"Kill!" Thousands of people roared and rushed into the city gate. The soldiers guarding the city joined them without any obstruction, leading the crowd towards the Jinjiang Palace.

Dakui grabbed Chen Wenxian and said, "Run slower and don't leave my sight!"

Chen Wenxian said impatiently: "You've already entered the city and you still can't trust me. If you continue to pester me and delay the big thing, it will be your fault!"

He twisted his body hard to break away from Da Kui's hand, raised his sword high and shouted: "Brothers from Ryukyu, don't run away. Follow the direction of the torch. If you encounter anyone blocking the way, just kill them!"

Seeing Chen Wenxian run away without a trace, Dakui cursed: "Damn it, is it me who attacks the city or you who rebels... Oops!"

After being kicked on the butt, Dakui turned around and saw Li Mobai standing behind him, "Why are you kicking me!"

"I'm counting on you to be the vanguard, what are you going to do here?"

"What do you know! I finally understand. This time we have people acting as gunmen, so we don't have to be so desperate!"

"Stop talking nonsense, there's already a fight ahead! If we don't hurry up, the enemy will react!"

By the time Dakui and Li Mobai rushed over, the intercepting Qingyuan Army had already dispersed. They all chased them outside Jinjiang Prince's Mansion. Before they even got close, a shower of arrows were fired from the wall.

Chen Wenxian and his men rushed back twice and then retreated. He reached out and pulled out the arrows in front of him and went to Dakui. "Chen can't attack, please help Marquis Yu!"

Dakui laughed and said: "Damn it, weren't you very fierce just now, and now you are turning around and begging me again!"

Li Mobai said: "Dakui, don't put on airs at this time. People from the west and north are already coming to kill you!"

"Then what's the use of telling me? I don't have wings, and I don't use my trump card to greet you. I don't believe they can stand it!"

"It's true!" Li Mobai stretched out his hand and shouted back: "Tian Lei came over and told them to see how powerful it is!"

More than two hundred soldiers held up shields and torches and rushed towards Jinjiang Palace. They stopped twenty or thirty steps away, took out Zhentian Lei from their waists and lit the medicine twister on the torch. When they saw sparks emerging, they waved their arms towards them.

He threw it behind the palace wall.

Immediately, lightning flashed and thunder rolled inside the palace. The guard who had been shooting arrows down from the wall just now jumped down screaming. When Chen Wenxian saw this, he couldn't help but stretched out his thumb and praised: "This thunder is really powerful!"

Li Mobai chuckled and said: "What the heck, this is just the least powerful thunderbolt. Brothers, put a big one at the gate of the palace, no, put two of them, let Commander Chen see how powerful they are."

If he knew that the things he had worked so hard to create were being ruined in this way, Xu Xian would probably scold him.

Only two loud noises were heard. The red lacquer door of the Jinjiang Prince's Mansion, which was inlaid with iron sheets and copper rivets, immediately fell apart, and the porch was lifted away. Broken bricks, dust, and grass clippings flew everywhere, and the entire area of ​​100 steps was submerged in the dust.

Poof! Dakui spat and kicked Li Mobai on the waist, "One big thunder is enough. If you insist on letting two, this dusty sky is just causing trouble for yourself."

Li Mobai staggered and stopped, "What nonsense are you talking about? Rush in quickly, otherwise Luo Fubang will probably be killed!"

"Brothers, rush in with me!" Da Kui roared and rushed through the nearly collapsed gate of Jinjiang Prince's Mansion in the billowing dust. The guards in the palace were frightened away by the movement, and Da Kui rushed into the brightly lit lobby without a trace.

People block it.

I saw about a dozen people in the lobby knocking over the food and drinks and scattering them on the floor. Right in front of me, Luo Fubang was holding a knife on an old man with gray hair. Chen Hongjin was guarding him with a knife and was fighting with twenty or thirty Qingyuan Army soldiers.

Confrontation between generals.

Seeing that the chief executive had arrived outside the lobby, Chen Hongjin immediately became more courageous. He took a step forward and said, "Are you really willing to give up only when the odds are against you?" He then turned to the old man and said, "Even if the king doesn't care about himself, he will still give up."

You have to take care of your children and grandchildren!"

"Cough cough cough..." Liu Congxiao coughed, fanned the dust in front of his eyes with his hand and sighed: "I have known that you have evil intentions for a long time, but I didn't expect that you would dare to do something when someone is still alive. I only wish I didn't get rid of you earlier.

