Previously, when Ouyang Yu was enjoying himself in his harem, he ordered the beauties to chase each other naked, laugh and laugh, and kill one of the women as long as she refused to obey. At night, Ouyang Yu dreamed that a woman scolded him, saying that he was rebellious and would not live until the wheat was ripe next year. So, Ouyang Yu found a person who looked similar to what he saw in his dream and killed him. In the night, he dreamed that the woman he had killed was scolding him, so he gave another incomprehensible order to put to death all those who looked like the woman in the dream, thinking that he would be able to sleep peacefully.

But this practice not only did not let him sleep well, but made Ouyang Yu's nightmare even more terrifying, he dreamed that those women who were killed by himself came to ask him for their lives, and their long nails almost pierced his throat, so in a panic, Ouyang Yu was awakened again.

Ouyang Yu realized that killing people could not solve the actual problem, so he hurriedly found a wizard to exorcise ghosts to keep him safe.

It is said that a happy childhood can heal a person's life, if it is the other way around, to use a lifetime to heal an unhappy childhood, Ouyang Yu belongs to the latter. The original Ouyang Yu was a smart and clever child, and when he was two years old, he was able to read Tang poems and Song poems by heart.

Ouyang Yu's father, Ouyang Xin, is a figure who first shines and then darkens, he is smart and brave, but he also indulges in moderation, especially in his later years, his behavior is even more absurd. As the saying goes, "the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked", with such a father in front of him as a leader and example in behavior, Ouyang Yu's deviation in some behaviors is not difficult to understand.

When his father Ouyang Xin was competing for the position of head of the family, the young Ouyang Yu was imprisoned. During Ouyang Yu's captivity, he was treated inhumanely, and even almost killed several times, although he survived in the end, which caused a great psychological shadow to Ouyang Yu, who was still a child, so much so that it affected his life. Finally, Ouyang Xin sat on the position of the head of the Ouyang family, and he is also the rightful heir, this kind of ups and downs in life makes him more and more shadowy, and he can't bear a loss.

Later, after Ouyang Xin became the head of the family, although Ouyang Yu became the most likely successor, it attracted the dissatisfaction of many members of the Ouyang family, especially Ouyang Yu's biological mother died early, and his stepmother always punished him in the name of "disciplining" Ouyang Yu, which made Ouyang Yu's future childhood even worse.

Ouyang Xin's love for his little wife, love the house and Wu, and several times wanted to pass on the position of the head of the Ouyang family to his youngest son Ouyang Mo, if it weren't for the theory of "elder and younger" to keep Ouyang Yu, he would definitely fall from the position of "prince".

After Ouyang Yu obtained Ouyang Xin's decentralization, his mind did not focus on how to govern the family, but tried all kinds of tricks to play, and set up various "bureaus" in his harem, organizing those beauties who must participate in their own group of bureaus, in addition to their own favorites.

His gameplay is very peculiar, that is, let these men and women stage a live version of "The Joy of Fish and Water" together, if there are disobedient people, there is no forgiveness, and if there are beauties who do not obey, he will kill their relatives, I don't know how many souls died under Ouyang Yu's violence.

Ouyang Yu's bastard behavior in the north not only angered the elders of the Ouyang family in the north, but also made Ouyang Xin extremely dissatisfied with him, and even had the idea of making Ouyang Mo the future heir for a while. At this time, the strategists around Ouyang Yu suggested to him that he should immediately give up all power, dissolve the harem, obediently return to the imperial capital to admit his mistakes, and accept even the most severe punishment.

Ouyang Yu was able to bend and stretch, and really returned to the imperial capital. Ouyang Xin was also very surprised by his son's actions, although he was dissatisfied, he also deeply appreciated his extremely ambitious methods, and unexpectedly gave him another chance. Although from then on, Ouyang Yu's power was under Ouyang Xin's absolute surveillance, Ouyang Yu was still the most legitimate heir of the Ouyang family.

However, compared to Ouyang Yu, who is very deep in the city, Ouyang Xin's character is more sophisticated. Ouyang Xin has been witty and intelligent since he was a child, and he is both civil and military. Initially, Ouyang Xin was not favored by his father Ouyang Zai, and repeatedly went out of town. He successively led the army to quell the Yongzhou rebellion, and made many meritorious deeds, which was quite popular within the Ouyang family. When he was thirty years old, his brother Ouyang Shao killed his father, and Ouyang Xin raised troops to attack Ouyang Shao and take it

Get the position of the head of the Ouyang family. For more than 50 years after that, the Ouyang family remained one of the most prominent and powerful families in the Celestial Empire, and firmly occupied the first position in the "Four Pillars Kingdom".

