Empress Dowager Zhou looked at the charming face of Liu Qingmei, the princess of Xiangcheng, and said with a sigh: "Qingmei, you also know the current situation, the mourning family and the emperor can be said to be struggling, if our royal family can win over Liu Ji, then we will immediately have the power to restrain the thirteenth family, then the situation in the court will soon be the same again, so I can only grieve Qingmei." ”

Liu Qingmei, the princess of Xiangcheng, suddenly smiled and said: "Queen Mother, her daughter is going to marry after all, and the conquest general Liu Ji not only defeated Gao Changguo in the Western Regions, but also subdued the grassland clans such as the Dangxiang clan and the Loufu clan on the grassland, and is already a big hero who is famous all over the world. ”

Empress Dowager Zhou nodded and said: "Qingmei, if you can think like this, the mourning family will be at ease, although you are not born to the mourning family, but for so many years, the mourning family has treated you as your own, and the mourning family also hopes to choose a wishful husband for you." ”

Liu Qingmei, the princess of Xiangcheng, hesitated for a moment and asked: "Queen Mother, I heard that the army under Liu Ji is known as the Broken Army, and the total strength is even more than two million. ”

"Whether Liu Ji can fall to the side of the royal family, you have to see your means, the mourning family and the emperor, but I pin my hopes on you!"

Liu Qingmei, the princess of Xiangcheng, listened to the words of the Empress Dowager Zhou, and suddenly felt the pressure on her body increase sharply, "Don't worry, the queen mother, Qingmei will do her best!" ”

Empress Dowager Zhou said: "The general Liu Ji, one of the biggest problems is the greed for women, Liu Ji is only eighteen years old this year, the same age as you, but he has a group of wives and concubines, in order to consolidate your position with Liu Ji in the future, the mourning family selected ten talented and beautiful palace maids, plus the two little girls who serve you around you, a total of twelve palace maids as a dowry, and marry into the Liu family with you." ”

Liu Qingmei, the princess of Xiangcheng, nodded, but she didn't know why, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.

On December 7, 427 of the Great Jin Dynasty, before dawn, Liu Ji took Jia Xu, Fan Xu, Yang Zaixing and thirty-five puppet bodyguards into Canglong City, and came to the palace.

Soon after, Liu Ji and the commanders of the other counterinsurgency forces were introduced into the palace by the forbidden army guarding the palace, and brought them all the way to the Taiyuan Palace.

When Liu Heng, the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the Empress Dowager Zhou sat on the throne at the top of the Taiyuan Palace, Liu Ji followed the court ministers in the hall and the commanders of the various counterinsurgency armies, and bowed to the emperor Liu Heng and the Empress Dowager Zhou.

"The mourning family is very relieved that after the imperial court's document was issued, so many loyal ministers of the imperial court were able to stand up and be willing to quell the rebellion in the seven southeastern states for the Great Jin Dynasty! Now that the situation in the seven southeastern states is becoming more and more crisis, the mourning family hopes that the counterinsurgency forces from all walks of life can fight bravely to kill the enemy, restore calm to the seven southeastern states as soon as possible, and let the people of the seven southeastern states get rid of the suffering of war! Empress Dowager Zhou said loudly to the commanders of the counterinsurgency forces standing on both sides of the main hall.

At this time, Dou Yan, the captain of the military department, came out and said: "The Empress Dowager and the Emperor, the counterinsurgency army now gathered outside the capital has a total of 35 roads, with a total strength of more than 1.4 million, of which the number of soldiers is more than 1 million, and the military department is also preparing to send the cavalry general Dou Bing to lead the Yulin right guard of the forbidden army, as well as the 50,000 people who have been requisitioned, to quell the rebellion together, so that the counterinsurgency army will have 36 roads, a total of 1.5 million troops!" ”

After a pause, Dou Yan, the captain of the military department, continued: "In order to be able to unify the command of the 36th Route Suppression Rebel Army, the minister asked Dou Bing, the general of the cavalry, to serve as the commander of the 36th Route Suppression Rebel Army. ”

