The audience in Stone Town can be described as good, even a little boring.

The prison was in the Yunbo Pavilion near the river, and he received me alone. said that they were alone, but in fact, there were only a few attendants around, waiting for the summons not far away, but the overly strong muscles under their robes seemed to expose something.

Here, you can faintly see the famous spot in the ochre mountain stone at the other end through the corridor with a wide field of vision, the Aotou Rock and the stele pavilion above, and the people who are blowing in the river breeze are all transparent, which makes people feel open-minded and happy.

This is also the second time I have met the prison country at close range, and the last time, it was at the Grand Colonel Parade that I watched in front of the Emperor, and I was only a general of the new army, because the previous departments were wolves in the rain, and his face was a little bad, and what he said before and after was only one and a half sentences.

Over forty and a half years old, just in the prime of life, wearing a golden silk cage crown and a purple gauze robe, with a wide face and a strong waist, some people have lived on people for a long time, killing and self-dictating majesty, but mixed with some long-term affairs and good at observing and deciding, obviously not easy to deceive the city government bearing.

It's just that he seems to be quite busy during this time, so in the corners of his eyes and other subtleties, it is difficult to hide some tired colors, but he is still kind to me, and after giving me to sit and talk, he patiently listened to me in a few words After saying the report on the front of the north.

After a few words of routine exertion, he asked me about the situation and what I had seen and heard after entering Luodu, and the topic inevitably shifted as I spoke, and my feelings and judgments about the situation in the Northland began to be studied.

It is nothing more than the strength of the Northern Dynasty, the dynamics of those Huma feudal armies, and the preparations and conditions required to send troops to Huaishang.

I know that there is no end to what I say, but what I say is a selective truth, such as expressing a certain kind of enthusiasm for serving the country and treating the enemy as nothing, while hinting at and emphasizing the difficulties and reluctance of the army.

Then, indirectly complaining about the inadequacy of the friendly forces and the internal strife of the commander, as well as the thrills and ups and downs of the near-death and life-threatening deaths.

In this regard, I especially emphasize that as long as the dynasty has another 200,000 troops, no, even a well-prepared army of 100,000 is enough, coupled with my full support in the north, it is possible to take advantage of the famine, famine, and turmoil in the north to carry out the crime of hanging the people again, sweep the two rivers of the Central Plains again, and re-enter the city of Luodu.

In this regard, although the prison state has some undeniable and reserved attitudes, it is still satisfactory in name, especially for our department, some time ago the achievements of the independent transfer to Huaibei and breaking into Henan, expressed praise and praise, and said that the dynasty has never hesitated to talk about meritorious rewards.

But in a sigh, he turned to him and said that today's national affairs are difficult, all kinds of ups and downs and troubles, and now I need to be the pillar of the country like me, and stick to the service outside until the day when the Northern Expedition is successful.

For this reason, Jian Guo also expressed a rather encompassing attitude, personally inquired about my family affairs, asked me when I would be able to give the Yuwen family an official title, and expressed his willingness to arrange a sufficiently decent and beautiful marriage for me. He also talked about the past of the Eight Leaves Shichen Luo, and expressed his intention to restore the Shijue Yunyun when the Luo clan was founded.

And I can only return the "repeated weeping in the right", "how to start a family before the Huns are destroyed" and so on, half-truths and half-false feelings and attitudes.

It's not entirely acting, at least after I show enough value, this contemporary prison state does treat me well and spares no effort to support me.

After the audience,

"It's a shame......"

Jian Guo sighed slightly and looked at the surging river, facing the people around him

"Why is he the partial?"

"Otherwise, Yu Du wants to still be in the clan......"

"Why not ...... this?"

A person next to him suggested

"He is now the rightful son of the Luo Domain......"

"Does anyone dare to jump out and peck more...... "......

At the same time, I was also reminiscing about a certain kind of love and thoughts, and walked down the steps, passing through the magnificent archway and the palace gate and the cloister.

Now that I think about it, the eyes and attitude of this prisoner seem to have surpassed the familiarity and cordiality of ordinary courtiers, you know, this is only the second time I have met him, as if I have been paying attention to it for a long time.

Could it be related to my family background, I became more and more confused when I thought of this, after reconciling with the head of the main clan of Fuyuan Prefecture in Borneo, I also obtained many secrets and past about the eight leaf ministers such as the Luo clan from my cheap father.

