The imperial edicts were sent to the hands of the great vassal kings one after another.
The seven vassal kings are Xu Xiao, the most powerful king of Northern Liang, who controls the land of three continents, including Liuzhou and the Western Regions, which is a total of five continents. He has 350,000 regular soldiers and horses, and his generals are even more capable than Li.
There are more Yang and Beimang combined.
Zhao Bing, the king of Yanchi, controlled the two states in southern Xinjiang and had a standing army of 200,000 troops. His strategist was Nalan Youci, who was known as one of the top five strategists in the world. He was good at pursuing good luck and avoiding disaster. His son Zhao Zhu.
The King of Jingan, Zhao Xun, was sitting in Qingzhou, and the Qingzhou Navy under his command was known as the best naval force in the world. The counselor Lu Xu, through the planning of the old King of Jingan, Zhao Heng, was also financially strong, and it was easy to form an army of tens of thousands.
The king of Guangling, Zhao Yi, and the eldest son Zhao Piao, as the saying goes, father and son are of the same mind and weigh more than a thousand pounds. Both of them are famously fat men. Zhao Yi is sitting in the land of plenty in Guangling Road and has strong financial resources. Unfortunately, after the restoration of Western Chu, Guangling Road bore the brunt.
It has become somewhat corrupt. The advisor is the owner of Chunxue Tower, which is also a well-known organization in the world.
Zhao Yi and his son were notoriously lecherous, which led to widespread resentment in Guangling Road and laid the foundation for the restoration of the Western Chu Kingdom. There were not many soldiers and horses under his command, and their combat power was not strong. Li Chungang's sword broke through two thousand six
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Zhao Sui, the king of Jiaodong, whose fiefdom was located in the north of Liyang, was the only vassal king who had good relations with Xu Xiao. In his early years, due to Yuan Benxi's scheme, all his generals were killed, his strength was greatly reduced, and he had no ambitions.
Zhao Ying, King of Huainan, was recognized both inside and outside the court as the most cowardly vassal king. He was greedy for life and afraid of death, and was also the vassal king who had the least need to weaken him.
Then there is the newly promoted King of Shu, Chen Zhibao. This guy is also a hard worker. He was called over again just a few days after returning to Shu.
The total number of soldiers and horses of these seven vassal kings is one million. If Chen Zhibao takes control of Shu, there will be hundreds of thousands more troops.
You must know that the entire army of the Liyang Dynasty includes 300,000 border troops from the two Liao Dynasties, 200,000 garrison troops in Gyeonggi Province, 100,000 troops sent to Guangling Road, and the garrison troops in various places add up to only a dozen
Ten thousand, these armies combined are not enough for several great vassal kings.
Although each of the major vassal kings has a little bit of trouble, but now that the imperial edict has arrived, there is naturally no reason to refuse. If you refuse at this time, it is no different from treason.
They don't want to be used by Zhao Kai to establish their authority.
Beiliang, because the journey is the farthest, Beiliang is the first to set off.
After Xu Fengnian returned from Shu, Li Yishan also passed away. Fortunately, with the help of Zhao Kai, the master and apprentice met for the last time, which made up for the regret.
After taking care of Li Yishan's funeral, Xu Fengnian, the prince of Beiliang, personally led the Eight Hundred Fengzi Battalion to replace Xu Xiao on the road to Tai'an City. Beimang and his party gave Xu Fengnian enough qualifications to help him in his old age.
Xu Xiao took over the heavy burden.
So far, Xu Fengnian has not brought many masters, only young people and Xu Ying.
Originally, Xu Xiao hoped that Xu Weixiong would come with him. Unfortunately, since Chen Zhibao left Beiliang, Xu Xiao granted the death of his two adopted sons, and after military advisor Li Yishan died of illness, things suddenly became more complicated in Beiliang. Now Beiliang's military, political and internal affairs,
She was the one presiding over it, and it was no easier than Zhao Kai.
On the other side, the king and his son of Southern Xinjiang also set off with a thousand guards. As a counselor, Nalan Youci also accompanied them. Originally, Zhao Bing hoped that Zhao Zhu would stay in Southern Xinjiang. After all, they all knew the character of the new emperor Zhao Kai.
I don’t know, it would be good to leave a way out, but this proposal was rejected by Nalan Youci.
"It's not appropriate to blame him at this time. Don't be the first to show off."
Guangling King Zhao Yi and his son also set out with thousands of followers.
On the huge six-axle carriage, Zhao Piao, who weighed nearly 700 kilograms, was eating food and said with some contempt:
"The goatee was right. The emperor really passed the position to the illegitimate son. I don't know what means he used. There is not a single person in such a big Tai'an City who opposes it."
The goatee in his mouth is none other than the owner of Chunxue Tower.
Zhao Yi, who is also a fat man, raised and lowered his hands to the beautiful woman beside him, and did not forget to say:
"Biao'er is better to be careful with what you say. I heard that Zhao Kai is a murderer without batting an eyelid. If he really attacks us, it will be over. No one can stop him."
Zhao Piao said nonchalantly:
"I'm just saying it here. Besides, if he really dares to attack us, wouldn't it be equivalent to giving up Guangling Road to Western Chu? If we really want to reduce the vassal, we must first deal with the northwest and southern Xinjiang.
Well, we’re not rebelling, we just want to be free and happy, don’t worry.”
Zhao Yi nodded when he heard this, and then ordered his followers to rest where they were. The guards understood and formed a circle around the carriage from a distance. It didn't take long for the carriage to start shaking.
At the same time, Zhao Xun, the young king of Jingan in Xiangfan City, also set out. At this time, Zhao Xun was very high-spirited and had just married a beautiful girl. Among the many vassal kings, he was the youngest and also ambitious.
Bo Bo, he alone has the final say in Qingzhou now.
His dead father Zhao Heng also left him an unparalleled counselor, Lu Xu.
Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that Lu Xu had already been spotted by Yuan Benxi and was to be selected as his successor. In an era where old foxes were rampant, without outstanding counselors, it was only a matter of time before he was plotted against.
The other major vassal kings also set off one after another, with as many as thousands of escorts accompanying them, and as few as if they had defeated the vassal king Zhao Ying, and only brought a few dozen riders with him.
Not only the six vassal kings, but also many retired retired generals received the imperial edict and began to gather in the direction of Tai'an City.
At the same time, Zhao Kai also sent out invitations to many old friends he knew, such as Li Dangxin, Deng Tai'a and others, and even Donghai Emperor Wu City was among the invitations. Regardless of whether you come or not, you still have to be sincere.
All the powerful and powerful people are gathering in the direction of Tai'an City, just to watch Zhao Kai's enthronement ceremony. As the saying goes, even if you are rich and noble, you should never forget each other. When you become rich, you will naturally not forget your former friends.
On the other side, Huang Sanjia also took Wen Hua and Hehe girls to secretly come to Tai'an City and studied swordsmanship with Huang Sanjia for so long. At this time, he still didn't know that the brother who used to hang out with them would soon become Beiliang.
King, the other will soon become the emperor of Liyang.
If he knew it, his expression would definitely be wonderful.