Chapter 400 Move the Mountain to Taibao Xiao Kaishan
Jingyesi asked Gu Cheng, who was the supervisor, to personally escort him, and the Tiantian Alliance behind Qiu Erniang came for that person, which made Gu Cheng a little curious.
"Who is the person I want to escort? Is it worthy of your attention?"
Qiu Erniang narrowed her eyes and said: "The commander of the southwest rebel Hongye Army, the 'Mountain-moving Taibao' Xiao Kaishan!"
Gu Cheng was surprised and said: "Another Fang Zhenhai?"
This kind of character is not uncommon in Nanjiu County, one or even several will pop up almost every once in a while.
There are many mountains and mountains in the southwest, and it is also very chaotic. It is not unusual for a person like this to appear.
Qiu Erniang shook her head and said: "It would be too insulting to Xiao Kaishan if you compare him with Fang Zhenhai. Fang Zhenhai is just a reckless rebel who started a rebellion for his own selfish desires. In fact, he has no vision and no overall situation. No
Become a climate.
Xiao Kaishan, on the other hand, can be called a great hero of his time, and he is simply not comparable to Fang Zhenhai and his ilk.
You should know the situation in the four southwest counties, right?"
Gu Cheng nodded: "Of course I know."
The four southwest counties are: Bashu, Xiangxi, Guangnan, and Nanzhao. These four counties have many steep mountains and difficult roads. There are also many foreign races among them. Although they are not as hostile to the Central Plains as the barbarians in the north, they are still fighting against the Central Plains people.
While keeping in touch with each other, they also maintained their own customs.
For example, Lan Caidi, whom Gu Cheng met in Nanyi County, was from the Miao border in western Hunan.
This group of people is difficult and difficult to control. Although they will not openly confront Da Gan, they will inevitably cause some troubles.
In addition, because the roads in the four southwest counties are not smooth and narrow, even the imperial army is rarely sent in rotation. Therefore, many important criminals wanted by the imperial court gather here, and even many remnants of the Ten Kingdoms in the past are lurking there.
Southwest land.
Qiu Erniang said: "Xiao Kaishan used to be a famous hero in the southwest. The reason why he rebelled was because the local garrison general was too bastard.
Due to the difficult roads in the southwest, the garrison generals seldom rotated. This also led to the local garrison, like Jingyesi, to develop into a presence like a local emperor.
In order to cope with the situation above and to demand military pay and rewards, the garrison generals often did things such as killing good people and taking credit for their merits.
They didn't dare to attack the big foreign tribes in the area, so they went to attack some small tribes that were simple and kind-hearted and had no ability to resist. Even some Central Plains villages were framed as bandit dens and wiped out.
Xiao Kaishan rose up in anger, and some small tribes and people with lofty ideals in the southwest came to surrender one after another. In just a few months, they had swept through Nanzhao and Guangnan. The local garrison had been enjoying themselves for too long, and they were not one of them.
The combined enemy was defeated like a torrent.
After Fang Zhenhai captured the cities and territories in Nanyi County, he directly controlled those areas. What he did was no different from that of the imperial court, and even more brutal than the imperial court.
Xiao Kaishan, on the other hand, opened a granary to release grain, and did not harm the common people, so he was very famous in the local area.
It's just a pity that Daqian can tolerate chaos on the border now, but it cannot tolerate someone openly raising a flag of rebellion.
Fang Zhenhai was like this, and so was Xiao Kaishan. His Hongye Army made too much noise, and the court could not send a large army for the time being, but it used a trick to lure him away from the mountain and capture him alive. Without Xiao Kaishan, the Hongye Army would be useless.
, completely dormant."
After listening, Gu Cheng shook his head slightly and said: "He is a hero in this world, but he is lacking in the overall situation."
These eight words are Gu Cheng's evaluation of Xiao Kaishan.
What the other party did was indeed worthy of being called a hero of the time. He dared to stand up and raise a banner to resist the imperial court just because of a moment of injustice. This is not something ordinary people can do.
But the other party's overall view is still somewhat lacking.
The example of Fang Zhenhai is before us, and there are even more examples before Fang Zhenhai. The other party should know the consequences of raising the flag of rebellion.
Build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and become king slowly.
These three methods should be used at all times, especially in areas like the southwest where roads are inconvenient. It is very difficult for the imperial court to conquer the southwest. The main purpose is to maintain stability. In this case, the lower the profile, the safer it will be.
Even if you want to rebel in a low-key way.
Qiu Erniang shook her head and said: "You are wrong, Xiao Kaishan does not lack the overall situation, but he had no choice in that situation.
Go to the capital to file a complaint? He is a Jianghu man. He only has some reputation in the Jianghu, but how can he be heard in the court? Besides, the transfer of an army general is no child's play.
As for lying low and dormant, doesn't that mean that there are more innocent people suffering in the southwest?
Xiao Kaishan is very similar to you back then. When you killed Governor Hong, you obviously had better ways to solve the problem secretly. Why did you choose to use the most drastic method to break into the military camp and twist off the other person's head in front of everyone?
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Gu Cheng sighed: "It's hard to calm down."
Qiu Erniang nodded and said: "Xiao Kaishan also had a hard time getting over it. He even made such a big show of power and killed the local garrison general just to demonstrate.
