Outside the city of Yizhou, Li Congke was riding a horse on the top of his helmet, and in front of him was an elite army of 20,000 that Li Congke had trained for many years, and was camping in the north of Yizhou at this time.

Compared with the neat and strict camp, the wilderness around the camp is full of devastation, which is the remnants of the great war, and even the stumps and broken arms and broken weapons can be seen in some places, showing the fierceness and bloodshed of the great war.

This time, Li Congke personally led the army to take Yizhou City, and Chen Chengyi could not resist the Changyi Festival, and fled in a hurry after the main force was surrounded and annihilated, and it is estimated that he had fled to Luoyang City to complain at this time.

At this time, the city of Yizhou has been ransacked by Li Congke's army, the people in the city have suffered greatly, a large number of innocent people have been killed by the rebels, many women have been raped by the rebels, and the city of Yizhou has become a hell on earth.

After Li Congke led his troops to wander around the city, he saw that the city of Yizhou was in shambles, so he went out of the city and set up camp in the north of Yizhou City, preparing to wait for the development of the situation before making the next step.

"Report!"

A junior colonel rode a horse and crossed his hands on the horse and said, "His Royal Highness King Qilu, the sage has sent an angel!" ”

"Huh?"

Li Congke's face suddenly became cold, and the horsewhip in his hand was slammed over, directly knocking the little colonel from the horse to the ground, and a reddish-purple mark appeared on the little colonel's face, and blood flowed down his cheeks, dyeing half of the little colonel's face red.

"Saints? My saint of the Tang Dynasty has passed away, where is the saint now! ”

"Whoa! It's little nonsense. ”

The little school's face was pale, and he hurriedly bowed down and pleaded guilty.

"Humph!"

Li Congke said in a cold voice: "Where is the messenger?" ”

"I have arrived in Yizhou City, and now I am waiting for His Highness's order."

Li Congke thought for a moment and said, "Let the messenger wait for me outside the big camp!" ”

"Whoa!"

After that, Li Congke still inspected around the camp unhurriedly, deploying scouts, open sentry, and secret sentry, until dusk, Li Congke led his troops to the outside of the gate, and at this time the messenger sent by Li Conghou had been waiting here for more than an hour.

"I've seen His Royal Highness King Lu!"

Li Congke looked at the messenger with a very arrogant expression, pointed at the messenger with a whip in his hand, and said in a cold voice: "Li Conghou sent you over, what is the so-called matter?" ”

This envoy is also a person, in the face of Li Congke's cold words, as well as the wolf-like brigade of iron horses behind Li Congke, the envoy said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "His Royal Highness King Lu Qi, I think that the new emperor has ascended the throne, and Qiankun has set its own program, and His Royal Highness King Lu still conforms to its situation." ”

"Humph! You dare to teach Lao Tzu! ”

"Don't dare."

The envoy crossed his hands and said: "Now that Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun are in charge of the court, and the succession of the saint is justified, if His Royal Highness King Lu insists on going his own way, it must not be cheap." I admire His Royal Highness King Lu as a person, and I really don't want to see His Royal Highness King Lu suffer, so I have this advice. ”

Li Congke laughed when he heard this, and said, "You are very good at talking, what is your name?" ”

"Under Xu Fuwei, the current imperial counselor."

"Good! Dr. Xu, what is the will of the sage, let's talk about it! ”

Seeing that Li Congke still had no intention of getting off the horse and saluting, Xu Fuwei couldn't help but sigh slightly, and didn't dare to ask for anything more, so he took out the edict and read it out.

After hearing this, Li Congke couldn't stop laughing and said, "What? Lao Tzu defeated Yizhou and Tunnel Zhou, and annihilated the main force of the Changyi Jiedu envoy, this saint of yours not only did not ask for the guilt, but instead sent the army money and food, and also crowned me as a captain? ”

Xu Fuwei actually disagrees with this edict very much, such an edict is clearly encouraging the local festival envoys to act arbitrarily, if the rest of the princes and festival envoys follow suit, will the imperial court also add officials one by one to appease?

