In a chaotic world, taking a wrong step or reading a wrong person often means that you will never be able to recover.

But there are still people in this world who are still "princes" after taking three consecutive wrong paths.

Whenever Li Tong and Li Diyuan look back, they always feel scared. Thinking about the time when the fifth reunion came to Nanyang for business under the order of Wang Mang. Li Tong received it as a local hero, but he felt that the fifth reunion was just a "traveler". Unexpectedly, his handle was taken by the fifth reunion, so he ransomware.

If they don’t fight and get to know each other, they will be a good story. With his family’s resources and manpower, their status will not be worse than Ren Guang, right? But Li Tong and his family saw that Xinmang had not had much time, so they tried to rebel together with Liu Bosheng and Liu Xiu, and the news was revealed in advance, resulting in the destruction of the family, and only Li Tong and his brothers escaped happily.

If he had been staunchly following Liu Xiu, he was now also the founding father of the small court of the "Eastern Han Dynasty". Unexpectedly, the Li Tong brothers chose to surrender to the Green Forest and supported the incompetent Liu Xuan. Although he had settled on the throne, in just a few years, Liu Xuan fled in a hurry, let alone the short princes and kings of the Li Tong brothers.

Facing the Red Eyebrows, they had to abandon the manor land and flee to Liu Xiu with a few privately.

Because Li Tong married Liu Xiu's younger sister as Xu Xian, Xiu'er was not bad to him. Not only was he a marquis, but he was also granted the position of Grand Secretary Agriculture. However, Li Tong went too late and did not bring funds to the group. Of course, he had to be at the bottom and did not have any real power. During the decisive battle between Liu Xiu and Chimei, Li Tong stayed in Guangling to appease the people, repair the palace city, build schools, and manage Jiangdu City in an orderly manner, laying the foundation for Liu Xiu to establish his capital.

After the matter was over, Li Tong wanted to avoid his favor and wrote a letter to beg for his health due to illness, begging him to go to Jiangdong to take care of his illness, but Liu Xiu disagreed and issued an edict.

"The Gushi Hou destroyed his family and made a country, built great strategies, helped the gods, and assisted my holy virtues. He made great contributions to the Han Dynasty. However, today's downward situation is not decided, how can the dimension be humbly resigned?"

Liu Xiu changed his hand to appoint Li Tong as the "Governor of Yuzhou", and Li Tong could only be ordered and went on the road with a bitter face.

Liu Xiu's brother-in-law Deng Chen walked with him and encouraged Li Tong: "Dimension, you and I are all relatives of Your Majesty. Liu and Deng and Li are like the former Ji Jiang, Taigong Wang and the four Yues of Jiang surname assisted King Wen and King Wu, so there was eight hundred years of Zhou Zuo. Now the Han Dynasty is in danger, how can you and I not help Your Majesty?"

Li Tong was very arrogant, but he also knew that the level of trust he and Deng Chen had different. Deng Chen was the real helper of Liu Bosheng and Liu Xiu brothers, and he never suffered from it from beginning to end. However, Li was responsible for Liu Bosheng's death. You must know that when he encouraged Liu Xuan to send Bosheng to Guanzhong to fight with the fifth reunion, he was Li Tong's cousin, Li Yi, the king of the Green Han Dance Yin!

Liu Xiu seemed to have no conscience about this matter, and still appointed Li Yi as a marquis and sent him to Jiangdong, which was equivalent to house arrest in Wuhui. However, he still seemed to believe in Li Tong.

But Li Tong knew...

"I have to re-prove Li's loyalty to Liu Han."

Although he knew that he must go, Li Tong didn't know whether his step was right or wrong. After all, Liu Xiu wanted them to go to Nanyang to be enemies with the fifth relationship head-on, and he would definitely offend him deeply. From then on, no matter how victorious or defeated, there would be no room for maneuver!

However, I recently heard that the land policy adopted by the Wei army in Nanyang admitted that the Red Eyebrow thieves divided the land for poor peasants and tenants and slaves. Cen Peng even sent a large number of officials to take over the implementation of the Red Eyebrow's plan, which means that even if the fleeing tyrant surrenders to the fifth reunion and returns to Nanyang, there will be no more land!

Let go of your fantasy, there is no chance to turn around!

Thinking of this, Li Tong could only grit his teeth and after returning to the third level of Minghe, he began to arrange Liu Xiu's plan.

In Liu Xiu's strategy, the manpower seized Xiangyang was divided into four groups, and generals such as Feng Yi were responsible for "attacking the troops". Deng Chen was considered to "attacking the diplomatic relations" and wanted to lobby his nephew Deng Feng to help the Han. Li Tong was in charge of "attacking the plan" and planned to set fire behind the Wei army on the southern front!

You should know that Nanyang is a large basin, and within Nanyang, there is a small basin, Suixian and Chongling, west of the west, south of Lulin Mountain, east and north of Tongbai Mountain, which makes the local area separate from Wancheng and Jiangxia in the south, becoming a semi-independent geographical unit. It connects Wuer in the east and blocks Han Mian in the west, between Xiang, Ying, Wan and Ye, and is actually an important place.

