The table made of huanghuali has a delicate and shiny texture, and a pot of camellia placed on it adds a touch of elegance.
A carved pot filled with ice cubes was placed by the window, with a hint of white air coming out. The wind blew, bringing with it the cool air of the ice cubes and the fragrance of agarwood.
Several people in the room were sitting and talking in detail.
"I don't understand Li Ni's strategy. Sometimes he goes north, sometimes he goes south. Since he has reached Yanjing, why did he go to Kaifeng?"
Being able to say such words shows that they have a close relationship and are not afraid of showing timidity to each other. It is also because many officials in the Song Dynasty have no understanding of the terrain of the Central Plains.
"Li Ni's strategy was just 'easy first, difficult later'. He conquered the princes of Hebei first. At that time, he looked powerful, but in fact, he had not yet touched the foundation of Meng Yuan. Therefore, he took advantage of Meng Yuan's unpreparedness and turned around to take it.
Lose Boyan and capture Kaifeng. At this time, Meng Yuan is completely defeated."
"Easy first, then difficult? In other words, did Li Ni establish the victory after this time? The previous claim of attacking Yanjing was just to scare people?" Yu
"good."
"What on earth is Lu Wenhuan doing?! He is two or three times more powerful than the enemy, but he still can't defeat the enemy?!"
"..."
Chen Yizhong calmly took out a few letters from his sleeves, placed them on the table, took a sip from his tea cup, and waited for his colleagues to read the letters.
"Boom."
There was a loud sound. Zhang Jian, who was reading the letter, kicked down the table in surprise, knocking down several tea cups on it and breaking porcelain shards all over the floor.
"Jia Sidao...Jia Sidao guessed our plan?" Yu
"What?!"
The other people turned pale with fright. They grabbed the letter from Zhang Jian's hand and looked at it, screaming again and again.
What they were looking at was Li Xia's summons to make Zhao Jin his concubine, rebuke Zhao Yu, and reward Jia Sidao, as well as Lu Wenhuan's memorial.
Chen Yizhong was not in a hurry to speak and sipped tea with a calm expression.
In fact, when he received the news last night, he was so shocked that he dropped his most cherished inkstone.
It was this loss that allowed him to calmly wait for these important ministers to resume their qi-nurturing skills today.
Finally, the room became quiet, and many people were already twirling their long beards and thinking.
"Everyone, please be patient." Chen Yizhong put down his tea cup and said, "Jia Sidao must not have guessed anything yet, otherwise, Han Zhen, the commander in front of the palace, would have already taken our heads."
"Not bad, not bad." Zhang Jian wiped the sweat from his hands and said slowly: "Han Zhen still has no reaction. It can be seen that Jia Sidao's actions have nothing to do with us."
"Not only that." Chen Yizhong said: "I think Jia Sidao hasn't rebelled yet."
"If Jia Sidao really rebels, I'm afraid Han Zhen has already taken control of His Majesty."
"It's unlikely. Li Ni hasn't defeated Kublai Khan yet, let alone sent his troops south. It shouldn't be now that Jia Sidao wants to defect."
"Yes, the time has not come yet. If Jia Sidao really defected, what we should do now is to eliminate dissidents in Lin'an and wait for Li Ni's army to move south before responding."
They may not know much about the war, but they are extremely keen on officialdom, and they quickly deduced that this was Li Xia's counterintuitive plan.
And after these analyzes were done, some people came up with something else.
"only……"
Zhang Jian said slowly: "This can only mean that Jia Sidao did not defect to Li Ni before, but once Li Ni's false edict comes out, there is no guarantee that he will not rebel."
Chen Yizhong nodded and said: "There are a few things that can be confirmed to be true. Princess Rui is indeed not dead. When I interrogated Wang Yinglin, he was very conclusive about the secret case in the palace and said that the princess could testify.
.”
Zhang Jian lowered his voice and said: "If you dare to slander your Majesty, if you don't kill this kind of person, how can you let him escape?"
Chen Yizhong sneered: "At that time, Jia Yuqing told me that the body had been pushed into the Qiantang River."
