The last Chiyou

Chapter 11 Rebellion

Fengji laughed, stretched out his hand and pulled Yongjia down, hugged him, nodded his forehead and said with a smile: "Eat as much as you want, don't worry, I promise you won't be hungry."

Yongjia looked at Fengji suspiciously, hesitated for a moment, and finally took the little silver ingot back into his arms.Looking at this little Chi You, carefully hiding that little silver ingot, Fengji couldn't help but suddenly feel like a child in my family who has just grown up.

But Yongjia will always be the unreliable guy who breaks the fantasy.

Seeing that Yongjia, who had collected the silver ingots, took advantage of the situation, he arched into Fengji's arms vigorously, then deliberately yawned, and said, "I'm so sleepy, so sleepy, Ah Yu, let's go to sleep." Then he accidentally opened Fengji's skirt and groped inside.

Fengji grabbed Yongjia's hand and said with a smile: "If you're sleepy, go back to sleep obediently, don't make trouble here."

Yong Jia said aggrievedly: "It's too cold on the ground, do you have the heart to tell me to sleep on the ground every day?"

Fengji smiled and said: "Then we can change, that's fine."

Yongjia looked at Fengji and wanted to cry, Fengji looked at him and smiled, dawdled for a while, seeing Fengji was not moved at all, Yongjia had no choice but to climb out of bed reluctantly, muttering: "All right, all right, Let me sleep on the floor. My wife is so cruel."

Aggrieved, he went back to his floor, Yongjia was still worried, and asked again: "But Ah Yu, if you don't let me exchange this small silver coin for money, what are you going to eat with?"

Feng Ji smiled and said: "Of course there is a way, you sleep well, and tomorrow morning, I will take you to a fun place." After finishing speaking, he blew out the candle.

Yongjia closed his eyes reluctantly, flopped on the floor for a long time, then suddenly turned over and sat up again, his eyes sparkling under the moonlight: "Ayu, I want to sleep with you."

Feng Ji laughed: "Why are you so clingy today? It's not like you."

Yongjia said seriously: "I'm unsteady, I always feel that you are holding back some thoughts. Now you don't want your family, your teacher, the emperor, your officials, or your friends. One day you don't even want me anymore."

Feng Ji's heart softened, and he said softly: "Don't worry, since I agreed at the beginning, I will take you with me life or death."

Hearing the word death, Yong Jia suddenly got an idea, jumped up and said excitedly: "Well, let's make a life-and-death contract. If you sneak away from me, you will... um, you will..."

Feng Ji smiled and said: "If I carry you on my back, I will end up lonely and sick, and I will not die well."

Yongjia clapped his hands and said: "Okay! If I carry you away, I will never see my daddy forever!" After speaking, he quickly climbed onto the bed, riding on Fengji without any explanation, and began to pick off his clothes .

Fengji was startled and struggled hastily, but how could Yongjia be as powerful?Even though he kept shouting: "Stop it, stop it!" Yongjia didn't listen to him.

He had no choice but to resist desperately, but unfortunately he couldn't protect the other side, and his clothes were torn apart in a blink of an eye. The incident happened suddenly, as calm as he was, he couldn't help feeling a little flustered at this moment.Luckily, Yongjia just pushed away his left shoulder, revealing the red scar, and stopped peeling. He turned back and took the box containing Chi Youzhu from the small table by the side of the bed, took out Chi Youzhu and pressed it on the scar. .

The crimson Chi Youzhu shone slightly in the darkness, reflecting Yongjia's figure. In the flickering light, he gradually revealed a suit of scales and two small horns on his head. In the past, it seemed ferocious, but at the same time it seemed very kind.Fengji stopped struggling, and looked at Yongjia's scaly face with a little ecstasy.There are also some unfamiliar scales, familiar eyebrows and eyes, such a small face, such a small person, but such a magical existence.

Yongjia looked down at him from a high position, and said in a rare serious way: "This Chiyou pearl has been afflicted with your breath since then, and the contract has been established. Ah Yu, our contract will last until death."

Feng Ji turned his head to the side, looked at his left shoulder, and under the light of Chi You Zhu, he saw a pattern appeared on the scar, which vaguely was the head of an adult Chi You with long horns and armor.

