Of course, let Li Sijian directly raise troops to attack the Jin State, he didn't have the courage to do so, his strategy was to first surrender to the Jin State on the surface, and wait for the Shuofang Jiedu envoy, who annexed his territory, and after the strength was strong, he would fight with Li Keyong.

Since Li Sijian took over the throne twelve years ago, he has been implementing this strategy, but under Li Keyong's intervention, it has not been successful, until the beginning of this year, Zhu Wen sent someone to send him a secret letter, and he began to move again.

Speaking realistically, the strength of the Dingyan army is much stronger than that of the Shuofang army, and the cavalry of the party people is not worse than that of the Shatuo people.

Before the war, Li Sijian did two things, the first was to personally go to Taiyuan Mansion to meet the Jin Emperor Li Keyong, and offered a bearded girl with a hot figure and beautiful flowers, named Mu Yuan, and then begged Li Keyong to promise him to send troops to attack Shuofang on the grounds that Shuofang army Han Xun had violated his border.

Li Ke agreed after a moment of deliberation, and advised: "Stop at the point, don't go too far." ”

The second thing is that on the night of staying in Taiyuan Mansion, I secretly went to see Li Keyong's adopted son Li Cunhao, and no one knows what he talked about.

With Li Keyong's permission, Li Sijian went for a while, and then began to fight hard, and soon led 30,000 party cavalry to attack the Shuofang army.

Let's talk about Li Keyong's old enemy Liu Rengong.

If you say who is the most hated person by Li Keyong, the king of Jin, Liu Rengong is definitely on the list, and even, second only to Zhu Wen.

The grievances between the two have to start from the second year of Jingfu (893), in that year, Liu Rengong rebelled against Li Kuangchou, the envoy of Lulong Jiedu, and after the defeat, he took refuge in Li Keyong, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu at that time.

Li Keyong treated him very well, not only rewarded the fields and mansions, but also worshiped as the general of Shouyang Town. In the first year of Qianning (894), Li Keyong led the army to attack Lulong under the constant persuasion and instigation of Liu Rengong.

It stands to reason that with such an experience, Li Keyong treats Liu Rengong as kind as a mountain, but Liu Rengong himself is a hero, in order to get rid of Li Keyong's control, he turned against Li Keyong and did a lot of things that made Li Keyong sad.

In the third year of Qianning (896), Li Keyong attacked Weizhou and wanted to recruit Liu Rengong's soldiers and horses, but Liu Rengong refused on the grounds of guarding against Khitan; In the fourth year of Qianning, Li Ke rescued Zhu Xuan with Youxing troops and recruited troops from Liu Rengong, but Liu Rengong did not respond directly, and Li Keyong sent more than ten envoys, but Liu Rengong ignored them.

Li Keyong personally sent a letter to Liu Rengong, but Liu Rengong received Zhu Wen's secret support, not only insulting Li Keyong, but also detaining the envoy, and detaining all the Taiyuan people in Youzhou City, including merchants and officials.

Li Keyong was furious and led 50,000 Hedong troops to conquer Youzhou, but was jointly calculated by Liu Rengong and Zhu Wen, and returned defeated, with more than half of the army suffering casualties.

Not only that, Liu Rengong also killed all the generals and pawns used by Li Ke, and dedicated his head to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen was overjoyed, and Liu Rengong was the same as the middle book.

In the fifth year of Qianning, Liu Rengong defeated Lu Yanwei, the envoy of Yichang Jiedu, and annexed the jurisdiction of Yichang, almost occupying the sixteen states of Yanyou and becoming a hegemon in the north.

In the third year of Tianyou, that is, the year before last, Liu Rengong and Zhu Wen had a bad relationship, and were conscripted by Zhu Wen's army. Li Ke went to the rescue regardless of his previous suspicions, but after repelling Zhu Wen, Liu Rengong backhanded and joined forces with Zhu Wen to defeat Li Ke's 20,000 cavalry, so angry that Li Keyong vomited blood on the spot.

According to the historical books that Chen Qiuming read in his previous life, Li Keyong gave Li Cungong three arrows before his death and made three wills, one of which was to let Li Cunqiao defeat Liu Rengong in the future and avenge him, which shows the depth of Li Keyong's hatred for Liu Rengong.

In the spring of this year, Liu Rengong saw the armies of the two Jin and Jin countries facing each other in Luzhou, and this time, his goal was to make Wang Rong and Yiwu Jiedu make Wang Zhizhi between him and Li Keyong.

Wang Rong and Wang Chuzhi have been trying to survive in the cracks all these years, and the two have become brothers, interdependent, and have always advanced and retreated together. After Liu Rengong sent troops to attack the two, the two first asked Zhu Wen for help, but Zhu Wen listened to Jing Xiang's advice and ignored it.

The two begged Li Keyong for help, but Li Keyong secretly hated the two of them for taking refuge in Zhu Wen before and ignored them, so Wang Rong and Wang Chuzhi could only resist Liu Rengong's army with difficulty and struggle.

The north was in chaos, and the south was not idle, and as soon as spring began, Ma Yin, the king of Chu, asked his general Li Qiong to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Gao Jixing, the envoy of Jingnan Jiedu. Gao Jixing asked for help from Liang and Shu on the one hand, and actively resisted on the other.

Gao Jixing is sleek, known as Gao Laizi by the world, and Zhu Wen and Wang Jian are good friends, and Ma Yin is in the limelight, whether it is Zhu Wen or Wang Jian, they do not want to see Ma Yin continue to grow bigger after annexing Jingnan, so they each sent people to lead the army to support.

