Chapter 654: The Three-Year Covenant
Sky Wolf gritted his teeth: "Even so, I won't help you take the throne for the sake of my personal feelings, don't dream." ”
The black-robed masked old man shook his head: "Cangxing, even if you can ruthlessly break off your love, can you sit back and watch the revenge of the Wushan faction and Xu Hai Wangzhi not take revenge?" You know very well what kind of faint monarch the current emperor is, as long as he is in one day, all the people in the world will be in dire straits, his interest in becoming an immortal is better than being an emperor, with him, corrupt officials like Yan Shifan will exploit the people, and finally the people's resentment is boiling, more people go up the mountain and go to the sea, and embark on the old road of Wang Zhi and Qu Caifeng, do you think that if you don't make a move, this Ming world will be able to last for generations? ”
The sky wolf was speechless now, from his heart, he also knew the truth that the traitorous ministers were in power, and all the people in the world were in dire straits, but when he thought of those post-apocalyptic scenes that led to war, he hesitated again, especially the masked old man in front of him, who was a complete careerist, could he really trust this person?
The black-robed masked old man saw that the wolf was a little moved, struck while the iron was hot, and said with a smile: "Cangxing, you must know that I raised troops to regain the throne that belongs to our lineage and fulfill the wish of the first emperor, so what I want is naturally an intact world, not a scattered broken mountains and rivers, if the people are beaten to death, then what is the use of me wanting this country?" ”
Heavenly Wolf said coldly: "There is only one throne, if you raise an army, others will follow the trend, you light the first fire, this fire is not something you can control, and then the world will be in chaos." I don't know how many people are called emperors, how many people are waiting, Da Mingguang is the vassal king of various places. There will be no less people who take advantage of the situation, not to mention that the masked and widows outside are all ambitious, if you make the outside invaders and Shenzhou falls, you will be the sinner of Tianzi No. 1! ”
The black-robed masked old man said coldly: "Cangxing, don't always be so brainless, Zhu Di raised troops back then." Have you made a mess of the world? Whether it will cause chaos in the world, whether it will lead to foreign invasion, in the final analysis, depends on your ability. You are the bloodline of Emperor Zhengde, and I am the descendant of Emperor Jianwen, the pure bloodline of Taizu, and I have Taizu tips and edicts in my hands. It's right. What are you afraid of? ”
The wolf suddenly laughed, his stomach hurt from laughter, and he squatted on the ground out of breath, and the black-robed masked old man looked coldly at the wolf laughing so wildly, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes: "Wolf, what the hell are you doing, I'm talking to you about business." ”
Sky Wolf put away his smile and didn't get up. looked directly at the black-robed masked old man opposite, and said meaningfully, "The fox's tail is finally revealed." You don't think about how to cultivate me at all, join forces with me, what you want is nothing more than that Taizu's tips, only the edict and no tips, you don't have the righteous name of raising troops, even if you start an incident, you are just a thief who no one responds, let alone a month, you can't even live for three days. Right? ”
The black-robed masked old man suddenly told the sky wolf what was on his mind, his brows were locked all of a sudden, and the originally sharp light in his eyes was slightly weaker, and he was no longer as tough as he was just now, he coughed dryly: "This is a matter of course, otherwise why would you cooperate with me?" This righteous name of raising troops is indispensable for both the tip and the edict, or I might as well cooperate directly with Yan Shifan. ”
The heavenly wolf stood up and sneered: "Okay, I already know what you mean, say a thousand, say ten thousand, that is, you want to deceive that Taizu bag from me, let me raise troops with you, if I hand over the Taizu bag, I am afraid that you will not make me the prince, but will immediately take my life." ”
There was a hint of anger in the voice of the black-robed masked old man: "Cangxing, why do you think of me like this, if I really want to take your life, how can you live until now?" When you didn't know Qu Caifeng before, and you didn't know the whereabouts of her Taizu Bag, did I attack you at that time? I fancy you as a person, cherish your talents, admire your character, not just use you like Lu Bing, recovering the country and seizing the throne is the legacy of our ancestors, as a descendant of Emperor Jianwen, I must do it, I am nearly seventy years old, time is short, even if I take this throne, can I sit for a few days? ”
The wolf secretly said in his heart, I am afraid that this person is so active in letting Yan Shifan destroy Wushanzhai, the fundamental purpose is to force Qu Caifeng into a corner, and finally take out the Taizu bag in anger, but he persuaded Qu Caifeng in the Wushan cottage and asked her not to take out the Taizu bag for a senseless counterattack, which greatly surprised this person, when he stole himself out of the leopard room, it was definitely not a good intention, which was also confirmed from his words just now, when he threw himself in Wudang, I'm afraid I don't want to add a burden to myself, but I didn't expect that Chengguang would really be like a father and son with him in the decades he has been with him, and he didn't expect that this adventure in his past life and this life could actually practice the Heavenly Wolf Sword Technique and achieve such a high level of martial arts.
