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Chapter 565: Looking at the hometown

When the convoy left Gyeonggi Province, Luo Weiran looked at the imperial army guarding the official road and couldn't help but sigh. It's easier for people in Gyeonggi Province to go out now. If you stuff some money, you can let it go. If you want to come in, unless it is someone sent by the court to contact or a messenger who conveys military information, no one can get in. All the official roads connected outside Gyeonggi Province were blocked. It is said that they were arresting the Mongol spies who were involved in Gyeonggi Province, but in fact, they were to prevent the spread of the news of the collapse outside in Gyeonggi Province.

Now that the emperor is not in the court, the prince is young, and once the chaos in Gyeonggi Province follows, the situation will be difficult to control.

"Just come out like this?"

Luo Weiran said with a little regret: "I don't know how much wealth Sanjin Hou left Gyeonggi Province, but it was so easy and simple."

Wu Yidao smiled and said, "I am not a wanted criminal in the court. Why can't I get out without a portrait? There are not many people in the court who still have time to think about me. First, they must be busy dispatching people to pick up the emperor, second, they must be busy blinding the people to block the news, and third, they must be busy preparing to immediately succeed the throne by the emperor's death. At this time, who has any thoughts or thoughts?"

"The prince succeeded to the throne..."

Luo Weiran said: "It's okay if this throne is not inherited. I went out for a while ago and heard that four governors had announced that they would no longer accept the court's restraint and no longer recognize the court's laws. It is reasonable to use the reason why the prince had been kidnapped by Xu Xiaogong and others."

"nine"

Wu Yidao corrected the number that Luo Weiran said: "The news I just received yesterday was that there were six in the south of the Yangtze River, two in the southeast and one in the northeast. This was not counting the three northwest roads and four in the southwest roads. The twenty-eight roads of the Great Sui Dynasty, more than half of them were not subject to the imperial decree... The northeast roads are still stable, but they are soon. Don't forget that there is another prince in the northeast who has not been very willing. If the emperor had any accidents in the northwest, the news of his death will not be safe in the northeast."

"In addition, the General of the Six Guards of Jiangnan elected Pang Ba as the leader and announced the establishment of the National Guard Army. He has issued a manifesto saying that he should protect the country and seek rebellion and assist the prince. Even the emperor has omitted it. However, the rebels they are going to attack are not Luo Yao in the southwest, but the King of Thailand's channel high in the northwest, but Xu Xiaogong and Liu Enjing in Chang'an City."

Luo Weiran drank the wine in the cup, with a sad look in his eyes. "I never thought before that I would see the day when such a powerful empire collapsed. I thought the Sui Dynasty would continue to flourish, one hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years, or even a thousand years."

"I never thought about it."

Wu Yidao said calmly: "But sometimes you should think about whatever you should think. Maybe you will think how I changed so quickly and why I didn't feel difficult at all. That's because I have been preparing to escape from being killed by the emperor from the beginning. From the day I really made the world of goods to being able to spread the world of goods, I knew that the emperor would kill me sooner or later. And because I have world of goods, I know that many things are earlier than others. To be honest, I might know earlier than you, the commander of the Great Inspectorate."

Luo Weiran nodded, not denying this.

He has never underestimated the ability of a businessman, let alone a businessman like Wu Yidao.

"I just didn't expect that you would choose him in the end."

Luo Weiran said: "No matter what, it doesn't seem wise to put your wealth on him. In this world, there are countless heroes, and there are many people with deep roots. Why did you choose a guy with such a shallow foundation? And how could you know that he will definitely take this path?"

Wu Yidao smiled: "From the beginning of his purchase of the dilapidated yard in Chang'an City and converting it into a workshop, I knew that he would sooner or later on. Maybe he was just worried when he built that workshop, but there was no doubt that he was preparing it too late, and he had to prepare more than anyone else."

"What does this have to do with that tailor workshop?"

Luo Weiran asked.

“It’s so much of a relationship.”

Wu Yidao took out a long wooden box from behind and handed it to Luo Weiran, about one meter long. Luo Weiran reached out and took it, opened it and looked at it, and showed some surprise in his eyes: "What is this?"

Wu Yidao took out a short gun from his cuff and put it on the table and said, "When he saw this thing for the first time in Prince Yi's mansion, he was moved. But later he was sent to Jiangnan by the emperor, so he gave this thing to my daughter Yinyu and took Yinyu back to the capital. Before, he asked me to ask the merchants of Dongchu to invite a few craftsmen who could make this thing from the other side of the sea and recruited many apprentices. The workshop in Chang'an City was just a ready-made garment, but in fact he was studying how to improve this thing."

"He made Hongxiuzhao wear beautiful clothes at the outing ceremony so much. It was not because he thought that making ready-made clothes could make a lot of money, but just to cover up his eyes. This move was very beautiful and even the emperor had no doubts. Over the past few days, the workshop has been rushing to build long guns, which are more powerful than short guns and have a longer range. However, the output is limited, and the things needed are all bought by my goods from the merchants of Dongchu, so there are not many, and they can only equip hundreds of people. However... I have moved the workshop to Huangyang Road, and it will not take long to resume production."

Luo Weiran was surprised and murmured at the long gun in his hand: "He started to rebel so early?"

"No"

Wu Yidao said lightly: "I just said that when he first prepared this thing, he might not have been to rebel, but just a concern for the future, so he prepared. He was not sure how to use it, but he knew he would use it. That guy... But he always prepared for the future wherever he went. He asked someone in Yongzhou to make two glasses, one for Pei Yan and one for the emperor."

