"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please accept the order"

The eunuch Shen Yan held the holy decree in his hand, and after reading it, he stood for a long time and didn't see the meaning of Chen Kefu's edict, so he hurriedly whispered softly.

Chen Kefu raised his head, a pair of bright eyes swept over the people in the warehouse, and at that glance, Shen Yan felt that all the secrets in his heart had been known to him. That feeling made him suddenly feel as if he was facing an emperor, and there was a thunderous power in his eyes.

Zhang Jin and Chen Lei, who were standing at the door of the warehouse, had already set off a storm in their hearts at this time. They just learned that the court and the emperor had removed their rebellion, and they also added the position of the three princes of the marshal, the post of Shang Shuling, and later added the title of king of the opposite sex and gave the princess as marriage. It was also the first time they had heard that after raising an army against the imperial court, they could still get such a good thing.

But now compared with the news in front of me, it seems to be insignificant. No matter how noble the opposite sex is, it is not as rare as a crown prince. Even if the emperor gives the princess to marry, it is still not as good as the prince of a country. They have always known that with Da Shuai, one day, Da Shuai will go to that step and be called the king and emperor. But when this day came so suddenly, they felt a little unable to keep up with the rhythm.

But the next moment, the two were extremely excited. Dashuai's father ascended the throne and became the emperor, and Dashuai is now the crown prince, so their status will also leap up, and from then on, one person will attain the Tao, and the chicken dog will ascend to heaven.

The two of them were extremely excited in their hearts, but they didn't seem to be half excited when they saw their newly released Royal Highness the Prince, and they even forgot about it. was jumping anxiously in his heart, and kept squeezing his eyebrows at Chen Kefu.

Chen Kefu was silent for a while, the warehouse was full of unspeakable embarrassment, and the eunuch Shen Yan held the holy decree and stretched out his hand to wait for Chen Kefu to pick it up, but Chen Kefu didn't answer it for a long time.

After a long while, Chen Kefu broke the unspeakable awkward silence and asked, "Can Kexin tell Ben Shuai about the situation in Jiangnan?" ”。

Shen Yan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and said in his heart that it was fortunate that the prince finally spoke, otherwise he wouldn't know how to continue. With a smile on his face, he said busily, "Your Highness wants to know the situation in the court now, right, this old slave knows very well." The old slave offered his ugliness to His Highness in detail. After speaking, he gave Chen Kefu a detailed introduction to the Southern Chen Dynasty that had just emerged.

Almost a month ago, the emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty was besieged by Yanmen, and issued a driftwood edict, ordering soldiers and horses from all over the world to go north to King Qin in Hedong. As soon as Wang Shichong received the news, he immediately summoned his 50,000 Jianghuai strong troops, quickly raised 50,000 Jianghuai people, and quickly took a boat from the canal to the north, leaving the entire Jianghuai and abandoning it at once. Originally, the imperial court was in the land of Jianghuai, and the powerful Jianghuai army had been suppressing the peasant armies in various places, and Wang Shichong's Jianghuai soldiers were presented. However, the nursery was transferred to Hebei earlier. Jianghuai and Jiangnan suddenly only left Wang Shichong's 50,000 Jianghuai strong brigades, as well as the subordinates of the general Yang Yichen, Qinghe Tongshou Yang Shanhui, and Pingyuan Tongshou Yang Yuanhong, Hu Benlang and Wang Benlang jointly commanded a team of 20,000 soldiers and horses. There is also a way to be the former Yang Guang's Praetorian Guard general, Zhi Chonglang's general Chen Ling's unified Wanjiang soldiers.

Yang Guang first transferred 100,000 soldiers and horses to the north, and then Yang Guangyanmen was besieged, Wang Shichong not only took away 50,000 Jianghuai soldiers, but also recruited 50,000 strong men. In the entire Huainan and Jiangnan lands, there are less than 50,000 horses left.

What's even more critical is that Yang Guang's edict of King Qin made civil and military officials from all over the south of the Yangtze River recruit soldiers and horses. The major families in the south of the Yangtze River also took out money and desperately recruited soldiers and horses. Jiangnan Society itself has a lot of slaves and servants who have accumulated in the open, and there are also horse bandits and water thieves in various places in the dark. After getting this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Jiangnan will immediately start using the large amount of money that has been hoarded for many years to desperately recruit troops.

When Wang Shichong also left, the Jiangnan Society carried out a major rebellion overnight. The entire south of the Yangtze River, up to Jiangling, north of the Yangtze River to Huainan Duojun, and even the entire Lingnan controlled by the Tu people in Lingnan also rebelled against the Sui Dynasty at once. On this night, nearly half of the territory of the entire Jianghuai River changed its flag, and nearly one-fifth of the territory of the Great Sui Dynasty was suddenly planted with the banner of Nanchen, which had been in the news for nearly 30 years. …,

Jiangnan will have thirty-six elders, representing thirty-six families. However, among them, there are civil and military, businessmen and bandits. After the army was raised, in less than half a month, the Jiangnan Association had almost controlled most of Jiangnan.

