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Chapter 19 The Congratulatory Gift from the King of Liang

While he was introducing himself, he came to Li Qing. Li Qing today was very different from that day when he went to the mansion to cause trouble. He was very low and smiled, and saluted Zhou Yafu: "I have met the Prime Minister."

Zhou Yafu clasped his fists and returned the greeting: "I have met Lord Li."

Zhou Yang smiled and said, "Da Xing Order, are you here to celebrate your birthday today or to cause trouble?"

The smile on Li Qing's face suddenly disappeared, and he gave Zhou Yang a fierce look. Zhou Yang kept laughing: "Da Xing Ling, how have you learned your etiquette? Or is it just like that when you meet someone? That's not good, be careful that someone will break your fingers!"

"Yang'er, don't be rude!" Zhou Yafu rebuked lightly. Although he was shouting, he was smiling and had no anger at all.

"Hmph!" Li Qing snorted coldly. Everyone found that his nose had grown to the back of his head, and his face turned pale with anger.

The matter of turning the finger is Li Qing’s most annoying thing. He came to celebrate his birthday today. If Empress Li had not given strict orders, he would not have come. Zhou Yang mentioned it in public, wouldn’t he be intentionally angry to death?

"The child can teach you! The child can teach you!" Zhou Yang clasped his fists and looked like he was praising him.

"You!" Li Qing stretched out his index finger with his right hand, remembering the incident of Zhou Yang breaking his finger, and took it back in disappointment. Everyone found that even his mouth was at the back of his head.

Li Qing relied on his royal relatives and suppressed his colleagues a lot. The court officials were dissatisfied with him. When he saw his anger, he secretly shouted that he was happy and his favor towards Zhou Yang increased greatly. People say that Xiao Songyu was unpredictable in his behavior, and he was just based on his good or bad mood. It was true that he saw the result today.

Not only is it unpredictable to act, but it is also unpredictable. There are not many people in the court who dare to stroke Li Qing's tiger beard! This courage is amazing!

Li Qing wanted to have an attack, but remembered Empress Li's strict orders, so she had to endure it. Empress Li said, "The Grand Tutor and the Prime Minister have had a big arm to help. Even if you can't make friends with the Prime Minister, at least you won't be able to get along with the Prime Minister."

He himself knew that Liu Rong's position as a prince was unstable, and now it was a critical moment, so he had to force himself to hold it back and change into a smile: "Young Master Xie Zhou praises it, Li Qing remembers it in his heart!"

"hehe!"

The court officials burst into laughter. People in their decades are so sarcastic to Zhou Yang, and they still have to thank him. This is a strange thing in the world that has never happened!

Zhou Yang was speechless and his evaluation of Li Qing suddenly increased. This person could tolerate that ordinary people could not tolerate, and was not so incompetent.

"The envoy of King Liang is here!"

A loud sound sounded at the front door.

Zhou Yang turned his head and saw a group of people turning out from the main door. The two of them were the King of Liang's confidant Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng. Behind them, a group of servants were following, carrying the box and the steps were heavy, and the items in the box must be light.

"The envoy of King Liang?"

"How could King Liang congratulate the Prime Minister?"

"Who doesn't know that the Prime Minister and King Liang are deadly enemies? How did he send an envoy to come?"

The discussions of the officials were heard, buzzing, as if countless bees were flying.

Zhou Yafu was also surprised and stroked his forehead. Only then did he believe that he had heard it correctly. He quickly walked over and stopped Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng: "Stop!"

Gongsun Gui, Yang Sheng knelt in front of Zhou Yafu, and gave a big gift to see: "Gongsun Gui, the envoy of King Liang, Yang Sheng, meets the Prime Minister!" His forehead touched the ground, and he was respectful and tight.

The hatred between King Liang and Zhou Yafu is a deadly hatred and cannot be resolved. This matter starts with quelling the rebellion between the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu. Zhou Yafu led the Han army to quell the rebellion, but Zhou Yafu's troops were only 30,000 to 50,000, while the rebels of Wu and Chu had hundreds of thousands, and the difference in strength was too great.

These Han troops were temporarily drawn and pieced together by Emperor Jing. Only the two armies of Xiliu and Bashang were really useful. Among these two armies, the most elite one was the Xiliu army trained by Zhou Yafu, with only 10,000 people. King Liu Bi of Wu worked hard for decades, and the army was well-trained and fierce and good at fighting.

