In the study, he toasted and drank with his old staff friends, only three glasses, but Zheng Zheng was very drunk, and when the lamp was turned on at night, the staff said goodbye and left. Mrs. Zheng personally comforted Zheng Jing to wash and rest, and in the middle of the night, Zheng Zhen woke up and sat alone in the study, and took out Li Jing's handwritten letter to watch it repeatedly, sighing. thought in his heart: "Li Tang is erosive in the world, and today only Li Jing has elite soldiers and strong generals in his hands, who can save the world." However, although I have always adhered to the name of the monarch and the minister, and firmly established the banner of Li Tang, this person is not loyal to the king. If compared, it is similar to the traitorous male Cao Cao at the end of the Han Dynasty. Now Li Jing suddenly wrote to Yu and said that he wanted to be the king of Qin. But if you think about it, there is no other reason. If Li Jing really wanted King Qin, he had already fought near Luoyang at the beginning of the year, why did he retreat eastward, and instead transferred Yu Xuan Xinyan and a few people to Cao Song to serve? I heard that now Li Jing has newly captured Youzhou, Lu Long has been destroyed, and I heard that he has gathered a large army to send troops to the northern expedition to the grassland. Li Jing sent a letter at this time to invite King Qin, which is likely to use them to contain the power of all parties in the Central Plains. ”

After some thought, Zheng Zhen guessed Li Jing's meaning, but sighed after a long time. Even if Li Jing really plans to do so, what can he do? In this world, all the towns in the world either fell directly to the Yellow Nest, or they were already waiting and watching, riding the wall and swaying. If this continues, the last bit of prestige of the Tang family will be exhausted.

He couldn't help but think a little self-deceptively, maybe Li Jing was just a little domineering, but after all, he was still a loyal minister of Li Tang. After all, Li Tang treats Li Jing well, and has the respect of today's king as a farmer, and he was able to enter the royal family, and was honored as the emperor's uncle today. What a glory it is. And he rebelled. In the future, the history will inevitably be left behind for 10,000 years.

Zhou Gong fears rumor day. Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the time.

Duke Zhou is autocratic, but he has also worked hard for the king all his life, and he has never had two hearts. And when Wang Mang did not usurp the throne, he was extremely humble and praised by the world, who would have thought that he would usurp the throne and seek the dynasty in the future? Today's Li Jing acts autocracy, seemingly domineering, maybe a loyal Tang minister.

Anyway, it's the world. If even Li Jing is really reversed, then Li Tang is really hopeless. If Li Jing just wanted to be a powerful minister, then the Tang family could still be preserved. Now, I can only believe in Li Jing.

Zheng Zheng recovered from a long illness, drank wine again at night, and was weak at this time, and after sitting in the middle of the night, he couldn't help but feel sleepy, so he fell asleep on the desk.

Mrs. Zheng saw that her husband was working hard, so she cooked a supper and sent it over. Enter the study. Seeing Xianggong sleeping at the desk, there was still a letter pressed under his sleeve. Revealing the word 'lonely'. Mrs. Zheng couldn't help but think of the letter that her husband received yesterday, and watched it silently, but saw that the letter was indeed written by Li Jing, the king of Qin, and what was written on it was that Li Jing summoned the soldiers and horses of the world to fight against the yellow thief and grass coward, recover the two capitals, and welcome back the holy car. In the letter, Li Jing mentioned that the Qin clan had just recovered Youzhou, and now the north was somewhat stable, and it was possible to send troops to the Central Plains. And he also mentioned that now is a great opportunity to crusade against Huangchao, because according to the information he has, Chang'an's Huangchao only has a month of grain and grass left, and now Huangchao is short of grain and grass, and he sent various troops and horses to various states and counties, so Chang'an is empty of garrison. Second, Huang Chao recruited 400,000 Chang'an people to Fengtian to excavate the Tang Emperor's mausoleum and the tomb of the Guanzhong family, which has made the wealthy families in Guanzhong extremely resentful of Huang Chao. Third, Huangchao sent envoys out to ask for grain and grass to the towns, and the amount of money was amazing, which would inevitably lead to the towns that had just been attached to Huangchao to return to Tang anyway. Therefore, in the letter, Li Jing proposed that now was a good time to counterattack Huangchao, and he asked Zheng Zheng to re-plot against the Fengxiang army in Guanzhong, and Li Jing would also contact other towns to persuade them to join forces with the king of Qin.

