Fang Qifu announced loudly: "According to the military order of the Holy Duke, our rebel army will never accept the scam of the Dog Emperor to recruit peace! God bless the Holy Duke, may you live forever!"

The generals responsible for the defense in front of the rebel camp, as soon as they heard the Holy Duke’s military order, immediately shouted repeatedly as if they had been given blood:

"We, the rebel army, will never accept the scam of the Dog Emperor to recruit peace! God bless the Holy Duke, may he live forever!"

The momentum was so great that the three envoys Zhang Bangchang, Liu Yu and Liu Lin were frightened.

Zhang Bangchang frowned and thought to himself: We did not meet the rebel leader Fang La, but Fang La issued a military order and refused to accept the imperial court's offer to recruit people. He also called the emperor a dog emperor! I am afraid that we came to recruit people according to the official order.

It was very difficult to do.

What shocked Zhang Bangchang even more was the slogan shouted by Fang La's troops, "God bless the Holy Duke, may he live forever"!

As Minister Zuocheng, Zhang Bangchang certainly knew that this slogan was adapted from the eight words on the imperial seal of his autobiography: "If you are ordered by heaven, you will live forever."

Zhang Bangchang once saw the imperial seal on the dragon case of the current Zhao official. It was four inches in diameter, as white as mutton fat, with five dragons on it and a corner of the base covered with gold.

The Chuanguo Jade Seal, also known as the "Emperor's Seal", was engraved by the Prime Minister Li Si of the Qin Dynasty on the order of the First Emperor, using He's jade. It is the certificate of the orthodox emperors of all dynasties.

After the Qin Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties regarded the jade seal passed down to them as a talisman, treating it as a rare treasure and an important weapon of the country. Obtaining it symbolized that they were "mandated from heaven", while losing it represented that they had "exhausted their strength".

Anyone who ascends to a high position without this seal will be ridiculed as a "white emperor", showing lack of confidence and being despised by the world.

In the past dynasties, those who wanted to be emperors fought for each other. As a result, the national seal changed its owner many times and traveled around China for more than a thousand years, disappearing and reappearing.

Liu Bang led his army into Xianyang first, and the prince Ying, who had lost the Qin Dynasty, presented the imperial seal to Liu Bang.

When the Han Dynasty conquered the Qin Dynasty, they obtained this jade seal passed down to the country.

When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and established a new dynasty, he asked Wang Shun, the Marquis of Anyang, to ask the Queen Mother for the imperial seal.

Queen Mother Wang Zhengjun cried bitterly and angrily scolded Wang Mang for his treason and rebellion. He wanted to destroy their Wang family...

Wang Shun threatened the Queen Mother with life and death...

Queen Mother Wang Zhengjun took out the Imperial Seal and threw it to the ground angrily, breaking a corner of the Imperial Seal.

After Wang Mang got the imperial seal, he ordered skilled craftsmen to use gold to repair the broken corner of the imperial seal.

After the fall of Wang Mang's new dynasty, the imperial seal changed hands several times, and finally fell into the hands of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiu, and was passed on to the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Shi Changshi revolted, and the young emperor fled in a hurry, unable to take away the imperial seal...

Sun Jian's men salvaged the body of a palace maid from the Zhen Palace Well in the south of Luoyang City, and found the imperial seal from the pouch under her neck...

Unexpectedly, someone in Sun Jian's army reported the matter to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu.

When Yuan Shu heard this, he immediately detained Sun Jian's wife and forced Sun Jian to hand over the imperial seal.

Yuan Shu's brothers were defeated and died, and Cao Cao received the imperial seal and presented it to Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty.

The Wei Dynasty replaced the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the jade seal returned to the Wei Dynasty.

The Three Kingdoms were unified, and the jade seal returned to Jin...

During the Southern Dynasties, the imperial seal passed through the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen dynasties.

The Sui Dynasty unified China, and the national seal was passed down to the Sui Dynasty.

In March of the 14th year of Daye, Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was killed in Jiangdu, and the Sui Dynasty was destroyed. Empress Xiao took Yang Zhengdao, the grandson of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and escaped into the Mobei Turks with the jade seal that passed down the country...

