The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 89 A Trustworthy Enemy

Liu Kun was struggling hard to save the Western Jin Dynasty, but unfortunately, Sima Yue was now in charge.

Sima Yue said: No, I don’t want to.

First of all, the impact of the locust plague began to emerge. Think about it, even if Li Shimin unified the world, the locust plague in the third year of Zhenguan forced Li Shimin to eat locusts to quell people's resentment, not to mention that the current Jin court is like a thatched house with air leakage everywhere.

Not only cannot the locust plague be solved, but its impact is becoming increasingly serious.

First of all, Zhou Fu wrote a letter hoping that the imperial court would move the capital. The most important thing was that the memorial passed through Sima Yue and was reported directly to Sima Chi. This let Sima Chi know that although the imperial court was controlled by Sima Yue, there were still loyal ministers outside the imperial court.

Of course, no one can guarantee whether Zhou Fu will want to be Cao Cao or Duke Zhou after Sima Chi arrives at Shouchun.

But even so, Zhou Fu's move to persuade Sima Chi to move the capital was regarded as a thorn in Sima Yue's side, and he finally joined forces with Sima Rui to directly deal with Zhou Fu.

But Zhou Fu solved it, and the problem of food shortage in the capital was not solved but became more and more serious as time went by.

At the same time, as the Xiongnu Han army of Liu Can, Wang Mi, Shi Le and others approached step by step, Sima Yue sent envoys with payment documents to recruit troops from all over the country and brought food to support the capital.

Even Sima Chi pulled the envoy and said: "Tell all the towns and cities for me that we can still rescue today. If it is too late, it will be too late!"

During this process, Shan Jian, the general who conquered the south, sent the governor Wang Wan to lead his troops to rescue and garrisoned troops in Niyang, but was defeated by Wang Ru.

Wang Ru then looted the Mianshui and Hanshui areas and invaded Xiangyang. The mountain slips could only be defended around the city walls.

Wang Cheng, the governor of Jingzhou, personally led his troops and wanted to rescue the capital. However, when he heard the news that Shan Jian's army had failed, his troops dispersed.

It can be said that there is no good news at all, but at this moment the Yellow River is not completely controlled by the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty, and there are still messengers coming towards Qingzhou Gou Xi at this time.

At this time, Gou Xi obtained a lot of food from aristocratic families by force, and also recruited a lot of soldiers from Qingzhou, bringing the number of soldiers under his command to 5, which seemed quite large.

Of course, Gou Xi also knew that most of these soldiers could only shout. Faced with Liu Tai's soldiers, they were afraid of a charge. Liu Tai's soldiers would not feel anything, but many of his own soldiers would fall first, or even scatter in all directions. escape.

So Gou Xi dismantled a lot of his original soldier organization and incorporated it into these newly recruited soldiers, using the old to lead the new, so that these new soldiers could become familiar with it faster.

As for the complaints and grievances in Qingzhou's territory, Gou Xi didn't care.

These aristocratic families have never given themselves a good look. In this case, why should I give them a good look?

At this moment, Gou Xi continued to command the troops with very strict military discipline. As for the soldiers who escaped, he would directly deal with them according to military law after they were caught. With this terrifying coercion, the entire army was under his control.

Of course, the vast majority of soldiers are not opposed to staying in the army.

Because Qingzhou suffered from a locust plague, the wealthy families still had food and grass to survive. For ordinary people, they were happy to serve as soldiers as long as they had food to eat.

However, Gou Xi was also a bit too impersonal in this process.

In order to quickly shape these soldiers, Gou Xi really did not train them as human beings. Under the old warlord's atmosphere, it was very common for veterans to beat and scold the soldiers.

Naturally, there will be no human rights. Besides, Gou Xi does not regard them as human beings. He just hopes that they can obey his military orders and make necessary actions when he needs them.

However, although the atmosphere inside is not good, Gou Xi pays attention to military discipline after all, and at least enforces military discipline quite thoroughly.

So although there are constant soldiers who can't stand the atmosphere here and run away, there are also many soldiers who choose to stay and endure it.

After all, no matter how bad the environment in the military camp is, can it be more turbulent than the current environment in the entire world?

Therefore, under Gou Xi's training, these soldiers became more or less good.

At this time Gou Chun came over to Gou Xi and said, "We have a bandit in the south of Qingzhou causing chaos everywhere. I hope my brother will make a decision."

"Rogue bandits?" Gou Xi frowned when she heard Gou Chun's words, "Haven't the surrounding towns been attacked?"

"Although this rogue bandit has attacked some Wubao, they have not been able to defeat them." Gou Xi thought.

