Xiao Yi self-immolated, a fire in Xunyang Palace City did not stop Wu Mingche's army from entering the city, and the Du people were reluctant to cross the river and went south to Chen Baxian.

After Wu Mingche led his troops to extinguish the fire, he reported to Jiankang and did not forget to send the news to Luoyang.

Gao Cheng's original plan was to let Xiao Yi ask for help, and he took advantage of the situation to force back Wu Mingche's army, control Jiangzhou, and use Xiao Yi as a puppet.

However, the plan could not catch up with the changes, and Dongliang occupied Jiangzhou, so that Gao Cheng had to reorganize the layout of Jiangnan, but it was not a big problem, Wu Mingche had more than enough to control Jiangzhou with the merit of destroying the country.

If you really want to say that you are not prepared at all, you are deceiving yourself, in the original time and space, Xiao Yi once set fire to Jiangling City and was buried with more than 100,000 books.

But at the military level of Jiangdong, it was necessary to find a new agent, and Gao Cheng immediately set his sights on Liu Zhongli.

The reason why it is Liu Zhongli, not Wei Cang, is nothing more than that Liu Zhongli's bones are softer.

Wei Cang is undoubtedly a hard bone, in the rebellion of Hou Jing, when the army was defeated, he persuaded him to avoid thieves left and right, but Wei Cang stood still, and drank his disciples to fight to the death, and there were hundreds of relatives who died with him.

It is impossible for such a character to be bought, Gao Cheng respects his loyalty and integrity, and he has never thought of wooing him.

Liu Zhongli, on the other hand, was able to sit back and watch Xiao Yan and his father Liu Jin besieged Jiankang, but he was drinking and having fun outside the city, and he was disloyal and unfilial, and he was Wu Mingche's replacement in Jiangdong.

On November 23, the fifth year of Zhaode (552), after some ridicule in the Jiankang court, Xiao Gang issued an edict, with his son Xiao Daxin as the history of Jiangzhou Thorn, the king of Xunyang County, and Wu Mingche as the governor of Jiangzhou, the county duke, led 30,000 troops, took charge of the Jiangzhou military, and assisted Zuo Xiao Daxin.

He then ordered Liu Zhongli to lead the remaining soldiers and horses to escort the captives back to the court.

When the news reached Xunyang, Wu Mingche set up wine and set up a banquet for Liu Zhongli to practice.

But Liu Zhongli was careful, worried that Wu Mingche was setting up a Hongmen banquet, and he wanted to kill himself and seize military power, so he was unwilling to enter the city, until he walked into Liu Zhongli's military camp as Wu Mingche's envoy, and finally invited him.

"General Liu is surprised?"

Although the person who came was just wearing a pawn's robe to cover up, Liu Zhongli recognized him as Wang Lin, the general of Western Liang who defected to the Northern Qi Dynasty some time ago.

"Don't say that it is General Liu, even when Wang himself returned to Xunyang City and was received by Wu Shuai, he was very surprised."

Wang Lin asked and answered.

"What does Wu Mingche mean? He is not afraid that I will expose it to the court! ”

Liu Zhongli asked in a deep voice, he really didn't expect Wu Mingche to take refuge in Northern Qi behind his back.

Wang Lin smiled:

"This banquet was not set up by Wu Shuai, but invited by the Lord of Qi, General Liu is willing to enter the city with me? As for the revelations, General Liu could also tie me up and take me to Jiankang. ”

Liu Zhongli pondered again and again, and finally followed Wang Lin into the city, even bringing only two cronies, and did not let the guards accompany him.

Since everything has been explained clearly, it is a banquet on behalf of Gao Cheng, so naturally there is no need to worry about safety, but to prevent the news from leaking.

Outsiders regard Liu Zhongli as a brave and unscrupulous man, but it is only misunderstood by outsiders, Liu Zhongli can still see the general trend of the world.

Jingnan is owned by the Northern Qi, not to mention Wu Mingche, who controls the real power in Jiangzhou, has already surrendered Qi in the back, and there are Qi garrisons in Jiangdong, and now in the land of Siliang, only Chen Baxian wants to usurp in Guangzhou, and there is no Yangtze River natural danger, with a corner of Lingnan, how to resist Northern Qi.

