"Then you say, do I take it or not?" Dugu asked his subordinates with a smile.

This Beiping Sima quietly looked at Dugu's expression, but he couldn't see what his attitude was. Speaking of which, this boss is the emperor's uncle and cousin.

Dugu Luo, the father of Zhao Guogong, the governor of Beiping, is the eldest son of Dugu Xin, and Dugu Xin is the grandfather of the son of heaven in Jiangdu, and Queen Dugu and Dugu Luo are brothers and sisters with different mothers. Therefore, the Son of Heaven in Jiangdu is Dugu's cousin, and the Son of Heaven in Liaodong is Dugu's cousin.

This Sima thought for a while, and then said cautiously, "Today is indeed a chaos, first there are bandits from all over the country, and then there are nobles such as Li Mi and Dou Jiande who are in chaos, and now the Son of Heaven is in Jiangdu and cannot return the capital, and Luoyang is in danger of falling at any time." ”

"Say whatever you want, you don't have to beat around the bush." Dugu usurped the way.

"I want to say that the emperor of Jiangdu is powerless to suppress the rebellions in various places."

"You mean that the Son of Heaven in Liaodong is fine?"

"The king of Qi has Luo Cheng to support it, and he has the support of several big towns, so he is now the strongest, if they go south, whether it is Dou Jiande or Li Mi and other rebels, they are not their opponents, even if it is the Jiangdu court, they are powerless to stop it."

"Then you're trying to persuade me to take this edict?"

"Follow the trend ·····"

Before Sima finished speaking, Dugu had already pulled out a short knife and stabbed him in the throat, "My Dugu family is a relative of the emperor and the country, and the world is favored by the country, and the first queen mother and His Majesty are not thin on my family, how can I be justified in betrayal?" As a general of the imperial court, you eat the king's fortune, and you don't worry about the king, but you only know how to surrender to the enemy when you encounter trouble. Do you really think I don't know about your quiet correspondence with Liaodong? Do you think I don't know that Luo Chengdu has promised to give you the post of Taishou of Beiping? ”

"Rebels and thieves, everyone will be punished!"

Dugu usurped his sword, and that Sima Da fell with his eyes open, and he didn't blink an eye.

Dugu turned around and swept his gaze over the subordinates.

"I know that there is more than one person who has secretly interacted with Liaodong. I'm going to kill him today, but I'm not going to pursue the rest of you. As long as I am honest and honest in the future, then I will not be guilty of the past. If anyone dares to be a thief again, don't blame me for being lonely and ruthless! ”

The generals and officials in the hall couldn't help but be shocked.

Unexpectedly, Dugu U had such a resolute attitude, and killed Sima without a word, this is not to give Liaodong the slightest chance to persuade him to surrender.

After Dugu usurped his Sima, he kept it secret, and only let people quietly destroy the corpse, and then told the people from Liaodong that he was ready to adapt to the situation and was willing to lead the soldiers and horses of Beiping to support the king of Qi as the son of heaven.

He asked the envoy to return to Liaodong and said that he asked Luo Cheng to send a general to take over, and he was willing to go to Liaodong to meet the Son of Heaven.

After all this was done, Dugu Yu rushed to Fanyang Mansion in the west with a team of several hundred people.

Fanyang Mansion was originally Zhuo County, and last time it was upgraded to a mansion, placed Mansion Yin, and awarded Xue Shixiong the position of Mansion Yin. Later, the place outside the military capital of Fanyang Mansion was cut out and set up as Zhuo County, which belonged to Luo Siye of Dingxiang Road.

Dugu sent people to Fanyang to see Xue Shixiong first, and said that they would discuss together to support the new emperor and welcome the entry of the holy driver.

Xue Shixiong had already received Luo Cheng's letter and the edict of King Qi.

But he's still hesitating.

King Liaodong of Qi ascended the throne and respected his father as the emperor, which is clearly a rebellion, especially Xue Shixiong, how can he not see that this King of Qi is just a banner placed in front of Luo Cheng.

In the end, Luo Cheng rebelled.

Xue Shixiong hesitated.

Although he has a good relationship with Luo Cheng, he does not want to see Luo Cheng rebel, and he is not even willing to join the rebels.

But during this time, the situation changed rapidly.

