In the evening, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning both lay down, but they still talked endlessly as usual.

"Fugitives, can't you wait for another year or two? When we are stronger and Naiyan rebelled?" Cui Xiuning said while using the ends of her hair to draw words on Li Luo's chest, frowned and said.

She felt that she was not prepared enough. The winning chance was not high enough.

Just talking about armor, she still failed to get 100% equipment, only 80% of the armor rate. To be honest, 80% of the armor rate is already very high, but she still thinks it is not enough.

Li Luo put his arm under his head, looked at the ceiling of the carved beams and painted buildings, and said without hesitation, "I know I'm not ready. But I really can't wait. I hate being an official in the Yuan court again, and I hate playing with those people in vain. My patience has reached its limit, I'm tired... I just want to have a big fight."

"Besides, I can't continue to get on. If I continue to get on, I must suppress the White Lotus Sect uprising, suppress this and that, the executioner's work. Although I have pushed it to Hudu Timur, how long can it be? Then the reputation will really be bad. If you become a senior official of the Yuan court for one day, you will be a ghost for one day..."

Li Luo said as he raised his hand and pointed out, "Several camps have more than 100,000 Tang troops, and they have been hard-working year after year. Many people are eagerly waiting for this day, hoping to get back soon. Now tell them, that, we are not ready yet, wait for another two years. What do you think they will think?"

"Okay, OK, I'm just saying it, it's all right. It's up to you." Cui Xiuning didn't expect that she just said something, and the man said so much aggrievedly. "But I want to remind you that once we attack Jiangnan, we can use up to 70,000 or 80,000 mobile troops, but we have to deal with hundreds of thousands of thousands of troops. You must be mentally prepared."

"Also, almost all the landlords in Jiangnan are local emperors and support the Yuan court very much. The landlords and gentry will not support us. Just dealing with the landlords and armed groups, they have to share a lot of troops."

The Tang army had more than 180,000 people. Among them, more than 30,000 naval troops and 150,000 land troops. But there must be 10,000 to guard the Haidong base, right? The navy cannot fight ashore, so there will be only 140,000 land troops to guide the southeast.

The 140,000 Land Division will be divided into 20,000 to seize Jianmen Pass and Wu Pass, and at least 40,000 to 50,000 to guard the prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, control localities, and suppress the counterattack of the Yuan court. Then, at most, there will be only 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers as mobile combat forces. In two strategic directions, there will be only 30,000 to 40,000 mobile soldiers and horses available in each direction on average!

He is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength.

As for the recruits in Jiangnan, they will definitely not be able to count on them at the beginning, and they will have to spend a training period before they can be used. In other words, within the past few months, the Tang army will have to fight against the Yuan army several times its own.

Do you think Choi Soo-ning can’t worry?

"I know." Li Luo smiled bitterly, "but there is nothing we can do. With this kind of population and this little territory resources, our strength will not increase significantly even if we prepare for a few years. It's better to start early."

"I hope Zhao Liangqin and Huang Hua will persist longer, and I hope the White Lotus Sect will make a bigger mess."

Cui Xiuning nodded, "I will adjust my plan in time according to the situation. When necessary, I will provide information support to these companies so that they will not die too quickly."

Li Luo smiled and said, "They may not necessarily die. When we join forces, there will be four anti-Yuan forces in the south. The Yuan court will lose sight of one thing and the other. It is not that they will have a big chance. By the way, what's going on in Liaodong? Will Naiyan take action this year?"

Cui Xiuning shook her head, "Naiyan will definitely not move this year, so don't expect him. After all, he is the Mongolian sect king. As long as the Yuan court did not violate his interests too much, he would not be able to raise an army. Uncle Kublai Khan is not a fool. With so many people in the south, how could he still withdraw Naiyan's vassal and force Naiyan to rebel?"

Li Luo was a little regretful. If Naiyan did not rebel, the sea in the west would not act rashly. Besides, no matter Naiyan or Haidu, it would be impossible to watch the Han people restore the country. Later, the two parties were incompatible, and the ice and charcoal were different, but once the Japanese pirates invaded, they could still fight the war together. Why can't people from the Golden Family resolve their past grudges to deal with the Han people?

When Cui Xiuning said this, she suddenly thought of something and said with a smile, "Tell you something. In the past few days, many officials have joined forces in private and want to persuade them to enter. Well, I advise you to be the prince."

"What prince, that's the king." Li Luo scoffed at the title of prince. "I don't have the thick face as much as Huang Hua. What kind of king is this power? If you don't conquer Jinling or Lin'an, it's a joke to be the king."

Cui Xiuning said, "So Wen Tianxiang, Zheng Sixiao and Lin Biju didn't agree. However, they were not easy to object. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, someone should have officially persuaded him to come in."

"I won't talk about this." Li Luo touched the woman's flat and strong abdomen again, "When the third child is born in the southeast, you will not give birth again after the third child is born."

If too many children are born, it will definitely have an impact on a woman's body. Although Cui Xiuning has a superior physical foundation, Li Luo doesn't want her to give birth to too many children.

