Zhang Xuan was excited and hurriedly said: "Report to Your Highness, the Bohai Association has developed very rapidly in the Shandong area of ​​Hebei in the past two years. The rioters including Wang Bo, Sun Xuanya, Dou Qingde, Lu Mingyue and other rioters have close ties with the Bohai. They used the rioters to force famous families to cooperate with them, and the aristocratic families have influenced local governments. This is how Liang Zhi became a member of the Bohai Association. To be honest, the Bohai Association once won over Weichen and Zhang Dashen through intermediaries, but we rejected them."

Zhang Xuan stopped for a while, and saw that Yang Ju was very focused on hearing it, and continued: "At present, the power of the Bohai Association has been squeezed out of Qingzhou, but as far as I know, the power of the Bohai Association has penetrated into the Wagang Army. The last time Wagang expanded eastward, there was the shadow of the Bohai Association behind it."

Yang Qing sighed, "The bandits are not scary. What is scary is that these political forces. A Guanlong noble has already caused a headache for the emperor's grandfather. Now the remnants of Northern Qi have once again appeared and are in full force. Two days ago, Yuwen Shu told the emperor's grandfather that Bohai would secretly collude with the Yuan family, which made the emperor's grandfather very angry. Unfortunately, he could not solve the problem for the emperor's grandfather."

Zhang Xuan had to admire Yuwen Shu's two-faced swords. Seeing that the three parties had no profit in forming an alliance, he turned around and betrayed the Yuan family. Unfortunately, Yuan Min was too stupid and believed that he was betrayed by a speculative politician like Yuwen Shu.

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but think inwardly, since Yuwen Shu had already placed the big stone on the edge of the cliff, why didn't he push it and let the big stone fall off the cliff completely?

Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "Your Highness, I have competed with my subordinates everywhere in the capital. I have really met many people, including all kinds of religions. If your Highness is interested, I can find out the activities of the Bohai Association in the capital."

Yang Qing pondered for a moment. The reason why he took the initiative to mention the Bohai Association was due to his distrust of Yuwen Shu. He was very worried that Yuwen Shu would use the Bohai Association for personal gain and harm the interests of the Great Sui Dynasty. However, he could not get the truth from other channels, so he tentatively asked Zhang Xuan about the situation of the Bohai Association.

Now Zhang Xuan has taken the initiative to ask for information on the Bohai Sea in the capital for himself, which is better than just listening to Yuwen Shu's one-sided words.

Yang Nai nodded and took out a gold medal to Zhang Xuan, "This is the night-walking gold medal given to Gu by the emperor's grandfather. Gu will lend you temporarily. You can rely on it at night without any obstacles. As long as you get the situation of the Bohai Association, you can report to Gu at any time at night."

"I obey the order!"

Zhang Xuan took over the gold medal and sighed in his heart. Who said that King Yan neglected himself and did not trust him? If he really didn't trust him, would he hand over the night walk gold medal to himself?

Zhang Xuan said goodbye and left. Yang Xuan looked at his back and walked away, his eyes turned very complicated. He didn't even know whether he should trust Zhang Xuan, but he did not have a capable subordinate. He knew that Yuwen Shu had bad intentions but was powerless. In his memory, Zhang Xuan could curb Yuwen Shu's arrogance, and the Bohai Society.

Yang couldn't help but sigh softly

Xu Yin hurried to Bibo Restaurant. He walked into a elegant room on the second floor and saw Zhang Xuan standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking out the window.

"Is there anything wrong with the general looking for me?" Xu Yin asked with a bow.

"Mr. Xu, you should know why I looked for you." Zhang Xuan turned around and looked at him and smiled.

Xu Yin pondered for a moment and said, "Is the general responsible for the Bohai Association?"

Zhang Xuan nodded, "I believe Yuwen Shu knows much more than I imagined."

Xu Yin smiled bitterly, "The general is right. He has spent a lot of manpower and energy on the Bohai Association and has indeed mastered the next trends of the Bohai Association."

In an abandoned schoolyard outside the South City, several pairs of warriors were fighting each other. This was the most common situation in Luoyang City this month. Warriors made an appointment to fight each other, practice martial arts, fight as many weapons as possible, so as to improve their practical experience and build momentum for themselves.

At this time, in the southwest corner of the school ground, two burly warriors were fighting fiercely, one used a big knife and the other used a long-handled copper hammer. The two were evenly matched and the battle was particularly fierce. In a corner outside the field, Li Zitongzheng and Wu Yunzhao and more than a dozen others watched from a distance and fought fiercely.

Among the two, the one who used the sword was Li Zitong's sworn brother Meng Haigong, who was over 40 years old and was also the second person in Li Zitong's Eastern Navy. Meng Haigong was nicknamed "Dinghai Dao". He was good at water battles, had high martial arts skills, and was skilled in swordsmanship.

The person who took the single-handled copper hammer was called Wu Shaoyou. He and Meng Haigong were fellow villagers and famous rangers in the Central Plains. He used a long-handled copper hammer weighing 50 kilograms. This time, the two met by chance in Luoyang and talked about the friendship between fellow villagers. He couldn't help but make an appointment for a competition.

