Shanyang County, here is the county seat of Mayi County, the current Taishou of Mayi County is Wang Rengong, he has a very good relationship with Yang Yichen, after Yang Yichen was deprived of military power by Yang Guang suspicion, Wang Rengong was also implicated, and was also deprived of military power and demoted to Mayi County Taishou.

At noon on this day, as usual, the city gate of Shanyang County was wide open, and the soldiers patrolled back and forth at the head of the city, the captain on duty today was called Liu Wuzhou, who was a local hero in Mayi County, in his early thirties, burly, strong in martial arts, and continuously participated in the battle of Goryeo and was promoted to the captain.

"Captain Liu!"

A brigade commander at the head of the city shouted at him, ran down, and ran to his horse: "I may not be able to repay you for a while, can you be graced for a few days?" ”

"Is your father still well?" Liu Wuzhou asked with concern.

The brigade marshal shook his head and sighed: "There will be no improvement for a while, and the famous doctor from Taiyuan County prescribed a prescription for him to recuperate." ”

Liu Wuzhou took out more than 20 pieces of money from the horse bag and stuffed it into him, "Buy some tonic for my father and let him recuperate." ”

"Nope! No! ”

How could the brigade commander ask for his money again, and hurriedly pushed back, "I haven't paid you back the last hundred dollars, how can I ask for your money again?" I can't ask for it. ”

"Take it!"

Liu Wuzhou's face sank, and he forced the money to him, "This is not a loan to you, this is a little bit of my filial piety to your father, I don't want you to pay it back." ”

The brigade commander was grateful and nodded, "Thank you, Captain!" ”

Liu Wuzhou patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "My brother, you don't have to be polite." ”

He rode out of the city gates, turned back to the soldiers at the head of the city, and shouted: "Brothers, do your best, don't let the Turkic spies get involved!" ”

At this moment, a soldier at the head of the city shouted: "Captain, there is a group of merchants running in the distance, and they are very panicked. ”

Liu Wuzhou was strange, the thug curtain looked north, and for a moment, he really saw a group of merchants rushing towards them in a panic with mules and horses, and when the merchants approached, he recognized that it was a group of merchants who had only gone north in the morning, why did they come back again?

He hurried forward and shouted, "Hey! What happened? ”

"Captain Liu, there are troops killed, tens of thousands!"

Liu Wuzhou was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Is it the Turks who killed it?" ”

"No, it seems to be Sui Jun."

Liu Wuzhou was stunned, how could there be tens of thousands of Sui troops in the north, but as soon as he thought about it, he reacted, could it be Yang Yuanqing's army? He also knew that Yang Yuanqing had expanded eastward to Yulin and was already very close to Mayi County, so it must be his army that had gone south.

Liu Wuzhou was in a hurry, urging his horse to run towards the city, shouting: "The city gate is closed, no one is allowed to enter or leave." ”

He galloped on horseback, all the way to the Taishou Mansion, it was now noon, Wang Taishou generally ate at home, he ran to the front of the mansion, turned over and dismounted, and ran to the steps, just a young and beautiful young woman walked out of the mansion, Liu Wuzhou could not retract the momentum, and knocked her to the ground at once.

"Oops!"

The young woman shouted in pain, she was so hateful that her eyebrows stood up, and she was about to scold, but when she saw that it was Liu Wuzhou, her anger suddenly disappeared, and her eyebrows frowned, "Captain Liu, why are you so reckless, do you want to kill the slave?" ”

Liu Wuzhou knew this young woman, named A Tuan, the daughter of Jia Luozheng, a big merchant in Mayi County, a famous beauty in Shanyang County, only seventeen years old this year, married Wang Rengong as a concubine at the beginning of the year.

