In the queen's bedroom, Li Ping'an fell in Huang Gui's arms and cried. She had already learned the bad news. Although she was mentally prepared, she was still heartbroken.

Xiao Xun left, leaving behind his young daughter and the unborn child, leaving!

At first, Li Ping'an learned that Xiao Xun was occasionally feeling cold and did not feel anything. After all, people are inevitably sick.

A few days later, I learned that Xiao Xun's condition was a bit recurring and needed rest. I felt uneasy, but I didn't think about that.

A few days later, when Li Ping'an learned that Xiao Xun was seriously ill, he was worried and wanted to visit him. He was persuaded not to approach the bed for safety reasons.

Finally, the bad news came, and the emperor passed away. Huang Gui said it himself. Li Ping'an felt dizzy after hearing it.

Because Li Ping'an's mood was not suddenly falling into the abyss after several days, so he could still bear it. He cried and wanted to see Xiao Xun for the last time, but was stopped by his mother and said that this would be bad for his health.

It was only today that Huang Gui told his daughter the truth: In fact, the reason why Li Ping'an chatted with the Empress Dowager that day, the Empress Dowager suddenly left was because of the emperor's death.

The cause of death was that the assassin was assassinated, and the assassin was the "Zheng nobleman" who pretended to be the daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang.

When the emperor passed away, in order to avoid the pregnant Li Ping'an being unable to bear it after learning about it, and people had to lie, but it was impossible to hide it. They could only make up good-intentioned lies, which would also cause less impact on Li Ping'an's psychology.

Otherwise, if you suddenly learn that the good man is dead, you will feel unhappy if you were anyone.

Li Ping'an cried and complained, blaming her parents for not telling her the truth earlier, so that she didn't even see Xiao Xun for the last time. Huang Yan could only stop comforting her and was worried.

But the one who is worried about is not his daughter.

My daughter is actually very strong, and with her family here, she will not die of depression. Huang Gui is worried about the current situation.

The emperor died suddenly, and the matter could not be hidden for too long. Therefore, the Empress Dowager quickly summoned the prime minister, including the royal family including Jiangxia Wang Xiao, who was responsible for the affairs of the Shangshu, and announced the bad news.

And the cause of death: The emperor's misunderstanding after drinking made Concubine Zheng misunderstand that his father Zheng Yun was killed by the official army. He was heartbroken and strangled the emperor to death. He then committed suicide.

The emperor's body, King Jiangxia and other prime ministers, had no objection.

After all, there is a precedent in this matter: During the Jin Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu Sima Yao was slapped to death by his favorite concubine Zhang Guiren because of his drunkenness.

However, when the emperor passed away, a problem arose: What should I do if the throne is? The emperor has no children.

However, the empress and Concubine Zhang were pregnant. The empress dowager believed that she had to wait for the empress. Concubine Zhang was about to give birth. If she gave birth to a prince, she would "be the father died and the son succeeded."

If all those who gave birth to girls are born, the throne will belong to them, then I will talk about it.

At the same time, the Empress Dowager announced an event: as Grand Sima and Pengcheng Duke Li Li, the general of military affairs in China and abroad.

Although King Jiangxia expressed his objection and the prime ministers also had many objections, the Empress Dowager opposed the opposition and insisted on letting Li Li govern the military affairs of China and abroad, so the matter was settled.

So, Li Li became the target of public criticism.

The reason is that it is "governing the military affairs of China and abroad".

The commander of military affairs between China and abroad is to command the central army and foreign troops, directly control the highest military power, and be one of the titles that powerful ministers must have before usurped the throne.

With this title, although you may not be able to control the foreign army, especially the military troops in the governor's districts, there is no problem in controlling the central army.

In this way, it is easier for the ministers in commanding the military affairs of China and abroad to control the emperor and the center of the emperor. It is much easier to change the dynasty.

Now, there are rumors that Li Li had ill-intentioned and had his plan killed the emperor's son-in-law, and then took the opportunity to seize power.

It is rumored that after Li Li was in charge of military commanders at home and abroad, he would eliminate dissidents, kill royal family members, and then usurp the throne.

