"If it weren't for Emperor Taizu's early death, there would have been nothing to do in other countries!"

"Therefore, we northerners are proud in our bones and look down on you Jiangnan people. Because you Jiangnan people are full of wind and snow, and you have romantic genes in your blood! ”

"Throughout history, although there is no shortage of heroes and wise people in the Jiangnan area, it is a small fight after all, and it is difficult to get into the hall of elegance. And throughout history, it is almost the history created by our northerners! ”

"Compare the northerners and the Jiangnan people, you will find that the northerners are heroic and free and easy, good force, good fighting, advocating pragmatism, every household has a collection of armor and weapons, and can fight at any time, even the scholars in the north like horses and long swords."

"And you Jiangnan people, although there is no shortage of brave warriors like you, but they have a small family spirit in their bones, good at forbearance, as long as they can survive, they will not resist, so the family in Jiangnan will swell so much when the center of the court is lax in these years, this is squeezing the blood of the people in Jiangnan to fatten themselves, if such a family were in the north, it would have been splashed with blood for five steps!"

"And you Jiangnan scholars, what you advocate in your bones is romance and romance, that saber is really just a saber!"

"So you Jiangnan people are out of place and ostracized in the Great Qian Dynasty established by our northerners!"

"Li Tong, do you know why I'm telling you this?"

Li Tong listened, bowed to Lin Cang, and then said: "Thank you for the old general's teachings, the younger generation will definitely remember it!" ”

"What the old general means is that if Jiangnan people want to integrate into the center of the Great Qian, they must make military achievements in the sky, so that they can really gain a foothold in the Great Qian court!"

"The children can be taught!" Lin Cang accepted this gift calmly.

Fang Cai spoke again: "Li Tong, you have to always warn yourself, this time you return to Jiangnan, you must not get carried away, you are carrying the hope of people of insight in Jiangnan!" You're your Majesty's favorite person! ”

When Li Tong heard this, his eyes were red, and he only nodded heavily, but he didn't say a word.

Lin Cang's words, he understands!

Twenty years ago, various local forces and people of insight in Jiangnan secretly gathered in Hangzhou to discuss how Jiangnan could be integrated into the center of the great cadres.

One faction is the forces headed by the Xie family in Jiangnan, they advocate using Jiangnan women as a link, selecting beauties to enter the prince's mansion, combining with the prince at that time, Zheng Wen's cheap father Zheng Yan, and then waiting for the opportunity to give birth to a prince to compete for the throne, so that the future emperor will have the blood of Jiangnan people, so that Jiangnan forces can better integrate into the center of Daqian.

This method is the quickest, and the benefits are the greatest, but the risks are also the greatest. So the Xie family beauties entered the palace back then, and later gave birth to the prince Zheng Jiao, and they also won the favor of Zheng Wen's cheap father, and they saw that there was only one step left before success.

But I didn't calculate it by all calculations, the first emperor would die violently, leaving no edict of a word, which caused a strong counterattack from the Beidi scholars and the aristocratic martial arts forces, and all of a sudden the good form came to naught, and Zheng Jiao, the seventh prince who was the most likely to ascend the throne, was the first to go out of the game all of a sudden.

And it was Zheng Wen, the limp, who had no sense of existence, who ascended to the throne. As soon as he ascended the throne, in less than two months, he set off three major cases one after another, and two of the major cases involved Jiangnan, and Jiangnan was still the hardest hit area.

On the other hand, a force headed by Li Tong's grandfather, Li Chong, was formed, and they advocated relying on military merits and meritorious deeds to enter the center of the Great Cadres and truly gain a foothold in the Great Cadre court.

This method takes a long time, it is possible for several generations or even more than a dozen generations, and the effort is more, and the effort may not be successful!

Therefore, he Li Tong and many outstanding Jiangnan people who were originally ready to study literature were arranged to enter the army, rooted in the Jiangnan garrison camp, the hardships he had endured, the tiredness he had suffered, all of them were bitter tears, and he climbed up step by step, he was finally transferred to the forbidden army, won the appreciation of the first emperor, and became one of the three powerful figures in the forbidden army, and later after Zheng Wen ascended the throne, the forbidden army was reorganized into the military forest army, and he served as the general of the right division of the forbidden army, although nominally it was only one of the three powerful figures of the Yulin army, but in fact it was an independent unified army and became a giant in the Yulin army, participated in the construction of the Yulin Army, and finally had a foothold in the Daqian military, he doesn't remember how much suffering he has endured, how many tears he has suffered, anyway, he is staying up, he is used to it, no matter how thick the dark clouds are, after all, he can't cover the light of the sun, and God always favors those who are prepared and hardworking!

