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Chapter 704 Three Gorges
A small boat is drifting along the Yangtze River.

Yu Desheng was lying on the boat, looking back, he could not see the prefectural city of Chongqing.

Chongqing should have been lost.

Incredibly fast.

It can only be said that he was really lucky. Last night, because he missed the prosperity of Lin'an, he was not resettled in the back office of the government office arranged by Ma Qian, so he went to the city alone to find a restaurant.

After hearing the commotion in the city, he rushed to the government office to have a look, and saw Zhang Jue leading a group of soldiers rushing past from a distance.

Someone was holding Ma Qian's head...

That scene gave Yu Desheng an extremely unreal feeling.

It's as if Zhang Jue is the defender of Chongqing City.

And Ma Qian seems to be a fake Kuizhou Road appeasement envoy, holding the Ningjiang army, controlling the Chongqing government, and his prestige and power in the army, all of which are easily exposed like a lie.

Ridiculous.

Ma Qian's painstakingly managed defense line seemed to be a strong and beautiful fortress built on quicksand, but Li Xia and Zhang Jue didn't attack it at all, they only dug the foundation, and the fortress sank.

Why is the foundation missing?
"Because these warriors are rotten to the root!"

Yu Desheng felt angry.

In the past, he was angry with this civil servant of the Song Dynasty for being greedy for money, so he swears that he will devote his whole life to helping Jia Sidao to practice the law of public land.

Today, he is angry that the military general of the Song Dynasty is afraid of death, and when the rebels kill him, everyone only knows how to protect themselves, and they are waiting for the wind to surrender, and there are only a few who dare to stand up and resist.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers in Sichuan and Shu were so rotten, the foundations were rotten, and the forts would naturally sink as soon as they were dug.

After this big setback, it is even more difficult to check and balance Li Xia in military matters.

Even Ma Qian and his son couldn't deal with Li Xia. Now, the generals in Sichuan, in terms of general talent and prestige, who can beat him directly?

It can only be said that there is no hero at the time, making Shuzi famous...

Thinking of this, Yu Desheng knew that he was powerless to restore the situation in Sichuan.After much deliberation, it is better to return Lin'an and ask Jia Sidao to make a decision.

Suddenly, a horn sounded behind him.

Yu Desheng looked back and was taken aback.

I saw more than ten large and small warships coming down the river.

"Zhang Jue actually sent so many people to hunt and kill me?!"

He murmured in his heart that it was not good, and hurriedly asked the boatman to row to the south bank.

This scene seems familiar.

It turned out to be the same as when he fled in Chengdu, but he was even more embarrassed...

~~
Shi Yan stood at the bow of the boat with his saber in hand, feeling majestic and majestic. He turned his head and looked around, as if he was looking forward to his own strength.

Thinking that he was only 15 years old, but he had quelled the Maqian Rebellion with Zhang Jue, and he couldn't help feeling proud.

"Uncle, are we going to recover Fuzhou?"

Shi Jin was looking at the evasive boats on the river, and said casually: "Don't say 'recovery', it sounds like the rebels captured Fuzhou, we just went to suppress Fuzhou, and see if there are any unsightly I want to rebel with Maqian."

"Oh." Shi Yan said: "By the way, Deputy Commander Zhang interrogated several of Ma Qian's subordinates, and said that a gentleman from Lin'an came to accompany Ma Qian these days. Why didn't Deputy Commander Zhang order to arrest that gentleman?" ?”

"What are you doing here? We are fighting, not government servants."

"Of course it is to find out who instigated Ma Qian's rebellion." Shi Yan said as a matter of course: "This is a big case."

Shi Jin didn't bother to talk to this innocent boy.

There are some things that even he knows well.

Big case shit.

Who directed Ma Qian's rebellion, what is there to investigate?

Of course, it is the stupid king who forced Yu Shuai to death and wronged Pu Shuai... No, it is the new stupid king.

As for Vice Marshal Zhang, how could he find time to search for a scholar?

When we arrive in Lin'an, those treacherous ministers will catch a lot of them?

"uncle?"

"Why do you keep arguing with me?"

"You haven't said why Vice Marshal Zhang didn't handle this big case."

Shi Jin patted Shi Zao's helmet and scolded: "Since I promised you to join the army, I will be called 'General'. There is no uncle in the army."

"Yes!"

"It's okay to listen to storytelling. There are so many big cases. There are so many big cases. It's going to be spring plowing soon, and Deputy Commander Zhang is busy..."

