Liu Wenjing took Shibi Khan's reply letter to Li Yuan, and left the royal tent with Yuan Junzhang, Guo Zihe and Luo Ren.

However, when Liu Wenjing set off for the grassland, Li Yuan, who was old and serious, said that he would definitely wait for his news before raising troops, and it would take at least one and a half months for Liu Wenjing to return to Jinyang from the Turkic court, so Liu Wenjing could only hope that the decisive Li Yin and Li Shimin could persuade Li Yuan at a critical moment.

The next day, Liu Wenjing began to return south, this time he sent an envoy to the Turks, it seemed that nothing was achieved, but in fact, as long as the Turks did not make enemies with the Li family, it was half of the success, so Liu Wenjing was not disappointed.

Just when Liu Wenjing returned south, Mayi County was facing great changes.

Wang Rengong, who used to be brave and good at fighting, has been entertaining himself with wine all day long since he took office, and he likes to accept bribes and ignore government affairs.

Although there is a lot of grain in the stock of Mayi County, Wang Rengong never gives alms to the people, so the people of Mayi County are all resentful of Wang Rengong.

Liu Wuzhou, a native of Mayi County, is a local wealthy family, brave and chivalrous, and a lieutenant of Yingyang Mansion, the locals all respect him, and Wang Rengong is also very close to him, so Liu Wuzhou led his own troops to garrison in the Taishou Office.

Liu Wuzhou took advantage of the change of position to have fornication with several of Wang Rengong's concubines, resulting in several of Wang Rengong's concubines becoming pregnant one after another in recent years.

However, Liu Wuzhou was afraid that the matter would be leaked, so he had already planned to cause chaos, and seeing that the world was already in chaos, he strengthened his determination to rebel.

So Liu Wuzhou first sent people north to contact the Turks this year, and then secretly sent people around to threaten: "Now that the people are hungry and full of zombies, and the prince of the palace closes the granary and refuses to give relief to the people, is this what parents and officials should do?" He'd probably want to be happy to see everyone starve to death! ”

The people in the county were extremely angry about this, Liu Wuzhou took the opportunity to say that he was sick and lay at home, and the local heroes came to greet him, Liu Wuzhou killed the cattle and put wine on the feast, and boasted: "How can a strong man sit still and wait for death, now the grain in the warehouse is rotting and accumulating, who dares to go with me to get food?" ”

"I'm willing to go!"

"Count me in!"

Suddenly, Liu Wuzhou's family was full of voices, and all the heroes present promised to go together, so Liu Wuzhou took everyone murderously and went straight to the Taishou Mansion.

At this time, Wang Rengong was sitting in the hall to meet a person who claimed to be sent by Li Yin, who told Wang Rengong that Liu Wuzhou was about to make a rebellion, and asked him to prepare quickly, if there was really no way, he could also go to Yanmen Pass to join Li Yin.

After hearing this, Wang Rengong laughed a few times, "You go back and tell Li Lang that you don't have to listen to the rumors, Captain Liu was promoted by me, and there is no way to betray me." ”

After hearing this, the man did not refute again, and after glancing at Wang Rengong, who was complacent with the eyes of a dead man, he withdrew, remembering what Li Yin had told him: "If Wang Rengong doesn't listen to advice, don't force it, I just look at the past friendship and do my best." ”

After the person sent by Li Yin left, Liu Wuzhou came to the hall to greet him, and Wang Rengong greeted him warmly, and said with a smile: "Wu Zhou, someone told me just now that you are going to be unfavorable to me, you say it's not funny!" ”

Liu Wuzhou was shocked in his heart, and secretly said that it was dangerous, and said quietly: "Who told you that?" ”

Wang Rengong replied casually: "It's Li Yin, the general of Yanmen's Yingyang Mansion, when the rebellion of King Liu Miao was peaceful, you met him, by the way, your general Wei Chigong's black horse, wasn't he sent it?" ”

After Liu Wuzhou heard this, his face became a little unsightly, Wang Rengong also seemed to notice that the atmosphere seemed to be a little wrong at this time, he was a little drunk, and then he looked at it and saw that Liu Wuzhou came in, and there were more than a dozen local heroes, each of whom had a weapon in his hand, and his face was not good.

Wang Rengong's face turned a little pale and said, "Wu Zhou, you ...... What are you going to do at this point? ”

Before Liu Wuzhou could answer, Zhang Wansui, a henchman beside him, suddenly climbed the steps with an arrow, and then stabbed Wang Rengong in the stomach with a knife.

Liu Wu cut off Wang Rengong's head with a knife on Monday, and then walked out of the hall with Wang Rengong's head in his hand to show the public, and no one in the county dared to move.

On March 12, Liu Wuzhou opened a granary to help the hungry, and issued a message on horseback in the cities of Mayi County, and all the cities of Mayi County were subjugated to Liu Wuzhou, and Liu Wuzhou received more than 10,000 soldiers and horses and called himself Taishou.

In March, on the 17th, Liu Wuzhou led his troops south, attacked and captured all areas of Loufu County except Xiurong County, which Li Yin occupied, and Loufu County Taishou Geguan also surrendered to Liu Wuzhou, but Liu Wuzhou did not pay much attention to him and sent him to a horse farm to raise horses.

Liu Wuzhou then seized the Fenyang Palace in Taiyuan County, obtained countless money, food, weapons, and captured the palace maids, and used them to exchange military horses with the Turkic Shibi Khan to strengthen his own forces.

After the news of Liu Wuzhou's rebellion and occupation of Fenyang Palace reached Jinyang, people were panicked for a while, Li Yuan summoned the generals and subordinates, and said to them: "Liu Wuzhou occupies Fenyang Palace, but we can't stop it, and the crime should be exterminated, what should we do?" ”

Wang Wei, Gao Junya and others were very scared, and repeatedly asked Li Yin to make up their minds.

Li Yuan sighed: "The imperial court uses troops, and they must report to their superiors when they advance or retreat, and they are controlled by their superiors. Now the thieves are within hundreds of miles, but the Jiangdu is three thousand miles away, and the roads are dangerous, and there are other thieves entrenched, relying on the city to defend and the inflexible soldiers, in order to resist the cunning and crazy thieves, it will inevitably not be able to preserve. We are now in a dilemma, what should we do? ”

Wang Wei and the others had no idea, so they had to say: "If you wait for the report, where can you catch the opportunity, Tang Guogong, your status is noble, you are both a clan relative and a wise man, and you are closely related to the fate of the country. ”

Li Yuan pretended to be a last resort and obeyed, "In this case, we should recruit more troops first." ”

So Li Yuan ordered Li Shimin and his eldest grandson Shunde, Tang Jian and others to recruit troops separately, and the people from afar defected to the gathering, and nearly 10,000 people applied within ten days, which was several times faster than when the Li family had secretly recruited people in the past few months.