After Song Shuo calmed down, he began to force Mi Jing not to tell anyone. Mi Jing thought about it again and again, and this time he really agreed to his request.
Song Shuo suddenly became happy because he knew that Mi Jing would not lie to him, and Mi Jing's idea was very simple.
Xiao Rong would not be so irresponsible as to just walk away. If he really wanted to leave, he would have arranged everything in advance, including Qu Yunmie. If it was handled well, nothing would happen if he left; if it was not handled well, he would not be able to leave at all. Even if he escaped secretly, Qu Yunmie would turn the entire Central Plains upside down to look for him. If he couldn't find him, he would not come back.
However, with both civil and military officials already in place, and Gao Xunzhi and others in charge, the Zhenbei Army would not encounter any trouble. It was better to let Qu Yunmie go out and find people than to let him handle government affairs in a violent manner.
In conclusion, whether he said it or not, this was a matter between those two people, and he'd better not get involved. ...
After calmly analyzing the matter, Song Shuo had been gone for quite a while. Mi Jing stood up, put everything back in place, and then picked up the scripture again. He planned to read it quickly before doing other things.
But he suddenly found that he couldn't concentrate at all.
The words on the scriptures seemed to move. They rearranged themselves and appeared in Mi Jing's mind, and could not be erased no matter what.
——Why do you want to leave?
——It has come to this, why...why would you abandon them?
He thought he would deal with Xiao Rong for the rest of his life, but it turned out that Xiao Rong was just a brief passer-by in his life.
Most of the time he could accept this result, but a few times, he would just sit there in a daze, savoring this feeling that would come over him from time to time. ... So lonely. *
While Mi Jing and Song Shuo were whispering to each other, Xiao Rong was not idle either. He first moved the piece of paper stuck in the account book to a safe place, and then he went to find Yu Shaoxie.
Qu Yunmie wanted to send his younger brother out to suppress the rebels, so of course he had to tell his brother.
In fact, when Yu Shaoxie heard the news during the day, he had already realized that this job would most likely fall on Yu Shaocheng. Listening to Xiao Rong's words, he nodded and said, "When Cheng'er arrives tomorrow, I will go to greet him. Don't worry, Cheng'er is a very easy person to please, and he is determined to make achievements, so he will not blame the king."
Xiao Rong smiled and said, "The king really thinks highly of him. With his current performance, he will definitely be able to become the general in the future."
He just can't be the first one, after all, he is really young. If he is to be the first one... it should be one between Wang Xinyong and Jian Qiao. Although Gongsun Yuan's impartial attitude did not make Qu Yunmie hate him, it also made Qu Yunmie feel a little cold. General is the highest official position among military generals, and Qu Yunmie will only choose someone who can convince the people and whom he trusts.
He will do his best to protect Wang Xinyong, even though this would be a bit unfair to Jian Qiao, but... who told Wang Xinyong to have such ambitious goals? Without a good official position, it would not be easy for him to achieve that goal.
When the mausoleum was being renovated before, Qu Yunmie and Xiao Rong had a private discussion. According to Xiao Rong's idea, once Qu Yunmie conquered the world, he would immediately posthumously confer the title of the late emperor on General Qu. However, Qu Yunmie was very persistent in conferring the title on his brother as well.
Of course Xiao Rong would not refuse, but now when he thinks back on this incident, Xiao Rong feels a little sympathetic towards Wang Xinyong.
Marrying a queen mother... well...
Xiao Rong's expression became subtle, as if he wanted to laugh but was too embarrassed to do so. Yu Shaoxie looked at him with a puzzled expression: "Rong'er?"
Xiao Rong shook his head. After all, he couldn't tell anyone about it since nothing had been decided yet.
He turned to business. "Huang Yanjiong and King Nankang's cooperation was very sudden. Han Qing played a role in the process. I thought it was his strategy alone. Later, when I saw the more detailed military report, I learned that the Qingfeng Sect also had a hand in it. They have abundant food and money, and every soldier has an iron sword. This is impossible for the Zhenbei Army, but they did it first."
No matter every time Qu Yunmie declared with all his might that the entire army was going to attack, in fact, it was not the real entire army. There were always soldiers left behind in their hometowns and other checkpoints, and those who stayed behind could not get any good weapons. Moreover, weapons were consumed in great quantities. The entire army had to tighten their belts and invest all their money in making armaments to ensure that in the next war there would not be the embarrassing situation of running out of weapons.
