Longyou.

A white dove came flapping its wings, from far to near, and landed in the pigeon building very quickly.

He came to raise a pigeon and listened to the gurgling sound of the pigeon, his eyes full of pity. He reached out to catch the pigeon. He first looked at the ring on the pigeon's feet, which had a number on it.

"It's the one who brought it to Chang'an."

The pigeon breeder whispered, took off the bamboo tube from the pigeon's feet, turned around and took a handful of carefully crafted pigeon feed and placed it in the pigeon cage.

The pigeons have been flying for a long time and are already exhausted and hungry, but these pigeons are well trained and cannot eat on the road. Once they are released, they will immediately return to their nests. These pigeons fly very fast and have a very long distance. They can be thousands of miles a day and night, but they can only go one way.

This pigeon that flew back from Chang'an was raised and trained in the pigeon tower on Chengyaojin Territory in Longyou. The Cheng family would regularly transport the pigeons to Chang'an, Liangzhou and other surrounding areas. Every time they sent a pigeon letter from there, they would release the pigeons sent here. When the letter was received, they would send the pigeons again.

Although this is quite troublesome, the power of Gexin is that it transmits information very quickly and is not easy to be intercepted.

After feeding the pigeons, the letter was quickly delivered to Cheng Yaojin.

It's still very cold in Longyou in March.

It is said to be Longyou, but it is actually very close to the Yellow River. This place used to be the territory of the Dangxiang Qiang people. I only returned from Hanjing at the end of the first month, and it was not long before I returned to the territory. At this time, Lao Cheng received a batch of weapons from the imperial military weapon surveillance and was stepping up training his own cavalry and militia.

"The prince, there is a pigeon letter from Chang'an."

Cheng Yaojin took it.

The letter tube is sealed intact and opens, and there are a series of numbers inside. There are a few small red dots in the corner of a small white paper.

This is Li Chao's letter, and it is also the contact information they agreed on in an emergency.

not simple.

Cheng Yaojin quickly turned around and returned to the study.

He took out a book of Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties from his study, and translated the contents according to the digital password on the paper.

Trust is actually very simple.

"Your Majesty wants to abolish the prince, stop the new laws, abolish the feudal division, and withdraw the parliament! Li Chao and others take the prince to raise troops in Lingnan, clear the king's side, protect the new laws, protect the feudal division, and preserve the parliament. This is the opportunity for life and death of the Tang Dynasty. The prince and the prince support him. The prince should raise the flag and raise the army quickly to support him."

Protect the new method and clear the emperor’s side!

Raise the flag and raise the army!

Cheng Yaojin was silent for a long time, and read the letter several times again, confirming and making mistakes.

He sighed and put the letter in the brazier and burned it.

"Father!"

Before the person arrived, the voice had already come in. Cheng Chuliang, the second son of the Cheng family, who was wearing armor, stepped in from outside, "Dad, didn't you say you went out of the city to train today? Why did you come to hide in the study?"

Three years ago, Cheng Chuliang was awarded the title of founding Duke of Dong'a County, and the eleventh daughter of Emperor Qinghe Princess Li Jing was his wife. However, the princess was only ten years old at that time. After entering the family, the two did not fulfill their families. They originally planned to officially fulfill their families last year, but the queen was gone.

Cheng Yaojin's face was calm, "Erlang, today's out-of-town training was cancelled."

"Cancel? Why?" Eighteen-year-old Cheng Chuliang is now in his energy. Although he has a beautiful princess wife at home, she is beautiful and can't eat. He has to take care of the princess and cannot take many concubines. So Cheng Chuliang devotes his energy to training and riding and shooting.

He himself also has a territory, but he still spends more time in Longyou. Because his territory is in northern Liao, the area is large, but it is covered with ice and snow for half a year, and it is extremely bitter and cold. There are no few people in a territory of hundreds of miles. The Marine people and Shiwei people next door are one of the tribes in fish skins and the other is a tribe in wild boar skins.

Staying with them, he was worried that he would become a savage after a long time.

It’s better to be Longyou. His father’s men have many people and a strong territories. He is not far from Chang'an, Hanzhong, and Hanjing. He is comfortable to stay.

"Erlang, come and sit down."

"Dad, I'm still wearing plate armor." Cheng Chuliang was holding a helmet in his hand and a set of plate armor on his body. This plate armor, also known as knight armor in the Tang Dynasty, especially the one on Cheng Chuliang, uses the best materials. At the same time, it is not only strong but also very gorgeous.

Each piece of armor has carved patterns, gorgeous patterns, and can even be customized.

The color of the armor can also be customized.

With the high-quality calfskin lining, each rivet part is also the strongest.

Such a set of armor is the entire property of a small landlord.

"Then you stand." Cheng Yaojin glanced at the son.

"Tell you something important."

Cheng Chuliang is also older, at the age of eighteen. If it weren't for the death of the queen, the princess would have given birth to a child.

"I just received a letter from Chang'an, and I passed it on a letter from your teacher."

