In mid-March, Zheng Jin, the envoy of the Tang Army's northwest camp and Fengxiang Jiedu, held a pledge meeting and personally killed the envoys sent by the Huangchao puppet Qi regime to persuade him to surrender, officially declaring war on the puppet Qi regime.

When Chang'an got the news from Fengxiang, Huang Chao's ministers, who were spending all day and wine in the Lin De Hall in the Daming Palace, were angry, and cursed Zheng Zheng for not knowing the current affairs and daring to be disrespectful to the Emperor of Daqi, so the angry Emperor Huang Chao of Daqi immediately ordered to send troops to conquer Fengxiang.

As for who to send to lead the troops to the campaign, Huang Chao made a difficulty, after all, there are so many generals in the court, and Zheng Zheng is just an old scribe, and the Tang Dynasty has never had this old man's battle record, so this battle is likely to be an opportunity to brush up on military merits.

Huang Chao could think of this, and the officials and generals under him could also think of this, so there was a cry of war under his subordinates. Among them, Meng Kai shouted the loudest.

Huang Chao felt that it was not impossible to send Meng Kai there, but since this guy was under Chang'an City that time, he had already committed public anger, and if he was sent at this time, he was afraid that the other subordinates would not be convinced.

Now that Huang Chaogui is the emperor of Great Qi, he can't stick to the small circle he started in the past, so he has to open his eyes a little more, thinking about it, Huang Chao has more figures in his eyes.

Erlang Saburo them? No, San Lang was just beaten by Wang Chongrong in the river and returned, if he was allowed to go, it would only affect the morale of the army, Meng Kai no longer considered it, Zhao Zhang is a Wenchen, Zhu Wen is still in Huazhou, and he can't be transferred back for the time being. After all, the river side is so harmful that he needs to be suppressed in Huazhou.

And what about Shang Rang? Huang Chao came up with the answer in his heart: Well, Shang Rang is the most suitable.

Shang Rang was Shang Junchang's younger brother, and he followed his brother Nai's brother to follow Wang Xianzhi in the rebellion in the second year of Qianfu (875). In the third year of Qianfu (876), in October, he was stationed in the army of Rongshan (now Suipingxi, Henan), and rendezvoused with himself to protect Rongshan Mountain, and after he fell out with Wang Xianzhi, he still let Xianzhi move to the south, but Shang Rang still had his heart to himself.

In the fifth year of Qianfu (878), after Wang Xianzhi was destroyed in Huangmei (now northwest of Huangmei County, Hubei), Shang Rang led the rest of his troops to defect to him and pushed himself as king. Now he is the Taiwei of the Great Qi and the Zhongshu Order, and he is the leader of Wang Xianzhi's old department under Huang Chao.

At this time, he has already proclaimed himself emperor, and his subordinates are better than people from other factions in terms of official positions and treatment, such a move has already caused some people to be dissatisfied, and now he should balance the relationship between his original subordinates and Wang Xianzhi's old department.

So Huang Chao waved his hand and signaled everyone in the hall to be quiet. He twisted the beard under his chin, and then said: "The ministers are eager to ask for battle, and I am very relieved, but this expedition is to strengthen my prestige and deter those feudal towns at both ends of the first rat, so this time the troops must be able to defeat Fengxiang Zheng Zheng Sour Confucian." I think about it, the person who can be qualified for this position is the Tai Lieutenant, what does the Tai Wei think? ”

When Shang Rang heard the emperor say this, the smugness on his face flashed, and then he bowed down and replied: "The official family has a golden mouth and jade law, and a certain person should obey the order." It's just that this matter is related to our Daqi strategy, so the minister asked the official family for permission, and General Wang Bo served as the vanguard envoy and General Meng Kai served as the grain officer for this western expedition. ”

When Huang Chao heard this, he immediately nodded and said, "What the Taiwei said is very true, and I am right." This expedition to the west was presided over by the Taiwei, and all matters were decided by the Taiwei. ”

The emperor has already issued an order, and the generals in the palace have no choice but to obey the order. Since there was a war to prepare, this banquet could not be held again, so Shang let the following clubs take their leave and leave. Huang Chao didn't stop them, so he let them go.