The so-called qiē concepts such as the Four Princes, the Five Pulses, and the Eight Leaves all originated from the Liang Gong who created an entire era with his own strength hundreds of years ago and changed the fate of countless people.

The so-called five veins of the national dynasty are derived from the five long histories of Xue Jingxian, Zheng Yuanhe, Wei Fangjin, Cui Guangyuan, and Wen Zhe, who originally followed the ancestor of the Liang family and opened the government, and left behind the family inheritance.

When the Liang family was feudal in the South China Sea, in addition to Wei Fangjin, who went away, the other four descendants also followed as courtiers, plus the Lingnan Feng family who originally stayed in the Nanhai Governor's Mansion, and reconstituted the five surnames.

Therefore, the times have been passed down, and various families and surnames have been continuously separated, forming five major streams of luxuriant branches, which are extremely influential in the civil and official system of the dynasties.

Half of the lineage of prime ministers in the past hundred years of the dynasty came from the origin of these five veins, and it was not until the first two generations that the specific proportion in the court was reduced because of the strengthening of centralized power and support for the nouveau riche and the suppression of wealthy eunuchs.

But among the rulers of the dynasty, there is still no lack of five-vein families, their children, old relatives, and continue to be active in the political arena, such as Cai Hou, who was once one of the spokespersons of the prison in the front desk of the government and the opposition, is from the Zheng lineage.

The concept of the four major princes is much later, the first ancestor of the Liang family in the South China Sea, Yingzhou Gong, in order to manage the vast Haizhou domain and the colony that spans thousands of miles from east to west, and set up a separate family management system.

At first, he was only a lord of the feudal domain, but later he was promoted to a public office according to his needs, and he had the right to deploy his own ministers and protectors.

It's just that after the founding of the country, there were several rebellions in the successive dynasties, and the central shogunate was successively removed from the feudal domain, etc., and the power was reduced, and the central office was not in the central office.

However, his own status and treatment are still extremely respectful, and he enjoys great economic and political suzerainty in the original territory.

And the origin of the Shichen of the House of Eight Leaves, and a little later, its source can be traced back to the Tianbao period, following the Liang Gong and leaving a variety of merits and fame deeds of the subordinates, both the so-called: one government, three rates, four long history, five Xiao six Cao Shilang generals,

These old ministers and followers, led by Wei Tao, one of the three rates, a considerable part of them became famous ministers and eunuchs or famous generals in the Zhongxing era of the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years;

Others, represented by Gao Shi and Gao Gaofu, one of the three rates, continued to follow the Liang Gong's expedition of thousands of miles, and took root outside the territory, with other achievements and historical origins, and they are also the foundation of the current Western Great Xia Wei system.

And Wei Boyu, the last son of the border army of the third rate, took a group of old men and became old in the northwest. Today's Western Army, the main source of the large and small feudal towns and the Jiangmen family.

And some of the subordinates were divided into towns of Qingtang, Andong, Nanping, Annan, and Beiting because of the needs of the time, and became another origin.

Among them, such as Anton Luo, who was ranked among the ten generals, although he did not directly follow Liang Gong's side, he also continued to serve and follow the Liang family in the South China Sea in the form of dividing his sons, and became the ancestral source of the Southern Dynasty lineage.

It was not until after the Yiwei Revolution that there was considerable division and confusion among these ministers subordinate to the South China Sea in their attitude towards the Tang Dynasty and the subsequent revenge of Cheng Dù.

Therefore, in the end, many were suppressed and purged with an iron fist, and a considerable number of them fled, or avoided foreign domains and stayed out of the matter, and many were deprived of their titles and abolished, and even eventually exiled.

In the end, the Xikaido, which had a close relationship with these ministers and was far away from the political center, divided the feudal princes and the Yanbian colonization area into various regions, and became a shelter for these remnants to survive.

It is also one of the important sources of many opposition forces in the dynasties, such as the Restoration Party, the Xinghua Party, and the Zhengding Party, which have been suppressed and exterminated in successive dynasties.