However, due to the fact that the enthronement method was not a conventional model, Ouyang Xin was very jealous of the collateral branches of the Ouyang family, for fear that they would also concoct the same method, so he constantly attacked and weakened the power of the collateral branches, causing strong opposition and resistance within the family. Ouyang Xin artificially separated the Ouyang family's family affection, and turned the family into a binary antagonism, even like hatred, but instead of fundamentally eliminating the root of the threat to his status, he intensified mutual suspicion and vigilance.

Ouyang Xuan is Ouyang Xin's own uncle, and he has been repeatedly suspicious, so Ouyang Xuan and some people of the Ouyang family have set up another door. Ouyang Xin spent a lot of effort and countless efforts to calm down the matter. Ouyang Xuan failed and was killed, which suddenly detonated the emotional powder keg of the Ouyang family.

In particular, there is no shortage of talented people in the Ouyang family, such as Ouyang Dan and Ouyang Shuo, all of whom are regarded by Ouyang Xin as a thorn in the flesh. One of the reasons why Ouyang Xin hated his brothers was that his father loved his sons unevenly, Ouyang Xin never got his father's favor, and his long-term jealousy and complaints made his mentality unbalanced, hating his father and his brothers, and that terrible emotion broke out, even he couldn't control it. He may not be unaware of the pain of disharmony between father and son, but like thousands of problematic parent-child relationships, the mistakes made by the father will often continue in the next generation. And he himself is not as good as his father in terms of father-son relationship.

Previously, when Ouyang Shao was seeking the position of the head of the Ouyang family, his strength was much greater than Ouyang Xin. He once sent someone to bring his own handwritten letter to Ouyang Xin, Ouyang Xin saw Ouyang Shao say that he wanted to get rid of him, and begged the messenger to intercede if he could give him a little time to let him say goodbye to his mother, which shows that the relationship between mother and son is still very deep. Ouyang Xin's mother Qiu's name is Qiu Ruonan, and she is also a peerless beauty, when she was a teenager, she seemed to be favored by the Ouyang family because of her beautiful appearance, but Ouyang Zai has a lot of confidants, and her beautiful face can naturally be seen everywhere, Qiu Ruonan is beautiful, but he is not very good at talking and doing things, he just can't please people, so after giving birth to his son Ouyang Xin with that momentary favor, he was snubbed by Ouyang Zai. When Ouyang Xin was 5 years old, because his mother was kind and not good at camping, he gradually fell out of favor and was ostracized in the fierce intrigue. So, Qiu Ruonan asked Ouyang Zai to allow her to leave the imperial capital and go to Jiangmen with her children. This year, Qiu Ruonan was only 24 years old.

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Liangzhou, Meng Liang, the head of the Meng family, was also talking with a person all night.

This person is none other than Liu Shiqi, the loyal servant of the Meng family and the leader of the Xunhui Eradication Society.

And tonight's conversation between the two is for Xun Tiansheng. Earlier, Meng Liang personally commanded the army and suppressed the Yongzhou rebellion, and the soldiers were already under the city of Zhongzhou. In fact, if you tear your face with Xun Tiansheng at this time, with the courage of the Meng family's army, it will only be a moment to break the city.

Xun Tiansheng felt unprecedented pressure because of the premonition, and specially ordered the generals of the Quartet and the commanders of various branches of the military to go to the imperial capital overnight for a meeting. The generals of the four directions, that is, the commanders of the four major field armies in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, serve in the "Joint Operations Command" in peacetime, and only in the event of a war can they go to the troops to command operations with orders from the military headquarters, and are under the leadership of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the military headquarters. Commanders of the Army, Navy, Air and Space Services are honorary titles and have no actual command and combat authority.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the full name of which is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is under the leadership of the marshal and is responsible for staff consultation and command operations. The Joint Chiefs of Staff is not only a military advisory body to consuls and marshals, but also a military command organ that issues orders to various units, and consists of two core organs: the "Joint Staff" and the "Supreme Military Command Center" (also known as the base camp). Once the war begins, the Joint Staff will establish a Supreme Operational Command, and military orders will be issued from the "Supreme Military Command Center" to the operational command center, and from the command headquarters to the command posts of the front-line combat units. At the same time, there is also a strong underground reserve command post, the "National Reserve Military Command Center", and a "National Emergency Air Command Post" on the four E-4B aircraft at the air base to replace the first two command posts in case of an emergency. However, the power to transfer troops is in the hands of the military department, and sometimes it faces the dilemma of giving orders but not having troops to send them.