Among the most of the Jiangnan controlled, the four-way soldiers and horses are always the strongest. These four soldiers and horses are Du Fuwei, the leader of the peasant army who is only 20 years old, who occupies Liuhe, Li Zitong who occupies Hailing, Shen Faxing who occupies Biling, and Zhu Cang, who is far away in Jiangling. These four armies were the strongest, but in fact they were all supported by the four strongest of the thirty-six of the Jiangnan Society. Especially among them, Shen Faxing, his troops are not peasant troops, but landlords and powerful armies.

The Shen family also belongs to the type of initiator in the 36 families of the Jiangnan Society, and the head of the Shen family is now Shen Faxing's father. The Shen family is flourishing in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are many branches in various branches. The Southern Chen Dynasty has been five emperors for more than 30 years, plus Chen Shen, who has just ascended the throne and is now the emperor, there are a total of six emperors, three of whom are women of the Shen family.

The first empress of the Shen family was Chen Wenzong, the son of Emperor Wu of the Chen Dynasty, and her son was also the third emperor of the Chen Dynasty, the deposed emperor Chen Bozong. The second Empress Shen is the queen of Empress Chen, and the third empress is the empress Shen of Chen Shen, who has just been posthumously canonized.

Of the six emperors of the Chen Dynasty, the Shen family produced three queens, so you can imagine the power of the Shen family in Jiangnan. A few years after the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, Jiangnan once launched a major rebellion in Jiangnan, and among the largest rebel armies in Jiangnan at that time, the Shen family alone accounted for the commander of four rebel armies. However, that time the Shen family was the most fierce against Sui, and in the end, they were beaten the worst.

That time, the four major halls of the Shen family branched, and the three clans were wiped out, except for a few clans who traveled overseas, most of them were wiped out. Although Shen Faxing's father was also the leader of the anti-Sui side, in the end, in order to save the Shen family, the old family owner surrendered to the Sui Dynasty on the surface. Secretly, he initiated the organization of the Jiangnan Society, and in the Jiangnan Association over the years, although the old family owner died, the Shen family was still the most influential among them.

This time, Jiangnan once again opposed Sui, and the Shen family was the one who pushed it with all its might. It was also under his full promotion that the Jiangnan Society established Chen Shen as emperor. Shen Faxing, the head of the current Shen family, is the elder brother of Chen Shenyuan and the queen.

After this restoration, in today's Southern Chen Dynasty, Shen Faxing not only unified the 60,000 troops of the Nanchen Fourth Route Army, but also crowned one of the four marching marshals. And he also served as the Situ of the Three Princes, the prime minister of Shangshu Province. Most of the children of the Shen family are in important positions in the court, and the commanders of the troops in many places in the south of the Yangtze River are all children of the Shen family.

At this time, among the Chen Dynasty, the Shen family of the Hou clan was the most prosperous, followed by the Wang family and the Xie family, followed by Gu, Lu, Zhu, Zhang, Yu, He, Kong, and Wei. The Chen family and the Shen family are known as the families of the emperor and queen, and the following Wang, Xie, Gu, Lu, Zhu, Zhang, Yu, He, Kong, and Wei are known as the top ten families in the south of the Yangtze River. These eleven are the eleven of the Jiangnan Society at this time, and they are the eleven who speak the most.

At present, the Shen family is the most powerful, not only has many family children installed in the court, but also Shen Faxing, the head of the Shen family, has 60,000 Jiangdong soldiers and horses in his hands. The second is the Lu family, the Lu family has risen from Jiangdong since the Three Kingdoms, and the Hailing Li Zitong Department in the current three-way army is secretly supported by the Lu family. The second is the Wang family, who supported the Du Fuwei forces that entered Jianghuai from Shandong. Du Fuwei was the leader of the peasant army at the age of sixteen, and when he failed in Shandong, he went south to Jianghuai, and later received the support of Wang Zhizhi, the head of the Wang family. Du Fuweibai became Wang Zhizhi's adopted son, and since then, they have been surrounded and suppressed, but they have never been destroyed. And Zhu Cang, who is far away in Jiangling, is supported by the Xie family.

Shen, Lu, Wang, and Xie were the four major clans in the Southern Chen Dynasty at this time. The Shen family has 60,000 soldiers, the Lu family has 30,000 soldiers, the Wang family has 50,000 soldiers, and the Xie family also has 30,000 soldiers. These four families alone have 170,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, plus the soldiers and horses in the hands of officials who surrendered in other places at this time, the Chen Dynasty, which appeared overnight at this time, has 300,000 soldiers. However, these 300,000 people mainly rely on the soldiers and horses in the hands of the four major families, and only the soldiers and horses in their hands are the soldiers and horses who have fought in battle.

