"I will give him a gift; if I take him without telling him, I will be a thief!"

The King of Huai was so angry that he slapped the pen on the jade paper. The King of Huai had been good at dancing guns and sticks since he was a child, and he was very strong. Under this snap, a good lake pen broke into two pieces with a "bang".

Wang Boqian, Gu Fan, Wei Chujun and others were all silent.

Regardless of the previous grievances and grievances, Xu Huai took action to capture Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son, and cleared the last and biggest obstacles for King Huai to ascend the throne. It is impossible for the new emperor to ascend the throne without reward.

Even if we try to solve other internal and external troubles, we will gain more time, even if we can stabilize Xu Huai and the people in Chushan first, Wang Boqian, Gu Fan, and Wei Chujun also know that the Huai King may eventually agree to reset Jingxi South Road based on the two prefectures of Ru and Cai and Nanyang Prefecture, so that Xu Huai can serve as the commander or appeasement envoy of Jingxi South Road.

The problem is that they can give it, but Chu Shan can't reach out to ask for it.

Now Chu Shan has not only reached out to ask for it, but can even be said to have reached out to grab it, and even reached out to grab it more than they planned to give it.

Judging from the deployment of the troops in Chushan, the tentacles were already stretched out naked to Xiangyang and Jingzhou. How could they not be angry?

"Xu's thief is punishable, but the humble minister has not realized his ambitions and he easily allowed him to lead his troops to suppress the Hu bandits, so that Xu's thief could rely on the Privy Council's recruitment order to hide his crimes. In fact, the humble minister is incompetent. Please ask Your Majesty to punish him!" Wang Boqian stood up and asked the King of Huai to punish him for his inconspicuous crime.

Although King Huai has not officially ascended the throne, Wang Boqian and others have long called each other as His Majesty in private.

"Oh, yes, you can't blame you," said King Huai with some frustration. "I know what you want to say. At this critical moment, there is no need to go around the corner."

Wang Boqian's words were very clear. No matter how confident they were, they were to test how great and unruly the ambitions of the people in Chushan were, the recruitment order of the Jingthief Army to jointly attack the two lakes to suppress the cave was issued by the Privy Council, but it is an undeniable fact.

The Dongjing thief army claimed to have millions of troops, but invaded Jinghu for several years and failed to eradicate it. Chushan has made many arrangements in blocking waterways and logistics supply, so who can blame them for their fault?

Of course, the most important thing is at this critical moment. Even if Chu Shan is determined to be a vassal state, what can they do?

The three imperial guards of the Imperial Camp commander, Zhang Xin, Deng Gui, Liu Yan and many of the commanders under his command, were more or less involved with Chushan. It is not clear whether they had deeper collusion with Chushan behind their backs. At least they could never trust them at the moment.

After Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son were captured, the Huaidong Army generals were in danger. The 60,000 elite troops deployed along Huaiyin and other cities in the lower reaches of the Huai River were restless. If they could not be properly handled, a disaster might arise at any time, and Jianghuai could not protect themselves.

In addition to these two points, Chu Shan, one of the five major camps, has a vague strength that is above the other four major camps. Their real direct troops may not be as strong as Chu Shan. It is hard to say that the Western Qin and Dongchuan camps, led by Gao Junyang and Gu Jiqian, have no ambition to take the opportunity to expand their power.

How could it be a good opportunity to kill the thief and fight against rebellion now?

Although King Huai was angry, he also knew the principle of being ruthless and forbearing, and he needed to slowly approach Chushan.

Not to mention anything else, Chu Shan is still needed to resist the powerful enemy of Heluo in Rucai.

"Xu thief acted with the order of recruitment and adjustment, and it was difficult to take back the order suddenly," said Wei Chujun. "In the opinion of the humble minister, there are two urgent things to do, and it is necessary to implement it urgently..."

"Tell me, let me see." King Huai signaled Wei Chujun to continue to say.

Wei Chujun said: "First, Your Majesty should try his best to recruit generals of Huaidong Army to avoid military encounters. If the recruitment is successful, in addition to the integration of Jianghuai and Huai, Huainan can gain tens of thousands of new elite troops, you can also transfer the generals of Huaidong Army to fill the states in the north of Jinghu to take charge of the state soldiers in order to prepare for Chushan to be unjust. Second, Your Majesty should do his best to recruit the army of Jingjing thieves; if the recruitment is successful, first, Chushan has no excuse to stay in Jingxiang and not leave, second, Your Majesty has tens of thousands of Jianrui for his own use, so that Chushan's ambitions can be curbed and forced him to withdraw from Jingxiang..."

In the eyes of many people in the world, the root cause of the disaster of the vassal states in the previous dynasty was caused by the idea of ​​"the emperor, the soldiers and horses, and the strong ones", but it makes sense to put aside the monarch, the ministers and the ministers.

In the eyes of King Huai, Wei Chujun and others, the people of Chushan were clearly unjust, but now they are forced to break up immediately due to the situation. They are even resisting the west of Beijing. The enemy of Heluo still needs to rely on Chushan. What they can do is to curb Chushan from all aspects.

