Faced with Li Mi's ridicule, Zhang Yongtong remained calm and composed, and did not speak. He just smiled and reached into his arms, and took out a letter. Li Mi, who knew who Chen Sangliang was, was not surprised. Nunuzui, Cai Jiande understood, and immediately stepped forward to receive the letter.
Ren Yu, Zu Junyan, Pei Renji and others were all a little nervous. They knew that Chen Sangliang was going to make a move, but they couldn't guess what move Chen Sangliang was going to make. They could only hope that Li Mi would read the letter quickly so that they could also Looking at the content, who ever thought that things would go against their wishes? Not only did Zhang Yongtong not rush to hand over the letter to Cai Jiande, but he also said to Li Mi: "Mr. , don’t let the second person read the full text of the letter. Of course, you don’t have to keep the content secret, Mr. Fazhu.”
"Why?" Li Mi asked curiously.
"Mr. Fazhu, please forgive me for saying something disrespectful. Your army has not done enough to keep military information secret." Zhang Yongtong replied: "To tell the truth, Mr. Fazhu, in fact, the fact that the late emperor was killed by Yu Wenhua and It was someone in your army who leaked the secret, and then deliberately leaked it to our army through the hands of someone with a heart, so our prime minister knew the bad news. So our prime minister is worried that Mr. Fazhu, there is a traitor by your side, and he is afraid that he will read the full text of the letter Knowing a secret major event led to the other party knowing about it, and this is why the little envoy reminded Mr. Fazhu of this point."
Some people with a guilty conscience changed their faces slightly, so they quickly peeked at Li Mi's reaction. Fortunately, Li Mi was familiar with Chen Sangliang's bad character. After hearing this, he not only didn't pay attention, but also sneered and said, "Sure enough, he's here to sow discord again." Now, you want to establish the relationship between me and the people under my command, right? Chen Yingliang, the little thief, doesn't know how to change it."
It was indeed for this purpose that Zhang Yongtong stopped talking, and then handed the letter to Cai Jiande. After Cai Jiande forwarded the letter to Li Mi, Li Mi, who had a sneer on his lips, took it and checked that the sealant was intact before pinching it. Broken fire paint took out the letterhead, and just glanced at it casually, the sneer on Li Mi's face disappeared immediately, and he immediately understood the reason why Chen Sangliang asked him to keep it secret, because the content of this letter was actually written by Li Er to Yang Tong Memorial!
To be precise, it is a copy of the memorial that Li Er wrote to the emperor Yang Tong he recognized in the honor of his courtier. In the memorial, Li Er first mentioned the fact that Yang Tong succeeded in recruiting Li Mi, and then he analyzed the whole world to Yang Tong. The general situation pointed out that Li Mi's surrender to Yang Yu was just because he was afraid of being attacked by the Eastern Capital Army and Yu Wenhua. Maybe taking the opportunity of feigning surrender to Yang Tong, he suddenly sent troops to take down the city of Dongdu!
The next step is to analyze the general situation of the world. Li Er pointed out to Yang Yu that although there are many rebels in the world, only the two thieves, Chen Sangliang and Li Mi, are the enemies of the Eastern Capital. The culture of the universe is nothing to be afraid of, and it cannot afford to turn up a big storm. According to Chen Sangliang's danger of embracing mountains and rivers in Guanzhong, it cannot be broken overnight. To deal with Chen Sangliang can only be a long-term plan. However, Li Mi only has a large number of soldiers and horses on the surface, and abundant food and grass. He seems very powerful, but in fact he is surrounded by enemies. The interior is seriously unstable, and it is far easier to deal with than Chen Sangliang, so Li Er proposed to Yang Tong a strategy of suppressing the bandits first, Li Mi, and then Chen Sangliang. .
