Zhui Xu

The intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Zhenjiang.

The flying waterfowl circumvented the white sails on the river. The busy port was reflected in the hot sun. People came and went, near noon, and the city was still running fast.

"Zhenjiang has been a prosperous town for centuries. The teacher in the childhood school said it, the east-west hub, the north-south pass, I am not too convinced, is it even more powerful than Jiangning? The teacher said that it not only has the Yangtze River, but also There is the Grand Canal, the business of Wu Dynasty is prosperous, and the place is the most important. I have been here since I was eight years old, and there is still a big circle outside."

The sun blew down, and the green trees on the west side of the city's hills reflected the cool shade. When the wind blew across the hills, the leaves creaked. There are various hillsides of wild grass outside the eucalyptus forest. From this hillside, the scene is the busy scene of Zhenjiang. The walls are surrounded by hustle and bustle. There are residential areas stretching for several miles outside the city walls. The low houses are connected to the canal. In the fishing village on the edge, the road passes between the houses and radiates along the river bank.

At the higher end of the mountain, on the bank of the river, there is a military camp and a high platform that is stationed. At this time, in the middle of the eucalyptus forest, the headed man sat freely on the stone under the tree. There were young people following him, and there were followers, and there was a carriage that was taken by a group of people.

"In the two hundred years of the Wu Dynasty, Zhenjiang only looked the most prosperous at the moment, although a few years ago, it was also broken by the Jurchens... Jianye two years, search the mountains and check the sea, such as Hua, remember it. Take Yangzhou, I fled from the river and met your sister here."

The man sitting on the stone still looks pretty, but under the jaw, wearing a casual dress outside the ordinary, although his eyes are mild, but still have his majesty. This is Zhou Junwu, the prince of the Wu Dynasty. The young man sitting on the grass on one side looks pale. He listened to him and shivered and nodded.

The pale young man named Shen Ruhua is the little nephew of the Prince, and the third brother of Jun Wu’s squatting room is Shen Ruxin’s younger brother. Compared with her sister Zhou Pei’s entanglement in marriage, Jun Wu, who has been a high-ranking monk, has seen the family’s affairs as extremely dull. Now he is a wife and a wife, but apart from Shen Ruxin, the other five wives’ homes are all family members. The wife of the Four Princes of the Prince of God, Shen Ruxin, was the encounter of Jun Wu in the way of the search for the sea and the escape of the sea. Not to mention the most favorite in the weekdays, only to say that it is the most special lady in the Prince’s House, it is not an exaggeration.

But today's Shen Ruhua, obviously not easy, even looks like the whole person shivering, is already on the verge of collapse.

Jun Wu looked at Zhenjiang in front and was silent for a moment.

"Two years after Jianye, it was eight years ago. I fled to Zhenjiang. Soon after, the Jurchen crossed the river and began to attack the city. I first escaped. After the Jurchen broke the city, the sword was not sealed on the 10th, and nearly five died. Ten thousand people. If you are a family of Hua, the prefect of Zhenjiang sent people to the outside and survived. Do you remember? 50,000 people..."

Jun Wu recalled the catastrophe in the past, his fingers lifted slightly, and his complexion was complicated for a long time. In the end, he smiled strangely: "So... it is strange. After 50,000 people died, half of the city was burned. In eight years, when you look at Zhenjiang, the bustling city looks like this. The city walls are not able to live, and everyone lives outside. This year, the governor of Zhenjiang is roughly ruled. The population of this place is about 750,000... It’s too strange. Seventy-five thousand people. Before the Jurchens came over, there were only a million people in the Liangliang. Some people happily reported to them, how difficult it is to rejuvenate the country. Like Hua, do you know why?"

Shen Ruhua was stunned and looked almost crying. Jun Wu saw him for a moment and stood up.

"I tell you, because the people who came down from the north, the first thing to come is Jiangnan. Zhenjiang is a north-south hub. Everyone is here.... Of course, it is impossible to go all the way to Zhenjiang. I can still go there. There are too many people going to the south. The big people in the south are not allowed to go to the north. They say that the southerners are going to the north and the north to the north. After several problems, they have troubled and killed many people. Seventy-five thousand people in Zhenjiang and 600,000 are refugees who have fled from the north and who have been killed or dragged their families."

He pointed to the front: "In these eight years, I still don't know how many people died. The remaining 600,000 people live here like a donkey. The houses outside are densely built. They are built in these years. They don't have a field. No land, no family, six or seven years ago, don’t say to hire them to give money, even if they just send a little porridge to their stomachs, and then use them as livestock, it’s all good people. It’s been until now, it’s not going to pass. It’s dead, kneeling down, there is a house outside the city, there is no land, there is a hard work to do, or to go to war as a soldier... Many people are like this.”

"...a little better than the animals." Jun Wu smiled at Shen Ruhua. "I secretly went to see a lot of people, better than the animals, they will pass, and said, I hope more than a few years." On the days of peace, from Jiangning to Zhenjiang, from Zhenjiang to Lin'an, millions of people have lived through such a day, giving them a little life, rich people, let them go to work, have a farm in the home, hire them to farm..."