Frightened, Liu Wuzhou hurriedly apologized, "Humble and reckless, I bumped into my wife, please forgive my wife!" ”

Ah Tuan bit his lip lightly and gave him a blank look, "Forgive me for my sins, you help me up first!" ”

Liu Wuzhou is also an extremely amorous and bold person, seeing Ah Tuan like this, he understood a little in his heart, but in front of the Taishou Mansion, he didn't dare to go too far, so he half-squatted down and handed her his shoulder, Ah Tuan's eyes were like silk, stretched out his slender jade fingers, put them on his shoulder, and slowly stood up.

At this time, the housekeeper walked out of the mansion, and Ah Tuan let go of Liu Wuzhou's shoulder, and his pretty face immediately became cold, "Captain Liu, do you have anything to do with my master?" ”

Liu Wuzhou hurriedly saluted, but said to the housekeeper: "There is an urgent military situation, and you must report to the Taishou." ”

The housekeeper looked embarrassed: "Taishou is drunk and hasn't woken up, I'm afraid I won't wake him up." ”

Wang Rengong is addicted to alcohol, coupled with a bad mood, he is drunk for most of the day, and his official duties are also lost to the county, he never asks, almost everyone in Mayi County knows.

Liu Wuzhou hurriedly said: "The stakes are very high, no matter what, you have to wake up Taishou." ”

Next to him, Ah Tuan said: "General Liu, you go first!" I have a way to wake him up. ”

Liu Wuzhou hurriedly saluted, thank you Madame, he didn't dare to look at Ah Tuan, turned around and ran down the steps and turned over the horse, and went to the city gate, Ah Tuan looked at his burly and tall back and walked away, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, she has admired Liu Wuzhou since she was a child, but her father married her to an alcoholic.

Ah Tuan turned back to the butler and said hatefully: "Go to the well and fetch two buckets of water!" ”

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At the head of the city, the soldiers defending the city were nervous, Liu Wuzhou also pinched a cold sweat with his hands, and saw a black Sui cavalry outside the city, there were 10,000 people, the cavalry was waving the flag, and a red eagle flag was fluttering in the wind, this was indeed the Fengzhou cavalry.

The leader of the general was Sima Li Jing, who urged him to step forward and said loudly to the city: "We are using the road to suppress bandits, and we have no other intentions!" ”

At this time, Taishou Wang Rengong was supported by several soldiers, staggered and ran, the water stains on his head and body were not dry, but at this time he couldn't take care of it, the Fengzhou army actually killed into Mayi County, this is worth it, he leaned on the female wall to look down, looked at it for a long time, he shouted: "You are Li Jing?" ”

Li Jing knew Wang Rengong, and he hurriedly replied: "Under Li Jing, see General Wang!" ”

Wang Rengong's mind was not completely sober, and he couldn't react for a while, and Liu Wuzhou next to him reminded him euphemistically, "Envoy, it's strange, what is the Fengzhou army doing in Mayi County?" ”

"Oh!"

Wang Rengong came to his senses and shouted: "What are you doing when you don't come to Mayi County in Fengzhou?" Yang Yuanqing, let him come to see me! ”

Li Jing smiled slightly, and said loudly: "We are cross-border bandits, go to Loufu County to exterminate the chaotic bandit Wei Dao'er, passing through Mayi County, General Manager Yang has already led another army to Yanmen County, not here." ”

Wang Rengong was stunned, and Liu Wuzhou reminded him beside him, "Envoy, the cross-border bandit suppression requires the approval of the Ministry of War!" ”

Wang Rengong followed and asked: "Is there an approval from the Ministry of War?" ”

"I have applied to the Ministry of War, and the approval has not yet come down, but the matter is urgent, and it will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected, and I hope that General Wang will understand!"

Li Jing didn't say much to him, turned his horse back to the team, and waved his hand, "Keep going!" ”

The 10,000 cavalry did not enter Shanyang County, but continued to march south, heading towards Fulou County.

Wang Rengong was stunned, what is Fengzhou Jun doing? Liu Wuzhou hurriedly said: "Envoy, you have a little idea. ”

"You say!" Wang Rengong appreciated his several reminders.