Zheng Ji woke up to find that his wife was watching King Qin's secret letter, and was silent.

"Husband, is what King Qin said true? If this is the case, the opportunity to counterattack the grass thieves has come. ”

"What Li Jing said in the letter is true and false. Huang Chao killed countless people in Chang'an, killing the emperor's relatives, officials and gentry, and even ordinary businessmen and ordinary people. Now Huang Chao has taken all the people of Chang'an to Fengtian to excavate the Qianling, which is really a loss of conscience. However, Li Jing said that Huang Chao sent people to ask for a large amount of money and grain from the towns attached to the pseudo-Qi, and the husband has not heard of it, if this matter is true, then the yellow thief is really digging his own grave. Thinking that the towns of the Tang Dynasty have long been dictatorial to the martial arts, and one side is divided, and the martial artists in each town are all authoritarian places that are difficult to govern. In the past, even the imperial court could not really control the towns, but if the interests of the feudal towns were touched, it would lead to a chaotic military mutiny among the soldiers and soldiers, drive the commander and kill the generals, and the court could only bow its head in the end. But now the towns are afraid of the strength of the Yellow Nest, so they are only superficially attached, and now the Yellow Nest not only does not give appeasement rewards, but asks them for a large amount of money and food, which is undoubtedly to push the towns back to the side of the imperial court. ”

"This is a good thing, what are you still worried about?"

Zheng Jin sighed: "What worries my husband is that Li Jing only intends to provoke the towns to fight with Huangchao, but he may not really go south to King Qin of the Central Plains. If Li Jing did not lead the Qin army south, there would be no leader in the towns, and he might not have a chance of winning the battle against the brutal yellow thief. I'm afraid, Li Jing is fighting a strategy to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and when Zhuzhen and Huangchao are both defeated, he will lead troops south, who in the world can stop Li Jing at that time? On that day, if Li Jing has some rebellion, he is afraid that the Tang family will be closed! ”

Mrs. Zheng frowned slightly, and persuaded: "In today's situation, is there a better choice?" If you don't take advantage of the yellow thief's weakness to send troops to destroy it, if the yellow nest survives this pass, I am afraid that it will be difficult to destroy it from now on. Huang Chao and Li Jing, the lesser of the two evils, should take Huang Chao first. Besides, the art of war is not cloudy, distant and close attack. Regardless of whether Li Jing is loyal or not, from the perspective of the art of war, he can't start a war with both sides at once, besides, isn't Li Jing still not opposed? ”

Zheng Zheng nodded, he really didn't have a choice.

Besides, he still has a lot to do now, first of all, the first thing is to take back the control of the Feng Xiang Army and pull out the chaos.

"Arrange a banquet in the house, just say that for the husband to recover from illness, invite colleagues at all levels in Fengxiang Town to the banquet to celebrate together." Zheng Jin stroked his beard, his eyes full of determination. No matter what Li Jing's intentions are, as a Tang Chen, he will never miss the opportunity to destroy the Yellow Nest now.

On the same day, the Fengxiang Army Marshal's Mansion held a banquet, and all the officers of the Fengxiang Army were invited to come, and even the officials of Xiazhou County in Fengxiang Town were also invited to come.

Although Fengxiang Town has been superficially attached to Qi, in fact, Zheng Jin, the marshal of the Tang Dynasty, still lives in the Shuai Mansion. Today he recovered from his illness and held a feast. Officials at all levels came to celebrate. One way or another. Zheng Xianggong's personality is still respectable.

Today, Feng Xiang's civil and military officials with a bit of status, and even some high-ranking families without official bodies have also arrived, and the drums that set off the atmosphere also rang out in unison for a while, and the scene was very enthusiastic at the beginning.

When the music sounded, all the guests happily raised their wine glasses together, ready to congratulate the old minister, but found that Zheng Jin, who was sitting at the top, did not get up, but was wearing a formal purple round-necked official robe. The whole person was depressed, and even cried silently.

The crowd was puzzled and asked what had happened.

