Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 302 It is indeed a clever plan

Zhao Kuangyin was overjoyed when he heard the words, and said: "Okay! Ye Qing let it go, the so-called 'know your enemy and your friend, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles', with the information provided by the Huaxia Weifu, the crusade against Southern Tang will be twice as effective in the future."

Seeing Zhao Kuangyin's praise of Ye Chen and Shen Yilun, the old fellows couldn't sit still. Zhao Guangyi immediately said: "Your Majesty! With the information provided by the Lord Xiangfu, and against the Southern Tang courtiers' hostility towards Maitreya Sect, We can use divisive tactics to use up the Southern Tang's national power and military strength."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded slightly, and said: "What my brother said is indeed a clever plan."

Zhao Pu was not reconciled, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he also thought of a way, saying: "Your Majesty can order Nantang to hand over Lou Yanming, the leader of Maitreya, and Shangguan Bingyun, the king of Xiaoming. Li Yu must disagree, but we can take the opportunity to blackmail Some of the property of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the property is used to strengthen our army, and at the same time it can be regarded as weakening the national power of the Southern Tang Dynasty."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded slightly, expressing his deep understanding.

Cao Bin said: "Your Majesty, the Southern Tang Dynasty has the natural danger of the Yangtze River. In the early years, the Southern Tang Navy's navy dominated the river, and it was blocked by its navy when it sent a large army to the south to attack the Tang Dynasty. Weakened, but it should not be underestimated. I believe that among the many preparations for the Song Dynasty to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty, strengthening the number of naval warships and training the navy should be the most important thing."

Zhao Kuangyin praised: "What Cao Qing said is very true. The navy is indeed the most important thing to attack the Southern Tang Dynasty."

At this moment, only Xue Juzheng, who was relatively lacking in ability, hadn't come up with a good plan. Xue Juzheng couldn't help but secretly worried, frowned and pondered, and suddenly thought of something, and said: "Your Majesty! In order to weaken the vigilance of the Southern Tang Dynasty, we can also marry the Southern Tang Dynasty. "

Zhao Kuangyin didn't express his opinion immediately, but frowned in thought.

Zhao Pu knew Zhao Kuangyin best, and knew that Zhao Kuangyin was very different from the emperors of all dynasties, that is, he attached great importance to family affection. He vaguely guessed what Zhao Kuangyin was thinking at this time.After hesitating for a while, he said, "Sooner or later, the Southern Tang Dynasty will be destroyed by our Great Song army. Princess Yongqing cannot marry someone who has subjugated the country, not to mention that this will weaken my Great Song's momentum."

Although Xue Juzheng has always looked forward to Zhao Pu, but at this time he was also somewhat dissatisfied, thinking that Lao Tzu had finally come up with a clever plan, and the emperor hadn't spoken yet, you, Zhao Pu, jumped out to criticize first.He was worried that Zhao Kuangyin would deny his clever plan after listening to what Zhao Pu said. In this way, let alone whether His Majesty would think that he was the most mediocre compared to other people sitting here, if this scene spread today, it would be harmful to his reputation. It is also quite a blow.

Thinking of this, Xue Juzheng felt anxious, and said: "Your Majesty, I heard that the former Queen of the Great Zhou Dynasty of the Southern Tang Dynasty had a daughter with Li Yu. In the Southern Tang Dynasty, the prince of the Song Dynasty was married to a princess to form a marriage alliance between the two countries, thereby weakening the vigilance of the Southern Tang court and the intention to prepare for war."

Zhao Kuangyin finally nodded, and said: "What Xue Qing said is a clever plan. We must spare no effort to weaken the Southern Tang's national power and try every means. Since the method of marriage can be effective, then add this plan. .”

Ye Chen hesitated for a moment, then said: "Your Majesty! The Maitreya Sect is good at hypnotic magic, and the princess of the Southern Tang Kingdom married the prince, I'm afraid..."