Empress Dowager Zhou nodded and said, "Quasi-play!" The 36th Route Counterinsurgency Army will be led by the cavalry general Dou Binglai! ”

Dou Bing, the general of the chariot cavalry, immediately came out with an excited face and said: "The minister swears to die for the imperial court to exterminate the rebellious Zhang Mingqi who rebelled in the seven states of the southeast!" ”

Next, the Empress Dowager Zhou tried her best against the commanders of the rebel armies, and suddenly changed the topic, and said to Liu Ji with a smile: "General Liu Ji, the mourning family has heard of your prestige many times, and at a young age, he was able to lead his troops to defeat Gao Changguo, the second most powerful country in the Western Regions, and forced Gao Changguo to cede a large area of land to our Great Jin, and also defeated the Hu people of all ethnic groups many times on the grassland, and even subdued the two grassland tribes of Dangxiang and Lou Fu, and finally opened up the Western Regions Protectorate and the Beiting Protectorate for my Great Jin, General Liu Ji has made immortal contributions to the Great Jin! ”

Liu Ji hurriedly said respectfully: "The Empress Dowager and the Emperor can open up territory and expand the territory for my Great Jin, and they also rely on the Hongfu of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, as well as the soldiers under their command to use their lives, and the ministers dare not be greedy for immortal achievements!" ”

Empress Dowager Zhou said with a smile: "General Liu Ji does not need to be modest, meritorious service must be rewarded, in order to reward General Liu Ji for my contribution to the Great Jin, the mourning family is ready to marry Princess Xiangcheng to you as his wife, I don't know what General Liu Ji thinks?" ”

Two days ago, the Empress Dowager Zhou had privately sent someone to contact Liu Ji and asked Liu Ji if he was willing to marry Princess Xiangcheng, and Liu Ji would refuse to marry a princess who was beautiful and fragrant, not to mention that the Empress Dowager Zhou would also make a decree that Princess Xiangcheng would be the same wife as Zhang Wanting in the future, and the status would be equal.

Liu Ji immediately said with a happy face: "Of course the minister is willing to marry Princess Xiangcheng as his wife!" ”

Empress Dowager Zhou smiled more and said, "That's good! Then the mourning family is in charge! Marry the princess of Xiangcheng to General Liu Ji, and when General Liu Ji leads his troops to suppress the rebellion in the seven southeastern states, he will get married in the capital! ”

"Obey the order!" Liu Ji said loudly.

At this time, many people in the hall cast jealous and envious eyes on Liu Ji, you must know that Princess Xiangcheng has always been famous for her beauty and virtuousness in Dajin, and even faintly known as the first beauty of Dajin, coupled with the prominent status of Princess Xiangcheng, the person who wants to be the princess of Xiangcheng is like a carp crossing the river, but he didn't expect to be cheaper than Liu Ji in the end.

After the end of the early dynasty, Liu Ji and the commanders of the various counterinsurgency troops left the palace, but they did not go out of the city directly and returned to their respective camps outside Canglong City, but followed the orders of the cavalry general Dou Bing and came to the military camp of the right guard of the forbidden army Yulin.

In a huge tent in the camp of Yulin's right guard, the general of the cavalry, Dou Bing, the commander of the 36th Route Counterinsurgency Army, sat in the top position, and the commanders of the other 35th Route Counterinsurgency Army were all seated on both sides of the tent, and Liu Ji sat in the lower position on Dou Bing's left hand side.

In the 36th Road Suppression Rebel Army, in addition to the army of Dou Bing and Liu Ji, there are also the army of seventeen state pastors, at this time in this huge tent, only Liu Chong, the state pastor of Qianzhou, Liu Yuan of Pizhou and Liu Du, the state pastor of Qinzhou, these three state pastors sit here, and the remaining fourteen state pastors did not personally lead the army to the capital, but only sent the generals under their command to lead the troops, and now the generals under the command of the fourteen state pastors are all here.

