Lord of the House

Hearing that the spies reported that the captive king Ye Jier sent a secret envoy to Chengdu to confer Cao Yiqu the king of Shu, Lin Fu laughed and said, "Cao Yiqu took the wrong medicine, so he will only accept the canonization of the captive at this time. The intention is probably also to prompt the Cao family to resolutely separate the two Sichuans, and to intensify the suspicion between Jiangning and Chengdu, this news may be leaked by Ye Jier on purpose..."

"Since the previous dynasty, Liangchuan has been more prosperous than Guanzhong, and its population is three times that of Guanzhong; after years of war, Liangchuan's Dingkou should be more than 5 million, far from being able to compare with Guanzhong, which has been drought and drought for many years. For Cao Yiqu In other words, the period of occupying the two rivers is too short and the foundation is not solid. Even if Cao Yiqu asks Yanhu to take Guanzhong, he should be willing to join forces with Yanhu at this time to strengthen the foundation of the two rivers,” Gao Zongting said, “and Yan Hu made Chen Zhihu the king of Qin, and in Guanzhong, Xu Kaifu set up civil and military officials, which was actually almost ceding Guanzhong to Chen Zhihu as a vassal state; and Ye Jiluorong led 30,000 Yanhu native cavalry to retreat to southern Jin and deploy in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. The North Shore probably also marks that Yanhu is going to carry out a comprehensive strategic contraction, and concentrate his forces to defend the core places such as Jinzhong and Yanji..."

"Do we also need to send envoys to Chengdu to explore the mind of the Cao family?" Song Fu asked.

Lin Bie frowned, but did not immediately respond to Song Fu's proposal.

Seeing Lin Fuwei frowning, Hu Wenmu didn't know whether he was worried about the Cao family who had retreated to the two Sichuans, or whether he was thinking about the Northern Expedition.

The Battle of Jingxiang almost laid the foundation for Huaidong, but Cao Yiqu still had 70,000 or 80,000 troops and horses in his hands. He owned tens of millions of acres of land and 5 million mouths in the two Sichuans. Its strength and military potential in the next three to five years should not be underestimated. peep.

Cao Yiqu would not accept Yanhu's title of King of Shu, but he would obviously not easily give up his intention to separate Sichuan and Shu.

The key at the moment is that Cao Yiqu’s time in running Sichuan and Shu is too short. The Cao family gradually mastered Sichuan and Shu almost after the first year of Yongxing. It has only been four or five years. Without transforming the military potential of Chuanshu into real strength, after three years of Yongxing, the foundation of Guanzhong was called Yanhu to attack and destroy it with all his strength; if Cao Yiqu had won the two Sichuans ten years before Chongguan, he would have You will never be so weak in defense.

Gao Zongting said: "The Qin Dynasty had to confuse Han's solidity, but it was only among the seven heroes, and it was only when the land of Shu was that it became the weather under the world. After the previous dynasties, the environment in Guanzhong became bad; At the peak of Dingkou, it was only three million, less than one-third of the land of Shu; and the civil unrest during the Chongguan years started from the northwest. It is far less than Chuanshu. When the Hu captives captured Yanji, Cao Yiqu launched his army in Chuanshu, just in the name of seeking Chuanshu in Guanzhong and then swallowing the Central Plains. However, after the defeat of Yanhu in the battle of Xuzhou, the strategic focus suddenly shifted westward. , caught the Cao family by surprise, maybe the Cao family resented us in their hearts."

Lin Fu smiled and said, "That's right, if there was no battle in Xuzhou, the main force of Yanhu would be entangled with us on the east front for three or five years, and maybe the Cao family would have developed a climate based on Sichuan and Shaanxi..." He sighed again, "However, Sichuan and Shu are rich in population and land resources. Compared with other places, they also have unique absolute advantages. Cao Yiqu may not think that the people under his rule are war-weary!"

Hu Wenmu thought about it carefully, the battle in Xuzhou and the stabilization of Huaidong's defense line in the Xusi area afterward were indeed a key turning point in the rise of Huaidong and the general trend of the world. Freeing up his hands to recover Zhejiang and Fujian and driving the tiger and swallowing the wolf, the She family was defeated in Jiangxi, and turned to Jiangning, Jiangxi and other places.