Zhou Yafu judged the situation and decided to avoid the main force of the Wu Chu rebels, not fight head-on, and fight with him. The first thing he did after leaving Wu Pass was to lead the army straight to Qi and control Qi, so that the situation did not develop in a worse direction.

King Liu Bi of Wu was ambitious but not talented. He was unable to attack Suiyang and became angry. He pushed hundreds of thousands of troops to the city of Suiyang and vowed to capture it. Suiyang was the capital of King Liang. The two armies fought under the city, and the battle was like mountains of corpses and blood flowed into rivers. King Liang Xiongyi was extraordinary and persisted. In the end, he sent all the palace maids and servants in the palace to the battlefield, which shows how cruel this battle was.

When Emperor Jing heard that the army of Wu and Chu attacked Suiyang fiercely, he was panicked. If something happened to King Liang, Empress Dowager Dou would not know how much fire it would be. He issued a continuous edict to ask Zhou Yafu to go straight to Suiyang and rescue King Liang.

Zhou Yafu knew very well that if he rushed straight to Suiyang, his little force would not be enough for the Wu Chu rebels to get into the gaps between the teeth, so he refused to send troops and took advantage of the high and thick advantages of Suiyang City to consume a large amount of Wu Chu rebels.

Of course, Zhou Yafu did not watch the fire across the mountains, but sent Han troops to copy the food routes of the Wu and Chu rebels. He succeeded repeatedly, but the Wu and Chu rebels were unable to provide food, his morale was low, and the fighter planes were mature. Zhou Yafu seized the fighter plane, launched a decisive battle, and defeated the Wu and Chu rebels in one fell swoop.

Although Zhou Yafu made extraordinary achievements, he also annoyed King Liang. King Liang wanted Zhou Yafu to die, and he was always thinking about how to kill Zhou Yafu.

The King of Liang actually sent envoys to celebrate his birthday, Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng were also very respectful, and the officials could not understand why.

In order to quell the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, King Liang's military achievements were second only to Zhou Yafu, and his reputation rose sharply. In addition, he seized a large number of treasures from the seven kingdoms of Wu and Chu. Only a small part of these property was handed over to the court, but more were embezzled to him, and used to win people's hearts, recruit scholars, and sing praises for him. His reputation was higher than that of a day.

The only minister in the court can compete with him is Zhou Yafu. Emperor Jing wanted Zhou Yafu and King Liang to fight with him so that he could profit from it. The merger of these two forces was the most feared thing Emperor Jing was the one who feared the most. Now, King Liang sent someone to celebrate his birthday, which is a sign of showing goodwill. Once the two resolved their hatred, it would violate Emperor Jing's taboo, and Emperor Jing would start a massacre of Zhou Yafu.

Zhou Yang was secretly shocked: The vicious King Liang, he was causing trouble to the Zhou family!

The best way to protect yourself is to scold Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng in front of so many people and bomb them away. If this is the case, once it is heard by Emperor Jing, Emperor Jing will definitely be very happy and value Zhou Yafu more.

When other ministers were not sure about the reason, Dou Ying had already thought of a solution and hurriedly came to Zhou Yafu and whispered in his ear: "Prime Minister, King Liang is sinister and he will be driven away. You must not let them enter the mansion!"

As soon as I entered the mansion, I couldn't explain it clearly. Killing away before entering the main gate is a top strategy.

Once Zhou Yafu reminded him, he agreed with Dou Ying's words and would scold him as soon as he opened his tiger's mouth. Zhou Yang said, "Father, the two adults are running thousands of miles away, and the journey is hard. Please invite them to the mansion to serve tea."

"Yang'er, nonsense." Zhou Yafu shouted softly.

Dou Ying frowned and whispered in Zhou Yang's ear: "Young Master, don't you see that King Liang's plan is extremely vicious. Leaving them is a disaster for the family to be destroyed."

Zhou Yang was very calm, as if he didn't hear it: "The Grand Tutor is too worried, how could King Liang feel like this?"

Dou Ying was still talking about it, and found a faint smile flashing across Zhou Yang's mouth. He knew this smile very well. Last time he turned against Zhou Yafu, wasn't Zhou Yang laughing like this?
Chapter completed!
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