Chapter 218 Triumph needs a ceremony
The monthly ticket list is really tight. Do you have any monthly tickets? Is it better to add 20 tickets?
"Second brother, second brother, what are you thinking?" Chen Defang's handsome face came over and asked with concern. Chen Dexing only realized that he was holding a wine glass, and the wine was poured on the table, and he was actually distracted at the banquet tonight. The senior general of the Pili Navy on the table was smiling at his foolish look... They all thought that Chen Dexing's mind was full of promotion to the tiny princess at this moment!
Tonight's banquet was used to celebrate Chen Dexing's wedding to Princess Shengguo. The Pili Navy had a good meal, and the main officers gathered in Chen Dexing's Chief Office for dinner. The current Pili Navy has 20,000 troops and is a double chief official system. There are naturally many officers. The yamen hall cannot sit in the hall, so they set up sheds in the yard and decorated with lights, which is very lively. This scene almost caught up with the two celebration banquets after the Nantuochang victory and the Moshiling victory.
However, no matter how lively the wine is, the wine is not very rich, just a pile of fish and meat, plus the home-made soju wine in the army - it is just a hot wine, not a distilled wine. Chen Dexing just knew this concept, he couldn't brew it himself, and he didn't have the time to do this thing.
Chen Dexing put down his wine glass and touched his beard that he had just grown up: "I can't go back to Lin'an casually, I have to have a triumphal ceremony!"
"Kai... Triumph Ceremony?"
Several people at the same table looked at each other, and Chen Defang frowned slightly: "Second brother, this is probably inappropriate. Now the court and Mongolia are discussing peace. Although it has not been finalized, I heard that there is a lot of hope. Many people in Lin'an compare this peace talks to Shaoxing peace talks..."
This was said in a tactful manner, but Chen Dexing understood the voice-over. After the peace talks in Shaoxing, most of the generals such as Yue Fei and Han Shizhong lost their military power and became idle people. Shortly after the peace talks were concluded, Song Gaozong killed Yue Fei! Later, the Southern Song Dynasty completely followed the old path of using literature to control martial arts, and the elite soldiers brought out by the generals of Zhongxing gradually became decayed for decades later.
"It's okay!" Chen Dexing waved his hand, "The official family is willing to betroth me even with a single beloved daughter. Can't bear to give me a grand ceremony of victory? Moreover, this victory is not from our Pili Navy family. Jia Xianggong and Lu Taiwei also have a share. Brother, please go back to Lin'an first and tell me what I mean and Wenwenshan, and ask them to find a way to move. I will go to Jiangling Mansion and tell Jia Xianggong that he will return to Lin'an soon. If there is a ceremony under the offer of the victory, his position in the court will be consolidated in the future!"
Does Jia Sidao's status consolidate his relationship with Chen Dexing, but the reputation of the Pili navy was established. How could Chen Dexing let go of the opportunity to promote Han chauvinism in Lin'an? If he really robbed the princess this time and went to the north to open the border, his relationship with the Song court would be broken. It would be difficult to control Lin'an's propaganda at that time. This triumphal ceremony might be the last chance to make his name.
If this triumphal ceremony can be used to set off a nationalist whirlwind in Lin'an, it would be more ideal.
As soon as Chen Dexing's opinion came out, several PILI navy generals on the table all echoed with each other.
"Yes! You should promote it well! Otherwise, who knows the name of our Chen family army?"
"That's it! Let the people of Lin'an see that the Tartars are not invincible! Our Chen family army not only defeated the Tartars' 100,000 troops, but also killed the Tartars' Mengge Khan!"
"We also captured the Khan of the Tartars' Khan's Nine-Go White Banner, and this time we carried it back to Lin'an! Show our majesty!"
Chen Dexing swallowed the wine in the glass with a smile, his eyes turned, swept across his elder brother's face, but he saw a full face of worry.
When he thought that the Song Dynasty was about to be hidden again, it was better for the military officials to hold their tails together and become officials. Whoever was always high-profile would be sure to be the best bird! Although his younger brother got the princess's eyes and went back to Lin'an to be the official son-in-law, it would be bad to be too high-profile. After all, the official family is old now, and if one day the dragon is driving Bintian, no one will protect him!
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"The triumphal ceremony must be held! If not... how can I transfer my troops into Lin'an City?"
The banquet had ended, but Chen Dexing's study was brightly lit. Several senior executives of the Fuxing Society, Liu Monk, Lu Hu, Gao Da, Huang Zhishen, Ren Yijiang, Liu Yang, Zhu Sijiu, Kong Yu, and Li Cuixian, who sneaked back to Guangyang Island after leaving Jiangling, gathered here.
Chen Dexing knocked on the table and expressed his all his true intentions.
"Publicizing our military power is only one of the most important things is to lead troops to Lin'an! Although Xu, the official family, has a marriage, but he must never be without his guard! He has 20,000 elite troops in the army, and no one can hurt half a hair. If he enters the court empty-handedly, a decree can take his life. Such dangers cannot be taken no matter what. So I must bring troops to Lin'an!"
