When Li Qi rescued Yu Chaozong, he didn't know that the current emperor Yang Jing had arrived, so he speculated that the Youzhou army might still compete with the Yuzhou army, so he hurriedly took people back to the underground palace and sealed the underground palace.

After Yu Chaozong woke up, he told Li Qi that when the Yuzhou army invaded Jizhou, he shouted a slogan, saying that it was the order of the Son of Heaven to kill the thief, and he knew that the Great Chu Emperor was also here.

Li Qi had heard about it a long time ago, and at that time, Yang Jing was not the emperor of Great Chu, but the crown prince.

After Dean Gao opened the Four Pages Academy, he was ordered to return to the capital once, when the old emperor wanted him to go back to do the East Palace Zhan Shi and teach the prince.

After living in the capital for a year and a half, Dean Gao was really unaccustomed to the atmosphere of the capital, so he returned to Ji.

But he was full of praise for the crown prince Yang Jing, and once said more than once that although His Royal Highness the crown prince is young, he has already looked at the past and the present and has the world in mind.

Li Qi later heard Dean Gao talk about this prince, and heard about some things about this person in the capital, and at that time, Li Qi also made a judgment that His Royal Highness the prince could endure it.

People who can endure it, once they break out, are not trivial.

"Now I have some regrets."

Yu Chaozong was lying on the bed, holding Li Qi's hand all the time, and he didn't let go when he spoke, as if he was afraid that when Li Qi turned around, he would be dead.

Yu Chaozong sighed lightly and said: "I don't regret myself, but I regret Da Chu, if Your Majesty can be born thirty years earlier, Da Chu may not be what it is now, then I should still be a scholar, like others, or go to the capital to take the big exam, or hold a letter to ask for a recommendation, and seek a fame." ”

He said in a very light tone: "But it's late, even people like me have already rebelled, even if Da Chu has Mingjun now, he can't be saved, if he doesn't win our Yanshan Camp, Da Chu can be stable, in the general trend of the world, Yanshan Camp is just a speck of dust." ”

Li Qi nodded slightly, the Yanshan battalion is undoubtedly the largest rebel force in the north, no matter how good the reputation of the Yanshan battalion is and how good it is, from the perspective of the imperial court, the Yanshan battalion is naturally a rebel.

But the Yanshan battalion is not the most powerful rebel army in the entire Great Chu Jiangshan, at least there are at least two rebel armies that are much stronger than the Yanshan battalion.

In the southern Xinjiang area of Dachu, there is a person named Li Gehu, who was originally a coolie in a fishing village, who could not bear the oppression, and took a group of coolie brothers to uncover the pole.

Because they were all coolies, they had no clothes and no armor, so they were called thin shirts.

Li Brother Hu is different from Yu Chaozong, he has not read, he is illiterate, and he will not be able to open his mouth to say many big truths like Yu Chaozong.

He can be embraced because of two things.

First, he said to everyone, I didn't raise the army to be Emperor Laoshizi, but to save more people like me.

Second, he said to the crowd that since it was the opposite, he would do it if he didn't accept it.

He initially relied on coolies in the southern Xinjiang waters, who were physically strong and familiar with the terrain, and never fell behind in dealing with the officers and soldiers.

Brother Li raised troops before Yu Chaozong, two years earlier than Yu Chaozong, and now the thin shirt army has 300,000 troops, and dozens of states and counties in the southern Xinjiang of Great Chu have been captured by him, and the officials and troops dare not confront it head-on.

Prince Wu's army is the best at land warfare, but in that place in southern Xinjiang, the waterways are crisscrossed, boats come and go, there is almost no place for cavalry, and there is rarely a place for infantry to charge and fight.

Therefore, even if Prince Wu's army arrives there, it may not be able to do anything to the thin shirt army.

At that time, the officialdom in southern Xinjiang was even more corrupt, and the army had long been untrained, and it could not defeat the thin shirt army at all, so it could only watch the thin shirt army get stronger and stronger.

Along with the Thin Shirt Army, the Shuzhou Heavenly Mandate Army.

