In the small tavern in the southwest of Luoyang where Kou Zhong and others were staying, the atmosphere in the private room was lively, with everyone drinking and drinking and celebrating the victory.
A few hours ago, they and Li Shimin had a war of words in front of Shi Feixuan. Kou Zhong impressed Shi Feixuan with some brilliant words, which made Li Shimin speechless and his subordinates seemed defeated.
As dejected as a rooster, the group left the restaurant with high spirits and returned victorious.
What is being held now is the celebration banquet.
"Ah Zhong, you really surprised me today!" Cheng Peng said with a smile, "I only knew that you were quick-witted and eloquent, but I didn't expect that you could actually tell such a long list of principles for governing the country! What a special gift.
After three days, I was amazed!"
"Brother, you don't know that since the establishment of Huajian Academy, Chief Hou Shan said, 'A king must not learn how to govern the country.' Then he arrested Mr. Zhong to go to class every morning. All the art of war and political strategy, the rise and fall of the past dynasties
, geography, humanities...as long as he thinks it is useful, he will teach everything." Xu Ziling laughed and revealed the secret to Kou Zhong, "Those days, he had dark circles under his eyes every day, and he would say from time to time during meals, 'Benevolence and righteousness are not applied but attack and defend.
The way is easy'..."
"Ziling, why are you exposing my shortcomings! It's not easy for me to be in the limelight..." Kou Zhong muttered dissatisfiedly, but he didn't mean to be angry.
"It seems that Sect Master Hou's teachings are very effective. You can actually say what you just said. This is really amazing!" Cheng Peng recalled Li Shimin's dejected expression just now and couldn't help but want to laugh, "It's really cool.
If you don’t come out, it turns out that Sect Leader Hou is still a great teacher!”
"Brother, you only know one thing but not the other." It was Xu Ziling who was leaking the details about Kou Zhong again, "Although it was Chief Hou Shan who taught him, what he learned was the work of more than a dozen erudite gentlemen.
The editors, those gentlemen were all invited with great effort by the foreign brothers, and all of them are so good that they can compete with Master Lu Miaozi! More than a dozen masters gave him a try, and of course he made rapid progress."
"Besides, a lot of what he said just now was actually planned in advance." Qiao Xi held a wine flask and poured wine for everyone, and said with a smile, "Before coming, the masters expected that there might be someone following.
A total of more than 200 response plans were drawn up for the war of words between heroes from all walks of life, including four plans for dealing with Li Shimin alone - on the way to Luoyang, the young marshal even endorsed his horseback riding skills.
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"Alas! It's hard to look back on the past!" Kou Zhong shook his head and sighed, "But it's finally over. After today's debate, I, Kou, will be known for his eloquence all over the world. I probably won't need it in the future."
Let’s learn these things again…”
"You are wrong! Three minutes on stage and ten years of hard work off stage. A mere debate requires so much hard work, let alone governing the country!" Cheng Peng looked solemn and said seriously, "Kou Zhong, what will you do in the future?
Those who want to rule the world should learn more about how to govern the country as a king, so as to create a peaceful and prosperous era. The people of the world have suffered for many years, and the king has the responsibility of the king. Since you have already sat in this position, you must work harder
, no matter how hard or tired you are, you can’t back down.”
Kou Zhong put down his wine glass, looked into Cheng Peng's eyes without hesitation and flinching, and nodded seriously.
"What my eldest brother taught me is that I am a little afraid of hardships. After I go back this time, I will continue to ask for advice from my father and son and Chief Hou Shan, and seriously learn how to govern the country. I will not just rely on it like now, but really put them into practice."
Learn it thoroughly and understand it!”
Cheng Peng looked at Kou Zhong's serious look and finally smiled.
"You look like a king now..."
"It's a pity that Master Shilong and my mother can't see it anymore." Xu Ziling suddenly sighed, "If they saw what Mr. Zhong is like today, I don't know how happy they would be!"
The night is getting darker and the banquet has come to an end.
After everyone rested, Cheng Peng was not in a hurry to go to sleep. Instead, he took out the "Introduction to the Current Situation of the Young Marshal's Army" that Qiao Xi had given him and started reading it carefully.
The current Young Marshal's Army occupies the Nanyang and Xinye areas north of Xiangyang. There are about 100,000 civilians under his command. However, in order not to delay the farming work, and because the weapons and armor cannot keep up, the standing force is only 5,000, of which there are about 100,000.
A thousand people are players.
This small amount of troops is nothing in this era of hundreds of thousands of troops, but Kou Zhong is not alone. Since Hou Xibai persuaded the Demon Sect, several spokespersons of the Demon Sect have sent envoys to contact him.
Wang Shichong, who respected the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, promised to share the world with him; and Xiao Xian, a heroic figure in the south, even said, "As long as you can pass the test of the Holy Sect, Kou Zhong, Xiao Xian is willing to lead an army of 400,000."
The astonishing words of "Follow your subordinates without any second thoughts".
Therefore, Kou Zhong's future is actually very bright.
As long as he can pass the "test" given by the magic gate.
The content of the test was agreed upon by the Demon Sect bosses Shi Zhixuan, Zhu Yuyan, Bichen and others. The title was "Capture Xiangyang without relying on the power of the Holy Sect".
There is a clue to this question: Xiangyang is now under the peripheral control of the Sichuan-Shu family, and the Sichuan-Shu family has always been a loyal ally of the Song family in Lingnan. The capture of Xiangyang is tantamount to officially falling out with the Sichuan-Shu family and the Song family.
