Realm of Power

“It really only takes five days from the Southwest Waterway to Xinjing Linhang!”

Hearing the words of the head of the Wang family, Chen Dongyang's expression suddenly changed, his voice was trembling with an imperceptible tremor, but his heart was as excited as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood, and his eyes were bright red. I really didn't expect that he was still alive. I really found incredible evidence. The expansion of the waterway by the Long Family in Southwest China would have been nothing if it happened before!

But at this moment, there are too many things for people to speculate about. Some things are completely different in special times.

"Now is the spring flood that starts the annual flow of water. The waterway from the Taojiang River is swollen. It is not impossible to reach Linhang from the southwest within five days!" Several heads of noble families also noticed that Chen Dongyang was The tone of voice changed, and they all said that this was indeed the case. Some even said that the goods they shipped from Kawaguchi City were shipped downstream at this time.

After receiving the confirmation, Chen Dongyang's face suddenly became serious, and his tone revealed a bit of a soldier's nature. His eyes swept across the pale faces of several family heads like sharp swords, and he said with a bit of murderous intent, "There is such a thing." If you weren't forced to say it, how long would you have kept it secret? You know, you can be said to have already stepped into the gate of hell with one leg! "

"Repairing waterways involves too many people, and young people are afraid of offending too many people by speaking out."

The heads of the noble families looked hesitant on their faces. "The Long family's repair of the waterway dock is not a small project. The manpower, supplies, and material expenses have all been contributed by many local wealthy families. If the investigation uses this as an excuse, If the Long family is determined to be rebellious, then probably 80% of the entire southwest wealthy families will be involved. It will definitely be an extraordinary disaster for the native southwest wealthy families who are helping each other."

"Stupid, are you all planning to stay in this little Kawaguchi City forever? As long as you seize this opportunity, it will be an opportunity for your family to soar into the sky! As long as His Majesty recognizes your loyalty, a high-ranking family is not a luxury. !" Chen Dongyang swung his long sleeves and snorted heavily, feeling even more excited inside. It's so moving that it's almost flying. How many people are involved. The entire Zhongbia court is looking to the southwest. How can such a fertile land always be so unsightly and inedible? If the Long family is moved, the next step will be natural. It means to eradicate all these local forces that have been entrenched for many years. Now we can find an opportunity to eradicate them together. Wouldn't it be better!

This news really shocked Chen Dongyang himself. He was an important general in the army. He naturally knew that the strategic importance of the southwest as the birthplace of the waterway in the central and southern parts of Central and South Africa is self-evident. From the southwest Going down the waterway is the most convenient way to march into the central and southern parts. Whether it is transporting troops or supplies, this The point had been used by the Qin Empire as early as a thousand years ago during the Unification War. In order to eliminate the powerful southern enemy, the Qin people first occupied the southwest, and finally used the southwest as a springboard to attack the upper reaches of the lower reaches. With a huge advantage, he went down the river and captured the enemy's capital with lightning speed.

"What do you mean, sir?"

Chen Dongyang's conditions really made the heads of famous families excited. The Long family has occupied the southwest for decades. Due to the cold relationship with the court, the wealthy families in the southwest have always been the target of suppression. Even their family status has not changed for decades. , even the Long family itself is only a second-grade family. For example, these famous families in Kawaguchi City are said to be famous. In fact, they don’t even have a fifth or sixth grade family. They dare to claim to be famous in the southwest. Outside the southwest, if you encounter a really big family, you will be suppressed and raise your head. Moreover, because of the problem of family status, , among the native nobles in the southwest, no one has served as an official in the Zhongbia court for decades. It is simply a political desert.

The sky here belongs to the Long family, and the earth belongs to the Long family. Do you still want to surpass the second-grade family of the Long family? Treason!

Now that I heard the angel mentioned family status, my ears suddenly perked up. If I could reach the top threshold of the sixth-grade family in one breath, it would be worth the effort!

"The Long family's rebellion is undeniable. I believe you all will know how to choose." Chen Dongyang walked back and forth for a few steps with a solemn expression. Seeing everyone's heartbeat, he took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and said, "Also, For those Southwest families who helped the Long family repair waterways, I also hope that you can Write them all down! The more you write and the more detailed you are, the higher your achievements will be, and His Majesty the Emperor will have expectations for you! You know, when the grassland army went south and bypassed the Yanzhou barrier and pushed into the central part, at the beginning They were also in a tough fight, and it was because of the water channel problems that led to the final catastrophe in the Imperial Capital! "

"There is such a thing!" Several clan leaders were dumbfounded.

