Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 404
"Short-sightedness!" Li Fei sneered in Luoyang City.

Li Fei was very disdainful that Suzong Li Heng accepted Shi Siming's request to surrender, and even made Shi Siming the Chuzhou Jiedu envoy.

In Li Fei's eyes, Shi Siming is a fierce tiger that has eaten people. Once he is not killed, he will always be a disaster.

"My lord, the imperial court is so corrupt, and my lord has a strong army in hand. Why don't you send your army westward? Tongguan will not be enough to resist your lord's army. Your lord can easily capture Guanzhong and Chang'an City, and replace them with Tang Dynasty." Zeng A, commander of Jinyiwei Niu persuaded Li Feidao.

As Li Fei's earliest confidant and now in charge of Jinyiwei, Zeng Aniu very much hoped that Li Fei could become emperor, so that he would be a hero for the founding of the country.

Not only Zeng Aniu, Wu Sheng and many other generals of the Anton Army, but also officials of the Anton Army have this idea. They all know that Li Fei has the power to replace Datang. It is not difficult.

Li Fei shook his head and said: "It's not difficult to conquer Guanzhong and Chang'an City, the difficulty is to conquer the hearts of the people. After all, the Great Tang has ruled the world for more than 100 years. From Taizong Li Shimin to Xuanzong's period, it has always been strong. Even if there is turmoil during the period, Almost all of them are political, and they are limited to Chang'an City in Guanzhong. Although the Anshi Rebellion made a large number of people disappointed with Datang, Jiangnan and other rich places that have not been war-torn are all concerned with Datang, and the people in Guanzhong and Chang'an City are also concerned about Datang. Don,"

"The people are only disappointed with Datang, not when they are completely desperate. Forcibly entering Guanzhong to replace Datang is by no means the best way. This king has a definite plan. Within three years, the people will never be disappointed with Datang. Become desperate, so this king will replace Datang peacefully!"

Now, with the return of Shi Siming and his son, the imperial court has pacified all the rebels on the surface. In the eyes of the common people, it is not only the credit of Li Fei, but also the credit of the Tang court.

On Anlu Mountain, Shi Siming's rebellion for several years swept across half of the Tang Dynasty, and countless people were devastated. Now it has just been calmed down. At this moment, the people hate the war the most. If Li Fei sends troops to attack Guanzhong and Chang'an City at this time, If the war is provoked again, in the eyes of the common people, Li Fei, An Lushan, and Shi Siming are no different, and his reputation will be wiped out instantly.

"My lord is holy!" Although Ah Niu didn't quite understand, he subconsciously convinced Li Fei.

"In order to prevent this king from getting all the credit for completely eradicating Shi Siming's rebel army, the imperial court accepted Shi Siming's surrender, but it was not that easy. Shi Siming killed so many innocent people in the past two years, bloodthirsty and cruel, this king will never allow him to continue like this lingering in the world."

"List the prefectures and counties that Shi Siming has slaughtered since he followed An Lushan's rebellion, and the approximate number of people killed, and hand them over to my father-in-law, so that he can question His Majesty in the court." Li Fei ordered after thinking for a while.

"Yes, my lord." A Niu immediately went down to do it.

"Come here!" Li Fei called the messengers outside to come in again.

"My lord."

"The order Zhang said, withdraw from Jianghuai to Bianchenliu, hold Bianzhou, and Chenliu. In the direction of Nanyang, let Lu Xin also withdraw from Nanyang to Yingchuan, and just hold Yingchuan—" Li Fei deployed and shrank his troops , basically "returning" Jianghuai and Nanyang to the Tang court, leaving only Luoyang, Yingchuan, Bianzhou, Chenliu, Yanzhou and other places south of the Yellow River.

Li Fei is not trying to use force to replace Datang forcibly, occupying too vast a place, but it is a burden. He can only develop the area north of the Yellow River, Luoyang, Bianzhou, Yanzhou, and Chenliu with peace of mind. When the time is right, start from the west of Luoyang Enter Guanzhong to replace Datang peacefully.

