The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 104 Wang Mi’s remnants

Because with the death of Wang Mi, Liu Tai finally released his hold on the family.

Only Chu Hui, who had been following Liu Tai, understood how difficult this was.

Therefore, when Chu Hui passed by local aristocratic families along the way, he took the initiative to take out Liu Tai's recruitment order and informed the local aristocratic families that Qing Xu and Liu Tai wanted to recruit wise men from all over the world.

At this time, the nobles in Yanzhou wanted to seek refuge with the Huns and Han, and some wanted to go south to follow Sima Rui.

As for Liu Tai... To be honest, although Liu Tai defeated Gou Xi, the family did not think Liu Tai could conquer the world.

After all, Liu Tai was only 16 years old. Liu Tai's ability to defeat Gou Xi already made them think it was a miracle.

But Liu Tai's political ability needs time to accumulate. After all, even if Liu Tai wants to change his career from military general to monarch, it will take time.

The last monarch who could fight so well and was so young was called Sun Ce, the little overlord, but he was assassinated and died.

As for the previous one who was so young and so capable of fighting, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was not defeated by Gaixia.

Just like this, people don't dare to say that they can discern people with a keen eye on who can unify the world, but don't choose who can't unify the world. Anyone can possibly unify the world, but Liu Tai, a young general, is absolutely impossible.

Light yet aggressive, strong yet easy to break, this kind of thing is just for young people like Liu Tai.

Because of this, even in the face of Chu Hui's hard selling, the vast majority of Yanzhou families said that they would seriously consider it.

Of course, Chu Hui also knew that these people could only deal with themselves at most.

The vast majority of them still chose to seek refuge with the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom, or they chose to seek refuge with Sima Rui.

As for Liu Tai, who is that? !
However, Chu Hui was not too disappointed. Some orthodox families were not interested in Liu Tai, but one of them, Guo Pu, originally planned to flee to the south of the Yangtze River with his tribe, but after seeing Chu Hui, he decisively expressed his intention to follow him. Chu Hui is gone.

Chu Hui asked Guo Pu why.

Guo Pu said that now Luoyang has fallen, buildings have collapsed, and fire disasters are everywhere, but he sees that Chu Hui is rich and noble, and his people can take advantage of Chu Hui's luck and protection by following him, so they must follow him life or death. Behind Chu Hui.

Listening to Guo Pu's words, Chu Hui didn't know how to describe his mood for a moment.

However, Chu Hui was not in much mood. After returning to his hometown, relying on the five thousand troops Liu Tai gave him, he quickly organized his family to move to Qingzhou. This journey was really as Guo Pu said, Nothing happened.

Just when Liu Tai's recruitment order was more or less effective.

Shi Le also received a reply from the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom. To put it simply, the matter of you killing Wang Mi is over.

But you need to hand over Wang Mi's body to Liu Tai for an explanation. At the same time, you need to go north and continue to work as a thug for the Huns and Han Kingdoms to deal with Liu Kun, who has been harassing the Huns and Han Kingdoms behind their backs.

Shi Le showed this letter to everyone and said, "Do you think we should return Wang Mi's body to the north?"

Shi Diao Ying, the commander on the right, stood up and said: "Now that Liu Cong does not trust the general, and Liu Tai threatens the general, if we go north, we will be in danger every step of the way. In this case, it is better to seek refuge with Sima Rui in order to gain the favor of high-ranking officials." Lu."

Others Kui'an, Kong Chang, Zhixiong and others all made suggestions to Shi Le, either to let Shi Le stand on his own, to separate one party from another, or to take the initiative to work for Sima Rui. All in all, Shi Le was not satisfied.

But Zhang Bin stood up and said: "The general captured the imperial capital, imprisoned the emperor, killed the princes, took his wife and concubine, and promoted the general's hair, which is not enough to justify the general's crime. How dare he serve as an official for the Sima family?"

The land in the south is constantly cloudy and rainy, which is not suitable for our northern soldiers. Sooner or later, plague will occur.

And Ye has three strong points, borders Pingyang to the west, is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and has the potential of a throat, so it is suitable to move to the north and occupy it.

Since Your Majesty chooses to forgive the general, he will inevitably have a rift with Liu Tai, and he is even more happy that we can check and balance Liu Tai.

Returning to the north to re-establish the foundation is the best choice, otherwise if we encounter a strong enemy, even if there are tens of thousands of people, I am afraid it will be overturned in one battle!
As for Wang Mi's body, if it can ease our relationship with Liu Tai, it can express our loyalty to His Majesty.

You can give up gold and silver treasures, let alone just a dead body! "

When Shi Le heard Zhang Bin's analysis from beginning to end, he suddenly woke up and shouted: "What he said is true!"

He and the Sima clan are really mortal enemies, and if they surrender, they will be able to feel a little more stable in the first few days.

