Late Tang

In April, the peach blossoms in Datong, Shanxi are still blooming and blooming. .

Another year has passed, and the situation in the world has changed drastically. Huang Chao, who occupied the two capitals at the beginning, has died in the fire together with Daming Palace in Chang'an.Now sitting on the dragon chair in Chang'an Xingqing Palace, there is another emperor.In the land of the Central Plains, a powerful alliance began to form.

But these are not things that she is willing to think about as a woman, so she can just take a look at it every day.What she thinks most about is her man.

She had two men, Li Keyong and Li Jing.

Between Li Keyong and Li Keyong, the two have already separated in terms of emotion.Especially when he forcibly took her daughter away, the two of them had broken their relationship.But on the other hand, she had to face this former husband.She is the governor of Shanxi, Li Keyong is the commander in chief of Hedong, a former husband and wife, and now a neighbor, this seems to be a trick of fate.

After Li Keyong returned to Hedong, Liu also proposed to Li Jing to return to Yanjing instead of staying in Shanxi. This was also to avoid suspicion.However, Li Jing told her that she needed to be in Shanxi, and repeatedly said that she had done a good job in Shanxi for the past two years.She was touched by this trust.Although she and Li Keyong used to be a husband and wife, but now she puts all her heart on Li Jing and their child Li Delin.Li Jing wanted to give her a title several times, but she refused.She felt that her identity was not suitable for acceptance.However, for her son, she agreed to let him recognize his ancestor and return his name to the Li family's genealogy.

She once had a daughter with Li Keyong, but unfortunately Li Keyong snatched her away from her.Now, she wholeheartedly caresses and cares for this son.Not long ago, the new imperial court in Chang'an awarded Li Jing a series of titles, such as General Tiance, and awarded Li Jing's sons and daughters again.In this list of rewards, she was surprised to see that the new emperor actually named his son Delin Yanmen County King, and also gave a conferred status.This award made her feel uneasy all the time. Li Jing had so many sons, but only three legitimate sons. As a result, De Lin was not the eldest among all the concubines, and his mother was still an unknown person. He also obtained the status of a descendant, and he was also one of the two concubine sons who were awarded the title of county king.

This matter made her very uneasy, she knew very well that the dispute between the son and son was fierce in the big family.Not to mention the current Li Jing's sons, and the sons of Qin Fan Wang's sons are fighting openly and secretly.Wang Wanjun's eldest son, Yu Youniang and Wang Guiniang's three sons, these four children have already been involved in the struggle.She never thought that her own child would be involved in it.She never thought about letting her child fight for the position of the son, or even the position of the prince of the county, but now, whether she wants to or not, with the issuance of an edict, her son Delin will Inevitably got involved.

For today's Qin Fan, Liu sees clearly.The Tang Dynasty will not be changed, and it will not be able to support itself.Although Qin Fan has always been in the east, he has developed in a low-key way in the past few years, without any clear banners, making it clear that the horses and horses will reflect the signs of Li Tang.Anyone with a discerning eye can see that although Qin Fan has not interfered too much in the affairs of the Central Plains for several years, Qin Fan's power is constantly expanding. Qin Fan has developed rapidly in terms of military affairs and people's livelihood, especially for Datong and Yanmen. The annexation of the five towns of Lulong, Yiwu, and Lujing really allowed Qin Fan to occupy the momentum of Gaowujian.Surrounding the Bohai Sea, town Hebei, connecting Daibei and Shandong, with Huanghuai in the front and Liaodong in the back, the foundation has been solid and the situation has been established.

Sooner or later, Qin Fan will replace Li Tang.Li Jing will also become the founding emperor of a generation.

Although the Liu family is also a Han Chinese, they can be considered a wealthy local family.But she was born in the border area since she was a child, grew up among the border people, where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the Hu and Han are mixed. She is not as loyal to the Tang Dynasty as ordinary scholars from the Central Plains are to the Li and Tang royal families.The Tang Dynasty was already in turmoil, and at best it was nothing more than a larger feudal town.After experiencing the Huangchao Rebellion and the two imperial courts in Chengdu and Chang'an today, this prestige has become even smaller.