As for killing Li Mi, Li Erchu carefully designed two plans for Yang Tong. The first plan was to drive away tigers and devour wolves, ordering Li Mi to attack Yu Wenhuaji, and after both Yu Wenhuaji and Yu Wenhuaji suffered losses, Dongdu would take action again. Sit back and reap the benefits. Then Li Er pointed out that although this plan is simple and effective, it is difficult to seriously injure Li Mi, because Li Mi is treacherous and cunning, so he must try every means to lure Yu Wenhuaji to Hulao Pass for a decisive battle. , and only 30 miles away from Luokou Cangcheng, even if they were flanked by Yu Wenhua and the Dongdu army, they were still invincible. As long as Li Mi procrastinates for a little while, Yu Wenhuaji will definitely be defeated in Li Mi's hands. Li Mi will take the opportunity to recruit Yu Wenhuaji's hungry division. Will definitely lose!
The first plan was exactly to Li Mi's appetite, which made Li Mi secretly happy, but the second plan made Li Mi a little creepy. The second plan proposed by Li Er turned out to be an extremely vicious plan to raise wolves and tigers! The specific plan is that Li Er will come forward to contact Li Mi, pretending to persuade Li to gather all the strength to deal with his mortal enemy Chen Sangliang, and induce Li Mi to reach an agreement with Yu Wenhua and provide Yu Wenhua with a batch of emergency food and grass in exchange for Yu Wenhua. And detour through Hanoi and go west to Guanzhong to fight Chen Sangliang!
Then, once Li Mi fell for the plan, Li Er immediately contacted Yu Wenhua and the army, and persuaded Yu Wenhua and after crossing the Yellow River, he took advantage of Li Mi's unpreparedness to suddenly go east and take the Liyang warehouse not far away, completely solving the worries of the lack of food and grass. , and also captured Li Mi and the family members of Li Mi's army generals who were in the rear of Liyang. And desperately, after the main force of Li Mi's army is far away from Hulao Pass and Luokou Cang, Li Er can join forces with Dongdu's army to take the opportunity to recover Luokou Cang and Hulao Pass!
At the same time, take ten thousand steps back and say that even if Li Mi dare not go back to Li Yang and Yu Wenhuaji to fight desperately, after he and Yu Wenhuaji become enemies, the two families will definitely continue to fight each other in the future, and each other will desperately consume their strength. To deal with Yu Wenhuaji, he must continue to submit to Yang Tong. Yang Tong can even take the opportunity to ask Li Mi to hand over some food to alleviate the urgent food shortage in the eastern capital, and he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight with peace of mind. And after Li Mi and Yu Wenhuaji's strength declined seriously, Li Er and the Dongdu army joined forces to counterattack, and they could also easily kill Li Mi, and even take down Yu Wenhuaji in one go!
In addition, Li Er also told Yang Tong that he was absolutely sure of persuading Yu Wenhua and Dongjin to attack Liyang Cang. Impossible to be satisfied! The second reason is that Yu Wenhua and his third younger brother Yu Wenshi and the old Li family have a fateful friendship with the old Li family. At the same time, Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and his brothers are greedy people. Send a line to the Yuwen Brothers, and you can easily impress Yuwenhuaji. —Of course, Li Er also pointed out that if Yang Tong could temporarily put aside his hatred of killing the emperor, issue an edict to appease Yu Wenhuaji and order him to act according to the plan, then he would definitely have the greatest chance of success.
Finally, Li Er pointed out that the two plans could be carried out separately at the same time. Yang Tong could come forward and order Li Mi to attack Yu Wenhuaji, while Li Er privately persuaded Li Mi to communicate with Yu Wenhuaji so that they would not interfere with each other. And even if Yu Wenhuaji refuses to listen to the persuasion to attack Liyang Cang, it doesn’t matter. Yu Huaji, who detours to Hanoi, will definitely fight Chen Sangliang on the Hedong battlefield. At that time, Li Er can hide and watch the fire from the other side. Kill Chen Sangliang, Yu Wenhua and the two thieves in one fell swoop, and retreat to take the opportunity to recruit the defeated troops and strengthen their strength so that Yang Tong can listen to them.