Yongjia said seriously: "This kind of life-and-death contract can only be made once in a Chiyou's lifetime. Now, I am committed to you. From today onwards, you and I will be bound together for life and death. I will go with you and wait for your reincarnation." After speaking, he looked at Fengji affectionately.

Feng Ji was silent for a moment, and said: "You have become this invisible again, tomorrow, you'd better stay in the inn obediently, we won't be able to leave for a while."

Yongjia was stunned, and screamed: "Ah! Why did I forget this!" He asked with a sad face, "Will it delay your business?"

Fengji straightened his clothes, stretched out his hand, and pulled Yongjia down who was still sitting on him, hugged him in his arms and lightly touched the corner of his head, and comforted him: "Okay, it doesn't matter, I'll be bound to death by you forever and ever. , it's only three days, I can afford to wait."

He didn't wait for an answer, Guan Zi pulled the quilt, wrapped Yong Jia into his arms, and said: "Sleep." He stopped talking, closed his eyes and seemed to fall into a deep sleep soon.

Yongjia was a little ignorant, he was held in Fengji's arms in a daze, smelled the faint fragrance of ink on his body, raised his head, and saw Fengji's slender neck and soft jaw, and when he pressed his face against him, he could clearly feel There was a rapid throbbing in the side of his neck.

Yongjia didn't understand why Fengji's heartbeat was so fast, he only knew that accompanied by such a rapid and powerful beating, he had a strange feeling for the first time in his life, this feeling was different from seeing Shiro and Xiuniang, and also It is different from missing my father, and even different from the mood when I saw Fengji for the first time, as if something that I was born with was missing, and in this pulsation, it was fully complemented.

The heights that are far apart, the ages that are far apart, and even completely different races are no longer the barriers between the two. And lying down, there is a taste of safety.

In this life, in the next life, in the next life, or in the future forever and ever, it must be like this, Yongjia thought.

Fireworks in March, a new business store opened in the busiest and busiest street market in Yangzhou City. , makeup powder, mirror dowry, all kinds of strange fabrics, strange medicines...there are so many varieties and everything that one expects to find.Due to the prosperity of water transportation in the south of the Yangtze River, it is now where the imperial court’s money bag is, and the people are rich, so this firm has a lot of guests for a while, and its reputation has risen. People inside and outside Yangzhou have heard of such a firm.However, for such a rising star, the capital seems to be very strong. Many businesses can't turn around for a while. As long as they have acres of land or other mortgages, they can easily lend a large amount of money in Chiliutang, and Chiliutang opened Flying money can be exchanged in many shops in the north and south of the river, and it is much better than the credit issued by the government.

What's even more strange is that the business of the firm is doing big, but the person who came forward was just a shopkeeper. He was about 50 or [-] years old and looked very ordinary. .

Some people speculated that the owner must be someone from the Xie family of Chenjun. Didn't Liu Shilang, who is the most beloved of today's saints, just married the daughter of the Xie family of Chenjun?Liu Shilang has only been in the imperial court for a long time, but he snatched the right to act as Du Zhisi from Xiang Gu, why?Isn't it true that Liu Lang's ability to make money is so good that he can make the saint's small coffers more and more full.The sage is happy, that is one step to reach the sky, so such a commoner can actually marry Xie's wife, then the Xie family, which is already declining to the west, takes advantage of Liu Shilang's convenience to open a shop like this in a place in the south of the Yangtze River where water transportation is convenient It makes sense to compete with local tyrants for business without being suppressed.

This so-called owner is actually Fengji.Left and right Yongjia is also considered to be half of the Xie family, but just borrowing the signboard of the Xie family in this way, Fengji is not guilty.

He had planned well at first. The biggest problem for the feudal towns at present is that they have a lot of money and food in their hands. If they can support soldiers, they can unite with local tyrants to separate one side and fight against the imperial court. Therefore, they want to start with money and try to divide the feudal towns. Power, but people are not as good as heaven. His business has been booming in the past few years, but the news of Jiannan Xichuan's rebellion disrupted his plans.

In the past two years, the DPRK and China have changed too much.

