Li Gengyun's surrender strategy was unsuccessful, and Cao Cao rejected Li Gengyun's surrender, but what made Li Gengyun happy was Cao Cao's last words: If the White Lotus Sect is defeated, Cao Cao will live by luck, and he will definitely follow Mr. Li. After getting such an answer, Li Gengyun finally made up his mind to take a good pit of Bai Chongyang and the White Lotus Sect.

In the end, Li Gengyun handed over the military flag order to Cao Cao, and at the same time asked Cao Cao to take a look at Bai Baobao. Of course, he also met with the three brothers of the Ding family, and learned that the former saintess Bai Luojun was also seriously injured, so he also went to visit. finally learned that Bai Baobao and Bai Luojun were both seriously injured, and they couldn't get better for a while. Relatively speaking, it was safer to stay in Xiangzhou than to return to Jiangzhou, and after Cao Cao and Ding Yao talked about it, they could be regarded as having completed the task, left Xiangyang with the military flag order, and rushed back to Jiangzhou overnight.

Li Gengyun's side has already made a plan, according to the final agreement with Cao Cao, this time the White Lotus Church carried out a small-scale harassment operation, of course, only arranged a few people to sneak attack or assassinate the Northern Yuan soldiers in Dongzhou. When the annual meeting of the White Lotus Sect is over, the elite can be mobilized to capture the southern part of Sizhou and take the entire southern part of Sizhou at a very fast speed. At the same time, Li Gengyun would arrange for the Xiangzhou Army to attack the Luomapo Ferry in Lizhou to support the White Lotus Sect in the situation.

Of course, Li Gengyun knew that once the White Lotus Sect in Jiangzhou made a move, then Nanzhou would definitely be prepared. At present, Nanzhou and Dongzhou are directly bordered, and the two states are separated by the big river, and the soldiers on both sides are stationed along the embankment.

Regardless of whether Hua Teng has the heart to recover the Great Song Dynasty, it is only natural that he will send troops to Dongzhou and join forces with the White Lotus Sect to deal with Duguke. In addition, Li Gengyun's Xiangzhou army rushed into Lizhou, so that it can be said that the three routes of soldiers and horses are advancing together, as long as the cooperation is good, then at least the dividing line between the south and the north can be directly advanced from the river to the land.

However, what worries Li Gengyun the most is the Southern Chu side, if the Sanzhou army is dispatched to the north, once the army of Southern Chu concentrates on Jiaozhou and Yizhou, then Huateng may not be able to support these two states, of course, Jiangzhou is estimated to have no available troops. Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to stabilize the Nanchu side, and will not make a move against Jiaozhou and Yizhou after the year.

"Kuiyi, I'm afraid you're going to spend the New Year in Nanchu this time."

Li Gengyun thought of this, so he said to Kuiyi: "On the Southern Chu side, someone needs to preside over it, so as to avoid Southern Chu sneaking up on us behind when our army marches north in the next year." Although the soil of Jiaozhou and Yizhou is poor and hilly, it is not suitable for crop growth. But after all, it is still the territory of my Great Song Dynasty, and it cannot be occupied by foreign races like this. Therefore, this time you go to Nanchu, you must establish contact with the Red Tiger, and if you can, create a bloody case within Southern Chu, a bloody case that threatens the Xiong clan and the Chi clan, so that they have no time to expand externally. ”

"You mean, the battle for power?"

"Xiong Tian is not young, now he is energetic, not only has a political vision, but also is very true in terms of commanding the army, the only drawback is that he is a little lustful. Relatively speaking, although Red Tiger is both civil and military, he is almost forty years old. Compared with Xiong Tian, he is more suitable to serve as the monarch of a country, if it is the Red Tiger as the country, I don't know what kind of development will be in Southern Chu? ”

Li Gengyun laughed as he spoke, and then continued to Kuiyi: "Of course, I'm just assuming, after all, no one is perfect, Xiong Tian can be regarded as a hero, the reason why he is willing to share power equally with Chihu, on the one hand, Chihu is his uncle, on the other hand, the army is basically in the hands of Chihu. Therefore, many times, the birth of a tyrant is often due to the existence of a minister in the court who is extremely close to him, but always stronger than himself. Only when the minister is waiting for the tyrant will he show his true colors, perhaps it is the catharsis after being suppressed by the minister all these years. ”

There are many things that can be learned from history about the birth of tyrants, and the reason why Li Gengyun thinks so is because Xiong Tian's growth and his current development are very similar to the history of those pre-Qin, Great Zhou and other dynasties that Li Gengyun now knows.

"What does Xiaoyaojun mean is that this Xiong Tian is very likely to repeat the mistakes of Emperor Qin Huai and Emperor Zhou Ming?" Kui Yi turned his head and looked at Li Gengyun and asked.

"Emperor Qin Huai ascended the throne at the age of ten, and his uncle Qin Mu Wang was an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and assisted him until he was twenty-three years old, and died a mysterious death. Emperor Huai led the army at the age of eighteen to take power at the age of twenty-three, during which he was also a martial artist, with the demeanor of a virtuous and virtuous gentleman. However, after the death of King Qin Mu, he took control of the power of the Qin Dynasty, built Huaqing Terrace, favored the Peony Garden (a famous opera society at that time), and selected folk show girls, and in just five years, the treasury of Great Qin was empty. What happened next, you should also be clear! ”

"Hmm!"

Kui Yi thought that after Emperor Qin Huai took control of the power, he not only built a lot of construction and labor, but also selected folk show girls, and in just two years, Emperor Qin Huai's harem had 3,000 beauties. In order to accommodate these beauties, Emperor Qin Huai once again expanded the palace, built four harems, gave four courtyards in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and expanded the number of people in the Peony Garden, from the original twenty people to four hundred, giving a large number of gold and silver treasures. The originally abundant treasury was emptied in just five years, and then there was a large-scale collection of taxes, from the original 11th tax to the 51th tax, and finally to half of the tax, which immediately made the people's lives miserable. This led to a large-scale peasant uprising, and also led to the demise of Great Qin.

And later Emperor Zhou Ming compared with Emperor Qin Huai, he was not far behind in the rhythm of death. At the beginning, the experiences of the two were also very similar, but Emperor Qin Huai had a wise and martial uncle, and the founding emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty set up a military aircraft department in order to avoid the prince's chaos. The Minister of Military Aircraft is directly under the emperor and has the power of impeachment against the emperor's decrees. Emperor Zhou Ming's methods were extremely clever, when the four ministers of military aircraft were still alive, it was the appearance of a Ming monarch, but after the four ministers of military aircraft died mysteriously one by one, Emperor Ming of Zhou directly appointed his cronies as ministers of military aircraft, thus giving him the opportunity to take charge of the government.

It was also after the death of the last Minister of Military Aircraft that Emperor Ming of Zhou completely grasped the power of the Great Zhou, and at the same time abolished the Military Aircraft Department.

In just three years, the people of the Great Zhou, who were originally solid and wealthy, were made miserable, and then the story of the Four Heavenly Kings Uprising began. gave Liu Zhen the opportunity to establish the Great Song Dynasty.

"I see!" Kui nodded a little, knowing Li Gengyun's thoughts, so he stood up, arched his hand to Li Gengyun and said, "Xiaoyaojun really won't let me be idle for a moment." I'll leave tomorrow for Nanchu. ”

"Thank you!"

Li Gengyun smiled and thanked Kuiyi.