Southwest, Jiaozhou.

Li Mansion in the inner city of Jiaozhou.

Li Chao was wearing a simple white cotton robe. He sat at the table and wrote quickly. The pen was like a dragon and a snake, and a letter was quickly written.

The war has begun.

The envoys from Hanjing will take at least more than a month to arrive in Jiaozhou.

This is the most precious time to deal with the messenger before the arrival of the messenger.

To rebel, a few conditions are required first. First, there must be reputation, and no one will follow you without reputation. Second, there must be authority, such as a rank of officials or a military general in a town, and there are people in this land. Of course, the most important thing is to be famous in the army. If there is no title of great righteousness, then rebellion is just a rebellion.

In addition, the most important thing is to have troops, territory, money and food.

For Li Chao, he now has many soldiers, many soldiers and even more money and food. But what he first considers now is not these, but people's hearts.

With a single flag, who will stand on their side?

Can Lingnan be quickly formed?

If even the internal situation is unstable, then how can they raise their troops?

Although the prince is very popular in Lingnan, Li Chao would not be arrogant and think that everyone in Lingnan is facing the prince.

The first priority is to take advantage of the time difference to think about who is the friend and who is the enemy, and who will be the centrist. Only by distinguishing between enemies and friends can we contact our own people and seize the initiative as soon as possible.

The army that should be instigated should be instigated, and the city that should be controlled should be controlled.

Another letter to the old subordinate was written.

Zhang Zhongjian and Cui Yan came in.

One of these two is their old partner. They have been planning for many years and finally want to raise an army at this time. Zhang Zhongjian is the most trustworthy person.

Zhang Zhongjian is now mainly in control of the 50,000 troops in Nanyang.

Cui Yan, his brother-in-law, is also his favorite student. He was originally the Protector of Annan and is currently the Admiral of Funan. He is in charge of many troops in Guangnan and Linyi. Most of the officers of the official army are familiar with him.

"Wen Yuan, I'm rushing to call us, is there something wrong?"

"Yeah." Li Chao nodded, "I have an urgent message to inform you that Your Majesty already knows our troops, and he also said at the imperial meeting that the prince had rebelled with us, and now he sent someone to summon us back to Beijing."

Zhang Zhongjian was very calm.

I heard about this news, but I just smiled.

"What then? The messenger came to call us back to Beijing. What if we return to Beijing?"

"It is obvious that if we go back, the prince will definitely not be able to retain the position of crown prince, and I will definitely lose the cap. What I am most worried about is that there will be a major change in the new policy of the DPRK because of this. Perhaps Your Majesty will change the system of feudal division, or the parliament will be abolished."

Li Chao said bluntly, "I will not return to Beijing, nor will I let the prince return to Beijing. I neither want to lose my life nor do I want to see our efforts over the years fail."

"Then how do you want to deal with it? Since the emperor has said our rebellion at the imperial meeting, I'm afraid this matter will not be so easy."

Li Chao said, "This time I'm serious. The emperor has surrounded my Hanjing prefecture and sent troops to seize my various industries. A storm has arrived."

Cui Yan sat aside and was silent.

These news were shocking, but since Li Chao was very calm, he had no reason to panic. When encountering major events, he needed to be calmer.

He was just worried about Han Jing's wife and children, as well as his sister and nephews.

"The emperor's envoy has about a month left, and we still have time now. Uncle Zhang, I have already talked with the prince, and the prince doesn't plan to go back, he agrees to raise an army."

Zhang Zhongjian stroked his tendrils.

He is not afraid of rebelling, but what slogan should he use?

It is not a good thing that the prince created the emperor's rebellion.

"Protect the Dharma and clear the emperor's side!" Li Chao said five words.

We cannot directly say that the emperor is not good, nor can we directly raise the banner of the prince creating an emperor's rebellion. Such a banner lacks the reputation of being a great righteous person.

"We just say that there are treacherous ministers around the emperor who bewitched the emperor and slandered the emperor to abolish the crown prince, suspend the new laws, withdraw the feudal division, and dismiss the parliament. We raise our troops to protect the law and clear the emperor's side!"

If it were just a rebellion, or if the son made his father's rebellion, it would be a seizure of the throne, I am afraid that not many people will support them.

But if it is a guardian, a purgatory of the monarch, and it is not the emperor who rebels, but the treacherous ministers in the court, this is completely different.

"Will the prince ascend the throne immediately?" Zhang Zhongjian asked.

Li Chao shook his head.

Now the prince ascended the throne in Lingnan, there is no benefit at all.

"We are a law-protecting movement, a just law-protecting war. Before eliminating the treacherous ministers on the monarchy, the prince will not ascend the throne, and the prince will be in the name of governing the country."

Establishing the slogan of uprising is the first priority and the program of action.

Without this, you will be known as Wuming and will not receive other people's response and support.

"Uncle Zhang, I have written many letters to contact all parties. Now, I have a task for you two. Uncle Zhang, please go back to Nanyang immediately and don't care about the natives in Nanyang. Pull our army over, bring all 50,000 people. Also, we bring all the arms storage in all parts of Nanyang."

These 50,000 people are the cornerstone of Li Chao's uprising this time.