After reading the original text of Li Er's memorial that Chen Sangliang had copied word by word, Li Mi's forehead couldn't help but dripped with sweat. He felt resentment and admiration for Li Er in his heart. If they team up and provide food and grass for Yu Wenhua and to fight Chen Sangliang, no matter what the result is, they will definitely suffer and be fooled, and no matter what the result is, Li Er will hide aside to pick up the cheap, and then he can take advantage of the trend and enter the Deluokou granary in the Central Plains. Incorporate your own army, you can find an opportunity to re-enter Guanzhong if you retreat, or at worst, you can fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to recruit a large number of defeated soldiers to strengthen your strength. It is even possible to become the final winner of the Hedong battle with a small fortune! And he gave out food for nothing, made way for nothing, and made a wedding dress for Li Er for nothing!
Quietly scolding Li Er for being treacherous and shameless, Li Mi repacked the thick letter paper into the envelope without letting the second person see the content, and then smiled at Zhang Yongtong who had been waiting for a long time: "The forgery is not bad, no wonder I even sent it to you at the beginning. It seems that there are quite a few writers under the command of the traitor Chen Yingliang. After all, if there is anything else that the traitor Chen Yingliang has to say to me, let’s say it together.”
"The prime minister only asked the envoy to give you a word, Mr. Fazhu." Zhang Yongtong replied with a smile: "Mr. Fazhu can think this is a forgery, but in terms of the current general situation in the world, do people want to deal with you first, or are they willing to deal with you?" Go to Guanzhong first to make trouble for our prime minister?"
Li Mi closed his mouth, and after thinking for a while, Li Mi asked again: "Chen Yingliang, the traitor, did you tell you why he gave me this thing?"
"The prime minister knew that you would definitely ask this question, Mr. Fazhu, so he asked the envoy to convey his heartfelt words on his behalf." Zhang Yongtong replied with a smile: "The prime minister said that he and you, Mr. Fazhu, are both confidants and enemies. Mr. Fazhu, you and our prime minister are both accommodating as much as possible. If you can support each other, support each other. This matter can help Mr. Fazhu, and it will benefit the prime minister without any harm. The prime minister would not be happy For what?"
Li Mi smiled and said: "Since Chen Yingliang's traitor also admits that he is using me, I will not thank you. Come and take this envoy of Chen's traitor down to have a rest. It's a treat."
The soldiers agreed and came up to invite Zhang Yongtong to leave. Zhang Yongtong also thanked him and left. As a result, Zhang Yongtong had just left before Zu Junyan couldn't wait to remind him: "Wei Gong, Chen Yingliang has always been treacherous, despicable, and scheming. Please return his letters and words." Wei Gong carefully observes it, and don't trust it lightly."
"What Mr. Zu said is very true. You can't believe every single word in the letter written by the traitor Chen Yingliang." Pei Renji agreed, and asked even more impatiently: "Duke Wei, what did the traitor Chen Yingliang say in the letter to you?"
"It's nothing serious, and you will know about it in the future." Li Mi answered lightly, then turned his attention to Ren Yu, the envoy sent by Li Er, and said with a smile: "Doctor Ren, I kept you waiting for a long time. Come on, Tang Guogong sent you What are you here for?"
Ren Yun, who was thinking about the content of Chen Sangliang's letter, was a little lost in thought. It was not until Li Mi asked again that Ren Yun came back to his senses, and hurriedly apologized to Li Mi, while saying: "Wei Gong, my family Tang Guogong sent Sui Xiaoshi here. They came here for the matter of Yu Wenhuaji. Yu Wenhua and the rebels rebelled against the king and led the Jiangdu rebels to go north along the Tongji Canal, pointing at Wei Gongyou's back. I feel that this is a rare opportunity, so I specially sent a small envoy to negotiate with Wei Gong and negotiate a common matter that concerns you and my two families."
As he said that, Ren Yu, whose mind was a little disturbed, hurriedly took out Li Er's autographed letter, and after Cai Jiande forwarded it to Li Mi, Li Mi took it and looked at the content carefully, and found that Li Er's first letter was a tactful warning to himself. , pointing out that Yu Wenhuaji's army is well-equipped and the soldiers are strong. If Li Mi fights head-on with him, even if he wins in the end, he will definitely suffer heavy losses, and he will be cheap for others. Replaced by the word "others".
