"Hey, who are you? How dare you wear the robe of the Son of Heaven? ”

That understatement made the faces of the hundreds of officials standing outside the Desheng Gate change greatly.

The first thing that the overlord from the north, the fourth son of the emperor [King Yan] Li Mao, said after arriving in Jijing was to attack the new emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

He does not recognize the transfer of the throne this time!

"Let it go...... Licentious! ”

Finally, a court official stood up, pointed at Li Mao, and shouted, "This is my Great Zhou ......."

Speaking of this, his voice stopped abruptly, just because Li Mao glanced at him lightly, and he didn't know what was going on, the court official trembled, couldn't help but take two steps back, and fell to the ground.

"Hey, who are you?"

Li Mao looked at Li Shou and said coldly again, the cold meaning in his eyes made Li Shou feel afraid.

Is this his fourth brother?

The most domineering fourth son of the Great Zhou royal family!

At that moment, Li Shou had to admit that he was frightened, he never thought that a person's spirit could be so strong that he could not move.

You must know that Li Shou had been mentally prepared before this, but when he collided with Li Mao's powerful aura face to face, he found that the courage he had finally mustered up earlier was like fine sand between his fingers, slowly passing away.

What to do?

What to do?

Li Shou was so anxious that he realized that he had to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't say a word.

Standing in front of Li Mao, he had lost all his courage......

After all, can't you compete with the royal brothers who really have the qualifications of the prince? Even the most basic spirit......

Just when Li Shou was secretly annoyed, he suddenly remembered what Xie An had said to him.

[…… As long as you face the danger head-on, instead of running away and retreating, then be brave and pretend to be brave. Actually, it doesn't make much difference......]

I am the Son of Heaven, and behind me is my Great Zhou Dynasty, how can I, as the Son of Heaven, make a fool of myself in front of all the courtiers?!

Thinking of this, Li Shou raised his head, looked directly at Li Mao's vicious and domineering eyes, and said in a deep voice. "I am Li Shou, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"

"......" Li Mao's eyebrows raised slightly, quite shocked, and Li Xian, who was half a step behind Li Shou, looked even more surprised.

You must know that between a few breaths, Li Xian is still secretly shaking his head and sighing.

sighed that his youngest brother really didn't have the spirit of a king. was shocked by the spirit of the fourth child, but now......

Quietly stepped forward, looked at Li Shou's slightly trembling shoulders, and looked at his flickering gaze, Li Xian's eyes couldn't help but show a little surprise and doubt.

Unbelievable......

Obviously, his shoulders trembled so much, and he was obviously shocked by the powerful spirit of the fourth child, but why could he still say such calm and majestic words?

stared at Li Shou's still fearful eyes. Li Xian frowned slightly, and secretly dispelled the idea of standing up for Li Shou, he wanted to take a look at his youngest brother. How far can it go?

On this side, Li Xian secretly probed Li Shou's strength as a king, but on the other side, Li Mao's eyes were a little more fierce and domineering.

"Son of Heaven? Ha, haha! He looked up and laughed maniacally. Li Mao's face suddenly changed, and he pulled the reins. made the front hooves of the war horse under the crotch fly in the air, and it was actually towards Li Shou's front door.

"Your Majesty!"

In the exclamation of Man Chaowu, Li Shou gritted his teeth, ignoring the horse's hooves that were close at hand, although his head was cold and sweaty, he was motionless.

"Shh With a pouting sound containing anger and displeasure, the hooves of the war horse under Li Mao's crotch finally stepped on the open space beside Li Shou, and the dust was flying.

Riding the war horse and slowly pacing back to Fang Cai's position, when Li Mao looked at Li Shou again, his eyes, which were only disdain and contempt at first, gradually appeared a little solemn and annoyed.

Well done!

Although Li Xian had a lot of distrust in Li Shou and felt that Li Shou was not qualified to take over the burden of the Great Zhou Emperor, at this moment, Li Xian had to admit that Li Shou had shown the courage he should have as the Son of Heaven, that is, no matter what he faced, he must not bow down his noble head as a king.

Li Xian knows very well that the fourth Li Mao will never dare to make any move to kill the monarch at this time, whether it is the charge of the army of Fangcai, or the current coercion and deterrence, it is nothing more than a means of intimidation, if Li Shou shows any fearful posture at this time, then, the throne will no longer belong to him, even if the fourth child does not rob, he Li Xian must find a way to regain the throne, because the emperor of the Great Zhou is by no means a cowardly person who can take responsibility!

