The wife of the power minister's family

Xiao Yi seemed too lazy to look at Zhao Jingming. He reached out and touched the teapot on the table. He felt that the tea inside was warm, so he poured a cup of tea for Xu Jing and said, "You can stop them by chasing after them now." Escape? Judging from today's situation, they may have started secretly dispatching troops to plan today's raid after Li Yuan, the former Hedong Jiedushi envoy, was captured by us.

It was only after the year that we started to keep an eye on the Jiang family and began to dispatch troops to Xijing. Now, before our large army arrived, the Jiang family members ran away. "

Zhao Jingming couldn't help but opened his mouth and was speechless when he thought of the Jiang family's military strength that far exceeded their expectations today.

Also, what's the use of chasing after them? Before their large forces were in place and most of the troops were staying with the Protector of the Palace, they would only get beaten if they pursued them.

Xiao Yi also poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip slowly, and continued: "Xing Guogong is not an idle person. He knew that our large army would come to Xijing in the near future, so he rushed through the city gate and escaped today. .”

Zhao Jingming was completely speechless. When he saw Xiao Yi and Xu Jing drinking tea leisurely, he pretended to be angry and said: "Xiao Yanci, you are already doing the job of pouring tea, why don't you pour me a cup?" ?I find that you are becoming more and more interested in your relatives and friends."

Xiao Yi put down the tea cup and looked at him with confusion, "As if I would pour it for you before."

Zhao Jingming: "..."

Indeed not!

This guy has had a bad temper since he was a child. Unless he is in a rare good mood, he will never condescend to serve him tea.

The corner of Zhao Jingming's mouth twitched, and he poured a cup of tea resignedly. He glanced at Xiao Yi and said, "Why do I think you are not worried at all? What are your plans for you and my brother to hide from me?"

Everyone in the Jiang family ran away, and Da Chu was looking at things going to change. Even if he knew it was useless to chase after him now, this was not the time to drink tea so calmly!

Hearing this, Xu Jing couldn't help but look at Xiao Yi silently.

She also wanted to ask this question.

Xiao Yi noticed Xu Jing's eyes, and couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth, and said: "What's the next step? If you are inferior to others, you have to admit it. Although they ran away, I know they don't dare to do anything at this time. It's a big move. Although our large troops are not in place yet, they are already very close to Xijing. As soon as the Jiang family starts their raid tonight, Prince Zhao will send someone 800 miles away to send a message urgently, asking them to turn around. direction, chasing closely behind the Jiang family.

We have already warned the several large local garrison forces before that they will mainly defend tonight, and beware of the Jiang family taking advantage of tonight's chaos to occupy Da Chu's state towns. "

Xu Jing asked: "Then do you know where the Jiang family will run to?"

It seems that he has not been busy during this period of time, and he has indeed done a lot of things.

Xiao Yi nodded, stretched out his right index finger to tap the tea in the cup, tapped it lightly on the upper right corner of the table, and said with a deep look in his eyes: "During this period, we found several existing Jiedu envoys. The most secretly mobilizing troops are the Pinglu Jiedushi and the Beiting Jiedushi who are located in the northeast of Dachu. According to the investigation of the secret guards we secretly sent to the Jiang family, we learned that the Jiang family has always had relations with these two Jiedushi. The Dus exchanged letters, but the letters they exchanged were very tightly hidden, and our people have not been able to see the contents of the letters to this day.

But it is not difficult to guess that Pinglu Jiedushi and Beiting Jiedushi have been colluding with the Jiang family. The most likely reason for the Jiang family's escape is to join them. "

Zhao Jingming couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, "Pinglu Jiedushi is the most powerful among the existing Jiedushi, with a total of 150,000 troops. When the late emperor was in power, the one he wanted to cut off most was Pinglu. Lu Jiedushi was helpless, but he was a hard-nosed man who refused to accept soft or hard advice.

The military strength of the Beiting Jiedushi was slightly weaker, but it still had 80,000 troops.

What's more, we don't know if other Jiedu envoys have colluded with them. If they all collude, this battle will not be easy to fight..." Xiao Yi glanced at him and said softly: "As far as I know, The Jiang family has tried to collude with other Jiedushi, but the other Jiedushi have not yet given a very clear attitude. This battle should not be expanded, and stability should be the priority in other festivals. In fact, as early as the end of the year, the Holy Emperor secretly sent people to meet several other Jiedu envoys to test their attitudes, and gave him an offer as long as they assisted him in defending Da Chu and protecting Da Chu's peace. The Wei royal family was still in power. One day, one day will not diminish their commitment to the position of Jiedushi. "

Zhao Jingming's eyes suddenly widened, "That's okay?! But...but isn't the Holy Sage's long-standing wish to cut off all the powerful military governors and return military power to the central government?!"

"Things have their own priorities. Now it is inevitable to sacrifice something for Dachu and its people."

Xiao Yi tapped his index finger and said: "The Holy One also knows this truth. What's more, although he promised not to cut off their Jiedushi positions, there is more than just cutting off the remaining Jiedushi to eliminate them. "

The people sitting here were all smart people, and they immediately understood the implication of Xiao Yi's words.

Although the Holy One promised not to cut off their positions as military governors, after the war calmed down, he tried to find ways to weaken their power, make them empty frames, or use other methods to make them voluntarily resign from their positions as military governors. , are all ways to achieve the Holy Spirit’s wish.

There is never just one way to your destination.

Xu Jing thought for a moment and said, "Are they willing?"

There must be some smart people among those Jiedu envoys.

Xiao Yi turned to look at Xu Jing, smiled lowly, with a rare hint of arrogance in his laughter, and said: "The remaining Jiedu envoys are relatively weak. The Holy One directly asked Cui Han and now he Ning Yuanjie, the governor of Yuanzhou, went with his troops to negotiate with them."

Yuanzhou was the state where the Hedong Jiedushi had stationed troops. After the imperial court eliminated the Hedong Jiedushi, it merged the other prefectures and counties under his jurisdiction into Yuanzhou, and appointed Ning Yuanjie as the governor of Yuanzhou.

Cui Han's troops are not weak. Although they are not as strong as Pinglu Jiedushi, they still have about 120,000 troops. As a confidant of the Holy Emperor, Ning Yuanjie is stationed in the border states and towns, so he naturally has the troops. It won't be too weak, with a full force of 150,000 troops.

The two of them took the army to negotiate with those small military governors...

That's not called negotiation, it's just a blatant threat!

Xu Jing looked at the sky silently, and for the first time she truly felt that her husband was still a powerful official who played politics and had a dark heart!

However, although their preliminary work could not prevent the Jiang family from escaping, they still succeeded in minimizing the possible impact of this war.

Zhao Jingming was stunned for a while when he heard this. Finally, he curled his lips unwillingly and said, "I said you must have some tricks to hide from me. It turns out that you and brother have already done so much work before."

He, isn't he just several years younger than them?

If he were a few years older, he would definitely be no worse than them!

Xu Jing suddenly turned to Xiao Yi and said: "By the way, Jiang Erlang said some inexplicable words to me just now. He said that the Wei royal family had oppressed the Jiang family before. He said that they did all this, It’s just to get back what you deserve.” (End of Chapter)