After Li Zhen left Zhengangmen, he went to the camp of General Xu Shilao and joined him.

During this time, General Xu Shilao led a large number of cultivators and troops, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and the battle was victorious, and in just a few days, Shizhou, which was close to Huaguo, and most of the territory fell into his hands.

Judging from the current situation, it is not difficult to take down the entire Shizhou.

Li Zhen soon joined up with General Xu Shi, and here, he met the ghost ancestor who had arranged to pick up Sun Jian's family.

The ghost ancestor had successfully completed the task, placed people in Fengyang Pass, and learned that Li Zhen went to Zhengangmen and would meet with General Xu, so he came directly to General Xu to wait for Li Zhen.

"Oh? Is it going to be done properly? ”

Li Zhen asked when he saw the ghost ancestor.

"There are a lot of children in the family, and they have all brought them back."

The Ghost Ancestor replied truthfully.

Li Zhen nodded with satisfaction and said: "Go back and send a letter to Sun Jian, his worries have been eliminated, if he refuses to switch to our country, then this prince can only fulfill his promise and start killing people, and start killing his family first." ”

Li Zhen said before that Sun Jian would kill 10,000 prisoners if he didn't surrender in one day, but because of the opposition of the clan elders and others, Li Zhen did not take action. But people's patience is always limited, and now that Sun Jian's family has been taken over, even if he is treasonous, Liang Guo will not be able to do him the slightest harm, and if he doesn't know how to lift, then he can only be ruthless.

"My subordinates will send someone to deliver a letter."

The ghost ancestor was about to make arrangements, and Li Zhen said again: "By the way, tell him one more thing, as long as he is willing to surrender, he can not participate in the war against the Liang State, this is the biggest concession of this prince." ”

"Understood!"

The ghost ancestor went down to arrange, and before leaving, Li Zhen took out a secret book and handed it to him, which was part of the Heart Sutra of the Nine Hells Demon Sutra.

"You have done things very satisfactorily to Prince Ben these days, and this is your reward."

Since Li Zhen took him to Fengyang Pass, everything the ghost ancestor has done has made Li Zhen very satisfied, since he has merit, of course he must be rewarded.

The rewards and punishments are clear, and the way is to control people.

The ghost ancestor was overjoyed when he got the heart method, he was so loyal to him, wasn't it just for this thing?

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward!"

The effort was rewarded, and the ghost ancestor's happy mouth couldn't close.

"Your Highness, rest assured! In the future, his subordinates will be smeared with liver and brain, and they will not give up! ”

Li Zhen nodded, and then his eyes fell on Wuchenzi and Tuliusun, and said: "You two listen, I have a powerful technique in my hand, which is enough to make you salivate, as long as you do things well, you will also be rewarded in the future."

"Especially Tuliusun, what you are cultivating now is the earth-based technique, and I happen to have a profound earth-based divine skill in my hands, what was handed over to the Zhengangmen before is just the skin of the earth-based divine skill, if you concentrate on doing things, you will definitely be taught to you."

The 'Earth Secret Technique' that Tuliusun is practicing now is certainly powerful, but compared to the 'Yellow Emperor Gen Kun Jia', it is the difference between cloud and mud, so Li Zhen has enough capital to tempt him to be obediently loyal. As for Wuchenzi, although this old man is very obedient and can also pat on the back, but he injured his father before, this account must be calculated, so let him be thankless, and when Li Zhen is satisfied, he will be rewarded.

"Your Highness, rest assured! Tuliusun has been obedient and absolutely loyal. ”

"The old way goes to the soup and fire, and I don't give up!"

Tuliusun and Wuchenzi hurriedly expressed their loyalty.

In the following days, Li Zhen followed General Xu Lao to fight on the battlefield, and the Chinese army relied on a strong team of cultivators, and there was no enemy at all along the way. The Liang army has a large army, but it is a very stupid decision to use the army to compete with the cultivators.

Cultivators can only be confronted by practitioners, and once a practitioner strikes at the army, it is a one-sided slaughter.

Liang Guo is not like Hua Guo has integrated its own cultivation sects, and the cultivators supported by the imperial court alone have no effect on the war situation at all, and they are sent out to death in vain, but it is not an easy thing to want their own cultivation sects to help, not to mention that Hua Guo has dispatched hundreds of cultivators, just because there are three strong people in the army, the Hua Kingdom cultivation sect does not dare to take the lead.

They can only ask for their own hardships.

After the Chinese army completely took Shizhou, the monarch of the Liang State had no choice but to drive the expedition in person, and at the time of the expedition, the cultivation circle of the Liang State, which had not moved, suddenly became lively, and the various sects and factions spontaneously organized people to help the imperial court resist the Chinese army, and its number reached 400 people, compared to the number and strength of the Chinese army cultivators, although it was still inferior, but their appearance was a great good thing for the Liang court.