"Which teacher?" Cheng Chuliang asked. He had worshipped many famous teachers, including both Wenzong and military generals.

"Of course it's King Zhao."

"Oh, didn't the Grand Tutor go to Xindu with the Prince? Could it be that he wants to call his father to Xindu to help him fight? That's great, I must go too."

"It's not this." Cheng Yaojin looked a little solemn, "Listen carefully, it's a big deal."

"Oh." Cheng Chuliang put away his smile.

Cheng Yaojin sighed.

The incident happened so suddenly that he didn't know how to choose. But things had happened and they had to face it sooner or later. Escape was never the solution.

"Wen Yuan raised his troops in Lingnan to rebel!"

"Ah!" Chu Liang exclaimed.

"Ah, be serious."

"Dad, is this true? Is it impossible?"

"Why?"

Cheng Yaojin stood up, carried his hands on his back, and his expression was extremely solemn.

Why, he was also wondering why he had reached this point?

"It's not because of the father and son of the Tian family that His Majesty said that the prince and Wen Yuan were stolen and wanted to call them back to the capital. The matter was no longer possible, so they raised their troops. Now he wrote to ask his father to raise troops to respond."

Cheng Chuliang was shocked, "Dad, my wife is a princess, the emperor's daughter."

"Li Chao's daughter is still the crown princess!" Cheng Yaojin glared at his son.

At this time, it is time to take sides. It involves the life and death of the entire family. If you stand right, you will naturally benefit greatly in the future. But if you stand wrong, you will be devastating.

At this time, so what if you are a relative of the emperor, that is not the first factor to consider.

The emperor is his old man Cheng's in-laws, Li Chao is also his relative, Li Chao's wife is his wife's cousin, and Li Chao called him "Uncle Shi" again.

What's more, the Li Cheng family has had such a good relationship over the years. His sons are all Li Chao's students. The Cheng family has many benefits to following the Li family.

But it is not something that can be decided by a relative just one or two friendships.

"The prince and the others will definitely be defeated!" Cheng Chuliang said.

"You know, how can there be so many things that must be defeated and won."

"Can the teacher win? How is this possible? The court has an army of 800,000!"

Cheng Yaojin's direction of thinking about things is different from his son. He looks at things more deeply than on the surface. Fighting is not simply about the number of troops.

Especially the rebellion of the prince is rare in a century.

To put it simply, this is the same as the Xuanwu Gate Incident and the later Hanjing Rebellion.

During the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the rebellion of the Qin King and the Emperor, launched the palace transformation, and few people used it, but they won. Later, the Emperor was restored and received support from many people for a time. He quickly pulled up hundreds of thousands of troops and occupied a large area, but in the end he failed.

So, there is no fixed number for this kind of thing.

When the prince raised an army, his slogan was not the throne, but his slogan was to clear the monarch and protect the new law. Protecting the law was their slogan.

Who will support this slogan?

In theory, all those who benefit from the new law should support it. But does the emperor really want to abolish the new law and abolish the feudal parliament?

Maybe the emperor will abolish the crown prince, or maybe the parliament will abolish, and these emperors can do it.

But if the new laws and the feudal division were abolished, he believed that even if the emperor really had this intention, he would not dare to do so.

On the surface, the prince and Li Chao are very weak and are completely inequality with the emperor.

But with the banner of the prince, Li Chao still has a lot of appeal, especially his slogan. I believe many people are willing to believe and support him. After all, both the prince and Li Chao are very prestigious.

In addition, based on his understanding of Li Chao, since Li Chao dares to rebel, he must have relied on some of his reliance.

They are in Lingnan again, which is a very special location.

Block a few barriers.

Lingnan is like Shuzhong, forming a country.

If the prince wants to rule Lingnan, he will be able to hold on for a long time.

"Dad, what should we do?"

"Wait first, don't worry." Cheng Yaojin finally decided to wait and see, not a fence-bearer. But he just needs to wait and see now, which can be considered support for Li Chao.

"Brother, do you want to write?" Chu Liang asked.

Cheng Chumo is still the governor of the south and guards Yunnan. He doesn’t have many soldiers, but he has a great influence on Nanzhao and other countries. Especially in Yunnan to the southeast, it is Li Chao’s Zhao Guoling and Jiaozhou.

"I'll send a letter to your elder brother later, so he won't be anxious to express his opinion."

"Dad, we just do nothing like this?"

Cheng Yaojin snorted, "If you don't express your opinion, we will do nothing. Let's notify you. Anyway, there is nothing wrong with this period. Let the cavalry in our castle strengthen their training. At the same time, let the knights in the territory of the manor below bring their respective militias to the castle to gather. Let's conduct a spring and autumn assembly drill."

"Dad, I'm afraid it's not good to mobilize troops at this time?"

"If there is anything wrong, is it really as you said, "If the emperor really withdraws the enfeoffment, we will be too late to cry. It is still necessary to do something in time!"

"Yes." Cheng Chuliang was a little excited, "Does all the territorial knights and all the militia gathered in the castle?"
Chapter completed!