The reason why Hou Jing was able to enter Shouyang City was because of the suggestion of Liu Shenmao, the lord of Huainan Matou. And Liu Shenmao took the initiative to attract Hou Jing, the general of the defeated army, to enter the country, because of the personal contradiction between him and Wei Yan, who was in charge of the state affairs at the time.

Although Wei Yanqi is a mediocre talent, he was born in the famous Jingzhao Wei family, has an arrogant and straightforward temperament, and is harsh to his subordinates. So much so that Liu Shenmao, a general, would rather lure Hou Jing into the country than succumb to it.

There is more than one similar personnel contradiction in this Huainan territory. There is also the governor Shi Xiahou appointed by Hou Jing, and there is also a deep grudge between him and Xiao Yuanming, the former assassin Shi Zhenyang. If it weren't for Xiao Yuanming as the commander of the Northern Expedition and being defeated and captured by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, I am afraid that they would not be compatible with each other.

There are so many personnel grievances here, of course, not because the people here are bad-tempered, but because there are quite profound reasons.

Since the Wuhu Rebellion and the southern crossing of the country, the Huainan region has often been the center of the war between the northern and southern regimes because of its geographical location. In the last years of the Southern Qi Dynasty, Xiao Baojuan, the Marquis of Dongdu, was suspicious and brutalized the ministers, and Pei Shuye, who was guarding Shouyang in Huainan at that time, surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty.

A few years after the establishment of the Southern Liang, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, led a large army to the north with his younger brother Xiao Hong, the king of Linchuan, with the intention of recovering the lost territory in Huainan. As a result, Xiao Hong was defeated in the battle of Luokou and fled back, not only failed to recover the lost territory, but attracted the retaliatory attack of the Northern Wei army, fortunately Wei Rui and other generals defeated the Northern Wei in Zhongli.

However, the loss of Shouyang made the entire Huainan region unstable, and a few years later, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang Wu decided to build a Fushan weir in the hope of flooding Shouyang in order to recapture this strategic location.

It was not until the outbreak of the mutiny in the six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty that the Southern Liang recaptured the important town of Shouyang after several years of hard work by the famous generals Pei Di and Xiahou Kang. At the same time, Emperor Wu of Liang served as the assassin of Yuzhou to guard Shouyang, and a few years after Xiahou Kang's death, he used his younger brother Xiahou Kui to guard Shouyang, and the two brothers guarded Shouyang for nearly ten years.

When Xiahou Kui was in the state, his family had as many as 10,000 people and more than 2,000 horses, which deterred Huainan for a time and was prosperous at that time.

Since Pei Shuye's northward investment, Nanliang has paid a painful price in order to recover Shouyang, an important town in Huainan, of course, not to let a family grow itself according to this Xiongcheng.

In particular, Pei Shuye Beitou had written to ask Xiao Yan, who was the assassin of Yongzhou and was sitting in Xiangyang, Xiao Yan did not stop persuading, which also made him deeply feel the willfulness and recklessness of the Fang Bohao sects in these places, so he did not want to put the border town governor in the hands of the powerful general.

Therefore, after Xiahou Kui died and the situation in Huainan gradually stabilized, Xiao Yan no longer regarded his clan as the head of the state, but instead entrusted the state affairs to the clan. Therefore, after Xiao Yuanming left office, he appointed Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang, as the assassin of Nanyu Prefecture into Shouyang, but was preempted by Hou Jing.

In addition to Shouyang, today's Huainan Xiaoliang clan has Poyang Wang Xiao Fan to Hezhou Thorn History Shou Hefei, Nankang Wang Xiao Huili to the south of Yanzhou Thorn Shi Shou Guangling, Fengshan Hou Xiao Zhengbiao north of Xuzhou Thorn Shi Shou Zhongli, and Nanqiao Prefecture Thorn Shi Fengcheng Hou Xiao Tai, etc., Jiangbei Huainan Dayi famous city almost fell into the hands of outsiders.

The governor of the prefecture, Shi Xiahou Xuan, is the son of the former Yuzhou assassin Shi Xiahou Kui, and after his father's death, he led his troops to live in the township and served as the state assistant defense.

