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Chapter 762 Entering the Urn
After two months of preparation, Zhong Hui took [-] Wu troops with him upstream to Xiakou.

Thousands of strong and strong trackers pulled hundreds of big boats and boats to move upstream with difficulty.

There are tens of thousands of infantry on both sides of the strait.

On the big ship, two flags with the characters "Zhong" and "Lu" stand side by side, shaking slowly in the spring breeze.

Lu Kai's complexion has not been very good since boarding the boat, partly because of his old age and infirmity, and partly because of the news from Jianye.

"Yang Xingyun attacked the tyrants in Bingzhou, what does Da Sima think?" Zhong Hui laughed.

Lu Kai said: "Most of the gentry in Bingzhou are attached to the Sima family and refuse to surrender to Lord Qin. If they stay there, there will be chaos. Moreover, Lord Qin didn't kill them all. He just imitated Emperor Xiaowu to restrain them."

"Then, does Da Sima think that the Jiangdong gentry will obey me?" Zhong Hui's eyes flickered with a dangerous glint.

"That depends on how loyal the prime minister is to His Majesty." Lu Kai met Zhong's gaze without hesitation.

"As expected of Lu Gong, I will be loyal to His Majesty, and the sky can show." Zhong Hui pointed to the lazy Chunri above his head.

However, after Sima Yi's Luoshui oath, no one took the oath seriously.

"Prime Minister, clothes and food, wholeheartedly assisting me, the prosperity of Jiangdong today is due to the prime minister's contribution, and Da Sima must not be slandered." Emperor Sun Jin interjected.

A look of helplessness flashed in Lu Kai's eyes.

Zhong Hui has such a close relationship with the emperor, it is no longer something he can wake up with just a few words.

Zhong Hui knelt in front of Sun Jin, cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty values ​​this minister so much, how can I not bow down and die?"

Quoting Zhuge Wuhou's example as a teacher is just expressing his own will.

Sun Jin clapped her hands and laughed loudly, "The Prime Minister is right!"

Lu Kai coughed, but didn't know what to say.

"Yu Fan, Zhu Xuan, and Gu Mu are rebellious and gathered thousands of Jiangdong powerful families. They want to follow Sima Yi's old example and enter the palace to hold the queen mother hostage. I am sure that your majesty will issue an order to suppress the thieves!" Zhong Hui's expression became serious.

"Prime Minister, whether Yu, Zhu, and Gu are rebellious or not is another matter. We might as well bring them to the imperial court to confront them." Lu Kai hurriedly cupped his hands.

With the emperor's edict issued, wouldn't the three major surnames in Jiangdong be uprooted?
In fact, when he was in Jianye, Lu Kai saw that the two sides were already in dire straits.

In the past, he was able to mediate in the middle and suppress the nobles such as Yu, Zhu, and Gu, but the more he suppressed, the deeper the hatred between the two sides, and the greater the power of backlash.

Lu Kai was caught in the middle, exhausted physically and mentally.

However, the contradictions between the two parties have been irreconcilable.

Trade-offs must be made.

Lu Kai chose to go west with Zhong Hui, which meant that he gave up the Jiangdong gentry.

This is a brilliant choice.

If you stay in Jianye, you will be coerced by Yu Fan, Zhu Xuan, Gu Mu and others, and you will have to stand on the opposite side of Zhong Hui.

The Lu family and Zhong Hui turned against each other, and the end of Wu State came.

Zhong Hui said with a smile: "What Da Sima said is wrong. Yu, Zhu, and Gu gathered 5 people to kill Jianye. Why not? The families of the soldiers are all in Jianye..."

"Yu, Zhu, and Gu have always been disrespectful to the prime minister. Raising troops without my edict is a crime of treason!" The emperor completely sided with Zhong Hui.

If there was only one Zhonghui, Lu Kai would still fight for it.

But the emperor helped Zhong to speak, who would Lu Kai fight for?
Feelings of powerlessness surged in my heart, this was clearly Zhong Hui's trick to lure the snake out of the hole, poor Yu, Zhu, and Gu thought they had an opportunity, and excitedly slipped into Zhong Hui's trap.

