Chapter 271 Cow Ghost Snake God
In fact, Lu Qiang did not have a healthy life in his original southern tour plan, which may be caused by his previous experience. He always has a kind of resistance there.
After agreeing to Dai Qianqiu's request, Lu Qiang's mind suddenly realized that the real goal of this group was not Jiankang.
The world knows that Lu Qiang doesn't like Jiankang, so how can this group of people arrange the location of their assassination in Jiankang? Guangling, not far from Jiankang, is the starting place of Lu Qiang, so under normal circumstances, Lu Qiang will definitely visit Guangling.
That is to say, this group of people's activities in Jiankang is just to attract the attention of secret agents, but the main force will be in Guangling.
After understanding this, Lu Qiang ordered Dai Qianqiu to go to Guangling immediately to arrange, and he then came with the brigade.
After disposing of the Lu family, Lu Qiang visited the local Guangong Temple with the highest standard and strongly praised the loyal and patriotic behavior and thoughts.
Just as Lu Qiang was about to leave for Guangling, Xu Qian, the prince of the State of Wei, finally caught up with him.
Lu Qiang originally wanted the old man to go to Luoyang, but seeing that he was chasing him so eagerly, there was obviously something wrong, so he summoned him in Yangzhou.
Although he wanted to inquire about the situation of Tuoba Mingzhu, he soon suppressed this unwise idea. The identities of the two are too different. Let's take it as a beautiful encounter!
Running thousands of miles, the old man was exhausted, but when he heard that Lu Qiang had been summoned, he still came regardless of fatigue.
"See His Majesty the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty
The old man's etiquette is in place, but Lu Qiang always automatically classifies these Han people who work for foreigners as traitors, no matter how high-sounding the reason he is.
However, he came on behalf of Tuoba Kui, the emperor of the State of Wei. Lu Qiang was not too unreasonable and said indifferently, "I don't know why Xu Taifu chased him for thousands of miles?"
Isn't this emperor of the Jin Dynasty too stingy? Why don't you even give me saliva?
He swallowed and said in a hoarse voice, "The foreign minister actually has a great happy event to report to His Majesty"
Lu Qiang smiled and ordered someone to bring tea to Xu Qian, and then said, "Is Tuoba Kui ready to submit to me?"
"Puff!"
The tea that Xu Qian just drank was sprayed back by Lu Qiang's words, and then coughed violently. After a long time, he said, "Your Majesty is joking, how can my majesty serve you? It's not about this, cough..."
Lu Qiang also knew that this was impossible and smiled, "Other than that, I really can't think of any big happy events."
Lu Qiang's sarcasm, I'm afraid that people with a little blood can't stand it. Xu Qian's old face instantly turned red like pig blood, and it returned to normal after a moment.
He said patiently, "My majesty actually wants to marry you"
He was really afraid that Lu Qiang would say something unpleasant again, so this sentence was fast and urgent.
Marriage? Do you mean marriage?
Lu Qiang's eyes couldn't help narrowing.
What does Tuoba Kui want to do? Is it easy to bully me? Do you still want to repeat this trick that has been played for hundreds of years? What kind of man is it to place the safety of a country on a woman's body? Even if I try my best, I will never agree.
"Your Majesty misunderstood, not marriage, but marriage. My Majesty has a palm and wants to marry your majesty's prince as his wife"
It turned out to be like this, but Lu Qiang immediately remembered Tuoba Mingzhu. Isn't it Tuoba Kui who wants Tuoba Mingzhu to marry my son? This joke is very big.
He said lightly, "My son is still young and has no consideration in this regard for the time being. I appreciate Tuoba Kui's kindness. Go back and thank him for me."
Xu Qian obviously didn't expect Lu Qiang to refuse and said urgently, "In fact, my princess has just turned one year old. This is just a marriage first. When they grow up, they will officially get married."
It turned out that it was not Tuoba Mingzhu. Lu Qiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then suspected that Tuoba Kui had just retreated with a disgraced face. Why did he come to marry me again? What does he want to do?"
Looking at Xu Qian, he suddenly said, "Are there any conditions for Tuoba Kui?"
Xu Qian was slightly stunned. It seemed that he was obviously worried by Lu Qiang. After a while, he said, "In fact, it's not a big deal. I just want to ask Your Majesty to open a field at the border gate."
"To be honest, the three wars made my majesty deeply understand your majesty's wisdom and martial arts, so my majesty decided to become a country of brothers with the Jin Dynasty from now on, and there will never go south again."
These words are quite audible, but Lu Qiang will not believe what kind of brotherhood Tuobai will form with him. When the Central Plains are weak, the iron hooves of these foreigners will still go south without hesitation.
Combined with the Lu case that has just been solved, Lu Qiang has some understanding of what Tuoba Jiyu wants to trade.
First get married with me, and then unscrupulously ask for all kinds of grassland shortage materials. Ruyi's calculation is good!
At that moment, he said quietly, "Let's talk about the marriage when the children grow up, but there is no problem with what you said. In this way, you'd better go to Luoyang!" I will give an order to the cabinet, and the cabinet will discuss the specific matters of opening the field with you."