This person is bent on seizing the throne, using all means, ruthless, tens of thousands of lives are just grass in his eyes, and compared to Yan Shifan, who has no ambitions and only thinks about wealth and nobility, this person is ambitious, if he really rises up to seize the throne, the danger caused to the world will only be hundreds of times and thousands of times greater than the Yan father and son who are greedy for money.
It's just that now my martial arts are not so person, and if I want to get out is the top priority, if I blindly resist to the death, after annoying this person, it is even more of a headache to embarrass Qu Caifeng, so the top priority is to stabilize this person, and then try to make a good plan in the future.
The wolf made up his mind, frowned, and said, "You have always been hiding your head and tail from me like this, how can I believe you?" I don't want to deal with someone who doesn't even show face, let alone a big deal for the world. ”
The black-robed masked old man laughed: "Cangxing, as long as you take out the bag, I will naturally take off the mask and show my true face, but you have not promised to cooperate with me now, and my face cannot be revealed for the time being, don't say you, even with the world, I have never shown my true face." ”
The Heavenly Wolf nodded: "Then in that case, I am not mentally prepared to hand over the Taizu Bag now." Right now, I just left Jinyiwei, and I'm afraid that the target is big, and Lu Bing is good. Yan Shifan will hunt me down, I can't stay in the Central Plains for the time being, I have to go to a foreign land, stay for a few years, and avoid the rumors. ”
The black-robed masked old man stared at the sky wolf motionlessly, and said in a deep voice, "Cangxing." You're smart, but don't take the old man for a fool. Want to drag it out until the Year of the Monkey? Or do you think you can get away with the old man's tracking? ”
Sky Wolf shook his head: "I know that with your ability, you must have managed a huge force for many years, and even the mastermind behind the Battle of Luoyue Gorge. I'm afraid it's probably your doing. I, the wolf, am alone, and no matter where I go, I am afraid that I will not be able to escape from your tracking. ”
The black-robed masked old man nodded with satisfaction: "It's good to know, even if you change your disguise, I have a way to force you out, Cangxing, you are very smart, don't force me to do what I don't want to do." ”
There was a tingle in the wolf's heart. knew that he was threatening himself with Little Junior Sister and Qu Caifeng, but now there was no point in being angry. Facing the wolf's weakness and powerlessness will only make him more happy and proud, the wolf nodded: "I naturally know this, I said that I also hate the current dog emperor very much, and I don't have too many objections to join forces with you to rebel against him, but my goal is too big now, even if I take out the Taizu Tips, I'm afraid that it will be robbed by others, you may not be able to get it, even if you can get it, at the risk of exposing the entire organization and forces, is it worth it?" ”
The eyelids of the black-robed masked old man jumped: "Then what are you going to do?" ”
Sky Wolf smiled slightly: "You told me so much today, to be honest, I was like a dream, in the clouds, if you were me, would you hand over the Taizu Tips to a person who is not friend or foe because of this story?" ”
The black-robed masked old man said angrily: "If you don't believe me, I can show the token that your master gave me, if you don't believe me, you will always trust your master." ”
Sky Wolf waved his hand: "No need, I'll find the truth myself, you say my mother is a Mongolian princess, but who is my uncle?" Altan Khan's father? ”
The black-robed masked old man shook his head: "No, I am the leader of the Tatar tribe, and your uncle is a descendant of Genghis Khan, his name is Batu Mengke, also known as Dayan Khan, which means the Great Yuan Great Khan, but the royal descendant of the Yuan Dynasty who was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and we Han people call him the little prince." Your mother's name is Huaxian, if you go to the Mongolian desert, you should be able to know that what I said is true. ”
Sky Wolf nodded: "Okay, then I'll go to Mongolia, after avoiding the rumors of the past few years, I will consider cooperating with you, on the other hand, I also have to confirm my background to prove that you are not lying to me." ”
The eyes of the black-robed masked old man flashed: "You are still young, you can afford to wait, but I am already old, and I don't know how many years I can live, so it is impossible to wait with you endlessly." ”
Sky Wolf smiled slightly: "Could it be that you got the bag today, and you can start an army tomorrow?" The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, King Ning has been preparing for decades, contacting the righteous people of the whole rivers and lakes, have you done it to his point? ”
