Chang'an, in the Xingqing Palace of the Southern University.

The palace of monarchs and ministers had sad faces, and the atmosphere was gloomy and scary. On the throne dragon chair, Li Ye, the Son of Heaven, looked at the civil and military officers who bowed their heads and were silent, and then looked at Yang Fugong, whose face was as black as lacquer, his mouth opened, and finally he didn't say anything.

Wang Chucun rebelled, Yang Fuguang was captured, and Luoyang fell, this news was like a hammer, smashing the palace of monarchs and ministers dizzy, dazzling, and still out of breath. Especially for Yang Fugong, although this brother is not a brother, the interests of the two are connected, but they are closer than brothers. He was in the house, and his brother Yang Fuguang was outside, and the two cooperated tacitly to support this court with their own hands, seeing that the situation was getting better and better day by day. But who would have thought that in an instant, the rapid current would go straight down, and the situation had reached such a bad situation. Not only did one Zhu Wen not be killed, but one Li Keyong was lost, and now, in the blink of an eye, even Yang Fuguang and Luoyang were lost.

Li Jing, they still underestimate him too much.

Everyone was waiting for Yang Fugong's attack, but to everyone's surprise, Yang Fugong did not roar.

Yang Fugong tried his best to restrain himself, and after a long time, he said with his lips that were still trembling: "The King of Qin pacified the two towns of Hebei for the imperial court, and his hard work was high, and he should be rewarded heavily. ”

Everyone was amazed, and even Li Ye's eyes widened. Everyone can see that Li Jing defeated the second town of Hebei so quickly, and then tore up the peace agreement with the imperial court and raided and captured Hedong Town. Even Zhu Wen killed Li Keyong. At this time, I can't understand that this must be the result of Li Jing's meddling in it. Now Wang Chucun is rebelling, capturing Yang Fuguang and capturing Luoyang, clearly wanting to take refuge in Li Jing. Li Jing's next goal must be to take Luoyang, and then aim directly at Chang'an. Li Jing's heart is already known to passers-by, but Yang Fugong still wants to seal Li Jing?

Yang Fugong continued: "Li Jing, the king of Qin, is the king of Qin, and he is above the king and duke. 100,000 households, as well as the northeast outside Shanhaiguan, are all given as Li Jing's Qin Kingdom fiefdoms, and the Qin Wangfu can set up its own government officials and state officials, and can recruit soldiers and horses by itself, and set its own taxes. Also, Your Majesty should give Li Jing the head of the hundred officials, and he can discuss politics! ”

The temple was amazed. Many people have already been surprised.

Li Ye was puzzled at first, and then thought that Yang Fugong was saying the opposite, but he could watch it carefully. saw Yang Fugong with a black face. But his expression was extremely solemn, and he understood at the moment that it was not a joke. His brain was flexible and he started to move, but after a while, he finally realized that Yang Fugong was very domineering. But this person has been in the palace for many years and has experienced power struggles, but he is not a simple person. It can even be said that Yang Fugong's scheming methods are still above Tian Lingzi, the first person in the palace at the beginning.

Luoyang mutiny, no one was more angry with Yang Fugong. But Yang Fugong was angry, but he still remained calm. I saw Li Jing's momentum more clearly.

Delaying the army! This is a delaying tactic, Li Ye was amazed and admired in his heart, at this time, Yang Fugong not only did not lose his mind angrily, but became more sober. He added Li Jing to the official, not to admit defeat, but to show weakness and slow down Li Jing, in order to prepare for a real battle to the death.

At this moment, Li Ye's understanding of Yang Fugong was deeper.

Sure enough, after the court meeting ended, Yang Fugong immediately brought several prime ministers and a few ministers to meet the Son of Heaven. The meeting lasted a long time, and it was strictly secrecy, and there were many guards within a hundred paces outside the temple, and no one was allowed to approach it. It was not until midnight that the temple meeting ended.

