Chapter 1: Founding Emperor【06】
Yan Siqiu joined King Cheng as a side concubine, and had a lot of influence on King Cheng, which made Yuan Jia have to consider dealing with King Cheng in advance.
Only deal with Yan Siqiu? There is no need for that. All Yan Siqiu can do is to rely on his own foresight to fool King Cheng into his backer. He directly overthrew Yan Siqiu's backer. What if she is the heroine?
In her previous life, she had mixed up with that fate, and her IQ would not increase even if she was reborn once.
General Fang Xiao and others were let go by Yuan Jia. After they returned to Jeju House, in order to shirk their responsibility for unfavorable work, they would naturally add fuel to their jealousy and tell King Cheng how the Song family relied on Sun Moon Tower's mercenaries. .
King Cheng was not surprised by the result of this solicitation, but he was still a little angry in his heart. An ambitious and noble man like him, on the surface, looked like a polite corporal, but in fact he was extremely proud and felt superior to others. The Song family did not accept his solicitation. Don't know how to lift!
But King Cheng didn't show any strangeness on his face, and said very generously: "If that's the case, then there's no need to force it. This king is just out of love for talent."
In fact, Prince Cheng was very angry behind his back: "The two boys of the Song family really don't know how to praise!"
Yan Siqiu, who was next to Prince Cheng, said: "My lord, since the Song family doesn't know how to lift things up, it's better to just arrest people and hold one of them, and the other one will naturally have to serve the lord. Everyone in the Song family can get rich. Contribute to the great cause of the prince."
King Cheng was a little moved, but his reason soon suppressed his heart. He shook his head and said with justice: "This is not good, how can this king do such a coercive thing!"
In fact, King Cheng was afraid of the Riyuelou behind the Song family. The general Fang Xiao and others he sent to Shunyi were all elite soldiers. As a result, General Fang returned to report to him, and Riyuelou sent to guard the silver of the Song family. The Armies are not weaker than them, which is terrifying.
Yan Siqiu still doesn't know the existence of Riyuelou. She feels that she is a rebirth, and she always has a sense of superiority to others. She believes in all kinds of events in her memory. Never considered this issue.
King Cheng rejected Yan Siqiu's proposal, but Yan Siqiu has not given up the idea...
Just when Yan Siqiu was thinking about how to get the Song family property and give it to King Cheng to make a great contribution, Yuan Jia had already started it ahead of time.
King An's army had already reached the capital, but the walls of the capital were tall and defended by tens of thousands of troops, and they could not attack for a while.
The eyeliners placed by King An's subordinates next to King Cheng in Jeju Prefecture suddenly sent back news that King Cheng spent a lot of money to hire Sun Moon Tower's army to cut off King An's army's food and grass, and then join forces with other vassal kings to encircle and suppress him.
When King An received the news, he was shocked and quickly called his advisers: "Can you all have a good plan to relieve this king's worries?"
The aides learned that King Cheng hired Riyuelou's elite cavalry to cut off their army's food and forage, and after thinking about it, they put forward their suggestions.
However, before I could say one, two or three, an urgent message came from outside the camp: "Report-report to the lord, our army's food and grass have been robbed!"
It's too late!
So the aides gave suggestions again: "The food and grass are robbed, even if the Yongzhou government sends food and grass, it will be too late, maybe it is still a wedding dress for King Cheng. Now we only have two ways to go, one is to capture the capital. , there is enough food in the capital; the second is to transfer the army to attack Jeju Prefecture, catch King Cheng by surprise, and get back the grain and grass to occupy Jeju Prefecture."
"The capital city has high defenses and is difficult to capture. It is better to attack Jeju Prefecture instead. If we attack Jeju Prefecture, other vassal kings will not help King Cheng to deal with us."
An Wang still hesitated: "But we are all under the capital..." He was not far from the throne, so he was really unwilling to give up.
"My lord, it will take at least two months for us to capture the capital, and our food and grass will not be able to support it for two months. The capital will not be taken down by then, and the army will suffer heavy losses, which will outweigh the gains!"
