Chang'an, the palace.

"There are such beautiful women in the world!" The emperor of the dynasty couldn't help but admire them when he looked at the scroll in his hand. At the same time, a feeling of dissatisfaction arose in his heart: Only I deserve such a beauty, but the bull's nose plundered people in the street. It's true sin that cannot be forgiven!

"Come!" Li Longji issued an imperial edict with a gloomy expression: The demon path plundered the Yang family's daughter Yuhuan on the street, and the Tianxiazhou Prefecture immediately investigated the whereabouts of the demon path, and killed him without any hesitation to save the Yang family's daughter Yuhuan.

When this imperial edict was passed on to the world, the whole world was sensational, and then the literati and the people around the world were talking about it. I wonder why it was a love story of a sword immortal and a mortal woman who fell in love with the world, and suddenly turned into a drama of a demon who forcibly robbing the women?

Some discerning people understood something quickly, but most people couldn't understand it, so Zuo Xiaoyou, the handsome and popular Jiujianxian, suddenly became a rat crossing the street that everyone shouted and beaten. The right and wrong are reversed so quickly, which shows that the tone of public opinion is terrible.

So when Zuo Xiaoyou and Yang Yuhuan spent more than half a year in Huaguoshan and returned to the secular world, the situation they faced was completely beyond their imagination.

Not long after the two entered the city, they were having lunch in the inn, and were surrounded by hundreds of soldiers.

"Demonic Dao! If you rob the Yang family lady, you will be unforgivable. You will be surrendered quickly. Maybe you can still keep your entire body!"

Zuo Xiaoyou and Yang Yuhuan were both stunned: What's the situation?

Although these soldiers were numerous, they could not stop Zuo Xiaoyou. However, Zuo Xiaoyou did not take action immediately and asked the leader restrainedly: "This general is in love with Miss Yang, so how can he say that he is forcibly robbing? Did the general make a mistake?"

"Hmph!" The general who led the lead looked at Zuo Xiaoyou and Yang Yuhuan, and couldn't help but be impressed by their style. Unfortunately, he was eating public meals and just obeyed orders, regardless of right or wrong: "Stop talking nonsense! I hand over the Miss Yang family with a sensible attitude, otherwise I would have let you die without a place to die."

Zuo Xiaoyou smiled, very coldly. Although he didn't like to kill people, as a semi-immortal who had achieved success in practicing Taoism, he was absolutely intolerable to be threatened by a group of mortals. So he was no longer polite. He unsheathed the sword on his back and turned into thousands of sword lights, covering all the soldiers in the sword lights. With screams, hundreds of soldiers were covered in blood holes and died on the spot.

The people around were so scared that they scattered birds and beasts. In a blink of an eye, there was no one in the bustling street market.

"Husband." This was the first time Yang Yuhuan saw Zuo Xiaoyou killing people. Although he was a little scared, he was more proud: This is my husband, who can protect me from harm.

"Are you afraid?" Zuo Xiaoyou put his sword back into the sheath, looking at her with a gentle expression.

Yang Yuhuan shook his head repeatedly and held Zuo Xiaoyou's arm tightly: "With your husband here, I'm not afraid of anything."

A gentle smile flashed in Zuo Xiaoyou's eyes and he said softly: "It seems that some interesting changes have occurred in the world in the past few months we have left." He paused: "You and I will change first, and then check this matter."

Yang Yuhuan nodded, then turned himself into an ordinary peasant woman, while Zuo Xiaoyou became a burly hunter with an arrow on his back. The two looked at each other, smiled at each other, and then left the place with their hands.

...

"I didn't expect this to happen." After Zuo Xiaoyou told Yang Yuhuan about the inn in another city, Yang Yuhuan suddenly realized it and was extremely angry: "I fell in love with my husband at first sight and voluntarily left with my husband. How can the emperor now turn black and white? It's simply shameless!"

Compared to Yang Yuhuan, Zuo Xiaoyou was much calmer and smiled and said, "It's not a big deal about the current emperor. Whoever made my wife so beautiful is that even if the current emperor sees her, she will develop a sense of monopoly."

After saying this, Yang Yuhuan's face turned red and she said shyly: "Husband is teasing me again."

"This is not teasing." Zuo Xiaoyou reached out to put his hand around her soft waist, gently stroked her lower abdomen, and said with a hot look: "It's just a truth to be honest."

Yang Yuhuan's delicate body trembled slightly, and his neck and ears turned red: "Husband...it's still during the day!"

