Although he 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 him before, now he is really considering whether to use her to win over Chi Yao.
When Li Maozhen left Qi State and went to Miao Territory sixteen years ago, the power of Qi State, Liang State, and Jin State were almost the same. No matter in the court or in 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, was lost. Although the empress had done the best she could, the development of the Qi Kingdom was still inevitably widened by Liang and Jin.
Especially in terms of talent.
The Xuanming Sect of the Liang Kingdom and the Tongwen Hall of the Jin Kingdom were both full of talented people. In comparison, the Huanyinfang 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. Inside and out, only the empress was holding up the scene.
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.
However, 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 immediately 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 experts 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. .
But as the saying goes, a thousand armies are easy to win 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. of.
That's why Li Maozhen tried every means to get him to join the gang.
In today's world, if the bug of the bad commander Yuan Tiangang is eliminated, in terms of status and dignity, 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 second to the bad commander. Down.
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. It doesn't matter who you are, King Jin Qi, 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.
Having been subjected to 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 the Twelve Cave, he felt that I also have my own calculations.
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.
Confront the possibility of 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. .”
"That's not impossible... Then I'll bother Brother Li."
Chi Yao pondered for a while and nodded.
Compared to wandering around the world alone, following this King Qi would definitely have no problems with basic necessities, food, 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 might 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. The first thing they passed was the territory of Shu King Wang Jian.
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 life of the King of Shu around him was quite legendary.
Wang Jian, like Li Maozhen, came from a grassroots background. He also made many military exploits during the Huangchao Uprising, rising from an ordinary soldier to the position of governor of a state.
Later, during the melee in the Central Plains vassal towns after Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty Li Ye succeeded to the throne, Wang Jian took the opportunity to send his troops to attack and destroy Xichuan Jiedushi Chen Jingxuan and Dongchuan Jiedushi Gu Yanhui, and actually occupied the two Sichuan lands. Later, he successively captured Shannan West Road, Hanzhong area, etc., and finally controlled the entire fifty-four states of Sichuan and Shu. He was granted the title of King of Shu and became a great vassal that cannot be ignored.
In fact, from a territorial perspective, Wang Jian's Shu Kingdom is stronger than Li Maozhen's Qi Kingdom, and has more development potential. Not to mention anything else, the easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack terrain is enough for him to develop with peace of mind and watch the changes in the world.
Looking back at Qi State, Li Maozhen's initial advantage was that the fiefdom was very close to the capital Chang'an, and he could hold the emperor hostage at any time to command the princes. But when Zhu Wen usurped the throne and the Tang Dynasty completely collapsed, his advantage had no practical significance.
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 by the three great kingdoms of Jin, Liang, and Shu. There is no room for development. To the west is the scope of Dangxiang and Uighurs. There are either mountainous areas or deserts. It is not a unified country at all. Suitable for a growing environment.
That's why Li Maozhen was obsessed with finding the Longquan treasure. Otherwise, given Qi's geographical disadvantage, it would be difficult for Li Maozhen to make a difference even if he were a god descending to earth.
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 sixteen 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 choice.
And this is probably the result that the bad guy wants to see.
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