"Yeah, my lord, although the other feudal lords raised the banner of King Qin's escort, none of them really wanted to save the little emperor. They all wanted to wait for us to capture the capital and then pick peaches. If we are weak, other feudal lords will The king wouldn't mind taking advantage of it."
"Your Highness, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of running out of firewood!"
An Wang's ears were a little soft, and after being persuaded by his staff, he couldn't help but shake a little. And he still cares more about his own life than his desire for the throne.
So King An hesitated for a while, and said that he would think about it for a day.
After thinking about it, I decided to turn around and attack Jeju Prefecture. No matter what, I would grab enough food and grass to fill the stomach of hundreds of thousands of troops.
King An's army suddenly turned around and attacked Jeju Mansion, which really caught King Cheng by surprise, and even made him very depressed: "Is that **** lost his mind? Why did he come to attack this King's Jeju Mansion?"
The other vassal kings who waited for King An to capture the capital and then went to the capital to pick peaches were also stunned. What kind of miraculous development is this? How did King Cheng provoke King An, so that King An stopped fighting the capital and attacked Jeju Prefecture?
King An's army attacked Jeju, and King Cheng had to reveal his strength.
At this time, people who thought that King Cheng was really a virtuous king discovered that it turned out that King Cheng was the kind of person who cut white and black, and he kept more private troops than King An!
When Empress Dowager Zhang in the capital learned that Prince An and Prince Cheng were fighting, she was very pleased: "A dog bites a dog, a mouthful of hair! Two chaotic ministers and thieves, it is best to perish together!"
Just when the battle between King An and King Cheng attracted everyone's attention, Yuan Jia led a surprise attack on Yongzhou Mansion with 50,000 Song army troops and directly took Yongzhou Mansion.
Originally, Yongzhou Prefecture was very close to Shunyi Prefecture, and there were only a few small counties in the middle. By the way, these small counties were also included in the rule. With Yongzhou Prefecture and Shunyi Prefecture as the core, Yuanjia established the Song Family Army. the real foundation.
Yongzhou House was beaten down by the Song family! When the news spread, everyone was stunned.
Especially King An who was fighting to the death with King Cheng. He didn't expect that when he was still at a stalemate with King Cheng's army, King Cheng actually sent Sun Moon Tower's mercenaries to his old nest to steal the tower!
"Ah, ah, anger, this king!" King An was so angry that he put the hatred value on King Cheng.
Because he was misled from the beginning, and because King An never paid attention to a single merchant in Songjia District, he was always afraid of Riyuelou and King Cheng who hired Riyuelou.
In King An's view, King Cheng attracted the main force of his army to Jeju, just to send Sun Moon Tower's mercenaries to raid Yongzhou to steal his old nest!
King Cheng said he wronged Sanlian: I am not! I do not have! I am innocent!
He was just sitting at home watching a play, planning to wait for King An's army to break through the capital and immediately lead his troops to the capital to grab ready-made peaches from other vassal kings. Anyway, his Jeju Prefecture is very close to the capital. The advantage of this distance is here, so there is no need to worry. .
In the end, I didn't expect this distance to be close, and he is prone to indiscriminate disasters at the same distance!
No one thought that the army of King An who was attacking the capital would suddenly turn around and attack Jeju.
Then Riyuelou's army sneakily attacked King An's lair and put the black pot on his head.
That's right, King Cheng actually doesn't look down on a merchant in Songjia District. He only thinks that it was Riyuelou or the force that hired Riyuelou that captured Yongzhou Mansion.
No one would have thought that there was actually no Sun Moon Building, and no one hired anyone. From the beginning to the end, the Song family, who was not regarded by them as a purse that could be used at any time, was trying to win the world!
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Yongzhou Prefecture.
Yuan Jia cleaned up and down the Yongzhou Mansion. Those who were loyal to An Wang could be hypnotized, and those who were determined and unable to be hypnotized were imprisoned for disposal.
When he took control of Yongzhou Mansion, he sent someone to take Song Zhiyuan over.
