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Chapter 539 The Emperor's Ambition
Above the main hall, Ji Chuan's words resounded resoundingly, and the lingering sound echoed in the hall.

Ji Chuan immediately said: "The matter of proclaiming the emperor is at the right time, I implore the king to proclaim the emperor!"

Afterwards, Zhongshu ordered Wen Yanbo to get out of his seat, knelt down to Li Chongjiu and said, "I second my proposal!"

The right servant of the Shangshu shot Wang Gui out of his seat, bowed behind Wen Yanbo, and said loudly: "The humble minister is also seconding!"

After speaking, Wang Gui knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily.

Then Wei Zheng, the shepherd of the Youjing Mansion, and Chen Xiaoyi, the left servant of the Shangshu, came out silently, and knelt down behind Wen Yanbo and Wang Gui without saying a word.

At this time, Su Su, the shepherd of Taiyuan Mansion, and Lu Chengqing also came out together.

"Wei Chen agrees!"

"The minister also agrees!"

The officials of Zhongshusheng and Shangshusheng all knelt on the ground together, with impassioned voices.

Several censors said: "If the minister refuses to admonish him to death, we would like blood to splash on the palace."

These censors were all promoted to officials twice in the county school Guozijian examinations. They were all young people, and they were the most enthusiastic.

All the ministers in the hall knelt down together, and Pei Ju stepped forward and said: "This is the intention of all the ministers, and it cannot be pushed away."

After finishing speaking, Pei Ju knelt on the ground regardless of his age.
Su Su wept and said: "Your Majesty, what do you mean by all the ministers! We beg you."

The air above the main hall was almost suffocating. Li Chongjiu glanced at the crowd and said, "What you said is true, I have decided to accept this form and proclaim myself emperor!"

Speaking of this, Li Chongjiu drew out his sword and said: "There are no two days in the sky, and there are no two masters in the country. Since I have decided to be the emperor, I will join with all the ministers and workers to sweep Liuhe, wipe out the heroes, and unify the Central Plains!"

"Unify the Central Plains!"

All the ministers shouted together, and the sound shook the hall.

Li Chongjiu's proclaiming the emperor is not only in the situation, but also finally revealing his ambition and ambition to seize the world to the people of Zhao State. From then on, all Tang and Zheng countries that are on the road of Zhao State will be overthrown until they are unified. Central Plains!

Unify the Central Plains!

Zhao Guoqun officials chanted this slogan.

At this moment, Zhao Guoxiong's ambition is not only Youjing, a city, a county and a state in Hebei, but the whole world.

For example, Wen Yanbo, Wang Gui and other important officials were also excited and couldn't contain themselves at the moment.

Wen Yanbo sighed deeply in his heart, the path I took was correct, and it was enough to comfort my Wen family ancestors.

Wei Zheng's face was not disturbed, and he thought, my Wei Zheng will finally be famous in history, but it is not enough, this is just the beginning.The road is long and I will search up and down.

Ji Chuan was full of complacency and said in his heart, finally today, I can follow the king, not His Majesty's oldest subject, founding honor, minister of the dragon, from now on, no one in Zhao will look up to me, Ji Chuan, hahaha .

Chen Xiaoyi thought in his heart, one day prospers and another one falls, I wonder if King Zhao can create a more prosperous age than the Great Sui?

Li Hu was stunned at the side, thinking that my son decided to proclaim himself emperor today, and my Li family unexpectedly produced an emperor.This... this is not a dream.

Shi Deyun looked at Li Chongjiu with infinite admiration, thinking that this is the man Shi Deyun entrusted to him!

Everyone thought differently, and there were several courtiers who never bowed down to Li Chongjiu. When they saw the scene where Li Chongjiu promised to be emperor, they all silently bowed to Li Chongjiu, and then left the hall silently.

None of them had high official positions in Zhao State.Together, they slowly walked down the high steps of the main hall.

One person said: "King Zhao is finally proclaimed emperor!"

"That's right, brother Yin, I knew the result when I became king a year ago."

"It's just why you didn't resign at the beginning, but why do you resign today?"

"I just remembered the glorious Sui back then, and I kept lying to myself that I didn't believe it. Now that the old tree has sprouted, I saw that the sprout was finally Zhao, not Sui. It's time for me to leave, how about you?"

"I have my own reasons."

"Okay, go drink!"

At the gate of Linshuo Palace, a carriage rushed to the gate, and the soldiers guarding the palace shouted: "Who is presumptuous!"

"I am Du Yan, the envoy of the State of Zheng, please see the King of Zhao and let me in quickly!"

The soldiers guarding the palace said: "The king is feasting all the ministers, and there is no time to meet them. Come back tomorrow!"

Fang Yan said: "The military situation is extremely urgent. If we delay for a moment, our country of Zheng will be destroyed in one fell swoop? If we don't see King Zhao today, I will bump my head to death in front of the door!"

