"I suggest that the envoys be sent to Hebei immediately, join forces with the Hengzhou Jiedushi Chen Qingzhu and Jizhou Jiedushi Gao Shancai, and let Zhang Jin lead the 30,000 troops of the headquarters to fight against the Hebei border, and coerce Li Conggu, Weizhou, dare not come to do anything."

Li Xun immediately gave specific suggestions.

Zhao Xun frowned and said, "Among the five major vassal states in Hebei, Chen Qingzhu and Gao Shancai have a relatively distant relationship with the court. If you want to unite, will they be willing?"

"I'll definitely be willing."

Li Xun said in a deep voice: "The enemy's enemy is a friend, his lips are dead and his teeth are cold. The interests are there. Li Conggu has already annexed Zhang Jinghui's five prefectures. If Tian Zhang is swallowed up, no one can check and balance Li Conggu again. The balance of the overall situation in Hebei will no longer exist. When the strength is not in contrast, Li Conggu will definitely fight against Chen Qingzhu and Gao Shancai and unify the entire Hebei land."

Zhao Xun pondered and said nothing. After thinking for a while, he nodded slightly: "Come."

"Please give me instructions."

Zhao Chengde's voice came from outside.

Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "Order the Secretary of the Secretariat Lu Baijiang to summon all the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall and ministers above the third rank of each ministries to come to the palace to discuss matters after noon."

"Yes, your majesty, I'll do it right away."

Zhao Chengde responded and left immediately.

Zhao Xun pointed to Li Xun and said, "The suggestions you just said are very good. I feel the same way. You should go back to the Ministry of War immediately and draw these suggestions into memorials. Take them out during the afternoon discussion and let everyone make their own ideas."

"Yes, your Majesty."

Li Xun bowed and said a few simple words to Zhao Xun, then said goodbye and left.

After noon, the ministers and other major ministers of the Political Affairs Hall gathered in front of Zhao Xun.

Everyone already knows what happened in Youzhou, and they are all very surprised and surprised.

Then everyone started to discuss. Although they had different opinions and different methods, the overall direction and purpose were rarely consistent this time.

In fact, there is nothing strange about this. Political ideas and political interests, perhaps everyone, every family, and even every faction, have their own plans and choices, but the rules and bottom lines that the court adheres to are shared by everyone.

The court could tolerate the major vassal states in Hebei to hold on to their own troops and separatist areas. At some point, for some things, they could even lower their attitude, win over and compromise on them in the form of benefits and interests, and even take the initiative to give in. However, they would never allow the entire Hebei land to be controlled by a certain person in a whole way. Now, Zhang Jinghui has been destroyed, and internal strife broke out in Youzhou. Chen Qingzhu, the governor of Hengzhou, and Gao Shancai, the governor of Jizhou, these two major vassal state forces have been on a downward path in recent years. Their strength is not as strong as before. They are no match for Li Conggu in Weizhou at all.

Looking at the overall situation of Hebei, Li Conggu has already vaguely qualified and environment to unify the entire Hebei. Driven by the temptation of huge interests, Li Conggu is likely to be unable to help but take advantage of this opportunity to swallow Youzhou in one fell swoop. Once he does this, it will completely surpass the bottom line of the court. Zhao Xun will never stand by and send troops is inevitable.

There are only two things that everyone is considering now, one is the first and the other is the last.

Looking forward, what actions and methods should be used to restrain and coerce Li Conggu of Weizhou, making him afraid and dare not do anything randomly.

Looking back, if Li Conggu insisted on raising troops to attack Youzhou, what kind of actions and methods would the court send troops to attack?

Li Xun's suggestion was approved and discussed by the vast majority of people, but Li Zhong had some of his own suggestions. He was not opposed to Li Xun's plan, but just the steps in the process, which were different from what Li Xun thought.

Li Xun's suggestion was to send envoys to Hebei, join forces with the Hengzhou Jiedushi Chen Qingzhu and Jizhou Jiedushi Gao Shancai, and ask Zhang Jin to lead the 30,000 troops to fight against the Hebei border, and coerce Li Conggu, Weizhou, to not dare to do anything. In the previous post, join forces with Chen Qingzhu and Gao Shancai. Li Zhong felt that this suggestion was good and could give it a try, but let Zhang Jin lead the 30,000 troops to the Hebei border, and Li Zhong expressed his opposition.

Li Xun said in confusion: "What's wrong with the right prime minister?"

Li Zhong said indifferently: "In terms of military affairs, 30,000 soldiers are enough to fight a large-scale war. If you ask Zhang Jin to lead them to Chen Bing on the Hebei border, it can indeed play a powerful deterrent effect, but have you ever thought that this kind of military deterrence and threat is effective against Li Conggu. Is it effective for Chen Qingzhu and Gao Shancai?"

Li Xun's body shook slightly, and he immediately understood what Li Zhong meant.

The major vassal states in Hebei have been fighting with the imperial court for decades. Both sides have always been grudges and suspicion. Now it is only because of the situation that they have to unite. However, the barriers between the two sides still exist, but have not disappeared or weakened. In this extremely sensitive situation, Zhang Jin led a 30,000 army to station troops on the Hebei border. The powerful military threat, what Li Conggu felt in Weizhou, did Chen Qingzhu and Gao Shancai not have this feeling? There must be, and it will not be much weaker than Li Conggu.

Zhang Jin had only 30,000 soldiers in his hands, not too many, but there were also many. But behind him was the entire Hedong and even the entire court. Once a war broke out between Li Conggu and Youzhou in Weizhou, the court could mobilize the troops of Jinyang and several other local governors' offices in a very short time, with at least 20,000 to 30,000 people. Together with Zhang Jin's 30,000, that is, 50,000 or 60,000. At that time, Weizhou and Youzhou were fighting fiercely, without any defenses and could not take into account both. Hebei was left with two weakest vassal governors, Chen Qingzhu and Gao Shancai. This was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the court. Zhang Jin was very likely to take the opportunity to launch an attack directly, break into Hebei in one fell swoop, and completely wipe out all local vassal states in Hebei.

It's not impossible.

Chen Hu said: "Right Prime Minister, you have too many concerns. What military needs is decisiveness and speed. If you think about it like this, you are afraid that the war will be unfavorable."

Li Zhong said indifferently: "War is not a joke, you should think twice."

Lu Bojiang also said: "It's better to be more cautious. We cannot repeat the painful lessons of the dynasty of Heizong."

Some ministers began to argue.

At this time, Lu Zhongxun coughed twice, and everyone stopped arguing and looked at him.
Chapter completed!