Dahan first prince

Chapter 223 Uncle Wang Does Not Know Something
Half an hour later, the Fengyi Palace, which was originally relaxed and comfortable, was suddenly occupied by a murderous aura!

After arranging all the prince's personal guards composed of the three captains of the southern army to the martial law around the palace, the prince's army commander, Chong Da, and the army's first captain, Quan Xu, also came to the main hall of the palace, waiting for Liu Instructions for the next step.

As for Liu Ying, she temporarily threw Liu Jiao and Liu Fei in the main hall, and reappeared in the main hall after changing into a crimson armor.

Almost at the same time when she re-entered the main hall, Liu Ying revealed the two major killers brought by Fengpei on this trip.

"Return to Qu Chenghou, and use the imperial edict given by the emperor before his departure to announce to the kings of Qi and Chu."

Sitting on the head with a solemn expression, she put the wooden box containing the tiger talisman on the wooden case, and Liu Ying handed the long box containing the imperial edict to Qu Chenghou Chongda.

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Chong Da also bowed his hands in a solemn expression and accepted the imperial edict with both hands respectfully, then turned around and spread the edict to face Liu Jiao, king of Chu, and Liu Fei, king of Qi, in the hall.

"——The prince's trip is rich, originally to worship the ancestors, but I occasionally heard: Huainan Wang Yingbu secretly stored soldiers, food and grass in his land, or plotted against him."

"Therefore, I leave this edict in the hands of the prince to prepare for any eventuality; if this edict is announced by the prince and the Marquis of Qu Cheng, it will be regarded as Huainan's rebellion."

He read out the first two sentences of the imperial edict in a calm tone, and Chongda did not forget to turn his head, and bowed his hands to Liu Ying with gratitude.

Then, under the solemn expressions of Liu Jiao and Liu Fei, the Chang'an court's arrangements for the Huainan Wang Yingbu's rebellion were all told by Chongda.

"I'm sick and recuperated in Chang'an. If Huainan is rebellious, I will be thousands of miles away and out of reach. Therefore, it is ordered: If Huainan is rebellious, the crown prince will be appointed as the commander in charge of suppressing the rebellion. Yu Fengpei swore an oath to fight against the rebellion!"

"All the prince's transfer orders are the same as my imperial edict. Where the prince is, it is as if I am here in person. Since the prime minister, Hou Xiaohe, the ministers, officials, noble relatives, and relatives of the princes and clans are not allowed to violate it. Those who violate it will be rebellious!"

"Written: Liu Fei, king of Qi, dispatched [-] troops from Qi; Liu Jiao, king of Chu, dispatched [-] troops from Chu; Liu Jia, king of Jing, dispatched [-] troops from Jing, thinking that the crown prince would use them to quell the rebellion."

"On the other hand, Li Shang, the Marquis of Qu Zhou, and Chai Wu, the Marquis of Chariots, dispatched 15 soldiers from Liang Guo to join the Prince's command; Zhang Cang, Marquis of Anguo, Wang Ling, Marquis of Anguo, and Chen Bi, Marquis of Boyang, dispatched [-] soldiers from Handan Guanzhong to the south!"

"Specially order Lu Wan, King of Yan, Liu Jiao, King of Chu, Liu Fei, King of Qi, Liu Jia, King of Zhao, Liu Ruyi, King of Zhao, and Wu Chen, King of Changsha: The importance of the prince is related to the country. If the prince is in danger, all the kings should do their best. There must be no mistakes in stopping state affairs and rushing to help with all our strength!"

"If it is not as good as the order, seize the king's title and become a commoner; if the prince ends up in misfortune, causing the ancestral temple to be uneasy, and the country is in danger of being overthrown, all kings who have not spared no effort to help will kill Luoyang and abandon the city!!!"

With an inexplicable cold tone, he read out the edict on the mobilization of counter-insurgency soldiers and horses. Chongda turned around again, handed the edict back to Liu Ying with both hands, and immediately held the hilt of his sword, posing The posture of a door god.

In the hall, Liu Fei and Liu Jiao, who were kneeling and prostrate after listening to the edict, looked at each other with suspicion, and then kowtowed to Liu Ying, who was above them.