But now Huaidong wants to enter the two rivers, and can only go west from Yiling to the Xiajiang channel in the upper reaches of the Yangzi River.

As long as Cao Yiqu deploys tens of thousands of elites in key places such as Yuzhou in the upper reaches of the Xiajiang River, he can refuse the Huaidong Army outside the two Sichuans, and there is enough time to rest and nourish his strength in Sichuan and Sichuan, and he will not be afraid of Huaihe at all. The Eastern Army was very strong at this time.

Unless the Huaidong Army can recapture Guanzhong earlier and threaten the two rivers from the north flank at the same time, it is possible to make Cao Yiqu surrender without fighting.

At this time, Yanhu's strategy was shrinking, and his troops and horses were gathered north of the Yellow River, and Chen Zhihu was named King of Qin and Yiguanzhong. In addition to being able to concentrate their own troops to defend Yanji and Jinzhong, there is another key. The main thing is to use Chen Zhihu as a screen to ease the relationship with the Cao family in Liangchuan, so as to deny the Huaidong Army's entry into Guanzhong.

Although Chen Zhihu was full of blood in Henan, Jin and other places, he had not yet started massacres in Guanzhong. Yan Hu used Chen Zhihu to guard the pass, named him the King of Qin, and allowed him to open a vassal state. Apart from Chen Zhihu himself being a famous general who was invincible in a hundred battles, and his troops preserved their strength in the battle of Jingxiang, he also used Chen Zhihu, a former Han minister of the dynasty, to ease the relationship with the Western Qin Dynasty. The tension between the local forces in the prefecture wanted to make Guanzhong quickly become an important vassal town that could confront and contain Huaidong.

Of course, Yan Hu would not easily return Guanzhong to the Cao family, but to make Chen Zhihu establish his own vassal state in Guanzhong is also to make the Cao family see that Yanhu's threat to Sichuan and Shu from the north and from Guanzhong has been greatly reduced, so that the Cao family can rest assured. The military center of gravity moved to the Yuzhou line to prevent the Huaidong Army from taking Sichuan and Shu along the Yangtze River.

Yan Hu also saw that Guanzhong would not lose Huaidong's hand, and the Cao family would not easily surrender to Huaidong; and sending a secret envoy to make Cao Yiqu the king of Shu was not to say that he really hoped that Cao Yiqu would accept it, but to deepen the relationship between Cao Yiqu and Huaidong. between vigilance and prevention.

As long as the Cao family does not give in, does not give up military power, and there is the possibility of sending troops from Xiajiang to attack the two lakes, Huaidong will station heavy troops in Jingzhou and Yiling to guard against the Cao family. Military pressure on Yan Hu from other aspects.

However, as long as the Cao family did not give up their ambitions for separatism, the first person to guard against was no longer Yanhu, but Huaidong, who had the potential to swallow the world.

Although many of the Cao clan's children died in the Battle of Guanzhong under the iron cavalry of Yan and Hu, and blood stained the land of Guan and Shaanxi, in the face of realistic political interests, hatred by the country and the family is nothing more than a child's play.

After the battle of Jingxiang, both lakes will be included in the center, which is actually a territory controlled by the Huaidong Army, but Lin Fu must also regard the Cao family as an urgent threat, right? Hu Wenmu thought to himself, and said: "Song Gong's discussion, I also feel that it is necessary to send an envoy into Sichuan to explore the Cao family's mind..."

"In addition to the fact that the Cao family is separated from the emperor's family, will they really dare to go out of the Xiajiang River in the next two years?" Lin Fu smiled lightly and said, "It is also good to send envoys to Chengdu. , with nest silk, weaving silk, salt iron and cloth dyeing for prosperity, the Cao family's forces can only barely control Yuzhou (now Chongqing), I remember that there is a road in western Hunan and the southeast of Shu, and the road is not dangerous enough. The army passed through, but the entry of salt, iron, silk cloth and other items is still convenient. As long as the Cao family still respects the imperial family, they cannot prevent the Jianghuai salt and iron silk cloth and other goods from receiving goods in southern Chongqing. What a climate!"

