Golden Greenery

When Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi found Yang Yi, it had been eight years since Song Kaibao. At this time, it had been 17 years since Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, ascended the throne, and it was also the 360th year since he came to this world.

Zhao Guangyi is the younger brother of Zhao Kuangyin, the current emperor of the Song Dynasty. He also participated in the wheel battle against Yang Yi in Mengyuan 17 years ago. His original name was Zhao Kuangyi. When his elder brother became the emperor, it was natural to avoid naming taboos, so he changed it to Zhao Guangyi.

Zhao Guangyi is a careful person. He found out from the Taoist priests at Yuntai Temple in Huashan that Yang Yi was most likely living in seclusion in Zhongnan, just south of Chang'an.

Although Chen Tuan is dead, his Yuntai Temple is still there. Two Taoist priests who followed him more than ten years ago are staying behind.

Zhao Guangyi had an inference in his mind, so he secretly searched the mountains south of Chang'an for two years. After finding Yang Yi's hiding place, he visited alone.

Yang Yi watched the 37-year-old Zhao Guangyi respectfully introduce himself, but he didn't quite remember him. At that time, he only rode twice in the wheel battle. After his helmet was nearly killed by the sheep's bullets, he never dared to come up again.

In that battle, 32 of Zhao Kuangyin's generals were killed and hundreds were injured. For them, Yang Yi was the god of death. Therefore, Zhao Guangyi dared to walk into the cabin alone, which is enough to show his courage.

Zhao Guangyi first put a stick of incense on Chen Tuan's tablet. When he saw the tablets of Yuan Tiangang and Zhang Guo next to them, and Yang Yi both called them senior brothers, he was extremely shocked, but he controlled his face not to show panic.

Zhao Guangyi calmly gave Lao Yuan and Lao Zhang the incense on their heads as a gift.

As for Yang Yi, he had already called "immortal master" and bowed when he entered.

"Again, I am not an immortal master, nor am I a Taoist." Yang Yi asked, "What do you want from me?"

He is not worried that Zhao Guangyi will be unfavorable to him at this time, and of course he will not kill people casually. Yang Yi loves peace at heart. Except for his insistence on killing Zhao Kuangyin 17 years ago, he did not take the initiative to kill other people. They were all forced.

Zhao Guangyi did not follow Yang Yi's topic, but talked about Chen Tuan.

"Master Fuyaozi planned to raise an army to fight for the world thirty years ago. Does Master Yang know about this?"

"Know."

Next, Zhao Guangyi greatly praised Chen Tuan's moral conduct and character, and in his opinion, if Chen Tuan really started an uprising thirty years ago, the probability of success would be quite high.

Since the An-Shi Rebellion 220 years ago in the Tang Dynasty,

In fact, warlords with military power in various places have formed a separatist regime. As wars broke out, refugees were everywhere in the world, and then there were powerful people who gathered to protest.

In the following two hundred years of war during the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the people desperately hoped for gods to calm down the troubled times, and urgently needed spiritual sustenance and comfort. The reason why Fuyaozi Chen Tuan had huge influence and became the contemporary Taoist ancestor was This trend.

If Chen Tuan wanted to, he could gather hundreds of thousands of people in a very short time, and millions of believers in the Central Plains would respond. With Chang'an in Guanzhong as the foundation, guarding Tongguan to the east, with Ganzhou, Liangzhou and other horse-producing areas as its back, and sending troops to seize the empty Hanzhong, it will look like the Han emperor Liu Bang before he conquered the world.

With the help of Yang Yi, a fierce general who is the best in the world, the day Chen Tuan sends his troops out of Tongguan will be the time to spread the word and decide the world.

"What do you think, Master Sheep?"

"That makes sense."

"But why didn't Immortal Fuyaozi do this?"

"What do you want to say?"

Zhao Guangyi hurriedly saluted: "Master Fuyaozi is not a person who is greedy for the imperial power. He cares about the people of the world and the great road. Fuyaozi wanted to compete for the world, just to calm down the chaos in the world, but he gave up the competition because he saw that I have arrived at the house of my imperial brother, the current official."