Almost at the same time, the northern plateau of Guanzhong was stationed in Xiazhou.

The prince and the prince, the inspection of the school Sikong, the same Zhongshu under the door of the Ping Zhangshi, the west of the capital is unified, the right to add Jing Zhaoyin, the Qin Feng Xia Guogong, the special surname Li, the difficulty of the festival to make Tuoba Sigong summoned the brothers to come over, but for a long time silent, like an old monk into the general sitting on the sandalwood chair.

Li Siqiu, Sixiao, and Sijing, the generals of the Dingyan Army, waited for a long time, but they didn't see him speak, and they couldn't help it.

"Big brother, call us over in a hurry, what is the matter?"

Tuoba Sigong pondered for a long time before pointing to the table beside him, "Take it and see!" ”

The brothers had already seen the letter on the table, but the eldest brother didn't take the initiative to say it, but they didn't dare to take it casually. Tuoba Sigong was able to achieve his current position, not all by luck, but by seizing opportunities again and again. Their family is the leader of the party people, in Yizong, the party people in the Guanzhong rebellion, as a result of the Tang Dynasty famous general Gao Yu beat the flowers, heavy losses, his father died at that time. Later, the party members returned to the imperial court, and Tuoba Sigong became a member of Xiazhou, and was recruited by Zhao'an.

After Yizong's death, Tuoba Sigong had become a very fierce and fierce general, with some prestige in the army, and he had become the new leader of the party. In the next few years, the situation changed, and Tuoba Sigong also seized the opportunity, successfully drove away the assassin history, and became the de facto master of Xiazhou, all that was missing was a farewell to the imperial court. Soon after, Li Ke used his father and son to make a rebellion in the north, and Li Guochang personally united with Baba Sigong, but Tuoba Sigong did not accept his invitation, but reached a cooperation with the envoy sent by Li Jing, the deputy envoy at that time, to deal with Li's father and son together. This time, he gambled right again, in this battle of Daibei, he finally paid a rich reward, not only got the Xiazhou assassin history given by the imperial court, but also awarded him the festival at once, named him the envoy of the Xia Yin Festival, and suddenly opened the town to build a government and became a vassal marshal.

At first, he only had Xiazhou, and this time he got Yinzhou. Soon after, he was given the surname Lee. After Huang Chao entered the customs, he also actively served the king, at the beginning of the performance was good, and led You, Yan, Sui three states, and his department was given the name of the difficult army, and he also suddenly became the Jingbei Plateau region to hold the five towns of the difficult festival envoy, a big town.

After owning the land of the Five States, Li Sigong's mind was a little more, and he began to work less the imperial court. In the next few battles in Guanzhong, he was defeated by the Qi army with one blow and immediately retreated, but in fact, it was just that he took the initiative to retreat, in order to avoid the battle. The real strength has not diminished by a few points, but in the past few years, the strength has not decreased but increased.

The world is getting more and more chaotic, and even the Son of Heaven has changed a few, and Tuoba Sigong has begun to think more.

In the past few years, he united with Dongfang Kui, another highly prestigious general in the party, Dongfang Kui, who was originally a general of the Suining Army, and was later transferred to Dunfang, which was separated from Suining. seized the opportunity and became the commander of the army that was changed from the Yanfang Festival to the Huabei Festival. The territory of the Bao army is north of the Wei River in Chang'an, and it is difficult to find it difficult to find the four prefectures of Dun, Fang, Dan and Yan in the south, close to the Yellow River, and the town in the river across the river.

Since the secret alliance between the two party commanders, their forces have been united, and the eight prefectures in the Guanzhong Jingbei Plateau area from the north to the Hequ region and the east to the Yellow River have all become their territory. No matter how the world fights life and death. Their strength is becoming more and more solid. When Yang Fuguang built a larger alliance, they also joined Yang Fuguang as his adopted son, but secretly. It also united with the Tuyuhun Jie Shuai of Zhenwu and Tiande in the Hetao area north of the Yellow River further north. The four Fan marshals united together, and suddenly the area of Jingbei and Longdong was all their world, and this force was so strong that even the Yang brothers had to pay more attention to them, and even let Ba Ba Sigong be Jing Zhaoyin.

