In mid-February of the second year of Gengshi, Wancheng, Nanyang, and the capital of Luhan.

After the King of Xiping, Li Tong, came out of the meeting, his face was gloomy, but he did not express his dissatisfaction directly. The ministers who were traveling with him muttered carefully:

"It's not the voice of His Majesty."

"It's probably because I'm drunk again and can't meet us, so I ordered the servant to sit in the curtain to answer."

These words were quite harsh to Li Tong's ears. Similar things have happened more than once or twice. Liu Xuan is very happy. It was only a year since the Gengshi regime was established. He had already collected the 72 concubines in the harem, and drank with the women in the backyard day and night to have fun. He even asked the Shaofu to draw a portion of the military rations sent to Wuguan for winemaking.

Without this thousand stones of food, the soldiers on the front line would not starve to death, but Emperor Gengshi would be depressed. The days when he had only sex but no wine were gone, it was a little bit of a taste.

The ministers were quite dissatisfied with this and continued to murmur after leaving the palace: "Your Majesty loves Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Han the most, and the two wives are most addicted to drinking. Whenever they serve Your Majesty, they often get angry when they see us reporting, saying, "Your Majesty is happy with me, why do you choose to report at this time?"

"I have also met Mrs. Han, who is very strong, got up and beat the desk to break..."

"Your Majesty just smiled and watched the fun, and didn't care. This is considered to be the harem's interference in politics."

"The Lang official advised Your Majesty not to indulge him. Your Majesty was angry and drew his sword to attack him. He had already killed two people. Who dared to persuade him?"

One by one, Liu Xuan was already lost in the wine and sex. Li Tong felt quite disappointed and said in secret: "The fifth relationship is becoming more and more powerful. King Shu Gongsun Shu is also eyeing Hanzhong. King Liang is growing ambitions. The threat of Red Eyebrows has not been lifted yet. Qin Feng of Nanjun, Jiangxia, Tian Rong, but not Xuan, and King Huainan, Li Xian, is the only one in the southeast."

"There are many crises, and success or failure is unknown. The emperor was so arrogant. If he had known this, I would rather support Liu Bosheng than count on him!"

Li Tong shook his head and wanted to go home, but was stopped by someone. When he looked closely, he found that it was Li Shu, the "General of Military Command" from Yuzhang.

Li Shu and he had the same surname but different ethnic groups. This person was from Yuzhang, the southern part, and he had a strong Nanchu accent. He heard that Green Forest was rebellious, so he came from his hometown to join him. He was a person with a straightforward personality and could not tolerate sand in his eyes.

Li Tong had to stand firm: "What's the matter with General General?"

Li Shu said: "A villain has heard about the old events of the previous Han Dynasty. Emperor Gao wanted to enjoy himself in his later years and hated seeing ministers. He ordered the guards to be guarded and not allowed to enter and meet, and only sent eunuchs to answer the questions. Among the ministers, even Zhou Bo and Guan Ying dared not enter."

"After more than ten days, Fan Kuai finally couldn't help it and led his ministers to go straight in. But he saw Emperor Gao drinking all day long, and was having fun on his lap with Concubine Qi."

"Fan Kuai then cried bitterly: Your Majesty and I have a prosperous life and a prosperous life, so how strong is it! Today, I have settled, so why are you tired? Moreover, Your Majesty is old and the ministers are afraid that they will not see me and others planning major affairs in the world. Gu Du and the eunuchs in the harem are entertained and isolated from China and abroad. Have you forgotten the affairs of Qin II and Zhao Gao??"

Li Shu said: "If it is not decided today, and the emperor's slacking off than the emperor's old age, and his indulgence and voice are close to Jie, Zhou, Hu and Hai. How can he succeed the Emperor Gaozu's revenge and cultivate the unfair career of civil and military affairs? King Xiping is an important official of the country. He should follow Fan Kuai and directly advise the emperor!"

Li Diayuan is a smart man. He was already sensitive to his identities because he married Liu Xiu's sister, so how could he dare to get into trouble at this time? He did not answer, but said: "If you plan your own affairs in his position, the general of the military commander should take charge of his duties."

"King Xiping, that villain will say something I can do." Li Shu refused to give in. He said: "All military and national elections and criminal law systems, villain must assist the three dukes and nine ministers in deciding."

He pointed his hand into the palace: "But Your Majesty believes in slander, and the officials he appointed were basically old friends who were hang out with him when he was young, such as merchants, grooms, chefs, and many people wore embroidered face clothes, brocade trousers, short clothes, or women's big-collared tops, laughing and scolding in the palace. Can the King of Xiping know what the people in Nanyang think?"

"There has been a song in Wancheng that sarcastically says: Raising under the stove, the general of the Central Army, the rotten sheep's stomach, the cavalry commander, the rotten sheep's head, and the marquis of Guannei."

