The scenery of Chu County is beautiful and elegant, with white walls and black eaves of private houses. But it is different from the white walls and black tiles of the snow country, and the temperature that does its best to retain the sun. The buildings of Chu County are high and low, and the Qingxi stone bridge. As a former prince, he naturally has some of his own culture and appreciation. It is very different from the magnificent scenery elsewhere in Datang.

The manors of the lords of Chu County are all located in Danyang, and the Qu manor headed by them occupies the most beautiful stone bank by the river and the most beautiful mountain forest.

Chu County is located in the southern wilderness, although the mountains and forests are beautiful, but they are far from precipitous.

In the small building in the depths of Qu Yuan, several old people greedily enjoyed the warm sun shining in from the window, as if they wanted to find a balance for most of their lives spent in the shadows.

Qu Sheng handed the hot towel to his son, who had just returned from Yingcheng and had become the patriarch behind him. Looking at the old men in the chair, he sighed and said: "God has mercy, before we die, we can finally wait for this change, and we will not die in regret and sigh like our predecessors." ”

One of the old men said calmly: "The ancestors made a great wish with their blood, although the three families of Chu are dead, Tang will be Chu. The will of my generation has been set as early as the time of birth, and the ancestral teachings of all ethnic groups have never forgotten the matter of returning to the country. Now that we are working hard, there are still some details that need to be carefully considered. ”

Qu Sheng said calmly: "The military aircraft is an important task, naturally there are children in the clan to carry it out, my three surnames have been developing in Chu County for many years, and there will be no problems." ”

"What Brother Qu said is very true. However, after the children of the three clans and even other famous families who are attached to my three clans, they are in Chang'an City for officials and scholars, and now that my Chu County is self-reliant, the Li family will definitely not give us the opportunity to take them out of the city, this is ...... What should I do?"

"The reason why King Tang trusts us old men is that he thinks that we Chu people can't afford to be torn apart by a temporary turn, that is, he thinks that we can't bear the flesh and blood of those clans. ”

Qu Sheng said indifferently: "However, he doesn't know that I, the people of Chu State, have been thinking about restoring the country wholeheartedly since the moment the country was broken a hundred years ago, and it is not a temporary turn at all. And he couldn't imagine that in order to complete the great cause of recovering the country, don't say that the hundreds of children of the clan, even if there are many deaths, we Chu people will not hesitate. ”

Looking at the complicated expressions of those Haoshou old men, Qu Sheng smiled slightly and said, "You don't have to start feeling sad in advance, as long as the war goes smoothly, the great momentum of my Chu State will be cast." For the sake of their future plans, the Li family may not only dare not kill the children of our clan, but even have to provide for it well. And this time, that Li Shiyi didn't know what to think, he actually drove to the Southern Wilderness in person, isn't this heaven wanting to help me succeed? Then Li Shiyi is caught between us and the Holy Sect, and the nobles in Chang'an City have to think about it if they want to take advantage of my Chu County disciples. ”

"But can the war really go on smoothly?"

"The Holy Sect has been planning for many years, the Tang people are arrogant and extravagant, and now the Yan Kingdom has fallen, the Snow Country has gone south, and the corpse tide of the Qin State has also crossed the Snow Mountain and merged with the Snow Country people. The Qin State Sailor has been practicing for more than a year, and it is time for them to win the Central Plains. As long as our Chu County opens the door of convenience, and the Holy Sect and the Southern Wilderness Demon Soldiers go north, not to mention whether the Tang Kingdom will perish, Chang'an City will no longer be able to dictate to us. ”

Qu Sheng said as he looked at the other young man again, and raised his hand to give a salute.

"The descendants of the Xiong clan can finally extend the country again, and we are waiting for the old and decrepit Chu people who are still loyal to the king, and we have finally waited for this day!"

The young man hurriedly returned the salute.

A surname, a trace of blood, can be respected, but not enough to be feared. He knew that he was just a banner that these people had found, and of course he would not have delusional hopes that these people would have more to do with him.

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The history of Chu is longer than that of most countries in the world, and thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Xiong family can be traced back to the emperor.

According to the clan etiquette and traditional beliefs, the Chu people maintain a strong cohesion, and Chu County is an iron plate operated by the three major gates, no matter how Chang'an City tries to divide and peel off, it can only touch the outermost existence, and cannot penetrate into the core area of Chu.

Today's Chu County and Yingcheng, from the city guards to the local generals, and then to those middle and low-level officials, are either the children of the lords, or the people who have an interest in the lords.

Even the government army strictly guarded by Chang'an was infiltrated very badly by the gate lords of Chu County, which cannot be blamed on the low vigilance of the adults in Chang'an City.

Fortunately, the South Road Border Army has always been firmly in the hands of the Li family, if this powerful combat force did not follow Li Shiyi to the Southern Wilderness, but was still stationed on the land of Chu County, it is estimated that the gate lords of Chu County should also think carefully when they rebel and restore the country.

With the accumulation of time, those inconspicuous ordinary grass-roots officers and soldiers, who have survived their qualifications and accumulated military exploits, have gradually risen to relatively important positions; although the high-level commanders of the army are still all appointed by Chang'an and transferred from other places. But the middle and lower layers as the foundation can no longer get rid of the control of the gate valves. The rights of these chief officials have long been hollowed out, and when Chudi and Chang'an are at peace, the gate valves will not show a flaw at all, and when they decide to defect, those transferred from Chang'an only find that they are lonely.

