Xiang Cong obediently nestled in the arms of the guards, and only after getting into the carriage did he say, "Uncle don't worry, the emperor will not come to chase us." ”

"How do you know?"

"Of course I know, when I entered the palace, he asked me to live with him, and I even had to watch the meal, and after leaving the capital, my carriage was behind his car, and he would send someone to take a look every other moment." Xiang Cong said: "After five or six days, he sent people less often, but he also came four or five times a day, and when he arrived in Shaozhou, he initially let me live in the ear room of his main house, and I could be seen every day." ”

"Twelve days ago, my grandfather defended the city for a month, and sent troops back to send back the battle report, saying that it was the end of the crossbow, and I was afraid that I would be loyal to the country, so he let me move in with the three princes, who lived in the main house in the courtyard, and I lived in the ear room. He only asks one question a day, but recently, he no longer sends people to ask me, and he probably can't even remember me as a person. ”

Of course, his living conditions also plummeted, but before leaving, his grandfather stuffed him with a lot of gold flakes, with which he lived poorly, and ate and used well.

Xiang Min was silent, gritted his teeth, and still didn't say a word.

Xiang Cong leaned in front of him and asked, "Uncle, is my grandfather dead?" ”

Xiang Min patted him on the head, "What nonsense, your grandfather is fine." ”

Xiang Cong was already snorting and about to cry, but when he heard this, he was stunned for a moment, raised his head and said, "How is this possible, my grandfather is not dead, why did you steal me?" ”

Xiang Min couldn't help but knock him on the head again, but still chuckled and said, "The Liang army has broken through the capital, and your grandfather has surrendered to Liang." ”

Xiang Cong's eyes widened, "How is this possible?" ”

But seeing that the look on the uncle's face didn't look like he was lying, Xiang Cong finally came back to his senses, he hugged his waist, and said in horror: "Uncle, let's run for our lives, let's ride a horse instead, that's faster." ”

The smile on Xiang Min's face was faint, and he hugged Xiang Cong and said: "Don't be afraid, Kyoto has blocked the news, Emperor Chu can't receive the news of the city for a while, we should thank him for his recent negligence to you, and your disappearance should not be reported to him soon." ”

Xiang Cong breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still afraid, although he was only nine years old, he also knew that he was a hostage by Emperor Chu's side.

His grandfather was loyal to the Chu State, and he had nothing to do, if there was a little difference, his life would be over.

But he knew that it was difficult to make his grandfather treason, but it was easy to be loyal, so he always thought that he had come to be a hostage just to go through the motions, and when Kyoto Castle was broken, he would be able to go home.

So although he was running all the way, life was not easy, but he only traveled in autumn.

At this time, he suddenly knew that his grandfather was throwing a beam, and he couldn't help but be afraid, and he only felt that his back was cold.

Xiang Min touched his hair and comforted him: "Uncle sent all the dead soldiers in the family, and also greeted General Zhong Lin of the Liang State, as long as we enter the Liang army's sphere of influence, we will be safe." ”

Emperor Chu took Xiang Cong as a hostage, but in his selfish heart, he didn't think that Xiang Shan would commit treason, and he did this just to seek peace of mind.

Xiang Shanneng delayed for them for more than a month, which was much beyond Emperor Chu's expectations, and therefore Xiang Cong's role was only left after letting him show his preferential treatment of heroes.

He knew that Xiang Shan would most likely die in Kyoto, and then the Xiang family should come to pick up Xiang Cong, and he had flashed in his mind how he should reward Xiang Cong when the Xiang family came to pick up Xiang Cong.

But he never thought that the Xiang family would secretly take Xiang Cong away, so as soon as Xiang Cong's disappearance was reported, his first instinct was that Liang Shu would arrest people and threaten Xiang Shan with Xiang Cong, and the second was that Xiang Cong might be arrested by human traffickers.

Until this time, he didn't think that it was the Xiang family who did it.

If Xiang Cong was caught by human traffickers, it would be a big bad thing for the Chu State, so he sent a lot of people to find it.

The attitude of the emperor directly determines the action of the people below, seeing that the emperor's anxiety is only on the surface, the people below are not careful.

I searched for a night but couldn't find it, and when I was about to report it with a non-existent trafficker, the news of the blockade arrived in Shaozhou.

Kyoto was lost, and Xiang Shan surrendered with the remaining Chu soldiers.

Xiang Shan's death battle didn't have much impact on the Chu State, at most, it made more people ignite their hatred for Liang Shu; But Xiang is good at throwing Liang, and the impact on the Chu State is tantamount to ground movement.

Not to mention the people who worship him, but many ministers in the court are shaken, is the state of Chu already at the end of the crossbow, and it has been so bad that even people like General Xiang have defected to the enemy.

This kind of vacillation starts from the deepest part of the heart, and the psychological war is no less than the war on the front line, and once it is defeated, its effect is enormous.

At least as soon as the news came out, the resistance of Zhong Ruying and Lin Xin to push south was reduced by half, and the morale of the Chu army was low, and almost as soon as the two sides fought, the Chu army showed its decline, and immediately some generals surrendered with soldiers.

This panic spread directly to Shaozhou, and Emperor Chu realized how wrong it was to stay with Xiang Shan to defend the capital.

He should take Xiang Shan with him, what he taboos is his influence on the Chu State and the imperial court, but his biggest role is also this.

