The prelude to another big war has begun. The newspaper of the imperial court has been sent to Xiangzhou, Tian Xing sat in the mansion, looking at the newspaper on the case, not knowing whether to be happy or worried about Tian's fate. Unlike the generals of other feudal towns, Tian Xingfeng read poetry and books, studied "Spring and Autumn" very much, and was also good at Danqing, and was a man of all-round literary and military talents. Indeed, as Li Jiang said, Tian Xing is loyal. He lost his father when he was a child, and his eldest brother Tian Rong took him with him and taught him poetry and books in person, Tian Rong was a traditional person, not as lawless as their uncle Tian Chenghei. In the process of growing up, Tian Xing was greatly influenced by Tian Rong. Interestingly, Tian Xing's name was given by Tian Chengsi, and the table word "Antao" was taken by Tian Rong, and it can be seen from the name and words that Tian Chengsi and Tian Rong's expectations for Tian Xing. One of the two hopes that Tian Xing can glorify the Tian clan and serve the Tian family, and the other hopes that Tian Xing can abide by the right path, be selfish and public, and fight-for-tat. I don't know if Tian Xing's dedication to Wei Bo and Tian Ji'an on the one hand, and loyalty to the court on the other hand, is caused by the contradiction between this name and the word.

After the death of his stepmother, Princess Jiacheng, Tian Ji'an gradually revealed his brutal nature, and especially liked to bury people alive. Tian Xing, as Tian Ji'an's uncle and the envoy of the Yanai, often persuaded Tian Ji'an softly when he was angry, and saved many generals and soldiers, and gradually won the support of the army. Tian Xing is familiar with history books, knows the truth that violence cannot last, and often routinely advises Tian Ji'an. Tian Xing was originally thinking about the Tian family, but it aroused Tian Ji'an's suspicion, thinking that Tian Xing was buying people's hearts. Fortunately, at that time, people thought that Tian Xing was mediocre, but it was only the accumulation of qualifications coupled with Tian Chenghei's appreciation and the identity of the Tian clan that he became a soldier and horse envoy in the Yannei, and Tian Xing was able to leave Weizhou to serve in Xiangzhou with all his beards and tails. However, the reason why people judge this way is because of Tian Xing's low profile. What many people don't know is that Tian Xing was young and crazy when he was young, and he liked to be in the limelight, once in an archery competition in the army, Tian Xing easily won the first place, and after going back, he told Tian Rong proudly, thinking that Tian Rong would praise him, but he was beaten by Tian Rong. Tian Rong admonished him:

"Be low-key! If you don't know how to hide yourself, disaster will fall on you sooner or later. ”

Tian Xing listened to Tian Rong's teachings, and since then his edge has converged a lot. After arriving in Xiangzhou, everything is very low-key, but suspicion is a disease, the more low-key Tian Xing is, the more Tian Ji'an feels that Tian Xing has a plan, and sends his eyes and ears to follow Tian Xing, and once he finds that Tian Xing has any abnormal movements, he will be killed immediately. The last time Tian Xing came back from Chang'an, he found that some people who had a good relationship with him had evaporated, and under the horror, he knew that it was not enough to be low-key and submissive, he had to let Tian Ji'an completely reassure himself, only in this way could he save his life. The trip to Chang'an gave Tian Xing a great inspiration, Tian Xing remembered the story of His Majesty the Emperor who disguised a second stroke when trying to eradicate the eunuchs, so one day, Tian Xing suddenly fell from his horse in front of the public, and shouted:

"I had a stroke!"

The people hurriedly sent him home and invited Langzhong to treat him. Lang Zhong, who had colluded with him, had acupuncture on him, and he was covered in burning wormwood. Seeing this, the ears and eyes sent by Tian Ji'an carefully observed and confirmed that it was correct, and reported the news to Tian Ji'an, who was relieved of Tian Xing's feelings, and sent his staff to visit, and sent the party ginseng bought from Wang Chengzong to Xiangzhou as if he didn't need money. Under the care of his nephew, Tian Xing often got up early in the morning and had nosebleeds. Fortunately, the ginseng thing began to be deified in the Sui Dynasty, and the status of the radish was not much higher than that of the radish before the Sui Dynasty, and the effect of Tian Xing's ginseng had not been advocated to the point of resurrection, otherwise Tian Xing would have to be burned to death. After drinking Codonopsis for a long time, Tian Xing actually "miraculously" gradually got better, and gradually he was able to do something. The myth of ginseng was quickly amplified because of Tian Xing in several northern towns. Many people will ask, how good is Tian Xing? It's a difficult question to answer. Others don't know, but Tian Xing knows very well that it is a little worse than Li Yu the Emperor, because he didn't pay much attention to other stroke patients, and he only learned like Li Yu and Wu Lao'er. It's actually very hard for a normal person to pretend to have a stroke, but unfortunately you find out "Selling Abduction" and try to walk like Wu Laoer. And a healthy person can't go anywhere, so he can only stay at home, at most wandering around the state city, what is this feeling. Fortunately, his life was saved, and Tian Xing didn't feel bitter. It's just that occasionally in the dead of night, Tian Xing always sighs when he thinks of Tian Ji'an, who is less than thirty years old, and himself who is in the prime of life:

