Chapter 788 I Want to Fight with My Heart as King!
Today's Winter City has grown to a considerable size. Built against the mountain and by the water, the city has completely become the Luo family's safe haven. In the Luo Palace, a group of people sat together, and Luo Yuzhi recounted in detail all that he had seen and heard during this trip.
Luo You listened quietly. When he heard the result of not wanting to send troops, there was neither anger nor disappointment on his face, as if he was listening to something that had nothing to do with him.
Among the three countries that had relatively close relations with the Luo family, only the profitable Yan State was willing to send troops, while Han and Chu were both preoccupied with their own national affairs.
Among the people in the hall, some were thoughtful, some were angry, and some were extremely sad.
After Luo Yuzhi finished speaking, Luo You looked around at everyone, including the direct descendants of the Luo family, the non-direct but close descendants like Luo Xiang, and the clans who had always followed the Luo family closely.
He said calmly: "Han, Chu, and Wei are all unwilling to send troops, but you should not be depressed or angry, this is what they should regret.
I have something to say to you all, which is what I have learned from serving as the clan leader for ten years. "
He coughed lightly, and then said thoughtfully: "Looking at all the heroes in history, is there anyone who is not a person of great luck?
No.
They are all people who survived great disasters.
So we often say that if a person wants to accomplish something, the most important thing is not ability, but luck.
Fortune is unpredictable and we cannot observe it, but we can roughly guess it.
The general trend is like a turbulent current, and the people in the world are the fish and shrimp in the water. Most people can only go with the flow, while some people can go against the trend and make the waves crash against the shore.
Of course, if the time is extended to the long term, it will eventually fail because the general trend is irreversible.
But is the trend really irreversible?
This principle does not apply to us in the Luo family. All irreversible trends mean that the blood shed is not enough and the price paid is not enough.
Most of the time, we are not willing to pay too much. We always hold back in order to keep ourselves useful for the future.
But now, we have no choice but to respectfully carry out the orders of the Emperor Su Wang and completely go against the trend.
Whatever the cost, we are willing to do it.
My father and grandfather were worried about it because the situation was not clear at that time.
Ever since I killed Chanyu with a sword from the sky, I no longer have anything to worry about. The bright mountain is already on the other side, and now all I have to do is build a bridge to cross it.
The Luo family shed tears and the world benefits, but how much benefit depends on luck.
Now, among the four countries, each has its own affairs, and only Yan State can gather the national strength to launch a war. This is Murong Chengguang's fortune.
I cannot see the end of the Central Plains countries, but I can see the prosperity of Yan State.
Let's contact the volunteers from Yan State and Central Plains. After being stationed in Liaodong for so many years, it's time to fight.
If Hu Ming is prosperous, then we should cut him down bit by bit and suppress him!"
Luo You's words were a verdict, a declaration of war, and Luo's feelings after seeing the truth of the world.
Just as everyone in the hall was about to stand up and congratulate him, they heard Luo You say loudly: "Xizhi, I will personally lead the brave warriors to fight against the Xianbei. I will leave the family head ring to you. If I die outside, you will inherit the position of family head. You stay in Winter City. Remember what I told you before, you must be careful to protect the baby of the family."
Everyone in the hall was shocked. Luo Xizhi was Luo You's nephew. What he was best at was not literary or military strategy, but medicine. He was probably the best doctor in the entire Luo family after the Medical Saint.
Since ancient times, there has never been any family head who is good at medicine. Luo Minggong, who is good at academics, is already an exception. Most of them either have the ability to govern the country, or are brave, or can form alliances.
Now Luo You chose Luo Xizhi. If they said there was no reason, they would not believe it even if they were beaten to death. But the reason must be so secretive that Luo You did not say it.
Luo Xizhi originally wanted to refuse the position of head of the family. After all, he thought he was not outstanding among the children of the Luo family. But after hearing about taking care of the baby, he calmed down, walked to the hall, knelt down and kowtowed to Luo You, and accepted the inheritance ring.