These are not official troops, but from the beginning, they were a private army secretly built by Li Chao and others. They were mercenaries and they did not work hard for the court.

"Shi Zhang, you must control the morale of the army. Although those people are mercenaries, there may be supporters of the emperor."

Li Chao must remind people a little.

"Don't worry, I will bring the troops back as soon as possible."

Li Chao's name was Cui Yan again.

"How about it, what is your real thought in your heart now? You can just say it."

Cui Yan sighed, "I just didn't expect that I would get to where I am today."

Li Chao smiled.

"I know, you must feel that I'm a little troubled. If I can let go of everything, not interfere in the affairs of the court, and be a leisurely person in Beijing, I will definitely have a good end. Wuro, I did think so too. But later, I changed my mind. It's not that I'm so greedy for power. I just want to protect the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and I don't want him to be like a flash in the pan and fleeting. I hope that the Tang Dynasty can go further."

"I may not have a good ending, and I may be named a traitor, or even worse, but the wise men said it well, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility."

Cui Yan nodded, expressing some understanding. After all, he has been with Li Chao for so many years and knows the teacher’s many different ideas. “But now that your family is trapped in Beijing, the Li family’s property on Bashang has been raided, don’t you regret it?”

"To be honest, I really didn't expect the emperor to suddenly turn against each other. I thought that even if he knew that the Nanyang army existed, he would not be able to find out about me for a while. At most, there was only some suspicion. Without real evidence, the emperor always had to take care of the overall situation at this time. I thought I still had a lot of time."

This is the truth. Li Chao did not expect that Li Shimin took action so quickly and decisively this time.

But many things are like this, and plans cannot keep up with changes.

Li Shimin didn't need evidence at all, and he didn't want to wait any longer.

A 50,000 army, a huge military-industry system that was separated from the control of the imperial court and arranged overseas, all mean that it may have been planning for a long time, or even planning for many years, and behind this is even more likely to be a huge group of forces.

These were extremely shocked and threatened the emperor.

Especially the prince and Li Chao are not in the capital.

Some people also reminded the emperor to keep silent and act slowly. At least let the prince and Li Chao return to Beijing first, but the prince and Li Chao have just left Beijing, so it is impossible for him to come back in a year. He even believed that Li Chao would definitely know that he knew about the 50,000 private troops, and they might not necessarily come back by the end of the year.

This is like an encounter. Although both sides had detailed plans before the war, they encountered unexpectedly. All plans were no longer useful, so they could only take one step at a time.

"Wurang, you have been in Jiaozhou for many years, and the generals here are familiar with you. You also commanded the battle to destroy Linyi with Uncle Zhang, and the Linyi army was also disbanded. Now I want to give you an important task. You immediately contact the generals of Guangnan and Linyi to try to get them to our side."

"Take as many officers as you can, and pull out as many troops as you can."

"At night, I will occupy Jiaozhou. Later, I will lead my army to the north immediately and control Qinzhou and Guangzhou first. At that time, I will submit the crown prince to govern the country in Guangzhou and issue a manifesto to clear the emperor."

"We must try to control the entire Lingnan and Fujian before the imperial army goes south to attack. Then, relying on the Five Ridges and Wuyi Mountain as a barrier to guard the mountain passages everywhere."

In this era, Lingnan was isolated from the Central Plains. Although the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty all conquered Lingnan during the Wu Dynasty, there were only a few routes of march, which were relatively fixed routes. At the same time, those routes were very difficult to travel, but they could not be connected to the army, but they were difficult to communicate with business travel.

As long as Li Chao seizes the initiative and occupies dangerous passes in the mountains, he can achieve the effect of being the only one man at the pass and not being able to open ten thousand men.

Fujian was even more inseparable from outside the country. Before Huang Chao opened the Xianxia Ancient Road to connect Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the late Tang Dynasty, it was a very closed area. As long as Li Chao could seize this place, he could have a good barrier to Guangzhou.

Although it can come from the sea, it can quickly invest in the large army. Even if the imperial court has many imperial guards, it is not advantageous when it comes across the sea, because Li Chao also has advanced warships and advanced navigation technology.

However, when the imperial court came to fight on an expedition, Li Chao waited for his leisure and fought in the local area, which had the advantage of supplementing the situation and the ports could defend.

This is a complete advantage.

"We want to guard Lingnan?"

"Of course not." Li Chao told them, "We must go north to the Central Plains, but not now. We must first stabilize the foot formation, and even more stable our internal areas. We must not go north rashly and let the backyard catch a fire."

Zhang Zhongjian admired Li Chao's clear ideas very much.

There was no panic, no urgency.

The two stood up, said goodbye to Li Chao, and went to recruit soldiers and horses.

Send the two of them away.

Li Chao called Li Jing, the eldest son who was standing guard outside, "Go and invite your Uncle Ma!"

Fourteen-year-old Li Jing looked worried, "Father, are we going to rebel?"

"We want to raise an army to protect the law."

"Isn't this still a rebellion?"

Li Chao smiled and reached out to pat his eldest son on the shoulder, "Yes, we have rebelled, go."

"Dad, what should I do?"

"Dad will save them, don't worry."
Chapter completed!