"It seems that the Son of Heaven can't continue to stay in Chang'an, so he has to find a way to move to Luoyang!" Zhu Quanzhong stroked his forehead and said. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

For Li Maozhen, a feudal town that has a certain strength and is difficult to completely eliminate, but has always been an enemy of him, it really makes him feel a headache, and as Jing Xiang said, there have been too many battles in the past year or two, maybe it's time to take a break.

Just when Zhu Quanzhong was about to temporarily give up the plan to go south, another guard came in to present the paperwork, this time, Zhu Quanzhong said with joy on his face: "Okay, good!" Unexpectedly, this time even Zhong Chuan was said to be moved! Maybe it's really a chance to defeat Huainan! ”

It turned out that after the envoy sent by Qian Biao to Hongzhou successfully persuaded Zhong Chuan to send troops, he immediately went north to Daliang, told Zhu Quanzhong the news, and asked him to send troops from the north to attack.

Although Zhong Chuan is bent on separating the local area and rarely dealing with other feudal towns, he has been running Jiangxi for nearly 30 years, so he naturally has strong strength, not to mention anything else, just this time he sent 60,000 troops to attack Shezhou, which is a big deal, which can definitely make Huainan feel a headache.

After reading the documents, Jing Xiang couldn't help but be silent, and Li Zhen and other strategists who had originally supported the immediate southward movement became even more proud at this time, and persuaded Zhu Quanzhong to personally lead his troops south.

However, since the Son of Heaven was in his hands, Zhu Quanzhong's ambition to usurp the throne and become emperor became stronger day by day, and in the face of the choice of going south in person, exterminating Huainan, and sitting in Luoyang, preventing Li Maozhen from hijacking the Son of Heaven again, Zhu Quanzhong chose to sit in Luoyang without hesitation.

Of course, the plan of sending troops south to attack Huainan will not be abandoned, Zhu Quanzhong ordered: "Chuan Gu's order, with Suzhou Assassin Shi Kang Huaiying as the general, lead 50,000 troops to the south, and attack Huainan with Qian Biao and Zhong Chuan." It would be better if you could take advantage of the situation to exterminate Huainan, and if not, at least help Du Hong relieve the siege! ”

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Guangling.

Although Yang Wu planned not to make any big moves in the remaining months of the year, Huainan wanted to rest and recuperate, but Qian Biao and others did not let him rest.

These heroes who can rise in the troubled times are not short-sighted, and they naturally know that they can't sit back and watch Huainan rest at this time.

So at the beginning of September, Qian Biao sent 30,000 troops, aiming directly at Huzhou; Two days later, Chen Zhixin, the new assassin of Shezhou, reported that a large number of Jiangxi soldiers were found in Shezhou, numbering tens of thousands; This is not over, Li Yu, the assassin of Gwangju in the north, also reported that Kang Huaiying, the assassin of Suzhou, led 50,000 troops south, some of which were stationed outside the city of Gwangju, with the intention of attacking the city, and the other part of the troops went south, which should be to relieve the siege of Duhong in Ezhou.

The three major feudal towns were attacked in three ways, with as many as 100,000 troops, and Huainan was shaken for a while, and everyone could see that this was a premeditated attack by the surrounding forces against Huainan.

However, although the external situation is sinister, it is the internal that is even more unfavorable to Huainan.

Inside Huainan, the progress of the reorganization of the army has just begun, and it is difficult to complete the integration in one or two months; At the same time, because of the continuous war, the money and grain stored in the treasury of Guangling Mansion are about to be empty, and the autumn taxes in various places will not be paid until October at the earliest.

At the same time, many rumors began to appear in the market, some said that Huzhou had been broken by Qian Biao, some said that Chen Zhixin, the assassin of Shezhou, was defeated and captured in a battle with the Jiangxi soldiers, and some said that Zhu Quanzhong, the king of Liang, personally led an army of 300,000 to the south.

However, although these rumors caused some panic, the panic quickly subsided after the Jiedu envoy came forward to appease him.

There is only one rumor with sinister intentions, and it is obviously deliberately spread by some well-intentioned people, and it is difficult to clarify in a short time.

This rumor is that this year's Jiedu Embassy has promoted Zhancheng rice on a large scale in various prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, saying that rice varieties that have been spread from overseas can greatly increase production.

As a result, after the farmers planted, because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, a large number of land particles were not harvested, so it would not be long before the grain prices in the Guangling market skyrocketed.

It seems that in line with the rumors, within two days, the price of grain in the market really rose sharply, although the owners of various grain stores came forward to clarify that the reason why the price of grain rose was not because of the decrease in grain production, but because someone was secretly buying grain on a large scale.

However, not many people believed their words, because there were rumors that the people who purchased the grain were sent out by the Jiedu Embassy, because the grain production in various places was reduced, resulting in a shortage of tax revenue this year, and now that there is a war, the Jiedu Embassy has no grain reserves, so it needs to purchase a large amount of grain.

In short, at the instigation of well-intentioned people, the residents of Guangling rushed to buy grain, which further pushed up the already high grain prices, and in just a few days, the grain prices rose to the point of five per stone, and they are still rising further.

In order to stop the increase in food prices, it had to be ordered that the price of food should not exceed one stone and five stones. However, soon after, when the grain in the grain store was sold, the shopkeepers found that the families who had sold them grain had said that they had no more food.

For a time, Guangling was in danger of running out of food, and it relied on the food urgently transported from all over the surrounding areas to maintain it. However, now that the autumn taxes in Huainan have not been confiscated, relying only on the grain stored before, I am afraid that it will not be able to support it for long.

In the Jiedu Envoy Mansion, Yang Wu couldn't help but have a headache.

To be honest, although he expected that this separation of military and government would certainly not be without any waves, he still underestimated the backlash it would bring.

Not only the interests of those who suffered as a result of the separation of the military and the government, but also those whose interests suffered in the process of reorganizing the armed forces, and some speculative businessmen who saw the opportunity and took advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, jointly led to this food crisis.

Originally, it was the autumn harvest season, and as long as the grain arrived from all over the country, the problem of grain prices would definitely be solved, but with the participation of speculative merchants, not only Guangling, but also other states began to hoard grain.

In addition, in order to cope with the upcoming war, the Jiedu Embassy did send people to the market to buy a large amount of grain, but this is also a helpless thing, hundreds of thousands of enemy troops launched an attack from three sides, how can it be reassuring to not reserve a little food.

"Kill! Those who deliberately spread rumors should be killed! Those unscrupulous profiteers who take advantage of the opportunity to hoard food must also be killed! Gao Miao, who has always been a good old man, was also a little angry at this time, and said such murderous words.

In the study, not only Yang Xingmi, Yang Wuzai, Gao Xuan, Yan Keqiu, Yin Wengui, Luo Zhixiang, Zhou Yin and other civil officials and staff were also there, and everyone's face was very ugly.

Yang Wu smiled bitterly: "Those who secretly spread rumors should be killed, but can Mr. Gao find out who secretly put the rumors at this time?" Even if it is found out, is there any evidence? ”