In the summer of the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse, the food and salaries raised by the gate lords had entered the Southern Wilderness with the army of the Tang King.

The snow country in the north is still slowly civilizing, and the Chu land in the south is sunny, with red flowers and willow green.

The county guard convened the county officials in Yingcheng to discuss the continued collection of food and wages, cooperate with the royal division, resist the demon soldiers of the Southern Wilderness and picket important affairs in the territory.

The Tang Dynasty ruled the country by law, and all the officials of the government came on time, who dared to be late.

After several discussions, a general surnamed Qu from the army of Yingcheng Mansion walked in with a smile on his face, and the gate of the county guard mansion was closed. The officials looked at each other, not knowing what had happened. As a landlord, the county guard angrily asked the little generals and the porters what they were doing.

Zhong Dajun waved his hand. Angry rebukes rang out in the castle guard's mansion, the sound of swords unsheathed, the sound of swords and axes falling to the ground, and the sound of falling to the ground in pain.

Blood stained the ground red, and even trickled outward through the cracks in the door frames.

Almost at the same time.

The surnames of Chu County, in the name of the army, walked into the tents of the commanders of the various prefectures. The accompanying miscellaneous servants are naturally masters of the cultivation and recruitment of the gate valves.

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The Tang Dynasty established the country by force, and the powerful Chu State was still invincible, and the comparison of strength was naturally clear at a glance. Even now, Tang Wang is benevolent and has given great trust to the gate valves. No matter how powerful and strategic the princes of Chu County who grasped the opportunity, it was still impossible to wipe out all the officials and generals loyal to the imperial court. So on that sunny summer day, in Yingcheng and on the land of Chu, many battles broke out.

On that day, dozens of officers were either poisoned or stabbed to death, and they were even more powerful and went away with hatred. And afterwards, hundreds of Datang officials were beheaded, and more than 1,000 people died in the government army loyal to Datang, from the main general to the auxiliaries.

If one side has been planning and waiting for hundreds of years, and the other side has no idea, then the outcome will be determined early, and the only thing that may affect the outcome is the people's will.

The people's hearts in Chu County are very complicated.

As people who died in the country, they did not have any good feelings for Chang'an City. They are accustomed to the surnames of the old country, they are the real heavens, the Chu people with a long history and culture, and they have an undisguised sense of superiority and contempt for the Tang people in other states and counties.

But after all, he has lived under the rule of the Tang Dynasty for so many years, been a Tang man for so many years, and has been peaceful under the strong wings of the Tang Dynasty for so many years. When Datang gained a firm foothold in the center of the mainland, when Datang's iron cavalry broke through the enemies of the proud powers, and when Datang rushed out of the North Ridge to beat a big country into a second-rate country. They have shared the glory of the Tang Dynasty countless times, walked on the mainland as Tang people, and were proud of it.

Right now...... But you want to betray the Tang Dynasty?

Especially those young people of Chudi, and even some young sons of the lords who wanted to make meritorious contributions, couldn't accept this matter at all, and couldn't believe the picture they saw in front of them. However, just as they were about to make their own voices, their old grandfather and stern father appeared in front of them, dragged them back to the ancestral hall, made them kneel in front of the ancestral tablet, and began to tell the sad history of the fall of the Chu State many years ago, and remembered the glory of the old days with tears in their eyes.

The young Chu people have not forgotten that period of history, but they love the way of life of the Tang Dynasty more, and they love to be a proud Tang person, so the words of their fathers have no power for them.

But what can they, the juniors, do? Can they raise their swords and slash at their loved ones?

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In the summer of the eighteenth year of the Tang Dynasty.

The kingdom of Yan is dead.

The Snow Lord came to the Gourd Valley with his army and the tide of corpses that were slowly replenished in the later stage of Yandi, but still out of sight.

The tide of corpses of the Qin State also arrived outside the gourd valley.

The Southern Wilderness Feng clan encountered a renegade, and the good luck was unpredictable.

The Demon Sect or the Interception Sect reappeared in the Southern Wilderness to make the Ten Peerless Formations reappear in the world.

The sailors of the Qin State also made a move.

Chu County mutinied.

King Tang was a demon soldier before the Southern Wilderness, and a rebel army later.

The rebellion in Chu County opened the door of the Tang Dynasty, allowing the demon soldiers who had been preparing for a long time to pour into Chu and march in the direction of Chang'an.

The four-way border army with the highest combat power in the Tang Dynasty can't pull out any of them except for half of the men and horses on the east road, but who knows if there will be any accidents in the direction of Qi State.

There is a Master in the world, but if he makes a move, the Mother of Nothingness will also do it.

There is also news that the saint who intercepted the sect is about to return to the world.

The Great Tang Dynasty, which occupied the central treasure land of the continent, had to face attacks from three directions at the same time, and these forces that were integrated by the Wudang Holy Sect were more than one layer stronger than the so-called coalition forces that they had defeated before.

Datang seems to be doomed.

And at this time, the quarrel in the reed shed in the Southern Wilderness was also boiling to the extreme.

Did any sharp-eyed classmates find a place to come from?