"The courtiers of the king of Chu, and the ministers of the king of Qi, are obliged to obey the imperial edict..."

When the two stood up straight and walked forward with serious expressions, they saw dozens of figures quietly appearing outside the palace gate.

Without exception, these figures had three command flags tied behind them, were dressed in light armor, and had whips attached to their waists; under the long street outside the main hall, more than 20 horses had already been moved here.

As long as Liu Ying in the hall issued a transfer order, one of the dozen or so people would get it immediately, and immediately ran down the long steps, jumped on the back of the horse, and galloped out of the palace with one person and two horses.

And these dozens of people were tied behind their backs, and the order flags protruding from their shoulders may be a little strange to Qi Wang Liu Fei.

But for Liu Jiao, the king of Chu who fought with the emperor Liu Bang in the past half a century, the three command flags are not unfamiliar at all...

——Eight hundred miles hurry up!
Nodding to Chongda with a serious face, she put the edict back into the box. Liu Ying only took a deep breath, and began her own arrangements for counter-insurgency.

"That is to say: You Xiangguo and General Cheqi sent [-] soldiers from Liang to the south to garrison Nanjun and Nanyang counties, fortified the walls and cleared the fields, and firmly guarded the city. Don't let the Huainan bandits go west!"

"In addition, the right minister passed the lonely order to the king of Changsha: Huainan is ordered to the north, and the military disaster in Huainan must not be caused to extend to Changsha and even the land of Baiyue!"

Almost as soon as Liu Ying's words fell, the scribes at the desk picked up a piece of silk, carefully blew it twice, then put it into a thin wooden tube, and tied the mouth of the tube tightly with a string.

Cover the knot with ink pad and trot to Liu Ying. After Liu Ying pressed the shape of the ink pad with the prince's seal on her waist, the wooden tube was held by the scribe on her chest and trotted to the hall. at the door.

Then, one of the dozens of soldiers and scouts at the gate of the palace stood up, took the wooden tube with both hands, bowed deeply to Liu Ying with a serious expression, and immediately stuffed the wooden tube into his arms.

After the soldiers turned back and walked out of the palace gate, not a moment later, there was a sound of horseshoes that became more and more important outside the palace...

The first transfer order was sent out, but Liu Ying did not dare to delay, and continued to issue her own orders, and continued to use seals on the wooden tubes handed over by the scribes, and watched the military orders sent out of the hall.

"That is to say, Zhang Cang, Marquis of Beiping, Wang Ling, Marquis of Anguo, and Chen Bi, Marquis of Boyang, send 15 soldiers from Handan Pass to the south and stand by in Huaiyang County!"

"Guan Ying, Marquis of Yingyin, Zhou Zao, Marquis of Longlu, and Chai Wu, Marquis of Jipu, the general, will be the solitary counselors!"

"Let Lu Shizhi, the Marquis of Jiancheng, be the post-military supervisor, and take charge of the army's food and grass for transportation. He will take the grain and rice obtained from the Ao Cang by Pingyanghou Cao Shen, the prime minister of Qi, and wait for it to be distributed to the army!"

"Follow generals Lu Lu, Lu Tai, Lu Chan..."

As one after another was told by Liu Ying and sent out by the scouts, the expressions on the faces of King Liu Fei of Qi and King Liu Jiao of Chu became more solemn.

——This is the first time Qi Wang Liu Fei witnessed the outbreak of the war, the core decision-making body of the central counter-insurgency army, what a killing spirit!

As far as Chu Wang Liu Jiao is concerned, this rebellion is also closely related to Liu Jiao's fiefdom - Chu State.

Because Chu State, like Jing and Minyue to the east of Huainan State, Nanyue to the south of Huainan State, and Changsha State to the west of Huainan State, directly borders Huainan State!

Turning over the map, it is not difficult to find: Yingbu's Huainan Kingdom, as a rare superpower in the Kanto with a distance of more than a thousand miles from north to south and [-] miles from east to west, its territory is extremely vast!

If compared to the land area, I am afraid that only Yan State in the northeast corner of the Han Dynasty's territory can barely compete with Huainan State.

And the land is large, which means that the border of Huainan is very long, and there are more neighboring countries.

