Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Of course, the first step of Emperor Shi's plan is to strive to expand the army by 28 within five years, bringing his Qin Dynasty's professional forbidden army to [-].

This is not a trivial matter. The professional army these days is not just as simple as raising soldiers, there are also a large number of family members who need to be properly settled.

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On March 22, [-] large and small warships of the navy, including supplies and provisions, were ready to set off first.

Emperor Shi personally went to the Bianshui River to bid farewell to the army, not only him, but also many people who saw off their children, grandchildren, husbands, relatives and friends also crowded the Bianshui River, densely packed with people.

Wang Zhong, the inspector of the capital, led thousands of people to clear the way, and only then did he open up a smooth road to the river for Emperor Shi.

The presence of the Son of Heaven also attracted the attention of many people, and the common people bowed and saluted one after another. Emperor Shi came on horseback, and he also responded on horseback, which attracted a burst of excitement from the surrounding crowd.

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From the morning of that day, all Bian Rivers were blocked, and merchant ships were not allowed to pass.

This time the commander of the water army is Guo Tingwei, who is in charge of the water army.

When Shi Congyun arrived at the edge of the Bian River, the first thing he saw was No. 20 Guangwei warships in the front surrounded by many civil and military personnel. The slender ships were arranged along the Bian River, and the soft lines were particularly beautiful. There were twelve doors on each side of the top. The cannons are arranged in upper and lower layers, and the pitch-black barrel can be seen through the firing holes, which is full of power.

In the huge shadow cast by the warships on the east coast, Emperor Shi was also very excited. If there were not many things going on in the court, he would also like to visit this time. Seeing the roar of these warships would definitely be an epoch-making event.

At another moment, he even wanted to change his mind temporarily and let the old man Fan Zhi take charge of the important affairs, and he went by himself.

But in the end he still suppressed the excitement in his heart, because he was already the emperor.

Thousands of words have become a word of encouragement to the generals: "I am waiting for your triumphant return in Daliang!"

All the generals behind him immediately knelt down and saluted.

Afterwards, Shi Congyun and Guo Tingwei presided over the ceremony together, slaughtering cattle and sheep to sacrifice the commander's flag with blood, and then the officials of the Ministry of Rites came out to divination. Unsurprisingly, the result was auspicious, suitable for sending troops, and blessed by heaven.

All the generals present looked calm. They were all from the past. Flag sacrifice and divination are rituals that must be passed before dispatching troops. Most of them understand what's going on behind the scenes. Unless the officials of the Ministry of Rites don't want to do it, they will be fine anyway.

Then the drums and horns sounded, and the soldiers boarded the ship under the watchful eyes of their relatives and friends in the distance. There were faint sobs and weeping in the crowd, and the sorrow and sorrow of parting filled the shore more than ten miles away.

The horn blew, and the fleet of thousands of ships raised their sails neatly, and then slowly began to move. Many soldiers waved goodbye to their families and relatives on the deck.

Emperor Shi looked at the unprecedentedly large fleet from a distance. This was Qin's largest dispatch of troops on the water.

There are more than 200 large and small ships, and the navy has a force of 4. If you add logistics personnel and boatmen, there are as many as 5 people in the entire navy fleet. Such an unprecedentedly large-scale navy fleet is also doomed. The battles I have fought before are different, and they play a more important role in strategic planning. …

Chapter 410, The Riverside Routine

"Your Majesty, Qin has sent troops, Qin has sent troops!"

On the white jade steps of the Huxin Pavilion, Zhang Ji hurried through the corridor, muttering in his mouth, but was soon stopped by the general of the imperial army who was wearing golden and red scale armor at the corner.

The one who stopped him was a young man, he was the descendant of Jiangnan general Huangfu Hui, the commander of the Shenwei Commander Huangfu Jixun.

"I have something important, let me go in." Zhang Ji said bluntly, Huangfu Jixun didn't show any face: "I have to wait for His Majesty to ask you before you can go in if you have something important to do."

"You are just the commander of the small imperial army, can you afford to delay a major event!" Zhang Ji was a little annoyed, and he was about to walk inside.

Huangfu Jixun took a step to the right to block his way, "You wait here, wait for someone to report."

"You..." Zhang Ji was so angry that his face was livid, but there was nothing he could do. Huangfu Jixun was young and strong, wearing a solid armor, he didn't dare to charge, he could only wait with a snort.

He cursed in his heart that this little beast had such an air, but he relied on his father's merits. Back then, his father Huangfuhui was a rascal. He first served in Later Tang, then surrendered to Later Jin.

