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Chapter 62 Regent Power
After writing this sentence, Changsun Wuchou paused.

Previously, in order to mobilize some of the secret agents in the Duke's Mansion, he wrote a letter describing the general situation, but he did not expect that Li Guanyi would come back so soon, and not only did he not die, he even became quite famous.

He had no choice but to write another letter at night to explain the situation.

He picked up his pen and described in detail how the young man killed the seven bandits and returned on horseback.

Finally, he put down his pen.

He wrote down the poem which was concise and plain, yet full of youthful spirit.

He summoned the golden-winged eagle and delivered the letter.

………………

When Li Guanyi put down his bow, his face turned pale. That move of Rolling Waves took up all his strength. Only when he concentrated everything he had into it and had the mental state of stirring up a violent storm, could he make a move that was powerful enough to kill an opponent of the same level.

The rolling waves of General Xue and the destroying mountains of Duke Chen.

In terms of pure techniques and moves, it is the same style and has reached perfection.

The power and strength all depend on the user.

After learning these two moves at the same time, Li Guanyi felt that his spirit was drained and ached slightly. Every time he reached his limit, he would hear the sound of the piano, and the spirit in his energy would recover to a safe level of about 30% at an incredible speed.

Xue Daoyong looked at Li Guanyi and asked, "What did you see just now?"

"I actually saw a hint of the evil spirit of the battlefield from you."

Yaoguang was still in the secret realm. Li Guanyi concealed the secret realm and directly answered about today's inheritance: "It is the battle halberd technique of General Xue five hundred years ago. If Elder Xue needs it, I can write down the battle halberd technique and give it to you."

After the old man pondered for a moment, he replied, "No."

Xue Daoyong said: "If you write down the war halberd technique, I will definitely let the Xue family's disciples learn it. The Xue family is a big family, and there are bound to be people with two hearts in the family. If the news that the family war halberd technique has returned gets out, it will be a disaster."

"If you have either the bow and the spear, you can become a powerful person in troubled times."

"If you have both, you will have the power to compete in the world."

"My good brother sent assassins to kill me. Was it because of the Emperor's intention? At this time, our Xue family is not hiding its edge, but showing off the halberd skills. Isn't that actively handing over the handle to the emperor?"

"This is something that can cause trouble, so the old man doesn't want it. But after all, it is the martial arts of our ancestors."

The old man smiled, looked at Li Guanyi, and changed the subject, saying casually:
"The method of the war halberd, Guanyi, you can pass it on to Shuangtao."

"It takes several years to master the art of halberd fighting."

"Her martial arts skills will be taught to you step by step in the next few years."

"Oh, by the way, as for Changqing, you can just give him some pointers when you have free time."

Li Guanyi agreed. Seeing his pale face, the old man asked him to drink a cup of ginseng recovery drink, and then let Li Guanyi leave. When he stood up to leave, the old man reminded him: "You have just entered the country, and your internal strength is still mainly based on body strengthening before entering the country. You are obviously not good enough in attacking the enemy and recovering energy."

"Your martial arts style should be inherited from my Xue family's ancestors. The moves are domineering and consume a lot of energy. The internal energy before entering the state can't sustain it for a few times. And the skills for entering the state need to be passed down by the will of God. I can't give it to you now. I will give it to you in a few days when you have recovered."

"Come with Shuangtao."

"I will take you to the Xue family's ancestral land and choose an internal skill to enter the country."

Seeing that Li Guanyi seemed to have a look of "only one talent", he could not help but raise his foot and lightly kick the young man, scolding him with a smile, and said:
"Ha, don't look at me like that. You can't chew too much. You should first improve your internal strength. As for the rest, such as body building, boxing, weapons, and footwork, my Xue family is such a big business, how can I miss you?"

"Learn one book, burn one book, it's enough for you."

Before today, although Xue Daoyong was good to Li Guanyi, he was also a senior who had experienced many ups and downs and valued the younger generation he liked. But today, when he saw him riding his horse forward regardless of his life or death, he changed again.

Before, the old man would take Li Guanyi to the door.

But today he just waved his hand and signaled him to go.

"I know the way, so don't bother me."

"I'm going to sleep, old bastard."

Li Guanyi grinned.

The old man holds a grudge. He is clearly a hero who uses the world as his chessboard.

He has a big heart but a small mind.

After walking out of here, the cold-faced steward smiled and saluted for the first time, saying with a smile:
"Master, walk slowly."

Li Guanyi is not used to such a title.

He did not go back to the yard directly, but went to the place where the Xue family kept books and borrowed many books. In the past, as a guest official, he could browse books at will, but he could not take them away or copy them. This time, he borrowed many books and took them away directly.