He took a sigh of relief, his right hand clenched his fist and swayed unconsciously on his side. He paused: "The Jurchens went south three times, and the Han Chinese who took the Central Plains went to millions. Those people became slaves in the Golden State, and the Jin Guoren really took them. When used as a farm animal, it feeds the carnivorous people of the Golden State. In the Wu Dynasty, ten years of losing the Central Plains, millions of tens of millions of people have died, nothing, we use them as animals, give them some Eat, do things, cultivate land, commercial affairs in various places suddenly prospered, Linan prosperous, no time at one time. Some people say that I lost the Central Plains in the Wu Dynasty, so it is difficult to prosper the state, this is how difficult it is to prosper The reason, such as Hua. We have more animals in the Central Plains."

Jun Wu’s eyes are on Shen Ruhua: “These people have been good for so many years. They have their own homes and have their own parents and parents. After the Central Plains was called by the Jurchens, they were lucky to move their homes south. The family property, a little more bumps, the old parents are gone, even worse, the parents and children are dead... and the parents are dead, the wife and children are taken to the Golden State, and the rest is one. Do you know what these people feel like to survive? Just one person, still survived, others died, or they know that they are suffering in the north, and the pigs and dogs are not as good as they are... Zhenjiang also has such a broken person. Like Birch, do you know how they feel?"

"Life is better than death..." Jun Wu leaned his fist on his chest, and there was a tear in his eyes. "The prosperity of the Wu Dynasty depends on the death of these people..."

"Sister-in-law..." Shen Ruhua also cried out.

"But they are still not satisfied. They are afraid that they will not be able to eat the unhealthy shackles and stir up the good days in the south. Therefore, the southerners return to the north and south. In fact, there is nothing like this, which sounds very irritating, but Actually, it is very common. These people should be squatting as animals, and don’t disturb the good days of others. They also hope that they will be able to live in a place like Zhenjiang for a few years and ten years. But it is too flat."

He said here, stopped and passed a moment.

"Yangzhou, Zhenjiang area, hundreds of thousands of troops, is prepared for war. Zong Fu, Zongtang came over, they are about to hit here. Like Hua, fighting is never a play, it is hard to beat, it is impossible to beat. The Jurchen’s southwardness is bound to be a must for the Wu Dynasties. It’s not going to be a thing that has happened before. It’s just Zhenjiang. How many of these 600,000 people can still live the next time in the world...”

"In order to let the army be able to fight this battle, I have offended many people in the past few years... You don't think that the Prince will not sin, no one will dare to offend. The army will come up, and the cadres will go down and the civil servants will be less. Things, the family behind the family are not happy, the family is not happy, the official is not happy. When you start things, they will take a slow step, everyone slows down, everything will slow down... the army is not worrying, The children of the big family enter the army, want to give the family the benefits, take care of the power of the family, I am not allowed, they will be yin and yin. If there is no good, the world will not do it..."

Jun Wu rushed into the snow like a smile, sitting down in the shade of the tree, smearing the difficult things at hand, so after a while, birds flew over the top of the tree.

"In these years... the military law has dealt with a lot of people, the flow of the stream, the killing of the killing, my men, all of them are a bunch of sluts. The outside said that the royals like the actor, I don’t like it, I like it a bit human. It’s a pity that the Jurchen has no human feelings...” He paused. “No for us.”

Jun Wu hands and hands, sitting there, bowed his head. Shen Ruhua’s body is shaking, and tears have been flowing for a long time: “Sister, brother-in-law... I am going to the army...”

"The model is sent to the army, and after a while, you can still live."

"I, I won't..."

Jun Wu looked at him and interrupted his words: "They think it will, they will say this."

"I, I only got seven hundred and two, no more, they... they all..."

"Seven hundred and two are also guilty of death!" Junwu pointed to the direction of Zhenjiang. "The seven hundred and two can make people live a good life for a lifetime. Seven hundred and two can give a life to tens of thousands of people. Seven hundred and two can give seventy soldiers a Years of 饷... Yes, there are not many seven hundred and two, if it was more than ten years ago, don’t say seven hundred and two, your sister married the Prince, others sent you seven thousand two, you can also take it, but today, your hand The seven hundred and two on the two, either worth a life, or worth seven million two... The evidence is conclusive, someone is going to get you, the reason for you is because they have to deal with me, these years, the Prince’s house kills too much, still Someone is being held in prison and is about to kill. If you don’t kill you, others will not kill."

"Shen Ruhua, it’s not so simple to fight, it’s not a little bit..." Jun Wu looked at the other side. "I let you go today, my people will doubt me. I can let go of my little nephew, Yue Fei. I can also let go of his little nephew, Han Shizhong has to let go of his children, and the people around me have people who are so close. Those who oppose me in the army, they will tell these things, the people who believe There will be a little more. On the battlefield, people who want to escape will be a little more, shake a little more, people who want to be greedy will be a little more, and things will be slower. Adding up a little bit, there are many people, so I can’t Let go of you."