However, even so, after judging the failure of the Turkic plan to encircle Yang Guang at this time, these Manchu civil and military ministers such as the three dukes, servants, and generals of Nanchen still unanimously felt that they should contact Liaodong Chen Kefu as soon as possible and pull Chen Kefu onto Nanchen's big ship. In particular, the 300,000 Liaodong army that brought in Chen Kefu was the most urgent thing. …,

Chen Kefu had no expression on his face, just stood there silently listening to the eunuch Shen Yan tell the story of the situation in the Southern Chen Dynasty, which had just been restored. After listening for a long time, he finally figured out a little bit about the difference in power of the Chen Dynasty.

In today's Chen Dynasty, the emperor is a disguise, and the most powerful real power is the Shen family. It was followed by the three families of Lu, Wang, and Xie, all of whom held military power in their hands. Next are the seven families such as Zhu and Zhang, who live in the third group of influence, they also have a small number of soldiers and horses in their hands, and basically the local officials of the original Sui Dynasty counties within the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan at this time have now become local officials of the Chen Dynasty. With the various counties they controlled, they became the second largest group of influence in the Chen Dynasty.

The next is the family represented by the remaining twenty-five elders of the Jiangnan Society, they are basically a wealthy family, and they are rich and powerful, have a wide land and many slaves, and those shops in their hands control most of the economic lifeline and food and other materials in Jiangnan.

It can be said that the Chen Dynasty, which was restored this time, is completely a combination of the interests of those big clans in Jiangnan. As for his Chen family, he has only got an empty name so far. It is estimated that everyone actually wants to be the emperor of Jiangnan, but they can't compromise with each other for a while, and they don't buy each other, so it will finally fall on the Chen family.

For the Shen family, Chen Kefu heard for the first time, he only knew that as soon as he was born, his mother died in childbirth. And I have been living in Hebei, and I don't know these things. Even when he saw Chen Shen later, he rarely talked about Shen's affairs. Chen Kefu only knew that Chen Shen had a deep affection for the Shen family, but he didn't know that his mother's maiden family still had such a big power.

Speaking of which, the current head of the Shen family is still his Chen Kefu's own uncle, but Chen Kefu was not very excited and happy when he found out. At that time, Yang Jian was still the grandfather of the Emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but it was not the same as robbing the world of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and establishing himself in the Sui Dynasty. In the face of the competition in this world, even fathers and sons can turn against each other, brothers can kill each other, not to mention uncles and grandfathers. And he will not forget at all that the identity of his Nanchen royal family has been made public for almost three years, but no one in the Shen family has ever come to look for him.

After the eunuch finished talking about the court, he paused for a moment and waved his hand to let the four guards out.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, in fact, the old slave is also a child of the Shen family. When I came this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's uncle had a letter to pass on to you. As he spoke, Shen Yan took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Chen Kefu.

Chen Kefu took the letter and opened it, and the letter was very long. The letter begins with the words, "Break the army." The whole letter is written very warmly, basically to refill the relationship between their nephews and uncles that has been missing over the years. However, Chen Kefu had already thought of these, and he would not be really moved or anything after reading the letter. On the contrary, it was a few things mentioned by Shen Faxing in the letter that made Chen Kefu groan.

Shen Faxing analyzed the situation in front of him and told him that now the Chen family has returned to the country in this way, although the Chen family is not the dominant one now. But Shen Faxing has a good saying, now that the Chen family is being used by the major clans in the south of the Yangtze River, in fact, this is not a good opportunity for the Chen family to be compensated. When others are using the Chen family, the Chen family is also using the family. At least the Chen family has been restored, Chen Shen has been proclaimed emperor, and Chen Pojun has become the crown prince, although this is not carried out in the ideal way of Chen Kefu.

According to Shen Faxing's words, as long as he Chen Ke returns to the Chen Dynasty, he will accept the canonization of the crown prince. Then with his current strength, when he enters the court of the Chen Dynasty in the future, the strength of the Chen family will definitely be the strongest in the Chen Dynasty. And Shen Faxing also made a suggestion in the letter, he hoped that the Chen and Shen families would continue to marry.

As long as Chen Kefu marries a woman from the Shen family as the crown princess, and guarantees that he will be the queen in the future. The Shen family will reach an alliance with Chen Kefu, and the power of the Shen family will be used by Chen Kefu. Help him further control the Chen Dynasty in the future and become a true emperor.

Chen Kefu looked at the letter and sneered, the Shen family's ambitions are indeed not small. actually wanted him to marry a woman from the Shen family, and the Shen family actually came up with a fourth queen. Looking at Shen Faxing's meaning, even if Chen Kefu really does what he planned, even if he becomes the emperor in the future, he is afraid that the court in the future will be a worse family politics than the Jin Dynasty. And those dynasties that relied on family politics did not end well. Family politics, to put it bluntly, means that the emperor and the family rule the world together, and many times, it is the emperor who is restricted by the family, or even controlled.

Now he sits in Liaodong, the army is strong and strong, and the Turkic steppe has suffered a great loss of vitality after this great battle, and supports the country. The Sui Dynasty was even more shaky at this time, did he still have to accept such conditions? ……，