Chapter five hundred and seventy fourth black belly
Chen Qing pondered for a while and said: "To be honest with Wu Dutong, I want to use Hanzhong as a buffer zone, otherwise I can't safely lead the army to attack Hexi. I know very well that there are too many passages from Hanzhong into Guanzhong, which will make it difficult for me to guard against it.
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Wu Gao said noncommittally: "We are all soldiers of the Song Dynasty. What should the generals be guarding against?"
Chen Qing smiled and shook his head: "Does Wu Dutong know about the incident of supervising the army?"
"Heard something!"
"The death of Wang Mian, the supervisor, was determined by the court to be my fault, but in fact it had nothing to do with me. I knew very well that it was Liu Guangshi who killed him. However, the court did not have any evidence and insisted that I was the one who killed him. Then he summoned me to Beijing to report on my duties. I
The news I got was that I was going to be dismissed from office and then imprisoned."
"I understand the concerns of the Minister of Economic Affairs, but there is no evidence for these. They are just speculations of the Minister of Economic Affairs, right?"
Chen Qing still shook his head, "You are wrong. I have evidence. At least I know that Liu Guangshi came to serve me as the envoy to Sichuan and Shaanxi. His mission was to occupy Xihe Road and strangle my army. He got the secret order.
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Wu Gao was silent for a moment and said: "That's Liu Guangshi, but I don't know how to do it!"
Chen Qing laughed and said, "If Wu Dutong has been serving as the governor of Yongxing Army for ten or twenty years, I will definitely agree to return Hanzhong to you because I trust you, but Wu Dutong feels that he is
How long can Bashu stay? If Liu Guangshi becomes the envoy to Sichuan and Shaanxi again, should I also believe in him?"
Wu Gao was speechless. He also knew that the imperial court had temporarily used him to fight against the Jin soldiers. Now that the Jin soldiers were gone, the imperial court had to deal with Chen Qing next. He was indeed not a suitable candidate, and he probably wouldn't be able to stay for long.
After a long silence, Wu Gao sighed and said: "Let's do this! Let me station in Hanzhong symbolically, otherwise I won't be able to explain to the court."
Chen Qing nodded: "I can hand over Nanzheng County to you and allow you to garrison a thousand troops. Then I will not interfere in the government affairs of Nanzheng County. If Wu Dutong is transferred by the court, please withdraw the thousand troops as well."
Let’s go, I want to take back Nanzheng County first and then discuss it with the new general.”
Wu Gao thought about it and realized that this was Chen Qing's biggest concession to give him face, including the demolition of Eagle Pass. It was also Chen Qing's sincerity to him. He could not push further. The key was that Chen Qing would not give in if he made further demands.
"Then let's make it an agreement, and make it in writing and signed by both parties, how about that?"
Chen Qing smiled and nodded, "It's true!"
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While Chen Qing and Wu Gao were discussing in Xicheng, a young man rode into Langzhong County. Langzhou was where General Li Qiong stationed his troops. Li Qiong and his 15,000 troops were stationed here.
The camp was located just outside Langzhong County, but Li Qiong himself stayed in the county most of the time. He had a mansion in the county and a concubine. He had to go home and have a concubine every night for dinner.
Eat together.
The man riding the horse is called Xu Dayong. He is a subordinate of Cao De. He is from the same hometown and village as Li Qiong. He is even somewhat related to Li Qiong in a roundabout way.
Xu Dayong came to a large house. Four soldiers with spears stood at the door.
As soon as he approached the gate, the soldier immediately raised his spear and shouted: "Stop, don't come near!"
"Report to General Li for me, saying that his fellow countryman Xu Da has come to tell me something important."
"You wait at the door for a moment, I'll report it."
The soldiers hurried in. Li Qiong had just finished dinner and was drinking tea. The housekeeper reported in the courtyard, "Master, there is a man coming outside. He said he is a fellow countryman of yours. His name is Xu Dayong. He said he has something important to report."
Li Qiong was startled. Of course Xu Dayong knew that he was from the same village as him and was a distant nephew of his. He was Cao De's subordinate. Didn't Cao De surrender to Chen Qing? Xu Dayong should have surrendered together. Why? coming?
Li Qiong's thoughts moved, and he suddenly realized something? He immediately ordered: "Bring him to see me quickly!"
Not long after, Xu Dayong was brought to the hall. He knelt down and saluted, "Third uncle, my nephew is here to greet you!"
Li Qiong has always disliked this distant nephew. She thought he was vulgar, idle and not doing his job properly, so he refused to take him with him.
However, Cao De admired Xu Dayong's cleverness and flexible mind and was very suitable for being a scout, so he promoted him to the head of his scout camp.
Li Qiong waved his hand and said impatiently: "Tell me quickly, is there anything important you want to report to me?"
Xu Dayong took out a letter from his hat and presented it to Li Qiong, "Third Uncle, this is a personal letter from Ambassador Chen Jinglue to you!"
Li Qiong was shocked and quickly took the letter, "Sit down first and have a sip of tea!"
His distant nephew actually sent a letter to Chen Qing, and Li Qiong immediately looked at him with admiration.
