Chapter Twenty-Five: Li Duozuo
Li Jiu helped Zhu Shitian with both hands, and said warmly: "After so many years, General Zhu has suffered, and I am Li Chongjun, the son of Li Xian, the king of Luling! Li Chongjun swears here, and the Li family will never forget General Zhu's grace to protect the country for generations. In the future, there will be a general in Lingyan Pavilion, and the general will be loyal to the country and can go home to fulfill his filial piety, presumably Gaotang's wife and children are already looking forward to returning. When Zhu Shitian heard this, tears rained down, he covered his face with both hands, and tears flowed out of his fingers. Li Jiu knew that he had been incognito for many years, and he didn't know how much pain he had suffered in his heart, so it would be good for him to cry out loud. For a long time, Zhu Shitian suppressed his crying and said deeply: "The last general is rude, don't blame the lord, it's just that the last general has no home, the last general's original name is Li Duozuo, this Zhu Shitian is just a pseudonym, when he left the internal guard incognito at the end of the year, he moved his family to Beiting to avoid trouble, but who knows, that year, the Khitan people committed a robbery and killed all the old and young of the last general's family, and poor my sons were only two years old, and they were also hacked to death by Khitan mongrels with knives. Now the last general's home has long been a desolate grave fox mound. Tears welled up in her eyes.
Li Jiu was miserable in his heart, this man's life was tortuous and bumpy, since he became the armor messenger, he really gave up his family and abandoned his career, and even his family was affected and died.
What is the armor messenger? In the period of Li Tang Taizong, Wu Meiniang was very much loved by Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, and later, Li Shimin ordered Yuan Tiangang to calculate the fortune of the country, and after Yuan Tiangang calculated, he said to Li Shimin that in the future, His Majesty will have a Wu family usurper after the return of the dragon emperor, Li Shimin then degraded and killed the officials surnamed Wu in the court, and Wu Meiniang was also among the derogatories, but Li Shimin loved her very much, and was reluctant to kill her no matter what. Love is better than in the past, later, when Li Shimin was dying, he always felt that this matter was inappropriate, so he recruited the chief minister Sun Wuji into the cabinet to discuss the matter, and wrote down the holy decree in his own hand. Hide the Divine Decree in a suit of armor. Ordered the eldest grandson Wuji to be the armor messenger and secretly supervise the country.
Later, Wu Zetian didn't know where to get the news, and forced the eldest grandson Wuji to hand over the holy decree, but the eldest grandson Wuji did not obey, so he was convicted of Wu Zetian. But when he was dying, he delivered this holy decree to King Luo Bin. At that time, King Luo Bin happened to be in Chang'an to Li Chongjun, the son of King Luling, as a teacher, and often talked with the eldest grandson Wuji about tea and Taoism, and the eldest grandson Wuji's personal relationship with the great writer Luo Bin Wang got the holy decree, he couldn't wait, and the general Xu Jingye rebelled against Wu Xingtang on the grounds of anti-Wu Xingtang, but at that time Wu Zetian was still the queen of the Tang Dynasty, and he couldn't talk about "abolishing the Tang Dynasty and usurping the government", so this holy decree was not justified, and in the end, this Luo Bin King could only use "fox charm to confuse the lord" Rebellion, the most taboo soldier is unknown, Xu Jingye is isolated after raising the army, and the court is a famous general like a cloud, how capable is this Luo Bin King Xu Jingye, barely fought a few battles. In the end, Xu Jingye was defeated and died, and King Luo Bin did not know what to do. After all, it has become a literati misleading the country and a dream.
But this Luo Bingwang is a little smart after all, at that time Li Duozuo as an internal guard lurking beside Xu Jingye waiting for the opportunity to assassinate, accidentally Xu Jingye identified his identity for a while, Xu Jingye was immediately furious, ordered someone to tie him up, and immediately wanted to be executed, Luo Bingwang knew that the current war was no longer within the control of the two of them, so he tried to protect Li Duozuo, and had a long talk with him in the camp tent**, with a three-inch tongue that finally persuaded Li Duozhu to become an armor messenger, set a code and cut the jade bi into two as a token. The reason why Li Duozuo was chosen by the soldiers was because this person was an internal guard and missed the assassination, and the internal guard rules should be beheaded, so he couldn't go back to the internal guard, and he knew that he was about to be beheaded by Xu Jingye, so he just took this opportunity to cheat his death, he had been working in the internal guard for a long time, and he was extremely alert and cautious, and it was extremely suitable to be an armor messenger.
