The Grand Marshal is finally heading north to conquer the Hu!
At the end of the Jin Dynasty, during the period of quelling the rebellion, the Grand Marshal, as the hegemon of the south, entered the north, breaking the thousand-year tradition that only dynasties that moved north had moved south.
At that time, an emperor will emerge from the Xie family!
at the same time.
In the Five Jin Dynasty, Si Bo Gongzheng resided in the Xie family mansion. At the mansion's gate, messengers on horseback arrived at a stop to issue imperial orders.
Si Bogong sent someone to deliver the letter. After reading it, he quickly gathered the two thousand men brought by Xie Shangguang and headed to the four counties that Xie Guang had almost slaughtered.
The seventh day.
As an envoy to persuade others, Si Bogong secretly sent a pledge of allegiance to various cities in Tianjing.
This pledge of loyalty quickly spread after it entered Tianjing.
Meanwhile, in the main city of Tianjing.
Huang Mang occupied the palace for a full year, turning all the former imperial concubines into his kept women, whom he could play with at will. When he was tired of them, he would give them to his subordinates, who would then strip them naked and sell them to the slave market, draining the women dry.
After Xie Guang conquered four counties and massacred all the Huang troops there, the Huang forces in Tianjing were thrown into a panic. Meanwhile, the very culprit who had started the war was still reveling in his love on the dragon bed. Their bodies were intertwined.
The messenger outside the palace hurriedly reported: "General, four counties have fallen, and all the defending generals have been slaughtered! Not a single person survived!"
"What?!" Upon hearing this, Huang Mang on the dragon bed immediately lost interest. This matter was clearly more important than getting into bed.
Moreover, the four counties had always been the passage for transporting grain to Tianjing, yet they were taken back in just six days.
Huang Mang was a little flustered, but after calming down, he remembered that he still had the two Jin emperors under his command, which gave him confidence.
Because the two Jin rulers were Xie Ying's most loyal lackeys.
If Xie Ying doesn't discipline her lackeys, who will dare to serve her as their master in the future?
He intended to use the two rulers as bargaining chips and the 150,000 troops as his trump card to shake Xie Ying's influence in the fifth, sixth, and seventh Jin dynasties.
What's more, he still has two trump cards at his disposal! If used properly, the future ruler of Shanxi will not be Xie Ying, but Huang Mang himself!
"Bring that brat here!" Huang Mang ordered the men outside the hall. He was barefoot, wearing a dragon robe, his clothes disheveled, revealing his hairy chest.
The woman on the bed was curled up like a dead fish.
Huang Mang loved to torment those who hated him, and he enjoyed seeing them want to kill him but were powerless to do so.
A caged bird. Destined to be imprisoned in the hands of the strong!
Soon, a thin, frail boy was dragged in front of Huang Mang, who used his stinky foot to lift his chin. The boy's face was covered in mud, and his body was filthy; he seemed to have long been accustomed to the stench.
If you look closely at his appearance, you'll find that his face is seven-tenths similar to Si Xitong's. In addition, his body is slender, making him look more like a woman. If he were cleaned up, he would definitely be a very handsome young man.
Huang Mang looked at the weak and exhausted boy with great satisfaction. He said to the boy from his high position, "Your plan doesn't seem to be working very well."
"Cough cough..." The boy's throat moved, and he gasped for breath, "General Huang, how is my elder sister now?"
Huang Mang immediately kicked him hard in the face, sending the boy flying two meters away. The boy's nose was full of blood, and his face was as pale as paper, as if he was about to die at any moment.
With the only hand he could muster, his fingernails digging into the floor, the boy crawled toward Huang Mang, grabbed Huang Mang's foot, and insisted, "My elder sister, is she alright?"
Huang Mang became somewhat interested in the dying boy. He finally squatted down, pinched his chin hard, and saw in the boy's face the woman he had once wanted but could not have now.
"What a damn waste! I should have thoroughly ravaged and abused your elder sister before sending her over. What a pity!"
The boy gritted his teeth with his last bit of strength. Even though he felt like he was about to die, he couldn't help but shed tears when he heard that his older sister might be suffering outside.
