Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 440 Why is there a reason for war?
Mrs. Huarui did not leave the mourning period, and Meng Xuanzhe did not change her clothes specially when she gave it to Gao Xiang, so she was always wearing mourning clothes.

Luo Youdu's eyes lit up, the old saying is good, if you want to be pretty and be filial, it is really good.

Madam Huarui looked at her filial attire, and immediately said: "I don't have any other clothes."

"No problem!" Luo Youdu said: "When you enter Chengdu tomorrow, find a tailor to make some nice clothes for you."

"Let's go..."

He took Mrs. Huarui's hand and strode out.

He didn't have any feelings for Mrs. Huarui, and it was the first time the two met, and they had nothing to do with each other.

But Han Lingkun gave it with good intentions, if he doesn't accept it, something big will happen.

It's okay for Han Lingkun to lose face, he's an old friend, just explain a little bit.

But it is not good for people to misinterpret that they are dissatisfied with him as the No. 1 in the military, and make people want to climb up.

There is no shortage of people who pretend to be smart in this world, and the Luo Yu court also has such people.

As a superior person, he must tolerate the weaknesses of his subordinates. If he really wanted to turn the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty into a moral model, the court would have been wiped out by Khitan long ago.

But since he accepted it, Luo Youdu has no reason to let go.

There is no shortage of a seat for Mrs. Huarui in the harem.

Han Lingkun stayed far away, and when he saw Luo Youdu leading Mrs. Huarui out, he was overjoyed.

Only when you are in a high place, you will feel the taste of the coldness in the high place.

Before that, Han Lingkun was thinking of competing with Han Tong for the position of the head of the Guards' Army Division...

Now that I am No.1 in the military, the pressure is on.

Not only facing the small groups within the military ministers, fighting openly and secretly, but also the civil servants are aggressive, and all kinds of problems need to be dealt with by him.

Luo Youdu has also started to train a new generation of generals for the future of the court, and their older generation will gradually fall into a situation where they have nothing to fight.

You can't let Han Lingkun and Shi Shouxin go to fight Pan Mei and Cao Bin, can you?
Han Lingkun's military ability is good, but in terms of playing with his mind, he is really no match for Wei Renpu, Wang Pu, Dou Yi, Song Qi, Zhao Pu and other literati prime ministers.

If it weren't for Luo Youdu's usual support, and Zhao Pu, the inner ghost prime minister, would follow Luo Youdu's thoughts from time to time and stab his colleague in the back.

The balance of civil and military affairs in the temple cannot be maintained.

Han Lingkun, a military boss, did not have an easy life.

"I have seen His Majesty, I have seen Madam!"

Luo Youdu held Mrs. Huarui's hand, and Han Lingkun knew the relationship between the two, and they were in perfect harmony.

"Take Madam to the Zhenxing Palace."

Luo Youdu supported Mrs. Huarui, walked in the temple with Han Lingkun, and said: "Brother Han is very satisfied with what he has done, so don't do it next time. I have a bad reputation for you. You and I are brothers, so we can't see others Gossip."

To Han Lingkun and Shi Shouxin, Luo Youdu has always been called an elder brother.

Han Lingkun obviously didn't dare to call himself the emperor's brother, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty doesn't care about the false name. Do you remember that I said you wanted to find a good one for Your Majesty when you were hiding in the mansion, but I haven't found any good ones?" Today I stopped Mrs. Huarui, and the first time I saw her, I knew that such a beautiful woman is worthy of His Majesty alone."

Luo Youdu heard the meaning and said, "Cut? Mrs. Hua Rui is not in the Shu Palace?"

Han Lingkun said: "I'm just about to discuss this with Your Majesty! When Zhao Chongtao surrendered in Kaesong, he told his servant that Dali might send troops to support Chengdu."

Luo Youdu was surprised and said: "No way? I still want to trouble them? Why, Dali Gao has the guts?"

Others don't know the remote Dali, but Luo Youdu is different.

He still has a certain understanding of Dali in this era.

All this is due to Jin Daxia's "Dragon Babu".

When Luo Youdu was a child, he was obsessed with the world of martial arts woven by Jin Gu Daxia. Among Jin Daxia's [-] works, his favorites are "Shooting the Condor" and "Dragon Ba Bu".

I have a certain fondness for the Dali Duan family in Tianlongli.

Therefore, when studying history, I specially learned about the Dali Duan family.

It turned out that the novels were all deceitful. Except for Duan Siping, the founding emperor of Dali, who had a certain amount of power, the Duan family of Dali had never had an emperor who held real power.

In Guozuo for more than 200 years, the real power is the Gao family, the powerful minister of Dali.

The emperors of the Duan family have been puppets for generations. The Gao family usurped the throne and became emperor for several years in the Gao Shengtai generation. He felt that it was boring, so he returned it to the Duan family and continued to be a powerful minister, just like playing.

This also led to the fact that none of the Duan family was willing to be an emperor, and being a monk was more comfortable than being an emperor.

In Luo Youdu's memory, there is an allusion of "Song wielding a jade axe". It is said that when the later Shu Dynasty fell, Taizu Zhao Kuangyin once pointed to the Dadu River on the map with a jade axe and said, "I don't own anything else." The territory south of the Dadu River was ceded to Dali.

So in exchange for hundreds of years of border peace.

Whether this is true or not is impossible to determine.

But what is certain is that under the national policy of keeping the inside and the outside in the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty did indeed give up all the land west of the Dadu River.

By abandoning the land, the peace in the southwest was protected.

Of course, Luo Youdu did not understand the Song Dynasty's approach, losing the Yanshan line of defense against Liao and the Hengshan line of defense in Xixia.

It was doomed that the Song Dynasty could only deploy heavy troops on the border between Xixia and Khitan, so naturally they did not dare to set up another battlefield in Yunnan and Jiaozhi.