All the officials in the hall left, and Huang Chao was not interested in staying alone in the palace, he waved his hand and said, "Go back, Qingsi Palace." ”

Qingsi Hall is the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Yi's dormitory, after Huang Chao moved from Luoyang to Chang'an, he found that this Qingsi Palace was very luxurious, so he took this Qingsi Palace as his dormitory.

Since the palace is all Huangchao's, the palace maids and maids in it are not a problem, so all the palace people who stayed in Chang'an City returned to the Daming Palace to be on duty again, but those concubines did surrender to the Tang officials of the Huangchao Army, such as Liu Yunzhang, who was left behind in Tokyo (Luoyang) to welcome Huangchao, and dedicated his daughter and niece to Huangchao's harem.

After Shang Rang returned to the mansion, he immediately sent someone to invite Zhao Zhang, Huang Ye, Wang Bo, Meng Kai and others to come to the mansion to discuss matters, and then Shang Rang wrote a letter to Zhu Wen who was guarding in Huazhou. Tell him to be patient in Huazhou for the time being, and after he solves Zheng Jin, he will immediately make a proposal to the Great Qi Emperor to transfer Zhu Wen to the center of Chang'an.

At the time when the eight-sided exquisite long-sleeved dance was still operating in Chang'an City, a mobilization meeting to suppress pornography was being held in the Fengxiang Jiedu Embassy.

The host and initiator of the conference is the capital of the camp in the northwest of Chang'an, and Zheng Jin, the envoy of Fengxiang Festival. Participating in the meeting are the aforementioned Jingyuan Festival envoy Cheng Zongchu, Shuofang Jie Du envoy Tang Hongfu, Tianxiong Jie Du envoy Qiu Gongyu, and now there are more recently arrived Youzhou Thorn Shi Tuoba Sigong, Yan Yan Jie Du envoy Li Xiaochang, and Hezhong Liuhou Wang Chongrong also took the envoy to participate in the conference.

Li Bao also attended the conference as an ally of Zheng Zheng, and Yang Fuguang, who was far away in Xuzhou, also sent an envoy to attend the meeting, and this envoy was Shen Dian, a scholar who was Li Bao's acquaintance.

So many people gathered together, Li Bao sat in the hall but his heart was full of contempt, these people were righteous and awe-inspiring, they enjoyed the Tang Dynasty's officials and lords while allowing the Huangchao thief army to wreak havoc. Now that Huang Chao said that the emperor and queen were deeply exploiting them, they couldn't stand it anymore, and they wanted to rebel against Huang Chao again.

However, the Tang Dynasty came to this situation, and it was not all the mistakes of these festivals that made the warlords, which had both historical inevitability and the inaction of the Tang royal family to cause such a result.

Anyway, after the defeat of the Yellow Nest, the warlord bastards in the Tang Dynasty still can't be changed, and what he can do at present is only to go with the flow and develop the power of the Weizhou Army, only if his fists are hard, naturally someone will listen to him, but now he still listens to what Zheng Zheng has to say.

"You are all the pillars of the country who are sincere to the Tang Dynasty, and now the thieves are arrogating, and the puppet emperor is rampant, it is the time for a certain son to be loyal to the country, so today I convened all the sages to gather here to discuss the plan to exterminate the pseudo-Qi yellow thief. ……”

Zheng Zheng was impassioned, what he said was a big truth, and he scolded the Huangchao thief for being worthless, all the people present were Guo Ziyi, Yan Zhenqing and other national cadres.

Li Bao not only has a new understanding of Zheng Jin, the patriarch of the five surnames, which is a manifestation of the integrity and values of the literati, but also an extremely precious cultural inheritance in China for 5,000 years.

It is with this integrity that there is no shortage of iron-clad literati fighters in history, Zheng Jin's image is like Wen Tianxiang and Fang Xiaoru hundreds of years later, which left a deep impression on Li Bao's heart, this stubborn and tenacious old man is really not simple!