In addition, among the 36 road counterinsurgency army, there are seventeen Taishou troops, including Cao Lin, the Taishou of Linze County, Qianzhou, Bao Wei, the Taishou Bao Wei of Longbei County, Pizhou, Li Kexuan, the Taishou of Yanchang County, Pizhou, Xiao Jiande, the Taishou of Ji'an County, Pizhou, Wang Shida, the Taishou of Shansui County, Qinzhou, Li Bo, the Taishou of Wuli County, Qinzhou, Shen Zitong, the Taishou of Xiongyi County, Xiangzhou, the Taishou Gao Rail, the Taishou Gao Rail of Hedong County, the Taishou Zhang Ju of Xuan'an County, Meizhou, the Taishou Zhao Ce, the Taishou of Geshan County, Anhui Prefecture, the Taishou Xie Hongde of Fushou County, and the Taishou Jiang Jian of Qinghua County, Fuzhou, Luo Youpeng, the Taishou of Ganmeng County, Yuzhou, Xue Can, the Taishou of Donglai County, Yongzhou, Kong Dai, the Taishou of Heyang County, Liuzhou, and Zhang Kuang, the Taishou of Changchun County, Yizhou, a total of 16 Taishou, are all in this huge tent at this time.

Only Yuan Xin, the Taishou of Dangyang County in Qinzhou, did not come to the capital, but sent his son Yuan Chao to lead the troops, and Yuan Chao was sitting in the tent at this time.

Dou Bing, the general of the cavalry, said to the commanders of the counterinsurgency armies: "The news just came from the southeast that the hussar general Li Hong and the hussar general He Guangzong have transferred the main force of the army under their command to the four state capitals of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and Fuzhou, and the Red Turban Army that rebelled against Zhang Mingqi is now storming the state capitals of the four states. ”

Zhezhou and Fuzhou are both south of Suzhou, Qiongzhou and Lianzhou, and Suzhou, Qiongzhou and Lianzhou have now fallen into the hands of the Red Turban Army under Zhang Mingqi, so the cavalry general Dou Bing can only save Suzhou and Hangzhou first.

The commanders of the other counterinsurgency armies, including Liu Ji, did not raise any objections to the plan of the cavalry general Dou Bing to rescue the cities of Qinhuai in Suzhou and Huai'an in Hangzhou.

So the general Dou Bing continued: "The rescue of Hangzhou Huai'an City is led by General Ben personally, and the rescue of Suzhou Qinhuai City, General Ben is ready to let General Liu Ji take charge." ”

In the 36th Road Suppression Rebel Army, the army led by Liu Ji has the largest number of troops, and now the general Dou Bing of the Che Cavalry let Liu Ji serve as the commander of the rescue of Suzhou Qinhuai City, which is also a matter of course, but Zhao Ce, the Taishou of Geshan County, Anhui Prefecture, heard this, and immediately decided to kill and not join the rescue of Suzhou Qinhuai City.

In the end, it was agreed that he would follow Liu Ji to rescue the counterinsurgency army in Qinhuai City, Suzhou, with a total of 14 routes, including the army of five state pastors, including the 40,000 troops of Liu Chong, the governor of Qianzhou, the 30,000 troops of Liu Yuan, the 40,000 troops of Qibo, the 40,000 troops, the 50,000 troops of Feng Zihuan, the governor of Xiangzhou, and the 30,000 troops of Liu Du, the governor of Qinzhou.

There were also nine Taishou troops, including the 35,000 troops of Cao Lin, the Taishou of Linze County, Qianzhou, the 20,000 troops of Bao Wei, the Taishou Bao Wei of Longbei County, Qianzhou, the 30,000 troops of Li Kexuan, the Taishou Li Kexuan of Yanchang County, Pizhou, the 40,000 troops of Xiao Jiande, the 40,000 troops of Xiao Jiande of Ji'an County, Pizhou, the 20,000 troops of Wang Shida, the 20,000 troops of Li Bo, the Taishou Li Bo of Wuli County, Qinzhou, the 35,000 troops of Shen Zitong of Xiongyi County, Xiangzhou, the 25,000 troops of Gao Gao, and the 25,000 troops of Yuan Xin of Dangyang County, Qinzhou.

