Li Xun sneered: "This old bastard Zhao Tong has some tricks to trick people."

At present, Li Xun still doesn't understand Zhao Tong's intentions. He arrived in Longyou more than two months ago. He has been acting light and calm, without any movement, just wandering around. This is completely a fake move. In fact, Zhao Tong was secretly actively contacting and connecting officials belonging to the Yang family and the Wing King, gathering them together, and immediately launching an attack on Li Xun when he has the chance.

Sima Tu whispered from the side: "Since Zhao Tong has taken action, Fengjing may have taken action, so we should act cautiously."

"It's necessary to be so careful?"

Li Xun said disdainfully: "I have defeated the Western Regions and contributed so much money and food to the court. Such a huge contribution, even if I do something extraordinary, I think the emperor will not blame me."

"The lord is such a bad word."

Sima Tu shook his head and said, "My lord, please think about it. Zhao Tong is also a prince, with a noble status. Because he is low-key in his work and rarely makes friends with others, he is usually trusted by the emperor. As the lord said, the lord occupied the Western Regions and contributed huge amounts of money and grain. How great is the contribution? Even if the evidence is conclusive, the merit is greater than the fault. The emperor will never really blame the lord. However, there must be a conclusion in everything. The emperor cannot cover all the ministers in one sentence. Therefore, Zhao Tong, who has little to do with all the forces, came to Longyou for inspection. But at this time, the lord was assassinated by the King of Wings broke out, and the government and the people were shocked. All the powerful factors were pointed at the Prince. At this time, the prince could not help at all. Without the help of the court, the lord would fall into an extremely passive situation once something happened to him."

Listening to Sima Tu's analysis, Li Xun fell into deep thought.

"Speak."

Li Xun knew that Sima Tu had not finished speaking.

Sima Tu nodded and continued, "The assassination of the Wing King is likely to be his own directing and acting. This plan has to be said to be very clever. As for now, it is very successful. It caught the prince off guard. The emperor was furious and the prince's party fell into an extremely passive situation. But with this alone, the Wing King may not be able to defeat the position of the prince. Therefore, he asked Zhao Tong to come to Longyou and take the opportunity to seize power. This seizure of power does not necessarily mean to completely expel the lord from Longyou. As long as the situation in the western part of Longyou is messed up and shakes the lord's foundation, the future battle for the lord will be staged. The lord will be unable to help the prince, which is their greatest success."

Finally, Sima Tu said: "Mr. Fan said very well. What Zhao Tong wants is chaos. We must be stable and we must not let them mess up the situation in Longyou."

Li Xun pondered and said nothing. He had gained great benefits in the two battles of Longyou, but this benefit was not all. A considerable part of the interests were divided up by others, including the power of the Wing King and the Yang family. Take the current seven states in the western Longyou area. There must be people from these two forces. In the past, Li Xun also mastered some people through secret guards, but the number was not large, so he didn't care too much. But now, he was careless. The two forces of the Wing King and the Yang family were probably much more officials who were stationed on Longyou Road through the two Longyou wars.

After a long time, Li Xun woke up from his thoughts and asked Sima Tu, "What suggestions do you have?"

"Taking both soft and hard, and giving equal importance to both kindness and power."

"Explanation more clearly."

Sima Tu whispered: "The Yang family and the Wing King must have installed many of their own people in Longyou, but there will never be so many. Now so many officials agree with Zhao Tong, many of whom are speculative, and they only value Prince Zhao Tong's noble status. They hope to obtain benefits through him. What Zhao Tong can give is more. Furthermore, although Zhao Tong is an observer assigned by the emperor, he has three deputy observer under him. Although they come with Zhao Tong, they are not necessarily their own people. The above two points can be won over and differentiated. This is the soft aspect. As for the hard aspect, although Zhao Tong is an observer and has the right to decide local government affairs, the lord also has the position of an observer. To put it simply, you both are observer. Zhao Tong can reject and change the lord's administrative orders, and the lord can also reject and change the administrative orders issued by Zhao Tong."

Li Xun laughed and said, "Isn't this just arguing!"

Sima Tu laughed and said, "It's just a quarrel. The Wing King's move suddenly came, and the prince was at a disadvantage for a while, but this is only temporary. What we have to do now is to delay and delay time for the prince or ourselves as much as possible. When the prince recovers, Zhao Tong's temporary observation commander may lose his effect in Longyou."

Li Xun pondered for a moment and finally nodded. What Sima Tu said really makes sense. Putting aside the identity of Prince Zhao Tong, he has gained Zhao Zhi's trust after all. If he fought with him, Zhao Tong's impeachment was passed to Fengjing. Maybe Zhao Zhi would think of him. In the end, it would be more than worth the loss and would be unfavorable to him.

Li Xun's return to Wu'an City immediately caused a burst of cheers from the soldiers around him.

Li Xun glanced around, and there were many Western Regions and Dashi people gathered in the city. Zheng Chun obviously sent more soldiers to stabilize the security in the city and prevented the Western Regions and Dashi people from doing excessive things.

When we arrived at the Governor's Office in the south of the city, it was very lively. A large number of soldiers guarded the Governor's Office. At the same time, a large number of Western Regions and Dashi people were clamoring, seeking the main officials to come out to talk to them and give them an explanation.

Li Xun narrowed his eyes and looked at the Governor's Mansion for a while, then said to Sima Tu: "Go back to the Governor's Mansion first."

Sima Tu thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay."

The governor's office was only a few hundred meters away from the Governor's office. Li Xun decided to go home to visit his wife and his daughter whom he had not met yet. As for Zhao Tong, he asked him to make trouble. Anyway, Longyou would not be in chaos for a while and head-on. In the end, Zhao Tong had to pat his butt and return to Fengjing. The situation in Longyou that he had worked hard would probably suffer a great loss.

Li Xun opened the gate. When the guards saw the general returning home, they were overjoyed and wanted to turn around and notify the family in the mansion.

"Don't make a loud noise, it will make my daughter disturb you, I won't forgive you."

Li Xun stopped his personal soldiers and walked into the house.

In the back garden, there is a pavilion, You Min is sitting there reading quietly. In the cradle next to her, a baby girl, more than a month old, is lying in it and sleeping soundly.

Cui'er, who was standing aside, saw Li Xun. She was surprised and quickly stood in You Min's ear and whispered a reminder.

You Min looked at Li Xun, her face looked surprised, and she slowly stood up, her eyes suddenly turned red.
Chapter completed!