But as time goes by, as long as you don't have any soldiers in your hands, you may not have to find any excuse to kill yourself.

When he thought of this, Shi Le knew that when he killed Wang Mi, he had almost fallen into a desperate situation.

It seems that his forces are very powerful, but in reality, if he is defeated, it will be all over.

Because I have been fighting guerrillas for these years, I don’t care where I fight, and I don’t have a real base to operate.

This situation was nothing when the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom regarded themselves as generals. After all, even if they were really defeated, they could still return to the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom to reorganize their troops.

But it’s different now. After killing Wang Mi, if the soldiers and horses in his hands are defeated, then he will be of no use to the Huns and Han Kingdom. Then the Huns and Han Kingdom will definitely not mind giving him to Liu Tai. do a good turn.

Shi Le couldn't help but sigh when he thought of Liu Tai.

Thinking about Wang Mi's death, Liu Tai is in charge of Qingzhou. Qingzhou will definitely become the basis of Liu Tai's management. Liu Tai is afraid that he will be trapped in the dragon and ascend to heaven in the future. It will be a headache to offend him!
Compared with the distrust of Liu Tai by wealthy families, Shi Le almost watched Liu Tai grow up from an ordinary school captain.

In almost every incredible battle between Liu Tai and Shi Le, he either watched from the sidelines or participated in it personally.

Therefore, in Shi Le's view, Liu Tai is the kind of person who can create possibilities from the impossible in the military.

Wanting to defeat such an opponent, Shi Le felt that God thought too highly of him.

But there is no way, the road has gone on like this, even if I am still afraid of Liu Tai, I can only kill Liu Tai, so that I can settle down in the future!
Shi Le agreed to the envoy sent by Liu Cong and asked Liu Cong to send someone to return the bodies of Wang Mi and Wang Zhang to Liu Tai.

At this time, Diao Ying suggested that Zhang Bin and Liu Tai had always been on good terms, so it would be better for Zhang Bin to return the body in person to show our sincerity.

Zhang Bin decisively refused after hearing this. Based on Zhang Bin's judgment of Liu Tai, whoever Shi Le sent as an envoy to Liu Tai at this time would definitely be killed by Liu Tai to express his determination to be incompatible with Shi Le.

After all, why the achievements of envoys in this era are so great. Under normal circumstances, when they come back from the enemy's military camp, they are basically promoted one level. The biggest reason is that the chances of envoys returning smoothly are too few.A smart person like Zhang Bin would never take this risk, and compared to Shi Le who still has no stable foundation, Liu Tai settled in Qingzhou because of Wang Mi's death. At least in terms of pace, he is much faster than Shi Le. too much.

Wang Mi's death also destined to create a rift between Liu Tai and the Xiongnu Han Kingdom.

No matter how the Xiongnu Han Kingdom tried to make up for it, when the Xiongnu Han Kingdom chose to keep Shi Le and form a check and balance with Liu Tai, it was decided that Liu Tai could no longer be loyal to the Xiongnu Han Kingdom.

Zhang Bin took a deep breath. No matter how he said it, at least this news was good news for Shi Le.

After Shi Le agreed to return Wang Mi's body, the Huns and Han Kingdom soon began to take action and sent Wang Mi's people to Liu Tai.

To be honest, many people among the Huns complained about this, because they felt that relatives holding Wang Mi could take advantage of Liu Tai.

In particular, Wang Mi's daughter, who seems to be married to Liu Tai, is an important chess piece.

But Wang Yu stood up and said: "Liu Tai has a large army and is in Qingzhou. At this time, instead of trying to appease him, he is forcing him to become our enemy. Is it possible to exclude all Han people from the court of our Huns and Han Kingdom?" !
Liu Tai and Wang Mi have a close relationship, but there is not much communication between Wang Mi's family and Liu Tai.

As for his fiancée, Liu Tai has never seen her as a soldier for many years, and there is no real relationship between husband and wife, so how can she be worthy of nostalgia.

Even if she is detained in Pingyang, it will only arouse criticism. If there are too many criticisms, Liu Tai will really rebel in the future, and they will become famous together!
It should be noted that Liu Tai has never been defeated since he sent out troops. He is the best general of our Han Dynasty. If he is allowed to have a good reputation, who can dare to say that he can withstand Liu Tai's army? "

When some of the generals present heard Wang Yu's words, even Liu Yao moved their lips, but in the end they did not stand up and say that they would definitely be able to deal with Liu Tai.

After all, Liu Yao had really fought against Liu Tai and suffered a little loss, which made Liu Yao quite afraid.

After all, soldiers who can face the impact of horses without fear, at least their own men cannot.

So in the end, Rang Yuanyan and Wang Mi's relatives, mainly Wang Wei, were sent to Qingzhou.

However, although the body and the clan members were sent to Qingzhou, they still did not choose to rehabilitate Wang Mi in the end.

