The first-class concubine of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 249

About the refined salt, Zhang Ji was not in a hurry to tell Li Yu. Now that the Southern Tang Dynasty is fighting fiercely with Chen Hongjin, and the soldiers of the Song Dynasty on the border are threatening, if he tells Li Yu the news of the failure of the refined salt development, all his previous efforts will be in vain.

Although he was in a hurry, he was still able to maintain his composure. Since the refined salt was almost finished, there must be a problem in a certain step, so let those people develop it again.

After this order went on, all Zhang Ji had to do was to wait. Maybe after the Southern Tang army wiped out Chen Hongjin, the matter of refined salt might not be able to make progress.

And when the Southern Tang was fighting with Chen Hongjin and the Great Song was sinking troops on the frontier, Qian Hongchu, the leader of the Wuyue Kingdom, received a letter from the emperor of the Song Dynasty.

After Qian Hongchu received the letter, his expression became tense, and he quickly summoned the ministers of the court and the central government.

In the imperial study room, Wu Yue's ministers gathered, staring at Qian Hongchu, wondering why he was in such a hurry to summon them.

"My lord, when did you summon us so urgently?" Wang Mingkong, the prime minister of the court, asked.

Qian Hongchu handed Zhao Kuangyin's letter to Wang Mingkong: "Wang Aiqing and all the lovers, let's take a look. This is a letter sent by the emperor of Song Dynasty. He wants us Wuyue to sink troops on the border between Wuyue and the Southern Tang Dynasty and put pressure on the Southern Tang Dynasty." , Do you think we should do this or not?"

Qian Hongchu is over 40 years old, with a tall and burly body, but he is too old for high spirits. At this time, he speaks softly and slowly, which does not give people a little energy.

After Wang Mingkong read the letter, he handed it over to other ministers. After Dongyue King Qian Weikai read it, his brows condensed: "Master, this matter must never be done. His lips are dead and his teeth are cold. If we assist Song Dynasty now, he will definitely be destroyed!" After the Southern Tang Dynasty, trying to picture me as Wu Yue and helping the Great Song Dynasty would be tantamount to self-destruction, and now that the Southern Tang Dynasty is fighting against the Great Song Dynasty, I, Wu Yue, are still very safe."

After Qian Weikai finished speaking, some main combat factions in the DPRK and China followed suit.

Qian Hongchu hated these main fighters the most on weekdays. When he heard them yelling like this, he couldn't help frowning: "What is self-destruction? Now the Song Dynasty is strong and powerful, and its strength has increased a lot after the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed. , we are a vassal state of the Song Dynasty, and now he wants us to sink our troops, what should we do if we don't do it and anger them?"

As Qian Hongchu said, he glanced at Wang Mingkong: "Wang Aiqing, you are the prime minister, so please tell me what to do about this matter."

"My lord, in fact, Nan Tang is not a good person. Now they have taken action against Chen Hongjin of Qingyuan County for no reason, which is enough to prove that if they swallow Qingyuan County, then I, Wu Yue, will really be surrounded by Nan Tang. The strength of Southern Tang is not weak, if they try to become stronger, they will definitely eat me, Wu Yue, so, wouldn't it be very disadvantageous to me, Wu Yue?"

After Wang Mingkong finished speaking, Qian Weikai scolded immediately: "It's nonsense, the ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty is weak, how could he dare to go to war with me, Wu Yue? Besides, if the Southern Tang Dynasty goes to war with me, wouldn't the Great Song Dynasty take the opportunity to eat the Nantang people?" Don?"

Wang Mingkong is a little old man in his 50s. He is not tall and looks funny. Hearing Qian Weikai's words at this time, he couldn't help but snorted coldly: "My lord is really joking. If we don't help Da Song this time, we will not help you in the future." When the Southern Tang attacked Wuyue, did you think Da Song would help? The prince really thought well, there is no such thing as a pie in the world."

Wang Mingkong's words were eloquent, and Qian Hongchu nodded repeatedly after listening to them: "Wang Aiqing's words are not bad. Since we want to get protection from Song, we need to help Song more. Since it's just Shen Bing, it's not a big deal." , I, Wu Yue, have nothing to lose, right?"

After Qian Hongchu said this, he called out the name of a general, and asked him to gather [-] soldiers and horses as soon as possible, and sink the frontier.
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The night was dark, and it was raining lightly in Jinling in early winter.

The wind was blowing at the window. Although the stove had been lit in the house, Li Yu still felt a little cold.

He kept walking back and forth in the house, with a look of anxiety on his face.

In the imperial study room, several ministers looked at each other, but they were all silent.

After a long time, Li Yu finally said: "Now we have been attacking Chen Hongjin with all our strength for five or six days, but there has been no progress. My soldiers in the Southern Tang Dynasty have suffered even more losses. Tell me, when will we be able to capture Qingyuan County?"

The minister of Yushufang was still speechless, even Li Congshan didn't dare to speak. It was not easy to eat Chen Hongjin. He was good at using soldiers and knew this, but Li Yu didn't know. In Li Yu's mind, he felt that since their strength was better than Chen Hongjin is many times stronger, so he should be able to kill Chen Hongjin soon.

This is Li Yu's thinking, even if Li Congshan says it is useless.

The imperial study room was very quiet, and the wind outside the window became tighter. At this moment, an eunuch hurried in. Feeling that the atmosphere in the imperial study room was not right, the eunuch suddenly lowered his head and retreated to the side.