According to reason, Lu Qiang has promised to open a field, and Xu Qian should be happy, but at this moment he can't be happy, because he knows very well that he can't get married. With Lu Qiang's character, Tuoba Yui can't think of anything he wants. And the main reason why he came in a hurry was that Lu's line was broken.
Now it seems that although the emperor of the Jin Dynasty promised to open a venue, it was no different from nothing.
gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, can you think about the marriage again? My Majesty has prepared 20,000 war horses as a dowry."
20,000 war horses are undoubtedly a huge wealth for a country that lacks horses like the Jin Dynasty. It can be seen that Tuoba Kui wanted to contribute to this matter.
Lu Qiang did not know whether these 20,000 war horses were privately promised by Xu Qian or Tuoba Kui personally, but this was a little too obvious.
said lightly, "Don't you understand what I said? I repeat it again. If you want to open the game, you can go to Luoyang, otherwise you can go back."
After saying that, he brushed his sleeves and turned around and walked back.
Xu Qian opened his mouth, but finally didn't shout out. Seeing that Lu Qiang had gone, he had to come out listlessly.
Before returning to the post house, a subordinate came up and whispered something in his ear.
"Is there anything like this?"
After listening to his subordinates' words, Xu Qian's eyes immediately lit up, swept away the decadence just now, quickly stepped in, and said as he walked, "I'm waiting with pen and ink, I want to write to your majesty"...
The severe winter is coming, and it can be said that the grassland lacks everything. If in the past, there was a big insider of the Lu family who poured things into the grassland, but now that the Lu family has fallen, Tuoba Gui must find another way to solve the dilemma of lack of materials in the grassland.
Although there are also people transporting supplies to the State of Wei in this era, no matter what it is, most of them come from the south of the Yangtze River, so it is better to go directly to the State of Jin than to go to the State of Qin.
Returning to the temporary residence, Lu Qiang pondered for a moment, and then sent a decree to Tan Daoji, Wen Chumao and other generals to strengthen the inspection of the border gate and guard against the looting of the Wei people.
In addition, Yan Yanzhi and others, except for military materials, can appropriately relax the types of trade with the State of Wei and try to avoid the Wei people going south to plunder because they can't live.
Trade is also a means to avoid war.
Xu Qian proposed the condition of 20,000 war horses, but it also reminded Lu Qiang that he had ordered Xiliang Li Wei to offer 10,000 war horses. According to He Wuji's report, so far, Li Wei has only sent more than 3,000 horses, and there is still a gap of 7,000, but he has been prevaricated by him for various reasons.
The State of Yan has been destroyed, and the next one is Xiliang.
So Lu Qiang sent a decree to Li Xiao, ordering him to come to Beijing to report his duties in the New Year. At the same time, he secretly ordered He Wuji to prepare for sending troops.
Li Wei will definitely not come. At that time, Lu Qiang will fight against him for his disobeying the decree and contempt of the imperial court.
After arranging these, Lu Qiang led his army to continue his southern tour. His time is very tight and he must return to Luoyang on the occasion of the New Year, that is to say, he only has two months to travel south.
did not disappoint the person who was going to assassinate him. Not far from Yangzhou, Lu Qiang broke away from the brigade again, but this time he found a stand-in and took him to Guangling, and he quietly took people to Jiankang.
At this time, it is the end of October, and the wind in the north has begun to call, but the south of the Yangtze River is still green. Although the temperature has also decreased, it is not cold at all.
Jiankang knew a lot of people, so Lu Qiang did not show up, but sat in the carriage. He had a feeling that the mastermind who assassinated him this time was hiding in Jiankang.
As Lu Qiang took the capital to Luoyang, the ancient city of Jiankang gradually lost its former prosperity, but the quiet streets, combined with various simple buildings, also added a different scenery to the ancient city.
Zhifengtang has many secret strongholds, and Lu Qiang and his party live directly in the backyard of a tea shop.
After Han Yanzhi was transferred to Beijing, Jiankang, an important stronghold, was guarded by Zhang Changzhi, another confidant of Lu Qiang, but Lu Qiang had already secretly ordered him not to pick him up in Yangzhou.
Lu Qiang secretly went to Jiankang this time to find out who secretly plotted to assassinate him?
From the last monk's trouble to the Xie Wangzu incident, Lu Qiang felt that there was always a big hand behind him controlling all this, and if he hadn't taken out this hand earlier, something big might have happened!
In fact, the owner of this big hand is not difficult to guess. He is Lu Qiang's sworn endear and Tiansong.
Although this old guy has changed his power from light to dark in recent years, his development has not weakened at all. His tentacles have even reached the Luoyang court. Otherwise, what is he going to do?
It's just that Tiansong seems to have some bad luck. Every time he is always exposed by Lu Qiang when he is a little short. Tiansong's pinch can count. I don't know if Lu Qiang is his natural nemesis?
Lu Qiang led the army to patrol the south, and Lu Qiang's personality of liking private visits undoubtedly made Tiansong see great hope. The army is heavily guarded, and there is nothing he can do. As long as Lu Qiang appears in the market, Tiansong is sure to assassinate him in one fell swoop.