"Where's Jia Yuqing?" Yu
"I ordered someone to pick him up this morning. He should be in the prison cell of the Criminal Department now."
"Go on."
"Weng Yinglong, Huang Gongshao's betrayal is true. Lu Wenhuan saw it with his own eyes."
When Chen Yizhong said this, he thought carefully and said slowly: "If I were Li Xia, I would definitely send someone to recruit Jia Sidao. By the way, the envoy is Huang Gongshao. Calculating the time, it may take two days to go upstream from Jiangling.
Huang Gongshao can get to Jia Sidao's main ship."
~~
At the same time, outside Kuizhou City, the river was rolling.
Huang Gongshao was kneeling in front of Jia Sidao, not daring to raise his head even as the deck shook. He only waited for Jia Sidao to finish reading the letter in his hand.
The letter was written by Zhao Jin. The letter said that she wanted to be Li Xia's concubine, and her title would be Kang Fei, because Li Xia wanted her to be healthy... After talking about many small things like this, she persuaded Jia Sidao to join her.
"Now that the situation is clear, why would uncle protect a fool as emperor?"
Jia Sidao closed his eyes, folded Zhao Jin's letter and put it into his sleeve.
With this movement, a cricket cage fell out of his sleeve, but there was no cricket inside.
He has stopped playing cricket for a long time.
Every day on the river, there is a farting cricket.
"Get up." Jia Sidao said.
Huang Gongshao did not dare to get up and reminded him: "Ping Zhanggong, you haven't read His Majesty's imperial pen yet."
"If you don't read it, I'm afraid I will kill you after reading it."
Huang Gongshao trembled and murmured: "Concubine Kang... Concubine Kang said that Mr. Ping Zhang would not kill me, but also asked me to bring gifts back..."
"You've got me, right?!"
Jia Sidao suddenly shouted loudly, stepped forward and kicked Huang Gongshao on the shoulder, scolding: "Hone, I will castrate you! Let you go back and give them as a gift."
"Pingzhang Gong, calm down." Huang Gongshao said: "Your Majesty also has a top secret message for me to tell Pingzhang Gong."
"Top secret news? Do you think I don't know?" Jia Sidao spat Huang Gongshao's face and said: "He Li Xia has told the world to let the court know that he has appointed me an official. That would be more generous.
I am a higher official than the one given to me by the imperial court, so I can break the earth and become the king." Yu
"no……"
"Are you still playing tricks? Do you think the court will be fooled? It's clumsy! It's extremely clumsy!"
"Pingzhang Gong, please listen to me."
"Okay, if you challenge me again, come on, if you can't tell me the flowers, I'll make your butt bloom."
"Zhang Jian, Zeng Yuanzi, Chen Yizhong and others have already been secretly communicating, preparing to seize Ping Zhang Gong's power..."
"What did you say?"
Jia Sidao seemed to think he heard wrongly.
However, his heart trembled inexplicably, and he already judged that what Huang Gongshao said was true based on his intuition alone.
He should have noticed it a long time ago, but he was too tired and busy, and was overwhelmed by Li Xia's power to pay attention to those small things. But as soon as someone reminded him, he immediately reacted.
"Tell me again, which ones are they?"
"Mr. Ping Zhang, in the letter written by His Majesty to you, there is specific information about the Public Opinion Department's visit to Lin'an."
"hiss."
Jia Sidao quickly opened Li Xia's letter.
He scanned it ten lines at a time, looked at it carefully again, and then found that there was another drawing in the envelope, so he put it on the desk and leaned over to look at it.
"Damn, a bunch of sons of bitches..."
~~
Lin'an, Privy Council Room.
When everyone was discussing something important, the sound of wind chimes suddenly came from outside the room.
Chen Yizhong raised his hand to signal everyone to be silent, opened the door himself, and called over the subordinates standing outside the courtyard gate.
"What's the matter?"
"Ms. Jia Yuqing said he wants to see you..." Yu
"He has plenty of opportunities." Chen Yizhong said calmly: "I'll torture him first, and when he does, I will go see him."
"He has already recruited him, saying that he did not defect to Li Ni. One of the people he brought with him is Li Ni's envoy, named Wang Xun."
