The letter from King Huan Zhao Hongxuan was delivered to Daliang three days later and delivered to the eldest prince's house.
After learning about this, the eldest prince Zhao Hongli was very happy at first. After all, half a month ago, when King Huan Zhao Hongxuan was still in Qiguan and Qixian, he wrote a letter to Zhao Hongli and agreed to wait for Zhao Hongxuan.
After returning to Hedong, he wrote to Zhao Hongli about the recent reorganization of the Northern First Army in Anyi County.
This respect made Zhao Hongli feel more and more that he was not trusting anyone.
In fact, at this time, the eldest prince Zhao Hongli had already lost control of the Northern First Army. After all, when Zhao Hongxuan and Zhou Min reorganized the entire army, not only did they squeeze out the Yongwang Party and the Xiangwang Party, but even the Donggong Party also withdrew one by one.
As a result, the Northern First Army is now completely under the control of King Huan Zhao Hongxuan.
Under this situation, Zhao Hongxuan still remembered the agreement he and Zhao Hongli had made to each other, and wrote to Zhao Hongli in detail about the progress of reorganizing the First Army of the North. This moved Zhao Hongli very much.
Especially when the eldest prince's mansion is now crowded and no one cares about it.
But when Zhao Hongli opened the letter and took a look at it, a confused expression immediately appeared on his face, because although the letter was delivered to him, Zhao Hongli, and he looked up in trust, it was Luo Yao's name that was written on it.
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The content of the letter made Zhao Hongrun even more puzzled. It actually contained a few words of advice to advise Luo Yao not to aim too high and to stop thinking about getting something for nothing.
"What does this mean?"
Zhao Hongli thought for a long time but couldn't figure it out, so he asked his servants to invite Luo Yao out of the study.
After a while, Luo Yao came to the front hall, took the letter from Zhao Hongli and read it carefully. After thinking about it carefully, he nodded as if he had some understanding, with a hint of disappointment flashing in his eyes.
It has to be said that Zhao Hongrun underestimated the profit-seeking nobles in the country.
For those nobles, it is their nature to seek profit, so how could they ignore the treasure house in Shangdang County?
You must know that in Shangdang County, even those who organize people to dig stones in the Tianmen Mine can become rich. What's more, Shangdang has a lot of fertile land suitable for farming, and there are also millet that the locals use to make wine.
Crops - in fact, "Shangdang millet wine" alone is enough to attract the nobles in the country to flock to Shangdang.
But why are these nobles still waiting and watching?
The reason is simple, as Zhou Min said to Zhao Hongxuan, although Shangdang County's profits are huge, the crops need to be cultivated and the ores need to be mined. In other words, only by investing manpower and material resources can you get a harvest, and you cannot get rich in a short time;
But what about Hexi? They can directly plunder the wealth of the Qiang, Hu, Rong, and Di, and plunder countless cattle, sheep, and horses. It is not surprising that one becomes rich in one day.
Under this situation, the nobles in the country stretched their necks and looked at the four counties in Hedong, wanting to see if they could get some benefits from His Highness Prince Su again. Only those who thought they were incapable of fighting with His Highness Prince Su
The noble nobleman honestly organized his servants and slaves to go to the party.
Of course, King Yong, King Xiang, and King Qing valued the Four Orders of Hedong not because of monetary profit, but because of authority, or to put it simply, military power.
Nowadays, the aristocratic circles in the country are well aware of each other. According to the "Handan Peace Agreement between Wei and Han", South Korea will send troops to conquer Hexi for Wei as compensation for this defeat.
This is free of charge, at least in the eyes of the domestic nobles - they will not care. In order to obtain the land west of Hexi, Wei has secretly signed a strategic alliance with South Korea to jointly expel Lin Hu.
And this matter involves an issue, that is, the garrison sent to Hexi!
Don't count on the Korean army. These people have done their best to capture Hexi for Wei. Do you expect them to help Wei garrison and resist Qiang Hu's counterattack? Don't even think about it!
On the other hand, if South Korea really does that, I believe Wei will be worried.
Then the question arises: Which domestic army is suitable for transfer to Hexi?
Regarding this question, I believe that the vast majority of people in Wei will immediately think of "King Su's Army".
But in fact, King Su's army was unable and unable to garrison in Hexi, because King Su's army was stationed in "Shangshui County". To the south of Wei State, Shangshui County had as many as six counties of land that required garrisoning.
If it weren't for the fact that in the Chu Kingdom, King Xiong Xu of Chu was getting old day by day, the Chu princes like Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo, Guling Lord Xiong Wu, Liyang Lord Xiong Sheng and other Chu princes were fiercely fighting with each other, and Chu Pingyu bordering Shangshui County The city is also the territory of Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo, who regards Mi Jiang and Mi Rui as his biological sisters. In addition, Zhao Hongrun and Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo still have a strong private alliance to this day. Zhao Hongrun simply does not dare to mobilize one hundred thousand King Su's troops. He went to northern Xinjiang to participate in the war, leaving only 20,000 to 30,000 reserves in Shangshui County.
Another reason is that the territory is too large and the authority is too heavy, making it easy for Zhao Hongrun to be targeted.
Don't think that if Zhao Hongrun doesn't participate in the fight for the throne, no one will deliberately target him. In fact, the reason why he gave up the fight for the throne is at best because his brothers don't regard him as a strong rival. But in addition, Zhao Hongrun has offended many people. Where are people?
The great uncle Zhao Tairu, the Wang family of Zhengcheng, the general Chao Wendong, Prince Yuanyang and his son, the officials, etc., etc., all looked down upon Zhao Hongrun's good people, who could line up from the west gate of Daliang to the east gate.
