Ten years after the establishment of Nanchen, Jiankang City has greatly recovered its former prosperity, especially with Chen Qian's large-scale development of Lingnan, Xiangshui and Ganshui basins, the rich products of these places have gathered with Jiankang City, coupled with the frequent maritime trade between Nanchen and the East China Sea and Nanyang countries, it is to make Jiankang prosperous.

In the past, whether it was on the river or on the roads around the city, there was a bustling flow of people rushing to Jiankang City, with a large number of goods, grains, vegetables and fruits being transported to this huge city every day.

But now the situation in Jiankang has changed, not only the people who poured into Jiankang City in the past are gone, but a large number of people continue to escape from Jiankang City, because they have been hearing that Donghai and Dachen have turned against each other for a long time.

At first, these people only sighed about the friendship between the two countries at the beginning, and there were a large number of exquisite goods from the East China Sea, but soon they kept hearing that the Xia army had conquered Nan'an County, Jian'an County, and Linhai County along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and that Huiji County had been conquered some time ago.

At this time, the people of Jiankang City were a little unable to sit still, and some of the more clever people had begun to evacuate, after all, it was not particularly far from Huiji County to Jiankang, and at this time, some people liked to take the opportunity to smear the Xia Kingdom of the East China Sea and began to spread rumors.

In particular, since ancient times, Chinese people have liked to sell inside information, especially some so-called well-informed people who have mastered specious news, and these people constantly talk to their relatives and friends about the so-called top-secret news, what Xia army slaughtered the city in Jian'an County, what Xia army, a general of the water army, likes to eat children's hearts and livers the most in his life, and so on!

If Sun Xing, who was leading the main army at that time, heard this sentence, he would be angry to death, wouldn't he just like to eat a sashimi or something? Why did you like to eat raw children's hearts and liver? I have to admire the rumor-mongering methods of these people.

However, there has always been no shortage of brainless people in China, the IQ of these people has always been very refreshing, and they are also the main force to entertain the public, so the people in Jiankang City panicked all of a sudden, especially when the Hou Jingzhi Rebellion has not been many years ago, the original pain can stimulate the hearts of the people of Jiankang.

Hou Jing's rebellion has only been put down for fifteen or sixteen years, some middle-aged people in Jiankang City still remember the tragic scene at the beginning, the prosperous Jiankang City in the Xiao Liang period has become a bone-covered hell after the Hou Jing Rebellion, and even Taicheng, with a population of more than 100,000, was slaughtered after the fall.

In particular, some of Hou Jing's troops took pleasure in killing people, and they were not just revenge for hatred, as long as they saw people, they would rush up and torture and kill them, at first they killed the eunuchs, then they killed the wealthy families, and then they began to kill the rich, and finally even the ordinary people did not let go.

Therefore, after hearing these rumors, many ordinary people in Jiankang City, and even in the surrounding counties, fled to the west and south of Jiankang City in a panic, so that even the people of the surrounding counties began to join this fleeing ranks.

I don't know when it started, but suddenly some people heard the news that Mrs. Feng Fuxian in Lingnan had a friendly relationship with Wang Ze, and if she fled there, she would be safe and sound.

"Bang" a fine porcelain made in Wuxing County was smashed like this, Chen Ji was angry, when he hit Wang Ze Yizhou's idea, but he didn't expect that in case of failure, Wang Ze would also retaliate.

What he never expected was that even Wang Ze's army had not yet come to Jiankang City, and the people of Nanchen here had already panicked, and without any enemy approaching, these people fled to the surrounding counties one after another, which caused even greater panic.

Chen Ji did not send troops to stop it, but at this time, in addition to the imperial city and Taicheng, Jiankang City did not have an outer city wall at all, and the outer city was surrounded by just a fence wall made of branches and bamboo.

These people can open a big hole in any of the outer fence walls at any time to escape, not to mention that the scope of the outer fence is very vast now, and the surrounding terrain is very complicated, plus Chen Ji sent a large number of troops to Jingkou and Jiangyin County to defend against the arrival of the Xia army in the East China Sea, where are there so many troops to block the escape of the people?

In this way, represented by the big families of the scholars in Jiankang City in Nanchen, nearly half of the people in Jiankang City fled in just ten days, and some of the other people were reluctant to accept the family business that had been accumulated in the city, and some of them were hundreds of officials and big households in Taicheng, and they felt that Taicheng was not as safe as fleeing.

But no matter what, this time Nan Chen's face is really lost, think about it, people's troops are at least hundreds of miles away from your national capital, and you yourself are starting to mess up here, so it is clear that Nan Chen's people do not trust the strength of their country's army.