It is conceivable that the royal families will not ignore this, especially the uncles of the Daxing Emperor, who will definitely not give up.

Huang Gui knew that it would not take long before the foreign vassal kings would inevitably raise an army, and more than one person would do this.

Once someone takes the lead, in addition to the royal family, responders will inevitably be indispensable in the local Muslim guards, so the war will break out and the scale will not be small.

Jingzhou, Xiangzhou, Yongzhou, Jiangzhou, Yingzhou, Yangzhou, Yingzhou in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, the three Wu areas in the three Huai Rivers, and prefectures and counties where the royal family served as chief officials in the two Huai Rivers will probably launch troops one after another.

Even Raozhou is no exception.

Although the governor of Raozhou and King of Poyang, Xiao Si, had a good relationship with Li Li on weekdays, Huang Gui knew that it was related to life and death, and Xiao Si could not ignore the interests of Xiao and stood on Li Li's side.

The title of "General of the Military Affairs of China and Foreign Countries" did not mean anything at first, but now it is equivalent to "planning to usurp the throne".

She knew that Li Li would face the last choice one day, either to die or take that step.

For this reason, she kept complaining about why Li Li always hesitated and suffered from face.

But when this day was about to come, Huang Gui felt restless: the war broke out and the consequences were unpredictable.

She was not worried about the outcome of the war because Li Li would definitely win, but the consequences of such a large-scale war were not something that Li Li could control.

Huang Gui was a little worried: Will this war affect a large number of people?

Will it lead to some royal families, local pastors and guards surrendering to the enemy, attracting Zhou and Qi to take advantage of the situation, so that the court after victory will face a broken country?

Huang Yan [Biquge www.biquge.co] didn't know, so he was worried.

However, she knew that Li Li was not alone, because there would be many people standing on Li Li's side.

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"Everything is normal in the palace of Jiangxia, and no abnormal movements have been seen. However, Jiangxia will definitely have actions, just because it is difficult to act in a state of being."

"He shouldn't panic, because the king will not touch him before defeating the kings."

In the palace, in the Grand Sima Office, Zu Qi expressed his opinion to Li Li. Zhang Ying wanted to stay in the palace and stare at him and could not leave easily, so Zu Qi took on the responsibility of giving advice.

After Li Li was in charge of military affairs at home and abroad, he said that he was a loyal minister and no one believed him. Therefore, he would fight if he should. After the fight, he would be purified.

Now, just after the news spread, the vassal kings in the outer town raised an army.

Sooner or later, the other party will raise an army, the question is when.

Zu Yi is not a pampering bag that can only cheat and cheat. As a talent who has committed suicide but Gao Huan and his son are reluctant to kill him, he is of course very capable, so he makes the following judgment.

First, the kings would not raise troops immediately because the incident happened suddenly and they needed to communicate with each other, so as not to have few responders after the reprimand, resulting in "the trees in the forest".

Secondly, once the kings decide to raise an army, they will inevitably win over the Muslim guards in many places, win over some groups who are dissatisfied with Li Li, and grant officials a title to make a wish. This will take time.

Third, even if these royal princes and princes made up their minds, they might not dare to send troops rashly, because Li Li's outstanding achievements in "invincible" are obvious to all, so no one has the confidence to defeat Li Li's army head-on on the battlefield.

Therefore, Zu Wei judged that the strategies the sect kings were highly likely to adopt were as follows:

He borrowed troops to restrain Li Li, and then concentrated his troops to attack Jiankang. Later, he used the Yangtze River as a natural barrier to confront Huaiyin (Li Li).

The specific implementation was to spread the news that the emperor died and Li Li was in charge of military affairs in China and abroad, and the kings were about to rise up to Yecheng, Qi State. Then, the monarchs and ministers of Qi State would realize that the opportunity to take revenge was coming.

Once the Qi army goes south in a large scale and wars rise again in Henan, a large number of troops on Li Li's side will be restrained in Henan and Huaibei, and their advantages will be sharply reduced.