On the day of the break, Li Duozuo carried the holy armor on his back, broke through in the chaotic army, and disappeared from the rivers and lakes. Luo Bingwang once told him that Xu Jingye buried a large amount of gold in several secret places in order for future generations to make a comeback, one of which was in Hengzhou, so Li Duozuo settled in Hengzhou under the alias Zhu Shitian, secretly took out the gold, became the richest man in the local area, and made friends with the heroes of the rivers and lakes to accumulate strength for the future.
The world said that King Luo Bin had disappeared or died in the chaos, but in fact, two years later, he had returned to Chang'an at great risk, met Li Chongjun, who was still a young man at the time, told Li Chongjun the secret, and handed him the joint code and half of the jade. Since then, King Luo Bing has no worries, and since then the end of the world has been idle. Then Li Chongjun was frequently persecuted by his grandmother Wu Zetian because of his father, and in order to avoid disaster, he went to Tianshan under the pseudonym Li Jiu and left for 20 years.
Li Jiu is Li Chongjun said: "General Li Duozuo mourns, now Wu Zetian wantonly kills the Li family, Li Tang Jiangshan still relies on righteous people like the general to turn the tide, since the general has no home to go, it is better to follow me to contact the heroes of the rivers and lakes, when the world changes, I will raise my arms and shout, and Wanfu will respond." The restoration of my Li Tang Heshan is just around the corner, and at that time, he will be listed in the temple and Jiuxi, and he must be a general. Li Duozuo was full of pride. shouted: "It is the husband who can run the rivers and lakes side by side with the lord! Don't dare to disobey!"
Li Duozuo kicked the sect member lying on the ground and shouted: "You brute, tell me what your origin is, or you will be asked to try the methods of internal security torture to extract confessions!" The sect member cried out: "Grandpa is good, kill me quickly! I really can't stand it!" Li Duozuo sneered: "You beast wants to die, but it's not so easy! Later, grandpa will go to find a bowl of ginseng soup and hang your family's qi veins, but let you live a long life, and you will suffer from this life worse than death all the time!" The congregation was so frightened that they wept and howled, "The boy is from Qinghai. Li Chongjun nodded secretly, as expected in advance. These people are indeed from the Qinghai faction, but for some reason they have become members of the Immortal Crane Sect. Li Duozuo reached out and grabbed a piece of meat from the sect member, and the sect member almost fainted in pain. shouted: "You don't stay in Qinghai well, what are you doing in the Central Plains? Why are you involved in the Crane Sect?" The sect member cried: "Grandpa, don't fight anymore, the kid will say it." That year from the country of Tubo came a group of Tianzhu monks to the edge of Qinghai to establish the Qinghai faction to recruit disciples, preaching and casting spells, the boy was originally a poor man on the edge of Qinghai sheep, seeing that those people have great powers, they no longer herd sheep, and joined the Qinghai faction, two years ago the head of Nahu Gan went to Tubo to boil tea and worship the Buddha, so that the senior brother Shen Guangzi temporarily held the door, but the head of Nahu Gan was nowhere to be found, and never came back, Shen Guangzi took the opportunity to kill all the people who were not convinced in the faction, and set himself up as the head, Shen Guangzi was strong in martial arts and cunning, and no one in the faction could help him, so he let it go。 Later, Shenguangzi ordered us to come to the Central Plains to join the Crane Cult, and Shenguangzi said that the Qinghai faction was biased to the border areas, and it was better to take refuge in the Crane Cult first, and when the opportunity came, we borrowed troops from the Central Plains Emperor to expedition to Tubo, and became a king of Tubo. Li Chongjun and Li Duozuo couldn't help but gasp, this Shenguangzi looked like a gentleman with oily hair and a powdery face, and his ambition was not small.