After the euphemistic warning, Li Er, of course, couldn't wait to suggest Li Mi's misfortune to divert water to the west, and persuaded Li Mi to make peace with Yu Huaji, and at the price of donating military rations and borrowing roads, in exchange for Yu Wenhua and crossing the Yellow River to the north, bypassing Hanoi and heading west to the east of the river. , Cross the Yellow River back to Guanzhong. Then after Yu Wenhua entered Hedong, Chen Sangliang would definitely have to personally raise troops to fight in Hedong to fight head-on with Yu Wenhua and the more than 100,000 Guanzhong braves under his command. Maybe you can take the opportunity to take Tongguan from the west and take the whole territory of Guanzhong!
If there was no Chen Sangliang's previous letter, Li Mi would definitely be very moved after seeing Li Er's proposal, even if he didn't accept it immediately, but now, hehe, Li Mi has to carefully weigh the consequences. At the same time, Li Mi, who was careful and cautious, also discovered an important problem, that is, the style of writing in Li Er's personal letter was basically similar to the copy of Li Er's memorial sent by Chen Sangliang, and it was very likely that it was written by the same person! —Of course, if Li Mi is also a time traveler and knows what kind of people Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling beside Chen Sangliang are in this respect, then Li Mi will definitely not have any doubts.
Contemplating passing Li Er's letter to a group of confidantes, Zu Junyan, Pei Renji and others naturally couldn't wait to speak again, desperately persuading Li Mi to accept Li Er's clever plan, and also listed various advantages and advantages of doing so, vigorously Encourage Li Mi to act according to the plan, and lead Yu Wenhua and this scourge to Hedong to make trouble for Chen Sangliang. Li Mi remained calm. After thinking for a while, Li Mi suddenly asked Ren Yu again: "Doctor Ren, although Tang Guogong's plan is clever, it may be difficult for Yu Wenhuaji to accept this agreement. If Yu Wenhuaji What should I do if I insist on not taking a detour and must attack Hulaoguan Luokou Cang?"
"Don't worry, Mr. Wei, this is on us." Ren Yu hurriedly encouraged Li Mi, and said with a smile, "Very few people know about this. Yu Wenhuaji’s younger brother, Yu Wenshiji, has a deep friendship with our Tang Guogong’s father, Li Yuangong, and our Tang Guogong is also very familiar with Yu Wenshiji, and has a close friendship. Yu Wenhuaji obeys his second brother Yu Wenzhiji , Yuwen Zhiji is another greedy person, as long as our Tang Guogong connects with Zhiji through the Shiji line, and let their brothers join hands to persuade Yu Wenhuaji to reach an agreement with Wei Gong, it will be as easy as pie!"
"The two generations of Tang Guogong and Yuwen Zhiji still have such a friendship?" Li Mi asked in surprise, "Why have I never heard of it before?"
"To be honest with Duke Wei, the little envoy didn't know about this before." Ren Yu replied truthfully: "When the little envoy was leaving, Tang Guogong mentioned this matter to the little envoy."
Li Mi no longer had any doubts in his heart. Regardless of Zu Junyan, Pei Renji's repeated persuasion and persuasion, he said with a smile: "Okay, this matter can be discussed, let me think about it, and I will give you news when I have a conclusion. Well, I'm tired. I want to go out for a walk, Mr. Zu, General Deben, you can accompany Dr. Ren to the banquet in the wing for me."
Everyone agreed, Li Mi put Chen Sangliang's letter in his arms and got up, and accidentally glanced at Wang Xuance in the corner of the hall, and said casually: "Xuance, follow me outside."
