The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 211 Diao Ying’s Determination

Soon, the aristocratic families in Youzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou received a letter from Liu Kun endorsing Liu Tai as the queen of Chengyangjing.

To be honest, the fact that the letter states that Liu Tai is the King of Chengyang Jing is not a big deal in itself.

Because Liu Tai was born in Donglai, most of the Liu family's children here have the blood of King Chengyang Jing, but at most this blood is relatively thin.

But if we really trace the source, not to mention King Chengyang Jing, there is no problem even if it can be traced back to Liu Bang.

Not to mention, after Liu Tun's death, there was no problem for the Chengyang Jingwang lineage to really say that the person carrying the cauldron was Liu Tai.

Because every time in troubled times, as long as a person from the side clan seizes power in the world war, not to mention becoming an emperor, but only becoming a famous minister, it will lead to the separation of the family head.

Therefore, in troubled times, it is also the time when aristocratic families begin to change their main lineage.

But the most critical part of this letter is its signature and seal. The name of Liu Kun on it and Liu Kun's personal seal represent Liu Kun's true recognition of Liu Tai's identity.

Unless the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty recognized Liu Tai as a descendant of King Chengyangjing, then Liu Tai was a descendant of Queen Chengyangjing.

Because an emperor of the Huns and Han Kingdom did not have the credibility to completely convince the family.

After all, the Xiongnu and Han kingdoms have not yet unified the world. Since this has not been achieved, it is impossible for the world's aristocratic families to be completely convinced by the Xiongnu and Han kingdoms.

But at this moment, Liu Kun recognized Liu Tai's identity and took the initiative to endorse the aristocratic family in Youzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou in a letter.

After seeing it, all the aristocratic families who received it understood that Liu Tai and Liu Kun had cooperated!
Immediately afterwards, Fan Yanglu's family began to come forward, saying that he had contracted the canal of Fanyang County alone, and actually used money and food to prove that he wanted to serve Liu Tai.

For a time, both Fan Yang's ancestral family and the Yang family in Peiping cursed Fan Yang and Lu family.

Your sister usually sees you as having thick eyebrows, big eyes, being arrogant and impoverished, but you just spent a county canal on food and money. Can you afford it?
The most important thing is, what's the point of taking away all the basins by yourself, even if you agree that the Youzhou family will advance and retreat together?

All in all, in the face of questioning from several surrounding aristocratic families, Fan Yang Lu decisively stated that he was pretending to be dead.

The most important thing now is to send Lu Chen to Liu Tai and make him a new political star of the Fan Yang Lu family.

As for the few aristocratic families around them, they just couldn't bear to live with their mouths. Could it be that they wanted to destroy the Fan Yanglu family because of this incident.

Haha, if there is really a foreign enemy, I'm afraid we still have to unite together, but I'm going to bet on Liu Tai, I'm going to become the number one family in Youzhou, you can be my little brother from now on!
In any case, with the cooperation between Liu Tai and Liu Kun, the Fan Yang Lu family made real money, and the canal plan proposed by Liu Tai naturally spread.

The first person affected by this series of events was Shi Le.

"Do you think Liu Kun and Liu Tai will join forces to deal with me?" Shi Le looked around at the crowd and said.

It is normal for Shi Le to think so. At this time, Shi Le was surrounded by the forces of Liu Tai and Liu Kun.

Now that Liu Kun and Liu Tai have such an obvious alliance, they are not here to deal with themselves, but who are they here to deal with?

"Please rest assured, General. Since Duke Liu has released the news of building the canal, and has really started to send people to build it at Fanyang and Bohai Bay, it is certain that Duke Liu has no intention of attacking us!" Zhang Bin stood up and said.

When Shi Le heard Zhang Bin's assertion, he couldn't help but feel relieved, but immediately, Shi Le also frowned.

"If they are not trying to deal with me, then why are they acting like this now?"

When Diao Ying heard Shi Le's words, he was not behind Zhang Bin and said:

"Since Wang Jun's defeat, some of Wang Jun's remaining soldiers fled to Liu Kun. Liu Kun wanted to avoid Liu Tai's accountability, and Liu Tai wanted to build a canal. This led to both sides wanting to negotiate peace.

Judging from Liu Tai's character, he has always looked down on Jin Ting! "

Shi Le also nodded when he heard Diao Ying's words. After all, Shi Le had served in Liu Tai's army and was taught the peerless art of war by Liu Tai.

But the problem is that he can't learn this art of war by himself, but Liu Tai still knows the attitude of the Han family and the Jin court.

