Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

"My lord, the tyrant is coming on strong and is now marching towards Hongzhou City."

"The King of Chu has already taken Jianzhou. If he takes Fuzhou as well, we will be caught in a pincer movement..."

"Li Xiyu of Huainan Circuit is probably no match for Li Chengqian either..."

Chen family mansion.

Chen Congyun listened with a gloomy expression to the chatter of the people around him, which sounded like noisy mosquitoes. He then slammed his hand on the table.

"boom!"

He slammed the teacup on the table.

His eyes, which exuded an air of authority without anger and carried a hint of gloom, swept over the crowd.

"Stop arguing! When this plan was devised, didn't I already give you time to move the money and supplies? Now that those places have been taken, they're lost, so be it. We're just using this as a delaying tactic!"

The crowd exchanged bewildered glances, seemingly startled by Chen Congyun's sudden appearance.

A man sitting next to Chen Congyun looked worried: "My lord, since we are standing here, we will certainly not back down, but... will Shi Tianhu and the others really rise up and join us?"

Chen Congyun sneered.

"If they don't cause trouble? Do you think they'll survive? Their arrest warrants have been hanging in the Ministry of Justice for years. These people hate the Li Tang to the bone. Besides, they have hostages in my hands now."

"As soon as they return to their respective places, they will surely rise up in response immediately. At that time, Hebei Province and Henan Province will also be in chaos. That will be the time for us to truly take control of the world!"

"As for Li Xiyu and Zhang Zhenzhou, ha... they're just useless trash."

......

"Kill! Whoever captures Li Chengqian will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of gold!"

On the roadside in the suburbs and forests of Shouzhou, Huainan Road, the sound of rapid hoofbeats suddenly rang out.

The leader of the Huainan Road rebels, Li Xiyu, the former governor of Shuzhou, rode out on horseback, armored, grinning as if he had suddenly attacked.

He had planned for this day for a long time, even colluding with the Prefect of Shouzhou to set up a scheme, pretending that the two were at odds, all to lull Li Chengqian into a false sense of security.

Li Chengqian, mounted on his warhorse, looked at Li Xiyu, who had suddenly appeared from one side, with an icy expression.

"Keep him alive, we can't let him die easily!"

He spoke coldly, and beside him, Xue Wanche, the cavalry commander of the Eastern Palace Six, received the order and rode off on his Qinghai horse in an instant.

"Rumble..."

The icy steel armor armed this Eastern Palace cavalry to the teeth, even their warhorses were equipped with armor.

Several of Li Xiyu's lieutenants paled as they watched the hundreds of cavalry charging towards them, their faces beneath their helmets turning several shades pale.

Li Xiyu, who still smelled of rotten fruit smoke, became increasingly excited in his bloodshot eyes, his stubble-covered face pale with an unnatural red tinge.

"Hahaha! Kill! Li Chengqian is right in front of us! Slaughter them all!"

Hearing this arrogant shout, King Li Tai of Wei's eyes grew increasingly sinister. With a wave of his hand, the King Li Tai's musketeers stepped forward and began to line up.

"Boom!"

Xue Wanche and Li Xiyu clashed.

The next moment, the mournful neighing of horses, accompanied by the screams and shouts of soldiers, unfolded in this desolate wilderness. Each of them had killed at least ten people. The six elite warriors of the Eastern Palace, selected from various armies, had only launched one round of attacks.

They decisively routed the cavalry led by Li Xiyu.

With the momentum of the charge, it pierced right through the enemy.

Li Xiyu's hand, which was holding the gun, was throbbing with pain, but the madness on his face became even more pronounced.

Having given the order to take down Crown Prince Li Chengqian, he now seemed to have gone mad, wanting to turn his horse around on the spot and chase after Xue Wanche, who had overthrown them.

The two surviving lieutenants beside him were so shocked that they exclaimed, "General, Li Chengqian is over here!"

"Get lost!" Li Xiyu swung his spear.