A servant carried so many books back to him on a shoulder pole.

My aunt has fallen asleep.

Li Guanyi walked lightly back to his room and opened all the books.

These books include miscellaneous notes, gossips, articles, and chronological records by scholars. The history books compiled by the government are impossible for the common people to see. These things recorded by scholars all over the world became so-called unofficial histories hundreds of years later.

"Regent……"

Li Guanyi had never heard of such a glorious and domineering name.

The killer said it was the regent. Was it the regent who killed his parents, or were his parents killed because of the regent? Or was the regent his relative? Li Guanyi even regretted asking too many questions in order to force the killer to lie.

Li Guanyi thought of the time when Xue Daoyong mentioned Xiao Wuliang, saying that he went to war at the age of thirteen and dealt with the Regent Rebellion. Li Guanyi found Xiao Wuliang's records, and then searched through them and found the description of him.

[In the third year of Taiqing, the King of Puyang did not respect the emperor and did not come to the national sacrifice. The emperor was angry and attacked him. The King of Puyang raised an army to resist the emperor. Wuliang was thirteen years old at the time. He rode alone to fight and no one in the army could match him.]

"King Puyang?"

Li Guanyi found the key name and quickly searched. The cause of this incident was that during the grand sacrifice of the State of Chen, King Puyang did not come to the capital to pay homage to the emperor, but was drinking and having fun in private. The emperor was furious and frightened by his martial arts, so he sent troops to take him back.

In essence, it was a conflict between the local kings and the emperor in the capital.

This also means that the emperor's ruling power is insufficient.

Xiao Wuliang is a majestic and awe-inspiring general under the command of King Puyang.

Li Guanyi found the records of King Puyang.

The prince abolished market taxes, land rents, and head taxes at city gates in the areas he suppressed, which made the people happy. He also married the people's children to generals and soldiers in the army and allowed the people to live near the military camps.

He also asked for money from the imperial court. The emperor at that time could not mobilize the army because of the failure of the previous expedition and the presence of Ying State, so he had to acquiesce to such behavior. Perhaps he thought that the King of Puyang was greedy and lustful, and it would be easier to control him, so he sent rewards and gold and silver to the King of Puyang. Many of them were described in unofficial history as "messengers looking at each other".

Li Guanyi grinned. With General Xue's instruction, he roughly understood what would happen.

Sure enough, five years after the grand sacrifice, King Puyang came out claiming to be hunting.

In fact, he led his troops directly to attack the vicinity of Jiangzhou City.

The army he led abandoned the strongest armored helmets of the era, and 8,000 light cavalry rode at night, threatening to attack the left side of Jiangnan, but went straight to the capital. The records show that King Puyang was a prince who was proficient in martial arts. He was tall and short, but had first-class strategy and horsemanship.

The State of Chen was said to have tens of thousands of armored soldiers, and its night-riding cavalry was famous throughout the world.

However, Prince Puyang seized the perfect opportunity and, in the name of clearing the court, sent 8,000 light cavalry into the capital. In the siege that day, almost all of the 8,000 light cavalry were killed, but Jiangzhou City was also destroyed. Finally, the 18-year-old Xiao Wuliang broke the city's defenses with the heavy spear in his hand.

The officials in the capital of the State of Chen were strong in literary talent and could defend against the enemy and weaken the enemy's luck.

However, facing such a sudden attack, he was ultimately no match for these crude warriors in armor. The eighteen-year-old Xiao Wuliang was listed on the world's list of famous generals with such a [War of Annihilation of a Nation]. Jiangzhou City burned in raging flames.

King Puyang rode into the capital on horseback, and officials kneeling on both sides shouted "Long live the King".

The emperors of the Southern Dynasties at that time believed in Buddhism. There were many temples in the south of the Yangtze River, which were said to be 480 temples.

King Puyang locked the emperor in the palace and let his brother, who was a devout Buddhist, starve to death.

When the door was finally opened, the emperor was as thin as a skeleton. He pounded on the door with his eyes wide open. His fingers were like bones, digging into the ground. His nails were cracked. There were bite marks on the red-painted pillars, revealing white wood chips. The emperor was dead, and there was a pile of indigestible debris in his abdomen.

He ate candles and cloth, and eventually died of extreme hunger and severe abdominal pain.

"The Buddha you worshipped didn't come to save you after all."

Later, the King of Puyang sat in front of his brother, with whom he had played together when he was young. He pressed his armored hand on his brother's eyes, who died with his eyes wide open, and said in a cold and hard tone:

"These are troubled times. Iron and fire are everything, brother."

