Li Gu was confident, but he deliberately smiled and said, "I think the King of Zhongshan is not the kind of narrow-minded person."

"He is very generous to those who have believed in and close to people." Xu Ziwen was unwilling to scold Xu Zixian against his will. It would be of no benefit to him. Everyone knew that Xu Zixian had been wrong with Xu Ziwen, but now he has vaguely promoted Xu Ziwen's status... Just like the two of the Chen family, who now boasted about their past with Xu Zixian when they meet with everyone. Some nobles with status and status will also ask the two brothers to talk to them. Analyzing Xu Zixian's personality and past from their words, they invisibly raised a lot of their identities for Chen Yan's two unreliable sons.

"What I don't like about him is that kind of hard-working expression, rebellious and arrogant look, and the eyes in my eyes have always been wrong, just like a lone wolf, a lone wolf..." Xu Ziwen thought about Xu Zixian's image a few years ago. At that time, Xu Zixian was a young man in the royal family. He was obviously a ruined royal family, but he always showed that arrogant look, as if he didn't take the rest of the people in his eyes. Except for Xu Xingwei, Wei Yi and Xu Zixian had a deep friendship. The other royal family nobles and gentry family members looked down on Xu Zixian in the elegant gathering of the Zhao Palace. Chen Jingzhong and Chen Jingfu liked to tease and made things difficult for Xu Zixian, mainly because of the rebellious color in Xu Zixian's eyes.

Xu Ziwen was generous on the surface at that time and seemed to not be calculating with this little brother of the royal family. In fact, he didn't like this boy in his heart. He knew that Yakan made things difficult for him, but he had never stopped him. Who knew that today, everyone was left far away by Xu Zixian. He was no longer a person on the same level?

"He will definitely be ruthless against the person he doesn't like, the one who was once the opponent." Xu Ziwen said hatefully: "I know this kid, looking at it, he is actually arrogant and holds grudges. Both generations of my father and son cannot get along with the Nan'an Marquis' Mansion. Even the old Nan'an Marquis was the same as the old Nan'an Marquis. The three generations of his revenge, how could he let us go if he gets power?"

This is also one of King Zhao's worries. Otherwise, when Li Gu offered his plan, King Zhao would turn against him and drive him out on the spot.

When Lao Nan'an Hou and Lao Zhao were both princes in the palace, although Lao Nan'an Hou did not make much progress, it was not as ridiculous as rumors. However, it seemed that he was secretly designed by Lao Zhao, involving the matter of concubines in the harem, which made Emperor Wenzong furious. He only appointed the prince as a marquis. The property he gave was extremely poor, and there were very few official households. The three generations of Nan'an Hou's mansion were down and out of no way, which was not unrelated to the affairs in the palace that year.

Although the affairs in the palace are very obscure and no one dares to say it is too detailed, if it involves the grievances of the three generations, Xu Zixian will take the rumors seriously. Regardless of the original Nan'an Prince, later Nan'an Marquis, Zhongshan King, and Xu Zixian, it is obvious that he has clear grievances and always has standards in his heart.

If you should kill, you will never forgive me. You will be kind and generous to the people, and you will be arranged in all aspects to the soldiers, officials, and people under your command.

Now many people are willing to move to the Dongfan, which is the most direct and significant proof.

But the King of Zhongshan is obviously a man with distinct grudges. When it comes to the grudges of his ancestors, he can't be generous even if he wants to be generous. Xu Zixian is also a very filial person. He had many choices at the beginning, so he chose to take office in Qizhou and was determined to eliminate Qishan thieves. In addition to the consideration of real interests, the biggest reason is to avenge his father Xu Yingbin.

When Chen Yutai's head was hung at the Fuzhou city gate, when people raised their fingers to praise the heroic hero of Nan'an Hou, everyone couldn't help but mutter in their hearts that Chen Yutai was just resisting the suppression of Lao Nan'an Hou. More than ten years have passed, and Xu Zixian still couldn't let go. He cut off this guy's head before he could stop. If he really offended Lao Nan'an Hou, I'm afraid he wouldn't think about Ansheng for the rest of his life.

"Young Master said very much." Li Gu exclaimed and said, "Since the young master understands it in his heart, should he know the strategies he has offered?"

When Xu Ziwen was present on the same day, he said: "What my father now means to wait for the news of the Northern Expedition, wait for the emperor to open a palace, and take charge of the military and political power of Fujian Road. To be honest, I am not optimistic."

