The new dynasty is the king of the new dynasty!

Throughout the ages, this has been the dream of many people. For tens of thousands of civil and military officials in Beijing, many of them have experienced the end of the Chongzhen Dynasty, and have also witnessed the decline of the Dashun peasant army, and naturally they have also experienced how the Qing Dynasty, which seems to be in full swing, was defeated in the northwest.

These years have long since become the emperor of flowing water, the minister of iron. No matter how things change in this world, they are still officials in this court. Of course, if you want to continue to wear this black gauze hat, you must learn to see the wind and steer the rudder. Learn how to see through the destiny of heaven.

In fact, the so-called seeing through the destiny of heaven is nothing more than seeing the wind and making the rudder, that is, knowing the current affairs. As long as they do both, they will be invincible in this changing situation. So as to enjoy the glory and wealth.

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

What is Destiny?

For these civil and military officials in the capital who have long been accustomed to seeing the wind and steering the rudder and are accustomed to knowing the times, after experiencing these changes, although they sighed at the unpredictable changes in the mandate of heaven, they can also see that Li Chu is responding to the mandate of heaven today. With 300,000 horses under his command, plus Hong Chengchou leading several southwestern provinces to be similar, his men and horses are nearly 800,000, and the momentum is probably nothing more than that of the Qing Dynasty.

Can you get the southwestern provinces without wasting a single soldier, isn't this just in response to the mandate of heaven? Could it be that after dozens of tribulations, this destiny should be on Li Ziyuan's body.

Eighteen sons sit in the world.

Everyone knows that this kind of statement is not true, but at this time, who would doubt it? Not only do ordinary people believe it, but even the hundred officials in Beijing seem to believe in the nursery rhyme proverb of "eighteen sons sit in the world", after all, nursery rhymes and proverbs are sometimes scary.

The eighteen sons of that year won the world, prospered Li Tang, achieved the foundation of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, and created the prosperous era of Zhenguan that year. So today, the eighteen sons are sitting in the world, isn't it also secretly the number of days.

The new dynasty is "Tang".

Is this also the number of days?

After the chaos, there can be great governance, and it is the destiny of heaven that the cycle of heavenly principles is so so.

It seems that there really is a reason for this, and who knows?

If there are too many lies, those who listen will believe it, and the people who say it will also believe it, at least now Li Ziyuan seems to have believed that he is really a person who "obeys the destiny of heaven".

The eighteenth son sits in the world, and he is talking about Li Ziyuan, as for Li Ziyuan...... Sui Tang will there be no Li Mi! He, Li Mi, is not also the eighteenth son, and in the end, he still made a wedding dress for Li Tang, just like Li Ziyuan made a wedding dress for him.

And who created Li Tang back then? It's Li Yuan! And who is he?

It's Li Ziyuan!

This is the will of heaven and the destiny of heaven!

It's even more heavenly......

It's just that not everyone will conform to the principles of heaven, just like now, when Li Ziyuan began to prepare for his ascension to the throne after the year, the news from Shanhaiguan here made him immediately annoyed.

"Fart!"

With a slam of thought, he threw the fold in his hand on the ground, and Li Ziyuan, who was sitting on the dragon chair - although he had not officially ascended the throne, he had already been invited by the "world" to be the king of Tang, and he was also the emperor's guard of honor, and even people moved into the Forbidden City.

Although he has changed into the "royal robe" of the five-clawed golden dragon and is only one short of ascending the throne, he regards himself as the emperor everywhere, but he is extremely angry, and the seven points of earthiness still throw out all the disguises.

"At the beginning, Lao Tzu sent someone to say that he was the heir of Emperor Lie, and he was so shameless, he actually recognized Lao Tzu indiscriminately, others don't know, Lao Tzu can not know!"

No wonder she was so angry. After all, he was the one who spread rumors that Zhu Mingzhong was the son of the first emperor. At that time, he just wanted to use this rumor to find out the relationship between Zhu Mingzhong and the imperial court, and then invite the emperor back to Beijing, but where did he think that someone would actually beat the snake and admit this name.

Shameless, it actually came to this point. This was unexpected, and what made him even more annoyed was that she had caused it at all.

As soon as King Tang scolded in the palace, everyone immediately shrank their heads, these things are not even what they should say, and even they secretly rejoiced, fortunately, now he is not the emperor, and no one has remembered the note.

But even so, they still murmured to themselves in their hearts, it turned out that it was really a rumor made by him at the beginning! However, this matter is really lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot, the original rumor was to divide the relationship between King Huai and the court, but who would have thought that now King Huai actually generously admitted that he was the third son of Emperor Lie. even in Shanhaiguan as a prison country, spread the word to the world to fight against the rebellious ministers and thieves.