"Your Majesty is angry!" Du Liang, the general of Nan Chen, who was responsible for protecting the security of Taicheng, comforted, "Now that Wu Mingche is stationed in Jingkou and Jiangyin, the Xia army will definitely not be able to break through the defense line!" ”

Hearing Du Ling's comfort, Chen Ji barely recovered his mood, and then he sighed: "Although Wu Mingche's combat ability is also good, but the ships in his hands are too few after all, I don't know if the naval army in Huangcheng and other places has arrived?" "Read the book

Du Ling hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, at present, the navy of Yangzhou has arrived under the command of the governor of Wu Dadu to obey the order, the navy of Beijiang Prefecture has been replenished in Stone City this morning, and it has already gone down the river just now, after all, the navy of Huangcheng is a little far away, and it will not be able to reach the vicinity of Jiankang until tomorrow!" ”

Hearing Du Ling's words, Chen Ji's heart was a little more confident, at present, it seems that although the navy of Huancheng has not yet arrived, but the navy in Wu Mingche's hands originally had dozens of warships, so plus the navy in Yangzhou, Jiangzhou and Beijiangzhou, at least it can make the Xia army jealous.

However, Chen Ji felt that this was still a little insufficient, so he was still a little dissatisfied: "I heard that the Xia army has a weapon in his hand, called the thunderbolt, which is very powerful, our ships are not as good as theirs after all, let Wu Mingche continue to increase the number of arson boats, once the Xia army enters the river, we will not believe that we will burn their ships if we send thousands of ships together!" ”

Thinking of this, Chen Ji said viciously: "This time I avenged the humiliation of General Chunyu's defeated army, and also avenged my revenge for being bullied by that Donghai child!" Until now, Chen Ji is still unforgettable about the time when Wang Ze beat him hard.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty," a Wenchen hurriedly walked in, according to the fact that he could enter the main hall without a notification, he knew that he was a minister who was very trusted by Chen Xu, this Wenchen said, "Your Majesty, there is the abbot of Duhuisheng, the great monk of Jingyi, and the heads of the Xie family and the Langya Wang family, asking to see him, saying that there is something important!" ”

Chen Ji glanced at this Wenchen and said: "Since these people have found Xu Shangshu, there must be something important to come, and they will also invite all the monks of Huisheng together, it should also be a very important thing, please ask Xu Shangshu to call them in!" ”

It turned out that this Wenchen was Chen Ji's Shangshu servant Xu Ling, although he didn't support Chen Ji's attack on Yizhou at first, but after things came to this point, he still actively did everything to support the vicious battle with the Xia army as much as possible.

This is not appropriate for him to hear that many of the families of the scholar clan of Nan Chen and the great monk of Jiankang City, Du Huisheng, have come to him, saying that they can help Chen Jun break the enemy, so he asked to see Chen Ji, so he said that Xu Ling came to find Chen Ji.

"Your Majesty's discerning eyes have discovered the wolf ambition of the East China Sea Shaft as soon as possible, otherwise there will inevitably be greater hidden dangers in the future!" Xie Hong, the head of the Xie family, began to slap Chen Ji's ass when his ass was not yet stable.

For the Xie family and Huisheng, who have a personal vendetta against Wang Ze, these people were strongly suppressed by Chen Baxian when Wang Ze first came to Nanchen, and now after nearly ten years of dormancy, they have finally waited for this day.

As early as when Chen Ji had just returned to Jiankang from the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he entered the vision of the Futu Sect and those noble clans, compared to Chen Baxian, who was eloquent and strategic, and Chen Qian, who had a deeper understanding of the Futu Sect, Chen Ji's relative short-sightedness and devotion to the Futu Sect were what they needed very much.

Although the two generations of emperors Chen Baxian and Chen Qian suppressed the scholar class and the Futu sect one after another, these two forces in Nanchen are the kind of deep-rooted old strength after all, even after ten years of dormancy, these two old forces are still not comparable to other emerging forces.

For the Xie clan, which was suppressed in the past, the war between Nanchen and Donghai was naturally a good thing, so that they, who had been suppressed in the past because of Wang Ze, could turn over, and they could take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of huge profits.

"Good, good, good," Huisheng monks also folded their hands, "Although the war between the laymen and the Xia people may lead to the death and injury of our soldiers, it will also stop another big killing, and it can be regarded as a great merit!" My Buddha is compassionate and can't bear the slaughter of sentient beings, that's why there are such compassionate people as laymen! ”

Regarding the approach of Wang Ze's army, the Futu Sect even paid more attention to it than Chen Ji, because the Futu Sect also knew that Chen Qian's eldest son, Chen Bozong, was in the East China Sea, and Han Zigao, a general with great influence in the Chen army, was also in the East China Sea.

Once the Xia army attacked, Han Zigao took Chen Bozong to return to the capital of Jiankang safely, and it was very likely that Chen Ji would be expelled, so that the turning point that the Futu Sect had endured for many years would be ruined, which the Futu Sect did not want to see.

Chen Ji has believed in the Futu sect since he was a child, and he has great respect for Huisheng, the so-called great monks, so after hearing Huisheng's words, it was like drinking a sip of honey, and he completely forgot how many homeless people were forced to die every year in Huisheng's Great Jingai Temple because of urging rent.

For the behavior of these monks, Xie Hong, the head of the scholar clan, also knows, but what does this have to do with them, in the eyes of these scholar family heads, those homeless people are just ordinary tools, even if there are hundreds of thousands of dead and injured, it doesn't matter about their affairs.

"I don't know what happened to Master Huisheng and the family masters now?" After greeting these people for a while, Chen Ji finally couldn't help but ask, now that there are so many things, who has so much effort to chat idle?