was still too young, he was also very dissatisfied with Wei Xing, because Wei Xing has been the Minister of State for more than 20 years, deep-rooted, many things even Wei Wang Fake had to look at Wei Xing's face, compared to this time Wei Wang Fake was originally opposed to the Wei army stationed in Chenggao, but Wei Xing forcibly insisted, Wei Wang Fake also had to make concessions, and the result led to the defeat of the Wei army.

The Wei State has been very vigilant about the excessive power of the Wei Dynasty in all dynasties, because the ancestors of the Wei State were originally the subordinates of the Jin State, but in the end they divided the Wei State with the Zhao and Han families, so the successive monarchs of the Wei State were very wary of the overly powerful subordinates, and even in the Wei State there was a matter of not setting up a state minister.

And the fake father of the king of Wei, King Wei Jingyu, appointed Wei Xing as the minister of state, and sat for twenty years, because he took a fancy to Wei Xing's mediocre intelligence and honest duty, that knew that a person who had been sitting in the phase for twenty years, no matter how mediocre his intelligence became cunning, and honest people would also collude with factions and cultivate their own private forces. King Wei finally seized this opportunity, and of course he would not let it go, and took the opportunity to remove Wei Xing from the post of state minister.

But after all, Wei Xing still has a lot of forces, so Lalong's henchmen, united with the conservative forces of Wei, desperately waved the flag and shouted, nominally opposing outsiders to serve as the minister of Wei, but in fact they still wanted to re-ascend the throne. As for the soldiers of the Qin army on the opposite side, Wei Xing couldn't take care of it. In the face of the appeal of the conservative forces of Wei, Wei Wang pretended to push left and right, and fought Tai Chi on the grounds of resisting the Qin army, which also made Wei Xing and others helpless for a while.

Although Zhang Liang did not have a long time to Daliang, he was a Korean nobleman, and he knew the situation of Wei very well, and he was good at making friends, observing words and feelings, and as a result, Zhang Liang felt the situation of Wei in a few days, so Zhang Liang believed that Gao Yuan should immediately rush to Daliang and take over the phase, and not to be the minister of state in name, immediately open the government to govern affairs, and formally exercise the power of the prime minister. Only in this way can the conservative forces be suppressed.

The Prime Minister's Office is not the private residence of the Prime Minister, but also an office institution, which is actually the formation of an institution similar to the cabinet of later generations, and the members of the Prime Minister are appointed by the Prime Minister himself, and the monarch cannot interfere with more than eighty percent of the state affairs except for the military, and it is truly under one person and above ten thousand people. Therefore, it is very easy to cultivate his own private power as Xiangguo, and a person with mediocre intelligence like Wei Xing, after serving as Xiangguo for 20 years, has also cultivated a huge force that even the monarch must give three points.

After listening to Zhang Liang's introduction to the situation in Daliang, Gao Yuan could only smile bitterly, at this time, the country has reached this point, these people are still in the mood to fight for power and profit, but Gao Yuan thought about it, this kind of thing is too common in Chinese history, what happened in Wei is just one of the examples.

Gao Yuan thought for a while and said: "If there are so many people in Wei who oppose me as the minister of Wei, then is it appropriate for me to go to Daliang at this time, will it cause Daliang's internal commotion?" ”

Zhang Liang shook his head and said: "This possibility is not impossible, but the lord must serve as the minister of Wei in order to command the army of Wei and resist the Qin army, otherwise with the current situation of Wei, even if Daliang City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the lord can hold Xingkou, it is estimated that he will not be able to save Wei." ”

And we are not without advantages, one is that now the king of Wei is planning to use our hands to eliminate the power of Wei Xing, and we can just take advantage of the mentality of the king of Wei to officially serve as the minister of Wei and open the government to govern affairs. grasp the power of the Wei State; The second is that those who oppose the lord are all the clan clans of the Wei state, and the middle and lower-level officials, as well as the soldiers and ordinary people of the Wei state, are full of expectations for the lord, because the result of the first battle of Chenggao has made them completely disappointed in the clan clan of the Wei state, and the victory of the lord in the battle of Xingkou is a great encouragement to the military and people of the Wei state, and they have regarded the lord as the savior of the Wei state, so as long as the lord is good at taking advantage of this and controlling the army of the Wei state first, he can control the government of the Wei state. What's more, the clan clan of the Wei State does not have any capable people, and it is really easy for the lord to deal with them. ”

Gao Yuan nodded, what Zhang Liang said made sense, he had to control the government of Wei in order to implement the development plan he had formulated, and he didn't plan to work in Wei for a long time, just take this period of time to be attached to it, if he really defeated the Qin army, or if Daliang couldn't hold it, he could pat his ass and leave, and care about what the final result of Wei was.

Therefore, Gao Yuan said: "Okay, we will set off to Daliang tomorrow, and the house will rest early, and we will catch up with the road tomorrow." ”

Zhang Liang also gave a salute to Gao Yuan, and then retired.

After Zhang Liang left, Gao Yuan ordered someone to invite Lu Renjie and Su Hu, and told them that they would go to Daliang tomorrow, and at the same time told them about the current situation of Daliang and the difficulties he faced as Xiangguo, and asked that one of the two would go back to Daliang with him, and the other person would stay in Xingkou to assist Yuan Xuan in guarding Xingkou.

Now Lu Renjie and Su Hu have been closely linked to the plateau, and Gao Yuan has served as the minister of Wei, which is a good thing for both of them, so the two briefly discussed it and decided that Lu Renjie would go to Daliang with the plateau, because Lu Renjie is older, his seniority in the army is much deeper than Su Hu, and he also has quite a lot of interpersonal relationships in the Daliang City Army, and many middle and lower-level officers are Lu Renjie's subordinates, and seizing the army is the most important thing for the plateau in Daliang.

In fact, Gao Yuan also wanted Lu Renjie to go to Daliang with him, and when he saw the two of them making such a decision, he was also very satisfied, and asked the two about the Daliang military.

Now the army of Daliang City is roughly divided into three parts, one is the men and horses of Wei Yanbu, the general of Daliang, with a total of 30,000 people, belonging to the full-time army, and he is responsible for the security guard of Daliang City in peacetime, and he is responsible for the arrangement of defending Daliang in wartime; The other is the guard army guarding the palace of the king of Wei, with a total of 20,000 people, led by Wei Wenhui, the younger brother of the king of Wei, Ma Lingjun, and basically composed of the children of the clan. These two parts of the people are directly under the orders of the King of Wei, even the Great Sima can not be mobilized, and the other part is the soldiers who have just been recruited, when Lu Renjie and Su Hu left the Great Liang, a total of more than 50,000 people were recruited, this part of the army does not have a unified main general, it is commanded by the Great Liang General in name, but it is currently led by three people, namely Wei Mao, Wei Chang, and Chen Hao.

Judging from the introduction of the two, the main generals of the leading army are basically the clans of the Wei State, but except for the guards, the rest are composed of ordinary civilians, who are middle and lower-level officers, so Lu Renjie also believes that many of them can be persuaded to take refuge in the plateau, including Chen Hao.