The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 248 Poisoning
The secret letter from Emperor Song was quickly delivered to Liu Wei.

The secret letter said that he had sent Cao Bin to sink troops on the border to put pressure on Nan Tang, and then asked Liu Wei to resolve the matter between Nan Tang and Chen Hongjin as soon as possible.

After reading the contents of the secret letter, Liu Wei couldn't help but sighed.

He is very disturbed to blame Li Yu here, and now Zhao Kuangyin wants him to solve the matter between Nantang and Chen Hongjin. Isn't this causing trouble for him?Li Yu wanted to refuse to enter Bianjing City by surrounding Chen Hongjin, and wanted to know about his relationship with Chen Hongjin.

What's more, the Great Song's sinking troops on the frontier, will some unexpected things lead to a real battle between the Great Song Dynasty and the Southern Tang Dynasty?
Maybe the main battle faction of the Southern Tang Dynasty was so angry when they saw the soldiers of the Song Dynasty approaching the city, what should they do if they suddenly attacked the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty?Will the generals of the Song Dynasty fight or not?

After thinking hard like this, Liu Wei found Cao Jue, and told him the things on the secret letter.

When Cao Jue heard that it was his father who sent troops to fight, he was overjoyed: "Liu Concubine, don't worry if my father comes, he won't spoil your affairs, since the Holy Majesty won't allow war with Nantang, my father will never go to war .”

Liu Wei didn't know much about Cao Bin, but he believed Cao Jue's words.

"So best."

After saying this, Liu Wei suddenly wrinkled his nose, then looked Cao Jue up and down: "Where have you been these few days, why is there a scent on you?"

Cao Jue's face changed slightly, but then he smiled and said, "Brother Liu, keep your voice down, let me tell you that you can't talk nonsense outside, brother, I went to the flower boat on the Qinhuai River recently, the girl there is really called Shui Ling, Much more slippery than the girls in our capital."

Speaking of this, Cao Jue suddenly smiled again: "Do you want me to take you to play on the flower boat?"

When Liu Wei heard that Cao Jue had gone to the flower boat, his brows frowned immediately. It wasn't that he objected to Cao Jue going to the flower boat. Cao Jue was a son-in-law when he was in the capital, and he didn't dare to touch other women. Tang, as a man, it is normal to need a woman's nourishment, but this is Southern Tang. Although the women on the flower boat are prostitutes, it is not guaranteed that there are spies from the Southern Tang. The people on board to achieve the purpose?

In the Southern Tang Dynasty, you have to be careful in everything.

"I won't go to the flower boat, and you don't want to go again in the future. If you go again, don't blame me for not showing brotherhood."

"You..." Cao Jue didn't seem to expect Liu Wei to say such words suddenly.

Although the two of them are in a superior-subordinate relationship now, Cao Jue has never regarded Liu Wei as a superior, and Liu Wei has never regarded Cao Jue as a subordinate, so Cao Jue is a little angry at this time.

"Brother Liu, I have no objection to you wanting to be a couple with Princess Ruyi for a lifetime, but you can't stop me from going to the flower boat to have fun."

Liu Wei frowned slightly, and said coldly: "It's not that I want to prevent you from going to the flower boat to have fun, but our current situation is very special, and there are all kinds of teachings and high schools on the flower boat. If someone deliberately makes things difficult for you, what should you do?" , I want you to bear it, can you bear it?"

"This... Who will make things difficult for me?"

"Someone will make things difficult for you!"

Liu Wei's words were firm and unforgiving. Seeing Liu Wei's seriousness, Cao Jue was also a little scared, and finally said angrily, "Just don't go in the future!"
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The end of autumn is fleeting, and when early winter comes, Jinling City looks even more bleak.

At this time, Cao Bin had already led troops to station at the junction of the two countries, and sent a threatening letter, asking Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty to withdraw his troops from Qingyuan County as soon as possible.

Faced with Cao Bin's threat, Li Yu was very scared, but he hesitated when he thought that he would have to rush back to Bianjing after withdrawing from Qingyuan County.

So one evening in early winter, he ordered someone to call Zhang Ji.

After reading the content of Cao Bin's letter, Zhang Jie frowned deeply, and said, "My lord, our refined salt will be successfully developed in a few days. We only need to persist for a few more days. As long as the refined salt is successful, we are still afraid of the Song dynasty." ?"

Hearing what Zhang Ji said, Li Yu was a little surprised. Ever since Xiao Zhou said those words to him, he never thought about going to war with Da Song, but hearing what Zhang Ji said now, he has been waiting and waiting Forbearance.

"Zhang Aiqing, this... this Great Song Dynasty is the master of tigers and wolves. The ruler of this country really doesn't want to start a war with them."

Zhang Ji shook his head: "Your Majesty, the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty have already reached the gate of our Southern Tang Dynasty. Now we don't want to fight, so why don't we fight? If we don't resist, should we let them slaughter?"

"This...does it mean that the lord of the country withdrew his troops from Qingyuan County, and they will also fight?"

Zhang Ji nodded: "Now they have finally found an excuse to attack our Southern Tang. Does the Lord think they will give up easily?"