In the past recorded in unofficial history, King Puyang threw down his knife and looked at his brother with boredom.

At that time, the young famous general Xiao Wuliang was standing next to him, looking at his back.

He did not become emperor.

Instead, he supported the crown prince as emperor, appeased all the civil and military officials and the aristocratic families, and as the Grand Tutor, Minister of the Interior, and Sima, he razed all the temples to the ground. The monks were incorporated into the vanguard of the army, and were given sticks and cloth clothes, and sent to fight the Iron Pagoda of the Turks head-on.

The land belonged to him, and in the next three years, the State of Chen had two emperors.

Prince Puyang claimed to be the regent, entered the palace wearing a sword and shoes, and did not bow when entering the court.

Every time a new emperor was supported, a general amnesty was issued. At the same time, King Puyang led his troops to conquer the rest of the Jiangnan area.

His military tactics were harsh, and when he conquered the south of the Yangtze River, he allowed the killing of civilians. After the city was captured, he let his troops go for three days. That year, the emperor's empress gave birth to a child, and then the emperor abdicated, the regent ascended the throne, and the previous emperor died in the palace.

It was also that year.

Duke Taiping, who had crossed the Western Regions, rode back to the city at night with eight hundred cavalrymen. Just like King Puyang who broke through the city gates, this famous general of the State of Chen broke through the city gates. Holding a gun and wearing a dark golden mask, he killed the regent in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

The hero who starved his brother, the emperor, to death eventually died under a large red-painted pillar that had been scratched by his brother's fingers.

He was once an ambitious tyrant who killed the emperor and trampled on the entire empire, turning the emperor, who represented the pinnacle of power, into a plaything in his palm. In the end, his head was inevitably pierced by a spear, and he himself became a stepping stone for another famous general to become famous all over the world.

Yue Pengwu, a 20-year-old captain under the command of Duke Taiping, was the first to climb the mountain, kill the general and seize the flag.

After that, the records of unofficial history suddenly became concise.

It looks like a part of it is torn off.

"The Prince Regent died in the Hall of Supreme Harmony."

"King Jing is elegant and virtuous. He ascended the throne and became emperor. He issued a general amnesty and the Duke of Taiping was crowned king."

Then it ended, and what followed was all about the contemporary emperor, as if the famous general who had traveled across the Western Regions and returned had never existed. Li Guanyi flipped through the book for a long time and finally saw the ending of the Duke Taiping.

[In the third year of Taihe, Duke Taiping died suddenly]

Apart from this, there is no other record of this Duke Taiping.

Even the regent who committed numerous atrocities can be clearly seen in the records of these literati, and one can see both his great talent and his cold and crazy sides. But as for the Duke of Taiping, why is he called the Duke of Taiping, how did he rise to power, and how did he become a famous general in the world?

There are no records.

It only says that the Duke of Taiping returned from the Western Regions that year, holding a spear, and stabbed the shadow that was hanging over the State of Chen to death.
It was as if everyone was extremely wary of this famous general.

Li Guanyi exhaled a breath. The past of the heroes recorded in words, even if it was unofficial history, made people feel shocked when reading it. The cold, domineering and crazy regent, the solemn and quiet Xiao Wuliang, the shooting star-like Duke Taiping, and Yue Pengwu who showed his talent in this light, all rose up in this chaotic world and among the white bones.

But the Regent...

Li Guanyi frowned. If the order was given by the Regent, the timing didn't match.

When he fled, the regent was already dead.

Unless it's... related to the Regent?
Li Guanyi suddenly had an inspiration. He turned out all the records in the books, listed the time table, and calculated them one by one.

In the third year of Taiqing, the Regent Prince started a rebellion, and Xiao Wuliang became famous at the age of thirteen.

In the eighth year of Taiqing, the regent killed the emperor. Xiao Wuliang was eighteen years old.

In the next two or three years, the regent changed two emperors and asked the emperor to abdicate to him. Xiao Wuliang was twenty years old, Duke Taiping came from the Western Regions, Yue Pengwu became famous at the age of twenty, King Jing ascended the throne, and the State of Chen was named Taihe.

In the third year of Taihe, Duke Taiping died suddenly.

Now, according to the calculation of the Great Emperor of Zhongzhou, it is the tenth year of Tianqi.

The State of Chen was in the 13th year of Taihe.

As soon as Li Guan put pen to paper, time had already been arranged in front of him.

The son of the last emperor who abdicated to the regent was born thirteen years ago.

It was also thirteen years ago that Duke Taiping came from the Western Regions and beheaded the Regent.

Duke Taiping died suddenly in——

Li Guan paused.

【Ten years ago】

(End of this chapter)