"

Chen Hongjin said: "Your Majesty, what you are saying now is not in vain. Let's order everyone to surrender, so as not to cause any more innocent casualties."

"That's all!" Liu Congxiao took out a military talisman from the fish bag on his waist. Chen Hongjin immediately grabbed it in his hand. Seeing his son coming in, he said, "Zhongda takes it and orders the soldiers in the city!"

"No!" Chen Wenxian quickly took the military talisman and hurried out of the lobby.

When the generals in the hall saw that Liu Congxiao had surrendered, he also put away his sword. Liu Congxiao looked at the sword that was still on his neck and sneered: "Luo Zhushou didn't take the sword away? Chen Hongjin

The rebellion was actually not too surprising to me, but I really didn’t expect you to do it, as I always thought you were a loyal person.”

Luo Fubang snorted heavily and said, "I am only loyal to the Tang Dynasty!"

"Hehe... Datang? I guess you are finally Huainan Xu Xian! The thing that sounded like thunder just now must be the thunder that shakes the sky."

"Haha..." Da Kui laughed and walked over, patted Liu Congxiao on the shoulder and said, "You old man really knows the stuff. You are right. We are Lieutenant Xu's people."

Hearing what Dakui said, the generals in the hall immediately put their hands nervously on their swords and angrily shouted: "Xu Xian is far away in Huainan, why should he want to attack Zhangquan and Quanzhou!"

This is one of the most common forms of xenophobia, something that cannot be eliminated in later generations with extremely developed information and transportation, let alone in ancient times. It is indeed not easy for people to accept that a person from Village A suddenly went to Village B to become the village chief.

"It seems that you all know the reputation of our lieutenants. Since you know how powerful we are, you will obey orders honestly and obey our orders!"

Li Mobai entered the lobby, made a bow, and said to the generals in the hall: "Don't worry, everyone. Xu Taiwei is far away in Huainan and has no spare time to take care of the affairs of the Qingyuan Army. He plans to let Luo Fubang be appointed as the military commander of the Qingyuan Army. Everyone.

I am a colleague of him and I should know what he is like, so I probably have no objections."

Unless Li Mobai endured humiliation and had a moral principle, a strong dragon should not overwhelm local snakes. Especially in southern Fujian, there has been constant rebellion. If these generals did not support it, let alone making money from southern Fujian, it would be a good thing.

A general replied: "Luo Fubang is a young junior and a foreigner. If he does Jiedu, everyone may be dissatisfied." Looking at the unhappy look on his face, it was probably because he was dissatisfied. Everyone else had similar expressions.

This made Li Mobai feel embarrassed all of a sudden. He subconsciously looked at Chen Hongjin and immediately rejected it in his heart. This man was not a mediocre person with great ambitions. If he was allowed to be the governor, everyone would be convinced. It would probably squeeze them out of the core of power.

Not to mention transporting money and food to Huainan.

Chen Hongjin seemed to see what Li Mobai was thinking when he came to an old man. This old man was much older than Liu Congxiao. His hair and beard were almost completely white. He turned a deaf ear to what was happening in the lobby and still had a toothless mouth.

Slowly bit into the chicken legs.

"Deputy Envoy Zhang, your Majesty is ready to abdicate in favor of someone worthy of his throne. How about you take over the post of Qingyuan Army?"

The old man's name was Zhang Hansi, and he was one of the people who raised the army with Liu Conxiao at that time. When he saw Chen Hongjin talking to him, he slowly raised his head and said, "Please speak louder, I have bad ears. There was a thunder just now, and now it is even louder."

Gone."

To find such a dim-sighted person to be the governor is to be a puppet at all. By then, it will not be Chen Hongjin who is a local snake picking fruits. The red scarf has never done a loss-making business.

Li Mobai was about to object when he heard someone say: "How about asking me to be the governor of the Qingyuan Army? Are you all convinced?"

Seeing the old man walking into the hall, the generals of the Qingyuan Army were filled with astonishment. Even Liu Congxiao stood up and pointed at the visitor: "Could it be Xu Yuhou?!"

Xu Shaogui looked at Liu Congxiao and said with a smile: "Liu Yuanfan, we haven't seen each other for a long time!"

The two states of Zhangquan and Quan that stayed in Chongxiao were not taken from the hands of the Fujian Wang family, but from the Wang family's rebel general Zhu Wenjin. Although they were old acquaintances with the group of people who fled to Ryukyu, they had no enmity.

