Late Tang

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The first year of Guangming, June.

Zhu Wen descended to the Tang Dynasty, and was granted the title of King of Liang, Taifu, Xuanwu Jiedushi by Emperor Li Tang, and owned the four states of Deng, Shang, Bian, and Zheng.After possessing the royal flag and festival battle bestowed by the imperial court, Zhu Wen couldn't help but sigh that he played the right chess this time.What a leap from a traitorous traitor to a feudal lord of the Tang Dynasty.From then on, he finally no longer had to harbor fear in his heart, and could sleep peacefully.

After officially receiving the edict read by the angel sent by the emperor in Chengdu, Zhu Wen immediately began to work hard for the emperor, and turned to his former comrades in arms.

In June, Zhu Wen raided Ruzhou in the south of Luoyang. Immediately afterwards, Zhu Wen raided Guozhou, the connecting channel between Henan and Guanzhong with a blitzkrieg. The three towns of Hezhong Township of Wang Chongrong, who was promoted to King of Han in Jin Dynasty, converged.

Zhu Wen then waved his troops again to take another state in Shanguo Town, Shanzhou.

For a while, Zhu Wen was in high spirits, sitting in the seven states of Bian, Zheng, Ru, Deng, Shang, Shan, and Guo, almost double-teaming Luoyang.

At this time, Zheng Congyu, king of Xingyang County, led the Hedong coalition army to the middle of the river, just north of the Yellow River.Yu Yu, king of Dongping County, led the Henan Allied Forces to gather south of the Bianhe River, and Yang Fuguang, king of Hongnong County, the supervising army of the soldiers and horses in the world, instigated the rebellion of the three towns of the Zhongwu Clan and gathered in the south of Luoyang.

In the same month, Zheng Congxun and the generals of the Hedong coalition army, Yu Jian and the Henan coalition commanders, plus the three towns of the Zhongwu clan recovered by Yang Fuguang, Li Quanzhong, Zhu Quanzhong and others gathered in the Fenglingdu Huimeng at the southern end of the Yellow River North Ferry at the southern end of Hezhong town.In this alliance of towns, although Li Jing, the general of the world's soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses of the Hebei and Shandong towns did not arrive, even the Henan Marshal Yu Yu and the Henan towns only came to the few towns led by Yang Fuguang. But it's still huge.

This time, the alliance of towns led by Yang Fuguang was not so much aimed at the puppet Qi army in Luoyang, which was already in panic, but rather a division of the distribution of land benefits before the war and after the war.Moreover, Yang Fuguang obviously had a more personal purpose, which was to secretly form a new alliance headed by him among the towns that was only loyal to the emperor.

Zhu Wen personally went to Fenglingdu to participate in this alliance, and when Zhu Wen returned to the base camp of Wuguan in Shangzhou, when he saw Xie Tong who was playing chess with Hu Zhen, he smiled and said: "Brother Ziming, you lose! gone."

"Oh?" Xie Tong gently pushed the chessboard away, squinting at the master who had officially changed his name to Zhu Quanzhong.While packing up the chess pieces, Hu Zhen asked with a smile, "Brother Xie, why did you lose?"

"Do you still remember what brother Ziming said more than ten days ago? It is actually the emperor's plan to kill two birds with one stone. At that time, brother Ziming said that the emperor knew The eldest princess of the East China Sea is Li Jing's woman, but she gave it to Gu on purpose, because two peaches kill three men, and she deliberately picks up the relationship between a certain person and Li Jing, trying to make us two tigers fight, and then the emperor will reap the benefits..."

"It turns out that this is the matter. Could it be that something is wrong?"

Zhu Wen nodded with a smile, and said, "Brother Ziming, do you know what happened to XX in the river today? Just the night before, the king of Hongnong County, Yang Dujian, summoned Yu XX secretly, and showed XX the emperor's imperial pen for a while. The secret edict written."

"Secret edict?"