In terms of geographical location, height of the city wall, size of area and prosperity, Yongzhou Prefecture can be worth several Shunyi Prefectures.
Therefore, after capturing Yongzhou Mansion, Yuan Jia naturally chose to develop his sphere of influence with Yongzhou Mansion as the core. After all, Shunyi Mansion was still too small.
The Song family began to run Yongzhou Mansion as their own nest, and King An was still fighting with King Cheng.
Originally, the two had hatred, otherwise General Fang would not have turned to King Cheng after his father was wrongly murdered by King An. Now King An is more determined to believe that King Cheng is plotting against him. In addition, King An's army was in a hurry and rushed back. Yongzhou is too late, so King An's army is still aggressively attacking Jeju.
After a month of continuous onslaught, under the crisis of shortage of food and grass, King An's army exerted 120% of its combat power, and finally opened a gap, and then out of control, Jeju Palace was breached...
Under the chaos of the army, King Cheng was escorted by his generals and personal soldiers to escape from Jeju Prefecture, and fled to Anping Prefecture, which was also under his control.
Anping Prefecture is far less prosperous than Jeju Prefecture, but when Jeju Prefecture was breached, Anping Prefecture was already the best choice for King Cheng.
Yan Siqiu, who fled with King Cheng in embarrassment, went to Anping Mansion to settle down, but he couldn't come back to his senses.
She remembered that King An was the cannon fodder in the previous life. After capturing the capital, she made wedding dresses for others. After the other vassals entered the capital, they joined forces to solve King An, and then fell into a scuffle. Empress Dowager Zhang abandoned the city with the little emperor and fled to In Jiangnan, a new court was established in the Jiangnan Palace.
However, even if the little emperor was still alive, the new imperial court would be considered dead in name only, and no vassal kings or government officials would be ordered to move.
The vassal kings and the leaders of the rebel army began to compete in the Central Plains, and the final winner was King Cheng.
Before King Cheng became the final winner, the Empress Dowager Zhang and the little emperor had already been killed by the rebel army. The rebel army intended to overthrow the imperial court, but they would not be as concerned about the status of the little emperor as the vassal king did. Therefore, after breaking the Jiangnan Palace , The abandoned Empress Dowager Zhang and the little emperor hanged themselves and killed the other.
Yan Siqiu was puzzled, why did King An, who was supposed to capture the capital and then be besieged to his death, not turn around and attack Jeju Prefecture halfway through the capital? Even beat King Cheng to flee to Anping Mansion?
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"Brother, is King Cheng's strength so much worse than King An?"
Song Zhiyuan was also very curious, how could it be that King Cheng's army was waiting for work, but he couldn't defeat King An's exhausted division?
Yuan Jia explained to him: "Because the underdog will win!"
"Originally, King An was in Yongzhou, and the emperor was far away. It can be said to be blatant to keep private troops. King Cheng's Jeju House is relatively close to the capital. King An's army is not as large as King An's army, and they rarely experience actual combat, but King An's army is an elite division from Yongzhou Prefecture all the way to the capital. Since King Cheng can stick to Jeju Prefecture for a month, it is already the advantage of defending the city already."
"The main reason for the victory of King An's army is that King An sent people to tell the soldiers that they were in a hurry for food and grass, and Yongzhou Prefecture was captured by us. If we could not capture Jeju Prefecture, all of them would starve to death. Therefore, King An's army Even if he is desperate, he will rush up, even if King Cheng's strength is doubled, he will not be able to resist King An's mourning soldiers!"
Song Zhiyuan nodded thoughtfully: "So that's the case!" With no way out, King An's army had no choice but to smash the boat and fight the backwater.
Yuan Jia smiled again: "But King An's army that captured Jeju Prefecture is nothing to worry about."
After the capture of Jeju Prefecture, the food and grass problem was solved, and with a place in the ranks, the soldiers under King An did not have the courage to fight against the water, and now they are just a tired army.
If it weren't for the fact that Jeju Prefecture is far away from Yongzhou Prefecture and Shunyi Prefecture, Yuanjia really wanted to pick up this bargain and win another Jeju Prefecture by the way.