As a result, Jingzhou, Guizhou, and Xiazhou, the small three states of Jingzhou, actually gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses from the Jingnan army, the Liang army, the Shu army, and the Chu army.

In the face of nearly 80,000 allied troops of the Jingnan Army, the Liang Army, and the Shu Army, Li Qiong actually showed an aggressive momentum, and successively broke the Jingnan Army and the Liang Army, and seemed to have the upper hand in the situation.

To the east, the flames of war between King Xu Wen and King Qian Biao of Wu Yue continued to burn not long after the beginning of spring, and these two sides had already started fighting for half a year last year.

To say that these two parties have always been at odds, and the hatred can even be traced back to the Yang Xingmi period, when in order to compete for the southern Jiangsu region, Yang Xingmi and Qian Biao fought for many years, and the dog's brain was almost out.

Xu Wen placed Yang Wu under house arrest with the support of Duanmu Xixi, inherited the king of Wu, and his ambitions swelled under the instigation of Duanmu Xixi. Of course, during this period, the strength of Southern Wu in the entire south even surpassed that of Shu, which was second to none.

With strength, it is natural to expand, Southern Wu and many forces actually border, to the south can attack the Southern Han, to the east can attack Wu Yue and Min, to the west can attack Chu and Jingnan, to the north can attack Liang.

There are so many forces to choose from, why did Xu Wen choose Qian Biao alone?

Very simply, the Liang State occupies the Central Plains, with the widest territory and the strongest power, and I am not sure; The Southern Han Dynasty was covered by a knife from the Song Dynasty, and the State of Chu was covered by the Daomen Chen Tuo, which was difficult to do; The king of Min knew that he was good friends with Xu Wen, and he was a son and daughter, so he ruled it out.

In the end, only one Jing Nan and Wu Yue were left to make a move, and Qian Biao had Zhu Wen's support, and he had never taken Nan Wu very seriously, plus the two sides still had old grudges, so it was normal to fight.

It stands to reason that the strength of Southern Wu is stronger than that of Wu Yue, and it should soon be able to gain an advantage, but what is surprising is that after fighting for more than half a year, the two sides are actually evenly matched, regardless of victory or defeat.

Further south, the Southern Han was actually attacking Jiaozhi.

Since Chen Qiuming, Long Si, and Song Wujian joined forces to kill Qu Chengyu last year, the entire Jiaozhi has fallen into civil strife, and Liu Yin took the opportunity to attack Jiaozhi. It is worth mentioning that Song Wujian actually served as an enshrinement under Liu Yin's account and followed Liu Yin's southern expedition.

Li Cunqiao and Chen Qiuming, who are far away in Luzhou, seem to be indifferent to the war everywhere, and they are dedicated to construction, and the entire Luzhou city seems to have become a huge construction site.

In Chen Qiuming's words: "Let those people fight to the death, and we will seize the opportunity to develop, and when those people are tired, we will come out to clean up the mess." ”

Li Cunqiao thought so.

At the beginning of May, the temperature in Luzhou was already a little hot, and on the construction site of the casting in the outer city, tens of thousands of people were working in full swing, Li Cunqiao, Jia Huan, Wuji, Zhou Dewei and other high-level officials in Luzhou were patrolling with their hands behind their backs, and Chen Qiuming was giving a class to the Royal Teachers College, but he was not there.

Li Cunmiao found a lot of new things on the construction site, in addition to cement, there are scaffolding, artificial lifts, artificial pumps, etc., Li Cunmiao looked east and west, and said to Li Fuchun, vice president of the Academy of Engineering: "Your engineering institute has recently researched a lot of rare things, no wonder my senior brother allocated so many scientific research funds to you." ”

Li Fuchun took the opportunity to complain: "The prince doesn't know that the scientific research tasks assigned by the military division to my engineering institute are very heavy, and all the people of our engineering institute work overtime day and night, and it is difficult to catch up with the progress of the military division's assignment. At present, what our engineering institute lacks most is not gold and silver, but scientific research manpower. ”

"I complained to the military advisor, what did you say? He said, as the vice president, you can't figure it out yourself? Otherwise, what use do I want you? I don't have any scientific researchers, but there are many people who want to be vice presidents, and if you don't change your thinking, you can change people, and you can do it yourself! ”

Li Cunmiao laughed when he heard this, and everyone on the side also smiled bitterly, you and I began to complain to Li Cunmiao and complained about Chen Qiuming, and Chen Qiuming had three major crimes:

First of all, it is quite unreasonable;

secondly, arbitrariness;

Finally, punish everyone by any means.

Li Cunmiao pointed at this group of people and said: "Don't complain about your hard work, in fact, the military division is even harder, don't complain that the military division is too strict, if there is no spur from the military division, how can your ability be improved quickly?" ”

He pointed at Jia Huan and said: "In terms of personnel, in addition to your own training and recruitment by the Engineering Institute, you can also find Senior Brother Jia's caravan to help recruit. ”

Li Fuchun nodded and said, "The prince is reasonable! The dean's talent is unparalleled, even if Lu Ban is reincarnated, he can't match it, although we have complaints, I admire it in my heart, his name will eventually go down in history and be remembered for centuries! ”

Li Cunqiao laughed out loud and said: "As long as you are willing to work hard, not only the military advisor, everyone we are present will go down in history, even the Luzhou City that is under construction, will go down in history!" ”

The people present felt the same way, and they all felt firsthand that Luzhou City was undergoing all kinds of unbelievable and rapid changes in an unheard of way.