"Ah...it's really cool...!"

Li Dezhang, Yuchi Huan, Cheng Chubi, Li Zhi and Ren Hu walked to the shade. Yuchi Huan sighed, and then listened to Ren Hu laughing and said, "There is sour plum juice there, I saw that there are ice cubes. You guys sit down, I'll get some over."

After saying that, Ren Hu jumped up, took five large tea jars, and ran to the supply of sour plum juice.

"Oh my god, Xiaohu's endurance is not something that can be covered. He can eat and bear it. I can't catch up with this vitality. If I had just stood in the military posture for half an hour, I would definitely be useless.

You guys, is Your Highness the King of Qi really messing with us?" Cheng Chubi asked while lying on the ground.

"That's where I went... You don't know. When my fifth brother really trained the Hu Ben Army, he looked cruel. It was those instructors, and I watched them come out.

The platoon general in our platoon, Xu Shaoyang, hehe... It used to be the Hu Ben Army. In order to enter the platoon, this guy stood alone for ten hours without moving, and the snake, rat, insects and ants crawled on their bodies without moving."

"My God...is this still human?" Cheng Chubi was shocked.

"One thousand to 30,000... Returning with a great victory, if it were a person, could it be done... The word "Hu Ben" is not so simple to control!" Li Dezhuan looked at the Hu Ben instructors on the side, standing and sitting, with strict discipline, which reminded him of what his father, the war god Li Jing, said when he left home.

"The Hu Ben Guard will surely be the strongest army in the future of the Tang Dynasty...!"

At first, Li Dezhang sneered, but now it seems that in just half a day, Li Dezhang had already felt the difference between the Hu Ben Army, which is really too different from other armies.

"The sour plum juice is here, hehe...I also dug a lot of ice cubes."

Ren Hu ran back, and the five tea jars were filled with sour plum juice.

"Thank you, Xiaohu, oh my waist..." Yuchi Huan said, taking a jar of sour plum juice and taking a sip: "It's really so good, I don't even think about it."

"Hehe...Whoever remembers who is the grandson? To be honest, I really envy those who ring the bell. However, I don't understand why Zhou Tuan Jiang's words are so ugly. If His Highness King Qi knew about it, he would have scolded these people and would not come to settle the score with him." Cheng Chubi asked with a frown.

"Hmph...!" With a sneer, Li Dezang took a sip of sour plum juice and said lightly: "I don't think that our prince, you can stay among the Hu Ben Guard, right?"

After saying that, Li Dezhang looked at Li Zhi on the side.

At this time, Li Zhi took a sip of sour plum juice awkwardly and said, "Brother Li, don't look at me. My fifth brother thinks so. I don't think so. I think everyone is a good product. It's a pity that I want to listen to my fifth brother. The expenses of these people are paid by my fifth brother, and the court did not pay a penny.

Think about it yourself. At this time, a group of people suddenly broke out and wanted to be an official in their own team. Can my fifth brother be happy?"

"Ah... I remembered it." Cheng Chubi was excited: "The Hu Ben Guard is not a soldier. The 15,000 people were recruited by His Highness King Qi himself. The court did not pay a penny, and we all used food and clothing for our food and clothing.

Tsk tsk... It seems that our days will be sad in the future. His Highness King Qi really wants us to leave. Once we leave, we can free up the military officer position. Why should the money paid by His Highness King Qi give us the military officer position?"

"Chubi, you finally got to the point, so the general Zhou Tuan is so unscrupulous. He hopes that the more we go, the better, so that the veterans of the Hu Ben Army can get the position of military officers and will not give us dandy plays." Li Dezhang looked at Zhou Likai who was unhappy in the distance and said, "In the future, the five of us must unite. Whoever encounters a difficult situation must help, so that we have the opportunity to survive this military training together.

Also, the training will become more and more cruel, but please believe me, as long as we can survive, we will definitely get more things."

"Well... Brother Li is right, let's work together!" Li Zhi smiled.

Following the others, they nodded together. Suddenly, the sound of a wooden whistle sounded, the rest ended, and the second half of the training began. Li Zhi and others started training in standing military postures and walking in the queue again. Just when the first day of the military training of Li You's Hu Ben Guard began, the Feng family in Lingnan, far away in the Tang Dynasty, was also planning for the future of their family.

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Lingnan, which is today Guangdong, Guangxi and northern Vietnam. Today, it is a place with dense population, developed trade and rich culture. However, before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was a place where everyone was afraid of, and it was even known as a barren land.

Lingnan is blocked by mountains and steep mountains from the Central Plains, and at the same time, it has a hot climate that cannot be tolerated by the Central Plains, so this place is also an excellent place for separatist rulers. As long as there is a great chaos in the Central Plains, local guards can isolate the roads and call themselves lonely and create obstacles to the unity of the world.

For example, during the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Qin general Zhao Tuo once seized Lingnan and established the powerful Nanyue Kingdom, posing serious danger to the new Han Dynasty. Therefore, since ancient times, the Central Plains dynasty called the enemy country in the north "Hu" and the enemy country in the south "Yue".

However, what is amazing is that from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was never separatist in the Lingnan region.

In theory, the world was still full of wars and chaos, which was the best time for division and division, but why did the Lingnan region never wander outside the territory of China? This must be attributed to a family...the Feng family in Lingnan.

According to historical records, the Feng family in Lingnan is not a local native.

