In Luzhou, Hedong, the weather is already very cold in September.

But it was very warm in the marshal's office, and there was a thick curtain at the door; The charcoal was burning inside, and the flames were blazing, boiling the water in an iron pot hanging from a high beam until it gurgled and the white smoke kept rushing.

The middle-aged man in the north who was reviewing his surroundings with his hands behind his back was Li Yun, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Army, who had been here for several years and had been fighting against the Northern Han Army for a long time.

Li Yun was wearing a silk robe, tall and tall, and his two sword eyebrows were quite murderous. But maybe it's because of his thin mouth, white skin, and few wrinkles, and his appearance doesn't look as thick as the five big and three generals around him.

The first few generals with five big and three thick clothes are very thick. After being in the room for a while, they couldn't sit still a little bit, and some of them started to sweat on their faces...... It was cold outside, but it was hot and dry when I came in thick clothes. The other staff members were not wearing armor, which was more convenient, and some of them had already taken off their coats.

"Someone has been sent from all three places, who will my father see first?" A young military general asked.

One of the generals wondered, "Three? Isn't it just the people sent by Fu Yanqing and Li Jixun...... Where else is it? ”

Li Yun snorted coldly: "There is another place, the envoy of the Northern Han Dynasty. ”

"Haha! The lord is hot now! The general laughed.

A staff member said: "Cutting down the envoys of the Northern Han Dynasty and refusing Li Jixun's son Li Shouen, marrying the Fu family is the best policy." The Fu family has both the Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the upstart Guo Shao of the forbidden army as in-laws; As long as the lord marries Fu Yanqing, he can rest easy. ”

Another person said in a deep voice: "The first emperor died, and Tokyo doesn't know what will happen yet......"

Li Yun glanced at the person who spoke just now, and already understood what the staff meant. If you want to raise troops to plot big things, now Li Jixun and Li Chongjin have jointly rebelled, and if there are Northern Han soldiers to help, the momentum and strength will be great, and victory or defeat can still be contested.

At this time, the general shouted: "Cut down the people of the Northern Han Dynasty first!" He|mother|, after so many years of fighting, we have died so many people, and we still have the face to reconcile? ”

Unexpectedly, Li Yun waved his hand and said, "It's scattered, let's talk about it tomorrow." ”

Everyone had to take their leave.

When everyone left, Li Yun said to his eldest son Li Shoujie: "Li Jixun's son Li Shouen is settled in the government office? ”

The son said, "Yes, father." In order not to let the three of them see each other, I settled in the house behind the government office. ”

"Let me see." Li Yun said immediately.

When he arrived at the place where he was entertained, Li Yun met Li Jixun's son. After greeting each other, Li Shouen came to propose marriage for his younger brother and brought a lot of gifts.

Li Yun impatiently interrupted Shouen's nonsense of praising his younger brother for being both civil and military, and asked directly: "Li Jixun is now sending someone to propose marriage, does he want me to rebel with them?" ”

Shouen was stunned, came back to his senses and hurriedly said in a deep voice: "Su Wen is handsome and loyal, and often remembers the grace of Taizu. Today, the adulterers in Tokyo colluded with the inside and outside, killed the monarch with the intention of usurping the throne, and the party fought against the same people and wantonly slaughtered the loyal and upright; The country handed down by the Great Zhou Taizu is in danger. ...... the handsome"

"How do you raise troops?" Li Yun became more and more impatient when he heard the big truth.

Shouen had no choice but to say: "Huainan Jiedu makes Li Chongjin the nephew of Taizu, and my father wants to support the Lord, and he still serves the name of the Great Zhou State. ”

Li Yun smiled when he heard this: "I hold my head to support Li Chongjin? Haha, Li Chongjin is my father or am I? ”

Shou'en paused. Fortunately, there was a staff member next to him, and he immediately said: "You are at ease, since ancient times, the alliance with the strength of the main one, my lord (Li Jixun) intends to protect himself, and has no intention of fighting for power." As long as you are willing to raise troops together, the lord can first persuade Li Chongjin with his interests; No matter what Li Chongjin's attitude is, my lord is willing to serve you as the master! ”

Li Yun shook his head directly and said, "! When Li Chongjin was still the commander of the guard Ma Bu Sidu, Li Jixun was the commander of the infantry army, right? The two of them have worked together for many years and get along very well. Li Jixun doesn't breathe out of the same nostril as Li Chongjin, but he wants to be of one heart and one mind with me? I haven't even seen what Li Jixun looks like. Oh, that's ridiculous...... You just said that Li Chongjin is the main thing, and immediately your mouth turned over and changed slightly, have you asked Li Jixun, have you asked Li Chongjin? Can you wait for the juniors to say it? ”

"Jie Shuai! The forbidden army is powerful, and whoever is in power will not leave the opportunity to the other towns; At this time, my lord and Li Chongjin are bent on raising troops, and the opportunity is rare, and they will not come again! The staff eagerly persuaded, "Then Guo Shao, a young junior, do you want to obey his orders and really be convinced?" ”

Li Yun had lost interest and walked away very rudely.

At this time, the staff whispered to Shou En: "It's not good, let's quickly find a way to escape from Luzhou!" ”

Shou'en said: "Father said that Li Yun is a very important matter, and he must not be afraid of danger. ”

The staff hurriedly persuaded: "Li Yun's arrogant person is difficult to understand. If Wang Rao did not die of illness, he and Zhao Kuangyin had a marriage contract; After we win over Wang Rao first, we can also win over Li Yun. Now there is nothing to be done. ”

…… After Li Yun left, he went directly to the Qianyali Hall, where Fu Yanqing's eldest son Fu Zhaoxu was settled. Now Li Yun has not said that he wants to oppose it, and he is still under the edict of Tokyo, so the people who received Fu Yanqing are bright.

