In April, the peach blossoms in Datong, Shanxi are still blooming in full bloom.

Another year has passed, and the situation in the world has changed drastically. Huang Chao, who occupied the two capitals, died in Chang'an and Daming Palace. Now, the person sitting on the dragon throne in Xingqing Palace in Chang'an has changed another emperor. In the Central Plains, a powerful alliance has begun to form.

But these are not things that she, a woman, is willing to think more about. It would be fine if she came to the inside and took a look every day. What she thought about most was her man.

She had two men, Li Keyong and Li Jing.

The two of them had long been separated from each other in love. Especially when he forcibly took her daughter away, the two of them had become even more irresistible. But on the other hand, she had to face this former husband. As the governor of Shanxi, Li Keyong, as the coach of Hedong Jieshang, the former husband and wife, and now neighbor, this seems to be a tease of fate.

After Li Keyong returned to Hedong, Liu originally proposed to Li Jing to return to Yanjing and no longer stay in Shanxi, which was to avoid suspicion. However, Li Jing told her that she needed her to be in Shanxi, and repeatedly said that she had done a good job in Shanxi in the past two years. She was moved by this trust. Although she had a husband and wife with Li Keyong, now she has all her heart on Li Jing, and her child Li Delin. Li Jing once asked her to give her a name several times, but she refused. She felt that her identity was not suitable for acceptance. However, for her son, she agreed to let him recognize his ancestors and write his name into the Li family genealogy.

She once had a daughter with Li Keyong, but unfortunately she was snatched away from her by Li Keyong. Now, she cared for this son wholeheartedly. Not long ago, the new imperial court in Chang'an awarded Li Jing a series of titles, such as General Tiance, and rewarded Li Jing's children. On this reward list, she was surprised to see that the new emperor actually granted his son, Prince Delin Yanmen, and gave him a legitimate identity. This reward made her feel uneasy. Li Jing had so many sons, only three legitimate sons, but Delin was neither the eldest among the concubines and his mother was still a man without a status. He actually got the legitimate identity like the eldest son of Wang Wanjun, and was still one of the two princes.

This incident made her very uneasy, and she knew very well. The struggle between legitimate and illegitimate in the big family was so powerful. Not to mention the current Li Jing's sons, and the open and secret struggles of the prince of the Qin vassal prince. Wang Wanjun's eldest son, the three legitimate sons born to Yu Youniang and Wang Guiniang, these four children have been involved in the struggle. She never thought that her child had been involved in it. She never thought about letting her child fight for the position of prince, or even what position to be the Duke of the County Prince. But now, no matter whether she wants or not, with the issuance of an edict, her son Delin inevitably got involved in it.

Liu saw the current Qin vassal clearly. The Tang Dynasty was unchanging and it was hard to support it. Although the Qin vassal was in the east, it had been developing in a low-key manner in recent years. There was no clear banner, and it was obvious that the carriages and horses were going to show that Li Tang was going to be the sign of Li Tang. But anyone with discerning eyes could see that although the Qin vassal had not interfered in the Central Plains for several years, the power of the Qin vassal was constantly expanding. The Qin vassal developed rapidly in both military and people's livelihood, especially the annexation of the five towns of Datong, Yanmen, Lulong, Yiwu, and Lunjing, which really allowed the Qin vassal to occupy the power of high-house construction. It surrounds the Bohai Sea and connects Hebei, connecting Daibei and Shandong, with Huanghuai in front and Liaodong in the back, with a foundation and a situation that has been established.

Sooner or later, the Qin vassal will replace Li Tang and Li Jing and will also become a founding emperor.

Although Liu was also a Han Chinese and was considered a local wealthy family. However, she was born in the border areas since childhood, grew up among the border people, with high mountains and far away emperors. The Hu and Han mixed places were really not as loyal as ordinary Central Plains scholars to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty had already been in turmoil, and at best it was just a larger vassal state. After experiencing the Huang Chao Rebellion and the split between the two courts in Chengdu and Chang'an, this prestige became even smaller.

Looking at the chaotic world today, the feelings for the Tang Dynasty became weaker. On the contrary, after entering the Qin vassal period for a few years, she increasingly appreciated Li Jing's governance of the Qin vassal period, and his concept of enriching the people and strengthening the country. Li Jing once told her on her pillow more than once that she wanted to establish a more prosperous Central Plains dynasty, establish a truly prosperous country, and make the world admire the heavenly kingdom that all the worlds come to worship. This idea is so direct and unconcealed.

A brand new dynasty can only be built on the ruins of an old dynasty.

If Li Jing wants to establish a new dynasty, she can only replace Li Tang. Not only did she not think that Li Jing's thoughts were wrong, but she felt that it was right. Since Li Tang was unethical, then let him be replaced by someone like Li Jing who has ideas and ability.