And this chaotic thief is him Li Ziyuan.

This King Huai is really ...... Vicious eyes!

Even if the camps are different, in this palace, when they learned that Zhu Mingzhong was the third son of Emperor Lie, he was still amazed by the timing of his attack, and now, they seem to know why King Huai has been holding back!

He's waiting!

What is he waiting for?

He has been waiting for Li Ziyuan to do more injustice, waiting for him to kill the monarch and usurp the throne, why can he conclude that he will definitely kill the monarch and usurp the throne, because that dragon chair ...... Occasionally, the ministers would set their eyes on the dragon chair, but a few people could resist the temptation of the dragon chair.

Li Zicheng couldn't resist that year, and he ascended the throne as emperor after entering Beijing. The Manchu Qing couldn't resist, and after he entered Beijing, he immediately moved the capital to Beijing, and Li Ziyuan must have done the same, so he would kill the king and usurp the throne. Even King Huai, who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, was the same, but compared to them, that King Huai had a different approach.

Compared with others, although this method is a bit inferior, but it is more clever, since it is the son of the first emperor, then the inheritance of the Ming throne is a matter of course, and it is also natural for him to take the country as the name and order the world to ask for no ministers.

It's just that this angered Li Ziyuan and angered the Tang King who had just changed his name to "Tang"!

"Shameless! Recognize ......"

Li Ziyuan, who originally wanted to say "recognize the thief as his father", suddenly realized that this could not be said nonsense, so after swallowing it alive, he said it in a righteous and stern manner.

"Zhu Mingzhong, as a minister, in order to usurp the throne, pretending to be a clansman, is really a great crime, lonely, and decided to personally lead the troops to Shanhaiguan to crusade against the minister!"

At this time, no one will touch the king's mold, they all know that at this time, any words of obstruction may backfire, and it angers the king, no one knows what he will do, so everyone is saying "the king is wise".

Throughout the day, Li Ziyuan was busy preparing for the personal conquest of the army, summoning many ministers and generals in batches, and at the same time reviewing some particularly important military documents transferred from various places. In the evening, he had calmed down and became worried that the loyal and righteous army in Shandong, Kaifeng and other places would take the opportunity of his eastern crusade to attack Zhili, Luoyang and even Wuchang, and summoned Zhu Yingsheng, Xu Yuncheng, Sun Xingping, Wang Jiaoquan, Zhao Jiquan and others into the palace, they were all his confidants, and asked them again about the contingency plan.

Zhu Yingsheng, who had just returned to the capital, looked at Li Ziyuan with a sad face, and thought in his heart, now that you know that you are worried, if you can be half a year late, why is it so? But now that the matter has come to this, it can only be made up for as much as possible, so he said.

"Since the minister returned to Beijing, because the four southwestern provinces have been similar one after another, so that many civil and military ministers in Beijing mistakenly think that the great success is done, and the world can be passed on to the decide, and the minister is also deeply worried. The minister thought that today's crusade was not a good strategy. In the humble opinion of the ministers, our army should have waited for work with ease, and waited for the Zhu thieves to attack with the capital and the fortified city. But since the imperial court has decided to crusade against Zhu Fu, and the army has moved, a sudden change of plan will definitely shake the morale of the army. At present, the remedial strategy, only one side of the army to the east, while the southwest to assemble the elite, along the river to take the south of the Yangtze River, today, Zheng Jingfang mourning, although he will Zheng family foundation to the Zhu thief, but there will be unwilling in the army, when the king sends troops, can incite the Zheng people to respond! In this way, the forces of the Jiangnan Loyal and Righteous Army did not dare to act rashly. ”

As a strategist, Zhu Yingsheng's strategy is indeed extremely pertinent, and it can even be said to be extremely sophisticated. It's just that he forgot one thing - time.

"It's too late!"

As Li Ziyuan's confidant, Sun Xingping, who has been fighting on the march for many years, said bluntly.

"Even if we send a messenger now, 800 miles to expeditious, we won't receive news from Changsha within three or five days, and then we get the news there, and if we send troops again, it is estimated that the loyal army has already called."

"If this is the case, although it is a temporary trouble, but it is not all bad, if the main force of the loyal and righteous army is exhausted, then Jiangbei is bound to be empty, and when the southwest army arrives, our army can also go straight to Huanglong!"

Li Ziyuan thought that Zhu Yingsheng's words were very reasonable, nodded, and then said.

"Well, it should be so, the soldiers in the southwest always have to be transferred."