Luo You let out a long sigh with some worry. The reason for this was that he was worried that the direct descendants of the Luo family would die young.
Luo's pediatric medical skills were considered very advanced, but he was still worried.
Only Luo Xizhi, who holds the heart of a medical saint and has superb medical skills, can make him 100% confident that he can take care of the baby and help him safely pass through the critical period.
In the more than 1,300 years of Luo family's history, there were very few descendants who died young. Ever since Ji Zhao began to fully cover the blessings of the ancestors, the number of deaths in childhood has been zero!
At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the Luo family had a lot of luck points, but they used too many of them during the Han Dynasty. A heavy snowfall on the grassland meant that millions of luck points were scattered.
Although the Luo family did not fight simply for the Han Dynasty, but for complete unification, for the creation of a prosperous era of Gao Hui and Wen Wu, and for setting a benchmark for later dynasties, they truly did a great service to the Han Dynasty.
The reason why I wasted the luck points so much in the first place was because luck points were different from artifacts.
Artifacts usually only appear after completing special achievements. So far, they are basically unique and will be gone once they are used up.
And luck points are generated all the time.
But now that the ancestor has disappeared, many of the channels for the Luo family to generate luck points have been cut off. Currently, the most stable source of income is Luoyang, the eastern capital of Wei, which can obtain a lot of luck points.
Now the Luo family has to tighten their belts.
When the luck points dropped to a relatively low level, the system automatically cut off the blessing of the Luo family's ancestors.
This is what Luo You felt in the dark, so the descendants of the Luo family are now at risk of dying young. Every head of the Luo family knows that they must retain the legitimate descendants, which is the requirement of King Su.
With the existence of Peach Blossom Spring, the legitimate descendants can escape even from the most dangerous situations, but there is no way to avoid it if they fall ill. Therefore, Luo You let Luo Xizhi be the head of the family with only one goal, which is to ensure that the babies of the Luo family safely pass through their infancy, adolescence, and youth and grow up healthily.
Compared to passing the position of the head of the family to Luo Xizhi, what shocked everyone even more was that Luo You was actually going to go to the battlefield himself!
Naturally, some people persuaded Luo You that as the head of the family, he should just stay in charge of the family. However, Luo You waved his hand and said, "I have an idea in my mind, and now I want to verify it. You don't need to persuade me anymore. The Luo family has never failed because of one person. I, Luo You, am just an average person, and I am not afraid of life or death."
Luo You's words made people even more worried. They had never heard of anyone saying such discouraging words before even going to the battlefield. Most of them said auspicious words about what would happen after they came back.
Only the high priestess of the Luo family knew what Luo You wanted to verify. She lowered her head slightly, hiding the sadness in her eyes.
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February is the busy season in spring, with grass growing and orioles singing. Even a madman like Murong Chengguang would not start a war at this time.
The gates of Jicheng were wide open, and people had already been sprinkling water and sweeping the roadside. The main roads in the city were also cleaned up. It was not easy for Winter City to send people out, but to discuss the alliance, they still had to go in person.
Murong Chengguang looked at the rather young Luo Chengzhi in front of him with some envy. It had been twenty years since he and Luo Chen met at Putuo River. Luo Chen had been dead for ten years, and his temples were full of white hair, no longer the same as before.
He carefully looked through the letter brought by Luo Chengzhi, and suddenly said: "This letter is unnecessary, it's just an oath.
This king is getting old now, and this battle may be the last time he leads troops to fight in his life. What this king wants to know is what the Luo family’s mentality is towards this battle and how much effort they will contribute.
This is a holy war for the Su King. In addition to the army that stays behind to defend the Han Kingdom, I will personally lead the elite troops of the Yan Kingdom to the north to at least defeat a large part of the Xianbei. What about the Luo family?"
Luo Chengzhi said firmly: "Don't worry, my king. My father will personally lead the Luo family in this battle. The three sons of the Luo family will fight with all their best warriors. In this battle, we will wipe out Liaodong and then advance westward!"
Wipe out Liaodong completely!