~~
On this day, the westerly wind was strong, and more than a dozen warships were fully sailed, and with the help of the great river, they headed straight for Fuzhou at a very fast speed.

Hiding in the small boats by the river, Yu Desheng lowered his head and turned his back to Jiang Xin, and only let the boatmen set off again after the boats had gone far away.

He rejoiced in his heart, and said that thanks to his quick wit and good luck, he escaped Zhang Jue's pursuit one after another.

Presumably Li Xia came back as a spy from the Northland back then, that's all.

The boat continued to sail to the south of the Yangtze River.

Go with the flow.

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"In the seven hundred miles from the Three Gorges, there are mountains on both sides of the river, and there is no gap... Sometimes the emperor rises in the morning, and he arrives at Jiangling in the evening. During the two hundred miles, even if he rides on the wind, he will not be sick."

Yu Desheng's journey from Chongqing to Ezhou went smoothly and took eight days, and finally arrived in Ezhou on February 23.

The Ezhou wharf was busy, and Min Zhuang could be seen everywhere loading food, grass, and weapons onto warships, making preparations before sending troops.

Yu Desheng walked through the busy and lively street, and finally felt the atmosphere of the city that he hadn't seen for a long time.

Different from the wasteland in Sichuan and Shu, in the city on the south bank of the great river, the common people can be considered to have a life. Merchants, craftsmen, and ordinary people in the city walk on the long street, entertaining arts and operas, separated from the fields.

Yu Desheng likes such people, they are not as numb as Shu people, and their faces are more lively.

All the way into the government office, met Lu Wende.

After describing everything that happened in the Chongqing Mansion, Yu Desheng closed his eyes, and was ready to listen to Lu Wende's foul language.

One can imagine how furious Lu Wende would be.

Son-in-law Fan Wenhu was beaten to death by Li Xia just above the main hall, which was a shame in his life.

How can it be done without revenge?
However, the hall was quiet for a long time.

"Shuai Lu?" Yu Desheng finally couldn't hold back, and repeated it again, saying, "Chongqing Mansion is lost."

"What do you want me to say?"

Lu Wende gritted his teeth and squeezed out words almost word for word.

His face was already flushed red.

When Yu Desheng's eyes fell, he saw that the veins on Lu Wende's hands were bursting, so he could only lower his head and look at those big boat-like feet.

"I planned to leave for Shu in two days... Before I can raise my troops, Ma Qian has already lost Chongqing... What else can I say?"

"This... is indeed too fast." Yu Desheng responded, "If Marshal Lu can march to Wanzhou in a hurry..."

"Wanzhou ass!"

Lu Wende didn't want to talk anymore, but was finally angered by Yu Desheng.

"The appeasement envoys on Kuizhou Road died for ten days. How can I pass when I go up the Yangtze River and march to the Three Gorges?! I will give you 30 troops. Go and try it! If you can't beat it, let me tear you apart How are you?!"

Spit splashed all over Yu Desheng's face.

He thought of coming this way, and when he passed the Badong Three Gorges, the precipitous terrain of "heavy rocks, hidden from the sky and the sun", still felt his heart tremble.

Suddenly, the Three Gorges became a moat between the imperial court and the rebels...

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In late spring and March, warblers fly and grass grows in the south of the Yangtze River.

Lin'an.

Mr. Jia Pingzhang, who had just been awarded the title of "Pingzhang Military and State Important Affairs", sat on the grand master's chair, and his face did not change from the beginning to the end.

At the end of Yu Desheng's words, he gradually felt a chill down his spine.

He hoped that Mr. Pingzhang would stop staring at him with that gaze.

If Lu Wende's anger is like a scorching sun, today Ping Zhanggong's anger is like a thousand years of ice, which made Yu Desheng tremble.

"You said, how many days did Li Xia take Chongqing?"

Yu Desheng didn't dare to say it, but he still responded: "The student only knows that Zhang Jue killed Ma Qian the night after Li Xia entered Hezhou, so it only took two days... As for Kuizhou later... How about the road, the students were already...already...by the way, when the students passed through Fuzhou, Fuzhou had already fallen into the hands of Li Xia."

"Have you met Lu Wende?"

"Yes, Lu Shuai said...the Three Gorges is a natural danger, there is really no way for him to get there."

