At this time, the city of Tanzhou was also full of sad and depressed people.

The top depressed were Wang Kui, Zhou Xingfeng, He Jingzhen, they were hit at the celebration banquet, what they didn't expect was that the bigger blow was still to come, and the next day, they received an order that made them even more angry: lead their soldiers to repair the damaged Tanzhou city wall and the Chu Palace.

Zhou Xingfeng, who received the order, was so angry that he screamed, and asked his sworn brothers Zhang Wenbiao, Uncle Pan and others to invite He Jingzhen, who was stationed outside the Suzaku Gate in the south, to break into Wang Kui's camp and complain collectively.

As soon as they entered Wang Kui's tent, Zhou Xingfeng and He Jingzhen found that the people inside were full, and the sound was as noisy as a bazaar.

Seeing Zhou and He coming in, Wang Kui shouted: "Shut up for me!" ”

After speaking, Wang Kui walked straight to the two of them, hugged his fists and saluted: "Let the two adults see the joke!" ”

Zhou Xingfeng pointed strangely at the people around him and asked what was going on?

Wang Kui shook his head with a wry smile, and said softly: "They were also urged by their soldiers to have no choice, they all thought that after the victory in the Battle of Tanzhou, they should also issue a reward or something, but this time there was really nothing!" ”

As soon as he said this, Zhou Xingfeng immediately became angry and scolded: "No emperor is bad for hungry soldiers!" He laid a foundation for Ma Xicao, and he didn't even reward a penny, what is this! ”

At last night's banquet, several of them originally thought that they could receive a sum of money, which could be regarded as an explanation to the soldiers, but after the banquet was at its peak, Ma Xichong came over with a wine glass and explained with a smile on his face that because the Langzhou Treasury had been given to Lin Feng, and the Treasury of Tanzhou City was snatched away by Panlong and others, so I would like to ask the brothers to be considerate. The three of them were really speechless at that time, so they had to go home.

Wang Kui frowned, and immediately waved his hand to signal all the men in the tent to retreat for the time being. The crowd quickly withdrew, and only Wang Kui, Zhou Xingfeng, and He Jingzhen were left.

"General Zhou, you have to control your anger, it's not good for people to say this!" Wang Kui said with a sigh.

"It's not good, it's not good, when I just received the order early this morning, I wanted to go to the King of Chu to talk about these things, but I was blocked by the disgusting Xie Yanhao, saying that the King of Chu was drunk and hadn't woken up yet, so let me go again tomorrow." His pretentious face made me want to pull out a knife and cut this 'Dong Xian' at that time! Zhou Xingfeng said angrily, pulled out the knife, and swung it twice in the air.

Dong Xian is the male favorite of Emperor Wai of the Western Han Dynasty, "soft sex", "good and flattering", and talks and behaves like a big beauty, so he has been favored by Emperor Wai, and the two ride in the same car and sleep together. It is said that Emperor Han Ai woke up one morning and saw that Dong Xian was still asleep, and Emperor Ai wanted to pull back the sleeves of his clothes that had been pressed, but he couldn't bear to alarm Dong Xian. In a hurry, Emperor Wai actually pulled out his saber from the bedside, cut off the sleeves of his clothes, and then quietly left. Later generations called homosexuality "sleeve fetish", and it is precisely from this allusion.

Wang Kui rushed over and covered Zhou Xingfeng's mouth, preventing him from saying any more.

Zhou Xingfeng shook it hard, removed Wang Kui's hand, and roared in a low voice: "With such a master, I don't feel good in my heart!" ”

The elderly He Jingzhen spoke at this time, and there was an indescribable desolation in his words: "Do you know what to say? Lin Feng sprinkled money in the city, claiming that as long as he persuaded a former Tanzhou soldier to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, he would be rewarded with two pieces of money! The more than thirty subordinates brought by Lin Feng were rewarded with five hundred pieces each for their meritorious battles! ”

He Jingzhen's military career has been nearly forty years, and his connections are extremely deep, so naturally someone revealed to him the news of Lin Feng's recruitment and wanton money.

