People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 414

In the darkness, after an unknown amount of time, He Qing'er finally opened her eyes again.

At some point, she fell asleep.

Suddenly, she trembled, because at this moment, a cold hand gently brushed across her smooth back.

She immediately relaxed.

Li Xuan's voice sounded softly in the darkness: "You're awake, can I ask you something?"

"You ask?" He Qing'er bit her lower lip slightly.

"En!" Li Xuan's voice was soft, but the question was straightforward: "You have been with your father for a long time. Do you know how many people the Tianyin Sect has in Muzhou? Before Ling Pass, how many people can arrive there?"

Although Li Xuan won the Meiling Pass, he will face the most direct threat from Muzhou at any time.

He needs to have a clear understanding of the number, scale and combat power of the enemy.

"The empress has a very high prestige in Muzhou. Over the years, the taxes imposed by Muzhou Governor's Office in Muzhou are more than twice that of other nearby states, which makes the people of Muzhou even more alienated. Today in Muzhou, there are seven Cheng is a loyal believer of Goddess Tianyin."

What He Qinger said made Li Xuan's heart feel heavy.

Although Muzhou has been losing population over the years, even so, there are still [-] households in Muzhou.

In the five counties of Chun'an, Jiande, Fenshui, Shouchang, and Suian, there are [-] households, and the minimum population is more than [-].

Among them, there should be at least [-] men who can take up arms and join the army.

Twenty thousand, suddenly, Li Xuan felt inexplicably relieved.

The Tianyin Sect has both east and west, and Wuzhou in the southeast and Shezhou in the northwest are the focus of Tianyin Sect's attacks.

What's more, Shezhou in the northwest is more important than Wuzhou.

Back then, Chen Shuozhen attacked Wuzhou because he failed to attack Shezhou first.

The governor's mansion of Shezhou is stationed with soldiers from half of Zhechong mansion in Huidong mansion. Once they go east, they will stab Tianyinjiao fiercely from behind.

Unless the lair is no longer there, nearly half of the forces must be mobilized to attack Shezhou.

Li Xuan could see this, and the emperor and the center also saw this, so they sent Qiu Shenji to Shezhou to serve as the governor of Shezhou.

The purpose is to use Qiu Shenji to assist Wang Dali to hold back the way of Tianyin Sect from the west.

Once the Tianyin Sect goes west, crossing Shezhou and Xuanzhou, it will be able to reach the coast of the Yangtze River immediately.

At that time, whether it is to cross the Yangtze River to attack Luzhou, or go down the river to attack Jinling and Yangzhou, they are all within their options.

They even went upstream and hit Jiangzhou directly.

The entire Jiangyou land is under the opponent's soldiers.

Just like playing chess, going east to Wuzhou, Hangzhou and Yuezhou is just playing dead chess at the corner.

But if you go west, no matter it is Luzhou, Jiangzhou or Jinling Yangzhou, all the chess pieces of Tianyin Sect on the entire chessboard will be alive.

At that time, they really had the power to threaten the world.

What should really worry about it is no longer Li Xuan and Qiu Shenji, but Empress Wu, Li Zhi and the princes of the court.

It is impossible for the Tianyin Sect to let go of such a strategy, so their troops going south to Wuzhou are only [-] at most.

Ten thousand.

Li Xuan heaved a sigh of relief. Wang Fanglin and he had deduced that under the premise of not recruiting people on a large scale, Wuzhou could recruit retired veterans, young and strong, and arresting officers from all over the country. There are probably two thousand under the command of Li Xuan.

There may be more to come.

If the strength of the Tianyin Sect members was only at the level of the black pawns, and only with continuous support from the logistics, then Li Xuan could completely block the Tianyin Sect out of Meiling Pass.

……

Retracting her thoughts, feeling the slightly cold skin on her fingertips, Li Xuan regained her composure, and then asked softly: "It is impossible for all the troops of the Tianyin Sect to go south to Wuzhou in one go, they always have a sequence of things, you can guess Is it possible?"

"Once there is an incident in the church, the first thing to be determined is the center. I have heard Aye and the others mention that this time they don't plan to use the banner of Emperor Wenjia again, but plan to raise troops against it in the name of Muzhou Governor Xuxu. The imperial court is tyrannical, and then the Yuan Baoying will be changed, and the world will be called to respond." After He Qing'er finished speaking, she immediately felt that the other party's breathing became heavy immediately.

"What's wrong?" He Qinger asked subconsciously.

"The queen's picture is huge!" Li Xuan's voice sounded faintly.

In the darkness, he was lying flat on the bed, and he couldn't see any expression on his face, but the silence already showed his shock.

In the name of the governor of Muzhou, he raised troops against the harsh government of the imperial court and changed Yuan Baoying.

Such a move is far from a simple rebellion by a cult. What they are really plotting is the whole world.

The governor of a state rebelled directly, and the sensation caused could spread to the whole world in a blink of an eye.

When the world is in turmoil, it is impossible for the imperial court to take Muzhou into account.

Just like back then, in the end, the center only sent three government soldiers from the governor of Yangzhou to the south. In the middle, they mobilized the Hangzhou navy, the army of the governor of Yuezhou, and finally added the troops from Wuzhou. The total number was even less than [-]. In the end, Chen Shuozhen's rebellion was put down by a "meteorite from the sky".

"Father said that this time, I don't want to show myself in front of everyone. People only need to know that Goddess Tianyin is protecting me in secret. He said, this time, I have other plans." He Qinger's words , once again made Li Xuan startled.

But at this time, He Qing'er's words also explained the problem just now, why she knew so clearly about such a big thing as Tianyin's rebellion against Tang.

