With thoughts racing in his mind, Pei Ting turned to Gao Yaoyi and said: "General Gao, the general trend is now. The Tang Dynasty is in decline and is about to die. Why is General Gao still stubborn? We, Bohai, are a prosperous country in the east of the sea. We have been bullied and oppressed by the Tang Dynasty. After struggling for two hundred years, this is the perfect opportunity to stand on its own feet! The Prime Minister is an outstanding talent that Bohai rarely encounters in a century. He is loyal, diligent, harmonious and caring for the people. This initiative can make Bohai stand out in the world. General Gao should not You missed Bohai, you missed Gao, you missed yourself!"
Gao Yaoyi was sitting in the hall, watching his son chatting with Dr. Pei, a talented man of the dynasty. Just when Lao Huai was relieved, he suddenly heard Pei Ting's words and immediately became angry in his heart. He hummed: "Bohai It is a vassal of the Tang Dynasty and a military state of the Tang Dynasty. It has been adhering to the Tang system for two hundred years. The Tang Dynasty has always been very kind and kind to Bohai. Everything that Bohai has now is not passed down by the Tang Dynasty? Even Doctor Pei, on weekdays, does not Are you always proud of your status as a Jinshi of the Tang Dynasty? Why do you want to betray your righteousness and follow the unkind and unjust people today?"
Gao Yaoyi's rebuke was very harsh for a Confucian civil servant like Pei Ting who was based on literary talent and morality. It was tantamount to pointing at the other person's character, but Pei Ting didn't seem to take it to heart and smiled lightly. Said: "This moment is the same as that moment! Pei advises General Gao that it is better to be aware of current affairs, otherwise you will just be a stubborn old man who follows the old ways.----"
Gao Yaoyi also got really angry. Pei Ting has been famous for twenty years and was already famous in the world twenty years ago. At that time, he was a highly respected person. Unexpectedly, he was so unbearable that he couldn't help but cursed: "Shameless!" "He added: "If you want to abandon the Tang Dynasty, you have to ask the king if he will agree! Ask the people of Bohai if they will agree!"
Pei Ting "enjoyed" hearing Gao Yaoyi's scolding, and was secretly happy in his heart. He quickly said: "Your Majesty? Just have the support of the Shence Army. Your Majesty can't even step out of the palace gate. What's the use if he doesn't agree?" ?”
Gao Yaoyi was startled and immediately became furious. Veins popped up on his forehead. He pointed at Pei Ting and said: "You... you are so rebellious and unruly! What's wrong with the Da clan's rule for two hundred years? You actually want to rebel!"
Pei Ting smiled and said: "Who said he was planning to rebel? The king refused to proclaim himself emperor, but the crown prince agreed. They are both members of the royal family. What's the difference? To be honest, the crown prince has decided to fully support the prime minister. , At present, three of the four armies in Beijing are in the hands of the Prime Minister. The situation is already like this. It is better for General Gao to keep his eyes open."
Jin Luodou on the side is a confidant of the Prime Minister Zhu Chengming. He is a more radical person than Zhu Chengming. He couldn't help but loudly said: "Even Da Honglu is under house arrest by the Prime Minister. General Gao must not go against the trend!"
Pei Ting looked at the triumphant Jin Luo Dou in surprise. He did not expect this person to be so cooperative with him. He encouraged him with a smile and eyes. Jin Luo Dou was encouraged by this important minister of the dynasty, and his face was full of smiles: "That's it. Isn't even your Gao family under the control of the Prime Minister now?"
Gao Yaoyi looked pale and said: "Even if the Gao family is like this, there is still the Wu family, the Yang family, and the Li family!"
Pei Ting said: "Actually, it's useless to say all this. As long as going to Beijing is in the hands of the Prime Minister, the matter of proclaiming the emperor is a certainty and cannot be changed!"