The reason is very simple. Rehabilitating Wang Mi means that Shi Le, who killed Wang Mi, is a traitor. Then how can the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty coordinate Shi Le.

In contrast, Liu Tai has defeated Gou Xi and occupied Qingzhou, which is much more powerful than Shi Le.

Under such circumstances, the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties chose to use Shi Le to check and balance Liu Tai.

Of course, even if you put it another way, it would be the same even if you let Liu Tai check and balance Shi Le.

For the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom, it actually didn't matter who lived and who died. What was important was that neither the Han generals nor the miscellaneous generals could ride on the heads of the Xiongnu generals.

It was just that when the general returned to the court, he could use the court's methods to seize the military power and deal with them one by one. However, due to the sudden incident of Shi Le's murder of Wang Mi, this contradiction was directly exposed.

Just like this, even if the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties knew that Shi Le was unfaithful and Liu Tai felt a rift in his heart, he still chose to do this.

Otherwise, do you really want to kill one to fulfill the other, just because you bet that the other will be loyal to the Huns and Han? !
Therefore, if you can get over with Xini, just get over with Xini and delay the problem for a while. Maybe Shi Le or Liu Tai dies in the future and this problem will be solved.

After all, even if the Jin court fell, the forces of the Western Jin Dynasty were not completely destroyed. You can't break the two sharpest swords in your hands before the Western Jin Dynasty forces are destroyed.

Yuan Yan took Wang Mi's daughter and Wang Mi's body to see Liu Tai. As for giving Liu Tai a holiday gift, or wanting to redress Wang Mi's unjust case, don't think about it.

In short, the imperial edict has been issued. You must accept this matter whether you accept it or not!

"I understand, I will take over the imperial decree!" Liu Tai heard the final decision of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty, and took over from Yuan Yan the order to become the new Duke of Donglai County and supervise the war in the three states of Hebei, Qing, and Xu.

"In this way, I will deliver the decree to the imperial court!" Yuan Yan couldn't help but salute when he saw Liu Tai's appearance. He hesitated for a while and said to Liu Tai, "The imperial court may not fully believe Shi Le. Many people advocate severe punishment of Shi Le. .”

"I already understand the imperial court's intentions. I will definitely protect Qingzhou for the imperial court!" Liu Tai looked at Yuan Yan and said.

Um!Yuan Yan nodded, but didn't say anything more and chose to leave.

The imperial court did not fully believe in Shi Le, but the same imperial court did not fully believe in me!
Not long after Yuan Yan left, Liu Tai came to another room. In this room were Wang Sang, Xu Miao, Liang Gao, and Zhang Song, who had finally escaped from the rebel army. Cao Yi.

Liu Tai took out the imperial edict and said, "The Huns and Han Kingdom have no intention of rehabilitating my uncle, let alone punishing Shi Le. It seems that they intend to use Shi Le and me to restrain each other to maintain the balance of military power!"

"This Hu people just can't believe it. The general has paid so much for them, but he was killed unjustly by Shi Le!" Wang Sang couldn't help but grit his teeth when he heard this.

"What are you going to do, general?" Wang Sang, Cao Yi and others looked at each other and said.

"Of course I will follow my plan and avenge my uncle step by step." Liu Tai said calmly while looking at everyone.
“But in this process, I hope to draw on the strength of several uncles.

But it will definitely need your uncles’ soldiers to adapt and adjust it. I wonder what your uncles think? "

"If we say no, are you going to prevent us from leaving this mansion?!" Wang Sang looked at Liu Tai and said in a deep voice.

"What are you talking about, uncles!" Liu Tai looked at the crowd and said,
“It’s just that I don’t allow other armed groups that are not under my control in Qingzhou.

If my uncles don't get along with me, I won't mind whether they go north to Jizhou or south to Xuzhou, and I will even give them food and grass.

But when we meet on the battlefield in the future, please uncles, please don’t show mercy! "

Several people looked at each other and Wang Sang said, "Are you going to let us go?"

"With the death of my uncle, the power of the Han family in the imperial court has been greatly reduced. How could these uncles still want to have a bloody battle with my subordinates? No matter who lives or dies, the power of the Han people will be lost!" Liu Tai said.

"If I hand over my military power, what can I get from you?" Cao Yi said.

Everyone looked at Cao Yi in surprise, not expecting him to be the first to speak.

"If you just want to continue to lead the army, after the adaptation, I will still leave it to my uncles to lead the army. But if I don't want to lead the army anymore, I will have a huge fortune, thousands of acres of fertile land, or enchanting beauties. Whatever my uncle wants, as long as I have it, I will do it." Here you go!" Liu Tai looked at the crowd and said,
"In the end, we all want to avenge our uncle, so I am willing to talk about anything we can talk about."

When everyone heard Liu Tai's words, they couldn't help but hold their breath and concentrate.

(End of this chapter)