Li Yanqing urged the horse to come to the riverside. A corpse of a war horse had been picked up in the river. A man was pressing under the war horse, wearing golden armor and a purple and gold helmet. It was Xiang Fa, the commander of the Jiangnan Army. One of his feet was wrapped in stirrups by water plants. It was this reason that he could not leave the war horse and drowned in the river with the war horse.

A soldier untied Xiang Fa's sword and presented it to Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing gently drew the sword, but saw that the cold air was extremely sharp. There was a small seal carved with the word "Lingbao" on the hilt of the sword. Li Yanqing knew that this sword was also a famous sword in ancient times. It was discovered in Hangzhou thirty years ago that it had broken ten nails with one sword. After following Hua Shigang to present it to the court, it became one of Zhao Ji's swords. Later, it was given to his relative Xiang Zonghui, who was Xiang Fa's father.

Seeing that the sword was very slender and suitable for women, Li Yanqing handed it to Hu Qing'er, "You win two consecutive games, and this sword will be rewarded to you!"

Hu Qing'er was overjoyed and took the sword and pulled it out. She saw a cold light flashing. She pulled a sword flower and slashed it out with a sword. With a 'crack!', an iron pole on the ground was slashed into two halves by her with a light sword, just like splitting tofu, extremely sharp. Hu Qing'er couldn't put it down and put away her sword and returned to her scabbard and smiled: "Thank you, brother!"

Li Yanqing nodded and ordered his left and right to say, "Put the head of Xiangfa into the ice box and send it to the capital immediately!"

After the army cleared the battlefield, they sent tens of thousands of prisoners of war to Wuxian for registration and repatriation. Li Yanqing immediately led a large-scale action to continue southward and kill towards Hangzhou.

Since the rebel army was stationed in Jiangning Prefecture, Hangzhou was not greatly affected by the rebellion. After more than a year of great transfer of wealth, most of the wealth in Tokyo Bianliang was transferred to Qiantang County.

Qiantang County is located east of West Lake, close to Qiantang River, with the foot of the Phoenix Mountain to the south and the county to the north. Before the establishment of the Song Dynasty, it was the capital of Wuyue Kingdom and one of the famous cities in the south of the Yangtze River. The outstanding governance of the Qian family of Wuyue Kingdom laid an excellent foundation for the prosperity of Hangzhou.

Although Fang La once captured Qiantang County, his original intention was to build a capital in Qiantang County, so the damage to Qiantang County was not great. It was just that when he evacuated Qiantang County, setting fires on the south side of the county town and burning down many official warehouses, but it had no impact on the residential areas in the north.

Because Hangzhou was positioned as Nanjing by Zhao Ji, a large number of powerful officials and wealthy businessmen in Tokyo moved south to Hangzhou, causing land prices in Qiantang County to soar. The trend of building houses has lasted for a year. At this time, the county town has more than doubled, the old city wall has been demolished, the new city wall has not been built yet, and Qiantang County is full of steaming situations, and houses can be repaired everywhere.

Not only the powerful and wealthy families and huge merchants moved south, but also a large number of ordinary people who depended on them also followed them to Hangzhou. Almost all the famous stores moved south. Baoyanzhai's family alone had thousands of clerks and family members who followed Li Daqi to move south.

In addition, hundreds of thousands of craftsmen and civilians from all over the south of the Yangtze River flocked to Qiantang County to make a living, and a large amount of grain and food were transported into Qiantang County, making the county town particularly prosperous.

There is no vacant land next to the West Lake, and there are newly built wealthy houses everywhere. Xiangfu is located north of Yongjinchi Lake near West Lake, covering an area of ​​50 acres. Although it cannot be compared with the giant houses covering an area of ​​200 acres in Tokyo, the 50 acres of houses are among the new Qiantang houses.

At night, the atmosphere in the inner hall of Xiang's house was very depressing. More than a dozen men sat in the hall, and everyone remained silent. This rebellion was dominated by the Xiang family, and the Zheng and Zhu families were accompanied. Although the three foreign relatives were powerful and wealthy, their power was born with the imperial power. Once they lost the imperial power, their power disappeared.

Without the protection of imperial power and the army, their wealth will become fish on the chopping board and be slaughtered.

At this time, they had already received news of the defeat of the Jiangnan army. The clouds of sorrow were shrouded in everyone's heart. Almost everyone's eyes were turned to Xiang Zongliang, the chief planner of the rebellion and the head of the foreign relatives' group.

Xiang Zongliang looked very tired. After a while, he slowly said: "There is only two ways to go. Either everyone withdraws Bashu, establishes a new emperor in Bashu, and continues to fight with Zhao Gou, or surrenders and donates money to redeem his life. But I am afraid that the money will be gone and I will still be unable to escape death. Let's discuss it! What countermeasures should we take?"

No one spoke in the lobby. Xiang Zongliang looked at Zhu Xiaozhang next to him, "Tell me about my nephew Xiaozhang!"

Zhu Xiaozhang was the brother of Empress Zhao Huan Zhu and the uncle of Zhao Chen, the prince of Daning County. He was named General of the Right Jinwu Guard. He represented the Zhu family to participate in today's discussions. Today, except for the Xiang family, neither Zheng nor Zhu family came to discuss matters, but sent brothers and nephews to come.

