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In March of the second year of God's blessing, the spring breeze brought warmth and the glaciers in the north thawed, indicating that this year will be another good year.
It has been seven years since Li Chengzhong came to this era. The butterfly wings he fanned finally fundamentally changed the historical trend of this era. According to the original trajectory, the emperor Li Ye was killed in Dongdu by Zhu Quanzhong last year and was given the posthumous title of Sheng Mu.
Emperor Jing Wenxiao, whose temple name was Zhaozong; the ninth son of the emperor, Li Zuo, ascended the throne and became the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty; the power of the Xuanwu Army reached its historical peak, with the power to resist the world in one town. Three years later, King Liang abolished the Tang Dynasty and established the
Beam.
But because of the arrival of Li Chengzhong, everything changed. Xuanwu may be called the overlord of all vassals, but he still has not reached the level of conquering the world by himself; Emperor Li Ye is still living well in the Luoyang Palace - although he has lost
The new crown prince was Li Zhen, and the child lived a good life in Youzhou. He had enough to eat every day, and the food was quite good.
In the end, King Liang temporarily gave up the idea of independence from the Tang Dynasty, and the historically unfinished strategy of "following the Warring States Period" began to be implemented. It is not known whether Li Tang's empire can be continued.
But at least one thing is certain. The policy of "following the Warring States Period" has been responded to by all the vassals and towns all over the world. The warriors of the entire Tang Dynasty have their eyes fixed on Luoyang, and they are anxiously looking forward to the World War that will be held on the first day of April.
The feudal town alliance.
King Qi Li Maozhen evacuated his troops from Chencang, and the blockade of the trail from Qinzhou to Henan was lifted. Zhang Cunjing breathed a sigh of relief; King Shu ordered the Xichuan soldiers not to cross Fangzhou, and the Xuanwu garrison in the northern part of Shannan finally slept soundly.
After a few days of good sleep; the Zhao brothers from Jingnan rushed to the gate of Xiangzhou City. Their arrival was not to attack Xiangzhou. Zhao Kuangning sent envoys to the city to discuss the passage to the north; Huainan Li Shenfu and Wang Maozhang also left Fuli and Xiapi respectively.
Withdrew to Huainan. They saw Xuanwu's sincerity. Xuanwu's army returned King Wu's second son Yang Longyan to Huainan and invited him again to join the alliance. King Wu was already considering who to send to the eastern capital.
Except for the fierce fighting in the Shangdang area, the Tang Dynasty in the second year of Tianyou's reign could be said to be at peace. Even the Xuanwu Army and the Hedong Army that were confronting Jiangzhou City stopped provoking each other, and there was not a single confrontation for more than two months.
Jingxiang's strategy of following the Warring States Period not only dragged Xuanwu back from the mud, but also put heavy pressure on Xuanwu's enemies. Starting from February, the top brass of the Lulong Army clearly felt this pressure.
Li Chengzhong met the envoy from Xuanwu for the first time. In fact, this envoy was not a member of Xuanwu's officials. He was just a Hanlin editor randomly assigned by the Xuanwu Army from the court of Dongdu. The envoy's family members were imprisoned by the Xuanwu Army on the condition that they be allowed to
He went to Youzhou to inform Lu Long about the alliance in the eastern capital.
The King of Liang told Li Chengzhong that he would ask the emperor to encircle the country. Li Chengzhong could establish the Kingdom of Yan in the north of Youzhou, build a state, and establish an ancestral temple. At the same time, the King of Liang also "enthusiastically" invited Li Chengzhong to go to Luoyang on the first day of April to participate in the Emperor's Zhao.
This was tantamount to the humiliation of Li Chengzhong by Xuanwu. Most of the land in Hebei was cut off, and no one could bear this.
Zhang Xingzhong, Jiang Miao, Zhou Kan and other senior officials in Lulong were furious and asked Lieutenant General Li Cheng to make the envoy Ming Zhengdian punish him. The envoy was aggrieved and argued that he was forced to come and that the matter really had nothing to do with him.
Immediately afterwards, Li Chengzhong received letters of love from Li Chengyue, Gao Xingzhou and Zhao Ba, because King Liang sent envoys to the three of them respectively, promising them the positions of King Wei, King Ji and King Zhao, and inviting them to participate in the Eastern Metropolis Alliance.
.Perhaps Xuanwu did not realize that under the Lu Longjun system, the above three people could not mobilize a single soldier, and such enfeoffment was no different from a joke; or perhaps Xuanwu fully understood that this matter could not succeed and was purely a provocation.
Civil strife in the Lulong Army.
In any case, the arrival of the Xuanwu envoy still frightened the three people. Among them, Li Chengyue and Gao Xingzhou rushed back to Youzhou in person, presented a defense statement to plead guilty, and had Wuhua tied up and sent to the court. Zhao Ba then
It was much simpler. He directly beheaded the envoy and sent the head to Youzhou. There was only one sentence in the love letter: "Zhu's son doesn't know what to say. Zhao will always be Lulong's sect."
Obviously, within the Lu Longjun system, it was too much to look down on people if they wanted to implement this strategy of division and disintegration. Li Chengzhong felt funny and helpless. He did not embarrass these three envoys from the court - they were beheaded by Zhao Ba
Li Chengzhong could only say that he was sorry. The three envoys had a good time eating and drinking in Youzhou for a few days, and even paid a visit to Prince Li Zhen, and then Li Chengzhong let them go back.
During this period, Gao Mingbo secretly submitted three files, which were reports on the whereabouts of Li Chengyue, Gao Xingzhou and Zhao Ba in recent months. The report listed in detail the daily arrangements and people they met with during the past month.
