Liu Yi frowned and said thoughtfully: "I didn't give this brain Gu pill to you. Maybe, I really want to ask the person who gave me this thing. At that time, he just said that using this pill can make you happy." You were obedient and didn’t say anything else.”
Liu Tingyun gritted her teeth: "You still refuse to tell me who gave you this thing. Haven't I helped you enough over the years? Our fates are tied together now, and you haven't eaten this thing. , I don’t know how scary it is!”
Liu Yi said coldly: "My wife, you can still live here all these years, and you can still be so powerful and have status because of my protection of you even if you offend Liu Yu. The reason why I can deal with Liu Yu, it all depends on the joint support of the people who gave me this thing. Don’t ask about these things. It’s not yet time for me to discuss these hidden secrets with you!”
Liu Tingyun's eyes sparkled with tears: "It turns out that after all these years, you still refuse to believe me!"
Liu Yi shook his head: "You and I are just getting what we need. I loved you and liked you when I was young, and I still like you now, but this does not mean that I will put my life and fortune in your hands. You do things for me. I provide you with protection. We have common enemies and similar pursuits. We travel the same road and share the same bed. But I don’t want to hand over all my secrets to you. Likewise, your connections in the aristocratic families. , relationship, I won’t interfere, wouldn’t it be better if we keep this distance and have this kind of cooperative relationship for many years?”
Liu Tingyun sighed softly and turned her head: "Do you dislike me because you have been with Huan Xuan for many years? Over the years, I can feel that in your heart, you want me and hate me. That's it. Because I despised you back then and married someone else for many years, right?"
A complicated look flashed in Liu Yi's eyes, and he shook his head: "I was just a small official in the state back then. It's okay for you to look down on me if you come from a high family, but I keep reminding myself that I am still the same person today. There was no difference between Liu Xile back then in the eyes of the noble family. Although I held a high position and had a lot of troops, I was still just a lackey of a warrior in their eyes. It was only because they had lost their military power that they could only listen temporarily. I ordered that if I relax for a moment and let them regain power and get out of my control, then my fate will be the same as Liu Laozhi, Sun Wuzhong and others. And the same is true for you."
Liu Tingyun was silent for a while and then said: "Well, I can understand if you think this way. After all, we are just in a relationship of mutual use and cooperation. Master, I will never ask you such stupid questions again in the future. I just beg you." , you must save me, you can use other restrictions to restrain me, or even let me take poison, but, but I really don’t want the bug in the ball to eat my heart and brain one day, and then from there It came out of my body and turned me into that horrible monster. I would rather die than do this!"
A trace of pity flashed in Liu Yi's eyes. He gently stretched out his hand, lifted Liu Tingyun's chin with his index finger, and said softly: "Don't worry, my baby, I can't bear to leave you even more. I will find a way to get it." The antidote that controls you, get rid of that damn Gu insect, otherwise, if you suddenly turn into something like the bright moon one night, I, lying next to you, will probably be the first to die."
Liu Tingyun's eyes flashed with a smile, and she smiled slightly: "After doing this for a long time, you are still worried about your life, but you think so, if I am harmed, you will be the first to be unlucky. Even for this You yourself, you can't be controlled by others like this. The person who gave you this thing has no good intentions. On the surface, he wants to control me, but in fact, he wants to use me to deal with you. You are a smart person, but you must leave a Eyes of the mind.”
Liu Yi curled up his lips: "Okay, let's not talk about this matter. Let's talk about the battle ahead. Sima Guofan fled to Later Qin and was protected by Yao Xing. This shows that Later Qin and I, the Jin Dynasty, are going to openly We are enemies, what news is there about their army mobilization, including the envoys from Nanyan who went to ask for help?"
Liu Tingyun shook her head: "It's strange to say that the person Nan Yan sent to Later Qin to ask for reinforcements was Shang Shulang Zhang Gang. Although this person was known as a skilled craftsman, his official position was not high. I don't understand why Nan Yan sent such a person. Asking for help, the ministers of the Later Qin Dynasty said in the court meeting that sending such a person to ask for help was an insult to the Later Qin Dynasty, so Yao Xing sent Zhang Gang away without even seeing him, but at the same time he took Sima Guo in Fan, gave him an armored force of 5,000 men and asked him to go to the border to recruit surrenders and rebels. You should also know this from the military reports."
Liu Yi frowned: "Have you ever found out who rescued Sima Guofan? Who are the forces behind him?"
Liu Tingyun sighed: "I repeatedly checked and found out that this Sima Guofan did not go to Chang'an, but stayed in Luoyang. It was the guard general of Luoyang in the Later Qin who sent a letter to Yao Xing asking for instructions on how to deal with this Sima Guofan. As a result, However, while Yao Xing drove away Zhang Gang, he gave Sima Guofan the official title of Yangzhou Governor and Champion General. He also gave Sima Guofan an army of 5,000 men and 100,000 shi of rations, asking him to recruit and form an army by himself. , In addition, Yao Xing threatened that Liu Yu's attack on his vassal country Nanyan was an open enemy of the Later Qin Dynasty. He had sent envoys to negotiate with Liu Yu and asked him to relieve the siege and withdraw his troops. Otherwise, Sima Guofan was just a vanguard, and he A hundred thousand troops will be raised to directly attack the Jin Dynasty."
Liu Yi sneered and said: "You are not ashamed of your words. Now that the Later Qin has suffered several defeats against Hu Xia, Yao Xing himself almost couldn't return to Chang'an, so he still wants to become an enemy of the Jin Dynasty? I would like to directly use it in the name of attacking Sima Guofan , went to attack Qin's Central Plains. With the 30,000 elite men under my command now, if I return to Yuzhou and join Lu Zongzhi's Yongzhou soldiers and horses, and go out in two directions, we can seize the Central Plains and establish a position no less powerful than Liu Yu's. It is not difficult to capture Qingzhou’s great achievements.”
Liu Tingyun's beautiful eyebrows frowned slightly: "Are you serious?"
Liu Yi pondered for a moment and said: "It's a pity that my second brother's Yanzhou soldiers and 8,000 Yuzhou regiments followed Liu Yu to the Northern Expedition to Southern Yan. Now they are also following to attack Guanggu. This is a great achievement that I can easily achieve. I can't let my second brother come back with troops at this time. Now I have only 30,000 soldiers and horses. It will take some time to assemble food and grass. Can you help me think of a way to let the aristocratic families in Jiankang City contribute some food, grass and manpower? What I don’t want is much, half a million stones of military rations, and 20,000 civilian soldiers to conquer the Central Plains, and I will give them adequate rewards based on the amount of effort they put in!”