Li Tong was naturally familiar with this area: "During the Spring and Autumn Period, King Wu of Chu ruled the Central Plains, first subdued the Tang Dynasty, and then attacked the Cai Kingdom, so all the concubines in Hanyang were destroyed."

In his opinion, this is undoubtedly a huge crack in the Wei army's defense line. Although the powerful men in Nanyang ran away, and those who didn't run away were mostly taken away by the Wei army and the fortress, their marriages were intertwined for hundreds of years, and there were always fish that missed the net. Hiding in the mountains and forests became bandits. As the largest surname in Nanyang in the past, Li Tong was the best candidate to send to contact local "heroes".

After returning from the prison, Li Tong sent back to his hometown to inquire about the news, he swore to tell him: "The Wei thieves inherited the Red Eyebrow's policy and invaded the land and houses of the various surnames. Some of them were used as military garrisons. The others were divided and rented to Wudilu Zuo. Occasionally, a powerful man returned home and returned the land, but they were evaded layer by layer. The scholars were all indignant and ready to fight, just waiting for the Han Dynasty's king's army to come back!"

The situation is very good, Li Tong is a little relieved. As long as he sends people in to contact and communicate with the Han army, the powerful people involved in Nanyang will be able to disrupt this. Once the situation is achieved, there is a possibility of burning the flames from the flanks to Wancheng. By then, Cen Peng will need to send heavy troops to suppress the unrest and have no time to take care of Jingxiang.

"Sui County has ninety-nine hills, green forests, and heroes in Nanyang who avoid the problems of red eyebrows, and they are mostly here."

"While Chongling is on the verge of green forests, a large number of Liu's children escaped into the mountains, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack their hometown!"

"As long as the two counties attack at the same time and the villages and villages are connected together, the Wei officials can be trapped in the county town. In this way, the Wei army will become rootless trees and water without source, and must wait for Wancheng to rescue."

It was quite good when the plan was to stay on the bamboo slips. However, when Li Tong brought the first group of hundreds of tribesmen and dead soldiers into Nanyang County through the mountain trail near Sui County, the expected flowers bloomed everywhere, but no matter how they were done, the thousand people in Sui County were in trouble for seven or eight days, they retreated step by step and were beaten back to the mountains.

The people who went to Liu Xiu's hometown Chongling County were even more miserable. In just three days, they were wiped out by the local garrison. Liu Xiu's nephews were either dead or captured. The person who finally escaped was crying to Li Tong with tears:

"The tenants and servants in Nanyang not only do not recognize the villagers, but also ungrateful! For a few acres of land and a few rooms, they picked up iron forks and assisted the Wei army in attacking the former masters!"

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In late January of the third year of Wude (27 AD), in Chongling County, Nanyang County, the last person of the Chongling Liu clan who resisted stubbornly was captured. He was tied up and sent to the county government for interrogation by the county magistrate.

When he learned that the county magistrate in front of him was named Liu Gong and the young policeman next to him was named Liu Penzi, he couldn't help but feel shocked and scolded them.

"I don't understand. Your surname is Liu, why do you want to help the evildoer?"

Liu Pengzi, who was wearing a costume of robbery, felt quite aggrieved and explained: "We are the descendants of King Jing of Chengyang, and you are the descendants of King Fa of Changsha, which is different."

"Can you write two characters Liu with one pen? Are you not the descendants of Emperor Gao? King Jing of Chengyang used to kill Lu Xinghan, how could there be such an unworthy descendant?" The children of Liu's family in Chongling became even more angry and began to speak nonsense:

"Is the legend true? King Liu Fei of Qi is not a descendant of the prince, but a wild breeder born to Widow Cao..."

Before he could finish cursing, Liu Gong waved his hand and made the county soldiers block his mouth.

"Enough."

Liu Gong sighed: "If you can't find out anything, take it out and leave it to the lords in the army."

Touching the seal on his waist and looking at the clothes of Wei officials, Liu Gong felt funny: "Yes, why did I become an official of the Wei Dynasty and fight with my relatives at the same time?"

He and his younger brother originally lived quietly in Shixian County at the foot of Mount Tai and lived a prosperous life, but all of this was changed after being kidnapped by Chimei.

The two brothers were forced to work for Chimei. The brother helped settle the score, the younger brother went to herd cattle, and Liu Penzi also worshipped Huan Tan as his teacher! Although with the reform of the "Wen Tian" and the slaves were nominally abolished by the Red Eyebrows, Liu Penzi became free, but they still had to help the ignorant Red Eyebrows army measure the land...

Needless to say, the Red Eyebrows' division made a mess. With the Heji War, Fan Chong was captured, and the Red Eyebrows in Nanyang retreated like a tide. The locals abandoned them and welcomed the Wei army without any hesitation.

Before Liu Gong and his younger brother had time to escape, the words of Qing Xu Haidai from the two of them would definitely be regarded as the "remnant" of the Red Eyebrows. They would be beaten and killed by locals. It would be better to join the Wei army than to join the Wei army.

After being detained for a few days, both of them were released and even received by Cen Peng.

