The Bad Guys: Playing the Fake Li Xingyun at the Beginning

"it is good."

……

In the evening, Su Ming went to the training room to practice as usual.

When Li Wentong of Prince Qi's Mansion learned of his answer, admiration appeared on his face. Great minds think alike, and he also hoped that someone would appear in this world to fight against Yuan Tiangang.

In this round, he hoped that Su Ming could survive.

……

The next day, a court meeting was held in Taiji Hall, and Su Ming announced on the spot that he would pray for the late emperor and go into seclusion in the Taimiao.

All of the ministers were surprised. They did not expect that the emperor would pray for the late emperor at this time after a year on the throne. After all, the late emperor's death was not a good way. As a son, praying for his father is filial piety, and no one can point out anything wrong with it.

However, when Li Siyuan heard the news, he subconsciously frowned.

As an old coin, he keenly noticed that this matter seemed a little unusual. Without any judgment, his intuition told him that there was something fishy about this matter.

He was about to say something, but seeing the attitudes of the ministers around him, Li Siyuan silently retracted his leg that had just stepped forward.

Obviously, as a military general, he would not understand what filial piety and human ethics are. Most of the court officials agreed, and Li Siyuan was not in a position to hinder them in such matters.

Because this matter is originally a trivial matter, but it has considerable political significance.

The Tang Dynasty has always ruled the world with loyalty, filial piety, trustworthiness and righteousness.

When the Sima family was plotting to seize power and seize the throne, they acted in a very ugly way. Sima Yi went back on his oath at Luoshui, showing no loyalty, faith, or righteousness. We can only hold our noses and say that the Great Jin governs the world with filial piety.

The Tang Dynasty did not have such a shortcoming, at least not in name. Yang Guang was not killed by Li Yuan and his family, but by Yu Wenzhi.

It is understandable that they killed him. After all, the Yang family usurped the throne and seized the world from the Yuwen family. As a distant branch of the Yuwen royal family, it is reasonable for Yu Wenzhi to avenge them.

In the end, Li Siyuan could only watch as the court officials passed the resolution on the matter.

After the court session, he returned to Prince Jin's Mansion, feeling very depressed.

Li Cunzhi saw this and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

"The emperor suddenly said in the court today that he wanted to pray for the late emperor. I think there must be a conspiracy." According to Li Siyuan's logic, it is not a holiday now, nor is it the death anniversary of Emperor Zhaozong. It is really strange that you suddenly did this.

"Brother, are you too suspicious? That kid has no soldiers or food, what tricks can he play?"

"No, there must be something wrong!"

Li Siyuan shook his head firmly. It was not that he was suspicious, but his intuition told him that there was something wrong. However, no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't figure it out.

Chapter 201 Devastated

The outskirts of Hangzhou.

A carriage was driving on the road. The coachman was eight feet tall and sturdy, with a Tang sword on his waist and a ferocious face. It was obvious at first glance that he was not someone to be dealt with easily.

Sitting inside the car was the famous bad guy, Yuan Tiangang.

He raised the curtain on the car window and looked outside.

Under the scorching sun, on the ridges beside the official road, a group of ragged people were weeding and irrigating the fields. They were working hard and sweating profusely, and the fields were full of green.

These people are pale and thin, with hair like a chicken coop. Although their faces are numb, there is always a little light in their eyes when they look at the rice in the fields.

When he passed through Hangzhou Prefecture a few years ago, it was devastated and full of traces of the war. He didn't expect that after not seeing it for a few years, it would be such a scene.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Tiangang's eyes did not fluctuate at all. He had seen this scene countless times in the past three hundred years.

Wars broke out everywhere, civilians died, and thousands of families were in grief. After so many years, his blood had long since run cold.

What he cared about was not these, but the situation of the local military governors.

Since the death of Li Cunxu, local warlords have become ambitious again. They originally had the momentum to raise troops, and the death of Li Cunxu would not stop their ambitions of annexation and expansion.

The human heart is like an abyss, and even a powerful person like Yuan Tiangang cannot suppress it.

Who allowed Qin Shi Huang to appear more than a thousand years ago?

Since him, all ambitious people have been chasing the position of emperor. Unifying the world has become their ultimate dream. Everyone wants to ascend the throne of emperor and become the supreme ruler of the world.

