Changsun Sheng's face became more and more solemn: "After all, Lingnan is suffering from ringworm and scabies, even if we recover it a few years later, it is not the wife's problem, and now the real trouble is Jiangnan." When he said this, his voice was low, and he glanced at Duan Da outside the tent with alarm.

Wang Huaqiang sat at the tent door, and also glanced out, only to see Duan Da standing dozens of steps away, pacing far away, he was a smart man, he knew that he and Changsun Sheng had a secret matter to discuss, so he simply walked far away, so as not to disturb the two.

Wang Huaqiang secretly sighed in his heart that this section was rough in appearance, but his heart was quite fine, and he turned his head to Changsun Sheng and said: "Ji Sheng, Duan Yitong is far away and won't hear it, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly." ”

Changsun Sheng said in a low voice: "When I came out this time, I heard from Gao Servant that Yang Jun, the king of Qin, is very unkind in Yangzhou now, living a luxurious life and ignoring political affairs, and the general who guards Jiankang Zhongwen is even reselling military rations there with Shangshu Yu Wenkai of the Ministry of Industry to fill his own pockets.

At present, the remnants of Nanchen in the Jiangnan area are spreading rumors everywhere and deceiving the people there, saying that our Sui Dynasty wants to move all their Southern Dynasty people to settle land outside the Saiwai in an attempt to incite a civil uprising. ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled disdainfully: "This lie is too low-level, and some people will believe it?" ”

The eldest grandson Sheng said: "Hua Qiang, don't forget, when the Southern Dynasty was in turmoil, the sixth son of Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yi, who was the king of Xiangdong at the time, had two fierce generals, Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian, who were brave soldiers, and he should have personally marched eastward, but out of selfishness, he only sent his son Xiao Fangzhi to follow Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian's army, but he was busy slaughtering his brothers and nephews in Jingzhou.

Not counting the sixth brother Xiao Lun, who fled to Xiangyang after being attacked by him and was finally killed by the Western Wei Dynasty, there were the eighth brother Xiao Ji, the eldest brother, Xiao Yu, the second son of the late Xiao Tong, the prince of Zhaoming of Southern Liang, and Xiao Dong, the poor nephew who was established as a puppet emperor by Hou Jing.

Because Xiao Yi attacked and killed Xiao Yu for no reason, the third son of Xiao Tong who guarded the Xiangfan area, Xiao Yu's younger brother Xiao Jing suddenly became the person who hated Xiao Yi in the world, and he even did not hesitate to defect to the Western Wei Dynasty, dedicated the land of Xiangyang, and led the Wei army to attack Jiangling.

As soon as the Western Wei Dynasty saw that there was another advantage, they sent a general, Yu Jin, one of the Eight Pillars, that is, the grandfather of Yu Zhongwen, who is now guarding Jiankang, as well as Yang Zhong, the father of the current emperor, and Dugu Xin, the father of Queen Dugu, to lead the army south.

Because of Xiao Jing's troops as the leader, the soldiers and horses of the Northern Dynasty were like bamboos this time, and Xiao Yi didn't even have time to transfer the troops and horses of Wang Shengbi and Chen Baxian stationed in Jiankang (at that time, they were also facing huge pressure from the Northern Qi Dynasty, even if Xiao Yi was recruited, they would not be able to withdraw flawlessly), and the city was killed.

After the Western Wei Dynasty broke through Jiangling, Xiao Jing's strategist Yin Deyi advised him to take advantage of the fact that the Western Wei army had just won a big victory and was arrogant and unprepared, and first held a Hongmen banquet, first attacked and killed Yu Jin and other Western Wei generals, and then took advantage of the night to sneak attack the Western Wei army camp that had lost its leader, and completely stand on his own, but Xiao Jing hesitated for a long time and chose to give up.

As a result, the Western Wei army coerced all the hundreds of thousands of people in the whole city of Jiangling and took them into Guanzhong as slaves, and Xiangyang Fancheng and other places were also forcibly included in the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty, leaving only half of the empty city of Jiangling and 800 miles of land near Jiangling.

The Western Wei Dynasty also sent a general to the other half of Jiangling, and specially set up an official position for this person to lead the troops to help defend it, nominally to guard against Nanchen, but in fact to monitor Xiao Jing.

At this time, Xiao Jing regretted it, but at this time, people are swordsmen, and I am fish and meat, and it is too late to regret it. So he had to be a vassal to the Western Wei Dynasty, and at the same time he became the emperor and established the Later Liang.

In the following decades, Later Liang has always been a vassal state of the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, although Jiangling is the first important town in Jingxiang, but after being squeezed out of the population by the Western Wei Dynasty, it will be in a slump, with no more than 10,000 soldiers and a population of only tens of thousands of households, which cannot pose any threat to the Northern and Southern Dynasties at all, and the emperor of the Later Liang has also become an out-and-out puppet.