"Let me do it for you. If it doesn't work, forget it." The palace guard finally gave in.

Not long after, Du Yan walked quickly to the palace road, but saw his eyes were bloodshot, and when he reached the main hall, he saw all the ministers of Zhao Guo, Du Yan knelt on the ground with a plop, and cried loudly: "Save Zheng Guo!" , save Zheng Guo!"

Li Chongjiu said in the first sentence: "Speak slowly if you have something to say. Please sit down!"
At that moment, several ministers of Zhao State helped Du Yan up.Du Yan came and sat down in front of Li Chongjiu, and said, "King Zhao!"

"Slow down!" Xue Wanshu shouted, "Your Majesty is proclaiming himself emperor!"

Du Yan was taken aback for a moment, and said: "I'm sorry... See Your Majesty!"

Li Chongjiu said: "It's okay, I haven't made it known to the world, how is the military situation in Luoyang?"

Du Yan sighed and said truthfully: "It's very bad. After Li Tang broke Huaizhou, Tian Zan, the governor of Xianzhou, surrendered to Tang with 25 states under his command. The road between Xiangyang and Luoyang is dead."

"Qin Wang Shimin sent general Chai Shao to attack Xuanyuan Pass. Zheng Wang sent general Wei Yin and others to attack Chai Shao, but in the end, Chai Shao set up an ambush to break it, and all the land east of Guancheng was lost."

"In November, Qi, Xia, Chen, Sui, Xu, Ying, and Wei Qizhou under the command of Derui Shuai, the governor of Weizhou, came to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. Du Caiqian, the governor of Puzhou, killed Huazhou Xingtai servant and shot Bing Yuanzhen Later, Yizhou surrendered to Li Tang. Afterwards, even General Zhang Zhenzhou and Governor Yang Qing also led their troops to Tang.”
"In December, all the cities around Luoyang were lost. Crown Prince Xuan Yingben sat in Hulao and was about to lead an army to reinforce Guancheng. General, the whole state descends to the Tang Dynasty."

Hearing that Du Yan told the situation of the battle in detail, Li Chongjiu and all the ministers were almost numb when they heard the news that Wang Shichong was the defender and surrendered to Li Tang.

One person asked: "Master Zheng is a general who is used to fighting, why didn't he attack Tang?"

Du Yan said: "It's not that I don't want to, but I can't. The guards around are all rebellious. My lord doesn't even know who is loyal to Zheng Guo. For example, Yang Qing, the governor of Guanzhou, my lord regards him as brother, daughter and wife. The Tang army forced Luoyang, and Yang Qing decided to surrender to Li Tang. His wife's persuasion was fruitless, and she told the servants that if Tang succeeded in defeating Zheng, my family would be destroyed; And Yang Qing, that bastard, descended to Tang just like that."

Li Chongjiu shook his head silently when he heard this, which means the general situation is over.

The general situation is gone, obviously because people's hearts have turned their backs. First of all, everyone is not optimistic that Wang Shichong can win against Li Tang.

If it weren't for this, with the power of Zheng Guo, although Wang Shichong might not be stronger than Li Tang, he would not have lost so badly.You must know that the territory and population of Zheng State are both times that of Liu Heita's Xia State. If you really want to fight together, how can Li Shimin succeed so easily.

It's just that in many cases, the outcome of the war has been decided before the troops are dispatched.

The land of dozens of states surrendered without a fight, and the blow to Zheng Jun was really heavy.When Li Chongjiu attacked Liu Heita and swept Hebei, it was not so smooth.

Wang Shichong is also a hero of the generation, but he was defeated by such a useless person. If he could not abolish the emperor, where would he be today.Could it be that Li Tang's attack on Luoyang today is more ferocious than when Li Mi's hundreds of thousands of Wagang troops attacked Luoyang?
It's really self-inflicted.

Du Yan continued to talk about it, such as Sima Jingyang and Li Daliang, the general manager of Jinzhou, broke through Xiangyang and took Juzhou and Huazhou.

Li Shimin surrendered Wang Xiong as governor of Songzhou with Wang Shichong, and cut off the road to Songnan in Luoyang. Huang Yaohan in Bianzhou lured and beheaded General Zhang Cibao of Wang Xuanying, and descended to Tang Dynasty with Bianzhou.

The latest news is that Wang Shichong, Xu, Bo and other eleven states all surrendered to Li Tang.

In the end, Du Fuwei, the hero of the Jianghuai River, also dispatched his generals Chen Zhengtong and Xu Shaozong to help Li Tang attack Wang Shichong.

Hearing this, General Zhao Guozhong was already numb. The first reaction was why Wang Shichong had so many states, and the second reaction was, ah, why did he surrender again.

At the end, Du Yan said to Li Chongjiu in tears: "Your Majesty, please save Zheng Guo, otherwise Zheng Guo is really doomed."

It is unbearable to see the dignified ministers crying bitterly in the hall.

(End of this chapter)