There seemed to be tears falling in his eyes, but when he turned around, he could not see the traces: "I have a wife and a wife, and my sister, the most simple, your sister is not good, this thing is over, I don't know how to see you again. She. Your sister once told me that you have been thinking simple since childhood. It is a good boy. Let me take care of you. I am sorry for her. You have a single pass in your family, but the girl who is good with you has already got pregnant. When the child is born, I will pick him up... I will raise it as if I have been out, you can... rest assured."

When Jun Wu started talking about the other's sister, he still hesitated in the words. He gradually became obsessed with the words. He finished the words, his eyes no longer looked at Shen Ruhua, and his hands stood on his knees and stood up.

Over the years, despite the fact that the things that have been done seem to be ruined, in fact, Jun Wu was only twenty-seven years old this year. He is not arbitrarily dedicated to the strict character of the blood, more is actually forced by the current situation, had to do so, Shen Ruxin let him help take care of his younger brother, in fact, Jun Wu is also a younger brother, there is no experience on how to teach the little sister-in-law. I really want to feel sad when I want to come.

As for Shen Ruhua, he is only 18 years old this year. He was originally a good tutor. After he became a royal relative, he did not act publicly. After several contacts, Jun Wu had a good impression on him. However, young Muai, Shen Ruhua fell in love with a woman in the Qinlou, and the money in the family is not much. The surrounding people opened the gap here. After several times, Shen Ruhua accepted the money worth 700 yuan. , ready to redeem the woman. The matter has not been completed and it has been smashed out. Although this matter has not been spread among the lower classes, it has already spread in the upper ranks of the military and political affairs.

No one commented on this, and no one even wanted to preach the unfavorable remarks against the prince among the people. Jun Wu was scalp numb. This matter is at the crucial time for preparing for the war. In order to ensure the operation of the whole system, the Military Law Department has been working hard to clean up the black sheep, the corrupt people in the rear transport system, the shoddy profiteers, and the military camps in front. The generals of the capital have cleaned up a large number of people at this time. In the middle, there are naturally children and families.

If you let go of Shen Ruhua, and even if others help to cover up, then everyone will have to be tied together in a little more. Similar things have been more than these years, and this alone has made him feel embarrassed.

Lifting one hand up, many things in this world still seem to work as before. However, the eyes of the deceased are watching him. He knows that when all the soldiers are on the battlefield against the enemy, there are things that will be different.

He got up and was ready to leave, even if Shen Ruhua asked for mercy, he did not care. However, after a few steps, the young man in the rear did not ask for mercy. The cry came from behind him, and then the voice of Shen Ruhua on the ground, Jun Wu closed his eyes.

"The world is dying..." He said hard. "This is what I said... It was my fault at the Zhou family... Zhou Jiazhi is incompetent, and the world is sinned... I am incompetent, so I am harsh on you... Of course, this In the world, some people are corrupting hundreds of thousands of people without dying. Some people take away seven hundred and two to kill innocent people. There are always people who have never seen 720 in their lifetime. It is difficult to say clearly. I am today... I only promise you today. ......"

He paused for a long time: "I only promise you that when the Jurchens are killed, I am on the battlefield... I will shed the last drop of blood with the Jurchen, no matter what my identity, I will never stole and steal."

Junwu did not aggravate the tone, simply said the words ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Shen Ruhua burst into tears, Jun Wu took the carriage, and then did not look outside, told the car to go to the military camp.

This day is the seventh day of June in Jianye. The Jurchen East Road Army has completed the renovation in Xuzhou. In addition to the original force of nearly 300,000, it has mobilized nearly 350,000 people in the Central Plains. On the one hand, Liu Chengzong’s westward team began to gather in the direction of Yangzhou.

At this time in the Zhenjiang, Yangzhou area and even the surrounding areas, Han Shizhong's main force has helped the Jiangnan water network to prepare for several years. Although Zongfu Zongyi had the confidence to search the mountains and check the sea, but after breaking through Xuzhou, there is still no Instead of rushing forward, he tried to help the original naval division of the pseudo-qi force to assist the attack. Although the Hanjun troops of the Central Plains are not well-balanced and slow-moving, the official war between the two sides of the Jin and Wu Dynasties is already in the immediate eye. In the short period of three or five days, more than one month, the two sides will inevitably launch a large-scale confrontation.

These nights before the start of the war, Zhenjiang still had a bright light. Jun Wu sometimes stood on the dark side of the river to see the lonely city, sometimes unable to sleep all night and all night.

There are many things in the day, most of them are official business, and naturally there are private things like Shen Ruhua. The date to be settled in Shen Ruhua is set at the beginning of June. On the evening of the eighth day, Zhou Pei, who was supposed to be in Lin'an, came over from the capital.