To be honest, the Song Dynasty officials have little credibility in this regard. Yue Fei, Yu Jie, who was a few years ago, had already relieved his military power. But he still couldn't escape Fengbo Pavilion and a cup of poisoned wine! Although Yue Fei said more and Yu Jie was a little domineering in Sichuan, but... Chen Dexing seems to be more words than Yue Fei, and he acted more domineering than Yu Jie. How could he send himself to Lin'an without any warning?
Who knows whether the one who is waiting for him in Lin'an is the Princess' Mansion or the Dali Temple?
When Lu Hu heard that Chen Dexing was going to lead his troops to Lin'an, he immediately felt excited and took a breath and said, "Brother, when I was in Yangzhou, I heard that although the imperial troops in Lin'an had tens of thousands of soldiers, they were all wine bags... As long as there were 3,000 elite soldiers, they could turn the sky of Lin'an over!"
Gao Da nodded: "Brother, give you 3,000 evil tigers to accompany you. I locked the Yangtze River with 35 warships and prevented the soldiers from crossing the river. Then let the second brother (Monk Liu) and Sijiu lead 3,000 people to capture Jiankang and Zhenjiang. The beautiful rivers and mountains of Jiangnan are in the hands of the eldest brother! With this foundation, it will not be difficult to restore the Central Plains!"
Liu He frowned and thought, "20,000 people took Jiangnan... There are fewer ones, so it's better to go to Lin'an. The elder brother took 3,000 people to the canal, and our brothers led the brigade to the sea!"
Chen Dexing was very satisfied with the statements of several brothers - the minds of these brothers were different without realizing it - he smiled and nodded: "You can't be so fucked by this matter... Although there is no problem for 20,000 people to take Lin'an, what should I do after taking it? The hundreds of thousands of troops in Lianghuai, Jinghu, and Sichuan cannot be indifferent. At that time, there will be a catastrophe, and maybe someone will lead the wolf into the house and invite the Mongolians in the north to make things difficult for us!"
His voice was already sunk: "But you must prepare for the Lin'an coup! Taoist priest, you can be the military advisor of the Pili Navy Army, set up a staff office for you to manage, and select some of the most reliable students of the martial arts school in the camp as staff... The filing of the Lin'an coup is the first task of the Staff Office!"
Ren Yijiang frowned: "Brother Qingzhi, what should I do after this Lin'an coup...? Do I threaten the emperor to order the princes?"
"It's possible!" Chen Dexing smiled, "It's possible to grab a handful of people away! The north is vast and the sky is much easier to get than Lin'an's sauce jar."
"Then do two solutions?"
"Make four...one is because I was arrested and went to Dali Temple! And the other is because I was killed!"
Although such a thing is unlikely to happen, as a staff officer, you should consider all possibilities and not just think about good things.
Ren Yijiang frowned: "In that case... it will be difficult for 3,000 people to capture Lin'an City! How about bringing more soldiers?"
Chen Dexing shook his head: "The maximum is 3,000... Nominally, you can only report 2,500, and you can't bring it to Lin'an if you have more." He looked at Ren Yijiang seriously, "Taoist, you must have confidence in our soldiers! They have defeated the elite of the Mongolian Qiexue Army! And we have black gunpowder in our hands, and we can use gunpowder to blow up the Lin'an city wall!"
"Explode?"
"Yes, attack the city from the cave!" Chen Dexing said. "Tomorrow we will start exploring tactics. From now on, we will rely on gunpowder to collapse the city wall!" He snorted coldly, "If the court wants to attack us, the first one to collapse is Lin'an's city wall!"
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On the same night, within the office of the Xuanfu Ambassador in Jiangling Prefecture City.
Jia Sidao was sitting comfortably and comfortably on a brocade-decked-back. Several beautiful girls were serving him, enjoying singing and dancing while having a banquet. His ambassador Xuanfu was no longer working, and was about to set off to Lin'an to be the right prime minister and privy envoy. So these days, he had a banquet with the officials in Jinghu every day - farewell wine. Often, he drank all night and went to bed until the day was at least 3 o'clock in the day, and in the afternoon he had to prepare for various social interactions for the trip, and he would take the wine before dark.
This official banquet in the Song Dynasty was even more exaggerated than in later generations! It would never end until dawn! And there were officials who were entertaining singing and dancing to cheer up, and the official was very comfortable. So Chen Dexing refused to let his ordinary brothers and students hang out in the officialdom of the Southern Song Dynasty, otherwise it would have been abandoned in less than three years. In addition to endless singing, dancing, drinking and fighting crickets, he still had time to prepare the official and military service cuisine in an orderly manner, which is not something that anyone can do!
Just as everyone was in great pleasure, they saw Jia Sidao's aide Liang Chongru hurriedly walked in, and arrived beside Jia Sidao, waved his hand to let Meiji who was accompanying the drink, then leaned over to Jia Sidao's ear and whispered: "My husband, Yangzhou's urgent hand, the envoy named Hao Jing from Beilu is here again. The person has arrived at the north bank of the Huai River. Li Anfu asked if he would let him come south?"
"What? Hao Jing is here again? Do you know what's going on?"
Liang Chongru and Tao: "It seems to be here to talk about marriage, and Kublai Khan seems to want his eldest son to marry the princess of the Song Dynasty." r1152
Chapter completed!