Originally, Lin Ye had planned to go to Dongbo, but it would not be in the near future. The affairs in Yunzhou were not over yet, so he would not leave in a hurry.
But after receiving the news that Yu Yucheng had secretly met with Special Envoy Lou Fan, Lin Ye's heart could not calm down.
He knew Yu Yu Chengchang's temperament, and it was impossible for him to risk offending Dayu by contacting the Loufan people for no reason.
Moreover, the Lou Fan people had just withdrawn their troops from Dongbo. Even from an emotional point of view, there was no need for Yu Yu Chengchang to kowtow to the Lou Fan people.
The people of Dongbo hated the people of Loufan so much that the king flattered and bowed his head. If word spread about this, with the current situation in Dongbo, there might be an even bigger rebellion.
Therefore, Lin Ye judged that the only reasonable explanation was that Yu Yucheng hurriedly asked Dayu for help, but this request for help was intercepted.
It seems that there are still too many people with ulterior motives.
So Lin Ye thought over and over again and decided to advance his trip to Dongbo.
"Big sea."
After Lin Ye thought about it, he wrote a letter to Shi Jintang, and then shouted out the door.
Pang Hai, the captain of the personal army, came in immediately: "General, what's the matter?"
Lin Ye handed the letter to Pang Panghai: "Send a few reliable people back to Yunzhou and give my letter to Shi Jintang."
Pang Panghai responded and took the letter.
Before he could go out, Lin Ye gave another order: "Send a few more people back to the camp and ask Feng Xiu to mobilize three thousand fine cavalry to wait for me at the northern border. I want to leave."
These words startled Pang Panghai: "General, why do you want to leave seclusion all of a sudden?"
Lin Ye said: "You go ahead and make arrangements. I will talk to you on the way."
Then Lin Ye looked at Monk Hua who was standing next to him, and handed him another letter: "Select a group of people, go to Lone Bamboo secretly, and give this letter to Ning Haitang, the general of the Lone Bamboo garrison."
Monk Hua received the letter: "Don't worry, Master, I'll pick someone right now."
After the arrangements were made, Lin Ye sent someone to invite Xumi Pianruo.
As soon as Xumi Pianruo entered the door, he threw himself on the chair and began to complain before Lin Ye could say anything.
"I can't live a day like this anymore. Protector, please kill me now, or let me kill you."
Lin Ye said: "We have business."
Xumi Pianruo immediately sat up straight.
Lin Ye told his guess about Dongbo and asked Xumi Pianruo to write a secret report to the emperor and send it back as soon as possible.
Xumi Pianruo's expression changed after hearing this.
"The Guardian's guess is that Hong Wu must have deliberately suppressed Dongbo's request for help and deliberately caused chaos in Dongbo. After the public resentment boiled over, the possibility of rebellion in Dongbo became more and more likely."
Lin Ye nodded.
Xumi Pianruo said: "What is his purpose in doing this? Isn't he afraid of getting himself into trouble? This matter is not difficult to find out, and it's not easy for him to cover it up even if he wants to."
Lin Ye said: "Your Majesty wants to take action in the court. Some people may want to use external pressure to relieve internal pressure."
Xumi Pianruo's expression changed again: "What the Protector means is that they want to deliberately lure the Loufan people south?"
If Dongbo becomes chaotic, the emperor will not devote all his thoughts to that.
But if the Loufan people seize this opportunity to go south again, and Hongwuding cooperates with some people in the court to suppress Dongbo, the Loufan people will be more likely to capture Dongbo than before, Zongzheng Shiquan Yujia personally conquered it.
Even bigger.
By then, Lou Fan's army would have pressed directly into Dayu's northern border.
Foreign wars must be fought.
Use foreign war to divert the emperor's thoughts away and give those in the court some breathing space.
If you think so, it's not impossible.
Those people will do anything to protect their own interests.
If Dongbo is destroyed by Lou Fan, Yunzhou will become a crucial place.
