Chen Wenjun is actually worried that her mother's family will be too deeply involved in politics or too public, which will cause dissatisfaction with the shogunate, which will then affect her relationship with Xu Zixian.

Since her husband was not disgusted by the arrival of her eldest brother, and was even a little happy, she was very pleased, and sat gently on the left side of Xu Zixian's side, and the three of them sat and chatted together.

"You know what?" Xu Zixian said suddenly: "I've been a little worried, I'm afraid that everything is a mirror, and suddenly it will cease to exist......"

"Yes." Chen Wenjun and Xiuniang glanced at each other, and the two said in unison: "You often have nightmares, you will sweat coldly, and you have woken up in nightmares many times. ”

Xu Zixian smiled to himself and shook his head.

I really can't hide anything from the person next to the pillow, no wonder no matter how powerful the emperor is, he also has completely different feelings for his wife.

"I see a lot and hear a lot...... This time going north also confirmed my previous thoughts, if I don't come forward, the Donghu people will break through, not only my Great Wei North can't keep it, but also the south can't keep it. I, you, our relatives and friends, and ordinary people, will all be in a situation from which we will never recover......"

Xu Zixian didn't say much, including the things of his own life, even the closest pillow person is not easy to talk about, he can only respond vaguely, and then said: "I often have these hidden worries, and even often dream that the Great Wei forgets the country, the temple is not guaranteed, and my life is not guaranteed." So I have been acting very hard in the past few years, and I have been rich and noble in the eyes of outsiders, but I still wear rough clothes and eat bad food, and it seems that I am coveting the throne...... Indeed, I want the position of the Son of Heaven, and I am bound to get it. But in fact, the virtue of the Son of Heaven is not enough to match, and his talent is also not enough to match. In this critical situation, if I don't stand up and abide by my duty as a courtier, then I can only watch the Son of Heaven drag Dawei into the cliff and fall into a situation from which there is no return. It is not only my Great Wei family and country that have been destroyed, but also the Chinese world...... The Son of Heaven can't afford this responsibility, and neither can the entire Great Wei Clan. At this time, I finally don't have to worry anymore, the sailor is so strong, it is only a matter of time before I extinguish Pu Xingfeng and master the South Seas. Even if Donghu enters the country a few years later, I will have hundreds of thousands of elite troops to compete with them, with at least tens of millions of revenues, including taxes from the south, taxes on ship trade, and profits from overseas trade, which are enough for me to raise troops and the Northern Expedition. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you can't keep the north, as long as there is a sailor, you can't cross the river, protect half of our China, seize the countries of the South Seas, turn the sea of the South Seas into our Huaxia Neihu, and then go north to drive Hu when the national strength is stronger and the troops are more sufficient...... What I can do, I have to do......"

Xu Zixian breathed a sigh of relief at the end, and at this moment, he seemed to remember the situation when he practiced archery by the river a few years ago. At that time, he woke up from nightmares every night, and now, he finally did it. Back then, accumulating strength, practicing bows and arrows, practicing knives, recruiting generals, and working hard, all I wanted was this moment.

And looking left and right, seeing Chen Wenjun, Xiuniang, and the children who are about to be born, as well as the thousands of loyal and brave soldiers and the Nanyang and the entire southern Wei Dynasty, what more can the husband ask for?

"I succeeded...... I did it! Xu Zixian's face showed excitement, as if he was about to stand up and dance, Xiuniang and Chen Wenjun pressed his hand left and right, and stroked gently.

"You did it." Chen Wenjun said softly: "You really did it. ”

"Yes, husband." Xiuniang said a little nervously: "You haven't had nightmares for a long time." ”

Xu Zi calmed down first, and then showed a smile on his face, yes, he really did it, no matter what bumps and bumps in the future, there is nothing that can stop him from reaching the top!

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"The Liu brothers have conquered Bianzhou?" Qin Dongyang was wearing a military robe made of cocoon silk, and a flat iron helmet on top of his head, the helmet was not decorated, and it was black, which was in stark contrast to the phoenix-winged helmet that the generals liked.

As he spoke, a number of generals stood solemnly all around, and the local officials and prominent gentry stood opposite him, in this case Canton, and after receiving the latest Tang newspapers, the people were discussing matters together in the main hall of the pacification of the envoy Yamen.

The new Chongde seventeen-year military uniform has been fully installed, and the black iron helmet is the same as the whole army, but when it reaches the level of a general in charge of the army, a silver star will still be added to the helmet, so that the generals can be found far away on the battlefield, which is convenient for commanding in battle.

In addition to the black iron helmet, the gray military robe has not changed, but the hem is shorter, the belt made of cowhide tightens the waist, breeches and boots, and the rank logo on the shoulder, which are quite distinctive features of the Qin Wangfu army.

