subvert the late Tang Dynasty

Now Zhu Wen occupies the Xuanwu Army, the Fengguo Army (Caizhou), the Eastern Capital Luoyang, the Zhongyi Army (Shannan Dongdao, governing Xiangyang, Xiangzhou, and the Jiedu envoy of Zhao Dezhen was appointed by Zhu Wen, of course, Zhu Wen is the leader), Heyang Army four towns.The army is powerful, and everyone in the nearby feudal towns is in danger.

Heyang itself was occupied by Zhang Quanyi. Li Hanzhi led the Shatuo army to attack Heyang, but was repelled by Ding Hui, Zhang Cunjing and others. Zhu Wen appointed Ding Hui as Heyang's heir, so Heyang became Zhu Wen's sphere of influence.

Zhu Xuan of Yunzhou (Tianping Army), Zhu Jin of Yanzhou (Taining Army), and Shi Pu of Xuzhou (Probation Army) all felt threatened and recruited troops one after another.

But in fact, Zhu Wen didn't want to start a war with them prematurely. These days, he has built such a large territory all at once, and he hasn't digested and consolidated it well. How can he start a new war so quickly?

But he didn't want to start a war. Others didn't think so. Someone wanted to push him to the forefront. This person was none other than his second senior brother Yang Xingmi.

Yang Xingmi gave up Yangzhou and turned to besiege Xuanzhou, but he was not willing to hand over Yangzhou to Sun Ru. Instead, he went to the court and said that Huainan had been war-torn for a long time, and it needed prestigious people to sit in the town to hold these warring warriors. He suggested that Zhu Wen should also serve as the governor of Huainan.

The imperial court was unable to take Huainan into consideration at all, so it simply accepted Zhu Wen's request and let Zhu Wen serve as Huainan Jiedushi concurrently. This was tantamount to throwing a hot potato to Zhu Wen.It's not that Zhu Wen won't take over. After all, his own strength is limited now, and Zhu Wen feels a little hard to manage the existing territory. There is a lot of waste in the area under his jurisdiction. After the war, all aspects must be rebuilt to appease the refugees. The establishment of government offices at all levels, the appointment of officials, etc., even if everything is on the right track, it will take a long time for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and it cannot be completed overnight.

It is unrealistic to say that it is unrealistic for him to start a war with Sun Ru now, not to mention that Sun Ru has already agreed to surrender to Zhu Wen. Although Sun Ru apparently joined Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen still knows Sun Ru's personality. He is the same kind of person as Qin Zongquan , bloodthirsty, will not really go allegiance to a certain person.

Even when Sun Ru was under Qin Zongquan's command, it was just a relationship of mutual use, which can be seen from the fact that he killed Qin Zongheng later.Therefore, Zhu Wen has never regarded Sun Ru as his own. The reason why he asked the court for recognition for him before was nothing more than to stabilize him first. As for when to deal with him, it depends on the situation.

But obviously now is not the time to deal with Sun Ru, because now I am busy digesting the existing territory, and I can't afford him at all. Besides, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yang Xingmi's move is just to kill people with a knife, and wants Zhu Wen to take action To deal with Sun Ru, he Yang Xingmi is good at making money.Yang Xingmi had a good plan, but Zhu Wen was not fooled. Zhu Wen claimed that he would send a large number of people to manage the security of Caizhou, and he was unable to take care of Yangzhou.

Zhu Wen actually insisted on refusing to accept the position of Huainan Jiedushi, but Zhu Wen's move seemed to be under Yang Xingmi's control at all. If you can justifiably occupy Huainan, you will definitely run to Huainan and compete with Sun Ru for Huainan, but he is not fooled, and now even I admire him a little."

Yuan Xidao: "Zhu Wen was able to rise to become the largest vassal town in less than ten years. Of course, he can't be an idler if he owns four towns. However, Sun Ru did a lot of evil in Huainan, and it won't last long if he thinks about it. In the future, Yangzhou It's still ours."

But Yang Xingmi sighed: "But Sun Ru is bloodthirsty, how many innocent people will be slaughtered by him during this period of time."

There was no expression on Yuan Xi's face, and he said: "Those who achieve great things don't care about small things, and they can't have the benevolence of women. The more chaos in Huainan, the faster Sun Ru will be defeated. If the lord only cares about the benevolence of these women, how can we do it?" Achievement of undying hegemony? Today the world is in chaos, the lord started from the army, but he can join the army, it has to be said that it is an excellent opportunity, the lord must not let it go easily, now there are Dong Chang and Qian Liu in the east, and Sun in the north For Confucianism, Xuanzhou is the only one to take. My lord will take Xuanzhou as the base for the time being, develop his power, and wait for the opportunity to fight back to Yangzhou."

Yang Xingmi smiled wryly: "Why don't I know? But I was lonely since I was a child, and I was brought up by my master. It was my master who taught me martial arts and the principles of life, but now my master is gone. Alas... Master At that time, the army was also for the people of the world, but it was a pity that Shang Rang, Meng Kai, Zhao Zhang and others took control of the government. This made everyone in the world despise Master, saying that Master is a murderous demon king. In fact, Master has no idea why he fell to people The point where people are shouting and beating."

Yuan Xi also said: "I have heard of these things, but why did King Huang give power to them back then?"

Yang Xingmi shook his head and said: "I don't quite understand this point, but I think the master was practicing at a critical moment, and he must have wanted to break through the highest state of the Hunyuan Wuji mind method. You haven't practiced internal strength, and you don't know how a master of internal strength is against it. The degree of reliance on internal strength, if they can break through to a higher level, they can do it at any cost. It is a pity that I was seriously injured by Gao Pian on the Yangtze River, and my martial arts were abolished. If you have eight successes, you can go further, but it is extremely difficult."

Yuan Xi suddenly said: "Zhu Wen is the lord's younger brother, how is Zhu Wen's martial arts better than the lord?"

Yang Xingmi frowned and said, "Zhu Wen is a prodigy in martial arts. When he practiced for more than half a year, he was able to resist me for fifty moves without defeat. It shows that he has excellent aptitude, and now he must be leaving me far behind." Zhu Wen is indeed a talent, not only in martial arts, his knowledge and courage are beyond the reach of ordinary people, even the master has always admired him, but who knows that this is Zhu Wen, who has always been valued by the master. He betrayed him at the most difficult time, and in the battle of Wang Mandu, the hundreds of thousands of troops that Master was proud of collapsed."

Yang Xingmi fell into deep thought, and he secretly vowed in his heart that if one day his strength grows stronger, he must do everything possible to defeat Zhu Wen and express his anger on behalf of his master.

Zhu Wen is not idle now, because his subordinates have already infiltrated the nearby feudal towns. At this time, people lurking in the nearby feudal towns sent a secret report saying that Zhu Xuan from Yunzhou, Zhu Jin from Yanzhou, and Shi Pu from Xuzhou had died. They secretly formed an alliance and prepared to deal with Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen said in his heart, Zhu Jin also came to join in the fun. I treat him well, but this kid doesn't appreciate it. At worst, let's see the truth. Let's see if it's your spear, bow and arrow, or my bomb!