Looking at the chaotic world today, the feeling for Tang Shi became weaker and weaker.On the contrary, after entering Qin Fan for a few years, she has become more and more appreciative of Li Jing's governance of Qin Fan and his philosophy of enriching the people and strengthening the country.Li Jing had told her more than once beside her pillow that she wanted to build a more prosperous and powerful Central Plains dynasty, to build a truly prosperous and strong country, which would be admired by the four seas and all nations would come to court.The idea is so direct and undisguised.

A brand new dynasty can only be built on the ruins of an old dynasty.

If Li Jing wants to establish a new dynasty, he can only replace Li Tang.For Li Jing's thoughts, she not only didn't think it was wrong at all, but felt that it was right.Since Li Tang lost his virtue, he should be replaced by a thoughtful and capable person like Li Jing.

There are many people who want to replace Li Tang, and Huang Chao wants to replace Li Tang wholeheartedly. In fact, he was once close to this goal.He captured the two capitals of the Tang Dynasty, drove the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to Xichuan, established Daqi in Luoyang, and sat on the dragon chair of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty in the Daming Palace in Chang'an.It's just that Huang Chao once traveled all over the world and once showed a good level of tactics.But since he captured Luoyang, his strategic methods are simply stupid.After wasting a few years in Chang'an in vain, the fight became weaker and weaker. All this finally proved that Huang Chao was just a somewhat cultured private salt dealer and the leader of grass thieves.Apart from fleeing and looting, he didn't know how to build a new dynasty.

Huang Chao is the mourner of the Tang Dynasty, but not the founder of the new dynasty.

Speaking of which, Li Keyong, who also said countless times beside her pillow that he wanted to establish a Shatuo Dynasty, has a tactical level that is somewhat comparable to Huang Chao.Li Jing even joked to her once that Li Keyong is not inferior to him in terms of tactics alone, and may even be slightly better than him.But Li Keyong, like Huang Chao, has a fatal flaw, he is just a reckless and reckless man.In terms of strategic literacy, like Huang Chao, he failed completely.Huang Chao only knows how to flee, plunder, and destroy.But Li Keyong only knows how to rush and beat, he is a full-fledged brute.

Like Huang Chao's desire to replace Datang, Li Ke's desire to establish the Shatuo Dynasty was nothing more than a delusion.Li Ke's idea didn't have the slightest success and practical plan. He only knew how to think like this, but he didn't know how to realize it.

Li Jing is different, although Liu Shi has not been with Li Jing for a long time.But the little time spent together made her understand that Li Jing is the real king.He not only has a clear purpose, but also has detailed feasible steps, and he has been working towards that goal.He is not in a hurry, nor is he impatient, even a grassroots thief like Huang Chao can't wait to take down the two capitals, sit on the dragon chair, and become the emperor.However, Li Jing kept his mind on his mind and focused on developing in the east in a low-key manner.

Recruiting vagrants, hoarding land and reclaiming wasteland, promoting industry and commerce, and developing maritime trade, even when the feudal towns are busy recruiting strong men, raising taxes, sending more food and salaries, militarism, and even extravagant enjoyment.But Li Jing was busy building roads and bridges, building water conservancy, dividing fields to reclaim wasteland, immigrating to the border, and conquering tribes.Li Jing has the largest territory and the largest population of all towns in the world, but the standing army has always maintained a small but elite number, but on the other hand, Li Jing's reserve army is very powerful, with a terrifying number of troops Reserves can be mobilized.

Li Jing's expansion and development have always been developing in an all-round way, maintaining a very high bottom line, and never touching that bottom line. This makes the Qin army maintain its offensive strength at any time, and still Maintain a strong defense capability.