Later, after the emperor of our dynasty became independent of Zhou, Xiao Cong, the emperor of Later Liang, felt that there was a chance to get rid of the control of our dynasty, and when he was open to the emperor for four years, without the permission of the emperor, he secretly sent the general Qi Xin to attack the public security county of Chen State, and the result was defeated. Enraged, the emperor not only conscripted his uncle into the court as a hostage, but also re-dispatched the once-abandoned Jiangling governor to Gangneung to monitor Houliang.

In the sixth year of the emperor's reign, Xiao Cong, the emperor of Liang after the emperor's edict, entered the court to see him, but Xiao Yan, Xiao Cong's uncle in Jiangling, was afraid that the emperor would detain Xiao Cong and not return it, so he took the opportunity to flee south with all the 100,000 households in Jiangling under the help of Nan Chen's army.

When the emperor was furious, he completely abolished Houliang and sent the general Daxi Changru to lead troops to garrison, while Xiao Cong and other Xiao Liang clans were taken to Daxing for residential surveillance. ”

When he heard this, Wang Huaqiang nodded: "This matter is well known, and it is one of the official reasons for me to attack Nanchen in the Western Wei Dynasty, but it is the first time I have heard of the plundering of the population of Jiangling by the Western Wei Dynasty." In Ji Sheng's meaning, it is because there is this precedent that the people of the Southern Dynasties believe this? ”

Changsun Sheng nodded seriously, took a sip of mare's milk wine, and continued: "Yes, in the eyes of the southerners, we northerners are the Hu people on the grassland, and the conquests are just for the purpose of capturing the children and populations, and this kind of confrontation and misunderstanding brought about by the division between the north and the south for three hundred years cannot be made up for in a day or two, Hua Qiang, you should have felt the hostility and fear of the southerners when you went south. ”

Wang Huaqiang thought of what he saw and heard in Guxiao and Jiankang City during the Southern Expedition, his heart was heavy, and he bowed his head and was silent.

Changsun Sheng's voice became low along with his affection: "Although the emperor issued an edict to reduce taxes for ten years in the old land of Nan, but the emperor's benevolent government was implemented by middle- and lower-level officials, and it was often out of shape, and many officials sent to Nanchen originally planned to make a fortune, but without taxes and no oil and water, they began to find excuses to find trouble with those southern clans and force them to pay money and land.

Some unscrupulous officials heard that Yang Jun, the king of Qin, liked a luxurious life, so they looted the treasures in the Jiangnan area and went to pat the king of Qin's ass, and Yu Zhongwen and others resold military rations on a large scale The price of rice in the Jiangnan area plummeted, and those large rice grain farmers suffered huge losses.

These southern clans are all from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern Chen, hundreds of years entrenched in the Jiangnan area, the Southern Chen was destroyed, as long as their interests are not greatly affected, they can tolerate the change of dynasty.

But now their own interests have been touched, so they began to spread rumors that we northerners are going to move all the southerners to outside the Saiwai, there is a precedent for the Western Wei Dynasty to plunder the population of Jiangling, and the emperor and ministers of Nanchen are all in the big boom, and now Jiangnan is already panicked, and I am afraid that the upheaval is just around the corner. ”

Wang Huaqiang broke out in a cold sweat when he heard this, he didn't expect that the Jiangnan he had worked so hard to fight would now become such a situation, it seemed that the severity of the matter was far beyond his imagination, and he hurriedly asked: "Is there any way to remedy this?" ”

Changsun Sheng's eyes flashed, and he leaned into Wang Huaqiang's ear: "Listen to the meaning of Gao Fuji, the rebellion in Jiangnan cannot be avoided, Yue Guogong, the new Nayan Yang Su, this time will be in charge of the counterinsurgency in Jiangnan, the army has begun to collect, and fifty or sixty thousand elites have secretly assembled in Yangzhou." ”

Although Wang Huaqiang was mentally prepared, he still couldn't accept this fact: "The army has been dispatched? Is there such a strict zhòng? ”

Eldest Sun Sheng sighed: "Gao Servant Shot thinks that he must plan for the worst, He Ruobi and Han Baohu can't be used again this time, Qin King Yang Jun made such a big thing, it is impossible to give him a nominal boss again, only Yang Su, who made great contributions last time, is the most suitable candidate for the boss, Hua Qiang, I heard Gao Servant Shoot mention you, maybe after returning from the Turks this time, he will send you to continue to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion." ”

Wang Huaqiang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Gao Xi to send himself to Jiangnan again, and it took a long time before he reluctantly smiled: "No, the Turkic affairs on our side haven't been done yet, there are not many of them in the Southern Expedition, and there is a lot of less for me, besides, with you Ji Sheng here, it is easy for the Turks to deal with, and the Southern Expedition is a piece of cake." ”