After discussing the matter, the night was still dark, Liang Wenzhan and Liu Tao left, and Lin Fu climbed up the stairs.
Song Jia sat by the window, staring at the moon in the pond in front of the building. Under the light green veil, her skin was as smooth as snow, and her raven-like hair was tied behind her shoulders with a ribbon, revealing her beautiful and bright face.
This place is just above the pavilion where the meeting was held. There are overhangs blocking the view, but it does not prevent Song Jia from listening to the details of the meeting. Seeing Lin Fu walking up the stairs, Song Jia sat up lazily and pushed
Looking at the chess pieces on the table in front of me, he said: "Left and right are boring. Are you in the mood to play a game of chess with me?"
"I'll come, I'll come," Xiaoman trotted out. She was eavesdropping here with Song Jia just now. What Lin Fu and Liang Wenzhan were discussing were military and government affairs. They were very boring. They couldn't make any noise. She heard half of it.
, he dozed off and ran away first. At this time, he heard Lin Fu coming upstairs, got up from the couch, and regardless of his messy hair, rushed to play chess with Song Jia, and said to Lin Fu, "I can't beat her by myself.
If you want to help me...just talk to the young lady."
"Okay." Lin Fu said with a smile and sat down against the table. Xiaoman leaned in his arms and shamelessly made the first move.
"You're such a deadbeat," Song Jia smiled sweetly, stared at Xiaoman's beautiful and clean face for a while, tilted her head slightly and asked Lin Fu, "I'm very confused: why do you have the heart to treat Su Mei
The girl stays in Jiangning without asking anything, and lets this little girl come over and ride on everyone's head to dominate?"
Lin Fu put his arms around Xiaoman's slender and soft waist, making her half-standing and half-sitting leaning against his arms, smelling the faint girly fragrance coming from her body, and just smiled lightly at Song Jia's question, no.
say what.
"Young madam is so smart, what else can happen that you can't guess?" Xiaoman was sharp-tongued, leaning on Lin Fu's arms lovingly, and bickering with Song Jia.
"There are so many things that I can't guess..." Song Jia picked up a chess piece and dropped it.
She had long seen that Xiaoman's identity was different. Lin Fu was not the kind of person who was easily seduced by women. Xiaoman was just a beautiful maid, but she was more beautiful than his wife Gu Junxun and his concubine Liu Yue who gave birth to a son for Lin Fu.
The son also needs to be pampered.
From Xiaoman, we can also imagine that Su Mei's identity is unusual.
With Lin Fu's current power, it would not be difficult to take Su Mei as his concubine. However, if Su Mei is left alone in Jiangning, there is naturally a secret behind it that is not known to outsiders.
Lin Fu refused to say anything, and she didn't bother to guess. She just brought up the matter and said, "For example, my lord openly recruited Liu An'er to surrender, but secretly gave Yue Lengqiu a murderous knife. I can't guess that.
Tou. I'm confused. Do the benefits of keeping Yue Lengqiu and Chen Hansan really outweigh the disadvantages?"
"The so-called gifting of sharp blades to others is nothing more than a helpless strategy," Lin Fu said. "Since the refugee army marched eastward, the land of Huaisi has been filled with empty houses and millions of corpses. Even if the recruitment is successful, forty or fifty people will be killed.
How to place the Wanliu People's Army is also a difficult problem..."
"Are you even more afraid that Liu An'er is not a bitch?" Song Jia said, "Even if Liu An'er accepts the recruitment, it will only be a bitch for a while. Let him occupy Xuzhou and lie dormant for a year or two to recuperate, and 300,000 to 50,000 elite soldiers will be fat and strong.
, there are another four to five million brave men who can be recruited at any time, which is really a serious problem. In comparison, keeping Yue Lengqiu and Chen Hansan has less disadvantages..."
"With hundreds of thousands of lives, it's hard to lift a butcher's knife. It's really not what I want to kill people all over the country." Lin Fu sighed slightly, but agreed with Song Jia's guess, "How do you think this chaos in Huaisi can be solved?"