This is not a chance to come, His Majesty appointed him as the deputy of Lin Cang, the former Hebei Jiedu envoy, to go to the south of the Yangtze River, reorganize the Jinling battalion, expand to 400,000, and prepare for the Southern Expedition to Dali and Annam.

He thought of the words that his grandfather said when he was dying, holding his hand, and he was sad for a while, and he was emotional!

He remembered that that day he was dressed in black armor and wore a long sword at his waist, looking mighty and tall, and his grandfather took his hand and said with a smile: "Looking at Tong'er's dress, grandpa saw it, and he was very happy and relieved!" Grandpa is about to die, and there is nothing that can't be put down, and finally I tell you, you bear the expectations of your grandfather, shoulder the hope of Jiangnan people, you have to do it well, you have to endure loneliness, endure hardship, turn back step by step, be down-to-earth, be upright, and make martial arts in the big cadre army, and let those northerners see that we Jiangnan people are also brave! ”

Finally, he squeezed Li Tong's hand heavily, and shouted loudly with all his strength: "Wuxun!" Wu Xun! Wu Xun! And then he passed away.

Li Tongqing clearly remembered that although his grandfather's smile when he left, although he was smiling, there was a faint trace of unwillingness! That day, he didn't say a word, never shed a single tear, only deeply remembered that smile, that was the motivation of his life!

Li Tong silently looked at Jinling City in the distance, and said silently in his heart: "Grandpa, go all the way!" Your good grandson Li Tong has returned to Jiangnan again, and the road to martial arts is not far away. ”

……

And in the distance in the city of Jinling.

Li Yin sat on the chair energetically, dressed in black armor, with a red face, not like a person waiting for death, but like a general who is ready to go out at any time, everything is so natural and there is no contradiction.

And sitting across from him was his advisor Hu Gong, who was sipping tea.

Under the dim light, Li Yin was carefully wiping his sword, as if he could never wipe it clean.

Li Yin didn't raise his head, his eyes stared straight at the sword he was wiping, and said coldly: "Why is Mr. still there?" Didn't it let you go? Let's go, Ben won't be able to shelter you for long, so stay alive! ”

Hu Gong listened, took a sip of tea, and then said, "Good tea!" The dragon well of this West Lake is still so fragrant! Reluctantly! I have eaten most of my life, and then I secretly hid, ate rough food and wore rags, I couldn't stand it, it was better to take advantage of these days, and enjoy it for a few more days, it would be in vain! Hahahaha......"

Li Yin was very surprised when he heard this, he felt a little funny, raised his head to look at him, and then said, "That's fine!" You are afraid of death to the extreme, it is better to die than to live, you are afraid that you have thought of something again, tell me! ”

Hu Gong listened, but he smiled, took another sip of tea, and then said: "The general still knows me!" Indeed, it is better to stay and wait than to escape, and maybe there will be a good outcome. ”

"Oh, why do you say that?" At this moment, Li Yin was really curious, so he asked.

Hu Gong listened, took another sip of tea, and then said unhurriedly: "General, haven't you noticed?" It's been five days since what you did in Jinling, and the court center had already received the news, but it was still calm so far, and no action had been made, which was obviously not normal! ”

"Why didn't you react? Isn't there an army of tens of thousands of people in Jinling, this army is well-equipped, the soldiers are elite, and there are also some Yulin soldiers and soldiers, all of whom are brave warriors. Li Yin didn't raise his head, continued to wipe his sword, and spoke.

"I'm afraid the general is wrong this time, it's true that these troops are elite people, and it's not false that they are here for the general, but it's true that they came for what the general did in Jinling."

"It seems to me that these troops have come from the capital on the morning of the twentieth of October, for they have only a small number of horses and are only now in the vicinity of Jinling. On the morning of October 20, it was impossible for the court center to receive news from Jinling. Even if it is the Jinyi Guard in Jiangnan, they will not reach His Majesty's hands until the evening, General, I am right. Hu Gong said confidently.

Li Yin listened, paused for a moment as he wiped his sword, pondered for a while, and then said, "Mr. is right. ”

And Hu Gong continued: "And when the court received the news of this matter, according to common sense, one is to send an order to the horse quickly, so that this army will stop and camp on the spot and wait for the order; The second is to send reinforcements to this army, and the best way to reinforce the army is, of course, cavalry, and if this is the case, the army that comes must be mainly cavalry, and there will not be only such a few people. ”

"But apparently neither of these situations happened, which is obviously abnormal!" After Hu Gong finished speaking, he took another sip of tea.

When Li Yin heard this, he immediately put the wiped sword on the table, pondered carefully, shook his head, and then said: "Mr. is right, but the general still can't figure it out, sir, why do you think this is?" ”