On the first day of the fruit month, Tang Emperor Li Yu in Chang'an City. After a month of constant arguments in the court, Tang Emperor Li Yu finally made up his mind to quell the rebel force that occupied Liu Huaiyin of South Vietnam. Because of General Zhenguo

Zhu Yitian was far away in the Northern Kingdom and was busy organizing the Tingce Army to defend the Great Wall of the Northern Territory. The only person in the court who could be used on the battlefield was Li Quanzhong. Now Mengdan Kingdom's 200,000 iron feather cavalry are stationed in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun.

, always eyeing Chang'an City in the south, so Tang Emperor Li Yu could only let Li Quanzhong stay in Chang'an City, while his son Li Ketian led 200,000 dragon and tiger troops, and the lord of Shangdu City, Nangong Chenyu, led 200,000 longxiang troops to go south to pacify and occupy South Vietnam.

At the same time, Dongfang Yuandao, the Prime Minister of the country, was responsible for dispatching all military supplies and food for the 400,000-strong army.

Late one night not long after Li Ketian's Dragon Tiger Army and Nangong Chenyu's Long Xiang Army left Chang'an City, in the Prime Minister's Mansion of Dongfang Yuandao, a masked man in black with Yan Yuezhan on his back appeared in Dongfang Yuandao's study room.

's doorway.

Dongfang Yuandao was burning the midnight oil in his study, plotting a route for dispatching military supplies. He heard a knock on the door. Dongfang Yuandao raised his head and asked, "Who?" The masked man didn't answer, but knocked on the door again. Dongfang Yuandao had something to say.

Displeased, he asked "Who" again, but the masked man still didn't answer and just knocked on the door.

Dongfang Yuandao felt something unusual, so he put down the pen in his hand and walked to the door of the study. When he opened the door, the masked man placed the Yan Yue Zhan in front of him and said, "Prime Minister, have you ever seen this sword?"

Dongfang Yuandao glanced at Yan Yuezhan, and then looked at the eyes of the masked man. In a moment, he already knew who this person was. So Dongfang Yuandao said: "I am an official and you are a bandit. We are not on the same path.

Yes, when did you find me today?"

The masked man sneered and said: "The current emperor is mean and ungrateful. Didn't you see the fate of the previous prime minister? He was loyal all his life, but in the end he disappeared after a long time. Never forget the past and the future.

As a teacher, Prime Minister Dongfang should make plans early."

Dongfang Yuandao said coldly: "This is nothing for you, a rebel, to worry about."

The masked man then sneered: "Keep me as a traitor, and the current emperor will always need you; leave me as a traitor in South Vietnam, cut off the connection between the South China Sea Island Country and the mainland of China, and your son will only be born in the East China Sea Island Country."

Opportunity to annex South China Sea island countries.”

After Dongfang Yuandao saw through his thoughts, he concealed his displeasure and said: "You are just a rebel who has only a short time. You should worry about yourself."

The masked man then sneered: "My fate and the fate of the Prime Minister are the same. If others can't see your ambition, why can't I? We are from the same place. If you had never harbored the intention of annexing the South China Sea Island Country,

Why do you want your only son to be the city lord in a place like the sea? Wouldn't it be better to just let your son find a high-ranking official in Chang'an City? You should have seen long ago that the Tang Dynasty has exhausted its strength, so

Reserve strength in the island country in the East China Sea and leave yourself the last escape route."

After hearing this, Dongfang Yuandao was silent for a while, then said nothing. He motioned the masked man with his eyes to enter the room. When the masked man walked in, Dongfang Yuandao closed the door and said, "Liu Huaiyin, what do you have to say?"

Just say it."

The masked man Liu Huaiyin said: "People's hearts are selfish, and people will be destroyed if they don't do it for themselves. The military supplies of the 400,000-strong Dragon Tiger Army and Longxiang Army are all in your hands. As long as you make a little effort, you can occasionally delay it by a few seconds."

Once, I looked for an opportunity to help you severely injure Nangong Chenyu. Without Nangong Chenyu, and my material blockade of the South China Sea Island Country, it will be easy for your son to annex the South China Sea Island Country."

Dongfang Yuandao asked seriously: "Do you have the strength to seriously injure Nangong Chenyu?"

The masked man Liu Huaiyin once again placed Yan Yue Zhan in front of Dongfang Yuandao and said: "I only have one level of confidence, but with Yan Yue Zhan, I have ten levels of certainty."

Then, Dongfang Yuandao fell into a long silence, and then said: "Let me think about it, we are not allowed to meet again in the future. If you have anything to do, arrange for your secret messenger to have a one-line contact with my son's secret messenger. I don't want anyone to know."

We have met before."

The masked man Liu Huaiyin was secretly proud of himself. With lightning speed, he grabbed the jade pendant from Dongfang Yuandao's waist, threw it into the air, pulled out Yan Yue Slash, and slashed through the air with the jade pendant. The jade pendant instantly split into two halves.