With him, the state of Chu will not be chaotic for the time being, and with him, the military spirit will be stable.

Emperor Chu sat in the inner room, silent.

One wrong step, one wrong step!

His personal attendant was frightened, and couldn't help but comfort him in a low voice: "Your Majesty's previous concerns were not wrong, leaving General Xiang, he has such a great influence on the imperial court and the Chu State, if he and Chen Xiang turn against Your Majesty first, what can we do?" ”

Emperor Chu's dull eyes gradually became firm, and he said in a deep voice: "You are right, I am right, it is Xiang Shan who is wrong, he really has a rebellious heart, and he has an order to go down, I want the heads of the Xiang clan to comfort the souls of the soldiers who died on the front line." ”

At this time, Xiang Min had changed horses and took Xiang Cong into Lin Xin's sphere of influence overnight, this was still the range of the front line, he didn't dare to stay longer, and left with Xiang Cong after a simple breakfast.

This is not the direction back to Chudu, but the direction to Suzhou.

The Xiang clan did not leave the Chu capital, after all, it was a place they were familiar with, even if Emperor Chu wanted to start, staying in a place they were familiar with would have more power to fight back.

But they were a little worried, so they asked Xiang Min to take Xiang Cong to Suzhou, if there was really an accident, they could leave a fire for the Xiang family.

But how can there be so many accidents in the world, Xiang Shan is still in Chudu, and Lu Zhen also left him 20,000 soldiers and horses, if he didn't have time to adjust to Xiang Shan, he still wanted to pull people to the front line immediately.

If you want to say who knows Chu State and Chu Jun best, it has to be Xiang Shan, he can carry Lu Zhen, Zhong Ruying and Lin Xin alone, not to mention the cooperation of the four now?

It's a pity that for the sake of the long term, Lu Zhen silently took the soldiers and horses to the front line, and let Xiang Shan stay in Chudu to rest.

said that it was rest, but in fact it was rest, and by the way, he ran in with the 20,000 soldiers who were handed over to him.

In Kyoto, some people understand Xiang Shan, and naturally some people scold him, Ji Yuan is not here, thinking about it, he can only come to talk to Lin Qingwan.

Lin Qingwan's hand was still injured and she couldn't go anywhere, so she simply played chess with him.

Xiang Shan saw that she was recuperating from her injuries, and she was also in charge of the government affairs of Chudu, and she could still find time to play chess with him, so she couldn't help but admire: "The county lord is at ease, and Emperor Liang is eclectic in employing people, no wonder Liang is better than Chu." ”

Lin Qingwan smiled, "Your Majesty is not only stronger than Emperor Chu in terms of employing people. ”

Xiang Shan thought about it, if Emperor Chu could have half of Emperor Liang's mind and listen to the advice of his subordinates, Chu would not be what it is today.

Xiang Shan sighed slightly, pinched the chess pieces and said nothing.

Lin Qingwan smiled and said gently: "The general is trapped by the rumors in the city?" ”

Xiang Shan smiled indifferently: "It's just a few scolding words, if I cared, I would have died of anger twenty years ago." ”

Twenty years ago, after the biggest contradiction between Xiang Shan and Emperor Chu, the monarch and ministers were extremely stiff, and many people scolded Xiang Shan for being proud of his merits, disrespecting the king, and being suspected of having high merit and shocking the lord.

At that time, not long after Emperor Chu sat on the throne, he stabbed several corrupt officials in a row, and reduced taxes for several years in a row, and the people had a high reputation.

Therefore, there was gradually a rumor that Xiang Shan was plotting against Xiang Shan in the Chu State, but most of the people and some courtiers did not believe it in their hearts, but the rumors were rampant, creating an illusion that the whole country was against Xiang Shan.

Xiang Shan resigned at this time, and Emperor Chu agreed without retaining him, and after he went into hiding, this rumor slowly disappeared, and everyone remembered his exploits again, and his reputation slowly improved again.

The scolding now is still small compared to 20 years ago.

Chu was surrounded by Lu Zhen for more than a month, and the people had already had a desire to surrender, so except for a few people, most people were relieved from the bottom of their hearts about Xiang Shan's surrender.

Especially after Lin Qingwan took over the government affairs in the city, he began to appease the people, and sent people to organize the people to prepare winter food, and the people slowly settled down, and there was no resistance to Chu Du changing his surname to Liang.

Anyway, they are all Han Chinese, and it's just a change of emperor, so what's the matter?

As long as their lives are the same as before, it would be even better if they could live a better life.

But there are always people who don't understand, especially those who read, they feel that as a military general, loyalty is one, and Xiang Shan's disloyalty loses the value of existence.

Therefore, for several days, they gathered on Xiang Shan's way to the government to insult him.

Lin Qingwan is now living in the mansion, Xiang Shan must take that road if he wants to come, Xiang Shan doesn't care, but Lin Qingwan can't help but care.

is always scolded like this, who will vote for Liang in the future?

So, after asking Xiang Shan and learning that he didn't care, Lin Qingwan found a sunny day and went out, and went to that street to wait for them to scold.

Yi Han had a headache, "Grandma, the doctor said that your hands should not move too much, and the outside is dirty, what if you accidentally become inflamed?" ”

"Wrap it, you can isolate the dust," Lin Qingwan shook her hand carefully, and said with a smile: "What's more, I go out to move my feet and mouth, but I don't use my hands." ”