But now where the responsibility lies, Xu Fuwei can only cross his hands and say: "The saint is merciful, and he doesn't want to see the tragedy of fratricidal and sibling rebellion, so he is willing to repay his grievances with virtue, and hopes that His Royal Highness King Lu can rein in the precipice, accept the saint's reward, and lead the troops back." ”

Li Congke asked: "What to do with the Yizhou and Tunnel Prefecture that Lao Tzu laid down?" Why is it not written in this edict? ”

"The sage said: Fengxiang Town and Changyi Town are subject to the actual jurisdiction, and each of them will strike their own troops."

Li Congke laughed again and said, "In other words, Yizhou and Tunnel State are considered to be given to me?" ”

"Haha! He Li Conghou is really kind! ”

After speaking, Li Congke no longer paid attention to Xu Fuwei, kicked the horse's belly violently, and rushed directly into the gate, and then hundreds of iron cavalry guards also entered the camp together, and the rolling iron cavalry almost trampled Xu Fuwei into a pulp.

At this time, Xu Fuwei was startled, he threw himself aside with his hands and feet, and looked at the arrogant soldiers in the camp in shock, only to feel that his heart was beating rapidly, almost jumping out of his throat.

"This, how can I deal with this time!"

Just when Xu Fuwei was worried, a small school rode a horse to come, turned over and dismounted, snatched the edict from Xu Fuwei's hand, and then said coldly: "His Royal Highness King Lu has an order: the edict stays, please take care of Dr. Xu!" ”

After speaking, the junior colonel rode into the depths of the camp, leaving only the stunned Xu Fuwei, who couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Luoyang City.

Zhu Hongzhao heard that Li Congke had accepted the edict, and the army began to withdraw one after another, and a hanging heart finally fell.

At this time, Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun were sitting opposite each other in the mansion drinking, both of them seemed very relaxed, this burst of Li Congke's anger scared the two of them enough, and now they can finally relax.

Now Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun are both among the privy envoys, Tongping Zhangshi, and concurrently serve as the Zhongshu Order, which can be said to be in power leaning towards the government and the opposition, but the qualifications of the two are not very sufficient, so the two of them will inevitably have some lack of confidence in their hearts, so they will get together to discuss things.

After three rounds of wine, Zhu Hongzhao poured wine into Feng Yun and his own cups, and then said: "Feng Xiang, now that Li Congke has stepped back for the time being, do you and I pay attention to the rest of the princes?" ”

"Zhu Xiang is talking about Li Congzhang and Li Congyan?"

"Exactly, among the sons of the first emperor right now, except for Li Congke, only these two can threaten us! Now that Li Congke has been stabilized for the time being, if Li Congzhang and Li Congyan also follow Li Congke's example, what should we do? ”

Feng Yun thought for a moment and said: "Let's talk about Li Congzhang first, I don't have much ambition in my view of Li Congzhang, he is just unruly. We can reward him greatly, promote him, give money, and win over Li Congzhang, as long as Li Congzhang is willing to comply, even if we have an extra arm, at least we can deter Li Congke. ”

"Well, great idea!"

Zhu Hongzhao said with a smile: "I think I will order Li Congzhang to be the envoy of the Hezhong Festival, increase the inspection of the school master, and give loyalty, diligence, tranquility and righteousness, how about it?" ”

Feng Yun clapped his hands and said, "That's very good! ”

Zhu Hongzhao asked, "Then how did Li Congyan deal with it?" ”

Feng Yun frowned slightly, and said: "I am not familiar with Li Congyan, I only know that this person was very low-key when he was in Luoyang, although his martial arts talents are all outstanding, but he is not as arrogant as Li Congke and others. So I think Li Congyan is very not simple, and it is very difficult to deal with, and a very ordinary reward can't get rid of him. ”

Zhu Hongzhao didn't think about it, and said: "Li Congyan is just a down-and-out prince who was deposed to Dengzhou by the first emperor, even if he has talent, he only has a small Dengzhou in his hands, can he still turn the sky?" In my opinion, how about opening a separate town for Li Congyan and changing the Dengzhou Thorn History Mansion to the Dengzhou Jiedu Embassy? ”

"Haha, where is Zhu Xiang's reward, it is clearly humiliating Li Congyan, isn't Zhu Xiang afraid of angering Li Congyan and causing him to raise troops to rebel?"

