At the same time, the envoys of the Great Qi went north to the Jin State to persuade Wu Qimai, Zong Han, Zong Fu and others to send troops to the south - this is not the first time, in the past two or three years, Liu Yu knew that it was impossible to defeat the Wu Dynasty by his own strength, and he was worried that the black flag spies in the court might take his life anytime and anywhere, and he had been looking forward to the Jin Kingdom going south and solving all the problems once and for all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, in March, there was a major incident in the court of the Jin Kingdom, Wu Qimai suffered a stroke and collapsed, and since then he has not been able to stand up again, although he still deals with state affairs every day, but the discussion of the southern expedition is closed to the envoys of Daqi.

The emperor was sick, even if it was the Jin State, he had to stabilize the internal affairs first, and the matter of the Southern Expedition naturally had to be put on hold.

Liu Lin crossed the river and was defeated, leading the remnants of the defeated army to return, but everyone breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the Jin country and the southwest, the two terrible forces were quiet and did not move, so it was good.

For a while, everyone was able to get through it carefully......

It was also in this spring that the thousands of miles of land along the route from the Daimyo Mansion to Zhengzhou, the refugees who dragged their families and mouths passed through towns and passes with panicked eyes. The nearby government organized manpower to block, drive, or kill, trying to keep these starving people out of their territory.

In relatively affluent areas, the people in the towns survived the expropriation of Liu Yu's court and barely survived. Leaving the town and entering the mountains and forests, you will gradually enter hell. The mountain bandits and horse gangs were rampant and plundering everywhere, and the fleeing people left their hometowns, and there was no longer shelter, and they gradually gathered together in the place where the rumored "ghost king" was. The government also sent troops, and dispersed the refugees led by Wang Shitong twice at the border of Huazhou, and the refugees were like a pool of muddy water, which was hit by fists a few times, scattered, and then gradually began to gather again.

This tide of refugees occurs every year, and compared to the Jin country in the north and the black flag in the south, it is not a big deal after all. Kill twice, and the army will no longer be enthusiastic. Killing is not only killing, sending troops to ask for money and food, after all, you have to manage your own one-third of an acre of land, even if it is for the sake of the world, it is impossible to put all your time on it.

Development is also important.

The Yellow River turned a big bend and flowed all the way to the northeast, from the fields near Zhengzhou to the mountains and rivers near the Daimyo's Mansion, and there were many places where there was no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. When the Wu Dynasty was prosperous, the population of the Central Plains at this time had gone to three, the small villages were crumbling and abandoned, groups of migrants walked in the wilderness, and the mountain thieves who occupied the land and the horse bandits who gathered to gather came and went, and most of them were ragged and had vegetables.

The surviving villages, capable and powerful landlords, built arrow towers and high walls, and in many cases, they were also visited by the government and the army, and carloads of goods were hauled. The horse thieves also came, and they could only come, and then either the horse thieves scattered, or the walls were broken, and the killing and fire continued. The woman with the baby in her arms walked in the mud, and when she fell, she could not get up again, and finally the child's crying gradually disappeared...... In a world that has lost order, there are not many people who can protect themselves.

The world of trade routes and silk is long gone.

North of Puzhou, Wang Shitong, dressed in tattered black clothes and with messy hair, squatted on a stone and stared at the black, chaotic crowds, hungry and thin people, his eyes had turned the color of blood.

"Wait, wait......" he muttered to his deputy, who had lost an arm.

Spring is in full bloom, and many of the people who went south last year froze to death that winter. More people gather here every day, and some of the people who can eat leaves, fruits, and small animals can be found in the woods, and there are fish in the water, and some of the people who left their homes after the beginning of spring and go south still have a little food.

They weren't hungry enough.

You're always going to be hungry.

North of the Yellow River, the original territory of the Tiger King, after Tian Shi succeeded to the throne, he carried out large-scale killings and a series of reforms. The general Yu Yulin was holding the plough in the field and ploughing it himself, he came up from the field, and after washing the mud, he saw Lou Shuwan, who was dressed in black, sitting in a grass hut on the side of the road and reading the information that came.

Over the years, the woman who had a lot of things on hand and worked under the oil lamp every night hurt her eyes, her eyes were not good, and she was short-sighted, so she held a paper in her hands and looked at it like an old man. After reading it, she straightened up, and Yu Yulin walked over, only to know that the third iron cannon deal with the southern black flag was completed.

After last year's coup d'état, Yu Yulin held a heavy army and held a high position, and the relationship with Lou Shuwan became closer. However, since then, he has spent most of his time in the north stabilizing the situation, keeping an eye on Wang Juyun, who is by no means a good "ally", and the two sides have not met very often.

