At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the rebellion of the Eight Kings broke out, the Central Plains were devastated, a large number of scholars moved south, and a large number of Central Plains scholars also came to Quanzhou, coupled with the warm and humid climate of Quanzhou, so that Quanzhou's agriculture has made great progress.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Quanzhou's overseas trade also gradually flourished, and Quanzhou Port became the third largest overseas trade port in the Tang Dynasty after Guangzhou and Mingzhou.

At this time, the feudal towns in various parts of the Tang Dynasty flourished, and Quanzhou, which lived in a single place, gradually became a place for feudal towns.

Yao Guangping was the governor of the Quanzhou Navy Army, and later concurrently served as the assassin of Quanzhou.

Soon, Yao Guangping controlled the five prefectures of Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Jianzhou, Zhangzhou and Tingzhou, all the assassins and military envoys were either his sons or his sons-in-law, and the long history and county orders were also appointed by him, and the powers of finance and taxation and the army were in his hands.

Thanks to the huge profits from overseas trade, Yao Guangping had a source of military spending, and he exploited the local people less, but also allowed the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and the market prospered.

The state capital of Quanzhou is in Jinjiang County, which is also the ruling center of Yao Guangping, with a large population and developed commerce.

On this morning, an ox cart stopped in front of the Changshun Inn in Jinjiang County, a young Dao Gu got out of the car, someone in the ox cart told her a few words, and the young Dao Gu walked into the inn.

A guy greeted him, "Yo! Does the fairy girl stay in the hotel? ”

"Your shopkeeper is surnamed Yue?"

"Fairy Gu knows my shopkeeper?" The guy asked, confused.

The young Dao Gu continued to ask, "Is his name Yue Jing?" ”

At this time, the shopkeeper walked out of the courtyard and arched his hand: "It's Yue Jing down there, this Dao Gu, have we seen it?" ”

The young Dao Gu turned around and raised her hand to the ox cart, indicating that the place was right, only to see another Dao Gu walking down from the ox cart, wearing a hat, unable to see the appearance clearly, but very tall, thin waist and plump hips, excellent demeanor, she carried a sword at her waist, and moved into the courtyard.

Dao Gu approached Yue Jing, a gold medal appeared in the slender snow-white palm, Yue Jing was suddenly in awe, Dao Gu turned out to be the gold medal of the Jinwei Mansion Worship Hall, there were only five in total, and Yue Jing had only seen two so far.

He hurriedly said, "Fairy Gu, please come in!" ”

He then instructed the men, "Go and clean up the little yard in the back." ”

The two Taoist aunts were Ying Caihe and her apprentice Jingyue, who set off from Chang'an, arrived in Xiangyang through Shangzhou, then took a boat to Hangzhou, then rode a mule from Hangzhou to Wenzhou, then crossed the mountains to Fuzhou, and finally arrived in Quanzhou, which took a whole month.

Changshun Inn is naturally the intelligence point of the Jin Wei Mansion in Quanzhou, and the shopkeeper Yue Jing and a group of his men were transferred from Yuezhou, and it has only been less than half a year so far.

Ying Caihe lived in the back courtyard, and in the back hall, she received the shopkeeper Yue Jing, and she needed to know something.

Yue Jing sighed and said: "The Jin Wei Mansion sent five people to Quanzhou last year to set up intelligence points, but all five of them are missing, and there are no clues at all, I wonder if they were robbed and killed by bandits halfway?" Or was he secretly executed after being captured by Yao Guangping? Anyway, it's missing. ”

Ying Caihe was not interested in this topic, waved his hand and said: "I don't want to know this, I only care about Yao Guangping's situation, tell me about him!" ”

Yue Jing nodded, "We don't have much information about Yao Guangping, we only know that this person almost never shows up, and he is heavily guarded, we have been in Jinjiang for more than five months, and we have only seen him travel three times, he is sitting in a carriage, surrounded by hundreds of cavalry regiments. ”

"What does he look like? How old is it? Ying Caihe asked quietly.

Yue Jing suddenly understood the purpose of this Dao Gu coming to Quanzhou in front of him, and he suddenly became a little nervous in his heart, this is a big matter, and he must prepare a retreat for emergency transfer.

"I don't know what he looks like, but he should be around fifty years old, and he is relatively short."

"How short is it?" Ying Caihe immediately grasped the point,

"The people of Quanzhou say that he is as short as a child, and I estimate that he is about the same as a child about ten years old."

"Then he must have a stand-in too!"

Yue Jing said respectfully; "I don't think it's easy to find his stand-in, and a man of similar stature may be able to find it, but it will be too difficult to look alike."