Li Yu was silent, he felt that what Zhang Ji said was not bad.

After a long time, Li Yu finally said: "In Zhang Aiqing's opinion, what should we do now?"

"If we want to resist Da Song's attack, we must first control Liu Wei's missions, and then attack Chen Hongjin's troops in Qingyuan County with all our strength. After solving the internal situation, we can go all out to resist Da Song's attack. .”

Li Yu hesitated and asked, "When will refined salt be good?"

"Tomorrow, a small batch will be developed first. If there are no problems, mass production will be possible the day after tomorrow."

Seeing that the refined salt is about to be developed, Li Yu has a little confidence again. As long as the people of Southern Tang have no problems, they should be able to resist the attack of Song Dynasty in Southern Tang.

"Okay, Zhang Aiqing has to urge those people as soon as possible, and then, order to go down and attack Qingyuan County with all its strength, and then send a letter to King Zheng, asking him to send someone to monitor Liu Wei who is staying in the post."

Li Yu's order was quickly assigned. Li Congshan was a little happy when he heard it. He didn't expect that Zhang Ji would support the battle with Da Song so much, and he didn't expect that Li Yu, who had always been cowardly, would finally fight Da Song now.

He felt that Zhang Ji was really a talent.

And just when Li Congshan was so happy, he ordered heavy troops to surround the posthouse where Liu Wei and others were located.

The post house was surrounded, the guards in the post house were a little frightened, Liu Wei frowned deeply, he basically understood what Li Congshan meant.

Now that the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty are sinking into the border, the people in the post house are equivalent to their bargaining chips in the Southern Tang Dynasty. If the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty go to war, with Liu Wei and others in hand, the people of the Great Song Dynasty will always have something to do. Just worry.

Cao Jue was a little angry: "His grandma's, go out and fight with them."

Daniel also echoed: "Fight with them."

At this time, Lu Duan was able to keep calm: "We have very few guards in the posthouse, and we can only seek death if we fight against them, and the soldiers outside the city will definitely not be able to attack the city gate for a while, so it is not appropriate to move around now."

After Lu Duan finished speaking, he cast his eyes on Liu Wei, Liu Wei nodded with a smile: "Master Lu's words are very true."

"My lord, don't be so extreme. Now that we are surrounded, what do you think we should do?" Daniel always liked to use force to solve problems.

Liu Wei shrugged: "Actually, it's easy to handle, just wait."

"Wait? What kind of solution is this?" Cao Jue was puzzled. They were waiting here, so they were waiting to die.

Liu Wei didn't take it seriously, and said: "Li Yu, who has always been timid, suddenly sent troops to surround the post house. There is only one explanation, that is, he may fall out with Da Song and fight Da Song, but what courage does he have? What about the battle with the Great Song Dynasty? If my expectations are correct, it must be because he thinks that General Cao of the Great Song Dynasty intends to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty, so he will put all his eggs in one basket. But if he finds out that Cao Bin has no intention of destroying the Southern Tang Dynasty Now, what do you think he will do?"

"Nan Tang, he will evacuate the soldiers who surrounded us?" Cao Jue looked at Liu Wei in disbelief.

Liu Wei nodded, "That's right, he will evacuate the soldiers surrounding us."

Speaking of this, Liu Wei smiled again: "Of course, the most important thing is that Nantang and Chen Hongjin really started a fight. Li Yu felt that they would be able to take Chen Hongjin soon, but according to what I know about Chen Hongjin, Nantang Even if Tang wants to take down Chen Hongjin, he has to pay a painful price, and this price will make Li Yu understand that it will be very disadvantageous for Nan Tang to continue like this."

After finishing speaking, Liu Wei picked up a cup of tea and took a sip. In fact, besides these reasons, there is another reason. The reason why Li Yu withdrew his troops was because he would soon find out that the refined salt that Zhang Ji had always been proud of The research and development will fail. When Li Yu heard the news, would he dare to touch Da Song's edge again?
Unless he really wants to perish.
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Zhang Ji is full of ambition, and now he feels that he is only one step away from success. He believes that as long as the people of Southern Tang no longer rely on the refined salt of Song Dynasty, as long as they unite as one, they will definitely defeat Song Dynasty.

And what he has to do now is to get Xigui and others to support the battle between the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty, and he is very confident in this. He only needs to take out the things Han Xizai left him. After seeing those things, those people will definitely obey his orders.

But when Zhang Ji was full of confidence, one of his subordinates rushed to report: "Master... Sir, there is a problem in the place where refined salt is developed."

Zhang Ji frowned, and then said coldly: "What's wrong?"

"Today we developed the refined salt, so I wanted to try it, but I never thought that after eating a stick of incense, all the people who had eaten the refined salt we developed would have erythema on their bodies. Those erythemas were not fatal, but they made people The itching all over the body is unbearable.”

"Red spots on your body?" Zhang Ji was taken aback, thinking that some impurities in the salt mine might not be cleaned up, which led to this situation.

But if this happens to refined salt, how can it be promoted nationwide?
Zhang Ji suddenly felt that he was too happy.

(End of this chapter)