There is no need to do too much psychological construction for himself, and the balance in Liu Zhongli's heart is already tilted.

This time, he was willing to go to Xunyang City with Wang Lin for a banquet, which was intended to bear the olive branch thrown by Gao Cheng, and he always had to consider the wealth of himself and his descendants.

After entering the city, Liu Zhongli unexpectedly saw Hou Jing, the assassin of Ezhou.

Hou Jing and Wang Lin secretly crossed the river, which was not an adventure, at this time Xiao Daxin was still in Jiankang before leaving, Jiangzhou was under the control of Wu Mingche, and it was very safe.

"General Liu, don't come unharmed."

In the courtyard, Hou Jing raised his lamp and gestured to Liu Zhongli.

The two are also old acquaintances, Liu Zhongli was the county guard of Jingling, and Hou Jing was the assassin of Jingzhou, the two often fought each other, most of Liu Zhongli's victories in this life were based on defending the city and brushing on Hou Jing.

Liu Zhongli sat down calmly and saluted Hou Jing from afar:

"I never thought that Hou Tingshi also came to Jiangnan."

The two of them each drank a glass, Hou Jing put down the wine cup and asked:

"It's just running around for the king's affairs, it's just that General Liu is going to the banquet today, but he is willing to wait with me to meet the king of the north?"

Hou Jing didn't want to go around in circles, and since Liu Zhongli was willing to come, he had already explained a lot of things.

Sure enough, Liu Zhongli responded in one bite:

"Thanks to Lord Qi's wrong love, Zhongli is overjoyed, this is what I expected, how could I refuse."

After that, Liu Zhongli bowed to the north and swore an oath that he was willing to be Qi Chen.

Wu Mingche smiled when he heard this:

"In this way, we will be our own family, and we will help each other in the future."

Helping Liu Zhongli up, Wu Mingche asked Hou Jingdao again:

"Hou Tingshi said before that the Son of Heaven had a secret edict, and he had to recruit General Liu before he could come to it, I don't know what instructions His Majesty has?"

Hou Jing hurriedly took out a secret letter from his arms, handed it to Wu Mingche, and explained to Liu Zhongli:

"The scholars in the south of the Yangtze River have been spoiled by Xiao Yan's old man, occupying acres of land and hiding hidden households, Your Majesty is quite worried about this, and we are all ministers, so we should share the worries for the king."

Liu Zhongli realized that Gao Cheng was going to make a move against the Jiangzhou scholars.

Wu Mingche read the secret letter, and as expected, he asked him to be this wicked person, put on the table Jiankang, and asked for an inventory of the land and household registration in Jiangzhou.

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The knife that cut the flesh cut on someone else's body, of course he didn't feel the pain, Wu Mingche carefully put away the secret letter, and said to Hou Jingdao:

"Although Hou Tingshi replied to Your Majesty, he will definitely clean up Jiangzhou and never leave a disaster on the king."

"That's very good."

Hou Jing nodded with a smile.

The three of them drank with Wang Lin until dawn, Liu Zhongli returned to the barracks with a full body of alcohol, looking at the Liangzi flag at the gate of the camp, Liu Zhongli stopped for a long time, and finally turned into a sigh.

He clearly knew that Xiao Liang was finished.

Xiao Lun was sent to Luoyang for solitary confinement, Xiao Yi self-immolated and died, Xiao Ji was killed by Chen Baxian, and now only Xiao Gang is left, although there are Jiangdong and Jiangzhou, but Wu Mingche and Liu Zhongli, the two leading generals, have already regarded themselves as Qi Chen behind their backs, and they really want to overthrow Sheji, but it is a matter of effort.

On the way back to Jiankang when Liu Zhongli led the army, Wu Mingche immediately submitted a table to Xiao Gang and asked for a place to be included, and to take stock of the acres of land and household registration to enrich the national treasury.

Could it be that Wu Mingche is not afraid of the revenge of the Shi clan and is willing to come out of this, Xiao Gang does not allow it, Jiangzhou is taken, but he still owes Gao Cheng 300,000 pieces of cloth and a large amount of military funds.

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