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Chapter 193

Ten days later, Zhe Xiangyue came back and told Lu Qi that Duke Ding would not surrender to Zhang Yongde, but Duke Ding would still respect the court. If one day the court ordered Duke Ding to attack Lu Qi, the Duke Ding Guo would step down and return to Linzhou.

After hearing this, Lu Qi wrote a military order to go to Hexi, and dispatched 30,000 troops to guard Taiyuan, and asked 30,000 troops to escort a large amount of food. He began to prepare for the northern expedition of 30,000 cavalry.

Just as Lu Qi was preparing for the northern expedition, a large-scale mutiny suddenly occurred in Jingzhao Prefecture. More than 200,000 Zhou State's military forces stationed in Fengzhou suddenly drove out to attack Jingzhao Prefecture. Jingzhao Prefecture had 50,000 troops guarding the city, and nearly 10,000 troops rebelled. However, King Ji was promptly aware of the suppression, which caused the city to be seized from the inside and outside. Most of the military forces guarding Chang'an City were the imperial guards who were originally stationed in Hehuang, but did not betray King Ji.

The rebels failed to seize the city, but instead occupied the prefectures in the southeast of Chang'an City. The march was obviously to echo the Zhao army of the Jianghuai family. Pan Mei's army was stationed in Xiangzhou, and Cao Bin's army was stationed in Luoyang. When Lu Qi received the news, he didn't know whether Cao Bin and Pan Mei sent troops, because the territory east of Jingzhao Prefecture involved the interests and responsibilities of Cao Bin and Pan Mei.

Lu Qi was caught in a decision, thinking about whether to send troops to deal with the rebels of Jingzhao Prefecture. He was considering Pan Mei's military strength. Under the attack of the rebels of Jianghuai and Jingzhao Prefecture, he would probably surrender to the Zhao family. After all, Pan Mei was originally close to Zhao Kuangyin. If Cao Bin did not send troops to deal with the rebels, Pan Mei would be in a situation where she had no choice.

If Pan Mei surrendered to the Zhao family, it would seriously affect the morale of the Zhou country and boost the Zhao family's momentum. Lu Qi did not want the Zhao family to have an overwhelming advantage quickly, but if he sent troops, it would attract a lot of hostility. In the end, Lu Qi decided to continue to watch coldly. Even if Zhao family successfully rebelled, he would have the advantage of seizing the Central Plains.

Lu Qigang decided to watch coldly. Three days later, an imperial edict that surprised him suddenly came, ordered him to go to Jingzhao Prefecture to take over as the Grand Governor of Guanlong. King Ji stepped down as the Jingzhao Prefecture and was only responsible for the government affairs of Jingzhao Prefecture. He gave Lu Qi the power to appoint and remove the military positions of the Grand Governor of the Prefecture, as well as the governing power in all prefectures in Guanlong.

Lu Qi received the imperial edict and suspected that he had heard it wrong. Emperor Zhou actually asked him to replace King Ji and take charge of the military and politics of Guanlongzhou. This imperial edict was equivalent to assigning the Guanlong area to Lu Tianfeng.

Although Lu Qi was surprised by the decision of the Zhou emperor, he knew that it was not appropriate to go, and immediately ordered the cavalry to set off and handed over the military and political affairs of Taiyuan to Zhexiangyue. These days he had already let Zhexiangyue take over the military and political affairs of Taiyuan, and at the same time, he let Zhexiangyue advertise the imperial edict of Emperor Zhou to shock Taiyuan's unstable military strength.

Lu Qi traveled day and night, and sent troops to Hehuang and Longxi to all the troops. He also ordered 30,000 troops to be transferred to Taiyuan to Fengxiang. He went to take over the Guanlong Grand Governor's Office and local military affairs. It was very dangerous without the cooperation of his own military power. Only by legally adding a big stick can he be able to subdue and recruit Fengxiang's garrison.

Taiyuan Jinyang City is thousands of miles away from Chang'an City. Three days later, Lu Qi and 2,000 cavalry arrived near Chang'an City. Other cavalry marched at a constant speed behind. Horses should not be rushing for a long distance, otherwise it would be easy to hurt the horse. Once they encounter an enemy, they would suffer a great loss because of the end of their strength.

Lu Qi did not rush to Chang'an City, but sent people to Chang'an City to meet King Ji. He and two thousand cavalrymen were stationed fifteen miles away to rest. After two hours, the envoy and more than two hundred soldiers returned to the garrison.

When Lu Qi saw that the soldiers who came with him were more than 20 familiar generals, all of whom had been stationed in Hehuang. As soon as he met, Lu Qi nodded with a smile, and then took out the imperial edict for the generals to pass it on.

When the generals saw the imperial edict, they were obviously excited and happy. They clearly had a backbone reaction. They all respectfully paid homage to Lu Qi. After talking to Lu Qi, Lu Qi realized that another imperial edict from Emperor Zhou had arrived in Chang'an City. King Ji had already announced that Lu Tianfeng was about to be the Grand Governor of Guanlong.