Ten years ago, Zhou Shizong attacked Huainan, Huangfuhui defended Qingliu Pass, was slashed by Zhao Kuangyin and the Wanjun of the later Zhou Dynasty, and was captured later.

It is said that he was captured by General Zhao Kuangyin of the Later Zhou Dynasty and sent to Zhou Shizong's tent. When Huangfuhui saw Zhou Shizong, he said, "I'm tired, sit down for a while." After sitting down, he said, "I'll lie down for a while." Sejong agreed and just lay down.

He said calmly to the Northern Emperor at that time: "If I don't do my best for state affairs, the gap between the armies of the North and the South is too great, and there is no way to recover.

When I was a general in the late Jin Dynasty, I once fought against the Khitans, and the Khitans’ soldiers were not as strong as those of the Zhou army. Yesterday I surrendered my insurance in Chuzhou City, but I didn’t expect the Zhou army’s soldiers to climb up the wall like flying. I was exhausted physically and mentally, so was captured alive. "

The emperor of the Northern Dynasty saw that Huangfuhui was wounded all over his body, and felt pity for him. He issued an imperial edict to give him a gold belt, a pommel horse, and sent someone to give him medicine to treat him. But after a few days, Huangfuhui died because he refused to be treated.

Throughout the Huainan battle, Huangfu Hui was one of the few fierce generals on the southern side who resisted resolutely to the end and refused to surrender. So after the war ended, the lord rewarded and promoted his son Huangfu Jixun for his achievements.

Zhang Ji felt that although Huangfuhui had a rascal temper, he was indeed fierce in war, but his son was relying on Lao Tzu's merits to play prestige, what a thing!

Just when he was full of anger, the eunuch in the lake not far away came out and let him in.

Zhang Ji flicked his sleeves, passed Huangfu Jixun, and faintly heard behind him muttering, "Why are you so proud..."

Zhang Ji was furious, but thinking that the king was still waiting for him inside, he could only grit his teeth and not care about it.

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In the pavilion in the center of the lake, the lord of the country is appreciating calligraphy and paintings with his concubine, and beside him is his friend, Daoist Xuanxu. These calligraphy and paintings are newly enshrined from Hongzhou, and there is also new tea from Jiangnan. The lord of the country likes calligraphy, painting and antiques.

Seeing him coming in, he didn't stop tasting, as if he wanted him to talk about it later.

But he couldn't wait any longer. Others dared not contradict the king, but he dared, because the king trusted him very much.

Then he directly interrupted the king and the imperial concubine: "Your Majesty, something serious has happened. The Northern Dynasty has tens of thousands of troops and more than 1000 warships. They are heading south along the Bian River. They have already left the Huaihe River and are about to enter the great river."

As soon as these words came out, several people present were shocked instantly. The king's face had no smile on his face, his face was pale, and he almost couldn't hold the celadon in his hand. drop on the floor.

Zhang Jie realized that he was too hasty to say the wrong thing, and even added: "They sent envoys here, they are in the front hall, the lord can rest assured, they said they are going to attack Lingnan through the south of the Yangtze River, and they want to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty."

As soon as these words came out, Li Yu suddenly let out a long breath before he was able to catch his breath. He wanted to put the celadon, which was worth a thousand dollars, on the table, but he missed it and shattered it after a crisp sound.

Li Yu didn't take a look, but asked anxiously, "How's the situation outside?"

"Your Majesty, it's Lu Duoxun, a Hanlin scholar from the Northern Dynasty who came here. He said that the army was going to attack Lingnan to make us feel at ease, but after all, they crossed the river, and Jinling is close at hand..." Zhang Jie said Half of the people present understood his concerns. What if the Northern Dynasty was a false way?

Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case, tens of thousands of troops and more than a thousand warships passing by the door of the house is not a trivial matter, but they dare not reject Qin, for fear of angering Shi Congyun.

In a dilemma, Li Yu paced back and forth anxiously: "What should I do, what should I do..."

Zhang Ji said: "Your Majesty, no matter what, go see the envoy of the Qin Dynasty first, Lu Duoxun has a good relationship with us, and we may learn more useful news from him.

Li Yu nodded this time: "Yes, go and see."

Then he said to Concubine Jiang beside him: "Go to the treasury and ask someone to prepare some valuable gifts."

Jiang Shi didn't dare to delay, and left in a hurry after saluting.

Li Yu just took two steps, stopped immediately, raised his hand to look at his sleeve, and then said: "No, this is a yellow robe. I will go back and change into a purple robe before I go to see the envoy of Qin."

