Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 413
Zhou Xingfeng and Yang Shifan were blocked by Li Chongjin in Wuling City, in a dilemma.

But the real entanglement is Zhang Wenbiao.

Zhang Wenbiao, who occupies Changsha, Tanzhou, is restless at the moment. He doesn't look like a winner at all. He sometimes sits, sometimes stands, sometimes walks, sometimes stops.

Zhang Wenbiao is indecisive, cowardly, but ambitious.

Finding out that Zhou Xingfeng was ill, he was afraid that before he died, he would liquidate himself to pave the way for his son, so he would raise the banner of rebellion first and seize the opportunity.

From the very beginning, Zhang Wenbiao didn't intend to make matters worse. All he thought about was self-protection.

Zhang Wenbiao was very afraid of Zhou Xingfeng, and had no plans to rule Jingnan immediately.

Thinking that Hengzhou is too barren and trapped here, it is tantamount to suicidal, so he boldly sent troops to seize Changsha, Tanzhou.

Changsha's important location in southern Jing is the only important location comparable to Wuling.

Rejecting Changsha and resisting Wuling, after Zhou Xingfeng died of illness, he bullied his ten-year-old son and sat in Jingnan.

This is Zhang Wenbiao's final calculation.

As a result, Luo Youdu dispatched Li Chongjin and Lin Renzhao to the south with lightning speed and stationed at Dongting Lake, blocking the troops of Zhou Xingfeng and Yang Shifan in Wuling.

Then Jingnan let him attack many places, and Zhang Wenbiao was considered a powerful one, so he understood that there is no free lunch in this world.

Luo Youdu's sending troops to the south was definitely not a simple rebellion, and it was not good intentions to give him the opportunity to capture Jingnan, but to let himself go through it once and then take it.

When I take all the other places in Jingnan, it will be the day of my extinction.

What drove Zhang Wenbiao the most crazy was that he still didn't dare not take it.

If he really stood still, Li Chongjin and Lin Renzhao would not sit idly by, and the local tyrants who rebelled with him also disagreed.

If you refuse to eat the meat that reaches your mouth, then kill him and eat it...

Since ancient times, Jingnan has been a land of poor mountains and bad waters, where Han and barbarians live together, and the environment is complicated.

Nowadays, the world has gradually got rid of the bad habits of the Five Dynasties, but Jingnan just retains the bad habits of the following and above.

At this moment, son-in-law Ouyang Guang reported military news, his general Cheng Mingxin had conquered Yongzhou Lingling and was marching towards Qingxiang, Quanzhou.

Zhang Wenbiao didn't like to be in a hurry, and cursed: "I marched into Quanzhou before I gave the order. Is it because I don't die fast enough?"

Cheng Mingxin is the number one general under his command, a barbarian from Ricky Mountain, who always takes credit and pride, and Zhang Wenbiao has nothing to do with him, just enjoy his mouth.

Looking at his father-in-law, who was having trouble sleeping and eating, Ouyang Guang said: "Actually, Master Taishan is not without a way out."

Zhang Wenbiao looked at the unreliable son-in-law, frowned and said, "Tell me?"

He doesn't like this son-in-law. Compared with literati, he likes relatives who have courage and can help him conquer the country.But Ouyang Guang is powerless, if not for the strength of Ouyang family in Hengyang, he would definitely not agree to this marriage.

Ouyang Guang said: "Master Taishan can take the city, and at the same time secretly send envoys to complain to Li Chongjin. It is said that you raised an army, not rebelling against the Central Plains, but really forced by Zhou Xingfeng. Brother, there are too many evil deeds to record. The army is just a forced and helpless self-protection act, not a greedy power. I would like to give all the cities I got to Your Majesty first to prove my innocence."

Zhang Wenbiao's eyes lit up, and then he said hesitantly: "Let's just leave one place, Hengzhou, and give it all. Where shall we live?"

Ouyang Guang shook his head and said: "With regard to the ambition and courage shown by the emperor of the Central Plains, I would rather conquer it myself than let Jingnan be controlled outside the court. If Master Taishan wants to survive, he can only surrender all his power and go to Bianjing to enjoy it." Prosperity and wealth."

Zhang Wenbiao was in doubt.

Ouyang Guang said earnestly: "The emperor of the Central Plains has always been benevolent and powerful. He has always treated people who are willing to submit to the court with courtesy and is not stingy with property. He will never show mercy to those who disobey. He will send troops south this time. Grace will also show prestige. Between Taishan and Zhou Xingfeng, there must be someone who will become a chicken waiting to be slaughtered, and it depends on who knows how to be flattered first. If Zhou Xingfeng preempts it, the gods will be hard to save."

Hearing this, Zhang Wenbiao knew that the ending might not be satisfactory, but it is better to be alive than dead...

He no longer hesitated, looked at the son-in-law in front of him and became pleasing to the eye, and said: "My son-in-law is right, would you like to go to the Central Plains military camp in Dongting Lake?"

Ouyang Guang promised: "I am willing to work for Mount Tai."

He had already seen that he had no future under his father-in-law, so he might as well return to the Central Plains.

Zhang Wen expressed his concern, laughed loudly, and planned to lead the army himself, and recover Jingnan land for the emperor of the Central Plains as quickly as possible.

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December 27.

Xu Kai, the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, went through untold hardships to enter the territory of Qianzhou in Mengshu from Du Nijiang in the Southern Han Dynasty.

As the envoy of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xu Kai was the most painful one.

The passage to Shu was cut off by the Central Plains. The envoys from the Southern Tang wanted to enter Shu. The only safe way at the moment was to enter Shu through the Southern Han Dynasty, through the Chengzhou Mountain Road, through Zangke and Kunming.

