The prefect of Changshan and the Marquis of House Deng Chen were ordered to enter the palace to pay homage to Emperor Jianwu Liu Xiu.

Deng Chen came from the Deng family in Nanyang. Deng family was a wealthy family in the local area. Unlike the Yin family, which was also a large family, Deng Chen's ancestors were a high-ranking official of 2,000 stones. His great-grandfather Deng Long served as the governor of Yangzhou; his grandfather Deng Xun served as the governor of the Junkou site; his father Deng Hong was the commander of Yuzhang. Although the Yin family was a descendant of Guan Zhong, the famous minister of the Spring and Autumn Period, his family background was prominent and wealthy than kings and princes, the Yin family did not have any high-ranking officials in the Yin family and had little political influence in the past few generations.

Deng Chen's talent is not outstanding, but he has two genius nephews: Deng Yu and Deng Feng.

Deng Chen's wife is Liu Xiu's sister Liu Yuan, so Deng Chen is Liu Xiu's brother-in-law and one of his most loyal followers.

At that time, Liu Xiu's eldest brother Liu Yan raised many guests. Most of them were "little thieves", which were robbery and murder, and sometimes caused the government to come to the door. In order to avoid the government, Liu Xiu lived at his sister's house and was very close to his brother-in-law Deng Chen. Deng Chen often blew in his ears and encouraged him to raise an army. Unlike most people at that time, Deng Chen always favored Liu Xiu, not Liu Xiu's eldest brother Liu Yan.

The Chongling Army was defeated in Xiao Chang'an, and Deng Chen's wife Liu Yuan and three daughters were killed. After this battle, the Deng family's house and ancestral tomb were destroyed together. The Deng clan members were very angry and accused Deng Chen and said, "The family is rich and noble, but good life is not good. Why do you have to follow your wife's family to rebel? Wouldn't it bring disaster to the family?"

Deng Chen's reaction was: No response. He caused his own rebellion, whatever others say, as for the family being implicated, what does Deng Chen have to do with him?

Later, Deng Chen was appointed as the prefect of Changshan by Liu Xuan. When Wang Lang rose up, Liu Xiu fled from Ji all the way south to Xindu. Deng Chen immediately ran from Changshan to meet him. Liu Xiu said: "It is better to use a county as my support if you follow me alone."

So Deng Chen returned to Changshan County, supported Liu Xiu with the strength of a county, sent him food and grass soldiers, and helped him achieve his imperial career. After Liu Xiu ascended the throne, he was granted the title of Marquis of Houses.

After King Liu Yang of Zhending rebelled, he sent troops to attack Changshan. Deng Chen could not stop him and retreated step by step. Thanks to Geng Yan's timely leadership of troops, he stabilized the situation in Changshan and forced Liu Yang's troops back.

This time Deng Chen came to Handan to report to the emperor about the matter of Zhending Kingdom. When he encountered Deng Feng's rebellion, he was shocked.

As soon as he saw the emperor, Deng Chen bowed to the ground and apologized to the emperor on behalf of his nephew.

Liu Xiu waved his hand and said, "Okay, Weiqing, this is Deng Feng's own way of death. What does it have to do with you?"

Deng Chen felt half relieved and stood up and said, "I have gone to the letter to denounce him, and I will definitely tie him up to him to take the crime in front of His Majesty."

Liu Xiu had no hope for this. People like Deng Feng may not be able to hear what they say, not even their biological fathers said.

The emperor said: "It's okay, the Wu and Han army will definitely be able to wipe out this traitor."

When Deng Chen heard the emperor's tone, he knew that he had escalated the matter to rebellion, rather than dealing with the struggle between the generals, and Deng Feng would probably not be able to save it.

"Where Your Majesty's Heavenly Soldiers go, they are definitely in a state of power. Deng Feng's son is hard to resist," Deng Chen said a cliché first, and then pondered: "But... the Nanyang soldiers are not easy to deal with. This battle is probably not just a war, but more about winning the morale of the army and the people."

Liu Xiu nodded and agreed with Deng Chen's words in his heart. Nanyang soldiers, especially Deng Feng's soldiers, even if a tiger carries a group of sheep, sheep will turn into a tiger. Although Wu and Han have many soldiers, they should be able to defeat Deng Feng, but they will never be easy. Nanyang County will also be greatly damaged. If they can win the hearts of the military and civilians in Nanyang and make their hearts look to the court, Deng Feng would not have any great ability to do it.

