Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 4160 Yanziji
According to Xiao Xun's own judgment, the navy would not dare to use force against the private army assembled by the Jiangnan clan simply by relying on Su Dingfang's status and power before receiving Fang Jun's strict order to attack, because once a conflict occurs, the consequences will be extremely severe. It is possible that the Jiangnan clan and the navy are fighting head-on, and the entire Jiangnan is in turmoil and the situation is corrupt.

As an important area for the collection of imperial taxes today, who would dare to let Jiangnan fall into chaos?

As for Fang Xuanling who is temporarily living in Huating Town... Xiao Xun didn't think that he would pass Fang Jun and directly issue an order to the navy to attack the private army in the south of the Yangtze River.

Fang Xuanling is a gentle and steady person, known as a gentleman, but the comments from the ruling and opposition parties agree that his talent may be the first in the dynasty, but he lacks the courage to kill and make decisions. He has been conscientious and cautious all his life. How can we make a decision to attack outrageously in the current situation that may cause the entire Jiangnan to break away from the Tang Dynasty?
Can't, dare not.

As long as you avoid confrontation with the navy, the navy will not dare to take the initiative to attack. You can only sit back and watch the Jiangnan private army cross the Yangtze River and go north along the canal. Even if Fang Jun's order arrives at Huating Town, the navy will not be able to catch up and.

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Yuan Chao thought about it carefully, agreed with Xiao Xun's point of view, and couldn't help sighing: "Accordingly, why did your family and Fang Jun come to this point? Back then, they would rather marry Fang Jun as a concubine to the daughter of Emperor Xiaojing's lineage. It's already a self-defeating door lintel and vigorously wooing, but who would have thought that Fang Jun would turn his face and be ruthless after eating everything, alas."

When the Lanling Xiao family married their prostitute daughter to Fang Jun, it caused a sensation in the south of the Yangtze River. Except for many young admirers beating their chests and feet, many patriarchs slandered the Xiao family for lowering their status to cater to Fang Jun.

But then Fang Jun founded a navy to deter the south of the Yangtze River, cross the ocean, and opened several routes to the East and Southeast Asia countries to promote trade. Therefore, the Xiao family received the greatest support from the navy, and wealth flooded into the treasury of the clan like seawater. Sighing with regret, I wish I could have sent my daughter-in-law out...

But now, going round and round, the Xiao family wants to break openly with Fang Jun because of the family's interests.

It's amazing how things have changed.

This girl is married for nothing...

Xiao Xun smiled bitterly and said: "At the beginning, it was Shi Wen who strongly advocated it, and we also persuaded him, but as the patriarch, he has the power to reject all opinions, and we can only obey. But having said that, Fang Jun has been very respectful to the Xiao family all these years. There is a lot of care from them, at least the fleet was well maintained when it went to sea, and no pirates have plundered the Xiao family's fleet in the past few years."

Naturally, it is impossible for the daughter to marry in vain. Fang Jun loves Xiao Shu'er very much, but he is too principled, and he will not be lenient towards the Xiao family network because of his in-laws, but if life and death are at stake, he will naturally not sit idly by .

That is to say, although the Xiao family didn't get ordinary benefits from marrying their prostitute daughter, they got the guarantee of the bottom line.

Only when the Xiao family really faces a life-and-death situation one day can this in-law show its true value.

In the final analysis, no matter who the throne belongs to in the future and how the court situation develops, Jiangnan is a place of wealth and wealth that the empire will never give up.

This person can be anyone, naturally it can also be the Xiao family.

At that time, Fang Jun has no reason to abandon the Xiao family and choose someone else...

Of course, such words cannot be explained to Yuan Chao, otherwise, wouldn't it make people suspect the motive of the Xiao family now calling on various families in the south of the Yangtze River to form a private army to go north?After all, the current Jiangnan is the Jiangnan of the Jiangnan clan, but once the Northern Expedition fails and returns, and even the king of Jin is completely defeated, the Jiangnan gentry will be liquidated by the prince. The Xiao family, the entire Jiangnan will become the Xiao family's Jiangnan.

The crown prince's throne is as stable as Mount Tai, Fang Jun's status is rising, and the Xiao family's interests are further advancing...it's perfect.

Thinking up to this point, Xiao Xun even had the idea of ​​hoping that the Northern Expedition would be defeated...

Yuan Chao also shook his head and sighed. In these years, Fang Jun suddenly seemed to have been enlightened from a dandy boy, and he has been on a steady rise. Although his father Fang Xuanling is responsible for it, his own ability and knowledge have been recognized by more and more people. It's a pity that this person is headstrong and has too righteous ideas, and outsiders can't influence his thoughts at all, otherwise the entire Jiangnan clan will bear the favor.

Although the Jiangnan clan has benefited a lot from the sea trade right now, everyone thinks that even without Fang Jun, the sea trade can continue as usual, and if he is kicked out and everyone controls the navy, the benefits they will grab will be the most for the time being. several times...

That's why the Jiangnan clan rallied in response to the mobilization of private soldiers to go north to Guanzhong, defeating the prince Fubao Jinwang, and gaining the political status he deserved.

This world can be the Great Sui Dynasty or the Great Tang Dynasty, and the emperor can be Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty or His Majesty Li Er, even Li Chengqian and Li Zhi, it doesn't matter, but Jiangnan can only be the Jiangnan of the Jiangnan clan.