Zuo Xiaoyou chuckled: "I just want to hug my wife, so I won't do anything randomly."

"Yeah." Yang Yuhuan breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little lost. Obviously, when the woman said she was full of excuses and said she didn't want it, her inner thoughts were: If you must persist, I'll give up on you halfway.

It’s a pity that Zuo Xiaoyou didn’t understand the woman’s inner heart deeply enough, and he missed a chance to shine during the day.

But Li Longji actually issued such an order and spread it all over the country, which was something that Zuo Xiaoyou could not tolerate. If he had not been a Taoist practitioner, if he had sneaked into the palace and assassinated Li Longji, he would have been punished by God.

The status of the emperor on earth is comparable to that of the Jade Emperor, but the life span of the emperor on earth is very short and cannot be compared with the Jade Emperor. However, the status of the emperor is protected by luck. If the gods under the Daluo Golden Immortal want to assassinate the Human Emperor, they will definitely pay a heavy price. In the mild case, they will die and disappear, and in the severe case, they will not be reborn forever.

So unless you don’t want to live, no one will do such thankless things. Of course, this is just a constraint on gods and monsters. If an ordinary person rebels and kills the emperor with his hand, there will be no problem. On the contrary, because he kills the emperor with his hand, he will have a great chance of seizing the emperor's aura. With the emperor's aura, he will have the qualification to compete for the world.

When Zuo Xiaoyou thought of building a local power and overthrowing the world of Li Tang, he suddenly felt his blood boiling, and even the Emperor's Sword buzzed, obviously very excited.

Zuo Xiaoyou was stunned: "Is this feeling of whim..." He showed a look of surprise on his face: "My words!"

...

Historically, the Tang Dynasty declined from prosperity because Li Longji was incompetent in his later years, favored treacherous ministers and valued An Lushan, which led to the Anshi Rebellion. Of course, some historians also believed that one should add a favor to Yang Guifei.

It's really a husky. You can enjoy the beauty of the world by yourself, but if something happens, you have to push the responsibility on the woman. There is no man's responsibility at all, and it also highlights the low status of a woman in the feudal era. The meaning of a woman's existence is to give birth to a child for a man and then take the blame for the man when he does something wrong.

This is like this for Baosi, Daji, and Yang Yuhuan. If modern people are asked to evaluate these women, they will get evaluations such as "not men" and "bastards". If you can't sit still, what does it have to do with women? If you push everything on women, what is the right of such a man to sit on the throne of the emperor?

It's just pity for those poor-destined beauties.

Now that Li Longji has turned black and white when he sees Yang Yuhuan's portrait, he wants to kill him. How can Zuo Xiaoyou forgive him? What's more, he found his own way because of this, so he won't show mercy.

A few days later, Zuo Xiaoyou brought Yang Yuhuan to Shuzhou and settled down here.

Shuzhou was the place where Yang Yuhuan lived when she was a child. Living here made her feel very intimate, but Zuo Xiaoyou brought her to Shuzhou this time not to enjoy life, but to find a base for rebellion.

Whether Zuo Xiaoyou plundered Yang Yuhuan or Yang Yuhuan took the initiative to become a couple with Zuo Xiaoyou, the Yang family was the one who benefited. Whether Zuo Xiaoyou, the Wine Sword Immortal, was stronger or when Li Longji was stronger today, the Yang family could rely on Yang Yuhuan's identity to please both sides. Moreover, as a family, the dogma that eggs never were in a basket has existed for thousands of years. So when Zuo Xiaoyou brought Yang Yuhuan to the door, the Yang family did not become a loyal minister and filial son after learning about Zuo Xiaoyou's plan to rebel, but sincerely gave money and food to others to help Zuo Xiaoyou grow and grow.

Shuzhou is an important town in Yizhou. Shu is located in Shu, and its geographical location is very important. Moreover, because Yizhou is a basin, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as you master some key passes, you can firmly grasp the entire Yizhou in your own hands. Moreover, Yizhou is too close to Chang'an. If you can launch a surprise attack without realizing it, Chang'an may not be able to wait for reinforcements and be taken down in a short period of time.

For this purpose, Zuo Xiaoyou placed his base in Shuzhou. Of course, as an idle person without a formal organization, he had to pull up a rebel team as quickly as possible. The best way was to get a bandit, then constantly rob the passing merchants, plunder the money and population, and wait for the government to suppress the bandits. Then, by defeating the formal organization team, he achieved the purpose of rapid expansion.

