However, although he was choked, hearing such words from Chi Yao convinced Li Maozhen that this person was not a bad person.
After all, bad people have always regarded the commander-in-chief Yuan Tiangang as a god. It is difficult to say even a derogatory word, let alone making such a joke.
Since he is not a bad person, his heartbeat index has increased again. If he was just using his sister, the Empress, to tempt and seduce him before, now he is really considering whether to use her to win over Chi Yao.
When Li Maozhen left Qi State for Miao Territory sixteen years ago, the power of Qi State, Liang State, and Jin State were almost the same. Regardless of the court or the Jianghu, the three families were competing for equal shares, and no one was willing to give in.
But after so many years, Li Maozhen, the real backbone, has been lost. Although the empress has done the best she can, the development of the Qi Kingdom will inevitably be separated by Liang and Jin.
Especially in terms of talent.
The Xuanming Sect of the Liang Kingdom and the Tongwen Museum of the Jin Kingdom were both full of talented people. In comparison, the Huanyin Workshop of the Qi Kingdom was much inferior. There were only two or three big cats and kittens, and there were almost no people who could stand alone. Lili
Outside, the empress alone is the one holding the show.
Of course, originally only the people of Qi Kingdom knew all this. In the eyes of outsiders, they were still a tripartite force, and no one was left behind.
But in order to rescue Li Xingyun, the empress took the initiative to provoke the second Liang Wang Zhu Youzhen.
Zhu Youzhen sent a large army to attack, and the two powerful forces fought, which suddenly exposed the false veil of Qi's foreign power, and the ghost king of Xuanming Sect took the opportunity to attack, which vividly demonstrated the plight of Qi's lack of manpower.
After this naked reality was revealed, the development of Qi Country fell into a real dilemma.
Even if Li Maozhen returns and joins his younger sister, the Empress, to make up for the gap in the number of top masters between Qi and Jin, the gap in middle-level strength that has been slack for sixteen years cannot be filled in a short time.
Li Maozhen's original idea was to recruit troops after getting the Longquan treasure. After all, money is attractive, and money can make all the difference. As long as you are willing to spend money, there will always be talents, and it is not impossible to rise in a short time.
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But as the saying goes, a thousand armies are easy to get but a general is hard to find. Most of those who can be bribed with money are ordinary people in the world. Top masters like Chi Yao who can confront him head-on without falling behind are rare.
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That's why Li Maozhen tried every means to bring him into the group.
In today's world, if the bug of the bad commander Yuan Tiangang is eliminated, in terms of status and honor, he, the first generation Qi King, is higher than the new Jin King Li Siyuan who inherited the throne from his father; in terms of personal force, Li Maozhen is confident that he is only among the bad commanders.
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It can be said that his only shortcoming is that the stagnant Qi State did not take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie when the Liang State collapsed, resulting in a lot of distance from the Jin State.
However, if there is a top expert to help, then these gaps are not impossible to make up.
And from the perspective of fighting against bad commanders, top masters are more useful than thousands of troops. After all, although Yuan Tiangang cannot stop a million divisions with one sword, who can carry these armies with him all the time?
Li Keyong's fate is an important warning to Li Maozhen.
The bad commander really wants to kill people, but he has no scruples at all. No matter who you are, King Qi of Jin, as long as he thinks you are in the way, Tiangang will be merciless.
Li Maozhen also listened to the bad commander's inducement, and then chose to leave Qi State and go to Miao territory alone to find the method to decipher the Longquan Treasure Box.
After suffering inhuman torture for so many years, he had never thought about whether this was a trap specially set for him by the other party. However, based on his confidence in his own strength and the magic he gained from Twelve Cave, he felt that in his heart
I also have my own plans.
Because he can be sure that in this world, he is the only one who can unlock the secret of Longquan. Even if this is the plan of the bad commander, then as a chess piece, he must be safe before the secret is truly revealed.
And this buffer time is the key to him finding a way to break the situation.
Originally, his idea was to use the characteristics of the Meteorite Gu to escape from the human body as a last resort, but the appearance of Chi Yao made him see another possibility.
Face the possibility of facing bad guys head-on!
Seeing that Chi Yao was still hesitating, Li Maozhen softened his tone and said, "Well, brother Chi, you don't have anything to go to anyway, so why not just walk with me for a while? It's not too late to think about other things on the way.
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"That's not impossible...then I'll bother Brother Li."
Chi Yao pondered for a moment and nodded.
Compared with wandering around the world alone, following this King Qi will definitely have no problem with food, clothing, housing and transportation.
As a person who has just come from modern times, to be honest, if he did not have these high-quality guarantees in life, he would not be able to stay in ancient times for a second.
After all, his cultivation level has not yet reached the point where he can live without grains and ignore the reincarnation of grains.
"Okay, hahaha~"
Li Maozhen suddenly burst into hearty laughter.
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The two of them set off from the Miao border to Fengxiang, and the first place they passed was the territory of Shu King Meng Zhixiang.
Even though Li Maozhen didn't think highly of this King of Shu, he also recognized that he was capable of protecting himself, and upon closer inspection, the lives of the surrounding King of Shu were quite legendary.
Meng Zhixiang, like Li Maozhen, was born in the grassroots. He also made many military exploits during the Huangchao Uprising, rising from an ordinary soldier to the position of governor of a state.
Then, during the melee in the Central Plains vassal towns after Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ye succeeded to the throne, Meng Zhixiang took the opportunity to send his troops to attack and destroy Chen Jingxuan, the military governor of Xichuan, and Gu Yanhui, the military governor of Dongchuan, and actually occupied the land in both Sichuan. Then he successively captured the mountains.
The Nanxi Road, Hanzhong area, etc. eventually controlled the entire fifty-four states of Sichuan and Shu, and were granted the title of King of Shu, becoming a great vassal that could not be ignored.
In fact, from a territorial point of view, Meng Zhixiang's Shu Kingdom is stronger than Li Maozhen's Qi Kingdom, and has more development potential. Apart from anything else, the terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack is enough to reassure him.
Develop and watch the world change.
Looking back at Qi State, Li Maozhen's initial advantage was that his fiefdom was very close to the capital Chang'an, and he could hold the emperor hostage to control the princes at any time. But when Zhu Wen usurped the throne and the Tang Dynasty completely collapsed, his advantage no longer had any practical significance.
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On the contrary, the shortcomings of a small site and insufficient moving space began to appear.
The north, east, and south of the Qi Kingdom are sandwiched between the three great kingdoms of Jin, Liang, and Shu. There is no room for development. To the west is the Dangxiang and Uighur areas. They are either mountainous areas or deserts. They are not a unified country at all.
Suitable for a growing environment.
That's why Li Maozhen is obsessed with finding the Longquan treasure. Otherwise, given the geographical disadvantage of Qi country, even if Li Maozhen is a god descending to earth, it will be difficult for him to make a difference.
In fact, Qi State originally had another way to break the situation, which was to take advantage of the death of Zhu Wen and his son and the collapse of Liang State to send troops eastward to break through the blockade.
It's a pity that Li Maozhen was deceived by a bad handsome man and went to Miao territory for 16 years. He completely missed this wave of perhaps the only opportunity to save himself.
Nowadays, apart from pinning their hopes on the Longquan treasure, Li Maozhen and his Qi country really have no other way to go.
And this is probably the result that the bad guy wants to see.