Confidential plans? Li Jing and Li Jingsui were shocked. But when Lin Feng talks about secrets, it must be an earth-shattering thing!

Li Jingsui immediately ordered the guards of the imperial study to extend the cordon, and no one was allowed to enter, and only the three of them were left in the imperial study.

Lin Feng sorted out his thoughts a little, and threw out a bomb as soon as he opened his mouth: "Your Majesty, King Qi, now I have a great opportunity to open up the territory and expand the territory!" After speaking, Lin Feng stretched out his left hand and pointed to the west.

Could it be the State of Chu? Li Jing and Li Jingsui's eyes immediately widened.

"That's right, it's the Chu State in the west." Lin Feng immediately affirmed the doubts in their hearts.

The state of Chu, adjacent to the west of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was the only dynasty in history established with Hunan as the center, also known as Ma Chu. Its founder, Ma Yinben, was a native of Yanling, Xuzhou (now Yanling, Henan), and was appointed by the Tang Dynasty court in 896 AD as the envoy of the Wu'an Army, and since then he has officially started. In 907 AD, Ma Yin was named King of Chu by Later Liang. Twenty years later, he was officially made king of Chu by the Later Tang Dynasty.

Ma Yin imitated the court system of the Tang Dynasty, changed Tanzhou to Changsha Mansion as the national capital, and built a palace in Changsha City, placed hundreds of officials, and established a veritable independent kingdom. In the heyday of the Chu State, there were 5 festival towns under its jurisdiction, including Wu'an, Wuping, and Jingjiang, with a total of 24 prefectures, including the whole territory of today's Hunan and most of Guangxi, eastern Guizhou and northern Guangdong.

Through the war, Ma Yin eliminated the separatist forces in Hunan and realized the reunification of Hunan. During his reign, the state of Chu politically adopted policies such as "serving the Son of Heaven at the top, appreciating the people at the bottom, appeasing the army at home, and strengthening the feudal domain from outside", and economically adopted measures such as building water conservancy, rewarding agriculture and mulberry, developing the tea industry, advocating textiles, and trading with the Central Plains, and its social and economic development was relatively fast.

However, dragons give birth to nine sons, and not all of them are dragons. After his death, according to the principle of brother to brother, his sons Ma Xisheng and Ma Xifan succeeded to the throne one after another, and the two brothers can be described as "extravagant insiders, ruling foreign countries", and the domestic situation began to decline. In 947 AD, Ma Xifan died and was succeeded by his younger brother Ma Xiguang, and the situation in Chu began to deteriorate dramatically.

Why? Because it is said that Ma Xicao of Langzhou is older than Ma Xiguang, he is not convinced that he was ridden on the head by his younger brother, and he also wants to make the lord of a country to be the leader. He first asked the Later Han Dynasty, which ruled the Central Plains at that time, to give him the same status as Ma Xiguang, but naturally refused, so he turned to the Southern Tang Dynasty to rescue, and gathered the local ethnic minorities in Langzhou to attack Tanzhou, because Ma Xiguang was too mediocre and weak, and was actually thrown down by Ma Xixu, and then, Ma Xicao accepted the Southern Tang Dynasty as the king of Chu, and appointed Wu'an, Wuping, Jingjiang, and Ningyuan as the envoys of the four armies.

Ma Xicao's attack on Changsha is this year! In today's court, Lin Feng asked Han Xizai in a low voice, and learned that Nantang had not yet received a request for help from Ma Xicao, so it should not be far off.

Lin Feng then said aloud: "The Ma brothers of Chu State are fighting for the country's Japanese drama, and the people's hearts are lost, as Weichen said, like a hollow tree, it will fall down as soon as it is pushed. This is a good opportunity for me to expand my territory closely! ”

Li Jing had a deep look on his face and looked at Li Jingsui. Li Jingsui only knew a little about Chu Guo, shook his head slightly, and the two of them looked at Lin Feng again.

"Your Majesty, please listen to Wei Chen's detailed analysis." Lin Feng's face was calm, with a look of Zhizhu in his hand, and he wrenched his fingers and said: "Since Ma Yin in the Chu State, brothers such as Xisheng, Xifan, and Xiguang can be described as 'one crab is not as good as one crab', and the people of Chu are scattered, like a big tree hollow, a mountain is soft, and only one event that causes a crisis can be dumped." In Wechen's view, this time is coming. Without him, Ma Xicao, who has the male of Langzhou, is sparse but ambitious, and he will not be willing to be under his brother, and the two will have a battle! ”

Lin Feng saw that Li Jing and the two were deep in thought, and decided to add another fire.