For some reason, Li Xian suddenly remembered his childhood, remembered the former crown prince [King Zhou Ai] Li Wei, and the five princes Li Cheng brothers who have now been demoted to commoners and sent to the imperial tomb to guard the tomb, and remembered that his two brothers joined forces to press the fourth son of the emperor Li Mao, who was still young, to the mud.

Deal with a fierce beast like a tiger and wolf, run away with your back to it, and you will only be devoured by it, if you can muster up the courage and put on a posture of breaking the boat, you can scare it away.

Ah, the only way to fight against the fourth child is to fight hard, not to say that it is necessary to lose both, but it must be made for the fourth child to realize what it means to burn the jade and the determination to break the net!

Well done!

Secretly praising in his heart, Li Xian turned his head to look at Li Mao, just as he thought, Li Mao's face changed at this moment.

It's hard to ride a tiger, isn't it, fourth?

Put on a high posture to intimidate the emperor and courtiers, and now, do you dare to kill the king?

Hum! I underestimated Xiao Jiu's consciousness as an emperor......

Speaking of this, Li Xian also felt a little ashamed in his heart, after all, he also looked down on Li Shou at first, thinking that his qualifications were not enough to shoulder the entire country.

Maybe outsiders don't know, but as a strong opponent of the fourth Li Mao who once competed for the throne, Li Xian knows his fourth brother too well, he knows that although Li Mao seems to be reckless, he is not a brave and unscrupulous reckless man, otherwise, how can the grassland tribe talk about the color change?

As early as when tens of thousands of cavalry from the northern frontier charged, Li Xian expected that this cavalry would eventually stop, so he did not move a step. And drank to make the courtiers behind him stand firm, but unfortunately, there were still many people who were frightened by the elite cavalry in the northern frontier.

Ah, it's a battle of courage and spirit!

Li Mao's thoughts, Li Xian is not difficult to guess, it is nothing more than wanting to appear with a high profile, so that Li Shou and the courtiers will lose face, but it is a pity that the seemingly cowardly Li Shou actually withstood this intimidation and majesty. Even if the horse's hooves are approaching, they are not moved, so it makes it difficult for Li Mao to ride a tiger, after all. Before the matter became irreparable, Li Mao didn't dare to really make a move to kill the king, and once he did this, then he would be one of the few rebellions of the Li family in the Great Zhou Dynasty for hundreds of years, and he would be scolded by Wanfu for the rest of his life.

Of course, the premise is that Li Mao is in a relatively normal situation, and once this person is really angry......

noticed that Li Mao's eyes had gradually condensed a chilling anger. Li Xian realized that he had to come forward, otherwise he would continue to hang Li Mao, and the fourth child, who had always been arrogant, might take advantage of the situation to kill the king and seize the throne in a fit of anger, which would not be good for him Li Xian.

Come to think of it. Li Xian took a step forward, quietly blocked in front of Li Shou, shared part of the coercion from Li Mao for him, looked at Li Mao and said lightly. "Long time no see, fourth brother!"

Just as Li Xian expected. His appearance made the anger in Li Mao's eyes subside a little.

"It's you, old man...... What's that you're wearing? ”

Li Xian smiled slightly, arched his hand and said, "The emperor's brother is currently in the position of prime minister......

"Humph!" Li Mao pursed his lips and said disdainfully, "I am willing to fall, eighth brother, the king thought at first that it would be you who would compete with the king for the throne in the end...... Surrendering the throne to a waste who doesn't know the height of the sky, is this your weight? ”

"Waste?" Li Xian muttered, and the corners of his mouth raised a little inexplicable smile.

Looking at the smile that seemed to be mocking, Li Mao's forehead was bruised, and with a whip in his hand, he threw a whip mark on the ground beside Li Xian that was two knuckles deep, and said in a cold voice, "The king said that in front of the king, it is best not to show such an evil smile, otherwise, the king will make you unable to laugh in your life!" ”

"Ah, Xiao Wang forgot, the Four Emperor Brothers hate this kind of smile the most from the foolish brother, rude and rude......" Li Xian smiled and arched his hand, then smiled, and said in a deep voice, "It's time to end, this farce, Fourth Emperor Brother?" - Do some more meaningless things, this is not in line with the character of the Four Emperor Brothers! ”

"......" Li Mao glanced at Li Shou, who was still secretly swallowing his saliva behind Li Xian, and there was a little anger in the tiger's eyes, and there was a little hesitation.

