People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 460 Unexpected, Chief Wenda
The three-masted ship stopped abruptly in the middle of Wujiang River, the wind stopped abruptly, and the strong inertia almost made Li Xuan a little unsteady.

Fortunately, he is quite strong, with his legs crossed, he is directly on the deck.

There was no handrail in front of it, and many other people fell directly on their backs under this suddenness, and even several people fell directly from the boat, and fell into the water with a "plop".

This included Zhou Gan and Su Baotong who stood at the front of the deck like Li Xuan.

And at this moment, everyone knows.

An accident happened!
……

Yuan Chao looked at the clear river below, he was just about to fall, but fortunately, a big hand caught him in time.

When the strength came from above, Yuan Chao was immediately pulled up.

As soon as he stood firmly, Yuan Chao quickly took a step back, and bowed his hands to Li Xuan who was standing there, a little panicked: "Thank you for your kindness, my lord, I will go and investigate immediately to see what's going on?"

"Go." Li Xuan watched Yuan Chao leave, then turned to look at Li Zhu, and winked: "You go and take the boat to rescue Zhou Gan and Baotong."

"Here!" Without any hesitation, Li Zhu immediately turned around and got off the boat to save people.

The three-masted ship stopped in the middle of the Wujiang River, and the other large ships behind it slowly caught up at this time, as if there were signs of outflanking the ship, but the rest of the people on their ship were all puzzled. look.

Turning their heads, they saw Li Xuan standing there gently, and their expressions relaxed.

What exactly happened in it is unknown to everyone, but as long as the King of Nanchang is still there, everything will be fine.

At this time, Yuan Ying came over and said to Li Xuan, "Reporting to my lord, this ship was originally a patrol ship of the Muzhou Capital Water Division, and was later transformed into a warship. This ship looks very new, but in fact Been on board for 13 years..."

"Don't be nervous, this king can understand."

Li Xuan's voice was very calm, facing Yuan Ying, under the attention of everyone present, he smiled gently, and then asked casually: "Has Mr. Yuan Lang ever married now, and his parents..."

The Yuan family is a family in Taizhou, whose ancestors are the descendants of Situ Yuan An in the Han Dynasty.

Yuan An was born in the Yuan family of the fourth generation and third prince of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Yuan An had several great-great-grandsons, one of whom was named Yuan Shao and the other Yuan Shu.

Although the Yuan family in Taizhou is a descendant of Yuan An, they are not descendants of Yuan Shao and Yuan.

Li Xuan and Yuan Ying answered one-on-one, which calmed down the expressions of many people present, and couldn't help but think of home.

……

Yuan Chao anxiously went down to the bottom of the cabin, and Sanhe Pass was a few miles ahead.

As long as they reach Sanhe Pass, they will be regarded as surrendering to the imperial court.

At that time, even if Yuan Chao couldn't keep the official Sima of Wuzhou, he believed that the imperial court would definitely not be stingy with rewards.

Yuan Chao knew this very well, but he always wanted a bigger official position, so he kept procrastinating.

Although Li Xuan didn't give a clear answer now, he has already hinted at it both openly and secretly.

As long as Yuan Chao can assist Li Xuan in the future, Li Xuan will help him in many ways.

This is already wooing.

Yuan Chao was able to join the army as a soldier from one state, so he was not ignorant of the affairs of the court. Although the central government had tightened restrictions on the clan, the clan had a huge influence in both the court and the opposition.

Take Wuzhou as an example. Before Li Xuan arrived in Wuzhou, two clans, Li Ai, the long history, and Li Yuanyi, who joined the army of Kucao, served in Wuzhou.

There are many similarities in other prefectures. Later, Li Xuan, the current county king, came to Wuzhou.

So for the clan, you can get close, as long as you don't get too close.

Yuan Chao and Li Xuan are still in the stage of testing each other, and nothing else can be said.

But Yuan Chao intends to approach the imperial court, and with his identity, family background, and status, he doesn't have many choices.