"Exactly, the emperor issued a secret edict to Yu, saying that there are thieves like Huang Chao outside the world, powerful ministers like Li Jing who are arbitrarily arbitrarily powerful, and there are eunuchs Tian Lingzi in the chaos. The emperor wants to rejuvenate the world of Li and Tang, but unfortunately he has never been loyal. The ministers help each other. Now the emperor thinks that X is the important minister of Zhongxing Datang, so he specially issued a special edict to X, saying that ZTE of the Tang Dynasty should be responsible for X."

Xie Tong couldn't help being disappointed when Zhu Wen said this: "The emperor hopes that the king will help him eradicate Huang Chao, Li Jing, and Tian Lingzi? The king has just descended to Tang for less than a month, right?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Wen couldn't help laughing: "Who would be as ignorant of current affairs as Brother Ziming, and come to ask such disastrous things? In fact, Yang Fuguang and a certain person talked about it in detail. The emperor's secret edict was not issued. With a certain person, the emperor Pang Xin important Yang Fugong and Yang Fuguang brothers planned this matter, and they have already attracted Qin Zongquan, Zhou Ji, Lu Yanhong, Wang Chongrong, Li Keyong, Li Quanzhong, Zhuge Shuang towns, and finding a certain town is already the eighth town .This secret alliance looks good, I think it's good."

Hu Zhen said with a smile: "In this way, the emperor is really unwilling to be a subjugated emperor, and has the intention of striving for strength. It seems that his ambition is not small. Not only does he want to wipe out the yellow nest, but he also wants to eliminate power from within. Eunuch Tian Lingzi, except for Li Jing, the most powerful vassal. Since the emperor wants to get rid of Li Jing, and also issued a secret edict to the king, it means that Li Xuan really wants to use the power of the king, so brother Ziming really lost."

"Gu is also relieved." Zhu Wen said with a smile. "After all the speculations before, I was really worried that the emperor would cross the river and tear down the bridge. He deliberately ordered a woman who married Li Jing to kill someone with a knife. But now it seems that it is more like a warning from the emperor. If Gu does not stand on his side, just I'm afraid that from now on, people will really be different inside and outside. Now it's okay, since the emperor not only wants to deal with Huang Chao, but also Tian Lingzi and Li Jing, then we are very important to him. I think Li Jing was just a partner Is it possible to rise so quickly after being on the line of the Son of Heaven? We are also following the Son of Heaven closely now, as long as we have the trump card of the Son of Heaven in our hands, we can also let go of our hands and feet."

"However, how to solve the matter of Nanyang Princess, if Li Jing gets angry, if this guy hates us, then we really have no place to sue."

"What's wrong with Li Jing?" Xie Tong said disdainfully, "Actually, Li Jing is the most practical person. If you talk about such a thing as being angry at the crown and becoming a beauty, he will never do it. Yes. Don’t say that the king will not really marry Li Huier. Even if the emperor issued an edict, that is what the emperor meant. Could it be that Li Jing was picked up by the emperor so easily? For Li Jing, I think the key for us now is to keep a low profile. As long as we keep Keep a low profile, don't provoke Li Jing, and Li Jing will never provoke us. Don't you know that Li Jing is too busy in the north now? He is now in an inseparable fight with Li Keyong?"

Hu Zhendao: "Your Majesty must have met Li Keyong this time. In your Majesty's opinion, how good is this Sha Tuo Fei Huzi? He has been able to fight against Li Jing for so many years and has not yet been eliminated. It seems that he has a great reputation. There are no vain people below."

"That's not necessarily the case." Zhu Wen said surprisingly, "Sir, do you know that there is a kind of person in the world called a reckless man?"

Hu Zhen smiled, "If Li Keyong is just a reckless man, I'm afraid he won't be able to survive today, right? Even a reckless man must have capital. A Shatuo Human who is not as old as King Liang can continue to toss until Now, it has never been killed, it can only show that this is a reckless man with good luck."

"Maybe Li Keyong used to be a reckless man who was rough but subtle, but after seeing him this time, the king is very disappointed with Li Keyong. This guy is arrogant, suspicious, suspicious, even a little arrogant and has lost his previous dignity. Vigorous. Seeing him, he was not the Sha Tuofei tiger in the rumors at all, but he looked like a dead old guy. Such a person, I really don’t know how he survived under Li Jing in the past, no wonder even his wife is now He was robbed by Li Jing, and his son betrayed him, Li Ya'er, it's over."