When it comes to curbing Chushan, there is no more direct and effective way than strengthening the central mastery.

Therefore, whether it is the generals of Huaidong Army or the thief army of Dongjing, Wei Chujun advocated the efforts to recruit and use it for himself.

In addition to the imperial court able to acquire tens of thousands of elite troops in Huainan to stabilize the defense line and integrate the Jianghuai River into one, the generals of Huainan generals were transferred to control the northern prefectures of Jinghu, which was also a transfer, and the generals of Huainan generals were used to prevent Chushan from reaching their tentacles to Yingsui and Ehuang.

The Jing bandit army in Fudong was not allowed to leave on the one hand, but on the other hand, it was also the most important. If the Jinghu South Road Control Department could recruit tens of thousands of bandit army Jianrui for use, would they still need to worry that Chushan would not know how to restrain himself?

Of course, Ge Boyi and Wei Chujun had already contacted the Dongjing thief army to discuss the matter of revenge. Wei Chujun hopes that the court can further relax the conditions for revenge so that this matter can be made as soon as possible.

"Okay, I'll write a letter now. If you bring it to Mr. Ge, you must do it quickly!" King Huai thought Wei Chujun's words were very reasonable and said slapped the table.

He had not officially ascended the throne at this time, so he could only take Ge Boyi to act in power first. As long as he successfully recruited Sun Yanzhou and other thieves to be used by the court, he would then ratify it after he officially ascended the throne.

Wang Boqian and Gu Fan expected that they would recruit the thief army that had invaded Jinghu for many years without restrictions. Many ministers in the court would inevitably stand up and strongly oppose it, but they could not take too much into consideration at the moment. Thinking of this, they did not dissuade King Huai from acting cautiously. They thought that His Majesty did not ask Zhou He, Hu Kai and others to discuss, so they wrote a letter to Ge Boyi to act in power. Perhaps they expected that they would be opposed?

"It is safer to send ministers to recruit generals from Huaidong Army..." Wei Chujun said again.

After detaining Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son, they ordered Han Shiliang and Liu Yan to send troops from Shouzhou and Yangzhou to the junction with Huaidong to maintain absolute military pressure.

Of course, there were also orders for Han Shiliang to send envoys into Chuzhou, lobbying the Huaidong Army to give up resistance and accept the court's disposal.

The purpose was to divide the Huaidong generals, but not to force the Huaidong generals to rebel, rebel and surrender, nor to annihilate the tens of thousands of elite troops.

The recruitment of generals of the Huaidong Army has not made any progress. On the one hand, the time has not been long. On the other hand, the Huai King was thinking of completely eliminating the direct descendants of Zheng and his generals from the Huaidong Camp, and at least he had to remove the generals to eliminate future troubles. However, Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong and his son have been paying attention to strengthening their control over the Shenwu Army in recent years. The commander and commander of the Du Yuhou, more than 20 generals were almost all the children of the Zheng family or the direct descendants who had been through life and death with the Zheng family for decades.

Wei Chujun advocated the cleaning of the Huaidong camp. Except for the Zheng family's children, other generals should be pardoned as long as they can stand up and accused Zheng Huaizhong and Zheng Cong and his son of crimes. In addition to transferring some generals to serve as generals in the northern provinces of Jinghu, some generals can even be left to serve as generals in the Shenwu Army, but they can be cleaned up all of them.

However, Wei Chujun did not want Han Shiliang's strength to continue to expand. He advocated that the court directly send the ministers to Huaidong to preside over the matter of the requisition, which also seemed to be more sincere.

Gu Fan glanced at Wang Boqian, and saw that he had no reaction, he stood up and volunteered: "I am willing to go..."

Gu Fan and Wang Boqian were in-laws, but Emperor Jianji ascended the throne in Xiangyang. In order to avoid suspicion, he carefully kept a distance from the Huai Palace. It was not until Emperor Jianji was critically ill that he walked into the Huai Palace to show his desire to serve.

Gu Fan would not compete with Wang Boqian at this time, but Wang Boqian's potentially unruly general suffered a great loss and almost lost his life. He did not dare to go to Huaidong. Of course, there was no need for him to give in.

Gu Fan was once the strategic envoy of the Southwest Road of Jingxi Road, dealing with military generals and commanding troops. Wang Boqian did not go to Huaidong. If the King of Huai really wanted to find a trusted minister in the court to go to Huaidong, there would be no more suitable candidates besides him - this was not something he could escape if he was worried about danger.

Another thing is that Zheng Huaizhong, Zheng Cong, and his son and Zheng family will be liquidated. Even if other Huaidong generals are recruited, they will be frightened. As a minister, it happens to be a good opportunity to attract people's hearts.

To be honest, instead of staying in the court to compete with Zhou He and others, Gu Fan was more interested in the position of Huainan East Road Commander, of course he would not express this meaning at this time.
Chapter completed!