Seeing that the eldest grandson nodded, Zheng Chao lowered his voice and asked, "King Rong...... Do you mean to be the emperor?"

The people of the Changsun clan on the side looked at Changsun Lin quietly.

The eldest grandson understood and said, "It is unknown whether King Rong has a heart or not. It's just that King Rong is now the only younger brother of the former emperor, and in orthodox terms, he may be the most suitable candidate."

"Before his death, my grandfather solemnly instructed me that he must choose the master from the Li clan to restore orthodoxy and save the general trend of the world." At the mention of his grandfather, the young man's eyes were a little sad.

Zheng Chao sighed lightly and said, "If you can choose among the Li family, it will naturally be the best choice."

The name is justified and justified...... These rituals are orthodox and are a very weighty sword.

"Mr. Zheng has a great heart, if he is fortunate enough to walk with him, this way may be clearer-" The young man's eyes were sincere, and he said that he invited him to achieve great things together.

In this way, Zheng Chao had to ask bluntly, "Dare to ask the Ling clan, have you already chosen the Rongwang Mansion?"

The eldest grandson is lonely: "Don't hide it from Mr. Zheng, I'm still thinking about it. It's just that looking at the overall situation, I think King Rong is the most suitable right now, and King Rong is now in the southwest area, and he has quite a voice."

Seeing Zheng Chao's thoughtful and hesitant look, the eldest grandson said again: "But as the younger generation just said, I still want to hear Mr.'s opinion, so I dare to invite Mr. here today."

"This matter...... Or don't rush to a decision." Zheng Chao sincerely suggested, "It is not easy for the eldest grandson clan to survive, and they cannot withstand another shock...... According to Zheng's opinion, it is better to secretly accumulate strength first, observe the situation, and then make a decision when the time is ripe."

The implication is not to be easily carried away by the situation and situation, and to stand in line too early, so as not to bet on the wrong person.

Zheng Chao was suspicious, King Rong might have been secretly trying to gain the support of the Changsun clan, but the clansmen of the Changsun family didn't want to talk to him for the time being.

The eldest grandson nodded: "What Mr. said is reasonable, and it is true that you can't make a rash decision."

He could hear that Zheng Chao had no intention of making a decision in a hurry, but he was also sincerely reminding them that the eldest grandson's family should choose carefully-

And accumulating strength is inevitable. Now that the chaos has arisen and the empress's decree is difficult, it is a good time for them to regain their strength.

But the power of a clan is limited after all, so he wants to do his best to win over all the people and forces that can be wooed.

Zheng Chao is very valuable, one is his reputation, and the other is the remnants of the Zheng family and talents behind him, even if he is regarded as a traitor by the Zheng family, but in the huge Zheng clan, there are always sensible people, and there are always people who are willing to put down their estrangement for the sake of interests.

Therefore, even if Zheng Chao did not let go of his support for King Rong at this moment, the eldest grandson and other clansmen still treated Zheng Chao with courtesy, and turned to other forces.

During the conversation, the eldest grandson suddenly asked, "Mr. Zheng and Jiang Du often assassinated Shi, when they were in Xingyang, they should have had contact, right?"

Zheng Chao was stunned for a moment, and then nodded with a smile: "Yes, at that time, I often prayed for the rain to stop with me."

This matter has already been rumored, and has even become a "corroboration" to prove that Chang Sui Ning is the reincarnation of the star.

"When I was in Jingshi, I admired Chang Niangzi very much." Thinking of the murder of his sister-in-law, Changsun Lone's eyes darkened for two points, and after a moment, he said, "It's just that at that time, I never thought that Chang Niangzi would have the achievements she has today."

At the beginning, Chang Niangzi's efforts to clean up her brother were really amazing, and he also knew that this girl was extraordinary, but he never expected it to be so extraordinary.

As soon as he was born, he pacified Xu Zhengye's rebellion, and according to Jiangdu, he was a thief and a famous man with an unstoppable attitude.

Therefore, he and his people are also imagining whether they can pull the Chang family into the camp.

It is inevitable that the Chang family will be suspicious of the empress, and it is difficult to support it alone, and it is worth considering finding someone to form an alliance.

Although it has not yet been decided who will support the Li family in the end, if he can, he really wants to conspire with a figure like Chang Niangzi, whether it is out of interest considerations or personal selfishness.

The eldest grandson revealed this idea to Zheng Chao euphemistically.

Zheng Chao's mood is a little complicated,

Pull her to help the Lord?

Thinking of the sense of ambition that the girl gave him, Zheng Chao felt that the plan of the eldest grandson family was doomed to fail.

At the beginning, she hadn't gone to Jiangdu yet, so she invited him to Jiangdu as a guest in the host's tone...... Then, as expected, she really put Jiangdu into her sack in a grand manner.

And now, she has turned Jiangdu into her sack and stuffed all kinds of talents into it......

Would such a person really be willing to support others easily?

In other words, what kind of person can make her willing to be a minister and support?

King Rong, who is favored by the eldest grandson's family, does he have this ability?

