Seeing that the concubine and King Tan looked like a mother and a son, Chun Shisanniang lowered her head, looked at Yao Xishui with a smile on the corner of her mouth, and saw that her expression was indifferent, but she was more calm than herself.

When King Tan accompanied the concubine to the garden to say something considerate, Chun Thirteen Niang stood in the corner of the courtyard and asked Yao Xishui: "You see that the relationship between the concubine and His Royal Highness is now harmonious, why do you still have a little face?" ”

Yao Xishui glanced at the concubine and the king of Tan who were talking in the distance, thinking that in addition to the love between mother and son, the king of Tan and the concubine lived in seclusion in the deep palace for thirteen years, as long as they were not aggressive and could overcome the rigid with softness, it was impossible for the king of Tan to easily get rid of the hidden control of the concubine, but how could the one in Xuzhou be a good person?

Thinking of this, Yao Xishui sighed lightly and said:

"In the past two years, the skilled shipwrights in Yueyang and Tanzhou have been received by Han Qian to Xuzhou, and they are preparing to build more warships, or to buy ships from Xuzhou; And this time, Yuzhou purchased a large number of weapons and warships from Xuzhou, and we seem to be shackling Han Qian in Xuzhou, but if these conditions do not change, there is still no way to cut off his tentacles outside Yueyang. ”

When Zhang Ping went to Xuzhou to serve as a military envoy, Yao Xishui and Chun Thirteen Niang also lived together in Xuzhou for a period of time, although Chun Thirteen Niang was always full of disgust that Xuzhou was a place of poor mountains and bad waters, and wanted to leave Xuzhou as soon as possible, but Yao Xishui could still see the great changes in Xuzhou and the great vitality it contained.

Maybe she was more entangled with Han Qian, maybe because of this, she knew Han Qian better, thinking that the lady and the concubine still despised Han Qian too much.

The Tanzhou water camp governed by the original Ma family was once known as the Wuya Army, when Yueyang City was presented, the Dragon Bird Army incorporated a number of water battalion soldiers and warships, and on this basis, Gao Chengyuan, who was commanded by the Yuezhou Thorn History and the Right Dragon Bird Army, was responsible for preparing for the construction of the water camp, and the water camp was placed under the right Dragon Bird Army.

Even if the attack on Jinling is not considered, Hunan Kyushu controls the river and chokes the lake, and there is also the need for the water battalion to become an independent army and expand the battalion.

The water battalion was expanded into the Wuya Army, and in addition to recruiting and transferring soldiers to practice water affairs, it was also necessary to supplement a number of warships.

During the war, the shipyards built by the original Ma family in Yueyang and Tanzhou were all outside the city, and before the Longque army came to the city, the Tanzhou army first destroyed these building measures outside the city.

More importantly, after suppressing the two cities of Yueyang and Tanzhou, a group of shipbuilders and even a large amount of shipbuilding timber stored for many years were taken to Xuzhou by Han Qian to expand the scale of Wufeng Mountain and Linjiang shipbuilding stones.

At that time, no one thought that such an earth-shattering change would occur in Jinling, and no one had the shipbuilding capacity of Jinling, Jiangzhou or even Chaozhou, and they all fell under the control of Anning Palace.

Under the auspices of Zhou Yuan, the shipyard that was urgently built after the Yueyang New Year lacked skilled craftsmen and dehydrated timber that had been stored for several years, and could only repair some ships at present, and had no ability to build ships at all.

No matter how unhappy they are, this time they will prepare for the construction of the Wuya Army, and the hundreds of new warships of all sizes will be purchased from Xuzhou.

In addition to the warship, Zhou Yuan, Han Daochang and others, who presided over the Ministry of Works, also contracted the affairs of the craftsman's institute, and there was no separate general as a supervisor.

There are tens of thousands of officials, slaves and maids in Yueyang and Tanzhou, specializing in iron, copper coinage, armor casting, war weapons, bows and crossbows, city construction, etc., not to mention him, but the armor and weapons made by the craftsman institute, bows and crossbows, etc., are much worse than those produced in Xuzhou.

Ordinary soldiers have no say in these matters, and even the opinions of low-level military attachés do not need to be considered, but when making a choice between the craftsman academy and the armor and weapons sent by Xuzhou, no one can ignore the complaints of the battalion commander and the first-class general of the Marquis of Duyu.

There was no way to forcibly demote the rebel generals' families to hard labor, to official slaves and maids, although the number was large, but it could not change the disadvantage of the extreme lack of master craftsmen, craftsmen and skilled craftsmen.

