As a reader, even though he is old, he still pays more attention to current affairs than ordinary people.

The puppet Tang thief army, which has been making a fuss since last year, may still be unknown to the ordinary people in the nearby prefectures and counties, but they have already heard of it in the gentry class.

Especially at the end of last year, Zhengtai County ordered Su Jiakang to lead the army to defeat not to mention, and the thousands of households connected to the An Qianhu Zeng Ziwen were martyred because of the siege, although this matter was Miao Li by Su Jiakang, and was also suppressed by Song Zhiwen, the governor of Xingquan Mansion, but it still caused a lot of repercussions in the gentry class.

Although Old Man Xie himself has no fame, he has a wide range of friends, and when he opened a private school in his early years, he couldn't teach his disciples, and two of them were even admitted to Xiucai, so although he has no fame, he has a lot more ways to know the news than ordinary people.

At the beginning of the year, because he took his family to the temple in the mountains to offer incense, but there would be thought that he would be kidnapped by this group of bandits who came out of nowhere on the way, and these bandits, knowing that he was a scholar, forced and threatened to let him manage the bookkeeping affairs in the cottage and serve as a military advisor to their gang of bandits.

If he was only captured alone, then he would rather die on tofu than be a military advisor to these bandits.

But he is not alone, he was captured with his family, his old wife and daughter-in-law, a baby son and a granddaughter, except for the son who works in Fucheng, there are many other people in their family, and they are all served by Li Zhai.

At that time, the bandits told him that if he did not want to be a military advisor, then his daughter-in-law would be turned on the spot, and his granddaughter would be bought in a hook pen outside, and his grandson would be chopped up and fed to the dogs.

Under such circumstances, Old Man Xie also had to be reluctant to be the military advisor of his Li Zhai master.

Later, when the cottage was breached, he thought about escaping, but he didn't succeed, and later he wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape with a few people when Li Zhai and Huang Zhushan were fighting, but he still didn't succeed.

Now, he doesn't know what happened to his family, and he doesn't know if he will suffer in the chaos, it has long been rumored that the puppet Tang thief army is extremely cruel, whether it is the leader or the small soldier, they are all bandits who like to eat people's hearts raw.

Now that his family has fallen into the hands of these pseudo-Tang thieves, can he still end up well?

As for what will happen if the officers and soldiers are killed in the future, then we will talk about it later, and we will get through the current difficulties first.

It's just that the teenager above will let go of his family because of his effectiveness as a scholar?

In his sight, Li Xuan, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked no different from the young scholars in his private school, but he didn't know whether it was good to communicate.

Just as Old Man Xie was thinking about the organizational language in his mind, how to impress the young puppet emperor above in order to save his family's life, he suddenly heard a loud shout in his ears: "Bold fanatics, don't bow down quickly in front of Your Majesty!" ”

Who else can say that there is such a sufficient amount of qi, but Butcher Chen, I saw that his eyes were as wide as copper bells, and his face looked fierce and vicious.

As soon as his words fell, Master Li Zhai, who was walking in front of Old Man Xie, knelt down with a thud: "The grass people have seen the emperor, and the grass people have long admired the demeanor of our Tang Emperor, and specially brought people over to defect, and I hope that the emperor will take in the grass people!" ”

Seeing that the master of Li Zhai knelt down without any restraint, a trace of disdain flashed in the eyes of the old man Xie, the first master of Li Zhai also said that he would defeat Huangzhushan and become the emperor himself, but now he knelt and licked Li Xuan with a bedbug.

Old man Xie didn't know at all that the owner of Li Zhai originally had two plans, to defeat Huang Zhushan and become the emperor himself, and if he couldn't beat it, he would surrender and become the prince, and then rebel against himself as the emperor in the future. In order to survive, to rebel in the future, to become the emperor, what is it to kneel in front of you.

Li Xuan, who was sitting on the top, glanced at the Li Zhai Lord who was kneeling on the ground, and then retracted his gaze, to be honest, he was not interested in this Li Zhai Lord, seeing this person kneeling so refreshingly, he must also be a person who has no psychological bottom line, for such a person, Li Xuan said that although the Tang Dynasty is small, it is not needed.

In addition, Li Xuan has been guarding against the rise of the second Fang Dongquan now, so he has a natural vigilance mentality towards this kind of former bandit leader, so it is impossible for this person to become a big official and a prince.

Of course, since the other party has surrendered and expressed his willingness to submit, he will not cut this person directly with a knife, and give him a petty official first, and how to arrange it later will be talked about.

Therefore, Li Xuan, who was above, did not speak, but nodded slightly to Liu Bagou, and Liu Bagou on the side also saw Li Xuan's matter, and immediately took a step out of the queue and said it, but the words he said were a little obscure, which made Li Zhai a little incomprehensible.

However, he still understood the last few words, and the Tang Dynasty will give him an official position, a thousand households of the fifth grade.