Zheng Chao felt suspenseful, but he still said euphemistically: "Since it is an old knowledge, it is okay to explore the idea of Chang Assassin History first......

Next, the people of the eldest grandson's family asked Zheng Chao about Cui Jing's recent situation.

Zheng Chao smacked his tongue in his heart, co-authored, the eldest grandson's family wants to take in the street rats who are spurned by the scholars, right?

However, his eldest nephew is indeed a very worthy target.

But it is about the Xuan Ce Army, the weight of this is too heavy, and there is no certainty at all, and the people of the eldest grandson family did not dare to say it clearly, but just knocked on the side.

Zheng Chao has no intention of making any choice for Cui Jing, he is now just a poor uncle raised by his nephew outside, and he has no way to be his nephew's home and be the nephew's master.

Regarding his nephew's thoughts, Zheng Chao didn't reveal much, and of course, he couldn't reveal them - what the eldest nephew thought, he really didn't know much.

The eldest grandson stayed with Zheng Chao for a few days, and after getting along for a few days, Zheng Chao had a good impression of the young head of the eldest grandson's family.

Before Zheng Chao left, he agreed with the eldest grandson that if conditions permitted, he would maintain correspondence.

In fact, Zheng Chao has made such an agreement with many people who can talk to him along the way.

The eldest grandson wanted to give a gift, but Zheng Chao rejected it - there was no way, the eldest nephew gave too much, so that he could maintain a worry-free life of food and clothing, and a clean and high image of money as dung.

Speaking of which...... Tomorrow seems to be the Mid-Autumn Festival?

So Zheng Chao decided to write a letter to his eldest nephew, and the letter said that he had seen and heard recently, including landscapes and scenery, as well as wars and hardships. At the end, he mentioned that he was threatened with a kitchen knife when he was in Xiazhou, and it boiled down to: [Fortunately, I was witty to resolve it]

Zheng Chaogang sent this letter out, and when he wanted to cross the Fuling River by boat, he suddenly heard the noise of people at the ferry, and it turned out that someone had brought back the battle report from the east-

「…… South Korea's Gong Li Xian is defeated! Now it has been forced to retreat to Jingzhou by Bian Chunliang's army!"

"Dongting has fallen into the hands of Bian Chunliang, and has occupied Yuezhou, and has carried out a lot of burning, killing and looting!"

"Bian Chunliang's army is so fierce and brave, what can I do......

"I have a letter here...... It was from the hands of the military advisors under the command of Bian Chunliang, and they also threatened to 'go straight to Huanglong, attack the capital of Gyeonggi, and seek justice for the people who died in vain in Daozhou in the past!'"

Zheng Chao hurriedly stepped forward and took a look at the text with the young man in the shirt.

At the beginning of last year, there was a great drought in Daozhou, because the relief was not timely, resulting in countless victims starving to death, and in recent years, there were many disasters, and at first the imperial court did not care much about the man-made disasters under this drought.

In the autumn of last year, there began to be an influx of victims from Daozhou into Beijing, asking the Son of Heaven for mercy and justice, at that time Xu Zhengye's rebellion had appeared, and the Jingshi imposed martial law and investigated Xu thieves and party women, and many victims were wrongly killed or violently expelled.

Their voices are not heard, and life and death are not cared for.

This public grievance, taking advantage of Xu Zhengye's uprising, under the leadership of salt dealer Bian Chunliang, quickly gathered into a chaotic army.

In the end, it is a civil force, at the beginning of the chaos, the imperial court did not pay much attention to it, until it was extinguished, and it became more and more powerful, seeing that Bian Chunliang had captured Hengzhou and Shaozhou since Daozhou, and occupied Tanzhou in the spring of this year, raising troops to attack Dongting-

Xu Zhengye's momentum has been extinguished, but Bian Chunliang, who was not valued at first, has become stronger and stronger.

Bian Chunliang's ambition is written on the surface, raising the banner of revenge, vowing to attack the Beijing division and overthrow the current government.

He threatened to ask for the lives of the people,

He wanted to seek justice for the people who died in vain in Daozhou, and pay for the blood debts and blood, so everywhere he went, all the officials, powerful and powerful, were robbed and killed by him. Many of the local nobles, young and old, were slaughtered and then burned to the ground along with their houses.

If it is said that Xu Zhengye was still trying to win over officials and nobles in the name of Kuangfu Li's country, Bian Chunliang openly stood on the opposite side of the official and powerful clan, and he said in the text [Kill all the corrupt officials under the knife, crush the arrogance of the minister, and do not break Gyeonggi to get justice, and will not return]——

Zheng Chao frowned.

Full of blood and vengeance, determined to overthrow the oppressive government...... It is undoubtedly extremely powerful to use this text to incite civilians in troubled times.

Coupled with Li Xian's defeat, the morale of Bian Chunliang's army will rise again, and it will inevitably attract countless people to follow suit.

Zheng Chao's gaze crossed over to the panicked crowd at the entrance, and looked in the direction of Dongting Lake in the east, extremely worried.

Li Xian's defeat can be said to have been unexpected by many people.