"I don't have any good ideas? I'm just confused. This plan doesn't suit your temperament. Who under your command suggested it?" Song Jia asked.
"The chaos in the world is nothing compared to this move in chess. The momentum of chess can be spread. In troubled times, you and I are just people who follow the trend. The world of chess is like this. I just follow the situation and defend Huaidong from military disasters. What's the plan?
No plan, no plan?" Lin Fu chuckled and said nothing else.
Seeing that Lin Fu was very tight-lipped, Song Jia stopped asking. She was distracted talking to Lin Fu, and Xiaoman had the advantage in the chess game. Now she concentrated on playing chess to regain the disadvantage.
Man Baizi gave up and complained to Lin Fu, "I want you to help me and win for her again..."
"You are just greedy, little girl. You have won a lot of things." Song Jia smiled, got up and left to rest.
Lin Fu gently patted Xiaoman's cheeks and said, "Send an old friend away from Shanyang with me..."
"Who is it?" Xiaoman asked, "You have an old friend in Shanyang, why didn't I know about it?"
"You'll know when you get there..." Lin Fu said with a smile, holding Xiao Man's tender and tender hand, and went downstairs.
Zhou Pu had already prepared a group of cavalry waiting outside the courtyard. Lin Fu got on his horse, pulled Xiao Man to sit sideways in his arms, and rode slowly through the north city to the ferry in the north of Shanyang County.
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Not far from the naval camp, a two-masted sea-going ship stopped at the ferry. Lin Fu dismounted in front of the ferry.
Gao Zongting was dressed in a green shirt and stood at the bow of the ship. When he saw Lin Fu coming over, he smiled and said, "I thought Zhizhi would be unable to escape due to his busy schedule..."
"The storm in the East China Sea is still strong. Why don't Mr. Gao stay a few more days before leaving?" Lin Fu took Xiaoman's hand and boarded the ship, bowing to Gao Zongting.
"If you want to say that the wind and waves are bad, the wind and waves in Northern Xinjiang are even worse. How can you dare to stay for a long time?" Gao Zongting said with a smile, "Besides, Zhang Yan is coming to Shanyang in the next two days. It would not be good to bump into him."
Xiaoman had never met Gao Zongting, but he also knew Gao Zongting's famous name. He bowed and said softly: "I, Xiaoman, have met Mr. Gao."
"Zhizhishi is quite blessed..." Gao Zongting returned the favor with Xiaoman, but made fun of Lin Fu.
Lin Fu smiled and said: "I have no other wish to be in the world. I just want to protect the three or five people around me from the pain of being displaced in troubled times. After Mr. Gao returned, he told Li Shuai that the danger of the Eastern Han Dynasty would be resolved, and the settlement of the Central Plains would be easy.
Already."
"I hope so!" Speaking of this, Gao Zongting also lacked confidence, and his expression darkened, and he said, "King Lu and the Zhizhi envoy were in love for a while. Does the Zhizhi envoy really not want to leave Zhenbei?"
Lin Fu shook his head and said, "I can't stand the bone-crushing wind and cold in Northern Xinjiang..."
Seeing that Lin Fu could not be persuaded, Gao Zongting said in frustration: "Chen Zhihu barely defended Datong, but northern Shanxi was so devastated that even if the soldiers fled to rescue the siege, Chen Zhihu would not be able to sit in the position of guarding Datong. Li Shuai was cut off in northern Xinjiang."
An arm!"
"After the Eastern captives rescued the siege, the imperial court relieved Chen Zhihu from guarding Datong and transferred him to the Central Plains to clear out the bandits. It was also appropriate. When northern Xinjiang encountered military danger again, Li Shuai recommended Chen Zhihu to guard Datong. Who else in the imperial court
Will you stop him?" Lin Fu said.
"I hope so..." Gao Zongting said this again, more helplessly.
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Lin Fu held Xiaoman's hand and stood on the ferry to send Gao Zongting away. In the night, the two-masted sea-going ship looked like an elf fighting against the wind and waves on the vast water.
"The person who gave the advice that the young madam never guessed is Mr. Gao?" Xiao Man lowered his head and asked Lin Fu.