There were many people who wanted to replace Li Tang, and Huang Chao was determined to replace Li Tang. In fact, he also approached this goal for a time. He captured the two capitals of the Tang Dynasty and drove the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to Xichuan. He established the Daqi in Luoyang and sat on the dragon throne of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty in the Daming Palace in Chang'an. However, Huang Chao once wandered around the world and once showed a good tactical level. But since he captured Luoyang, his strategic techniques were simply foolish. He was wasted several years in Chang'an, but the more he fought, the weaker he became. All this finally proved that Huang Chao was just a private salt dealer and a thief leader with some culture. Apart from wandering and looting, he did not know how to establish a new dynasty.

Huang Chao was the mourner of the Tang Dynasty, but not the starter of the new dynasty.

Speaking of which, Li Keyong, who once said on her pillow that he wanted to establish a Shatuo Dynasty countless times, had a tactical level comparable to Huang Chao. Li Jing even once laughed at her. If he was simply talking about tactical level, Li Keyong was not inferior to him, and might even be slightly better than him. But Li Keyong, like Huang Chao, had a fatal flaw. He was just a brave but unscheming reckless man. In terms of strategic literacy, he was completely failed like Huang Chao. Huang Chao only knew how to roam, rob, and destroy. Li Keyong only knew how to rush and fight, a full barbarian.

Like Huang Chao's attempt to replace the Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong's intention to establish the Shatuo Dynasty was just a delusion. Li Keyong's idea did not have any success or practical steps. He only knew how to think like this, but he didn't know how to realize him.

Li Jing is different. Although Liu did not spend much time with Li Jing, she understood that Li Jing was a real king. He not only had a clear purpose, but also had detailed feasible steps. He was also working towards that goal. He was not anxious or irritated. Even a thief like Huang Chao was eager to conquer the two capitals and sit on the dragon throne. When he was the emperor, Li Jing held his mind and focused on developing in the east in a low-key manner.

Recruiting vagrants, hoarding land and reclamation, promoting industry and commerce, developing maritime trade, and even when the vassal states were busy catching strong men, levying taxes, placing more food and pay, pursuing military force, and even enjoying luxury. Li Jing was busy building roads and bridges, developing water conservancy, dividing land and reclaiming land, immigrating to the border, conquering tribes. Li Jing had the largest territory and the largest population in the world, but the standing army had always maintained a large number of elite troops, but on the other hand, Li Jing's reserve army was very powerful and had a terrible number of mobilized reserves.

Li Jing's expansion and development have always been in full swing, maintaining a very high bottom limit and never touching that bottom limit. This has enabled the Qin army to maintain its offensive strength at any time and still retain strong defensive capabilities.

She once heard Li Jing say, build high walls, accumulate grain, and slowly become king.

After careful consideration, this is indeed the development strategy of Qin's vassal over the years. The Qin army has always maintained a style lower than their strength, developed in a low-key manner, garrisoned grain and gathered troops, and developed with all their strength.

Huang Chao and Li Keyong are both far behind Li Jing in this regard, and even say that many vassal states today are far behind Li Jing in this regard. They recruited soldiers and sent more troops. It was like fishing in a dry pond, not knowing what sustainable development and long-term strategy is. They did not know how important it is to fight for the world and dominate the people. The seemingly vague and vain hearts are actually the most important thing.

Huang Chao had no idea of ​​the importance of establishing a base, and did not know how to not rely entirely on looting, but on the importance of supplying logistics supplies from the rear. He only knew that he would capture a place, plunder all the wealthy people in the official warehouse, and force the young and strong people to the army, and then flew to the next place like locusts. Finally, when Huang Chao's locust army grew bigger and bigger, and finally successfully captured Luoyang and Chang'an, their biggest problem also arose, expanding to a scary number of thieves, and finally reached the point where they could not supply by looting alone, which made them miss the opportunity to annihilate the Emperor Li Tang in one fell swoop. In the end, they occupied important places like Chang'an and Luoyang, and fell into a dilemma and a difficult situation to get rid of the tiger. In the end, they succeeded and became a human sea tactic, and defeated.

The situation of other vassal states is similar to that of Huang Chao. Although those vassal states have a territory, they all use one state, or even two or three states to maintain a huge army of 30,000 to 40,000 or even 70,000 to 80,000, and even more troops are built. However, their combat effectiveness is getting weaker and weaker. The strong people in the vassal states are conquered into the army, and there are endless labor service and endless additional vassals. In the end, the people are living in poverty and the people flee one after another. In the end, the army of the vassal states is becoming more and more numerous, but they are becoming poorer and weaker.

Until now, the Central Plains vassal states have increasingly shown poverty. Hebei, Henan, Guanzhong, Shannan and other places, the vassal states are often overgrown with weeds and are uninhabited for dozens of miles. On the contrary, the Qin vassal states that they were led by them are full of vitality, and many people from the vassal states have fled to the mountains or the Qin vassal states.

In Liu's view, Li Jing won the hearts and expectations of the people.