As for the other vassal kings, after seeing the strength of King An's army, no one dared to provoke King An.
After all, King An hadn't captured the capital yet, so it would be no good for them to send troops to attack Jeju, and no one would do it.
No matter how King Cheng wrote a letter asking for an alliance and asking for help, no one would pay attention to him.
Even some vassal kings, like King An, suspected that the Song family army in Yongzhou Mansion was hired by King Cheng. For King Cheng's strong denial, Yuan Jia only said a few specious remarks, which misled those who came to test them into believing that he was sincere. Wang is playing tricks on mysteries.
King Cheng, who took a **** pot, was so angry that his lungs were about to explode.
But in the face of the letter of alliance sent by Yuan Jia, King Cheng couldn't help but be shaken.
Although King Cheng felt that it was too bad for the Riyuelou behind the Song family to deliberately take the blame for him, he really wanted to write a reply letter to scold Song Yuanjia for a meal, but it was too sweet to form an alliance!
King Cheng, who lost Jeju Prefecture and suffered heavy military losses, is now the weakest of all the feudal lords, and he only has a small area of Anping Prefecture left.
King Cheng, who wanted to retake Jeju Prefecture, felt that he had formed an alliance with Riyuelou, and it would not be too late to kick the Riyuelou when he regained Jeju Prefecture.
So King Cheng wrote a sincere reply.
Yan Siqiu saw the letter, and she asked excitedly: "My lord, the Song family is not a mere merchant, so you want to form an alliance with the Song family?"
Yan Siqiu had too much trust in her memory of her past life. After she suddenly found out that the situation was very different from her previous life, her mentality collapsed for a long time before she recovered.
Now she doesn't know that the Song family is no longer comparable to yesterday.
Yan Siqiu also regards the Song family as a merchant who is useless except for being rich, and thinks that King Cheng must have lost his mind to form an ally with a merchant when he has an army of tens of thousands.
King Cheng originally wrote an alliance reply letter with a stomach full of fire, but when Yan Siqiu questioned him so inappropriately, King Cheng was furious: "Presumptuous! How dare you talk to this king like this?! You are questioning this king. ?"
In the past, he thought that Yan Siqiu was a middle-aged Zhuge, and when she was useful to him, she was a confidante. The capital came to attack Jeju Prefecture", but he couldn't do anything. King Cheng, who had high expectations for Yan Siqiu, was very dissatisfied with her.
Now Yan Siqiu's rude questioning is the fuse, detonating the dissatisfaction and anger in King Cheng's heart, and he punishes Yan Siqiu without hesitation: "Yan's disobedience, think about it behind closed doors, and reflect on it!"
King Cheng is very patient with useful talents. Even if he is angry, he will not vent on his capable officials and officials. The concubines and concubines in the backyard all have their origins. Only one Yan Siqiu has the lowest background and has no reliance. The ability does not seem to be as good as he imagined, so he has no scruples in getting angry.
Yan Siqiu looked at King Cheng in disbelief. There was no time limit for this ban. What if King Cheng forgot her?
However, King Cheng, who was in anger, didn't listen to Yan Siqiu's excuse and beg for mercy at all, and ordered someone to drag her down.
Yan Siqiu was grounded, and the happiest thing was the daughters in Queen Cheng's backyard, especially Princess Cheng.
When King Cheng relied on Yan Siqiu to offer advice, he held Yan Siqiu in the palm of his hand, and he often took people by his side, which seemed very important.
Yan Siqiu knew that King Cheng would become the emperor in the future, so he naturally set his sights on the position of the queen. He had never had any respect for Princess Cheng, and Princess Cheng had to retreat from Yan Siqiu because of King Cheng's preference for Yan Siqiu.
After finally waiting until King Cheng disliked Yan Siqiu, how could Princess Cheng be unhappy? New hatred and old hatred are counted together!
The other concubines and concubines also had opinions on Yan Siqiu, and when they saw her in distress, they naturally fell into trouble.