Upon hearing this, Murong Chengguang immediately applauded, and he and Luo Chengzhi immediately shook hands and swore an oath, and agreed on the time to attack, which was when the Hu people were relatively weak.
As soon as Luo Cheng left, Murong Chengguang immediately convened a grand court meeting. The young emperor did not attend due to illness. Murong Chengguang stood beside the throne, looked at all the people in the palace, and said loudly: "The King of Liaoxi orders: The soldiers from all parts of Dayan to gather in Jicheng. The Xianbei are rebellious, so we must conquer them."
Here we come!
All the ministers of Yan State in the hall were shocked. For Yan State, this was not just a war, but also the clarion call for Murong clan to launch the final charge for the throne.
Emperor Wu of Wei, Cao Cao, has been criticized over the years because he lost the battle in the end but still sought to be crowned on the grounds of his great achievements and virtues.
Murong Chengguang didn't want to do that. He wanted Yan to hand the throne to him herself and achieve true abdication.
This requires a resounding victory, and the direction is nothing more than the Hu people and the Han Dynasty.
In the eyes of the ministers, all the previous preparations of the King of Liaoxi were aimed at attacking Jizhou, seizing the land north of the Yellow River, and becoming the number one prince in the world.
But now with the help of the Luo family, the King of Liaoxi seems to be preparing to fight the Hu people first and clear up the hidden dangers in the rear to prevent being caught off guard by the Han State's strategy of "allying with the Hu to destroy Yan". Now the Han State does not use this strategy because traditional concepts are still at work.
But now the prestige of the Luo family has already suffered a huge blow. When the Luo family has been away from the Central Plains for a long time and the Han Kingdom is desperate, it is possible that some unfilial descendants will do the same.
After all, not everyone is the kind of hero who is willing to die bravely. For many people, staying alive is the most important thing, and there will always be such people.
After all these years of wars, especially Murong Chengguang, the de facto monarch, personally led every major battle.
The State of Yan might be inferior to the State of Han and the State of Wei in other aspects, but it was extremely strong in terms of war. He always inspected the army in person. No one in the State of Yan dared to tamper with the army. He also provided very good welfare benefits to the soldiers.
In the State of Yan, the status of the gentry was not high. The State of Yan, or Murong Chengguang, relied on the powerful Yanhu aristocratic military group. Moreover, the State of Yan was not a Hu country, so it needed to cooperate with the gentry and undergo sinicization to maintain its stable rule.
The State of Yan had its own Confucian classics families, which were originally affiliated with the military groups and remained so after entering the Central Plains.
The Yan State deprived the gentry of a large amount of land, which was also a major reason why it was defeated by the Han State in Jizhou. It was defeated by the Han State and the Hebei gentry due to internal and external cooperation.
But after Murong Chengguang came to power, he did not change this strategy at all. Instead, he implemented it thoroughly. In Murong Chengguang's view, what aristocrats? Kill all of you arrogant aristocrats and see if you can still be arrogant. He massacred the Gongsun clan because the Gongsun clan was not adapted to the political rules of Yan State, which violated Murong Chengguang's taboo.
The Yan State, which owned the two states of You and Bing, and had continuously plundered populations from the Han State and the Hu tribes in Liaodong, was now strong in both men and horses. The Hu and Han cavalry gathered under the banner of Murong Chengguang.
Murong Chengguang had an elite force under his command, consisting of only 3,000 men, which was called the "Quexie Army."
It is very easy to join the Quexie Army. If you can survive a one-on-ten fight, you can join. If you cannot survive, then your death will be in vain. The combat effectiveness of this army is unparalleled.
Yan's actions frightened the Han, which thought that Yan was going to send troops to fight a war with Han. The garrisons of various cities in Jizhou of the Han began to send letters to Fenggao continuously, reporting Yan's movements.
Then he received a letter from the State of Yan, or it could be said to be a mocking letter.
"Your Majesty, our Great Yan army is mighty. Can a slight movement like this cause a tremor in your country?
You do not need to be afraid. We, the Great Yan, are not heading south, but north.
