Hearing the sound of "Liulan", Yuxuzi rushed to the Wangge where Liulan was located to look down the mountain, but she saw a group of people coming up the mountain after crossing the mountain gate. Looking closely at this team, Yu Xuzi found that there were more than 30 people, and many of them were still wearing imperial court clothes.

"The person who went up the mountain at the head of this person seems to be a member of the imperial court of the fourth grade." After Zhanye came to the Lookout Pavilion, he also looked down the mountain and said.

Before Yu Xuzi could speak, Zhan Ye was surprised and said, "Dao Chief, there are soldiers in the team on this mountain that I have scattered before. ”

"Can the good lord see clearly?" Yu Xuzi asked.

"They're right." Zhan Ye looked at the mountain road and said.

Yu Xuzi nodded slightly, then reached out and stopped "Liulan". Then Yu Xuzi said, "Good lord, please wait in the temple, and go to greet the guests in the poor way." ”

After Yu Xuzi greeted the crowd, Zhanye, who was standing under the gate and waiting for the visitors with Yao Ping, was surprised to find that he not only happened to know the four-rank officials in this team, but also was very familiar with them.

"Dong Xian!" Zhanye excitedly shouted at the man on the mountain road.

"County Lieutenant Zhan, do you know that adult?" Yao Ping, who was on Zhanye's side, asked him in a low voice.

"That's my friend, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple in Luochuan Imperial Court, Dong Xian." Zhan Ye said and walked quickly towards Dong Xian.

"Zhanye!" After Dong Xian saw Zhanye, he was stunned at first, and then quickly stepped forward and ran towards Zhanye.

Zhanye hugged Dong Xian excitedly. After a period of greetings, Zhan Ye asked Dong Xian, "Brother Dong, you didn't stay in the Luochuan Imperial Court, why did you come to the remote place of Chongyunling?" ”

"Don't talk about this, Zhanye. I met your soldiers on the way here, and I heard that the Linjian County where you are stationed has allowed a group of homeless people from Qingfu to break through the city? Dong Xian asked Zhanye with a little surprise.

Zhan Ye looked back at the more than ten Linjian archers who came up the mountain with Dong Xian, and after greeting them, Zhan Ye turned his head and said to Dong Xian, "Hey... Indeed, as the county lieutenant of Linjian, I failed to defend the city of Linjian County, and the people there suffered. ”

Seeing Zhanye's lonely expression, Dong Xian comforted, "Brother Zhan, don't blame yourself, I heard that you have 300 county soldiers in the district, relying on the low wall, you can still resist the 5,000 mob for a few days, and finally lead the people in the city to get out of the siege, which is already extremely difficult." ”

"Brother Dong, don't comfort me." Zhan Ye said, "No matter what I say, I am derelict in my duty and lost the city. ”

Dong Xian gently patted Zhanye's arm and continued to ask, "Brother Zhan, I heard those soldiers say that you are going to turn yourself in and confess your guilt this time?" ”

Zhan Ye nodded and said, "After escorting a few friends out of this mountain, I will go to confess." ”

Dong Xian wanted to speak and stopped.

"Brother Dong, you haven't said it yet, why did you come here?" Zhan Ye turned to look at the group of imperial court officials behind Dong Xianji and asked.

"I was on a business trip by the Holy Order, and I happened to pass by here." Dong Xian opened his mouth and said, "You also know that our Honglu Temple is in charge of foreign guests, and I am going to Tiantang County in the north of Yuheng to accept the letter and tribute of the Yingzhou Kingdom on behalf of the imperial court." ”

"Sakurashu's Book of Surrender?" Zhan Ye asked in surprise, "Has the rebellion in Yingzhou in Yuheng Prefecture been pacified?" ”

"It's far from settled." Dong Xian said.

"What does the letter and tribute of the country of Sakura Prefecture mean?" Zhan Ye asked puzzled.

Dong Xian said, "Brother Zhan, do you know that there are as many as sixty-six countries in Yingzhou, and this is really just the guardian of one of them expressing his submission and submission to my Son of Heaven. ”

"There are as many as sixty-six countries in the projectile Sakura Prefecture?!" Zhan Ye asked, "Then isn't their country equivalent to the size of my Yiluo County?" ”

Dong Xian nodded and said, "Almost." ”

Zhan Ye thought about it for a while and continued to ask, "Brother Dong, are the countries of this Yingzhou still acting separately and deciding to fight and surrender independently?" Aren't they all under the authority of their emperor? ”

"Nominally. However, it is reported that as early as the first month of the rising sea, Heiankyo, where Emperor Sakurashu was located, was submerged. With the inundation of their capital, Emperor Sakurashu, who already had no real power, became even more insignificant. And the general of the Seiyi, who controlled the military power, made a decision in the face of the rising sea waters, and ordered the sixty-six kingdoms of Sakura to invade Iro, in order to seize the land. Dong Xian said.

