The warm summer breeze blew through the treetops in front of the Daiguo Mansion in Mayi City, and the leaves rattled.

In the Daiguo Mansion, the commander of the right capital of Dingxiang Road, Ma Yi Taishou, Liu Wu Zhouzheng, the former Yanmen Dao generals and more than ten people gathered together to raise money.

Yuan Junzhang, the former envoy of the Yiwu Left Army, and Gao Manzheng, the envoy of the Yiwu Right Army, were all brothers who followed Liu Wuzhou when he started the incident in Mayi, although they did not do much in recent years, they have been blocked by Yang Yichen in the north of Taiyuan, and the place of occupation has always been the three counties of Mayi and Yanmen and Loufu.

But he hasn't been sitting dry for a few years.

At the beginning of the Mayi Uprising, Liu Wuzhou was just an eagle general under the command of Wang Rengong, the Taishou of Sui Mayi, commanding a thousand men and horses. But with the support of Luo Cheng, he killed Wang Rengong and started an incident, and then seized the three counties, recruited troops and horses, and trained the generals, and there were not many military achievements, but the horses of Luo Siye in the north were supported, and then many Turkic Tiele tribes were resettled, and the strength was also gradually stronger.

Sitting next to Liu Wuzhou was his brother-in-law Yuan Junzhang, who was originally a son of a powerful family in Ma Yi, and his family was very rich, and later became friends with Liu Wuzhou, Liu Wuzhou married his sister to him, and the relationship between the two went further.

Although Yuan Junzhang is a strong child, he is illiterate, but he is very smart. He doesn't usually like to drink, but today he also poured a lot of General Longmen Fei, and his face was full of redness.

He put down his wine glass, "Damn, don't be promoted to the rank of official one by one, our brothers are getting smaller and smaller the more mixed officials." ”

Gao Manzheng said, "No, the emperor is now using those old aristocratic officials of the Sui Dynasty heavily, and he is very generous and bold, so Xiao Yu has been fighting with us for a few years, and as soon as he is attached, he will be awarded the title of the prince to worship the prime minister, you say that he took Taiyuan to return the title of the prince, but what is the basis of Chen Shuda or something?" ”

"And Wang Rengong's sons have been awarded a marquis, and they have also been awarded the title of county."

As soon as they drank too much, these people became more and more unscrupulous in their speech.

Today is Liu Wuzhou's birthday, so he invited a group of brothers to gather for a drink, and there was only one old brother at this banquet. Yesterday, Liu Wuzhou had already invited a banquet to a cadre of officials and generals in the city of Mayi, including county officials and school captains sent by the imperial court, but today it was just a private gathering and did not invite those people.

It's all my own family, and I don't have many scruples when I talk, and I can't help it when I drink too much, and I can't help it when I complain.

And the root of their complaints is because in the round of adjustments at the beginning of the year, the original Yanmen Road was merged into the Dingxiang Road, the Yanmen Road is gone, and the Jiedu envoy has also been withdrawn.

Originally, Liu Wu was a brother in the past few years, and his life was quite leisurely, with more and more soldiers and horses, and his combat power became stronger and stronger, but with the death of Yang Yichen, Xiao Yu dedicated Taiyuan to attach, and Hedong went down in a battle.

The status of these brothers is inevitably embarrassing, they can't compare with Luo Siye in Dingxiang Road in the north, Luo Siye is the emperor's brother, although the generals under his command are not the emperor's descendants, but the king of Jin is the emperor's brother, naturally Liu Hongji, Yin Kaishan, Hou Junji and other generals under his command have also been awarded the marquis, and they all have to be given flying fish robes.

Even after this diversion, the two soldiers and horses of Dingxiang were quickly awarded the military titles of the left and right armies of Shenjie, and they turned into the forbidden army of Daqin.

On the other hand, after Liu Wuzhou was removed from the Jiedu envoy, he was reassigned to the right governor of Dingxiang Road and the commander of the Mayi Taishou, while the two armies of Yiwu did not change their military numbers, but they had to be streamlined and reorganized into an army.

This time, Yuan Junzhang was awarded the title of Zhuojun Taishou, and Gao Manzheng was awarded the title of Shanggu Taishou.

Obviously, the two were transferred out of Daibei, and at the same time transferred to civilian positions, and were seized of military power.

Although Liu Wuzhou is also the Taishou of Mayi, but after the reorganization of the Yiwu Army, the military envoy is Liu Hongji, and the deputy military envoy is sent from the imperial court, it is Wei Chiliang, who is the emperor's guard general and the emperor's confidant.

Not to mention, in the last knighthood, although Liu Wuzhou was awarded the title of acting duke, Yuan Junzhang and Gao Manzheng, the two major military envoys of the Yiwu Army, each only won the title of founding earl, but only a few of the generals below him won the title of baron.

This makes them even more dissatisfied.

Why?

The imperial court conferred the knighthood, considering all aspects, is a comprehensive consideration.

For example, Liu Wuzhou actually has no merits, his biggest achievement is to kill Wang Rengong and capture the three counties of Daibei, and he didn't give Xiang's heirs to pull back his legs, so that he could fix Xiang with peace of mind, and the rest was to slightly contain the Sui army in Taiyuan.

What other merits does he have?

The three counties he led had a population of only a few hundred thousand, and they had to rely on their heirs to relieve grain and grass before, and their troops expanded to 50,000 horses and horses in the two armies, but they had never fought a decent battle.

So in the end, Liu Wuzhou was given the title of the Duke of the Kingdom, which was the title of a festival envoy, as for the generals under his command, of course, it was impossible to be crowned a prince and a marquis without merit, and it was appeased to an earl.