Li Yu became even more angry, looking at the eunuch: "Running in a hurry, and then retreating, do you think the master of the country can be bullied?"

The eunuch was terrified, and quickly knelt down: "Please forgive me, the lord, the servant has a memorial to submit."

"Bring it!"

The eunuch got up, trotted and handed the memorial to Li Yu, and then slowly retreated. Li Yu opened the memorial and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed: "It's okay, it's okay..."

Seeing Li Yu like this, everyone was puzzled, and Zhang Ji asked quickly, "Master, what happened?"

Li Yu handed the memorial to Zhang Ji: "Look, the king of Wuyue sent troops to me in the Southern Tang Dynasty. It must be Zhao Kuangyin who asked him to do so."

Many ministers were shocked after reading it. Now that Wu Yue has used troops against them in the Southern Tang Dynasty, then their Southern Tang Dynasty is really besieged on all sides. There is the Song Dynasty in the northwest, Wu Yue in the east, and Chen Hongjin from Qingyuan County in the south.

Now that Southern Tang is being attacked from three sides, the country is in great danger of being destroyed.

The ministers talked a lot, and they were frightened.

Li Congshan couldn't understand the timid and cowardly appearance of these ministers, so he said: "You don't have to worry, the lord, Wu Yue is just sinking troops on the frontier, and has not really sent troops."

Li Yu snorted coldly: "That's not the time yet. If we don't know what's going on, they Wuyue will join forces with Song Dynasty. By then, how many soldiers can I have in Southern Tang?"

Speaking of this, Li Yu looked at Zhang Ji and said, "Zhang Aiqing, how is the development of refined salt?"

Hearing the four words "refined salt research and development", the officials were shocked. "Refined salt research and development, could it be that Zhang Ji was ordered to develop refined salt?"Li Congshan was taken aback for a moment, and at this time he finally understood why Li Yu supported the battle with Da Song several times before. It turned out that he thought of a solution to the problem of refined salt.

Everyone turned their attention to Zhang Ji, Zhang Ji looked flustered, and said: "My lord, there is something wrong with the process of developing the refined salt. The refined salt we developed is not edible at all. After eating... red spots appear on the body."

Hearing Zhang Ji's words, the other ministers in the court were a little disappointed, but Li Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Since the development of refined salt cannot be successful, what kind of war are we going to fight with Song Dynasty? If they cut off the supply of refined salt, Do you think our people will give up?"

Speaking of this, Li Yu suddenly raised his voice: "Order to go down, order our soldiers to withdraw from Qingyuan County, and all the guards at the surveillance post will also withdraw, and Xuanliuwei will go to court tomorrow."
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Wu Yue.

Qian Weikai and Zhou Qing were sitting opposite each other in the study in the mansion.

"Lord Zhou, the ruler of the country is weak and incompetent, and now he is helping the Song Dynasty to destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty. I am afraid that my Wuyue Kingdom will also disappear!"

Zhou Qing frowned and said after a long time: "My lord, we must take action."

"What does Lord Zhou mean?"

"Support soldiers to stand on their own."

"This……"

Qian Weikai was a little hesitant, of course it wasn't that he didn't want to, but that he wasn't sure.

"My lord ascended the throne, maybe we can rely on our Wuyue's prosperity and strength to fight against the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty. Even if we don't win, we can still preserve Wuyue. My Wuyue foundation, the prince wants to give it a try!"

Qian Weikai frowned, and asked after a long time: "Can Master Zhou teach me how to do it?"

"Lead troops into the palace and force the king to give way."

"Is this possible?"

"There are our people in the Forbidden Palace as internal support, as long as we are fast enough, there should be no problem."

Qian Weikai thought for a while, and said, "Okay, everything is up to the adults."

It was dark at night, Wu Yue's palace was still brightly lit, and from time to time in Qian Hongchu's bedroom, cheers and sweet words could be heard, but at this moment, there were bursts of shouting outside the palace.

The beauty in Qian Hongchu's arms was startled, and hugged Qian Hongchu even tighter. Qian Hongchu frowned slightly, and shouted loudly: "What's going on?"

A eunuch panicked and reported: "My lord, no...it's not good, the king of Dongyue rebelled..."

"What, Wei Kai actually rebelled?"

Qian Hongchu was a little shocked, but immediately reacted: "Come here, resist their attack for the master of the country, and send a signal to the imperial army in the city, asking them to come to help quickly."

After Qian Hongchu ordered to go down, a red firework suddenly bloomed in the palace. Qian Weikai, who was fighting outside the palace, saw the firework, his heart sank slightly, and he secretly thought it was bad.

"You must control the palace before the imperial army arrives, kill, whoever enters the palace first and kills Qian Hongchu, this king will reward him with ten thousand taels of gold."

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man. After hearing the words "Golden Wanliang", the people Qian Weikai fought even more desperately, seeing Wu Yue's palace gate being knocked open.

"Master Zhou, where is our internal response?" Qian Weikai thought that they would be able to invade the palace soon after they brought their troops, but now that the imperial army is approaching, they have not yet entered, which makes Qian Weikai suspicious up.

Zhou Qing was also puzzled: "I told them earlier, but why didn't I see them open the city gate inside? Could it be that they were discovered?"

"Then what should we do now?"

(End of this chapter)