Before Luo Cheng raised his army, Liu Wuzhou killed Wang Rengong and seized the three counties of Mayi. And Du Fuwei deceived the pacification envoy Yinxin in Jiangnan, so as to transfer troops to capture the city and capture four counties in a row.

Now Luo Cheng supports the king of Qi as the emperor, and Dingxiang and Shandong are also loud, this momentum is indeed incomparable.

In fact, there are not many soldiers in Fanyang Mansion, after all, the territory is so big, there is only one place, and the total population was only about 200,000 households before the war, and now it has decreased sharply.

And he still has to face the attack of Wang Xuba and Lu Mingyue, two large rebels with no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses, although Xue Shixiong can fight, but his soldiers and horses are only 12,000, and they have lost a lot of losses when they fight back and forth, but the rebels are getting stronger and stronger.

Many of Fan Yang's generals were persuading him, saying that it was better to belong to King Qi, after all, with his current power, I was afraid that the world would still fall into his hands.

If you vote for the King of Qi, then Luo Cheng, Luo Siye, and Liu Wuzhou, the three armies, can help them destroy Wang Xuba and Lu Mingyue and other rebels, and there will be no longer the suffering of fighting alone.

When Dugu of Beiping said that he had been attached, Xue Shixiong finally decided to follow the tide.

Xue Shixiong went out of the city to greet Duguyu, and the two entered the city together.

Xue Shixiong also set up a banquet to greet him.

"Zhao Guogong's letter, but it saved me from hesitation."

Dugu smiled and said, "That's General Xue, you yourself also intend to vote for the new emperor, otherwise it will be useless for me to persuade you." ”

The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.

Both of them were a little drunk.

Dugu Yu suddenly asked Xue Shixiong, "Xue Shuai, the Supreme treats you well, and you have been promoted very quickly over the years, why do you want to turn your back on the Supreme now?" For the sake of wealth?"

Xue Shixiong was a little embarrassed.

"The trend of the times, I can't stop it, just like Zhao Guogong, you, as a relative of the emperor, and have won the trust of His Majesty, but in the end, didn't you still decide to support the King of Qi?"

Dugu Yu sighed.

"I still remember that when the Turkic army of 300,000 iron horsemen went south, the situation in Yanmen was dangerous, but at that time, we still sent troops to rescue without hesitation. In Xinkou and Laoxian, in a bloody battle, we repelled the Turkic army far beyond us, and finally King Qin succeeded and rescued the holy driver. ”

Xue Shixiong was also silent when he heard it.

"Xue Shuai, why can't you save the king again now and protect the Great Sui River?"

"At this time, at that time, besides, don't we support the king of Qi and still protect the Great Sui River?"

"Fart, you don't know who King Qi is, he's just a puppet of Luo Cheng now, Xue Shixiong, don't fool yourself!"

After speaking, Dugu suddenly drew his knife and stabbed at Xue Shixiong.

Xue Shixiong dodged in surprise, but at this time, he was half-drunk, his movements were slow, and he dodged for a while, but he didn't dodge the second blow.

The short knife stabbed into Xue Shixiong's chest, and blood poured out.

Dugu glared at Xue Shixiong with red eyes, "What I hate most is the rebellious ministers and thieves who betray the Lord and seek glory!" ”

Xue Shixiong died in pain.

After killing Xue Shixiong, Dugu and his generals Zhao Shizhu, He Lanyi, Jin Wenyan and others went to the side hall again, and killed more than a dozen generals and colonels from Fanyang Mansion who came to accompany the guests, and then they took the military talisman seal letter, and sent people to seize the city gate on the one hand, and went to the military camp to take over the military power.

When Fan Yangbing saw Xue Shixiong's letter, he really believed Dugu's nonsense that Xue Shixiong was going to Liaodong to meet the Son of Heaven and hand Fan Yang over to him for custody.

And before dawn, the Beiping army outside the city had already arrived.

Dawn.

Fan Yang's generals, only then did they know what happened last night, but at this time, Fan Yang City and the military camps and treasury outside the city were all controlled by Dugu.

Dugu, who took away Fan Yang, also openly played the banner of loyalty to Emperor Jiangdu and crusade against the traitors in Liaodong!