In June of the first year of Yongzhen, the king of Guangling County marched north, won a great victory in Huihe, and was granted the title of King Guangping.

In December of the same year, Lu Xiang became the prime minister by taking the order of Zhongshu Ling and leading the affairs of the Ministry of officials.

In the first month of the second year of Yongzhen, the sage was not feeling well, and Prime Minister Gu asked the emperor's eldest son, Jianning Wang Li Mao, to be the crown prince, but the sage refused.

In May, Liu Zhongwen led the military and state expenses.

In October of the same year, Princess Jianning's mother was accused of being involved in witchcraft and conspiracy, and the saint was furious, and deposed Princess Jianning as a commoner.Li Mao knelt down on the steps and pleaded guilty, and Gu Xiang led dozens of courtiers to plead for him, and barely saved him from being implicated, but Li Mao never won the favor of a saint again.

In April of the third year of Yongzheng, the envoy of Xichuan Jiedu in Jiannan died of illness. After his son Wei Gaoren stayed, the Shangshu court asked for the award of Jiedu and bribed the Prime Minister with a lot of money, hoping to fully possess Xichuan, Dongchuan and Shanxi in Jiannan. The whole territory of Sanchuan, including Nanxi Road, Gu Xiang refused, first rejected Wei Gao's bribes and demands, and expressly prohibited Wei Gao from taking over as Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu envoy by himself, and instead the imperial court sent another official to take over.This matter has touched the interests of many feudal towns. For a long time, it has been common for feudal towns to refuse to obey the orders of the central government and decide their own successors. Several feudal towns even made an appointment to work together to protect Jiedushi from generation to generation without the jurisdiction of the imperial court. right.Now that Gu Xiang has done this, many feudal towns can't help but feel cold.Therefore, Wei Gao responded to all calls, contacted several towns such as Shannan West Road, Jiannan Dongchuan, and Qianzhong Road, and rebelled.

Twelve Lang had been promoted to Captain of Youyiwei during the battle with Zheshi, and he was an official of the sixth grade. This time, he received an urgent letter from his father to return to Beijing, and went out with the army. The leader of the army was King Guangping, who had made military achievements many times before. Li Chun.

Therefore, several feudal towns sent troops to help the battle, and the DPRK and China were full of confidence in this battle. A total of 45 troops were dispatched, claiming 60, and they marched to Jiannan Road in a mighty manner.Not long after the army set off, Li Chun secretly trusted Fengji and invited him into the army quietly.

Yongjia was very displeased with this, he ate and drank every day, he could hug Chi Youzhu to his heart's content, and he couldn't live a carefree life, so he wanted to go to the barracks where people were coming and going to pretend to be a child, Fengji comforted him and said: "Soldiers, For the important matter of the country, you obediently follow me, and it is good to save a life with our strength."

Yongjia was still not very happy, but seeing Fengji's serious face and knowing that the matter was serious, he didn't dare to make trouble anymore, and honestly let him go.

It's not that Feng Ji thinks that Li Chun has to fight this battle, he came here this time with other plans.After seeing Li Chun, he didn't talk nonsense after the ceremony, and said bluntly: "Your Highness, this battle cannot be won."

Li Chun has grown older in the past few years, and has grown a beard on his chin. Due to various internal and external troubles, he has worked hard, and his expression is quite haggard. Seeing Feng Ji, he still looks like a young man, and said with a smile: "Ziyu has been happy all these years, yet he looks as handsome as yesterday, but I am getting old."

Feng Ji smiled and said: "Your Highness is much more mature and stable, congratulations."

Li Chun laughed, took Fengji's arm and sat down next to him, looking very intimate, and asked: "Just why can't we win this battle?"

Feng Ji asked: "Wei Gao, what does Your Highness think?"

Li Chunlue pondered for a while, stroked his beard and said: "Great ambition, lack of talent, no city, greedy for profit and aggressive, far worse than his father."

Feng Ji asked again: "Then according to His Highness, after Wei Gao asks to stay, what will happen to his father's former subordinates?"

Li Chun was startled, thought for a long time, and said, "I'm afraid, um, I'm afraid I'm not convinced."

