Chapter 1343 Victory by force and victory by wisdom
Shen Yi looked up at Zhou Yuanlang with a calm expression.
He was not particularly surprised by Zhou Yuanlang's words. Basically, all men in this era valued their sons more than their daughters.
Broadly speaking, the same is true for women.
Comparatively speaking, Zhou Shizhong was much more cruel than Zhou Yuanlang.
Shen Yi lowered his head to drink tea and said: "I am rushing to Jiankang for six hundred miles. It will take six or seven days to go back and forth. During these six or seven days, Mr. Zhou has been aggrieved and stayed here in Shulu. In a few days, when I make a decision to His Majesty, Shen will let Mr. Shen leave."
Zhou Yuanlang looked at Shen Yi and smiled bitterly: "Master Hou, you are a smart man. You should have figured it out. Now in Cangzhou City, countless people from the Purity Department are staring at my father and me. At this time, I personally went out of the city to talk to Master Hou. We have already taken a huge risk by talking about it, and now everyone in Cangzhou City is still my stand-in, standing up for me."
"I can't stay here for a long time. I have to rush back. Once the secret is revealed, not only will the matter I discussed with the Marquis be ruined, but I'm afraid no one in my family will be able to escape."
Shen Yi smiled half-heartedly: "Is it possible that at this time, Mr. Zhou and General Zhou have not controlled the situation in Cangzhou and the Southern Army?"
"The Purity Department is pervasive..."
Shen Yi coldly lowered his face and said expressionlessly: "Mr. Zhou, it's not like I haven't come into contact with organizations similar to the Cleaning Department. Even my newspaper department is currently not much different from your Cleaning Department. These secretly Those who engage in intelligence may sound mysterious and powerful, but when they meet the army."
"It's not worth mentioning anymore."
"With tens of thousands of soldiers of the Southern Conquest Army in the hands of you and your son, I'm afraid not even a fly can fly out of Cangzhou City. Besides, if you come to me from Cangzhou, even if I let you go back now, the round trip will take almost ten days. Already."
"What's the difference between these six days?"
Zhou Yuanlang frowned: "Master Hou, what you and I are talking about at this time is a major matter that affects half of the world. You can't be so unreasonable and domineering."
"How could I be so overbearing?"
Shen Yi said softly: "Besides, if the Cleaning Department really finds out that your husband is not in Cangzhou, but has come to my place, the cooperation between us will be successful, right?"
Zhou Yuanlang had a dark face and said in a low voice: "Master Hou, it's meaningless for you to keep me for a few more days."
"Why doesn't it make sense?"
Shen Yi smiled and said: "If I disagree with the emperor, Shen can kidnap you and blackmail General Zhou."
Zhou Yuanlang's face turned red with anger, and he said angrily: "Master Hou, Zhou has treated you with courtesy from the beginning, but you are so unreasonable, have you already taken advantage of us to conquer the Southern Army!"
"Don't be so angry."
Shen Yi said slowly: "To be honest, whether we cooperate with your family or not is mainly because His Majesty is more concerned about it. Shen doesn't care much."
"Your Majesty also raised this matter."
Mr. Shen stood up, put his hands in his sleeves, and walked toward the door: "Therefore, Mr. Zhou's threat to me about whether to cooperate or not is of little use."
"Say something that is difficult to spread."
Shen Yi said leisurely: "With the surrender of your father and son, our Huai'an army's success in locating the north will be reduced by 20%."
Zhou Yuanlang took several deep breaths. He looked at Shen Yi's back and said silently: "Master Hou is really full of confidence."
Shen Yi turned around and said with a smile: "At that time, there was not even a single person in Dachen who dared to set foot in Huaibei. If I didn't have confidence, how could I get here today?"
"But it turns out that you, the Northern Qi Dynasty, are already so bad that you even hooked up with the Tatars to enter the country and used the trick of driving away tigers and devouring wolves. This shows that the fate of Northern Qi Dynasty is over."
"To put it bluntly, if Yandu hadn't let the Tatars in, held back my vanguard, and almost destroyed about 30% of my strength, I wouldn't even be talking to you right now."
Xue Wei's vanguard army is all elite. If he could successfully take over Datong without being hindered by the Tatars, the vanguard army would have threatened Yandu by now.