The first priority of all government agencies in the imperial court is to support Yunzhou in fighting this battle successfully.
Moreover, Yuyu Chengchang is the emperor's chosen king of Dongbo. Those people don't want Dongbo to be stable all the time, and they don't want their hands to be unable to reach Dongbo. They take this opportunity to get rid of Yuyu Chengchang and replace Dongbo with another one.
monarch......
If Dongbo is directly integrated into Dayu's territory like Lone Bamboo, it will be of greater benefit to those people.
Xumi Pianruo thought for a while and then said: "If the Protector rushes to Dongbo now, it will be very bad."
Lin Ye nodded: "If I don't go as soon as possible, Dongbo will be in trouble."
He got up and walked around the room talking.
"People's resentment in Dongbo is boiling now. There must be a lot of people who are deliberately inciting the Dongbo people to rebel. They want the Dongbo people to transfer their hatred to Dayulai."
"If this kind of thing is not stopped in time, His Majesty's plan to build Dongbo into a fortress in Dayu's northern frontier will completely fail."
"Dongbo is different from Guzhu. Guzhu can directly become a state of Dayu, but if Dongbo directly becomes a state of Dayu, the people of Dongbo will really become the people of Dayu."
Lin Ye looked at Xumi Pianruo: "You know the consequences of this."
Xumi Pianruo nodded.
If Dongbo is really breached by the Loufan people, Dayu will try his best to fight back.
When the people of Dongbo become beauties, the beauties will enjoy the same treatment as the people in Dayuguan.
Without this treatment, the people's sentiments there will always be unstable, and rebellion may occur at any time.
But, Dongbo is the battlefield designated by the emperor.
To put it this way, it is cruel to the people of Dongbo, but to Dayu, it has hundreds of benefits and no harm.
"I will mobilize the most elite law guards for you."
Xumi Pianruo said: "I hope it can be of some use."
But he knew that even if he gave all the law guards he brought to Lin Ye, if something happened to Dongbo, these law guards would be of no use at all.
Hong Wuding is now the general of the Dongbo garrison. He has about 50,000 frontier troops under his command.
If Lin Ye's guess was correct, it was Hong Wuding who deliberately put Dong Bo into trouble. Unless Lin Ye went directly with the cowardly army, it would be useless to bring any number of guards.
"No need."
Lin Ye said: "I have sent people back to Yunzhou and mobilized three thousand fine cavalry to follow me out of the customs."
He looked at Xumi Pianruo and said: "This Yunzhou case can only be handed over to you. You just have to handle this case well and do it as big as you can. You know, the bigger you do, the more the court wants to take advantage of Dongbo."
The more panicked the people are, the more anxious they are, the more flaws there will be."
Xumi Pianruo nodded: "I understand."
Lin Ye took a deep breath: "I hope it's not too late."
It takes a long time for the news to come back from Dongbo, and it will not be a short while before Lin Ye rushes to Dongbo.
He said it was still too late to hope, but he speculated that it was probably too late.
Yu Yucheng was forced to deal with the Loufan people, which was to send the sheep into the tiger's mouth.
At the same time, I am in northern Xinjiang in winter, and the wind outlet is outside the border.
Lou Fan's special envoy Helian Qiqi waved his hand, indicating that his followers did not need to follow the tent closely.
After he entered the door, his arrogant demeanor immediately disappeared. He leaned down and saluted: "I pay my respects to your Majesty."
No one expected that Yu Yucheng's letter would give Emperor Loufan Zong Zheng Shiquan another opportunity to go south.
No one thought that Zong Zheng Shiquan would come in person.
"How about it?"
Zong Zhengshiquan asked: "Do you see any problems in Yuyu Chengchang's attitude?"
Helian Qiqi replied: "I guess that Yu Guo must have given up on Dongbo. Yu Yucheng was desperate and our army has been putting pressure on Dongbo's northern border. He had no choice but to ask us not to attack."
