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In Chen Shen's eyes, Nan Chen spent countless financial resources and built Jinling City by manpower was like a huge cage, imprisoning him in this city and losing all his freedom.

Jiankang, the original capital of Southern Chen, was ordered by the then King Yang Guang of Jin to demolish the city and destroy the palace when the Sui army crossed the Yangtze River and destroyed the Chen Dynasty twenty-six years ago. Since then, the Sui army has rebuilt Kang into Danyang County, and the original capital of the Chen Dynasty, Jiankang, has only turned into a pile of rocky ruins on the edge of the Yangtze River.

Now, with the full efforts of the reinstatement of the Chen Dynasty Situ, Shangshu Zuo Pushe, and the Marshal of the Army of the Marshal Chen Faxing, the brand new Jinling City stands proudly on the edge of the Yangtze River. The new capital is more majestic, stronger, and even more gorgeous.

The ancient capitals of the Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Southern Song, Qi, Liang, and Chen Liu dynasties were built here. As the center of Shen Faxing, who actually held great power in Southern Chen, the newly built Jinling City was very large, with four levels of outer land, inner city, palace city, and imperial city. In the inner city alone, the circumference of the new Jinling City is more than 60 miles long, second only to the eastern capital Luoyang and the western capital Chang'an, which is more than 70 miles long, and is the third largest capital in the world. But if the outer land wall of Jinling City is included, the circumference of Jinling City is 120 miles long, far beyond Luoyang and Chang'an.

Unlike the Chang'an and Luoyang cities built by Yuwen Kai, it is neat and uniform, with clear lifangs. This brand new Jinling City is completely different in style. There are mountains, lakes, rivers, dense settlements, and even farmland. It is adjacent to the Yangtze River to connect to the east and west, adjacent to the river to connect to the north and south, with a thoroughfare of land and a distance of water to the ocean. It can be said that it is built in heaven and earth, and it is beyond the ordinary city.

Although the outer city is nominally a earthen city wall, the walls are built with bricks near the city gate and important areas, which totals as many as 40 miles.

When this new capital was built, Chen Faxing said to him proudly, "This is the world's number one capital, the capital that will never be hidden, it is as solid as a god!" But Chen Shen did not have any love for this majestic, strong, and even magnificent new capital. In his eyes, this new capital that had to run for a day on horseback was just a larger and stronger cage.

The city is high and the walls are strong, this is the best prison!

The bells and drums sounded, and it was time for the court to go to court again. Under the guidance of countless eunuchs and palace maids, Chen Shen stepped into the Fengtian Hall with his expressionless face and listened to the court.

Sitting on the golden dragon chaise made of gold and covered with pearls and jade stones, Chen Shen felt a little stiff. On the left head of his dragon chaise, Queen Shen sat on the smaller chair wearing an equally gorgeous phoenix crown. He saw Queen Chen push the phoenix crown back and lay it on the thick black hair. Not long after, she pulled forward and then turned around, as if this would make her wear more comfortable. Wearing a phoenix crown is not easy, Chen Shen thought while looking, this is especially true for a woman who is only fifteen years old.

Looking at Empress Chen's somewhat uneasy look, Chen Shen couldn't help but think of his mother, Concubine Zhang. He still remembered that his father, Empress Chen, was abandoning the government affairs and begging his mother, Concubine Zhang, and even Empress Chen ignored it for a long time. His mother was very much loved by the father, and later gradually interfered in the government affairs. Later, even when it came, the state affairs were put on Concubine Zhang to the point of deciding. If the princes and ministers did not obey the internal order, they would refute him only by Zhang Lihua's words. Therefore, the court did not know that there was Chen Shubao, but Zhang Lihua.

Chen Shen became the emperor himself, and everything was not as good as he wanted. Both inside and outside were decided by Chen Faxing, brother of Yuan’s wife, even after Shen Faxing and others wanted to make his son Pojun the crown prince but was rejected by his son. Chen Faxing simply advocated marrying him, the clan girl who had already deceased Yuan’s wife, Princess Chen, to become his new queen.

Chen Shen understood the thoughts of Chen Faxing and others, and knew that they wanted him to give birth to a son with Shen, so as to replace his son Pojun, and establish him as the crown prince of the Chen Dynasty, and completely reduce the Chen family to their puppet so that they can manipulate it.

Chen Shen saw this in his eyes, but smiled in his heart. Although he was controlled and manipulated by the Jiangnan tribes such as Chen Faxing, he didn't care. In this life, he experienced the rebellion of the country and finally became a minister of the Sui Dynasty. He was far away in the border areas outside the border for more than 20 years, and most of his life had passed, and he had long lost those rights in his heart. He had always seen what his son Pojun did in the past few years and had long known his son's choice. All he had in his heart was just relieved, but no other thoughts.

In his eyes, Chen Chao in Jiangnan was just a ridiculous drama. Chen Faxing and other Jiangnan clans wanted to act, so he accompanied him. Anyway, he believed that one day his son Pojun would truly rule Jiangnan and regain the glory of the Chen family. But that was his son's business. Pojun had already chosen that path, and he believed in his choice.