, showing that the three had no signs of having an affair with the enemy. However, Gao Mingbo said in the report that the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics would continue to arrange surveillance of the three. Once the three were exposed, they would be taken down immediately, so that Li Chengzhong did not have to worry.
Li Chengzhong was not worried at first, but he began to think about another question: Is Gao Mingbo's power too great? Is it too much to monitor important generals in the army without authorization? The Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, an intelligence agency
, is it a little out of control?
If you think about it carefully, in fact, the solution to the problem of excessive power of intelligence agencies in later generations is nothing more than divide and conquer: external military intelligence and internal political security. So Li Chengzhong began to think about whether to split the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics into two parts?
Gao Mingbo certainly could not have imagined that His Highness the King of Hell was preparing to weaken his power because of his "proactivity." Today, Gao Mingbo is being shrouded in a massive amount of intelligence information, desperately trying to summarize and analyze it in order to clarify the clues.
The King of Liang wanted to ask the emperor to "follow the Warring States Period". This thing has been announced to the world, and there is no need to pry. The feedback from the intelligence stations of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics in each town is how each town should respond. Starting from February, until March
At the beginning of the month, the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics received a large number of urgent information from intelligence personnel. After sorting it out, Gao Mingbo summarized it into an official document for reporting, and then he was frightened.
Fengxiang, Xichuan, Jingnan, Huainan, Zhenhai, Wuwei, Wuyue and other powerful vassal towns have stopped fighting and are preparing to participate in the Eastern Metropolis Alliance convened by Xuanwu, including Fengxiang and Wuyue who are vaguely friends with Lu Long.
!In addition to the above-mentioned feudal towns, what makes Gao Mingbo most anxious is the performance of Hedong and Pinglu towns.
According to reports, there seems to be a dispute in Hedong. The Hedong Army stopped at the foot of Jiangzhou City and not only stopped attacking southward, but also had the intention of retreating. Intelligence also showed that there seemed to be some suspicion between Li Keyong and Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan.
There is a tendency to split! It is said that Jin King Li Keyong suffered from eye disease due to anger and fainted twice in a row during discussions!
The news from Pinglu was even more ominous. Pingluya had safely abandoned Yanzhou with Liu Wei, and Ge Congzhou had taken over this important town that had troubled him for almost two years! Liu Wei led the remaining army to evacuate Yanzhou, and Ge Congzhou
He has not been in trouble since last week, and it is not yet known whether Liu Wei can no longer hold on or is ordered by Wang Shifan. Everything still needs to wait for the next news. However, the information fed back by the Bochang camp made Gao Mingbo feel that something was not good.
In that month, the military movements of the Pinglu Army were no longer reported to the Bochang camp. Wang Shifan's explanation was that there was no place to use them recently and the Pinglu Army needed to rest and reorganize.
Gao Mingbo did not dare to delay, so he quickly asked to see Li Chengzhong and handed over the intelligence he had prepared.
Li Chengzhong took it and looked at it for a long time, reading it over and over again, and then sighed: "It's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married, let him do it."
Gao Mingbo was stunned. Could it be that His Highness King Yan recognized it like this? But thinking about it on the other hand, given the current situation, Lu Long really couldn't come up with any more means to deal with those vassal towns thousands of miles away. He
Of course, they would not know that Li Chengzhong's quote from the great man of the past was not only his emotion for Gao Mingbo's plan, but also his helplessness for the foreign students of Fan Yang Military Academy.
In the past two days, Li Cunxu, Li Jicheng, Li Jitao, Zhou Shengmao, Guo Chongtao, Qian Yuanguan, Wang Shiyue and others resigned one after another. These people completed nine months of military schoolwork at Fanyang Military Academy and were then assigned to various military units.
After three months of internship in the middle school, they all got the certificate allowing them to graduate. Most of them wanted to simply join the Lulong Army and become a real Lulong officer.
The situation was originally good, but each of them received a letter from home, requiring them to return to their domain immediately. So they resigned from the General Office of the Military Staff, hoping that Lu Longjun would let them go back to their hometowns. Jiang Miao did not dare to be good at it, so he hurriedly reported to Li Chengzhong, who
After long consideration, they approved their resignations and requested that the troops garrisoned at each checkpoint should not stay in trouble.
Li Chengzhong's consideration was, would it be beneficial to the overall situation to force these people to be detained in Lulong? It is obviously meaningless. Who doesn't have three or five sons these days? For these feudal towns, one less person will not hurt their bones. Except
There is no other benefit to increasing the hatred value for oneself. So will what they learn pose a threat to Lu Long? That's a matter of opinion, but at least one thing is that what they learned will be useless after they go back. Rather than making things difficult, it's better to
Forge a good relationship - this is Li Chengzhong's simplest idea.
Jie Muli and Li Siye did not submit the dictionary, and they did not want to go back. Jie Muli wanted to fulfill his dream of protecting the Li Tang royal family, while Li Siye hoped to stay in the wealthy Lulong system and pursue wealth safely. But Li Chengzhong simply did not want to go back.
They were driven back, but the two of them each accepted a task. Jie Muli wanted to gather the tribes for the future; Li Siye wanted to return to Pinglu to find out Wang Shifan's intentions.
In fact, Li Cunxu didn't want to go back. After receiving a year of formal military education at Fanyang Military Academy, he felt that Hedong where he was was a scumbag! Only in the Lulong Army could he feel what spring was! Unfortunately, Li Cunxu was the legitimate son of the King of Jin, and the King of Jin had already
He fainted twice in a row. As his son, he had to go back and take a look anyway.
On the fifth day of March, Li Cunxu reluctantly said goodbye to Li Simo, Guo Rujie, Zhou Mingjing and other friends from Youzhou, and set out on his way back to his hometown again.