In order to make these clan leaders make up their minds, Chen Dongyang even tried his best to tell the scandal about his defeat that year. It turned out that the Zambian Empire had gathered an army of five to six million people in the imperial capital's hundred-mile long court. To block the approach of the grassland army, the bloody battle between the two sides lasted for nearly three months.

In the end, the situation was disrupted by the grassland army's sudden advance. The big reason was that this army that broke into the grassland grasped the characteristics of the imperial capital's hundred-mile long court as the center of the intersection of the central water system and adopted a cavalry group to advance along the river. This strategy forced the enemy to be defeated along the way and had to take the initiative to come out from the strong city wall to fight with the grassland army. Otherwise, if the imperial capital thought that he was just sitting back and watching the grassland army approaching the imperial capital and only seeking to protect himself, it would be a major crime for the whole family to be executed.

It is precisely because of this that the largest military cluster in central Bibia, which mainly consisted of defensive infantry, and the hundreds of thousands of flattering Zhangwu troops who guarded the imperial capital were eventually defeated by more than 100,000 prairie cavalry. Even the imperial capital fell into the hands of the prairie people, resulting in The biggest catastrophe in Central Asia in more than a century

"So the last thing your Majesty wants to hear now is the waterway! And the most worried thing is that someone will use the waterway to attack again." Cheng Dongyang said word by word. "Linhang is a big city in the south by the sea. It itself spreads from west to east for thousands of years." The outlet of the Nanda River, which is many miles away, can be said to be reached directly by a waterway. The grassland people are northern desert people and are not accustomed to water, so they are not afraid that the grassland people will go down by boat. However, it is different in the southwest. The Southwest Basin has a dense network of waterways and has always had abundant water resources. Several large rivers that cross southern Central and Bibia originate here. Everyone in the Southwest Basin knows how to swim. There are also several large merchant fleets that travel between the Southwest and southern Central and Bibia all the year round. It can be said that he knows the conditions of the waterways along the way very well. As long as Southwest is willing, it is entirely possible to directly cross these thousands of miles of obstacles and transport the murderous army directly to Xinjing to sail! "

This is the real speed of the army. The navigation side was caught off guard. Who dares to say that there will not be a second escape to the capital?" Chen Dongyang paused and continued, "The Long family did not repair the waterways and river networks before, but they chose to Last year, when the imperial court almost depleted its troops to fight against the Yelu family, the Long family did not want to worry about the country. Instead, they made great efforts to expand the waterway in the upper reaches of the waterway and strengthen the transportation capacity of the waterway. Isn't this with ulterior motives? The Long family is not only trying to stand on its own feet, but at a critical moment, they also want to deal a fatal blow to the Central and Asian courts! Do you have any hesitation? Do you want to be destroyed along with the Long family? "

The best state of the crime of Luo Zhi is that even the person who is accused of Luo Zhi believes that the crime is true. For example, now, under Chen Dongyang's words that are like peeling off the cocoon, not to mention several regional prominent families in Kawaguchi City, even Chen Dongyang himself has some vague ideas. The Long family is repairing the waterway. If it is not a plot against Linhang, what else can it be! This is a real rebellion! That night, a fast horse carrying a red-covered document ran out of Chen Dongyang's residence. In order to prove the convenience of the southwest waterway, another document with the same document went south along the waterway.

Five days later, under the fiery red sun that illuminated the entire journey of Linhang, a fast horse entered Linhang,

The Long family repairs the southwest waterway! Hand this plate over. ⊙, the whole court was shaken. When the ministers who were attending the court meeting saw the emperor sitting on the high seat, his face turned pale. There was even a trace of obvious panic in his eyes. He held his hands tightly on the armrest of the dragon chair. , and for a moment he didn’t say anything!

"The Long family's treasonous crime has been confirmed, Your Majesty, please make a decision!"

"Yes, His Majesty treats the Long family well. He has been a benefactor to the Long family for decades and has allowed him to sit in the southwest. The Long family still treats His Majesty like this. It is really a wolfish ambition."

"So many prominent families in the southwest are following the Long family. If they don't take action, I'm afraid the situation will be too big to lose."