When Xiao Yuanming, Marquis of Zhenyang, entered the town of Shouyang, he was also led to serve as a long history because of his strong clan. However, there is a great conflict of power and interest between the clan entering the town and these local heroes, so Xiao Yuanming and Xiahou have a lot of grievances and have not been in harmony for a long time.

These Xiao family clans are located in different places, and their military and political talents may not be enough, but when it comes to greedy and violent accumulation, they are all very creative ideas. It's not that their bloodlines are mediocre, their family education is despicable, and they have no morality at all, but because of the social atmosphere of the upper class of the Southern Dynasties.

The Southern Dynasty was exaggerated and profligate, and the upper-class people loved extravagance and pleasure, and the intensity of desire did not converge in the slightest because of the Buddha and Xuan.

Therefore, even if an official accumulates hundreds of millions of bribes when he is in office, once he leaves office, he may not be able to be a dog and horse for several years. When the money is spent, it is not as convenient as when he was in power, so it is also the consensus of Nanliang officialdom to make money while he still has power in his hands and plays with his life.

The atmosphere of officialdom is like this, and the atmosphere of the royal clan is doubled. Therefore, these clans in the town and locality, often also change their ways to make money, for the real one

On the contrary, the military and political affairs are not very concerned. No matter how much corruption the old Bodhisattva has, he will not blame it, but if he really wants to do a career, he may be trapped in the same way as Xiao Yuanming, the Marquis of Zhenyang.

Being too harsh on the local powerful forces in the border towns and being too indulgent to the descendants of the clan who are not successful will make the local forces deviate from morality, and the clan magnates will become more and more arrogant and lawless. Of course, there are also local heroes and powerful people who collude with the clan in the town and are embarrassed to work as women, which makes the people in the territory miserable.

This is the truth of the so-called Southern Liang Taiping World Dao governed by the old Bodhisattva for half his life, whether it is the clan nobles or civil and military officials, they all only value their own selfish interests and indulge their own selfish desires, and no one is responsible for the country anymore, except for the toiling masses who are pressed at the bottom by the heavy mountains.

As long as they don't have their blood drained for a day, they are not relieved of the obligation to feed these moths! Now, of course, there is a group of wolf-like, cruel and tyrannical speculator careerists.

Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe, gave Hou Jing and his subordinates great encouragement in his enthusiastic reply, and after Hou Jing found out that the Liang lord had planned to betray him, although he had already decided to rise up and resist, he would not sit idly by, and began to actively raise and form a new force.

But he still doesn't have a clear idea of how to start his new career again in this Nanliang country, and now Xiao Zhengde's response undoubtedly pointed out a direction and provided him with a choice.

As one of the people who suggested that Hou Jing contact Xiao Zhengde, Xiahou Yan was particularly excited, and at this moment he stood up from the banquet and danced into the wine and said, "Nephew congratulates the king! The great king's wisdom and scheming are unparalleled, the people of the state are inspired to serve, and none of the soldiers have expensive money and food.

Xiahou was exploited and oppressed by Xiao Yuanming when he was in office in the old days, and now he is attached to Hou Jing and entrusted with state affairs, and he is also grateful in his heart, and he directly surnames the word province and calls himself the son of Hou Jing.

After Hou Jing heard this, he also smiled and took the wine and drank it all, and said in a deep voice: "There is a breakthrough in things, and happiness should be happy, but if you are happy, you still have to wait until the big thing is overcome. Changshi has recently been diligent in my military registration and materials, and I am on call at any time, so don't slack off!"

After hearing this, Xiahou received the order, and at the same time said curiously: "Now that I have to reply to King Linhe, do we still need to wait?"

Without waiting for Hou Jing to answer, his henchman Wang Wei said at the table: "Since it is the trend of the times, it is not possible to change it overnight. Today, the armor is not enough, the grain is not abundant, and it is still too hasty to make rash moves. The grain harvest in the middle of the year will give the army a long meal, and it will not be too late to use it again!"