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing led his army to attack the Turks and won a great victory. In the same year, Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao, the grandson of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, returned to the Central Plains with the Turks on their backs, and presented the national jade seal to Li Tang. Taizong Li Shimin Long Yan was very happy...

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and heroes were everywhere. In the fourth year of Tang Tianyou, Zhu Quanzhong deposed Emperor Ai of the Tang Dynasty, seized the Jade Seal of the Chuan Dynasty, and established the Later Liang Dynasty. Sixteen years later, Li Cunxu destroyed the Hou Liang and established the Later Tang Dynasty. The Jade Seal of the Chuan Kingdom was transferred to the Later Tang Dynasty.

In the leap month of the 43rd year of Qingtai in the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Congke, the last emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, together with the Empress Dowager Cao, set themselves on fire in the Xuanwu Tower, and the imperial seal disappeared.

During the reign of Emperor Zhezong of the Song Dynasty, a farmer named Duan Yi discovered the jade seal passed down from the country while plowing the fields and sent it to the imperial court. After 13 academicians verified it based on the records of the previous dynasty, they determined that it was the jade seal passed down from the country made by the First Emperor. However,

, knowledgeable people in both the government and the public at that time also suspected that it was a forgery.

Now, that jade seal, which is the imperial power granted by heaven, the orthodox and legal imperial seal, is in the hands of the Zhao Guan family.

Zhang Bangchang, the minister Zuocheng, knew that when the Zhao family issued an imperial edict, they would stamp it with a red seal using the national jade seal.

The big red seal left on the imperial edict contains eight seal characters: "Ordered by Heaven, you will live forever and prosper."

At this time, Zhang Bangchang heard the slogan shouted by Fang La's rebel army, "God bless the Holy Duke, may he live forever"!

It can be seen from this that Fang La, who claims to be the Holy Duke, has the ambition to seize the country and become the emperor. This makes Zhang Bangchang very scared, and even more worried that not only will he not be able to complete the recruitment task assigned by Zhao Guan's family, but he may not be able to go back...

…

Just as afraid as Zhang Bangchang were Liu Yu, the deputy envoy for recruiting security, and Liu Lin, his father and son.

Seeing the opportunity, Liu Yu flattered Fang Qifu and said with a smile: "General Fang, since your Holy Duke does not accept the imperial court's offer of peace, then of course there is no need for us and other messengers to enter your camp again. We will say goodbye here.

"

Liu Yu said as he cupped his fists, turned around and wanted to pull his son Liu Lin away from this dangerous place.

"Hmph!" Fang Qifu quickly put the knife on Liu Yu's neck and sneered:

"The dog officer wants to escape? When has it been so easy? My Holy Duke wants to personally interrogate you three dog officers of the court."

"Come here, tie up these three dog officers and send them to the Holy Duke's Chinese army tent for interrogation."

Six rebel soldiers came up and tied up the upper bodies, arms and hands of Zhang Bangchang, Liu Yu and Liu Lin with the ropes they had prepared.

The three security envoys repeatedly begged for mercy and said that they would not run away even if they were tied up. It would be an insult to the imperial officials to tie them up like this...

But Fang Qifu didn't care about their pleas for mercy.

The rebel soldier asked: "General Fang, do you need to blindfold these three dog officers?"

"Hehe..." Fang Qifu sneered and said: "Why bother? These three dog officers have entered the camp of our rebel army. Do they still want to go back to report our military situation to the dog officers' family? It's a good idea, but there is no return.

, just be prepared to die by being cut into pieces by Ling Chi or by five horses!"

Zhang Bangchang, Liu Yu and Liu Lin were so frightened that they suddenly felt cold.

…

Zhang Bangchang, Liu Yu and Liu Lin were escorted into Fangla's Chinese army tent. The lights were bright, and on a big tiger-skin chair, it was Fang La who was sitting majestically, wearing a flat crown on his head and a Gun dragon robe.

On both sides of the Chinese army's tent, there were more than a dozen rebel generals standing. Among them was a female general who was as good as a woman...

Zhang Bangchang was shocked and secretly sighed: Fang La's uprising had only lasted for more than half a month, so he was so eager to wear the dragon robe?