At this time, the rebellion clans concentrated their troops and rushed straight to Jiankang.

The reason why he did not go straight to Huaiyin is because he could take the initiative in the righteousness and possess the Yangtze River's natural barrier to resist Li Li's army.

Then, on the grounds of the "Empress Dowager's Secret Imperial Execution", he recommended the Jiangxia King Xiao, who was far away in Huaiyin as the new emperor.

This is to kill people with a knife. In this way, Xiao Daqian, the "first adult heir" of the throne, was doomed, and a certain sect king was the prime minister or prime minister, and was regent.

At this point, the Liang Kingdom was divided into two courts: Huaiyin and Jiankang, which were confronted across the river.

The Huaiyin court had only two Huai, Henan, and Qingyan, and some prefectures and counties in the Huaiyin court responded to the Jiankang court and were not ordered by the Huaiyin court.

The Qi army was approaching outside, and the situation was in jeopardy.

The Jiankang court, safely confronted the Huaiyin court across the Yangtze River, and could steadily control the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River without having to fight Li Li to steadily control the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

There are many grain production areas, and the Raozhou Copper Mine supports the finances, making life extremely comfortable.

As long as the Qi army swept across Henan, Qingyan, Huaibei, and Huaiyin courts were at the end of their journey, the Jiankang court would benefit.

By seizing the right opportunity, crossing the river north and heading directly to Huaiyin, and seizing important Huainan towns such as Shouyang and Zhongli, we will be able to negotiate with Qi, and the two countries use the Huai River as the boundary.

In this way, Qi State regained the "realization of the origin" of Henan, Huaibei, and Jiankang court. The gentry took over the cold warriors and the Northern Expedition Martial Honors (those martial honors standing on Li Li's side) and everyone was very happy.

"If this happens, the head of the king and the lord will inevitably be painted and stored in the arsenal to accompany the head of the Hou Jing."

"The other parts of the body, such as hands, will be sent to Yecheng, walk in front of the Taimiao, and then..." Zu Ying thought for a while and said, "Maybe they will be made into a good way to complement the wishes made by Hou Jing's hands."

Li Li felt that this kind of ending must be very miserable and asked: "So, the key to dealing with it lies in Raozhou?"

"Yes, Raozhou, to be precise, is Poyang, the hometown of Junhou." Zu Qi nodded and analyzed a key to cracking the "enemy" strategy.

Poyang is Li Li's hometown and one of the foundations of Li Li. As long as Li Li uses his "folks" to control Poyang, he will have the ability to control Nanchang and then concentrate his troops to seize Xunyang and Chengcheng.

In this way, we can guard the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, organize a large number of fishermen and ships from Pengli Lake and even the Yangtze River, form a large number of naval troops and block the waterway.

This made it impossible for the upstream sect kings and troops to go downstream to Jiankang.

Then, even if the sect king who raised an army in the Three Wus took Jiankang, he would be unable to join the upstream reinforcements and would be unable to stop Li Li's troops from crossing the river and fighting for Jiankang.

Or, even if the soldiers of the kings and horses arrived in Jiankang, the emergence of the Pengli Navy would change control of the Yangtze River waterway and could not rely on the Yangtze River's natural barrier and confront Li Li.

Therefore, if the sect kings start to prepare now, then the attitude of the governor of Raozhou and King Poyang is very important.

Although Li Li and Xiao Si have a good relationship, after Li Li was in charge of military affairs between China and abroad, no matter how stupid Xiao Si was, he should have known that the Xiao family's country reached a very dangerous level.

Therefore, the other party may not be on Li Li's side, and in order to win over Xiao Si, the sect kings would even make concessions and make Xiao Si the leader.

In this way, Xiao Si could ascend to the throne by virtue of destroying Li Li and "turning the tide".

Is this temptation no better than the friendship with Li Li?

For the uncles of the Daxing Emperor, instead of letting people from other families take over the country, it is better to let their side branches sit on the imperial throne.

At least, future generations are still royal families in the dynasty and can still have food and clothing.
To be continued...