Qin Dongyang is already the commander of Xiangdu, and at the same level as him, there are Jin Baoyi, Wu Weisan, Zhang Huchen, Liu Yi, Ge Cunzhong, Ge Cunzhuang, Lin Cunxin, Dong Ruixiang, Li Xingwu and other generals who have followed King Qin for a long time.

By the beginning of the 17th year of Chongde, the number of the government army was already 260 army divisions, 12 cavalry corps, plus engineering and baggage troops, more than 1.3 million men, more than 100,000 mules and horses, and more than 30,000 transport vehicles.

Even so, Xu Zixian, the king of Qin, was not too satisfied, the number of mules and horses could be doubled, he already knew that in this era of Taixi, the Dutch mobilized about 30,000 troops, the number of mules and horses was more than the number of troops, and the number of vehicles exceeded 30,000, in the plains of Western Europe, when the roads were good, it was quite normal to maneuver more than 100 miles a day, and it could even go further.

Of course, the mules and horses in Western Europe are generally much more robust than those in East Asia, and the horses used for arable land are taller than those of adults, and the Mongolian horses, Hetang horses, and southwestern horses in China cannot be found.

The quality is not good, and the quantity is not enough, but this is already the result of two or three years of hard work, and the purchase of war horses is diversified, not only to buy from Xiqiang, but also to smuggle and sell war horses to the Eastern Domain, in addition to selling a small number of war horses to the Qin Shogunate to enrich the cavalry to the Nanyang countries and even the Wa Kingdom.

By the end of the sixteenth year and the beginning of the seventeenth year, it was finally organized into twelve armies of cavalry, these cavalry also played a great role in the pursuit of Li Kaiming's war, because the shogunate deliberately let go, and Jingnan was indeed a powder keg, Li Kaiming achieved great success in Jingnan, by the summer of the sixteenth year Li Kaiming had been wrapped in more than 500,000 Ding Zhuang, plus his family with the army, known as a million army, the entire southeast was terrified.

In the autumn of the sixteenth year, Xu Zixian appointed Qin Dongyang as the head of the march of Jingguang Zhulu, commanding the cavalry on the left and right, plus the land division of the ten carriages, and the 300,000 troops set out from Jingbei, Jingnan, and Jiangxi Zhulu respectively to conquer Li Kaiming's department, which had been noticed by the whole country.

Li Kaiming was complacent at this time, entrenched in the north of Jingnan and Guangnan East Road, with Shaozhou as the capital, and was known as the king of Jing.

300,000 government troops, it fought with 500,000 troops, Qin Dongyang with cavalry around its two wings, nearly 50,000 cavalry rushed to the impact of 10,000 horses, the sound was like thunder, although the thieves were strong, but whether it was training or equipment, and the will was not enough compared with the government army, not to mention the most powerful cavalry elite in the government army.

After the cavalry attack, the scattered thieves fled all over the mountains, and this battle was the second time that Li Kaiming's backbone was broken, so that the thief leader understood that not only was the dream of sweeping the world unattainable, but even if the occupied side waited for the situation to change, it was just a dream. The momentum that Li Kaiming made before was just that the King of Qin needed him to achieve such a scale, so that the government army could smoothly enter southern Zhejiang and northern Jingbei, and now that the shogunate has mastered all roads, Li Kaiming is already an outcast, and he no longer needs his existence.

There is another reason why it is not suitable to be publicized, that is, Jingnan is difficult to govern.

There are mountain bandits and robbers everywhere, ploughing the land during the day, and looting at night with short knives and hoes, the valley is full of peasants and bandits who are inseparable from the people of Jingnan, Li Kaiming's huge momentum in Jingnan has made countless local bandits either voluntarily or forced to follow, at this time, the battle is exterminated, the bandits in Jingnan can be regarded as being solved by the way, and then leave a few armies of infantry, with the assistance of the local Xiang army, keep exterminating the remnants of the bandits, within a year or two, the security problem in Jingnan can almost be solved.

In fact, the place is poor and can't accommodate too much Ding Zhuang, Ding Zhuang, who has more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, followed the Liukou, and the pressure on local survival has been reduced a lot at once, of course, it is easy to govern.

Another way to deal with the aftermath is to recruit troops locally, not only the government army, but also the defensive army, engineering troops, baggage soldiers, as well as security guards, officials, with the financial resources of the shogunate, it is more than enough to bear more than 100,000 Ding Zhuang in a place like Jingnan, which can solve the people's livelihood on the one hand, and prevent bandits from occurring again, and thirdly, the shogunate can also take the opportunity to absorb the local Ding Zhuang and elites to consolidate the rule in Jingnan, killing multiple birds with one stone.

In Jingnan, Liangzhejiang, Fujian Road and other places, of course, it is also handled in one.