As if thinking of something, he even told the eunuchs beside him, "Go find the ladder and go up to the house, and remove all the owls on the roof. Don't let the envoy of Qin see it, or you will be punished."

Seeing that the king was in a hurry, the eunuch didn't dare to delay, so he went immediately.

Li Yu was originally afraid of Shi Congyun, but now that he heard the news, he was even more afraid to the extreme, for fear that something wrong would anger the emperor.

Then he thought about it carefully, and told Zhang Ji to pay attention to the various titles, not to let the envoy of the Northern Dynasty find fault, and then hurried back to the palace to change into a purple robe before going to see Lu Duoxun.

After some clichés and negotiations, a grand palace banquet was held to entertain the envoys, and after a lot of valuable gifts were released, Li Yu, Zhang Ji and other officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty finally breathed a sigh of relief. Not for them.

But my heart is also more respectful and fearful, and I am cautious.

They originally thought that Shi Congyun had changed. He did not respond to the provocation of the Southern Han Dynasty the year before last, but the frontier army attacked in response, and openly asked the Liao Kingdom to send noble girls for their own enjoyment.

At that time, everyone thought that Shi Congyun might be like Li Cunxu, Zhuangzong of Tang Dynasty, who was tired after fighting too many battles, wanted to enjoy leisurely and indulge in wine and sex, and then the world would be peaceful again.

The royal family in Jiangnan and many civil and military ministers secretly rejoiced that if that was the case, their comfortable life could continue.

Unexpectedly, it was not at all. Two years later, Shi Congyun actually sent an army to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty!

A small border conflict, coupled with verbal provoking and offending, will destroy the country. Shi Congyun's violence and unreasonableness can be seen. Although Master Qin is going to Lingnan, he frightens the whole Jiangnan along the way.

Lu Duoxun still said directly at the banquet entertaining him: "Liu Yu disrespected the emperor, the emperor was angry, cut him down, and the king's master will capture him back to Daliang for punishment as soon as he arrives."

Such wild words came from the mouth of a scholar, but they also made everyone present tremble and fidget.

Li Yu then proposed to send people to the riverside to reward the army, but Lu Duoxun refused, saying that soldiers are expensive and fast, and the emperor wants them to destroy the Southern Han Dynasty before the pomegranates are ripe, and there should be no delay.

So Zhang Ji proposed that instead of providing food and grass for the army, the emperor sent troops, and the subordinate countries should cooperate.

Lu Duoxun agreed, and emphasized that since Jiangnan himself proposed to supply food and grass to the army, he could not refuse as the suzerain. , Then give them a request for 50 shi of food and grass for the army.

The monarchs and ministers in the south of the Yangtze River felt that something was wrong, but they couldn't tell what was wrong, so they could only agree one after another, promising to transport the grain to the riverside on time and hand it over to the Qin army.

As a result, in the early morning of the next day, before the morning fog cleared by the river, a group of officials from the Northern Dynasties rushed ashore. As planned, there were a total of 20 people, all of whom were deployed in the south of the Qin Dynasty. Come and talk to them about the issue of grain transfer.

The efficiency is so high that it is jaw-dropping. It has to make people wonder whether this Ludoson... has set them up.

Li Yu didn't dare to say no to Shi Congyun, and soon called a group of ministers to arrange the supply of food and grass for the Qin army.

This made the Qin army's logistics supply line directly pushed from the coast of the Yellow River to the coast of the Yangtze River, which greatly reduced the logistics pressure and reduced the loss of manpower and material resources.

Similarly, the king of Wuyue in the east initially requested to send troops to assist the suzerain state, but Shi Congyun finally refused to agree, and only used his grain road to transport westward along the great river and hand it over to Shen Yilun.

In this way, the supply of the Qin army has become more convenient and quick, at least [-] people can be recruited less, and the production of more Qin people will not be delayed.

Chapter 411: News of the dispatch of troops + a quick decision

"Second Uncle, let me tell you, you don't even dare to think about things in the north."

"Why, the Qin army came to kill people indiscriminately?"

"No, I said you couldn't think of it.'

In the small courtyard, the family leaned against a big osmanthus tree to enjoy the shade. In the land of south of the five ridges, when the spring cold in the north has not dissipated, it starts to become hot and humid, and the heat sticks to the skin like sticky.

Wang Xiong's family is just an ordinary farmer. When he went to the field during the day, he caught a rabbit on the side of the road and asked the second uncle's family next door to eat it together.

In fact, rabbits are not much fat these days, they are always a bit oily, which makes everyone feel a little meaty.