Among the three great masters in the world today, Ning Daoqi from the Taoist sect has always been close to Buddhism and is definitely an enemy of Kou Zhong; Shi Zhixuan from the Demonic sect, although his head seems a little abnormal, is still a member of the Demonic sect and even said "
If necessary, I can temporarily act as a bodyguard for a few days"; only Lingnan Song Que's attitude was ambiguous and he never leaned towards either side. The Demon Sect wants Kou Zhong to fall out with the Song family, which is to cut off the relationship between Kou Zhong and the Song family.
At the end of the day, the possibility of stepping on two boats forced him to stand honestly on the side of the demon sect. From then on, everyone was like two grasshoppers on a rope, and there was no possibility of betrayal.
Kou Zhong has never experienced the story of meeting and falling in love with Song Yuzhi in the original work, so he has no special feelings for the Song family. On the contrary, because of his wandering life as a boy, he has always been dissatisfied with the wealthy family, so naturally he will not object to this test. Now he
What I think about every day is how to win Xiangyang, get the official recognition of the entire Demon Sect, and truly gain the qualifications to dominate the world.
But he didn't know that there were actually many people helping him.
There are a lot of players in the world of "The Legend of Two Dragons of the Tang Dynasty". Among them, there are nearly ten thousand people who actively participate in various forces. About 40% of these nearly ten thousand people are inclined to help Kou Zhong, and 30% are inclined to help.
Li Shimin and three others belong to various forces, and there is currently no clear trend.
But there are indeed experts among the players who support Kou Zhong: I don’t know who it is. After joining the Li family, he quickly raised his favorability level very high, and then actually convinced Li Yuan to set up a similar Tiance Mansion for his eldest son Li Jiancheng.
The organization is called "Tianji Mansion". All players who join the Li family will be forcibly assigned to the Tianji Mansion.
This move can be said to be a blow to the bottom, directly cutting off the possibility of those players helping Li Shimin - politics is not a task. Since he has already belonged to Li Jiancheng's camp, even if he changes jobs before his defeat, he can only jump out of the Li family, and it is absolutely impossible to jump to Tiance.
Mansion.
But that master seemed to be not enough, and contacted many people from the Taoist sect, especially the Taiping Taoist Yellow Turban Army who were so brilliant in the world of Three Kingdoms Unparalleled. Under the guise of "fighting for the orthodoxy of the Taoist sect", they secretly found the Taoist sect in this world.
, launched a vigorous and vigorous discussion. Currently, Ning Daoqi is being besieged by several real-life professionals with doctorates in Taoism. He has been talking all day long and his saliva has dried up. How can he possibly come back to cause trouble for Kou Zhong!
In order not to arouse the vigilance of various forces towards Kou Zhong, most of the players who supported Kou Zhong, led by the Taiping Dao people, joined Xiao Mian's camp, and spent the whole day as a "semi-sanren" fighting monsters and leveling up in the mountains of southwest China, or
Doing some military equipment and other tasks seems to be inconspicuous.
But when it comes time to fight, they will be like tigers descending from the mountain, surprising the whole world!
In addition, there are many players who are helping Dou Jiande of Hebei, who is known for his generosity, and Wang Shichong of Luoyang, who swallowed up the Wagang Army, to join forces to fight against the increasingly powerful Li family.
Of course, their chances of victory are not great, but the two families joining forces are enough to delay the Li family for a long time.
The only thing we need to worry about now is the Turks behind the Li family.
The Turks have always had a close relationship with Li Jiancheng, and even expressed support for him to succeed Li Yuan more than once. This not only caused Li Shimin to be unable to seize the position of crown prince, even though he was a god in military warfare and had outstanding military exploits; it also caused many leaders to
Players with nationalistic tendencies were disappointed with the Li family and turned to Dou Jiande or Kou Zhong.
But the Turks are indeed very powerful!
If the Li family's battle is unfavorable, they may even directly borrow troops from the Turks - just like the Tang Dynasty in history did not hesitate to rely on the power of the Uighurs to quell the Anshi Rebellion. By then, hundreds of thousands of Turkic knights will march south in large numbers, and the Central Plains will definitely be devastated, and even
May once again fall into the turbulent and chaotic world.
Therefore, this is the most troublesome issue for Kou Zhong's military advisors at the moment.
According to the original work, in order to prevent the Turks from going south, Kou Zhong had to give up fighting for the world, surrender to Li Shimin, and team up with him to deal with Li Jiancheng, who was colluding with the Turks; but now Kou Zhong will never surrender, so how should he deal with the Turks?
When Cheng Peng approached Qiao Xi and asked about this issue, Qiao Xi just shrugged indifferently and replied, "Soldiers will stop you, and water will cover you."
But Cheng Peng could tell that he didn't have much confidence.
"According to the plot, how long do you think it will be until the decisive battle between Kou Zhong and the Li family?" Cheng Peng sighed and asked.
Qiao Xi thought about it for a while and replied: "It must take half a year..."
Cheng Peng nodded and said nothing more.
Half a year may be enough.
The relationship between the various Turkic tribes is not harmonious. The reason why they can unite as one relies on the supreme prestige of Wu Zun Bi Xuan and the control of the two Khans Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan. As long as these three people are killed,
At least it will make them unable to coordinate well, and may even cause the grassland tribes to fight among themselves to compete for the position of the Great Khan.
Cheng Peng is not very good at the art of war, but he still has some confidence in martial arts...
