Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 271

[Chapter 271 Conspiracy?]

“Please look, Your Highness.”

Ma Jin took out a map of Jinzhou from his pocket.

The above picture shows important mountains, rivers and cities in Jinju.

Zhao Xu looked at him and nodded slightly.

Although the painting that Ma Jin took out was very rough.

But basically it also interprets the geographical essence of Jinzhou.

Jinju, the contemporary Shanxi, is surrounded by mountains.

Especially to the west, it is blocked by the Yellow River and the Luliang Mountains.

To attack Jinzhou from the west, in addition to crossing the Yellow River, there is also the pass of Luliang Mountain.

The northern pass is called Yanmen Pass in contemporary times, and Tongguan in Dasong, facing Yinshan Mountain.

At present, the south of Yinshan Mountain is the territory of Xiliang, and Tongguan is also occupied by Xiliang.

To the east is Feihu Pass, which is called Pingxing Pass in contemporary times.

The south is also blocked by the Jin River. If you attack Jinzhou from the south, you must cross the Pingguan in the south after crossing the Jin River.

It can be seen that Jinzhou is really easy to defend but difficult to attack.

In the history of Dasong, Jinzhou was often the focus of contention in the war between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Grassland Empire.

If the Prairie Empire wins Jinzhou, it will be able to advance and attack the Central Plains Dynasty, and retreat and defend.

Basically losing Jinzhou, the northern part of the Central Plains Dynasty will be shrouded in the haze of the grassland empire.

If one fails, the entire Central Plains will be lost.

As long as the Central Plains Dynasty does not lose Jinzhou, the Prairie Empire cannot go south with peace of mind.

After all, this is a nail that threatens their supply line.

Even the cavalry of the Central Plains can start from Tongguan in Jinzhou to surprise the tribes of the grassland empire.

In Zhao Xu’s memory, there was a very powerful grassland empire more than four hundred years ago.

This empire first conquered Jinzhou, then broke Yanzhou, and then swept all the way south to sweep the Central Plains dynasty at that time, and ruled the Central Plains for 60 years.

It’s just that the grassland empire expanded too quickly.

History books mention that the steppe empire has reached the end of the western land.

However, due to strong conquest and weak governance, the grassland empire collapsed in just sixty years.

Beidi now claims to be the successor of this empire.

Every time he thinks of this, he thinks of a similar empire in the contemporary era.

Perhaps in this world, gunpowder is also passed to the West in this way.

At the same time, another cruel fact is that in this world, the other party has clicked the right technology tree on gunpowder.

And the Central Plains Dynasty, which was dragged down by powerful clans, was like the Qing Dynasty.

The power clans rank themselves as first-class people and enslave the people.

In order to protect their own interests, they will do everything possible, reject any changes, and hinder development.

They are afraid of people’s exchanges with other countries, thinking that it will bring unstable factors.

On the one hand, Da Song’s sea ban is due to pirates, and on the other hand, it is due to the clamor of powerful clansmen.

Its stubbornness and conservatism can be seen in general.

Of course, there are also people of insight who are struggling to speak out, but these people are no match for a full house of powerful officials.

“The Ma family is in the south of Jinzhou, and His Highness is in the west of Jinzhou. On the day of the attack, our Ma family will cross the Jin River through the Sizhou Ferry and attack north. I hope that Your Highness can attack from the west. The two armies will join forces at Jincheng. Let’s attack Jincheng together.” Ma Jin said.

After a pause, he continued: “At the same time, the Majia Navy will go north to the Jin River from the Yongzhou Ferry to block the Xiliang reinforcements.”

Zhao Xu recovered from his chaotic thoughts, he was stunned, and said: “Well, yes, this is indeed an excellent strategy.”

Although he is not very relieved about the current Ma family.

But the offensive line mentioned by Ma Jin is perfect.

Cut off Xiliang’s backup, and attack Xiliang soldiers entrenched in Jinzhou from both sides.

With the Ma family and his strength, fighting a good battle is not a problem.

But the most important thing is that he only hopes that the Ma family can really execute it as beautifully as Ma Jin said.

But no matter what, the Ma family took the initiative to send people here, and came up with this idea again.

He has no reason to refuse.

Otherwise, Zhao Heng would definitely change his face if a member of the Ma family came to the capital and said that he was afraid of war.

After all, as he thought, Daesong cannot lose Jinju.

“So, Your Highness agrees.” Ma Jin smiled.

Zhao Xu nodded affirmatively.

Seemingly relieved, he continued: “According to what His Highness said in his notebook, on March 16th, the Ma family and His Highness sent troops at the same time.”

“It’s a deal.” Zhao Xu patted the table.

The Ma family kicked the ball to it, and he had to follow it.

This time the Ma family is sincere or false.

He had to prepare with both hands. It would be best if the Ma family sincerely cooperated with him to attack Xiliang.

But if the Ma family is holding back, he has to find a way to prevent the Ma family from dragging him down.

“Hahaha…” Ma Jin laughed out loud, as if he really enjoyed the cooperation.

The laughter stopped, and he seemed to think of something, with a sad expression on his face: “Although Ma Chong is the head of the family now, he is only acting as the head of the family. Ma Han has not seen anyone alive or dead. I hope His Highness can tell the Ma family that Ma Chong will give him the position of Patriarch.”

“Really?” Zhao Xu asked, and he said, “Okay, if there is any news, I will definitely inform the general.”

In fact, last time the Ma family sent When people came, he asked the government office to post a notice to pay attention.

Anyone who can provide clues will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver.

But so far he has not received any feedback.

Although it was a pity, he thought that Mahan was probably dead.

Ma Jin cupped her hands, “In this way, Ma won’t bother His Highness.”

Zhao Xu was also very busy, and had received people several times these days, so he was a bit tired.

And he doesn’t like the hypocrisy at the banquet very much.

He just stayed for a while, and Ma Jin said he would go back and return, so he didn’t want to keep him anymore.

Just ordered Xu Lie to send Ma Jin to the gate of the palace.

After getting on the horse, Ma Jin led more than a hundred guards and left.

After arriving outside the city, Ma Jin’s face darkened.

He said to a guard beside him, “Has the news been sent out?”

“It has been sent to the merchants of the Ma family.” The guard said.

Ma Jin nodded.

The assassin belonged to Beidi, but he released the pigeons that day.

Once, when he was fighting in Jinzhou, he robbed several women as concubines and killed some people.

When he returned to Xiancheng, he was punished by Ma Xuan’s military law and was given forty lashes.

I have hated it for a long time.

Moreover, his father and Ma Xuan are brothers from the same mother.

He was already dissatisfied with the fact that Ma Xuan’s lineage was in charge of the Ma family.

So he hit it off with the Dou family, and with Beidi’s participation, he decided to kill Ma Xuan and his son and let Ma Chong inherit the Ma family.

In this way, the Ma family became the head of the family, and because of his merits, he took control of the real power of the Ma family.

However, the fact that Mahan’s body was not found was always what he was most worried about.

What frightened him especially was that Ma Han fell into the hands of King Yan.

This will be extremely detrimental to the Ma family.

Therefore, he decided to come to Yancheng in person and come up with a sincere plan to attack Xiliang.

He took the opportunity to test King Yan, but he didn’t find any flaws in King Yan.

King Yan did not seem to know where Ma Han was.

“Let them keep an eye on me. As long as Ma Han appears in Yanzhou, he will be killed at all costs.”

“Yes, general.” The guard responded.

(end of this chapter)