.

When Xu Shaogui was the capital of the Min Kingdom, he was still a small casual commander. Now many of the generals in Zhangquan and Quanzhou are old ministries of the Min Kingdom, and many of the soldiers were brought by Wang Shenzhi from Huainan.

Xu Shaogui, an old minister of the Fujian Kingdom, naturally had no objections.

The news reached Zhangzhou, and Liu Congxiao's brother Liu Congyuan also happily surrendered, but how to deal with Liu Congxiao became a big problem. He had a high prestige in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and it was easy for him to change if he stayed here, so Li Mobai planned to

Send him to the Southern Tang Dynasty. After all, he is still a minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty in name.

Unexpectedly, Liu Congxiao was unwilling to go. After eating the weight, he was determined to go to Yangzhou, so Li Mobai had no choice but to let him go.

So when Liu Congxiao appeared in front of him, Xu Xian was so surprised that his eyes almost fell out of his head. The two met and chatted for a while. After finishing a bowl of tea, Xu Xian finally expressed the question in his heart: "

Why do you want to come to me when you leave Li Jing alone? Aren't you afraid of lowering your status?"

Liu Congxiao put down his tea bowl and said with a smile: "Li Jing deeply hates me for secretly communicating with the Central Plains to separate Zhangquan. If I go to Jinling or Hongdu, I am afraid that I will die inexplicably in a year and a half."

Xu Xian laughed loudly, "Haha... Why do you think you can live a long life here in Xu? In your eyes, am I not as cruel as Li Jing?"

Liu Congxiao smiled and said: "The Taiwei really has too many reasons not to kill me!"

"Tell me and listen!"

Liu Congxiao stretched out his finger and said: "First, there is no enmity between a certain person and the Taiwei, and the Taiwei has no intention of killing me; secondly, Zhangquan will be stable when a certain person lives happily; thirdly, the Taiwei and a certain person are both from the same family."

Separatist parties are like-minded people; fourthly and most importantly, my reputation of defecting to the Taiwei will be a great demonstration. On the contrary, if I die, it will be detrimental to the great cause of the Taiwei!"

"You are a true hero with just one step, no wonder you can sit firmly in Zhangquan!"

"The Taiwei is the real hero, and great achievements are just around the corner. If the Taiwei can succeed, I, the Liu family, will be more glorious."

"I am really a happy person. I can ask my children and grandchildren to work for someone."

Liu Congxiao sighed: "I have no children. I originally had two adopted sons from my elder brother, but they were returned to my elder brother before I came here. I just want to spend the rest of my life relaxed and happy in the land of Yangzhou fireworks."

"That's it! Don't be too discouraged. Your civil and martial arts are not bad. If you don't mind, you can take up a post in the Jiedushi Mansion..."

Xu Xian was speechless for a long time, but he didn't think there was any suitable position for him. After all, Liu Congxiao had been a serious military governor and had the title of county prince. He couldn't give up the military governor.

Bar.

Liu Congxiao raised his hands and said sincerely: "The words I just said were from the bottom of my heart, and they were not empty words to dispel the Taiwei's wariness. I am already over sixty years old and have been used to living a relaxed and happy life in Quanzhou these years. I'm afraid I won't be able to serve as the Taiwei."

It worked.”

"Since I have no interest in military affairs, I won't force it... By the way, I have built a martial arts hall in the city to teach military children to study and practice martial arts. If I am interested, I can go there to find some work to pass the time."

"Talk about martial arts halls? I have lived for sixty years and have only heard of the Imperial College for scholars. This is the first time I have heard of a school for martial arts students. If you have time, I really want to go and see it!"

…

The two talked for a long time, and then Liu Congxiao stood up and left. Xu Xian couldn't be stingy, he still understood the principle of selling horse bones for a thousand pieces of gold, and it hurt him to give him money and a mansion.

After sending Liu Congxiao away, Xu Xian patted his thigh and complained, "My money is about to bottom out."

Recently, he has been busy reorganizing his soldiers and disrupting the Huainan Army and the Forbidden Army again. Everyone advised him not to do this, otherwise it would easily lead to a mutiny, but Xu Xian insisted on doing it. He also knew that this was tantamount to walking a tightrope, but

Only by doing this can you have a strong army that truly belongs to you.
To be continued...