If he slightly expands his army in Shanxi, he will be able to contain at least Nuo Yong's force of 70,000 to 80,000 men. In this way, Shen Yi will be able to move forward on the frontal battlefield and sweep away all obstacles.
It is a pity that the Tatars held back Xue Wei. Although Xue Wei did not suffer too much now, he could not escape from the battlefield of Datong at all.
Shen Yi continued: "Tatars don't have much food."
He narrowed his eyes: "The fight will last until this autumn at most. If they have no more harvest, no matter how unwilling they are, they will have to retreat outside the customs. Then I will be able to free up my hands."
"At that time, my husband's family will be even less valuable."
Zhou Yuanlang clenched his fists tightly in his sleeves. He took a step back, cupped his hands towards Shen Yi and said, "Okay, I'll stay here with the Marquis. Please don't bother me for a few more days."
Shen Yi nodded with satisfaction, then he looked back at Zhou Yuanlang and asked, "I have a curious question, sir, can you answer it for me?"
"Just ask, Lord Marquis."
Lord Shen said with a smile: "If the inner guards agree to take your family out of Yandu for you, they can't be 100% sure. If they fail, the Yandu court will find out about it, and they will have to I know that no one in the Zhou family has moved, but your children, Zhou Yuanlang, are going to be taken out of Yandu..."
"How can the husband's family live?"
"This is simple."
Zhou Yuanlang stood there, his expression calming down.
"My father and I were ordered to fight with Nanchen. The Nanchen court repeatedly tried to seduce me with huge profits, but my father and son refused. Nanchen's internal guards then became evil and intended to kidnap my children in order to threaten me and force the conquest. The southern army surrendered to Nanchen."
Having said this, he paused and looked at Shen Yi: "Thanks to the imperial court's help, my family was protected."
Mr. Shen was stunned, then he clapped his hands: "Wonderful."
"Been taught a lesson."
He looked at Zhou Yuanlang and smiled dumbly: "But if there are many loopholes like this, Emperor Zhaowu may not believe it?"
Zhou Yuanlang said softly: "Thanks to Mr. Hou, the current situation cannot help him not believing it."
"Okay, okay."
Shen Yi shouted: "Jiang Sheng, arrange for Mr. Zhou to rest."
Zhou Yuanlang walked out of the room and looked back at Shen Yi: "Master Hou, if I have a chance in the future, can I go to Master Hou's Huai'an Army and take a look?"
Shen Yi glanced at him.
"We'll talk about it after you become a Hanchen."
Zhou Yuanlang bent down, bowed his head, and saluted with his hands raised: "Thank you, Lord Marquis."
After saying that, he was taken down by Jiang Sheng.
After Zhou Yuanlang left, Shen Yi walked back to the main hall and sat down, saying calmly: "Did you hear that? This man is really powerful."
Behind the screen in the main hall, Shen Yi's staff member Li Zhun walked out silently and said with emotion: "This Qi man is really smart."
"Only you, Zhongcheng, can control him."
"Stop flattering."
Shen Yi shook his head and said: "I defeated him by force, not by outsmarting him."
"Have you taken down what he just said? Draft the document as soon as possible and I will send it to Jiankang."
"yes."
Li Zhun lowered his head and said: "The document for the palace was written by you yourself, Zhongcheng. My subordinates just made a rough copy at the back. You can take a look at it first. If it is suitable, use this copy and then modify it. That's it. You can submit it to the emperor."
Shen Yi took the piece of paper he handed over, saw some scrawled writing on it, and nodded slightly: "That's roughly what it means."
He looked up at Li Zhun and said with a smile: "You are getting better and better. You are not like when you first came here, with your nostrils pointing upward and looking annoying."
Li Zhun smiled awkwardly: "It's all polished well by Zhongcheng. It's all polished well by Zhongcheng."
After that, he looked at Shen Yi, lowered his head and asked: "Zhongcheng, did your subordinates make a copy of the list written by Zhou just now?"
Shen Yi nodded, took out the list from his sleeve and placed it on the table.
After Li Zhun took a look, he couldn't help but frown.
"That person's surname is Zhou, whose given name is..."
"It's a little bad."
Mr. Shen laughed heartily.
"right?"
"I told him about him back then, and it's been several years."