Four alliances. made their status in the Chang'an court soar, and even the Yang brothers had to give a few more faces.

If they can continue like this, for twenty or thirty years, maybe they will be able to reach the strength of the original Shatuo people, or even far surpass their status. The Shatuo people failed to establish the Shatuo country. Maybe they will be able to establish their own party state and Tuyuhun state at that time. But the situation changed so fast, so fast that it was confusing.

The Chang'an Imperial Court, which was still very powerful just now. In the blink of an eye, it became a remnant candle in the wind, and their 'father-in-law' Yang Fuguang was actually captured by Wang Chucun, and then took Luoyang to Li Jing. And just now, the imperial court forced Zhu Wen again, and also folded a Li Keyong. Kanto is so erosive that in the blink of an eye, it has almost become a bad game of chess.

This change in the situation has also affected them. The so-called dead lips and cold teeth, there are no eggs under the broken nest.

Last night, Yang Fugong's envoy came from Chang'an, and said that his lips were cold and his teeth were cold, and there were no eggs under the nest, and asked them to send troops to Kanto to jointly meet Li Jing and protect everyone's interests. But this morning, just as he was about to gather his troops and horses to go on the expedition, another messenger arrived, and it was Li Jing's messenger.

Li Jing's envoy only said a few words, and Tuoba Sigong couldn't help but hesitate.

"Big brother, this is a good thing!" Li Siji, the commander of the Yanei and the second brother of the Yinzhou Assassin History, said loudly, he had already finished reading the letter, and the content of the letter made him very excited.

The third Li Sixiao also nodded again and again, and what the letter said really made them very excited. Li Jing's letter only said one thing, that is, Li Jing hoped that they could abandon the darkness and turn to the light, if they could switch to the side of the Qin Domain, then Li Jing hereby promised that in the future, the Qin Domain would be willing to share the peace of the world with them, and they would continue to be in charge of the Dingyan Army in the future, and even as long as they could send troops to support the Qin Army, then the King of Qin would even be willing to let them establish a party state and let them establish a party state, which would always exist as a vassal state of Qin.

What a temptation this is, the Tuoba clan was born in Xianbei, and the ancestors were descendants of the Yellow Emperor. It is rumored that Tuoba Sigong and his ancestors were Xianbei nobles and a member of the Northern Wei royal family. Although it is said that the Tang Dynasty has been attached to the Dangxiang clan over the years, and it is basically a Tang person, but in their hearts, they are not Han people after all, and they can establish their own country, which is the biggest temptation.

Sharing the world, Xu Jianguo was a vassal of Qin, and Tuoba Sigong muttered and recited, and it was difficult to make a decision for a long time. On the one hand, he warned himself that Li Jing was not an idle person, and that these promises made today may not be fulfilled in the future. But on the other hand, he was saying to himself, since the Anshi Rebellion, the world has been in turmoil for more than 100 years, and even a British lord like Xianzong Xuanzong can't level the world and sweep the towns. If he joined forces with Li Jing and could really build a country of party members, it would be great, even if this country was just a small vassal state and a vassal state of Qin.