……

Yuan Chao walked down to the lower cabin full of displeasure, pushed open the door, and was about to speak of history's reprimand when dozens of eyes fell on him at the same time.

But at this moment, Yuan Chao had already shut his mouth firmly.

His eyes were fixed on the center of the crowd.

A handsome thirty-year-old Confucian scholar in blue silk with a delicate folding fan in his hand was looking at him coldly, with murderous intent deep in his eyes.

"Chief Manager!" Yuan Chao called out the other party's title in a dry voice.

The chief supervisor, the real chief supervisor of Tianyin sect, the only chief supervisor, Wen Fuzhi.

He appeared in the lower cabin under Li Xuan's feet without making a sound.

"Yuan Sima, we haven't seen each other for a long time." Wen Fuzhi took a step forward, and several white-clothed guards flashed behind him.

"It didn't take long, only half of..." Yuan Chao's mouth was already too nervous to open.

At this time, Wen Fuzhi came to Yuan Chao's side.

He patted Yuan Chao's shoulder lightly, and said with a half-smile, "Sima still deserved merit. Although he failed to break through the Sanhe Pass in time, it was also a great achievement to lure a difficult enemy, the King of Nanchang, onto our own boat." pieces."

Yuan Chao's face twitched vigorously, and he looked up subconsciously, but the planks of the boat directly covered his eyes.

"Now, please go and tell the king of Nanchang to let all the generals and troops return to their own warship." Wen Fuyi said the reason why the warship stopped suddenly.

"The king of Nanchang will not agree. He himself separated the soldiers to ensure that the navy cannot pose a threat to Sanhe Pass. Once the soldiers are separated, he will immediately know what is going on?" Yuan Chao's voice was a little dry, and then Looking at Wen Fuzhi with a face full of prayer.

The corner of Wen Fuzhi's mouth twitched, and he said with a sneer: "Why, is Yuan Sima still reluctant to part with the rich salary of a high-ranking official from the imperial court?"

"Don't dare, the chief forgives the crime, and the subordinates have no choice but to contact the officers and soldiers. The Meiling Pass army was destroyed, and the King of Nanchang even sent a separate army to enter Jiande. The backup has been cut off. Even if the subordinates entered Wu Zhou, it's hard to do anything!" Yuan Chao's face was full of helplessness and pain.

In Muzhou, only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled were left to defend the city, and all the other people who could be mobilized had already left Muzhou.

Fang Fengjin, who was heading towards Meiling Pass, and Zhu Si, who was heading toward Sanhe Pass, should have cooperated with each other, but Fang Fengjin's defeat immediately caused Zhu Si's side to become a lone army, unable to support them alone.

It is precisely because of this that Yuan Chao was able to persuade Zhu Xi to contact the official army and surrender.

As soon as Zhu Shi let go, Yuan Chao immediately ruthlessly killed all of Zhu Shi's cronies, frightened others, and then took complete control of the ship.

Wen Fuzhi's expression turned cold, he looked at Yuan Chao, and said coldly: "Yuan Sima was wrong, it was you who tried every means to interfere with the navy's progress, which led to the failure to break through the Sanhe Pass in time, and failed to make peace with the navy." The response from Meiling Pass finally led to Fang Fengjin's failure all the way, the cause and effect can't be reversed so casually, Yuan Sima?"

As he said that, Wen Fuzhi slapped Yuan Chao's shoulder with force.

In an instant, the pain came from Yuan Chao's shoulder completely, and he couldn't move at once.

The corners of Yuan Chao's mouth kept twitching, and the severe pain caused him to hold back all his words.

Yuan Chao knew that the deepest thoughts in his heart had been seen through by Wen Fuzhi, so there was no way to refute them.

In the end, after the pain eased, Wen Fuzhi nodded immediately and said, "I will obey the order and arrange for the soldiers to return to the ship immediately."

"En!" Wen Fuzhi nodded slightly, and then let go of Yuan Chao.

Yuan Chao immediately breathed a sigh of relief, not daring to neglect him at all, bowed his hands to Wen Fuzhi, and immediately turned around.