"I don't want to have too many children. But there is no way. All the officials watched me and I was under a lot of pressure. I would have another son. If the third child is a son, I would not have a son." Cui Xiuning said with a wry smile.

Li Luo understood. What she meant was that if the third child was a daughter, then continue to have a child until another son was born.

In this way, the Tang State had three young masters, which would be safer and the ministers would not have anything to say.

Li Luo really felt a little distressed. A woman who was once so proud now surrendered to the times for the sake of the Tang Dynasty and has become a tool for inheriting the family line.

Li Luo hugged Cui Xiuning, looked at her glittering eyes under the light, and said seriously, "Let's go with the flow, I'll give birth to a third child, and the fourth child will not give birth to it. Whether a man or a woman is left to fate. We already have two sons. They carry our antibodies and genes, unlike other children, and will definitely grow up smoothly."

Cui Xiuning changed into a comfortable position in Li Luo's arms, and nodded in a rare manner and buried her head.

The next day, he went to court to discuss matters, and indeed a group of officials persuaded him to enter the court and beg Li Luo to advance to the title of King Tang.

The leader was Shi Huaiqian, who was in charge of Li Cao. This person was one of the earliest immigrants. He was originally a scholar from Zhejiang and was the village chief of Shijia Village back then.

"...Now, the number of people in the Tang Dynasty is 1.3 million, and the number of soldiers and horses is 185,000. The national treasury is collected by more than one million taels per year, and the country is peaceful and the people live and work in peace and contentment. This is the achievement of the king, which is enough for the king... My ministers and others beg the king to follow the laws of heaven, advance to the king of Tang, safeguard the hearts of the country and the people, and inherit the aspirations of Yan and Huang..."

After Shi Huaiqian finished speaking, he raised his scepter and then bowed solemnly. The officials who followed him to persuade him to come also bowed together.

Wen Tianxiang, Zheng Sixiao, and Lin Biqiu, who were standing in front of all officials, looked at each other in a silence, but his eyes were silent.

The three of them have always believed that being king too early will do more harm than good.

Just say that now, once the king is king, he must reward civil and military officials. Then, the land of the Tang Dynasty has not increased by an inch and the grain in the national treasury has not increased by a stone. Why should I reward it?

If you want to be king, you should also be called in Jiangnan. You have to conquer a few cities before you can talk about it?

Shi Huaiqian could not understand this principle, but he still did this, that is, he deliberately invited favor and was unfair.

However, the emperor is indeed qualified to be king, so the three of them must not object. It is related to famous tools, and the ministers can only persuade them to advance, not to retreat.

Another point is that the three of them are sure that the emperor will object. Since that is the case, what else do they want to say?

Sure enough, Li Luo said without hesitation, "The Jiangnan has not been restored for a day, and I am not a king for a day. There is no need to discuss this matter again."

When Shi Huaiqian and others saw Li Luo's decisive rejection, they did not dare to persuade him, so they could only retreat in disappointment.

Li Luo simply put aside the topic of persuading to advance and mentioned the main topics of this court discussion.

"I, Tang Zhengyuan, is about to rise up. In order to unify the dispatch and facilitate the power, I decided to form the Shogunate of the Zhengyuan Grand Chief of the Shogunate and make preparations first. Mr. Wen, please tell me the plan of the Military Advisor's Office first." Li Luo said slowly.

Wen Tianxiang had discussed this matter with Li Luo a long time ago, and said after hearing this, "Your Highness knows that it is indeed necessary to form the Shogunate of the Zhengyuan. My ministers believe that the Zhengyuan is of great importance, and the Emperor should be appointed as the Grand Commander of the Zhengyuan, and then according to the established military strategy, appoint generals to unite the troops and horses. Special personnel should also be appointed to transport food, grass and weapons to safeguard the local area..."

Of course these words are to be said to other officials.

Li Luo immediately ordered himself to be the Grand Governor of the Yuan Dynasty, with Wen Tianxiang as the military advisor, Lin Biju as the baggage transport envoy, and Zheng Sixiao as the Anjing envoy in Jiangnan and other places...

The battalion was also formed, and the Lu Division took the Fourth Brigade as one battalion (the Tang army was larger than the brigade), and a total of five battalions were organized. The battalion commander was called the battalion supervisor, and the military supervisor was called the police officer. Under the two chief officials, a staff envoy was set up, and under the deputy battalion supervisor, the deputy military supervisor, the military law envoy, the baggage envoy, etc.

In this way, a battalion has reached 20,000 people and can serve as strategic units to carry out combat tasks.

However, the cavalry and firearms are still in brigades, and the Modao team is also independent.

The five infantry and military camps were each equipped with five thousand infantry, as well as crossbows, archers, spearmen, etc.

The cavalry and firearm battalions are flexibly configured to use each battalion.

The military names of the five battalions, except for Li Luo's imperial guard camp, are named after the four symbols, namely Qinglong Camp, Baihu Camp, Zhuque Camp and Xuanwu Camp.

Next, we appoint the generals of each battalion to integrate training.

