In another military camp in the city of Caizhou.

"General, in the opinion of the last general, except for Wang Cun in Caizhou City today, it is impossible for other generals to compete with the general. Therefore, the last general felt that the general might as well strike first, and kill this king first, so as not to have too many dreams at night! ”

"Yes, the last general thinks that Wang Cun is usually a cunning person, and now in this situation, he can't be without ambition, but he pretends to be loyal to His Majesty all day long, who is this deceiving?"

……

The generals discussed a lot, and many people felt that they should attack Wang Cun first.

After killing Wang Cun, the prestige of the other generals in the city was much lower, and it was impossible to confront Liu Xingcong.

At that time, even without the support of Wu Jun, Liu Xingcong himself will be able to control the situation enough.

Of course, they also knew that in the end, if they wanted to gain a foothold in Caizhou, they still needed the assistance of Wu State.

"Alright, all quiet!" At this time, Liu Xingcong, who was standing in the middle of the generals, spoke.

There was a scar on the man's face that went through the eye to the jaw, and one left eye was clearly useless, and the white eyeballs looked extremely frightening.

The horizontal flesh on his face is stronger than the muscles on other people's bodies, and he stands there, with his thick body, living like a thug.

It's no wonder that Wang Cun and the others secretly despise this person, thinking that he doesn't know anything except fighting, killing, and killing.

"What the generals say is true, but you still underestimate that Wang Cun, this person is indeed insidious and cunning, how many people he has colluded with in secret, this even the general does not know. Therefore, if you want to do something to Wang Cunna, you must be careful. ”

Liu Xingcong's voice is relatively rough, but he speaks slowly and logically, which does not match his figure at all, and his words are even more organized.

In fact, this is normal, how many people who can do it at his level are really fools who only know how to kill?

Among the generals, Wang Xing saw that all the generals were persuading Liu Xingcong to strike first, and he was naturally happy in his heart, thinking that the task given to him by Wang Cun could be easily completed.

However, after listening to Liu Xingcong's words, the generals quieted down and didn't talk much.

Seeing this, Wang Xing knew that he needed to speak.

"General, although Wang Cun secretly bought a lot of people, in terms of actual strength, he is naturally inferior to the general."

"If the general keeps holding back, not to mention that this will give Wang Cun a chance to buy more people, and more importantly, after the arrival of the Wu army, will everyone still have a chance to get rich?"

Liu Xingcong was stunned, obviously stopped by Wang Xing.

The generals also frowned slightly, obviously thinking of this question.

What is the reason for everyone to rebel at the risk of losing their heads? It's not for promotion and getting rich!

If you want to be promoted, you must use Caizhou as a congratulatory gift to invite merit to Wu Guo, so that you can have a chance to be promoted.

But if you get rich, it's much easier.

After more than 10 years of stable development, Caizhou's economy has recovered a lot, and the people in the city also have a lot of savings.

As long as the soldiers are allowed to loot in the city, then not only will their generals be able to make a fortune, but the ordinary soldiers who follow them will also greatly improve their morale.

And for Liu Xingcong, as Wang Cun expected, he is indeed an extremely greedy person.

He was originally a native of Caizhou, and he also participated in Qin Zongquan's army back then, and only switched to the Liang army after Qin Zongquan's defeat.

has the experience in the Caizhou Army back then, and he has naturally seen all kinds of vices of the Caizhou Army.

In peacetime, the military law of the Liang State was still relatively strict, and the army could not plunder at will in its own territory unless it was out on conquest.

So over the years, Liu Xingcong could only succumb to the military law of the Liang State.

But now that he has decided to rebel against the Liang State, he will naturally no longer abide by the military discipline of the Liang army.

As for Wu Jun's military discipline, he has not completely surrendered to Wu State now, so Wu Jun's military discipline naturally cannot restrain him.

Of course, if the Wu army arrived in Caizhou City, Liu Xingcong still didn't dare to mess around in front of the Wu army, after all, he would have to rely on the Wu army to survive in the future, so naturally he couldn't let the Wu army feel disgusted with him.

So when Wang Xing proposed to launch in advance before the arrival of the Wu army to control the situation, Liu Xingcong's heart suddenly moved.

At this time, Wang Xing added: "In addition, the general should not forget that if the general wants to seek the position of Caizhou Assassin in the future, he must also show enough strength." ”

"If the general can't even control Caizhou, he still needs to rely on the help of the Wu army, and then the people of Wu will look down on the general!"

