June of the second year of the Apocalypse should be the most intense month of war in the Tang Empire. The Tiance army broke through Hangzhou on the southern front, expelled Qian Biao to the north of the Qiantang River, and successfully captured the most prosperous area in the entire southeast. Although the city of Hangzhou was burned by Qian Biao a fire nearly a quarter, the people suffered heavy casualties, but in the army regardless of the cost of fire fighting and disaster relief has also been quickly recovered, the later stationed in the industrial and commercial departments, businesses are in the ruins to build a new type of industrial and commercial area, the fire after the Hangzhou into a large factory, a steady stream of materials and raw materials along the south of the canal to the south of the canal to arrive at the canal wharf outside Hangzhou, from the north of the new hoisting equipment will be Hangzhou wharf decorated with a new look, Steel carriages were also quickly carried by merchants and turned into the main force of urban transportation. It can be said that after taking Hangzhou, the Tang Empire really played the role of the Grand Canal in shipping, and the merchant ships from the south to the north were full of goods from the north to the south, which was a transportation artery of thousands of kilometers, becoming a witness to the vigorous development of the empire.

After taking Hangzhou, the entire southern front, except for the Western Route Army led by Xue Yang continued to attack the city in Chudi, the Eastern Front and the Central Route Army merged and pursued Qian Biao directly. Xue Wanli and Chen Yu gritted their teeth at Qian Biao's last move to burn the city, and bit the tail of Qian Biao's Wusheng army in the entire Jiangnan Province and northern Fujian, preparing to take him down in one go. After Qian Biao withdrew from Hangzhou, his main force rushed directly from Taizhou and other places into Fujian and other places, and Muzhou in the north was all abandoned, and only a few cities such as Taizhou and Wuzhou remained in the entire Wuyue land. Chen Yan's son-in-law Fan Hui commanded the army to confront Qian Biao in Jianzhou and other places, blocking the southward retreat of Wusheng's army.

Originally, Qian Biao did not consider this inconspicuous Fan Hui when he entered Fujian, in his opinion, as long as Chen Yan was killed, there would be no leader in the entire Fujian army who could confront him, and when the time came, it would naturally be easy to obtain Fujian land and use it as a base to fight against the Tiance army. It's just that what I didn't expect was that the battle of Jianzhou was extremely difficult, Fan Hui had an indomitable tenacity, and the Min army under his command used the city wall to block its edge.

At this time, Chen Yan, who was far away in Quanzhou, was terminally ill, and it was even rumored that he had died. But Qian Biao did not feel the slightest hope of victory. As a last resort, he could only listen to the persuasion of Liu Yin and others, and sent a partial army to bypass Jianzhou and advance south, in the hope of being able to occupy Fuzhou along the coast first, and then turn to Quanzhou.

But just when Qian Biao chose to divide his troops, bad news came from the rear again, Wuzhou was captured by the Tiance army, and the entire rear was exposed to the Tiance army, and the other party's cavalry corps was bypassing Chuzhou and swarming towards him. Qian Biao, who got the news, could no longer care about the affairs of Jianzhou, and ordered the whole army to prepare to go to Fuzhou, and arranged for the sailors to transport all the generals, officials, families, and people who had been picked up from Hangzhou to Fuzhou, and 100,000 troops flocked to Fuzhou and arrived outside Fuzhou in ten days.

He keenly felt that he had lost hope of occupying Fujian and other places, so he could only fight against the water, take Fuzhou City, and then rely on the advantages of Fuzhou port to retreat to the last base he chose - Liuqiu Island.

In fact, during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan had already sent people to Liuqiu Island, and the connection between Liuqiu and the mainland in the following dynasties was even closer. Originally, the wishful thinking was to take Liuqiu as the base, and Fujian and other places as the front to fight with the Tiance army across the sea. In this way, you can retreat and defend, and advance and attack. It's just that what I didn't expect was that the speed of the Tiance Army was too fast, and the matter in Fujian was not as simple as I expected. Now I can only take the risk to seek it first, and then reflexively think about fighting for Fujian.

"Let Tianyi speed up and catch up, don't let Qian Biao run away. I'm going to take him back and bring him to justice. Hu Xiaosi sat in the Jiedu Mansion in Hangzhou City, and his anger did not subside.