Therefore, it is impossible for King Su's army to be stationed in the Xihe area.
Of course, at this point, Zhao Hongrun can take other methods, such as recommending Kou Zheng as the Fenyin Order and recommending Lintao Jun Wei Ji as the Fenyin General. As long as the two people he recommends stand firmly in his camp , Fenyin is equivalent to being in the hands of Zhao Hongrun.
But in any case, the Suwang Army, which is becoming more and more famous now, or to be precise, the three armies of Shangshui Army, Yanling Army, and Youma Army, must return to Shangshui County, otherwise, Zhao Hongrun will be exposed. Political opponents.
Some people may say, Shangshui County occupies six counties, why don't Zhao Hongrun's political opponents use this matter to attack Zhao Hongrun?
In fact, the reason is very simple, because when Zhao Hongrun took over the other five counties in Shangshui County except Leshangshui County, those five counties had already been completely destroyed in the battle of Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo's attack on Wei. , it can be called ten rooms and nine empty spaces.
In fact, Zhao Hongrun didn't want those five counties at all. His cunning and cunning father forced them to him. In that matter, Zhao Hongrun was really cheated by his father. He deserved the reward. It turned into a wasteland destroyed by war, which is unbearable!
However, because of this, even though Zhao Hongrun's fiefdom was huge, no one spoke out about this matter, because everyone knew that the remaining five counties in Shangshui County were actually unwilling to invest huge funds in reconstruction by the imperial court. Therefore, he passed the blame to His Highness King Su, and thereby defrauded His Highness of his reward.
In addition to King Su's Army, the most famous ones are Wei Wu Army, Northern Second Army and Northern Third Army. However, Wei Wu Army, like Junshui Army, is the capital army stationed in Daliang. They are not even stationed in the border city of Qi County.
Not to mention garrisoning in Hexi; and the Second and Third Northern Armies are the armies of the Southern Liang King Zhao Yuanzuo and the General Jiang Bi respectively. One is a rebellious former royal family, and the other is a foreign general. Therefore, the court will not let them go no matter what.
These two armies are stationed in Hexi - if the Qiang and Hu people launch a counterattack, the possibility of dispatching these two armies to resist cannot be ruled out, but the garrison in Hexi, haha, there is no door.
As a result, apart from the sixth garrison battalion, the only remaining armies are the Shanyang Army, the Northern First Army and the Southern Yan Army.
Unfortunately, these three northern Xinjiang armies have little appetite, and a border city in Qi County is enough to feed them. Even though King Zhao Hongjiang of Yan, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan, and General Wei Mu of Southern Yan coveted the wealth of Hexi,
At most, they can just follow the Wei State to fight the autumn wind and make a profit while Wei is attacking the Qiang and Hu. As for garrisoning in Hexi, these three armies do not have the ability to divide their troops and garrison them temporarily.
It's no wonder, after all, with the other armies withdrawing one after another, the three armies of the Northern Army, the Shanyang Army, and the Southern Yan Army will shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the entire northern border of Wei. God knows whether the Koreans will
Will the agreement be broken?
Therefore, in the end, only the "Sixth Battalion" may be garrisoned in Hexi.
Among them, the Song Dynasty eliminated Nangong's "Suiyang Army" because it had never been a key training target of the imperial court.
Wei Mu's "Nan Yan Army" is excluded because the Nan Yan Army currently has to garrison Qiguan, Linlu, Jixian, Xiuwu and other places.
Sima An's "Dangshan County" is excluded. After all, the Dangshan Army is used to intimidate Song County's army, whether it is the Song County rebels or the Suiyang Army of Nangong.
Bailiba's "drung water army" is excluded because the dredge army has always been the capital army stationed in Daliang. Even if Wei Wujun was founded, it could not shake the status of the dredge army.
Only the remaining "Fenxing Army" and "Chenggao Army" may have a chance to be stationed in Hexi. After all, the former's defense can be replaced by the Suwang Army, while the latter, due to the creation of the Sichuan Luo Cavalry, the Chenggao Army has actually been
It degenerated into a pass soldier who collected taxes from the caravans traveling to and from the Three Rivers every day, so that the Chenggao Pass, which was originally used to resist the Three Rivers, has now been reduced to a tax collection pass and has lost its strategic significance.
Of course, despite this, I believe that the imperial court will not rashly mobilize the Gao army. After all, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, you are afraid of the worst. What if the Sichuan-Luo Alliance rebels against Wei? Although it is unlikely, but you still have to guard against the slightest change, right?
After arranging the situation in this way, we came to the conclusion that none of Wei's current armies is suitable for garrisoning in Hexi.
What to do in this situation?
It's very simple, just form one or several armies!
So, when the land in Hexi has not yet belonged to the Wei State, where can these new armies be formed and trained?
The answer is already obvious: Beiqu, Fenyin, Pishi, Puban.
This is the reason why King Yong, King Xiang, King Qing and others want to get these four cities - to control the new army!
It was precisely with this in mind that Luo Yao asked Huan Wang Zhao Hongxuan to test his words with his brother Su Wang Zhao Hongrun to see if he could help the eldest prince Zhao Hongli get a spot in a new army.
But unfortunately, Zhao Hongrun had already told him in a subtle way: Don't go through this muddy water and just go to Shangdang County to make profits.
Therefore, Luo Yao and the eldest prince Zhao Hongli, who learned the whole story from the former, wisely chose to stop.
After all, there are four parties competing, and neither Zhao Hongli nor Luo Yao is sure they can gain any advantage.
Which four directions?
That is, the Yongwang Party, the alliance between King Xiang and King Qing, the princes and nobles in the country, and - King Su!
Currently, there are four largest forces in Wei State.