"I am not optimistic, either." Li Gu said in a deep voice: "Your Highness is looking forward and has many concerns, and I am also aware of the truth. But in the current situation, we can't wait any longer. If the road of Fujian is not chaotic, the emperor has no excuses. Only when the road of Fujian and even the southeast is in chaos, we can establish a prefecture for King Zhao to build a government, control the military power in the southeast, take into account the administration of officials, money, grain and wealth, so that we can have the opportunity to block the King of Zhongshan in the East and not ask him to come out and cause trouble."

"Will the court grant the title of Zhongshan King to open the mansion?"

Li Gu smiled slightly and said, "If it is a few months in a while, it will be difficult to say. But if you act now, the court will give the emperor's biological father to the emperor, the old royal family prince who has been in charge of the imperial guards for many years to open the mansion, or will it be a young prince who is enterprising and has only the foundation of the Dongfan? Even the two mansions cannot guarantee that the King of Zhongshan is more suitable than His Highness Zhao. Moreover, once the matter begins, His Highness Zhao can control the army and fight a few beautiful battles first, and then talk about it. Then the two mansions will have nothing to say."

Xu Ziwen looked at Li Gu in a deep voice, "Mr. Li, you are playing with fire, do you know yourself?"

Li Gu was stunned, lowered his head for a while, then looked up and smiled bitterly at Xu Ziwen, "It is true that he is playing with fire, and there will be unexpected accidents. But in this situation, not to mention for himself, but for the overall situation of the Zhao palace, waiting for death is to die. Xu Zi first took over the power of the Zhongshan King's victory, and when he took office at the Grand Governor's Office, he could completely undermine His Highness Zhao in one month. As long as he took over the leadership, even if there is a big chaos in the people, even if there is a pirate of more than 100,000 pirates attacking, the court will only believe in him. It is not the turn of His Highness Zhao to build a marriage hall. At this time, will he not fight for it and wait to become a dry bone?"

This is actually accusing King Zhao, but Xu Ziwen has no resentment and said with red eyes: "The father is just waiting for death!"

"The young master said

The most important thing is." Li Gu whispered: "Your Highness is hesitating, we must not hesitate. Now I have found people, one of the former thirteenth-rate bandits of Qinfeng. I have moved to Fuzhou, Quzhou, Tanzhou, and Jianzhou. As long as we collude with them, we send people to help them settle in Jianzhou, transport supplies and money, in an instant, this group of thieves can turn the Jianzhou area upside down. If something urgent happens, the court is working hard to fight north, and Xu Zixian's prestige is not enough. This is secondly, the important thing is that there is no definite foundation on Fujian Road. In order to stabilize the overall situation, the imperial court will use King Zhao as the best choice. The emperor will push it hard, and the two governments will not object after weighing the pros and cons. If it is delayed, the two governments will come first, and the emperor will have nothing to say!"

"Mr.'s opinion is correct." Xu Ziwen said in a hoarse voice: "But what do we want to do now and what do I want to do?"

This is indeed a smart person who is smart and learns from others, and is much more troublesome.

Li Gu is a busy man. Xu Ziwen knew that he could not come over and talk to him a lot of useless nonsense. After analyzing this, he also knew that he had to push for the chaos, which was the only chance to win in the chaos of the Zhao royal palace.

In the eyes of Li Gu and Xu Ziwen, King Zhao's hesitation was like Yuan Shao who was born rich and had abundant resources, but lacked the necessary ruthlessness and fighting spirit. If he was not decisive and had no decision, he would not achieve great things.

If you forget your life when you see small profits, you will cherish your life when doing big things. You must learn from the past as a warning.

"I know that the young master has some power in the mansion, some old generals, as well as ordinary soldiers and officials. With them, and with some power under his control, he can transport money and materials away, and send them to cooperate with the bandits, it is best to be able to control the bandits, so the sent people must be smart and capable, and the number of people must be large."

"That's all." Xu Ziwen's voice was a little hoarse, but from beginning to end, he did not hesitate at all. He said to Li Gu: "I want Xu Zixian to know that he has a decisive decision, can also make decisions and succeed. Once a hero is a hero, he will stay in the Dongfan and plant his cotton to Fujian Road. He should not try to get involved in the slightest!"

Li Gu sighed secretly, this is an obsession. If it weren't for this obsession, a noble man like Xu Ziwen who had never experienced major events would make a decision without making a big deal, and he would make a decision without the current life. If the matter was not done, King Zhao might be overwhelmed and would be unable to protect himself. If necessary, Xu Ziwen was pushed out to resist the anger of Fujian officials and put it under the national law. The lightest punishment would be to remove the clan's family and then exile. The court was a little more ruthless, and it was not impossible to give Xu Ziwen to commit suicide.

