Chapter Twenty-Five: The Grass on the Wall
The atmosphere of the New Year in Jinling City is getting stronger and stronger, but at the same time, the dark clouds of war began to shroud the hearts of the people, and a large amount of grain was transported from Jinling to Changzhou every day, such a situation was unimaginable, and the people were guessing that the scale of this war would probably exceed the past. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Some shrewd people began to buy food secretly, so that the war would not drag on and the price of food would skyrocket, and who would be able to afford to eat at that time?
The situation of Jinling's intense preparations for war was transmitted to Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places through Wu Yueguo's spies, which made Wu Yueguo's monarchs and ministers very nervous, and the new king Qian Hongyu was still young, but twenty-two years old, and the military power in Hangzhou was in the hands of Hu Sijin. Hu Sijin also knows that although he has great power, he has similar interests with Qian Hongyu, such as the powerful Tang Dynasty, which threatens Wu Yueguo all the time, although Hu Sijin has a very strong desire for power, but he can distinguish when to do and what not to do. What's more, the Qian family still has military power in Suzhou, Huzhou and other places, and once he makes a slight move, the descendants of the Qian family can raise troops at any time and besiege Hangzhou.
Hangzhou, also accepted Qian Wenfeng's request, escorted a large amount of grain and grass, into Suzhou to prepare for the war, Suzhou suffered from floods last year, the loss is not small, in addition to a large number of businessmen in Suzhou to buy grain, Qian Wenfeng did not check for a while, the loss of grain is at least 300,000 stone, until he found out that the situation is wrong, strictly control the grain out of the country, this to avoid the food crisis.
Prepare food early and be prepared, otherwise if the war breaks out, if it lasts for a long time, the grain route will be robbed, and the loss will be great.
All of a sudden, the war between the Tang Dynasty and Wu Yue attracted too much attention, and even the Northern Han Dynasty pacified Li Shouzhen's rebellion, which was not as much attention as this one. At this time, the war in the north came to an end with the cold weather, however, the Han State achieved certain results by virtue of its strong national strength, Tongguan was captured by the Han State, and the two sides confronted each other in the area of Guanzhong and Weinan, forming a tug-of-war. In the river, Li Shouzhen continued to send troops to support, and took advantage of the frozen Yellow River to send troops to harass Tongguan from time to time, attacking the grain team advancing west from Tongguan.
The army of Shu also sent troops from Hanzhong and has arrived in Guanzhong, but due to the mutual vigilance of the two sides, the army of Shu stayed in the area of Fengxiang, and Shu did not rush into the army, and another reason is that the war has been raging for many years, and the road leading to Guanzhong in Hanzhong is extremely badly damaged. However, Fengxiang Festival made Wang Jingchong also lack food, and although it was the reinforcements of Shu that he requested, he still had a sense of vigilance in his heart, and the reinforcements of Shu did not have much effect.
The southern countries were all paying attention to this upcoming war that caused great changes in the south, and almost every day, there were spies from Chu, Nanping, and even the Southern Han to send the news back. Li Hongyi paid more attention to this battle than anyone else.
Li Hongyi changed his name after returning from Wu Yue the year before last, and the year before last, he was forced to go to Hangzhou to meet the lord of Wu Yue, and was once detained, and later escaped by bribing the monarchs and ministers of Wu Yueguo. In the troubled times, Li Hongyi knew very well that as a courtier, he could only be slaughtered by others, Li Hongyi wanted to cut off the emperor, but he was limited to the territory and strength of Fujian, so he had to be a vassal to the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Yanzheng was an enemy, trying to seize the entire Fujian country to achieve his goal.
However, the Tang Dynasty is not confused, after killing Wang Yanzheng, he ordered Li Hongyi to enter Beijing, Li Hongyi was willing to go to Jinling, is it not a life of nine deaths? He had to break with the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty was furious and led troops to attack, and Li Hongyi, in order to survive, had to take refuge in the Wu Yue people and rely on the power of Wu Yue to fight against the Tang Dynasty. He succeeded in dragging the Wu Yue people into this war and preserved his position as king of Fuzhou. Li Hongyi is a wall-to-wall grass, struggling to survive in the cracks.
Li Hongyi knows very well that although he has fought with Datang a few times, compared with Wu Yueguo, it is obvious that Datang cares more about the more threatening Wu Yue people, Li Hongyi is like a businessman, and he can live in strange goods. Now, Datang is going to fight Wu Yue people in Suzhou, and it seems that he can't take care of Fuzhou, which makes Li Hongyi breathe a sigh of relief.
However, the situation in Fuzhou is still not good, Fuzhou has been in war for many years, most of the land is barren, production has been greatly affected, in Fuzhou, a bucket of rice has to be sold for nearly 100 yuan, this price is almost 100 times the price compared to the Tang Dynasty and Wu Yueguo.
Only when Li Hongyi calms down the price of grain as soon as possible can the army and the people feel at ease, and he can continue to be his king of Fuzhou. In addition to the threat of the Tang Dynasty and Wu Yue, Quanzhou's Liuxiao was also Li Hongyi's enemy. Quanzhou originally belonged to the mighty army, but after Wang Jixun defected to the Tang Dynasty, he wrote to Li Hongyi as an equal, which made Li Hongyi angry, he thought that Quanzhou originally belonged to the mighty army, so Wang Jixun was his subordinate, so he found an opportunity to attack Quanzhou, but was left by Wang Jixun's generals to take the opportunity to make trouble, and after seizing the military and political power, he led the troops to defeat Li Hongyi.
