It was only in March that Tianjiankang City actually made people feel hot, and at this moment Jiankang City became a sea of joy, and at this moment no one paid attention to the suffering and sorrow of the scholars and monks in the city, because the monarch Chen Ba, who was loved by Jiankang people, came back first.

The people of the city ran to the Qinhuai River outside the Xuanyang 'gate' to see the Dachen officials and soldiers who had returned from the great victory, and the riverside was crowded with crowds, and the young 'women' of the young 'spring' and enthusiasm screamed and shouted at the officers and soldiers on the boat.

The prosperous Qinhuai water in the past was crowded with the warships transporting the officers and soldiers at this moment, and the thousands of cavalry of the Zhonghu Army who returned to the division with Chen Ba first had already disembarked at this meeting, but the war horses were a little uncomfortable being bumped on the boat, and the cavalry was calming the emotions of the war horses.

Sometimes it really takes the contrast of suffering to show the happiness, and the people of the Southern Dynasty who have experienced Hou Jingzhi's 'chaos', especially the people of Jiankang City, know how rare it is to have a stable and peaceful life now.

Although Jiankang is far from being as prosperous as Hou Jingzhi before the 'rebellion', the lives of the commoners have surpassed the period of Emperor Wu of Liang, and although Jiankang City was prosperous during the period of Emperor Wu of Liang, it was only a prosperous era for high-ranking officials and magnates.

Although the current prosperity of Nanchen is far less than that of the Xiao Liang period, because Chen Baxian repeatedly cracked down on corruption, the politics are much clearer than those in the period of Emperor Wu of Liang, and most of the ordinary people are barely able to fill their stomachs although they are not well-off

And this current stable situation is that Chen Baxian has put down the rebellion several times, defeated the Northern Qi army twice, and killed hundreds of Qi generals such as Xiao Liang, the chief general of the Qi army, in exchange for it, for which Chen Baxian's nephew Chen Tanlang died at the hands of the Qi army.

Compared with the ordinary people, as long as they let them live a good life, they will support whomever they want, and the view of the scholar class on Chen Baxian is much more complicated.

At first, there were some scholars who had objections to Chen Baxian's Liang Dynasty Chen, but after Chen Baxian began the Northern Expedition last year and recovered Huainan, even these objections disappeared.

It has only been more than a year since the founding of the country to have the current scene, which has greatly redeemed the stormy situation of the Southern Dynasties, and the production of Jiangdong Zhuzhou County has rapidly recovered and developed, and even some conservative old masters have praised Chen Baxian's achievements.

Of course, Wang Ze couldn't see all this, he was sitting on his knees in Chen Baxian's study at this time, accompanied by Chen Qian, and Chen Baxian, who was sitting at the top, looked at him with a smile on his face.

Chen Baxian is not tall, at most he looks like a meter seven, and his skin 'color' is somewhat similar to wheat 'color', and it is estimated that he has been tanned in various battles over the years, especially Chen Baxian has been an official in Lingnan, that is, Guangdong in later generations, and it is not easy to have a white skin.

Chen Baxian's forehead is particularly high, his sword eyebrows are black and straight as if they have been smeared with ink, and his nose is not pretty, but the few strands of beard on his mouth and chin make him a little more elegant.

Chen Baxian is not an illiterate rough man, since he was a child, he is also able to write and martial arts, history books say that he "dabbles in historical books, good at reading military books, Ming Wei Hou, lonely void, Dunjia skills, and many martial arts" is also a knowledgeable and talented person.

But the most impressive thing is Chen Baxian's eyes, although they are not too 'fine' now, they are still 'fine' and 'shooting', as if they can directly see through people's minds.

To be honest, Wang Ze was still a little nervous when he saw Chen Baxian for the first time, but Wang Ze didn't squirm, and said with a generous smile: "The first time I saw Your Majesty's dragon face, the kid was a little uneasy in his heart, and I hope Your Majesty will forgive me for the inappropriate words!" "It's also a small one to rely on.

