"Neiwang, now Andong has 100,000 soldiers and has built Shanhaiguan. You can watch the court eliminate the anti-army itself. As long as Andong is given one or two years, the 100,000 soldiers can become 200,000. At that time, with more sophisticated equipment and various gunpowder weapons, the strength of the prince will exceed that of An Lushan before the rebellion. However, the court is no longer the court before An Lushan rebellion, and becomes extremely weak. It is easy for the prince to replace him!" Wu Sheng said loudly.

Half a year passed again. During this period, Li Fei had expanded the Andong army to a total of 100,000, including 70,000 cavalry of Andong and 30,000 Modao Army.

"Yes, Prince." Lu Xin also spoke.

"Anton has a gratifying development and its population is increasing. Although the anti-army blocked Lutai, due to the strength of our Anton elite, they dare not be too close to Pingzhou and Shanhaiguan. More than 100 people still flee to Pingzhou City in various ways every day. In terms of sea routes, with the cooperation of the generals of Henan Road, although nearly a year has passed, the peak period of refugee inflows has long passed, but nearly 2,000 refugees still arrive at Haizhou City by sea every day. Today, the population of Andong has exceeded 7 million! In addition, the tax revenue of Andong this year is conservatively estimated to be more than 9 million guan. With other profit income, it is not a problem that more than 20 million guan is not a problem. I believe that there will be several increases next year. Andong's potential is all created by the prince, and the destiny of the prince. One or two years may be said to be less, but in less than five years, the prince's strength will definitely be able to dominate the world!"

In the past year, under the continuous "guidance" of Li Fei, the generals of Andong have let go of all taboos and can blatantly talk about replacing the Tang Dynasty.

Li Fei's "guidance" was mainly to deliberately report information through the Jinyiwei. When Suzong Li Heng reported the information, he deliberately used the eunuch Li Fuguo, Yu Chaoen, and how he did not trust the generals in the army. He even distrusts the important officials in the court. In the future, the powerful officials would definitely control the government affairs, which was even more than Li Linfu and Yang Guozhong during the Xuanzong period. There was also the promise of Suzong Li Heng to the Uighurs that "on the day of the city is over, the land, the scholars and the common people return to the Tang Dynasty, gold and silk, and the children return to the Uighurs", which made people full of anger and disappointment.

At this moment, in the eyes of the generals of Andong, the Tang Dynasty was corrupt and incompetent, and hopeless.

No one was in doubt about the fate of Li Fei. After all, they followed Li Fei and saw with their own eyes that in just over five years, Andong had developed from the bitter and cold land to the prosperity of today, comparable to that of Jianghuai and Jiangnan. In terms of military, Li Fei also led the Andong army, which had only 100,000 people left, to the 100,000 army today, with excellent military armor and invincible military advances. The Bohai Kingdom, the Khitans, the Xi tribe, and the hinterland of the Central Plains, broke the siege of Nanyang and the siege of Suiyang, destroyed more than 100,000 enemies, crossed the sea and attacked in a few days, and captured Pinglu, killed Lu Zhihai and killed 100,000 troops under the city of Liaoyang.

Compared with the incompetence of Emperor Suzong Li Heng and Li Fei's "talented and powerful strategy", how could the generals Anton not be convinced?

In addition, Li Fei is also surnamed Li, and no one knows Li Fei's specific origin. There was a message that Li Fei had "unintentionally" revealed. If his ancestors had not been left behind more than a hundred years ago, Li Fei would not have been inferior to the current royal family.

What does the message in this sentence mean? Anyway, the generals Anton were active in their hearts and couldn't help but make all kinds of guesses.

Wu Sheng even privately tested whether Li Fei had contact with the royal family. Li Fei was stunned and nodded.

This is shocking. The ancestors were lost more than a hundred years ago, and more than a hundred years ago was when the Tang Dynasty had just obtained the world. The "ancestors" were talking about who this "ancestors" were talking about? More than a hundred years ago, it seemed that only the Xuanwu Gate Incident shocked the world. The prince Li Jiancheng died at the Xuanwu Gate, and his family was also killed in the chaos. Could it be that--

Soon, Lu Xin, Zhang Shuo and other senior executives of Anton Army also knew about it, and they all firmly believed that Li Fei was the destiny of heaven.

They are all Li Fei's confidants. If one day Li Fei can ascend to the throne, wouldn't they?

Just thinking about it makes people excited.

"Although I have the strength to push the world and force it to replace it, it is easy to win the world, but the hardest thing is to win the hearts of the people. In the Tianbao period, although there were many hidden dangers in the prosperous era, the people could still have a peaceful environment. An Lushan's rebellion caused chaos in the world, and the people were suffering from the prosperity of the people. Adult people all came from the prosperity of the Kaiyuan. They were extremely attached to the prosperity of the Kaiyuan that they had experienced and hated the anti-army. It was precisely because they could not win the hearts of the people that even if the anti-army captured the eastern capital Luoyang and Chang'an City, they could not replace the court, and there was constant uprising in the occupied areas. Therefore, even if I wanted to replace the court, I would replace it with the hearts of the people and naturally. I already had plans for this!"

"Recovering Chang'an City and the eastern capital Luoyang is a great contribution to the hearts of the people in the world. Originally, our Majesty would not have thought of me no matter what, but after An Lushan captured Chang'an City, he recruited the surrounding people to burn cement and raise and thicken the city wall. The city wall of Chang'an was 50% higher than before, and the difficulty of siege was more than twice as difficult. Guo Ziyi failed to go down in one fell swoop, and it became a person who could only fill it with his life. At this time, our Majesty was trying to recruit more troops to fill the hole in Chang'an City, and let me lead my army to participate in the siege. How could I not know what he was thinking?" Li Fei smiled disdainfully.

The other Andong generals also looked at each other and smiled, full of disdain.

"Any general who participates in such a great contribution will be remembered by the people, so how can I lose this king?" This is a good opportunity to win over the hearts of the people. Since Suzong Li Heng gave him the opportunity, how could Li Fei not seize it?

Furthermore, didn’t Suzong Li Heng promise the Uighurs and Tubo people? He wanted to see how Suzong Li Heng ended, and whether it was still as in history, and that was the time for him to truly unite the people’s hearts.

"I have made a decision and personally lead 60,000 Andong Iron Cavalry to Chang'an City to participate in the war!" Li Fei made the decision.

"Abide by the orders of the prince!"

After making the decision, Li Fei ordered 60,000 Andong Iron Cavalry and prepared to go to war.

The reason why he brought so many troops was mainly because Li Fei was responsible for his own safety and shocked the Suzong Li Heng, who was too confident after he recovered Chang'an City and the eastern capital Luoyang in the future. Anyway, with Shanhaiguan, the support of the Khitan tribe and the Xi tribe, and the 40,000 elite left behind were enough to defend Andong.

Before leaving, Li Fei instructed Zhang Shuo, Yuan Kui and others who were left behind, if the rebel army came from Youzhou and Hebei to attack, they could give up Jizhou and Pingzhou outside Shanhaiguan when necessary, and make every effort to ensure the safety of Shanhaiguan.

In November of the second year of Zhide, another winter month came, and the cold wind began to penetrate the bones.

Faced with the cold wind, Li Fei led 60,000 Andong Iron Cavalry to leave Liaoyang City, followed the Khitan and Xi territory, entered the western grassland, and headed straight to Jiuyuan nearly two thousand miles away, preparing to cross the Yellow River from Jiuyuan to Chang'an City.

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Chapter completed!