Chapter 5: Smoke Locks Jiangnan (Part I)
A river of smoke and water shines on the sunny land, people on both sides of the strait connect the eaves, and the lotus bush is light in autumn. Watch the sand gulls dance again and again, and roll the incense wind ten miles of bead curtains.
Jiangnan has been rich since ancient times, although the current Central Plains is in full swing, years of war, the soldiers pointed out, the people are tired, it can be said that the whole world is in misery, and the people are living in dire straits.
However, the king of Mu who controlled the nine counties in Jiangnan can be called a virtuous king, although he is a good man in Jiangnan Province, all the local officials and military generals are appointed by his Zhu Bi personally, and he has many advisers and a wide range of soldiers. The most famous celebrities in the world are the two of them, Xun Feiyu who came out of the land of Yanzhao in the north and Yan Zhen, a local celebrity in the south of the Yangtze River, are said to have the ability to govern the country and the country, and they are talented in the heavens and the earth! And these two people happen to be the right-hand men of the king of Mu! The 200,000 heavily armored guard kings and the 300,000 armor-breaking soldiers and the Dingbo sailor are even more prestigious! The military generals are also famous generals, because from the first generation of the shepherd began to attach great importance to the study of the nine counties, a large amount of snowflake silver is extremely willing to invest, there is a literary academy, the martial arts academy, every year can cultivate a lot of practical talents, in the efforts of the shepherd for several generations, Jiangnan Province has developed a rigorous and diligent study atmosphere. In addition, the nine counties were originally the main granary of the Fengtian Kingdom and the core of economic trade, the treasury was full, the ancestor of the Muwang was the third brother of the first generation of the Fengtian Kingdom King Li Dingjiang, when the Li family Xingbing overthrew the rule of the Central Plains for more than 300 years after the defense of the country to the Fulong ministers were rewarded, and the most important economic lifeline was handed over to their third brother Li Dingyuan, giving the name: Mu, take the meaning of the Mubian Kyushu.
But he did not covet the dragon chair like other princes, and he always treated the emperor who sat on the dragon chair in the temple! Every time he met him, he was the first to be the first to be the courtesy, and the latter to the younger generation. Luoyang has been besieged several times because the king of Mu sent troops to the king of Qin, otherwise Dafeng would have died a long time ago, where is there still this delicate balance situation of besieging but not attacking and not listening to the tune.
Although Jiangnan Province secretly had a very high call for King Mu to be the emperor, including some advisers and generals who had followed King Mu for many years, King Mu was unmoved, and he continued to punish the generals and scholars who had such remarks and tendencies! In private, he repeatedly warned those subordinates who wanted to be ministers of Fulong to let them keep to themselves, so there has always been a saying among the people: The king of Mu will not fall, and Fengtian will not be destroyed!
Although the princes of all walks of life in the Central Plains were afraid of the talents and elite soldiers of the king of Mu, everyone knew that even if the imperial court of Luoyang was destroyed, how could Jiangnan Dao, which could not control the world's money and grain, be regarded as a great unification? How could the chair carved with nine yellow dragons be stable? Therefore, the attraction and infiltration of Jiangnan Province has not stopped, but there is a trend of intensification, the longer the balance lasts, the more obvious the importance of the shepherd, the most terrible thing is that the mediocre emperor is also more and more alienated and wary of the shepherd under various schemes.
In addition to the imperial power in Jiangnan, there is another huge force that cannot be ignored, that is by thousands of years of inheritance and accumulation of the family, although the first Muwang has been focusing on downplaying this phenomenon after mastering Jiangnan Province, during the period of pulling and suppressing and cleaning all kinds of methods, but the hundred-legged insects are not stiff to death, with little effect, far from reaching the kind of expectations that the temple wants, until the current Muwang is in power at the age of nineteen, for more than 20 years, he has been from the temple, merchants, scholars, The four aspects of the rivers and lakes are multi-pronged, mainly to control the economy, supplemented by the wide open road, and reward and promote some of the young talents who were born in the poor, so that they can take root in Jiangnan, and have achieved excellent results, the current Jiangnan Province can basically be said to be one heart, one loss and one glory, the main nine counties and eight inheritance families in such an environment but the strength of each family is stronger, the original expected blow did not appear, but there are also a lot of constraints, but on the whole both sides are winners, there is no more suitable result than this.
Beijiang County is located in the northwest corner of the entire Jiangnan Province, is the weakest one of the nine counties in the south of the Yangtze River, both in terms of territory and overall strength, of course, this weakness is only limited to the remaining eight counties, and Beijiang County and the other road is competing for the prince Song Wang controlled by the Sanhe County junction, since ancient times it is a place where soldiers must fight, the location is very important for the entire Jiangnan Province, master the Beijiang River, enter can directly take the Sunan County where the Muwangfu is located, and retreat can take the Sanhe County to the northwest 100,000 mountains, advance and retreat.
Therefore, Beijiang County is the one with the most garrisons among the nine counties, 80,000 of the 300,000 armor-breaking foot soldiers are stationed here, and 30,000 of the 200,000 heavy armor guards are stationed in Gu County, which is across the river from Sanhe County.