It is because of his obsession with Xu Zixian that Xu Ziwen dared to take this big risk. Li Gu probably is unlikely, and he is probably obsessed with Chen Wenjun. If things are done, maybe the marriage will be repeated. Chen Wenjun is about to get married, and Xu Ziwen will make his last try.

"Young Master has such a decision, it is better not to be late." Li Gu stood up and bowed, "I arranged a bandit outside. Now I will go and talk to him. You are ready for the manpower early. When the news over there is reply, we will immediately start to do a major event."

Xu Ziwen didn't say anything. He had a pale face. As long as he made a decision, there was no possibility of regret. He was afraid in his heart, but at this moment, the pleasure of revenge for Xu Zixian and the hope of stopping the marriage had already strangled the last bit of rationality in his heart. When he heard Li Gu's words, Xu Ziwen didn't say anything, but his eyes turned red and nodded to Li Gu.

...

At dawn, a blast furnace exhaled a little afterglow, and then black smoke columns rose into the air, covering nearby hills, and were soon blown away by the morning breeze.

This is the morning of August. Although the mountain is not high, Li Kaiming and others have been hiding on the top of the mountain for a long time. The supplies are almost finished. Everyone is dressed in thin clothes and is in a semi-hungry state. Even the gentle breeze makes some people shudder.

"This stove has also been resting." Although in the dilemma, 31-year-old Li Kaiming was still as tall as usual, with his tall figure as pine, and his eyes were still sharp. He was as cold as his subordinates. The blue robe on his body was a summer cloth robe, which was quite thin. After the weather turned cold, Li Kaiming still did not show any abnormality in front of his subordinates. Even his tone of speaking was as usual, firm, decisive, and a little gentle.

Beside Li Kaiming, there is another tall man, slightly shorter than Li Kaiming, but he looks even stronger. This person is named Liu Maoqi, a native of Yanzhou. He was taken to Weizhou on Hedong Road since he was a child. He was digging from his teens to his twenties. In addition to mining, this person is also a good archer in the bow and arrow club. Because of his extraordinary physical strength, his arms are extremely thick in practice. You can tell at a glance that he is a rare sharpshooter.

Liu Maoqi, like Li Kaiming, was both uneasy to poverty for life. When he was in Weizhou, he had hidden in the mountains, gathered as bandits, and did not do anything to rob a house. He was once chased by officers and soldiers, and shot hundreds of steps away from the mountain. He was actually six or seven out of ten. The chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chasing chas

This is a legendary experience, which also made Liu Maoqi the focus of attention in the northwest at the beginning of the uprising. When he joined Li Kaiming, Li Kaiming was just a middle-level leader among the bandits, with only a few thousand people. However, Liu Maoqi determined that Li Kaiming was the lord of saving the times in troubled times. Their hometowns were less than ten miles apart. After reminiscing about the past, they had a friendship with the villagers, making it easier to get together.

Later, on the way to the east and then to Henan, Li Kaiming's troops exceeded 100,000 people at most, conquering the

After several county towns, they obtained a large amount of military supplies. The most important thing was to obtain the effectiveness of some scholars. In their spare time, other bandit leaders stole the show, snatched beautiful women, and wore fancy clothes. Li Kaiming was always wearing a half-new and old robe. When he had free time, he asked scholars to come over to tell history books and listen to historical gains and losses. Such a style quickly spread among bandits. Most people laughed at Li Kaiming as stupid and came out to make a fuss. What they wanted was not a mellow wine and beautiful woman. Could it be that they would win the world?

Li Kaiming was determined and did not waver by others' words. He insisted on this for several years. Later, when the bandits of various tribes were killed by the imperial guards, most of the leaders were killed, and a few fled to the deep mountains and grasslands. When the tribes were scattered, although Li Kaiming's troops also failed, the core force, that is, the people who are now hidden in Jianzhou and Quzhou, still have more than 1,600 people. This has been followed for many years and has experienced many bloody battles. Over the years, they have fought thousands of miles. Whether it is physical, mental, or will, they have experienced tests and hardships that ordinary people cannot imagine. Countless sufferings are like huge millstones. Those who are not physically versus-free and have long been crushed into powder by millstones and disappeared into the long river of history.

Li Kaiming was only followed by dozens of people. Even if he returned to the mountain in Jianzhou, there were only more than a hundred people around him, all of whom were hiking, and there was no war horse. However, more people and horses were hiking in the deep mountains and dense forests of Fuzhou, Quzhou, Jianchang Army, and Qianzhou Shicheng. In addition to infantry, there were cavalry teams of more than a hundred war horses. They were cavalry from the north, and they once galloped across the plains. The knights were all experienced in many battles. These were old camp soldiers of the bandits and could not resist the southern soldiers.