However, Zhang Bangchang could also tell by the candlelight in the tent that Fang La's dragon robe must have been made in a hurry shortly after the uprising.

The five-clawed golden dragon on Fang La's dragon robe was not made of pure gold silk, but woven from silk dyed yellow. This cannot be compared with the dragon robe worn by Zhao Guan's family when they attended the ceremony.

However, from the fact that Fang La dared to wear the dragon robe, Zhang Bangchang knew that his ambition was very big.

Fang La asked angrily: "Who is here? Why don't you kneel down when you see me?!"

Zhang Bangchang said calmly and calmly: "I am Zuocheng, the Minister of Economic Affairs, and Zhang Bangchang is the envoy for peace and security. I have come here under the imperial decree to issue the peace edict. I am an official of the imperial court, how can I kneel down and worship you?"

"Hmph!" Fang Qifu, who was escorting Zhang Bangchang into the Chinese army's tent, said angrily: "How dare you not kneel down when you see my holy prince using strong words and reasoning?!"

Fang Qifu, who was born with brute strength, stretched out his hand and pressed Zhang Bangchang's shoulder.

With a "plop", Zhang Bangchang was forcibly pressed into the Chinese army's tent.

Fang Qifu turned his head and shouted at Liu Yu and Liu Lin, the two deputy envoys, saying: "When you meet my Holy Duke, you two dog officials don't want to kneel down and worship? Then I will break your legs first, and then I will I will chop off your two heads with a knife."

"thump".

After two "plops", Liu Yu and Liu Lin knelt down in unison and said hurriedly: "See the Holy Duke."

Fang La laughed loudly and said: "The messenger sent by the Dog Emperor is nothing more than that. I will never be recruited. However, I would like to see what your Dog Emperor wrote in the edict."

Fang Fei, who was named prime minister by Fang La in the rebel army, walked up to Zhang Bangchang, found the edict of Zhaoan from his body, and handed it over to Fang La.

Fang La unfolded the imperial edict and became furious after reading it. He said: "The Emperor Dog is not sincere in recruiting us. On this edict, it is written that even if we accept the imperial edict, we will still be punished with death for rebellion. It's just that It’s not just about killing our nine tribes.”

The backbone of Fangla's uprising who followed him in the Chinese army's tent are now promoted to high-ranking positions by Fangla. This is because most of them are from poor peasant backgrounds, and many of them are not as literate as Fangla, who has been the owner of the lacquer garden for generations. Everything Fang La said was believed to be true.

They said that the three envoys sent by the imperial court to recruit people were swearing, and some even spat at the three envoys...

However, the rebel prime minister Fang Fei and the female marshal Fang Baihua, standing on the left and right of Fang La, were both well-educated and literate. They had already seen all the contents of the imperial edict.

What was written in the edict was not what St. Fangla had just said.

However, Fang Fei and Fang Baihua knew that their brother Shenggong Fangla was trying to cut off the consequences of the rebel soldiers so that they could no longer accept the imperial court's intention of recruiting peace.

In fact, when Fang La's rebel army knew that Zhao Guan's family had killed Zhu Meng, who had caused trouble in the southeast, their morale began to fluctuate.

"Start the Holy Duke." Fang Qifu bowed and said: "Just now, when Zhang Bangchang, the court dog officer in purple robe, first entered our army camp, he issued nearly a hundred cards to the soldiers who were responsible for guarding the camp tonight.

The Recruitment Edict is still there to publicize the details of the Dog Emperor’s desire to recruit our rebels…”

"Hmph!" Fang La was furious. He stood up, pointed at Zhang Bangchang's nose, and cursed: "Guan Gu, how dare you disturb the morale of our rebel army.

Come here, push these three dog officers sent by the Dog Emperor out of the Chinese army's tent and cut them into pieces on five horses!"

Fang La pointed at his younger sister Fang Baihua and his younger brother Fang Fei, and said, "You two, go to jail."

"I will obey the Holy Duke's will!" Fang Baihua and Fang Fei said in unison.

After meeting six soldiers of the National Army, they pushed him out of the Chinese army's tent...

Zhang Bangchang was so frightened that he shouted repeatedly: "The Holy Duke killed the envoy, this is not what a hero would do!"
To be continued...