After reading Song Jiang's plan, Li Qiqi was filled with emotions. Although he was full of confidence in the Anti-Chu Army on the surface, he was actually afraid.
Li Qiyi knew that it was impossible for the Heavenly Saint Alliance to destroy the Chu army. The difference between the two sides was too great. The only advantage of the Heavenly Saint Army was that they could catch the Chu army off guard before they could react.
However, when the Chu army's elites reacted, could the Heavenly Saint Army, which was made up of civilians, really resist?
To be honest, Li Qiqi wasn't confident!
But after seeing Song Jiang's plan, Li Qiqi was much more reassured. This plan wasn't absolute, but it would increase the possibility of success for the Heavenly Saints Association. It was the most suitable route for the Heavenly Saints Association.
There was no doubt that Song Jiang's plan would not be used, but before that, Li Qiqi had another question. This plan was not complete. There should be a follow-up plan.
Li Qiqi's eyes were very sharp. He could clearly see that even after Song Jiang's three-step strategy was completed, Chu State was still not completely unified. This was not Song Jiang's style.
Song Jiang smiled and explained Li Qiqi's question. In his opinion, if he really completed these three steps, after destroying the main force of the Chu army and taking down the capital city of the Chu family, the general trend of the world was basically set. Unifying the world was only a matter of time, so there was no need to formulate the fourth and fifth steps.
Song Jiang's confidence gave Li Qiqi great confidence and hope. He also had some special expectations for Song Jiang.
Grandpa Mao once said that the power of the people was endless.
The Heavenly Saint Army was an army composed entirely of the people. After they had the correct operational guidelines, the power that erupted shocked the world.
Under the violent attacks of the Heavenly Saint Army, the Chu army was forced to retreat. In less than a month, they had already conquered more than a province. Especially in Liao Province, they were simply unstoppable. The first step was about to be realized. Although the current territory could not be connected, the Heavenly Saint Army already had the confidence to resist the Chu army.
Watching the Heavenly Saint Army grow stronger day by day, Li Qiqi would wake up smiling happily in his dreams at night. He looked at Song Jiang, the greatest contributor, with a different kind of charm.
Although Li Qiyi had thought highly of Song Jiang, he had only treated him as a counselor. Now, Song Jiang was not a counselor, but a hidden dragon!
Yu 'er was still too young. Although Fang La was capable, he was still too far away from Song Jiang. Song Jiang had foresight, ability, means, and was able to convince the masses. If the Heavenly Saints Association was handed over to him in the future, it might have a better development. Li Qiyi thought to himself.
As a leader, Li Qiqi was undoubtedly unqualified. He didn't have enough ability and vision to pave the way for Heavenly Saints Association in the future.
However, as a guide, Li Qiyi was qualified. He knew how to use people and how to delegate power. He knew that he was not capable enough, so he hoped that someone with enough ability could inherit his mantle. It didn't matter even if it was not his blood relative.
Li Qiyi was originally a scholar of the Humble Class who had been suppressed by the aristocratic families. He had no choice but to join the Heavenly Saints Association. If it wasn't for that…he would never have chosen the path of rebellion.
Song Jiang's experience happened to be similar to Li Qiqi's, which made Li Qiqi see his own shadow in Song Jiang. In addition, Song Jiang's performance was indeed too dazzling, so Li Qiqi had the idea of making Song Jiang his successor.
Although Li Qiyi wanted to marry his daughter to Zhuang Yu, it didn't mean that Zhuang Yu would become his heir. It was just that his daughter, Li Ning, had set her eyes on Zhuang Yu, so Li Qiyi had no choice but to fulfill his daughter's wish.
As his son-in-law, Zhuang Yu was indeed qualified to be Li Qiqi's heir, but he had to pass Li Qiqi's test first.
After some observation, Li Qiqi concluded that Zhuang Yu had the character, ability, and responsibility to be a son-in-law. He was loyal and considerate enough. He was definitely a good candidate to entrust his life to. His daughter had good taste.
However, as a leader, Zhuang Yu's current strategic vision and methods were insufficient. In addition, his personality was too arrogant. When he was stubborn, he would not listen to the opinions of others. In short, he was still too young and lacked experience!
However, in Li Qiyi's opinion, these were not fatal flaws. After all, who was not proud of a truly talented person? Zhuang Yu was still young. It was fine as long as he could change!
However, after some observation, Li Qiqi was disappointed. Zhuang Yu's arrogance came from the inside out and came from his bones. If he could really change it, he would not be Zhuang Yu.
Therefore, although Li Qiyi still liked Zhuang Yu on the surface, he no longer had any hope for him. In his heart, the real candidate for the successor was Fang La. Of course, as long as Zhuang Yu could correct his shortcomings one day, Li Qiyi would still consider him. After all, how could a disciple be as close as a son-in-law?
Rebellion was a skill, not a leader who could fight. Even if Fang La had ten people, they would not be Zhuang Yu's match. However, Fang La's understanding of theocracy and imperial power was even better than Li Qiyi's. In addition, Fang La had single-handedly taken over the Heavenly Saints Association in Hai Province. He had credit and ability, so Li Qiyi had always tacitly acknowledged the fact that Fang La was the successor.
Of course, that was before. Now, Li Qiyi had a new candidate in mind. He was Song Jiang.