"Yes, if the general even needs the help of Wu Jun in Caizhou, what confidence will the general have in asking King Wu to canonize you as the assassin of Caizhou?" Other generals were also on the side to persuade them.

Liu Xingcong's heart suddenly sank, and he couldn't help but be more inclined to rebel in advance.

It's a pity that what he doesn't know is that even his henchmen have been bought by Wang Cun, all his actions are under Wang Cun's control, and his so-called rebellion is just a stepping stone for Wang Cun to ascend to the throne.

On the seventh day of the second month, Liu Xingcong rebelled in the city of Caizhou, preparing to preemptively kill Wang Cun, the commander of the Hue army.

However, the rebellion began to take a turn of events, and the rioting soldiers, after losing restraint, did not follow Liu Xingcong's order to attack the Hue army camp, but immediately rushed into the streets and looted everywhere.

This is also basically what happens every time there is a rebellion, and it is often those innocent people who are hurt, but unfortunately no one is willing to stand up and speak for them.

On the second day of the rebellion, when Liu Xingcong finally gathered his soldiers and prepared to attack Wang Cun, his henchmen suddenly betrayed Wang Xing and killed him when he was not paying attention.

Then, Wang Cun came out to appease the rest of Liu Xingcong's army, and announced that what the rebels had seized the day before was their own; And the soldiers who followed Liu Xingcong's rebellion also received a guarantee that they would not be guilty of the past.

As soon as these two orders were given, the rebel soldiers who were still panicking because the Lord was going to be killed suddenly cheered, and no one would mention anything like avenging Liu Xingcong.

Not only that, but Wang Cun's people also began to join in the plundering of the people.

Naturally, his men were reluctant to let go of this opportunity to make a fortune, and as a result, the people of the city suffered another catastrophe.

On the third day of the rebellion, Wang Cun ordered order to rectify order, strictly enforce military orders, and send troops to inspect the streets, prohibiting anyone from looting again.

By this night, the turmoil in Caizhou City was completely over, and those Liu Xingcong's henchmen would either be killed or taken over by Wang Cun.

This farce, which lasted only three days, ended with great speed, and most of the time except for the beginning, the soldiers were busy looting.

In the end, Wang Cun succeeded in controlling the entire Caizhou, and the soldiers also made a fortune, which was a happy result, but only the people in the city and Liu Xingcong, who had died, fell into bad luck.

At this time, the 5,000 Wu army led by Wang An had just arrived in Xincai, and it was still more than 100 miles away from Caizhou.

After learning of the changes in Caizhou City, Wang An had no other way than to sigh "Liu Xingcong has not achieved enough things, and there are more than failures".

After all, his strength was only so small, and it was obviously impossible to succeed in attacking the city; As for waiting for the follow-up Li Jian to send troops again, I am afraid that the follow-up army of the Liang army will also arrive at that time.

However, in the end, there was still a trace of luck, so Wang An did not withdraw his troops immediately, but temporarily stationed troops outside Xincai City, wanting to see if there were no new changes.

It's a pity that a few days later, the situation in Caizhou City was completely controlled by Wang Cun, and no new opportunities appeared.

However, Zhu Youwen, the king of Bo who stayed in Kaifeng, immediately sent troops to fight after learning the news of the chaos in Caizhou, but unfortunately was later stopped by Zhu Wen.

For Zhu Wen, although Wang Cun raised troops in the name of suppressing Liu Xingcong's riot, Zhu Wen naturally understood what his thoughts were.

But just as Wang Cun expected, if Zhu Wen pressed Caizhou too hard at this time, then Caizhou might fall to the side of Wu State.

So Zhu Wen could only pinch his nose in the end and appoint Wang Cun as the new Caizhou assassin.

At this time, the situation in Caizhou was settled, and the Wu army had no position to continue the invasion, so it had to withdraw its troops back.

……

The news of the Caizhou rebellion was quickly spread to Jinling, causing all the ministers in the court to sigh one by one, feeling that it was a pity that such a good opportunity fell short in the end.

However, in the sighs of the ministers, some people also saw some differences.

"Your Majesty, my lords, although it is indeed a pity that Caizhou is in turmoil this time, you don't need to care too much!" Guo Chongtao stroked a small handful of beard on his chin and said to everyone with a smile on his face.