The county lord's mansion is located in the center of the northern city, and the area is not particularly large, and it is not as arrogant and lascivious as rumored by the outside world. Night and night, besides, Li Xiubai himself is not a luxury person, with his status and status, what kind of enjoyment he needs is easy, he just inherited the fine tradition of his father's diligence and thrift, treat people kindly, dress plainly, if you are lucky enough to be a guest of the county lord's mansion and have been entertained by Li Xiubai, then you really understand what is the real light meal, it will always be a meat and a vegetable, and the meat may be any one of the chickens, ducks, fish, cattle, sheep and horses, but there is really only one kind of meat! Vegetarian dishes also change according to the seasonal seasons, and most often they are made by a plate of yam eggs shredded and fried with green peppers.
The entire county lord's mansion added up the old couple who were responsible for cleaning the courtyard, and the porter Uncle Tang was eighteen people, although the county lord's mansion was not big, it was only relative, so the entire county lord's mansion was a little deserted, it was not that no one suggested to Li Xiubai to take a concubine, and after the concubine, plus the maid and the servant, it would naturally become lively.
With his status, status and appearance, he wants to take a concubine, and it is estimated that the aunt of the matchmaker and the ladies who stretch their necks and want to marry in will have to queue up for a long time. After all, aside from his father's identity, the name of the third son of Beijiang in the rivers and lakes is also very loud.
But he refused, he and the county lord's wife met in the rivers and lakes, at that time he had not officially served as the county guard of Beijiang, he simply just wanted to go to the end of the world with a sword and see what was interesting and worth playing in this world.
At that time, in order to marry her, he only had to go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire, fortunately, Li Xiubai's own martial arts cultivation was good, and the Chengtian Sword and Huanglong Duel of the Li family were also particularly high-ranking martial arts in the rivers and lakes, of course, the name of this set of internal skills and swordsmanship before the Li family entered the Central Plains was definitely not so arrogant.
The reason why Sanhe County is called Sanhe County is because there are two big rivers and one big river flowing through the jurisdiction, and the prosperous waterway traffic has brought vitality, and all the various livelihoods in the river belong to the Sanjiang League, and the Sanjiang League belongs to the girl's father, he is such a pearl in the palm of his hand, and he is deeply loved, in the words of Murong Chuan, Li Xiubai's father-in-law: If you want to harm my daughter, I will harm you first! So that you will no longer have the capital and hardware to harm other girls in the future, this is called eliminating harm for the people!
Because he did not indicate his identity as the son of the shepherd, even if he showed that it was definitely used, it was difficult to say how useful Murong Chuan, the leader of the Sanjiang League, felt that it was, but it was definitely not comparable to his daughter Murong Xiaoxiao.
Li Xiubai felt that two people should not be mixed with too many other things when they fell in love, so he just took two scholars to go through five levels and kill six generals, and finally obtained the consent of the woman's family, and made a lifelong life with Murong Xiaoxiao, but the marriage was denied by his stubborn mother, her point of view is very important and very simple: you are the son of the prince, and you must be the right person to marry a wife!
That was Li Xiubai's most unbearable period of time, after the first time he stood on the opposite side of his mother, he was first grounded, then beaten, yes, he was beaten, although the princess's martial arts were not ranked in the top ten in the palace, but the top fifteen was definitely there, and she still felt that it was a very unsightly thing for her to be a lady and do it herself, which would damage her dignified image! So Li Xiubai found that the top three masters of the palace who were not on par with him were all bullshit, and he was beaten by his mother and had no power to fight back at all, not because he was in the way, but because he was indeed not an opponent!
His mother is very powerful, so powerful that the Shepherd is afraid of her, the Shepherd has two side concubines, but they may not be able to see each other a few times a year, and of course the outside world has no way to know these things.
In the matter of marrying Murong Xiaoxiao, King Mu is very supportive of his son, feeling that when his son is older, he does have the right to decide who is next to him, and he is already a prince, and he does not need his son to rely on the status of his daughter-in-law's family, so his son's liking is the most important. What if the right thing is a Hedong lion's roar?
When King Mu said the words "Hedong Lion's Roar", Li Xiubai obviously felt that the air in the room seemed to freeze, and found that his father touched the few beards on his cheeks in embarrassment.
Princess Mu was silent for a long time and finally nodded in agreement, and said that she would handle the marriage herself, and it was absolutely impossible to wronged someone else's daughter, as if the person who originally opposed this family affair was not her at all.
When Li Xiubai was busy telling Murong Xiaoxiao the good news of this day, the king of Mu was said to have closed the door for several days because of his ill health, and when he saw his father again, Li Xiubai felt that there was always something strange, but he didn't find it, and he didn't remember until he walked out of the palace that his father's beard was gone!
Li Xiubai likes to eat yam eggs, whether they are fried slices or shreds, even if they are roasted by the stove in winter, they can eat ten in one go! Because he feels that this kind of crop with strong growth ability is worthy of respect, it can grow vigorously in any corner, and the fruit buried in the ground is so sweet and delicious, it can save many people's lives at critical moments.
I remember that when he was fifteen years old, he was left by his father in the scout team of armor-breaking foot soldiers and went with the army to relieve the siege of Luoyang.
Young, always vigorous, or what kind of young people?
And the performance of the princes and armies on the opposite side also confirmed Li Xiubai's opinion, 5,000 Weiwang cavalry and 10,000 armor-breaking foot soldiers as the vanguard, when they arrived in Luoyang, they didn't do anything on the other side, and directly retreated to camp for ten miles, showing enough respect for the army under the command of King Mu, and the respect that must sometimes be shown on the battlefield is originally a sign of weakness.
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