If it were not for the imperial system, the world might not be unified, and it would not be impossible to restart the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Right now, the military governors from various places are not fighting each other, but are recuperating and accumulating strength. However, the more they do this, the more uncomfortable Yuan Tiangang feels.

If they don't fight, won't they point their spearheads at the imperial court? The stronger the Jiedushi accumulate, the more difficult it will be to unify the country in the future, and the more people will die.

However, when Yuan Tiangang thought of the Luoyang court, he felt mixed emotions. The road to reviving the Tang Dynasty is long and arduous.

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Youzhou.

Compared to the years of wars in the Central Plains, the area of ​​Youyan is much more peaceful. It is really strange.

There was no other way. The land of Youyan had been cold and bitter since ancient times. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, in order to resist foreign invaders, more than a dozen military governors of various sizes were set up there to check and balance each other and form a defensive alliance.

This led to the proliferation of military governors in Youyan, but there was no military governor who could unify Youzhou. Li Keyong, Li Cunxu and others who were capable of taking Youzhou were bent on dominating the Central Plains and looked down on the marginal areas.

That piece of land is useless nowadays. It is useless to eat it and a pity to throw it away. There are neither people nor good farmland. Although the terrain is important, if you take it, you will have to bear the pressure from foreign races.

Who wouldn’t feel a headache looking at the long border defense line?

Even though Li Siyuan had the power, he was unwilling to annex the Jiedushi of Youyan because it would be a loss.

After leaving Luoyang, Zhang Zifan passed through Hedong and then took the route to Youyan.

He had walked this road many times and was tired of the scenery along the way, but after a year, he revisited the old place and saw different things.

The Hedong area has gone through three generations, namely Li Keyong, Li Cunxu and Li Siyuan.

Since Li Keyong took control of the Hedong area, he began to engage in war and expansion, conquering people everywhere, and offended almost all the enemies around him.

At that time, Zhu Wen occupied the Central Plains and was very powerful. Although his location was surrounded by enemies, Zhu Wen had a lot of money and food, and his health was very strong. If it were not for the sudden rise of the Qi State, Li Keyong would probably have been finished.

Fortunately, he had a good son. Li Cunxu was so good at fighting that he defeated Zhu Wen by relying on the crippled Hedong.

Of course, this was also due to Zhu Wen's ambition, arrogance and debauchery, which gave Li Cunxu the opportunity to turn the tables. In addition, the bad people secretly fanned the flames, and the Liang Kingdom was destroyed in one battle.

Li Cunxu also became famous in one battle and ascended to the pinnacle of power.

Over the past few decades, the people of Hedong paid a heavy price for this. They participated in the war but were unable to enjoy the fruits of it.

A year ago, Hedong was filled with starving people, and no one was cultivating the fertile fields. Bones were exposed in the wild, no roosters crowed for thousands of miles, villages were abandoned, and people had fled, creating a desolate scene.

After Li Siyuan came to power, there were no more wars in Hedong. As a result, people who had been exiled to various places returned home one after another. After all, the Hedong Basin had the geographical advantage.

Now, what Zhang Zifan saw was the busy farming season in summer, and the state of revival of all things. The city had a population, the farmland had more people, merchants began to flow, and everything seemed to be getting better slowly.

At this time, Zhang Zifan didn't know that changes were about to happen in Luoyang.

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Since the day he announced his retreat, Su Ming went to the Taimiao for retreat, leaving the affairs of state to the care of Prince Qi and Prince Jin. He was only in charge for half a month, and there was nothing major to happen in the court.

There was no strong smell of burning incense in the Taimiao. Instead, the air was filled with a strong aroma of medicine. Su Ming sat in front of the many spirit tablets in the Taimiao, and under the watchful eyes of his ancestors, he openly chewed medicinal herbs and practiced his martial arts.

After that night, the empress began to buy up aged medicinal herbs in large quantities in Luoyang, and all the ginseng, polygonatum and other herbs in many herbal medicine shops were sold out.

Some would not sell even at a high price, and would disappear the next day, leaving behind a large sum of money. The drugstore owners dared not say anything and could only suffer in silence.