Ying Caihe also knew that there was nothing to ask from Yue Jing, so she said to Yue Jing: "Find me a pair of bows and arrows, eight buckets of riding bows, and another pot of arrows, as soon as possible!" ”

"I know, I'll send it later!"

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At night, Yao Guangping's carriage drove into the Taiwei Mansion, Taiwei was the title given to Yao Guangping by the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he was also named the king of Nan'an County, but Yao Guangping himself preferred the title of Taiwei, and he liked others to call him Yao Taiwei.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the shadow wall, and a guard stepped forward to open the door and helped Yao Guangping out of the carriage, Yao Guangping was about fifty years old, his hair was gray, his appearance was black and thin, he was indeed relatively short, like a ten-year-old boy, with the current standard, it was only about one meter five, but his eyes were very sharp, and he looked at people like knives, and the guards were more afraid of him.

After Yao Guangping was a famous family, it was by relying on the shadow of his father and ancestors that he was able to enter the officialdom, from joining the army in Quanzhou to joining the army to recording the history of the governor's mansion, and finally promoted to the governor of the navy, and soon concurrently served as the governor of Quanzhou, which laid the foundation for him to finally become a feudal town.

Although Yao Guangping is short in stature, he has many wives and concubines, and gave birth to more than a dozen children, and the two sons born to him by his original wife have died one after another, and his current six sons are all born to several concubines, and he also has seven daughters and seven sons-in-law, all of whom have become his right-hand men.

Yao Guangping is very disciplined, he let his son be in charge of the army and his son-in-law in charge, so he can firmly control the military and political power of the five states in his own hands.

However, Yao Guangping has been under a lot of pressure recently, Guo Song has reversed the practice of long-distance friendship and close attack, and actually attacked Jiangnan and Lingnan in advance, he just got the news that the Jin army has destroyed Liu Shining, and the army has entered Fuzhou and Qianzhou, these two states are adjacent to their own Jianzhou and Tingzhou landscapes, and before that, two thousand Jin troops entered Wenzhou.

Lingnan to the south was also seized by the Jin army, and it was clear that they were already surrounded on three sides.

Yao Guangping paced back and forth in the study worriedly, thinking about his own coping strategy.

He believed that as long as he surrendered, Guo Song would definitely reuse himself, and even enter the dynasty as a scholar, but was he willing? Accustomed to power, how can he drink shoddy water and wine again.

Yao Guangping sighed, no matter what, he would not choose to surrender.

But how should he deal with the offensive that the Jin army will soon kill?

Yao Guangping knew very well that it was not easy for the Jin army to kill, he was not worried about the west and south, the heavy mountains were blocked, and all kinds of rugged mountain roads could not be replenished, and as long as he held the mountain pass in the north, it would be difficult for the other party to enter Jianzhou.

The key is by sea, the other side needs great supplies to march in, and it can only be done by sea.

This is also the reason why Yao Guangping is worried, but he is not afraid, Yao Guangping has his naval advantage, he has the most powerful naval army in the Tang Dynasty at present, a naval army composed of thousands of warships, 15,000 soldiers, there are 500 warships above 1,000 stones, and the Yangtze River naval army in Runzhou is far from his opponent.

Yao Guangping's only worry is the Guangzhou Water Army, he knows the Guangzhou Water Army very well, the scale is only slightly smaller than himself, if the Runzhou Water Army and the Guangzhou Water Army are united, he will be a little troublesome.

At this time, a strong killing intent came to his mind, and he should destroy the warships in Guangzhou first.

Since Guo Song won't let himself go no matter what, what's the harm in making his own move? The key is to destroy the warships in Guangzhou, and you will have no worries by sea.

Thinking of this, Yao Guangping finally made up his mind........

On a big tree with dense foliage outside the wall of the back house of Yao's mansion, there was a dark shadow, she quietly observed various details in Yao's mansion, and she found at least three Yao Guangping, all of whom were about fifty years old and short men.

A Yao Guangping was eating with his family, looking a little restrained, eating silently, without saying a word, and never raising his head.

The other Yao Guangping was walking in the garden, admiring the carp in the river from time to time, but if he saw the female dependents coming, he quickly turned away, and the female dependents ignored him, and walked past him, treating this person as if he were nothing.

There was also a Yao Guangping pacing back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, looking at the map on the wall from time to time, and the eyes of the man in black were fixed on the third Yao Guangping, and she found that there were at least two personal guards around this Yao Guangping, who were well hidden, and there were also secret sentinels around the study.

In addition, she also captured from the subtle movements of the third Yao Guangping's gestures, that he was still wearing inner armor in his robe, while the other two Yao Guangping were not wearing inner armor.

The man in black stretched out his bow and pulled the bowstring, but in the end he did not shoot the arrow, and she felt that the time was not yet ripe, and she needed to observe for another day.