Wei and Jin cooks

Zhao Xin and Wei Jie both stayed in Jizhou, where they promoted the cooperation between Wang Jun and Liu Kun, and also accepted materials sent by Zhao Hanzhang there to achieve tripartite cooperation.

The letter was written by Zhao Xin. When the letter was written, they had already sent troops to occupy Xi'an County and Guangrao County in Qi County, Qingzhou. One army even bypassed Linzi County and went straight to Beihai County.

Linzi is the administrative seat of Qingzhou, and Gouchun is there.

The letter stated that Wang Jun had doubled the amount of weapons, food and supplies requested, and asked Zhao Hanzhang for troops and horses. If she felt that the Zhao family's army could not reach Qingzhou, he could send some of the troops and horses to recruit troops on behalf of the Zhao family's army.

To put it bluntly, he wanted the Zhao family army to raise its flag and send troops to Qingzhou with them.

After Zhao Hanzhang finished reading, he threw the letter aside and picked up another letter to read.

This is a letter from Gou Xi of Yuncheng. Along with Gou Xi's letter is a letter from the emperor and an official inquiry document from the court.

Zhao Hanzhang simply took it apart and looked at it together.

Gou Xi scolded her that the emperor was spying on her intentions. Even if she read it, she read the official documents from the court twice.

Since the imperial court issued an official letter to ask her, she had to explain herself in a letter. She had already thought about how to write the letter to the emperor when she made the decision, but the defense had to be written according to the official letter, so she had not yet started writing.

Zhao Hanzhang scanned four letters. When he looked up again, Fu Tinghan was still reading the letter from Yuzhou. She couldn't help but be surprised, "So thick? Who wrote it?"

Fu Tinghan raised his head, with a smile that couldn't be concealed between his eyebrows. He handed it to her and tried to hold back his smile: "It's not that it's very thick, but the writing is so good that I couldn't help but read it again. Yes. Written by Uncle Ming."

It's not thick, but it's the thickest of all letters, with several pages in it.

Zhao Hanzhang took it and lowered her head to see that it was Chinese regular script that she was familiar with. The writing style was simple and straight, but there were some differences. She always felt that the words on this letter were sharper than before.

Zhao Hanzhang calmed down and took a look. Sure enough, the beginning was a question.

When Zhao Ming learned in Chen County that Wang Jun and Liu Kun had joined forces to attack Qingzhou, the panic of a country-destroying rebellion just arose, and a chill crept down his spine. Someone told him that Zhao Hanzhang was responsible for all this, and she also Involved.

A basin of cold water was poured down on his head. Before the chill could slowly rise, he was soaked inside and out, and felt cold both inside and out.

He didn't dare to let Zhao Song know. While keeping the news secret, he contacted Zhao Ju, Xun Xiu and other generals and asked them to dispatch troops to the Yanzhou border to guard against Gou Xi.

After all this was done, he took the time to write a letter scolding Zhao Hanzhang.

Careful calculation shows that since Zhao Hanzhang took office as the governor of Yuzhou, Yuzhou has not been peaceful for a year, and there have been wars every year.

Last year, although Yuzhou did not become a battlefield, Yuzhou sent troops to attack Luoyang. There were conflicts at the Yanzhou border from time to time in the middle of the year. At the end of the year, he assisted Zhao Hanzhang in regaining the counties and counties in Sizhou. In other words, Yuzhou actually had no Stop.

However, Zhao Hanzhang did not disturb the people, nor did he increase taxes to prepare food and grass, so the people of Yuzhou did not feel deeply.

But once the war breaks out again, he still faces Gou Xi, which means that the Jin Dynasty will fall apart again. He knows that Zhao Hanzhang's savings and the income of the workshop in the past few years have been wiped out by these wars. If there is another war, Military pay and food must be obtained from the common people.

Doesn't this mean that Yuzhou, which has only been stable for a long time, will be disrupted again?

They had clearly discussed it before, and she also believed that Yuzhou needed several years of stable development. Why did she suddenly take the initiative to provoke Gou Xi?

However, this was a letter, and he was afraid that the letter would fall into the hands of others, so he couldn't say some things clearly, so he could only scold her, remind her, and warn her in a roundabout way.