"Big brother, what are you hesitating about such a good thing. The Yang brothers are about to finish, do we still know that we can't do it? It's better to promise Li Jing. No matter what the future holds, at least we can survive this storm first. ”

"Yes, big brother, no matter whether we can really build a country in the future, the most important thing is to preserve the soldiers and horses and territory in our hands. Yang Fugong wants to fight with Li Jing, then let them fight, I think, we might as well form an alliance with the three towns of Helianduo to protect ourselves, we will neither help Yang Fugong send troops to fight Li Jing, nor Li Jing send troops to fight Yang Fugong. Two offenses, support the army to protect yourself! ”

"Two offenses?" Tuoba Sigong sighed lightly, if the two don't help each other, in fact, they are offended by both sides. But for a while, he really couldn't think of a better countermeasure, and there were really not many choices between such big forces. Reason told him that he should choose one of the two, and no matter who he chosen, there was always a fifty percent chance of being the winner. But in the end, he still didn't have the determination and courage to make this difficult choice, so he had to do as his brothers said, not to be offended, to stand still, and form an alliance with Helian Duo and other Sifan towns to protect himself, and sit back and watch the situation.

When the three brothers left, Tuoba Sigong let out a long sigh and sat on the chair a little lonely, at this moment, he felt a little lost and a little regretful. I always feel that maybe one day, I will regret my choice today.

Zhenwu Shan Yu Dadu Protectorate, Zhenwu Jie Du Envoy, Yinshan Metropolitan Governor, Dai Guogong, Tongping Zhangshi, and Inspector Zhong Helian Duo soon received a secret letter from Tuoba Sigong, and after reading the letter carefully, he summoned his old partner, Bai Yicheng, the envoy of the Tiande Army.

"Brother, what do you think about this?"

Bai Yicheng carefully read Tuoba Sigong's letter, and only said after a long time: "I think Tuoba Sigong's plan is very good, the gods fight, we mortals don't want to join in the fun, the two tigers are fighting, and the most suitable thing for us is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." Let them fight, no matter how they fight, let's just be a spectator. ”

Helian Duo said with some concern: "But it's not the first day we have known Li Jing, this guy is really strong, sweeping the second town of Hebei in January, and taking Hedong Town in half a month, when today, no one can match his edge." Now Li Keyong died in battle, Zhu Wen rebelled, Yang Fuguang was captured, Luoyang was lost, and no one in the Chang'an court could stop Li Jing. I'm afraid that Li Jing will level Hedong and take Luoyang and be not satisfied, so when the time comes, he will wave his troops west into Guanzhong and kill all the way, and we can't protect ourselves if we want to. ”

Bai Yicheng smiled bitterly, he naturally wanted to get these things. But could they have a better choice?

"Brother, even so, what choice do we have, send troops to help Yang Fugong? Big brother, don't forget, Yu Xuan received 30,000 elites, and he sat under the Great Wall of Shuozhou, and the barracks were all set up in Zihe. Once we have a little change here, I'm afraid that we won't need to go all the way to Kanto to find Li Jing desperately, and people will directly kill our Hetao. Li Jing is saluting first and then soldiering, on the one hand, he gave us conditions and made a good promise, but on the other hand, he pressed the border with a large number of soldiers, which is a two-handed preparation. You say, do we have any choice? ”

"Then if we don't move, will Li Jing be dissatisfied and send troops directly to attack?"

"Don't worry about this, presumably Li Jing actually calculated that we would not send troops to help him, and his statement was just to force the two of us not to interfere. Hey, Li Jing's move is very fierce, today he beat Yang Fugong, and he can force us to sit idly by. I'm afraid that after Yang Fugong is cleaned up in the future, he will come to deal with us again, and at that time, I'm afraid that no one will come to help us again. ”

Heliendor let out a long sigh, and both of them were relatively speechless for a moment. Although they have seen things very thoroughly, they have no way to deal with this kind of upright conspiracy. Because, if they were to send troops to help Yang Fugong at this time, they would have no confidence in fighting Li Jing to the end. That's all there is to it, take one step and look at one step.

"I replied to Li Jing and Yang Fugong, and said, I said that I fell from my horse while hunting, was injured, and couldn't lead troops to help for a while." Helendo said. Bai Yicheng also smiled bitterly: "Originally, I also planned to use this excuse, but now I was preempted by my brother, and now I can only think of one more." ”