Chapter 103 Departure
What Wang Ze said to Feng Fu at that time, there is no record at all in later generations, and there is no way to verify it, and many experts in later generations have made a lot of speculations about why the friendship between the two is so unbreakable.
From the 'spring' of the third year of Yongding, when the two hit it off at first sight in Jian'an County, and then until Feng Fu's death after decades of Nanchen, Sui, and Tang, the friendship between the two has always been so close, and some people even speculate whether there is some super-friendly relationship between the two.
No matter how speculated by later generations of experts and professors, things always inadvertently roll forward along the great river of time, even if it is the big 'waves' that were 'stirred' at that time, and finally calm down with the passage of time.
On March 15, Wang Ze was finally about to leave Jiankang and go north, and when he was leaving, Han Zigao, Zhou Wenhua, Chun Yukun and other Nanchen generals who pacified the prefectures and counties of Fujian and Zhejiang came to see him off.
Another group of Jiangnan families who have reached a cooperation agreement with Wang Ze have also sent their own representatives to send them off, expressing their feelings of farewell, of course, they are more concerned about when the cooperation between the two sides can be implemented.
As Wang Ze's hardcore younger brother, Feng Fu originally even wanted to go with Wang Ze, he wanted to go to Qizhou to see the places where Wang Ze and Northern Qi fought, and even Jeju, Qinjin and other places in the East China Sea also wanted to go around him.
But in the end, he couldn't bear the persuasion of Ah Niu, Ah Kun and others, and Wang Ze also felt that Feng Fu had been leaving Lingnan for a long time, so he persuaded Feng Fu to go home as soon as possible, and finally Feng Fu was quite aggrieved and promised to return to Lingnan within a few days.
"Big brother, after a while, you must bring Sister Cheng and Sister Zhu to Gaoliang to see me!" Feng Fu, who was only ten years old, looked at Wang Ze with tears in his eyes, and Wang Ze hurriedly agreed.
Just when Wang Ze was about to board the ship and everyone said goodbye, Chen Baxian, who had not yet recovered, ignored the dissuasion of his family and hundreds of officials, and insisted on dragging his sick body to personally lead hundreds of civil and military officials to Xuanyang 'Gate' to bid farewell to Wang Ze.
Seeing Chen Baxian bid farewell to himself regardless of his illness, Wang Ze was very moved and guilty in his heart, it was really a sin to let such an old man bid farewell to himself regardless of his body.
Until now, Wang Ze still remembers that at the court meeting the day before yesterday, Chen Baxian attached great importance to his feelings and dealt with many scholars and monasteries in Jiankang City.
Before dawn that day, the sleepy-eyed Wang Ze was shouted by Han Zi, who had come on purpose, and the sleepy Feng servant still wanted to be lazy and reluctant to get up; and last year, when Feng servant came to congratulate Chen Baxian on behalf of Mrs. Xian, he also participated in the court meeting, so he was not very interested in the court meeting.
However, as one of the main friendly forces that sent troops to help Southern Chen pacify Fujian and Zhejiang, how could the little guy Feng Fu dodge, plus Chen Ba first personally named Feng Fu to see Feng Fu, and was finally pulled and shouted by Wang Zeqiang.
This court meeting can be said to be a very important court meeting, because since Chen Baxian led the army to the Northern Expedition in the autumn of last year, there has been no court meeting, this is the first court meeting in Nanchen in more than half a year, and all officials above the seventh rank in Nanchen Jiankang City must participate.
In addition to the officials of Nam-Chen, envoys from Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Wa-koku, Lim-eup, Ni-nam and other countries who sent envoys to Nam-Chan also came to participate, which was also related to the majesty of Nam-Chan to the subject states.
The Great Dynasty Meeting was not a crowd of all people rushing together, but only provincial officials above the fifth rank were eligible to enter the main hall, and officials from other ministries had to wait outside the main hall to be summoned.
At first, Chen Baxian convened provincial officials to discuss the handling of the various matters that had been backlogged in Nanchen for several months, and Wang Ze and the others were called to the main hall because they were called early, so they and Feng Fu leaned behind the pillars on the side of the main hall, and watched Chen Baxian and others deal with various matters with some boredom.
Feng Servant's little guy may really feel sleepy, so he leaned on the pillars of the main hall and began to nap, Wang Ze watched Chen Baxian deal with various matters in an orderly manner, Wang Ze couldn't help but admire for a while, looking at the simplicity of what people do, but how many things do you have to go through to have today's skillful cooking of a great country.
After dealing with the affairs of Nan Chen, it was to reward the generals and sergeants who made meritorious contributions in the Northern Expedition, especially Hou Andu and Cheng Lingxi, who were still in the Northern Expedition, and Wu Mingche, who was competing with the Northern Qi for Runan.
And Han Zigao, who only led thousands of men and horses to pacify the prefectures and counties of Fujian and Zhejiang, was summoned to the front by Chen Baxian and praised him greatly, and named him the left general of the Central Protector Army, and the reward was extremely rich.