A tear fell onto Huang Mang's palm. Huang Mang disgustedly released his chin. Remembering his important matter, he finally spoke up: "Don't be fooled by your sister's current success. I think she'll soon get tired of Xie Ying, that disgusting woman, and then die at her hands."
"Haha!!" At this point, Huang Mang suddenly grinned maliciously, seemingly to provoke the boy. He brought up the past of Xie Ying's cruel methods: "You should have heard that Xie Ying loved to play with lives, such as human sticks, chopping off hands and feet and putting them into vegetable jars, peeling off human skin and wrapping it in cabbage to feed relatives, cutting off heads and reattaching bodies in public, all kinds of torture were used by Xie Ying. She didn't even spare her own closest relatives."
"She's a serial killer. She looks neither male nor female, and I've never heard of her liking to play around with women before, but now she's made an exception."
"I've heard that Xie Ying likes to rip people apart and likes to use iron rods. I wonder if your royal sister's petite frame can withstand a blow from Xie Ying?"
"After all, she doesn't have a man's...thing. When she goes crazy, she's more perverted than a man. Once your royal sister is tired of being used, that'll be her death day!"
These words were like knives stabbing into his chest again and again, causing him excruciating pain. The boy lay sprawled on the ground, his eyes filled with resentment. He gritted his teeth, as if using his last breath to growl, "Xie...Ying!!"
"Hahaha, hate her! Hate her to death!" Huang Mang seemed to have found someone with the same goal as him. He laughed a few times, then stared gloomily at his empty right sleeve, which looked as shriveled as dried plum.
His resentment was a thousand times, ten thousand times greater.
Huang Mang said in a gloomy tone, "You hate me too, but you hate Xie Ying even more, so let's cooperate!"
"This general will make Xie Ying taste the bitterness of defeat!"
"Just a failure?" Hearing Xie Ying's name ignited the boy's will to survive. His eyes were bloodshot as he said ferociously, "Not just a failure, I want to make Xie Ying wish he were dead from now on."
"I will make the entire Southern Region pay the price! Whoever harmed my elder sister, I will drag them all down to hell!"
Huang Mang laughed heartily, feeling that he had found like-minded people and could temporarily form an anti-Xie Ying camp.
Huang Mang said, "Very good, Fourth Prince, I believe you can do it. However, you need to know about the war outside."
He told the boy about the four counties that Xie Guang had conquered and about Xie Lanzhi's troop deployments in the Jin Dynasty.
The boy lay on the ground, lifeless, but his eyes gleamed with a sinister, cold light.
After a long pause, he seemed to understand Xie Lanzhi's purpose. His expression first showed confusion, then understanding, and then a complex mix of emotions.
No one knew what he was thinking or what he had seen, but the noble and aristocratic air about the young man suddenly appeared, making Huang Mang a little dazed and lustful.
This is something that someone like him, who came from humble beginnings as a peddler, could never achieve.
"This kid might turn out to be a stunningly handsome young lady after a bath," Huang Mang thought, secretly licking his lips.
At this moment, the boy suddenly looked up and said, "You said Xie Guang is in the four counties."
"Yes, what did the Fourth Prince discover?" Huang Mang's gaze towards him gradually became strange.
The boy, however, seemed to deliberately ignore it. Instead, he stretched out a finger to brush aside a strand of hair on his forehead, licked his dry, peeling lips, and said, "Qi Nian thought that Xie Guang would not cause you any further losses in the four counties."
"He would certainly not launch another attack on Tianjing from the four counties."
Upon hearing this, the news itself seemed less alluring than his lip-licking gesture; Huang Mang appeared unafraid that Tianjing would fall tonight. His trump card gave him confidence beyond his capabilities.
Huang Mang said, "Your analysis differs from the actual situation, but that's not important. It's one thing for me to seek revenge, but the most important thing is that your plan has helped me gain two powerful backers."
"If I hold out for ten days, everything will go just as you planned. I will not only secure my position as the Grand General of Tianjing, but I will also be able to exchange it for the division of power in the Three Jins and replace Xie Ying as their ruler!"
He absolutely has to win this bet!
