Wang Shichong's heart flashed with a burst of pride, but there was no change in expression on his face, and he continued to ask: "Then Brother Xiao's official who broke into this Yingzhou, can you tell me now?" Wang also paid attention. ”

Xiao Miao's forehead began to sweat again, his face changed again and again, and both Wang Shichong and Wei Zheng could see that he was engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, hesitating whether to betray his most powerful subordinate.

After a long time, Xiao Mo sighed and said, "Okay, for the sake of the cooperation between the two of us, I can be regarded as a free man." Brother Wang, Xiao has only installed one official in this Yingzhou City, this person is an extremely loyal subordinate that my aunt has worked so hard to identify, and he has specially given it to me to use. ”

Wang Shichong laughed: "What Mr. Xiao said, but the hussar general in Yingzhou City, Chen Ling, a native of Lujiang? ”

Xiao Mo was shocked, and even his voice began to tremble: "You, how did you know?" ”

Wang Shichong's face flashed a trace of indescribable complexity, a little proud, but also a little ruthless, he smiled, and said: "This is actually not difficult, presumably Mr. Xiao has no interest in the eight counties below, and if you want to arrange people, they will only be arranged in this state and county, and you have no ability to arrange people, this has to go through your aunt." ”

"Wang carefully checked the details of the state and county officials here before entering the city, and the local officials in the Southern Dynasties who have only been transferred in the past few years are only this Chen Ling!"

Xiao Mo gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, since you already know everything, I have nothing to hide." However, this Chen Ling is a person who was transferred by his aunt. I also sent a message to my aunt to get a message to Guò Chen Ling's cronies. Sandwiched in the official document and reported to Daxing. Brother Wang. I will report this matter to my aunt and ask her to find a way to transfer Chen Ling to another place as an official. ”

Wang Shichong waved his hand and said, "No need, in fact, Mr. Xiao also wishes that this Chen Ling could leave early, this person is here like an eye of your aunt in Yingzhou, and will also monitor your every move, no one likes to be stared at by others when doing things, even if it is my aunt." Right? ”

Xiao Mo was suddenly told by Wang Shichong that he had been thinking about for many years, he was stunned at first, then laughed, picked up a teacup on the case, smashed the window paper directly, and threw it into the courtyard outside.

I only heard the sound of clothes breaking through the air outside, followed by the sound of a sword entering the body, accompanied by a woman's muffled snort, and then a qiē returned to silence.

Wang Shichong suddenly understood what was going on in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Xiao." You killed the old woman who guarded you? ”

Xiao Mo picked up a cup of tea on the table and took a sip casually. moistened his throat and said calmly: "Exactly, she is my aunt's person, and she heard what she said just now, I am afraid that there will be trouble between me and my aunt in the future, so I have to get rid of her first." ”

Wei Zheng said coldly: "Mr. Xiao has good means and good reactions, Wei Zheng can be regarded as knowledgeable." If you didn't speculate with us just now, I'm afraid that the two of us will be the ones you ordered to kill. ”

Xiao Mo smiled slightly: "No, Brother Wang's ability is here, Xiao's judgment of strength and weakness is still clear, originally if the content of our cooperation does not involve my aunt's people, we can naturally let her report the good news to my aunt, but since she has heard it all, she can't say it, so she has to stop talking, so as not to expose our plans." ”

Xiao Mo took a deep breath and said, "Now, we can really talk about cooperation." ”

Wang Shichong smiled and said, "What's the matter, Mr. Xiao, didn't we talk about cooperation just now?" ”

Xiao Mo shook his head and smiled weirdly: "You also know the situation just now, there are some things to say to my aunt, but I think Brother Wang is a person who really does big things, refreshing enough and smart enough, so I Xiao Mo is willing to conspire with you to really do big things." ”

Wang Shichong said "oh": "Don't you want to overthrow the Great Sui and establish the Liang State?" Isn't this ambition a big deal? So what's a big deal? ”