Liu Tai, Liu Kunyi and Shi Le believed it, but if Liu Tai would join forces with Liu Tai to attack him, Shi Le really didn't believe it after thinking about it.

Unless Liu Tai made up his mind to rebel against the Han Dynasty and join the Jin Dynasty, but this is not in line with Liu Tai's character!

Shi Le could believe that if Liu Tai did such a thing, Liu Tai's army would definitely fall apart from Liu Tai.

When the time comes, I will wake up laughing from my dream. Liu Tai’s strongest point has collapsed. Is there anything better than this in the world? ?
Shi Le took a deep breath, looked at Zhang Bin again, and said, "Why did Liu Tai build the canal? Is this canal really worth building? If he doesn't build the canal, he might come and beat me." Bar!"

When Zhang Bin heard Shi Le's words, he couldn't help but shook his head and said: "If Liu Jun Guild had done something unjust, I'm afraid that when Ming Gong just came to Yecheng, Liu Jun Gong would have led the army. How could we wait until today?"

"In other words, he found that he couldn't defeat me and had no intention of continuing the southern expedition to Gou Xi, so he chose to dig the canal?"

At this point, Shi Le said viciously, "I have long felt that something was wrong with him and Gou Xi's hook-up. There is no way in this world that you can be caught twice, but let people escape twice."

Everyone present couldn't laugh or cry when they heard Shi Le's words, because no one knew whether Liu Tai had been caught the second time.

As for escaping on the battlefield, it is more normal. All the generals present who followed Shi Le to fight have escaped from the battlefield several times.

However, Shi Le quickly came back to his senses, looked at Zhang Bin and said, "What is so magical about this canal? Why did Liu Tai build it?"

"Since ancient times, canals have only been used to facilitate the transportation of grain and grass. I really don't understand why Duke Liu wanted to dig this canal.

After all, he now occupies five counties in Jizhou and has connected Qingzhou and Youzhou, so there is no need to dig! "

Zhang Bin was somewhat confused when he heard Shi Le's words.

After all, no matter how smart Zhang Bin is, he is just a mortal at best. However, compared with the huge benefits brought by the smooth construction of the canal in the future, this requires the accumulation of vision and the concept of China as a unity.

If Shi Le can unify the north as he did in history, then Zhang Bin will soon understand Liu Tai's purpose.

But now, facing this unprecedented plan, Zhang Bin really can't understand it!

For example, if Liu Tai thinks he is smart and uses 36 strategies against Zhang Bin, then Zhang Bin will definitely use them all, and then he will use them all to make Liu Tai suffer a big loss.

Because of the intrigues, a hundred Liu Tai are all younger brothers to Zhang Bin.

But Liu Tai is not going to compete on intelligence, and is going to go in the direction of purely competing on national strength.

He just plans to build a Grand Canal and let his ships in the Bohai Bay sail into the canal to deliver food to him.Zhang Bin, who is extremely intelligent, would never have thought of such a maddening strategy.

This kind of tactic can be said to be slow in efficiency, high investment, and extremely stupid. It is completely the stupid tactic of Yu Gong Yishan!

But Zhang Bin can't solve it!

Because not to mention that Zhang Bin couldn't see through Liu Tai's true purpose, even if he could see through it, the only way to stop Liu Tai was to launch an active attack on Liu Tai.

The problem is, this kind of thing is really what Liu Tai dreams of. I just want to fight, but there is no reason to fight!
When the true and true sides began to fight, as long as they could not win quickly, Shi Le's army would eat human flesh in one year and chew tree bark in two years.

If he really couldn't beat him, would Shi Le's character be able to endure it? Isn't there really no way around it?
"Liu Tai is a genius. Although he is a young man, he is a famous general.

Although I don't know what Liu Tai wanted to do in building this canal, Liu Tai might have a deeper meaning that we can't see.

At least Liu Tai believes that besides attacking us, this matter is the best choice for him to successfully control Youzhou and Jizhou! "

When Shi Le saw Zhang Bin, he couldn't come up with a satisfactory answer, so Shi Le expressed his thoughts first.

For Shi Le, he didn't know what Liu Tai was planning, but he knew Liu Tai.

Will this guy work in vain?Absolutely not!

"Looking at it now, Liu Tai's construction of the canal and the Fan Yang Lu family responded positively. This should be a way for Liu Tai and other families in his jurisdiction to cooperate.

In Liu Tai's view, perhaps everyone's surrender is false, and only the surrender of money and food is real.

