Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 900

"Your Majesty, you must not listen to General Cao's words, otherwise disaster will be imminent."

Suddenly, there was a loud roar in the hall, but it was the son of the country, Ling Jing, who offered sacrifices to the wine.

This important advisor to Dou Jiande came out and advised loudly, "Although the land of Hebei is rich and prosperous, since the great cause, it has been the base camp of the Eastern Conquest of Money, Food, Ding and Minfu, and it has suffered heavily. Then the rebels rose everywhere, coupled with constant floods and droughts. , Hebei is suffering one after another, the people flee, and the fields are barren. There used to be 30 million households in a county, but now there are often only tens of thousands of households in a county."

"Hebei today lacks financial resources. Although there are 20 strong soldiers, the land is only a thousand miles away. The terrain is flat and the land is dangerous. On the other hand, Qin Lord Luo Cheng owns Guanwai, Hedong, Henan, Shandong, Huainan and half of Hebei. , and even Xi Qi of Saibei obeyed his orders."

"Now the emperor of the Qin family owns the capital and decides the Central Plains. Every attack must be attacked and every battle must be won. This is the blessing of heaven. If the territory of Hebei is returned to the imperial court, even Dou Rong in the Han Dynasty is not enough to compare with us."

Ling Jing's words are still very insightful.

Now that things have come to an end, it is too unwise to bet your entire net worth like a gambler who is jealous.

Ling Jing is different from Cao Bao and the others. He himself was a local official in Hebei during the Sui Dynasty. He was also forced to surrender to Xia after the city was destroyed. At that time, seeing Dou Jiande was considered benevolent and he respected them. In just a few years, the general situation of the world has become clear again. Luo Cheng has the ambition and strength to dominate the world. Now that the general situation has returned, for a scholar like him, he is actually very willing to see such a situation.

Dou Jiande sat at the top and remained silent.

General Fan Yuan said loudly, "In the past, Liu Bi, the King of Wu, called himself the Emperor of the East when he was in charge of the Jiangzuo army, but Yu Wentai only occupied a corner of Guanzhong, and did not submit to Gao Huan, who occupied the north? Qin Although we are strong, what can we do? As long as we work together and contact Li Yuan, Jiang Han, Xiao Xian, Jiang Nan, Shen Faxing, etc. in Guanzhong, we will still be able to compete with Luo Cheng."

"Ling Jing, you are Xia Chen, but you speak for the state of Qin everywhere. Could it be that you have obtained Luo Cheng's promise to become an official, and secretly joined the state of Qin?"

Dou Jiande asked Song Zhengben again, "What do you think of Nayan?"

Although Song Zhengben was the prime minister of the Xia Dynasty, like Ling Jing, he used to be an official of the Sui Dynasty in Hebei. The attitudes of these civil servants are actually the same. turmoil.

"If His Majesty surrenders to Qin at this time, he will not lose the Marquis. If he refuses, he may end up like Liu Wuzhou in the future."

"Song Zhengben is talking nonsense, tempting my lord!" General Liu Ya scolded.

Sitting on the top, Dou Jiande looked at the two sides with clear attitudes below. The generals basically opposed surrender and believed that they could fight, and some fought.

However, Song Zhengben, Ling Jing and other prime ministers believed that they should follow the general trend. Since the general trend was in Luo Cheng's favor, he was blessed by the destiny and should follow the trend.

Dou Jiande let out a long sigh.

Originally, he wanted to announce his surrender to Qin, but now seeing that all the old brothers refused to surrender, he also hesitated.

In the end, the meeting broke up without any results.

Dou Jiande returned to the palace, summoned his daughter Hongxian, and told her the results of the discussions in the palace.

"Father, since you are determined to surrender, you should not be influenced by left and right. You are a monarch. If you decide to surrender, even if some generals are unwilling, you will be able to persuade them in the end. Influence. But now that my father is so vacillating, wouldn't it encourage their thoughts even more?"

Dou Jiande shook his head and sighed, "They are all brothers who fight together, father has to carefully consider their opinions."

Hongxian turned around angrily and left.

Dou Hongxian left the palace, was riding a horse and was escorted by a group of female soldiers to go back to the female barracks, but when she was halfway there, she heard shouts of killing.

"what happened?"

Chaos ahead.

Soon a female soldier came back and reported, "Song Nayan was assassinated halfway, and died with several arrows in his body. Some people said that it was the assassin of the Qin State. Now Uncle Cao Guo is leading his troops to search the city."

When Hongxian heard this, he couldn't help but said, "The assassins of the Qin State would assassinate him first. How could they assassinate Mr. Song? Cao Bao must have secretly ordered his subordinates to pretend to be the assassins of the Qin State. These lawless people."

She turned the horse's head back to the palace.

Dou Jiande has also received the report at this time.

Hongxian came in and reported to his father, saying that this must have been done by Cao Bao.

"Not only Song Nayan was assassinated, but also more than a dozen civil servants were killed. Cao Bao reported that it was all done by Qin assassins."

Song Zhengben was shot in the street, Ling Jing's house caught fire, and now there are no dead or alive, and a dozen other ministers who advocated returning to Qin were also killed.

Now Cao Bao and many other generals of the main combat faction are leading the whole city to search and arrest, causing panic among the people.

Didn't Dou Jiande understand that this matter was definitely not done by the Qin State, but the key now is not this, but that Cao Bao and others have used such drastic means to warn the emperor.

They dared to kill the prime minister like this, it was like a mutiny.

If Dou Jiande insisted on surrendering, he might be the next one to be killed.

"Red thread, father wants you to leave."

"Leave, where are you going?"

"Leave Leshou, leave Hebei, you can go anywhere, it's not safe here anymore." Dou Jiande stroked his daughter's head, "My biggest regret is that I didn't get to see you get married, and I didn't get to see you as a woman. mother."

As he spoke, Dou Jiande actually shed tears.

"Father, my daughter asks for an order, and is willing to lead troops to quell the chaos, and kill Cao Bao and Liu Yafan, who are willing to commit rebellion and cause chaos!"

Dou Jiande shook his head.

"It's useless, it's too late, it's too late, everything is too late."

"Why?"

Dou Jiande smiled wryly and told his daughter that Wang Fubao had already noticed the instability of the army before Cao Bao and others launched the attack, so he went to Cao Bao, Fan Yuan Liu Ya and others in person, hoping that they could restrain and calm down.

But in the end, Cao Bao and others actually killed Wang Fubao directly.

"Red Line, listen to the commotion outside. It's soldiers who have been aroused. They are very manic now. Although I am the emperor, I'm afraid it will be difficult to appease them at this moment."

"Mutiny? Father, are they rebelling?" Dou Hongxian was stunned.

"That's right, but they won't do anything to me for the time being." Dou Jiande knew that at this moment, he had been kidnapped by his generals. At this moment, Leshou City has been decided by Cao Baofan, Liu Ya and other generals.

"Red Line, you leave immediately."

"No, I'm not leaving!"

Dou Jiande begged, "Father is begging you, let's go, the only thing my father can't let go of is you, you have to take care anyway. If you don't know where to go, go to Luo Cheng and bring Qin Jun back, maybe you will be there I can still save my life." He can only persuade his daughter like this, otherwise, he knows that his stubborn daughter will definitely not leave, and maybe he will go to Cao Bao and the others. If not, he will end up like Wang Fubao again. up.

Dou Hongxian hesitated for a long time, and finally knelt down and kowtowed to him a few times, "Father, I will definitely come back to save you." Looking at the background of his daughter finally going away, Dou Jiande sighed, he never thought that one day, he would actually Will be kidnapped by his brothers.

(End of this chapter)