She once heard Li Jing say a word, build high walls, accumulate food widely, and become king slowly.

Thinking about it carefully, this is indeed Qin Fan's development strategy over the years.The Qin army has always maintained a style that is lower than their strength, develops in a low-key manner, gathers food and gathers troops, and develops with all its strength.

Both Huang Chao and Li Keyong are far behind Li Jing in this respect, and it is even said that many feudal towns in the world are far behind Li Jing in this respect.They wantonly recruit troops and send more recruits, just like fishing in a dry marsh. They don't know what sustainable development and long-term strategy are.They don't know how important the people's hearts are in the struggle for world hegemony. The people's hearts, which seem to be ethereal and illusory, are actually the most important thing.

Huang Chao didn't know the importance of establishing a base at all, and he didn't know how to do it without relying entirely on looting, but to supply logistics supplies from his own rear. All the young and strong people were forcibly recruited into the army, and then they fled to the next place like locusts.In the end, when Huang Chao's army of locusts grew bigger and bigger, and finally succeeded in capturing Luoyang and Chang'an, their biggest problem also appeared. The number of grasshoppers swelled to a frighteningly large number, and finally reached the point where they could not be supplied by looting alone. , which made them miss the opportunity to annihilate Emperor Li Tang in one fell swoop.In the end, occupying such important places as Chang'an and Luoyang, they fell into a dilemma, and they were in a difficult situation. In the end, success was also a sea of ​​​​people tactic, and defeat was also a sea of ​​​​people tactic.

The situation of other feudal towns is similar to that of Huang Chao. Although those feudal towns all have a territory, they are all using the territory of one state, or even two or three states, to maintain a huge army of [-] to [-], or even [-] to [-]. The army is getting bigger and bigger.But the combat power is getting weaker and weaker. All the strong people in the town are conscripted into the army, and there are endless hard labor and extra taxes. In the end, the people are struggling to survive, and the people flee one after another. There are many, but they are getting poorer and poorer, and their strength is getting weaker and weaker.

Up to now, those feudal towns in the Central Plains have become more and more impoverished. In Hebei, Henan, Guanzhong, Shannan and other places, the territory of those feudal towns is often overgrown with weeds, and there are no people living for dozens of miles.On the contrary, Qin Fan, who was in charge of them, was a vibrant phenomenon, and many people in the feudal towns fled to the mountains, or within the territory of Qin Fan.

In Liu's view, Li Jing is popular among the people.

The feudal towns will only get poorer and poorer, but these feudal towns will not accept that fact.A feudal town with a large number of troops will eventually be like Huang Chao, who can only embark on the road of relying on war and looting to solve the supply.Huang Chao is dead, and his reading skills are getting better and better. The next target of the de facto separatist feudal clans is undoubtedly the wealthy Qin feudal clan.

How to continue the separatist rule must be the only constant consideration of all the feudal towns.

As the province of Qin Fan in the territory of Hedong, it is close to Hedong and Guanzhong. It is not only an important barrier guarding the west of Yanjing, the base camp of Qin Fan, but also an important advance base for Qin Fan to send troops westward to Henan and Guanzhong in the future. How great is the responsibility.

Peach blossoms were blooming outside the window, and Liu Shi suddenly had an inexplicable feeling mixed with annoyance, sadness, or other thoughts.If Li Jing was not the king of the Qin Dynasty, but just a commoner in a border area, would their lives be much simpler and more stable?In this way, she doesn't have to face a lot of official duties all day long, and she doesn't even have time to take care of her son.And she didn't have to worry about her son who was forced to be involved in the battle for the position of the eldest son not long after he was born.Even, she didn't have to say goodbye to Li Jing for more than a year, and had to worry about him who was thousands of miles away all day long.There is no need to think about the world, the dynasty and so on.

She suddenly thought of a poem by Wang Changling, a poet of this dynasty.