Chen Yanqian also said loudly to everyone: "Yes, if you have the first time, you will have a second time." This time it was just a defeat of Gaoyi, which caused turmoil in Caizhou, and Liu Xingcong even intended to take the initiative to vote. ”

"Although it failed this time, when the power of the Liang State declines even more in the future, more people will definitely take the initiative to submit to our dynasty!"

When the ministers heard this, their faces became much better.

Indeed, now that Liang Guo can generally maintain stability, and Zhu Wen is still there, it is naturally difficult for Liang Guo to mess up.

But in the future, when Zhu Wen is gone, Liang will lose the leadership of this hero, and its situation will inevitably be more turbulent.

Not to mention anything else, Yang Wu knew that after Zhu Wen was killed by his son, there was a period of violent turmoil within the Liang State in order to compete for the throne.

During this period, the Jin army certainly took the opportunity to invade on a large scale and seized a large area of Liang territory in a row; Liang Guo is even more panicked.

In the area bordering Liang and Wu, many people took the initiative to go south, and some of them were local officials of Liang.

Therefore, this change in Caizhou is indeed just the beginning, and this kind of thing will only increase in the future.

It seems that for the ministers of the court, although they watched the prosperity of the Wu State day by day, the concept of "Central Plains" still had a great influence on them, making them subconsciously feel that the Liang State should represent the strong, so that they have not fully realized the decline of the Liang State and the strength of the Wu State now! Yang Wu looked at the happy expressions of the ministers, and thought secretly in his heart.

Some time ago, his Zhaorong He Yiyi gave birth to a son to him, which was also his second son, which made the entire Wu country cheer.

Although Yang Wu already had an eldest son, and he was still the eldest son, he was canonized as the crown prince at the age of three.

But a son is still not insured after all, in this era, let alone a child less than ten years old, even if he has become an adult, he may die of illness at any time, what if a son dies young?

Therefore, there was no new heir born in the harem for a long time, which made many ministers feel a little uneasy.

Now the birth of the second son just reassures the ministers a lot.

In addition, what makes Yang Wu even happier is that his other concubine, Xu, is also pregnant recently, which means that he will have another child soon.

When these heirs grow up one by one, the inheritance of the Wu Kingdom can be completely stabilized.

Just as Yang Wu was thinking about his thoughts in his heart, Yan Keqiu, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, suddenly stood up and said:

"My lord, in the past, if the southern countries had a history of thorns to vote, the king would generally use it for another time after staying for a while. I'm afraid that this will make those who intend to submit to the king of Liang State and other local assassins worried. So I ask the king to change that! ”

Yang Wu was a little displeased when he heard this, "Change? So how does Yan Qing plan to change? ”

"The king can promise to those who take the initiative to vote that if the local assassin comes to vote, their position will not change after joining the state of Wu, and they can continue to serve as the local assassin, and the power in their hands will not change in any way, everything will be according to their previous time in the Liang country, in order to calm their hearts!" Yan Ke asked.

"So what if the enemy generals come to vote? Does Lone also have to give them positions according to their original positions? And then let them be as undisciplined as before? Yang Wu was even more displeased when he heard this, and immediately raised his voice.

Those enemy assassins or generals who took the initiative to vote were generally a little unruly, after all, they all had some great power in the Liang State where they were originally located.

The local assassins of the Liang State generally held military power, justice, taxation, personnel and other powers at the same time, which was the same as before the separation of military and political affairs in Huainan.

If these people were assured that everything would be business as usual, wouldn't the measures of separating the military and the government that Yang Wu had worked so hard to implement in the Wu State be overthrown?

In addition, if these outsiders were opened, then the ministers of the original Wu State would also demand the same treatment, so that the entire Wu State would not be messed up.

Therefore, Yang Wu was extremely dissatisfied with Yan Keqiu's proposal, but he was even more curious that with Yan Keqiu's intelligence, he would not see the consequences of doing so, so why did he propose like this?

After thinking for a while, he didn't come up with a strict purpose, Yang Wu immediately said: "Yan Qing, you have to remember that the separation of military and political affairs is my country's national policy, and this point is not negotiable!" ”

"As for attracting more people to return to Shun, as long as my Wu Kingdom is strong enough, why worry about no one coming to Shun?"