Tuoli opened his mouth to speak, but had nothing to say. Instead, his forehead was slightly sweating in the chilly spring air...it seemed as if he had run too fast before.
"How about this." Zhao Jiu sat up straight, expressionless, and patiently persuaded. "Take my order, go to the north with Mei Xueshi and Ren Sheren (Ren Baozhong) to mediate. Once you go, don't come back. Just assist your father in the army to lead the army and fight. At the same time, you must appease your father, let him be loyal to me, join me, and participate in the war wholeheartedly... After this battle, your father will go to Tokyo with me to enjoy life, and you will be the king of Western Mongolia... Or I will crown you personally! When you go to Western Mongolia, can you still be as ignorant as your father? In this way, isn't it the best of both worlds?"
Tuoli listened in a daze, then suddenly knelt on the ground and swore to the sky: "If I have such an opportunity, the various tribes in Western Mongolia are complicated, and I dare not say anything, but the Kerait tribe will be the pioneers of the Song Dynasty from generation to generation!"
"That's fine." Zhao Jiu picked up the newspaper again. "I don't care about generations, and I can't care about generations. As long as I'm alive and you're alive, and we don't make any mistakes, it won't be in vain for the monarch and his subjects... Go back and report to Wu Jiedu, Shao Yaban, and Fan Xueshi, but only tell Wu Jiedu about the coronation after the war... Don't mention Mei Xueshi and Ren Sheren either."
Tuoli kowtowed heavily again and then staggered away.
As soon as Tuoli left, Yang Yizhong, for some reason, broke the silence again and said hesitantly: "Sir... can Tuoli be trusted?"
"First, Toli has been with me for three years, and he has become a little more civilized. He has also seen the vastness of the Song Dynasty with his own eyes, and knows the strengths and weaknesses of the imperial camp. He may not be more trustworthy than Huerzahusi, but he knows more about things than him." Zhao Jiu was not in a hurry, and continued to read the newspaper under the willow tree to answer. "Second, the Mongolian rules are mixed. Sometimes the eldest brother succeeds to the throne, sometimes the eldest son succeeds to the throne, and sometimes the youngest son succeeds to the throne. Although Toli is the eldest son of Huerzahusi, he has never been the heir of the Kerait tribe and Western Mongolia... Without me, I dare not say that there is a 70% to 80% chance that he will not get this throne. Third, even if the father and son are deeply in love, is it a difference if I let his father come to Tokyo to enjoy the good life? Finally... Is there a better way now? Should Toli be killed or imprisoned? What about Huerzahusi? What about the 15,000 cavalry reinforcements from Western Mongolia? Before the war, we can't do anything too risky, and we have to be patient for the last time."
Yang Yizhong said no more, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart... However, he soon realized that his uneasiness was not because of Tuoli's disposal plan. Even if Tuoli's disposal plan had some risks, it was insignificant.
The key point is that he has realized that before the war, there will inevitably be more similar incidents. This will be another burden for Emperor Zhao, who has been under tremendous pressure since the beginning of the Northern Expedition.
The government seems calm and unperturbed, but in fact it is already overwhelmed.
Not to mention what Yang Yizhong was thinking, and how Emperor Zhao continued to read the newspaper under the willow tree, on the other side, just as Tuoli could not hide the intense shock and excitement in his heart, he returned to the government office in the inner city of Taiyuan in a daze. Before he could say a word, he was stopped in front of the lobby of the government office by Taira no Kiyomori who had returned earlier.
Tuoli wanted to scold him, but when he thought that he would become a prince in a few months, he decided not to argue with him.
"Something big has happened." Taira no Kiyomori, of course, didn't know what Toli was thinking, so he just lowered his voice and told him kindly in the corridor. "You haven't figured out the matter in Western Mongolia yet, but Eastern Mongolia has caused a huge mess... The governor of Datong, the fake king of Jin, Wanyan Erluguan, and Wanhu Pucha Huzan led two Wanhu to escape along the Yanghe River (a tributary of the Sanggan River) and went to Guihuazhou (Zhangjiakou)! Kublai Khan sent a letter to Datong saying that he was a step late... Wu Jiedu's military strategy was destroyed, and he rarely lost his composure."
Tuoli was stunned again. Of course he knew that all the previous things, including the various defeats of the imperial army and the trouble caused by his own father, were nothing worth mentioning compared to this incident.
Because of this incident, Wu Jie's main plan was ruined, and two Wanhu were cut off and escaped from Datong, which also meant that the Jin army was likely to have two more Wanhu in the subsequent decisive battle; secondly, the impact of this incident was equally significant because no one knew whether Hebule was really late and failed to intercept them, or deliberately failed to intercept them? The latter was directly related to whether the 15,000 cavalry of Eastern Mongolia could be trusted and used in the decisive battle?
But on the other hand, if we really can't make it in time, and something unnecessary happens in Taiyuan that forces Eastern Mongolia to the other side, what will happen?
Therefore, this matter is the huge trouble that will truly affect the subsequent overall situation.
“You can know a person’s face but not his heart.” Thinking of this, Tuoli sighed. “The most difficult thing in this world is to see through people’s hearts!”
These words were insightful, and Taira nods repeatedly as he hears them.
But the next moment, Toli continued to sigh, and his voice even got louder: "How can you be like me, Toli Luhan, who has only one sun in the sky and only the emperor's sun in my heart?"
Taira no Kiyomori was stunned, as if he was meeting this colleague with a bad drinking habit for the first time.
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