"Send the order, the cavalry will continue to march towards Xiakou, and the navy will follow me to fight back to Jianye to punish the rebels!" Zhong Hui said loudly.

"Follow the order!" Wu Jun shouted loudly on the deck.

The flag was waved, the drums were thundering, and more than a hundred large boats and boats went down the river, heading straight for Jianye.

Jianye.

Of course, Yu Fan, Zhu Xuan, and Gu Mu also had many people supporting them.

So entering the city is not difficult at all.

A letter, a few boxes of money and silk, and the gates of the city were opened.

Yu Fan's heart was full of excitement, as long as the army entered the city, everything would be settled, control the families of the soldiers of the Western Expedition, and then hold the Empress Dowager hostage, a Yizhao, Jiangdong can pass it down!

"Jiangdong is our Jiangdong, how can Zhonghui lose his family's dog against us?" Zhu Xuan laughed.

Gu Mu cautiously said: "Zhong Hui is very good at conspiracies and tricks, and he has many talented people from Jiangdong under his command, why didn't he take precautions?"

Zhu Xuandao: "Hmph, he took His Majesty away, he was just guarding against us!"

Yu Fan's slender eyes rolled a few times, "Zhong Hui has always been conceited, and he regards us as wine bags and rice bags, thinking that with [-] elites in hand, he will be invincible in the world, and ordered the troops to occupy all the city gates first, and then follow me directly Attack the imperial city, and the bell will be full of people at the end!"

"Design!" The tyrants roared angrily, howling ghosts and wolves, and rushed into the city in a chaotic manner.

Jianye City, which had regained some vitality, suddenly became chaotic again.

The trilogy of the tyrants is almost the same as that of bandits and bandits.

Although Yu Fan tried his best to restrain them, when these people saw the bustling market, they immediately showed their true nature and went to looting.

Looting inevitably kills, and murder inevitably leads to arson.

In less than an hour, Jianye burst into flames and black smoke rose into the sky.

The wailing in the city shook the sky, but all that was exchanged was the grinning laughter of the rebels.

Yu Fan suddenly realized that he had made a fatal mistake, he couldn't control the other tyrants at all.

"It's urgent, don't worry about them, attack the imperial city quickly!" Zhu Xuan shouted.

Yu Fan suddenly realized that there was no turning back when he opened his bow, he had to control the imperial city first, and then quell the chaos in the city.

The three led more than [-] people from the headquarters to go straight to Jianye Imperial City.

However, the gates of the imperial city were closed.

The outer city was in chaos, but the inner city was silent, even a little dull.

Yu Fan was taken aback, "What's going on? Didn't you make an agreement with the ancestor of the leader? Why closed the city gate?"

The Zu family is also a powerful Jiangdong. They were originally from Shanyue. Zu Lang, the marshal of Jing County, defeated Sun Ce twice when he went south, forcing Sun Ce to be "almost critical". .

Gu Mu already had a premonition that the situation was not good.

Without Lu Kai's support, both Yu Fan and Zhu Xuan would have lost a lot in terms of status.

In addition, as soon as the army entered the city, they burned, killed and looted. How could Jianye soldiers and civilians welcome them?
"Kaicheng!" Yu Fan's whole body was in cold sweat, if they couldn't control the Queen Mother, they would come out of nowhere and become real thieves!

And because he secretly colluded with the ancestors before, he thought everything was under control, so he didn't prepare the siege equipment.

The members looked at each other in dismay. When they first entered the city, their blood was surging. After a long time of cool wind blowing under the roots of the imperial city, their blood had already cooled down.

The other tyrannical trilogy are making a fortune, but they stand stupidly under the imperial city, naturally they feel unbalanced.

Some people slipped their feet and retreated quietly, joining the plundering army.

Yu Fan was still yelling at the city gate, "The ancestors opened the city gate quickly, and when it is done, I will make you a chariot general!"

This time the city reacted.

With a long laugh, a row of soldiers quickly stood up on the city.

Swords and spears are held together, and flags are everywhere.

The person who was wearing a Confucian robe outside the iron armor was Zhong Hui's adopted son Zhong Yi, "Why are you all so late, I have been waiting for a long time according to my father's order."

(End of this chapter)