Xiao Miao's eyes became dim, he sighed, and said: "It's not a secret, in this matter, there has been a split within our Xiao family, the reason why Xiao Cong has been unwilling to lead our Xiao family to carry out the great cause of restoring the country as the patriarch is because he himself does not want to restore the country." ”

Wang Shichong had expected this, and when he heard Xiao Mo say this by himself, he sneered in his heart, and said: "Oh, Mr. Xiao doesn't seem to have said this just now, doesn't it mean that your Xiao ancestors have also set up a testament, and their descendants must take the restoration of the country as the first priority?" ”

Xiao Mo said hatefully: "It's a pity that some unscrupulous descendants only want to live the current peaceful life and enjoy the glory and wealth of a national prince, and they have already thrown the teachings of their ancestors out of the clouds." Brother Wang, please remember that Xiao Cong is definitely not a person who can cooperate, and you must not have any substantive contact with him in the future, otherwise it may cause a big deal! ”

Wei Zheng sneered: "Could it be that this cousin of yours will still report your cousin to the emperor?" ”

Xiao Mo said: "I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of what happens, everything must be well prepared, you were right just now, now the patriarch of the Xiao family is indeed Xiao Cong, and there are many people who, like him, have given up the plan to restore the country, as long as they enjoy the comfort in front of them, so our actions are hidden from them." ”

Wang Shichong said: "Then Mr. Xiao, can you tell me, which of you are reliable?" Who else but you and your aunt? ”

Xiao Mo said in a deep voice: "They are all the sons and nephews of some juniors, like me, no official, no power and no power. Uncle Xiao Yu is too nerdy, although his aunt has tried him, but he says that loyalty is the foundation, and he refuses to join us. Therefore, we have the Liang Xiao family, and at present, the only ones who really have the heart to restore the country and have the ability to make a difference are Xiao and his aunt Queen Xiao. ”

Wang Shichong smiled, with a bit of sarcasm in his tone: "So according to what Mr. Xiao said, there are only two of your Xiao family who still want to restore the country, and now you have killed the other one's eyes and ears, so you are not afraid of offending her, and you will give up your support for you?" ”

Xiao Mo sighed: "Brother Wang, Brother Li, you don't know anything. At this point in restoring the Great Liang. My aunt and Xiao had the same idea. But in the process of realization, I have obvious differences with her, after all, my aunt is a woman, and she can't completely break off love, alas. ”

Wang Shichong's heart brightened, and he said, "Is it that Empress Xiao doesn't want to sacrifice her two sons?" ”

Xiao Mo nodded: "Actually, she is hesitant to even do it to Yang Guang, otherwise with her ability, she can completely poison Yang Guang's diet." It doesn't have to be so troublesome. She only promised to let the world be in turmoil, and Yang Guang's court was unable to quell the rebellion, so just like in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, she allowed the powerful troops from all over the country to exterminate the traitors by themselves, and my Daliang could also take this opportunity to restore the country. ”

Wang Shichong smiled "hehe" and said: "So your aunt wants our Wang family to take the lead in the incident at that time, and then your Xiao family will work with other careerists to quell the rebellion in the name of crusading against our Wang family, and take the opportunity to sit big in the process." Restore your Liang country? ”

Xiao Mo said: "It's not a secret, that's exactly the case." It's just from Brother Wang's previous words, Xiao knew that this plan was not feasible, what a hero Brother Wang was, how could he be at the mercy of others like this? Even if we cooperate, we can't be completely equal, at least for now. ”

Wang Shichong laughed, and said in his heart that Xiao Miao's attitude changed like a chameleon, and he said it for a while, and he didn't know which sentence was true and which sentence was false.