"When is this the end of a day?"

Tian Xing is a man with great ambitions, and he is bent on finding an opportunity to get back on the horse and gallop. From the emotional point of view of his heart, Tian Xing hopes that Tian Ji'an will hang up as soon as possible, so that he can get rid of this oppressive life as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, this nephew is energetic, and the more he lives, the more nourishing he becomes. But when Tian Xing found out that the danger was approaching, his heart still fluctuated. I thought to myself:

With Tian Ji'an's arrogant and arrogant character, Tian Ji'an will definitely help Li Shidao. When the imperial army is overwhelmed, what should my brother do? ”

Then he remembered the emperor, Tian Xing and the emperor had only met once that day, but they were extremely impressed, thinking about it, he took out a short sword from his boots, which was entrusted by Li Jiang before he left Beijing. He was also increasingly suspicious of Tian Ji'an because of his contact with Li Jiang. Seeing things and thinking about people, Tian Xing couldn't help but sigh again, and said silently:

"Your Majesty, in this life, I probably won't have a chance to drive for you."

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Several fast horses galloped into Li Yu's camp at the foot of Yunlong Mountain, and after the survey at Yuanmen, several people dismounted, handed over the horses to the soldiers who greeted them, and walked into the camp. The first one turned his head and explained:

"My brother has strict rules, and he is not allowed to gallop horses in the camp."

The person who came was Li Ting, who had just been transferred to Chuzhou for more than four months, and Li Yu's younger brother. Seeing Li Yu, Li Ting hurriedly greeted him and said:

"Brother, I don't want to say goodbye to Caizhou, I haven't seen you for months, I want to kill my brother!"

After counting, the last time the brothers and sons met was after the pacification of Caizhou. Li Yu is the envoy of Huaixi Jiedu, Li Ting was in Anhuang as a stabbing history, and Xue Ping was his deputy, although he was close, but one was the main attacker, the other was the main guard, there were not many intersections, and they rarely met, until Li Yuxue attacked Caizhou at night before they got together. After that, they went to their own business. After Huaixi and Anhuang withdrew from the town, Li Yu entered Chang'an, and Li heard that Chuzhou was going to take office, and he had indeed not seen him for several months.

Li Ting was not as excited as Li Ting imagined, and there was still an indifferent expression on his face, Li Ting came back to his senses, stopped, straightened his clothes, bowed and said:

"Xiaguan Chuzhou Assassin Shi Li listens to the Lord in charge."

It turned out that this shapeless brother also knew that he wanted to establish a fair and selfless image in front of the generals. Li listened to a serious appearance and made Li Yu laugh so much that he couldn't help laughing, thinking about the more than 400 miles from Chuzhou to Xuzhou, he couldn't go directly from Shuyang, he had to take a detour, and he could get to Xuzhou so quickly, which shows that he was tired all the way, Li Yu felt a warm current rise in his heart, but his face was still very calm, but he said lightly:

"Listen to my brother's hard work all the way, let's go to my tent to rest for a while, General Li Dingjin and General Wang Sui are also in the back tent, you can go and get acquainted with it."

Li listened to the promise and went, and on the way, Li Ting said to the people around him:

"This brother is like this, obviously he can't bear it in his heart, but he can't show it on his face at all."

Li Yuxue attacked Caizhou at night and became famous in the first battle, at this time, he entered the Duke of Liangguo, and he was already a well-known extravagant figure in the world, and others looked up to Li Yu, it seems that Mr. Li is not angry and arrogant, and does not show favoritism, where is Li Ting just looking at Li Yu with the eyes of his younger brother and his brother? So when Li heard this, everyone thought that he had been given a cold reception in front of Li Yu, laughed at himself, and found face for himself, so they couldn't help but laugh and agree. In his heart, he was also in awe of Li Yu.