"And if Ma Xicao wants to succeed, he must borrow external forces, either to ask for help from the Han in the north, or to ask for help from our court, and he will never ask for help from the lord of Shu in the west, who does not care about the world. At this time, there are constant internal disputes in the Northern Han Dynasty, and he will not be distracted by this, and Ma Xicao has only one way to ask for help from my Tang! Your Majesty, please forgive Weichen for being arrogant, Weichen thinks that Ma Xicao will ask me for help within the year! Lin Feng, who was familiar with this history, didn't mind being a "god stick" who could predict again, and said.

In the original history, after Ma Xicao took the throne, he threw the state affairs to his brother Ma Xichong, and he went to drink all day. In March of the following year, an envoy sent by Ma Xicao to the Southern Tang Dynasty even told Li Jing that "the people of Hunan are tired and arrogant, and it is desirable." Therefore, Li Jing sent Bian Hao to garrison Yuanzhou on the border of Tang and Chu to wait for the opportunity.

After the mutiny of the former Langzhou generals Liu Yan, Wang Kui, Zhou Xingfeng and others, in September 951, the Tanzhou army generals raised troops, embraced Ma Xichong, and imprisoned Ma Xicao in Hengshan. Subsequently, the military general who took care of Ma Xicao was regarded as the king of Hengshan, and at this time, Ma Xichong, who was unable to control the Tanzhou military general, asked for help from Li Jing, which was known as the farce war of "all the horses fighting for the groove".

In October next year, Bian Ho successfully entered Tanzhou without losing a single soldier. Soon, Liu Renzhen led his army straight to Yuezhou, and the state of Chu was easily destroyed after 56 years of existence.

"Lin Aiqing is so sure?" Li Jing couldn't help but be a little confused, can this kind of thing be speculated?

"Wechen dares to guarantee Wechen's four-grade civil official position!" Lin Feng said categorically.

Li Jing and Li Jingsui were suddenly shocked, and they stood up all of a sudden. To be honest, since Lin Feng told the strange dream of predicting the future pattern of the world, they both had an inexplicable sense of fear about Lin Feng's so-called prediction. In other words, they already believed in the fact that Lin Feng was going to happen in the future.

"Okay, since Lin Aiqing's words have come to this, I will naturally believe in you and wait for the moment when the Ma family asks for help." Li Jing gritted his teeth and said with difficulty.

"Wechen also has the courage to make an appointment with His Majesty: if there is a day, please allow Wechen to lead his subordinates as the vanguard!" Lin Feng immediately volunteered and jumped out to recommend himself. Such an easy and easy achievement of destroying the country must be snatched into his own hands no matter what, and he cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of Wei Cen, Cha Wenhui and the like who were the main attackers in the original history.

"This ......" Li Jing hesitated a little, it was a little reckless to let Lin Feng do such a dangerous thing as a scholar.

"Weichen can also guarantee the official position of the six-rank military attaché, and he can capture Tanzhou without injuring a single soldier!" Lin Feng continued to be a "god stick", and the more he talked about it, the more amazing it became. This is also a true thing that happened in history, as long as he can squeeze out the side pickaxe of the future now.

"Aiqing, this ......" Lin Feng said this, Li Jing was a little embarrassed, if this kind of military order was established, it seemed that it was a little too much to bully Lin Feng.

"Wechen only asks His Majesty to agree to one condition: Wechen will choose the generals to cooperate!" Lin Feng was not a fool, he immediately bit this one to death. He didn't want the "Bodhisattva" to cooperate, but only remembered Liu Renzhen, who was loyal to the country, loved the army and protected the people.

In the original history, Bian Hao was named the envoy of the Wu'an Festival because of his exploits in destroying Chu, but he believed in Buddhism and never fought for merit, but he had no ability to deal with political affairs. Under his rule, the Hunan decree was chaotic, and the people who originally welcomed the Southern Tang army no longer supported him, and he could not forcibly subdue the Hunan generals with ambitions.

Li Jing looked at Li Jingsui again, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I agreed to Lin Aiqing's request." Although everything Lin Feng said sounded amazing and ridiculous, Li Jing did have the ambition to expand the territory in his heart and was ready to gamble on it.

Lin Feng knelt on the ground with a "plop" and said loudly: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wechen also has two words of loyalty to His Majesty, please forgive Your Majesty for the crime of Wechen's wild words! ”