After Shao Xun left Jinguyuan, he first visited the new recruits at the camp of the coaching academy and gave them a few words of encouragement.

Then he slipped away to the house of Shangshu Zuopu She Liang Fen, kissed and had dinner, and discussed the matter of Yang Nandi.

Stay at Liang’s house that night...

"It seems that Yang Nandi has not yet surrendered." Outside the city of Chengdu in Shu County, 3,120 miles away from Luo, Li Ban, the crown prince of the Cheng Kingdom, led his East Palace staff out of the city to present gifts to Yan Han and his party. Before leaving, he sighed

"Your Majesty treats Yang Nanbi Kunzhong kindly, but I didn't expect him to be so mad and crazy and harm my brothers and feet."

After saying that, I burst into tears and was very sad.

Li Ban is the nephew of Emperor Cheng Li Xiong and was established as prince a few years ago.

Li Xiong had about ten biological sons, but he felt that none of them were useful, so he ignored the dissuasion of his officials and

He insisted on making Li Ban, the son of his elder brother Li Dang, the crown prince.

Of course, this is a public explanation. As for whether there are other reasons for it, it is not known. After all, Li Dang was also a leader in the process of establishing the country, holding a large number of troops and making many achievements.

Yan Han also sighed.

Li Dang's eldest son Li Ling once led an army to attack Yang Nandi's brothers as a minister and leader of Chengguo. When the neighboring troops were blocked, he advanced with light troops and pursued too fiercely, and was surrounded by Yang Nandi.

He died together with his younger brother Li Zhi and thousands of soldiers.

Although he belongs to an enemy country, Yan Han has a very good impression of Li Ban, so it is inevitable to sigh at this time.

General Jianwei Zhao Yin, who was on the mission with Yan Han, was a little surprised when he saw that Li Ban's robes were actually patched, and secretly thought that this person was either a great virtue or a great traitor.

"What Yan Gong said may be difficult to implement." Seeing that Yan Han remained silent, Li Ban wiped his tears and said, "Nowadays, most of the people are calming down and resting with the people. In this way, the big family will be in peace, and the officials and the people will be happy.

"

Yan Han was helpless.

He has been struggling here for half a year, and has communicated with Jian Yu several times, and has gotten nothing. Now he is about to leave, but he has only received a specious promise in exchange.

In other words, Cheng Guo could only stop fighting with Dapu and not attack each other. It was almost impossible to persuade them to go north from Hanzhong and attack Guanlong.

Only Ge Gong can do this kind of thing.

"What does Mr. Fan mean?" Yan Han couldn't help but ask, unwilling to go on a mission for several months with no results.

He did not want to be called the official title of Prime Minister Fan Ben, so he only wanted to be called "Fan Gong"

"But Mr. Yan was disappointed." Li Ban said: "The overseas Chinese are not willing to go north, how about the old people?"

This was indeed a very sincere statement. Yan Han understood it and immediately gave up.

In fact, Chengguo, like Jin, had Qiao and Tu ethnic groups.

Although Li Te (father of Li Xiong, posthumously named Emperor Jing), who was the first to rebel, was Brazilian, he had been moved to Lueyang as early as the Cao Wei period.

The army that followed him south were also refugees from Kansai, including officials, scholars, and generals.

As for Li Te, he was originally a county official in Guanxi Prefecture in the Jin Dynasty. Before the uprising, General Xuancheng and Marquis of Changle Township led the officials and people of Tianshui, Lueyang, Fufeng, Shiping, Wudu, and Yinping counties to flee southward. A total of ten

More than 10,000 people first arrived in Liangzhou. Later, they heard that there was a lot of wealth in Shu, so they bribed the angels and entered Shu.

Therefore, Li Cheng's basic base was the soldiers and civilians of these six counties. To the Shu people, they were overseas Chinese, and they had the same relationship with the scholars from the south of the Yangtze River and the wealthy families in Wudi.

Of course, there are actually differences.

After all, the Li family defeated the Jin Dynasty's military power in Shu and established a country. But how did Sima Rui establish a country?

Therefore, if the way of establishing a country is different, the power is destined to be different.

To put it simply, the Li family's authority in Shu is greater than that of the Sima family in Jiangdong.

After Li Xiong founded the country, most of the upper classes were clans and the six counties with the surnames Luo, Ren, Yan, etc. who started with them. Only a few people from the Shuzhong clan, such as Li Zhao and Fan Changsheng, were appointed officials. The main purpose was to use their reputation to appease the whole of Shu. But if

If your reputation is not big enough, then don’t even think about it.

In a word, this regime is not "localized" enough. There is a dispute between the overseas Chinese and the Tu people. The overseas Chinese are not willing to go north to attack Guanlong. Do you expect the Tu people to fight it out?

Yan Han was born in the Yan family of Langya and was a member of the Nandu noble family. How could he not understand the key points? So he stopped talking nonsense, bowed his hands, and said goodbye to Li Ban and others.

Li Ban was polite and saw him off personally.

"After Yan Gong returns to Jianye, he can go to the emperor of your country, and our two countries can be on friendly terms, and there will be no more war." Li Ban said: "Shao Xun occupies the northern land, and controls Xianbei and the Xiongnu. Their power is greater than that of the Xiongnu."

Cao Mengde was particularly wrong. If we don't work together, we may not be able to sustain it for a long time."

Yan Han stopped, turned around and asked, "The prince really can't write the letter of confederation in private?"

Li Ban shook his head, his attitude was very firm.