Yan Siqiu had experienced the difficulties in the deep palace in advance in the backyard of King Cheng. Without the protection of King Cheng, she could not fight against these women who were full of skills and supported by her family.
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Yuan Jia didn't know that he had plotted against King Cheng and made King Cheng hate Yan Siqiu.
He is considering an alliance with King Cheng.
The alliance with King Cheng is naturally not because he really wants to form an alliance with King Cheng, the last winner in the original plot, but to let King Cheng continue to blame him for a while.
The contempt of the Song family by the vassal kings just bought time for him. He formed an alliance with King Cheng, and the outside world would only think that the Song family occupying Yongzhou Mansion was because King Cheng hired the elite soldiers of Sun Moon Tower.
Of course, no one is a fool. After a long time, it is natural to see that Yongzhou Mansion has nothing to do with King Cheng.
What Ke Yuanjia needs to fight for is this time difference.
The person who went to Anping Mansion to discuss the alliance with King Cheng was not Yuan Jia. He could not leave Yongzhou Mansion easily now, so Song Zhiyuan took a team of elite guards to Anping Mansion.
With Yuanjia sitting in Yongzhou Mansion, even if King Cheng had any thoughts, he would never dare to do anything to Song Zhiyuan.
Song Zhiyuan's motorcade arrived at Anping Mansion in a mighty manner.
King Cheng stood on the top of the city wall and looked at the black armored cavalry guarding Song Zhiyuan's carriage, with a look of fear: "This cavalry..."
Sometimes King Cheng wonders if the Song family is from Riyuelou. After all, the Song family is escorted by an elite cavalry when they travel. This kind of treatment is not ordinary!
This time, Yuanjia asked Song Zhi to go hiking with 5,000 people. The 5,000 cavalry was a force that King Cheng did not dare to underestimate. .
When Song Zhiyuan heard the words of the people sent by King Cheng, he couldn't help but laugh sarcastically: "I didn't expect Anping Mansion to be so small that even 5,000 people can't be accommodated!"
The visitor smiled a little embarrassedly: "Young Master Song's words are bad. After all, this is for safety's sake, so as to avoid accidental conflicts between Song Gongzi's subordinates and our prince's soldiers."
Song Zhiyuan said in a low voice, "If that's the case, then I'll bring 500 people in!"
In fact, King Cheng felt that 500 people were a bit too many, and wished Song Zhiyuan would not bring any of them, but he was ashamed to say it, after all, it was as if he was afraid of the mere 500 black-armored cavalry...
After Song Zhiyuan entered the city, Prince Cheng has returned to the newly-installed plaque of Prince Cheng's mansion. Of course, this mansion is not as elegant as the mansion of King Cheng, which was built according to the specifications in Jeju Mansion, but it is already the best mansion in Anping Mansion.
Prince Cheng was waiting in the palace for Song Zhiyuan to take the initiative to visit.
Song Zhiyuan had been informed by Yuan Jia of the purpose of the trip before he came. It was not important to form an alliance or not. The purpose was to take the blame for King Cheng.
So Song Zhiyuan was not in a hurry at all, settled down in Anping Mansion, rested for a good night, and went to visit King Cheng leisurely the next day.
Yesterday, Prince Cheng, who had been waiting for a long time, held the fire to meet Song Zhiyuan. He couldn't help but said strangely, "Did Mr. Song rest last night? I didn't sleep well last night..."
Song Zhiyuan pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Hey, is your lord insomnia? I have a good recipe for insomnia. Would you like to try it..."
Song Zhiyuan talked about the topic of insomnia for a long time, but didn't mention the alliance.
Prince Cheng, who originally wanted to give Song Zhiyuan some color, was anxious for himself: "Master Song, I don't know what the rules of the alliance mentioned in Brother Ling's letter are?"
Song Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, lord, we will discuss the alliance slowly. Let's talk about your insomnia first, lord. Insomnia is a big problem.
King Cheng: "..." MMP!
But first of all, he said that the person who couldn't sleep well was himself, and King Cheng could only grit his teeth and slap himself in the face: "Master Song, this king has no insomnia, let's talk about forming an alliance!"