This green man not only has many thrones, but also many marquises. He has issued hundreds of them, and the degree of proliferation is not inferior to Xinmang, and it is even more than that of Xinmang. After all, they control the two states in Yu and Jing, and many counties are just obedient.

"Since it is the military general's position, you can just write a letter on your own, why should I ask me?" Li Tong still refused to get involved and hurriedly got on the car. To this day, he was a little discouraged and focused only on strengthening the Li family fort to prevent chaos from coming up in the future.

But Li Tong only learned the next day that Li Shu, a young man from a remote village in Yuzhang, broke in when Emperor Gengshi and his concubines were having a happy banquet and wrote a letter to Emperor Gengshi to advise him directly.

He said that Liu Xuan asked mediocre people like the kitchen and merchants to govern the country, and indulged the Green Forest to lead the separatist areas outside. It would be strange if the world could be cured well when hang out with such insects.

Li Shu also advised Emperor Gengshi to select virtuous people, dismiss evil people, and reduce extravagance in the harem.

"Only Your Majesty has cut off Liao Wang's mistakes and thinks about the beauty of Zhou Wenji!"

As a result, the slightest Emperor Gengshi was furious and ordered Li Shu to be removed from his official position and rushed back to Yuzhang.

Li Tong had no comment on this, because Liu Xuan summoned him soon and found that his cousin, the King of Wuyin, Li Yi, was also there, and even gave a wink at him.

Today, Liu Xuan did not drink and have fun, but instead threw a memorial from afar in anger in front of Li Tong.

"King Xiping, do you know about this?"

Li Tong thought it was because of Li Shu's anger. After picking it up, he was shocked to find that it was Liu Xiu, who was originally ordered to pacify Liangdi and Red Eyebrows, who had actually ran to Xuzhou and Yangzhou territory, pretending to be Xuzhou and Yangzhou governors. Now he has controlled the three counties of Linhuai, Guangling and Kuaiji. He heard that Danyang was about to be taken down by him...

This was undoubtedly a big surprise for Li Tong, and at the same time, he was amazed. He had misunderstood that he was far inferior to his brother! He hadn't seen each other for half a year, but he actually coaxed and beaten him and got a territory that belonged to him.

But in his mouth, Li Tong was naturally frightened and did not know.

Liu Xuan was very unhappy: "The Xuzhou master I sent was blocked from Huaibei, but he was killed by the Red Eyebrow soldiers. Fortunately, his subordinates ran back to report that Liu Xiu had established his own officials in the three counties, and Liu Wenshu looked at me for nothing?"

Is it strange that the general of the Green Han has made his own confidants and served as the prefect of the prefecture and county magistrate? Li Tong sneered in his heart. Liu Xuan was a mediocre person and refused to study hard to govern the country. He was willing to be free from the court to the prefecture and county. Because he was supported by the generals of the Green Forest, he was quite indulged in him.

King Zhang Ju of Huaiyang, King Wang Kuang of Biyang, King Cheng Dan of Xiangyi was tyrannical in Yingluo, and Grand Marshal Zhu Yu was tyrannical in Runan, and regarded the jurisdiction as his territory. In this way, the prefectures and counties were intertwined and they did not know where to follow.

Liu Xiu just did what other Green Lin Qu Shuai often did, but Liu Xuan was inferior and sensitive, and always felt that people only obeyed Liu Bosheng's brothers and looked down on him. After Liu Bosheng's death, he did not integrate his power well, but instead tried his best to suppress it.

Hearing that Liu Xiu was not dead, he was growing stronger in the southeast, Liu Xuan was quite uneasy. He gritted his teeth and decided to appoint two more Xuzhou governors and Yangzhou governors. He also asked Li Yi to take thousands of soldiers to the southeast, and took Liu Xiu's newly accumulated military power and ordered him to come back!

"His Majesty!"

Li Tong did not dare to speak, but Li Yi, who had always been incompatible with Liu Bosheng's brothers, said: "There are Red Eyebrows in Xuzhou and Yangzhou, and the King of Liang and Li Xian in Huainan, and it is not easy for the army to send it."

Even if he sent it over, was it Liu Xiu's opponent? Li Yi didn't like Liu Xiu, but he couldn't forget his courage in the Battle of Kunyang. He went over and gave Uncle Liu Wen's armor, right?

Li Yi refused to die, so he proposed a vicious plan: "According to my opinion, it is better to send envoys to accept the three counties and be named king of Liu Xiu."

Liu Xuan was furious and would rather give a title to his relatives who had no credit than give it to Liu Xiu.

But who doesn’t know Liu Xiu’s achievements in the Green Forest? There are too many people who stand up for him, and this force cannot be comforted without appeasement.

Li Yi said: "One of the time, I can comfort Liu Bosheng's remnants."

"Secondly, let Liu Xiu relax his vigilance and return to Nanyang to receive the reward."

