Chapter 396 Beating
After writing the rough letter, Zhao Xing handed it to Sanshui and asked him to take it to Shujishi to polish it. Then he looked at Yin Hanzhang and said: "As for Gu Tingwei's confession, you read it "No?"
"I have seen it," Yin Hanzhang replied.
"I will ask Liu Sanshi to cooperate with you and investigate carefully." Zhao Xing said lightly.
The reason why Gu Tingwei was bribed by the Wizard Cult was because the Wizard Cult promised him that it could help him rescue his mother.
The condition is that Gu Tingwei helps them do things.
After the rebellion broke out in Jiangzhou, the Wizard Cult notified him and asked him to find a way to join the imperial army to suppress the rebellion.
Even if Zhao Xing does not send Song Chaozhong to quell the rebellion this time, when the court decides on the candidates to lead the army, Gu Tingwei will ask Gu Yankai to join the quelling the rebellion.
Although Gu Tingwei is not very scheming, he will not believe in the wizarding religion so easily.
After all, his mother was imprisoned in the Sentence Department, which was the place where nobles who committed crimes were imprisoned in the palace. It was not that easy to save people.
The reason why he believed that the Wizarding Cult could do it was because the Wizarding Cult gave him a letter written by his mother.
This made Gu Tingwei convinced.
Although the place where Shen Xing Si imprisoned people was not in the palace, it was in a remote corner of the imperial city.
The fact that the Wizard Cult was able to bring out the letter means that they have reached into the imperial city.
This matter must be investigated carefully.
"Yes!"
Yin Hanzhang responded and asked: "Your Majesty, what should we do with Gu Tingwei?"
"Let's escort him back to Beijing first."
Zhao Xing was a little agitated after hearing this. He rubbed his brow with a headache.
Although Gu Tingye hates Xiao Qin very much, he still has feelings for this younger brother.
What Gu Tingwei committed was definitely a capital crime, but he had to consider Gu Tingye's thoughts.
Now is the critical time to plan for Hehuang. Once Gu Tingye's plans for Hehuang are affected by Gu Tingwei's affairs, it will be the most troublesome.
After Yin Hanzhang was sent away, Sanshui sent a polished edict. After reading it, Zhao Xing saw that there was no problem and stamped it with a jade seal.
“Order someone to rush to Jiangzhou.” Zhao Xing said.
“Yes!”
Sanshui responded, bowed and prepared to leave.
“Wait a minute.” Zhao Xing stopped Sanshui and said, “Go to Ningyuan Hou’s Mansion in person and tell Ningyuan Hou about Gu Tingwei.”
“Yes!”
Seeing that Zhao Xing had no other instructions, Sanshui bowed and left.
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Xixia
Li Liangzuo received the report from Liang Yimi and ordered people to find Liang Guangchuan.
"Prime Minister, let's take a look."
After Liang Guangchuan saluted, Li Liangzuo handed the letter to Liang Guangchuan.
"Your Majesty, I feel that the Song Dynasty is deliberately delaying time. However, judging from the information obtained, the 30,000 additional troops added by the Song Dynasty this time, plus the original 50,000 troops and horses, total only It’s just 80,000. The Song Dynasty still has to leave some defensive back roads, and there are not many soldiers and horses at its disposal, so the impact is not big." Liang Guangchuan said.
"The impact is not big?"
Li Liangzuo said with a gloomy face: "Don't you know the current situation in Hehuang?"
"The Song army robbed the camp, destroyed the Qiang people, and also made Hehuang Huang Tubo has regained its confidence. Now that the Qiang people are retreating, once the reinforcements of the Song army arrive, it will only be a matter of time before the Qiang people are destroyed."
"I also received a report this time, Liang Yi buried. When he met with the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, his words were not intense, and he seemed to have no intention of stopping the Song Dynasty from sending troops. Moreover, the Grand Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty went to Honglu Temple in person and asked to talk to Liang Yimi alone. Could it be you. What agreement has the Liang family and the Song State reached?"