Wang Shichong's eyes stared coldly at Xiao Miao, but at this time, Xiao Miao's eyes were full of sincerity and no falsification, Wang Shichong shook his head and said: "Mr. Xiao, there are too many contradictions in your statement, and I can't say whether I should believe you now, or do it according to the conditions we agreed on before." What do you think? ”

Xiao Mo said with a straight face: "Xiao Mou put his heart into his heart this time, and did not hesitate to publicize the ugliness of our Xiao family, just to meet you honestly with Brother Wang and discuss important matters together." As for the specifics of cooperation, of course, some changes need to be made. ”

Wang Shichong let out an "oh", glanced at each other with Wei Zheng, turned his head to Xiao Mo and said, "Then according to Mr. Xiao's meaning, how do you want to cooperate?" ”

Xiao Miao's eyes suddenly flashed with an eager desire, and his voice became excited: "Brother Wang, I want to establish my own power, and I can do it according to my own ideas in the future, instead of being subjected to my aunt and Xiao Cong everywhere, can you help me?" ”

Wang Shichong laughed, it seems that this person also wants to be self-reliant first, and then plot against him, but now he has no power or money, and he has no way to stand on his own except to rely on Queen Xiao, so he wants to establish a relationship with himself privately.

Wang Shichong said: "Then how can I help Mr. Xiao?" ”

Xiao Mo said with a smile: "This is the first, naturally you need some financial support, the so-called emperor is not a hungry soldier, if you want to recruit the old department and buy the dead, how can you do it without money?" But I can't let my aunt know about this money, otherwise she will increase her surveillance of me, and it will not be so easy for me to do things. So the five million money, please try to give me someone Xiao, it's best not to go through Luoyang or Daxing, and directly transfer the money to the place where Xiao will take office in the future. ”

Wang Shichong secretly scolded this person in his heart for being cunning, this must have been thought of by him a long time ago, and it was linked to the fact that he was smashing the cup in front of him, so that his loyal subordinates killed Queen Xiao's eyes and ears, and it could prove that he had plans to leave his aunt and stand on his own before meeting him.

But Wang Shichong didn't show any surprise on his face, nodded, and said, "This is easy to do!" For the sake of Mr. Xiao's sincerity, I will add another million, for a total of six million, and I will send someone to the place you designate when the time comes. ”

Xiao Mi said happily: "Thank you so much Brother Wang, in the future, Wei will definitely look forward to Brother Wang!"

Xiao Mo paused for a moment and continued: "This second thing is that Wei still hopes that in the future, Brother Wang can take the lead and be the first hero in the world, and Wei will definitely follow closely and serve Brother Wang as the leader of the alliance." After the overthrow of the Sui Dynasty, Brother Wang was able to wear a yellow robe, and when the time came, he only needed to give Wei a certain governor of Jingzhou, or the status of a vassal state like Xiliang. ”

Wang Shichong laughed when he heard it, just like his current state of mind, this time he was really undisguised, and the sound shook the dust on the bookshelf again.

After laughing, Wang Shichong's eyes revealed a burst of murderous intent, looked directly at Xiao Miao, and said word by word: "Xiao Miao, this is your real intention, let me Wang Shichong be Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, how about being Liu Bang to pick up leaks in the back?" ”

Xiao Mo smiled and said, "How can it be, Brother Wang's hero will definitely be able to create his own world, whether it is Wei or others." They can only respect you as the leader of the alliance. Just follow your royal family and get a piece of the pie. ”

Wang Shichong said in a deep voice: "The world has always been in turmoil. Whether it is Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the Qin and Han dynasties, or the green forest and red eyebrows in the late Western Han Dynasty, or the Yellow Turban Uprising at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, without exception they are making wedding dresses for others. You know this, and I understand it. Now you Xiao Mo sweetly fooled me into rebellion, and at that time you must also bite me the hardest, do you dare to say it? ”

Wei Zheng clapped his hands violently. applauded: "The lord said it too well!" This person has a vicious heart, and he must not be guarded against. ”

Xiao Mo still had a calm expression, and said: "Brother Wang has some truth, but you ignore a premise, these people who started the incident are all civilian identities, and it is impossible for them to gain the recognition of the people of the world, so in the eyes of the people of the world, they are just chaotic ministers and thieves." ”

"But Brother Wang, you are different, Brother Wang is a well-known rich man in the world, and he is also a well-known handsome man in China. If it is Brother Wang's trouble, then there is no problem with the appeal. Not afraid that no one will follow. ”

"It's like Cao Cao at the end of the Han Dynasty, he really coerced the Son of Heaven and ordered the princes, but no one dared to question this, even Liu Bei and Sun Quan, who were against him, did not dare to blatantly raise the banner of opposing Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, so in this righteousness, Cao Cao took a big advantage."