Wang Xuance agreed, and as Li Mi led a group of personal soldiers to leave the so-called Duke Wei's mansion and walk around in Jinyong City at will, Li Mi, who was constantly thinking about the walk, walked up the city wall of Jinyong City unknowingly, looking at the distance In the tall and majestic eastern capital city, Li Mi suddenly asked Wang Xuance: "Xuance, do you think there is one thing that is strange? The road from the east to the Central Plains is under our control. Even if it is not completely sealed off, it is still open. The civilians are allowed to pass freely. Yu Wenhuaji's army has just crossed Pengcheng County. It is impossible for Li Shimin's meticulous work to have sent the news to Hedong before? Could it be that Li Shimin, like us, also set up posthorses in the cities along the way? , can you use a fast horse to deliver a message?"
"Of course it's impossible." Wang Xuance replied calmly, "The students think that there is only one possibility for Li Shimin to know about this important event so quickly, and that is that we leaked the news and let him know about it."
Li Mi stopped talking, and Wang Xuance knew that Li Mi had grown suspicious of Li Er, so he also took the opportunity to add insult to injury, and said in a low voice: "Wei Gong, the family thieves are hard to guard against, and only some of your important confidantes know about Yu Wenhua and the northward journey along the Tongji Canal." , Li Shimin can know about this matter, of course, he may also know about other important military information about you, Duke Wei."
Li Mi nodded slightly, and suddenly said: "You are in charge of the confidential documents for me. The traitor Chen Yingliang gave me this letter. Someone must be very concerned about it. Apart from Cai Jiande, you are the only person who has the opportunity to see the contents of this letter. These days, You can walk around in the army more, see who takes the initiative to contact you, give you gold and silver money, you can keep it, just tell me who it is."
Wang Xuance's eyelids moved slightly, and then he nodded and sang a promise. Finally, Wang Xuance couldn't help but whispered: "Wei Gong, the matter about Chen's envoy is also an opportunity for the students. He sent the gift out of the country with great fanfare, so the Eastern Capital Luoyang will definitely guard against Wei Gong and you and Chen thief. No matter what you do next, the Eastern Capital army wants to stab you in the back, and you have to weigh the consequences. , worrying that they would also be stabbed in the back by Thief Chen."
Glancing at Wang Xuance in surprise, Li Mi showed some smiles, and said with a smile: "It's unexpected that you have such insight at such a young age. You have to worry about their backs."
"I just want to save that messenger." Wang Xuance muttered in his heart.
After smiling, Li Mi said again: "However, I can't send him out of the country with great fanfare. After all, I am the Taiwei of the Eastern Capital Court now. How about this, when you have time to tell that Zhang Yongtong for me, just say that I want to let him leave the country." He was a little wronged, and he wanted to put him in a prison van and send him back to Xiaohan Road, asking him to understand my difficulties. After all, compared with Yu Hongjian, Yu Wenhuaji's emissary, he was already considered lucky, and Yu Hongjian and I were not. It is going to be dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor to dispose of it at will. Remember to tell him this, and the traitor Chen Yingliang will understand what I mean."
Wang Xuance promised, secretly happy in his heart, but Li Mi took advantage of the situation and turned his gaze to the east of the river in the northwest, and groaned coldly in his heart, "Li Shimin boy, think about Yin Bengong, you are still young! Hulaoguan battlefield, food and grass problems, hum Hmph, the little thief Chen Yingliang gave me these two tips, if I make good use of them, I can at least get half of the 130,000 pass elites under Yu Wenhua and Pifu's command!"
While digging a hole for others, Li Mi also dug a big hole for himself unknowingly. Li Mi never imagined that when Wang Xuance went to see Zhang Yongtong in a legitimate way, he used the excuse of Li Mi to ask for a legitimate reason to drive him away. After everyone in the room, the first thing they did was to introduce themselves to Zhang Yongtong, "My name is Wang Xuance."
Zhang Yongtong looked up at Wang Xuance carefully, and saw that his age and appearance were similar to Chen Sangliang's description, so he dipped his finger in the wine and wrote a line on the table, which read: Before Li and Yuwen went to war, to Li Jinyan , Persuading Li to design a separation between Yuan Wendu and Wang Shichong, let Yuan take back Wang Bingquan.
"Why?" Wang Xuance almost asked this sentence, and after forcing the words back into his stomach, Wang Xuance nodded and erased the words on the table casually.