"Where did you hear that?" Second Uncle sat in a chair under a tree and asked comfortably. Chun Geng was very busy, and everyone was very tired after a busy day. "My father-in-law's family is in Nanshuiwan. I went there during the Chinese New Year. I had to walk all day long. If I didn't go fast enough, I wouldn't be able to get there until it got dark. I even carried a pig's leg on my back, so I didn't dare to bring my baby back. .'

"You're really willing, kid. You're not that kind to us." The second uncle teased.

Wang Xiong's young wife blushed and gently pinched her husband. Wang Xiong laughed, "Old father-in-law must be filial like our parents."

"I think you are afraid of this family member, right?

Everyone laughed, and the young daughter-in-law blushed, not daring to look at anyone.

"My father-in-law's house is next to Chenzhou." Speaking of this, he tilted his head and whispered: "You can see the northern army's sentry post along the Nanhuaxi River for half a day. I met a few people who came from the north to sell combs. Qin Jun When entering the city, only a few high officials were killed.

They said that after the Northern Army came, they burned the dou used by the government yamen to pay food, and replaced it with ordinary dou, and there was no need to allocate money.

The people over there are very happy, they all think that the soldiers from the north are sent by the Bodhisattva to rescue them. Many people in Nanshuiwan area are trying to find a way to escape to the border of Chenzhou, and some of them drag their families along. '

"Anything else?"

"It's better than running into the mountains. If you're unlucky, you'll be caught and beaten to death by the government." Wang Xiong spat.

Everyone nodded silently, as a default.

Liu Yu, the ruler of the Southern Han Dynasty, was obsessed with gods, spent extravagance and pleasure, overhauled the palace, and paraded around. However, money and food were needed to do these things. Where did the money and food come from? The wool can only come from sheep, and naturally it comes from the people.

Liu Yin of the Southern Han Dynasty is worthy of being a "genius". The method he thought of was to increase the bucket used for grain collection. The bucket used for grain collection in the government of the Southern Han Dynasty was even larger, and it was actually almost one bucket of eight.

This is why after the Qin army occupied Chenzhou, the fight that destroyed the government first made the people rejoice.

You must know that if one bucket is actually one bucket and eight, there will be a lot of extra.

Their Han Dynasty adopted the taxation law of the Tang Dynasty. Every family member paid two stones of grain, two feet of silk, two taels of cotton or two feet and four feet of cloth, and three catties of hemp to the state for [-] days of service.

If there is no silk cloth, you can use the same money instead.

Later, the late emperor raised the tax on the grounds that he wanted to levy Jiangnan. When it reached three shi for every ding, ten dou was one shi. Almost doubled.

Five years ago, because the lord wanted to build a palace, he wanted to come up with a trick to make money, requiring the people to pay ten qian for each bucket of grain, which means that in the Southern Han Dynasty, every dime actually had to pay [-] yuan a year. Five stones and four buckets of grain, plus three hundred qian, plus silk.

The people were miserable, and many of them hid in the mountains to evade taxes, and some were caught and beaten to death by the government for public display.

His family has a little more land, and the relatively wealthy part of the village can barely maintain it, but they don't know how long it will last. If there is any natural disaster, they will flee to the mountains and live in fear.

So after the old man heard about the actions of the Northern Army, he was very yearning, thinking that if the Northern Army came one day, their life would be easier.

When it comes to defending the country, not many people are willing to think about it. The king likes yin and yang people, and all the officials are yin and yang people, so let the eunuch help him fight the war.

"I heard that the emperor of Qin is a powerful person. I wonder if he will go south." Wang Xiong said with some expectation.

The second uncle looked serious, "You think too much, soldiers are soldiers, they are the same everywhere, as long as they come, burning, killing and looting will definitely be inevitable, even if they are really like what you said, they have to wait until the military disaster is over.

"The Qin army did not rob Chenzhou." Wang Xiong argued.

The second uncle looked disbelieving, "Can you believe what they say? Do they dare to tell the truth! Your second uncle eats more salt than you eat rice, what do you know.

I saw wars when I was a child. At that time, there were wars every year, especially in the north. Those soldiers in the north did not say killing people or insulting women. Old people don't eat well, even if there are no bones left, women are even more miserable.

You have never seen such a war in these years. At that time, you were still young. Your father and I took your mother to hide in the mountains for three months. We ate a lot of bark and leaves. If we were not lucky enough to catch a little rock sheep, The whole family starved to death in the mountains.

When I returned to the village, everyone was dead, and the house was burnt down. Only half of your third aunt was left hanging on the old pear tree at the entrance of the village.