After Liu's followership, he led the military affairs, and after the two states of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, he declared his allegiance to the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Jixun was sent to Jinling as a hostage. This is all a matter of the first two years, sometimes, Li Hongyi even feels that he might as well stay in the nourishment of the work, of course, there is a certain relationship in geography, he is in Fuzhou to block the Wu Yue people, Wu Yue people simply cannot go south and seize Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and other places. Liucongxiao is also very smart, honestly doing his Qingyuan military festival envoy, Datang doesn't want to focus on Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, after all, a Fuzhou will give them a headache, so Liucongxiao is actually the overlord of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou.
There is a strong enemy, and Li Hongyi can be said to be trembling, but the biggest problem at present is food. It is impossible to give him food from Liu, and it is impossible for Datang, Wu Yueguo has a slight possibility, but with the advent of the war, Wu Yueguo's food is also very tight, so Li Hongyi can't think of where to get food for a while.
But without food, morale will soon be low, and not only the people will rebel, but the army will also rebel. It's okay to kill one, it's okay to kill two, you can't kill them all, right? But Fuzhou is surrounded by Datang, Wu Yue, and Liucongxiao, where does the food come from?
Li Hongyi looked worried.
Li Hongtong is Li Hongyi's own brother, and his ability is not big, if he is not a relative, Li Hongyi would not have used him at all. Li Hongyi's elite suffered a lot of losses, so he lost the initiative.
Li Hongtong walked in quickly at this time, with a happy face on his face, and as soon as he stepped into the door, Li Hongtong said happily: "Big brother, great joy, great joy!" ”
Li Hongyi frowned slightly, a happy event? At the end of the year, he couldn't get too much military salary, which made the soldiers very dissatisfied, at this time, Li Hongtong told him that there was a big happy event? Li Hongyi's face was gloomy, and he said with a tiger face: "Second brother, how many times have I told you, you have to be steady, you are so frizzy, how can I rest assured that I will hand over the big things to you?" ”
Li Hongtong was originally full of interest, but when he heard this, his lips squirmed twice, and he said a little curtly: "Yes, big brother." ”
Li Hongyi glanced at Li Hongtong with satisfaction, although his younger brother is not talented, he is fortunately obedient, which is what he needs most at present. Squinting his eyes and glancing at his younger brother, Li Hongyi said slowly: "Second brother, what is it that can make you so excited?" ”
As soon as he said this, Li Hongtong immediately became happy and hurriedly said, "Big brother, there is good news." Today a merchant came, saying that he could provide food. ”
The word food seemed to have magical power, attracting Li Hongyi's attention, his breathing became rapid, and he couldn't wait to ask: "Food?" Really? ”
"It's true, this person came from Shu and went down the river to bring a large amount of grain." Li Hongtong said.
Li Hongyi bit his lip, he was from Shu. Since Li Bing's governance, Shu has built Dujiangyan, since then Shu has become the country of abundance, coupled with the geography of mountains and rivers, Shu has always been very rich. If it is really from Shu, then this situation may be true.
The reason why it is possible is because Shu came to Fuzhou, and it was most convenient to take the waterway, which was to go east along the Yangtze River, first through Nanping, then through Chu State, Datang, and then to Fuzhou, thousands of miles away, not so easy to come.
Besides, the checkpoints of various countries are not so easy to pass, Nanping and Chu are good to say, Datang, Jianzhou, Jianzhou and Fuzhou are at the junction of Fuzhou, which can be described as three steps and one card, five steps and one post, Datang is heavily guarded against Fuzhou, how can grain be transported over?
Li Hongyi felt that something was wrong, it was related to his character, a person who could be left and right in the troubled times, Li Hongyi was no less than Feng Dao, the "elder of the three dynasties" of the Later Tang, Later Jin, and Later Han Dynasty, Li Hongyi was very vigilant and felt that something was wrong, however, Li Hongyi still decided to meet this person, after all, the word food was too attractive to him.
"Bring him to the side hall to see me." Li Hongyi commanded.
Li Hongtong was overjoyed, promised to leave quickly, Li Hongyi paced slowly, walked outside the door, squinted his eyes and glanced at the winter sun, the sun looked warm, but the weather in Fuzhou was still a little gloomy, and it often rained when the sun was big.
Li Hongyi thought about it, called his own soldiers, gave some orders, and then walked slowly towards the side hall. The partial hall is actually a study, but Li Hongyi doesn't like to read, so it is often called a partial hall. After Li Hongyi entered, he hesitated slightly, and finally made up his mind, called another personal soldier, and said, "Let's prepare in the next two days and escort Cha Wenhui to Hangzhou." ”
A few days ago, Li Hongyi released the news that he wanted to escort Cha Wenhui to Hangzhou, however, with the cold weather, Li Hongyi deliberately delayed the escort time with the road being difficult to walk, and at the same time, he also wanted to wait and see.
At that time, what the fate of Cha Wenhui will be, it is not something that Li Hongyi can control. (To be continued.) )