Zong Zhengshiquan shook his head: "That's wrong."
Helian Qiqi leaned over: "That's just what I think is shallow."
Zong Zhengshiquan stood up, walked to the window of the big tent with his hands behind his back, and looked outside, his eyes a little wandering.
"Emperor Jade will not give up Dongbo. Dongbo is the battlefield he has drawn. At the very least, he must keep the people of Dongbo alive and will not force Dongbo people and the Yu Kingdom to become enemies."
This is one emperor looking at the problem from the perspective of another emperor.
Zong Zhengshiquan said: "I heard that Emperor Jade is using Tuoba Lie's rebellion to clean up the court of Jade Kingdom. This kind of thing has always been dangerous."
"If the emperor wins the battle, the country's strength will be damaged, and it will take a long time to recover..."
Speaking of this, Zong Zheng Shiquan turned back to look at Helian Qi Qi.
"The noble and old clans of the Jade Kingdom will not surrender easily and will not give up easily, so the situation here in Dongbo must be their fault."
"They suppressed Dongbo's situation and did not report it. They may even suppress Yu Tianzi and did not report Dongbo's rescue."
Zong Zhengshiquan narrowed his eyes: "I have always heard that people from the Central Plains are the best at scheming and scheming, and they are best at fighting among themselves."
"The late emperor once said to me that no foreign enemy can easily defeat the Jade Kingdom, but the Jade Kingdom will be easily destroyed by their own people."
Helian Qiqi asked: "Your Majesty, are we going to gather a large army now and be ready to go south to attack Dongbo Beiguan?"
Zong Zheng Shiquan nodded: "Send someone to convey the order to the old general Yelu Ling. I will give him a month to bring the army to the wind... and then convey the order to Jinting. People from various ministries and government offices,
Cooperate with the veteran general to reorganize the military equipment as soon as possible."
Helian Qiqi immediately leaned over and said, "I obey your order."
Then, he asked tentatively: "Would you like to take this opportunity to get rid of Yu Yu Cheng Chong? If your Majesty nods, I can take action when I go to see Yu Yu Cheng Chong tomorrow."
Zong Zheng Shiquan shook his head: "If you kill Yu Yu Cheng Chong, you won't be able to come back. He is not worthy of giving his life in exchange for one of my important ministers."
Just one sentence made Helian Qiqi's heart warm up and he was moved instantly.
Zong Zhengshiquan said: "When you and Yu Yu Cheng have a talk tomorrow, relax appropriately so that Yu Yu Cheng has hope."
"I obey the decree."
Zong Zhengshiquan smiled and said: "Yuyu Chengchang has nothing else in his hand to exchange for grain. Don't you want to exchange it for war horses? Tell him that you can exchange it, but not for anything less. If he is willing to give more than 200,000 horses,
If the war horse makes a deal, then agree to it."
Helian Qi Qi's eyes lit up.
He said: "Dongbo will definitely not be able to get two hundred thousand war horses now. I will bargain with him to find out the limit of what he can exchange for war horses."
"This battle has not yet been fought. Dongbo has no war horses to use. Without the war horses, Dongbo's plain terrain will not be able to stop Lou Fan's army."
Zong Zhengshiquan hummed.
He looked out the window and stopped talking.
There was only one thought in his mind...
Emperor Jade, don't you want to fight a big battle with me in Dongbo? Don't you want to try it out and try your best to see which one is stronger, Lou Fan or Yu Guo?
I, follow your wishes.
He exhaled slowly.
No matter how many years pass, no matter how many generations of emperors we go through, the dream of the Loufan people to go south and conquer the Central Plains will never be extinguished.
As you know, the Central Plains became the territory of the Loufan Empire.
No one knows that when Zong Zheng Shiquan was the prince, he had visited Dayu and Geling.
He saw the prosperity of Dayu and the majesty of Geling.
Therefore, he was more eager to take over the Central Plains than any previous generation of Emperor Lou Fan.