It turns out that it is not her who really knows everything, but her father He Zheng.

"Using the name of the governor as the skin, the Tenjin religion as the skeleton, and finally at the critical moment, the former imperial family is elected as the leader. In this way, everything will be logical, and everything will be completed naturally." Li Xuan glanced at it. I saw the calculation behind this.

Emperor Wen Jia is dead, so there is no need to bring her out again.

In the future, he will not step out of the stage again this time, so Wen Fuzhi should be the one standing in front of everyone this time.

This also explained Li Xuan's previous question, why Wen Fuzhi and Zhang Wanyu were not in the main altar in the mountains, nor in Wuzhou at the critical moment when the Tianyin Sect was about to start an incident, but were traveling outside.

Even if Fang Yunxiu hadn't died, even Zhang Wanyu wouldn't have come back.

It turned out that it wasn't them who started the incident from the beginning, but Muzhou governor Shixu.

this poor guy.

Shi Xu, his father is Shi Huaixun, the former Secretary of Sinonong Temple, and his grandfather is Shi Wanbao, the governor of Luozhou and the Duke of Guyuan.

Shi Wanbao, the Duke of Yuan, has an older brother, the former Duke of Taiping County in the Sui Dynasty, and General Shi Wansui.

At that time, Shi Wansui was framed by Yang Su because of Yang Yong's incident. Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian was violently killed in the court, and his family was accused of rebellion.

Later, Shi Wanbao joined forces with Li Shentong to raise troops, and together with Princess Pingyang, opened the gate of Chang'an to welcome Li Yuan into Chang'an.

Single-handedly destroyed the Sui Dynasty.

It's just that who would have thought that the disciples of the Shi family would follow in the footsteps of their ancestors.

Only this time, it was not the court officials who framed them, but the queen of Tianyin sect.

Li Xuan was not at all surprised that the Tianyin Sect was able to hold Shi Xu hostage.

Although Shi Xu was appointed governor of Muzhou for many years, the Tianyin Sect has worked deeper in Muzhou.

Coupled with the harsh taxes imposed on Muzhou by the imperial court for more than 20 years, it is no wonder that he can win the hearts of the people.

Over time, his family and friends in Muzhou, and even himself were controlled by the Tianyin Sect, and he couldn't help himself.

Li Xuan only hoped that his life would be better than that of his great-uncle Shi Wansui.

After Yang Jian killed Shi Wansui back then, he had already realized that he had fallen into Yang Su's plot, but at that time, he had already killed Shi Wansui, so he simply made the mistake.

Now, once Shi Xu's Tianyin Sect actually started a riot in his own name, even if he was coerced, the center would immediately arrest all his nine clans in the name of treason.

If you run into an emperor who is as unreasonable as Yang Jian, it is possible to be ransacked and beheaded by a single mistake.

I just hope that Li Zhi will be more patient and have more trust in Shi Xu.

"I'm afraid this matter is far from that simple."

In the darkness, feeling He Qinger's icy coldness, Li Xuan's face became more and more serious.

Thousand-faced Buddha, Shi Jin.

Crown Prince Seal.

Governor.

If the Tianyin sect used the name of Muzhou Inspector Shixu, under the false name of Prince Li Hong, and then used the name of the Qing army side, then the entire state of the world would be a sensation.

At that time, the center will have to face not only the rebellion in various places, but also the governors and all kinds of ambitious people.

If at this time, Silla, Turkic, and Tubo launch an attack at the same time, then the world of Tang Dynasty will immediately fall into precarity.

"The rebellion of the Tianyin Sect must be resolved quickly." Li Xuan was determined, and then asked again: "Then when will the Tianyin Sect's reinforcements arrive in Meiling Pass?"

"Three and a half days." He Qing'er gave the answer directly, and then briefly explained: "In fact, a few days ago, Hall Master Zhang sent a request to Muzhou for help, and they should arrive around Si o'clock on the fourth day Under Meiling Pass, but the number of people will not be too many, at most it will be the staff of Jiande Hall, there should be about a thousand people."

"A thousand people, only a thousand people?" Li Xuan was stunned.

Thousands of people, if there were only a thousand people, he would be able to bury them all by himself without any backup.

"Hall Master Zhang said so, but if the Jiande branch hall is fully organized, it should be able to have 3000 people, but in this way, the Jiande branch hall will be completely empty." He Qinger said more about Tianyin Sect. secret.

In addition to the main church in Zhoucheng by the Qiandao Lake, Tianyin Sect also has branch churches in five other counties.

Before the riots in each branch church, the internal backbones were all elites cultivated in more than ten or twenty years.

Some are stronger than the black pawns, and some are slightly weaker than the black pawns, but the overall difference is not much different.

Once an incident occurs, the personnel can expand rapidly immediately, and it is not surprising that it expands to more than 3000 people.

In the entire Muzhou, once there was an incident, the Tianyin Sect would immediately have a strength of nearly [-].

This calculation is consistent with the previous calculation.

"Muzhou Church has been in operation for many years, and it is not comparable to other branch churches outside. Even the leaders of many other branch churches are from Muzhou. The strength of a branch church in Muzhou is almost equal to that of other branch churches in other states. The power, so that once there is an incident, all the power will erupt like a volcano."

In the darkness, Li Xuan nodded silently.

Now he is a little lucky, glad that he was not appointed to serve in Muzhou.

If that's the case, his fate may be even worse than Shi Xu.

With He Qing'er, everything in the future is clear in front of Li Xuan.

Stretching out her hand, Li Xuan hugged He Qing'er into her arms again.

(End of this chapter)