The Temple of King Su was destroyed, and the Xianbei became increasingly ferocious. In the past 380 years, the barbarians had never been as brutal as they were at that time. This was unbearable for the people of the Xia Dynasty.
You can stay in peace in the southern country, watch the beautiful dancing and listen to the beautiful music. I will personally lead the men of Yan country, walk on ice and snow, and in the sea of blood, to avenge the king!"
Once this letter came out, it was simply a murderous blow.
Don't be afraid, Han. We are not sending troops to conquer you, Han. We, Yan, are the nobles of the Xia states and the subjects of King Su. Now the Xianbei Hu people dare to humiliate King Su. We are going to fight for King Su. We are not afraid of death. You just enjoy yourself in the South.
If this word gets out, it will definitely be recorded by various scholars, and will definitely be recorded in the history books by the historians of the Yan State. If it is not handled properly, it will leave a bad reputation for all eternity.
After all, until this moment no one realized that the Luo family might disappear in the Central Plains for a very long time, and most people still looked at it from a traditional historical perspective.
When the letter reached Fenggao, Liu Chan, who was such a good-tempered man, was so angry that he started cursing. This incident even led Liu Chan to gather all his important ministers to the palace to discuss the matter.
Finally, the officials of the Han Kingdom gathered their wisdom and sent someone to reply: "You are just a minister of the Yan Kingdom, without the throne, yet you speak such rebellious words to our emperor. You are really a barbarian and rude person. I hate you very much.
The Yan State is a mixed race, with descendants of sinners and mixed Hu blood. My emperor is very disgusted with you and does not want to talk to you. You keep making false statements and pretending to be seeking revenge for King Su, but it is only for your own selfish interests. You are fighting for power and profit among the Hu people, which is really shameful.
Our emperor respects the Supreme Emperor Su Wang and does not send troops out, all because of you Yan bandits who sent troops to press on the border and want to destroy our country. If our Han country was in the north and you Yan were in the south, if an army of 100,000 was sent out, it would be our Han.
You Yan are Hu people, looking like Xia people, but actually you are beasts, without faith and without righteousness. You Murong Chengguang are disloyal and unrighteous, quite like the thief Cao. Our Han country did not make friends with Yan, did not send troops to the north, did not fight for King Su, and did not make efforts to repel the barbarians. It is not the fault of our Han country, but the sin of you Yan!
Among our people, there are also kindhearted people with lofty ideals, carrying their own tools, money and food, determined to go north. This is the heart of our Han people, and our emperor highly praises this. This is the heart of our emperor. How can you, a rebellious minister and tyrant, spread this rumor and want to record it in history, causing our emperor to suffer?"
The wording of this letter was quite harsh. It first belittled the origin of Yan State and the justice of Yan State's actions, blatantly exposing that Yan State was just trying to gain benefits. It then said that the reason why it could not send troops was because of Yan State. If the geographical locations of the two countries were swapped, it would be Han State that sent troops. It also compared Murong Chengguang to Cao Cao, criticizing him on the basis of morality. Finally, it used the people such as Lu who voluntarily went there to elevate the entire Han State. It was the best response that could be thought of in a short period of time.
After receiving the letter, Murong Chengguang was not angry. Instead, he laughed wildly in front of his ministers and said, "There is an old saying that lies do not hurt people, but the truth is a sharp knife. The king and his ministers of Han are too anxious. They are so anxious that they are panicking and speaking without thinking. Is it up to him to decide whether my Great Yan is barbaric or not?
King Su once said that if the barbarians invade the Chinese world, they will become the Chinese!
Moreover, even if we talk about bloodline, perhaps two hundred years ago, he, Liu Chan, and I, Murong Chengguang, had the same ancestor. He said that I am a barbarian, so is he also a barbarian?
If he has the guts, he can go back two hundred years and kill all of our ancestors who were exiled to the Great Xianbei Mountain, so that everyone who walks out of the Great Xianbei Mountain will be a Hu people!"