He risked his life, and even if he lost, he avenged himself. Afterwards, Xie Ying could no longer peacefully remain the overlord of the Southern Region. In fact, the Southern Region was soon engulfed in war.
This was his plan with Si Xinian, the fourth prince of the fallen kingdom!
Xie Ying was like a towering mountain weighing down on the lords of the late Jin Dynasty. Once the wall crumbles, everyone will turn against him. How many forces secretly wanted to rebel against Xie Ying? As long as he made the first move, Xie Ying's good days would be over.
"Hahaha—!" Huang Mang laughed heartily, imagining Xie Ying facing encirclement and defeat. "I'll be waiting for you in Tianjing, Xie Ying!!"
Compared to Huang Mang, Si Xinian's hatred was not only expressed on his face, but also in his actions.
Whether it's Xie Ying or Huang Mang, if anyone harms his orphaned sister, he will make everyone pay the price. Even if it means dragging millions of innocent people down with him to hell!
Huang Mang also understood the importance of the sticks and dates. He stood up and immediately ordered, "Men, from now on, the Fourth Prince will be my strategist. Take him away and serve him well."
"I hope the Fourth Prince will not disappoint me."
"I will definitely drag Xie Ying down from her throne!" Si Xinian said with a face full of hatred.
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Chapter 17 Little Phoenix Gets Ready
Huang Mang was very satisfied with his expression at this moment, and immediately rewarded Si Qinian with two physicians and some precious medicinal materials. When Si Qinian was sent to the Imperial Hospital, after the imperial physicians treated his injuries, Huang Mang deliberately sent someone to help him.
Tell Si Xinian that all the precious medicinal materials in the Imperial Medical Academy were sent by Xie Ying!
Si Xinian was so disgusted that he scratched his skin, which was covered in wounds, and even tore off the bandages wrapped by the imperial physician.
Upon hearing this, Huang Mang sneered, "It seems that even the hatred of killing one's father is nothing more than this."
Even if he hates himself, what can he do? He still has to rely on himself to achieve his goals.
"General, this boy cannot be allowed to live." Huang Mang's advisor said, "At the age of fourteen, he was able to devise a strategy that put the Southern Region in a passive position. He must be said to be extremely shrewd. Perhaps he is just putting on an act now."
"Whether the plan was his idea or not, this general doesn't need to know, but he must have a mastermind behind him guiding him, otherwise why would he be paving the way for those two?"
Huang Mang scoffed, "So what if he's pretending? You said he's only fourteen, his youthful spirit is unpredictable, and the situation is beyond his control. Besides, what this general wants is the result."
"Besides, the orders from the two benefactors are genuine, and the informants I planted there have been reporting that they have prepared supplies and are about to take action."
The aide then stopped trying to persuade him: "So what should we do with him after that?"
"Kill!" Huang Mang pointed at his advisor's head. Because he was so confident, no matter what tricks that kid was playing, he was nothing but a clown.
Because no one fears an ant. He is the one who controls Tianjing; without him, the Northern Shi Kingdom wouldn't even consider a mere youth as a strategist.
Heavy snow fell in the southern region, turning the vast expanse of ice into a white wonderland, as if it were the Ice Age.
Xie Lanzhi ordered someone to bring a cowhide hot water bottle from the storeroom, fill it to the brim, test the temperature, and then carefully place it under Si Xitong's feet.
Si Xitong felt herself being wrapped up tightly in her coat, and she coughed lightly to remind her, "Marshal, I feel a little hot."
"No, it's easiest to catch a cold in winter," Xie Lanzhi refused. She had to be extremely careful when it came to protecting her health; she knew the pain of illness from her previous life when she was in poor health.
In ancient times, medical conditions were poor, and even a minor cold could easily take a person's life.
Xie Ying was the one who replaced her because of this.
"Thanks."
"No need to be so polite with me." Apart from her, Xie Lanzhi had no other attachments in this world.
In her past life, besides her best friend, she had no other ties; she figured it was better to live a miserable life than to die. Just when she was about to lose all interest in life, the Empress's book appeared in her life, bringing her a glimmer of hope.
But now the Empress is a living, breathing person.
When she first met her, the sight of her in a cage nearly drove her to madness. Marrying her was also a way to protect her.