Zheng Jin's staff member Sun Prince replied on behalf of the master: "Today is a happy day, but just now Lao Linggong suddenly received a letter from home, and several of Lao Linggong's clansmen in Chang'an were killed because they refused to be the ministers of Huangchao, and more than a dozen clansmen in Chang'an of the Zheng clan were gone. ”

Everyone couldn't help but be silent when they heard this, and some of the clansmen in Chang'an were also killed for this or other reasons.

Zheng Zheng sobbed and said: "My Zheng clan was destroyed in more than ten families and more than 1,000 houses in Chang'an, and what made the old man even more heartbroken was that the yellow thief not only killed the people who refused to be the ministers of the pseudo-Qi. And he also indiscriminately sent hundreds of thousands of people in Chang'an to dig up graves to replenish military funds. Up to the Mausoleum of Emperor Fengtian, down to the Gaomen clan, giant businessmen and tyrants, but all the big tombs, not let go, open the coffin to get money, causing the corpses of the ancestors to be exposed to the wilderness, mad! ”

The news had not yet reached Fengxiang, and everyone was shocked when they heard it. Since ancient times, up to the prince down to the dawn, the most important ancestors, not only the family to build a shrine to set up a plaque to worship, but also where there is a certain condition, it is necessary to solemnly bury the deceased ancestors, and clean and worship every year. But now, Huang Chao actually digs up people's ancestral graves, regardless of the identity of the tomb owner, which is too appalling. You must know that Fengxiang is in the west of Beijing, and not only many officials originally lived in Chang'an. And today Huang Chao is digging in Chang'an, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not come to Fengxiang tomorrow to dig. If they can't even keep their ancestral tombs, then what face will they have to see their ancestors and ancestors in the future?

Sun Chu sighed and said: "Now there are rumors in Chang'an that Huangchao has killed too many people, has lost his mind, is half crazy and half upside down, and only says that those who follow me will prosper all day long, and those who oppose me will die." More than 200,000 people have died in Chang'an. I also heard that Huangchao had already run out of food, and hundreds of thousands of troops had no food, and one hundred and eight scooping mill villages had been built on the outskirts of the city. These stockades do not scoop up grain, but put the people of Chang'an who were killed into it, and even the bones of the belts, pounded into minced meat, as military food. Moreover, Huang Chao also sent people to get a lot of salt from the salt pond in the river, and directly salted the corpses that had been killed too much and had no time to scoop up the grinding for military rations. Grass thieves have gone completely insane, they eat people, they are no longer human. ”

The news of cannibalism was more shocking than digging graves, and most people couldn't help but feel sick to their stomachs when they heard it, and some even vomited directly. However, some generals do not believe it immediately, after all, these things are too hard to believe.

Zheng Jin's eyes swept over everyone, and collected everyone's reactions one by one. Of course, this news of cannibalism is fake, and now Huang Chao is not short of food to this point. However, the news worked well, at least making many people already fearful of the Yellow Nest.

Immediately hit the railway while it was hot: "You may not know that Huangchao has sent messengers and is coming to the towns. Huang Chao has an order, let Fengxiang Town send 500,000 stone of grain to Chang'an before the end of the year, plus 100,000 sheep, 10,000 cattle, 8,000 donkeys, 5,000 horses, and 3,000 war horses. In addition, it is necessary to pay 100,000 yuan. ”

"How is this possible?" Fengxiang marching Sima Li Changyan, who had not spoken just now, finally couldn't help it. Feng Xiangjun was actually in control of his hands during this time, and he joined Huang Chao in order to replace Zheng Zheng as the envoy of Fengxiang Army. Now Feng Xiangjun, Zheng Zheng is the festival envoy of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Changyan is the festival envoy of the Qi State.

If the army's heart did not really fall to the Qi Dynasty, it was just a matter of currying favor with both sides, and it was precisely because of this that Li Changyan never took any action against Zheng Jin. If Huang Chao really did those murderous and grave-digging things in Guan Chang'an, it wouldn't have much to do with him. But if Huang Chao really sent someone to ask him for those money, grain, cattle and horses, then he was sure that no one in the Feng Xiang army would agree to this matter.