Zhao Kuangyin's face changed slightly when he heard the words. He had seen the idiot of Liu Yu in the Southern Han Dynasty, and he was extremely afraid of these cults and sorcery. Hearing Ye Chen's words, he immediately understood Ye Chen's scruples.Xue Juzheng opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he hesitated to speak, but secretly scolded Ye Chen for being troublesome.

Just now, in order to follow Zhao Kuangyin's wishes, Zhao Pu uttered his words against Xue Juzheng, an important ally, and faintly felt that Xue Juzheng was dissatisfied with him, so he hurriedly said: "Master Xue said that the marriage strategy is indeed very effective in weakening the Southern Tang Dynasty's intention to prepare for war. , but what Xiang Fuhou said really has to be guarded against. Therefore, after Princess Nantang marries the prince, we can put Princess Nantang under house arrest and don't let her touch the prince."

Xue Juzheng got inspiration from Zhao Pu's words, and then said: "Hsiang Fuhou has always been very powerful. If the princess of the Southern Tang Dynasty really possesses hypnotic magic, wouldn't it be impossible for Xiangfu Hou to break the magic of Maitreya Sect."

Everyone looked at Ye Chen, Ye Chen smiled wryly, then shook his head, and said: "Master Xue doesn't know something, Shangguan Bingyun's hypnotizing magic or Maitreya's sorcery to confuse people are used on juniors, so juniors are naturally not afraid , but if used on other people, the juniors really can't break it."

Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a while, and said: "This matter is a long-term plan, and it will be put on hold for now."

After the discussion, Ye Chen was left alone by Zhao Kuangyin as expected.After all, after Ye Chen came back from Sichuan, he hadn't reported to Zhao Kuangyin alone.

In the Chongzheng Hall, after hearing Ye Chen's detailed description, Zhao Kuangyin looked at Ye Chen and said, "In this way, the purpose of letting Xu Qingfei go was to use him to find Shangguan Bingyun's trace and kill the demon monk, but in the end As a result, not only was Shangguan Bingyun not found, Xu Qingfei was also rescued by mysterious forces."

Ye Chen nodded and said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, it is true, this is my negligence, and please punish me."

Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and said, "You can't blame Ye Qing for this matter. The thief is too cunning. It is not easy for you to turn the tide and quickly quell the chaos in Sichuan and Sichuan. Hmm... Could it be that the mysterious force that robbed Xu Qingfei is People from the Maitreya sect? How is your Huaxia Weifu's investigation going?"

Ye Chen said: "At that time, a living person was caught, and through interrogation, he already knew that he was a person from the Holy Church, and he also learned from the prisoner of the Holy Church that at the time of the battle at Daba Mountain, the refugees who escaped did not count. There were 4000 refugees, of which Nearly 2000 people were secretly rescued by the Holy Church, changed their attire, and were transported out of Sichuan and Shu with some new identities, and gathered somewhere in the Qinling Mountains. The minister guessed that the Holy Church took a fancy to Xu Qingfei and these people as bandits The reason why I took them in is because I want to let these people out one day to cause chaos."

Speaking of this, Ye Chen took a look at Zhao Kuangyin's gloomy face, and continued: "If one day there is a natural disaster in Guanzhong or Sichuan and Shu, and the people are displaced and can't eat enough, once these people appear, with their skillful means, I'm afraid it will be easy. It will start a new civil unrest."

Zhao Kuangyin's face changed when he heard the words. What Ye Chen said was very likely to happen. He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Send out people, we must find the hiding place of the remnants of the Sichuan and Sichuan bandits, and then kill them all. .”

Ye Chen said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I have always suspected that there is a secret lair of the Holy Church in the Qinling Mountains, so I have already sent a large number of elite spies."

When Zhao Kuangyin heard this, he nodded and said, "You have to work harder to deal with the matter of the church. If the church is not destroyed for a day, I always feel uneasy in my heart."

Ye Chen said solemnly: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will do my best to deal with the Holy Church and try to destroy it as soon as possible."

