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When the sky was bright, the little official of the water gate in the south wall of Yingdu was already standing outside the door, he was thinly dressed, and while hiding his hands in his sleeves and rubbing them to keep warm, he stared at the big ship that was slowly approaching in front of him, complaining that it came too early.

Ships arriving before dawn were not allowed to enter the city, a rule that had been passed down from generation to generation in the state of Chu, so most merchant ships would come back after the sun had risen, rather than waiting outside all night and sailing at dawn.

The rivers and lakes of Chu are vertical and horizontal, and the water transportation is developed, so boats, like cars, have become an important means of transportation for merchants to come and go, and they have also derived more abundant types of ships than in the north. The ship in front of me was a large merchant ship, with merchants in soap clothes at the bow and boatmen in short rows on both sides, and the draft of the ship was very deep, and I did not know what cargo was hidden under the deck.

The little official licked his dry lips and decided, for the sake of it coming so early, to blackmail a good sum of money......

However, when he rode up in a small boat to meet them, and asked them where they had come from, the middle-aged merchant who led the way bowed down and replied with a smile: "Lord, we are from Huainan, and we are Bai Gong's merchant ships. ”

"Bai Gong......" The little official gasped, lost his previous blackmail thoughts, and became in awe.

If it is said that ten years ago, when Wang Sunsheng first returned to the Chu State, the Chu people basically did not know who Wang Sunsheng was, then now, the name of Bai Gongsheng is known to everyone. The old man in the village will give a thumbs up when he hears this person's name; In addition to defecting to foreign countries, the depressed poor people everywhere have a new place to go; The children of Yingdu rode bamboo horses to fight, and they would also pretend to be Bai Gong's soldiers, taking the extinct Wu Wangfucha as a villain and Bai Gong as a hero.

Because of the occlusion and incompleteness of the information, the civilians of the Chu State only knew that this person was the son of the abolished prince Jian, and they sympathized with him, but because of the occlusion of the information, they did not know that he was the adopted son of Wu Zixu.

As a result, Bai Gongsheng was hated by the nobles, but he was very famous among the people.

So the attitude of the little official suddenly became much kinder, and the merchant also lost no time in handing over a bag of ant-nose money, and said with a smile: "Official, the road is far away, and we are extremely tired, can we enter the city quickly?" ”

Having said that, out of an abundance of caution, they checked their copper joints.

The festival is a water and land transportation certificate, equivalent to the transportation pass of later generations, those merchants who eat in the government can only get the wooden festival, while the special class such as the county public can get the copper festival, the festival stipulates the types of goods that can be transported, and when passing through the pass, they will be reduced or exempted.

After the inspection, this was indeed Bai Gong's Boat Festival, and the little official suddenly felt that it was very hot. Although the situation in Yingdu is a little incomprehensible now, Bai Gong, who was already an official to Zuo Yin and leaned towards the government and the opposition, was suddenly attacked by the county nobles, and hid in his home, and he was about to lose power.

Even so, Bai Gong is still something that the little officials can't provoke, not to mention, these low-level officials and scholars are all indignant about Bai Gong's situation.

Since it is the ship of the White Prince, everything is easy to say, according to the practice of the Chu State, the merchant ships belonging to the county prince can enter and exit the various passes and rivers duty-free, although the above strictly stipulates that the goods must be inspected to prevent some strategic materials unique to the Chu State from flowing out, but according to the custom, the officials of the Water Gate decided to turn a blind eye and let them go, just asked casually.

"The cabin was filled with food and wood."

The little official bowed his head and didn't ask anymore.

At the Pratuna Gate, countless dock coolies were trying to pull ropes to help the ship enter Yingcheng, these people were all covered in black, they looked like they hadn't showered in days, their short clothes were stained with yellow spots of sweat, some were simply bare, their hair was knotted, and everyone looked lifeless and numb.

This was the first scene that Huainan merchants saw in their years of coming and going to Yingdu, and from the moment he first entered the door, he felt that the city was lifeless, the inner city was the smell of extravagant decay, and the outer Guo was the poor people.

"From today onwards, we will follow Bai Gong and bring a new atmosphere to Yingdu!"