"The month before last, Wang Juyun's subordinate An Xifu came to discuss the garrison with me and talked about Li Xizhi. I see that Wang Juyun has the intention to start a war with Li Xizhi, and came to test our intentions. ”

Yu Yulin sat down on the chair next to Lou Shuwan, talking about these things, Lou Shuwan folded her hands on her knees, thought about it, and said with a smile: "Fighting is your business, what do I know as a woman, and please ask General Yu to explain the good and bad." ”

Lou Shuwan's words seemed raw, but Yu Yulin had long been accustomed to her alienated attitude, and didn't care: "When the Tiger King was here, the north of the Yellow River was also the three of us, and now that the two of us have joined forces, we can push it to Li Xizhi's side." Wang Juyun's meaning is that Li Xizhi is an eggless, and when the Jurchens kill him, they must be kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy. ”

"That's good for them, not for us?" Lou Shuwan smiled.

South of Yanmen Pass, the north bank of the Yellow River has three parts, and generally speaking, it is naturally the territory of Daqi. In fact, the east was controlled by Liu Yu's henchman Li Xizhi, and Wang Juyun occupied the most chaotic area near Yanmen Pass, and they did not verbally submit to the Jurchens. And the best developed Tian family forces in the middle are because they occupy the mountainous areas that are not good for horse running, but they are left and right.

Yu Yulin, Lou Shuwan and others, who presided over the killing of the Tiger King this time, are considered to be rational factions in the power, plus the radical Tian Shi and others, they have long been unable to stand the many drunken scum who are attached to the Tian family's relatives, and the Tian family has been operating for more than ten years, and has not yet formed an intricate network of interests. However, due to the ambiguous position before, as long as you don't tear your face with the Jurchens immediately, there is always some room for turning around in the face of the Jurchens here.

"Last year, the hungry ghosts made a lot of trouble, and the eastern states were empty, but now they are no longer the same, as long as there is food, they can eat it. Moreover, with these iron cannons, it is also necessary to pick a soft persimmon for training. But that's not the most important thing......"

Yu Yulin spoke, and Lou Shuwan interjected with a smile: "A hundred wastes are waiting to be revived, where is there any surplus grain, pick soft persimmons to train soldiers, just pick him." Anyway, we are good citizens under the command of the Jin Kingdom, and it is only natural that we will do something against the rebellious teachers. ”

Yu Yulin also smiled: "The most important thing is not this, Wang Juyun, An Xifu and others want to mess with Li Xizhi and provoke the black flag to shoot." ”

Lou Shuwan was stunned: "Big words, what's the matter with those people?" ”

"Black Flag is in Shandong, and there is a business."

Lou Shuwan's eyes looked at Yu Yulin, her eyes were deep, but she was not puzzled.

"It's not just the black flag...... Back then, Ning Yi used a strategy to break through Liangshan, borrowing the strength of several Zhuangzi in Dulonggang, and later he also trained in Dulonggang, and he had a lot of connections with the two Zhuangzi on the gang, and Zhujiazhuang Zhu Biao and others also worked under him. Three years after Xiaocanghe, the black flag fled south, although Li Xizhi occupied Shandong, Hebei and other places, but the people were fierce, and he couldn't take it hard in many places. Dulonggang, Liangshan and other places are among them......"

What Yu Yulin said, Lou Shuwan actually naturally understood. At the beginning, Ning Yi broke through Liangshan and made friends with Dulonggang, which was fierce in folk customs, and everyone didn't realize it too much. When it came to Ning Yi's murder of the king, many things were traced back to the past, and people were shocked to realize that Dulonggang was actually one of the origins of Ning Yi's armed forces, and it was difficult to say how many things he left there.

The three-year war of Xiaocanghe scared the people of the Central Plains, and Li Xizhi, who had attacked Xiaocanghe, naturally used troops against Dulonggang after mastering Shandong, but to be honest, it was extremely difficult. The Zhu and Hu families of Dulonggang had to destroy Zhuangzi under the frontal advancement of the officers and soldiers, and then wandered in the area of Liangshan Shuibo, gathering into bandits, which made Li Xizhi extremely embarrassed, and later he burned Dulonggang to the ground, and did not occupy it, and that area became a terra nullius land in chaos.

Externally, the forces behind the bandits in Dulonggang and Shuibo are the sworn enemies of the Black Flag Army - Nanwu. At the beginning, Ning Yi killed the monarch, and there were many people implicated, and the daughter of the Confucian King Qisong family survived with the protection of the crown prince Zhou Junwu, and Wang Shanyue, the sole seedling of the Wang family, was originally an official in the south of the Yangtze River, and after the murder of the monarch, he was protected by his wife Hu Sanniang and went north and took refuge in Hujiazhuang. After the fall of the Central Plains, he did not forget to worry about the country, and always led everyone to deal with the Jurchen and Daqi officers and soldiers, so on the surface, it was the resistance force of Nanwu here.