The young woman in Runzhong doesn't know how to worry, and she puts her makeup on the emerald building in spring.Suddenly seeing the color of willows on the street, I regret teaching my husband and son-in-law to find a Marquis.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Liu Shi didn't need to turn her head to know that it was Jing Shisanniang who came, and she was the only one who could enter her backyard in such a hurry, and no one stopped her.Jing Shisanniang was once the deputy commander of her Detachment of Women, and after they surrendered to Qin with her, they were separated for a time.But last year, before Li Jing set off for the expedition, he specially pulled the newly-built Detachment of Women to Shanxi.This reorganized women's army was newly reorganized as the new army of the Suzaku Army, with six armies and 3 horses, of which three armies were female and the other three were male.The head of this new army is not only Liu Yunniang who was previously promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, but the deputy head of the army is Jing Shisanniang and Wang Dong.

Letting the governor Liu Yuniang, who is only in charge of civil affairs, serve as the head of the army, commanding 3 horses, this is a great exception, and it is also Li Jing's greatest trust in Liu Yuniang.

Liu Yuniang got up, and when the door opened, it was Jing Shisanniang who came.

"Hasn't Thirteen Niang been busy training soldiers and horses recently, why are you so free today?"

Although Li Jing asked Liu Yuniang to be the head of the army, the military system of the Qin army has always been that the governor does not care about the military. Therefore, under normal circumstances, Liu Yuniang only serves as the head of the army in name, and she tries not to interfere in the actual affairs of the army.Even with Jing Shisanniang, they usually meet in formal occasions, and it is very rare for Jing Shisanniang to come directly to her mansion to have a private meeting.

"Li Siyuan just sent me a letter, asking me to go to the Governor's Mansion to discuss matters immediately, and specifically asked me to notify you." Jing Shisanniang said.

Ever since the drunken incident happened last time, Liu Yuniang had completely lost her face towards Li Siyuan, and usually avoided it as much as she could. Li Siyuan also regretted it greatly, lamenting that drinking is harmful.Since then, the two of them have hardly spoken alone, and they usually send someone to pass on their official business contacts.Today, Li Siyuan asked Jing Shisanniang to invite her to the Governor's Mansion, which surprised Liu Shi a little.

But since Thirteen Niang was also called, it was clearly not a private matter.The Qin army stationed several troops in Shanxi Province, belonging to several legions, especially the generals stationed at several key and dangerous passes, all guarded by Li Jing's disciples.However, Li Siyuan was the governor of Shanxi and supervised the military affairs of a province.Although the governor did not have any real power and could not really command all kinds of soldiers and horses, but when there was no Xingyuan capital to command the armies, Li Siyuan, the governor, was still the nominal superior of the various armies in a province, responsible for coordination and liaison.

Liu Yunniang, Jing Shisanniang and others went out of the mansion together. When they arrived at Li Siyuan’s Dudu Mansion, all the generals had already gathered here. The generals of the garrison in Datong City and the vicinity of Datong had all arrived. The officers from the office also came.

In the hall, the generals were full of sturdy aura, and one could tell that something important had happened.

"Everyone!" Li Siyuan strode into the hall carrying a stack of documents, followed by several intelligence officials from the Supervision Office.

All the generals in the hall stood up straight almost at the same time, and everyone saluted each other together. After the salute, they each took their seats according to their positions and ranks.

"Just received the urgent report that our old enemy Li Keyong has sent troops to attack Daizhou!" Li Siyuan's loud and hasty voice sounded, and Liu was absent-minded for a moment, and then he sighed in his heart. The thing he had been guessing for a long time finally happened. up.Li Keyong is a fool, a complete reckless man, does he really think that Shanxi will be empty without Li Jing?She glanced at the generals in the hall, and couldn't help but sneered, Li Keyong is a man who is brave but not resourceful, and can hardly achieve great things!

(Recently, the neck pain is severe, no update yesterday, I am really sorry!) (To be continued.)