"Brother Wang, you can also learn from that Cao Mengde, once the tyrant is eliminated, one of his sons will be appointed, no, it is better to be a nephew, such as Yang Yong's eldest son Yang Yan as a puppet, Brother Wang or Mr. Wei can be the prime minister and the general, and divide the world to heroes from all walks of life, so that you can monopolize the power, isn't it beautiful?"

Wang Shichong sneered: "That's right, it's just that your remarks can't stand scrutiny, if you really take our Wang family as the leader of the alliance at that time, then you are at best a prince, you don't have to take such a big risk now, your cousin Xiao Cong is already the prince of Ju, so why do you have to toss so hard?" ”

Xiao Mo shook his head and said: "It's different, although he is a nominal prince, he has no soldiers and no power, he is just a hostage for him in Daxing City, if Yang Guang wants his life, a cup of poisonous wine is enough, he doesn't even have a chance to resist." ”

Wang Shichong's voice revealed a murderous aura, and the expression on his face became extremely cold: "Then you say that only our Wang family is the leader, but in the end what you want is an uncontrollable result, that is to say, even according to your assumption, in the end, you are only nominally surrendered to me, in fact, you want to be self-reliant, right." ”

Xiao Mo smiled slightly: "Actually, to put it bluntly, it is the relationship between Liu Biao and Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms, Brother Wang can unify the north, coerce the princes of the Son of Heaven, and even if you want to establish yourself as a king, I have no problem, I will be called a minister." It's just that my Great Liang Kingdom needs to have an emperor title like before, and there is no garrison of other forces. ”

Wei Zheng sneered: "What an ambitious Liu Biao, Liu Biao has only regarded himself as the Jingzhou pastor of the Han Dynasty all his life, and he doesn't dare to add an emperor to himself, Mr. Xiao's appetite and courage are much better than this Liu Jingsheng." ”

Xiao Miao's expression was calm, and he said, "Our Xiliang used to be an independent country, of course it was different from Liu Biao. How is it, Brother Wang, Brother Li, how about my cooperation? ”

Wang Shichong shook his head: "Mr. Xiao, aside from your ambition and motives, if you do this, we have no basis for cooperation at all, if you don't have the help of Queen Xiao, to be honest, you can't even maintain this intelligence network in Yingzhou, but you want to share the world with me equally, do you have this qualification?" ”

Xiao Mo laughed, and the fierce light in his eyes flashed: "Brother Wang is too underestimated Xiao." Don't think that Xiao is a real grass person, for so many years, my aunt's support for me is extremely limited, she has been in the deep palace for a long time, whether it is manpower or funds, she is far less powerful than Brother Wang imagined, but in front of Yang Guang, she can speak and exert some influence. The world here is basically fought by me alone. ”

Wang Shichong's tone was a little mocking: "Oh? Then how did Mr. Xiao establish his own power with his empty gloves white wolf and rely on your three-inch tongue? ”

Xiao Mo smiled: "Brother Wang, do you think that our Xiao clan has been in Jiangling for three generations of emperors, plus the previous Xiao Yi served as the assassin of Jingzhou, and has been operating for decades, and will really be empty-handed and have nothing?" Brother Li thought that when my grandfather Xiao Yan fled to Nanchen, he also ran away with nothing and did not bring his savings from the treasury? ”

Wang Shichong's face changed, he had never thought about this matter, and when he heard Xiao Mo mention this, he suddenly remembered that Xiao Yan could still coerce hundreds of thousands of people to flee to Nanchen when he fled, but Cui Hongdu couldn't catch up. Since Xiao Yan can even take the people away, it is naturally a trivial matter to sweep the national treasury.

