Spring and Autumn I Am King

"Chaoge is mine!"

The news spread quickly, Zhibo's henchmen gathered again, and Fan Gaoyi, whose face was flushed, said angrily: "I am the new head of the Fan family, Chaoge and Hanoi counties should be taken over by me, how dare the Zhao family Break into the city and take over the treasury and the people? What do they rely on?"

Fan Gaoyi's position as the head of the family was not hot, so he couldn't wait to come forward to assert his rights, but the problem was that he appealed to the wrong object. After hearing the bad news, Zhisong sat behind the short case with a gloomy face, thinking about things, without saying a word, letting his henchmen quarrel with each other.

"By the right of the winner." Zhi's little thinker, Zhiguo, replied to his father, and he did it neatly.

"The Zhao clan defeated Fan and the second minister of the Bank of China in the field, and also defended the Zhuguan Road and Mengmen, which was to choke the Jin state, making it impossible for us to intervene in a short time. I thought that this was Zhao clan's way of killing. , who would have expected them to be able to capture Chaoge within a month..."

Speaking of which, Zhiguo glanced at her father, and this result was unexpected even by a smart and experienced person.

Liang Ying's father murmured: "I still can't believe that even after the defeat of the CCP, there are still tens of thousands of people in Chaoge City, and the Zhao army has at most 20,000 to 30,000 people, and can only surround one part of the city. Side. As long as Bo Xingbo doesn't go out of the city to attack the enemy, he shouldn't be attacked so quickly... What a pity, if he can persist for a few more months, the ruling plan can be implemented smoothly. If I knew today, it would have been better to abandon Chaoge at the beginning. It would be better to burn it to white ground than to use the Chaoge government treasury to finance the enemy now that Bo Xingbo is dead."

"You, you..." Fan Gaoyi pointed at the tip of his nose angrily after hearing Liang Ying's father say that he would abandon the city and destroy the land.

"I would choose to stick to it if it were me." Zhiguo said again: "Taifu does not know the status of Chaoge, if this place is lost, Handan, Bairen and even Jingxing will be exposed to Zhao's army, so Zhongxingbo and Chaoge will be exposed. Gezai's decision to defend the city is correct, the problem lies in the method Zhao used to attack the city, it is said that their equipment can drop flying stones from the sky, or have...

"Ridiculous! Chaoge's ghosts and gods should also help the Fan family!" Fan Gaoyi insisted.

Everyone expected to fail, and it was the time of hesitation. A quarrel soon broke out, and the rest of the people looked gloomy and the atmosphere was very dignified.

"enough!"

But it was Zhibo who stood up with his hands on the low table, and glanced at the people in front of him. Make them all shut up.

"Chaoge City is broken, this is already a fait accompli, what's the use of these assumptions now?"

Everyone was silent for a moment, and then asked in unison: "Government, what should I do now?"

Zhibo paced to the door with his hands behind his back. Looking at the gloomy sky for a while, then pacing back, repeating several times. Only Zhiguo knows that this is what his father looked like when he was thinking hard. It seems that after the strategy designed by Zhishi was broken by Zhao's quick victory, it did cause great trouble to Zhibo.

In the end, Zhisong finally made up his mind, stopped and instructed the left and right: "Put away your frustrations, follow me into the Xiqi Palace, and sue the monarch for the fault of Zhao's father and son!"

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That night. In the Xintian Xiqi Palace, Jin Houwu supported his head and yawned. He had just been on the bed tonight, and before he had time to enjoy the peculiar Diess presented by Zhibo, he was shouted.

When he hurriedly changed into court clothes and rode the chariot to the main hall, it was already ugly in the middle of the night. The eyelids were fighting, and the heavy crown was pressing down on his neck. But today's emergency court meeting Jin Hou had to attend in person, although Political affairs are handled by the ruling Qing Zhi. However, for any major military affairs, it is still necessary to obtain the consent of the Marquis of Jin.

There was an accident in the east of Taihang, and the ministers of Jin were fighting, but the Marquis of Jin had nothing to do. There is no way to stop it.

What's more, after learning of the news of Zhongxingyin's death and the fall of Chaoge, the Marquis of Jin was already awakened by fright.

"Isn't it foolproof to govern! When did the Zhao family have such great ability!"

In the hall, the doctors of Zhibo's party chatted all morning, like a group of hens just released from the chicken coop.

"Breaking the old rules of the Jin state, going to war with Fan and Zhongxing without authorization, and forcibly occupying their cities and towns. Killing their soldiers and killing two nobles. Your Majesty, the Zhao clan is going to rebel!"

The person who said this was Fan Gaoyi, who had just decided to inherit the Fan clan, but had not yet been officially promoted to the clerk. This concubine of the Fan clan, who used to be on the same level as Fan Ji, is now a loyal defender of the Fan clan's interests. It's not like taking revenge for his younger brother.

"The Zhao family has been disrespecting the public office for many years. Zhao Dun killed Duke Ling, and now Zhao Yang and Zhao Wuxi are even more so. They even blocked Doctor Qin, who was going to ask the guilt, from Taihang. They went over." Taifu Liang Ying's father took over the conversation, his face was flushed, and he did not know whether it was out of public anger or private jealousy. The Marquis of Jin heard that he had a very bad relationship with Zhao Yang and Jinyang doctor Dong Anyu.

