Jiangxi, Yuzhang.

An envoy came from Luoyang and brought the emperor's edict.

After Lin Shihong received the holy decree, he was worried.

"Luo Cheng wants Mount Tai to seal Zen, then seal him, why do you have to come and summon Brother Wang?" Poyang Wang Lin pharmacist couldn't bear to say.

Lin Shihong, who had been the emperor of Chu for a few years and then was forced to go to the emperor's throne and claim to the emperor of Luoyang, looked old, his skin was rough and dark, and he was tall, but a pair of small eyes made him look like a shrewd old peasant. It's just that there is more worry in those eyes now.

"I heard that after Xiao Mo entered Luoyang, he was named the Marquis of Shun, and his life was quite good."

Pharmacist Lin couldn't help but say, "What is Brother Wang talking about?" ”

"Pharmacist, I think our brothers were not also cloth farmers, the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the storms, our brothers fought hard, and had a little foundation, but after all, it couldn't become a general trend."

"Brother Wang, why do you say such things, don't you think that Luo Cheng was from a similar background to us in the past?"

Yuzhang County King, Jiangxi Provincial Jiedu Envoy and Yuzhang County Taishou Lin Shihong, originally a native of Poyang County, Jiangxi, the first half of his life, in fact, there was no bright spot, just a farmer who worked hard, if it were not for the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he might be just a farmer until he died.

But at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the old peasant, who was heroic and straightforward, and good at martial arts and strategy, took up arms when he couldn't survive, and then the talent on his body finally burst out.

When Luo Cheng was still in Zhangqiu with the township group to encircle and suppress Wang Bo and others, Lin Shihong also took his brothers and fellow villagers to revolt, and he first responded to the fellow villagers in Poyang.

Cao Shiqi took Lin Shihong and other fellow villagers to raise troops, and soon occupied Poyang County, and called the king of Yuanxing, and the year name was Tiancheng. Because of his courage and strategy, Lin Shihong soon broke out and became the backbone of the master beggar.

Soon, Cao Shiqi captured Fuliang, Pengze and the important town of Yuzhang, and Lin Shihong was also appointed as a general.

Once Lin Shihong also persuaded the fellow to beg for a big thing, to be calm, and not to be the king in a hurry, which is easy to attract the key blows of the imperial court.

But the master begged not to listen, in the twelfth year of the great cause, Yang Guang ordered Liu Ziyi to lead the troops to crusade against the master beggar, and in a battle outside the city of Yuzhang, the master beggar was defeated and killed.

King Yuanxing hung up, the dragons were leaderless, seeing that the Tiancheng court was about to perish, Lin Shihong stood up at a critical time, he stepped forward, took over the banner of the drill and begging, led the brothers to fight bravely, stabilized the morale of the army, and defeated the officials and troops who came to suppress.

After taking over as the leader, Lin Shihong analyzed the advantages and disadvantages between the enemy and us, adjusted the deployment of the war, he took advantage of the fact that his soldiers grew up in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River and were familiar with the water, and the troops were divided into two routes, with the land as the main force of the main army, and confronted the officers and troops from the land.

After defeating Liu Ziyi and stabilizing the morale of the army, Lin Shihong began to attack from all sides, vigorously expanding the army and grabbing territory, and it didn't take long for his soldiers and horses to reach more than 100,000 people, especially to train an elite sailor army.

However, although Lin Shihong once persuaded the teacher to beg to be calm, when he occupied most of the south and west of the Yangtze River, he couldn't help but be the king.

first proclaimed himself the king of Nanyue, and then proclaimed himself emperor, with the country name Chu and the founding year name Taiping.

At that time, when the world was full of anti-kings, Lin Shihong's Chu country in the south of the Yangtze River was not outstanding at all, and even the name of Chu was persuaded to be ominous.

But Lin Shihong may have thought about addicting the emperor at that time, he didn't think that he could go north to chase the Central Plains, but it was enough to be able to divide one side in the troubled times.