The Minister of the Military Department, the full name of the Minister of Military Command, is under the leadership of the marshal, is in charge of military orders, and has the power to dispatch troops. The Military High Command is in charge of the selection of military attachés throughout the country

The selection and appointment of soldiers, military aircraft, and military orders are the general departments of military administration, and military generals are not allowed to move without an order from the military department. Speaking of the establishment of the military department, this is closely related to the historical background of the birth of the Celestial Empire, when there were many gate lords and the phenomenon of generals holding heavy power still existed. In order to control the power of the gate lords, the Celestial Empire vigorously promoted the emphasis on literature and the suppression of military force, and the literati and their respect were also extremely rich. In terms of examination selection, the restrictions on the number of students have been abolished, the examination system has been tightened, and the number of admission places has also been greatly increased. It is more glorious to pass the examination to enter the official career than to return victoriously, and the ideological concept of contempt for military attaches is very popular in society. Since then, the style of writing has become more and more prosperous, the status of military generals is low, and the system of separating soldiers and generals has separated the right to command troops from the right to transfer troops, and the generals who lead the troops to fight do not have the power to mobilize the army, and the generals who go out to fight or carry out tasks can only obey the orders of the military department, and the troops to which they belong can obey the orders, just to avoid the situation that the generals support the troops and the feudal towns are divided, resulting in a situation in which the soldiers do not know the generals and do not know the troops. But even so, the gate lord power did not eventually die, in order to resist the barbarians in the four directions, the Celestial Empire set up the Four Davidsan District, within the scope of the garrison, the command and dispatch are not controlled by the military department, but on the surface it still accepts the command of the Joint Staff Council, even if the phenomenon of listening to the tune and not listening to the announcement often occurs.

The garrison commander is the commander of the four Davids, and is responsible for the defense of their respective garrisons.

These are all L10 level executives, and only local civil and military attachés are available. Among them, the main civil servants are: ministers of the national government, the president of the Imperial Bank, the president of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the vice president of the Imperial Court, and the left and right speakers of the House of Representatives; The main military attachés in Zhili are: Chairman of the Joint Staff Committee, Minister of Military Affairs, Commander of the Praetorian Guard, etc.; Local civil servants include: "Governor of the Five Capitals"; Local military attachés include: garrison commanders, generals of the four directions, etc.

"Family Master, the latest news, the four major field armies have completed the assembly, and they are all stationed on the front line of Yonghe City and Kecheng, forming a confrontation with our westward army." Liu Shiqi said.

"The Four Field Armies? Hehe, over the years, they have become so used to being pampered, I'm afraid they can't even hold a gun." Meng Liang said disdainfully.

"Yes, yes, the four major field armies really can't pose a threat to us, but we still have to guard against the Praetorian Guards in Xun Tiansheng's hands." Liu Shiqi said.

The Praetorian Guard is a military force independent of the jurisdiction of the military department, under the direct command of the Führer, garrisoning the imperial capital, the most elite troops of the empire, its soldiers are the elite of 10,000 thousand, the number of 30,000, composed of a headquarters, five heavy brigades, an air assault brigade, a flying brigade and support troops, stationed ten kilometers outside the imperial capital.

Commander of the Praetorian Guard, Level L10, Supreme Commander of the Praetorian Guard, responsible for the defense of the Führer and the Imperial Capital.

"Don't worry, Rao is Praetorian Guard is indeed strong, but when it encounters Xun Tiansheng, a mediocre person, it can't exert its true combat effectiveness." Meng Liang said, "By the way, didn't you say that you have important information to tell me, wouldn't you just mean this?"

Liu Shiqi smiled and said, "Naturally not, the head of the family, some time ago, a person suddenly came to me and told me a very shocking thing."

"Who?" Meng Liang asked.

"Zhuang Weidong."

"Shoufu Zhuang Weidong?"

"Yes."

"What did he tell you?"

"He said that he had persuaded Xun Tiansheng that he would not participate in the affairs of Shanghai again."

"Not participating?" Meng Liang paused and said, "Let's be clear."

"In Zhuang Weidong's words, Xun Tiansheng does not intend to intervene in the battle between Meng, Ouyang, He, Bai and Shangguan Liang, and the ownership of Shanghai is in the hands of the winner, and everyone speaks according to their strength."

"Hehe, this doesn't look like Xun Tiansheng's character."