"Han and Zhao are the same raccoon dog, it's normal to do this." Zhi's second son Zhiguo also said the same.

In the end, they came to the conclusion that the Zhao clan was the main culprit who disturbed the state of Jin, and he had to be punished.

But even if they listed the big crimes, in the end, they couldn't come up with a charter on how to hold the Zhao family accountable.

These people are surrounded by the Marquis of Jin on weekdays, blocking the opportunity for the rest of the nobles to follow the way of the monarch. Respecting the Marquis of Jin to command the ministers, this is the most powerful reliance of the Zhi clan.

However, the tried-and-tested Jun Mingqingquan in the past seems to have hit an iron wall this time. With the determination to win the first battle, the Zhao family withstood the pressure of the monarch and the ruling party. The method to capture Chaoge.

On the other hand, the methods here are always half a beat. Ji Qin, who wanted to "receive" Hanoi for the Marquis of Jin and Zhi clan, was blocked by Han clan in Chuguan Road. In addition to the heavy rain, the road was slippery, so Ji Qin did not try to attack, but retreated and stationed in Fan's Hedong territory.

At the same time, another important road, Fukouxing, also fell into Zhao's hands because Zhao used Fan Gaoyi's hapless brother Fan Wei to defraud Mengmenguan. In this way, among the three roads to communicate things in Taihang, there is only one Jingxing Road left in the hands of the Zhi clan, which can go directly to Bairen and Handan. They got the news of the fall of Chaoge and the death of Zhongxing Yin in battle.

"Zhao, Han Saimengmen and Zunguan, then Jin has no Hanoi..."

The Marquis of Jin and the Zhi clan were completely out of control over the situation east of the Taihang Mountains. The monarchical and ruling powers have never been ignored and trampled on like this.

After staying up for most of the night, Jin Wu finally couldn't bear it any longer, and he asked, "Why is the ruling coming back?"

Zhiguo said: "My father heard that Bo Zhongxing died in Chaoge, and he was too sad, so let us go ahead for a while, and then he put on mourning clothes and entered the palace..."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone from the temple came to announce that Zhibo was coming.

…

Zhibo entered the Xiqi Palace on foot. From a distance, it was just a small white spot beside the palace lantern. When he was getting closer, the Marquis of Jin could see that he was wearing cloth clothes, a bath linen belt, and a silk and crown cloth tassels. , Ji Dai Wuhuan.

It is the "Little Gong" that is the lowest and first in the five servers.

When he went up and down to ask for his sins, the Marquis of Jin could only suppress his anxiety and sighed: "I am sorry for the ruling party, state affairs are the most important thing."

Zhisong bowed down to the ground, nodded his head in a grief-stricken manner, and said, "Thank you for your understanding, the Zhi family and the Zhongxing family are originally from the Xun family, although they have five clothes, but the Zhongxingbo is still my distant cousin, and the country is dignified. Qing Shi, the general of the Jin State, it is really chilling to end up like this..."

The Marquis of Jin coughed: "I will let the officials of the ceremony take care of the funeral of Bo Zhongxing, and their corpses must be brought back from the Zhao family. However, the war in the east of Taihang must be resolved first. In the current situation, what should Xintian do? Do you really want to convict the Zhao family as the culprit?"

He is very clear that if this is the case, it is an open declaration that the office is going to crusade against the Zhao family, which requires a great risk. Or, to maintain support for the Zhao clan's attack on Handan, and admit the fact that they destroyed the Fan clan. In that case, as the ruler, if the Zhao clan does this during the term of office, Zhibo will inevitably step down...

Zhisong raised his head and said, "The old minister thinks that since Erqing is about to perish, for today's plan to use the power of the public office and the Zhi clan to be the enemy of the Zhao clan, I am afraid that it is not as good as it is, so it is better to abandon the previous hatred..."

The Marquis of Jin and everyone present were shocked, and they all asked, "I heard that right, in power, do you really want to make peace with the Zhao family?"

There was a trace of unhappiness in Jin Houwu's heart. Although he didn't like to fight futile battles, and he had little real power left, he was still the monarch of a country after all. It would be too humiliating to seek peace with his subjects as a monarch...

Fan Gaoyi and Liang Yingfu were even more shocked. One of them inherited the Fan family, who was the enemy of the Zhao family, and the other had old grudges with Zhao Yang and Dong Anyu. Please take the initiative to level. If the war ends in this way, the Zhao clan will surely get a huge harvest, stronger than before, and even more difficult to deal with. In a few years, when Zhao Yang or Zhao Wuxi enters the court, they don’t have to mess around and can escape to went to another country.

Zhisong smiled and said, "The Zhao family has already betrayed the monarch's orders and etiquette, and is a traitor to the state of Jin. How could the old man make peace with them? I mean, it's time for the state of Jin to reconcile with Qi, Wei, and Zheng Jinqi. !" (To be continued.)