Chapter 32: A Growing Estrangement
In the dead of night, Cheng Yanjin lay in bed tossing and turning. Reading the book at zero o'clock, I only saw that Song Valve did not hesitate to spend decades of penance of several elders to help Li Mi step into the martial arts, and it can be seen that Song Valve spared no effort to support Li Mi. When Cheng Biting Jin stepped into the martial arts, he also used his own internal strength to help him open up the meridians, and then he began to practice internal strength.
Now Li Mi is good, those elders of the Song family have directly created a martial arts master with empowerment**. When Cheng Yanjin saw Li Mi last night, he didn't feel the fluctuations in his internal strength, although Cheng Yanjin didn't deliberately check it at that time, but Li Mi was able to hide his six senses, either Song Valve gave him a method to hide his strength, or the internal strength that permeated Li Mi's body had been digested and absorbed by Li Mi, making him a top master in the rivers and lakes.
Song Valve's step must be described as clever. Since Li Mi became the master of Wagang, although he led the Wagang army to fight everywhere, he was invincible. However, he himself never went into battle, but only commanded in the rear. Even if you go to the front line occasionally, you will be accompanied by a large number of masters.
Because of this, many generals of the Wagang Army thought that Li Mi was at most a military advisor, and although Wei Gong Wei was respectful on the surface, in fact, he could not afford Li Mi in his heart. Everyone is a three-player figure, but they are called and pressed by a powerless scholar and pressed under their feet, how many of those generals who think they are strong in martial arts can be convinced?
Besides, if you want to seize the world, you must have both civil and military skills. Looking at the founding kings of all dynasties, who is not the dragon among those who can kill the enemy on the horse and manage the government when they get off the horse? Originally, Li Mi's lowly martial arts were his weakness, but now he was easily eliminated by Song Valve. After a few days, when Li Mi appeared in front of the generals of the Wagang Army with a new attitude, didn't those unruly generals immediately and honestly shrink their heads as grandsons?
Seeing that Li Mi had changed from an ordinary person to a top master in the rivers and lakes in a moment, Cheng Yanjin only felt tears on his face. It's really more popular than people! After several years of hard work, he can only barely be regarded as a first-class master in the rivers and lakes. Look at Li Mi, sitting at home, there are elders of the Song valve running over to give the empowerment and pass on the exercises, how can such a good thing of pie in the sky not be touched by himself?
Thinking of the agreement between Song Valve and Li Mi, as long as Li Mi can capture the eastern capital Luoyang, Song Valve will marry Li Mi and participate in this big gamble in the world openly. At that time, with the support of the Song valve, coupled with the already powerful Wagang army, Li Mi took the lead in the game for the world.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yanjin was extremely depressed. You said that this Song Valve, just stay in Lingnan honestly, why do you want to run out to make trouble? Isn't this a matter of trouble for the gentlemen to be clean when they are full? That Song Que is also yes, don't you want the daughters of your Song family? A top martial arts master known as the 'Heavenly Sword', he doesn't go to the deep mountains and old forests to practice martial arts, and these things in the pure and secular world, if you think your daughter is too much, you can send it to us! The master will not refuse to come.
Song Valve and Li Mi joined forces, and the probability of competing for the world naturally increased greatly, but this was something that Cheng Yanjin could not tolerate. Anyway, he couldn't sleep, so Cheng Yanjin simply sat up, poured a cup of tea, and sat there thinking carefully about how to break up the alliance between Song Valve and Li Mi.
Now that Song Valve and Li Mi have established a preliminary trust, even if they make a ghost out of it and make the two families wary of each other, they will not be able to stop the alliance that has been formed. Cheng Yanjin thought about it and thought about it, and only thought of two places where he could make trouble.