If they can take the herbs silently, they can also take your head. Leaving money is their way of being particular. Otherwise, they will take it for nothing and you will have no place to cry.

With these medicinal herbs, Su Ming didn't even need to eat. He chewed the herbs every day, and his mouth was filled with the taste of medicine.

Fortunately, after spending a large amount of money, his skills improved by leaps and bounds. In just half a month, he actually refined the internal energy of ten years. Moreover, a small amount of medicinal power was accumulated in his body and could not be fully refined.

However, after eating most of the herbs, when Su Ming continued to refine them, he found that the effect of these herbs on him was minimal and he had developed drug resistance.

At this time, he stopped taking the medicine.

Unless there are thousand-year-old medicinal herbs, it will be useless no matter how much you eat.

When it reaches the thousand-year level, the medicinal materials will undergo a qualitative change. The quality and quantity of the essence they contain will be greatly improved, which is far beyond the reach of medicinal materials that are only a few hundred years old.

After he could no longer improve his skills, Su Ming decided to come out of retreat and attend the court meeting. This was because he already had sixty years of internal strength, and ten years of internal strength was not something that was unusual for him.

Even though Li Siyuan stood in the hall and observed him for a long time, he just felt that he was more energetic and did not think about improving his skills.

Li Siyuan had taken drugs to improve his skills a long time ago. In the early years, he had tried everything. Therefore, he did not associate the recent news of rising prices of medicinal materials on the market with Su Ming.

Chapter 202: Tricking Chi Meng

There was not much to talk about at the court meeting, and it was still about the concubines entering the palace.

During the half month that Su Ming had been in seclusion for cultivation, some beautiful girls had arrived in Luoyang and were receiving training in the palace. However, this matter had been under the watchful eyes of the empress, and it was said that she had directly sent the Three Saint Princesses to take charge of this matter.

He did not ask about the details. Yelu Zhiwu did not understand the rules of the harem at all, and she had no one available. Her personal maids were all Khitan girls who knew nothing about etiquette. It would be difficult for her to take care of these matters.

After coming out of retreat, Su Ming spent time with Yelu Zhiwu, the Empress, and Chi Meng to relieve their lovesickness. They were all new wives and had just tasted the sweetness of love. The Empress was at the age of thirty, and she was as fierce as a tiger and wolf, so she had to have sex with them.

After calming them down, he prepared to deal with the last thing, confessing to Chi Meng and winning over You Chuan.

Half a month has passed, and he probably doesn't have much time left.

……

Late at night, in the bedroom.

The sound of water splashing was heard from behind the screen. After a while, Chi Meng walked out from behind the screen wearing a gauze. Her fair skin was flushed, her hair was wet, and there seemed to be moisture in her eyes. Her every move was somewhat lazy, and she was full of the charm of a young woman.

"Miss, His Majesty has arrived." A palace maid came in and reported.

"I understand. You guys can go down." Chi Meng waved her hand casually and sat in front of the dressing table to wipe her hair.

She looked at the woman with a lustful face in the mirror and couldn't help feeling surprised. She stretched out her hand and touched her face. Is this really me?

Feeling her elastic, moist and smooth skin, she was a little mesmerized. In just one month, she changed from an innocent girl to a young woman who was proficient in all kinds of postures.

Women from other ethnic groups seem to be more daring. Chi Meng and Yelu Zhiwu are both bolder and more open in bed, daring to try various positions.

However, he didn't adapt very well to Yelu Zhiwu's car. He could only refuel once, couldn't travel far, and often broke down, so he didn't have much fun riding it.

In comparison, Chi Meng is like a small pickup truck that can run on diesel or gasoline. When filled with gas, the small motor runs very fast and can be refueled several times, making it more suitable for him to drive.

However, Su Ming guessed that this was also related to the fact that Chi Meng had been immersed in various herbs since she was a child in the Ten Thousand Mountains. She had the kind of charming physique that, once developed, would bring you ultimate happiness.

Thinking about what she was about to face tonight, her face turned even redder and she was no longer as shy as before.

When she was dressed, Su Ming just stepped into the bedroom.

"Little brother, you are here." Although the two had already had an intimate relationship, Chi Meng did not like to call him husband. She preferred to call him little brother, as if she wanted to distinguish herself from Yelu Zhiwu and the others.