The Mandate of Heaven Army is special, because the leader of the Mandate of Heaven Army is self-proclaimed King of Mandate of Heaven

's Yang Xuanji's background is different from Yu Chaozong and Li Gehu.

Yang Xuanji is from the imperial family, although he is only a few years older than His Majesty the current emperor, he is the uncle of Emperor Yang Jing.

Yang Xuanji's father was a brother to Yang Jing's grandfather, and after Yang Jing's grandfather inherited the throne, Yang Xuanji's father was named King Jin, and his fief was in Shuzhou.

King Jin was originally the youngest, nearly twenty years younger than his eldest brother, and he was old and had a son.

Prince Wu is already in his sixties, and Yang Xuanji is nearly thirty years old.

When Yang Xuanji was in his twenties, his father King Jin died of illness, and he wrote to the imperial court, thinking that the old emperor would order him to inherit the throne of King Jin.

Who would have thought that the old emperor listened to Liu Chongxin's words, went to King Jin to be crowned, and gave Yang Xuanji a so-called marquis, and the title was the Marquis of Zhifang.

It means that you are just this life, you should know it yourself, stop being delusional.

The irony in this is so obvious, how can Yang Xuanji endure it.

So Yang Xuanji simply reversed, King Jin has been operating in Shuzhou for many years, and there are naturally not a few people who are willing to follow Yang Xuanji.

Besides, that place in Shuzhou is really difficult to fight, in just three or four years, Yang Xuanji has more than 200,000 troops in Shuzhou and proclaimed himself the king of the Mandate of Heaven.

His meaning is also obvious, you let me be a knowing destiny, saying that I am this destiny, I just want you to know that I am destiny.

Li Brother Hu and Yang Xuanji, one dominates southern Xinjiang, the other is called Wang Shuzhou, and no one in the local area is their opponent.

And what is more advantageous than Yu Chaozong is the terrain and connections.

Yu Chaozong has a good background, but his father is also a ruler, how can his connections be compared with Yang Xuanji?

Yang Xuanji is in Shuzhou, with the support of all major families, asking for money, money, and people, and the land of Shuzhou with 100,000 mountains, Prince Wu's army is useless.

He can take the Central Plains when he enters, and he can defend Shuzhou when he retreats, even if he establishes himself as the emperor in Shuzhou and enjoys a corner alone, the court has nothing to do.

Brother Li is in southern Xinjiang, and he has the support of all the hard-working people, saying that he has an army of 300,000 under his command, but as long as he ascends to the heights and shouts, it is not particularly difficult to gather millions of people.

The people in southern Xinjiang already only know Brother Li Hu, but they don't know that there is a court, they only know the twelve orders of thin shirts, and they don't know that the court has a law.

Relatively speaking, Yu Chaozong was much more difficult on the Jizhou side, there was the Jizhou army, the Youzhou army, and later the Yuzhou army and the Qingzhou army, and then Prince Wu's army also arrived.

This place in the north is not as good as the land south of the Yangtze River.

If Yu Chaozong listened to Li Qi's strategy and did not go out of the mountain, waited for the end of the Jizhou War, and eliminated all the factors related to the Yanshan camp in this war, the outcome would actually be the same.

Zeng Ling will definitely die, the Yuzhou army took over Jizhou, and Luo Geng's Youzhou army seemed to be reused, but it was actually excluded.

The emperor will not stay in Jizhou for a long time, and neither will Prince Wu, and when the time comes, the Yanshan camp will go south to seize Jizhou, not to mention that it is not much easier.

But Yu Chaozong didn't listen.

According to Li Qi's idea, about half a year later, at most a year, Yu Chaozong's Yanshan Battalion, whether in prestige or strength, will surpass Li Brother Hu's Thin Shirt Army and Yang Xuanji's Heavenly Mandate Army.

At the very least, it can dominate the north.

But in fact, at present, is it Brother Li who really poses a danger to Da Chu to destroy the country? Is it Yang Xuanji? Is it Yu Chaozong?