The ministers were filled with righteous indignation, and the charges of treason were laid on the Long family for free. They wished that the Long family in Southwest China would be demoted to nothing. His Majesty wanted the Long family to die. Everyone knew this, but no one knew it. Thinking about it, when the three-way investigation team entered the southwest, the first person to report the results was not Li Long, who was the most optimistic, but Chen Dongyang, who was least optimistic about anyone. This can only be said to be God's will. God wants to destroy the Long family. Who can blame this! , who told you that the Long family would not stay in the good southwest, but go to Yanzhou to defend Yanzhou? You can't live a good and stable life, but repair the waterway! This is your Long family seeking death!

"Your Majesty, the Long family has been deeply rooted in the southwest for decades. If you want to eradicate it at one stroke, you need to have a strategy." A gloomy-faced civil servant stood up and suggested, "Otherwise, it will affect the whole body and make the entire southwest really rebel." "It's not worth it!" "What does Pei Qing mean?" The emperor waved his hand on the high seat, and the ministers below immediately calmed down and said, "Eradicate the Southwest Long Family," It is really not that simple to implement. It is true that the main force of the Long family is in Yanzhou, but the Long family does not have no army in the southwest. At least it has a garrison strength of 30,000 to 40,000. No matter what the combat strength of the Western Army, it has gone through several years. The war army that has been in constant war for ten years is able to kill the Yelu family in Yanzhou, which proves that it has no shortage of bloodthirsty energy. Moreover, the disciples of the Long family know the position of the joints, which is not just a matter of taking them down!

"I think we can start with these southwest noble families. Although they are from small families and cannot be on the stage, they are still His Majesty's subjects after all, and I identify with His Majesty in my heart." The civil servant who stood up to speak had a gleaming look in his eyes, and specifically mentioned those The noble families on the list "These people follow the Long family because they think the Long family can make them proud." Honoring the lintel, now that the Long family is weak and unable to care about other things, why don't Your Majesty use some of the family gifts to reward those who are willing to go to the court. After all, the roots of the Long family's Western Army are still in the southwest, on these local nobles. , as long as these nobles rebel against the Long family, the Long family's Western Army will naturally be able to resolve the situation without a fight."

"This is a good method. It completely destroyed the Long family's tens of thousands of Western troops without spending a single soldier. But what does Pei Qing think should be done?" Emperor Zhongbia's eyes lit up. The noble clan's family status is no longer valuable. East and West, the catastrophe in Central Asia and the Imperial Capital destroyed most of the century-old wealthy families. These family titles are now in the hands of the emperor.

Originally, the emperor was waiting to use these family titles to exchange for more wealth, but due to the pressure from the Yelu family's southward migration, many of the southern gates that were granted titles were unwilling to come to Linhang to suffer such a welfare of three surprises a day, so naturally these family titles were not given out. According to the emperor's idea, the local nobles in the southwest, each of whom was only a third or fourth rank family, were suppressed by the Long family in the past. Now if they really throw out a few sixth-rank people, they will immediately jump and shout to belong to the court. Especially since the southwest has not suffered from war, it can be considered wealthy compared to the central and southern parts. If the court can really take over this area, it will not only get the base camp that the Long family has painstakingly managed for decades, but also the Long family's Western Army can be taken over, adding tens of thousands of elite Central and Asian soldiers with good combat power! "There are 370 families of second-rank or higher gentry in the southwest. If all of them are promoted, it will be useless. We only need to select 30 sixth-rank families!" The minister looked serious and spoke out about the situation of the southwest gentry. This was because the minister was the head of the six ministries and cabinets that were in charge of the gentry. Pei Ranqing

"One tenth?" The emperor raised his eyebrows and was a little puzzled. "Pei Qing, why is this?\

,""Your Majesty, the southwest gentry has had a tradition of helping each other for decades because of the existence of the Western Army. Even if all of them are promoted, I am afraid that more people will still wait and see. After all, the Long family is still there, the Western Army is still there, and the gentry dare not openly Blatantly opposing the Long Family "Pei Ranqing, as the head of the Gate House, knows best about the aspirations of the gentry for family status, but he also knows the wavering nature of the local gentry." It is better to only take out thirty sixth-grade families and let these 370 local gentry fight for it. I believe that in front of these thirty sixth-grade families, the 370 local gentry in the southwest will fight from within. As long as the other party exposes each other, the court can take this opportunity to intervene and clear out the gentry who are pro-Long Family and support the court's gentry power in the southwest. In this way, even if the Long Family can stabilize the situation in the end, the situation of division in the southwest is irreversible, and for the court, we will not suffer any loss!" (To be continued.)