As a result, only some of the ministers were firmly supportive, and they survived the Jeongjeong Emperor's founding of the state from the surviving Gyeonggi clan, and participated in the Northern Expedition called the Great March of Gayo, and a series of major events such as the westward march and the eastward advance.

and continued to support and support, the new Southern Dynasty shogunate, which had not been established for a long time, was represented by the eight ministers who cleaned up the mess and pacified the internal troubles, and was crowned with the glory and qualification of the eight leaves.

Take the meaning of "the public is the dry, the ministers are the branches and leaves". It's just that the world has migrated, and the eight leaves, who are slightly inferior in background, will inevitably be unscrupulous or politically disadvantaged, and there will be various depressions and declines.

For example, the first two generations of the Luo clan were forced to hide in the domain because they stood in the wrong team, and Qi Nian Gong died depressed. Another example is my cheap dad who originally settled in Guangfu, but was able to descend from heaven to a title and a domain.

With this in mind, I returned to my temporary residence, the newly renovated Banmei Garden, which was also the temporary residence designated for me by the prison state. It is also the station of my personal guard regiment, which can be regarded as some kind of careful arrangement.

And here I also met Xie Mingxian, the representative of the local recital, who has been waiting here for a long time.

After more than two years of not seeing each other, Xie Mingxian, who had already given birth to an elegant and good temperament, seemed to have become a little rich and shiny because of the nourishment and ushering in of life, and even his temperament became sleek.

However, as a late alumnus and former subordinate, my attitude is as respectful and serious as ever, as if I have returned to the beginning when I founded Kodansha with them.

After a few brief greetings, he put down the sleek disguise of the accident on his name, and began to report to me in a serious manner, and in the past six months or so, he has been active in the upper echelons of Jiangning and the results of intelligence gathering.

After all, a lot has happened in the past six months or so, and so far, the situation in the southeast is really a bit bad.

First of all, the Huainan flood burst the embankment, which is much stricter than the Huaibei area where I am located, and the north bank, which is relatively high, floods parts of Si and Suzhou along the coast at most; And the south bank along the Huai Chuzhou, Yingzhou, Xinzhou, Chuzhou, Haozhou, Shouzhou, almost all have become a piece of Zeguo water towns.

Moreover, because of the heavy rain in the south, which is mainly concentrated in the south, coupled with the difference in the terrain and the rising water of the tributaries, the raging flood even spread and poured in, and the relatively inland areas of Gaoyou, Zhenzhou, and Taizhou came over.

The Huainan Front, which originally had a southeast recruitment division and was reorganized, was also in the soup because of this, and as many as several military orders were blocked or trapped by the flood, and fell into a situation where they could not advance or retreat.

The transportation to and from the road was also interrupted for a time, and even the unfinished rebuilding of the sailors was urgently dispatched to replace it with water transportation to maintain the needs of the army.

On the other hand, because of the troubles of the Huai River, it also caused those Huma feudal armies who invaded the south to turn to the inland to invade or flow, which also caused military pressure and frequent emergencies in Xinyang, Xincai, and Xiangzhou.

In the rear of the Huainan front, tens of thousands of troops assembled in Jiangbei and ready to attack, but were blocked by heavy rains for several days, had no choice but to turn westward on the spot to support the somewhat precarious Jingnan-Jiangxi Road, instead of going north by boat in batches as planned, landing in the area under our control, and waiting for an opportunity to go south to open up Huainan.

This also means that for a long time to come, in addition to the transportation by sea, there will still be no military support and echo, and my troops will have to continue to fight alone in Huaibei.

Of course, this is bad news from a nominal point of view, but from a private point of view, it is not a bad thing, at least I can ask for more transportation support, while continuing to maintain the status quo of going alone, and have more time for private layout.

In addition, in Gangnam Province, there are also reinforcement troops from Lianghaedo, although they are currently gathered along the southeast coast, but due to insufficient preparations for food, equipment, and animal power, they have not been able to form a combat strength for a long time, and they have not been able to complete the reorganization and adaptability training.

However, because of the lack of food and clothing, there are frequent incidents of harassment and infringement of the people in the vicinity.

At present, the mobile military strength of Jiangning is only part of the Liangtai patrol troops of Dantu (Jingkou), as well as a part of the Shenji Army and the Dianqian Army stationed nearby; The front, rear, and right three incomplete imperial battalion troops that are being reorganized and trained under the Purple Mountain are just that.

Speaking of which, there was a sudden notification that a visitor came to the door.