He took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to capture Jiujiang, Linchuan, Luling, Nankang, Yichun and other counties one after another.

He even took advantage of Luo Cheng in the Central Plains to unite with Shen Faxing and several others to cross the river to fight for Huaixi. It's just that Zhang Shan'an came out later, who was a tyrant in troubled times, and after defecting to him, he led the Chu army to fight Huaixi, occupying a lot of territory, but was finally destroyed by Du Fuwei.

After Zhang Shan'an's defeat, the Chu army in western Huaixi was defeated, and as a result, because of the problem of food and reward, the rebellion attacked Yuzhang, and half of Yuzhang was burned. Who knew that he had people on his side repairing the Yu Chapter, but Xiao Mo sent people to raid and seize it.

Lin Shihong had to retire from insurance, and then Liang Chu fought a big battle, and finally recaptured Yuzhang, but at this time, Yuzhang was almost in ruins.

Although shortly thereafter, there was civil strife in Nanliang, and the patriarch Dong Jingzhen wanted to surrender to Qin and was killed by Xiao Miao, after which Nanliang was in chaos and was no longer able to attack. Lin Shihong also rebuilt Yuzhang City, but at this time the situation was not as good as it was at the beginning, not only the north was unified by Luo Cheng, but even Lingnan and Bashu were captured by Luo Cheng.

Lin Shihong finally reluctantly made peace with Luo Chengli, removed the emperor's name, and exchanged some territory, and then became the king of Yuzhang County of Daqin, the envoy of Jiangxi Jiedu, and the Taishou of Yuzhang.

In the past two years, it has been rare to be stable, although there are occasional conflicts with Xiao Mo and Shen Faxing, but fortunately, they are all petty fights.

But this year's drought, Jiangxi's Panyang Lake was dry, and the hungry people were everywhere, and then at this time, the imperial court suddenly made trouble in the west, and directly wiped out the South Liang, Xiao Milling into Beijing, Xiao Liang, who was once stronger than Jiangxi, was destroyed.

Now, the emperor came to summon Lin Shihong to Luo, and went to Mount Tai to seal Zen together, where is Lin Shihong not worried.

"Did you say Luoyang was ready to attack us?"

Lin Yaoshi said, "At the beginning, I said and persuaded Brother Wang not to believe in Luo Cheng, if we continued to occupy the land of Huaixi at that time, it would not be to this point, especially last year, Luo Cheng was in the northwest war, it was a good time, you can take the opportunity to send troops, or go north to capture Huaixi, or go south to attack Lingnan, but the brothers do not press the army, now Luo Cheng has cleaned up all the opponents, and now we Jiangxi are Qin on three sides, Lingnan in the south, Huaixi in the north, and Jingxiang in the west are all in Qin's hands, and this year there is a big drought and locusts, this time he wants to do it." We don't even have any room for resistance. ”

"yes, there's no room for resistance."

Lin Shihong sighed for a long time.

Although Lin Shihong now has more than ten counties in Jiangxi, he has not fought for a few years, and the soldiers under his command are not as good as they were at the beginning, especially now that there is a shortage of weapons and food, what to fight, many former generals have long been disarmed and returned to the field, and returned to the local area to become rich landlords, which one is willing to work hard for their brothers.

Look at Xiao Miao, if the big Jinghu Lake, it doesn't mean that it is gone, and the waves have not set off a single one.

"Pharmacist, you said that if I directly requested to enter the court, how did you say the emperor would settle us, can it be like Xiao Miao?"

Pharmacist Lin was a little unwilling, but after thinking about it, it was no better than in the past, they still had a little courage to fight two years earlier, but now they have no confidence at all.

"I think Luo Cheng is quite benevolent, such as Li Mi, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Xiao Mi, etc., who have been attached to him successively, and they have all been well settled."

Lin Shihong thought about it, "Well, let's just lower it, it's better to take the initiative than Luo Cheng to do it, I'll write the seal." ”

Pharmacist Lin stood there, stunned, but in the end he didn't say anything.