If the two of them join forces, although they can not only defeat Li Zhongxuan and General Cheng in a short period of time, but the strength accumulated over the years should not be underestimated.

Thinking of this, he looked at Zhang Shu again, and found that Zhang Shu was indeed very anxious, "Okay, I'll just listen to you, let's set off!" He immediately ordered his troops and took all the soldiers he could use overnight.

Before leaving, he left an old man and said to the old man: "After General Cheng came back, he only said that I went to Wanmei Villa, and I would come back after three or five seven days, so he didn't look for me." The old man believed it and sent the two of them away.

Early in the morning of the second day, General Cheng led the group of pawns back to the cottage, and found that the cottage was empty.

But soon, he walked around the manor and found that Liang Chaoxiong was lying, and when he arrived at Wanmei Villa, he proved his conjecture that Liang Chaoxiong was not in Wanmei Villa at all.

General Cheng immediately told Li Zhongxuan about Liang Chaoxiong's escape overnight, and Li Zhongxuan immediately searched all over the mountains, and he and General Cheng searched for many strongholds in a row, but those strongholds were either empty, or the people inside did not know where Liang Chaoxiong and Zhang Hao had gone.

The two returned in vain, and they were afraid that Liang Chaoxiong and Zhang Hao would sneak attack the imperial capital, so they could only station their troops near the imperial capital.

The tens of thousands of people led by General Cheng have already become his personal soldiers, and they are like fingers, as for Li Zhongxuan, during this period of time, in order to consolidate the imperial power, he is also looking for the trace of Liang Chaoxiong, while recruiting troops.

After this period of getting along, Shen Qiaoan found that Zhang Qiao was a person who valued love and righteousness, but this person was ambitious, short-sighted, and lacked consideration for many things in the court.

He tirelessly consulted Qiao An every day, which made Shen Qiao An very annoyed, and many people in the court still worshiped Zhang Xian.

Zhang was afraid that Li Zhongxuan would find out that he had "ambition", except for the time of the early dynasty to the temple to shake a shot, the rest of the time was in the pavilion to paint, today he was chatting with the painter Cui Bai Danqing, Qiao An listened outside for a while, she rushed into the house.

"Your Majesty, it's a mess outside, and you still have the heart to talk about courtyard painting here?" Shen Qiaoan didn't disrespect him, but felt that he, the puppet emperor, had also done too unsatisfactory.

He really regarded himself as the shopkeeper, and many things were obviously handled easily, but he just didn't deal with it, and the appointed cabinet Zaifu was two people who didn't agree with each other, and these two people disagreed every day, so they almost didn't fight in the Dragon Court.

The court was in a miasma, and Zhang Hao, who was good at it, actually depicted the thorny phoenix in the harem, chatted with a large group of painters every day, and developed more techniques.

At this moment, there were a few people sitting in front of them, Qiao An didn't know each other, they saw Shen Qiaoan come in, they didn't salute, they were still talking and laughing, everyone was appreciating a strange word, Shen Qiaoan looked at it and asked, "What is that?" ”

"Joan, this is "Skeleton Fantasy Picture", you no longer know that there is such a mysterious painting in the world." Joan saw that it was a palm-sized painting, with a skeleton performing acrobatics on the left and a woman holding a child on the right.

Shen Qiaoan was too lazy to understand what was in the "Skeleton Fantasy Drama", she was all about all kinds of things in the court, and she could only leave by herself when she saw that she was so incompetent.

But although Shen Qiaoan returned, firstly, it was difficult for her daughter to convince the public, and secondly, the emperor was not Li Zhongxuan, so her rights were greatly reduced, and she had a quarrel with the cabinet ministers.

The relationship between the left minister and the right minister is not good at all on weekdays, but when opposing Shen Qiaoan, the two are unprecedentedly unanimous. Shen Qiaoan, who was angry, was furious, and she said that the rest of the people, those people were also like rubbers, and their left ears went in and out of her right ears for her words.

Qiao An was angry and immediately went to find Li Zhongxuan, she was going to report the things in the court to Li Zhongxuan, but when she arrived at Xingyuan, she found that Li Zhongxuan's mouth was dry, and he had just heard a report that he had seen Liang Chaoxiong and Zhang Xuan somewhere.

He immediately took General Cheng to look for it, not only did he pounce but was also calculated, and when he saw that Li Zhongxuan and General Cheng were all hung up, Qiao An stopped talking.

"What? Look at the way you have something to say, what's the matter, let's talk about it? Li Zhongxuan didn't mind the small wound at all, and stared at Qiao An.

Shen Qiaoan held the gauze to wrap Li Zhongxuan's wound, "It's not a big deal, I'm just coming to see you!" You too, why are you so careless, according to me, they don't dare to show up so soon, that's clearly a trap. ”

"But I can't let go of any hope, you know, they took away two-thirds of the gold, silver and jewelry in the treasury, and these gold and silver jewelry were hidden by them in different places, and the reason why Liang Chaoxiong was able to recruit 130,000 soldiers last time relied on these silver."

"Hey, then you have to pay more attention to safety." Shen Qiaoan swallowed back what was in front of her, and then thought about it, yes, fighting a war was originally a matter of labor and money, she needed to find a way to let the imperial court also have money, otherwise how could Li Zhongxuan and General Cheng recruit troops?