Finally, more than 30,000 navy troops were organized into four groups: the Yangtze River Fleet, the sea-making Fleet, the transport Fleet, and the land-defense Fleet.

Li Luo had not forgotten to issue an edict. After he led the shogunate to leave Haidong, he appointed his prince Li Zheng as the governor, Cui Xiuning as the regent, and Cui Mu as the acting minister.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Li Luo went to the Lushi School that had been opened for a year, and personally taught swords to the second batch of 300 Lushi officers, and then granted the samurai status, all of which were assigned to the army as military officers at the level of the team.

These students were originally military leaders before entering the school. After half a year of study, they were fully qualified to serve as team chiefs.

The qualities of the grassroots officers of the Tang army were very good, and there were enough numbers. However, there were very few middle and senior generals. After Li Luo looked at it, it was nothing more than Yang Xu, Hu Gu, Zhu Hanren, and three surrendered generals, including Yelu Zhongjie, and less than twenty.

After arranging all this, Li Luo prepared to leave Haidong and go to Ezhou to handle the matter of smuggling troops and military weapons.

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On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Li Luo left Haidong amid Cui Xiuning's concerns. On the 14th day of the first lunar month, he finally returned to Ezhou again.

When Li Luo returned to Ezhou, Pingnan General Zhang Hongfan had already drawn 80,000 elite troops from Huguang to Guangzhou Road and suppressed Zhao Liangqin. This reduced the number of the Huguang Yuan army to less than 100,000.

That's good news.

That night, Li Luo deliberately leaked the latest important military secrets such as the defense, troops, food, etc. of the Huguang Yuan Army to the hard work of the Big Buddha Girl who sneaked back to him.

Three days later, the secret that Li Luo deliberately leaked was at the top of the White Lotus Sect.

"Okay, Big Buddha Girl, you did a good job! With these, the Holy Sect is more confident in raising an army!" Xiao Yin said to Xin Kuo with a little excitement.

The Mongolian Yuan was a military empire, so the military management system was strict, which was exactly the opposite of extensive political management. The Yuan court army mobilized defense, the number of troops, and the composition of troops were all highly confidential, and even ordinary officials were difficult to know.

Such secrets cannot be easily obtained by organizations like the White Lotus Sect, let alone so detailed.

At the same time, the "Dangxiang Association", a detailed work organization of the White Lotus Sect, finally learned about the specific date, route, and escort troops from the five miscellaneous bureaus to Beijing.

This news made Xiao Yin overjoyed. He immediately praised the leader of the Anxiang Society, the new guardian who had just joined the White Lotus Sect for less than two years.

The confidence of the senior executives of the White Lotus Sect has increased greatly by obtaining these two secrets. Xiao Yin immediately secretly arranged the military weapons to rob the five major miscellaneous tasks.

"Now the Holy Sect knows the truth and reality, and Zhao Liangqin and Huang Hua have attracted the Yuan Demon army again. This is a good opportunity for God! It's done!" Xiao Yin said to all the senior executives of the White Lotus Sect.

"Maitreya is reincarnated, the Ming King is coming! The White Lotus Pure Land is full of light!" Everyone shouted together, and the hard-working little face of the Big Buddha girl was also excited.

Finally it begins, Tartars, wait!

At Xiao Yin's order, soon a group of suicide troops pretended to be peddlers and refugees, and rushed to various places according to the information, preparing to rob military weapons.

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Because Huguang Right Prime Minister Hudu Timur "understood" Li Luo, the Ezhou officialdom seemed increasingly cold to Li Luo. Many officials who were optimistic about Li Luo had also alienated Li Luo and stood in Hudu Timur's camp.

This is the case in the officialdom. As the chief official, you have great power, but you are not good at it and are dominated by your deputy. Then you can't blame the officials for abandoning you.

Among the officials who defected to Timur, Li Luo's old acquaintance Chen Yiji.

During the period when Li Luo was not in Ezhou, Chen Yiji went to the Youcheng official residence to play mahjong all day long and deliberately lost money. After losing tens of thousands of taels of silver, he finally won the favor of Hudu Timur and became the "Youcheng Party".

After tens of thousands of taels of silver were exchanged for Hudu Timur's acceptance, Chen Yiji felt that he had made a profit. After all, he was the former prince of Annanyue and had a lot of money. Tens of thousands of taels were nothing to him.

Even Chen Yiji became the "right chief party", and Li Luo became the "lone" in the Ezhou officialdom, and even became a laughing stock.

It can be said that Li Luo has no choice but to do something practical and small, and he has no choice but to do big things. Although the official cannot directly disobey orders, he can completely disobey him.

This was originally caused by Li Luo on purpose, so how could he care? Wait for two months, and wait for the final smuggling of troops and weapons, and when the White Lotus Sect raises the flag to rebel, and when the two gates are in hand, he will no longer have to be this official.

At this time, Chen Yiji was at the residence of the Right Chief, and a group of provincial officials from the Tsanghuhu Timur, saying bad things about Li Luo.
To be continued...