As soon as Tian Hongyou was mentioned, Peng Shiyu clenched his fists, extremely emotional, and his words were full of hatred. Li Yuan listened to it intermittently, and quickly reacted, which was nothing more than a simple truth - "a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake".

The five major tribes of Dongxi living in the Youshui Basin do not include the Peng family, who are in power, because they are foreign "strong dragons".

Peng's originated in Longxi, a hundred years ago because of the war before moving south, until the end of the Tang Dynasty Huangchao uprising, Peng Shichou's father Peng Ying and uncle Peng Ji in Jizhou unveiled the pole, the Peng family emerged, and then because of the oppression of Yang Wu had to go west to the Chu State.

Ma Yin, the king of Chu, valued the Peng brothers very much, not only let his son and heir Ma Xifan marry Peng Yu's daughter, but also successively granted Peng Yingchen the post of Assassin and Xizhou Assassin, thus opening the era of the Peng clan ruling Xizhou.

(Note: Peng Ji's daughter Peng, nicknamed Mrs. Shunxian: her "ugly appearance" is a famous ugly girl in history, but "there is a law to govern the family, Chu Wang Xi Fan is worried", she was alive when Ma Chu was a relatively strong period, and she was quite helpful to Ma Xifan, especially to mediate the contradiction between his cousin Xizhou Assassin Shi Peng Shichou and Ma Chu Wangting)

But Xizhou is a wild place, it is extremely difficult for outsiders to take root, after Peng Ying served as the assassin of Xizhou, in order to unify the various departments of the Youshui Basin, he had to win over the local "head snake" as a support, and finally united with the Xiang clan, defeated and drove away the in-laws he had just recognized, Wu Chong, the first king of Xizhou, and initially stabilized the situation.

(Note: Wu Zhuchong, Peng Shichou's father-in-law, one of the three major Tu kings of the Tumin, the actual ruler of Yuanxi Prefecture, and the first Tu King of Xiangxi in the history books.) Peng Shichou and Wu Chong's daughter fell in love with each other, took the hydrangea thrown by the Tujia princess, and became the "horse" of the Tumin, after Wu Chong's death, Peng Shichou's wife could not relieve her pain of losing her father, and soon died with resentment)

When Peng Shichou took power, he also imitated his father's means of uniting and destroying the country, but he did not choose the hard-working Xiang clan, but chose the Xiang clan's sworn enemy, the Tian clan.

The Tian clan was born and raised, and its roots in Xizhou were extremely deep, and after Tian Hongyou became the leader of the tribe, it coincided with the death of Mrs. Shunxian, the wife of Ma Xifan, the king of Chu, and Peng Shichou's cousin, and the conflict between Peng Shichou and Ma Xifan quickly intensified, which eventually led to the outbreak of the Battle of Xizhou.

The Dongxi tribe has always hated the Han people, and in their eyes, Peng Shichou, who chose to be close to them, was naturally better than the king of Chu. Tian Hongyou is to devote the manpower and material resources of the Tian clan to help Peng Shichou, the war lasted two years, and finally the two sides negotiated peace and concluded an alliance, cast bronze pillars stood in Xizhou Huixi, Peng Shichou and the king of Chu officially divided the river and ruled, "feuded" to get the land of three states.

"The Great Age of Genes"

Peng Shichou became the de facto "Emperor of the Soil", and Tian Hongyou, who had made great contributions, was naturally trusted and reused, first following the old routine of the Peng family - marriage, so that the eldest son Peng Shiyu married Tian Hongyou's daughter Tian Siyang, and relieved that almost all political affairs were entrusted to Tian Hongyou.

You must know that although the land of Sanzhou has been governed according to the Tang system for many years, it cannot abandon the nature of tribal barbarians, and the large and small decrees still need to be conveyed by the chiefs of each tribe before they can be implemented. Peng Shichou let the native Tian family take charge of government affairs on his behalf, and the consequences can be imagined, and the high-ranking Tian Hongyou, although he is tall and fierce, is not good at military affairs, but collecting money.