Zhao Kuangyin was a little relieved and nodded.

Seeing this, Ye Chen took the opportunity to say: "Your Majesty! I have one more thing to ask Your Majesty for your sins."

Zhao Kuangyin knew what Ye Chen was going to say. If he hadn't been assassinated yesterday and Ye Chen tried his best to save him, he would definitely have been worried about this matter, and would be more or less dissatisfied and suspicious of Ye Chen, but now It was different, he smiled, and said, "Tell me! What happened to those five hundred black cavalrymen? I heard Wang Jien say something strange. Otherwise, I would order someone to kill them all that day."

Ye Chen hurriedly apologized, and said, "Your Majesty! This is how it happened."

Next, Ye Chen truthfully told Zhao Kuangyin about a series of weird things that happened after he killed Chen Jingyuan and beheaded him.

Zhao Kuangyin was dumbfounded and amazed.Then he said with some concern: "So, the bloody foreign body is still in Ye Qing's body."

Naturally, Ye Chen would not tell Zhao Kuangyin the truth about the black-blooded Gu mother, and said with a bitter face: "Yes! Your Majesty, I have been worrying a lot these days. Go to the minister's heart and eat the minister's heart."

"I asked Qian Yi to show you." Zhao Kuangyin said with concern.

Ye Chen said: "When I was in Bazhou, I met Mr. Qian. Let him see it, but he couldn't find out where the bloody foreign object was hidden. I didn't find any discomfort in my body."

Zhao Kuangyin suddenly remembered something, and said: "I heard from Qian Yi that there is an expert named ghost doctor hidden in the 'half-dead labyrinth' in your house. He cured the poison on your body when you went back yesterday. Why don't you go find it?" he."

Ye Chen said: "Your Majesty, although Senior Ghost Doctor is powerful, he couldn't find out where the bloody foreign object was hidden, nor did he find any discomfort in my body."

Zhao Kuangyin was even more worried when he heard this, and said, "You must not take this matter lightly, and you must find a way to check your body properly."

Ye Chen could feel Zhao Kuangyin's concern for him from the bottom of his heart, and he was more or less moved.

What's more, the emperor cares about his courtiers. Whether it is sincere or not, a courtier must be grateful and very moved.

That's what Ye Chen did. With a grateful expression on his face, he said, "Thank you for your concern. It's just that I still have two important matters to report to Your Majesty."

Zhao Kuangyin was more and more moved by Ye Chen's dedication to state affairs, and said, "Ye Qing, don't be polite, tell me what you have to say, and go back to the manor to see the ghost doctor."

Ye Chen hurriedly said: "Your Majesty! The assassination of Mr. Cao is very strange. The reconnaissance department of the intelligence department of Huaxia Weifu has already found out that Shangguan Bingyun pretended to be the little eunuch next to Chen Qingping, the supervising army sent by the palace, and took the opportunity to He poisoned Mr. Cao and left calmly. Later, the body of Chen Qingping, the supervisor, was found in another place. At first glance, Chen Qingping was controlled by Shangguan Bingyun's sorcery, but I suspected that Chen Qingping himself was a member of the Maitreya sect. , plus this Jiye and the little eunuch who inspected the jade belt yesterday, there are already three Maitreya sects lurking in the palace, so I boldly ask Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate the harem this time."

Zhao Kuangyin's complexion, which had just recovered, became extremely ugly again.At the beginning of the year, with the help of Ye Chen's "half-dead labyrinth" to capture Yufeng's apprentice Zhao Si, he used him as a breakthrough to wipe out the power of the Holy Church in the Central Plains. As a result, half of the eunuchs and maids in the harem were changed.Unexpectedly, more than half a year has passed, and now there are people from the Maitreya Sect lurking in the harem.This made Zhao Kuangyin's heart awe-inspiring, but also extremely angry.I have already made up my mind, I would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one person go.

(End of this chapter)