And Wang Ze and Feng Servant also expressed their gratitude as reinforcements Chen Baxian, Wang Ze didn't care, the key was that Feng Servant was 'excited' and blushing, thinking that Grandma should not treat me as a child again this time!
After dealing with these matters, it was finally the turn of the envoys of various countries to meet them, and these envoys really opened Wang Ze's eyes this time.
At first, Baekje, who had always regarded himself as the younger brother of the Southern Dynasty, was told by Jeongling and Deputy Envoy Mu Tan that they had complained to Chen Baxian about the oppression of Baekje by Goguryeo, the overlord of the East China Sea, and the new powerful Silla, hoping that the big brother of Baekje would lend a helping hand to the younger brother.
As soon as the Baekje envoy finished speaking, the Silla envoy Gongxian made a look of remorse and asked Chen Baxian for his guilt, telling that Silla had 'lost' the way to return and no longer pay tribute to the Northern Dynasty, and wanted Nam Chen to accept him as his younger brother, so that Baekje, another younger brother of Nam Chen, would no longer attack him with Goguryeo.
Of course, Gong Xian's research on Sinology is also rare among the Silla aristocracy, and many civil servants can't help but nod their heads frequently, but the subsequent envoys of the Japanese state can be said to have completely played the shameless tradition of the Japanese people, and they are almost rolling around in the court.
The Japanese envoy, who was only 1.2 meters tall, threw himself on the ground in front of Chen Baxian's Zhu Majesty, and cried to Chen Baxian with a handful of snot and tears about the atrocities of Wang Ze and his group in the past year, saying how miserable the Japanese people are now.
What to say before, the Wa Kingdom from the Eastern Jin Dynasty through the Song, Qi, and Liang generations all had tribute to the Southern Dynasty, and the Northern Dynasty did not share the sky, before because of the great disaster in the country, so there was no ability to pay tribute to the country or something.
The description is so miserable that even some pedantic civil officials of the Southern Dynasty are a little unbearable, but the generals of the Southern Dynasty are squeezing their eyebrows at each other one by one.
Chen Baxian, the younger brother of Baekje, who has always been good friends with the Southern Dynasty, was naturally appeased, but the Silla envoy Gongxian was a little disappointed.
Chen Baxian didn't even bother to pay attention to the Japanese state, a rogue country that was being attacked by Wang Ze, and directly ordered the 'attendants' guards in front of the palace to expel the Japanese envoys from the court in the name of being rude to the upper kingdom.
The Goguryeo envoy didn't have much thought, and after offering the gift of the Goguryeo king, he only stated the Goguryeo king's eagerness for the advanced culture of Nan Chen, hoping that Nan Chen would give the next batch of classics to take back.
Because Goguryeo now occupies the four Han counties in eastern Liaodong, Chen Baxian was a little unhappy, but because Goguryeo was able to form a great containment of the Northern Qi, Chen Baxian still satisfied the requests of the Goguryeo envoys one by one.
However, it was the Linyi State, a small country that split off in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the envoys it sent made Wang Ze very dumbfounded.
Today's Linyi State has occupied the entire Ninan County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, including the mouth of the Mekong River to the south, and its country is dominated by the Zhan people, and the Brahma 'Gate' religion originated from India is the state religion, plus it is located in the important sea lanes of the Southern Dynasties and Western countries, and the national strength has expanded a lot over the years.
The envoy of Linyi State proposed to Chen Baxian that Rinan County was a territory of Linyi State, and asked Chen Baxian to return Rinan County to Linyi State within three months and crown the King of Linyi as the King of Nanyue, otherwise King Linyi would personally lead an army of 100,000 to capture the city of Guangzhou.
The Ninan County in the mouth of the envoys of the Linyi State is not the same place as the Rinan County of the Han Dynasty occupied by the Linyi State, and the Rinan County of the Chen Dynasty is now called Jiuzhen County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is a place bordering the Linyi State and is also called Dezhou.
Seeing the arrogant appearance of the envoy of Lin Yiguo, Wang Ze sneered in his heart: "There are really people who are not afraid of death, the first thing Chen Ba wants to develop Lingnan is to worry about the labor and don't know where to 'get' people to come, and there are people here who go on the pole to send Chen Ba to be 'pumped' first." ’
Sure enough, Chen Baxian immediately took the opportunity to play, and showed a very angry appearance to imprison the envoys of the Linyi Kingdom, including all the members of the Linyi Kingdom Mission.
Immediately, Chen Ba first issued an order, ordering Ouyang Yu, who was the governor of the military of the states and counties in Lingnan, to lead the army to conquer the Linyi State, and the envoys of the Linyi State were waiting to be sacrificed as a flag sacrifice when the Linyi State was crusaded.
The envoys of the Ninan Kingdom, which was also a Nanyang country, were immediately taken aback by Chen Baxian's 'agitation' behavior, and the Nichinan Kingdom during this period was probably in the position of Cambodia and Thailand in later generations, which can be regarded as the current regional power in Nanyang, and its status is about the same as that of Goguryeo.