Yang Tiancheng didn't have any good way to deal with Hu Xiaosi's appearance, this Qian Biao was also decisive, and in order to set fire to Hangzhou, he even cared about the lives of his own Badu soldiers, and Hu Xiaosi was defeated. However, Wang Houchun looked at the military report sent back from the front and frowned: "Tiancheng, come and see, what the hell is this Qian Biao's idea?" Why did you suddenly lead the army to Fuzhou in the middle of the battle in Jianzhou? And the strangest thing is that he brought all the people and the families of those high-ranking officials with him from the rear. Do you think that we can't beat Fuzhou? ”

Wang Houchun's words aroused Yang Tiancheng's interest, and even Hu Xiaosi forgot to curse Qian Biao, and the three of them came over and studied it carefully for a long time before discovering an astonishing fact, Qian Biao was planning to flee across the sea.

"No, what else can there be overseas? Going to Fuso? It's too far away, and he's still taking the people with him. Yang Tiancheng frowned and said, "If you don't cross the sea, I really can't think of what else he wants to do." ”

"Don't guess, you let Tianyi speed up, I will take Xiaohu to the front line, find out what Qian Di's purpose is, and contact Chen Yan in Fujian by the way to see if I can recover the Fujian army." Hu Xiaosi waved his hand and said, "If we sit in the back, we may really miss these news." ”

"It's okay, Xue Wanli is gathering troops to attack Taizhou, and Chen Yu is on the front line in Chuzhou, let's go with him, and I'll hand it over to Li Jipeng's kid here." Yang Tiancheng nodded.

What Qian Biao may not know is that because he let the sailor lead the back man to appear in Fuzhou in advance, it triggered the three giants of the southern front command of the Tiance Army to go to the front line collectively to prepare to find out. But at this time, even if he knew, he probably couldn't care about it. Warning messages came from Chuzhou and Taizhou one after another, and the siege of the city also made him no longer estimate the casualties of the soldiers, and began to attack Fuzhou City at all costs, trying to take Fuzhou before the Fujian army came to help.

The southern front was in full swing because of the pursuit of Qian Biao, but the Tiance Army on the northern front reached the final stage. After Ge Cunzhou's new battalion of more than 80,000 people arrived in Xijing, he took over the defense in the hands of Hou Yong, leaving Gao Siji free to continue north to Beijing, preparing to pursue along the road where the Tatar people had fled, and completely crush this nomadic people. And the task of recovering the other cities of the Bohai Kingdom was also handed over to Ge Cunzhou and others. Hou Yong left a cavalry corps for him to spare, and he led the rest of his men and horses back with countless carts and captives laden with gold and silver treasures. When he came, he marched in a hurry, but when he went back, his life was very leisurely, and even Hou Yong joked with Ge Cunzhou, who came to replace him.

However, when Hou Yong's brigade arrived in Kaizhou and then turned back to Zhongjing, it stunned Cen Tianshi and the others, and even Tuoba Siji and Murong Hanhai, who rushed to hear the news, both grew their mouths, how much treasury did this guy loot to bring back so much gold and silver treasure?

"Hou Yong, you're not going to arrest all the rich families in the entire Xijing City for ransom, right?" After enduring it for a long time, someone finally spoke, but then he was ruthlessly interrupted by this guy, "Ransom? That's what the bandits did, we are the Imperial Army, how can we do such a tasteless thing. Let me tell you the truth, this Xijing City is rich in Taiwan, and this is only the inner treasury of the palace of Da Zuorong of the Bohai Kingdom. And before we entered, it was obvious that all the treasures in the inner treasury had been taken, and only these yellow and white things remained. Hou Yong didn't realize it at all: "I've already asked people to look for it, if I find it, I have to pick his skin, dare to grab things under my grandfather's nose, I don't want to live." ”

However, before Hou Yong could continue to chatter, Qiaoxi walked over with Fu Yao and sneered: "Brother Hou is rude and not elegant. A few simple words frightened Hou Yong almost fell to the ground, and hurriedly walked over to salute Qiaoxi.

Li Xuanqing was secretly amused when he saw that the former general of the personal guard was flushed, and ordered the soldiers around him to escort the prisoners to the battalion of the National Guard to receive the reorganization, and then let everyone move all the boxes on the carriage. Hou Yong seized the opportunity to introduce it to everyone like a treasure at this time. Not to mention that this guy actually knows how to decorate these things in different categories. Tuoba Si Ji covered his mouth and smiled while leading people to count them, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Hou Yong brought back one hundred and fifty boxes of gold, two hundred and sixty-seven boxes of silver, thirty-five boxes of rare antiques, twenty boxes of calligraphy and painting antiques, and other bulk copper coins are not counted. ”

"All the gold, silver and copper coins will be handed over to the cabinet, collected by the Ministry of Finance, and Tang coins will be issued, partly as military expenses and reward funds, and partly transferred to the cabinet as funds for the development of Northeast China. These antiques, calligraphy and paintings will be sent back to the Chang'an Palace and included in the royal treasury, and they will be kept for you to use in the future. Li Xuanqing casually picked up two strings of pearl necklaces and handed them to Qiao Xi and Fu Yao, and said with a smile: "After this battle, I feel that I have prepared the dowries for several of you to marry at once, at least it will not make the woman's family feel shabby." ”

Li Xuanqing's words made the people present laugh, and Hou Yong looked at Xu Tianxiang and Yang Fuyao, who was already blushing, and winked his eyebrows.