Feng Ji smiled and said: "That's it. Wei Gao's talent and virtue are not enough to convince the public, he raised his troops to rebel, the imperial court's army suppressed the situation, and the subordinates had to listen to his orders in order to protect themselves. As time goes by, it will inevitably change. Therefore, war must not be fought, not only that, but His Highness should also be kind to the other feudal towns that followed Wei Gao, saying that he only takes the leader and the evil threat and never asks, so that he can surrender without fighting. .”

Li Chun hesitated for a moment, then asked: "The army has been on the front line for a long time, and the food and grass consumption is huge. The imperial court is not rich in treasury. If the time is delayed for a long time, I am afraid that the sage will press hard, what can I do?"

Feng Ji smiled: "Your Highness, just write this plan to the sage. With the master here, it is clear, and the sage will naturally know that it is actually more economical."

Li Chun nodded and said, "Okay! It would be the best if we can recover Jiannan without spending a single soldier!"

After that, Li Chun followed his plan and set up his army Chen Bing at an unnamed valley outside the city of Yuzhou. After the army is assembled, it will attack the city on a large scale. If the people in the city surrender honestly, this military disaster can be avoided.In the rumors, it is inevitable that every sentence carries the saying that only the head is captured and the evil threat is never asked.

When it comes to the ability to make trouble, Yongjia will be number two, I'm afraid no one in this world would dare to say number one.He hadn't grown up at all in the past few years, he was afraid that meeting his old friend would cause discussion, so he didn't go to the army with Fengji, but sneaked into Yuzhou City alone.The rumors can spread so fast, of course he is indispensable.

What rumors spread the fastest and widest, and are the easiest to be believed?Naturally a nursery rhyme.Since ancient times, most of the so many prophecies, true and false, have been spread through nursery rhymes.

If you don't know the details of Yongjia, just look at this guy's appearance, he is an extremely innocent and harmless young boy, and he is also a guy who can become a high-spirited little leader after spending half a day with children. The news, Wei Gao's every move inevitably fell into Fengji's ears.Correspondingly, what Fengji wanted to say to the people in the city inevitably spread slowly in the streets and alleys. As time passed, the words gradually moved the hearts of the people in Yuzhou City.

Yuzhou City is an important town in Jiannan Road. After Wei Gao raised his troops to rebel, he personally sat here, which is equivalent to a direct confrontation with Li Chuncheng inside and outside the city. Therefore, these rumors gradually flowed into Wei Gao's ears.This person inherits his father's business, and after relying on his blood relationship to force himself to stay, he has no prestige at all. Now that the imperial army is suppressing the country, rumors are flooding, and people's hearts are changing. Several towns in the alliance have broken their promises and become fat. He was even more irritable, and when his temper came, he yelled at his subordinates, and it became even more difficult to win people's hearts.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Wei Gao, who was already very unlucky, met Yongjia who was afraid that things would not be serious. He quietly ate several beloved ornaments in Wei Gao's room, including a pure and innocent party. Kim's personal seal.Naturally, Wei Gao was furious, he arrested his personal servants and tortured him severely. When he was drunk, he even uttered evil words to his concubine who kept his private seal, saying that sooner or later, he would kill all the people around him.

The concubine and the servants were already worried, but seeing Wei Gao say this, they were dead, so they joined forces with Wei Gao's generals to tie up Wei Gao after he was drunk, and ran to Wei Gao overnight. The great uncle's house wept, begging the great uncle to come out and preside over the overall situation.

Wei Gao's great-uncle was also a capable man back then, and had a good reputation among the soldiers and civilians of Jiannan Road, but he was dissatisfied with the monopoly of Wei Gao and his son, and refused to listen to his advice several times, so he simply resigned and lived in seclusion for many years. He came to the door, slept soundly, was awakened by the loud crying at the door, got up and put on his clothes, and saw that Wei Gao, who was tied up and drunk, was surrounded by a group of people and blocked at the door of his house.

Great Uncle's first reaction was to fall to the ground and pretend to be sick. It's normal for an old man to be sick, but people who don't have a backbone can't let him go, they fainted and fainted, and still surrounded him.Grand Uncle lay at the door for a long time, it was warm in summer, and it was not very comfortable to lie on the ground in the middle of the night. Seeing that this matter pretended to be dizzy and it was impossible to end, so he had to wake up leisurely, and said to the people around him: "What's the matter?" At this point, it’s fine for me to preside over the overall situation, but I must follow my orders, otherwise, I don’t care.”

