Chapter 134 War Preparation
Although what to eat is the most difficult problem in the world, scholars don’t have to worry about this problem.
Li Yi asked Guan Chang to pack the nine portions of stinky tofu and stuffed it into the scholar's hand.
I still want to take it away after spending money? Humph, I have to take it away without any food!
"Eat while it's hot, it won't be delicious when it's cold." Li Yi smiled and reminded him, "If you can't eat, you can distribute it to your relatives, friends and neighbors. Welcome next time."
The scholar left in frustration, but the rest were a little ready. Although they could not solve the scholar's problem, they were confident that Li Yi could not solve their problem.
So, looking at the plaque of the smartest man who seemed to be shining, they rushed to prepare for the challenge one by one.
"I want to compete with you!"
"I want to compete with you for chess!"
"I want to compete with you..."
"It's so noisy!" Li Yi slapped the table, "If you want to challenge, line up and follow the rules, one by one."
"What are your rules?"
Li Yi immediately wrote down a piece of paper and pasted it on the wall.
Everyone looked at his crooked handwriting and recognized it for a long time before they recognized it all.
"The challenger needs to buy ten stinky tofu!"
"Ah, I bought so much..."
"Then are you going to challenge?" Li Yi said angrily.
"war!"
Li Yidi's face instantly turned cloudy and sunny: "Okay! Thank you for your patronage, Guan Chang received the money!"
"yes!"
On this day, Li Yi made a lot of money.
...
When Gan Ci came back from Xiu'er's house for re-examination, she was shocked when she saw so many people walking out of the store with dejected expression.
Soon, night fell, and Li Yi drove away the group of challengers by taking advantage of the store's closing.
Gan Ci walked to Li Yi, who was exhausted and rubbed his temples.
Li Yi patted her hand and asked Gan Ci to use his own words to change his dog-like words from the wall.
Gan Ci wrote the words and said in confusion: "Ayi, do you ask them to buy ten stinky tofu each, is it a little more? If you can't finish it, it will be wasted."
Li Yi smiled and said, "You don't understand this, right? Of course, I deliberately sold it to them more so that they can't finish it.
What they can't finish eating will naturally be distributed to relatives and friends. In this way, will our stinky tofu be promoted naturally?
I think it won’t take long to make our stinky tofu successful and notorious, hahaha.”
Gan Ci was shocked when he heard this: "Ayi, you are so smart. You are worthy of being called the smartest person in Zhaozhou."
When Gan Ci mentioned this, Li Yi frowned: "Who was the name of me? It was obviously just a plaque, so why has it been the smartest person in Zhaozhou so far?"
"It's really strange."
Li Yi frowned. He was lucky today. The questions raised by the challenger were not outrageous. He could barely answer them with the avant-garde vision of later generations.
But the ancients were not all fools. Sooner or later, they would ask questions that he could not answer. What should we do then?
Li Yi looked at the plaque of the "No. wise man" and fell into deep thought.
This thing is a hot potato after all...
...
In the private room, Lord Zhang Yun and Zhang were lying on the table with a brush, and he was thinking about how to write a document sent to Bianliang.
At this moment, a knock on the door suddenly rang: "Sir, it's an urgent letter from Bianliang."
"Such a coincidence?" Zhang Yun was a little curious. He was about to send a letter to Bianliang, but Bianliang sent a letter here.
Opening the door and taking the letter from his confidant's hand, Zhang Yun returned to the room and slowly looked at it.
When he saw this, he couldn't help but be shocked: "What? The official family is going to launch troops against the Northern Han?"
Over the years, the State of Song has accumulated a lot of national strength and has indeed met the conditions for sending troops to neighboring countries.
However, the court did not reach a common understanding of whether to send troops to the north or south.
There are Northern Han and Liao Kingdoms in the north. If they can send troops to win, they can take over the sixteen states of Jinyang and Yanyun. If they can recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, they can achieve great achievements that Chai Rong has never achieved.
Zhang Yun knew that this was something that Song Lord Zhao Kuangyin wanted to do in his dreams.
Because, the state of Song was wrong.
It turned out that after Emperor Chai Rong of the Later Zhou Dynasty died during the conquest of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in Chenqiao and put on a yellow robe.
Although Zhao Kuangyin was reluctant to admit it, many people clearly knew that the world of Song State was obtained by bullying the orphan and widowed mother of the Chai family.
Therefore, if Chai Rong can accomplish the feat of recapturing the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun that Chai Rong has never achieved, then Zhao Kuangyin will wash away all the doubts and become the real master of this land.
Moreover, many major events have occurred in the Liao Kingdom in the north in recent years, and the country's political situation is in turmoil, which is fully in line with the conditions for sending troops.
First of all, last year, the Emperor Yelu Jing of Liao was killed by a nearby servant, Hua Ge, and the chef Xin Gu and six others while Yelu Jing was drunk.
Then the successor emperor Yelu Xian and his father-in-law Xiao Siwen were assassinated when they went out of Lielu Mountain. As a result, Yelu Xian was seriously injured and Xiao Siwen died.
The seriously injured Liao lord Yelu Xian was unable to take charge of the government and was unwilling to lose power, so he had to temporarily hand over the power to his wife, Xiao Siwen's daughter, the seventeen-year-old queen Xiao Chuo.
Just imagine how stable the political situation of a country under such a young woman is? Then the people's hearts must be unbearable.
The Liao Kingdom was originally a mountain pressing on the head of Song Kingdom. If it could not get the natural barrier of the Central Plains, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, then when the Liao Kingdom survived this most difficult time, the Song Kingdom would face its invasion at all times.
If God does not take it, he will suffer the consequences.
Zhao Kuangyin cannot be unmoved, because at this time, it is the best time to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!
In contrast, the Tang Kingdom, the Southern Han Kingdom, and the Wu Yue Kingdom in the south have been weak for a long time, and have always been obedient and can attack at any time.
So in the court, Zhao Kuangyin suppressed the sound of going south with one hand and looked at the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the north.
He wants to send troops! He will seize Jinyang first to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty, and then seize the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun!
But there must be a reason to send troops. In war, the first thing to pay attention to is justification. If there is no serious reason to send troops, then an unjust war will not win the hearts of the people and the morale of the army.
Therefore, the purpose of Zhao Kuangyin sending this letter to Zhang Yun was to ask Zhang Yun to give him a reason!
Zhang Yun secretly came to Pingji County to investigate Bai Zhou, because they discovered that Bai Zhou seemed to have a close relationship with the Northern Han Dynasty.
If it can be found that the Zhou was a detailed organization of the Northern Han Dynasty in the Song State and intended to overthrow the Song State regime, then the Song State could use this as an excuse to launch a self-defense counterattack.
During this period, under Zhang Yun's open and secret investigation, he actually found some clues about Baiyue.
Chapter completed!