"Your Majesty, I heard that General Liu Xiu's brother is in an important position in the rebels, and I don't know if it's true or not."

On the eve of Liu Xiu's leadership to quell the rebellion, Liu Xiu was suddenly impeached.

"Is that really the case?" Wang Mang couldn't hear the joy and anger on the dragon chair.

"Your Majesty, this is indeed the case."

Liu Xiu said.

"But the minister and the elder brother have not been in contact for a long time, and I only recently heard that the minister's brother joined the rebels, and the minister is guilty!"

Liu Xiu knelt on the ground.

"Your Majesty, Liu Xiu's brother is in a high position in the rebels, and the ministers are worried that Liu Xiu will make mistakes in quelling the rebellion."

"I believe that Uncle Wen is a loyal and righteous person, and he will not lose sight of the overall situation." Wang Mang said calmly, without the slightest dissatisfaction with Liu Xiu.

"Your Majesty, the minister also believes that General Liu is a loyal and righteous person, after all, General Liu couldn't put down "Twenty-Four Loyal Ministers" at the beginning." Su Yan stood up and said a word to Liu Xiu.

"I believe in Uncle Wen, and the person who led the troops to quell the rebellion this time will not make changes."

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"Brother, you're back."

The main force of the first emperor was in Kunyang, and Liu Xiu's army was stationed outside Kunyang.

Late at night, Liu Xiu greeted a special guest.

"I'm finally back, and I'm just disgusting to death with those bandits and fools all day long." Liu Yan said softly.

"This is not the place to speak, go to my tent." Liu Xiu took Liu Yan's arm and walked into the tent.

Liu Xiu and Liu Yan sat at the bottom of the left side, and Xiu'er personally poured a cup of tea for his brother.

"Brother came back from the 'First Emperor', did they notice it?" Xiu'er asked.

"Now that the rebels have become a mess, I have deliberately lowered my presence recently, and they can't find out that I have left." Liu Yan drank a cup of tea.

"Brother has worked hard all these years, and when my brother returns to Chang'an, His Majesty will definitely reward him heavily." Liu Xiu said.

Five years ago, Liu Xiu's prominence in Chang'an officialdom was valued by Wang Mang.

Wang Mang cited him as a confidant, which coincided with Wang Mang's desire to solve some of the restless factors of the new dynasty at that time.

He did not want to discern and deal with those forces bit by bit, he wanted to directly suppress those reactionaries by force.

So Xiu'er, who had become Wang Mang's confidant, recommended his brother, and Wang Mang handed over this arduous task to Liu Yan.

That was the first shot fired against the new dynasty.

So Liu Yan rebelled in Nanyang and raised the banner of opposing the new Han Dynasty.

After Liu Yan's uprising, many rebellious forces soon emerged in the new dynasty, and finally they gathered together and respected Liu Xuan as the first emperor.

"It's not easy to have an undercover career, your brother and I almost became the emperor of the rebels!" Liu Yan said a little proudly.

I almost got over the addiction of being an emperor.

"Brother is quite capable." Liu Xiu couldn't help laughing.

His Majesty's original goal was to let his brother lead out those reactionary forces, but he didn't expect that his brother almost became their boss.

"Wouldn't it be better for my brother to become the emperor, and when the time comes, as soon as our army arrives and you surrender directly, won't it save a lot of trouble?" Liu Xiu said with a smile.

"I thought the same way at the beginning, but I was afraid that after I became the emperor, His Majesty would have some opinions about himself in his heart, so he gave this opportunity to others." Liu Yan's eyebrows fluttered and said.

"Your Majesty is broad-minded, and he will definitely not care."

"Okay, okay, let's stop talking about this and get down to business!" Liu Yan couldn't help but wave his hand to interrupt Xiu'er's words.

It's endless, it's not like he didn't fight for it at the beginning, isn't it that he hasn't fought for it?

"What kind of person does the elder brother think the First Emperor is?" Liu Xiu asked.

"Liu Xuan? His city and fangs are hidden under his idiot exterior, and when he grows full, he can eat people. Liu Yan said.

At the beginning, he didn't care too much about Liu Xuan, but he didn't expect that he was the one who snatched the supreme leader from him in the end.

At that time, I knew him well, and I was still a fool who didn't deserve attention.

"But even if Liu Xuan is, he is not the opponent of the imperial army, because there is a lot of chaos in Kunyang now." Liu Yan said funny.

At the beginning, I still wanted to stir up trouble among the rebels and reduce their power, but I didn't expect that even if I didn't do anything, they would engage in internal friction.

After Liu Xuan ascended the throne, he first used a knife on himself.

He Liu Yan is also a tolerant person, and the rebels who followed him were killed several times without resistance, which made Liu Xuan a little surprised.

Then Liu Yan went directly to Liu Xuan and said that everyone was a relative of the Han family, and he was willing to do his best to assist Liu Xuan in opposing the new Han Dynasty.

Liu Xuan was moved, and it just so happened that he was also thinking about dealing with those who supported him in the beginning, so Liu Yan became Liu Xuan's younger brother.

Then Liu Yan was a pawn with Liu Xuan, constantly fighting with Chen Mu and others.

After Liu Yan's rebels ran out, Liu Xuan continued to use his own power to fight against Chen Mu and others.

Although the internal friction between the rebels was serious, it could not reach the point of breaking the muscles and bones, and it still took a lot of energy for the imperial army to come to conquer.

When he learned that the imperial army was marching, Liu Yan thought that it was time for him to shine again.

But a plague made the entire rebel army miserable, hundreds of soldiers fell ill or died of illness every day, and Liu Xuan and others didn't even have the mind to internal friction.

Liu Yan, who was already a marginal figure, disappeared for a while, and he couldn't attract their attention at all.

"I didn't expect my brother's experience to be so bizarre, and these rebels are so unfortunate." Liu Xiu said with emotion.

The rebels themselves are too busy to take care of themselves, and it seems that their achievements this time have been somewhat easy.

Now that the rebels have less than 30,000 troops left, he wants to use the 'crowd tactics' that General Li Guang is famous for to directly deal them a fatal blow.

"But there are some people from the family who support the rebels, and these are what Your Majesty values the most." Liu Xiu asked.

Wang Mang told Xiu'er when Liu Xiu left Beijing and asked him to find some evidence of the family's rebellion, and if not, he would make some of it himself.

"When I started the army, I didn't get funding from those families, but those Green Forest Army, Pinglin Army, and Xiajiang Army all colluded with some families, and I also collected some evidence."

He was not sponsored by the family, but he was sponsored by the emperor.

Liu Yan opened his package and took out some of the letters inside.

"Yes, those families can't run away this time." Liu Xiu's face was happy, but then her brows were a little unfurled.

"It's still a little less, not as expected by His Majesty."

"I have a very poor relationship with Chen Mu, and it's a bit troublesome to get evidence of their collusion with those families." Liu Yan said.

"Brother has done a good job, and the rest of the evidence will be available after we destroy the rebels, even if they have destroyed the evidence, we can 'make' the evidence."