All the people agreed one after another, and the great uncle cheered up, restrained the soldiers, rectified the order inside and outside the mansion, and when the situation was stable, he proposed that he would no longer rebel and submit to the imperial court.

In a word of conscience, following Wei Gao is also a minister, following a sage is also a minister, and the same subject, in fact, there is no big difference, it only depends on where the benefits are given, now that the great uncle stands up to fight for everyone's benefits, everyone is naturally happy, Grand uncle edited a book and sent someone to Li Chun's camp, sprinkling thousands of words, but the core is actually two words: Surrender.

Li Chun was overjoyed and flew to report to Chang'an. The saint suddenly received the good news, but he couldn't believe it. Some of the ministers said to wait and see, not to accept the surrender rashly.At this time, Gu Xiangli resisted all opinions and proposed to appease the soldiers and civilians of Jiannan Road on a large scale, so that other feudal towns could see the court's determination.

In this way, Li Chun was able to recover Jiannan Sichuan, an extremely important and extremely rich place, for the imperial court without making a fuss, not to mention that the surrounding feudal towns heard about the scenery and reported to the imperial court one after another, expressing that they would accept the imperial court's assignment again. .

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the feudal vassals have been harmed for a long time. The first emperor Dezong made up his mind to cut down the vassals, but he encountered difficulties and ended up depressed. Now the matter of cutting down the vassals has achieved such great success in the hands of today's sages. The sages looked at these memorials on the case With a thick stack of congratulatory badges, he is really proud of himself, seeing Li Chun as his son, he is unavoidably pleasing to the eye, and it just so happens that the eldest son fell out of favor because of his involvement in witchcraft, so the saint actually revealed to the people around him that he wanted to make Li Chun the crown prince the meaning of.

This is a secret word in the study, at that time there was not even a beauty by his side, only the personal eunuch Li Ji'en served by his side.Li Ji'en was like Gao Lishi to Emperor Ming for the saint. The saint trusted him and did not take any precautions.This very naive saint did not expect that Li Ji'en, whom he regarded as his confidant, at this moment, his heart had fallen to Li Chun, the king of Guangping.

The reason is that there is no other, respect for the word, that's all.

Regarding this, Gu Xiang, who was still wholeheartedly supporting the eldest son of the emperor and trying to win back his favor in front of the saint, had no knowledge of it.

The author has something to say:

(During the Xianzong period in the middle Tang Dynasty [806-820 AD], in order to solve various problems in the process of transferring copper coins, merchants created a kind of "flying money". Bills. But it is only a kind of credit currency, which has initially possessed the nature of banknotes. "Feiqian" has two forms: government-run and private-run. , hand over the money to the Jinzuo Yuan stationed in Beijing, and the Jinzuo Yuan will issue a "document" or "official document" in the form of a couplet, one copy is handed over to the merchant, and the other is sent to the Dao. The merchant and the festival Du envoys dispatched to Jinzuoyuan in Beijing can exchange cash anytime and anywhere with a paper certificate. In the seventh year of Yuanhe (812 A.D.), Emperor Xianzong of Tang ordered the three divisions of the imperial household department, Duzhi and Yantie to operate the flight For the money business, a handling fee is charged, and it is stipulated that a thousand guan (one consistent one wen) will be paid for every [-] guan. Merchants who travel far with money issue bills, and the merchants can use the bills to withdraw the money in the joint account opened by the private merchants. ——Now it’s the year of Shunzong Yongzhen in this article, and I let Feiqian be normalized in advance. But the history of Shunzong It has only been one year since Zong ascended the throne, and it has been nearly three years in the article, so don’t get too deep into it.)

(The passage of Li Chunping’s rebellion has a prototype in history. Tang Xianzong’s recovery of the six prefectures of Wei and Bo was basically the same process. The history books found this passage very interesting, so they used it. It’s just the enthroned Jiedu in the prototype The only reason why I stayed behind was that I couldn’t convince the public because of my young age, it’s not that it’s written so badly here.)