Liu Shenmao, the former master of the horse head and the one who lured Hou Jing into Shouyang, heard that he would delay raising troops until the middle of the year, so he couldn't help frowning and said, "Since you are planning a dangerous matter, you should act quickly and take it by surprise. There is no perfect reason, and if it doesn't happen early, I'm afraid it will be controlled by others."

"The king has not ruled the state with Liang for several months, and Liang has not acted as the mastermind, so he naturally has his scruples. The king raised the crowd to vote, and did not lose the righteousness of the Liang Lord, if the Liang Lord rashly added to the killing, it was to make fun of the world! What's more, even if you send disciples to attack, who do you want to make? Hefei's anti-anger has not disappeared, and the Yiyang army is frustrated and courageous......

Wang Wei, as one of the most important strategists under Hou Jing, assisted Zuo Qi to sit in Henan for many years, and his vision is naturally broader than that of these powerful military leaders trapped in Shouyang.

Although Lord Liang is old and faint, he especially values his reputation, and the defeat in the first battle of Hanshan has buried half of his life's wisdom, and he is afraid that it will be unbearable for his reputation to be flawed again in a short time.

Although the anxious peace talks with the Eastern Wei Dynasty exposed his inward-looking nature, if he completely gave up Hou Jing, it still made him hesitate.

Because this is tantamount to completely admitting the failure of his previous series of decisions, especially making people feel that he is backsliding and capricious, so adopting a tolerant and conniving attitude towards Hou Jing does not mean that he wants to pursue Zheng Boke Duan Yuyan.

And even if Lord Liang wants to recapture Shouyang and sanction Hou Jing, there may not be an army in the current Huainan region that can do it.

Yang Yaren gave up the important town of Hanging Gourd and fled south, retreated to Yiyang, Lord Liang was dissatisfied with it, and attacked Hou Jing, isn't he worried that Yang Yaren will abandon Shouyang or learn from Pei Shuye back then?

As for Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang in Hefei, he is a clan in his own right

The guy who was exposed in the backbone, and because of this, he lost the position of commander of the Northern Expedition and was replaced by Xiao Yuanming, Marquis of Zhenyang. Making it attack Hou Jing is probably a bit of a wolf in the eyes of Lord Liang, and it may not be able to do it.

Relying on the Huainan tribes alone, almost none of them are suitable and capable of attacking Shouyang. But if you gather all the men and horses to attack, you need another justifiable reason. At least in order to make peace with the Eastern Wei Dynasty and exchange for Xiao Yuanming, a prisoner, he ordered all the armies to gather and attack Hou Jing, which was a bit unreasonable in the eyes of the old Bodhisattva.

Therefore, as long as they don't raise troops with chariots and horses and banners, or the Fangzhen forces that can reassure Lord Liang take the initiative to ask Ying to attack Hou Jing, Shouyang will be safe for the time being.

After some deliberation and decision, he still stood still and continued to accumulate strength, Hou Jing ordered everyone to go their own way, but he still left his henchmen Wang Wei, Song Zixian and others to continue to discuss the plan.

"This time I came to the south, everyone saw that I was exhausted, my natural ambition was short, and I wanted to command willfully. The people of Huainan came with me, and they just wanted to drive me to use my life to earn wealth for them. I am afraid that there will be no one to rely on except me, and there is no need to worry about dissipating for a while, and they can continue to exploit personnel for their purposes."

Speaking of this, Hou Jing said: "Xiao Zhengde enjoys all the glory in his country, and he is still dissatisfied with the current support, which shows that there must be more people in his country who have grievances. Yang Yaren retreated to Yiyang, and so far the soldiers have been on the Huai, and they dare not forget it, and they will be afraid to come. If you can attract people to work together, you will be able to advance and retreat more calmly!"

Even Xiao Zhengde, a close relative of the clan, was bewitched and co-opted, and Hou Jing was also full of confidence for a while, and then hit the idea on Yang Yaren. If you can win this veteran into the matter, you will not only lose a tricky enemy, but also strengthen your own strength, which can be described as a double win.

After having this thought, Hou Jing no longer wasted time, and even sent someone to contact Yang Yaren.