Zheng Zheng saw what Li Changyan was worried about, and he didn't argue with him. This banquet dispersed hastily, and everyone left with their own thoughts, and then sent people to inquire about the news, wanting to confirm the truth of what Zheng Zheng said.

The fake can't be real, and the real can't be fake. Just one day later, Huangchao's envoy arrived at Fengxiang and brought an edict from Emperor Qi. The edict first rewarded Fengxiang Town for its civil and military affairs, and the high-ranking officials were very generous. But none of the people present were happy, for they were still waiting for the next decree.

Sure enough, after announcing the edict of reward, the envoy took out another edict, but it was indeed a holy decree asking Fengxiang Town to provide money, food, war horses and other things, and even the amount of offerings was exactly the same as what Zheng Zhen said, and it was exactly the same.

The marching Sima Li Changyan and the supervising army Yuan Jinrou looked at each other, their eyes full of disappointment.

At this point, both of them knew what they were going to do next, and they could only do that, they had no choice but to return to Tang anyway, otherwise, as long as Zheng Zhen shouted, the Fengxiang soldiers below would inevitably respond, and at that time, they who insisted on following Huang Chao would die without a place to be buried.

Li Changyan quickly recognized the situation and did not hesitate. Under the frightened gaze of the envoy of the Yellow Nest, Li Changyan drew his sword out of its sheath and chopped off the envoy's head with a sword. mentioned the head who was still wide-eyed, and shouted: "Huangchao anti-thief is brutal, I am a loyal soldier of the Tang Dynasty, and I vow to fight with the anti-thief to the end!" ”

So, Li Changyan and Yuan Jinrou immediately took Zhu Wenwu to Zheng Jin's mansion to welcome Zheng Jin's house out of the mansion and to the military camp and school.

Zheng Zheng had already learned what was happening outside, and when he arrived at the barracks, he immediately cut off his fingers, wrote a blood letter, and reported what happened to Fengxiang to the Son of Heaven who was far away in Chengdu, and Li Jing, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses in Youzhou. At the same time, the generals and Fengxiang soldiers were summoned to make their positions clear.

This time, all the soldiers are united in their hearts, and they are resolutely not separated from the yellow thief, Zheng Zheng and the soldiers are united in blood for an alliance, and they swear to have no two hearts!

Subsequently, Zheng Zheng sent his staff member Sun Chu to lead people to Guanzhong and the towns outside Guanzhong, and secretly asked the towns to respond to the order of Li Jing, the king of Qin, and jointly raise troops to fight against the thieves. For a time, the towns of Jingyuan and Shuofang in Guanzhong, as well as the foreign Jinshang, Zhongwu, Heyang, and Hezhong, which had already changed to the banner of Daqi, met the envoys of Sanba.

Yiba is a messenger of the Yellow Nest, who came to ask for a large amount of money and food.

The second pull is the envoy of Li Jing, the king of Qin, who ordered all towns to raise troops and serve the king.

The third pull is the envoy of Zheng Jin, the former Xiangguo, Fengxiang Jiedu, inviting them to respond to King Qin's order, anyway, to ask for thieves.

The generals reacted quickly, and after Fengxiang Town was reorganized, Wang Chongrong, the envoy of the Hezhong Festival, immediately sent a document to denounce Huang Chao and announced that he would return to Tang anyway. Immediately afterwards, Zhongwu Town, Jinshang, Fengguo, and Zhongguo towns also announced that they were anyway, and the towns in Guanzhong changed their banners together.

The city changes the king's flag overnight!

As soon as Li Jing's order came out, all towns responded and returned to Tang one after another.

Zheng Ji took advantage of the hot iron, and immediately led the Fengxiang army to some key points on the periphery of Guanzhong that month, where tens of thousands of troops were still stationed to defend the Shence army and the Boye army. After the imperial court withdrew from Guanzhong, these generals were the same as the original Tongguan defenders, suddenly lost the fundamentals, there was no grain and grass, Zheng Zheng collected all these tens of thousands of horses and horses, recruited into the Fengxiang army, and suddenly, the Fengxiang army, which was an important town in western Beijing, was only two states, and suddenly became strong and strong, becoming the head of the Guanzhong feudal towns, with 50,000 soldiers. (To be continued......)