Although Song Jiang wasn't Li Qiqi's son-in-law, nor was he his disciple, he was the one who had given the Heavenly Saint Army new students. His contributions were too great, and ordinary rewards couldn't be rewarded. Moreover, Song Jiang was too outstanding. Zhuang Yu and Fang La couldn't overshadow his brilliance. Compared to Song Jiang, the two of them were indeed too inexperienced.
Li Qiqi thought that Song Jiang was the right choice at the moment. However, he didn't expect that the biggest crisis of Heavenly Saints Association had already begun after he told Song Jiang about his idea of making Song Jiang the successor.
What Fang La did not know was that he had always thought that his biggest opponent was Zhuang Yu. He did not expect it to be the military advisor who never showed his strength.
Zhuang Yu had always thought that he was his father-in-law's successor. Who would have thought that his father-in-law would give up on him because of his personality!
Song Jiang was undoubtedly the most complicated. In history, Song Jiang was a leader. Although Song Jiang was deeply trusted by Li Qiqi in this life, would he really stay by Li Qiqi's side and be a military counselor?
Of course not!
Song Jiang was very ambitious. His goal was to become the ruler of the Nine-Five. Li Qiqi and the Heavenly Saints Army were his targets. However, Song Jiang didn't expect Li Qiqi to be so broad-minded. He didn't choose a son-in-law and disciple, but took advantage of an outsider like him.
If that was the case, then wouldn't his previous actions be meaningless? Looks like I've really judged a gentleman's belly with my petty heart!
Li Qiqi's trust moved Song Jiang, but he also blamed himself. However, he relaxed. For such a powerful person, there was no suspense in the choice between emotion and ambition!
Although the Heavenly Saint Army was unstoppable on the battlefield, they were also fighting in secret. If this trend continued, the Heavenly Saint Army would be destroyed one day. Of course, there was a prerequisite for this, and that was that Li Qiyi was no longer around.
As long as Li Qiyi was around, Heavenly Saints Association wouldn't be in chaos. But if Li Qiyi died one day, it would be hard to say. The good situation of Heavenly Saints Association might collapse immediately.
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June of the same year, Mount Zhong.
After reading the battle reports of the past month sent by the messenger eagle, Wang Teng's handsome face immediately revealed a happy smile. Now that the Chu royal family was swaying in the wind and rain, and the building was about to collapse, the imperial court's army could not control the situation at all, so they had no choice but to mobilize the border army to suppress the rebellion. His father, Wang Li, was among them, so Wang Teng, who had achieved success in his studies, naturally had to go.
It had been more than 4000 years since the founding of the Chu Clan, and their rule was deeply rooted. However, the Heavenly Saints Association had grown to such an extent in such a short period of time. It could be seen that the Chu Clan had lost the hearts of the people, and the resentment of the people was extremely deep!
However, when Wang Teng looked back at what the Chu clan had done over the years, it was not difficult to understand why the people's resentment was so deep and why the Heavenly Saints Association could grow so strong in just three months.
Chu Shi was courting death, how could she blame others! Wang Teng laughed in his heart.
During the reign of Emperor Gao, he imprisoned good people and favored eunuchs.
After the death of Emperor Pian, Emperor Jiangsheng ascended the throne, eunuchs such as Yujie played power, Liu Fan plotted to kill him, but the plot was not confidential, but was killed by him, Zhongjuan from then on more arrogant.
When a country is about to perish, evil spirits, treacherous officials, fatuous kings and so on will inevitably appear.
As far as fatuous rulers were concerned, Emperor Jiang Sheng had already produced several in the Chu family, and the things they did were more and more outrageous.
It was fine if there was one fatuous ruler, but there were several in a row, and each one was more exaggerated than the last. What was going on? Therefore, the commoners would naturally be disappointed in the Chu clan.
In addition to the heavy taxes, the bullying of the aristocratic families, the darkness of the officialdom, and so on, the basic civilians really could not survive, so they naturally despaired of the Chu family.
In the eyes of the commoners, the current Great Chu was no different from the Great Qin from thousands of years ago. They were both synonymous with brutality. However, the difference was that they had never experienced the brutality of the Great Qin before, but they had personally experienced the brutality of the Great Chu.
And why was the slogan of the Heavenly Saint Association,'Fight against the violent Chu, kill the fatuous ruler, kill the treacherous officials, and kill the evil demons', so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people?
That was because what she said was the truth. She didn't malign Madam Chu at all.
After the people completely lost hope for the country, they would naturally stand up and resist. Under the deliberate propaganda of the Heavenly Saints Association, all kinds of unfavorable remarks against the Chu Clan had reached a level beyond everyone's imagination. The Heavenly Saints Association could grow to this extent because of the victory of the fishing vessel war.
During the uprising of the Heavenly Saints Association, the Chu family had only ordered the various regions to recruit soldiers to defend themselves and allowed the powerful to recruit private soldiers to assist. Then, they had sent out a group of generals to lead elite soldiers to split up and suppress them.
However, the scale of the Heavenly Saints Association's uprising was far greater than before, and their talents were unprecedentedly prosperous. Therefore, not only did the Chu clan not easily quell the rebellion, but they also had the trend of being blown up. As a last resort, they naturally had to transfer the border troops.
As for how bad the battle situation was? The battle report that Wang Teng had received had a clear record:
On March 1st, the Heavenly Saint Alliance split into 36 armies in the eight states and established 28 cities on the same day.
On March 15th, the largest city in Liaozhou, Jing City, fell.
March 21st, the entire Jiyin County of the Eastern State fell.
March 29th, the entire Le 'an County of the West Region fell.
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