At the same time, he did not relax for a moment in the rearmament war in Shouyang. The residents of Shouyang City did their best to become an army, and Ding Zhuang was selected to give them sword soldiers and practice diligently. At the same time, the Dongye craftsmen who came from Jiankang City were also ordered to work day and night, casting and forging armor soldiers for military use.

The effect of reducing the rent of the city and the land is getting bigger and bigger, and even the merchants of the surrounding states and counties are attracted to it. The market was flooded with more goods, and many of these merchants were grateful to Hou Jing, and there was no shortage of wealthy merchants who directly funded money and grain to help him increase his momentum.

In addition to the abundant wealth, some of these gathered businessmen are also powerful in the countryside, because they are not oppressed by the Jiankang court, they have no way to enter and it is difficult to keep their jobs, and they finally meet Hou Jing, a heroic and tolerant person, and they are naturally eager to follow their lives.

The momentum of Shouyang is getting bigger and bigger, and it has even far exceeded the battle required for the whole army to defend Huai, which naturally aroused the vigilance of the surrounding garrison forces.

Among them, Xiao Fan, the king of Poyang, who guarded Hefei, was the most vigilant, and sent several scouts to the north to peep, and at the same time frequently reported to the imperial court. After all, once Hou Jing made a mess, the first thing to bear the brunt of was Hefei south of Shouyang.

However, Xiao Fan had a bad reputation with Emperor Liang, and now he looks extremely positive and worried about the country and the people, which is also quite suspicious in the eyes of Emperor Liang, so he does not pay attention to his progress.

Yang Yaren was beyond Hou Jing's expectations, he originally thought that this southerner should be more dissatisfied with the imperial court, and it must be easier to fan the countermeasures. But he didn't want Yang Yaren to send the envoy he sent directly to the Jiankang Imperial Court, which naturally made Hou Jing feel weak.

But then something that Hou Jing didn't expect happened again, his envoy was sent back to Shouyang by Emperor Liang, and he didn't blame him, which made Hou Jing naturally overjoyed while breathing a sigh of relief.

In most of his life, he rarely had any understanding of magnanimity and benevolence, and he only felt that since Emperor Liang indulged himself so much, it must be because of his own trouble. At this time, if you don't ask for a sky-high price, then what are you waiting for!

So next, he naturally seized the opportunity to frequently ask the Jiankang court for gifts, and his words became more and more presumptuous, and the Jiankang court also responded to his needs, and was obedient to the extent that Hou Jingdu felt a little embarrassed.

But in this way, there is no lack of negative effects, the envoys from Jiankang are on the way, and the personnel situation in Shouyang

Perhaps these emissaries themselves are undertaking a similar task.

And his frequent interaction with the Jiankang Imperial Court also made his allies such as Xiao Zhengde, the king of Linhe, a little unable to sit still, obviously everyone made an agreement to achieve each other, why are you still frowning with that old thing!

Finally, Hou Jing was high-spirited and was not easily disintegrated by the sugar-coated cannonballs of the old Bodhisattva, and as the personnel of Shouyang had gathered to reach an extreme, he finally took action after the new rice entered the warehouse in August, and raised troops in the name of killing Zhu Yi and others, the leader of the army.

The reason why he started the army with this was, of course, to listen to the opinions of the Huainan masses who had taken refuge in him. Hou Jing and these people have no grievances, and even except for Zhu Yi, they don't know each other very well, let alone hatred. However, these members were in charge of commerce, trade, and handicrafts, and they were the representatives of the imperial court to exploit and plunder the financial resources of the people of Huainan, and naturally they were deeply hated by the people of Huainan. Now that the army is raised according to Shouyang, of course, it is our responsibility to kill these people.

After raising the army, Hou Jing did not go straight to the river, but divided his troops with Song Zixian to pull out the wooden fences and horse heads on both sides of Shouyang, stabilizing the rear and testing whether the army's heart was available.

Emperor Liang also seemed to have been prepared for this, and when he heard that Hou Jing had raised troops, he appointed the governor of the four provinces of Huainan in an orderly manner, and used his son Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, to go north from Jingkou and supervise the troops to fight against Hou Jing.