Chapter 81: Prince
"My mom, I'm really unlucky!" At the entrance of the manor, Dazi cursed while helping his injured brother get into the carriage.
Jiang Sheng, who was waiting in the back, also felt emotion. Before he arrived, the original owner of his body went out to sea to escape the war, but he couldn't fight in. As a result, he was hit by the point!
"Young Master, I've packed up here, so set off quickly?" Han Wu came over and asked.
In fact, to be on the safe side, you should go directly to Qingyang to avoid disaster. However, the goods in Han Wu's ship are exquisite, and in addition to exquisite jewelry, there are also raw high-quality jade stones, which cannot be bumped. Even if you have to be carefully protected by your subordinates in the carriage, it is naturally impossible to drive quickly.
Jiang Sheng was worried about several seriously injured subordinates, so he chose to walk with them.
This made Han Wu quite puzzled. How could the other party take risks for a few wounded soldiers like this?
Jiang Sheng naturally had his own plans in his heart. First of all, the seriously injured soldiers cannot be ignored here. This is not only a matter of people's hearts, but also a hidden danger. The secrets on the island cannot be revealed at all. Even if these soldiers are loyal to ninety, Jiang Sheng dared not take risks.
Then there is the issue of entering Qingyang. The city gates will definitely be martial law during the war. Zhang Yuanshan's reputation for pirates may be good in Fuchuan. People who go to Qingyang may not necessarily let you enter. Han Wu is different. It will be much smoother to take him and others into the city as his identity. So even if you take a little slower and take a little risk, it is more cost-effective to follow Han Wu...
In this way, a group of people drove the carriage and followed the fastest South China Road towards Qingyang!
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Qingyang has a big shot today...
Zijing Pass was broken, with tens of thousands of refugees outside the city and panic inside the city. Deng He, the county magistrate who was worried about being troubled by a lot of things, heard that the prince Xiao Heng was coming!
Bingzhou was the fief of King Liang, while Xiao Heng was the prince of King Liang, the next generation of kings and princes appointed by the imperial court.
Not many of them were passed down from the founding kings of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the Liang lineage was one of them. At the time, Taizong of the Great Jin Dynasty, Bintian, and the second generation of Emperor Guangwu, were also very talented and stubborn. Soon after he took office, he strongly reduced the vassals, and even directly caused the rebellion of the nine kings in the future. However, they were all suppressed by Guangwu. At that time, King Liang was the first king and prince who supported the reduction of the vassals. He was praised by Guangwu, and this lineage was finally preserved for generations.
The first king of Liang was the adopted son of Emperor Taizong and was extremely favored. The position of the feudal throne was located in the West Sea, with abundant supplies. It was an excellent place before the ban on the sea. Unfortunately, after the vassal was reduced, the king only enjoyed some taxes in the fiefdom without real power. The law enforcement and legislative power were all in the court, while the financial power and administrative power were in the assassin sent by the court.
After the imperial court banned the sea, the open customs duties were gone, and the commercial tax was repeatedly reduced, and most of them turned into filial piety and fell into the pockets of court officials.
It sounds like the prince of Liang is not worthy of attention, but in fact it is not the case. The title of kings is responsible for defending their territory and is to have certain military power. The position of governor was originally used to supervise these titles of kings. After the vassal was reduced, the power of governors increased sharply. In addition to local financial power and administrative power, they also served as military supervisor. Every time a new governor took office, the court would let him lead the army alone to check and balance local kings and princes.
In the peaceful era, the princes were stared at and the taxes were reduced, and the surviving princes and princes chose to reduce their troops, and most of the military defense was actually in the hands of the governor's court army.
But now the situation is different...
Now the strength of the Great Jin Dynasty is weak, external foreign countries invade one after another, and there are many rebellions within the Central Plains. The kings and princes who once had the responsibility to defend their territory were activated. From five years ago, King Liang submitted a letter to increase his troops and the court agreed, but asked the navy to join the new governor Luo Ji.
As the governor of Qingyang County, Deng He and Luo Ji's boss have worked with him for many years and are very clear about what kind of person the other party is. After he took over the power of the navy, he has been using it to make money. Now most of the navy are still scattered in the West Sea and don't know what they are doing. They can't even recall them in a hurry. Now, what can be relied on is still the King of Liang!
Deng He temporarily put down the busy things in his hands and personally brought people to the city gate to greet him. He also ordered his subordinates to invite the best doctor in the city to stand by in the yamen. The prince Xiao Heng was innately weak and was seriously ill in the past two years. King Liang did not come in person. He sent the prince to defend the city, which obviously also represented his attitude. He could not let the prince have an accident in his territory...
At the same time, at the city gate, soldiers from the Liang King's lineage came to the city gate early and were on guard. The refugees who had been wandering outside the city were directly expelled a few miles away. The hungry people did not dare to reason with the officers, and they all dared not speak out and were driven to the wasteland outside the city.
I only hope that the bullshit prince will enter the city as soon as possible and don’t delay the porridge dressing at the city gate today.
As war was approaching, Deng He naturally did not dare to let refugees enter at will, but Qingyang had good finances and abundant granaries. It was still possible to put some porridge and rice outside the city gate so that the refugees would not starve to death. The situation was much better than those in the famine areas in the northern part of the Mo.
The prince's team from afar was escorted by elite cavalry. The handsome young man with a jade-like face in the carriage raised the curtains slightly, looked at the refugees who were staring in the wasteland, and sighed slightly: "Pity..."
"Oh? Is the prince still in the mood to feel sorry for them?" A joking voice broke the weak young master's feelings in the carriage. No one might have expected that there would be someone else in the prince's carriage.
Unlike the weak and indifferent body of the prince Xiao Heng, the young man opposite him is energetic and has the flying spirit that young man should have, but his skin is a little dark, which doesn't look very good with the elegant blue shirt on his body.
"I'll just sigh..." Xiao Heng smiled slightly, not caring about the other party's teasing, but just said a few words, his face immediately turned red and coughed several times, obviously his body was not as weak as usual.
"I said..." The boy with a dark face on the opposite side frowned and said, "The template you chose is too weak, right?"
"What's the solution?" Xiao Heng rolled his eyes: "Identity card is like opening a blind box. Before choosing, you only knew the approximate identity, and the system wouldn't tell you anything. If I had known it was this sling, I would rather be a pirate like you..."
"Pirates are not that easy to be......" The black-faced boy shook his head: "I have many things that are uneasy."
"At least I'm in good health..." Xiao Heng looked at the other party with resentment.
"Where are you looking at?" The other party glared at him: "Can you have some promising luck?"
"Cough..." Xiao Heng coughed lightly and lowered his voice: "How many people can come from Kowloon Island?"
"If my cheap second brother keeps his promise, there should be five thousand men..."
"Enough..." Xiao Heng nodded.
"Are you sure enough?" the young man frowned and said, "Do you know how high Yuwen Hu is now?"
Chapter completed!