Is it in the Liangyan Village that raises the banner in the southeast of Qingzhou? Is it the Baishan Army, which has the support of the Bohai State in Yuyang and has 70,000 or 80,000 troops?

It's not, but the thirteen state festival envoys of Dachu, those famous families who have smelled the smell of higher and greater power.

Even if the current emperor Yang Jing has the heart to turn the tide, he can hold on to this turmoil

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Thirteen Prefecture Festival Envoys, even if there is no Zeng Ling, no Cui Yanlai, and no Liu Li, the rest of the people will honestly surrender to the imperial court again?

They are not stupid, Zeng Ling, Liu Li, Cui Yanlai, is an example of life and death.

They are willing to submit, and the emperor can tolerate them?

At the moment, as long as the situation is stable, the emperor will slaughter them one by one.

These people see the situation clearly, everyone will make a decision, and if they were fools, they would not be able to do such a high position.

The emperor's defeat of a Yu Dynasty Sect was not a big victory, because of the impact on the pattern of the world, the defeat of the Yanshan camp was not a big deal at all.

At this moment, there is nothing to look forward to for Yu Chaozong, he is not dead, his heart is dead.

But he has seen it more thoroughly, and probably without going through these things, he will not have a more thorough state of mind.

"The third."

Yu Chaozong took Li Qi's hand, his voice was weak, but he said sincerely: "With your talent, you should do your own thing, your ability is far above me, and there is a lot to be done in this world." ”

Li Qi said: "Big brother, don't think so much, take care of your body first, let's not be in a hurry to think about the future." ”

Yu Chaozong shook his head and said, "I know that my fate has not been long in coming, and you listen to me finish speaking...... The third child, the Yanshan camp was defeated, and I lost, in fact, for the Central Plains, it was like a small pebble falling into the lake, insignificant. ”

"However, the death of Liu Li, Zeng Ling, and Cui Yanlai is that three mountains fell and smashed into this lake, and what was set off was not a drop of water, but a monstrous wave."

He looked at Li Qi and said seriously: "Because of the death of these three people, the other festival envoys have become more and more aware that they are not opposed, and the emperor cannot tolerate them, rather than waiting for the emperor to clean them up one by one, it is better to do the opposite, no one can be the emperor of the Central Plains, then everyone will divide the Central Plains." ”

He breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "After Jizhou has gone through this war, it is the best time. ”

Li Qi understood what he meant.

The Yanshan camp in Jizhou was defeated, Zeng Ling died, and it seemed that there was no major trouble, and the emperor would focus on other places next.

Jizhou, on the contrary, has become the most suitable place for development, Youzhou Luo Geng and Yuzhou Yu Weiyin are bound to be at odds, the two of them are fighting openly and secretly, and they can't care about anything else.

Besides, the emperor will definitely not give them the surrender of the Qingzhou army, nor will the surrender of the Yanshan battalion, and he will definitely let Prince Wu take all of them away.

Yu Chaozong said: "I guess that the emperor will soon return to the capital, and Prince Wu's army will also escort him back to the south. ”

"So in this way, even Prince Wu Yang Jiju can't afford to take care of other places, Li Brother Hu in Southern Xinjiang and Yang Xuanji in Shuzhou, seeing that the situation is like this, will definitely send troops."

He clenched Li Qi's hand and said: "I'm sorry for you, and I'm sorry for all the brothers in Yanshan Camp, I can no longer take care of the living brothers, I will write a letter, and then give you the token of the big boss, you wait until the right time to leave Jizhou and return to Yanshan Camp, the old seven golden armor is still guarding at home, after you go back, I will say to him, I have handed over the position of the big boss to you, you take the brothers to live well, with your ability, you can also take everyone to take revenge in the future, and fight with those people for the Central Plains." ”

Li Qi was just about to persuade again, Yu Chaozong coughed violently, he talked too much, his mood fluctuated greatly, where could his body support at this time, and after coughing a few times, he began to vomit blood.

After a while, he stopped, and fell back into a deep sleep, looking weak and barely alive.

Li Qi stood on the side of the bed, looking at the big boss with such a pale face, and it was difficult to calm down for a while.