Anton.

Inside the Tieling Military Town.

Li Jingzheng, the Taishou of Liucheng County and the envoy of the First Army of the Loyal Army, was pacing in the hall with some uneasiness, with his keen intuition and careful investigation, Li Jing had just come to a conclusion that made him startled.

"The Luo family is going to rebel!"

Combining all kinds of signs, especially Luo Cheng's abnormal whereabouts during this time, Li Jing came to this conclusion.

It's just that after coming to this conclusion, he was not very happy, but panicked.

Luo Cheng wants to rebel, so where will the loyal army go? Where will Andong be positioned?

And what kind of position will he, an outsider who has just been transferred from Ma Yi and is so trusted, stand on.

Li Jing didn't dare to tell others this conclusion, and he didn't know who in the Zhongwu Army could be trusted, after all, he had just arrived, and the person he was most familiar with here was Wei Chigong, who also came from Mayi.

However, Wei Chigong had already followed Luo Cheng out of Liaodong, and Li Jing guessed that Luo Cheng might have gone to meet Luo Siye to conspire.

"Are you really judging that?"

Back in the house, Li Jing, who had been holding back for a long time, finally found someone and said that this person was his concubine Zhang Chuchen. At that time, she was the maid of the Red Buddha in Yang Su's mansion, so she was called the Red Whisk Girl, she was originally a eunuch woman of the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, and later because of the fall of the Chen Dynasty, she was also driven to Chang'an, and was also given to Yang Su.

There are hundreds of beautiful maids and singers in Yang Su's mansion, and Zhang Chuchen is just a dispensable red-whisked maidservant. Until one day, she saw Li Jing who came to the house as a guest.

This young Guanlong noble son is a talent, and he is highly appreciated by Yang Su, and his family background is good, even Yang Su said that he will definitely sit in his position in the future. So the red whisk girl took the initiative to go to Li Jing's room to show her love, recommended a pillow seat, and later eloped out of the house with Li Jing.

Fortunately, Yang Su is a relatively bold person, not only did he not think he was angry, but regarded it as a good thing, and gave her directly to Li Jing afterwards.

Over the years, Zhang Chuchen has been by Li Jing's side, and after many years, Li Jing has not soared into the sky as Yang Suniuhong and others said, but has been a little middle-aged.

Fortunately, he performed well in the siege of Yanmen last time, and after being transferred to Liaodong, he was deeply appreciated and valued by Luo Cheng, a newcomer from outside, but he was suddenly selected by Luo Cheng as one of the four military envoys.

It can be said that Luo Cheng has the grace of knowing Li Jing.

"I'm sure Luo Cheng is plotting a rebellion." Li Jing sighed.

Zhang Chuchen still believes in her husband's judgment, because although her husband has been stumbling for a few years, he is indeed capable, especially his insight is extremely keen.

"How many people in the loyal army will be willing to follow him, and how many people will be willing to attach themselves to him in the six counties of Andong?" Zhang Chuchen continued to ask her husband.

Li Jing sighed.

This is what I feel the most about now, I came to Anton not long ago, but I was also surprised to find that this place is very different from the Central Plains. Although the Mayi where I was in the past was also a border place, it was completely different from here.

Although Luo Cheng has only been here for a few years, he has run this place like an iron bucket.

In the past, I only became the commander of the Kaizhen Festival, and I was in the name of Goguryeo Yang in Liaodong, so I had a higher prestige here and acted more arbitrarily, but now it seems that in fact, Luo Cheng has already had a trajectory.

The loyal army only had a military quota of 50,000, but Luo Cheng forcibly made up 100,000 soldiers through the county soldiers, and the county soldiers were completely no different from the government soldiers, they were all well-equipped and well-trained.

Moreover, his local regiments, township warriors, and militia are actually engaging in all the people to be soldiers.

Li Jing said that Luo Cheng took advantage of the expediency of the marshal of the border town, especially the use of the territory that Andong Dao had just taken, so he gave land to the government soldiers here to break the specifications, and engaged in military and civilian settlements, and also used the war to boldly divide the war seizures to the soldiers, so that the soldiers here only knew that there was Luo Cheng, but did not know that there was a court.