"I see." Zhan Ye pondered and said, "As early as a few months ago, the Yingzhou Naval Army that was completely annihilated by my Yiluo Naval Army in the Battle of Qingfu was the army assembled by their general, right?" ”

"Exactly. In the face of the Yingzhou people who came to attack in a big way, our naval army wiped out its main force in one fell swoop in the battle of Qingfu. Dong Xian said, "But the chain reaction to Yingzhou after that battle led to a great decline in the control of the Yingzhou Zhengyi General over the countries of Yingzhou." As a result, Sakurashu has formed the current complicated situation. ”

Zhan Ye was stunned for a moment and then said, "So, at present, the sixty-six countries of Yingzhou are basically in a state of being leaderless and fighting for themselves?" ”

"Pretty much." Dong Xian continued, "In the face of the rising seas, the people of Yingzhou, who lost the First World War, turned into rats, constantly migrating from their Yingzhou in small boats to Yuheng Prefecture in the southeast of Iro, and Cangmin, a vassal state in the northeast of China. And with their arrival, the people who were already living in extreme hardship in these two places became even more miserable. ”

Hearing this, Yao Ping couldn't help but interject and asked, "My lord, dare to ask why our Son of Heaven didn't send the Imperial Court army to destroy those Yingzhou people?" ”

"Who is this?" Dong Xian looked at Yao Ping and asked Zhanye.

"My friend, a righteous man, is named Yao Ping." Zhan Ye said.

Yao Ping saluted Dong Xian, and then said, "Xiaomin Yao Ping, Qingfu people's clan, meet Lord Dong Shaoqing." ”

"No courtesy. It seems that Yao Yishi has a major military strategy, and he has little understanding of the war in the area of Yuhengzhou. Dong Xian looked at Yao Ping and said.

"Xiaomin really doesn't know much..."Yao Ping said embarrassedly.

Dong Xian said, "As the righteous man said, the people of Yingzhou should be fighting with my Yiluo in a large scale, then it is the right way for my imperial court to send a large army to meet it." But the righteous people can know that at present, the people of Yingzhou are scattered, and groups of boats come to harass our eastern coast. In the face of this kind of chaotic people, Mo said that the imperial court army, which is now the tens of thousands of Yuheng troops in Yuheng Prefecture, is in a state of being powerful and nowhere to go, like waving their fists to beat flies, when they deal with this kind of enemy that appears on the coast like ghosts. What's more, with the rise of the sea, the coastline of Yuheng Prefecture has become extremely strange and complicated, which also makes it even more difficult for my Yiluo army to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress the Haikou in a large way. ”

Yao Ping nodded in a daze, and then asked, "My lord, if this is the case, then how does Yuheng Prefecture resist the harassment and aggression of the Yingzhou people right now?" ”

"The navy intercepted the boats of the Yingzhou people in the coastal waters, and the Yuheng army cleared the fields along the strong walls of the important cities and towns. In addition, the Yuheng Prefecture government also encouraged the people to develop private armed forces in the township, in order to allow the people to rely on their own strength to resist the scattered Yingzhou pirates at the first time. Dong Xian said.

"Brother Dong, I don't know what the overall situation in Yuheng Prefecture is at present?" Zhan Ye asked.

"It's complicated." Dong Xian turned to look at Zhanye and said, "Now some people in Yuheng Prefecture who have lost their land have even colluded with the people of Yingzhou to burn, kill, and plunder the inland villages and towns far from the coast. ”

"There is such a thing..."Yao Ping couldn't help but whisper.

"People do everything to survive." After Zhan Ye said to Yao Ping, he turned to Dong Xian and asked, "By the way, Brother Dong, the one you just said, the person who asked me Yiluo to surrender to Shun is what generation of Yingzhou is?" ”

"Guardian Generation." Dong Xian said.

"What does that mean?" Zhan Ye asked.