Lu Qi learned about the situation and learned that Fengxiang's rebellion was rebelled, mainly based on the Du Yuhou of the Fengxiang Jiedushi Army and the 20,000 troops from Yanzhou, rebelled more than 70,000 troops, and there were also 10,000 troops in Chang'an City. However, because the discovery was timely, the troops guarding the city gates were all those who had once stationed in Hehuang, so the rebellion in the city was suppressed.

Now Fengxiang still has 120,000 troops without rebellion, mostly from the eastern territory of Luoyang, that is, the military force that is not close to Zhao Kuangyin. Although Fengxiang still has 120,000 troops without rebellion, King Ji did not dare to go to patrol the army, but just sent people to appease the 120,000 troops to continue to guard Fengxiang and resist the threat from Hanzhong, but in fact, if the Jin army in Hanzhong attacked, the 120,000 troops would definitely retreat, which was too disparate from the small number of Jin troops.

After Lu Qi learned about it, he ordered the 30,000 troops in Chang'an City to be deployed. He bluntly stated that he would recruit 120,000 Fengxiang troops. He needed to join the Longyou military forces, and then carried out a large-scale military reorganization in Fengxiang. The generals understood and took the order back to Chang'an City to prepare. Lu Qi and the cavalry went to join the Longyou military forces.

Three days later, Lu Qi led the 110,000 infantry troops from Jiezhou, Longxi, Hehuang and Hexi, the 10,000 cavalry troops from Qinzhou, the 30,000 cavalry troops from Taiyuan, and the 30,000 troops from Chang'an City. A total of 180,000 troops were approaching Fengxiang, almost half surrounded the 120,000 Fengxiang garrisons.

King Ji also left Chang'an City and arrived with the Fengxiang garrison with the army. He ordered 120,000 generals of Fengxiang garrison to come to see each battalion commander, deputy commander, and record officers to join the army.

The strong army was so arrogant that the orders were summoned. The 120,000 troops stationed in Fengxiang were not unified. They remained unmoved because there was no military order to surrender. Of course, there were also loyal military officials who were unwilling to rebel. Therefore, when the orders came, they all ordered the army to see each other.

King Ji built a one-meter platform ten meters square, with nearly a thousand generals from the 120,000 Fengxiang garrison. After arriving, he realized that there were nearly two thousand generals standing in the platoon. They were interspersed and stood around the platform, waiting for the answer to the mystery to be revealed, and they all felt that there would be no good things.

They all stood up and did not let the generals wait for a long time. Seeing that King Ji appeared and walked towards the central high platform, behind King Ji was a young man in handsome armor. The two walked up to the high platform one by one.

King Ji faced the East and took out a volume of Minghuang imperial edicts and read out loudly: "According to the will of heaven and the emperor's will, I ordered Duke Yu Lu Tianfeng to take over as the Grand Governor of Guanlong, take charge of all military and political affairs in Guanlong, and give the power to appoint and remove officials, I am here."

Many generals around were surprised and looked at the stage with some misheard and even doubted whether the imperial edict was true. King Ji turned around and said, "Lu Tianfeng received the edict."

"I am Lu Tianfeng, long live my emperor." Lu Qi knelt down and received the imperial edict, then stood up.

King Ji turned around and said aloud: "Sirs, please pay homage to the new Grand Governor of Guanlong."

The generals around and 10,000 soldiers on the periphery all bowed their bodies and knelt on one knee, shouting unevenly: "Gours to the Grand Governor of Guanlong."

"Please get up, everyone." Lu Qi shouted loudly, and the soldiers stood up one after another and looked at the platform again.

Lu Qishi turned his hand to King Ji to greet him. Just as he was about to speak, King Ji suddenly said loudly: "Lu Tianfeng received the order and knelt down."

Lu Qiyi was shocked, why did he have an imperial edict? He could only kneel down and said respectfully: "I am Lu Tianfeng who listened to the edict."

"According to the will of heaven and the emperor, he appointed Lu Tianfeng as King Yu of the Great Zhou, and I am here." King Ji read out loudly.

Lu Qi looked up in shock, and there was also a burst of noise around him. King Ji looked at Lu Qi with a smile and said, "Tianfeng, please accept the order."

Lu Qi quickly lowered his head and said respectfully: "I am Lu Tianfeng, thanking Your Majesty for your gift, Long live my emperor."

Before King Ji left, he placed the imperial edict in Lu Qi's extended hand, then helped Lu Qi up, looked at Lu Qi and smiled and said, "Tianfeng, you will be the same as me in the future, and I will listen to you in the future."

Lu Qi was stunned at King Ji, and was confused for a moment. King Ji turned around and said loudly: "Please pay homage to His Highness King Yu."

The soldiers around him knelt on one knee again and shouted loudly: "Greetings to His Highness King Yu."

"Congratulations to Your Highness King Yu." However, some soldiers shouted more.

King Ji turned around and smiled at Lu Qi. Lu Qi also looked at King Ji, and looked at him with all his eyes. Lu Qi suddenly nodded and said, "Xi Jin, we are brothers, we will always be."

King Ji nodded sadly, Lu Qiyi turned around and said aloud: "Please get up, everyone."
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