In just a few years, the Tian clan has become the most powerful clan in Dongxi with its strong financial resources. At that time, the land of Xi, Jin, and Chen controlled by Peng Shichou, from the precious gold and silver tea horses, to the ordinary fur business, was almost all controlled by Tian Hongyou, and finally it reached the point where even Peng Shichou, the person in power, had to ask Tian for salt, and the power was monstrous.

Once the money and food were in hand, the ambition naturally swelled, and soon Tian Hongyou began to meddle in military affairs and cultivate cronies and generals. As Peng Shiyu grew up, although his wife was Tian's daughter, he was also deeply worried about Tian Hongyou's status under one person and above ten thousand people in Xizhou, and he repeatedly advised Peng Shichou to restrain him, but he never received a response.

It wasn't until a few months ago that Peng Shiyu was finally able to take over as the assassin of Xizhou, but it was too late......

After a long sigh, Peng Shiyu tightened his eyebrows, his eyes burst out with a fierce light like a blade, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I have long advised Grandpa not to be so indulgent to Tian Hongyou!" It's a pity that Grandpa has always turned a deaf ear, and even let me marry the adulteress of the Tian family! Grandpa raises tigers for trouble, raises tigers for trouble! ......”

"How complicated is it? Alas! Unexpectedly, Ling Zun actually raised an unfed Menghu on the side of the couch! ”

Looking at Peng Shiyu's appearance of beating his chest, why didn't Li Yuan understand his situation? It's just that there are many doubts in his heart, Peng Shichou's practice of consolidating his rule and winning over the local tribes is understandable, but as a generation of heroes who have left his name in history, he has his own considerations for dealing with people, and he dares to boldly delegate power to Tian Hongyou, and the contradiction will break out sooner or later, how can the superior not take precautions?

What's more, Peng Shichou has been fighting in the east and west for many years, and his prestige in the army is quite high, how can he not leave his successor with cronies? Moreover, this Peng Shiyu lost so quickly that he even lost his foundation overnight, which is too different from the history that Li Yuan knew.

The record of the Peng family in Xiangxi in the history books is quite amazing, Peng Shichou single-handedly established this small dynasty of Tusi in Xiangxi, starting from the fourth year of Kaiping in the Later Liang Dynasty, to the end of the sixth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, no matter how the Central Plains Dynasty changed, it lasted for 818 years! A total of 28 generations and 35 Tusi were produced, all of whom were surnamed Peng, and they were all descendants of Peng Shichou.

But now it's only ten years of protection, far from the time of Peng's collapse, which joint has gone wrong?

"Brother Peng, even if Tian Hongyou covers the sky with one hand, but Ling Zun has a high prestige in Xizhou after all, and there must be elite soldiers in hand after many years of operation, when you inherited the position of assassin a few months ago, since you noticed it, why didn't you get up early to suppress it?" Li Yuan asked with a puzzled face.

Peng Shiyu was silent for a moment, then frowned, looked up at Li Yuan and said: "Marshal, after the Jiashan fire, the elite soldiers of my Peng clan have almost been lost, and the generals who survived by luck hate the Tang State even more, and they have long complained about the alliance...... Most of the thousands of soldiers in Xizhou City returned to Tian Sidao to control it, and it was only a few months before he succeeded to Xizhou, and he was unable to resist because of the lack of soldiers and horses......"

Li Yuan's heart was shocked, and he took a deep breath, this butterfly effect was too outrageous...... coughed lightly and said in a deep voice, "Uh...... The matter has come to this, Brother Peng, what are you going to do? ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw Peng Shiyu and the little sister Peng Qingying take a deep look at each other, and in front of everyone, they knelt on their knees, and then bent down and said in a trembling voice: "Dashuai, I, Peng Shiyu, have always only knelt in the sky, not in people!" But Tian Hongyou brutalized my father and brother and took away the foundation of my Peng family for three generations, if this blood feud is not reported, it will be in vain for the descendants of the Peng family! Death without turning a blind eye! ”

Then he stretched out his hand to Peng Qingying, who was pale, closed his eyes and gritted his teeth and said: "I am now desperate, I can only dare to beg the marshal, for the sake of the oath of the day, borrow soldiers to help me take revenge!" In the next wish to take the little sister as a hostage! If you can kill the enemy and comfort the soul of your deceased father, you will make a wish to give all the land of Jinchen and Erzhou afterwards! ”