Taking this opportunity, the Liang court may be able to deepen its relationship with the various cultivation sects.

When the Chinese army took Shizhou and was about to attack the next state capital, the spies came to report that Emperor Liang was personally on the expedition, and there were a large number of cultivators around him, and it was obvious that the various cultivation sects of the Liang State were helping the imperial court.

This news made Li Zhen and General Xu frown.

Emperor Liang obviously wanted to fight a national war with them, but now Li Zhen only wanted to take advantage of them, and did not want to engage in a larger national war.

"Looks like our plans are going to slow down."

Li Zhen looked at General Xu Lao and said: "If there is no help from the cultivation world of Liang State, I am not afraid, I can continue to act according to the plan, now it has backfired, our battle has helped Emperor Liang a lot, so that he and the cultivation world have taken this opportunity to strengthen the connection, if you continue to fight, not to mention the increase in losses, you can take advantage of very little." ”

"Your Highness means not to fight?"

Although Li Zhen didn't say it explicitly, General Xu Lao already understood what he meant.

"We didn't spend a single soldier to defeat Shizhou, and now that the other party is prepared, let's fight again, even if we take down the next state, there will definitely be a lot of casualties, and this kind of loss-making business must not be done."

Although it failed to complete the plan to seize thousands of miles of fertile land, it was not bad to conquer a state, and at least it could become a forward position for attacking Liang in the future.

"Your Highness! The veteran is only worried that the other party will not let us take Shizhou easily, and he will definitely take it back. ”

General Xu said worriedly.

"Haha!"

Li Zhen said confidently: "If the old general is not at ease, he can let Wuchenzi and Tuliusun go to Emperor Liang's camp to walk around, I think Emperor Liang will be very interesting."

The Chinese army has a strong man in the territory, and the initiative is on their side.

General Xu Lao realized that he was immediately relieved, and ordered the troops to camp and garrison Shizhou.

Emperor Liang learned that the Chinese army was stationed in Shizhou, and did not intend to continue advancing, so he also stopped his team and did not prepare to fight the Chinese army, after all, their strength was still weaker than the Chinese army.

It's not the strength of the army that is weak, it's the cultivators.

On the second day after the Chinese army camped in Shizhou, Dou Wu of Zhengangmen personally came to see Li Zhen and brought good news.

After discussion, Zhengangmen was willing to switch to Huaguo and serve Huaguo.

"Subordinate Dou Wu see His Highness!"

As soon as Dou Wu saw Li Zhen's face, he immediately performed the courtesy of the monarch and the minister, in order to show his intention to take refuge, Li Zhen was very happy, and hurriedly helped him up, and said: "The master of Dou Men is really too polite, they will be a family in the future, so there is no need to be so polite."

"Don't waste your courtesy!"

Dou Wu responded.

There are many reasons why Zhengangmen took refuge in Li Zhen, but in general, it was driven by interests and survival pressure, which made it necessary to do so.

Good birds choose trees to perch.

The future of the Liang Kingdom is worrying, even if the strength of the country's cultivation world is gathered, but there is no high-end combat power such as a realm powerhouse, it is only a matter of time before it fails, in this case, why should it accompany the jade to burn?

Li Zhen needs a head start at this stage.

Zhengangmen is the closest to Li Zhen, so it is this up-and-coming bird, either stubbornly resisting and being killed by Li Zhen as an example, or surrendering allegiance and setting an example for other sects in the cultivation world of the Liang Kingdom.

Zhengangmen only has these two roads to go, life and death.

This kind of multiple-choice question is actually not a multiple-choice question, because no one will take their life to live.

Exceptions are not excluded, but exceptions are rare.

"With the help of your faction, our Chinese army can be said to be like a tiger with wings."

Li Zhen said: "Now that the Liang State has gathered a large army and the strength of the cultivation world to resist the footsteps of our army, our army is not willing to fight with it for the time being, and has decided to garrison Shizhou. ”

"Your Highness, rest assured! This door poured out of the nest and contributed to the Shizhou garrison without reservation. ”

The Dou Sect Master assured.

Li Zhen was very satisfied, and immediately held a meeting to discuss the next military operation, and the main matter to discuss was the details of the garrison in Shizhou.

At the end of the meeting, Li Zhen did not stay long and took people back.

There will be no war in Shizhou for a short time, Li Zhen has come to fight a beautiful turnaround, and it is time to return to the court to receive a reward.

This time, Li Zhen returned to the dynasty with the ghost ancestor, Tuliusun, more than 20 sect heads, and his three clan elders will also return together.

Li Zhen began to set off to return to the court, and the news of the Battle of Fengyang Pass and the defeat of Shizhou in Liang State spread throughout the country under Li Zhen's deliberate intention.

After returning to the dynasty, he had two important things to do, one was to get married, and the other was to ascend the throne.

