Chapter 154 War breaks out

Early in the morning.

The sky is still gray and bright.

Lu Chen rode his horse and went straight to the place where the craftsmen lived, and then gave some information on coal mining and processing to Mo Fei and the others for them to study.

After that, Lu Chen discussed the construction of the earthen kang and greenhouse with Mo Fei and the others. Lu Chen discussed the details with the craftsmen for a whole day.

This once again made the craftsmen of Dayu City feel the sincerity of Bei Wang. Generally speaking, if Bei Wang wanted to discuss something with them, he only needed to let them go to Bei Wang Mansion. As a result, Bei Wang came early in the morning and braved the cold. Feng himself came to where they lived to discuss things with them.

A few days later.

North Palace.

Lu Chen was looking through the intelligence collected by Jin Yiwei in the study, when the maid's voice sounded at the door, "Your Majesty, Commander Qin wants to see you."

Lu Chen immediately said: "Come in."

Then Qin Yushan pushed the door open and entered. At this time, Qin Yushan was covered with snow. It was even colder today, and it was snowing heavily outside.

After Qin Yushan entered the room, he gave a simple salute.

"Meet the prince."

After the salute, Qin Yushan immediately placed the bamboo tube containing the information on his desk, "Your Majesty, urgent report from the capital!"

Hearing this, Lu Chen, who was looking through Dayue's information, was stunned for a moment.

After coming back to his senses, Lu Chen immediately swept aside the other information on the table with his hand, then immediately opened the bamboo tube on the table and took out the information from it.

Qin Yushan continued: "Winter is here, and none of the homing pigeons released by the capital have flown to Yancheng. They can only let the Jin Yiwei ride on horseback to deliver messages, so the information from the capital is many days later than before."

After Lu Chen took out the information from the bamboo tube, he looked at the contents of the information carefully. As his eyes gradually moved downward, Lu Chen's expression became more and more serious.

After reading the contents of the intelligence, Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said to Qin Yushan: "Immediately inform Li Rui and the others to come to the North Palace to discuss important matters."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Half an hour later.

Li Rui and other officials and a group of military generals from Beijun appeared in Lu Chen's study.

They were all a little curious. Today was not a day for a meeting. Why did King Beixian call them here? Could it be that King Beixian had gone south?

After everyone arrived, Lu Chen didn't speak immediately. His eyes were still scanning the map on the desk, as if he was thinking about something.

Everyone saw that Lu Chen's face was a little serious, so they didn't speak. They just stood quietly in the study and looked at Lu Chen, waiting for Lu Chen to speak first.

After a while, Lu Chen realized that everyone had arrived. He glanced at everyone, and then said to them: "The information I just received is that Daxia and Dawu are at war."

After hearing Lu Chen's words, everyone was stunned.

How can this be?

Several major dynasties have been at peace for who knows how many years. Although there are constant frictions between them, no major war has ever broken out.

How could a war suddenly break out between Dawu and Daxia at this time?

Mu Changtian immediately asked: "Your Majesty, was it Dawu who took the initiative to attack?"

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Emperor Xia’s original plan was to deal with the aristocratic families in Daxia, so Emperor Xia would definitely not take the initiative to provoke a war at this time. It would only be Dawu who took the initiative to attack Daxia. summer.

Hearing Mu Changtian's question, Lu Chen shook his head, and then said: "It's strange that it was us, Daxia, who started the war. After I saw the intelligence sent from the capital, I didn't react for a while. come over."

this……

Everyone in the study looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn’t know what to say.

They also couldn't believe that Daxia actually started a war at this time. So, would Emperor Xia still deal with the aristocratic family?

At this time, Li Rui asked: "Your Majesty, is it possible that the intelligence is wrong? There are already undercurrents surging in Daxia. How could your Majesty choose to attack the Dawu Dynasty at this time?"

Lu Chen said: "There is a high probability that there is no problem with the intelligence. The problem is the person who started the war."

"The major dynasties have been secretly deploying troops a month ago. There are 200,000 soldiers stationed in the area bordering the Dayue Dynasty and Beijun."

"I suspect that someone colluded with the Dawu Dynasty, took the initiative to provoke the war, and then gave the Dawu Dynasty an excuse to attack Daxia."

After hearing what Lu Chen said, everyone reacted instantly.

Indeed, Emperor Xia is definitely not willing to launch a war with the outside world at this time. He wants to cleanse the ancient aristocratic families within. If he launches a war with the outside world at this time, how can he cleanse those ancient aristocratic families.

Therefore, it is only possible that some aristocratic families colluded with the Dawu Dynasty and took the initiative to provoke the war.

The Dawu Dynasty does not necessarily really want to defeat the Daxia Dynasty, but as long as it can put enough pressure on Daxia, the aristocratic families in Daxia will give Dawu a lot of benefits.

Under external pressure, Emperor Xia finally had no choice but to compromise with those aristocratic families and gave up the idea of ​​purging the ancient aristocratic families.

However, Lu Chen didn't think it was that simple.

At this time, Lu Chen looked at Mu Changtian and said: "General Mu, although you are a military general, you have been an official in the capital for decades and have a good understanding of the political environment in the capital. According to your analysis, if it was instigated by a noble family, What will be the ultimate goal of the war between Dawu and Daxia?"

Upon hearing this question, Mu Changtian replied: "I think there are three possibilities."

"The first possibility is naturally to use external pressure to put pressure on His Majesty so that His Majesty does not dare to make any big moves against the family."

"The second possibility is that the family wants to take advantage of this opportunity to unite with other princes to directly force His Majesty to abdicate and replace him with an obedient emperor. Of course, this is the least likely, because the factions headed by the princes still exist. At this time, who can I don’t obey anyone, so if I want to elect any prince to the throne, it may lead to the split of Daxia.”

"As for the third possibility..."

At this point, Mu Changtian hesitated to speak, but he finally spoke: "I have often heard this argument recently, saying that Your Majesty sent you to Beijun, so the 50,000 black cavalry are not actually His Majesty's. , but belongs to His Majesty.”

"Even the people in Beijun think so, and those aristocratic families most likely think so too."

"So I believe that the family is likely to take advantage of this opportunity and ask His Majesty to move 50,000 heavy cavalry to the front line to confront the Dawu Dynasty head-on."

"The Dawu Dynasty was extremely militaristic, maintaining millions of troops all year round, and their strength is not weaker than the barbarians in the north, and is even more difficult to deal with than the barbarians."

"Although these 50,000 heavy cavalry are very powerful, if they go to the front line and engage in a war of attrition with Dawu, all of these 50,000 heavy cavalry may be consumed in less than a year."

In fact, not only the common people and those aristocratic families, but even Mu Changtian had wondered whether Lu Chen was a chess piece specially sent to Beijun by Emperor Xia some time ago. After all, Lu Chen did not have the ability to build 50,000 heavy cavalry in a short period of time.

However, when Mu Changtian learned about the existence of Dayu City, this idea was abandoned.

But other people in Daxia do not know the existence of Dayu City, so in their opinion, currently only Emperor Xia has the ability to allow Beijun to have 50,000 heavy cavalry, so in the eyes of others, these 50,000 heavy cavalry are actually Xia The emperor's personal soldiers.