The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 821 Sudden realization
On this day, after Yue Peng followed Zhao Dongting to the Changsha Palace, he had a long secret talk with Zhao Dongting.

Although the change in Sichuan was just a little rumor, it was enough to make Zhao Dongting a little nervous.

With the strength of Shuzhong and Dali, it should not be enough to destroy Song Dynasty.But on the side, there is still a Yuan Dynasty watching.

Now that the news of Zhao Xian's assassination has spread, there are signs of another disturbance in the Great Song Dynasty.As long as troops are sent in the middle of Shu, it will be a real internal and external trouble.

He must be well prepared.

It was already late at night when Yue Peng left the palace.

He only spent one night in Chen Jianghan's mansion, and in the early morning of the second day, he left Changsha with his people and headed for Chongqing.

On this day, Wang Wenfu, Hong Wutian and others who went to Xinyang City to investigate Zhao Xian's assassination finally rushed back.

The first thing they did after returning to Changsha was to go to the palace to see Zhao Dongting.

Zhao Dongting met them in the imperial study.

When I saw them, they all still looked dusty.

Looking at Wang Wenfu's old look, Zhao Dongting couldn't help feeling guilty, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Wang."

The guilty expression on Wang Wenfu's face was even worse, "Your Majesty, old minister...have not found out who assassinated Emperor Gong."

"Ugh……"

Zhao Dongting didn't wait for Wang Wenfu to speak again, but sighed, "Actually, I probably already know who did it."

About Zhao Xian's assassination, he had asked those relatives of the emperor who followed Xie Daoqing back to the court.

Two men in gray robes.

A mottled temples, a young man.

The man with mottled temples was superb in swordsmanship, and the young man didn't make a move.

With such a combination, he would naturally think of Long Yu and Wu Amiao.

It's just that what he didn't understand was whether Longyu wanted to do this by himself, or he was ordered by Pojunxuegong.

If it was Long Yu himself, it could be explained that he just wanted to kill the Song royal family for revenge.But if this is the case, he has no reason to spare the lives of Xie Daoqing and others.

That's more likely the latter.

But I still can't figure it out, why did the Pojun Academy kill Zhao Xian?

Let Zhao Xian go back to the palace and compete with himself for the throne, wouldn't it have a greater impact on Song Dynasty?
And why leave the lives of Xie Daoqing and others?

Seeing that Zhao Dongting fell silent, Wang Wenfu continued: "After the veteran, Hong Gongfeng and Xu Gongfeng arrived in Dexinyang City, they immediately rushed to the town where Emperor Gong was assassinated with Liu Zaiyuan, the commander of the Tianli Army. Unfortunately, it took too long. There are no clues left in the town. The old minister only learned that the assassins were two men in gray robes, and there were several swordsmen behind them, beheading those soldiers of the Yuan army."

"Yes!"

Zhao Dongting suddenly raised his head.

Several swordsmen beheaded those Yuan soldiers!

This made him believe that it was the Po Military Academy who did it.

While several swordsmen were able to kill those soldiers of the Yuan army, they failed to kill Xie Daoqing and others.This is obviously done on purpose.

In a trance, he suddenly understood the intention of Duan Qilin or Po Junxuegong.

Killing Zhao Xian and keeping Xie Daoqing and the others in order to completely force Xie Daoqing and the others to the opposite side of him.It also made Xie Daoqing and others suspect that they did it by themselves.

And their real intention, perhaps...

Only at this moment did Zhao Dongting realize that he had missed someone.And this person is Zhao Bing who fled to the middle of Shu.

There are changes in Shu...

Duan Qilin had already proclaimed himself emperor in Dali, so it was impossible for him to command the White Horse Army in Central Shu.Because that would expose the disguise of the White Horse Army, which was still nominally the Song Army.

Given the current national conditions of the Great Song Dynasty, if the White Horse Army in Central Shu agrees, the public opinion alone will cause Duan Qilin a headache.

But if Zhao Bing was in charge of Shuzhong, it would be completely different.

He is the Prince of Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Zhao Dongting had forced him to flee to Sichuan, and now Zhao Xian was assassinated.This gave Zhao Bing enough reason to become king in Shu.

All you need to do is pour the dirty water of Zhao Xian's assassination on Zhao Dongting.

Even Zhao Bing can say that when the Song army attacked Yongzhou, it was Zhao Dongting who deliberately persecuted him.

Killing two brothers at the same time makes people doubt Zhao Dongting's nature even more.

Zhao Bing proclaimed himself king under such public opinion, and he was afraid that he would be supported by many people.At that time, in Shuzhong, it will be logical to leave the Song Dynasty.

To be precise, it was the Great Song Dynasty under the leadership of Zhao Dongting.

Zhao Dongting, who suddenly realized, gradually became serious under the suspicious eyes of Wang Wenfu and others.