"Then he sent someone to the Chang'an City Workshop, and then began to create clairvoyance... The two pairs of glasses dedicated to the Emperor and Pei Yan were just his tricks. Do you know how much such pairs of glasses are sold in Chang'an City? A pair of three hundred taels of silver is not allowed to bargain! The emperor and Pei Yan thought he was just greedy for money, so he offered two pairs of glasses first to vent the Emperor and Pei Yan, but in fact, it was to cover up his purpose of making clairvoyance in the workshop."

Luo Weiran was stunned for a long time, then sighed: "He is really an alien..."

"It's not just that."

Wu Yidao smiled and said, "He has announced from the beginning that he has discussed with Aunt Xi. Hong Xiuzhao earned money from the ready-made garment business and shared it with him. In this way, the money accounts are all gone. Hong Xiuzhao, and Hong Xiuzhao quietly transferred all the money outside Gyeonggi Province. If I hadn't gone to find Aunt Xi, I would have hidden it."

Luo Weiran was silent for a while, and then said seriously: "He is not an alien, he is a pervert!"

Wu Yidao nodded: "Yes... that's why I chose him. I like this pervert who can look far back. What's more, I have a daughter... You should know that I have never had any way to deal with Yinyu. She fell in love with that stupid boy. Can I still help others and that stupid boy in the end on the battlefield with that stupid boy?"

Luo Weiran was stunned for a moment and laughed: "Yes, after all, this is the key point."

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northwest

Hexi Road

Another day of fighting, the corpses on the west bank of Luoshui were covered with a thick layer. From one hundred and fifty steps away from the river, the corpses became denser. When they arrived by the river, the color of the earth could no longer be seen. Blood slowly flowed under the corpse and finally flowed into the river. The water was about two meters wide to the edge of the river, all of which were red, and it had not recovered its original color for a long time.

The fierce red battle flag was thrown on the ground, covered with holes shot through by feather arrows.

Several crows flew down from the trees in the distance, pecking at the eyes of the dead.

A few hundred meters away from the shore, the soldiers who had charged and retreated for the last time today supported each other and walked back. They seemed to have no strength to walk, and each looked expressionless and did not even have the gratitude to survive the disaster. Because they all knew that death might only be a day earlier or later.

The rebel navy blocked the river channel. Archers standing on the big ship could easily cover the river bank, but they could only rush forward in the rain of arrows, and then fell to the ground without any accident. The floating bridge built at the beginning had long been smashed by the navy's ship, and it became increasingly unrealistic to cross the river. Only once, about a thousand warriors familiar with water swam to the other side, trying to grab some centipede and fast-paced ships back but were discovered by the rebels. Without support, the team of more than a thousand people persisted for two hours, and it was not until dawn that the last person fell down.

Before they set off, the emperor walked up to them tremblingly and promised himself not to abandon them. However, when they were fighting alone on the east coast, their comrades on the west coast could only watch but were unable to rescue them. The soldiers on the west coast were crying, and the soldiers on the east coast were bleeding.

The reason why they did not surrender was because they felt that since the emperor said that he would not abandon them, he would never go back on his word, thinking that he was the emperor, the emperor who had a word.

In the golden light of the rising sun, they still waved their swords and shouted. They looked back from time to time during the fight, hoping that their companions had appeared behind them.

But no.

The team that swam past and fought until the last person could not lead reinforcements, because the reinforcements were blocked by the rebel navy. All night, the soldiers on the west bank did not give up on the rescue. Too many people died, but they still could not break through the wide and wide river. The bodies were paved on the east bank and on the west bank.

When the last soldier on the east coast looked back at the west coast falling, all the soldiers on the west coast knelt down, blood and tears flowing together.

That day, the emperor sat in a wheelchair and watched the scene, silently.

Another day of attack finally ended when the sun sets westward, and the soldiers dragged their legs back to the camp. The rebels' strategy was to not take the initiative to attack, but they would never let them cross the river. In this way, the fight day after day, people had become numb in death.

A general sat down on the stone, took off his iron helmet and threw it aside with some difficulty. The blood stained his long hair and dripped it down the hair.

"General, bandage it."

The personal soldiers came over and tore off their clothes, but there was no medicine.

"Don't ask for a fight next time... After all, you are a woman."

The personal soldier's voice trembled a little, and then he helped the general untie the armor. The clothes inside were already blistered in blood. The wound was on his shoulders, and a feather arrow was still stuck there. The personal soldier used a knife to cut her clothes open, but there was only blood on her skin that should have been white and tender.

“I’ll go back.”

She lowered her head, pulled out the dagger and stuffed it into her mouth to bite it. The moment the feather arrow was pulled out of her shoulders, the sound of the teeth and the dagger rubbing made people feel pain in her heart.

"Can you really go back?"

The personal soldier said while bandaging, "No one believes that he can go back... General, listen, someone on the other side has started singing again."

She spat off the bloody spit in her mouth and listened to the songs sung by the rebel soldiers on the other side.

It is the most widely sung song by the people of Hebei Province, and its name is Wangxiang.

"I heard that two more generals from the Martial Arts Academy died yesterday."

The personal soldiers hesitated for a moment and did not continue talking.

She suddenly picked up the dagger and engraved the word "Horse" on her left arm: "If someone dies, at least someone will know who I am."
Chapter completed!