Originally, the envoys of the southern kingdom of Japan wanted to put forward the idea of increasing the tributary trade, but you must know that the tributary trade has always been a foreign envoy taking some worthless things in exchange for a large number of precious items such as silk and porcelain from the heavenly kingdom, and the profit is not more than a thousand times.
As a result, the envoys of the southern kingdom of Japan saw the tragic experience of the envoys of the Linyi Kingdom, and thought to themselves, shouldn't this Nanchen, as the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, treat foreign envoys well? Thinking in his heart, he still restrained his words and deeds a lot, and carefully expressed his request to expand commercial trade between the two countries.
In the end, when Chen Baxian was ready to deal with the scholars and monasteries who had plotted against Wang Ze a few days ago, the thing that stunned Wang Ze the most happened.
The major scholars in Jiankang City gathered dozens of top wealthy 'doors' inside and outside the city, and a large number of scholars flocked to the big Situ 'gate' outside the main 'gate' of the imperial city to write a book, with Chen Baxian recovering the two Huai's hometowns and hard work, asking Chen Baxian to ascend to the honorific title.
Is this a softening? I have really never seen such a shameless person, and if he is the cheapest, he is invincible, and Wang Ze has finally seen the world.
Chen Baxian did not deal with these scholars in a one-size-fits-all manner, and first commended the scholars who did not participate in the matter, and the scholars who participated in the matter were punished with fines ranging from confiscation of money, farmland, and assets.
However, the Yu family and the Xie family, who were most involved in this matter, have reached the eighth lifetime of bad luck, except for some side branches, the descendants have been exiled to Lingnan, which can be regarded as contributing to the four modernizations of the frontier, and it is estimated that they will not be able to come back in thirty or fifty years.
However, there is no absolute, and what surprises everyone is still to come, Wang Jun, Wang Hao and others of the Langya Wang clan have been greatly rewarded by Chen Baxian, and many people seem to understand something.
It seems that the ancients played Infernal Affairs much better than later generations, Wang Zexin guessed at that time.
The southeast wind blew suddenly, but there was no longer the biting of the winter cold wind, and the "waves", "flowers" and "whooshing" on the wide river slapped on the shore, and there were bursts of cheerful sounds on the warships.
The delicate wicker on the embankment is already full of tender green new leaves, and everything is growing strongly, just like the Chen Empire, which has grown rapidly on the ruins of Xiao Liang, is full of thin vitality, but the founder of this empire has clearly shown a bit of old age.
Speaking of history, Chen Baxian seems to be dying this summer, and now it is the twilight 'spring' season, I am afraid that he will never have the opportunity to see each other again from now on, thinking that this old man has taken care of himself since they met, Wang Ze couldn't help but feel sad.
He raised the send-off wine handed over by Chen Baxian with both hands, and said loudly: "Ze's Jiangnan party is deeply entertained by His Majesty, and this trip has nothing to repay, only a song is presented, and His Majesty is congratulated on recovering the orthodox foundation of the Southern Dynasty!" ”
In the complex eyes of Chen Baxian, Chen Qian, and many civil and military officials of the Southern Dynasties, such as expectation, curiosity, or disdain, Wang Ze sang loudly:
"The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, the 'waves' and 'flowers' are all heroes, the success or failure of right and wrong is empty, and the green mountains are still ······red in the sunset several times." Although Wang Ze is young, with Wang Yong's loud voice, he sings with a certain momentum, which makes people feel different.
After singing the song, Chen Baxian listened with tears in his eyes, and he raised the wine bottle in his hand and said to Wang Ze: "Sing well, since ancient times, there have been many people who have become kings and defeated people, what can you do if Huainan is recovered?" Once the social system cannot be guaranteed, it will be wiped out.
But today, with Da Lang's famous lyrics and songs, everyone such as me can also be famous and passed down through the ages, although I have no regrets when I die! Come on, you and I have a glass of wine! Saying that, Chen Baxian drank it all in a big gulp.
Watching Wang Ze's fleet go away, Chen Qian was also quite touched, Wang Ze came to Jiankang City in just a few days, which caused changes in various places, as if a lot of time had passed, and even the situation of the Southern Dynasties was new, and the development strategic goals in the future were no longer as 'confused' as before.
Chen Ba first looked at Chen Qian and said: "Tan Qian, I feel that the 'spirit' is getting worse and worse in the past two days, I'm afraid the time limit is coming, Da Lang will be your good arm in the future, now that my Chen family and him have established a good relationship, you must get along with him well in the future!" ”
Chen Qian nodded respectfully and said yes, the uncle and nephew showed the appearance of uncle and nephew, and those who didn't know thought that this was their biological father and son.
There is a sentence that Chen Baxian did not say, since ancient times, it is even more difficult for the south to unify the north, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty Liu Yu has not been able to restore the Central Plains so eloquently, how difficult it is for Southern Chen to do this, but 'handed' Wang Ze and others in case things change in the future, Chen can also have one more way to retreat.
However, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the uncle and nephew seem to have ignored Chen Baxian's biological son Chen Chang, who is still detained in Chang'an by the Northern Zhou Dynasty.