——South of Huainan is Nanyue, which faces Huainan and Changsha across five mountains and is controlled by Zhao Tuo, a remnant of the former Qin Dynasty;
Edong is Minzhong, which is controlled by three people, King Wuzhu of Minyue, Wang Yao of Dongou, and Wang Zhi of Nanhai, and the Jing Kingdom of the clan Liu Jia.

To the west is the Changsha Kingdom of the second Changsha King Wu Chen, as well as Nanyang and Nanjun Erjun.

To the north is Huaiyang County...
And Liu Jiao's Chu State!
But at this moment, the news of Yingbo's rebellion was almost sent to Fengpei Palace where Liu Ying was located, together with the news that "Jing King Liu Jia was attacked by Yingbo, defeated and left, and his whereabouts are unknown".

This means that Jing Guo, with a high probability, has escaped the control of the Han Dynasty.

In other directions, Nanyue in the south of Huainan and Central Fujian in the northeast will most likely not become the targets of Yingbu.

The reason is simple: Guanzhong is in the northwest of Huainan State.

Even if the army rebelled, Yingbo's ultimate goal would inevitably be Guanzhong.

Attacking central Fujian, or even crossing Wuling to attack South Vietnam, is obviously contrary to Yingbu's motive of "raising troops to rebel and seeking to seize the world".

The south and southeast were excluded, and the Changsha country in the southwest was also likely to be sent by Yingbu for the same reason.

In Nanjun and Nanyang counties due to the west, Liu Ying had just sent Li Shang and Jin She to garrison with Liang Guobing;

Huainan County in the north direction is even garrisoned by the Guanzhong army that came south from Handan!

In this way, Yingbu, who is unable to go north and west, and has already taken control of Jing, has almost only one feasible goal left...
"Go!"

While Liu Jiao was thinking, Liu Ying's deep voice sounded again, causing Liu Jiao to raise his head.

Seeing that Liu Ying looked at Liu Jiao and Liu Fei with a solemn expression, but her mouth still had a withered tone.

"The king of Chu will return to Pengcheng immediately, and send all [-] Chu soldiers to Huainan!"

"In addition, the king of Qi sent out [-] Qi soldiers, and Cao Can, the prime minister of Qi, Pingyanghou, will be the general to help the king of Chu guard against thieves!"

As soon as the words were finished, the scribe picked up two pieces of silk and blew on them, and then looked at Liu Ying tentatively.

When Liu Ying shook her head in the direction of Liu Jiao and Liu Fei, the scribes bowed their hands a little bit, and sent the two freshly released transfer orders to Liu Jiao and Liu Fei.

Seeing the military transfer order for the first time in his life, Qi Wang Liu Fei adjusted his clothes solemnly, took the silk cloth with a solemn expression, and immediately bowed his hands to Liu Ying.

Liu Jiao, on the other hand, was a little calmer. After receiving the transfer order, he checked the content immediately, and after confirming that it was correct, he bowed to Liu Ying.

"Follow Your Highness's military orders."

After saluting, Liu Jiao stood up straight, the general ordered him to carefully put his sleeves back, and immediately raised his head, looking at Liu Ying with some hesitation.

"Your Highness."

"The Huainan thieves have already raised their troops, and the country of Jing may be within reach of the soldiers."

"The King of Thorns..."

He said a word with a gloomy face, and seeing Liu Jiao sighed a little, he looked at Liu Ying again.

"Although the king of Jing has already been defeated in front of the battle for a thief, the country of Jing still has tens of thousands of soldiers capable of fighting."

"Chen Yi: Your Highness seems to send troops to help, to relieve Jing's difficulties?"

Carefully speaking, Liu Jiao did not forget to quickly add: "Zongjing Kingdom has been owned by thieves, but King Jing will eventually be a clan relative."

"If King Jing is captured by thieves, is it possible that the Chang'an court and His Majesty's prestige will be damaged?"

Hearing Liu Jiao's tentative question, Liu Ying shook her head and sighed, with a little helplessness on her face.

At this moment, the news from Jing State is: Yingbu raised his troops and marched eastward.