Gao Yaoyi was silent and said helplessly: "There is also the Tang Dynasty..." When he said this, even he felt a little guilty.
Pei Ting smiled: "Datang? Does Datang still have the energy to go east now?" His eyes turned to Gao Mingbo, with a half-smile on his face.
Gao Mingbo has been listening carefully to the dispute between his father, Pei Ting and Jin Luo Dou. Unlike his father, who is careless and careless, he has been immersed in espionage affairs for half a year and is best at sorting out the necessary information from other people's conversations. From the moment Pei Ting started talking about the situation in Beijing, he was keenly aware that Dr. Pei kept revealing all kinds of information - the difficult situation that King Da Weijing was in, the influence of Shence Army and Zuo Xiaowei. The ownership of military power, the Crown Prince's attitude towards proclaiming the emperor, the banning of the royal brother's great descendants... Moreover, every time Dr. Pei revealed a piece of information, he would look at himself, and that look... seemed very meaningful. …
Now that he was talking about the Tang Dynasty that he represented, Gao Mingbo decided to test it out and said immediately: "Yingzhou is the military state of the Tang Dynasty outside the Pass. Yingzhou can solve all problems without Datang's intervention!"
Pei Ting said: "Even if Yingzhou has opened up the channel between Liucheng and Bohai as you just said, but in these troubled times, what can one state do? What's more, Yingzhou still needs to defend the Khitan in the north? General Li still has Are you willing to send troops?"
Li Chengzhong had never expressed his intention to attack Bohai in front of others, and Gao Mingbo was not able to answer this question, so he said vaguely and generally: "General Li said that in order to safeguard the interests of the Tang Dynasty, the Yingzhou Army is determined to do whatever it takes! "
Pei Ting understood this sentence carefully, but never got a definite answer. He immediately asked: "Even if the Yingzhou Army comes, what will it do? How many Yingzhou Army are there? Three thousand? Or five thousand? You need to know , even if there is only one left-leading military guard, the strength is five thousand, three thousand in Zhengzhou and two thousand in Xijing. Can the Yingzhou army attack it?" After saying that, Pei Ting looked at Jin Luo Dou beside him. , and said: "What's more, the left and right Shence armies are the elite of the Bohai Sea, and their combat power is higher than other armies. I am afraid that even the hundred tiger warriors brought by General Jinlang this time cannot be taken lightly by the Yingzhou army. Sharp!"
Jin Luo Dou felt bright on his face and said loudly: "Doctor Pei, please rest assured, if the Yingzhou army dares to come, the last general is willing to be the first to fight!"
Gao Mingbo smiled and said: "Doctor Pei, winning or losing in a war is not determined by the number of troops. Otherwise, if the two armies face each other, count the opponent's heads. If the opponent has more heads than you, then just admit defeat."
Pei Ting did not comment on Gao Mingbo's ridicule, thought for a while, and said to Gao Yaoyi: "General Gao, I heard that your son is not worried about your safety, and has led his army to station at the mouth of the Hun River in the north of Yalu Mansion, which is only eight meters away from Xijing. Ten miles away, General Gao had better advise his son. Neither the Prime Minister nor General Gao's brother meant to embarrass General Gao. Your son must not be impulsive or reckless, otherwise it will cause trouble and it will be difficult to deal with. If General Gao has a letter, You can give it to Pei, who is willing to forward it."
Gao Mingbo was now very sure that there was something wrong with Dr. Pei! He thought for a moment and asked: "Gao is the envoy of the Tang Dynasty. He has been banned from leaving the house these days, but he doesn't know that Dr. Pei is the envoy of the Tang Dynasty. How does the doctor plan to deal with Gao?"
Pei Ting said: "Your Majesty, don't worry. I have received the Prime Minister's instructions and prepared to send gifts to your Majesty to leave the country. Your Majesty does not need to worry about the safety of General Gao. The Prime Minister and General Yaoren will not embarrass General Gao."