Even if he failed, the general who later took over the southwest would not dare to go so far.
The government forced the people to rebel, and Xiao Kaishan died. Who knows if another Xiao Kaishan will appear?"
Gu Cheng shook his head gently. If you put it this way, Xiao Kaishan can indeed be called a hero of the world. No wonder the Tiantian Alliance is interested in recruiting him.
"By the way, are there any problems with this? Since everyone in the imperial court has already captured Xiao Kaishan, why do they want to send him to the capital again?"
Qiu Erniang narrowed her eyes and said, "Because of his identity.
There are many remnants of the Ten Kingdoms in the southwest. In fact, five hundred years have passed and almost no one is thinking about restoring the country.
Even though wars are raging now, they know that the success rate of restoring the country is almost zero.
Xiao Kaishan is a descendant of the Xiao family, the royal family of the Liang Kingdom in the past ten kingdoms.
It is said that when he founded the Red Leaf Army, he took out countless treasures and materials, so that he could gather tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in a short period of time.
These things were prepared by the ancestors of the Xiao family in the past for the purpose of restoring the country, and he still had the secret treasure of the Liang royal family on him that he had not yet taken out.
Therefore, the imperial court escorted him to the capital to interrogate him about the whereabouts of the Liang royal family's secret treasure.
Of course, we, Zhengtian Alliance, don't care about those things. Treasures are dead, people are alive, and the living Xiao Kaishan is much more valuable than the dead treasures.
Your line of work is not easy. There are countless people who want Xiao Kaishan's life along the way.
The evil cultivators along the way want to rob people because they also want the secret treasure of the Liang Kingdom.
Some other rebel forces in the southwest also want to kill him, because with his death, these rebel forces can incorporate the massive Red Leaf Army under his command.
Some of the imperial generals in the southwest also wanted to kill him. Xiao Kaishan also knew about the things they did in the southwest. They were afraid that Xiao Kaishan would come to the capital alive and expose them all.
A number of people sent by the imperial court to escort Xiao Kaishan have died, so now they are staying at the border and are urgently recruiting experts from all over the country to escort him, and you are just one of them."
Gu Cheng raised his eyebrows slightly. He did not expect that a seemingly simple escort mission would involve so many things.
"So this time I want to be the internal agent of the Heaven Confrontation Alliance?"
Qiu Erniang nodded and said: "Originally, you were not the person responsible for escorting this time. Who would have thought that you would cause such a big commotion in Jiangnan County, but it would lead to Ye Wuzhao, the governor of Jingyesi, personally ordering it?"
Your name, so I came from Nanyi County as quickly as possible to contact you.
With you as the internal response, we don't have to attack by force, we can just act according to the situation.
Our people from the Heavenly Alliance are also scattered all over the place. I will follow you secretly this time, and I will contact you in time if I need to take action."
After saying that, Qiu Erniang also took out a brocade box and handed it to Gu Cheng. She said proudly with a pretty face: "This business is a bit dangerous. It is common for a master-level being to take action. I'm afraid you can't stop it, so
So I asked the boss for your reward in advance."
Gu Cheng ignored Qiu Erniang's look of pleading for praise, and opened the brocade box a little strangely. Inside was a golden, slightly irregular round pill.
"What is this?"
"Golden elixir! Taoist golden elixir!"
Qiu Erniang said in a deep voice: "Your current cultivation level is indeed very strong, and your magical powers are diverse, enough to rival ordinary masters.
But your biggest problem is your foundation. Whether it is martial arts or Qi refining, your foundation has not reached its peak, which greatly restricts your combat power.
However, you can't become fat by practicing a method in one breath. You still have to rely on step by step. Now it's just that your strength can't keep up with your realm, so I gave you this golden elixir.
When I swallowed a golden elixir, I realized that my fate was not determined by fate.
This golden elixir was left by a senior of the Taoist Danding Sect. It can synthesize the power in your body, making the martial arts and refining energy into one, helping you to step into the half-step master realm, and greatly shortening the time it takes for you to step into the master realm.
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In fact, after listening to Song Yuanshan's sermon, Gu Cheng was already sure of entering the realm of a master. What he lacked was just the inner strength.
Now Qiu Erniang has helped him complete this link.
In fact, to be fair, the treatment offered by the Zhengtian Alliance is quite good. Every time the Zhengtian Union takes action, the reward is quite large, at least it is enough to make Gu Cheng's heart flutter.
It's just that until now, Gu Cheng doesn't know what the ultimate goal of the Heaven-fighting Alliance is, to fight for fate with heaven? Which heaven is it?
If we say that the Fighting Sky Alliance is an enemy of the imperial court, it also cooperates with the Fourth Prince and helps them quell the war in Nanyi County.
But it would be wrong to say that the Zhengtian Alliance belongs to the imperial court. Although Xiao Kaishan can be regarded as a hero of the world, he is still the leader of the rebels. He killed the imperial general and openly raised the flag of rebellion. This is almost the person the imperial court must kill. As a result,
The Zhengtian Alliance wanted to save him, which really made Gu Cheng confused.
But Gu Cheng didn't think much about it. How could there be so many firm stances on things in this world? Only children believe that the world is black and white.
Most of us, you and me, are actually gray, but the gray of the Heaven Confrontation Alliance is a bit chaotic, making it difficult to see clearly.