The first thing that can be used is naturally this Luoyang. The agreement between Song Valve and Li Mi was to break through Luoyang, and the two families formed an alliance openly. Therefore, as long as Li Mi does not break through Luoyang for a day, then the Song family will not be able to support Li Mi with great fanfare. As long as Li Mi broke through Luoyang later, the more beneficial it would be to Li Yuan, who had entered the Guanzhong.
delaying the time for Li Mi to break through Luoyang, this is not too difficult for Cheng Yanjin. Now that the imperial court has sent Wang Shichong to reinforce the eastern capital, as long as Cheng Biting Jin and Wang Shichong are fighting and releasing water, so that Wang Shichong and the Wagang army can form a confrontation situation, then the time will drag on I don't know what year and month.
In addition to being able to stumble here with Li Mi, the only place left that can do it is where the Lingnan Song valve is. The alliance with Li Mi is the owner of the Song Valve, and Song Que, who is known as the 'Heavenly Knife', made an idea, and Cheng Yanjin did not expect that he would be able to make Song Que change his mind. Not to mention himself, even those veteran guys in the Song Valve Elder Group don't have that ability.
However, this does not mean that Cheng Yanjin cannot make a fuss from Song Valve. According to the information that Cheng Yanjin had obtained before, although the Song Valve was the only family of gate valves in Lingnan, it was not the Song Valve family that could affect the situation in Lingnan. The Xian family, the clan leader who commands more than 100,000 tribes, has a reputation in Lingnan that is not under the Song Dynasty. Especially when the old lady who has been in charge of the washing family for decades was alive, she was really Lingnan, and even Song Valve was honest and guarded at that time, and did not dare to have the slightest deviant action.
Mrs. Xian, formerly known as Xian Ying. The young man is intelligent, and he has followed his father and brother since he was a child, and has experienced many armed fights between tribes, and is quite manly. Later, he was taught martial arts and strategy, not only able to hold a bow and shoot arrows, but also proficient in the method of marching and arranging formations. He is good at strategy, and when he was at his parents' house, he was able to follow the people and was deeply trusted by his own people.
When the dynasty was established, several counties in Lingnan jointly promoted Mrs. Xian as the main and respected as the "Holy Mother of Lingnan". He also strongly urged independence to protect the territory and the people. When Yang Jian's army arrived at the border of Lingnan, because he was afraid of Mrs. Xian, he patrolled from afar and did not dare to attack, so he sent a messenger to show the letter of the Empress Chen and the token she gave to the Empress Chen, the "Funan rhino rod". After knowing that Chen was dead, Mrs. Xian summoned thousands of leaders to "weep all day long" before returning to the Sui Dynasty. The court felt that she took care of the overall situation and understood the righteousness, and canonized her as "Mrs. Song Kangjun".
Ten years after the opening of the emperor, Panyu Wang Zhong declared a rebellion, "the states followed the rebellion", the situation was pressing, Mrs. Xian sent troops to quell the rebellion, and "everywhere she went, she heard the wind and returned to Shun", after quelling the rebellion, Mrs. Xian, who was nearly seventy years old, rode a horse again, held a brocade umbrella, and took the cavalry to escort the imperial court envoys to patrol the states. Everywhere he went, the leaders of all over the country came to pay homage and receive knighthoods, and since then the Lingnan region has been completely stabilized.
Emperor Wen Yang Jian was greatly surprised by Mrs. Xian, and in order to show his merits, he was specially canonized as "Mrs. Xian Guo", and granted her the right to soldiers and horses in six states and many gifts. In the early years of Renshou, Mrs. Xian passed away, and the Sui Dynasty called her "Mrs. Chengjing". It was not until several years after the death of Mrs. Xitai that Song gradually put Lingnan's influence under control.
Although the current Lingnan is dominated by the Song family, the Song family can only influence the Han people who occupy the main position. However, the other ethnic groups in Lingnan, especially the people of the Slang and Wing races, still respect the Liang Xian clan.