Gao Mingbo nodded, stared at Pei Ting and said, "That's fine. It's a pity that we have a rushed trip and can't have a drink with Dr. Pei."
Pei Ting and Gao Mingbo looked at each other for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "It doesn't matter, we might as well hold a banquet for your envoy tomorrow... Well, it will be held at the residence of General Yao Ren... General Jinlang, you said General Yao Ren would not be stingy. You don’t even want to take out the drinks, right? Haha.”
Jin Luodou joked: "Doctor Pei, don't worry, it's just a trivial matter. If General Yao Ren doesn't agree, Jin will ask him!"
Pei Ting said: "At that time, it will be considered as a welcome opportunity for General Jinlang and for the Shence sergeants to come. We have been escorting Pei from Beijing to here. It has been a hard journey. Let everyone have a few drinks. It will also be considered as a token of Jin's kindness!"
Jin Luodou said: "Then I would like to thank Dr. Pei on behalf of the brothers."
Pei Ting said: "It's better to thank General Yaoren. Pei just borrowed flowers to offer to Buddha."
The two of them were talking and laughing here as if no one else was around. Gao Yaoyi seemed not to have heard them. His face was livid, thinking about the situation in Beijing, and he was extremely anxious in his heart.
Gao Mingbo was secretly calculating: the two Shence Army and Zuo Xiaowei in Shangjingzhong have been in the hands of the prime minister, and their strength should be 15,000, and there are still 5,000 who cannot move because the great feudal descendants are under house arrest. In Xijingzhong, There are now two thousand sergeants of the Left Leading Army Guard, well, there are also a hundred relatively elite Shence Army, and there are still three thousand remaining sergeants of the Left Leading Army Guard in Zhengzhou. At the same time, his eldest brother has led his army to station at the mouth of the Hun River, away from Xijing With less than a hundred miles, this is a force that can be used. He gained a lot today, much more than he got from interrogating the seventeenth brother who was held hostage. The seventeenth son of the Gao family is a waste, he can't ask anything Coming out, it's not that Shiqirou is arrogant, but that he really doesn't know much, especially the situation of all parties in this big situation, which is completely blank.
He began to compare the combat power of the Yingzhou Army and the Bohai Navy. Gao Mingbo used to think that the Bohai Navy was very elite, but after the comparison in the Yanjun Battle, the Bohai Navy's combat power was like paper in front of the Khitan Department. , already made him extremely disdainful. After half a year of training in the Yingzhou Army, he had already classified the Bohai Navy as a "bad soldier". He made a rough calculation and felt that one hundred Yingzhou soldiers could at least compete with two hundred Bohai soldiers. If it is a thousand battalion state army, this ratio will be enlarged. I am afraid that even three thousand Bohai navy will not be an opponent.
Pei Ting and Jin Luo Dou stood up to leave. When Gao Mingbo said goodbye to each other, he added: "Doctor Pei, Gao offended his fourth uncle a few days ago and accidentally invited his seventeenth brother to the house. I'm afraid that my fourth uncle will be here these days." I miss my seventeenth brother very much, and I will ask Dr. Pei to invite my uncle and fourth uncle on my behalf tomorrow night. Gao will apologize to the two uncles, and will also send his seventeenth brother there to drink together to calm down the shock."
Pei Ting nodded and said: "Okay. I haven't been to Xijing for a long time. I will also invite some old friends to come and talk with me then, so that your envoy can see me."
After Pei Ting and Jin Luodou left, the gate of Gao Mansion was closed again. Gao Yaoyi sat blankly in the hall with a sad face. Gao Mingbo could no longer care about his father. He took Zhang Xiaohua and went to the woodshed where Seventeenth Lang was imprisoned. The questions these days have been all about the general situation. The good-for-nothing Seventeen Lang doesn’t know anything, but now he has a new direction, so he has to ask again. And he estimates that Seventeen Lang might know these questions...