Murong Chengguang certainly knew that his family was definitely not barbarians. He said this to those ministers who still thought of themselves as Hu people. Some of them had joined Yan State for a short time and had not yet completely assimilated into the Xia people. Their children had not yet grown up and become Xia people. The stable integration of Hu and Han was the way Yan State was founded, and it was the main reason for Yan State's current explosive combat power. Murong Chengguang would never allow anyone to destroy it.
As soon as he finished speaking, cheers of joy rang out in the great hall of Yan State. The generals who killed people without blinking an eye on the battlefield laughed more wantonly than the other. Murong Chengguang tore up Liu Chan's reply letter and threw it into the air.
With the pieces of paper that were like snowflakes drifting around, his high-pitched voice rang out, "Go and clean up the army and attack Liaodong!"
“Yes!”
Those outside the hall who were about to be overturned shouted in unison.
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The Western Regions are now in turmoil. The fall of Wushuang City is a self-evident blow to the entire Western Regions. This is a dark day for the people of the Western Regions, and also a crazy day for the religious sects in the Western Regions. The various sects that were barely integrated at the beginning have completely begun to divide their territories and then attack each other.
From the Ili River Valley to Yumen Pass, countless voices resounded. The death of the Xianbei Chanyu in Wushuang City caused a huge impact, but it did not affect the fact that the Xianbei occupied the Western Regions. Before the fall of Wushuang City, most of the Western Regions had already fallen into the hands of the Xianbei people, otherwise Wushuang City would not have fallen so easily.
After the death of the Xianbei Chanyu, the Xianbei nobles were only in the military forces in the Western Regions and had no time to manage this place. They returned to the grasslands one after another to elect the next Chanyu, and to elect the most outstanding Chanyu from among Yan Hui's sons who could still lead the entire Xianbei forward.
This gave Luo Jialan and Zhao Yingluo the opportunity to restore order.
Luo Jialan and Zhao Yingluo fled all the way from Wushuang City back to Tianjin Kingdom. This was once the land of Dayuan Kingdom. Now the people living on this land have changed a lot, and many of them are Han people who migrated here.
The Tianjin Kingdom certainly knew that the Xianbei were active in the Western Regions. The regent princess and a large number of Tianjin Kingdom troops were surrounded in Wushuang City, fighting desperately against the Xianbei army, and there was a high probability that she would die in Wushuang City.
After Zhao Yingluo returned to Tianjin Kingdom, what she faced was not her brother, but those nobles who had once plotted against her and who could not resist seizing power after hearing countless bad news. It is not uncommon for nobles to seize power in the Western Regions. This land has learned a lot of things, but loyalty is something that is missing.
The only reason why the king was able to hold on to his position was that he was stronger and had more troops supporting him. This was related to the culture of the Western Regions. Things like loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness had not been passed on to the Western Regions. As for religion, chaotic religion could not maintain rule.
However, these things were not a big problem for Zhao Yingluo. She might feel a little ashamed for deposing her brother, but she had no burden in deposing these people.
Her sudden return was incredible to many people. No one could imagine how she escaped from Wushuang City. When Luo Jialan appeared, the surprise reached its peak.
The essence of power is bottom-up, which is why reputation is useful. As long as someone thinks you are a leader, you will be a leader. Zhao Yingluo is such a person. In Tianjin Kingdom, she does not hold power simply by relying on the title of regent princess, but because a group of nobles recognize her abilities, so she is able to use this to leverage greater power.
When she returned, several of her loyal subordinates and allies soon expressed their submission. Zhao Yingluo immediately introduced Luo Jialan to everyone, "This is the new high priest of the temple and the future king of Tianjin Kingdom."
Prince Wang!
There is too much information conveyed in this word. The first is that the future princess has already chosen her husband, a noble man from the Luo family. The second is that the princess is going to be her own king and become the queen of Tianjin Kingdom.
There are quite a few queens in the Western Regions. The most famous one is the Queen of Loulan. She was once the most beautiful woman in the Western Regions and attracted many heroes to her.