Chen Yizhong was stunned for a moment and then said in shock: "That Tang Shijie with the big mouth... Tang Envoy? Wang Xin?"
"Jia Yuqing said that as long as my husband thinks about it carefully, he will definitely meet him and treat him with courtesy."
After Chen Yizhong thought for a while, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and finally he said: "Take them to the mansion..."
"They said they wanted to come here to see you sir."
"Damn it." Chen Yizhong cursed in a low voice and said, "Bring them here." Yu
He rolled his sleeves in displeasure and returned to the public room, only to see everyone standing up one after another.
"What's the matter?"
"We were tricked..."
Less than half a stick of incense had passed before two more people stepped into the public room.
Jia Yuqing was wearing an official robe and had a calm demeanor. After entering the room, he took a quick look and squeezed in between Zhang Jian and Zeng Yuanzi to sit down to show that he was still a Song minister. Then he snorted and said angrily: "I was also
Wang Xun lied, and the people from the north are really shameless."
Wang Xun held a folding fan in his hand, raised his hand and arched it, and laughed and said: "Masters, you are polite. Wang Xun, Wang Muqiao and Wang Xun have long admired the grace of Jiangnan celebrities."
Zeng Yuanzi frowned and said to Chen Yizhong: "Why don't you capture this traitor's masterpiece?!" Yu
"The so-called war between two countries does not kill envoys. The Song Dynasty was a country of etiquette..."
"If you have anything to say, just say it." Chen Yizhong interrupted Wang Xun impatiently.
This is not a formal occasion, there are private matters and secrets, and there is nothing that cannot be said.
Wang Xingdao: "Then let me tell you straight... Oh, by the way, let me say one more thing. Your Song Ting's actions are really just like joking."
"Kill him." Wu Jian finally couldn't bear it anymore and said, "Kill him. Anyway, we have already started a war with Li Ni."
"What's wrong with killing me?" Wang Xin said with a smile: "It's just that Jia Sidao will negotiate peace with His Majesty first, lead the master back to the court, and regain power."
When the word "power" was mentioned, everyone in the room seemed to have their feet pinched and became silent. Yu
Only Wang Xin was extremely active and opened the folding fan again with a "swish" sound.
"Look at the emperors of your Song Dynasty. I heard about Zhao Ji, Zhao Heng, and Zhao Gou in the past. Now look at Zhao Yu. Haha, it is not easy for you to enjoy the country for three hundred years. I admire you. I admire you."
Someone in the room rushed towards Wang Xin and was hugged.
"Let go, the scholar can be killed, but not humiliated."
“The overall situation is the most important thing.”
"The king humiliates his ministers and dies."
"The overall situation is the most important thing..." Yu
Chen Yizhong took two deep breaths and clenched his fists under his wide sleeves.
Finally, Wang Xun waved his folding fan lightly and said: "You are too slow to get the news. Before July, His Majesty had entered Kaifeng City, completely occupied the three capitals, and restored the Central Plains."
There was another commotion in the room.
Wang Xun raised the corner of his mouth slightly, ignored it, and continued: "Do you understand? There is no border between the Song Dynasty and the Meng Yuan Dynasty at all. It should be said that the Meng Yuan Dynasty will soon be expelled from the Central Plains. So where should the Song Dynasty go from here? Fight alone.
King Master of the Tang Dynasty? Or seek peace?"
"Hmph, how could Li Ni be so ambitious and negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty?"
"Your Majesty is determined to unify the world. However, the north is initially determined, so there may not be a time to recuperate."
"Not necessarily?" Zhang Jian said: "Don't be fooled by him! He just wants to hold us back..." Yu
"I have told Jia Sidao about your conspiracy!" Wang Xun said loudly: "I think at this moment, Jia Sidao is already preparing to return to Lin'an!"
In one sentence, everyone in the house was shocked.
Wang Xun closed the folding fan again with a "snap" and said: "You two can fight, fight, I don't care. But I tell you, only the party that can get the alliance with the Tang Dynasty can win the power of the Song Dynasty."
.Don’t understand? Let me give you a few examples...Qin Hui, Shi Miyuan."