Liang Guangchuan said calmly: "Your Majesty, this is just a stratagem by the Song State."
"Hmph."
Li Liangzuo snorted coldly: "I hope so." He naturally knew that Liang Guangchuan could not betray Xixia.
Given Liang Guangchuan's status in Xixia, he is already considered to be inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. betraying Xixia will not do him any good.
If he really wanted to join the Song Dynasty, what could the Song Dynasty give him?
Become a king?
Li Liangzuo knew that in the Han Dynasty, those who were named kings with different surnames would not end well since ancient times.
Liang Guangchuan cannot be unclear.
He just wanted to use this to beat Liang Guangchuan.
He supported Liang Guangchuan and reused Han officials, not only because the Xixia aristocrats were not as good as the Han people in governing the place, but also because he wanted to use Han officials to check and balance the Xixia aristocrats.
He was able to be sidelined and turned into a puppet in the first place because the Xixia nobles united.
In order to avoid this situation in the future, the only way is to reuse Han officials to provide checks and balances.
Since he reused Han officials, the effect has been very good.
The Xixia nobles had a sense of crisis. While suppressing Han officials, they were also expressing themselves and proving their usefulness to him, the emperor.
While Li Liangzuo was happy, he was still wary of Liang Guangchuan.
"Let's not talk about this matter for now. Tell me why you feel that adding more troops to the Song Dynasty has little impact?" Li Liangzuo frowned.
At this time, the leader of the largest Tibetan branch on the plateau had died.
His son Dong Fei has already requested a decree from the Song Dynasty to inherit the throne.
This was indeed a good time to capture the plateau, and he didn't want to give up.
“Your Majesty, the reason why I say this matter will have little impact is because this increase in troops in the Song Dynasty will definitely touch the nerves of Hehuang and Tubo.”
Liang Guangchuan smiled and said: "It is easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away. The Song Dynasty has insufficient troops. Tubo in Hehuang can use the Song Dynasty as free thugs. But once the Song Dynasty enters Hehuang and there are more soldiers and horses, won't the Tubo in Hehuang Are you afraid that the Song Dynasty will hunt down the rabbits and kill them too? "
"And the Qiang people were defeated and suffered great losses. Hehuang Tubo will definitely feel that the Qiang people are not afraid, and they can do it themselves. How can we let the Song Dynasty continue to increase its troops?"
"What you said makes sense."
Li Liangzuo pondered for a while and nodded, "What if. ? If the Song Dynasty does not retreat, will Hehuang Tubo dare to take action against the Song army? "Don't you have another chess piece in Hehuang? "
Liang Guangchuan smiled and said: "Hehuang Tubo dare not take action against the Song army, but the Song Dynasty is also difficult to take action against Hehuang Tubo. As long as someone secretly guides it, it will not be difficult to force the Song Dynasty to retreat."
Hehuang and Da Song Song and Xixia were adjacent to each other, so naturally some people secretly defected to Xixia.
Just use these people to guide them secretly and force the Song Dynasty to retreat.
Li Liangzuo was silent. He planned to use this chess piece when he launched troops against Hehuang in the future.
If it is used at this time, if it is exposed, it will be difficult to place chess pieces in Hehuang.
However, he hesitated for a long time and finally made a decision.
"Leave this matter to Liang Aiqing."
"Yes, I must be lucky enough to live up to my command and force the Song Dynasty to withdraw from Hehuang!" Liang Guangchuan said.
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“Your Majesty!”
A chamberlain walked into the hall and saluted: "Han Gu, the third daughter-in-law of Princess Qingchang, would like to see you."
"Ask to see me?" Zhao Xing frowned when he heard this.
Princess Qingchang was the eldest daughter of her father. However, her father was still young at the time and did not know that she had few heirs. In addition, she was a concubine and a daughter, so she did not pay much attention to her.
So even though she and Princess Funing are both princesses and neither are legitimate daughters, their treatment is very different.
(End of this chapter)