Thinking so, the ship had completely entered the water gate, and the merchant was standing on the side of the boat, smiling and saying goodbye to the little officer, but suddenly he picked up a crossbow, aimed at the doorman who was about to raise the wooden fence behind, and shot an arrow, and with a thud, someone fell into the water......

"Do it!"

With the roar of the Huainan merchants, the merchants in soap clothes on the side of the ship all lifted their disguises, revealing the armor hidden inside, and in the cabin that was originally only filled with "grain and wood", dozens of armor soldiers also rushed out, rushing straight to the water gate, wanting to kill the doorman and control there!

Some people were stunned, some people fled, some people went to seek help from nearby guards, and some people on the shore suddenly burst out to kill people, and the Nanyuan Water Gate was in chaos.

And on the hazy Hanshui River in the morning mist, there are already dozens of ships with sails open, and soldiers are approaching the city!

……

"Uncle!"

Holding the reins and standing in front of the inner city gate of Yingdu, Bai Gongsheng raised his head and said loudly: "I never thought that you and my uncle and nephew would be enemies on the battlefield one day, what a pity." ”

"The old man's most regrettable thing is that he attacked Lu Hun with the king back then, and did not capture and kill you, and when Zixi summoned you back to Chu, he failed to scuttle your boat and let you die at the bottom of the river to feed the fish and turtles!"

Sima Ziqi of the Chu State spat under the dusty city wall, his face was still indignant, he never expected that just a month after the change of the Chu State was suspended, Bai Gongsheng would suddenly rebel, and he did not know where to transfer a large number of soldiers, causing a great turmoil.

As Sima, Ziqi knew nothing about such a huge military operation, and after reacting, Outer Guo had already fallen, and he could only hold the inner city.

At this moment, the white soldiers were on the inner city wall of Yingdu and began to call the door for the sub-period.

"Traitor! Unfilial son! The child was furious and scolded.

"You have the blood of Zhu Rong and Mane Bear in your body, how can you turn your back on the royal family and do something rebellious!"

"I'm also forced to be helpless!" Bai Gongsheng seemed to want to defend himself.

He wanted to control the state of Chu by implementing the law change, but Zhong Jian and other members of the clan, the county prince of Jianghan, and even the current sub-period blocked his way, either committing suicide in the wilderness, or head-on, did Bai Gongsheng have any other choice?

In the face of the aggressiveness of the county officials, he first retreated to let them relax their vigilance, and then let people return to Huainan by boat to transfer troops.

Five thousand soldiers from Huainan took boats, disguised as merchants, and came all the way west along the river, and the wharf patrols of Chu State along the way did not arouse alarm, so they went smoothly all the way, and arrived in Yingdu before the bloated and sluggish institution of Chu State reacted, and used the copper boat festival to deceive the water gate.

With a sword in his hand, Bai Gongsheng no longer had to disguise, he held a long sword in his hand, and led five hundred personal soldiers to kill the mansion of Yu Yueyu, who should cooperate with the outside, defeat the street and alley patrols, and occupy the gates of the outer Guo.

Finally, he stepped over countless corpses and stood here. In the face of Ziqi's abuse, Bai Gongsheng raised his head and said: "Uncle scolded me for being a traitor? This statement is wrong. I am the son of Prince Jian, and my uncle has not forgotten how your brother was framed and died in exile by traitorous ministers on fictitious charges. ”

Bai Gongsheng reminded the child: "Since the day I was born, I have been in exile and have not returned for thirty years. Finally came back, but also by the royal family and the county dukes as an outlier, when the strategy of Yingliu did not listen to my dispatch, through the Huainan everywhere constraints, and when I returned to Yingdu to support the new law, the county dukes are even more difficult. Uncle too, he kept saying that I had the blood of the surname Mi, but he never loved me as the king and grandson of the surname Mi, Xiong Sheng rebelled today not the king, not the Chu State, but the dead branches and rotten leaves on this big tree, I want to cut it all down with my own strength! ”

"Ridiculous!"