As if seeing the hesitation in Li Mao's heart, Li Xian chuckled, and suddenly changed the topic and said, "By the way, Fourth Emperor Brother, how many soldiers and horses did you bring this time?" ”

"Twenty thousand!" Li Mao snorted coldly, his words full of arrogance.

"20,000 Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry ......" The Manchu Dynasty Wu who was present gasped, as far as they knew, among the more than 100,000 Northern Xinjiang troops in Yuyang, there were only about 50,000 elite cavalry in total, and this time, Li Mao actually brought a small half of them.

You must know that the Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry is not an ordinary soldier and horse of the Great Zhou, it is the elite cavalry of the border fortress, and it is the army of tigers and wolves that make the grassland still hold their heads and run away!

"Twenty thousand, that's a lot......" As if he didn't hear the terrifying discussion of the hundred officials behind him, Li Xian looked at Li Mao and smiled slightly, arched his hand and said, "Speaking of which, I also have a cavalry of 20,000 people in Jijing......

Before the words fell, a cannon sounded on the wall of Jijing City in the distance, and then, in the direction of Xizhimen, far away in the west, a rapid sound of horses' hooves sounded, coming towards this place.

As time passed little by little, the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, and then, just more than a mile away from the 20,000 iron horsemen under Li Mao's command, slowly slowed down and stood in place.

His complexion changed slightly, and Li Mao turned his head to look at the banner fluttering in the red-armored cavalry army in the distance, the military flag embroidered with the pattern of [Tiger with wings bathed in flames].

In front of the army, Liang Qiu Wu, dressed in red flame armor, sat across the red rabbit horse, holding the reins of the horse in one hand and the [wolf slash] sword in the other, and looked at Li Mao's direction.

Behind her, the four generals of the Eastern Army held weapons one by one and waited solemnly.

"Eastern Army [Shenwu Battalion] ......" burst out of his mouth word by word, a trace of inexplicable sadness flashed in Li Mao's eyes, and it disappeared in a flash, and when he looked back at Li Xian again, the anger in his eyes was stronger than any moment.

"Old eight, what do you mean by that?!" Li Mao asked in a deep voice.

Facing Li Mao's imposing questioning. Li Xian was unmoved, smiled slightly, and said lightly, "The foolish brother has always believed in saluting first and then soldiering, and the fourth emperor brother doesn't know!" - Alright, it's time to put an end to this farce...... How about a tie? Or is it that the Four Emperor Brothers can't wait to compete with one of the guardians of the Four Towns of Jijing, the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army? ”

"It's really a three-day affair, impressive! - I can't believe that, old man, you dare to threaten the king in turn?! Do you believe that the king will kill you right now? ”

Li Xian sneered when he heard this. said lightly, "The Fourth Emperor Brother can try!" - Xiao Wang has already died once, will he still be afraid of this? ”

"You ...... guy"

Looking at Li Mao's expression with a cold expression, Li Xian said in a deep voice, "It's war or peace." Choose one of the four emperor brothers! ”

"......" stared at Li Xian's unmoved eyes, Li Mao's right hand slowly touched the saber at his waist, and at this moment, he suddenly heard a woman's shouting order in the distance.

"All troops on alert!"

As soon as the words fell, the 20,000 Eastern Army raised the spears in their hands, controlled the war horses under their hips, and made preparations to charge.

Time. Li Mao's expression became extremely exciting.

"......Huh" I don't know how long it took, Li Mao let out a long breath and said expressionlessly, "For her sake." Spare you once......"

Hey!

It seems that even if he is the fourth emperor brother, he is quite jealous of the general of the Eastern Army, [Yan Hu Ji] Liang Qiu Wu, even if he is angry that this woman is someone else's wife. He did not dare to obey the anger in his heart and go to war directly......