Xiao Mo saw that Yang and Li both bowed their heads and pondered, and continued: "There is nothing strange about this, in fact, Xiao Cong made such arrangements before he went to Daxing, because in the first year of Xiao Cong's accession to the throne, his uncle Xiao Cen, who was in charge of supervising the state and assisting him, was transferred to the court by Yang Jian, gave him the false title of a general, and was detained and did not return. In the second year, Yang Jian repeated his old trick and summoned Xiao Cong to the court again. ”

Xiao Mo gritted his teeth and said: "As a result, this coward didn't dare not go, and he didn't dare to fight, so he played a heart, let my grandfather Xiao Yan, who is also his other uncle, take charge of our Liang's treasury, transfer the gold and silver wealth in it to a safe place, and let my uncle unite with Chen to resist once he finds out that the Sui Dynasty has an attempt to annex our Liang State." ”

Wang Shichong nodded and said, "So that's the case, but as far as I know, your grandfather finally chose to flee to the Chen Dynasty instead of daring to raise troops to resist and defend the country." ”

Xiao Mo said: "Brother Wang, you must know that at that time, our Liang was encroached upon by the Sui Dynasty for many years, and the land was annexed, leaving only 800 miles of territory around Jiangling, which is only the size of Yingzhou today, which is not as big as half of Jingzhou now." And the population is also sparse, the Western Wei Dynasty swept away hundreds of thousands of people in Jiangling City, and the population of only tens of thousands of households was only tens of thousands when I founded the country. ”

"With such strength, how can it be possible to defend the country? At that time, the Sui Dynasty sent the ruthless Cui Hongdu to take over the Jiangling governor, and he directly brought 50,000 soldiers over, and Jiangling City was full of the eyes and ears of the Sui Dynasty, and it was impossible for my grandfather to assemble the army for war. ”

Wang Shichong sneered: "Then why don't you go and unite with the Chen Dynasty and fight against the enemy?" ”

Xiao Mo sighed and said: "Brother Wang's words are wrong, you are driving the tiger at the front door, and the wolf at the back door, at the beginning of the founding of my Great Liang, I had a deep blood feud with Xiao Yi, the Jingzhou assassin of the Southern Liang, and finally led the Western Wei soldiers to attack and kill him." And this Xiao Yi is the nominal superior of Chen Baxian, the founding emperor of the Chen Dynasty, after the establishment of the Chen Dynasty, he has been repeatedly fighting with our Great Liang State for decades, and the enmity is much deeper than with our nominal suzerain, the Sui Dynasty. ”

"So after thinking about it back then, it was definitely the next step for my grandfather to lead Chen Bing into the country, even if he kept my beam for a while, it was easy to invite God and difficult to send God, it was nothing more than changing from a puppet of the Sui Dynasty to a puppet of Nan Chen."

"So my grandfather gritted his teeth, took the treasures of the treasury, and fled to Nanchen with hundreds of thousands of people from Daliang, hiding these treasures on the way."

"Nan Chen originally saw that my Great Liang was invaded by the Sui Dynasty, so he came uninvited and had already sent an army. As a result, this army went halfway and directly encountered the people led by my grandfather, only to know that Jiangling had been lost, so we had to escort us back to Nanchen. ”

"For the sake of these hundreds of thousands of people, Emperor Chen Xuan at that time gave his grandfather a false position, and then the next thing is known to the two of them, after the Sui Dynasty destroyed Southern Chen, my grandfather also fell into the hands of Yang Jian."

"After Yang Jian sent Cui Hongdu to occupy Jiangling, he found that the treasury was empty, so he refused to give up after arresting his grandfather, and sent him to Daxing, where he was tortured to confess the whereabouts of the treasure. Poor grandfather, old and frail, could not withstand torture, casually told me a place where treasures had been buried before, and then died. ”

"My father transferred the treasures back then, and when Yang Jian sent people to the place that my grandfather said, they found that it was already in a mess, they thought that the treasures were discovered by the rebels and rioters, and they looted them, and after searching them for a while, they were gone."

When Xiao Mo said this, his eyes were wide open, his two fists were clenched tightly, and the whole person was like a volcano that was about to erupt at any time, and even Wang Shichong and Wei Zheng, who were a few feet away from him, could feel the raging anger in his heart. (To be continued......)