Wei and Jin cooks

According to the information, Li Xiong admired Zhang Gui of Xiliang very much. When he reached the end of the battlefield, he even told his left and right that he would take everyone to Xiliang to join Zhang Gui.

Zhang Gui of Xiliang has been sheltering refugees who escaped from the Central Plains. After forming an alliance with Zhao Hanzhang, he even split a piece of land and built a new Jinxing County to accommodate the refugees. Li Xiong just wanted to go to Jinxing County.

There are some words that have different effects when said by someone you admire, by your subordinates or by your opponents.

He wanted to speed up. The New Year was getting closer and closer. Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan were getting married soon. He still wanted to bring Princess Hongnong and Fu Xuan back in time.

After Zhao Xin collected the information, he immediately wrote a note and gave it to the soldier, asking him to send it to the scouts immediately, "Ask them to send it out immediately after receiving the letter. After sending it out, they should pack up their things and move to another location immediately."

"Ah?" the soldier said, "I am very careful, there is no tail following me."

Zhao Xin said: "Be careful. They brought the radio with them and there is no room for error."

The soldiers agreed and went quietly to deliver the message.

Zhao Xin asked Zhao Hanzhang to write to Zhang Gui, asking Zhang Gui to persuade Li Xiong.

Zhao Hanzhang raised his eyebrows, without hesitation, and immediately wrote to Zhang Gui. It just so happened that she might not have been in touch with him for a long time. She wanted to suggest him to raise more sheep with more food. Don't worry about the sales of sheep. She was confident that next year The Central Plains will consume a lot of mutton.

In addition to mutton, there is also goat milk. The nutritional value of the people cannot keep up. In addition to soy milk, they should also drink more milk.

Only if their bodies are stronger can they build a good country.

As for the matter of Shu, Zhao Hanzhang only mentioned two sentences. One was that Li Xiong, the leader of the Cheng Kingdom, had always admired Shiyan, and the other was that my country was deeply saddened by the loss of Shu...

It seemed that he just mentioned a few words casually when talking about the current situation in the world, but Zhang Guiqi had a delicate mind and stared at these two sentences twice after receiving the letter sent by Zhao Hanzhang as quickly as possible.

Then he put the letter away and said to his confidants: "General Zhao has stabilized the Central Plains and told the herdsmen to keep more lambs next spring. In the fall, we will sell the sheep to the rich Central Plains in exchange for their food." , cloth and porcelain.”

"And salt."

Zhang Gui burst out laughing and replied happily: "Yes, there is salt!"

"But salt in the Central Plains is also expensive. Haven't the people sent out found new salt wells and salt rocks yet?"

Two of their salt wells are about to be exhausted, and it is expected that they will not be able to produce much salt in another three or four years, so they need to find new salt wells and salt rocks.

There are more and more people in Xiliang, and more and more salt is needed every year.

After sending his subordinates away, the smile on Zhang Gui's face slowly fell. He sat in front of the case and looked solemnly at the pen and paper in front of him.

After a long silence, he began to study ink and write a letter.

Li Xiong, who was far away in Shu, was confused when he received a letter from Xiliang.

When he opened the letter, he was even more confused, but after the confusion, he looked at the words in the letter and began to think deeply.

Li Xiong always thought that he had one-sided respect for Zhang Gui. To put it bluntly, he was a fan of Zhang Gui. He never thought that Zhang Gui would know about him and even wrote a letter to persuade him.

Zhang Gui persuaded him to become a vassal of the Jin Dynasty. Li Xiong, who originally wanted to fight with Zhao Hanzhang for a while to gain more benefits and territory, hesitated.

Who would want to be a traitor scolded in history books if he could be a loyal minister?

It is true that the monarch of Jin was too weak, had low moral character, and had mental problems, so he had to rebel for the sake of the people;

But in Shu, he would also be worried that Liu Yuan and Shi Le would be cruel and massacre the Han and Di people. If Zhao Hanzhang hadn't appeared powerful enough, he would not have thought of joining the Jin Kingdom, even if Zhang Gui persuaded him.