Although the Cao family dominates Chuanshu, Chen Zhihu dominates Guanzhong and Dong Yuan are all important cards that Yan Hu can play, but looking at Lin Fu's tone, he doesn't particularly care, and Hu Wenmu also secretly sighs: Even if there are Dong Yuan and the imperial party If Yan Hu was able to unite closely with the Cao family, he could only be evenly matched with Huaidong.

In just three or five years, the situation in the world has changed, which is truly dizzying!

No matter what Hu Wenmu was thinking, Song Fu stood aside and said, "Chen Zhihu just preserved his strength, and then he took Ye Jiluorong to escape the 30,000 remnants of soldiers to Guanzhong, and he was rewarded by the King of Qin. Presumably the lord will return to Jiangning this time and establish a government system. It shouldn't be a problem..."

Lin Fu smiled slightly and didn't answer Song Fu's words, but in Hu Wenmu's opinion, Lin Fu wanted to do so.

Lin Fu was already in the position of the Duke of the State, with the five counties of Chongzhou and Yizhou as private towns, but the nature was still a fief. Although there were subordinates, they were limited to a limited number of people such as Changshi, Cheng, Zhuzhu, and Dianshi.

The meaning of setting up officials and ministers is completely different when the government establishes an official system. From then on, Chongguo will become a vassal of the Yue Dynasty, rather than the former vassal.

For Lin Fu, it doesn't make much sense to add a prince or give Jiuxi, but the establishment of the government system and the placement of generals are actually more practical transformation of the current Privy Council into the Chongguo Gongfu, or in other words, the Privy Council. It was the most substantial step in the era of Yuan Dynasty to separate from the center and put it under the government of Chongguo, to make the generals of the privy envoys become the generals of Chongguo, and to make the 300,000 generals of Huaidong officially transform into soldiers of the Chongguo.

Hu Wenmu thought to himself, but when he saw Gao Zongting looking at him, his mind became active, and then he realized that even if Lin Fu wanted to open the government and establish an official system, this matter could not be brought up by the people of Huaidong, this was not something prepared for him ?

Hu Wenmu thought that the people in Huaidong should have hinted to Zuo Chengmu about this~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But Zuo Chengmu returned to Jiangning when he was in Zaoyang, he should cherish his reputation, and he really didn't want to do it. Minister, Hu Wenmu also hesitated.

Although Lin Fu was born in the Yuan Dynasty in the future, he will naturally not forget his contributions, and the new dynasty will naturally praise him for his good reputation, but after thousands of years, Shi Jiayanshi may not have a good reputation - and Hu Wenmu cannot help but hesitate.

But these hesitant thoughts just turned around in Hu Wenmu's mind. Compared with the possible negative evaluations of later generations, the real benefits are within reach-just giving up the ambition to separate Jinghu, without other credits, how can it be New Dynasty occupy a place?

"From the perspective of the following ministers, the privy envoys have the merits of standing up the country, and they will be cheap for the future Northern Expedition. It is also a natural choice to open the government and appoint hundreds of officials," Hu Wenmu said. "The ministers are not talented.

Song Fu and Gao Zongting glanced at each other, knowing that Lin Fu's face was still tender, and said, "In this heavy snowy weather, I have to ask Hu Gong to return to Jiangning first..."

Hu Wenmu said, "It's hard work, but it's not enough to describe the pain." I thought that it was no wonder that Lin Fu was not in a hurry to go back to Jiangning. Once the official establishment of the government and the appointment of generals were mentioned, it would definitely cause some waves in Jiangning.

Lin Bie seemed to think that the topic just now had not been brought up. He looked back from Xiangyang City on the other side of the Han River and said, "The enemy of Xiangyang can't be dragged on for a long time. Is the list of war criminals of the Military Intelligence Department listed? I think it is thirty The number of days is limited, and the war criminals and ordinary soldiers of the second class and below will go out of the city to surrender, and the death penalty will be forgiven; those who do not surrender after thirty days, the puppet Han army except for the soldiers below the capital, and the Yan army except for the soldiers below the small banner. The rest will be killed! The days of attacking Xiangyang City will also last for 30 days." My QT room is open! More vulgar official QT room number [9167] Click to enter