Hearing such news, Zhou Xingfeng suddenly seemed to lose his strength, sat on a few cases, and muttered in his mouth: "We have fought several times, defeated Yiyang, and won Langzhou, but the result is not as good as these Tanzhou soldiers who abandoned the city and fled, what kind of world is this!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Xingfeng's anger surged again, and he slashed the knife in his hand into several cases under him, suddenly stood up, and roared in a low voice: "Otherwise, let's go back to Langzhou, find a random descendant among the Ma brothers, and turn against this bastard Ma brother!" ”

"Are you crazy?!" Wang Kui was really angry, glared at Zhou Xingfeng fiercely, pointed at him with a halberd, and said angrily, "Is your brain in water?" Sling the bull! Aren't you ignorant of the way, the Tang army will arrive soon, aren't you sending you to death by doing this?! ”

In the past history, it was precisely because of the insult in Tanzhou City that Wang Kui, Zhou Xingfeng and others led their troops to run angrily, occupied Langzhou City, and set up Ma Xizhen's son Ma Guanghui, and officially worshiped Ma Xixu. Soon after, Wang Kui abolished Ma Guanghui again and invited Liu Yan, the assassin of Chenzhou, to take charge.

After that, because Xu Qiong was too disappointed, he also learned the practices of Wang Kui and others, and secretly conspired with Ma Bujun to command Xu Wei and others to make chaos, cut Xie Yanhao, and immediately Xi Chong was the lord of Hunan, and threw Ma Xicao to Hengshan to cool down.

And Peng Shiwei, who was sent to guard Ma Xicao, couldn't sit still, so he simply released Ma Xicao with Liao Yan, the commander of Hengshan, and promoted him as the king of Hengshan.

At this point, the farce of Chu State's "many horses competing for the groove" has officially entered the climax stage.

After that, Liu Yan sent troops to Changsha, Ma Xichong was frightened, slaughtered several of Ma Xicao's subordinates, and sent people to Langzhou to ask for peace, but was rejected. Ma Xichong, who was attacked on both sides, had no choice but to beg for help from the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Li Jing immediately sent Bian Hao to send troops into Hunan and pocketed most of Hunan. After that, the Southern Han army raided Guizhou, and collected all the northeastern part of Guangxi, which was basically empty, and the Southern Tang and Southern Han divided the Chu State, and the Chu State was officially destroyed.

However, now because Lin Feng was born out of thin air and inserted a bar, the original historical trajectory has been quietly changed. Now, no matter how many soldiers the Tang Dynasty can send, plus the existing defenders of Tanzhou City, as well as the original Tanzhou troops who have defected to the Tang Dynasty, it is not something that Wang Kui and the three of them can now control less than 3,000 infantry can resist.

"So what do you say?" Zhou Xingfeng let out a long sigh, and the whole person was paralyzed to several cases.

Thinking about it, Wang Kui also had no choice, and after a long sigh, he said extremely bitterly: "Otherwise, let's also send someone to try to contact Lin Feng!" ”

Before Zhou Xingfeng could answer, He Jingzhen sighed and took the lead in saying, "You can choose your own path in the future!" The old man is really old, and it is time to go home to spend his old age in peace, and the old man will resign from the army tomorrow morning. ”

After speaking, He Jingzhen lifted the curtain and left alone! However, the background of his departure seemed very lonely, and his waist was bent down unconsciously.

While the generals in the army gathered to complain, Lin Feng, who was still staying in Huang Zongwang's mansion, also ushered in several people who came to complain, and it was those rich people who had taken refuge in Huangfu.

There is no doubt that these rich men do not have a deep background, and the hardships they complain about are the same thing: Ma Xicao and Ma Xichong sent troops to the door, asking everyone to contribute to the construction of Tanzhou City and the future of Chu State, simply put, it is two words: take money!

Lin Feng curiously asked how much they had to pay, and several people immediately shouted out different amounts, the lowest was 10,000 guan, and the most was 100,000.

At the end of the day, Li Ku'er, the largest tea merchant in the city, had a sad face, sighed and said: "The officer who came to the door asked for 150,000 guan for one mouth, and I quickly stuffed 50 guan over, and immediately loosened my mouth and reduced it to 100,000 guan, and demanded that it must be handed over before dusk tomorrow."

I just can't figure it out! 10,000 yuan is sent to Lord Lin, you can save your life, you can win the reputation of a good person, and you can also cooperate to make money, but this new Chu King hasn't done anything yet, and he will directly ask for his life as soon as he comes up! ”

Li Kuer's complaint immediately aroused the sympathy of several wealthy people, and they all echoed it.

Of course, Lin Feng would not mention that he had asked Ma Xixu for money, and sighed with them with sympathy on his face, comforting them warmly.