When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 205 203 The man who silently supported Gu Hua's rebellion

When everyone heard what Gu Hua was going to do, their eyes widened in surprise.

"Come on, cousin, if you succeed in your rebellion, won't our family become royal relatives?!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Chen Ling patted his brother's forehead to stop him from talking nonsense.

However, Chen Ze's words made the others feel excited, and they were also thinking that if that day really came, those of them who had followed him the earliest would not be able to escape the credit.

It is not impossible to be granted a title of nobility or become a prime minister.

"I plan to use the power of the royal palace to place you in various government offices in Shuzhou to do work. I wonder if you are willing?"

"As the lord commands." Shan Chengshuo and the Sun brothers, Chen Ling pulled his silly brother Chen Ze to kneel on one leg, and formally followed Gu Hua and recognized her as their master.

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

What Gu Hua has to do now is a big thing. From now on, she is not only his cousin, but also the master he follows.

At this point, everyone understood that from the moment they agreed to follow Gu Hua on this path, their lives and fortunes depended on her, and their future success also depended on her. It was like betting on a bet. If they won, the whole family would be rich and prosperous, but if they lost, the whole family might lose their lives.

However, they are all children of officials, so how could they be willing to live in poverty and waste their lives in this place of exile?

Therefore, whether it was Shan Chengshuo, the Sun brothers, or even Chen Ling and Chen Ze, they were nervous and worried about Gu Hua's rebellion, but they were more excited and thrilled.

Gu Hua was stunned for a moment when they addressed her as lord, but since she had already decided to rebel, she was not so humble as to even accept a title.

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Xiao Junlin, who was sent by the emperor to quell the rebellion, received the news passed on by Ye Ping in Shuzhou. He was digging wild vegetables with several thousand soldiers assigned to him by Xiao Junmo.

Who was it that Emperor Xiao Junmo only asked him to lead people to quell the rebellion without even giving him a grain of food? The local government was not informed of the existence of his imperial team to quell the rebellion.

Not to mention the cities that were captured by the rebels, even those prefectures that still had connections with the imperial court did not have an order from the court. Unless Xiao Junlin took a hard approach, it would be difficult for local officials to cooperate and voluntarily send them food supplies.

Regarding this situation, Xiao Junlin said that self-reliance is his principle in life.

So he sent his men to take the veterans in logistics and the experienced soldiers to dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger.

Anyway, these cowardly soldiers were extremely afraid of death when it came to quelling the rebellion. Although they were not used to eating wild vegetables, they would rather stay here and live motionlessly than fight bloody battles with the rebel forces from all sides.

Except for a small number of soldiers who were ambitious and willing to fight for the future and were willing to train with Chunshan and others in the temporary training ground, the other soldiers were abandoned by the emperor and the court and could not see the reality.

Not to mention Xiao Junlin, who was decisive in killing on the battlefield, even the 500 men he brought back from Shuzhou felt that some of them were useless and should be thrown away.

Just like some soldiers who can lie in the shade of a tree and bask in the sun even when a knife is about to fall on their necks, they are as steady as a rock and do not move an inch after being shouted at several times, and they still lie there chatting and talking.

It's hard to save them with kind words, damn ghosts. When the day comes when they really encounter rebel soldiers from various forces, I hope these people can run fast enough, and maybe they can still have a chance to go home and see their loved ones.

Because deserters would be held accountable, as long as they did not want their families to be implicated, they would have to be captured and punished by the court. Whether they could survive at that time would depend on their luck.

After reading the letter, Xiao Junlin learned what Gu Hua was going to do, and he did not hide it from his few confidants who stayed in the Shuzhou Palace.

The fact that he was willing to do such a life-threatening thing without telling his people proved that Gu Hua trusted him, which made Xiao Junlin feel relieved.

The corners of his mouth slowly rose, and he whispered: "Woman, since you have ambitions, why not let me give you a push?" He picked up the pen and wrote: obey her orders and cooperate with her arrangements...

When Xiao Junlin's confidants in Shuzhou saw the reply, they originally had some reservations about obeying Gu Hua, but now even their master had spoken.

Afterwards, Gu Hua felt that it was easier to use the people in the palace.

How could she have imagined that this was because Xiao Junlin himself had no heir and had no interest in rebellion, but this did not prevent him from silently supporting her in rebelling against Xiao Junmo and doing big things.

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This side of Shuzhou.

Gu Hua saw that Wei Xingba sent people to put pressure on the palace every few days, and was anxious to incorporate the forces and 10,000 troops left by Xiao Junlin here.

It is very likely that he wanted to seize the initiative and expand his territory.

Seeing this, Gu Hua was not in a hurry to kill Wei Xingba. He was not in a hurry to store the grain and the money he had collected in Shuzhou for so many years.

She called Ye Ping, Du Tianlin, Chai Yuangui, and several other confidants of Xiao Junlin who had stayed in Shuzhou, and gave them some instructions.

When Wei Xingba personally brought people to the palace again to force Ye Ping and others to surrender.

Ye Ping, Du Tianlin, Chai Yuangui and the others seemed to finally be unable to withstand the pressure. They all looked dejected and helpless, and finally surrendered to him.

Wei Xingba laughed happily.

Immediately, he ordered a banquet to celebrate the surrender of Ye Ping and his 10,000 men to him.

Wei Xingba was also a general who had led troops for many years.

He was worried that the palace's personal guards would remain together and would become a hidden danger to him one day, so soon after taking over, he dispersed the 10,000 men into the ranks of his trusted subordinates.

Seeing that Ye Ping and Du Tianlin had no objection, Wei Xingba began to believe that they had finally faced up to the reality and would sincerely surrender if Xiao Junlin could not return.

Before Ye Ping and his men followed Gu Hua's instructions and surrendered to Wei Xingba, the grain that was secretly transported from the villa was hidden here.

Even Luo Dingshan and others who were transporting grain on the big ship received the message soon after. The grain was hidden in a hidden and safe place first, and there was no need to transport it back to Shuzhou for the time being.

And, there were ten thousand people who defected to Wei Xingba.

From now on, they will be raised by the new master Wei Xingba.

It was because he had sent people to rob the grain shipped from the palace and not return it. Now he couldn't find a reason to stop raising the sheep.

Wei Xingba looked at his guard army, which originally consisted of less than 50,000 people. After a period of recruiting soldiers and gaining the support of 10,000 elite soldiers from the palace who surrendered to him after putting pressure on him, his guard army has now expanded to nearly 100,000 people.

While he was happy that his army had grown, he felt distressed because the food and money needed to support so many soldiers wasted every day.

Therefore, Wei Xingba felt that he had enough men and the time was ripe.

He summoned his trusted subordinates to discuss the matter and immediately decided to expand his influence outward, participate in the competition among various forces, make a name for himself, attract more people to join him, and build momentum for the final uprising and march into the capital to compete for imperial power.

(End of this chapter)