Zhu Xiaozhang pondered for a moment and said, "No one expected the situation today, or we thought things too simply before, so many things were not considered in a hurry. Xiang’s head said just now, everyone moved to Bashu, but Bashu was far away, so how can we go over mountains and rivers? If we take a boat, how can we enter the Yangtze River? If these practical problems are not solved, going to Bashu will be empty talk."

"According to Xiaozhang's opinion, we can only surrender and donate money to atone for our sins?" Xiang Zongliang's tone was very dissatisfied.

"I didn't say that either. To be honest, I can only represent my personal opinion. How to decide the Zhu family, I have to go back and discuss with my brother, at least I can't be sure now."

Zhu Xiaozhang said it vaguely, but in fact he disagreed with Xiang Zongliang's decision to move to Bashu. Xiang Zongliang had no choice but to ask Zheng Zao, who was sitting on the other side, "What about the Zheng family's attitude?"

Zheng Zao is Zheng Chen's brother and Empress Dowager Zheng's nephew. The head of the family is their father Zheng Suping. He did not come on the pretext of being sick today.

Zheng Zao quickly bowed and said, "I can't make the decision on this matter. I'll go back and report to my father and give the head of the family an answer as soon as possible!"

Xiang Zongliang was extremely disappointed. Before, Xiang, Zheng and Zhu families all swore to make an alliance with blood, but now they were defeated, the Zheng and Zhu families began to protect themselves and refused to follow Xiang families again.

Xiang Zongliang had no choice but to sigh and said, "Okay! Let's discuss it again when you go back and give me an answer as soon as possible."

Everyone stood up to say goodbye and quickly left cleanly. Xiang Zongliang was very tired and waved to several Xiang children and said, "You guys also retreat and let me be quiet."

Several Xiang family members also bowed and retreated. Xiang Zongliang gently pressed his temples, feeling extremely disappointed. Although the attitudes of Zhu and Zheng families were as expected by him, he was really uncomfortable when he was really at the point where the birds were flying.

At this time, the housekeeper said in the hall: "Officiale, Goro is back."

Xiang Zongliang was excited and hurriedly said, "Let him come to see me!"

After a moment, Xiang Zhi was taken into the inner hall, and he bowed and bowed, "See the head of the family!"

"No need to be polite, how is the situation in Mingzhou?"

Mingzhou is today's Ningbo. During the Song Dynasty, Mingzhou's harbor industry was very developed, second only to Quanzhou in the south. Mingzhou is very close to Hangzhou. You can get on the boat from Qiantang County to go directly to Mingzhou.

The cunning rabbit has three holes, and the Xiang family also has its own way of retreat. Bashu is just a cover, but the real way of retreat is to go to Japan or Silla from Mingzhou. If the Zhu and Zheng families are willing to make a statement to advance and retreat together, it is okay for everyone to go together. If the two families refuse to leave, Xiang Zongliang will not tell the truth and expose his true way of retreat.

Xiang Zhi hurriedly said: "Report to the head of the family, the three sea boats are ready, we can set off at any time!"

Xiang Zongliang nodded and sent someone to find his eldest son Xiang Ren. Xiang Ren is also in his forties. He saluted his father respectfully, "Please give me instructions!"

“How is the industry selling?”

Xiang Ren shook his head, "Father, this matter is not easy to deal with. So far, only one cave of ghost tea shop has been sold, and no other industries or land can be taken away."

Five days ago, when 30,000 new troops were completely wiped out in Wangting Town, Suzhou, Xiang Zongliang realized that something was wrong and asked his eldest son to sell more than 30 stores and land in Qiantang County. At present, these stores and land are all hot goods. Xiang Zongliang did not think of any problems, but unexpectedly surprised him and only sold one store.

"Why?" Xiang Zongliang suddenly became a little anxious.

"Father, the problem is mainly because the government does not transfer the property."

Xiang Zongliang's face suddenly sank, "Who is holding it and not transfer it?"

"It's Wei Magistrate of Qiantang County."

‘Bang!’ Xiang Zongliang slapped the table hard and gritted his teeth and cursed: “A bastard with two faces and three swords dares to stab me in the back and prepare a carriage for me. I will go to the county government to find him to see if he dares to stop him again and refuse to transfer the property!”

"Father, it's probably too late now."

Xiang Zongliang was stunned, "What do you mean?"

"Father, Qiantang County has spread now, and no one dares to accept our property. Even Mr. Liu, who bought a cave of ghost teahouse before, found me today and asked me to return the 10,000 taels of silver he bought in the teahouse under the pretext of being unable to transfer the property."

Xiang Zongliang sat down dejectedly. Xiang Jiaguang's shops and houses in Qiantang County were worth more than 500,000 guan, especially Huijin and silver shops. The deposits in various places alone exceeded 300,000 guan, not to mention the mines and manors distributed in various places, and the property of millions of guan!

The fine and soft and gold and silver they could take away could be worth up to 200,000 taels of silver. In addition, there is a batch of jewelry, calligraphy and paintings and official kiln porcelain hidden in the underground secret warehouse of Xiangshi Manor in Jiangning Prefecture. I originally expected Xiang Fa to bring it back, but now Xiang Fa is dead, so I can't count on these treasures.

At this time, a Xiang family's son hurried over, gave a tribute, and reported nervously: "Report to the head of the family, the child just got the news that Li Yanqing's army had reached Yuhang County, less than forty miles from Qiantang County."
Chapter completed!