These troops were from Xiang and Deng areas to Jinghu North Road when Henan was defeated, and then headed south to Jingnan. Tens of thousands of soldiers were chased and blocked by the troops. Their troops were only a few thousand. After arriving in Jingnan, Li Kaiming felt that the goal of raising the banner was too big, so he disbanded on the spot in Jingnan. The generals divided the troops to break through. When he reached the junction of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi, his subordinates were still nearly 2,000. After fighting for thousands of miles, most of the elite troops of the old camp remained. It has to be said that this was a miracle. If Li Kaiming had not been calm, firm, frugal, simple, and kind, and called the troops with his personal charm, this miracle would not have happened to him. Most of the bandits in the rest of the troops were lurking in Henan or Jingbei. Those giant bandit leaders with hundreds of people now would be considered a good result.

Hearing Li Kaiming's words, Liu Maoqi bent down to the mountain and looked carefully for a while. The mountains of Jianzhou were endless. Several large mountains gathered here. You can reach Fuzhou, Qianzhou or Quzhou by climbing along the mountains. There are more mountains there and they are quite steep. Except for a few mountain people, almost not many people can survive in the mountains.

It is precisely where the mountains are surrounded by mountains that the roads north of Fujian Road have built many Chongguans, and the same is true for western Zhejiang. Xianxia Pass on Fujian Road and Dushi Pass on western Zhejiang are all dangerous passes where one man is the pass and ten thousand men cannot open it.

From Jianzhou to Shaowu Army, Jianchang Army, and then to Tingzhou, they are surrounded by mountains and have very few plains. There are many mountains and few fields on Fujian Road, mainly concentrated in these military prefectures.

Although there are mountains, large areas of rivers hit the plains, and it is also the densest and richest places in Fujian.

"The iron quality here on Fujian Road is excellent." Liu Maoqi sighed: "With charcoal smelting iron, there are very few impurities, which is much better than coal smelting in our north."

"I heard from the people here that their mountains have been cut sparsely." Li Kai looked calm and said, "I have met several groups of miners recently, and they all say they also want to use coal to smel iron."

Liu Maoqi smiled and said, "You can't ask them to play this trick for us. If we want to make trouble, we must use a good long iron cast and a good horizontal knife."

“This is nature.”

A group of miners walked out of the mine and blast furnace, and they were silent. The chaotic crowd walked out of the iron field opened up halfway up the mountain. Although they were far away, Li Kaiming seemed to be able to see the dissatisfaction and anger on the faces of these people.

The originally prosperous iron farm mine was completely made like this because of human factors. Miners can earn four or five jin of money every month, those who can endure hardships, those who are willing to dig deep wells, and even six or seven jin of money a month.

Most of them are natives in Jianzhou, and there are also people from nearby Jiangnan West Road or Liangzhe Road, Jingnan, and even Guangxi, with more than 100,000 or 200,000 miners, with their families and relatives. This is a group of millions. In just over a year, the entire group finally completely lost its source of income. Many miners left, and more people were trapped in Jianzhou and could not get out.

In addition to miners, there are also farmers who are exhausted and breathless. Ordinary people, all walks of life, are in bleakness. Many people have been able to have enough food and clothing to now, and it is difficult for them to have enough food and clothing.

"It's still a gentle place in the south, and there's plenty of money to go to." Liu Maoqi looked at the miner who left depressedly and said, "If it were our Yanzhou, so many people would have lost their jobs all at once. I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to get rid of the blame in a few days, so he would have rebelled long ago."

"The people in the south are weak." Li Kaiming usually doesn't like to make easy judgments, but he still couldn't help saying: "It's really not as strong as those of us, people from the north, people from Guanzhong, people from Hedong, and people from Hebei, who commit suicide and die, and are sincere and promised."

"Miners are fine, they are all good men." Liu Maoqi said: "At least, they drilled on the ground and worked under the blast furnace splashing with sparks. I have been there a few times, and to be honest, it's very scary."

"So this is a good place." Li Kaiming thought, "I originally planned to go south. I saw that Jianzhou, Quzhou, Shaowu, Jianchang, Xinghua, Tingzhou, and directly to Qianzhou, Jizhou, Nan'an Army, Fuzhou, Linjiang Army, and Xingguo Army were all similar. You can get Hongdu and down Tanzhou, and then go north to Jingzhou and Ezhou, and Wangye's foundation."
Chapter completed!