When it comes to the back account, there are really a lot of people, the history of the assassins in this state, and the generals of that army are really full of people. The history of the assassins of the Tang Dynasty often has military colors, for example, Li Yu is the envoy of the Wuning military festival with the Xuzhou assassin history, and the military and political affairs are in charge, so most of the assassins can be blown together with the generals, especially Li Ting, who transferred him to Anzhou and Chuzhou to fight with him. After Li Ting became a famous general, Li Yuan, the Duke of Qiguo, and Li Yu, the head of the march, were the younger brothers of the Duke of Liangguo, but they didn't have any arrogance at all, and they quickly became familiar with everyone.

The generals who have arrived are: Li Yuanyi, Li Dingjin, Hou Weiqing and other military envoys, as well as Shenwu generals Li You, Li Zhongyi, Ding Shiliang and other generals who were transferred to Li Yu's account to listen to the generals, Li Ting, the assassin of Chuzhou, and the assassin history of Haozhou, Sizhou, Pizhou and other states. Maybe it's because you know in your heart, everyone talks about everything, but they don't talk about military affairs. Sure enough, after the account was raised, Li Yu officially announced the appointment of the emperor, and after leading the generals to pay homage to the edict, Li Yu officially took office as the head of the Huaihai Road march.

In front of the huge sand table, Li Yu assigned everyone's tasks to the generals and introduced the situation of the Ziqing soldiers and horses in person. Then Li Yu introduced a person to everyone:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is General Liu Yanping, the Marquis of Yu, who was captured under the tent of this commander. He used to be the Marquis of Yu under Li Shidao's account, and once sneaked into Caizhou alone, but now he has abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and like everyone else, he serves the imperial court. ”

The generals, especially the Huaixi generals of the 52nd Army, expressed a warm welcome to Liu Yanping, and then, at the request of Li Yu, Liu Yanping introduced all aspects of the situation in Ziqing.

The generals listened attentively, and Li listened especially seriously, interjecting from time to time to ask a few questions. If there is any information that Liu Yanping does not understand, Li Yu will ask the army to supplement it according to the information issued by the military department and collected by his own side. Unconsciously, it was already late, Li Yu stayed in Xuzhou for the night, the next day, everyone returned to their stations or offices, Li Ting stayed until the end before leaving, Li Yu with a few personal soldiers has been sending him through Yunlong Mountain. That's how a war machine kicks in.

When the war machine of the imperial court was in motion, Li Shidao was not idle. In Yunzhou, Li Shidao also held a military meeting. Discuss countermeasures. In addition to Li Wenhui, Lin Ying, Wang Zaisheng, Xiahou Cheng, Liu Wu and other senior civil and military officials in Ziqing, there were also several mysterious figures attending the meeting. Of course, after Li Shidao finished discussing, he would inevitably have to discuss with the Wei family, the Pu family, the Yuan family and a few house slaves for a while. The Grain Statistics Department investigated and learned that one of them was surnamed Tian, one was surnamed Wang, another was surnamed Nie, and the other was not like the Middle-earth clan.

The surname Tian is naturally a relative of Tian Ji'an, and the surname Wang is Wang Chengqian, the younger brother of Wang Chengzong, who has been to Chang'an twice as a tributary envoy, and has been left a portrait by the Grain and Straw Statistics Division, and is listed as a person who must be known to be sent to the Grain and Straw Division in the north, surnamed Nie, it is said that it is Lu Longya, and there is a name that does not resemble a native of Middle Earth, and later the Statistics Department found that this person was in Laizhou on a ship flying the flag of the Bohai Sea and left, and the origin of this person is about to come out. Later, after the statistics department returned to Chang'an, it was found from the Bohai archives that this person was called Da Renxiu, and later became the king of Bohai.

