In the evening, the sky was overcast.

The rain is coming again!

Tang Xidong stood in the courtyard, looking up at the dark clouds in the sky, his mood at this time was heavier than the clouds.

Liu Lianqing, whose belly was getting bigger and bigger behind her, slowly walked in the yard with the support of the maid Xiaolan.

Take a lot of walks when you're pregnant.

"What does the minister have on his mind?" I don't know when, Liu Lianqing stood in front of Tang Xidong.

The originally cold girl has now become a woman with a tender face, and in four months, she will be a mother.

Tang Xidong turned his head with a smile on his face, shook his head and didn't speak.

"Xianggong, don't you tell me about the outside now?"

Liu Lianqing was deliberately gloomy.

Tang Xidong smiled, raised his hand and touched the bulging pregnant belly: "The most important thing for you now is to take good care of yourself and your child." ”

"But when I see that Xianggong is unhappy, I will also be unhappy."

Liu Lianqing insisted.

Tang Xidong sighed helplessly and helped Liu Lianqing to sit on a wooden chair in the courtyard.

"In that case, I'll tell you about it."

"The rebel army in Qinzhou and Zezhou is about to withdraw eastward, and this is the best time for me to seize the two states in Pingyang, but in the official documents reported by the city governors and counties, the water level is rising day by day, the river embankment is unstable, and there is a danger of bursting the embankment at any time. It took a lot of labor to fortify the river defenses, but now most of the young men were organized into armies and stationed in the cities. I want to mobilize a large army to build river defenses in various places, but in this case, Qinzhou and Zezhou will fall into the hands of others. ”

"Dilemma?" Liu Lianqing raised her eyes and questioned.

Tang Xidong nodded.

Liu Lian looked at Tang Xidong steadily, as if she had never seen the man in front of her clearly.

Tang Xidong frowned, puzzled: "What?" ”

"Xianggong has changed!" Liu Lianqing said melancholy.

Tang Xidong looked puzzled.

"People's livelihood and land are problems for many people, but for people they don't need to think about it at all, some people are imprisoned by power, so they naturally want to choose the territory, and some people have the people in mind, so they naturally want to choose the people's livelihood." Liu Lianqing said softly: "Xianggong is so embarrassed now, naturally it has changed. ”

"In fact, everything has changed, we walked out of Luoliang Mountain, the small cottage of thousands of people has now become the entire Pingyang Mansion, Xianggong has changed from a person who does not ask about the world to a big man in charge of one side, even Xiaoqian has married, and the little girl next to me has become Xiaolan."

"When Xianggong brought a group of leather monkeys to settle down for everyone, Xianggong at that time was very cute and great, because he was still an enthusiastic person, a person who could do something for thousands of people in the cottage." Liu Lianqing said, with longing in her eyes, a smile on her face, but tears in her eyes.

"Everyone can't eat, so I proposed to rob the Kang family's food team, in fact, it's all my fault, just because the Kang family and I have a grudge against my father, so I forced Xianggong to take another path from then on, now I think about it, everything has changed since then, it's all my fault."

"If there is no robbery of grain, there will be no future generations, we will still be in Luoliang Mountain, maintain this small cottage, although it is as difficult, but with the ability of Xianggong, maybe we can slowly live a peaceful and well-fed life."

"But everything, everything has changed, those days that I thought about are impossible, but Xianggong, you at that time were different from now, at that time Xianggong heard the homeless people entrenched in Pingyang City, and did not hesitate to take people down the mountain to take them in, at that time, Xianggong in order to let everyone live a good life, a person drilled into the collapsed coal mouth, which worried me, at that time, Xianggong invented a greenhouse and built a public bathhouse for everyone in order to make everyone full, and Xianggong at that time and Xianggong are not a person now. The current Xianggong is a man who is blinded by power, and when he encounters people's livelihood and territory, he hesitates. ”

"Xianggong, do you still remember your promise, you will definitely lead everyone to live a better life, now the people under your control are not only a Luoliang Mountain, but the lives of hundreds of thousands of millions of people, everyone has a home, everyone is indispensable, everyone's life is precious, and seeing that these people may be ruined and displaced, Xianggong is still hesitating."

"The world is so big that it can be anyone's, and the world is so big that you can only see it and can't catch it, but the people in front of you are real, and they are entrusted with their fate."

"Xianggong, don't be blinded by power, then you can't see everything clearly, and one day even me and our children won't be able to see clearly."

"Xianggong, Lianqing is afraid!"

Liu Lianqing's tears were like a river bursting its banks, and in these tears, Tang Xidong saw countless people struggling in the flood, including himself, his family, and his soon-to-be-born child.

"The country, the world, and the territory are indeed visible but intangible."

Tang Xidong let out a long sigh and got up, with a smile on his face, just like when he first came into this world to roast rabbits for a group of children.

He has always warned himself not to follow the same path in his previous life and to be a good person.

But it is true that now he is on the verge of the old way.

In the human heart, once power, money, and interests are greater than everything, people become a fierce beast that is released from the cage.

Tang Xidong touched the tears from the corners of his wife's eyes, and then bowed deeply.

I am very glad that I have such a compassionate woman!

In the yard, Liu Lianqing smiled and looked at the back of her husband leaving.

After leaving the courtyard, Tang Xidong sat in the public court, and after thinking for a long time, he summoned Cao Ran.

One secret order after another was issued.

, Li Shangquan led 10,000 new troops to garrison Yangcheng, and was not allowed to attack and advance eastward.

The remaining 20,000 new troops went directly to the camp of Zhang Sanshi in Quwo, and Zhang Sanshi was dispatched to build embankments along the Yellow River and its tributaries.

10,000 new troops went straight to Zhang Xiahai's camp in Hejin, while Yueyang Jiahu garrisoned 20,000 new troops, and the rest of the troops were all transferred to Hejin.

No delays.

At the same time, he ordered Zhang Xiahai and Zhang Sanshi, if there is a breach and the city is flooded, take it as a question!

At the same time, although he knew that he could no longer control the entire territory of Qinzhou and Zezhou, Tang Xidong still secretly ordered spies to go to the anti-army camps in Qinzhou and Zezhou to deliver letters.

I hope that the anti-military forces in the two places can support it for a while longer.

The letter made it very clear that if he Tang Xidong was in charge of the two places, then the pressure on the anti-army would inevitably be greatly reduced, but if the Ming army controlled the two places, the anti-army would naturally fall under the encirclement and coercion of the Ming army again.

Tang Xidong hoped that the rebels in the two places would be able to weigh more.

He said what should be said, but whether the other party would insist or not, Tang Xidong didn't know the bottom in his heart.

Everything depends on God.

Oh my God, this incessant rain has disrupted everything.

Everything that Tang Xidong worked hard to manage was washed away in the heavy rain.