In order to arrive in Chengdu as soon as possible, in order to solve the predicament in the south of the Yangtze River, Xu Kai also rushed desperately.

During this journey over mountains and mountains, Xu Kai, a frail scholar, developed 26 blisters on his feet.

In order not to affect his walking, he used bamboo needles to pierce the blisters. After going through untold hardships, he finally entered the land of Shu and sat on the back of a Sichuan horse.

When he arrived in Zunyi County, Xu Kai couldn't even get his feet off the ground and had to be carried away.

I went to the doctor, who looked at Xu Kai's feet and said solemnly: "Fortunately, it's cold and frosty in winter, and the injury on Mr.'s feet is hard to get worse. It's really going to be summer, and Mr.'s feet will definitely not be able to survive."

Xu Kai didn't care, and said: "The country is at stake, why should I cherish my feet?"

He did not delay for a moment, and continued on his way.

If he couldn't walk, he asked his servants to carry him, and if he couldn't ride a horse, he asked his servants to tie himself to the horse's back. He hurried all the way, and finally arrived in Chengdu.

Meng Chang heard about Xu Kai's situation early on, and he was touched in his heart, and said, "There is such a loyal man in the south of the Yangtze River."

Immediately, the imperial doctor in the palace was sent to treat Xu Kai's injuries, and he asked someone to lend his carriage to Xu Kai to relieve his foot disease, and also gave him the privilege of riding a sedan chair in the palace.

Xu Kai got into the sedan chair into the palace, rubbed his feet lightly, after several days of treatment, his condition has improved and he can barely walk.

But in order not to be rude in front of others and not to lose Jiangnan's face, Xu Kai tried his best to let his feet get used to the pain.

Riding in a sedan chair, turning left and right, Xu Kai couldn't help pulling the curtain of the sedan chair slightly, looking out: he found himself in a magnificent palace.

The surrounding luxury was something he had never imagined in his life.

I don't know how many pavilions there are in the palace, and there are many beautiful corridors of houses, which can't be seen or walked to the end.

Tall buildings range from three or four floors to as many as six or seven floors, with a distance of more than [-] feet to the ground, as if touching the sky.

The servants and maids who come and go are all dressed in silk and satin...

"This……"

Xu Kai took a deep breath and didn't know how to describe it for a while.

extravagant?

It's not that he has never seen extravagant scenes. Li Jing, their king in the south of the Yangtze River, is a king who likes extravagance.

As a Qingliu in the south of the Yangtze River, Xu Kai wrote to persuade Li Jing many times, and also offended Li Jing many times, and was demoted many times.

But when he arrived at the Sichuan Palace, Xu Kai suddenly found that compared with the lord of Xishu, his emperor Li Jing seemed to be called "clean"!
Xu Kai suddenly had a feeling that maybe it would be better for the emperor of the Central Plains to rule the world.

As a Qingliu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is natural to do such difficult and tiring tasks as envoys to the Central Plains.

Xu Kai has seen the old palace in Bianjing.

Compared with the Shu palace, what is the difference between the palace in Bianjing and the beggar's house?
The emperors and empresses of the Central Plains are not as good as the maids in the palace of Shu in their ordinary clothes!

His complexion changed, and Xu Kai withdrew his messy emotions.

"Your envoy, we're here!"

The sedan chair stopped, Xu Kai endured the pain and got out of the sedan chair.

He pushed away the support of his attendants, walked up the steps reluctantly, and walked into a magnificent palace.

There is a fragrance in the palace, which is the fragrance of aged rosewood,

The entire palace is actually built with high-quality rosewood...

Xu Kai also met Meng Chang, the ruler of Sichuan and Shu...

Meng Chang was lying on a huge gold-covered rosewood beard bed, and his fat body took up more than half of the seat.

Looking at the mountain of meat in front of him, Xu Kai couldn't help being startled, it must be too fat.

Meng Chang is more than six feet tall, and there is hardly a neck between his round face and shoulders. He has pale skin and a small beard.

He was leaning on the bed, which made Xu Kai unable to help worrying whether the bed would not be able to withstand the force and collapse...

With this obese appearance, it can be seen that the hero of Western Shu who rectified the administration of officials and encouraged agriculture and education was a big fat pig full of people's fat.

"You have come from thousands of miles away, why are you looking for an orphan?"

Meng Chang tried his best to look majestic, but the fluffy and swollen fat swayed with his slight movements, which was very funny.

Xu Kai said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the foreign ministers came here on behalf of my Patriarch to form an alliance with Your Majesty."

Meng Chang asked strangely: "Alliance? Why is the alliance so good?"

Xu Kai was a little startled, and said, "Don't you know that the Central Plains marched into Jingnan?"

Meng Chang said: "The lonely king knows that Zhang Wenbiao rebelled, and the emperor of the Central Plains led his troops to conquer. Hmph, rebellious ministers and thieves, everyone can punish them."

Xu Kai was a little dumbfounded, did the fat man in front of him really regard himself as a courtier of the Central Plains?
He said after a long time: "The Emperor Luo of the Central Plains has long said that in a unified dynasty, there is no country within a country. Today he sends troops to Jingnan, tomorrow he can send troops to Jiangnan, and the next day he can send troops to Sichuan and Shu. Could it be that your majesty can't bear to see this Decades of foundations in Sichuan and Shu were ruined? For today’s plan, only you and I can join hands, just like the accident of Sun Liu in the past, can we resist the Central Plains’ ambition to encroach on Jiangnan and Sichuan and Sichuan.”

Meng Chang's two small eyes squeezed into slits by the fat flashed a complicated look, and then said: "I am loyal to the Central Plains, and I have no second thoughts. The messenger should stop talking nonsense. I think of your loyalty, and I will not give it to you." Blame it, go!"

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