These Yang Yi all know that it was for this reason that Chen Tuan stopped him from killing Zhao Kuangyin 17 years ago. And it was probably for this reason that after Chen Tuan kidnapped Zhao Kuangyin outside the gate of Huashan Mountain and forced him to let Yang Yi go, he did not hurt him, but died generously.

All this was because Chen Tuan believed that after Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he could quickly expel the Khitan, quell the war, and restore peace to the world.

"It's a pity that my imperial brother let down Immortal Master Fuyaozi, and he fell into the devil's path." Zhao Guangyi's words were astonishing.

"The devil's path?"

According to Zhao Guangyi, the former Zhao Kuangyin did have the world in mind, and he was decisive in killing on the battlefield, but he was also kind-hearted. This was the reason why they supported him in ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor. Because in troubled times and after troubled times, such an emperor is needed.

But after Zhao Kuangyin accepted Zen and proclaimed himself emperor and established the Song Dynasty, they found that he had changed.

After ascending the throne in the first month of the year, he first used troops to put down the rebellion of Zhou generals Li Jun and Li Chongjin. This is understandable. But then, like the two late Zhou emperors Guo Wei and Chai Rong, he did not send troops north towards the Khitan to recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun in one go.

Everyone knows that the Khitans must not be allowed to grow bigger, otherwise the Central Plains will never have peace. Guo Wei and Chai Rong's continuous campaigns have already brought the Khitan's Liao Kingdom to the point of collapse. This is the opportunity for Zhao Kuangyin to make the final decision.

But he didn't do this. Instead, he searched all over the world to find Yang Yi.

When they heard that the sheep had gone to Shu, they raised troops and destroyed Hou Shu in two years. They captured Shu Emperor Meng Chang and Shu Hui's concubine Huarui and brought them to Bianliang;

He also heard that Yang Yi was hiding in Jiangning, so he raised an army and defeated the Southern Tang Dynasty. He captured Tang Emperor Li Yu and Xiao Zhouhou and went to Bianliang.

They never sent troops to the Khitan in the north, nor did they conquer the Northern Han separatist regime that had a military alliance with the Khitan.

Some senior military generals questioned his doing so, including Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide, Wang Shenqi, Zhang Lingduo, and Zhao Yanhui, five very influential senior figures in the military, who all supported his ascension to the throne.

They believed that they should use troops against the Khitan first to recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun and complete the complete defense of the Great Wall. Because the Khitan has always been a foreign enemy that is not our own race, if the Khitan people are given a chance to breathe and repair, not only will they be in trouble, but the party members in Yinzhou will also be ready to take action.

The north was pacified, and the power of the Song Dynasty was already established at this time, and the principle of dealing with China could be decided upon. The people of the Central Plains are clansmen no matter what, and they should be protected from the dangers of weapons as much as possible.

What he said made sense, but Zhao Kuangyin ambushed the five generals at the banquet and asked the five generals to choose either to die or to finish the glass of wine, remove their military power, return to their hometowns and become rich men, and from then on they would not be allowed to participate in politics.

After the five people put down their wine glasses, they retired and returned home.

To this day, the Khitan army in the north is becoming more and more powerful, hanging over the Song Dynasty like a dark cloud. Bandits are everywhere in the Central Plains, and the people are still unable to live and work in peace and contentment.

Zhang Kuangyin became erratic and self-willed. He insisted that the direction of military use in the future be the Western Regions. It was simply unreasonable to abandon the powerful enemy Khitan and let the elite imperial army expedition to Congling.

"Why are you telling me this? I don't care whether Zhao Kuangyin is a good emperor or a bad emperor, nor do I care what he does."

"Master Yang, Guangyi is here to ask the Immortal Master to help me kill the tyrant Zhao Kuangyin who has demonic fire attacking his heart."

Kill Zhao Kuangyin? Yang Yi was very interested in this matter.