Come to think of it. Li Xian had a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened before, and he raised his hand and said to Li Mao, "Your Majesty has prepared a banquet in the palace to catch the wind and wash the dust for the four emperor brothers, please!" - Oh, by the way, 20,000 cavalry troops, need to stay outside the city! ”

"You want to earn me?" Li Mao looked at Li Xian with a sneer.

"It's not impossible...... Li Xian responded with a smile.

Looking at Li Xian deeply for a while, Li Mao pouted and smiled, and said very domineeringly, "You can try!" As he spoke, he casually pointed to the five horsemen behind him, and said lightly, "The king only takes five of them, isn't it an exaggeration?" ”

Li Xian turned his head and glanced at the five horsemen behind Li Mao, only to feel that these five horsemen were all very strong, and their faces were flat, as if Gen did not take the threat of the Eastern Army in his eyes, and he was secretly surprised in his heart.

I have heard for a long time that under the command of the four emperor brothers, there are five generals who are in charge of their own affairs, called the [Five Tigers of Northern Xinjiang], could it be the five of them?

If this is the case, the threat of these five people is not much lower than the 20,000 elite iron horsemen of the Northern Frontier here......

"What? Shall the king not go to the city with five attendants? Li Mao's tone gradually showed a little impatience.

After all, it's just six people......

After weighing the gains and losses in his heart, Li Xian arched his hand and said, "What did the Fourth Emperor Brother say, since he is a confidant and cronie, he should follow the Fourth Emperor Brother...... Please! ”

"Humph!" Li Mao snorted coldly, and after glancing at Li Shou, he actually drove the war horse under his crotch, rode past Li Shou, and slowly entered the Desheng Gate, without any hesitation because Jijing was someone else's territory.

Seeing this scene, all the people present turned red, and they dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

At the same time, 20,000 iron cavalry from the north of Xinjiang also slowly retreated.

Glancing back at the direction of Deshengmen, even if it was Li Xian, he breathed a sigh of relief.

When he turned around again, he saw that the new Great Zhou Tianzi Li Shou's face was flushed, he was clutching his fists, and his shoulders were trembling, Li Xian frowned slightly, and said in a calm tone, "Anyway...... Not bad! ”

"Huh?" Li Shou looked up at Li Xian in surprise, and said bitterly, "As the emperor of the Great Zhou, how can you say that you are so unbearable?" ”

"At least you won......" Seeing Li Shou's stunned gaze, Li Xian said lightly, "Fang Cai's sentence [draw] is just to say to the unstoppable Fourth Emperor Brother who is waiting for me, that guy is the most unwilling to admit defeat, in my eyes, this battle of courage, the winner is you!" - Go back to the palace! ”

Speaking of this, Li Xian glanced at Li Shou deeply, turned around and walked in the direction of Desheng Gate.

As the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this courage is necessary, but without the slightest courage, he does not take a step back in the face of threats, which is not called courage, but responsibility......

As the responsibility of shouldering the martial arts of the Manchurian Dynasty and the dawn of the world, and as the responsibility of shouldering the entire Great Zhou, knowing that he is invincible, he must also face on......

This son may really have the power of a king who shoulders the fate of the entire country......

Could this be the real reason why his father passed the throne to him? Could it be that what did his father see?

Walking to the gate of Desheng Gate, Li Xian stopped. Turning around, he looked at Li Shou in the distance with a solemn expression, and saw that he still looked at himself with self-pity, so he shook his head secretly.

But in any case, it is still immature......

After taking a look, Li Xian turned in the direction of the palace, because he knew that this was just the first confrontation between Li Mao and Ji Jing.

And at the same time, in the queue of the Manchu Chaowu. Xie An was stunned as he looked at the backs of Li Mao and the other six people heading towards the palace.

It's not that Xie An was afraid of Li Mao, so he hid among the hundred officials, it's just that Li Xian asked him not to come forward before, after all, in Li Xian's opinion, although Li Mao is not a brave and unscrupulous man. But he has an impulsive personality, if Xie An just came forward, it may make the situation out of control, so that Li Mao's dismount against Jijing will directly evolve into a melee of tens of thousands of cavalry, which Li Xian does not want to see.

Perhaps there are many courtiers clamoring to kill the rebellious Li Mao at the moment, but Li Xian sees further.