Master Li Zhai is illiterate in big words, and he naturally doesn't know what official position he is, but he still knows what kind of official the thousand households are, and the thousands of households among the officers and soldiers are all senior officials with more than 1,000 people under his hands.

There are only a few thousand people in this Tang Dynasty, and he can lead more than a thousand people as soon as he comes, which is a good thing!

So Lord Li Zhai was satisfied and thanked him and retreated.

He didn't know that the official hats in the Tang Dynasty were not worth anything at all, and the thousands of households were not even considered actual official positions.

In the previous standing army and the guards, there were many officers, and nine out of ten people were officers, and the rank was not low, a large number of hundreds and thousands of households, and there were not a few general generals.

When the professional army was formed more than a month ago, Li Xuan no longer mentioned any generals, general soldiers, thousands of households and other military positions, but completely changed to the actual position, that is, the four levels of officers such as captain, deputy captain, captain, and deputy captain, otherwise, the military position of the Tang Dynasty would be completely ruined.

Speaking of which, then you will see that Li Xuan sealed a thousand households to the owner of Li Zhai, but in fact, he didn't give any fart!

The owner of Li Zhai, who was kept in the dark, went out happily, and Li Xuan turned his attention to the hunchbacked old man next to him.

This old man is a little strange, the clothes on his body are the clothes of a scholar, although he can't straighten his waist, but looking at his expression, he can't see how much fear or panic this person's expression is, but meets Li Xuan's gaze.

At this time, Butcher Chen glared at Old Man Xie again, and seemed to be quite dissatisfied that he dared to stare at Li Xuan.

Old man Xie didn't seem to see Butcher Chen's gaze, but continued to look at Li Xuan, and only after a while did he slowly speak: "I heard a few months ago that there was a child Li Xuan in Huangzhu Mountain, and he had the audacity to do things against the sky. ”

"But Xiaoyou, you are also a person who is familiar with the books of sages, and you don't need to say too much about the crisis of this matter, but you also know it, I am afraid that it will be as little as a few months, or as much as half a year, and Huangzhu Mountain will be overturned!"

Old man Xie said something slowly, and it immediately caused a commotion among everyone in the council hall!

Butcher Chen shouted on the spot: "Bold, you dare to call Your Majesty by your name, you are looking for death!" ”

Fang Dongquan on the side also said angrily: "Nonsense, our Datang foundation is as stable as Mount Tai, how can it be overturned!" ”

Old man Xie snorted coldly and said: "There are more than 10 million officials and soldiers in the imperial court, even if you can resist the official army once or twice, but when the official army comes with 5,000 soldiers and horses or even 10,000 soldiers and horses, how can you resist?" Now your stubborn resistance is in vain! ”

As soon as these words came out, the hall suddenly calmed down, Fang Dongquan and Butcher Chen's faces turned red one by one, as if they wanted to say something to refute, but they didn't know what words to refute.

Because what this hunchbacked old man said was the truth, when the officers and soldiers came with 5,000 and 10,000 people, how could they resist? I can't stop it!

At the same time, Liu Bagou, Wang Wenhua, and Qian Mengjiu, the three civil officials, were also silent, in fact, these three scholars were more aware of the crisis facing the Tang Dynasty than Fang Dongquan and their illiterate generals, but everyone would not say it in the past.

Now he was stabbed out by this hunchbacked old man, so that everyone couldn't accept it at once.

Looking at the expressions of the people below, especially when looking at the kind of calm and even confident expression on Old Man Xie's face, Li Xuan above suddenly smiled, as if he had seen something very funny.

The situation at this moment made him instantly think of a lot of content in film and television dramas, most of the so-called talents who want to ask for official status start like this, first say a lot of scaring words, and then there will be a stupid monarch with a look of horror and admiration: Please teach me!

Then those strategists will come up with a three-way strategy!

The monarch was subdued and threw himself to the ground, and then sent the official hat to the woman, eager to treat this person as a father.

If you, the emperor of the ravine, block it, you can really encounter anything, this kind of thing can happen.

Seeing that this old man Xie still had a calm and light-hearted demeanor on the surface, Li Xuan guessed that this person was probably thinking in his heart: Come and ask me for advice!

But at this time, Li Xuan's bad taste also came up, you want me to say this, I won't say it!

Instead, he showed a contemplative expression, and then said, "What Mr. said is reasonable!" ”

Hearing this, Old Man Xie's ears suddenly stood up, and a look of expectation appeared on his face, as if to say: Keep talking, I'll wait!

But at this time, Li Xuan stopped talking, and then closed his eyes slightly, as if he was not ready to continue.

Old man Xie waited for most of the day, but he didn't hear the sentence he expected from Li Xuan's mouth!

Why don't you play cards according to the routine, you don't say 'please Mr. teach me', how can I say the three strategies I have prepared!

At this moment, Old Man Xie had the urge to vomit blood!