The black-robed masked old man was slightly stunned: "The power of the rivers and lakes is too small, and it is a big deal to raise troops to conquer the world, what do you do with the rivers and lakes?" ”
The wolf shook his head: "In vain, you want to raise troops to seize the world, and you don't even think about these things, if you want to take the world, then just rely on an edict to release the world's military households to freedom?" If this edict really worked so well, would Chengzu still need to fight so hard when he raised the army? ”
A cold glint flashed in the eyes of the black-robed masked old man: "What do you mean, it's not enough to rely on this edict alone?" ”
Heavenly wolf secretly rejoiced in his heart, it seems that this descendant of Emperor Jianwen has been engaged in conspiracy and trickery all his life, or he is focused on martial arts, and he really doesn't know anything about military affairs and politics, even if he is given a trick to raise troops, I am afraid that even King Ning is not as good, but this is good, giving himself a full opportunity to express himself.
Sky Wolf nodded: "In the military households in the world, it is true that most of them are wronged people who have suffered for generations, but there are also many who have been generals for generations, these people have turned those military households into their own domestic slaves and servants for hundreds of years, if you want to restore the freedom of the military households in the world, that is, you want the lives of these people, and the parents and wives of ordinary military households are hostages in their hometowns, how can they defect before the battle with your edict?" ”
"If you think about the incident when Chengzu Zhu Di raised troops and appeased the army, he had been operating in Beiping for many years, and after he had his own reliable subordinates, he took out this edict, not only did not let his subordinates scatter. On the contrary, he promised to give these people greater benefits and benefits once he captured Nanjing, which made more than 100,000 troops in the Beiping area, including the Mongols' Duoyan Sanwei, start trouble with him. Later, Emperor Jianwen sent a large army to conquest, and he did not take out this edict at all to scatter or defect in front of the army, but entered Nanjing City with real swords and guns, and finally ascended the throne as the emperor. You think about this process of taking over the world too simply. ”
The black-robed masked old man gritted his teeth: "Then what do you say, is it possible that the Taizu tips I have pursued all my life have become useless?" In this case, why are the emperors of the past so worried about this thing? Want to take it back? ”
Sky Wolf sneered: "The role of this thing is not as big as you think, and it will not make the world's armies submit to you with this edict, but it is not a dead letter." Because after all, it can give people benefits, if the sergeants at the beginning of the army can see these things, and then promise heavy profits, and promise that the salaries and military fields vacated after the dissolution of the military households in the world will belong to them. That is to be able to quickly recruit tens of thousands at the beginning of the army. Even the hundreds of thousands of troops who started up, if they fought well in the first few battles and defeated the imperial court's recruiting army, more and more people would respond. ”
The black-robed masked old man nodded: "You make a lot of sense, but how can this start-up army be mastered?" Do you want to use money to buy the guards? ”
The Heavenly Wolf shook his head: "Chengzu and King Ning raised troops because they are the prince, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the prince can have up to three legitimate armies in the name of guarding. And you are just a commoner, where is the army available? ”
The black-robed masked old man gritted his teeth and said, "The old man has been in business for many years. There are still some forces, and there are people from all major sects, and once something happens, it will not be a problem to pull out 350,000 strong soldiers. ”
Sky Wolf laughed: "Those you are talking about are just people from the rivers and lakes, these people are not the army, their personal martial arts skills are acceptable, but they lack actual combat, they don't understand the array, and they only have weapons, no armor, no cavalry and bows and arrows, and when they encounter elite soldiers, they are completely unable to fight, so back then, Zhao Quan, the leader of the White Lotus Sect, already had tens of thousands of troops under his command, and he still had to rely on Mongolia's foreign aid to succeed, because he knew that he could not seize the world alone." ”
