I have 800,000 private soldiers. The emperor forces me to hand over military power?

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Zhaowu in the Tang Dynasty is the Lantern Festival.

Chen Longxiang, the first prince of the Tang Dynasty, openly launched a mutiny in Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, a tributary of the Tang Dynasty. He detained all 27 generals and above from the Tang Dynasty who stayed on the Goguryeo Peninsula, and forcibly confiscated the tiger talisman to control the Goguryeo Peninsula. Tang army;

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That night, the Tang rebels, led by Jin King Chen Longxiang, fought fiercely all night with the Tang army who stood outside the capital city of Goguryeo, and the rebels won a complete victory.

The next day.

King Chen Longxiang of the Jin Dynasty announced in a high-profile manner at the palace in the capital of Goguryeo that he would support Zhao Lingwu, the deposed emperor of the previous dynasty, to return to the throne, restore the previous dynasty, and restore the new country.

On the same day, a military coup involving the 500,000 troops left behind by the Tang Dynasty on the Goguryeo Peninsula was launched at the same time. Hundreds of thousands of Tang soldiers fought against each other and killed each other.

Half a month later, news of Jin King Chen Longxiang's rebellion spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.

For a time, the whole country was shocked!

Guangling County, Zhongshan Prince's Mansion.

Su Muchen, the second generation King of Zhongshan and brother of the former Demon Queen Su Waner, fell into deep thought while looking at the "Prince Jin's Rebellion Notice" in his hand that had just been brought back from the city gate by the palace steward.

In fact, a few days ago, Su Muchen had received a secret message from his sister Su Waner who was far away in the royal city of Goguryeo through his family's overseas caravan, telling him the news of "the King of Jin's rebellion and the military rebellion of the Tang Dynasty". he;

Moreover, Su Muchen was asked to secretly cooperate with Goguryeo's "rebels" to launch commercial wars in the Central Plains Dynasty and finance the rebellion of the former dynasty's rebels, disrupting the deployment of the Tang court, cooperating with Goguryeo's rebels internally and externally, and restoring the new country.

When Su Muchen received Su Waner's secret message, the first reaction in his mind was that his sister was crazy, hopelessly crazy!

However, out of love for his sister, he secretly sent several shiploads of grain and hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to Su Waner in Goguryeo through overseas caravans, which was considered to help his nephew Zhao Lingwu regain his country.

Su Muchen originally thought that the "righteousness" in his sister Su Waner's letter was just a play-off by the exiled young master of the previous dynasty in the vassal country, and would soon be suppressed by the heavy troops of the Tang Dynasty;

However, when he once again received a secret letter from the Goguryeo Royal City last night, as well as the rubbings from the Tang Dynasty court regarding the "Notice of King Jin's Rebellion" that he had just obtained from the housekeeper;

Su Muchen briefly analyzed the information gathered from all parties, and immediately got an answer that stunned him - his sister Su Wan'er's actions in the vassal state of Goguryeo Peninsula were not a small fight between the former dynasty and the family that abolished the empire, but It was a rebellion in the true sense of the word;

Forehead--

No, it should be to restore the previous dynasty and restore the new country.

Su Waner's secret letter clearly informed Su Muchen, King of Zhongshan, that his "brother-in-law" Chen Longxiang, the regent of the Great New Dynasty, had completely controlled the situation on the Goguryeo Peninsula a few days ago;

Moreover, they also reached an alliance with Goguryeo Treasure King Gaozang, who was in exile and hiding in the primitive mountain forest of Afeihuling, and the Goguryeo exile regime controlled by him, to join forces to fight against the Tang Dynasty;

As of the time when Su Waner sent this secret letter, Chen Longxiang, the regent of the Great New Dynasty, had more than 200,000 troops. The remaining 300,000 Tang troops who stayed in Goguryeo were dead, injured and captured. The prisoners were no longer a threat to the new regime in the royal city of Goguryeo;

The treasure king of Goguryeo, Gaozang, also led the exiled regime back to the royal city, holding high the banner of "anti-Tang and supporting the new", and aggressively recruited troops on the Goguryeo Peninsula in preparation for the Eastern Expedition.

In the secret letter, he once again requested Su Muchen, the king of Zhongshan, to assist the "rebels" in revolt and restore the country and the country of the New Dynasty.

Later, Su Waner also listed a series of required supplies.

"Red cannons with various types of shells; 10,000 horses and BMWs from the Western Regions; 50,000 sets of heavy and light armors with all kinds of swords, guns, swords and halberds; 1 million dan of grain..."

In the study room of the palace, Zhongshan Wang Su Muchen was busy reading the contents on the list. His handsome face almost turned the color of pig liver due to suffocation. He muttered to himself angrily: "This Wan'er, it's just... I regard my palace as the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry of the Great New Dynasty;"

"Now, I am just an idle prince with no real power in the Tang Dynasty. At most, I only have a little money. Apart from these 1 million stones of food, I can't get anything! "

Eh——

As Su Muchen spoke, he couldn't help but sigh: "It just so happens that I am not enough to talk about these things to outsiders. You said this is causing trouble;"

"I should have known-"

"Your Majesty!"

Before Su Muchen finished speaking, the voice of the palace steward suddenly came from outside the study.

Um?

In the study, Su Muchen raised his eyebrows, then lit the secret letter in his hand on a lit candle and burned it. Then he said to the outside of the study: "Come in!"

After a while, the palace steward hurriedly walked into the study, closed the door, leaned close to Su Muchen and whispered: "Your Majesty, it's not good;"

"The old slave discovered that many new-faced traders suddenly appeared near the palace. The old slave was not sure whether these people who appeared out of thin air could be the spies and spies of the inner guards of Dragon City!"

"What did you say?"

Upon hearing the news, Su Muchen's expression immediately became solemn.

When he was the uncle of the previous dynasty, he had dealt with the Dragon City inner guards under Zhaowu Emperor Chen Huaian, and he knew the terror of the elusive Dragon City inner guards;

Being targeted by them is not a good thing!

Su Muchen said to himself: "Isn't Luo Yucheng, the deputy commander of the Dragon City Internal Guard, dead? Why are these lackeys and eagle claws under him still not quiet?"

"Could it be that the news that I was transporting grain to Goguryeo leaked out?"

As he said this, Su Muchen suddenly turned his head and stared at the butler of the palace with a fierce look in his eyes, as if he wanted to use his sharp eyes to see through the butler's mind.

"Your Highness, I am innocent!"

Before Su Muchen could ask for an explanation, the housekeeper of the palace immediately knelt down in front of him and said with tears in his eyes: "Your Highness, I have been serving the late king and you in this palace since I was twelve years old. It has been forty years now. I am loyal to you and the palace and have no second thoughts;"

"Your Highness..."

"Okay, get up!"

Su Muchen waved his hand impatiently and said: "What I want to say is whether the matter of transporting grain and silver to Goguryeo has been leaked. I didn't say it was you!"

"Your Highness, I——"

The housekeeper of the palace looked aggrieved and stood up in a daze.

Then, Su Muchen ordered: "Listen, I'm asking you to go shopping now..."

......

Outside the Zhongshan Palace, these vendors who appeared out of thin air were indeed spies and eyes of the Dragon City Internal Guard.

And their mission is to monitor every move of the Zhongshan Palace.

When the palace steward, who was in disguise, quietly left from the back of the palace with a vigilant look on his face, he was immediately spotted and followed by the Dragon City Internal Guards.