If you are cowardly in the early stage, you can only be cowardly in the end.

Luo Youdu's conquest did not mean to destroy Dali.

That poor mountain lump, when the national power is abundant and there are no strong enemies around, sending troops to conquer it can be regarded as expanding the territory.

In the current situation, the Southern Tang and Southern Han are still alive, and there is still a Khitan in the north.

Going deep into the barrenness to conquer Yunnan is really making yourself guilty.

However, Luo Youdu has ideas in terms of dividing the boundaries.

As in the Song Dynasty, with the Dadu River as the boundary, the Central Plains suffered a great loss.

Luo Youdu's initial idea was to use the Jinsha River as the boundary to take down Jianchang Mansion and Huizhou Mansion.

On the one hand, it prevents Dali from threatening Chengdu, and on the other hand, it also prepares for the future attack on Dali.

The Jinsha River was the Lu River in the Shu Han period.

In history, Zhuge Liang crossed Lu in May in exchange for a relatively stable rear.

This Lushui is the Jinsha River.

After crossing the Jinsha River, there are rugged mountains.

Jianchang Mansion and Huizhou Mansion have been built through successive dynasties. Although there are many mountains and ridges around, the roads are relatively flat and the army can spread out.Moreover, these two places are the necessary places for the trade between Dali and Shu, and the gateways are located.

Luo Youdu estimated that Dali would not compromise easily, and a battle would be inevitable.

Let's get over it first...

Luo Youdu always thought that he was the one who wanted to fight, but he didn't expect Dali to actually want to fight?
Han Lingkun saw Luo Youdu talking directly at Gao, admired him from the bottom of his heart, and said: "I was curious at first, but I didn't dare to be careless. I went to arrest Gao Xiang personally, not wanting to find Mrs. Huarui in Gao Xiang's carriage. After careful questioning, just now I learned that Gao Xiang tricked Meng Xuanzhe into giving Mrs. Huarui to him on the pretext of persuading his father to send troops."

He said this with a funny face, "This Meng Xuanzhe is really a fool. He believes such lies to children? This Gao Xiang is a second-generation ancestor who is greedy for beauty. He is just favored by the Gao family. His official position is low. The future of the Gao family is in the hands of his elder brother. How can Gao Xiang persuade his father to send troops to rescue Chengdu?"

Only then did Luo Youdu understand how Mrs. Huarui got here, shook his head and smiled and said, "It's not that Meng Xuanzhe believed in Gao Xiang, I think it's because Meng Xuanzhe really had no choice but to go to the doctor in a hurry, that's why he chose to believe in Gao Xiang .Otherwise, it would not be possible to drag it until now. If you want to go, you can’t go.”

That really got him right.

Meng Xuanzhe just didn't want to see Meng Shu going to perish step by step, even though he knew the road ahead was difficult, he still wanted to make a breakthrough.

He was naive, he believed Wang Zhaoyuan credulously, and he was not stupid himself.

So he has been wrangling with Gao Xiang.

Meng Xuanzhe's condition was that once the reinforcements arrived, not to mention Madam Huarui, even if he wanted his father's entire harem beauties, he would not frown.

How dare Gao Xiang agree to such a condition, and repeatedly stated that he would not get Mrs. Huarui, and would never raise the issue of soldiers.

The two of them wrote ink for a few days, until Luo Youdu was about to approach the city.

Only then did Meng Xuanzhe choose to compromise.

In fact, at this time, Meng Xuanzhe had vaguely seen that there was something wrong with Gao Xiang.

Handing over Mrs. Huarui is not only to gamble on that little possibility, but also to cover up the fact that he killed his father.

Mrs. Huarui is the only outsider who knows the truth.

If it weren't for Gao Xiang's appearance, Meng Xuanzhe would have killed Mrs. Huarui.

Let Mrs. Huarui feign death, let her go to Dali, hide her name and hide her name in Gao Xiang's golden house, and bet on reinforcements, which can be regarded as destroying the body and destroying the traces.

Meng Xuanzhe never expected that Wang Zhaoyuan, who has always been good-looking, would take the initiative to speak out about the regicide and directly general.

Because of their arguing with each other and delaying time, Gao Xiang failed to take Mrs. Huarui out of Chengdu.

Han Lingkun said: "Now that Gao Xiang is under house arrest in Chengdu Foreign Hotel, what should I do with him?"

Luo Youdu said: "It's fine for a second-generation ancestor to be released, there's no need to care too much about it."

Han Lingkun was surprised and said: "Just let it go? Since this kid dared to boast, why not take the opportunity to use him to make a fuss? In my opinion, it is better to go south and destroy Dali."

He has already seen that, waiting for people like Pan Mei and Cao Bin to really rise up, they are also preparing to retire.

Especially Pan Mei and Han Lingkun were able to compete with the civil court, except for Luo Youdu's favoritism.

Pan Mei also made a lot of moves at the side.

Those who can really wrestle with civil servants and fight wits and courage.

In Han Lingkun's eyes, among the military officials, only Pan Mei has this ability.

Now these old guys are fighting one battle, one less battle, wishing to push Dali directly.

Luo Youdu shook his head and said, "It's just a second son, and it's of little value. Using him as a fuss makes us look petty, so let's just let it go, and keep it as a waste of food."

He walked a few steps, glanced at Han Lingkun, and said, "As for whether to send troops south? I regained the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties from the barbarians. Why do I need any excuses?"

He paused and said, "Just start the fight!"

　Watching the night in the hospital, thinking that there is nothing to do at night, so I wrote a little more, the writing on the mobile phone is slow, and the update is late.

　　In addition, I would like to thank book friend Liangzai Liuliu for the five hundred rewards, thank you for your support!

　　
　
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