Chen Ba laughed after hearing it first: "You, you!" Your father and I have been friends with God for a long time, so you call me uncle, and I will also call you a big man, okay? ”

Wang Ze's heart was dripping blood: "Da Lang is really not a good name, but in this era, people call you Da Lang a name for you closely, we can't help but agree, this is really tangled!" "Although I have been called the title of Dalang for several years, I still feel uncomfortable.

Wang Ze thought so in his heart, but he still replied: "Such a little nephew is presumptuous!" ”

Hearing Wang Ze's words, Chen Ba smiled first, but then there was a violent cough, and Chen Qian hurriedly brought him a glass of water.

After rinsing his mouth, Chen Ba first put down the cup and sighed to Wang Ze: "It's a pity that your father can't get out of the Northern Qi army because of the pressure of the Northern Qi army, so I only hate to see it, but now I can see your appearance and know that your father Wang Yong is also an amazing hero!" ”

As soon as he heard Chen Baxian say that Wang Yong was pressing the Northern Qi army there, Wang Ze couldn't sit still, and wanted to ask a good question, but at this time, the 'door' of the room was gently buckled a few times.

Chen Qian hurriedly got up to open the 'door', it turned out to be a young 'girl' who was about eighteen or nineteen years old, although she was holding a wooden plate, but it didn't seem to be a palace 'girl' or anything like that, looking at her talking to Chen Qian's expression, it looked like Chen Qian's sister.

Chen Qian took the wooden plate and persuaded the 'girl' to go and closed the big 'door' of the study, Wang Ze looked at the wooden plate curiously, it turned out to be a food wrapped in lotus leaves, and it was still steaming with a hot aroma, which immediately aroused Wang Ze's appetite, and his stomach rumbled.

Hearing the scream of Wang Ze's stomach, Chen Baxian laughed, Wang Ze's face turned red all of a sudden, he got up late in the morning, and was just about to eat early when he was pulled by Han Zigao to greet Chen Baxian, and now he was 'tempted' by the aroma of this food, and he could still bear it?

Chen Ba first took the initiative to take the wooden plate in Chen Qian's hand and put it on the table in front of him, and then beckoned to Wang Ze and Chen Qian: "Come on, come on, Tan Qian, you and Da Lang sit down together, let's eat and eat first before we can talk about things!" ”

Tan Qian is Chen Qian's nickname, Chen Qian was a little embarrassed by this shout, but his uncle shouted that he had to pull Wang Ze to sit over.

Wang Ze was embarrassed to come over, but Chen Qian had no choice but to sit down, Chen Ba first used chopsticks to pick up the tightly wrapped lotus leaves, and suddenly a rich aroma filled the entire room.

Chen Qian looked at it and smiled: "Uncle Huang, you still haven't changed this habit?" Hey, hey, lotus leaf glutinous rice duck! It's my favorite! Saying that, Chen Qian stretched out her hand to help Chen Ba take out a few small bowls from the wooden plate first.

Only then did Wang Ze understand that people knew that they hadn't eaten breakfast, so they prepared for themselves, and Wang Ze's heart was really moved at this moment.

Holding the lotus leaves with chopsticks, Chen Baxian still muttered in his mouth: "This glutinous rice duck should use the best moist mouth hemp duck, with the lotus leaves of Houhu (Xuanwu Lake), the lotus leaves need to be not old and tender, so that the glutinous rice can not only absorb the fragrance of the lotus leaves, but also not be steamed!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a wooden spoon and divided the glutinous rice duck into several pieces, and put them in three small bowls, just filling a small bowl, and there was no extra at all.

"Come on, Dalang give it a try!" Chen Ba first handed a small bowl to Wang Ze, looking at the crystal clear glutinous rice, the soup dipped in some duck 'meat' looked particularly appetizing, Wang Ze couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Picking up a handful of bamboo chopsticks, Wang Ze first picked a shiitake mushroom, although the taste is still very light with the taste of the Southern Dynasty, but the aroma of the shiitake mushroom itself is revealed, the duck 'meat' is even more delicious and tender, and there are white fungus and even cut braised eggs in it.