The big wedding is definitely the first priority at this stage, as for the enthronement still needs to wait a little longer, according to the rules set by the Taizu of Huaguo, only by promoting a robbery immortal can he ascend the throne as the emperor. Li Zhen is still a little far from being promoted to a robbery immortal, so he has to wait after returning to the dynasty, but Li Zhen has already thought of a way to quickly promote a robbery immortal, and he will start to implement it after the wedding.

Li Zhen left Beijing without much fanfare before, and the same is true when he comes back.

After returning to the imperial capital, Li Zhen went to see his father first.

"Son-in-law, see father."

Li Zhen came to the Heart Cultivation Hall and saluted.

Vantage's complexion is much better than when Li Zhen first left, the good news on the front line has already arrived, and he is very satisfied with Li Zhen's performance, Li Zhen has not been gone for more than a month, and has laid the foundation for the future elimination of the Liang State, which Vantage never thought of in advance.

"You're doing a great job! Huaguo is in your hands, and it will definitely be stronger. ”

In fact, Emperor Hua has always been more resistant to Li Zhen using the ghost ancestor and the shadow guard, and he has the intention to let Li Zhen dismiss these people, but this time in the matter of Fengyang Pass, they have made a great contribution, especially the ghost ancestor, which makes Emperor Hua not plan to care.

"This time there is a great achievement, and there should be a grand triumphal ceremony."

Emperor Hua thought that since Li Zhen wanted to establish prestige, he should not come back so quietly.

Li Zhen did have this intention, but in the end, he denied it, and felt that this kind of thing was of little practical significance.

"The merits of the front line are exchanged for the flesh and blood of the soldiers, and the sons and daughters think that they should not enjoy this honor alone."

Li Zhen's words made Emperor Huadi's eyes light up, and he was impressed, and then said: "Since you are back, then the marriage will be put on the agenda as soon as possible."

There had been discussions before, and a big wedding would be held when he returned to the court.

Li Zhen had no opinion, because Emperor Hua still had to recuperate, Li Zhen left after a brief report on the situation on the front line and future planning.

Half a month after Li Zhen quietly returned to the imperial capital, Li Zhen's wedding began to prepare, and the number of guests at the wedding could be said to be unique in the grandeur of the princes of Huaguo.

Leaving aside the civil and military officials of the imperial court for the time being, there are more than 100 people in the cultivation world alone, and this alone means that the saints today do not have such a big face.

The Huaguo royal family has always wanted to harness the power of the cultivation world, but unfortunately it has had little effect for hundreds of years, who would have thought that Li Zhen, the disgraced prince, would finally be taken down.

In addition to the large number of guests at this wedding, Li Zhen's marriage to his second daughter is also a topic of conversation.

One is the granddaughter of a civil leader, and the other is a heavenly lady in the cultivation world.

From an outsider's point of view, Li Zhen can be said to have enjoyed a blessing that others dare not imagine, and only he himself knows that these two women have no feelings for him at all, and marrying them has nothing but political significance.

The big wedding takes place on the first day of October.

It started at dawn in the morning and ended in the evening, and the entire imperial capital was filled with joy because of this wedding.

During the wedding, there was a small episode in the ceremony of canonizing Yan Xuan and Meng Bingqi.

According to the previous agreement, Yan Xuan should be canonized as the crown princess and Meng Bingqi as the side concubine, but Li Zhen suddenly changed his mind, and Yan Xuan's crown princess was canceled and changed to a side concubine.

Li Zhen's temporary change was beyond everyone's expectations, but if he insisted on it, Vantage could only promise.

Li Zhen's actions relieved the pressure on Yan Xuan, Yan Xuan was very grateful, but he didn't know that Li Zhen's real intention was to think that the position of the crown princess or the future queen should be the person he really loved.

"What kind of water and wine do you kid eat at this time? The Spring Festival is worth a thousand dollars, why don't you enjoy it soon? ”

Friend Chen Qing teased.

Li Qingshan also gave Li Zhen a look.

The three friends in Qingyuanmen, Mu Wanjun, did not come, and was obviously worried about Li Zhen's marriage.

Mu Wanjun opposed Li Zhen's political marriage.

When Li Zhen heard this, his face was undeserved, and he smiled: "You only have envy." ”

At this time, it was late at night, and the guests were almost gone, Li Zhen, Chen Qing, and Li Qingshan chatted a few words, and then left for the dormitory.

Yan Xuan and Meng Bingqi, who were in two separate dormitories, sat at the head of the bed, very nervous in their hearts.

Yan Xuan has accepted her fate, seemingly calm, but in fact, her heart is mixed, as for Meng Bingqi, she is nervous and afraid, what if Li Zhen does not act according to the previous agreement?

Hit, can't beat.

Run, can't escape.

It's just that in the end, the nervousness or fear of the two was superfluous, Li Zhen did not go to the dormitory of the two, but turned back to the study and rested in the study for the night.