The First Great Ancestor of the Five Dynasties

Chapter 139 Qin King Li Shouzhen

Outside Chang'an City, an iron cavalry bearing the banner of the Hezhong Army galloped over. The Mingde Gate defenders hurriedly drove away the people and cleared the road.

The cavalry did not slow down and rushed into the city gate.

The sharp-eyed soldiers saw clearly that the man with gray hair on the temples and a majestic bearing was none other than Li Shouzhen, the military commander in Hezhong!
Li Shouzhen appeared in Chang'an again, and this time he came openly and honestly!

The entire Yongxing Army guarding Chang'an was informed a few days ago that from now on, whenever they see the banner of the Hezhong Army, they are not allowed to stop it. The two armies are staunch brotherly armies.

Soon, the news spread that Li Shouzhen flew into Chang'an. The civil and military officials who stayed in Chang'an heard the news and made an appointment to visit the Taishi Mansion.

After entering the city, Li Shouzhen did not rush back to the Grand Master's Mansion immediately. Instead, he first went to Yonghefang in the west of the city, where there were several large warehouses used to store military rations.

He asked Cang Cao to open one of the smaller warehouses. Looking at the empty warehouse, Li Shouzhen's face was ashen, and he asked sternly about the records of recent large quantities of grain entering and exiting the warehouse. Cang Cao did not dare to hide it and answered honestly.

After hearing this, Li Shouzhen's face became even more ugly, and she got on her horse and ran straight back home.

"My son, pay homage to your father!" Li Chongxun led everyone in the mansion, respectfully opened the central door, and greeted him at the foot of the steps.

"Tell Fu Jinzhan to come see me!" Li Shouzhen got off his horse and shouted angrily.

"Ah" Li Chongxun was startled. He didn't know why his father got angry as soon as he arrived.

Li Shouzhen paused, turned back and pointed at him and angrily shouted: "Ask your good wife to come see me! You will settle the debt later! Humph~"

"Ah yes." Li Chongxun said nothing, not knowing why his father was angry.

During this time, he lived in Chang'an, surrounded by beauties every day, nostalgic for the spring scenery, and Fu Jinzhan took care of the food preparation. He didn't need to interfere at all, and he didn't have to be suppressed by his father, so his life was extremely happy.

In the back room, just as Li Shouzhen sat down and drank a few sips of tea, Li Chongxun and Fu Jinzhan arrived.

Li Chongxun was trembling with fear, while Fu Jinzhan looked calm and bowed with his hands folded: "Meet the Grand Master."

Li Shouzhen stared at her coldly with powerful eyes, and said coldly: "I asked you to be responsible for raising food and grass, why did you order to stop the collection without authorization?"

Fu Jinzhan replied in a neither humble nor overbearing tone: "What the grand master said at the beginning was to let me raise grain and fodder to complete the salt and grain trade with Zhang Yi's army. Twenty thousand shi of grain have already been prepared. There is no need to collect too much grain and disturb the lives of the people, so we stopped. "

Li Shouzhen said angrily: "Who said that raising food is just to complete the deal with the Changyi Army? Who allowed you to order the stop of food collection without authorization? It's so presumptuous!"

Fu Jinzhan said indifferently: "Except for the deal with the Zhangyi Army, I really can't think of any need to collect grain! What's more, Jingzhao is not under the jurisdiction of the Hezhong Army. The Grand Master's grain collection here is already suspected of exceeding the limit!"

Bang~ Li Shouzhen became furious and shouted: "Zhao Siwan, the governor of the Yongxing Army, only acts on my orders. Thirty thousand Yongxing troops are at my disposal. Chang'an City is also in my pocket. Why can't I collect food in Jingzhao?"

Fu Jinzhan's eyes flashed a little shocked and flustered, Li Shouzhen's rebellion was revealed when he said this!

She clenched her fist slightly, gritted her teeth and said in a low voice, "Grand Master, please be careful!"

Li Chongxun stood beside him anxiously and tried to persuade him in a low voice with a grimace: "Father, please calm down and talk to me if you have anything to say. Madam, please don't contradict your father again."

Li Shouzhen's chest rose and fell violently. He glared at his unfulfilled son, put down his robe and sat down, and said with a cold face, "I ask you, but you ordered Pan Mei to transport [-] stones of grain away?"

Fu Jinzhan said calmly: "That's right. Pan Mei brought back the salt from Jingzhou, and I asked him to send the [-] stone grains promised by the Grand Master to the Zhangyi Army. This is a deal made by the Grand Master."

Li Shouzhen said angrily: "Where is the salt in Jingzhou?"

Fu Jinzhan glanced at him: "It's in the warehouse in Yonghefang. If the Grand Master has been there, he should have seen it."

"There are only ten thousand jins of salt in there! Ten thousand jins!"