There are not a few forces in the Central Plains that care about the Southern Dynasties, but it is easier for people to tolerate, Li Xizhi has failed to crusade several times, so he has put down his thoughts, and everyone no longer mentions it too much. It was only this year that there began to be movement in the south, and speculation of this kind and that floated again.

Wang Juyun thinks that there is no black flag in the north now, of course. Unlike the black flag spies in the court and the army of you and me, this group in Shandong is likely to be the elite of the black flag who has come down. If Li Xizhi is in turmoil internally, with Ning Yi's shrewdness, it is impossible not to come out and take advantage, if he wants to take advantage, he will have to take risks. In the future, when the Jurchens go south, the first thing they pay attention to will inevitably be Shandong. When the time comes, he can't help but rely on you and me, and at least he will hope that we can last a little longer. ”

"What if the black flag doesn't move?"

"Then the interests of Shandong and Hebei will be divided equally between us, and if the Jurchens go south, we can naturally hide back in the mountains, Shandong...... Great, don't you. ”

“…… He was determined to fight the Jurchens. ”

"The Han people can mess with you and me, not with Yidi. The original words of the blessing belt. ”

“…… Wang Shangshu. Lou Shuwan thought about it and laughed, Wang Yin, the Shangshu of the Yongle Uprising, had also seen it when she was in Hangzhou, but she was young at the time, and the memory of more than ten years ago was blurred when she thought about it at the moment, but she had a different taste in her heart.

At that time, the innocent young woman only had panic in her heart, and when she saw those people who entered Hangzhou, she only felt that they were rough and unruly mud legs. At this time, after seeing the fall of the Central Plains, the overthrow of heaven and earth, the livelihood of millions of people in his hands, and the fear of the threat of the Jurchens, he suddenly felt that among those who entered the city at the beginning, there seemed to be great heroes who stood up to the sky. This hero is also very different from the original hero.

"Like a great man." Yu Yulin said, then stood up and took two steps, "But at this time, it seems that this hero, you and me, everyone in the court, millions of troops, and even the world seem to be being played with by that person in applause." ”

Lou Shuwan's eyes were calm and did not speak, Yu Yulin sighed: "The fact that Ning Yi is still alive should have been determined, so it seems that last year's chaos was also manipulated by him behind his back." It's ridiculous that we fight for life and death, and it is a matter of life and death for millions of people, and we have just become puppets for others. ”

Yu Yulin said this, but he didn't have too much frustration. Lou Shuwan's thumb pressed lightly in the palm of his hand: "Brother Yu is also a masterpiece in the world, why bother to be arrogant, the world is bustling, all for profit." He took advantage of the situation, and we benefited, and that's all. After she said this, Yu Yulin looked at her and raised her head, and whispered softly: "...... in applause" I don't know what she thought of this description, and a trace of bitterness and charm flickered in her eyes, fleeting. The spring breeze ruffled the hair of this independent woman, and in front of her was a green field that stretched endlessly.

"I met with the Lin Zhangjiao of the Great Light Sect a few days ago, and agreed that they will continue to build temples and preach here, and soon after, I also want to join the Great Light Sect." Yu Yulin's gaze looked over, Lou Shuwan looked ahead, and said in a calm tone, "The teachings of the Great Light Sect, under the Ming Zun, are listed as the descending maidens, and they can control the high and low helmsmen of the Great Light Sect here, and the Great Light Sect cannot be too involved in military politics, but they can recruit monks and soldiers from the poor on their own." North of the Yellow River, we support them and help them to develop on the territory of Wang Juyun and Li Xizhi...... Sect Master Lin has great ambitions and has already agreed. ”

She smiled: "After a while, people will know that the king is also a god in the sky, and he is the living king of Xuan, Brother Yu, you are also a god general who patrols the heavens." The King of Tota is still the King of the Kingdom, Brother Yu, you might as well choose for yourself. ”

Yu Yulin looked at her for a while: "That monk is not a good person, you should be careful." ”

"In this kind of world, if you are reluctant to have children, where can you trap wolves. I can save it, either he eats me, or I eat him. ”

Yu Yulin didn't say anything more. The two of them stood and sat there, and they both looked ahead for a long time. I don't know when a murmur floats in the air.

“…… ...... in the palm of your hand"

“…… Sooner or later, I'll bite a piece of his flesh down ......"

The two big men talked for a long time in the fields outside, and when they rode all the way back to the city in a carriage, a bright sunset had already risen in the sky, and this sunset fell on the walls of Wasion. The road is bustling with people, and there are many beggars by the city gate, but compared to the Central Plains at this time, this town has shown an indescribable stability and calm after more than ten years of peace.

"Defend the land, settle the people in the four realms, Lou girl, these are all due to you, you are very good." When the curtain was lifted, Yu Yulin said this.

Lou Shuwan looked at the crowd outside, her face was calm, just like for many years, from her face, there were actually not too many vivid expressions.

There was no one to share it with her......

(To be continued.) )