The black-robed masked old man said angrily: "Could it be that my life's hard work has been wasted like this? Hmph, Li Cangxing, don't you want to lie to me, it's those Japanese robbers, dozens of people and hundreds of people can fight under the city of Nanjing, when King Ning raised troops, with only tens of thousands of people in the rivers and lakes, he could occupy almost half of the world, am I not as good as them? ”
Heavenly Wolf was more confident in his heart, and he became more and more sure that this black-robed conspirator was really not familiar with military affairs and was just ambitious, so he said: "That time, it was because they were too few in number and not large-scale, and they didn't encounter the encirclement and suppression of the army all the way, and King Ning raised troops, didn't he also quickly eliminate Wang Yangming?" My Ming Dynasty's elite soldiers have always been in the important town of the nine sides, and the interior is empty, but this is the case, and it has not allowed King Ning to succeed, and now the southeast is just peaceful, and the imperial court has trained a lot of elite soldiers in order to deal with the Japanese invaders, and it is more than enough to deal with those rabbles that have been temporarily recruited. ”
The pupils in the eyes of the black-robed masked old man shrank suddenly: "Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, you just find all kinds of reasons not to think about things, right?" Okay, if you don't want to implicate yourself, just give the tips to the old man, and the old man will do great things by himself, even if he fails, he will definitely not implicate you. ”
The wolf was amused in his heart, this black-robed masked old man seemed to be crazy as an emperor, and he had lost his mind, he shook his head: "We are now grasshoppers on a rope, what good will it do me if you lose." It's not that we can't raise troops, it's just that we can't raise troops in such a hurry, and we still need time to prepare. ”
The eyes of the black-robed masked old man blinked, revealing a trace of doubt: "Ready?" What to prepare? ”
Sky Wolf smiled slightly: "If you want to achieve great things, three things must be there, one is soldiers, you said that you already have tens of thousands of people under your command, but they are a rabble, they need training, and they need weapons and equipment." ”
The black-robed masked old man nodded: "The equipment is easy to handle, you can build it yourself, you just need money." As for training, I can find some officers to train them secretly, using the form of the martial arts sect as a cover. ”
Heavenly Wolf smiled: "This second is money, although you have a rich apprentice, but Yan Shifan is greedy and sensitive, it is impossible to give you such a large amount of money at once, you still have to find a way to get at least twenty or thirty million taels of silver by yourself, as the capital for the army." ”
The black-robed masked old man's eyes were blazing: "This number is too big, and it will be difficult to make up all of them in a year or two." ”
The wolf was shocked, he didn't expect that this black-robed masked old man had such a great ability, and his ability to make money was about to catch up with Wang Zhi, and he didn't know where he came from, but he didn't think it was bragging, he nodded: "This third, that is, it needs foreign aid, even Zhao Quan knows that if you want to achieve a big thing, you have to lead the Mongolian soldiers into the customs, and Chengzu was able to succeed in Jing back then, and it also relied on the Mongolian cavalry of Duoyan Sanwei, without these people, it is difficult for you to defeat the main force of the Ming army on the nine sides." ”
The black-robed masked old man nodded: "Aren't you going to Mongolia?" I'll do the first two things, and I'll leave this matter to you, how about it? ”
Sky Wolf laughed: "Okay, then let's take three years, after three years, I will formally discuss the matter of starting a soldier with you in the desert, how about it?" ”
The black-robed masked old man nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, in the past three years, you are not allowed to regain the identity of Li Cangxing, or act in the name of the Heavenly Wolf, after three years, I will look for you, remember, my name is Black Robe!" ”
After he finished speaking, his body moved, and the wolf only felt a flower in front of him, and the black-robed figure disappeared into broad daylight out of thin air, and at this moment, the haggard wolf finally couldn't support it, his knees were weak, and he collapsed on the ground, and his heart said silently: "Li Cangxing, cherish these three years, establish your own power, wipe out the demons, and clarify the universe!" (To be continued......)
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