No one expected why the King of Jin suddenly emerged from the south again. Some officials who had disobeyed the new policy were both heartbroken.

The officialdom of the Northern Chu Dynasty also gave Wang Xiao a nickname of "Empty Devils" behind his back, secretly expressing his dissatisfaction.

On this day, after finally reaching Linqu County, Gu Hengbo finally couldn't help asking: "King Jin, will we no longer rush back to the capital before August 15th? The princesses... I'm afraid they miss King Jin very much."

Wang Xiaozheng was interested in climbing up Yangtian Mountain to see the area of ​​farmland. He nodded after hearing this and said, "Don't worry, look at the official road from Shandong to Beijing is now flat and wide. You can speed up your journey and you can rush back to Beijing in five days."

Gu Hengbo then felt relieved.

Five days later, he became his legitimate concubine. After entering his door and getting things done, he was no longer afraid...

She was thinking about it, but Wang Xiao leaned into her ear and said, "It's okay to call Xiaolang in normal times."

Gu Hengbo was happy again, his eyes turned around and he was about to act coquettishly, but Wang Xiao waved his hand to stop her.

“Moral…”

However, Gu Hengbo, who was happy, was still counting the number of days with his fingers, and suddenly a few fast horses came in front of him...

"Wow! I dare to ask the King of Jin, but this is the case? There is something important to report..."

Gu Hengbo sat in the carriage, lifted the curtain and looked at it. He saw Wang Xiao and the snoops talking on the official road, paced back and forth, as if thinking about something.

She was inexplicably worried.

After a while, Wang Xiao turned back and first talked to Qin Xiaozhu for a while. Qin Xiaozhu looked disappointed.

Gu Hengbo looked at her and saw that she seemed to be saying "I really want to meet Chunning".

After a while, Wang Xiao walked to Gu Hengbo's carriage and said, "Something happened in the south. I won't go back to Beijing for the time being. I'll go to Suzhou."

Gu Hengbo's mind buzzed, leaving only one thought.

"The night is long and dreams are many... Who should have caused trouble at this time..."

The team turned around and headed southwest.

Gu Hengbo returned to Wang Xiao's accompanying clerk, sat beside him, spread out the map, handed over paper and pen. He also spread out a small notebook and placed it on his knees, preparing to record Wang Xiao's instructions.

Qin Xiaozhu was much idle, and he held his head and looked at the map with Wang Xiao.

Wang Xiao first drew two paintings on the map.

That is the Huai River and the Yangtze River.

The Huaihe River is the dividing line between the sphere of influence of Northern Chu and Southern Chu today.

Wang Xiao stared at the area ‘south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River’.

"If you are Meng Shiwei, the general officer in Nanchu who guards Huguang, what do you want to do?"

Qin Xiaozhu thought for a while and said, "It's difficult to deal with. Once we move south, Nan Chu will definitely not be able to defend the Huai River. Then we can only guard the natural danger of the Yangtze River and several important towns in Jiangbei, right?

If I were the general of Huguang, where would I go if I didn’t guard Huguang? If you send troops to occupy the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and go down the river, Nanjing will be finished; but I have to guard Huguang. The problem is that maybe I will be finished by guarding Nanjing. What’s the use of me?

What should I do... Anyway, if I surrender, you will be overthrown."

Wang Xiao said: "Meng Shiwei had not thought of surrendering. In fact, he has been sending people to contact us and negotiate conditions. He demanded that he retain his title, fief, and his military power and territory be retained."

Qin Xiaozhu said "spray" and said, "He thinks beautifully. My Qin family is not so glorious. How could he give him a condition to surrender to the general?"

"Yes, I can't accept this request." Wang Xiao said, "And the hereditary titles, countless wealth, have hundreds of thousands of troops of military power, and the status of a local emperor will be gone once he surrenders. Can he be willing to do so?"

Qin Xiaozhu said carelessly: "He made a offer, we can also bargain."

"It could have been bargained." Wang Xiao said: "But now I will not talk to him anymore. With the latest information, Meng Shiwei raised an army to rebel from Nan Chu. He slaughtered Wuchang City and led his army to attack Nanjing in the east..."

"Ah?!" Qin Xiaozhu was surprised and asked, "Aren't he crazy? He used such a stupid move."

"Silent move?" Wang Xiao said lightly with a cold look in his eyes: "Don't you think this is a trick to break the deadlock for him?"

"How could it be?"

"As we said just now, Huguang has become a strategic waste, and it is not just about defending, nor is it about not defending. He wants to surrender, but the conditions have not been negotiated.

After raising an army to attack Nanjing and taking the Emperor of Southern Chu into his own hands, he could order Southern Chu. There were more choices next, which could not only allow other warlords to fight with me first, but also seek a better territory.