"When Liu Xiu comes back, I will seize his jurisdiction for Your Majesty and remove Liu Xiu's old military power. At that time, you may be able to lock Liu Xiu in Wancheng and make him a wealthy prince without any threat; or you may be able to take Liu Bosheng to the remnants of his troops and enter the pass with Chimei to attack the fifth reunion. Liu Xiu is good at generals and has a grudge against Wei Wu for killing his brother, so he will be happy to agree."

It was Liu Xuan’s favorite “Borrowing a Sword to Kill” session. In his head, who was so obsessed with alcohol, he felt that this plan was really good, and glanced at Li Tong: “What does King Xiping think?”

Today's incident made Li Tong, who was disheartened and confused, seemed to have seen a trace of light in the darkness again. He wanted to help Liu Xiu, but he didn't know how to do it. He could only take one step at a time. What's more, with Uncle Liu Wen's talent, how could he come back and surrender?

Li Tong only paused his head and said, "I have no objection."

"good."

Liu Xuan began to think about Liu Xiu's title, and thought that Emperor Gao once said that Liu Bi "if there was a rebellion", he felt a bad heart, so he wrote a stroke and gave Liu Xiu this bad title.

"King of Wu!"

...

At the same time, in Huaibei, thousands of miles east of Nanyang, a group of men with red eyebrows on their foreheads were also accepting Liu Xuan's "reward".

But Fan Chong did not kneel down, his waist was straight, and all his subordinates stood there, just watching the Green Man's messenger chanting the complete text tremblingly.

"That's it?"

His subordinates snatched the edict and handed it to Fan Chong. Fan Giant toss and turned around, unable to understand a word.

The three elders of the Red Eyebrows on the side also said: General Ma Wu came to see him as an envoy, and I admired his temperament, so I agreed to talk. I never thought that I would be willing to give him a few empty titles in the first place."

Red Eyebrow has to be said that after spending winter in Huaibei, many people began to get tired of the wandering life for several years, tired of soldiers, and were sobbing day and night. They either thought of leaving the house and wanted to return east, or wanted to leave a farm in Huaibei. After one winter, the powerful fort here was almost washed away by them...

Fan Chong also thought that since Xinmang had been destroyed and he had no emperor and the king's ambition, if he could reach a peace agreement with the largest regime in the Central Plains, Luhan, suspend military force, and use Huaibei, Huaiyang, Pengcheng, and several counties in the east, Langya, Donghai and other counties as fiefs, which would allow 300,000 subordinates to be exempted from taxes, and everyone would have land. If so, Chimei would be willing to pay tribute to the Green Forest and not to pay tribute, and everyone would be poor brothers who were anti-Ruber.

He heard that the green forest also originated from the grassroots. Even if he supported the emperor of Liu and the generals of Qu became kings, perhaps they could still remember the suffering they suffered when they first started, and could they understand each other?

By the way, Green Forest is best to provide them with a batch of grain. The grain from Huaibei is almost eaten up, and the remaining one is only enough for seeds.

If this could be done, Fan Chong could find a way out for his trusted brothers and sisters who followed him, and could put down his weapons, pick up a hoe, and return to his own fields.

But Liu Xuan's edict was still high and regarded himself as orthodox. The Red Eyebrow was a bandit and only regarded it as a reunion. The Red Eyebrow must bow down and accept all requests.

Fan Chong threw the edict on the ground and strode over it.

"I don't ask for kings, princes, generals and ministers."

"But Liu Xuan can't just use the Kong Jue number of more than twenty marquises to send us away, and refuse to give us the actual territory?"

Similar to the method intended to deal with Liu Xiu, Liu Xuan asked Fan Chong and more than 20 Red Eyebrow leaders to go to Wancheng to receive rewards, and the soldiers and soldiers would stay where they could wait for the reorganization of the Green Forest Qus.

Condescendingly and without sincerity, Fan Chong's perception of the green forest was suddenly greatly reduced.

"We are thinking too well on Green Forest." Fan Chong shook his head disappointed and approached the messenger step by step.

The Red Eyebrows also surrounded them together, and the Green Han envoy hurriedly said, "Didn't Your Majesty say in the edict that he would grant Guanzhong to the Red Eyebrows, and promised that those who entered the pass first would be king!"

"Pooh!"

Fan Chong cursed: "You think I, Old Fan, cannot read, don't you know that this is a trick to kill people by using a sword?"

The 300,000 Red Eyebrow brothers and sisters under his command were not the swords that Liu Xuan used to kill the fifth reunion!

They will never become the tools for King Liang or Liu Xuan, or a regime to compete for profit, and will only serve for themselves!

Fan Chong kicked the messenger over and shouted:

"This messenger is also clumsy and can't explain clearly. Since this is the case, we can only go to Wancheng in person, look for Liu Xuan in person, and talk to him well!"

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Chapter completed!