Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 433 Suspicious Clouds
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the war situation in the south has become infinitely clear.

At the end of August, Pan Mei came with a new battle report. The army had broken through Yangma City outside Panyu, and the artillery and other supplies behind were on the way, and they were not ready yet.

His idea was to besiege Panyu for a month to consume the food in the city, because they intercepted the fleet of the Southern Han King who was about to escape at sea.

If this plan is followed, the general offensive will be launched in early or mid-October.

Later, Pan Mei said in a letter that this was only his judgment. If the emperor felt that the battle should be resolved quickly, they only need to rest for a while, and they can launch a general offensive in early September.

After Shi Congyun read the letter, even thousands of miles away, he could feel Pan Mei's carefulness between the lines.

Probably because he was worried that he was dissatisfied with the procrastination of the offense.

Shi Congyun paced around, and then asked Zhao Shijian to write a letter to Pan Mei in the south. The general meaning was to agree with his battle plan, and let him decide when to launch a general attack according to the situation on the spot.

He didn't understand the situation on the front line, and he didn't dare to interfere with the command indiscriminately. There were too many variables on the battlefield.

In late August, Daliang was still immersed in the victory of the South, and the streets and alleys were already full of discussions. Once Shi Congyun secretly went to the Wei Palace to meet the Queen Mother Fu. Yun asked people to stop the carriage and listened to it with great interest for a long time.

Moreover, because he often came out of the palace to visit and take care of Empress Dowager Fu, Empress Dowager Fu is also pregnant now.

This is not a glorious thing, but many people in the court know it, even the Queen's Sixth Sister, and because of this, the docile Sixth Sister has been angry with him for a long time, and it took him a lot of effort to coax it .

It's just that today's prestige is too high, and everyone can only turn a blind eye to this matter and pretend not to see it.

On the contrary, Empress Dowager Fu herself was ashamed all the time, and she never went out of the house all day long.

If it wasn't for Shi Congyun's frequent visits to the palace to appease her, I'm afraid she would be depressed. Shi Congyun didn't care what others said. He directly selected a group of court ladies who had served Zhao Shijian, Zhou Xian and other pregnant women from among the palace ladies to take care of them in Wei Wangfu. Empress Dowager Fu.

In this way, as if I was afraid that others would not know what was going on, Empress Dowager Fu became even more ashamed and annoyed.

But Shi Congyun was not afraid, he had a thick skin, he comforted the Empress Dowager Fu, and at the same time gave her advice.

Also in the last ten days, Huainan, Shu and other places sent memorandums, and this year is a bumper harvest year.

The disaster situation in Hebei has also gradually subsided, and officials in various prefectures and counties have begun to arrange autumn harvests. Although there are floods this year, there are still many places that have preserved grain.

At the same time, Shi Congyun was relieved by the bumper harvest in Huainan in Sichuan, so at least the bottoming out of the national treasury caused by the disaster relief to Hebei could be alleviated soon.

In September, Shi Congyun received a letter of congratulations from the Southern Tang Dynasty, congratulating them on the victory of the Southern Han Dynasty, and at the same time sent congratulations on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Shi Congyun asked the prime ministers to write a congratulatory letter to Li Yu, and then went to play with Zhou Xian.

On the sixth day of September, Shi Congyun received another letter from Xiao Siwen.

The opening scene was the same as Li Yu in Jiangnan, it was a Mid-Autumn Festival greeting, and then there was some polite compliments, saying that they had heard of Wang Shi's devastation in Lingnan as far as the north.

Shi Congyun doubted whether Xiao Siwen knew where Lingnan was, after all, the southernmost place he had reached in his life was roughly around Sanguan, Hebei.

But slowly he talked about his daughter Xiao Chuo. The general meaning was that Xiao Chuo was sick, and he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to go south. He begged the emperor for mercy and would not let the family be separated. At the same time, he was willing to send other clan women to Daliang.

Shi Congyun was very puzzled when he read it. This was the second time Xiao Siwen had written to him for his daughter.