"Uncle Chen's glutinous rice duck is so delicious!" Wang Ze praised while eating.

Chen Baxian also used chopsticks to pick a big mouthful of glutinous rice and swallowed it in a big mouthful, and when he heard Wang Ze's praise, he pointed to the glutinous rice duck on the plate with chopsticks and said to Wang Ze: "If you want to say that this glutinous rice duck has a relationship with Tanqian!" ”

It turned out that three years ago, Xu Sihui, the assassin of Qin Erzhou and Ren Ren of Southern Yuzhou, took advantage of the opportunity of Chen Baxian to conquer the remnants of Wang Shengbi's defense, and captured Jiankang and Stone City.

Soon after Chen Ba first recaptured Jiankang City, Xu and Ren attacked the quarry, and then Xiao Liangqin, the governor of Northern Qi, led an army of 100,000 to cross the river to the south.

Taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the vanguard of the Qi army, Chen Baxian led the army out of Jiankang and won the 'fierce' battle with Xu Sihui in Baicheng for half a day. The generals Zhou Wenyu and Hou Andu were both fierce generals with 10,000 enemies, personally leading the cavalry to assault, and capturing the generals alive and begging for work.

At the same time, the general Shen Tai was ordered by Chen Baxian to lead 3,000 'elite' soldiers to secretly cross the Yangtze River, sneak attack the Guazhou ferry in the north of the Yangtze River, and captured more than 100 ships and 10,000 military rations of the Qi army, which greatly frustrated the Qi army reinforcements who were eager to reinforce the south bank.

The battle on this day can be described as extremely 'fine', attacking from both sides with inferior forces and still winning a great victory, Chen Baxian's judgment and mastery of the battle situation proved that he was a leader to rely on.

However, although Chen Baxian won two big victories in succession, it was the most powerful time of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and in the face of the strong forces of the Northern Qi Dynasty, he could only fight and retreat, and finally retreated to Jiankang City, and the Qi army immediately surrounded the Jiankang City, falling into the difficult situation of lack of soldiers and food.

At this time, the rainy season in Jiangnan saved Chen Baxian's life, and the heavy rain for several days caused water to accumulate in and out of the city beyond his knees. The defenders in the city can also take turns to rest indoors, and the Qi army outside the city will be miserable.

First, the soldiers could not cook on the fire during the 'dew' day, and the soldiers could only eat raw food; second, Jiankang stubbornly defended Chen Baxian and attacked from time to time, and the Qi army could not rest, and the soldiers stood in the mud day and night with rotten toes, and the 'spirit' was even more exhausted.

After the weather improved, Chen Baxian prepared to mobilize the soldiers to boost morale and launch an attack on the Qi army, but the soldiers under Chen Baxian's command were hungry one by one and could not fight at all.

Just when Chen Ba was at a loss, Chen Qian miraculously sent 3,000 rice and 1,000 ducks. As for how to 'get' these things, the history books do not say that they are estimated to be hidden for His Holiness.

Chen Baxian was naturally overjoyed, because there were not enough bowls, Chen Baxian ordered the glutinous rice to be cooked, wrapped in lotus leaves, and a few pieces of duck 'meat' sandwiched in the middle to give each soldier a pack.

On the second day, the general Hou Andu and the fierce general Xiao Maha were the vanguard, and the other generals followed Chen Baxian to take the Qi army camp, and after a big battle, the rest of the 100,000 Qi army fled north except for a few thousand, and the Qi army was captured by Xiao Liang and 45 other generals, and the Northern Qi army never dared to cross the river south easily.

And Chen Ba has developed a habit since the war, that is, he has to eat a meal of glutinous rice duck after each war.