It was not because of their identity as Liu, but because his brother had done things for "Weng Tian". Before his death, Old Wang Mang's last wish was to hope that the fifth reunion could pardon those "good people" who helped him in the Red Eyebrow Army.

The fifth relationship did not break its promise, and Cen Peng was ordered to re-divid and grant land in Nanyang to complete the things Chimei wanted to do but did not do well, so the two brothers were able to re-employed, and Liu Gong also made some contributions. After the land reform, he was sent to Chongling County and became a "fake county magistrate". Liu Penzi had no official position and only followed his brother to do miscellaneous work. After experiencing the tragic chaos, the two brothers no longer wanted to separate.

Liu Gong still felt uncomfortable when he thought of his own sentence to the death of these "restoring Han" righteous men. However, Liu Pengzi comforted him and said, "Brother, think about it. Everyone said that Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, but he saved you and me twice. Once, he asked me not to be a slave anymore. Another time, he begged Emperor Wei to pardon us. Should we, as the surname Liu, hate him or be grateful?"

Liu Gong nodded, Yes, do they do not do similar names or realities? The only thing they are guilty about is that after a hundred years, when the two brothers arrive in Huangquan, how should they face King Jing of Chengyang?

"Mr. Huan said that death is like a candle fire that is completely destroyed, and there is no soul."

Liu Penzi said: "Since that's the case, there is naturally no Huangquan. You don't have to worry about growing up."

"You little boy Cao." Liu Gong sighed deeply, looking at his younger brother who was also a little yellowish on his lips, he thought: "Although Wei is now strong, he is in a border county, and the outcome is unpredictable. If the Han army and local heroes return, I will definitely die!"

"My brother is smart, so there is no need to follow me to stand under the dangerous wall. His teacher, Dr. Huan Tan, has returned to Emperor Wei and is still trustworthy. I have long wanted to send the basin to Luoyang, at least safer than in Chongling."

This idea has arisen more than once, and Liu Gong only hopes that Huan Tan can receive the letter sooner.

Having said that, Liu Gong still didn't believe that the Wei army would be defeated. General Cen Peng was a good fighter. Sui County, Chongling and other key areas were released, and many garrisons were released. In addition, in order to prevent the powerful people returning home, the court had prepared for the rainy days. A few months in advance, among the locals, it began to publicize that if Liu Xiu and his civil and military ministers "returned back home", they had received the favor of the Red Eyebrows, the Wei army, and the people who were assigned to the land would be devastated!

"If they return with the pseudo-Han army, they will not only have to recover the land they planted, the manor they live in, but also to collect debts. They were slaves in the past, but they will still be slaves!"

After the Wei army plowed twice, the class structure of Nanyang County, which was once a powerful person, underwent a huge change. After paying the heavy price of halving the household registration, the people who now support the entire county are no longer wealthy families, but are small self-cultivated farmers who were recognized by the officials of the Wei State.

It is not enough to just shout "The Wolf is Coming" to them. Under the auspiciousness of the Embroidered Uniform Guard Branch stationed in Wancheng, a group of hundreds of operas were even arranged to "act" in various counties.

It is no longer a plotless acrobatic, but a story with a nose and eyes. It tells a slave in Nanyang who lives a life worse than a horse in the home of a powerful man named "Liu Wenbo".

Then Chimei came, and her life did not improve. She was named her adopted son and was still a slave. It was not until the Wei army fought Chimei away that the slave was reborn. Chimei agreed but failed to fulfill the land, and he also married a wife. The land rent was much lower than the one who was used to provide to the powerful master.

As the days were about to be happy, the pseudo-Han army came back!

In the hundreds of dramas, after returning to Nanyang, the first thing they did was to clear the rent, tie the slaves and tie the ropes again, and send people to settle the rent from house to house, snatch all the little valuable things from the poor and farmers' homes. Many families did not even leave pots and bowls, and even their wives who had just passed the door were taken away.

The most classic plot of this hundred drama is that the villain named "Liu Wenbo" yelled at everyone after returning to Chongling:

"My Liu family is back!"

This sentence successfully aroused the righteous indignation of the lower classes. They were indeed reluctant to lose what they had. In the past, the Liu family in Chongling was not of good quality, and the Liu Xiu brothers were still able to live up to the tenant farmers and serfs, but Liu Xuan and other Chongling masters often killed them.

Whenever Liu Gong thinks of this line, he feels very uncomfortable, but he has to admire him. Emperor Wei, the ruler and ministers, have indeed grasped the thoughts of the people of Nanyang: Liu Bosheng brothers, Li Diayuan raised an army to fight against the rebellious, and the richest men and green forest thieves, and the bottom team did not get any benefits. Now, it is finally easy to get the land after the great disaster. Who would be willing to pay it back? So he actively assisted the Wei army and defeated the Liu clans who were counterattacking in three days.

As the county magistrate of the captured Liu family of Chongling, Liu Gong could only give the "killing and heart-killing" order against the captured members of the Liu family in charge of the embroidered corpses himself.

"Liu Xiu claimed to be a fire and fire virtue. These rebels naturally had to wear red ochre clothes and then send them to the stage where Liu Xiu brothers raised their troops back then, and then they were killed after throwing tiles and hitting them!"
Chapter completed!