Probing?Is Xiao Chuo really sick, or does he have other plans?
Shi Congyun was puzzled, but he felt that this matter was not simple.

He kept thinking and turning his head, always feeling that something was wrong. To be honest, he didn't care much about Xiao Chuo now, but Xiao Siwen's weird behavior made him even more worried.

So he didn't rush to reply, but ordered the Privy Council to send a fast horse to bring his edict to the north to Li Hanchao, Guo Jin, Yang Ye, Xiang Gong and others, and asked them to report if there was any special movement in the Liao Kingdom recently.

By mid-September, reports from various places had arrived in Beijing one after another. After all, it was an edict from the emperor, and none of the generals dared to neglect it.

Xiang Gong, Yang Jiye, and Li Hanchao only reported some trivial matters such as the usual Liao army changing defense, or approaching for investigation, and there was nothing suspicious in general.

Only Guo Jin brought some other news. Guo Jin said that his spies in the Liao Kingdom discovered that the soldiers and horses near Youzhou in the Liao Kingdom had been transferred a lot.

The Liao army in Nanjing does not go out to camp every day. There are dozens of people, but there are many people every day. Over the years, there are many people.

After they went out, they did not return to the camp at night, which seemed to be a secret deployment of troops.

But the direction of their troop deployment is very strange. It stands to reason that the Qin army set up three passes in the south. It is possible to secretly increase troops to guard against them or take other actions, but the number of Liao troops near the three passes has not increased at all. I know where they transferred the soldiers secretly.

There are also spies who have heard from friends of the forbidden army in the Liao Kingdom that Xiao Siwen and some important figures in the Liao Kingdom have often gone out of the city this year to the Yongxing Palace in the northwest of Nanjing.

Shi Congyun frowned, chewing on the information carefully, dispatching troops secretly without knowing the direction, and often went to Yongxing Palace.

What is the Yongxing Palace of the Liao Kingdom?

He didn't know about this either. He was just about to write back to ask Guo Jin to check the details of Yongxing Palace, but he quickly thought of someone, and that was Yelu Talie who was still in Qin.

After thinking about it, he wrote back to ask Guo Jin to investigate the matter of Yongxing Palace carefully, while thinking about when he would meet Yelu Talie.

Shi Congyun organized his words in his mind. He didn't know what was going on in Yongxing Palace, but after thinking about it, he couldn't directly ask this question, because he wasn't sure if what Yelu Talie said was true or not.

Yelv Talie also couldn't let Yelv Talie know the recent movements of the Liao Kingdom, otherwise he might be able to hide it.

Emperor Shi then simulated the conversation in his mind, and then began to think about how to get the words out of Yelu Talie's mouth.

He silently put Guo Jin's letter on the desk and pressed it under the bookstore. He had a premonition in his heart that something big might happen in the Liao Kingdom.

This is not only because of Xiao Siwen's two weird letters and various things reported by Guo Jin, but also because of his judgment on the overall situation.

The Liao Kingdom was founded five or sixty years ago, and now it is undergoing a drastic transformation, from the nomadic style of the past to that of the Han people.

If they wait for their transformation to complete, the Liao Kingdom will become stronger and more cohesive.

However, any change will inevitably have a period of pain internally, not to mention that they have just been hit head-on by themselves before, and external pressure will inevitably magnify and intensify internal conflicts.

The need for political and cultural transformation, coupled with the huge external pressure, will inevitably cause great uneasiness and turmoil, which is likely to erupt in the next few years, and once it erupts, it will be a great opportunity for external forces to take the opportunity to defeat them.

On the contrary, if you don't take this opportunity to defeat them, it will be even more difficult to deal with them after their transformation is completed and internal conflicts are reduced.

It is based on this judgment that Emperor Shi has been paying close attention to the situation in Liao even if he sent troops to the south. Although he has been committed to integrating the south first, once there is a big problem in Liao, he will never let it go. Chance.

(End of this chapter)