Ziqi was angry: "According to what you said, the old man is also a dead branch and a rotten leaf, and Ling Yin is also a dead branch and a rotten leaf?" Zixi regards you like a son, you are opposed by the county officials, Zixi is defending you everywhere, to protect your life, you don't want to repent, but today you make a rebellious move, how can you be worthy of his trust? For the old man, the indelible mistake in this life is that he promised Zixi back then, granted you military power, and led the army to conquer the country of Wu, if you can go back in time, the old man will not hand over the tiger talisman to you! Although Wu Guo is dead, you are a more hateful henchman than Wu Guo! ”

Bai Gongsheng was extremely irritable, and said: "Uncle, don't insist on counting the past, let's take a look forward, I'm here to persuade you to surrender today!" ”

"Persuasion?" He burst out laughing, as if he had heard the most ridiculous joke in the world.

Bai Gong said: "As far as I know, although my uncle is the Sima of the Chu State, he can allocate chariots and horses from all over the country, but the army is stationed in Wan, Deng, Shen, Xi, as well as the three passes of the Great Tunnel, Zhiyuan, and Hades, and the soldiers of Yingdu are only thousands, and most of them are defeated and surrendered by my soldiers in Waiguo." Now the inner city plus the royal palace, but there are only a thousand people, how to defend it? It's better to drop early. Here are my conditions, open the gates of the inner city before sunset, all the guards will surrender, those who surrender will not be harmed in any way, and those who dare to disobey will die without a place to be buried! ”

Ziqi's laughter stopped, and he said coldly: "Xiong Sheng, you are still as conceited as before, you always think too highly of yourself, and your nature is really hard to change." ”

Lao Sima stretched out a finger and pointed at Bai Gongsheng and said: "There are 20,000 households in Guo outside Yingdu, and a man from each household will stand up against you, and your rabble will be defeated without a fight." There are countless county magistrates and nobles in the inner city, and each family can stand on the city wall with a hundred soldiers. Even if you can't be expelled from Yingdu for the time being, you just need to rely on the food that you can't eat for three years. Outside the Yingdu, there are dozens of hundreds of princes and lords of Jianghan County, and they can lead troops to Qin Wang within a month, and they don't know who they are surrounded by then! ”

Bai Gongsheng was disdainful: "The new law can bring benefits to the people, and the people of Yingdu may support me more than oppose me." The county dukes only know the pleasures of the disabled people, and they have long forgotten how to fight, and they are just chickens and dogs, how can they defeat my Huainan army of a hundred battles? ”

He promised: "Yingdu has fallen into my hands, and the entire Jianghan will soon be swept down, the general trend has gone, uncle, come down!" ”

"Vertical arrogance!"

Zi period-for-tat: "Even if the Yingren are deceived by you, the soldiers of the county prince can't defeat you, far away in Fangcheng and outside the Wan, Ye, Rushui, East and West are not soup, the army of Yiyang Sanguan is combined, there are nearly 100,000 people, when the time comes, Ye Gong and my son Sun Kuan will be the generals, and they will be able to recapture Waiguo, and you and your traitor party will be powdered at that time!" ”

His spit flew down, and he said proudly: "What's more, we still have a great king in charge!" ”

"King! King! The morale of the head of the city became high as the son spoke, and he began to shout loudly to the king of Chu, so that he could comfort himself that orthodoxy would surely prevail over rebellion.

"The King?" Bai Gong laughed dumbly, and when the shouting at the head of the city stopped, he pointed to the back of the wall and said loudly: "Uncle, wake up, you look back, who is in the hands of the king now!" ”

Sima Ziqi was startled, and when he looked back, he saw a burst of smoke rising from the palace of the King of Chu in the inner city, and the streets and alleys of the entire inner city were already full of murderous sounds......

……

"My uncle has been in Yingdu for fifty or sixty years, but his understanding of this city is still not as good as that of a junior who has lived in it for less than a year......"

An hour later, at the head of the inner city of Yingdu, standing in the five-flower tie and being pressed in front of him by his cronies, Bai Gongsheng looked like a victor.

"Traitor! Vile! "The child's eyes are red, and he gritted his teeth.

Just now, Bai Gongsheng actually used deceitful means to bury a secret son in the inner city in advance, and raided the palace when the child period was closed, although he did not conquer it, but also set fire to a building. Ziqi saw the fireworks, and was shocked to divide the troops to rescue, and the manpower at the head of the wall was suddenly insufficient, and at the same time, the inner city was in chaos everywhere, which made the guards feel very moved, and Bai Gongsheng took the opportunity to storm and captured the city wall in one fell swoop.