Wen Fuzhi stared at Yuan Chao coldly, making him feel a chill down his back.

Stepping out of the hold, Yuan Chao was immediately taken aback. Only then did he realize that several other warships had surrounded the big ship, and on the deck, Li Xuan seemed to be unaware of it, and was still chatting leisurely with everyone. with.

The strange thing is that almost all the team leaders, none of them looked at the surrounding warships.

"The biggest expectation of my subordinates is to be able to gallop across Mobei and make great achievements. It's a pity that the East and West Turks have been destroyed, so there is no chance!" Yuan Ying couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Li Xuan shook his head, and said solemnly: "You are in the southeast, and some things are not clear. The Western Turks have been unstable a few months ago. His Majesty has sent Pingyang County to serve as Daizhou Governor, acting as the governor. Duke's temperament, this generation of state is afraid that there will be some bloodshed."

Xue Li, the Duke of Pingyang County, was named Rengui and Xue Rengui.

"Master Pingyang." Yuan Ying immediately couldn't help but exclaimed, and then said with a wry smile: "If Lord Pingyang moves, we will have no chance."

Xue Rengui is famous for his ruthless killing. He and Su Dingfang are the two top generals in the Tang Dynasty after Li Jing and Li Ji.

It's a pity that the defeat of Dafeichuan made Xue Rengui's fame fade away.

But even so, Xue Rengui is still the devil who silenced countless children in Turkic and Tubo.

"Don't worry, there is a chance. It is said that Tubo has been collude with Turks. There are even rumors that Tubo's national teacher is the king of the Western Regions of the Tianyin Sect. The Tianyin Sect's uprising in the southeast was originally to echo the actions of Tubo and Turks. Yuan Sima, what do you say?" Isn't that right?" Li Xuan looked up at Yuan Chao fiercely.

Yuan Chaofan was a little slow, then trembling inexplicably, he hurriedly cupped his hands to Li Xuan and said, "I have never seen the king of the Western Regions before, so I don't know his true identity?"

"Don't be nervous." Li Xuan waved her hand directly, and said, "There are many things that don't need to be seen with your own eyes, and many things can be guessed to a good degree just by guessing."

"What the lord said is very true." Yuan Chao cupped his hands subconsciously, but he didn't listen to Li Xuan's words, he was still thinking about what Wen Fuzhi asked him to say, stood there and cupped his hands and said: "My lord , Now that the channel is chaotic and the ships are moving in disorder, can the generals return to their own ships and command the ships?"

As soon as Yuan Chao said what he said, everyone present couldn't help but look at him in surprise.

After all, he was the one who gathered everyone together from the beginning, and now he is the one who wants everyone to go back.

But now he is no longer the master of the entire ship!

Everyone turned their heads to look at Li Xuan in an instant.

Li Xuan smiled and looked at Yuan Chao: "Is this what you mean, or the meaning of the person below, if there is really something, can you let the person below come up and talk to this king directly, all the time Is it interesting to hide and hide below?"

The person below, almost everyone present was a little dazed, the person below, who is the person below, commanding Yuan Chao like this.

You know, their servant of the Yuezhou Chief Executive's Mansion is not a role to deal with. Who is the person who can make him obey orders so obediently?
The corner of Yuan Chao's mouth twitched. Just as he was about to say something, a voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"It seems that the King of Nanchang has already noticed that I am coming, but I am a little curious, why doesn't the King of Nanchang leave?" Wen Fuzhi walked out of the cabin slowly with his hands behind his back.

Seeing Wen Fuzhi, all the generals of the Muzhou navy stood up and said in unison, "General Manager!"

Wen Fuzhi waved his hands casually, but his gaze was fixed on Li Xuan.

In an instant, everyone on the whole ship looked at Li Xuan.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Li Xuan stood up straight, with a calm expression, and looked directly at Wen Fuzhi.

His eyes were unexpectedly calm and fearless.

(End of this chapter)