With a few whip sounds, two eunuchs whip open the way. Under the guard of a group of palace maids and eunuchs, Chen Shen saw Chen Faxing accompanying a baby who was still in his cradle into the hall. He looked at the baby with a plain look, which was his son and Shen, and Po Jun's younger brother. For this second son who had just been born, Chen Shen had no love or liking, but only a kind of indifference, and even a feeling of pity.

As soon as this child is pregnant, Chen Shen already knew the fate of this child deeply. A poor child, from his origin to everything after he is born, will be manipulated. This is a truly pitiful child. After birth, not only will he, the father, not only will he not be able to contact the child, but even the biological mother cannot raise the child after sinking. She has long been placed in the East Palace and was arranged and taken care of by Chen Faxing.

This is just a tool.

All the officials arrived, and the supervisor in the hall sang and drank, and the civil and military officials shouted to Guanshan to celebrate the salute. After the officials in the hall had met, Chen Faxing sat in the lower right head nearest in front of Danmu and bowed slightly, "Your Majesty, Princess Danyang has just returned from Zhongyuan, and has brought back important news."

"I am the princess Danyang Chen Luoyan, long live my emperor!" Chen Luoyan came with a princess crown robe and made-up according to the grade. As soon as she entered the hall, she immediately respectfully paid homage to Chen Shen.

Sitting on the dragon throne, Chen Shen looked at Chen Faxing's niece who had always planned to marry his son Pojun. Unlike the new queen Shen, Chen Luoyan looked very much like Pojun's mother who died more than 20 years ago. She was tall and white in skin. Moreover, she inherited most of the inheritance of the Shen family women. She had long hair on her head, long hair, very bright eyes, a long goose face, and thin willow-leaf eyebrows. Perhaps because she had just returned from the Central Plains, there was a hint of fatigue between her eyebrows.

"It's Danyang back, get up quickly. Did you just come back yesterday?" Chen Shen was not very disgusted with this niece who almost became a daughter-in-law. Moreover, Chen Luoyan had a temperament that was generally not the Shen family, especially two different people who were different from Queen Chen who was sitting next to her. Chen Luoyan felt generous and had some temperament of her son Pojun. However, Chen Hou had the general subtlety and cultivation of women of Jiangnan clans. Although it was gentle, it was less active and more dull.

When Chen Luoyan got up, she looked up at her uncle, the puppet emperor who was controlled by her father and the various aristocratic tribes in Jiangnan. The two of them met, Chen Shen smiled slightly, and Chen Luoyan quickly lowered her head and stepped aside. In that moment, she had already gained a lot of favor towards Chen Shen. She was unable to associate the puppet emperor who had been manipulated by the aristocratic tribes in Jiangnan with the Chen Shen she had just seen. When she saw Chen Shen's smile, she always reminded her of Chen Kefu, who had met several times.

Chen Shen, Chen Kefu and his son were puppet emperors in Jiangnan and the other was a hero from the north. One was the sky and the other was the earth, but he always felt that these two completely different people had great similarities, but they couldn't understand them for a moment.

"Your Majesty, Princess Danyang has just returned from Zhongyuan. She has already reached an alliance with Li Yuan, Wang Shichong, Wei Daoer, Li Mi and others on behalf of me, to fight against Hebei together. Unfortunately, Wang Shichong died first at the hands of Li Yuan, and now Li Yuan died in Li Mi military camp. Both Li Yuan and his son were destroyed, and now the Li family is no longer worth mentioning, and Wang Shichong's son Xuan Ying also turned to Hebei because of this." Chen Faxing's voice was very loud, and it was a bit rude.

It seemed like a vulgar man shouting in front of the two armies, but he was elegant in appearance. Although he was over fifty years old, he was very well recuperated. He had a long body and a plump expression. His hair was still black and shiny, and he could not see any white hair. The purple official robe on his body was even more gorgeous and neat, and even his five beards and long beards under his jaw were trimmed very elegantly, which made people amazed.

"Your Majesty, Wang Xuan should now fall to Hebei. The Hebei army and the Jianghuai army have joined forces and have crossed the Yellow River. They have now seized six counties east of the canal. The army is in full swing. The Chen Dynasty has lost the Huaibei Xuzhou and Jiangdu and other important towns. If the Hebei army defeated Li Mi again and seized the land of Henan, their lips and teeth will be cold, and their next target will be us. By then, the Hebei army will send troops from Henan and Shandong to attack the Huaihe line in a comprehensive attack. Once the Huaihe River is lost, the Yangtze River will be difficult to protect. If the Yangtze River is lost, we will have no place to retreat. Your Majesty, I have discussed with the ministers of the Shangshu Province and are ready to respond to Li Mi's invitation and send troops north to Henan and attack Hebei together!"

Chen Shen watched Chen Faxing scream loudly in the hall, with an arrogant attitude and no expression on his face. He knew that under Shen Faxing's arrogant surface, he had nearly half of the soldiers and horses of the Chen Dynasty today, as well as the support of most Jiangnan clans and Jiangdong tyrants. Listening to Chen Faxing's left one Hebei and the right one Hebei, it seemed that everyone had forgotten that Hebei was controlled by Chen Pojun.

He asked his father to send troops to attack his son, but he was still so arrogant. Chen Shen only felt the urge to laugh.


Chapter completed!