At the meeting, although the situation was grim, Li Shidao's expression was still calm. Originally, Li Shidao thought that the worst situation was that after he was on the table, the imperial court ordered a requisition, and at that time, he would fight if he could fight, and if he couldn't beat it, he would accept the quality and cut the land. The result was to his and everyone's surprise, the seal had just been sent to Chang'an, and it may have not arrived in Luoyang, and the imperial court's inscription had already spread throughout the Kwantung Hebei. What does this mean? It means that even if the content of Li Shidao's chapter is to agree to send his eldest son to the court as a hostage, the court will still send troops to fight. In addition to the eight major crimes listed in the text, in addition to the eighth article of liquidating the bloodline, which is the fixed content of the text and making up auspicious numbers, the other seven, assassinating Wei Dan, instigating a mutiny, colluding with bandits in an attempt to wash Luoyang, and fornicating with Wu Shaocheng, none of them is not a major crime of extermination, that is, the first one is not a crime of entering Chang'an without being recruited, and it is also a crime of rebellion with ill intentions.

Wei Botian Ji'an and Chengde Wang Chengzong were both furious after receiving the text, scolding Li Shidao for not being a thing, hiding so many facts from them, and doing so many rebellious things, how could the two towns dare to blatantly support Ziqing? The pro-court faction within the two towns took advantage of the situation and persuaded Tian Ji'an and Wang Chengzong to abandon their plan to support Li Shidao. Those who advocate aiding Ziqing also asked if they could take this opportunity to get more benefits from Ziqing. Therefore, after receiving the letter here, Wang Chengzong rushed to Beizhou to meet Tian Ji'an, and after discussion, he decided to send envoys to interrogate him successively, so as to put pressure on Li Shidao. Lu Long's tooth general Nie Gang was ordered by Liu Ji to come to negotiate with Li Shidao about buying horses and weapons, and after getting the news at the post station, Nie Gang quickly raised the price of horses, trying to make the deal unsuccessful.

Unexpectedly, Li Shidao, who had no idea, calmed down at this time. In history, when the official army crusaded against Li Shidao five years later, Li Shidao had always been lucky, even if he was caught by the rebel Liu Wu, he felt that there was a glimmer of hope for immortality, but now, Han Yu's writing was so good that the good Li Shidao thought that he deserved to die. At this time, Li Shidao gave up other ideas and wanted to save his life. A person who wants to save his life has nothing he can't do, and there is nothing he can't give up. Therefore, when Wei Bo and Chengde's envoy came, Li Shidao happily agreed to Wei Bo's request, promised to cede a state of land to Wei Bo, and also promised to give Chengde more salt in exchange for Chengde's echo. And Nie Gang's high horse price was also agreed to by Li Shidao. It seems that Chengde's benefits are not as good as Wei Bo's, but there is no way to do it, who told him to be far away? In fact, Li Shidao wanted to cede a state to Wang Chengzong, but Wang Chengzong didn't agree, a fool would agree, across Wei Bo led a state enclave, that state would be Wei Bo's sooner or later, or openly Chengde, secretly Ziqing, and even more so that the name would not be left to Chengde.

The land of the twelve states of Ziqing includes almost the entire territory of present-day Shandong, which is the land of Qilu, the land is fertile, and close to the sea, and the production is abundant, and it has been more than 50 years since the Anshi Rebellion. The State of Qi is known as the Spring and Autumn Period with half of Shandong, and Li Shidao has been running it for three generations, and his savings are naturally very large. With such a lion's big mouth, Li Shidao can still afford it. Moreover, as long as Ziqing is still in the hands of Li Shidao, even if the three states are given to the imperial court and one state is given to Wei Bo, the remaining eight states are also the largest in the world, and sooner or later they will be able to recover. For Li Shidao, including the money order BMW presented by the beauties of the mountains and seas who entertained the envoys, these are all investments.

Investing is about returns. The first reward that Li Shidao asked for was for the three envoys to attend the military meeting in Ziqing. This request was not too much compared to Li Shidao's efforts, and Li Shidao wanted to prove to his terrified subordinates that he still had the support of the three powerful clans of Wei Bo, Chengde, and Lu Long, and cheered up their courage. Wei Bo, who eats people with short mouths and soft hands, and gets the most benefits, will naturally not refuse, in fact, he was going to bargain but got a state of land, and even Tian Ji'an didn't think of it, he was afraid that he would come to let Tian Ji'an come to this meeting. Wang Chengqian and Nie Gang were very hesitant, after all, they were not like Wei Bo, who had a cold relationship with Ziqing, and they couldn't afford to trap themselves in the muddy waters of Ziqing. Attending the meeting as an observer means public support for Ziqing, although Li Lingzhi is dizzy, and the two of them are not stupid enough to do this. But Li Shidao had his own way, and in the end, the civil and military officials of Ziqing met the envoy from the three towns in the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

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