But Liu Wuzhou and others don't think so.

They only saw that even Chen Shuda and other cadres who were attached later were all county princes and county marquises, but their titles and official positions were not high, and now they have been demoted with the adjustment of Dao County.

Yuan Junzhang and the others talked more and more, but Liu Wuzhou just held the wine glass and didn't speak.

"Dashuai, let's just vote for the Turks." Yuan Junzhang said viciously with red eyes.

The Turks are now besieging Dingxiang Luo Simo, and Luo Siye, who was originally attacking Jiuyuan, returned to the army to rescue, and the emperor ordered Liu Wuzhou to lead the army north to relieve the siege.

"That is, while the whole army is not yet completed, let's take our brothers to the north and stab Luo Siye."

Jieli Khan had already sent people to secretly come over to persuade him to surrender several times, and in order to be able to win over Liu Wuzhou to join him, he even made a promise that as long as Liu Wuzhou was willing to surrender, he would give him a wolf's head and make him the Khan of the South.

Even this time, when the secret envoy came, he directly brought a silver wolf with him.

Silver Wolf Daxu, South Khan.

This is a very important title.

What's more, Jieli also promised him that after defeating Luo Siye, then the five counties of Mayi, Zhuojun, Yunzhong, Loufu, and Yanmen within the Great Wall would all belong to him, and even Taiyuan, Hedong and other places in the future would also be under his jurisdiction.

Liu Wuzhou was also a hot-blooded young man, his ancestral home was Hebei, and his family moved to Mayi. When he was young, he was heroic and enthusiastic, a chivalrous friend, joined the army, and was full of enthusiasm.

In western Liaoning, he couldn't see Yu Wenhua's conspiracy and tricks, so he resigned from his official position and returned to his hometown.

It's just that people change.

From a small colonel of the government soldiers, to the envoy of the festival who guarded one side, sitting on the land of three counties, 50,000 soldiers and horses, and every word, it was his word here, and he had long been accustomed to this feeling of being in power.

Now that he has suddenly lost all his power, this sense of loss is very deep.

If there had been no Turkic invasion, perhaps this feeling would have only been buried deep in my heart.

But now there is an opportunity in front of me.

Jieli's 200,000 troops invaded the south, besieged Simo, and trapped the heirs.

Li Yuan had already accepted the canonization of Dingyang Khan and sent 100,000 troops to the north. Dou Jiande of Hebei also accepted the canonization of Pingyang Khan, and the alliance of the three families has become a success.

Is it to be the commander of the right capital of Dingxiang Dao, which has little real power in Great Qin, or to be the southern khan of the Turks?

Liu Wuzhou wavered.

It's just that he is still a little hesitant and has not yet made up his mind.

But today's private gathering of the wine banquet made him see the true thoughts of the old brothers, and they were even more unwilling.

A fire is burning in my heart.

Kill Luo Siye, dominate the north, don't be a powerless acting prince anymore, if you want to be the king of Jin, be the son of Hedong.

Luo Siye is now very critical, although he and Luo Simo have 50,000 horses, but Luo Simo has been defeated for a while, losing many soldiers, not to mention that many Turks in Mo Nan have openly defected to him after Jieli went south, which makes Jieli in Mo Nan have a great momentum.

Luo Siye hurried back from the city of Jiuyuan, months of hard work turned into a waste, the soldiers and horses were tired, but they could not break the siege in a battle, so they could only garrison near Dingxiang, echoing each other, and holding on to help.

The reinforcements are the 50,000 horses they represent in the north.

In the emperor's plan, Liu Wuzhou's 50,000 soldiers and horses in Daibei were the most recent and the most complete, resting for a long time, with sufficient food and weapons, and they were enough to relieve the siege of Xiangzhi, and even be able to defeat Jieli.

But now Jieli has two more allies, Guanzhong Li Yuan and Hebei Dou Jiande are both subordinate to Jieli, and each sends heavy troops to help.

Li Yuan's 100,000 soldiers and horses had already marched to Jiuyuan, and as long as he agreed to Jieli and accepted the canonization of the southern khan, then Dou Jiande of Hebei would also move closer to him and use him to encircle and annihilate Luo Siye.

The unbridled resentment and arrogance of the generals when they were drunk were like a handful of dry wood thrown into the fire in his heart.

"Don't drink some horse urine, just talk nonsense, be careful that the officials sent by the court will hear it, and then you will be punished." Liu Wuzhou said with a smile.

Yuan Junzhang said with red eyes, "Dashuai, we are afraid that they are birds, this generation of the three northern counties was fought down by us, but the emperor said that he would cut off half of the horse and set up another Yunzhong County, and it was also assigned to Luo Siye, so we won't say anything." But let's not talk about the credit in the past few years, there is always hard work, why do we cross the river and tear down the bridge now, Taiyuan Hedong has won, we will be useless, right, we have to dismantle the soldiers and horses we have worked hard to recruit and train, and we will break up our brothers and gangs, what is the next step? Are you going to transfer us to Lingnan Annam? ”

"Just, why?"

The generals shouted.

"I'm afraid that they are birds, let's turn it back, those guys want to take away our power, then let's take advantage of this rare opportunity, let's do it tonight, kill the officials and generals sent by Luo Cheng to seize power, and then you will stand up as the son of heaven, let's not give him Luo Cheng's life!"

"It's the other way around!"

"Fuck it!"

The sound reversed, which made the smile on Liu Wuzhou's face gradually overflow.

He stood up, his eyes swept over everyone, and finally the cup slammed to the ground, "Since the brothers all want to rebel, then I will take everyone to rebel!" ”

"It's the other way around!"