He opened the letter and read it, and found it a bit unbelievable that Chen Qing actually wanted to cooperate with him to squeeze Wu Gao away. The condition was that the two sides would use Jianmen Pass as the boundary and not ask for Hanzhong from him again.
"Dayong, does Chen Jinglue have any other messages?"
"The envoy said, if the third uncle is willing to cooperate, let me send a pigeon message back. If the third uncle is not willing to cooperate, it doesn't matter. I will go back and resume my life directly."
"You brought the pigeon message?"
Xu Dayong nodded, "My nephew has brought two homing pigeons and can fly directly back to Jingzhao Mansion."
"Are you still with Cao De?"
Xu Dayong shook his head, "General Cao is now in charge of martial arts. My nephew has been assigned to the Intelligence Agency and may participate in field work on Hedong Road."
Of course Li Qiong understood what the field service he was referring to meant going to Hedong Road to lurk, collect intelligence, and act as an intelligence spy.
"This suits you very well!"
Li Qiong secretly admired Chen Qing's ability to employ people. His distant nephew was an idle scoundrel in his hometown, but being an intelligence agent would allow him to give full play to his talents.
"You go and rest first! I'll give you an answer after thinking about it."
"Nephew, please resign!"
Xu Dayong followed the housekeeper down, and Li Qiong immediately ordered: "Please come to see me, Mr. Zhong!"
Just as Wu Zeng had his own staff, Li Qiong also had his own staff. This is also normal. Generals are often brave enough but lacking in intelligence, so they need to cultivate scribes to make up for their shortcomings.
Li Qiong's aide was named Zhong Minghui, who was from Langzhong County and was a professor of Langzhou Prefectural Studies. He was introduced to Li Qiong. This Zhong Minghui was good at conspiracy, which suited Li Qiong's taste.
Zhong Minghui lived nearby and hurried over not long after.
"General, what happened?"
Zhong Minghui vaguely guessed that something big must have happened if Li Qiong came to see her at this time.
"Look at this letter!" Li Qiong handed Chen Qing's letter to him.
Zhong Minghui was also surprised when she received the letter. It was actually written by Chen Qing.
He read the letter, frowned, and asked, "Does the general and Chen Qing have anything to do with each other?"
Li Qiong shook his head, "Liu Guangshi has a bad relationship with him, but he and I have no grudges and are not familiar with each other."
Zhong Minghui said: "Everything in the world is for profit, and everything in the world is for profit. Chen Qing's motive for looking for the general must be out of some kind of benefit. What does the general think?"
Li Qiong pondered for a while and said: "I think the benefit is Hanzhong. Wu Gao is the military envoy of Yongxing Army. He wants to return to Hanzhong. This time he went to discuss with Chen Qing just to ask for Hanzhong. If I were Chen Qing, I would definitely not
I will return Hanzhong to Wu Lao."
"The general is absolutely right. Hanzhong is the buffer and barrier of Guanzhong. Without Hanzhong, our army will directly press against the belly of Guanzhong. How could Chen Qing allow it? But Wu Gao was a veteran of the Western Army, and he was related to Chen Qing.
Because Chen Qing was afraid of offending the factions of the Western Army, but also not being able to hinder Wu Gao's face, the best way was to cooperate with the general and squeeze Wu Gao away. If the general asked for Hanzhong, he would ignore it.
Already."
Li Qiong shook his head, "I don't care about Hanzhong, and neither does General Liu. We value the rich Bashu more."
Zhong Minghui smiled slightly and said: "In this case, it doesn't hurt to cooperate with Chen Qing. Both parties can get what they need!"
Li Qiong squinted in thought for a moment and finally nodded.
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Five days later, Xu Dayong received an envelope sent by Chen Qing, and he quickly found Li Qiong.
In the inner hall, Li Qiong took out a document from the envelope. It turned out to be a memorandum of understanding negotiated between Chen Qing and Wu Xi in Xicheng. Both Chen Qing and Wu Xi had signed it.
Chen Qing agreed to transfer the government affairs of Nanzheng County to Wu Gao and allowed Wu Gao to station a thousand troops in Nanzheng County. In addition, Chen Qing's army was stationed in the entire Hanzhong.
Li Qiong looked at it for a long time and asked: "What does this document indicate?"
Zhong Minghui said coldly: "This shows that Wu Gao secretly colluded with Chen Qing and betrayed Hanzhong to Chen Qing. The evidence is conclusive. The general will impeach Wu Gao for this, and he will definitely be removed from office."
Li Qiong frowned, "But Hanzhong is already in the hands of Chen Qing, and even if Wu Gao wants it, he can't get it, so there's no such thing as betrayal!"
Zhong Minghui sneered disdainfully and said: "You and I both know it's not betrayal, but those scholars and rotten scholars in the imperial court don't think so. They think that Hanzhong should be taken back as a matter of course, just like grabbing something in a bag, you can reach it with your hands.
At least the emperor must have thought so, so Wu Gao gave Chen Qing what he had at his fingertips. How could the court and the emperor not be angry and crazy?"