Northern Xinjiang needs Li Mao to defend it, if Ji Jing kills Li Mao for the sake of immediate interests. Then the 100,000 soldiers and horses in northern Xinjiang are likely to rebel immediately, if there are spies of the Taiping army among them, it will be bewitched. It is very likely to evolve into a situation in which the Northern Xinjiang army counterattacks Jijing in order to avenge Li Mao, wouldn't this be a great favor for the Taiping Army?

When there was a rebellion in Chang'an and Luoyang, Chen Bei, the third-generation commander of the Taiping Army, once incarnated as a rebel general to guard the Hanhan Valley Pass. successively beheaded the commander of the Great Zhou Army, and destroyed the Great Zhou's plan to send troops to suppress the thieves again and again. However, when the rebels showed a counterattack momentum, the guy named Chen Bei did not pursue the victory with the rebels.

At that time, Li Xian was also puzzled, but after Ji Hong's explanation, he understood that the rebels in Chang'an and Luoyang were just a bait deliberately thrown by the Taiping army, in order to force the Jijing court to issue an edict to invite Li Mao, who was sitting in Yuyang, northern Xinjiang, to go south to quell the rebellion, so that Chen Bei, the first hero in the world, would kill Li Mao in the west as a rebel. It is not impossible to conspire with Da Zhou.

Therefore, Li Mao can't die, at least Li Xian needs Li Mao alive to sit in the northern Xinjiang, because only if Li Mao lives, the northern border fortress can be stabilized, and only in this way can Li Xian concentrate on dealing with the Taiping army in the south of the Yangtze River......

How to ask Li Mao to recognize Li Shou, the son of the Great Zhou, obediently return to Yuyang, and continue to deter the north for the Great Zhou without losing the slightest strength, this is the strategy that Li Xian thinks about and is in line with long-term interests.

Therefore, Li Xian could only ask Xie An to avoid it for the time being, after all, his appearance would make Li Mao lose his mind, and the whole situation would become irreparable.

But having said that, Li Xian also knew that even if Ji Jing blindly retreated and compromised, with Li Mao's character, he would not give up easily, as Li Xian advocated before, to make Li Mao give in, the only way to make Li Mao give in is to be hard, and on the premise of trying not to make him angry, let Li Mao understand that it can be described as a burning jade, and it can be said that the net is broken.

Suddenly, Li Xian vaguely missed his former brother......

If the former crown prince [King Zhou Ai] Li Wei and the fifth prince Li Cheng were here, the two brothers would never let Li Mao have any chance to gain an inch, with Li Wei's character, he would inevitably compete with Li Mao at all costs.

Indeed, if it weren't for this, the deceased Li Wei would not have used that radical means to force Liang Qiu Wu to stand on his side, and at the worst of all, Li Wei would also ruin Liang Qiu Wu, so as not to help Li Mao, although it turned out afterwards that it was just a trick made by the eldest grandson Xiangyu who was idle and bored, but it was enough to prove that the former prince Li Wei had the courage to break the boat.

There is also the third son of the emperor [King of Qin] Li Shen, this imperial brother who is still enjoying life under the suppression of the former crown prince Li Wei, is understandably the most feared opponent in Li Xian's heart, because he is cunning enough and the city is deep enough.

In a word, if it was a year ago, the princes and their party in Jijing would never tolerate Li Mao having any chance to show off his might, because they all knew that the fourth Li Mao was a vicious tiger, and once he retreated in front of him, he would be devoured by the other party, and not even a bone would be left.

However, in today's Jijing, the former prince Li Wei died, the third son of the emperor Li Shen was crowned the king of Qin and Taoguang Yanghui, and the fifth son of the emperor Li Cheng was demoted to the common people and sent the imperial tomb to guard the tomb......

Thinking of this, Li Xian sighed in his heart, he had never missed his former brother and his brother who was once intrigued......

Just as Li Xian was secretly sighing, a slightly exaggerated and angry voice came from beside him.

"Good fellow...... I've never seen such an arrogant and domineering guy! ”

Li Xian turned his head when he heard this, and was slightly surprised to find that Xie An was walking side by side with him at some point.

Whew, fortunately, there is still an ally......

An ally who has recovered [Jijing Shuangbi]......

Xie An, the secretary of the criminal department!

"Bear it, if you don't bear it, you will make a big plan!"

Looking at Xie An's slightly stunned gaze, Li Xian said word by word, with a bit of pleading in his words.