The vassal states will only become poorer and poorer, but these vassal states will not accept such facts. The vassal states with many armies will eventually be like Huang Chao, and they can only go on the road of resolving supply by relying on war looting. Huang Chao is dead and is becoming increasingly independent. The next goal of the vassal states who are separatist is undoubtedly the wealthy Qin vassal state.

How to continue separatist rule must be the only unchanging thinking among all the vassal states.

As the Qinfan province in Hedong, close to Hedong and Guanzhong, it is not only an important barrier guarding the west of Yanjing, the base camp of the Qinfan, but also an important advance base for the Qinfan to send troops westward to Henan and Guanzhong. Liu knew how important her responsibilities were.

Peach blossoms bloomed outside the window, and Liu suddenly felt an indescribable feeling of annoyance, sadness, or other thoughts. If Li Jing was not the king of Qin vassal states, but just a people in the border area, would their lives be much more stable? In this way, she would not have to face a lot of official duties all day long, and even have no time to take care of her son. And she would not have to worry about her son who had been forced to be involved in the struggle for the position of prince just now. She would not have to part with Li Jing for more than a year, and she would have to worry about him who was thousands of miles away all day long. Not to mention thinking about the world and dynasty.

She suddenly remembered a poem by Wang Changling, a poet of this dynasty.

The young woman in the leap year did not know how to be sad, and she put on the green building in spring. Suddenly, she saw the willows on the street and regretted asking her husband to find a title.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door. Liu didn't have to look back and knew that it was Jing Shisanniang who came. Only she could have been so popular and entered her backyard without stopping. Jing Shisanniang was once the deputy commander of her Women's Army. After surrendering to Qin with her, the two separated for a while. However, last year, before Li Jing went to war, she specially pulled the newly built Women's Army to Shanxi. This reorganized Women's Army was newly formed into the new army of the Zhuque Legion, with six armies of 30,000 troops, three of which were female armies and three men. The commander of this new army was Liu Yunniang who was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, but the deputy commander was Jing Shisanniang and Wang Dong.

Let Liu Yunniang, the governor who only cared about civil affairs, serve as the commander of the legion and commanded 30,000 troops. This is a great exception and Li Jing's greatest trust in Liu Yunniang.

Liu Yunniang stood up and when the door opened, it was Jing Shisanniang who arrived.

"Hasn't Thirteen Niang been busy training troops recently? Why are she so free today?"

Although Li Jing asked Liu Yunniang to be the commander of the army, the Qin army system has always been the governor of the military. Therefore, under normal circumstances, Liu Yunniang only served as the commander of the army in name, and she tried not to interfere in the actual affairs of the army. Even Jing Shisanniang often met on formal occasions, and there were very few cases where Jing Shisanniang came to her mansion to meet privately.

"Li Siyuan just sent a message to me and asked me to go to the Governor's Office to discuss matters immediately, and also specifically asked me to notify you." Jing Shisanniang said.

Since the last time when the incident happened after drinking, Liu Yunniang has completely lost her good face to Li Siyuan. If she can avoid it, she will be able to avoid it. Li Siyuan also regrets it and laments that drinking has harmed people. Since then, the two have almost never spoken alone. They usually send people to pass on their official business exchanges. Today, Li Siyuan asked Jing Shisanniang to invite her to the Governor's Office, which surprised Liu.

However, since Shisanniang was called, it was obvious that it was not a private matter. The Qin army stationed several armies in Shanxi Province, which belonged to several armies, especially several garrison generals who were critical and dangerous to pass, and were all guarded by Li Jing's disciples. However, Li Siyuan was the governor of Shanxi, governor of military affairs in a province. Although this governor did not have any real power and could not truly command various troops, when the headquarters commander commanded the army, Li Siyuan, the governor, was still the nominal superior of the army in a province, and was responsible for the coordination and liaison.

Liu Yunniang, Jing Shisanniang and others left the mansion together. When they arrived at Li Siyuan's governor's office, there were already many generals gathered here. The garrison generals in Datong City and the near Datong were all arrived. The guards from further away had not arrived, but the officers who stayed in the Datong office also came.

In the hall, the eyes were filled with military generals full of fierce aura. You could tell at a glance that something must have happened.

"Everyone!" Li Siyuan walked into the hall with a stack of documents. Beside him, several intelligence officials from the Supervision Office followed closely.

The generals in the hall stood upright almost at the same time, and everyone saluted each other. After the ceremony, they took their seats according to their positions and ranks.

"Just received an urgent report, our old rival Li Keyong has sent troops to attack Daizhou!" Li Siyuan's loud and urgent voice sounded. Liu was stunned for a moment, and then sighed in his heart. What he had been guessing finally happened. Li Keyong was a fool, a very reckless man. Did he really think that Shanxi would be empty if Li Jing was not there? She glanced at the generals in the hall and couldn't help but sneer. Li Keyong was a person who was brave but not capable of accomplishing great things!
Chapter completed!