Li Shouzhen slapped the table, furious, "What I want is one hundred thousand catties, one hundred thousand catties! Ten thousand catties of salt will give me twenty thousand shi of grain. Wouldn't I, Li Shouzhen, be taken advantage of? Fu Jinzhan, you clearly did this on purpose." !" Li Chongxun opened his mouth wide in shock, he didn't know about this until now.

Fu Jinzhan said calmly: "Grand Master, there is no need to worry. The rest will be sent by Zhangyi Army in batches."

Li Shouzhen was very angry, with a fierce look in his eyes. Fu Jinzhan exchanged [-] shi of grain for [-] jin of salt, leaving him dumbfounded for no reason.

What's even more despicable is that Fu Jinzhan ordered the suspension of the grain collection without authorization, and returned tens of thousands of grain grains, which wasted a lot of time.

Zhao Siwan sent someone to check the warehouse and found something was wrong, so he hurriedly sent someone to notify Li Shouzhen.

The preparations in Hezhong were almost complete. Li Shouzhen happened to be coming to Chang'an to check combat readiness, so he hurried over after receiving the news.

Fu Jinzhan was left in charge of collecting grain in Chang'an in order to leave enough evidence to confirm the fact that the Fu family followed him in the uprising.

Unexpectedly, his good daughter-in-law was smarter than he thought and seemed to sense something was wrong.

"You seem to know something?" Li Shouzhen stared at her for a while, then glanced at Li Chongxun.

Li Chongxun hurriedly shook his head: "I promise you won't say anything!"

Fu Jinzhan sighed: "Please stop, Grand Master!"

Li Shouzhen's tiger eyes brightened sharply, and she raised her head and laughed loudly: "As expected of Fu Yanqing's daughter, she is really smart!"

Fu Jinzhan's eyes were filled with sadness.

Li Shouzhen sneered and said, "You are the daughter-in-law of my Li family. You just want to get away now, but it's over! With one move against the flag, in the eyes of the court and the little emperor of the Liu family, you and I are both traitors! Some people want to put the Fu family to death! Now the Fu family has only one way, follow this king to start a rebellion, rush into Kaifeng, and rule the world!"

Li Shouzhen's growling voice was full of excitement: "You immediately write a letter from home, and send it to Yanzhou together with my personal letter, and hand it over to your father, so that he can use his power to join me in the uprising! When the heroes left Tongguan, Fu Yanqing led the Taining army to respond in Yanzhou. The east and west responded to each other and attacked Kaifeng from afar!
After this is accomplished, I will definitely make Fu Yanqing king and let the Fu family share the world with my Li family!From now on, my son Chongxun will be the crown prince, and you will be the crown princess, the future queen, and your mother will honor the world and be honored forever! "

Li Shouzhen's eyes were red as if possessed by a man possessed. Li Chongxun's breathing became rapid and his eyes gleamed, as if he had seen the moment when he would dominate the world.

Fu Jinzhan was extremely calm, silent for a moment, and sighed softly: "There have been years of wars, the people are exhausted, and people feel at ease. Why bother to poison the souls for his own selfish desires? What's more, the land in Guanzhong is no longer what it used to be, and it is unable to compete with the imperial court.

Zhao Siwan and others are not of the same mind. Once the war is blocked, civil strife may break out in an instant.Before the imperial court notices it, the grand master retreats to the river and puts down all the flags and drums, so maybe there is still a glimmer of life."

Li Shouzhen's face trembled fiercely, his eyes were sinister, and he shouted impatiently: "It's not your turn to teach me a lesson! Let me ask you, should I write this letter or not?"

Fu Jinzhan shook his head: "Don't write."

Li Shouzhen's eyes were so fierce that he seemed to want to eat someone: "Okay! Okay! Come here! Take her down and keep her under strict guard. No one is allowed to get close! Give her water or food every day, let's see how many days she can hold on!"

Two armored guards entered the room, one on the left and one on the right looking at her coldly.

Fu Jinzhan knew that resistance was useless and walked out of the hall silently.

"Father." Li Chongxun couldn't bear it, and Li Shouzhen glared and yelled: "Shut up! Stop doing such useless womanly kindness! I only kept her here to contact the Fu family. If Fu Yanqing doesn't know what's going on, huh~"

Li Chongxun sighed: "Haier and her are a couple after all."

Li Shouzhen said arrogantly: "When you and my son rule the world in the future, what kind of women will we want?"

Li Chongxun sighed, but said nothing.

Several Yongxing military generals arrived and, on Zhao Siwan's orders, presented a large flag. When they unfolded it, it turned out to be a King Qin flag with a five-clawed golden dragon embroidered on a black background!
Li Shouzhen immediately laughed proudly and ordered his people to imitate it. Within three days, new flags would be hung on all sides of Chang'an City!

(End of this chapter)