, when the jade pendant fell, the masked man Liu Huaiyin flew to catch it with a "swish".

Just when Dongfang Yuandao was about to get angry, Liu Huaiyin quickly explained: "Without this jade pendant as a token, how could the secret messengers of you and me communicate with each other?" After saying this, he handed the other half of the jade pendant back to Dongfang Yuandao.

After that, the masked man Liu Huaiyin took the other half of the jade pendant and immediately left the Prime Minister's Mansion quietly and returned to Haizhou City in the South Vietnam Kingdom. The next day, Dongfang Yuandao dismissed all the maids and guards who were on duty at the Prime Minister's Mansion that night.

The reason is that the Prime Minister's Mansion was robbed last night.

In the middle of the fruit month, after several arduous and life-and-death battles, Li Ketian and Nangong Chenyu captured Haizhou City in the South Vietnam Kingdom. The Longhu Army and the Longxiang Army suffered nearly one-half casualties under Haizhou City. Li Ketian and Nangong Chenyu

Nangong Chenyu went to the Tang Dynasty court in Chang'an City to request the allocation of military resources to support the families of the dead soldiers and to recruit local troops within the South Vietnam Kingdom to join the Longhu Army and Longxiang Army.

After Tang Emperor Li Yu took over the report, when he saw that Li Ketian and Nangong Chenyu had asked for such a large sum of money, he angrily threw the report to the ground and cursed in his heart: "The property I brought back from Nanyue Kingdom

, only enough for them to spend all their money on this war." So Tang Emperor Li Yu quickly summoned the Prime Minister Dongfang Yuandao to the palace to discuss national policy. Dongfang Yuandao said calmly: "The wars in these years have depleted the national treasury.

After all, there is still money to give them, so why not let the city lords of the surrounding states of South Vietnam allocate funds to support them."

Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty said hesitantly after hearing this: "Will this delay the war on the front line?"

Dongfang Yuandao said lightly: "Now that the bandits have been defeated, it may be difficult to accomplish anything. Although it will take a long time to transfer property from the surrounding states, it is nothing more than letting Li Ketian and others stay in Haizhou City for a while."

Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty was overjoyed and said: "The Prime Minister's plan is very clever, so just follow what the Prime Minister said."

Since the defeat of Haizhou City, brothers Liu Huaiyin and Liu Zhiyuan, the rebel army suffered heavy losses. Only less than one-third of the tens of thousands of soldiers escaped from Haizhou City. After that, brothers Liu Huaiyin and Liu Zhiyuan continued to fight in other places in the South Vietnam Kingdom.

Everywhere they went, the rebels plundered people's property for military needs and burned a large number of people's houses. Seeing that they had nowhere to go, some young and strong people had no choice but to join the rebels. Gradually, as

As time passed, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army were continuously replenished.

Li Ketian and Nangong Chenyu saw that Tang Emperor Li Yu's pension had not yet arrived, and they had been worried for days. They wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue the Yiwu Army, so as to wipe out the rebellion of Liu Huaiyin and Liu Zhiyuan brothers in one go. However, the Longhu Army and Long Xiang

All the officers and soldiers of the army knew that they had made such great contributions to the court, and that the soldiers suffered such tragic casualties, but the court in Chang'an City was actually unwilling to allocate a small amount of pensions. They were all chilled to the bone and expressed their unwillingness to follow Li Ketian and Nangong.

Chen went to pursue and destroy Liu Huaiyin, and the remaining remnants of Liu Zhiyuan's brothers were defeated.

At the same time, Liu Huaiyin was seen in the surrounding states of the South Vietnam Kingdom. The defeated soldiers of the Liu Zhiyuan brothers were roaming around the territory of the South Vietnam Kingdom, plundering property and people, so they used the property in each state to recruit more soldiers to defend the cities of each state.

When the states of the South Vietnam Kingdom received the assignment from the imperial court to finance Li Ketian and Nangong Chenyu's war in the South Vietnam Kingdom, they all said openly that they would immediately start raising funds, but secretly they tightened their grip on the city treasury, and sent tens of thousands of troops every ten days.

A few people sent some belongings to Haizhou City in Nanyue Kingdom, which could be regarded as an explanation to the Chang'an court.

Li Ketian and Nangong Chenyu reported this several times, but received no reply several times. In desperation, Nangong Chenyu left Li Ketian to guard Haizhou and rushed back to Chang'an City alone. Since he did not receive the imperial edict from Tang Emperor Li Yu

Under such circumstances, Nangong Chenyu abandoned the military affairs of exterminating the rebels and returned to Chang'an City privately, which was actually a violation of national law. Therefore, Nangong Chenyu hurriedly arrived outside Chang'an City, put on a suit of black clothes at night, and entered through a secret passage.