Or it is impossible to integrate Nan Chu and work hard to govern; or, if he becomes Cao Cao of Nan Chu, he will have more bargaining chips in his hands if he wants to surrender.

You see, for him personally, this move is the most exquisite choice. He suddenly revitalized his embarrassing situation..."

Qin Xiaozhu still didn't understand it, and showed a confused look and said, "But... Nan Chu could not beat us, and it would be even more overwhelming to fight like this?"

"From a global perspective, it's like this." Wang Xiao said: "But the last time the person who tried to consider Nan Chu was dead, they killed him.

Once Zheng Yuanhua died, the situation became chaotic. No one could suppress the domineering warlords, so Meng Shiwei immediately rebelled.

But isn’t this the case in all dynasties? On the other hand, I think that An Zhi is not the next Liu Yu? Maybe he is really capable of replacing Zheng Yuanhua to establish a more powerful centralization? Haha, heroes come from troubled times, and everyone thinks they will be that hero..."

Qin Xiaozhu said "slaughter" in disgust and cursed: "Slaughter the people you rule, hero? Let's go to the damn hero."

Wang Xiao didn't say anything, just looked at Wuchang City on the map, and was speechless for a long time...

Wuchang.

The prosperous city of the past has become a ruin.

But once, the people here always felt that they lived under the protection of Meng Shiwei, the Marquis of Zhennan.

The Zhennan Hou Meng Shiwei, who started from Liaodong, has been fighting in Hongqiao, Daqian Mountain, Zunhua, Songshan and Xingshan for twenty years. He was once a famous general in the fight against the enemy. After seven years of Yanguang, he was transferred to the pass to suppress the rebels, repeatedly defeating Tang Zhongyuan and Zhang Xianzhong, becoming the oldest senior general in the Chu army.

At that time, the capital was lost, Emperor Yanguang passed away, and Emperor Longchang ascended the throne in Nanjing, Meng Shiwei was in charge of Huguang, Wuchang, and resisting the threats of rebels such as Tang Zhongyuan and Zhang Xianzhong, stabilizing the situation in Nanchu.

By now, Meng Shiwei's troops have grown to 800,000, and he is known as a million troops to the outside world.

Everyone thought that he was the pillar of the country of Southern Chu. Although the people of Wuchang felt that many soldiers and generals under Zhennan Hou had disturbed the people's wages, they finally kept the peace.

But no one of them expected that the Jianlu in the north had not been defeated, the Tang thieves in the northwest had not been killed, and the Xian thieves in the west had never been killed. The Northern Chu who had just pacified the Central Plains showed signs of a southern expedition... and the first person to raise the butcher knife to them was the Zhennan Hou in Wuchang...

On August 10, two thin young men staggered through the streets where corpses were everywhere and walked to a broken house.

The gate of the courtyard was wide open, and when you looked at it, you could see the corpse that was standing there in the courtyard. One of the young men's knees softened and he fell to the ground.

"Dad! Mom!"

"Brother Jialuo, I feel sorry for you..."

The young man who was talking was named Qi Siping, and he was classmates with Liu Jialuo who was crying. He studied at Donghu Academy outside the city.

Qi Siping's word "sadness" came to his mouth, but he couldn't say it, so he had to lift his robe and kneel down with Liu Jialuo.

The crying lasts for a long time.

After a long time, they worked a lot of effort to bury the dead.

In the abandoned city, the exhausted two men walked through the bloody long street again and walked all the way through the unguarded city gate.

Qi Siping said: "All this...is it really done by Zhennan Hou? No way... he is the number one general in our Great Chu..."

"Famous general?"

Liu Jialuo gritted his teeth and said, and he seemed to be bleeding from his mouth.

"Brother Jialuo...what do you plan to do in the future?"

"I want to seek justice."

"Justice?" Qi Siping murmured: "How can there be justice? People are alive these days. If we had not been protected by the academy, we would have been just ghosts under the swords of those big-headed soldiers..."

"Meng Shiwei rebelled! The court doesn't care?!"

"How does the imperial court manage? He has a million troops, and the conscription troops from Hankou to Qizhou, and the ships lined up for more than 200 miles. The imperial court still couldn't take care of itself, where can we go to give you justice?"

"I don't believe... I don't believe that my parents died in vain. If I don't believe that so many people in Wuchang City will die in vain..."

"Listen to my advice and go back to the academy. In this chaotic world, only the academy is safe..."

"No." Liu Jialuo shook his head and said, "I want to seek justice. I don't care whether he is a million or a million troops. This fairness must be given to me!"

"Brother Jialuo...Brother Jialuo... Listen to me, don't go east anymore, if you encounter a soldier who pays the salary."

"Let me go!"
Chapter completed!