Zeng Run was so angry that his nose was filled with smoke. He did not think of Yue Hailou. Zhu Xiaotong had long noticed in the Lanzhou Shichang prison camp that the prisoners and Xiang army soldiers were making trouble for borrowing grain, but he did not inform him.
, and I have no intention of reminding Guo Zhongxiong.
He also didn't expect that Chen Zixiao also knew about this. Instead of sending someone to tell him, he actually secretly encouraged those two idiots Guo Junfan and Pan Chenghu to add fuel to the flames and make the matter even bigger.
If things go as Chen Zixiao expected, it will be much easier to handle if Guo Junpan, Pan Chenghu and others enter Kelan City and cause trouble in the grain yard:
On the one hand, the city can be sealed off immediately, and the news can be limited to Kelan City, so that it will not be called a prison camp, and the Xiang army garrison will show signs of instability.
On the other hand, Qian Zerui, the general manager of the army, Ge Huai, the commander of the Xiang army, Gao Xing, the state magistrate, Xun Yannian, the military officer, and Yue Tingdao, the commander of the army, were all in Kelan City with their families. They were thinking about their own safety.
They may be inclined to follow Guo Zhongxiong and use severe measures to suppress them, instead of delaying and disagreeing with Guo Zhongxiong to send troops to suppress the prisoners who stopped gathering at Huanglongpo Station in order to shirk their responsibility.
But what is the situation now?
More than 500 prisoners, led by Guo Junpan and Pan Chenghu, detained the postmaster and nearly 30 officials, and occupied Huanglongpo Post behind closed doors.
After hearing the news, the prison camps and Xiangjun garrison scattered in Lanzhou County and the city wall were also restless, and many smashing incidents occurred before early morning.
Although the situation can be controlled for the time being, no one knows that things will not be allowed to drag on like this.
At this time, troops were sent to Huanglongpoyi to suppress it, and there were too many variables.
Will more than 500 prisoners abandon Huanglongpo Station and flee west to the mountains of Guanchuan Mountain?
Before the Forbidden Army gathered in large numbers to attack Yan, there was a bandit suppression operation in Lanzhou. Zeng Run went crazy just thinking about it.
If more than 500 prisoners guard Huanglongpo Post, the imperial army will not be able to attack them for a while and call the prisoners in Lanzhou. The Xiang army generals will become more and more impatient. Who knows whether the situation will get worse and worse, and finally become like a volcano.
A total eruption?
Will we cut down a feathery swallow then?
Officials of all sizes in Lanzhou, as long as they have anything to do with this matter, will be killed!
When the time comes, it will be impossible for Prime Minister Cai to attack Yan and Cai on his own, and at the very least, he will be driven out of Bianjing!
Thinking of this, a cold sweat broke out on Zeng Run's back. He looked at Yue Hailou in astonishment and asked: "This is all Wang Zhen's plan. He wants to mess up Huang Fayan's plan and drag Prime Minister Cai into the water."
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"Why are you panicking?" Yue Hailou glanced at Zeng Run and said, "The matter is far from that point, and Wang Zhen is not as miserable as you think!"
Why should I be panicking? You didn't take the initiative to make things happen like this? Zeng Run thought resentfully in his heart.
Yue Hailou stood in the room with his hands behind his back. His face could not be illuminated by the candlelight. His face was shrouded in darkness, and his huge figure was cast on the wall. Chen Zixiao's heart tightened slightly.
Although he didn't worry about his identity being exposed, as long as Yue Hailou or Guo Zhongxiong sent people to find Guo Junpan and Pan Chenghu, they would be able to find out the errors and flaws in his rhetoric.
"Everything is the result of my stupidity. I am willing to go to Huanglongpo Station to persuade Guo Jun to make Pan Chenghu abandon his weapon and surrender." Chen Zixiao clenched his fists and said.
"Who can believe you?" Zeng Run finally lost control at this moment and roared in a low voice.
Guo Junpan and Pan Chenghu gathered more than 500 prisoners to occupy Huanglongpo Station. Zeng Run thought that Guo Zhongxiong was crazy, so he agreed to let Chen Zixiao go to meet Guo Junpan and Pan Chenghu. Isn't this fucking mess enough?
"I would like you to give it a try, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince Guo Shizhi to believe you." Yue Hailou turned around and said.
He came to Lanzhou with no apparent identity, and in the end, Guo Zhongxiong's nod was needed to handle all matters in Lanzhou.
They kept Guo Zhongxiong in the dark about this from beginning to end. Who knew how much Guo Zhongxiong would hate them?
"Before General Zhu arrived at Caocheng Village, Wu Qi, who was involved in the matter, came to me immediately to report that he wanted me to participate in the matter, but I detained him and was about to find an opportunity to hand him over to Hu Hou," Chen
Zixiao said, "Even if Guo Shizhi is there, we might want to ask Wang Zhen to accompany us. My thoughts are the same as Huhou's. I think that even if Wang Zhen has the intention to cause trouble, he might really see the situation in Lanzhou completely.
out of control……"
Zeng Run and Zhu Xiaotong certainly knew that dragging Wang Zhen together to see Guo Zhongxiong would have some effect, but since Wang Zhen was the initiator of all this, they didn't think Wang Zhen would be obedient.
Yue Hailou pondered for a while, opened the door, and said to the people standing in the courtyard: "Go and tell Lieutenant Zhu that I will take two people away from Caocheng Village!"
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The official residence in Shichang is so simple that drafts leak from the four walls. Although it is very cool in early autumn when some wind comes in, it makes the candles flicker, which is annoying.
After the incident started, Xu Huai would not send extra people to report the progress of the situation to Wang Report at any time, but Wang Report and Lu Xiong still learned about the general progress of the situation before nightfall; Zhu Guangwu rushed to Caocheng Walled, except for sending the Forbidden Army generals.