Chang'an City.

In the middle of the night, Nangong Chenyu secretly came to the Prime Minister's Mansion in Chang'an City. Without any notification, he directly found his adopted brother Dongfang Yuandao. In the study, Dongfang Yuandao saw Nangong who broke in directly.

Chen Yu, with a face full of surprise, then pretended to be concerned for a moment and immediately closed the door and said: "Brother Chen Yu, do you know that you have violated the national law? The imperial court sent you to suppress the rebellion. Now there is no order for you to do it privately."

Returning to Chang'an, if the imperial court finds out about this, big trouble will happen."

After hearing this, Nangong Chenyu felt warm in his heart and said: "Prime Minister, the frontline war is in urgent need of military supplies. The reason I came back this time is to hope that the Prime Minister can give advice in front of His Majesty and help the frontline obtain military supplies to counter the rebellion."

Dongfang Yuandao said: "I know all about this. The military supplies reported to His Majesty are frighteningly large. The war in the past two years has kept the national treasury tight, and it is really impossible to provide so much silver. I have also been worried about this matter recently.

"

Nangong Chenyu frowned after hearing this, and all the anxiety in his heart suddenly appeared on his face. Dongfang Yuandao saw this and then comforted him: "Brother Xian, we are sworn brothers, I can understand your anxiety. But.

Your Majesty is also in a tight situation now, so I have an idea. You can send your Majesty the last report when you go back, but remember to ask for as little military supplies as possible. I will then say a few words of kindness to Your Majesty, and the imperial court will approve it and send it to you.

To Haizhou City.”

After hearing this, Nangong Chenyu immediately knelt half down in front of the Prime Minister Dongfang Yuandao and said: "Thanks to the Prime Minister for sympathizing with the sufferings of the frontline soldiers, Nangong Chenyu would like to thank the Prime Minister here on behalf of all the soldiers in Haizhou City."

Dongfang Yuandao hurriedly stepped forward to help Nangong Chenyu and said, "If it hadn't been for the recommendation of Brother Xian in the South Vietnam Kingdom, I wouldn't be able to hold the position of Prime Minister. I will keep this kindness in mind. Regarding the military supplies of Haizhou City,

Just do as I say, and I will definitely help you accomplish it in front of His Majesty. Brother Xian took advantage of the night to leave the city and return to Haizhou, and write another report. The military resources should be as small as possible. After all, Your Majesty is also tight now.

"

Nangong Chenyu said "good" and saluted and said goodbye to the Prime Minister Dongfang Yuan. He turned around and left the Prime Minister's Mansion. He left Chang'an City at night and returned to Haizhou City in the South Vietnam Kingdom.

Ten days later, as expected, the imperial court allocated military resources to Haizhou City, but only one-tenth of what Nangong Chenyu reported.

After Li Ketian received the military supplies, he got angry on the spot and said: "The report this time was already only one-tenth of the original report, and now only one-tenth of the report has been allocated. Now the front line is urgently looking for a large amount of military supplies, and the court

How can we make the soldiers fight for the imperial court with only one percent of their property?"

Nangong Chenyu said with a look of relief: "Something is better than nothing. After years of war, the national treasury is tight, and now His Majesty himself is not well-off. Being able to approve these military supplies shows that Your Majesty still has us in his heart."

Nangong Chenyu thought for a while and then said with relief: "That's not the case. I'll show my kindness first and donate all the property in Shangdu City. After all, Shangdu City and the South Vietnam Kingdom are across the sea, and it can be regarded as one of the states surrounding the South Vietnam Kingdom.

First, respond to the imperial court’s call so that other states can actively help us raise military supplies.”

Li Ketian sighed: "This is what we have to do now." Then Li Ketian said: "The Yanyue Slash in Liu Huaiyin's hand is really amazing. Last time you and I fought together to draw a tie. Now I heard that in the sea of ​​Nanyue Kingdom,

In the city, there is a soul weapon divine sword mound made by the master swordsmith Ou Yezi during the Spring and Autumn Period during the reign of Nanyue King Gou Jian. If you find this sword mound, you will surely find a sword to balance Yan Yue Zhan."

Nangong Chenyu nodded and said: "I have heard about this master swordsmith Ou Yezi for a long time. He was the founder of the Yuejue Swordsmithing Sect. Later, due to the changes of dynasties in China, the Yuejue Swordsmithing Sect moved to Crescent Island.

In Shangdu City. Coincidentally, the current head of the Yue Jue Sword Sect in Shangdu City is my wife. I will immediately go back to Shangdu City and invite my wife to come to Haizhou City."

Seven words summary:

Huaiyin secretly met with the Prime Minister and secretly communicated with the rebels from afar.

Ke Tianchenyu attacked Haizhou, and the imperial supplies were delayed.

Nangong met Dongfang privately, and traveled far away with false benevolence and righteousness.
Chapter completed!