Regarding the fury of the child, Bai Gong pretended to ignore it, and said to himself:

"The high hall of the palace is always high, and now the king rarely enters the outer Guo to rejoice with the people, and the nobles in the inner city rely on the remnants of their ancestors for hundreds of years, and occupy the court in a grand manner, bullying the lord and forcing the people, one by one eating fat heads and big ears, and has long lost the spirit of the ancestors who are martial and pioneering. As for Waiguo, the mediocre commoners and merchants and hundreds of workers crowded together to support the king and nobles, but many of them were insightful and brave, but they were blocked from the upward passage and could not be promoted, so they could only run abroad, and then in turn plagued the Chu State. Uncle really thinks that this change is just my thoughts? You are wrong, this is what tens of millions of people in Chu State think! ”

After finishing speaking, Bai Gongsheng took the bronze talisman that helped his army enter Yingdu smoothly, and showed off: "The most ironic thing is that the reason why this mutiny was successful was because the new law failed to be promoted. In this county official festival, I stipulate in the decree that in the future, the county public festival will also pay taxes, and the things on the ship must be inspected, and those who violate the order will be punished with heavy fines. And Uncle Fang Cai can still resist for two or three hours, just because I presided over the construction of the inner city of Yingdu ten years ago, and replaced the two versions with a more solid three-version method, which is really ridiculous, ridiculous, and now my uncle knows the importance of changing the law? ”

Ziqi's face was red with rage, and he felt humiliated by his defeat, and struggled incessantly, scolding:

"Vertical Hugh wants to insult me! If you are still a man of the Chu Kingdom, you will speak one-on-one with me and with a sword! ”

"Does Uncle want to die with what little honor he has left?"

Repeated persuasion was useless, Bai Gongsheng finally lost his patience, and the madness in his heart surged up, he ignored the obstruction of his staff, and said: "Untie Da Sima and give him another sword!" ”

In the state of Chu, the nobles must bring swords, even if they go to the grave, they must be buried with swords, and it is the norm for nobles to fight swords without saying a word, and hundreds of years later, Xiang Yu still adheres to this path and challenges the enemy generals in the battle array.

"The royal family rebels against the grandson, and the old man will kill you here!"

At this moment, in front of everyone, with infinite anger, as soon as Sima Ziqi got the sword, he slashed in front of Bai Gong's eyes, but was swept away by Bai Gongsheng's careless blocking.

"When the kid was in Wu, he practiced swordsmanship with Zixu and Sun Wu......"

After that, Bai Gong also clasped his hands and counterattacked neatly, the two of them came and went, and their figures were intertwined. Although the child is old, he still has a stubborn and ferocious spirit that sleeps the beast, and Bai Gong uses speed and dexterity to fight against it, and the tip of the sword is like the bite of a poisonous snake from time to time, attacking his weakness. In an instant, Bai Gong's sword is everywhere, left, right and right, like a rainstorm, the sword moves with his heart, chic and free.

After all, Ziqi is old, not as good as back then, he stumbled back, trying to stabilize his footing, but he still showed a flaw in an instant, Bai Gongsheng leaned forward, handed out a sword, and hit Ziqi's chest......

Looking down at the sharp sword that almost came out of his chest, Ziqi's eyes were a little confused and unwilling, his sword slipped from his right hand, and his left hand like an eagle's claw pinched Bai Gong's hand holding the sword, leaving five blood marks on it......

There was a heart-piercing pain from the back of his hand, but Bai Gongsheng didn't look at it, and he didn't dare to look at Ziqi's eyes, but stared at the vermilion blood line that came out of his chest.

In the next moment, the blade of the sword was pulled out, blood gushed like a spring, and Sima Ziqi fell.

The cheers of Bai Gong's soldiers rang out, and then they subsided, because Bai Gongsheng also threw his sword and knelt down to hug his own uncle.

Perhaps recalling that when he first entered the Chu State, he also gave a certain amount of help and concern in his childhood, Bai Gongsheng did not have the previous decisiveness, he muttered in a voice that no one could hear: "Uncle, I did all this for the ...... of the Chu State."

"No ......"

Ziqi let go of his hand weakly, and the last glimmer of light was fading from his eyes, but he was still staring at Bai Gongsheng unwillingly, cracking his mouth, and squeezing out a sentence from between his bloodshot teeth.

"You're doing it for yourself!"