In fact, Yu Desheng believed that if Lu Wende could send troops in the first place, regardless of whether Li Xia had controlled the entire Kuizhou Road when he arrived at the Badong Three Gorges, the situation would be better than later.

Not sending troops would only allow Li Xia to gain a firmer foothold in Padang.

However, he is just a staff member, and he does not have the power to issue orders to Lu Wende.

It is the Prime Minister of the Left, oh, Pingzhanggong, that is, Pingzhanggong holds the military and political power in the world and has the right to mobilize troops and horses, but the power to command the troops still rests with the local generals. Can't be forced.

Yu Desheng didn't think he was guilty of these things.

He was ordered to enter Shu, and his duty was only to persuade Ma Qian to deal with Li Xia and provide information on Chengdu, but now it was too involved, so he had to defend himself a few words.

"The reason why Li Xia was able to surrender the generals of the Chongqing government so quickly was because the imperial court did not declare that he had conspired against him. If the imperial court issued an imperial edict, it must be..."

"Go." Jia Sidao suddenly said, "Go to the procuratorate and listen."

Yu Desheng didn't know what to listen to.

He followed two small officials into the procuratorate, and from a distance, he heard someone in the hall making a speech.

"Today's generals, there are many who look and fear, protect the wealth and honor, and are greedy for their own money! But Li Jieshuai is not the same. .In battle, relatives take arrows and stones, serve as soldiers first, destroy the best and attack the sharpest. If you are invincible, you don’t know your own body, and you are loyal to the country. Since you are in charge of the country’s laws, how can you harm loyal officials?!"

"..."

Yu Desheng had already walked into the hall, and he caught sight of the person who was speaking. He was a middle-aged official with a square face, and he must have been Jiang Chun.

He had heard Jiang Chun's name mentioned by the little official, and he knew that Jiang Chun was seeking an official for Li Xia.

As for what Jiang Chun said just now, the so-called "serving oneself with the utmost respect" and "sharing the joys and sorrows" and the fact that military generals like to buy the morale of the army, isn't that the ironclad evidence that Li Xia wants to rebel?

Jiang Chun did it on purpose. What he said was exactly the commentary on Yue Fei by people at that time, and it was also one of the causes of Yue Fei's death.

The principle of self-pollution and self-protection was taught by Wang Jian to generals in the world more than 1000 years ago. When Wang Jian went to Chu, he kept asking King Qin for fertile land and beautiful houses and gardens.

Yue Fei doesn't understand?
He understands.

However, relying on talent refuses to hide itself.

Li Xia doesn't understand?
He understands.

However, the bones are too hard, and he has to challenge the court.

Do not shy away from taboo.

……

"Cheng Yuanfeng falsely accused the commander-in-chief of rebellion, and this is the injustice of the hero. But Ma Qian..."

"Jiang Zaiyang! Are you done yet?!"

"Today I just ask you, since Cheng Yuanfeng has taken the blame, why didn't the court punish Ma Qian? Why didn't the court justify Li Jieshuai's innocence?!"

"clean?"

Some of the officials who were arguing with Jiang Chun stepped forward and shouted: "Li Xia doesn't want to rebel? Do you remember that he raised private soldiers in Weiqingfu County? Do you remember that he married a wife of a different race and forged his native place? Do you remember that he had no imperial edict? Sending troops to Longxi and Dali? Remember that he sneaked through the customs of the Mongolian giants?"

"That's right! If it's all kinds of things, don't you want to fight back?!"

"Cheng Yuanfeng took the blame, and the blame lies in authoritarianism, not Li Xia..."

At this time, Jiang Chun found out that Jia Sidao had sent someone, and suddenly laughed, shook his sleeves, raised his head with his hands behind his back, and said proudly: "Then you can ask the officials to issue an edict to condemn Li Jieshuai." .”

"When I can't wait..."

The little official who had just been introduced by Yu Desheng suddenly came to the side of those officials and whispered a few times.

Occasionally, a few words faintly came out.

"...Chongqing...not for the time being...only a long-term plan..."

The faces of everyone in the hall changed suddenly.

What the official hadn't finished speaking earlier was swallowed abruptly.

"If you dare, then declare an order to the world and condemn Li Jieshuai." Jiang Chun sneered.

He had obviously received news from Chongqing, and he became more and more proud when he saw no one answered.

The square face is lifted higher and higher.

"It's useless to talk too much. If you don't convict, then discuss it. What's the reason?!"

(End of this chapter)