"A long time ago, when Emperor Sakurashu was still in real power, he sent rulers called kokumori to the sixty-six countries under his command, and he thought that the emperor's power would govern and govern the affairs of each country. Later, however, with the samurai's seizure of power, the shogun Seiyi, who had seized real power, followed the emperor's example and appointed a ruler named the Guardian of the Nation to the 66 Provinces in place of the Guardian of the Nation. Dong Xian said, "But now in Sakurashu, whether it is the national guard sent by the emperor or the guardian appointed by the general, in fact, there is no real name, and the person who really leads the power of each country has become the most powerful lord of the manor in each country, and they have seized the power of the guardian of each country and called themselves guardians." The meaning of this guardian generation is also the meaning of guardianship. ”

"I didn't expect that the power struggle in that projectile land would be so fierce..."Zhan Ye asked instead, "Brother Dong, which of them are you going to surrender this time?" What's that guardian called? ”

"Echigo Province Guardian Generation, Uesugi Yuki." Dong Xian said.

"Oh, then why is he willing to ask my Iloh to surrender as a sign of submission? Could it be that he has been completely defeated and subdued by the Yuheng army? Zhanye asked.

Dong Xian shook his head and said, "No, he and his army of Echigo didn't fight against me at all. ”

"That's?"

"Surrender without a fight." Dong Xian said.

"Why is that?" Zhan Ye asked.

"To survive." Dong Xian said, "What this guardian expressed in the letter sent to Luochuan is that as long as I, Yiluo, am willing to give the people of his country a piece of land where they can live, he is willing to be loyal to my Yiluo Heavenly Son from now on and submit to me Yiluo forever." ”

"This kind of request... The royal court agreed? Zhan Ye asked hesitantly.

"Surprisingly agreed." Dong Xian said, "Taking this inspiration, the imperial court also issued a special order to all Yingzhou people, which said that if there are any guardians of the Yingzhou people who are willing to recognize my Yiluo Heavenly Son as the only Son of Heaven in the world, who are willing to become my Yiluo courtiers, and who are willing to accept the placement of the Yiluo Imperial Court, the Yiluo Imperial Court will not send troops to encircle and suppress them, but divide them. ”

"Partition?" Zhan Ye asked in surprise, "Do you want to divide the people of Yingzhou?" So what kind of sealing method? ”

"Canonize them with a fictitious title, and then give them a barren land outside the Guan, Saibei, Lingnan and other places." Dong Xian said.

"Divide these places outside the Yaoshan Pass, north of the Shuoding Fortress, and south of the Wuchuan Ridge? Not only is it not my Yiluo territory, but it is also a place where there are wars and wars in different countries. Zhan Ye said, "If they are divided into such a place, will they accept it?" ”

"Do they have a choice?" Dong Xian said, "They can only accept it." If they don't accept it, then they can only continue to struggle along the coast of Yuheng Prefecture, and then they will be slowly wiped out in the confrontation with the Yuheng army. ”

Hearing this, Zhanye couldn't help asking, "Brother Dong, you said that they Yingzhou people have to leave Yingzhou to continue to survive?" With this big flood, it is possible that all the land in Sakura Prefecture has been submerged. ”

"According to the Imperial Court, the flood has risen to the present, and the plains where rice fields can be planted in Yingzhou have been flooded by eighty or ninety, and the towns have also been flooded by fifty or sixty percent." Dong Xian said, "Although there are vast mountains in Yingzhou that have not been submerged, Brother Zhan, you must also know that the mountains that cannot effectively grow crops cannot feed many people." ”

"That's just as well." Zhan Ye nodded and thought about it and continued to ask, "But Brother Dong, you said that my imperial court adopted this strategy of dividing the feudal outside the country, is there still a little bit of the idea of using the hands of the people of Yingzhou to fight against the Yasuor people outside the Yaoshan Pass and the Huda people north of the Shuoding Fortress?" ”

"That's what it means." Dong Xian said, "Especially in the vast area north of Shuoding Fortress, if you can move all the Yingzhou people who are suffering from Cangmin and Yuheng there, and let the Yingzhou people and Huda people fight and consume, it will really be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone." ”

"If it can be like that, it's very natural, but I'm afraid that the wolf ambition of the people of Yingzhou will be difficult to follow my imperial court's wishes." Zhan Ye said.

"It's really not easy to tell. However, the people of Yingzhou are more admiring the strong, and although they are currently being forced by the sea to constantly attack Yuheng and Cangmin, after the last battle of Qingfu Naval Battle, they should know the strength of my Yiluo, and respect our Yiluo from the bottom of their hearts. Dong Xian said, "This is also proved from the surrender letter from Echigo Kuni. ”

Zhan Ye nodded slightly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please enter the view first." Yu Xuzi said at this time.