After Li Yun met Li Jixun's people first, he admitted in his heart that one sentence made more sense: It is an opportunity to raise troops with Li Chongjin and Li Jixun, so that the territory is wide and the troops are large.

But this opportunity is really not very good, here San Li is a roff, Li Yun can't see who the biggest benefit belongs to; Fu Yanqing, the famous mansion in the east, is very close and has a great strength, and there are 20,000 people in the left wing of the Longjie army in Hebei.

It is better to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight first, and see Li Jixun, Li Chongjin and the Tokyo Forbidden Army fighting, so as to estimate what the current situation of the forbidden army is.

When Li Yun arrived at the post house, Fu Zhaoxu and others greeted him out of the door, claiming that the juniors were very respectful.

"Zhao Yuan has loved studying since he was a child, and his eldest sister (Queen Mother) and second sister (Guo Shao's wife) love him very much." Fu Zhaoxu is in his thirties, and he doesn't have many exaggerated words, just hinting at real things.

Li Yun looked at it and said with a smile: "King Wei's son is more sensible than Li Jixun's son. ”

"Junior Xie Li Gong said kindly." Fu Zhaoxu bowed.

Li Yun said again: "Li Jixun also sent someone to propose marriage, I think a surname is afraid of the world's jokes, so he has declined." ”

Fu Zhaoxu said: "Li Gong is wise. My father is also full of sincerity to his colleagues next to him, Zhangde Jun Wang Jieshuai died of illness, my father sent someone to Xiangzhou to help his children handle the funeral, and pity Wang Jieshuai's children are young, and want to accept them as righteous sons and daughters, and treat them like family. ”

"King Wei has a great prestige near and far, and everyone obeys him." Li Yun echoed with his kind words. It was completely different from the attitude I had just seen Li Shouen.

Li Yun got up and said: "Zhaoxu came with me, and I didn't come to be rude, I received a gift from King Wei, so naturally I should give a copy." ”

"The junior is disrespectful." Fu Zhaoxu followed him out.

Li Yun didn't even bring the guards, and walked straight to the back door of the government office with Fu Zhaoxu. Li Shouen and the others heard the report, and hurriedly came out to greet them, they looked at the dress of Fu Zhaoxu next to Li Yun, and suddenly had some doubts. The four people present made some introductions.

At this moment, Li Yun suddenly pulled out his sword from his waist and stabbed it with a sword. "The eldest son!" The staff exclaimed. Even Fu Zhaoxu's face changed in surprise, and he had just spoken a good greeting, and there was no sign of using force at all.

"Ahh Li Shouen screamed miserably, holding his abdomen and squatting down.

Li Yun pulled back and pulled out his sword suddenly, and blood splattered all over the ground. He immediately kicked him again, kicked Li Shouen to the ground, curled up in pain, went up and grabbed his hat and ripped it off, grabbed Li Shouen's hair bun, and slashed his neck with a swing of his sword.

The staff stood trembling, then suddenly turned and ran. "Someone!" Only then did Li Yun shout, and the guards outside poured in, and ordered a military general, "All the people in that room should be killed on the spot and thrown out of the city." ”

"Whoa!" The general replied with a fist, and then waved his hand.

Li Yun had already cut off Li Shouen's head, handed it to Fu Zhaoxu and said, "Li Jixun's eldest son was also introduced just now. How's the gift? Fu Zhaoxu had no choice but to reach out and grab the bloody bun, press it and say in shock: "Thank you Gong Li for your generous gift." This gift has to be sent to Tokyo to ask for credit for you. ”

Li Yun said with a smile: "How much credit can a head have? How many Northern Han troops I killed in Liaozhou and other places? ”

"Li Gong's heroism." Fu Zhaoxu hurriedly praised.

Li Yun talked for a while, and then asked someone to send Fu Zhaoxu back to the gift hall. He still returned to the lobby of the government office, and when he saw Li Shoujie, he explained in a deep voice: "After nightfall, send the Northern Han envoys away." ”

Shoujie was puzzled: "I just heard that my father killed Li Shouen, and if he kills him, he will kill him, so it is better to chop up the Northern Han people together!" ”

Li Yun smiled: "You are too young and still need to be experienced. In the future, you will understand, and now you will do as the Father says. ”

"The son obeys his father's orders." Li Shoujie had no choice but to pray.

…… Fu Zhaoxu got his head, and although the weather was cold, he quickly cleaned up the flesh and blood of his brain and salted it. On the one hand, he sent a fast horse back to the Daimyo's Mansion to deliver a letter and report, and on the other hand, he said goodbye to Li Yunfu, and went straight to the southeast with his head, making a detour over the Taihang Mountains and crossing the Yellow River from Hebei, and then going to Tokyo. Because the three towns of Heyang on the north bank of the Yellow River in the southwest are in the hands of Li Jixun.

Luzhou is not far from Tokyo, as long as there is a suitable Yellow River crossing, it can be reached in three days. (Therefore, the terrain of Luzhou is very favorable and important, just like a sword on the head of the Zhou Dynasty, crossing the Taihang and crossing the Yellow River can attack Tokyo with one horse.) But this place can not only threaten Tokyo, but also resist the southern invasion of the Northern Han army, without the Luzhou Zhaoyi army, the cavalry of the Northern Han army can drive south, and the Zhou Dynasty does not even have room for early warning and buffering. ）