Because of this thought, Shen Qiaoan temporarily decided to keep the affairs of the imperial court cold, and concentrate on making money, but he made the shops bloom everywhere in Zhongjing.

Fortunately, there have been no special major events in the court recently.

Shen Qiao'an's prediction was very correct, Liang Chaoxiong and Zhang Shu were twisted into a rope, but the two of them didn't make any big moves now, and they didn't even dare to make big moves.

They are recruiting, they have activated countless gold, silver and jewelry, but they are afraid that Li Zhongxuan will find out their behavior, so they can only get a hammer in the east and a stick in the west.

How do those who have joined the army know whether they are joining the national army or the private army? As soon as Liang Chaoxiong recruited more than 200 troops in one place, he immediately transferred, and they did not dare to engage in large-scale activities.

On this day, their troops gradually migrated to the vicinity of Qilian Mountain, which was far away from Zhongjing, more than 60 miles away, and both of them walked hard, Zhang Xian was already exhausted, and stopped the carriage and complained bitterly.

"How many miles have you walked, and you're useless?" In fact, even Liang Chaoxiong himself was out of breath, and while teaching Zhang Hao a lesson, Liang Chaoxiong also reflected on himself.

"It's hot, let's go down and take a walk, big brother! Isn't there still anyone from the court here? Zhang Hao looked at Liang Chaoxiong, Liang Chaoxiong nodded, and got out of the carriage with him.

The two saw a wide river not far away, and immediately went over to draw water, "Is this the famous Lancang River?" Zhang Xian had never been here, and he was attracted by this charming horse training from afar, and consulted the well-informed Liang Chaoxiong as he walked.

That Liang Chaoxiong smiled: "Probably, otherwise what rivers are there near Qilian Mountain?" The two men were drawing water, when they saw someone fishing upstream, and the group also noticed their army, and after a while, a young man came up from above and stopped in front of them.

"Central Plains!"

"Yes!" Liang Chaoxiong and Zhang Shu nodded, Liang Chaoxiong stared at the man, and found that this person was five short in stature, but he had a well-developed tendon meat, just like a calf! The skin of the crowd is bronzed, and it is a cold day, swimming shirtless in the water, which shows that the body is very good.

After the man asked them this question, he immediately whistled towards the sky, and after a while, a large group of men of the same skin color approached them, and they fought without saying a word.

"Central Plains people, haha." The five-short-stature man smiled devilishly, holding a dagger in his mouth, and after going ashore, he first broke a fish and ate it, and then approached them, and the fish bone in his mouth snapped and spit on Zhang Che's face.

"Big brother, we met a cannibal!?" Zhang Che is timid in the end, and when he sees the tower-like man in front of him, where is there anyone who is not afraid.

"Who are you?" Liang Chaoxiong pretended to be calm and asked.

"Where's your turn?" The tower-like man took a horsewhip from the guard's hand and slapped it Liang Chaoxiong's cheek.

Because Liang Chaoxiong was tied, he couldn't struggle and resist, he just endured it all like that.

"Balang, where are you from?" At this moment, Liang Chaoxiong said coldly, the big man motioned to his subordinates to throw away Liang Chaoxiong, and his reasoning eyes were like daggers, staring at Liang Chaoxiong.

"What?" He plucked his ear piercing with his little thumb, "What did you just say?" ”

"Balang! Good Barang! "Balang is "brother" in the language of the steppe people! Although the Khitans and the Xiongnu are far apart, their living habits are exactly the same, and if you go back to it, they were still a family five hundred years ago.

"You're also from the steppe?" The big man smiled, and muttered a series of words that Zhang Che didn't understand at all, after Zhang Che arrived at the cottage, the cottage has been seriously sinicized, and there are very few people who really know the grassland language.

At this moment, hearing the exchange between the two people, Zhang Che was a little confused, but the next moment, both of them laughed, and the big man laughed extremely enthusiastically, patted Liang Chaoxiong's shoulder hard, and patted Zhang Che's shoulder hard, and said again and again, "Okay!" "Good!".

The two of them met in a foreign country, but Zhang Che didn't know what they talked about, someone came to loosen the tie, and someone sent the fish over, "Eat, eat!" "The grassland people are the people who drink blood, where are they so delicate in eating as the Central Plains people?

The fish they caught were cut and eaten raw, which was a challenge for Zhang Che, but after eating the fish, the grassland people urgently gathered and stood on the side of the road to wait for Liang Chaoxiong, who politely retreated and went towards the army.

"Big brother, what did you tell them?" Zhang Che asked, and snorted, hoping to spit out the sashimi, but he couldn't, and he coughed violently.

"When we meet, we are a family, I am a Khitan, he is a Huns, and I really know my hometown and old acquaintance! I have already told Li Zhongxuan about it, and after hearing it, he said that he is willing to help us. ”

When Zhang Che heard this, he applauded happily and said incoherently: "That's really good, isn't this arm that we lack now?" ”

"What are you talking about now, go to the grasslands."

It turned out that the grassland man who gave Liang Chaoxiong and Zhang Che sashimi was the khan of the Huns, and his name was "Surdan".

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