How can Fang Jun and other emperors like hawks and dogs be allowed to run rampant in the south of the Yangtze River, drawing the blood of the south of the Yangtze River to support the court?

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From the Qinhuai River into the Yangtze River and down the river, not far away, there is Mufu Mountain across the south of the Yangtze River.Afterwards, the river gradually widened, and the rushing water slowed down. The sediment carried by the river was silted up, and a large tidal flat was slowly deposited in the center of the river, with reeds overgrown and birds inhabiting it.

The boat sailed along the Shogunate Mountain. The mountain was almost exhausted, but there were strange peaks protruding. There was a stone flying over the river, hanging on three sides. It looked like a flying swallow.

Yanziji protrudes above the river, blocking the turbulent water from the upper reaches, making a tidal flat on the east side smooth and undulating. Later, the navy was ignored and gradually fell into disrepair. After the formation of the Royal Navy, it became the core area of ​​the Jiangnan clan. In order to avoid conflicts, no military camps were set up again.

At this moment, on the river downstream of Yanziji, there are endless boats and boats, and ragged and disheveled private soldiers gather here on the beach, half of them are young and strong, half of them are old and young, and the piles of food and fodder are as heavy as hills. , cannot be counted.

Although no patriarch of each family in the south of the Yangtze River came here, they also sent outstanding children of the clan to assign tasks under the leadership of Xiao Guan, divide the private soldiers into areas according to each family, determine the order of boarding, and make overall arrangements to ensure The large-scale crossing of tens of thousands of people will not trample on each other because of chaos.

Xiao Xun and Yuan Chao were sitting in a spacious four-wheeled carriage. The carriage was covered with thick carpets, a desk, a jug of fine wine, and a few dishes of side dishes were placed. From time to time, he watched the chaotic crowd outside.

Xiao Xun took a sip of the wine, and a trace of nostalgia appeared on his old face: "Once upon a time, there were boats and clouds here, and soldiers and armor were like rain. My Xiao family's gold and iron horses dominated the south of the Yangtze River. Suddenly, decades Well, it’s really a vicissitudes.”

The Xiao family in Lanling once established Nanliang, which dominated the south of the Yangtze River for decades. Although it was overthrown later, the descendants of the family remained determined and established Xiliang again, stretching across the country.At the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the feudal lords competed for the throne, Xiao Mian, a descendant of the Xiao family, re-established his country in Jiangling with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, from the Three Gorges in the west to Jiaozhi in the south, from the Hanshui River in the north, and Yuzhang in the east. Once there was a tendency to unify the world.

It's a pity that when Li Jing and Li Xiaogong commanded the Datang Navy to go down the river and smashed Xiao Xian, the dream of the Lanling Xiao Clan's nation-building was finally shattered...

The river was surging, and people were screaming. His eyes seemed to still retain the scene of the Tang Navy's landing from Yanziji. In that battle, Zhou Faming surrendered, Lei Changying surrendered, Gai Yan surrendered, and Scholar Hong was defeated. Almost overnight, The Ping Fan was completely destroyed, and the army of Li Jing and Li Xiaogong went straight to Jiangling and besieged Jiangling in array.

At that time, Qiu He, the governor of Jiaozhou, Gao Shilian, and Sima Du Zhisong, who had been placed with high hopes by Xiao Xian, rushed to Li Xiaogong's tent, surrendered servilely and servilely.

Xiao Xian knew that there was no more reinforcements, so he could only defend Jiangling. He led the imperial guards in a bloody battle. He once repelled Li Xiaogong, and then said to his left and right, "If we lose all our strength, the people in the city will suffer. Go out and surrender first, so as to avoid the scourge of disorderly soldiers." Then he left the city and surrendered.After being escorted to Chang'an, Emperor Gaozu reprimanded him for his crimes. Xiao Xian said, "Sui lost his deer, and heroes competed. Xiao Xian had no destiny to protect him, so he was captured by His Majesty. Just like Tian Hengnan became king, is he sorry for the Han Dynasty?" Gaozu The emperor was angry with his unyielding and killed him in the market.

The river is mighty, and the world is full of vicissitudes. I don't know how many heroes were swept away by the waves, with a few white foams, and finally rushed into the sea without a trace.

Xiao Xun let out a sigh of relief. When people are old, they always reminisce about the past inadvertently. The good and the bad, the happy and the sad, come to mind from time to time. Even though many years have passed, the things that have passed are still impressive and make people sigh.

A fast horse came galloping from a distance, and was blocked by private soldiers on the way. The knight immediately swung his whip and whipped his head and face. The soldiers screamed again and again, and hurriedly dodged to both sides, leaving a passage for the fast horse to gallop like a gust of wind. Pass.

The fast horse came to Xiao Guan who was commanding the soldiers to board the boat to cross the river, flew off the horse and ran to him, whispering something in a low voice.

Xiao Guan's face turned pale with shock, he didn't care about the messy crowd, he quickly turned around and came to Xiao Xun's car, got into the car, his face panicked: "Grandfather, something is not right, there is news from the downstream that Liu Rengui has led dozens of ships against the current And now, I have just passed Xijin Ferry, and I am heading towards Jinling quickly!"

A boat sailing on the river, and sailing against the current, is not as fast as a fast horse. As soon as dozens of ships from Huating Town sailed out of the Wusong River, the eyeliner of the Xiao family rushed to report to Jinling.

(End of this chapter)