Two months ago, Li Xian forced Bian Chunliang's army out of the Dongting area, and reported the victory into Beijing, which was regarded as a battle to turn the situation around.

After that, Li Xian pursued the victory and wanted to take back Tanzhou, but after a fierce battle for more than a month, he still couldn't attack it for a long time.

If you can't attack for a long time, it's a taboo for soldiers. If morale fails, there will be defeat.

On the first day of the first month of August, Bian Chunliang's army suddenly went out of the city to meet the battle, broke through the defense of Li Xian's army, and lasted for more than ten days, and then captured Dongting and occupied Yuezhou.

Li Xian's army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and under the retreat of defeat, he was barely able to stabilize the formation in Jingzhou by virtue of the advantage of easy defense and difficult attack.

Jingzhou has always been difficult to attack, Bian Chunliang's army has also been exhausted, and at this moment camped in Yuezhou to recuperate and accumulate strength, and in the city of Yuezhou, because of the slaughter of Bian's army, it has become like purgatory.

Li Xian, who lost Dongting and Yuezhou, the first thing he did when he settled down in Jingzhou was to be a general in the middle of the army.

He believed that he had clearly drawn up a thorough battle plan, and it was only because the officers and men under his command were incompetent and ineffective in carrying out their duties that they easily retreated and disturbed the morale of the army, which led to the occurrence of a great defeat.

These soldiers are like a plate of scattered sand, if they are not responsible, how can they talk about military regulations and military prestige?

Under the defeat, the morale was weakened, and Li Xian tried to pull up the general's heart.

Under such severe punishment, the people in the army who had just suffered a defeat became more and more panicked, like a tight bow, forcibly propped up.

Li Xian, who was also wounded, had a cold face at the moment, and was writing a report in the camp asking for the crime.

Jingzhou is very important, and he repeatedly promised in the plea that he would defend Jingzhou with his own life and would definitely recover the Yuezhou that had been lost in his hands.

When he put the pen away, Li Xian's hand was violently forced, and the pen barrel was broken in his hand.

He was defeated this time, but he will not be defeated again!

He will definitely take down Bian Chunliang's head with his own hands, and be ashamed of the snow now!

The news of Dongting's defeat was transmitted back to Beijing, and the court was furious and panicked.

Hearing the tragic situation of the people in Yuezhou after the war, the Emperor of the Holy Book was furious and severely reprimanded Li Xian.

"Your Majesty, Jingzhou is located at a critical point, and it is the most powerful barrier in front of Shannan Dongdao...... If Jingzhou is lost again, the eastern capital Luoyang, and even the Beijing Division, I am afraid that they will become the things in the bag of the chaotic army! At that time, the great prosperity will be in danger!"

When the Holy Emperor heard this, he was furious: "Bold!"

The official, knowing that he had used the wrong words, knelt down in a panic and pleaded guilty.

But although his words sound ominous, they are also a fact in front of us.

The Emperor of the Holy Book was also aware of this, so he did not deceive himself and whitewash the peace, and sent a repune to this official, and after calming down, he urgently discussed countermeasures with his ministers.

Feeling the uneasy atmosphere that permeated the Jinluan Palace, the crown prince Li Zhi, who was listening to the government, trembled slightly with his hands half-hidden in his sleeves.

In addition to the threat of Bian Chunliang's army, recently, reports of battles of all sizes from all over the country will be transmitted back to the Beijing division almost every few days, and General Xiao Min has once again led his troops to quell the chaos......

What to do, is Dasheng going to die?

The prince was so frightened that he was about to cry.

The officials of the household department are also going to cry.

Other officials were angry, frightened, or frightened

, and their household department, there is another headache.

In the face of the continuous huge war expenditure, they are really about to die of headaches!

Zhan Shilang looked at the mountains of money reminders in front of him, and suddenly understood the teacher-the teacher's mental state of going crazy at every turn, decades ahead of him!

Facing these things every day, how can you not go crazy?

Especially the Korean duke's military salary, he couldn't wait to tear it apart and chew it in his stomach, he fought for a long time, asked for so much money, and ended up holding back such a big defeat, not a single city was taken back, and Yuezhou was lost!

Isn't that a proper loss of money?

Defeat is not the end, but means more supplies of medicinal herbs, more casualties, and even wartime consumption that has been stretched for a longer time......

And listening to the discussion of the ministers of the early dynasty, because Bian Chunliang's troops have grown again, it is inevitable that he will send more troops to Jingzhou next.

How can it be done without increasing the dispatch, Jingzhou must not be lost!

Zhan Shilang sighed, even if he had a thousand headaches, he could only deal with them urgently.

Zhan Shilang looked through the official room, his brows became tighter and tighter, and he couldn't help but think of the fact that Jiangdu Chang Assassin Shi wanted to build an official workshop not long ago.

Building a workshop is undoubtedly a big expense, and when he was just about to have a headache, he heard that Chang Tingshi had taken the initiative to say in advance in the recital that she could find a way to pay for all the expenses-

Advance...... What a beautiful two words!