"Then there's something wrong with these bandits!" Gou Xi smiled and said,
"If Wubao was not captured, how would they get food? It should obviously be provided by the Qingzhou family.

It seems that these aristocratic families have been angered by my problem of harvesting grain, and they want to control their own armed forces.

Tsk, tsk, I can actually think of using rogue bandits as a method. "

Gou Xi did not doubt Liu Tai, mainly because it was pointless for Liu Tai to send soldiers here at this time!

After all, the main type of food in Qingzhou is corn. In winter, the entire land is barren. Even if you want to defeat the enemy, you can't.

So if you brought such an army to harass us, you wouldn't choose this time!
"It just so happened that the soldiers we just trained needed to see blood, so you led the troops to destroy them!"

Gou Xi didn't take this matter seriously, and just regarded the bandit as an ordinary bandit, and it was enough to leave it to Gou Chun to deal with.

"Follow the order!" Gou Chun didn't object to Gou Xi when he heard this, and immediately went over to execute it.

However, just after Gou Chun left, Shao Xu led an angel over, and the angel's eyes filled with tears when he saw Gou Xi.

"I have seen Governor Gou!" "I have seen an angel!"

After the two of them saluted, the angel first took out Sima Yue's will to recruit the world's most powerful soldiers and horses, and then took out Sima Chi's secret edict and said to Gou Xi, "Your Majesty has been deceived by Sima Yue. I hope the general will save him!" "

Gou Xi didn't expect that Sima Chi's secret decree would actually be delivered to her, so she quickly opened the secret decree and read it.

After reading it, Gou Xi said to the angel, "Sima Yue controlled the imperial court, was unable to relieve the emperor's worries, and was unable to quell the civil strife below. This is really a harm to the country.

The minister was too far away from Luoyang and wanted to rescue but was unable to protect him. He first sent troops to escort grain and grass to Beijing to meet the urgent need. "

"Gou Qingzhou is truly the pillar of the country. I will definitely report this news to Your Majesty so that Your Majesty will know your loyalty!" The angel breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Gou Xi's words, and happily planned to go back and reply.

Gou Xi did not dare to delay, and immediately arranged for Liu Hui to transport the granary towards Luoyang.

At the same time, news about Sima Yue's arrogance of power began to spread in Qingzhou, with the purpose of paving the way for future imperial edicts to fight against rebellion.

To be honest, although she did not defeat Liu Tai, Gou Xi was really not afraid of Liu Tai coming to defeat her.

Not to mention that he has now recruited [-] soldiers. Although Liu Tai's soldiers are elite, they may not be able to stand up to the sky with only [-] soldiers.

Gou Xi didn't know how to lose in a fight of fifty thousand against twenty thousand, so Gou Xi was not afraid of Liu Tai coming over.Now that Gou Xi has received a secret order from Sima Chi, all he can think about is killing Sima Yue and returning to Hanoi in glory.

As for Liu Tai, it should be enough to leave his brother Gou Chun to defend Liu Tai.

Gou Xi herself really weighed Liu Tai's commanding ability last time. At least when Liu Tai took the initiative to attack, Liu Tai was really not strong!

With his horizons rising, Gou Xi no longer cares about the gains and losses between Qingzhou and Taishan County.

Because Gou Xi said that his horizons had grown. If it was to maintain the Jin Dynasty's orthodoxy, or to punish rape and eliminate evil, this corner of Taishan County was nothing compared to it.

Therefore, at this moment, Gou Xi felt that he had a strong army and a strong horse, and he had Sima Chi's secret decree in hand, and his self-confidence was extremely high.

Liu Tai?Compared with Sima Yue and Liu Tai, who is nothing?

Gou Xi, who has broadened his horizons, doesn't think Liu Tai is anything, but Liu Tai is planning Qingzhou wholeheartedly.

There was a little bit of disturbance in Qingzhou's territory, and Liu Taina was the first to notice it.

Not to mention, at this time, Liu Tai was asking Zhao An to lead his troops as rogues in Qingzhou while contacting the large and small families on the list.

The most important thing is to let Tian Zhen take a small force of almost 300 people to smuggle in. Can we not keep an eye on Qingzhou?

Therefore, it was natural that the news of Sima Yue's power spread to Qingzhou and reached Liu Tai's ears immediately.

"What does Gou Xi want to do?" Liu Tai was full of incomprehension when he received the news.

Because this news obviously came from Qingzhou, but the problem is that Qingzhou is thousands of miles away from Luoyang. Not to mention Sima Yue's power, even if Sima Yue ascends the throne, Gou Xiqian will not be able to catch up.

