Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

"Spare your life, spare your life! I beg you, Lord, to spare my life because we traveled north to Chang'an together in the old year and we were so close to each other. I live in Ji Nei and haven't returned home for a long time. I don't know anything about what my brother is doing in his hometown!"

Chen Xu was always the noble king of the clan. Although he was sentenced to death, he was not taken directly to the execution ground. Instead, he was introduced to the Da Nei Xi Provincial Office in Taicheng to prepare for a secret execution. Chen Xu was naturally not willing to let it go like this. After he died, he collapsed in the court with tears on his face and kept crying and begging for mercy.

Da Nei Xi Province is also known as Yongfu Province. During the Hou Jing Rebellion in the old years, Emperor Jianwen of Liang and his family were imprisoned here, and many Southern Liang clan members, including Emperor Jianwen himself, were killed here.

After Nanchen was established, he was disgusted with the ominous nature of this official office and the simplicity of personnel in Nanchen, so he banned the Western Province from use. It was not until the king was about to be executed that it was inconvenient to carry out executions in other dynasties, so someone from the previous dynasty proposed to use it here. Execution was restarted.

Just when Chen Xu was crying and begging for mercy, in the palace of Emperor Dauchi, at the request of Queen Li, Chen Changcai had the queen put into the palace. However, his face looked impatient and he said angrily. : "Queen, please rest in peace. You are about to give birth, so don't wander around as usual!"

Empress Li was pregnant and about to give birth. After hearing Chen Chang's words, she bowed down with some difficulty and said, "Since the Lord knows this, I sincerely ask the Lord not to kill lightly, but to pray for my child."

"I have long said that there is no need to tell the queen about affairs outside the court, who will spread rumors in the palace!"

After Chen Chang heard the words, he immediately looked at the palace people around the queen with an angry look and shouted angrily. After hearing the words, Queen Li quickly said: "It's not that the palace people told each other, it was me who found out unintentionally. I beg your lord, please don't act out of anger. The Zong family has no healthy heirs, and King Shixing’s crime is not worthy of death..."

"You noticed it accidentally? You have sharp ears and eyes, but do you know that the elders of your clan are using force to humiliate me and raise troops to the south?"

After hearing this, Chen Chang's face suddenly became even more unhappy, and he said bitterly: "I know your uncle is a hero in the world, and I also have deep respect for him. When Chang'an said goodbye, he often gave respectful and kind words, but now he has to look at Shu and even Jiangjiang." You won’t let me live anywhere in the east! Your brother lives in the upper reaches and has shown hypocrisy for a long time, but now he threatens me with weapons on board!”

"I am the wife of the Chen family. I haven't heard anything about the family affairs for a long time. I really don't know what my parents are doing..."

After Mrs. Li heard this, tears immediately fell from her eyes, and she covered her face and said sadly.

After seeing this, Chen Chang's expression was not as irritable as before, and he wanted to step forward to comfort him, but he stopped again, and his tone was no longer as fierce as before: "Of course you don't know, why should you tell a woman about a hero's hegemony? I won't do it today. I am willing to see you, but I don’t want to argue with you and feel sad, but you just refuse to leave!

Even if I am unable to rejuvenate the country, I will not blame women for my own inability. Please stop interfering with the affairs of King Shixing. Tang Guo’s bullying of me has nothing to do with you! Go back to bed quickly and take care of your baby with peace of mind. It is difficult for me to assert my authority now, all because of my weakness in the past. If I still submit and accept the past, I will be even less able to protect my wife and children! Whoever betrays me will be punished by me! "

As he spoke, he raised his hand and led the palace servants to quickly lead the queen back to the palace. After a pause, the waiter came again and said: "Inform the executioner, there is no need to use swords, just kill with poison, and collect the burial tiles." Guansi South.”

Chen Chang killed his cousin here to establish his authority, but it did not scare Chen Qian who was far away in Wuxing. Chen Qian not only did not order the divisions and brigade stationed in front of Songjiang to retreat, she even sent an additional team to the north to strengthen the defense line, and once again sent a message to the court that if the emperor continued to order the army to advance south, thus disturbing the Great Wall The tomb of the Chen family in the village, then he will directly raise troops to fight against the official army!

Chen Chang was originally dissatisfied with the Tang army's breach of contract and crossed the river. Of course, it was impossible to send officers and soldiers as the vanguard of the Tang army's trampling on the land of the Three Wus. The conflict between him and Chen Qian mainly focused on Chen Qian's unwillingness to obey the court and even repeatedly made blatant acts. A provocative move.

At present, the Tang army has not yet launched an offensive against Sanwu, so when Chen Qian used the excuse of Chen's death, he tolerated it again, ordered Wu Mingche to garrison there, and transferred back some of the troops previously sent to quell the chaos. division brigade. This move was not only to supplement Jiankang's defense force, but also to test the limits of the Tang army's restrictions on themselves.

When he saw that the Tang army did not oppose and stop this, Chen Changcai secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Tang army had no intention of directly interfering with Jiankang's military affairs for the time being. Of course, this is just self-deception. Now that the knife is on his neck, he is still lucky that his opponent did not chop him down directly. It is nothing more than a little self-comfort for a weak person in a desperate situation.