But will the hearts of people in Nanyang look towards him Liu Xiu?

Although Liu Xiu is from Nanyang, he is not sure that the people from Nanyang will support him.

He raised an army back then for the wealth of the Liu family, not the people of Nanyang. What he brought to Nanyang was a series of wars, and how many families were destroyed. What about Deng Feng? He had his own troops to protect himself and protected the village. This time he was also due to resisting the Wu Han plundering the people. In this sense, Liu Xiu probably had become a tyrant in Tu Du Township.

Tyrant? Liu Xiu was shocked by this word. I don’t know why he thought so. How could the title of Tyrant be associated with him, a kind monarch.

All under the world, is it the king's land, or the king's ministers, how can the people of Nanyang not recognize their monarch? If they all oppose Deng Feng together, then they should all be killed!

Liu Xiu didn't know why he had so much hatred. Deng Feng's incident made his mentality lose peace, and made the monarch who treats people with kindness often have some violent thoughts.

Deng Chen looked at his face and said carefully: "Your Majesty, if Deng Feng can repent if he knows his mistake, I will write to you to explain..."

"Can he do?" Liu Xiu suddenly let out a low roar from the depths of his throat. Although the voice was not high, it scared Deng Chen and himself at the same time.

On this day, his heart experienced earth-shaking changes. At this time, it seemed that it was not Wu Han who was fighting against Deng Feng on the battlefield in Nanyang, but that Liu Xiu and Deng Feng were facing each other. They looked at each other with a fierce look, just to see who could not support him and bowed their heads first.

Deng Chen thought to himself: "It seems that the emperor is really angry. Will that little bastard Deng Feng send a letter to apologize? Impossible! If he can bow his head to others, it will not be Deng Feng. But if he doesn't bow his head, would he ask the emperor to bow to him?"

In the pre-Qin period, there were often cases where monarchs admitted their mistakes to their ministers. However, since the monarch's autocracy continued to strengthen and the emperor was gradually deified and gradually became an eternal bright, great and correct existence, and monarchs had almost nothing wrong with it.

At this time, Liu Xiu had suppressed the evil fire in his heart and tried his best to say in a peaceful voice: "I have summoned you here today for the Grand Tutor Deng Yu, and it is Zhonghua's business."

Deng Yu is gradually losing power in Hedong and is struggling, but because of his incompetence, he feels ashamed and unwilling to withdraw his troops. He is still struggling to drive away the defeated army and constantly challenge the morale Tian Kuang army, and is defeated repeatedly. Deng Yu wrote a letter to the court to send reinforcements into Hedong, but now Liu Xiu's territory is on all sides and he has no ability to help Deng Yu again.

Liu Xiu said: "You go to Hedong and call Zhonghua back. Let him... stop being stubborn."

He paused and said, "He captured Hedong and lost it in his hands. I don't blame him, but I can't lose Hedong, but I can't lose Zhonghua. Now that the enemy's troops have reached Taihang Mountains, if you don't make plans, I'm afraid the Hedong army will not even have a way out. You must let him come back no matter what, and come back alive."

Deng Chen was a little moved. The emperor always took great attention to Deng Yu. Even if he lost the battle and lost his troops, he still did not blame him and was still worried about his safety.

But he thought again, if there is a mistake in the Taihang line, Deng Yu will have a hard time returning home. So what does Your Majesty mean to let him go? Are you not afraid that Deng Chen will not come back?

Of course, Deng Chen did not dare to say this, but said in a sour tone: "I will accept the order, I will set off now."

Liu Xiu is ready to give up Hedong. Hedong and Hebei are separated by Taihang Mountains in the middle, which is difficult to enter or out, and there should be no major problems in defense. In the current unfavorable situation, he should shrink his defense line and do his best to extinguish the rebellion within the territory and stabilize Hebei's basic foundation.

The first goal is Liu Yang, the King of Zhending who is close to him. Liu Xiu must concentrate his troops to quell the Zhending Rebellion with thunder, so that the rest of the people can see the consequences of the rebels.
Chapter completed!