Li Zitong stroked his beard and watched the two fight. When he saw Wu Shaoyou's long-handled copper hammer dancing tightly and with a lot of rules, he couldn't help but think of loving talent in his heart.

He asked Wu Yunzhao next to him, "How does Yunzhao think of this person's martial arts?"

Wu Yunzhao smiled and said, "You can be a good general on the battlefield!"

A good general means being average and superior. In Wu Yunzhao's eyes, he can only be considered barely qualified, but it is not bad to be able to fight Meng Haigong for more than 30 rounds.

The two of them were fellow villagers on the school grounds, but they just wanted to compete in martial arts. Of course, they stopped. The two of them intersected their war horses, each with their weapons, and laughed together.

Meng Haigong patted him on the shoulder, "It's already noon, let's go have a drink together."

Wu Shaoyou is about thirty years old and has a simple face and is not good at speaking. He nods, "Then I'll trouble Brother Meng."

"If you have any trouble, go!"

Meng Haigong took Wu Shaoyou to introduce to Li Zitong. Li Zitong was determined to recruit the bronze hammer general, and then smiled happily: "Haigong's brother is my brother. I'll treat you, let's have a good drink."

Everyone entered the city and came to the Central Plains diner near Houzaimen, found a room and sat down. The bartender quickly served them with wine and food.

Li Zitong was in a good mood these two days. First, the emperor agreed to his recruitment conditions and did not disband his army. He allowed him to continue to station in Donghai County. At the same time, he agreed to grant him the title of general and the title of Marquis of Donghai County.

Although the additional condition was to assist the Sui army in exterminated Sun Xuanya and Wang Bo, Li Zitong did not think it was difficult to achieve. He knew Sun Xuanya's background very well. As long as he did not send troops to Xuzhou to restrain the Sui army when Yang Yichen attacked Sun Xuanya, Sun Xuanya would undoubtedly be defeated.

Although he accepted the court's amnesty and was dissatisfied with Dou Jiande, Zhai Rang and others, he would only consider his own interests and not care about the ideas of other rebel leaders.

What's more, the court wanted to set him as an example to attract other rebels. How could he not seize this opportunity and extort the court again? At least the court had to solve its lack of military rations.

Li Zitong picked up the wine glass and stood up and smiled at everyone, "We have been with me for many years, and finally we will make it through. No matter where I, Li Zitong, hold, will never treat everyone badly. I will give you a cup first."

Everyone raised their glasses to drink together. At this time, Meng Haigong poured a glass of wine for Wu Shaoyou and asked with a smile: "Why have you rarely heard about Brother Wu in recent years?"

Wu Shaoyou sighed, "I accidentally killed a county magistrate in Liang County two years ago. I was wanted by the court and had to go to the world. Now I am hiding my identity as a martial arts guru in a martial arts hall in Chengdu and earn some money to make a living."

Li Zitong frowned, "With Brother Wu's martial arts skills, he actually works as a martial artist in the martial arts hall. It's a pity!"

"What can I do? I can only blame myself for being too impulsive at the beginning, but I am not willing to continue like this, so I took advantage of the hero's visit to Luoyang to look for opportunities."

Meng Hai would understand what Li Zitong meant. In fact, he brought Li Zitong to them today to compete, just to introduce Wu Shaoyou to Li Zitong.

He exchanged a look with Li Zitong, and Meng Haigong smiled and said, "Your father and I were on the boat together in Juyeze, which was a lifelong friendship. Since the old friend's son is in trouble, how can I stand by and watch? This is how you will follow me in the future and be my deputy general. What do you think?"

Wu Shaoyou glanced at Li Zitong, and Li Zitong smiled and said, "I will give you the title of General Zhenwei!"

Wu Shaoyou was overjoyed and quickly knelt down on one knee and bowed, "It was originally a coach!"

Li Zitong laughed, "Since it's a family, come! Let's have another drink."

Li Zitong was very excited and drank several jars of wine with everyone, and got drunk. Not only him, but also Meng Haigong and Wu Yunzhao were a little drunk. Only Wu Shaoyou, who had just joined Li Zitong, remained awake. He took the initiative to say to everyone: "I'll take the Grandmaster back!"

Without waiting for Li Zitong's personal soldiers to stop him, he carried Li Zitong on his back. More than a dozen personal soldiers had no choice but to support Meng Haigong and others to walk towards their residence.

When he returned to the mansion, Wu Shaoyou carefully placed Li Zitong on the bed and covered him with bedding. When his personal soldiers saw that his lord was drunk, they stopped disturbing him and closed the door for him.

At this time, Wu Shaoyou smiled at his personal soldiers and said, "I'll go back to the inn to pack up my things, and then come over."

The personal soldiers also knew that Wu Shaoyou was already his own person, so they smiled and said, "If General Wu has a lot of things, let's go and help!"

"I have nothing, just some small things, a small package, everyone, come back in half an hour."

Wu Shaoyou said goodbye and left, but unexpectedly he never came back after going there. He was still missing until the evening. The soldiers felt something was wrong and hurried into the house to visit Li Zitong who was sleeping. Everyone was stunned. Li Zitong's face was pitch black and had been dead for a long time. (To be continued...)
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