If she were in front of her, Zhao Ming would definitely ask her directly, are you not hiding your ambitions and directly stating that you want to be a rebellious minister and a sinner for the ages?

Since he couldn't ask directly, he could only quote scriptures in the letter and ask in a roundabout way.

Fu Tinghan read it with great interest, but he still couldn't understand some of the allusions, so he felt that this letter was particularly literary.

Zhao Hanzhang put the letter aside and picked up the letter from Luoyang. Ji Yuan told her that the army had returned to Luoyang and that he had prepared the armaments and grain needed by Qingzhou and sent people to deliver it. He asked her if she wanted to prepare for Wang Jun's request. twice the amount of armaments and supplies.

Zhao Hanzhang snorted, threw all the letters in one place, and said to Tinghe: "Prepare pen and ink, I will write a few replies."

Tinghe agreed, suspended what he was doing, and went to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone for Zhao Hanzhang.

Fu Tinghan asked her, "Are you going to send troops to Qingzhou?"

"No," Zhao Hanzhang said: "Zhao Xin and Wei Jie are only in Jizhou, and the imperial court and Gou Xi have such a big reaction. If I send troops to Qingzhou again, everyone in the world will curse me to death."

"We agreed when we discussed cooperation that I would only support him with food, grass and military equipment. Wang Jun is pushing the envelope and is capricious. Hmm, if you want me to send troops, that's fine. I want Donglai County and Beihai County!"

Supporting food and military equipment is one thing, sending troops is another. When her troops go out, they cannot return empty-handed. As long as Wang Jun is willing to give her Beihai County and Donglai County, she will... we will talk about it then.

Humph, the worst she can do is ask for one more county.

But based on her understanding of Wang Jun, he would definitely not agree.

Zhao Hanzhang first replied to Zhao Xin, and then to the emperor and Gou Xi. She told them that she was also confused about Wang Jun and Liu Kun's attack on Qingzhou.

She sent envoys to see Wang Jun to persuade Wang Jun to stop attacking Liu Kun. She has no idea why they attacked Qingzhou. How about you write a letter and ask Wang Jun?

To Zhao Ming, she said that this was completely a helpless move. Wang Jun refused to take hard and soft measures, so she could only ask him to divert his attention, otherwise Liu Kun would really be beaten to death.

As for attacking Qingzhou...

Even if Wang Jun doesn't attack Qingzhou, she plans to write to the emperor to ask the emperor to replace the governor of Qingzhou. Since Gou Chun became the governor of Qingzhou, the people of Qingzhou have been living in dire straits...

She reassured Zhao Ming that she knew well and would not fight with Gou Xi. She understood that stability was the priority at the moment. She was a minister of Jin and would not make things difficult for Emperor Jin.

Finally, he began to write his defense to the court.

This letter is for the officials. She needs to think carefully about how to shirk responsibility and practice Tai Chi to make people less angry and trust her more?

Not many people in the court believed in her. Wang Jun and Liu Kun were already fighting like that, how could they suddenly turn around and go attack Qingzhou?

Someone must mediate in the middle, and by such a coincidence, Zhao Xin and Wei Jie arrived in Jizhou at that time. Who would believe that they had nothing to do with them?

Even Liu Yuan in Pingyang City opposite didn't believe it!

He was a little slow to receive the news. It was already three days later when he received the news that Liu Kun and Wang Jun had joined forces to attack Qingzhou. He immediately sent people to investigate the Zhao Jiajun camp. Only when he arrived did he find that the camp was empty.

Only the side facing Pingyang City had dozens of tents, and the ones at the back had long been evacuated. When the scout touched the earthen stove, he found that there was still a touch of heat, and immediately said: "He hasn't gone far yet, chase him!"

They chased for fifty miles before discovering Zhao Jiajun's traces, but they only had a few hundred people, so they couldn't catch up and pursue them, right?

And the traces don’t look right. How could there be just this little movement when a hundred thousand troops retreated? They could only send someone to report back.

Liu Yuan understood as soon as he thought about it. Zhao Hanzhang and the others had already withdrawn their troops in batches. He said with regret: "This is a missed opportunity."

No longer able to catch up, Liu Yuan could only ask people to come back and keep an eye on the situation in Qingzhou. "It would be great if Zhao Hanzhang and Gou Xi also turned against each other. Once they both suffer, we can send troops."