In the 13th year of the Yuanjia period of the Song Dynasty (436), Emperor Feng Hong of Northern Yan lost his country, and Feng Ye "returned to the Song Dynasty with 300 people, so he stayed in Xinhui." The royal family of Northern Yan was surnamed Feng and his hometown was Goguryeo. After Northern Yan was destroyed by Northern Wei, his remnants surrendered to the Liu Song Dynasty under the leadership of Feng Ye and were placed in the Lingnan area.

In Lingnan, the Feng family was the local county magistrate for generations. However, because they were originally foreign families, they "did not implement orders", which often led to rebellion in the local area.

In order to change the status quo, a patriarch named Feng Rong decided to follow the customs and let his son Feng Bao marry a local female nobleman named Xian, who is a famous heroine in history... Lady Xian.

Mrs. Xian was from ancient Gaoliang (now Maoming, Guangdong). She participated in armed battles with her father and brother since she was a child. She was very brave and strategic, and she was very prestigious in the local area. After Feng Xian got married, Mrs. Xian advised her clan to be at peace with her own affairs; and Feng Bao also asked her tribe members to "comply with the people's etiquette" and completely integrate into the local tribe. In this way, Feng Bao and Mrs. Xian joined forces to govern the originally rebellious and impermanent Lingnan in an orderly manner.

Later, in order to win over Lady Xian, Emperor Wen of Sui also issued an edict, which means that Emperor Wen of Sui recognized the power of Lady Xian and the Feng family to rule Lingnan for generations.

Mrs. Xian also reciprocates her respectfully and will convene her clan members to teach their children every once in a while. When a rebellion occurs in Lingnan, the Feng family will act as the forewarning of the country and go to quell the rebellion as soon as possible.

Feng Ang was the son of Lady Xian. Later, as soon as Lady Xian died, Emperor Yang of Sui directly transferred Feng Ang out of Lingnan and appointed him as the General of the Left Wu Guard. His name was to attack Goguryeo, but in fact it was to annex Lingnan after the attack Goguryeo.

But who knew that Emperor Yang of Sui was defeated in the expedition to Goguryeo, so Feng Ang rushed back to Lingnan from Luoyang and expanded his territory. He successively attacked and destroyed Panyu, the emerging Gao Facheng, Xi Baoche and other separatist forces, and led Panyu, Cangwu, and Zhuyadi, and called himself the general manager.

Then the road was closed, but Feng Ang never became emperor, which was also a very smart place for Feng Ang. It was because of this that Feng Ang had the opportunity to contact the Tang Dynasty.

On July 18, the fifth year of Wude, Li Xiaogong and Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty had pacified the southern separatists such as Xiao Xian, and came to Lingnan and issued a proclamation to Feng Ang.

At this time, Feng Ang had a control range of tens of thousands of miles and a population of one million. His strength had surpassed Zhao Tuo, the King of Nanyue at that time. Therefore, some people persuaded him that if the general trend is still unclear today, it would be better to seize Lingnan and follow Zhao Tuo to call himself King of Yue.

But Feng Ang was very self-aware. He knew that Lingnan could not fight against the Central Plains, so Feng Ang presented all 49 states of Lingnan to the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan was so happy that he appointed Feng Ang as the Shangzhu Kingdom and the Duke of Geng, and let him rule the eight states of Gao, Luo, Chun, Bai, Ya, Dan, Lin, and Zhen.

After that, the Feng family still lived in Lingnan for generations.

Feng Ang also entered Chang'an as a hostage at that time, but Feng Ang was a smart person. After he entered Chang'an, he was still very quiet at the beginning, which made Li Yuan feel very relieved about him. However, later, Li Shimin launched the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

And since then, Li Shimin's Tang Dynasty has been fighting. In the first year of Zhenguan, Li Yi's rebellion was pacified... the battle between the Uighurs attacking the Turkic Malishan... In the second year, the battle between Minzhou, the battle between Liang Shidu, and the civil strife in the Western Turks.

The Battle of Hexi in the third year of Zhenguan and the Battle of the Eastern Turks in the fourth year of Zhenguan were the Battle of the Eastern Turks.

The fifth year of Zhenguan was the rebellion of Pinghu Xue tribe... At this moment, Feng Ang finally found an opportunity. The Tang Dynasty's soldiers were already very tired. It was also in this year that the Lingnan people began to rebel. Logically speaking, the Feng family was in charge of Lingnan for so long that a small rebellion could not be quelled, but it just couldn't.

Feng Ang then volunteered to go back to Lingnan to quell the rebellion. Li Shimin knew very well that Feng Ang would not come back after leaving, but now Li Shimin has no troops to use, so he had to let Feng Ang go back.

After Feng Ang returned, he quickly quelled the rebellion. But when Li Shimin summoned Feng Ang to the court again, Feng Ang had already shied away with his illness. Feng Ang's cleverness is that he would not offend you, and he would submit to you, but he would not be controlled by you. He just wanted to stay in his own Lingnan and live his own life.

This Lingnan is also a useless place. You don’t want it to be a land of China after all, but if you want it, you have to pay some price. It’s better to let Feng Ang do it.

Anyway, he doesn't claim to be emperor. When he wants anything, he will rebel. At this time, the Tang Dynasty will send troops, and it takes time and effort to send troops. If you can suppress it for a while, you can't suppress it for a lifetime, the Feng family can get the best of everything and get great benefits.

But when it was the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, Feng Ang felt that he was not going to be able to do it. At this time, Feng Ang wanted to leave some protection for his Feng family, and Feng Ang focused his eyes on Li Mingda.

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Chapter completed!