At present, the situation in the entire Jiangdong is tense, and the slightest disturbance is frightening. Everyone is secretly guessing when the Tang army will take action, and how many troops will be sent to Wuzhong by then?

In this extremely tense atmosphere, the days passed day by day, and people were guessing about the time when the Tang army would send troops southward. Unknowingly, the New Year was approaching.

As the New Year approaches, Chen Qian's mood in Wuxing becomes more and more solemn. When discussing military aircraft with her confidants in private, she said in a heavy tone: "The Tang Army now has all the advantages, but it has not been able to provoke it. It is because it wants to use time." Wear down the morale of our army, and when people become lazy and their minds are slack, they will attack with thunder.

You all must be diligent in warning the troops not to indulge their laziness. Especially around the New Year, it is the most dangerous time. Now we are not strong enough to advance north to meet the enemy, so we can only defend our hometown. Tell the camps not to indulge in homesickness and leave the camp without permission. The situation is critical now, and we can only return home after defeating the invading enemy! "

Chen Qian's worries were not without reason. Now that the local people in Wuzhong have gathered here, they seem to be numerous and powerful, but most of them are ordinary folks who have not undergone professional military training. The few military experiences they have are from the Hou Jing Rebellion.

The Hou Jing Rebellion was ultimately a civil war in Jiangdong, especially the rebels who invaded the Three Wus. Most of them were rioters from Danyang, Yixing and other places. Although they came with great momentum, they were essentially a group of rabble with low combat effectiveness. The combat experience accumulated from fighting against them would inevitably be insufficient once they fought against the elite Tang army.

For example, at the moment, although these folks were full of enthusiasm to defend their hometown when they first gathered together, even if the Tang army came in an instant, they would not be able to do so. Being able to fight with them with all one's blood and energy is really a battle ready at any time.

However, as time went by, the blood gradually cooled down. After the excitement of defending the country in the mind faded, various distracting thoughts came to the mind one after another, and the mood began to become hesitant and worried.

Although Chen Qian had made serious instructions, in the following time, the phenomenon of soldiers leaving the camp privately became more and more frequent, so that Chen Qian had to issue strict orders, and the punishment for soldiers leaving the camp became more and more severe, from the initial whipping and caning, to the final development of corporal punishment and even beheading, which made this phenomenon slightly restrained.

However, the Tang army's delay in launching an attack also made people more and more suspicious. The soldiers were restrained in the camps, and various speculations and discussions became more and more frequent. .

These speculations include optimistic ones, such as the Tang army retreated because they were afraid of the unity of the people in Wuzhong, and pessimistic ones, speculating that the Tang army in the north was just to attract the attention of the people in Wuzhong. The real killer move was actually to send elite soldiers on ships from Qingxu to Kuaiji, and then go north to attack Wuxing and other places.

In this series of discussions, there are also a few rumors that sound absurd and are actually a bit strange. One of them is that the northerners who came south could not stand the damp and cold in Jiangdong, and they stopped in Jingkou and other places because they were afraid of frostbite from the damp and cold. They were secretly urgently purchasing hemp fabrics in Jiangdong to make military uniforms for their soldiers.

This was said seriously, making it seem true, but anyone with a little brain could feel how stupid it was with a little analysis.

Tang Army Crossing the River How can we not make thorough preparations for such a significant event? Even if there is a shortage of cloth, the most efficient way is to collect it in the rear and transport it to the front line, or to directly raid Wuzhong for looting. After all, hemp cloth is not a scarce item in Jiangdong, and there was a backlog before.

These things are hard to sell in Wuzhong, and the Tang army is urgently searching for them, and even stagnating and missing the opportunity to fight? It sounds like the clumsy delusion in the minds of some countrymen who have a lot of goods in their homes and are frightened by the invasion of the Tang army.

However, just when some people were laughing at this, in the Linchuan Palace, Chen Qian saw several countrymen who were dragged into the hall, and the Northern Dynasty copper coins found from their bodies, and asked angrily with a sullen face: "Don't you know that we are fighting with the Tang army now? You dare to sell goods to the Tang army secretly, do you know that this is a capital crime of treason? "

"Please spare my life, my lord... We know that the two countries are hostile, and we dare not cooperate with the enemy, but we still need to eat and live. What we sell to the Tang army is just old hemp, rotten kudzu, useless and cheap things, but what we get in return is good money from the Tang country, and we make a lot of money. The Tang people are stupid for a short time, and they realized that they can't stand the damp and cold after crossing the river. We sell the rotten hemp to squeeze their money, not to cooperate with the enemy!"

Several countrymen bowed their heads and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy. Although they secretly traded with the Tang army, they did not think they did anything wrong. They just felt that these Tang soldiers were too stupid to use the good money from Jiangbei, which was extremely precious in Jiangdong, to buy cheap kudzu. They exchanged inferior for good, which is also a good thing to help fight the enemy!

"Shut up! I think you are stupid. Since you know that kudzu is as cheap as dirt and can be easily obtained, why should the Tang army buy it? He is here to invade your land, seize your home, and enslave your parents, wife, and children. How dare you, a fool, believe that they are doing fair business? It's really ridiculous!" Chen Qian became even more angry after hearing this explanation. He pointed at these people and continued to scold them.