The solution that Cheng Yanjin thought of was to send someone to Lingnan, the Song family's nest, to make trouble, so that Song Valve could take care of himself. And this article is going to fall on Feng An, the grandson of Mrs. Xian and the son of Feng Fu
body. The Feng family has always been loyal to the imperial court since Mrs. Xitai, and it would be strange if Feng Ang knew that the Lingnan Song lords secretly assisted the Wagang army, and Feng Ang would not fall out with the Song family. As long as the Feng and Song families are at odds, Lingnan will naturally not be a pure land. When the time comes, where will Song Valve, who is on fire in the backyard, still have the leisure to support Li Mi?
It's just that this matter has to be kept very hidden. 'Heavenly Sword' Song Que and 'Earth Sword' Song Zhi, these brothers are not easy to mess with, if their small actions are discovered by the Song family, Song Zhi will not look at the friendship that he once drank with him, and he will spare his life. At that moment, Cheng Yanjin stood up and paced back and forth in the house, thinking about how to operate in order to handle this matter properly.
finally waited until the sky was slightly bright, and Cheng Yanjin came up with a trick. Regardless of the bloodshot eyes, Cheng Yanjin walked out of the camp tent, planning to go back to his base camp to make arrangements. Unexpectedly, before he got out of Li Mi's base camp, he heard a commotion in the distance, and the curious Cheng Yanjin took a closer look, but it was Zhai Rang, who had not been seen for a long time, who was there pointing fingers and scolding at an old man tied to a tree trunk.
Seeing the old man who was about to be beheaded but still talked endlessly and scolded Zhai Rang, Cheng Yanjin was taken aback. When Yang Guang sent Wang Shichong to lead the army to aid Luoyang, he ordered the Son of Heaven of Feng Ciming to inspect the Eastern Capital, first, to let Feng Ciming gather the troops near the Eastern Capital and rush to the Eastern Capital to quell the chaos, and secondly, to encourage the defenders of Luoyang, showing that the Son of Heaven in Yangzhou did not forget their meaning.
It's a pity that this Feng Ciming is not lucky, and most of the area around Luoyang has fallen into the hands of the Wagang army, so as soon as this Feng Ciming arrived near the eastern capital, he was captured by Li Mi's men. Li Mi tried to recruit this person, but was refused. In desperation, Li Mi had no choice but to temporarily lock up Feng Ciming, hoping that he would change his mind.
However, to everyone's surprise, this Feng Ciming actually persuaded Xi Wuben, who was guarding him, and asked Xi Wuben to let him go at the risk of touching the military law and killing him. It's a pity that this Feng Ciming's luck is really bad, as soon as he fled to Yongqiu, he was captured by Li Gongyi, who directly belonged to Li Mi's Pushan Public Camp, and was escorted to Li Mi again. Because of such an interesting episode, when Feng Ciming was escorted back, Cheng Yanjin also went to Li Mi's camp to see it.
Now hearing the scolding between Zhai Rang and Feng Ciming, Cheng Yanjin understood, it turned out that this Feng Ciming swore not to surrender Li Mi, but his reputation was too high, and Li Mi was afraid that killing him would affect his reputation, so he simply let this Feng Ciming go, which also saved him from worry.
However, Feng Ciming's bad luck did not end. As soon as he walked out of Li Mi's handsome tent, he was arrested by Zhai Rang. I don't know if Zhai Rang got the news and waited outside, or if he met it by chance, anyway, this Feng Ciming was caught by Zhai Rang.
Based on Cheng Jin's conjecture, I am afraid that Zhai Rang is specially waiting here. Listening to the conversation between Zhai Rang and Feng Ciming, it was clear that he had revealed the intention of soliciting before. Obviously, Zhai Rang wanted to do what Li Mi couldn't do by himself, so that he could show his ability.
It's a pity that Feng Ciming didn't give Zhai Rang face at all, and the enraged Zhai Rang immediately ordered his subordinates to tie Feng Ciming to the trunk of the tree. Seeing that Feng Ciming was hacked to death with a knife, Cheng Biting Jin shook his head, no wonder Zhai Rang is not as good as Li Mi, an old man who is nearly seventy years old will not let go, he has no tolerance at all, he deserves to be the second.