Li Kaiming was defeated, more than 500,000 troops were killed, corpses piled up like mountains, and the remaining 300,000 people were divided into several ranks by thieves and rebels, and ordinary rebels were sentenced to hard labor ranging from one year to three years, and were escorted to serve under the government offices of various military states.

These people are not wicked people, but they are bandits because it is difficult to survive, but they are contaminated with bad habits and have to be rectified, otherwise the bad habits are not changed, and it is still difficult to control.

The next level is the boss level, and the period of hard labor is five to ten years. Then there are generals, or the people who kill many people, and the notoriously cruel people, these are all executed.

Li Kaiming's old battalion soldiers, every one of them had blood on their hands, and as long as they were captured, they would be executed, and none of them could be spared death.

The families of the soldiers were also followed to the hard labor land to be settled, and if they were executed, they were directly controlled by the Eastern Domain, and then gradually placed in the division control, and gradually naturalized into ordinary people.

The main force of the Liukou was annihilated, more than 300,000 people were taken away in batches, and more than 20,000 prisoners were executed.

Qin Dongyang did not stop, under the pretext that a small number of remnants of bandits flowed to Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road, and the army was stationed separately, and the army was first managed according to the methods of the rest of the roads, gradually digesting local forces, and dispatching shogunate officials, these two roads were also taken down.

By the seventeenth year, the entire south, except for the Sichuan Road, Yunnan Road, Guizhou Road, and Jiangnan East Road in the southwest, was still managed by officials sent by the imperial court, and the rest of the country had fallen into the hands of the shogunate.

The people in the shogunate are familiar with these things, including the early military management and the later officials to keep up, and the local officials are quite skilled.

In the past few years, it has not been without the backlash of local officials, but under the threat of force from the Qin Wangfu army, as well as the huge prestige suppression of the Qin king, the local officials can only accept the reality, tax reduction, and their interest in being officials has decreased a lot, with the middle and low-level officials sent by the Qin Wang's shogunate and a large number of officials to assist, these officials are also happy to ignore it.

For Xu Zixian, he was patient for the time being, and after the center lost his position and the Son of Heaven collapsed, he would be able to justifiably remove a large number of officials and replace them with the chief officials of the shogunate, and then he could use local power more justifiably.

After Qin Dongyang arrived in Guangzhou, he immediately announced military control and appeased the officials of the envoys and departments, of course, but the local gentry, students, and common people all supported the Qin king and the government army, and the officials of the various departments and the governors of the prefectures and counties could only silently accept the reality.

The government army has been stationed in Guangzhou and various prefectures and counties for more than ten days, and the cavalry has suppressed the bandits one after another, and the commander Li Kaiming has pursued and suppressed the fleeing rogue commander Li Kaiming.

After Li Kaiming was captured and sent to Guangzhou, Qin Dongyang summoned local officials and gentry to interrogate Li Kaiming, but the news came that Liu Anle's brothers had finally conquered Bianzhou.

Everyone looked at each other, and they all felt uneasy.

The importance of Bianzhou is not only the capital of Henan Road, but also the throat of the Central Plains, to get Bianzhou such a shape of the place, in order to really control Henan Road, and then to Shandong and the northwest roads to form a threat, Liukou from Henan, Bianzhou has occupied Luoyang Huazhou and many other military states, after which you can get Shandong, the loss of the north two roads is not the most deadly, but Henan is close to Hebei, the forbidden army is empty, the court transferred more than 20 armies were defeated by the Liu brothers, indicating that after the loss of elite, the combat strength of the forbidden army declined sharply, If in the past, the forbidden army of more than 20 armies could completely defeat more than ten times the rogue, but this time it was defeated many times in the battle to aid the Henan Road, and the imperial court had to transfer more forbidden troops to the south, making the northern defense line further empty.

"Liukou has been in Bianzhou three times in two years." Jin Baoyi took the Tang newspaper, took a look at it, and said: "It's expected, there are only more than 40,000 people from 20 armies who come to aid the forbidden army. ”

This veteran of the government army still does not change his temperament back then, and his words are unobstructed, and he is very straightforward and fast-talking.

The officials present were embarrassed, but the gentry and students around them showed approval on their faces.

This is the case at the moment, the imperial court is worried about the invasion of the Donghu people, and does not dare to concentrate on the use of the soldiers in the border towns, and is overwhelmed by the rogues, so it can only collect soldiers and horses everywhere, and make up 120,000 people, 30,000 or 40,000 people to slowly fill in the battlefield on Henan Road, and in the past two years, dozens of armies have been filled in one after another, but the results are quite limited, not only failed to exterminate the rogues, but the soldiers of the forbidden army were tired and disabled, and they failed to consolidate the border defense, and they could not exterminate the rogues, it was really a war on both sides, and both sides failed.