Even if it is a soldier now, it is extremely important to him, after all, it is related to whether he can compete for the world. Can you become the emperor of the Tang Dynasty?

Then he turned to Sun Xingping and asked:

"Lone will start the Eastern Expedition tomorrow, leaving you to guard the Beijing Division, you are the main general, and you are very relieved of Lonely!"

Because Jingshi is fundamental, Li Ziyuan naturally did not dare to hand it over to others, and Sun Xingping went out of the Houjin camp with him, and betrayed Nanjing together that year, so he would hand over Jingshi to him.

Then he looked at Xu Yuncheng and asked.

"Now the situation is chaotic, and the world is full of disputes. Qing is knowledgeable and strategic, but what is the best plan? ”

When staring at Xu Yuncheng, Li Ziyuan's heart faintly carried a trace of anger, if this person had Zhu Yingsheng's ability, how could it be like this!

Xu Yuncheng, who was asked, immediately bowed respectfully and replied.

The king asked such a question, and the ministers were terrified. The minister thinks that the Zhu thief is really our rival, but he must not be held back by the Zhu thief. If you can't eliminate the Zhu thief in a battle, you must quickly get out of the battlefield, quickly return to Beijing, and prepare to rely on the strong city of Beijing, once the Zhu thief is frustrated in the suburbs of Beijing, the overall situation in the north is bound to change, and when the southwest reinforcements are directed to the south of the Yangtze River, it is the day when the Zhu thief army is defeated and out of the pass. ”

There was nothing new at all, but even so, Li Ziyuan still nodded, and he was even more disappointed in Xu Yuncheng. Then he gave advice on how to deal with the state affairs of the conscription, and at this moment, suddenly an internal servant sent an eight-hundred-mile expeditious.

"Hong Chengchou is dead!"

This news was already shocking, and the next sentence made everyone speechless for a long time.

"It was Hong Shiming who killed him!"

Yes!

While everyone was screaming, Li Ziyuan stared at the urgent item in his hand, the hand holding the letter was already trembling slightly, could it be that this, this is the number of fate!

Just a quarter of an hour ago, he had pinned his hopes on reinforcements from the southwest, but now not only are there no reinforcements from the southwest, but even Hong Chengchou has been killed. Now that Hong Chengchou is dead, will there be any more reinforcements in the southwest?

The answer, of course, couldn't be clearer. Not only will there be no more reinforcements from the southwest, but he even has to consider that those people in the southwest will send troops to Wuchang in the future, so that they can use it as a letter of surrender, so that they can defect to Zhu Mingzhong.

The one surnamed Hong is really ruthless. That's his own father. Actually kill whatever you say, is this the so-called righteous annihilation of relatives?

Raising his eyes and seeing the panicked looks of everyone, Li Ziyuan squeezed out a smile and said.

"What is there to be afraid of, but it is a rebel to make a mess, that Zhu thief only has 100,000 horses under his command, and he will lead 200,000 troops to fight tomorrow, what can he do to me, as long as this battle is won, the world can be calmed, so what is there to fear?"

Although Li Ziyuan's words were full of confidence, he didn't have any confidence in his own heart, and he even suspected nervously that maybe the southwest had already sent troops to Wuchang now.

But at this time, he can't mess around, he has to be calm and tell everyone that it's not a big deal. Seeing King Tang so calm. Everyone said yes, but everyone knew that as soon as Hong Chengchou fell like this, the situation in the world would definitely change greatly.

And this situation has become more and more unfavorable for King Tang, at this time, King Tang actually has to send troops.

"The king, the minister thinks it is not easy to ...... at the moment"

didn't understand Zhu Yingsheng's words, Li Ziyuan stretched out his hand to stop him and said.

"Troops must be sent, and as soon as possible. Tomorrow, tomorrow Lone will lead the army to the battle. ”

In the face of the persuasion of others, the ion source knows better than anyone else, and he can't have the slightest retreat at this time. In case you have to back down...... Who knows if anyone will learn from that Hong Shiming?

The king's answer made everyone's minds sink. They had already guessed why the king insisted on going his own way and had to go east. It's because now the king has no way out.

After leaving the Forbidden City, Zhu Yingsheng and Xu Yuncheng glanced at each other, and they both saw the results of the Eastern Expedition, and the victory or defeat of this Eastern Expedition can be described as five or five. Is it a win or a loss? I don't know.

But what is certain is that if there is a defeat, I am afraid that the future will be unimaginable, and even the king is likely to repeat the mistakes of Li Zicheng. But the momentum has come to this, and they can't do anything about it, and they are sighing relative unconsciously.

Hope......