"From the chief of the festival, Hou Mo Chen Yi to the marching Sima Wei Zheng, and then from the prince Ming to appease the deputy envoy Song Laosheng, Luo Cheng has gathered a team that only looks forward to him."

"That is to say, if Luo Chengzhen wants to raise troops, the loyal army will follow him to make trouble? The officials and even the people of the six counties of Andong will also follow? Zhang Chuchen asked.

"Probably so, maybe there will be some loyal people, but there won't be too many. Luo Cheng is very smart, he has already tied the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong to the same boat with him through various means. ”

Li Jing considers himself one of the few loyal and righteous people.

As a Guanlong nobleman, Li Jing felt that it was his duty to maintain the dynasty that had been established by their ancestors and brothers.

"I want to secretly play the emperor and tell the court that Luo Cheng is going to rebel."

Finally, Li Jing made up his mind and made a decision.

"You're crazy, you also said it, Luo Cheng has run this place like an iron bucket, Anton's soldiers and civilians are tied to him, you have to secretly accuse him of rebellion, I'm afraid that your letter will fall into Luo Cheng's hands before it is sent."

"But how can I sit back and watch Luo Cheng plot against the rebellion and be indifferent, that is, to be a rebellious thief." Li Jing said.

"Husband, do you think Luo Cheng rebelled, can it be done?" Zhang Chuchen asked.

Li Jing didn't understand why she asked.

"What chance do you think you have?"

Li Jing thought about it, and couldn't help but sigh even more, saying that Luo Cheng controlled the six counties outside the Guanwai, and also had a very good relationship with Xi and Qi, and there were 100,000 soldiers and horses in the loyal army in his hands, and he could mobilize no less than 100,000 in secret, and he had excellent soldiers, and his soldiers and horses were all brave soldiers who had been in battle for a long time.

And his brother Luo Siye was in charge of the Xuanwu army in Dingxiang Road, with more than 20,000 troops, but he still controlled the Turks in Monan, which could also summon tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry at any time.

There is also Hebei pacification envoy Li Jing is Luo Cheng's teacher, Shandong Daojiedu envoy Zhang Xutuo is also Luo Cheng's teacher, and deputy envoy Luo Gui is his father.

In addition, Yin Xue Shixiong of Fanyang Mansion had a good deal with Luo, and several of Xue's sons were generals under Luo Cheng and were very important.

There is also Luo Yi as the envoy of Annan Province, and he also holds the town of the navy.

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The more he calculated, the more helpless Li Jing became.

"On the other hand, on the side of the imperial court, after the battle of Yanmen, the elite of the Xiaoguo army was exhausted, although there are still 100,000 people, but it is no more than a concentration camp for thieves, prisoners, and rogue people, and the Eastern Capital Army in the Central Plains can't even beat Li Mi, and there are three branches of Meng Rang Zuo Caixiang Li Zitong in the south of the Jianghuai River."

After calculating it in this way, Li Jing felt that Luo Chengzhen was going to rebel, and the imperial court was afraid that it would not be able to send many soldiers and horses to rebel.

"Since Luo Cheng's winning rate is so great, why doesn't the husband adapt to the times? If the husband is willing to help him, then the dynasty will change, and the husband will not lose the position of a father. ”

Li Jing said angrily to his concubine, "How can things be calculated so utilitarianly, those who are ministers should put loyalty and filial piety first." I am the general of the Great Sui, the Li family is more favored by the country, and is honored by the country, and now when the country is in trouble, I should do my best to help the country, how can I still think of being a rebellious thief? ”

Zhang Chuchen painstakingly persuaded Li Jing, saying that although your Li family has several generations of nobles, it has also experienced the independence of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Northern Zhou Dynasty of the Sui Dynasty, etc., and none of your Li family's ancestors and brothers said that they had to die to martyr the country.

But Li Jing stubbornly thought that this was not the case.

"You are a woman, you don't understand loyalty and filial piety, I still won't tell you." Li Jing waved his hand and let Zhang Chuchen go out.