The 14 route counterinsurgency army, plus Liu Ji's broken army, has a total of 700,000 troops, of which the number of soldiers exceeds 500,000, and the remaining 21 route counterinsurgency army, a total of 800,000 people, form the road to rescue Hangzhou Huai'an City.

When Liu Ji returned to the camp of the Broken Army with Jia Xu, Fan Xu, Yang Zaixing, and thirty-five puppet bodyguards, Shen Muqing and Zhang Yingying of Guanghan Palace were already waiting in Liu Ji's tent.

Seeing Liu Ji walking into the tent, Shen Muqing asked urgently: "Husband, when will the army going south to quell the rebellion leave?" ”

Liu Ji then said: "It has been agreed, the day after tomorrow morning will set off, these two days the imperial court will continue to replenish the grain and grass for the rebel army, I will lead the broken army and other 14 ways to counter the rebel army, rushed to Qinhuai City in Suzhou, now Zhang Mingqi's Red Turban Army, is storming Qinhuai City, the general Dou Bing led the rest of the 21 roads to quell the rebellion, then to rescue the Huai'an City in Hangzhou, Huai'an City is also under siege by the Red Turban Army. ”

Shen Muqing and Zhang Yingying glanced at each other, and both showed a hint of a smile, and Zhang Yingying then said coquettishly: "If it is the day after tomorrow, then the husband will have a good fortune!" ”

Liu Ji's eyes lit up, "Could it be that there is a personal disciple of Guanghan Palace who wants to come to Canglong City?" ”

Shen Muqing nodded and said: "What the husband said is not wrong, Tan Ruofei, another personal disciple of our master Tianxuan Palace Master, and Lu Yaoyi, the personal disciple of Tianji Palace Master, will bring four inner disciples and twelve outer disciples of Guanghan Palace to Canglong City to meet our senior sisters tomorrow, and then return to Guanghan Palace together." ”

"Are you all done with things in Canglong City?" Liu Ji asked.

Zhang Yingying nodded and said: "Husband, the evaluation of the world's hero spectrum, as well as the selection of the world's group of heroes, are almost done, but maybe because the Guanghan Palace supported Zhang Mingqi, this time there are not many people who participate in the evaluation of the world's hero spectrum in Canglong City, except for Dou Bing, who is still on the peerless list of heroes in the world, there are only three people in Canglong City on the list of top generals, twelve people on the list of first-class generals, twenty-five people on the list of second-rate generals, and forty-four people on the list of third-rate generals, In addition, there are three people included in the heavenly list of the world's group of fangpu, and sixteen people are included in the earthly list of the world's group of fangpu. ”

Shen Muqing continued: "Among the three people included in the Heavenly List of the World's Qunfang Spectrum, there is Liu Qingmei, the princess of Xiangcheng, and the other two are Yang Min, the daughter of Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Officials, and Sun Weiwei, the niece of Sun Mingtao, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Industry. ”

Originally, according to Gu Xiaowan, Dong Hongyu, Ma Shishi, Cheng Xiaoxiao, Qin Yuechan, Lu Xiangru, Wang Jingxiang, Shu Yuting, Shi Jiezhen and Pan Tingting, the ten stunning and clear appearances, were also qualified to enter the list of the world's group of people, but the world group of people never included women from Qinglou, so the list of the world's group of people did not include the names of Gu Xiaowan and the ten of them.

Liu Ji put his arm around Zhang Yingying with one hand and Shen Muqing with the other, "Since those two personal disciples of Guanghan Palace bumped into each other, then the husband reluctantly accepted them!" After you return to Guanghan Palace, you can also have two more people to take care of you! ”