The lieutenant cried out in agony and was thrown from his horse.

And just at this moment.

"put!"

"Bang bang bang..."

A sharp, cracking sound, like something breaking, rang out rapidly. Amidst the gunshots that startled the surrounding forest birds, the few hundred remaining men under Li Xiyu's command were instantly thrown to the ground.

Blood holes pierced their armor and embedded themselves in their flesh.

Or simply shoot their warhorses, causing them to fall and break their legs.

The deputy general beside Li Xiyu was instantly pierced through the head by a lead bullet, splattering red and white matter everywhere, and rolled off the horse.

A splatter of the deputy general's brain matter entered Li Xiyu's mouth, causing him to gag.

My head felt dizzy and lightheaded, as if it were floating. But at this moment, it was as if I had returned to myself, staring blankly at the scattered things around me.

"What, what happened...?"

He was still lost in thought when the sound of galloping horses came from behind him. He turned his head and a long spear slammed into his chest.

"boom!"

"what!"

When Xue Wanche brought this disheveled man, whose helmet had even fallen off, to Li Chengqian, the whole process took only about ten minutes.

Li Chengqian, riding his warhorse, looked down at Li Xiyu, the disheveled and clearly somewhat delirious prefect of Shuzhou, with his icy eyes that showed no trace of emotion, at the foot of his horse's hooves.

"Hand him over to the Imperial Guards, make sure he doesn't die..."

He was nothing more than a walking corpse controlled by drug addiction. What Li Chengqian wanted to kill now was the mastermind behind all of this.

Chen Congyun!

Because of this guy, officials in Huainan Circuit and Jiangnan Circuit, and even the common people, will have to carry out a major purge.

Gwangju.

Kong Bai, the prefect of Yingzhou, looked at Hu Dahe, the prefect of Guangzhou, who was being forced to kneel on the ground, and then glanced at the officials locked in the cages, who looked neither human nor ghost.

I felt a chill run down my spine and sweat beading on my forehead.

"What...what on earth is going on?!"

Hu Dahe seemed to still have some sense of reason, trembling all over, but his face was deathly pale.

"Brother Kong, I have been framed and harmed, I have been framed and harmed to this point, how dare I rebel?!"

His tears and snot flowed uncontrollably.

However, before Kong Bai could say anything, Guo Ping, the Yingzhou Sima in charge of clearing out Guang City at that moment, rushed over.

Behind him were several officials who looked travel-worn.

"Lord Kong, the imperial envoy has arrived!"

Upon hearing the words "Imperial Envoy," Kong Bai disregarded Hu Dahe's constant pleas and hurriedly stepped forward to pay his respects.

"Prefect Kong, there's no need for such formalities. We have been ordered to escort the officials of Guang Prefecture to Chang'an for trial."

Upon hearing the leader's words, Kong Bai's expression froze.

"Are you escorting Hu Dahe, or...?"

The imperial envoy remained indifferent, uttering only two words: "All!"

"Please, Governor Kong, dispatch a contingent of troops to assist us in escorting the prisoners to the capital for trial."

Kong Bairen was completely numb.

There are more than a thousand officials in Gwangju. Moreover, if all of them were arrested, how would the local area be governed?

However, as soon as he asked the question, the imperial envoy, as if he had been prepared, handed him a document of appointment from the court.

He was ordered to temporarily assume the post of Governor of Guang Prefecture, while the appointment of Governor of Ying Prefecture had already been made by the imperial court.

Kong Bai was stunned.

I was ordered out to hunt down thieves, and you tell me I don't need to go home?

Is Gwangju my home?

However, before he could express his opinion on the appointment, a passage on the document made his pupils shrink instantly.

“Guangzhou has just experienced a rebellion, and the remnants are still hiding and have not been pacified. You have been appointed as the governor, and you should strictly enforce the law to eliminate the traitors.”

"Those who are suspected should be detained rather than released; those who deserve punishment should be executed rather than pardoned."