"Don't rush to help her solve the mystery. Let her be suspicious for a few more days." Lin Fu smiled slightly and admitted Xiaoman's guess. Seeing that the night was getting dark, he picked her up and sat on the horse, and rode slowly towards the city.
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Lin Fu had been in contact with Li Zhuo since he was guarding Huaihe. He originally hoped that Li Zhuo would persuade the court to agree to secretly transfer a group of elite troops from Jibei to go south by sea, and the combined forces would severely inflict heavy losses on the refugee army. However, the Donglu troops did not go to encircle Datong, and the court did not dare
Using this dangerous strategy, Gao Zongting secretly came to Huai'an for half a month.
Although Liu An'er would be forced to accept the recruitment today due to the situation, his strength has hardly suffered a substantial blow.
For Liu An'er, all he lacked was time and territory to recuperate. His troops had 200,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 40,000 elite soldiers. In addition, there were 200,000 miscellaneous soldiers from Ge Ping's tribe.
At this time, let him rest and recuperate in Huaisi, and let him take advantage of the situation to make a comeback in the future. How can he be controlled?
What's more, Liu An'er has always been disconnected from the She family. Given Liu An'er's wariness of the court, the possibility of him being on the same side as the She family is far higher than that of him being loyal to the court from now on.
After the fall of Xinzhou, the passage from east Fujian to north Jiangxi was completely cut off.
Yu Wangao did not want his entire army to be wiped out, so he was forced to lead his troops to withdraw from Jian'an Prefecture and break out to the south. He climbed over the mountains and ridges and retreated to Jieyang, the southernmost tip of Dongmin County, before he could barely stand firm and was unable to stop the She family from advancing to northern Fujian.
Southern Zhejiang is connected into one piece.
Compared with the strength of the She family, the defense line established by Dong Yuan in northern Zhejiang was a bit weak.
Given time, once the She family's army successfully breaks through Dong Yuan's defense line in northern Zhejiang, or invades Jiangxi on a large scale, will Liu An'er continue to lie dormant?
With the disaster in Haozhou happening first, Lin Fu would not easily believe that Liu An'er was the kind of person who had the ambition to save all the people from disaster. Gao Zongting hoped that he could use the sword to kill people, so Lin Fu agreed.
Lin Fu was sure of severely damaging Chen Hansan's headquarters, but under the current situation, what's the harm in sparing Chen Hansan's life?
Chen Han was one of the third-rate horse bandits, and by this time he had 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, including 7,800 elite soldiers to rely on. He could be considered a hero, but his reputation in the refugee army was far beyond that of Liu An'er.
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Lin Fu and Xiaoman returned to Wenqing Garden. Unexpectedly, the lights on the waterside pavilion were not turned off, and Song Jia, who had said she was going to rest, was still sitting in front of the window arranging the chess pieces.
"Young madam, why haven't you rested yet?" Lin Fu raised his head and asked through the window.
"I heard that your Excellency is going to see someone off, and I wonder who has the honor to let you go out of the city to see me off at night," Song Jia said from behind, "I think it makes sense. Your Excellency is not willing to raise the butcher's knife, but Li Bingbu is very interested in the imperial court.
I am loyal and loyal, but I don’t mind raising this butcher’s knife. But I am confused again. If Li Bingbu’s butcher’s knife is raised towards the Jiangdong Left Army in the future, how will you handle yourself?”
"Curiosity will kill people," Lin Fu said with a smile, "Why do you have so many doubts?"
"Anyone else would never save Liu Tingzhou. That's why I have such doubts."
"If I don't save anyone, how can I be different from others?" Lin Fu asked, "When it's Li Bingbu's turn to fight with me, the Yuan clan will be rejuvenated. The world is so big, how can it be without me?
A place to stay? I would like to ask the other way around, how will the young lady deal with herself then?"
Song Jia's face turned red and she said, "I'm just a prisoner in a prison, a bird in a cage. I'm not at ease with myself. This topic is really boring. If I had known this, I wouldn't have waited for you to reach this point."