"Yes, I also had a question, but I learned from Zhuang Weidong that it was because someone made a deal with Xun Tiansheng that forced Xun Tiansheng to make a compromise."

"Could it be Situ Zhao?"

"The head of the house is right in his word."

"What is his request?"

"Zhuang Weidong refused to say, only said that we can rest assured."

"It seems that Zhuang Weidong wants to be a lobbyist." Meng Liang nodded thoughtfully and said, "Storming the imperial capital has only half a chance of victory, and it will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

If you can successfully win Shanghai, then ......"

"The imperial capital is also making preparations, just a day ago, Xiong Jianping had secretly entered Beijing and officially became the director of the Joint Staff, and at the same time served as the commander of the Northern Garrison."

The director of the "Joint Staff", at the L9 level, is the head of the Joint Staff, the core figure at the highest operational command level, and his power has almost reached the point of monopolizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Joint Staff is the central organ of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

L9 is mostly a feudal official on the main political side. Among them, the civil servants of Zhili mainly include: chief of staff, secretary general of the state government, president of the Honglu Academy, director of the Supreme Police Office, and ministers of various ministries of the state government; The military attachés of Zhili are: commanders of various armies, commanders of patrol battalions in the imperial capital, directors of the "Joint Staff" and "Supreme Military Command Center"; The local civil servants include: the directors of the state offices, the deputy governors of the five capitals, the senators of the governor's office, and the supervisors of the Metropolitan Procuratorate; The local military positions include: the garrison of each state is the commander, etc.

"Xun Tiansheng is really cunning enough, reactivating Xiong Jianping means abandoning the car to protect the handsome, and He Zhizhi in Shanghai has become a chess piece, and he is also telling me that he doesn't want to get involved in Shanghai's affairs anymore, and He Zhizhi is finished."

"From what he intended, it seems to be so." Liu Shiqi said, "In addition, the commander of the Imperial Capital Patrol Battalion has also been replaced by Xiong Jianping's henchman, and the director of the base camp is Jiang Yunyi's younger brother Jiang Yuntian."

"Jiang Yuntian? He's Xiong Jianping's brother." Meng Liang snorted coldly, "It seems that Xun Tiansheng has made the worst plan, if he can't do anything, he will break the net with us."

The director of the "Supreme Military Command Center (Base Camp)", the Supreme Military Command Center is under the direct leadership of the Marshal, is responsible to the Führer, is an important body connecting the Führer, the Marshal and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and has a higher status than the Joint Staff, but has no command authority, and the Joint Staff is required to unconditionally carry out the orders of the Führer and Marshal conveyed by the Supreme Military Command Center.

The commander of the Imperial Capital Patrol Battalion, the head of the Imperial Capital Special Police Patrol Security Force, also known as the Patrol Battalion, referred to as SPSF, is responsible for the daily security tasks of the Imperial Capital.

In peacetime, each army is under the command of the commander and is responsible for training and defense tasks.

"From the perspective of military strength, looking at the entire Celestial Empire, only the Northern Territory Army in Xiong Jianping's hands can compete with my Western Liang Army, plus the elite Praetorian Guard, I am worried about ......

"yes, your worries are right." Meng Liang breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "Forget it, this deal is not cost-effective, it doesn't cost a single soldier, and it is not a good result to eradicate He Zhizhi's competitor."

"But the head of the family, Shanghai is too far away from us, and it is difficult for us to actually control it, I am afraid that it will ...... then."

Meng Liang waved his hand and said, "Xun Tiansheng is a smart person, he said on the surface that he would not participate, but in fact, he wanted to muddy the waters, so that Meng, Bai, and Ouyang would form a dog-tooth situation, so that not only would no one be able to control Shanghai, but also destroy the overall situation of the original cooperation, and in the end, it would be beneficial for him Xun Tiansheng."

"Then why do we ......?"

"No matter what, we must seize this opportunity to cut off Xun Tiansheng's right-hand man, as long as He Zhizhi is finished, Xun Tiansheng's good days will not be a few days." Meng Liang said, "Moreover, we also have to give Zhuang Weidong and Situ Zhao a face."

Liu Shiqi thought for a while and said, "Family Master, I'm still worried about ......."

"There's nothing to worry about, send an order to the three armies, camp on the spot, and in addition, send a message to Chaofan, tell him to let go of his hands and feet, and eradicate Shangguan Liang and He Zhizhi in one fell swoop."

"Are you worried that He Zhizhi will conspire with Shangguan Liang?"

"Hehe, it's inevitable."