With Yang's family working outside, Zuo Xiaoyou only took a year to pull up a team of 50,000 bandits, and then after two years of training, he obtained 50,000 excellent special forces. Relying on these 50,000 special forces, Zuo Xiaoyou easily broke through the Shuzhou city gate and controlled the entire Shuzhou as quickly as possible.

Because Zuo Xiaoyou required his team not to take the common people one by one according to the military discipline of the Red Army, the people of Shuzhou panic for several days and found that Zuo Xiaoyou's bandit troops seemed to never disturb the people, and they had a feeling of joy in the military and civilians. They gradually became familiar with the soldiers of the Zuo family army, and gradually formed a relationship between the army loving the people, supporting the army, and fish and water. In just one month, Zuo Xiaoyou turned the control of Shuzhou into a solid foundation.

Later, Zuo Xiaoyou took Shuzhou as the base and successively seized control of the entire Yizhou. Because the people of the Tang Dynasty were more than 100 years of comfort, and Shu was not a border, the military discipline of the defenders was very loose and their combat effectiveness was not very high. Therefore, Zuo Xiaoyou took the entire Yizhou in just three months and quickly suppressed the rebels. At the same time, he did a lot of good things to fight against the local tyrants and divide the land. As a result, he was supported by the people of Yizhou and stabilized the entire Yizhou quickly. When Chang'an received the news and issued an order to quell the rebellion, Zuo Xiaoyou had completely controlled the military and political power of Yizhou.

Zuo Xiaoyou knew that An Lushan would launch a rebellion in more than twenty years, but in the past twenty years, the Tang Dynasty was still very stable. The timing of Zuo Xiaoyou's rebellion at this time was not good. Moreover, since he wanted to rebel, he certainly could not use power beyond ordinary people, otherwise the people in the sky would not watch the Tang Dynasty end.

Therefore, Zuo Xiaoyou was still a little nervous when facing the Tang Dynasty's siege army. After all, the entire territory of Yizhou has only more than 100,000 troops so far, while the number of siege army is 500,000, which is vast and continuous, and it is scary at first glance.

After learning about the situation through front-line information, Zuo Xiaoyou couldn't help but stutter: "It's coming quite fast."

"Husband, are you going to the front line in person?" Yang Yuhuan asked worriedly.

"There is no choice for your husband." Zuo Xiaoyou picked her up, put it on his thigh, and whispered: "If this battle is won, all Yizhou will belong to me. If you lose the battle, your husband's hard work will be ruined in the past few years. In any case, your husband will not make Li Longji live a better life."

Knowing that his husband was angrily criticizing Li Longji because of himself, Yang Yuhuan was also very happy. After all, which woman doesn’t want men to fight for him! The more powerful a man fights, the more she shows the charm of a woman. This is a supreme praise for a woman. It’s just... it’s a bit cruel.

"Husband, be careful." Yang Yuhuan's tender jade fingers gently stroked Zuo Xiaoyou's face: "I'm waiting for you to come back."

Zuo Xiaoyou smiled slightly and led his personal soldiers to the front line.

Although the imperial court had 500,000 troops of the siege, Zuo Xiaoyou was not very scared. After all, Yizhou had a natural defense line, and one man could not open the pass. Not to mention 500,000 troops, even if one million came, his 100,000 troops could block all the enemies in the future. What's more, the 50,000 special forces he trained for two years was enough to deal with the 500,000 troops of the siege army.

In two years, in addition to training these 50,000 special forces, Zuo Xiaoyou also collected a large number of alchemists to study and make gunpowder. Alchemists were the earliest chemists in the world. Zuo Xiaoyou believed that some of them must have mastered the method of making gunpowder, but because the ratio was not scientific enough, the success rate was not high.

Zuo Xiaoyou's guess was correct. After collecting more than fifty talismans, Zuo Xiaoyou found six ways to make gunpowder, but because of the different ratios, the power of the explosion was also different.

Two years ago, Zuo Xiaoyou raised these fifty priests, gave money, food and things, and asked them to study the optimal ratio of gunpowder. Whoever made the gunpowder more powerful would get generous rewards.

In order to give a generous reward and a better life, these alchemists worked hard and made a powerful gunpowder in just two years. Although the power of the gunpowder is still not very satisfying to Zuo Xiaoyou, in this era, it is already a super-age weapon with great power.
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