What's the point of conveying Sima Yue's authority at this time?To create political unrest in Qingzhou?

Liu Tai said he didn't understand, and felt that it was an eye-opener.

"There must be reasons we don't know that caused the conflict between Gou Xi and Sima Yue to completely break out!"

Chu Hui was also thinking about it, because this matter was really unreasonable. Casually announcing that the central minister had exclusive power would definitely cause considerable turmoil in the hearts of the people under his rule.

As long as it is a normal guard, such news will be blocked as soon as possible, not to mention, actively spreading such news about the disagreement between the upper classes will inevitably cause the middle and lower nobles to be shaken.

"I'm afraid Gou Xi's eyes are all attracted to Jin Ting, and he won't have time to discover that the people's livelihood in Qingzhou is in decline and the nobles are alienated!"

Chu Hui finally came to a conclusion, with a certain sadness in his expression.

Because at this time, Chu Hui really felt that the Jin court was about to collapse.

After all, Gou Xi took the initiative to expose Sima Yue's monopoly on power. This was obviously not to send good luck to Sima Yue and congratulate Sima Yue for preparing to usurp the throne, but to make it clear that Che Ma and Sima Yue would have a fierce fight.

But who are the two parties? One is the most powerful person in the Western Jin Dynasty, and the other is at least the strongest commander in the Western Jin Dynasty at present.

Not to mention that the mountains and rivers are now broken and the Huns and Han are constantly forcing you. The two of you who should cooperate most are now at odds.

What's more important is that you two can be said to have the only remaining resistance force in the Jin court.

Even if you decide the winner, can you still deal with the current Xiongnu and Han Dynasty? !

Chu Hui has never been so desperate as at this moment, because he really can't think of how else to save Jin Ting!

Liu Tai glanced at Chu Hui and could somewhat feel the complex psychology in Chu Hui's heart.

After all, Chu Hui was captured by him, but he still chose not to surrender to the Huns and Han.

But along the way, even if he quietly started to work for himself, he mostly appeared as Mr. Chu and did not accept any positions in the Huns and Han Kingdoms.

Because Chu Hui still fantasized in his heart that one day he could return to the Jin court.

But reality is such a fucked up reality, and the world is such a depressing world.

As the conflict between Gou Xi and Sima Yue was brought to light, unless Gou Xi had the strength to directly dominate the world with his soldiers, he could prove the Tao purely with soldiers.

Otherwise, the end of the Jin Dynasty will be on the verge of a complete countdown, and even the gods will not be able to save it.

"Thinking about it from another angle, at least we have to thank Sima Yue.

If it weren't for him, Gou Xi's eyes have been staring at us. If we wanted to target him, it would not be easy! "

Liu Tai couldn't help but sigh with emotion when he said this, "With Sima Yue as my enemy, I don't know why, but I always feel at ease!"

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he really didn't know where to complain, so he could only say sternly,
"General, what is the best way for us to deal with this matter?"

"Standing unchanged to cope with all changes, what should we do with the internal affairs of the Jin court?

We will complete our plan step by step. Even if Gou Xi is not eliminated, we will at least drive Gou Xi out of Qingzhou! "

Liu Tai said calmly, "Qingzhou, of course, is the Qingzhou of me, the governor of Qingzhou!"

Chu Hui calmed down after hearing Liu Tai's words and nodded to Liu Tai without any thoughts of refutation.

Since Jin Ting is completely hopeless, what he needs to do now is to do his best to help Liu Tai lay a foundation!
It was after Liu Tai and Chu Hui had discussed it that Tian Tian led 300 people across the border of Qingzhou in the wind and snow and headed towards Jizhou.

To be honest, originally the crossing from Qingzhou was very dangerous.

But as Gou Xi himself exposed Sima Yue's abuse of power, the entire Qingzhou family was in turmoil.

No one had the time to care about such a 300-man troop that hurriedly crossed their territory.

After all, these 300 people are more important than Gou Xi's fight against Sima. Could it be that these 300 people can turn the world upside down?
For the local aristocratic families, what they are more worried about now is that the conflict between Gou Xi and Sima Yue will completely break out. Should they side with Gou Xi, Sima Yue, or the Huns and Han? !

The aristocratic families in Qingzhou are also having a headache. The last time Gou Xi spread rumors, he and Liu Tai had a fierce fight at the border of Qingzhou.

This time Gou Xi spread rumors again, but the aristocratic families in Qingzhou didn't know what the future of Qingzhou would be like.

The only thing they know is that Qingzhou, which has stabilized following the truce with Liu Tai, may be in turmoil again!
(End of this chapter)