When Hou Ye abandoned Qiuhu Mountain and withdrew to Runzhou, although more than 2,000 craftsmen were taken care of and were not intercepted by the soldiers and horses of Anning Palace, it was still extremely difficult for more than 2,000 craftsmen and tens of thousands of family members to bypass Jinling, Chizhou, Jiangzhou, Xuanzhou and other areas controlled by Anning Palace and move into Hunan.

In fact, the more than 100 craftsmen and craftsmen trained by the Qiuhu Mountain Craftsman Workshop in the past few years had already been taken to Xuzhou by Han Qian when they were secretly cutting the war.

Of course, Yao Xishui will not forget that the Qiuhu Mountain Workshop was created by Han Qian.

And craftsmen and engineers like Ji Xiyao and Chen Jitang, who have great potential for training, were arranged by Han Qian to take root in Xuzhou one step earlier.

Even after the capture of Tanzhou, the group of craftsmen who were originally controlled by the Ma family, dozens of the most sophisticated craftsmen and engineers, were also asked by Han Qian to go over.

After the capture of Tanzhou, after the top and bottom fell into a carnival, everyone was waiting for Jinling's official reward, who would carefully distinguish who was more important than whom among the thousands of officials and slaves controlled by the Ma family in Tanzhou before?

Although the feudal towns in the middle and late dynasties of the former dynasty were divided for a hundred years, and each family was extremely important to the construction of cities and armor and weapons, the status of craftsmen did not improve much.

In order to facilitate the use and control, each family even directly demoted a large number of craftsmen to official slaves and maids for centralized processing, or said that only slaves and maids were used in the workshops and handicrafts under their jurisdiction.

Rashly conquering one side's forces, how many people will think of selecting meritocracy from the slaves controlled by the other party?

Even if Zhou Yuan was in charge of the Ministry of Industry and was responsible for the repair and repair of armor and weapons, he could only purchase some of the excellent armor and weapons from Xuzhou to appease the grievances of generals at all levels.

They were complacent, thinking that Han Qian was tied to Xuzhou with Ding Wei's funeral, and Han Qian was given the post of assassin in Xuzhou, making it difficult for Han Qian to directly interfere in Yueyang's affairs, but in addition to Feng Yi, Du Qiniang, Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan and others were by His Royal Highness's side, Han Qian also thought that other more silent and difficult ways to refuse were affecting Yueyang, so that no one could get rid of him, not to mention that the palace maids and eunuchs in the inner palace were all vying to buy light, delicate, breathable, easy-to-use and inexpensive Qianyang cloth as robes.

On the day of the wedding between King Tan and the county lord of Qingyang, Yao Xishui was pressed with a faint worry in his heart, and served by the concubine's side with Chun Thirteen Niang.

The day passed quickly, and it was getting dark.

On the side of Cishou Palace, hundreds of bright corner lamps are lit inside and outside and hung up, illuminating the huge courtyard as bright as day.

Hearing the news from Changxin Palace that His Royal Highness and the Lord of Qingyang had been sent to the happy house, Yao Xishui breathed a sigh of relief.

Chun Thirteen Niang walked out of the dormitory at this time, stretching her waist in a variety of ways, but no one here except for the eunuch is the palace maid, no one will be teased by her style.

Although Cishou Palace has independent honor guards, guards and horses, thousands of elite lineages are selected, all led by Li Chong and Han Jun as the left and right soldiers, stationed in the barracks in the northeast corner of Cishou Palace.

In addition to guarding the Cishou Palace, this military department also controls an inconspicuous side gate that can enter and exit the royal city in addition to the four main gates of Chongxin, Chongli, Chongren, and Chongyi.

"This day has finally passed," Chun Thirteen Niang stretched her waist to look at Yao Xishui, and asked with a slightly self-deprecating face, "You said that Your Highness and Han Qian do you know that the little bitch of Qingyang is actually the remnant of the Shenling Division just like us?" ”

Yao Xishui shrugged, who can really see through Han Qian all these years?

But then again, does it have something to do with the former Dynasty Shenling Division, and who cares now?

Even the remnants of the Shenling Division are busy fighting for power and profit all day long, and how many people still don't forget to hate the country?

Yao Xishui was about to return to the class courtyard where they lived with Chun Thirteen Niang and the maids, and saw Li Chong and Han Jun eagerly break in and stopped them: "What happened?" ”

"Did the concubine and the palace envoy sleep?" Li Chong asked anxiously.

"The concubine has fallen asleep, and the lady is in the west courtyard, I don't know if she has slept or not, what happened?" Yao Xishui saw that Li Chong was holding a piece of tissue paper stained with beeswax in his hand, and asked, "Where is the secret letter coming urgently?" ”

"The soldiers and horses of Chuzhou defeated Xu Zhu's department in the west of Runzhou!" Li Chong said.