Liu Wuzhou said: "The humble position believes that this is Yang Yuanqing's expansion of power again, he must want to include Dingxiang County, Yanmen County, Mayi County and Fulou County into his sphere of influence, and then he will either attack Youzhou or Taiyuan, it must be so, so that the king must immediately report to the imperial court." ”

Wang Rengong nodded, Liu Wuzhou said very reasonably, from Yang Yuanqing's expansion pace, it should be like this, he immediately shouted: "Don't open the city gate, I want to report to the saint!" ”

Wang Rengong turned around and went down to the city, and after walking a few steps, he turned back to Liu Wuzhou and said: "From today onwards, you will be my personal army captain, and I will promote you to Eagle Yang Lang General in the future!" ”

Liu Wuzhou immediately knelt down on one knee, "I am willing to serve the envoy!" ”

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In June, the capital was a little more bloody, just a few days ago, the Duke of Yu Guo, the Guanglu doctor, the right Xiaowei general Li Hun and the general as the supervisor, and the Guanglu doctor Li Min was ordered to be killed by Yang Guang on suspicion of participating in the Yuan rebellion, and the two clans were killed by 32 people, and the rest of the clansmen were exiled to Lingnan.

The capital shook for a while, although Yang Guang's reason for killing them was to participate in the Yuan rebellion, but the people of the capital still couldn't help but think of the proverb, 'Peach and plum, there is a world, Yang's extinction, Li Xing'.

At this moment, another proverb spread in the capital, 'Li Fei Li, Yang Fei Yang, out of Jingxiang, the frontier, the Sui clan destroyed him as a general.' ’

The punishment of Li Hun and Li Min and the spread of proverbs have made the people of the capital panic, and everyone is speculating who will be the next person to be killed?

I don't know who leaked the secret, Fengzhou governor Yang Yuanqing's mother is surnamed Li, when he was young, he used to be called Li Yuanqing, and later changed his name to Yang Yuanqing, this secret quickly spread throughout the city, almost everyone thought of the proverb 'Li Fei Li, Yang Fei Yang', is Yang extinguished, Li Xing, is referring to Yang Yuanqing?

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Yuwenshu walked in a hurry, walking along a corridor, these days he was racking his brains to exonerate Li Yuan, Li Yuan sent his younger brother Li Shentong to find him again, promising him 200,000 hanging money, for this 200,000 hanging money, Yuwen Shu did not hesitate to lead the proverb to Yang Yuanqing.

At this time, Yuwenshu was extremely proud in his heart, and at this juncture when the new proverb had just been circulated, news came from the north that Yang Yuanqing had expanded his power to the south again, which was simply the fulfillment of his Yuwenshu.

Before Yu Wenshu came to the imperial study, he happened to meet Fan Zigai, who was also urgently summoned by Yang Guang to discuss military affairs.

"I heard that Fan Xiangguo was sick two days ago, can you get better?" Yu Wenshu asked with concern.

"Thank you General Yuwen for your concern, it's already fine."

Fan Zigai smiled, "General Yuwen is also ordered to come to the meeting!" ”

"Hey! People are insatiable, Yang Yuanqing took advantage of the Shengshang to conquer Goryeo and annexed Yulin County, and now he wants to go south to Mayi County and Yanmen County, what does he want to do? ”

Yu Wenshu was full of indignation, and said: "Since he admits that he is a Sui minister, then why does he want to do something that is not a minister?" ”

Fan Zigai knows Yu Wenshu very well, this person is unprofitable and can't afford to be early, he does everything from his own interests, including his attack on Yang Yuanqing, which is also for himself, and never from the consideration of the community, Fan Zigai smiled and said nothing.

The two walked to the front of the imperial study, and immediately a eunuch reported, "Report to Your Majesty, Fan Xiangguo and General Yuwen are here." ”

"Announce their audience!" Yang Guang's tone was full of resentment.