"Your Majesty, how can you receive it from the Northeast?" Cen Tianshi was also very happy to see so many gold and silver treasures, and when everyone was finished, he stepped forward and asked.

"Let's take care of it first. The cabinet sent people to help Tashi figure out the internal affairs of the northeast, and wait until the imperial meeting early next year to divide the provinces and regions together with all parts of Jiangnan and incorporate them into the imperial administrative map. Li Xuanqing smiled casually: "In addition, let Minister Qi and Yin Honglin quickly send people to Xijing and other other capitals of the Bohai Kingdom, this Da Zuorong family business, gold and silver treasures are estimated to be countless, Hou Yong, this guy brought nothing more than a drop in the bucket this time, hurry up and receive it to the treasury, if it is too late, it will really be stolen." ”

"In addition, Brother Si, you should hurry up and draw up a resettlement method to relocate about 500,000 people from Jiangnan, Sichuan, and Guanzhong to the north, and resettle them along Suzhou, Tokyo, Kaizhou, and other places. All the migrants are transported by the Imperial Government, and after arriving at their destination, they are exempt from taxes for three years, and the Empire welcomes everyone to settle down in the Northeast in the most favorable way. Then Yang Yi was asked to mobilize 200,000 prisoners of war, construction companies, and production and construction corps under his jurisdiction in batches to arrive in the above-mentioned places to assist in the development of industry and commerce. The Cabinet should immediately send an order to the Ministry of Communications' Department of Railways to find a way to extend the former railway line from Tianjin to the Suzhou area of the peninsula to promote the development of Northeast China. Li Xuanqing commanded as he spoke.

Qiaoxi took out a map from behind him and said, "This is the resource distribution map of the Northeast Mine that I took the exploration team of the industrial group to discover when my big brother and I were free. This is just the area that the big brother just said. Third Brother Murong gives it to you. ”

After Qiaoxi's map was opened, everyone was stunned, and Murong Hanhai even took it and bowed to Qiaoxi and said with a smile: "Murong represents all the industrialists and businessmen in the empire to thank the queen mother for her hard work, this is simply a stroke of genius." Thank you very much. ”

"It's just that the emperor, so many developments are on the same page, and there is no money. The cabinet's budget for this year has been given to the Central Plains and other places. Now it's really no money. Cen Tianshi smiled bitterly: "Unless you rob it as the emperor said." ”

"After you robbed the treasury of the Bohai Kingdom, will you have any funds to develop it?" Li Xuanqing smiled indifferently: "When industry and commerce have developed, the stamina of the Northeast will definitely not be worse than other places, and even surpass." It is imperative to connect the Northeast with the hinterland so that circulation can be promoted. ”

Several people present giggled and sent these gold and silver treasures into the big tent and planned to turn back, but they were stopped by the intelligence of the southern front. Xu Tianxiang took the information, looked at it, and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, what the hell do you think this Qian Biao is fighting for?" Anyway, I'm just as confused as Tiancheng and them. Could it be that Chen Yu and Xue Wanli were chased and scared? The information went around in the hands of several people and then returned to Li Xuanqing.

"Big brother, I think Qian Biao should want to go to sea." Qiaoxi glanced at it curiously, frowned and smiled: "It's hard to know that people are thinking earlier than we have to think, Brother Guo is slow." ”

Li Xuanqing looked up and saw the puzzled eyes of Xu Tianxiang and the others, and said with a smile: "This guy is definitely begging for ideas." ”

"Flow? Is it the big island that Sun Quan sent people to during the Three Kingdoms period? Xu Tianxiang and the others didn't know what Li Xuanqing was talking about, but Cen Tianshi was a little uncertain and said: "No one has been to that place for a hundred years, how can he still know where it is?" ”

Li Xuanqing's face also became a little grim, and he nodded: "He is from Hangzhou, he is originally in the hometown of Dongwu, and shipping in the coastal areas has been developed since ancient times, so it is not uncommon to know where Liuqiu is." I don't bother to care about him if he wants to leave, but hundreds of thousands of people can't let him take him away like this. Let Tiancheng speed up their speed, and be sure to intercept the people for me. ”