"Humph! Even if he wanted to rebel, he didn't have the strength! ”

Zhu Hongzhao said: "We appeased Li Congke and sealed Li Congzhang, we have lost face, if we don't get it back from a prince, how can we control the court!" ”

Feng Yun nodded and said: "But I don't think we should go too far, it's okay to change the Dengzhou Assassin Mansion to the Dengzhou Jiedu Envoy, but it is best to assign Mizhou and Laizhou under the Pinglu Jiedu Envoy to Li Congyan, otherwise the Jiedu Envoy of a state will be too humiliating, and it is difficult to guarantee that nothing will happen." ”

Zhu Hongzhao thought for a moment and said, "It's okay!" Recently, we have received a lot of impeachment of Shen Tan for the tyranny of Pinglu Jiedu, let's also make a gesture and beat Shen Tan, so as to block the mouth of the court. ”

The two discussed and decided, and the next day they played Li Conghou together. At this time, Li Conghou's henchmen were either released or demoted, Li Conghou has been completely hollowed out by Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun, and in the face of the invitation of the two, Li Conghou has no room for opposition, and the court approved it.

A few days later, Li Congyan received an edict issued by Li Conghou, and said with a smile to Bai Jixun, Li Wei, and Wu Conghan: "You see, our sage actually changed the Dengzhou Assassin Mansion to the Dengzhou Jiedu Embassy, and also assigned Mizhou and Laizhou to me!" ”

The three of them burst into laughter when they heard this, and Li Wei said with a smile: "What do you really want, the sage is quite understanding, is it that the sage knows that we are stationed on the front line of Yunshan and Hutou Cliff, and is afraid that we will work hard and lose money, so he directly sent Laizhou and Mizhou over?" ”

The crowd burst into laughter again.

Wu Conghan laughed for a while, crossed his hands and asked, "Lord, how should we deal with it now?" Do you want to send someone to contact Shen Tan, the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu? ”

Li Congyan said: "No! Even if Shen Tan receives the edict, he will ignore it, in the current situation, no one will be willing to give up the territory and population in his hands! ”

Li Wei and Bai Jixun suddenly came to their senses, and the two of them asked in unison: "What does the Lord mean, is it correct?" ”

"That's right! It's right! ”

Li Congyan sneered, took out a piece of information sent by the Beizhen Fusi yesterday, and said: "This information from the Beizhen Fusi shows that Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun have been sticking together in the near future, whether they are in the court or traveling, they are almost living and flying, and they are very affectionate!" ”

"Since Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun took power, Li Congke and Li Congzhang were rewarded and appeased, and now they want to change the Dengzhou Assassin Mansion to the Dengzhou Jiedu Embassy, in my opinion, these incidents are all caused by the two of them."

Li Wei, Wu Conghan, and Bai Jixun were all surprised when they heard this, but then they thought about it, and this matter was very likely.

Bai Jixun said: "The Lord's meaning, this time the assignment of Mizhou and Laizhou to us is not from the meaning of the sage? ”

Li Congyan nodded and said, "Although it is not the meaning of a saint, Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun can be regarded as doing a good thing for us, at least giving us a reason to send troops, and saving us a lot of aftermath." ”

Bai Jixun said worriedly: "I'm afraid that Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun won't admit it afterwards, and when the time comes, once Shen Tan gets into trouble, most of the two of them will fight one end and help the other." ”

Li Congyan laughed when he heard this, and said, "After this battle, does Pinglu Jiedu make Shen Tan still have a chance to go to the court to make trouble?" ”