Things may be more serious than imagined.

"emperor……"

Wang Wenfu called out softly.

Only then did Zhao Dongting come back to his senses, but he said, "Don't investigate the matter of Emperor Gong's assassination. Lord Wang, Senior Hong, Senior Xu, you all go down and rest first!"

Then he looked at Zhu Hecong and said, "Hecong, immediately go and send Lord Lu, Lord Chen, and Shangshu Chen of the Ministry of State, and Lord Su, Minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Lord Zhang, Minister of the Ministry of War, Lord Gao, Minister of the Ministry of Social Security, and Lord Li, Minister of Military Industry. , Master Xu, Minister of the Ministry of Military Science, announced."

Zhu Hecong repeatedly agreed, and walked out of the house.

Seeing Zhao Dongting like this, Wang Wenfu was puzzled, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

Zhao Dongting said solemnly: "A great war may arise."

He seemed to think of something, and said: "Master Wang, after you leave, go meet with Zhang Supervisory Order. There may be disturbances in the court recently, and I have asked the Military Intelligence Department to investigate secretly. If someone in the court wants to As long as there are signs of rebellion, I believe that the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Supervision can kill you first and then act later. At this moment, there must be no chaos within the court."

Wang Wenfu was moved, and didn't ask any more questions, "The old minister takes orders."

Then he immediately walked out of the imperial study with Hong Wutian and Mrs. Xu.

There are some things that you don't need to ask Zhao Dongting.You can also get the answer by asking Zhang Shijie and others.

"Haiwang, bring pen and ink and a map."

But as soon as they left, Zhao Dongting asked Zhu Haiwang to bring over the pen and ink map.

The map is the map of the Song Dynasty, Li Dynasty, Xixia Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty and several surrounding countries.Of course, it is only a very simple map, and it is impossible to draw a too detailed map in this age.

Zhao Dongting wrote and drew on the map.

There are many thoughts in his mind.

If Zhao Bing became the king, combined with what Yue Peng said about some changes in Shu, it can be predicted that Zhao Bing is very likely to attack the Song Dynasty after becoming the king.

And Zhao Bing has just arrived in Shuzhong, and with his means, it is unlikely to seize Duan Qilin's rights.In other words, the person who really wants to attack Song is actually Duan Qilin.

In this way, if there is an army in the middle of Shu, Dali will definitely not wait and see.There will be wars in the west of the Song Dynasty.

As for the Yuan Dynasty...

There should be no reason for the Pojun Academy to know the path of Xie Daoqing, Zhao Xian and others to return to the Song Dynasty so accurately.

But Zhao Xian died in the hands of Longyu in all likelihood.

This means that it is possible that Duan Qilin and Kublai Khan are acting together.And this play is to create momentum for the attack on the Song Dynasty.

In this way, the Yuan Dynasty may also tear up the agreement and attack the Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty was truly enemies on all sides.

Even though there are more than [-] forbidden troops in the four major military regions, Zhao Dongting still feels struggling.If it is as he guessed, the four major military regions may not be able to stop the Yuan and Li coalition forces.

More importantly, the current national strength of the Song Dynasty is simply difficult to support the war with Dali, Shuzhong, and Yuan Dynasty at the same time.

The pressure is too great.

It is difficult to transport food and grass alone.

Moreover, the border of the Song Dynasty is so long, it is very likely that the Yuan and Li armies will sneak in from somewhere.It will be even more chaotic then.

Therefore, Zhao Dongting had to defeat one of them first.Either Yuan, or Dali, or Shuzhong.

The Yuan Dynasty is the most powerful, and it is not so easy to defeat it, so you can only choose between Dali or Shuzhong.

So, is it better to concentrate on dealing with Shuzhong first, or deal with Dali first?

Zhao Dongting wrote and drew on the map for a long time.

In the end, four words were rewritten on the map, "Resist Yuan and destroy Shu!"

To resist the Yuan Dynasty is to take a defensive position against the Yuan Dynasty first.

To destroy Shu, the middle of Shu must be destroyed first.

Because the territory in Shuzhong is the smallest.The strength is also the weakest.

And in the north of central Shu, there are Xixia who can send troops to help at any time.Although, Li Xiushu's incomprehensible woman actually said that she should resign herself to fate.

As long as Shu is destroyed, the Zhenxi Military Region and Zhennan Military Region of the Song Dynasty can work together to resist Dali.It is even possible to ask Xixia to help.

At that time, Dali might be able to be wiped out.

On the north side, the more than [-] forbidden troops of the Zhenbei Military Region and the Fujian Military Region should be able to block the Yuan Army.

Zhao Dongting looked at the four words on the paper and whispered to himself, "That's the strategic policy..."

He took a deep breath of the air, it seemed that there was some gunpowder smoke!

(End of this chapter)