Yan Han was helpless.

For now, Jin does not recognize Cheng and Liang, and regards them as puppet dynasties. However, when it comes to specific operations, they have to unite to resist Liang, just like the alliance of Wu and Shu to resist Cao Bing.

Yan Han originally hoped that Chengguo would lower its stance and submit to the Jin Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty would also follow suit and make Li Xiong King Cheng.

It was just a superficial matter, what should be done internally in Chengguo, Jianye would pretend to be invisible, and in the end, it couldn't even do this, and there was nothing that could be done.

On the first day of July, Yan Han left Chengdu, first by car and then by boat. The journey was smooth and he arrived at Jianyou at the end of the month.

Jin Emperor Sima Rui heard the news and urgently summoned him to the palace.

****

After being away for more than half a year, when Yan Han returned to Taicheng, he suddenly noticed that there had been a lot of changes.

It seemed that the construction of the palace had not stopped during this period, which made him even more worried.

Sima Rui still does not have a separate sleeping hall, but the sleeping and sleeping rooms are integrated into one, and he still lives in the Taiji Hall.

As the sun set in the evening, a cool breeze blew in front of the west hall of the Tai Chi Palace. Sima Rui was helped by palace attendants to sit down and panting.

Prime Minister Wang Dao, Taiwei Liu Kun, Shangshu Zuopu She Bian Hu, Attendant Liu Wei and other important ministers were kneeling on the side of Yuan Dynasty. Shangshu ordered Diao Xie to die of illness just now.

Sima, King of Xiyang, was also present. He was special. He had just been promoted to the position of Grand Prime Minister and had recorded the affairs of the Minister.

There is no doubt that this is because Sima Rui realized that his time was running out, so he pushed out this clan, which he trusted very much, to share the power of Wang Dao.

There is no way, Governor Shan is not living up to expectations, and the opportunity given to you is useless, so Sima Rui can only activate the "backup plan".

In addition to the important ministers, Prince Sima Zhong, Langya King Sima Chong were also present, and even Sima Yu, who was only ten years old, came.

Just last month, Sima Rui took Kuaiji County out of Sima Chong's city and named Sima Yu King of Kuaiji.

This move will certainly make Sima Chong unhappy, but Sima Rui may have cared about Zheng Achun's old relationship and insisted on paving the way for Sima Yu before his death.

Therefore, now Sima Chong is the king of Langya and eats Xuancheng; Sima Yu is the king of Kuaiji and eats Kuaiji.

As for Sima Xi, born to Wang Cairen, he has been adopted into the clan.

"Your Majesty." As soon as Yan Han saw Sima Rui's emaciated appearance, he knelt down on the ground with a plop and burst into tears.

"Hongdu, you are not young, how can you be like this?" When Sima Rui saw this, he was about to stand up and help him, but after trying twice, he couldn't stand up. He suddenly cried and said, "I can't help the world, but I can't even help you."

You can’t even help me.”

As soon as these words came out, everyone burst into tears.

Yan Han stood up tremblingly, wiped away his tears and said, "Your Majesty, I am incompetent and have disgraced my mission."

After that, he handed over his credentials.

Sima Rui reached out to take it, and just as he was about to start reading it, Director Wang stopped him.

"Your Majesty, there may be some disrespectful words in the book." Wang Dao advised, "You can read it again tomorrow when you feel calmer."

Sima Rui followed Shan Ruliu, then looked at Yan Han and said, "Is Mr. Li very ambitious?"

"Li Xiong has no ambition." Yan Han said, "No one in Sichuan dares to speak of the Northern Expedition."

Although Tong Ma Rui had expected it, he was still quite disappointed.

Without the Northern Expedition, it would be possible to advance eastward to Badong, or southward to take the Nanzhong region, which are all Jin lands.

"The pseudo-prince's squad saw me off, saying that even if they did not go to the Northern Expedition, they would still be willing to stop their troops and fight against the Shao thieves." Yan Han said again: "I advised the prince's squad to remonstrate with me and say that we should take Wudu and Yinping from the north to form a line with Hanzhong.

According to the dangers of mountains and rivers,

Overlooking Guanzhong, he attacked and harassed the Shao thieves. However, since there is a dispute between overseas Chinese and old people in the country, it may be difficult to do this."

After listening to this, Sima Rui was speechless for a long time.

When Director Wang saw it, he sighed secretly. It is better to ask for help than to ask for yourself, and said: "Your Majesty, since June, Jingzhou has reported several times that Shao thieves have been transporting supplies and equipment to Nanyang, and they are afraid of going south. I think it may be a fake.

I also heard some rumors, so I sat back and watched the king's division and Shao's soldiers fight, and then they went straight to the counties of Ningzhou. With such thoughts, they will not come to help."

Sima Ai was a little shocked when he heard this. At this time, we still want to attack each other and take advantage of others?

Director Wang continued: "Furthermore, Badong hangs at the east gate of Shu. If it is not captured, it will be the belly of the fish. His heart will not be at ease, so Li Ban's words cannot be fully believed."

Yan Han was a little displeased and said, "The Prince's class is sincere, humble and polite in their treatment of others, but they will never treat me the same."

"That's right." Wang Dao cupped his hands and said, "It's not impossible that Li Ban has no talent. He doesn't understand the affairs of the country internally and doesn't know the affairs of the world externally."

Yan Han was dumbfounded.

Director Wang turned around again and bowed: "Your Majesty, we must defeat the Shao thieves now to make Li family wake up."
To be continued...