But according to the memory of Liu Ying's previous life, at this moment, King Jing Liu Jia may have already caught up with the Yingbo army who chased him down and killed Fuling...

As early as Liu Ying hadn't set off from Chang'an, or even decided to go out to suppress the rebellion, this matter had already been in Liu Ying's mind, and she didn't want to let it go for a long time.

——Do you want to do something to save Liu Jia's life?
This idea was not completely given up by Liu Ying until an hour ago.

But in the end, even though Liu Ying knew about Liu Jia's death in battle, she still had to sit back and watch Liu Jia. According to the course of history, she was besieged and killed in Fuling by Yingbo.

The reason, but three points.

First of all, as a clan vassal, Liu Jia naturally had the obligation to 'guard against vassals with different surnames, and send troops to assist the Chang'an Central Committee in countering the rebellion when the vassals with different surnames rebelled'.

This made the plan of "notifying Liu Jia in advance to leave the country and flee" completely unworkable.

Back then, when Han Wangxin colluded with the Xiongnu and triggered the Han-Hungarian Battle of Pingcheng, Liu Xi, the elder brother of today's son Liu Bang, lost his kingship because he left the feudal kingdom and fled.

According to Liu Ying's only understanding of Liu Jia, it is absolutely impossible for Liu Jia to do something like 'run away before the battle'.

To be precise: among the dozens of members of the Liu clan who are still alive today, the only one who can do such a thing is Liu Xi, who is an outlier...

Secondly, it is a very helpless question: Chang'an Chaotang is very confident in Liu Jia...
——Yingbo occupies thousands of miles of land in Huainan. Once he rebels, the flames of war will inevitably spread to most of the Kanto region!
However, in the case of wasting time going south, and going north and west, there is a high probability that they will encounter the central army of Chang'an, taking Jingguo to the east is almost an inevitable choice for Yingbo.

Learn from the east, then seek Chu and Qi in the north, and get the soldiers and horses of the three kingdoms of Jing, Chu, and Qi, so that Yingbu can have the ability to head-to-head with the Chang'an Central Army.

And under the premise that "Once Yingbo rebelled, he would inevitably attack Jing Guo first", Liu Ying, as a weak crowned prince who "knows nothing about military affairs", really had a hard time convincing the Chang'an court that as long as Yingbo rebelled, Jing Guo It will be torn apart like a piece of paper!

After all, according to the rumors in the market, King Jing Liu Jia is also a general who is 'shorter than strategy, but brave', and is also a rare 'knowledge soldier' ​​among the clan...

In the end, it was Liu Ying's consideration from a practical point of view.

——If nothing else happens, Huainan Wang Yingbu will fail no matter what.

After the defeat of Yingbo, the vacated Huainan Kingdom will naturally be entrusted to the clan, and there is a high probability that it will be entrusted to the few remaining young sons of Liu Bang who have not yet been entrusted.

In this case, there is no need for Liu Jia's mission of 'sitting on the territory of Wu to guard against Yingbu'.

And according to Liu Ying's memory, Jing Guo, or the future Wu Guo, although the development level is not high, and there are swamps all over, but the copper mine grain storage is extremely huge!

At the moment when the five baht coin is about to be issued, the minting rights have been transferred to the central government, and the mineral mining rights are all owned by the central government, Liu Ying is really reluctant to let a copper mine "gathering place" like Wu be controlled by a distant relative like Liu Jia. .

——Let my younger brother come over to dig copper mines and mint some five baht coins. Isn't it fragrant?
Combining all these factors, Liu Yingcai finally chose to remain silent, and watched Liu Jia die under the "rebellion flare gun" launched by Huainan Wang Yingbu.

Logically speaking, Liu Ying should not be too indifferent to Liu Jiao's proposal of "whether to support Jing Guo, or at least rescue Liu Jia".

But as early as when she made up her mind to keep silent about Liu Jia's death, Liu Ying had already anticipated the current situation.

Even if she had expected it, Liu Ying was already prepared for this question.

"Ugh······"

"Uncle Wang doesn't know..."

　I was delayed for a long time yesterday, and I came back in the early morning, just waking up.

　　What I owed yesterday, I made it up in the early morning, and I changed it twice today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)