After the big reason is finished, it's time to talk about some dry goods, so Zheng Ji pointed to his son and said, "Dalang, let's talk about our preparations for exterminating the Huangchao Army this time." ”

Zheng Ningji sat at the end, and the people who participated in this meeting were all the heroes of one side, so he, who had no real power, had to sit at the end of the seat.

Zheng Ningji nodded to everyone present, then walked to the wall behind him and pulled back the curtain hanging on the wall. It's a big map.

This map is a topographic map from Chang'an to Fengxiang, and this map is very rough in Li Bao's opinion, but in front of the Tang people who have not seen much of the high-definition maps of later generations, this map does not feel very rough. After all, since they joined the army, they have seen such maps, so there is no obstacle to understanding for everyone, and Li Bao has to roll his eyes there alone.

Zheng Ningji held a bamboo pole and pointed to the surnames marked on the map as the deployment range of each section of the envoys, among which the Fengxiang Mansion was the largest, so it can be seen from the picture that the Fengxiang Army was the main force of the anti-Huang operation.

Li Bao's Weizhou Army was used as a mobile team, and Li Bao had no objection to this. After all, among the towns that came to participate in the encirclement and suppression, the Weizhou army had the smallest number.

When Zheng Ningji introduced that the Weizhou Army only had 3,000 people, Tuoba Sigong and Qiu Gongyu couldn't help laughing. Zheng Ningji saw that these two people were so bold, he was a little worried in his heart, after all, Li Bao's temper was rising now, if he couldn't help but move, this conference would be in vain.

So he hurriedly explained: "Although the Weizhou army led by King Ji is small in number, this army defeated Zhu Wen, the general of the Huangchao thief army, under Chang'an City, and the Weizhou army ......."

Tuoba Sigong didn't wait for Zheng Ningji to finish speaking, he spoke: "How good can the soldiers led by a clan prince be?" Besides, hasn't Chang'an City been breached by thieves? Zheng Zhiya doesn't need to help King Ji cover up, these things are known to a certain military man, and besides, the high walls of Chang'an City are solid, how can it be so easy to break? This auspicious king is just exaggerating. Haha, it's still quite powerful, no matter how strong it is, it's stronger than a certain iron horseman? ”

As soon as Tuoba Sigong finished speaking, the other generals all burst out laughing.

Zheng Jin and Zheng Ningji's father and son both knew the truth about Chang'an City, and they looked at Li Bao worriedly, for fear that this little prince would not be able to help it. But Li Bao was quite calm, he was still laughing.

When everyone's laughter stopped, Li Bao got up and came to Tuoba Sigong and said to him: "Since Tuoba Thorn Shi thinks that the lone man's son is exaggerated, should we have a try?" ”

Tuoba Sigong looked at Li Bao's handsome face, he couldn't help but feel a little tired in his heart, what if you are a Tang clan? It's not that you were scared by the thieves and ran around, now that the national capital has been occupied by the thieves, you milky and dry yellow-haired clan has a lot of temper, and you dare to challenge the ironclad army under a certain and his subordinates, I really don't know how thick the sky is. It's okay, so-and-so will promise you.

Thinking about this, Tuoba Sigong smiled at Li Bao, revealing the big yellow teeth in his mouth, Li Bao flashed aside in disgust, slapped his hand, and said loudly: "Ah, my mouth stinks!" ”

Tuoba Sigong's face changed, and he said angrily to Li Bao: "You! ”

Zheng Ningji saw this posture, and immediately opened his mouth to play a round and said: "The king and Tuoba stabbed Shi Mo to be angry, and the most important thing at this time is to focus on the overall situation, and you must not be rash." ”

Tuoba Sigong glared at Li Bao, then turned his head hatefully, and said in a low voice: "Today, for the sake of Zheng Yuanjun and Zheng Yanya, I don't care about your small sect first. ”

Li Bao laughed, "If you don't dare, forget it, after all, you hulu are all unplanted." ”

When Tuoba Sigong heard this, he immediately stiffened his neck and said angrily: "Don't deceive people too much, what do you say to bet, if you are afraid, you are not a descendant of the Tuoba family?" ”