He didn't think the Sima family could lead the people of the world out of the quagmire.

Just as he was hesitating, the doctor from the Ministry of War stumbled in, supporting a soldier, shouting all the way: "Urgent report, urgent report, urgent report!"

Li Xiong was startled, immediately pressed down the letter and stood up.

The imperial army immediately brought the two men in, ordered the soldiers to kneel on the ground, handed over the military report, and said urgently: "Your Majesty, the Zhao family's army has entered Fuling County, and together with Li Zhao, they have attacked the three counties of Fuling. Fuling, Fuling County is about to fall. .”

Li Xiong's eyes widened and he asked, "Who led the Zhao army and how did they get there?"

The soldiers don't know.

When Fan Changsheng and the court officials arrived, they learned about the actual situation in Fuling County from the soldiers.

A few months ago, Li Xiong sent Li Xiang to attack Fuling and captured the prefect Qiao Deng, but Fuling did not fall completely.

Because of the cold weather, Li Xiang brought his army back, but there were still troops left in Fuling. From time to time, he would fight with the opponent, and he would count as one county if he could capture a county.

In this way, the water mill tofu conquered three counties.

The people on the opposite side were also attracted by them and wanted to leave Jin and join them. When the situation was good, a Zhao army fell from the sky. They were wet, some even had no shoes, but they were well-armed and had fierce fighting spirit. They were stunned for a day. Within a short time, a city was taken away.

Before they had time to react, Zhao Jiajun joined forces with Li Zhao on the opposite side, and the two armies took back the other two cities.

The soldier said: "I heard from the people who escaped over there that General Wang of the Zhao Jiajun came forward to persuade many landlords to provide food to help the people. When the people over there saw that it was the Zhao Jiajun, they didn't even run over."

Li Xiang was very angry and said to Li Xiong: "Your Majesty, Zhao Hanzhang did not keep his word. He negotiated with us here, but stole our rear area over there. I request that Zhao Xin be killed to enhance the country's prestige."

Fan Changsheng asked: "After the next three cities, will they continue to attack?"

The ordering soldier replied: "No, Zhao Jiajun just put up the flag and then stopped moving."

These things are stated in the military report, and there are even more detailed information that even the soldiers don't know about.

Li Xiong read the military report carefully and handed it to the prime minister expressionlessly.

Fan Changsheng quickly took it and opened it to read. After reading it, he became silent and handed it to Li Xiang.

Li Xiang took it angrily. The military newspaper said that the leader of the Zhao army was Wang Xuan. After capturing three cities, he wrote a letter to General Yu who was stationed in Chengguo, asking to talk to him.

General Yu has gone.

The military newspaper said that the reason why Wang Xuan forcibly crossed the Wujiang River was because he was ordered to take the Jin ministers here to report on their duties and had no intention of offending Cheng Guo.

It was just a coincidence that the two countries were at war when they arrived. As a minister of the Jin Dynasty, he had the responsibility to defend the territory and also had the obligation to help his colleagues, so he sent troops to support Li Zhao.

The king and his ministers were speechless.

Will they believe Wang Xuan's words?

Of course not.

Not to mention that their negotiations had just reached this stage two days ago and were not yet completely settled. It would take more than five or six days for Xin to travel from Shu to Luoyang, and from Luoyang to Jingzhou, not to mention leading an army. Forced to cross the Wujiang River and cross the Wushan Mountains to Fuling County.

Obviously, Zhao Hanzhang had already arranged it. Counting the time, almost as soon as Zhao Xin arrived in Bashu, Wang Xuan set off on the back.

In other words, Zhao Hanzhang had calculated everything accurately and was sure that they would become ministers to Jin, provided that the area of ​​the vassal state was large, and Zhao Hanzhang had already defined the scope of the vassal state for them.