However, there is only so much iron, and the Zhenbei Army has so many people, so each elite soldier is equipped with several iron swords. The ordinary soldiers all depend on the ability of the superiors. Those with good ability can get swords, while those with poor ability can only let their soldiers go to the battlefield with wooden spears.
The only part of the gun that is metal is the tip.
Even though Jinling was wealthy enough, they still could not equip their entire army with swords. Even if King Nankang was rich, he could not buy all the armaments of his partners.
What's more, the King of Nankang had little money. For many years, he had only been running his business in Nankang. He was over 40 years old this year. He was sent out of Chang'an in his twenties. At the beginning, he was given a large fiefdom, but after several emperors came to power, they finally left him Nankang. When he was young, he was ambitious and planned to fight for the throne. After all, the emperor died so quickly, and he really felt that he had a chance to pick up a bargain.
But the throne could only be passed down, not up. Plus, he was a bit cowardly. When other princes didn't pay tribute, only he and a few other princes were still paying tribute diligently.
However, after the Yong Dynasty became Southern Yong, he became more and more perfunctory.
This kind of person is suitable for ruling a region but not for competing for supremacy in the Central Plains. I don't know what kind of magic potion he listened to that made him decide to rise up at this time.
Listening to Xiao Rong's words, Yu Shaoxie smiled and said, "No matter how well-equipped they are, they can't defeat the million-strong army under the king's command."
Xiao Rong: “…”
Well, after the number of people increased, the numbers they reported became more exaggerated. They only said 600,000 before, but now it has become 1 million.
Inflation is really bad.
Xiao Rong: "I'm not worried about what these two people can achieve. They don't know each other. One is a royal relative, and the other is a noble who was exiled because he offended the court. The difference in their status is too great. I'm afraid they don't like each other. The so-called cooperation is just a whim. After being hit, they separated faster than anyone else. What I'm worried about is why the Qingfeng Sect wants them to cooperate and take action at this time."
Yu Shaoxie thought for a moment and replied, "Almost no one sent troops before the New Year. They plan to take them by surprise."
Indeed, at this time everyone is preparing for the New Year, and no one has the mind to fight a war. Moreover, fighting a war at this time will be criticized by literati as inhumane and unjust, so almost no one will choose this time.
This makes sense, but Xiao Rong still shook his head: "I'm afraid it won't be that simple. This time before the New Year is quite sensitive. It's so unexpected... I don't know who it's for."
The Chinese New Year is only a few days away. After New Year's Eve, all the anger can be vented as a matter of course. People will then have no reason to suppress it, and the army can easily move south without having to worry about the argument that soldiers cannot be allowed to go home for the New Year.
So if anything happened again, it would be in the next few days. Xiao Rong could feel that the other party was playing a big game of chess, but he couldn't find a place to overturn the chessboard.
Han Qing...what exactly does he want to do?
Disrupt the entire situation and allow Huang Yanjiong to successfully grow stronger? But he didn't have this opportunity. No matter how chaotic the situation was, it would take the Zhenbei Army at most one or two months to suppress it separately.
Fishing in troubled waters to extend Nanyong's life? That's even more outrageous. Sun Renluan has fallen, and Jinling's food and grass are also in trouble. It is said that Jinling has become a mess. Queen Mother Sun and Yang Zangyi are attacking each other. Buddha and Daojun appeared at the same time. It is estimated that Nanyong cannot be saved.
Otherwise, let Huang Yanjiong put the King of Nankang on the throne? ... This is getting more and more outrageous. Not to mention that Huang Yanjiong would never give up the throne, what is the meaning of the King of Nankang ascending the throne one second before the fall of Nanyong?
Everyone else thought that Huang Yanjiong chose a good time to show up, but Xiao Rong felt that this was a bad time. If he wanted to show up, he should at least wait until the Zhenbei Army and Nanyong started fighting. Now that they were not fighting, of course he had to withdraw his hands and suppress them first. It was like playing whack-a-mole. As soon as Huang Yanjiong's head popped out, the Zhenbei Army's hammers swung down immediately.
Xiao Rong even felt that he was like a cannon fodder who was pushed out to die as soon as he appeared, just to attract other people's attention. Could it be like this?
Xiao Rong was not sure, because Han Qing had nothing at this time. Killing Huang Yanjiong would mean killing his new backer. Now even the King of Nankang was dragged into this. Who else could he go to in such a big world? He couldn't have gone through so much trouble just to kill these people.
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