But this time, Chen Baxian only ate a small half bowl before putting down the chopsticks and sighed: "Alas, I can't find the taste of the year anymore!" ”

Chen Qian echoed: "Yes, now these glutinous rice ducks are made by these cooks with more and more 'flowers', but the taste of that back then is no longer there!" ”

Wang Zexin said, "That's light hunger, at that time, Jiankang City was besieged and hungry and dizzy 'flowers', it would be good to be able to eat, and there was pickiness!" ’

Chen Ba glanced at Chen Qian first and said with a smile: "Tan Qian, where did those japonica rice and ducks come from?" At that time, I asked you, but you were vague, and I was in a hurry to go out of the city to attack Xiao Rail, and I didn't care about asking you! ”

Chen Qian secretly raised her eyes and glanced at Chen Baxian, who was a little embarrassed and said, "I stole those ducks from the Xie family and the Yu family's garden!" The japonica rice was prying open the warehouse of the rice shop opened by the Kong family and secretly moved out! ”

Chen Baxian smiled and shook his head, but he didn't mean to reprimand Chen Qian at all.

If it was when something happened, Chen Qian said to Chen Baxian that he would have to be scolded, at that time, Chen Baxian was in urgent need of strong support from the scholars of the Southern Dynasty, of course, he couldn't afford to offend those scholars, but now that the imperial court is strong and strong, he no longer has to look at the faces of the wealthy 'men' of the scholars.

Seeing that Chen Baxian was pondering something again, Wang Ze and Chen Qian stayed quietly and didn't dare to disturb, but suddenly Chen Baxian coughed violently again.

Taking a glass of water handed over by Wang Ze, Chen Ba took a sip and rinsed his mouth before breathing a sigh of relief: "Alas, I was originally going to personally lead the army to the Northern Expedition, but unfortunately I have suffered some wind and cold in Shou 'Spring' last month, and it has not been completely taken over until now." I think that several generations of ancestors of my Chen family will not survive the year of 'flower' Jia, I am afraid that my limit is approaching, and I will also go to the bottom of Huangquan to see your ancestors! ”

Chen Qian said with concern: "Uncle Huang still takes care of his body, now Jiangdong has been stabilized, Huainan has all recovered, Fujian and Zhejiang are basically all annexed, and there are Ouyang Metropolitan Governor and Mrs. Xian in Lingnan and no one is 'chaotic'."

In addition, now that Governor Hou and General Cheng have recovered the Eastern Chu Prefecture and Haizhou in Huaibei, Wang Lin in the west is blocked by Lu Sidda generals, and the imperial uncle can recuperate with peace of mind, so that the old land of the Southern Dynasty can be restored! ”

Chen Baxian glanced at his nephew Chen Qian, who was full of concern, this nephew has been very favored by him since he was a child, and Chen Baxian often praised Chen Qian as "the hero of my sect here".

Now Chen Baxian's son Chen Chang is detained in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it is this nephew who is loved by him who inherits the unification after Chen Baxian, but how can Chen Baxian not miss his son.

Nodding and smiling at Chen Qian, Chen Baxian turned his head to Wang Ze and said, "Da Lang, I heard Tan Qian say that you are not optimistic about me sending an army north to recover Xuzhou and Pengcheng?" Can you explain the reason for this? ”

Wang Ze immediately repeated what he said to Chen Qian that time.

Until Wang Ze finished speaking, Chen Baxian did not 'insert' the first half of the sentence, and after pondering for a long time, Chen Baxian suddenly raised his head and said to Wang Ze: "Da Lang really understands the general trend of the world, but I don't know what Da Lang think of Wang Lin's eastward march this time?" ”

Wang Ze looked at Chen Baxian and said with a faint smile: "Although Wang Lin has the Northern Zhou Dynasty as his support, he is only a dry bone in the grave, presumably Uncle Chen is only afraid that he has a plan, why bother to test me again!" ”

Chen Baxian coughed and laughed, patted Chen Qian and Wang Ze on the shoulders and said to the two: "Why don't you two explain it to each other!" ”