"Maybe." Xie Tong said: "However, Li Ke's use of this name is still worth some money. Not only does he have tens of thousands of Shatuo soldiers under him, but he, Hezhong Wang Chongrong, and Chengde Wang Jingchong are sworn brothers and relatives. Based on this, it is enough for us to make friends with him."

"Well, compared with other towns, we still lack heritage. We need to make friends with more feudal towns, so as not to become the target of public criticism."

"This is one of them." Xie Tong said seriously: "Although it is beneficial to make friends with feudal towns, in the final analysis, we still need our own strength to be king. If we can have Li Jing's strong strength, even if all the towns in the world There is no need to be afraid of being hostile to us. Therefore, there is a strategy that can greatly enhance the strength of our Liang Fan."

Zhu Wen was overjoyed when he heard the words, "Sir, if you have any good ideas, please tell me quickly."

"After the First World War in Chang'an, the king returned to the Tang Dynasty, Li Quanzhong seized the important places of Tong, Hua, and Tongguan, and the towns of Hezhong and Henan approached Henan. Anyone with a discerning eye can see the current situation. The recovery of Luoyang in Henan is just around the corner, and Huang Chao is trapped in Chang'an. It won't last long. Under such circumstances, how many people under Huang Chao's command will be willing to follow him to perish?"

Zhu Wen nodded thoughtfully.

"The King of Liang has now returned to the Tang Dynasty, and he is a vassal king, so he is extremely trusted by the emperor. If the King of Liang sends someone to recruit Huang Chao's ministries at this time, and promises to marry Houjue, I am afraid that few people can refuse, right?"

Hu Zhen smiled and said: "Mr. Xie is really a good strategy. If Tang Ting and other feudal towns go to recruit surrender, I'm afraid those people will not believe it. But if we go to recruit surrender, I'm afraid these people will believe it. Especially in the area around Luoyang right now These former members of Huangchao are at a time of panic, and the king of Liang wrote a handwritten letter, I'm afraid they will come to vote immediately."

Hu Zhen Xie Tong's words, Zhu Wen really agrees deeply in his heart.The current Huang Chao is indeed at the end of the road. If Huang Chao withdraws from Guanzhong as before and continues to run rampant in the world, I am afraid that there will still be people willing to follow him.But like now, he is usually just guarding Chang'an, but few people are willing to sit with him and wait for his death.

And since Zhu A San returned to the Tang Dynasty and gained fame and fortune, those people will think more about it.

I think that Zhu Wen is not a high-ranking person in Huangchao Daqi Kingdom, but a local town commander, who only owns one state, even if he had four states when he returned to Tang Dynasty, he can get it Compared with a king title like Liang Wang, it can still make countless Huang Chao soldiers jealous.

Especially compared to the current Huang Chao puppet Qi generals in Henan, maybe Huang Chao can stay in Chang'an for one or two more years, but they are about to face a catastrophe.At this time, Zhu Wen came forward to recruit these people, which was to give them a way to survive.

After years of ups and downs, I have finally made it through.

At this time, the laughter of the eldest daughter and the maidservants could be faintly heard from outside the house. Zhu Wen walked to the door with a smile and looked at his daughter from afar.This is his eldest daughter, born to him by Zhang Tailiu, she is already four years old this year, at such a young age, she has already imagined her mother very much.It's just that Zhu Wen couldn't help but see another woman in his mind whenever he saw her.

After so many years, that feeling has not faded.He was in a trance, and muttered to himself: "Zhang Hui, Li Huier, were all alone, but Li Jing stole it away, Li Jing snatched it away..."

Xie Tong and Hu Zhen looked at Zhu Wen's back and couldn't help but be speechless.

After a long time, Hu Zhen said to Xie Tong: "Someone has a premonition, whether this year will be extremely prosperous!" (To be continued.)