Xu Zhu as a member of the Xu clan, is the general of the Anning Palace, before the Jinling Incident served as the Chaozhou soldiers and horses, after the incident for the first time to lead 10,000 elites from Chaozhou to cross the river into the quarry, and then along the east of the river into Jinling, and Anning Palace and the East Palace controlled by the soldiers and horses after the rendezvous, by the title of Longwu General, the governor of Runzhou and Yangxuan Zhuzhou military, it can be said that the Anning Palace sent to intercept the Chuzhou soldiers and horses from the direction of Runzhou to attack Jinling vanguard general.

After the reorganization of the attached forbidden army and the guards and pro-army, the current Anning Palace in Jinling directly controlled by the soldiers and horses reached 110,000, mainly divided into three parts.

One is the 20,000 sailors of the Lou Boat Army headed by Yang Jian, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, after the Jinling Incident, Yang Jian finally chose to save the clan and send the family back to Jinling City, and he led the Lou Boat Army to be stationed in the Jingxian Lake Sailor Camp in the northeast of Jinling City.

First, there are 20,000 guards under the command of Xu Anlan, mainly the prince's palace guards, and they are currently mainly responsible for the garrison of the palace and the imperial city.

The collected forbidden army and guard pro-army, dismantled and mixed into the Chaozhou soldiers and horses led by Xu Zhu to cross the river and the soldiers and horses mastered by Wen Duqiao and Wen Bo, and reorganized the Nanya Forbidden Army, with the largest number of people and horses, a total of 70,000 forbidden army generals, with the privy deputy envoy Niu Gengru as the commander of all the armies and the horse infantry army, with Xu Zhu and Wen Bo as the deputy generals, actually commanding the Nanya Forbidden Army.

When Yao Xishui and the others first arrived in Yueyang with the concubine Wang Chan'er, Zheng Chang and others, Wen Bo led 40,000 Nanya forbidden troops to guard Jinling City except for the imperial city and palace city, while Xu Zhu led another 30,000 Nanya forbidden troops to enter the Jingshan Nunnery at the southeast foot of Baohua Mountain.

At that time, Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, occupied Runzhou City, and after joining up with the Chuzhou forward soldiers, there were 20,000 elite soldiers.

Although Xu Zhu's troops were superior, the army was unstable and panicked, but he was not afraid that he would dare to lead 30,000 Nanya forbidden troops to besiege Runzhou City.

However, after Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, led the main elite of Chuzhou to cross the river, he would inevitably launch a tentative attack on Xu Zhu's troops at the fastest speed, and would do everything possible to achieve victory, so that it would be possible to deter the states and counties near Jinling to remain neutral for the time being, and not obey the orders of the Anning Palace, which also made it difficult for the Anning Palace to withdraw money and grain from the nearby states and counties and Ding Zhuang.

The Shouzhou soldiers and horses moved a little slowly, and the soldiers and horses of Chuzhou did not care about the Liang army stationed in the direction of Xuzhou two months ago, and the main force went south, as long as the soldiers and horses assembled by King Yang Yuanyan in Runzhou exceeded 30,000, and Xu Zhu's first battle, no matter how you look at it, you can take advantage.

The key to the problem is to see after Xu Mingzhen led the Shouzhou soldiers and horses to cross the river.

"If King Xin leads the main force of Chuzhou to cross the river, and there is a marquis to join forces with him, it is a matter of course and a good thing to defeat Xu Zhu, why do you look panicked?" Chun Thirteen Niang seemed to have beautiful eyes hidden in the autumn water, glancing at Li Chong and Han Jun, and they didn't know how they could look like this.

"The Lou Boat Army blocked the waterways of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the main force of the Chuzhou soldiers and horses has not been able to cross the river to the south, so Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, only led 800 silver halberd guards to cross the river to Runzhou first to meet the front of the Chuzhou army and my father. King Shin urged my father to send troops from Runzhou, but my father could not dissuade him, so he reluctantly left Runzhou in parallel with him and went southeast of Baohua Mountain. Xu Zhu led 30,000 Nanya forbidden troops out of Jingshan Nunnery, and my father and Chuzhou forward soldiers and horses in the southeast of Jingshan Nunnery contact fierce battle, my father will be unable to resist when the prince of Xin led 800 silver halberd guards to stop the waist and kill, directly rushed into the Nanya forbidden army in the military formation, in the formation beheaded Xu Zhu, so that the 30,000 Nanya forbidden army collapsed! Li Chong said.