Several people knelt on the ground in an instant and surrendered to Zhao Yingluo, saying, "Queen of Tianjin, supreme authority, may you live in peace and happiness!"
Zhao Yingluo and Luo Jialan looked at each other and nodded slightly, then said in a deep voice: "The most urgent task is to seize the power of Tianjin Kingdom. General Wang, you are the palace gate guard, can you let us into the palace, and we will directly initiate a coup in the palace."
The people kneeling on the ground looked at Zhao Yingluo in astonishment. General Wang asked in surprise, "Princess, you just came back. Don't you want to consider this a little more?"
Zhao Yingluo stared at them and said firmly, "The Tianjin Kingdom is now their territory, and the news of my return will be revealed sooner or later.
The reason you guys are still able to maintain your status now is because they don't know I'm still alive, so they are not in a hurry to take action against you. If the news of my return is known, you will be dealt with quickly.
Only by controlling them quickly, accurately and ruthlessly can we achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost. If it wasn't the case when the previous king was alive, how could I have become the regent?"
Several people present had participated in the palace coup and had all witnessed Zhao Yingluo's methods. Zhao Yingluo did not show any weakness when facing her father. She threw the edict into the brazier, wrote it herself, and finally stamped it with the imperial seal. She also pried open the fingers of the late king and snatched the scepter that symbolized royal power from him.
Compared to the past, it really doesn’t seem like a big deal now.
Under Zhao Yingluo's rather pressured gaze, the few people finally agreed to launch this palace coup. After the few people left, Zhao Yingluo also pulled Luo Jialan to leave. As the two walked, Luo Jialan whispered: "You are worried that someone of those people will tell on you, so you are so anxious to launch a palace coup and change your residence in such a hurry."
Zhao Yingluo shook her head and said, "I'm not worried. Those people are unlikely to be valued by the current king, but we must be on guard against others. People's hearts are unpredictable. If there is any accident, I will never take the risk. If someone is not smart enough and wants to use me to gain trust, or if I speak carelessly and the servants in the mansion know about it, it will be an unbearable mistake.
The coup was launched not only because of the fear that they would leak the secret, but also because of your spirit soldiers, although they are women, their martial arts skills are not inferior to those of generals.
There are very few elite soldiers in the Tianjin Kingdom today, and most of them died in Wushuang City with me.
As long as the ten women under your command put on armor, and there are two or three hundred soldiers, we will have a chance to charge into the palace before the army reacts. As long as we control King Tianjin, the initiative will be in our hands."
I see!
Luo Jialan is even more confident in the combat effectiveness of the spiritual soldiers. The spiritual soldiers are not only powerful in martial arts, but also good at cooperation. They have always been used as arrows for the temple army and brave warriors.
It’s a pity that given the situation in Wushuang City, it’s useless to fill in the spiritual soldiers. The spiritual soldiers are artifacts that will live with the family and cannot be wasted in vain, so Luo Gu did not use them, but let Luo Jialan take them away when he left.
It was indeed used in the palace coup.
Luo Jialan and Zhao Yingluo hid in a dilapidated house with relatively few people and began to discuss the details. Many places in the current palace were renovated by Zhao Yingluo.
She was too familiar with the palace and quickly found the fastest route to the bedroom. For something like a palace coup, it was natural to act at night when people were least alert.
As the two of them slept in each other's arms, Luo Jialan asked in a low voice: "Yingluo, are you worried that the Tianjin Kingdom will directly surrender to the Xianbei? Is that why you are so anxious to have a palace coup?"
Zhao Yingluo snuggled in Luo Jialan's arms and whispered, "It is inevitable that the Xianbei will dominate the Western Regions. I know that the people who control the Tianjin Kingdom now have no backbone. If this continues, it won't be long before the Tianjin Kingdom surrenders to the Xianbei. I will not allow this!"
The two men looked at each other with shining eyes. Holding the heavenly gold, they rebelled against the Xianbei. This was the first step in their great undertaking. Anyone who stood in the way would die!
(End of this chapter)
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