Apart from strengthening the defense of Caocheng Walled City and the Prison Camp, there were not many actions taken. Wang Zhen and Lu Xiong could also speculate that the officials in Kelan City were shifting blame and reacting to each other at this time.
However, they had no idea where the situation would go in the end, and they didn't think that Xu Huai and the others could really grasp every development of the situation to the pinnacle.
Even if Wang Zhen believes that the situation is completely out of control and the plan to conquer Yan is aborted, it may not be a bad thing for Dai Viet, but the price he pays for this will definitely be ruined.
To say that he can face all this calmly is pure self-deception.
"Who?"
The sound of "bang bang bang" knocking on the courtyard door came from outside the courtyard of the official residence.
Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Tang Qing, Yin Peng, and Zheng Tu all followed Xu Huai at Huanglongpo Station, but they still left two people behind to take care of Wang Zhen and Lu Xiong's safety.
Hearing someone knocking on the courtyard door rudely, with the intention of breaking it open without opening it, the two men also walked to the corridor with sabers in hand, stared at the courtyard door and shouted.
"Open the door and invite the people to come in." Wang Zhen walked out of the room and ordered.
The two old officials tremblingly lit two more torches to make the courtyard of the official residence brighter. The king asked the old officials who were not involved in the matter to go back to their houses and ignore the affairs in the courtyard.
"Yue Hailou!?" Lu Xiong was also startled when he saw Yue Hailou holding hands behind his hands with Chen Zixiao, Zeng Run, Zhu Xiaotong, Sun Chen and others walking in. He frowned and asked, "What are you hiding these days?"
That person in the T-shaped cell, is that you?"
"Let me tell you, Mr. Wang, Mr. Lu is not someone who is easy to deceive," Yue Hailou followed Zhu Xiaotong and Sun Chen said with a smile, and walked straight to the eaves, ignoring Wang Xiong at all. The two people around Lu Xiong
, said, "Some people say that Wang Xianggong worked hard to lose his reputation and did this just to drag Prime Minister Cai into the water. I think it is far from that, but I don't know if I am wrong about Wang Xianggong..."
Lu Xiong knew that even if what happened at this time was in line with their expectations, Wang Zhen's inner torment could not be lighter, and he was also embarrassed to face Yue Hailou's aggressive questioning. He took half a step forward and turned to Yue Hailou.
Hailou blocked the steps in front of the corridor, preventing him from walking down the corridor, and said:
"Yue Hailou, since you have been hiding in the prison camp and you have seen everything going on inside and outside the quarry from beginning to end, you must have everything under your control. Why come here to comment?"
"Who in this world dares to be arrogant enough to really think that he can have everything under control? Or maybe Wang Xianggong is so arrogant that he really thinks that if he fights to lose his reputation, the situation will be completely out of control, and the plan to conquer Yan will be ruined. It will really do more good than harm to the country of Dai Viet.
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Yue Hailou stood in front of the corridor with his hands behind his hands and said,
"Wang Xianggong was demoted to Tangzhou. I was not in Bianjing at the time. Otherwise, I would have blocked Zheng Hui and others from doing anything rashly. But unfortunately, they did not know Wang Xianggong's mind. I was not in Bianjing at the time. I was accompanying the eldest son to envoy Yan.
, after the eldest son returned to Bianjing from Linhuang Mansion in Yanshangjing, I made a special trip to the Daxianbei Mountains, which delayed my return to Bianjing until the beginning of this year. Does Mr. Wang want to know what I saw when I went to the western foot of the Daxianbei Mountains?
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Wang Zhen has always wanted to know the specific situation of the war between the Khitans and the Chihu people on the northern front. However, the imperial court sent several groups of secret envoys. Either they encountered many accidents on the way and heard nothing from them, or they went through all kinds of hardships to reach the king of the Chihu people.
Where the tent is located, the secrets that can be gleaned along the way are extremely limited, which is far from enough to fully evaluate the military strength of the Chihu people and their confrontation with the Khitans on the northern front.
Wang Zhen did not expect that Yue Hailou would personally sneak into the heart of the Chihu people and the Khitan people. He couldn't help but asked with concern: "What did you see?"
"From what I saw, all the northwest vassal tribes that belonged to the Khitan people should have surrendered to the Chihu people. The Khitan's strongest imperial army, the Gongfen army was beaten back steadily, and they had to take advantage of their early success.
It was built at the western foot of the Daxianbei Mountain to restrain the northwest vassal tribes and build a wall, a wall, to form the last line of defense to protect the upper capital and the heart of the central capital. However, this line of defense is also very fragile," Yue Hailou said, "
Once the Khitan's defense line at the western foot of the Xianbei Mountains is completely lost, the iron hooves of the Chihu people will move south at any time. In Yue's view, this is really our last chance to seize Yanyun's hometown and improve the northern defense line! Wang Xianggong, you
Now you still think that even if you want to ruin your reputation, you want to stop the plan to conquer Yan for the sake of Dai Viet. Have you never thought that this move will make you a sinner of Dai Viet for all time?"
Wang Zhen grabbed the door frame in despair, barely avoiding collapsing to the ground, and asked in a trembling voice: "Is the Khitan's northern front really so fragile?"
"My Vietnamese troops are about to march north along the Huihe River from Lanzhou. Has Xianggong Wang seen the Khitan soldiers moving from the northern line to fill the southwestern route?" Yue Hailou asked, staring into Wang Zhen's frightened eyes.
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Chen Zixiao said in a trembling voice at this moment: "Ms. Wang, regardless of what you and Hu Hou planned before, the most urgent thing is that we should go to see Guo Zhongxiong immediately to prevent the situation from getting worse. If the plan of conquering Yan is really ruined, we and others will