Shi Siming and his son in Chuzhou, since the Yangzhou Tang army cut off Zhang Shuo's way to completely wipe out Shi Siming and his son, and now Suzong Li Heng has accepted Shi Siming and his son's request to surrender, let the Tang court solve Shi Siming and his son by themselves.

Li Fei ordered the Anton army to shrink, completely withdraw from Jianghuai, and also withdraw from other large areas such as Nanyang, which is equivalent to "returning" so many rich places to the Tang court, and it also makes people believe that Li Fei is really not going to learn from Anlu Shan, Shi Siming rebelled like that.

Although Li Fei still occupied Hebei, Luoyang and other places, the people didn't see it, as long as Li Fei didn't rebel and brought them war again, that would be fine.

In Chang'an City in Guanzhong, Li Fei's actions also reassured the Tang court a lot. They turned a blind eye to Li Fei's still occupying Luoyang, Hebei and other places, and did not dare to force Li Fei too much.

Li Fei is now the king of Beiping, and there is no seal or reward, but for such a great contribution to defeating Shi Siming's rebel army, he cannot but be rewarded.

In order to appease Li Fei, Emperor Suzong Li Heng decreed that Li Fei's eldest son be canonized, the second son was the Duke of the State, the third son was the Duke of the County, and both daughters were canonized as the Lord of the County.Lin Siming, the father-in-law of Li Fei in Chang'an City, was also conferred from the Duke of the County to the Duke of the State.

Li Fei can say that there is one king in one family, three princes of the state, and one prince of the county, which is outrageously prominent.

The canonization decree has just been issued.

The second is too difficult, but Lin Siming joined forces with many of his "partisans" to openly put pressure on Suzong Li Heng in the court.

"Your Majesty, since Shi Siming rebelled with Anlu Mountain, and then defeated the Nine Emperors of the Tang Dynasty in Xiangzhou, after 60 troops, he captured Luoyang and called himself the 'Emperor of Yan'. What a rebellion. The most distressing thing is that Shi Siming has slaughtered a total of Hebei, Henan, Jianghuai and other places have more than [-] states and nearly [-] counties. Millions of innocent people have been slaughtered. Now their destruction is imminent, but His Majesty accepted his request to surrender and made him the Chuzhou Festival Dushi, how absurd, I beg Your Majesty to take back his order and completely wipe out Shi Siming and his son!" Lin Siming took out all kinds of brutal evidence of Shi Siming that Li Fei asked Jin Yiwei to prepare.

The eunuch presented Shi Siming's criminal evidence from Lin Siming to Suzong Li Heng.

All the criminal evidence is true, without any exaggeration, but it is enough to move the people who see it. Even for the superficial majesty, it is impossible for Suzong Li Heng to remain indifferent.

Although Lin Siming and his henchmen are so persecuted by the court, he has lost all face.

Lin Siming, Shi Siming, they're just a surname difference, they're all the same outrageous, damn it!Suzong Li Heng was expressionless, but he was full of malice towards Lin Siming in his heart. If Li Fei hadn't threatened Guanzhong in Luoyang, how could he tolerate Lin Siming developing so many henchmen in front of him!
Suzong Li Heng coughed lightly, and after a while, he opened his mouth with a serious face and said: "Shi Siming actually killed so many people, it is indeed an unforgivable crime, accepting his request to surrender is a fault that I did not investigate. Pass the decree, the Jiedu Envoy of Yangzhou, the Jiedu Envoy of Jiangxi, and the Jiedu Envoy of Ezhou send troops to completely wipe out Shi Siming's rebels!"

Originally, Suzong Li Heng accepted Shi Siming's request to surrender in order to prevent Li Fei from continuing to attack and get full credit for destroying Shi Siming.Now that Li Fei has ordered the Anton army to withdraw from Jianghuai and Nanyang, there is no need for Shi Siming to keep them anymore, and it would be better to wipe them out completely.

Suzong Li Heng thought that Shi Siming, who was only left in Chuzhou and Feizhou, was already a grasshopper after autumn, and it would be very easy to wipe out without Li Fei's Anton Army, but he was wrong.
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