So only those aristocratic families who invested real money in this project will be recognized by Liu Tai! "

When Zhang Bin said this, he sighed a little, "What a good method. If you do this, it will be difficult to instigate Liu Tai's family in the future!"

Shi Le couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, but after thinking about Zhang Bin's words, he nodded in agreement.

Anyone who joined Liu Tai's family must have spent money and food to build the canal, and they were considered to have received a certificate of investment.

This is real money and food, not illusory loyalty and trustworthiness. If you want to win over these aristocratic families in the future, you must at least match the money and food. Otherwise, how can you persuade these aristocratic families!
Liu Tai may not suppress any aristocratic families that have not invested in the canal, but don't expect Liu Tai to give them any benefits.

The best thing is that Liu Tai will do everything business in the future.

But the problem is that no matter in any era, official business itself represents the court's attitude towards the aristocratic family.

For ordinary people, it would be a blessing if the rules and regulations of any court could be implemented in a business-like manner.

But for aristocratic families, what is business?As long as special things are not done, it shows the court's disgust.

At this moment, Shi Le stood up and paced back and forth, saying:

"Now Liu Tai occupies the land of three states. If Liu Tai's plan is allowed to be completed, I will inevitably feel a little uneasy. What strategies can you give me?"

When Diao Ying heard Shi Le's words, he cautiously said to Shi Le, "General, you want to attack Liu Tai?"

"Of course we should try our best to avoid conflict with him. We didn't have a good harvest last year and we have no food in hand. How can we compete with Liu Tai.

Even if he fights against Liu Tai, he still has to wait two years to be able to stalemate with Liu Tai for more than a year.

Otherwise, if Liu Tai seizes the opportunity at this time, our foundation may be destroyed! Shi Le said with an ugly expression.

"Why should uncle destroy his prestige? If Liu Tai comes to attack, Ji Long will definitely take Liu Tai's head!" Shi Hu said confidently.

"I'm very relieved that Ji Long has such confidence. My uncle is just waiting for you to show off your skills!" Shi Le comforted Shi Hu, as if he was watching his nephew boast about his bravery, and then turned to Diao Ying and said, "Do you have any idea?"

"Since it's not convenient for us to take action, then we have to let other people take action!" Diao Ying said thoughtfully,
"Liu Tai's Gou Xi in the south was destroyed by Liu Tai, and his vitality was greatly damaged. He thought he would not be able to stroke his beard. Liu Kun in the north had just rectified Liu Tai's name, so he would never harass her.

So the only people we can guide are the Xianbei people further north! "

"Xianbei people?" When Shi Le heard this, he couldn't help but touch his chin, but he was thoughtful.

"Meng Sun, what do you think?" Shi Le finally asked Zhang Bin.

"Bin was thinking about the land along the Yellow River, so he didn't listen to everything, but I believe that Chang Shi Diao Ying's plan is perfect and will live up to the general's trust!" Zhang Bin heard Shi Le's words and saluted Shi Le.

Shi Le heard Zhang Bin's words and understood that Zhang Bin did not think it was effective to contact the Xianbei tribe from the north.

One very important point is that these Xianbei tribes are too loyal to the Jin court.

The Tuoba tribe followed Liu Kun and beat him to death. Those who didn't know it thought Liu Kun was their father.

Wang Jun also commanded a group of Xianbei cavalry. Although Liu Tai took care of him, it is undeniable that Wang Jun is really the father of the Xianbei cavalry.

It can be said that soon after the Han people came to this northern land and took control of this land, a group of Xianbei cavalry would be randomly spawned for the Han people to dispatch.

Back then, Liu Kun and Wang Jun were able to control one state so smoothly, let alone Liu Tai who now controls three states.

If he hadn't surrendered and would have died, he would have wanted to surrender!

"Who do you think it would be better to send?" Shi Le didn't expect this matter to be successful. With the intention of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor, he sent some people to give it a try.

Diao Ying bowed respectfully to Shi Le, and then said, "This is a design of a certain person, so of course I will do it myself!"

"Don't mess around!" Shi Le reprimanded decisively after hearing Diao Ying's words, "That's how it works!"

Diao Ying shook his head, but said seriously to Shi Le, "I designed it myself, so naturally I take the lead, otherwise how can I convince the public!"

After Diao Ying said this, he couldn't help but glance at Zhang Bin, and he was still more or less unconvinced with Zhang Bin.

But my talent is really not as good as Zhang Bin, so all I can do is gamble my life!

At this moment, Zhang Bin may understand Diao Ying's mood, and just salutes solemnly to Diao Ying.

(End of this chapter)