Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 456 Dream and Reality

Watching the Jiangnan navy march north, Li Hongji did not stay in the Jiangnan water village, waiting for the good news from the front line, but returned to Jinling.

Li Hongji received Li Jingzhao's order to supervise the country and gained great power in the south of the Yangtze River, but he failed to control everything as easily as he could.

The emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty was always Li Jing, and Li Jing, who moved his capital to Hongzhou, Nanchang Prefecture, the southern capital, had already regretted it.

Where is Jinling?
Where is Hongzhou?
The beautiful land in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial state of Jinling.

Since Wu Emperor Sun Shiwan established his capital here, Jinling has been the economic and cultural center of the south of the Yangtze River and the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties.

Although Hongzhou gave a hand to Wang Bo's "Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng" with its treasures of nature and outstanding people, its size is still a notch lower than that of Jinling.

The narrow Hongzhou is not enough to accommodate even the barracks and official dormitories of the officials accompanying them. The officials miss the life in Jinling day and night.

Li Jing regretted and was angry. Tang Hao, who was the first to propose moving the capital, looked at him and was frightened to death.

Li Jing had the intention of returning to Jinling. Only a small part of the Manchu civil and military forces in Jinling supported Li Hongji's supervision of the country, and most of them responded with an attitude of opposition.

Li Hongji was too rigid, and he spent [-]% of the Jiangnan court's taxes on military affairs.

Expand the Jiangnan navy, build ships and equipment, buy oil at high prices, and make fire-breathing warships, the artifacts of water warfare.

Jiangnan Qingliu was dissatisfied with Li Hongji's disregard for people's livelihood, arty celebrities were dissatisfied with Li Hongji's stinginess and did not give money to support themselves, and the greedy courtiers in the temple also lost their way of making money.

Li Hongji, the prince, is a hater.

If it hadn't been for his move to earn enough military morale for him, he would have taken control of Jinling City's military power.

Li Hongji couldn't do it anymore.

Therefore, Li Hongji did not dare to stay away from Jinling, fearing that the temple officials would take the opportunity to welcome his father Li Jing back to Jinling.

Returning to the Southern Tang Palace, seeing no one around, he sat on the dragon chair generously.

Li Hongji's mood improved a lot, and he ordered Chen Qiao to be invited here.

Chen Qiao is an old man in the Southern Tang Dynasty, with a strong temper. Li Min, the Liezu, Shiqian Shangshulang worshiped Zhongshusheren. He has high qualifications in the Southern Tang court, but he is not valued very much, and has always been on the same level.

Li Hongji also looked down on Chen Qiao at the beginning. In his opinion, literati are arty people who only know about boasting.

If you want to be a strong country, you have to be like the Central Plains, attach importance to generals, and respect martial arts.

Until Chen Qiao recommended himself to the door and talked about the strategy of strengthening the country.

Only then did Li Hongji realize that his father still had such a treasure under his command.

Chen Qiao talked to Li Hongji a lot, but in general it was just four words "a navy builds a country".

Chen Qiao told Li Hongji very bluntly that it was too late to develop armaments at this time.

Not to mention that the infantry of the Central Plains have been in battle for a long time, the imperial battalion division, the palace division, and the bodyguard division, even the frontier troops of the Luo Yu Dynasty are now constantly using the Dingnan army for military training.

The physique of this northerner is better than that of the southerner, plus all the factors of the cavalry in the Central Plains.

Now Jiangnan has no chance of winning on pawns.

The development of the navy is the foundation of Jiangnan to build a country and the strategy of resisting the enemy.

The navy is powerful and can block the natural moat of the Yangtze River.The navy is so powerful that it can come and go freely in the Jianghuai water network.

Jiangnan has an invincible naval force, which can attack when advancing and defend when retreating.

No luck.

The Central Plains water army was founded only a little over a year ago, and Jiangnan has always been known for its water army, so there is every chance that newcomers will come out on top.

Li Hongji was astonished as a man of heaven, and immediately recommended Chen Qiao to be promoted as a servant of the sect, and also as an assistant to the Guangzheng Yuan, responsible for military and state affairs.

With the help of the civil and military couple Chen Qiao and Chai Kehong, Li Hongji successfully built a well-equipped Jiangnan navy.

It is also because of having such a powerful navy that Li Hongji has the courage to challenge the Central Plains.

"Mr. Chen!"

Seeing Chen Qiao entering, Li Hongji immediately went down to the hall to greet him.

"Sir, Sir, Chief Chai has already led his troops to the north. As long as we break through the Jiangbei water village, our navy can block the Jianghuai water network. You can even drive straight in, and go straight to Shouzhou or Bianjing, and give them a soldier to come to the city! Haha , when the time comes, Luo Youdu, who is kept in Chengdu, will be so frightened that he will withdraw his troops and return to the division.”

Li Hongji was often reprimanded by Li Jing because of Luo Youdu.

He hated Luo Youdu, thinking about the scene, Li Hongji couldn't help being excited.

Chen Qiao frowned slightly, and said: "Your Highness, don't be too ambitious. It is the kingly way to rule the south of the Yangtze River with the navy. The Central Plains has become a big trend, and it is difficult to confront it head-on."

Li Hongji hurriedly said: "Sir, what you said is true. What should our army do next?"

Chen Qiao said: "To defeat the Central Plains navy under Commander Zhang Xiong is not considered a formidable force. Our real opponent is Lin Renzhao. This man is unparalleled in bravery and is good at water warfare. Only by destroying his subordinates can we in the south of the Yangtze River rest easy. "

Li Hongji said confidently: "Don't worry, sir, my Jiangnan navy has a special trick to deal with Lin Renzhao. To play with fire, I, Jiangnan, are the ancestors."

The two started a series of discussions on how to deal with Lin Renzhao, who was attacking Ezhou, until they were satisfied with each other.

Li Hongji was running back and forth, and wasted a lot of brainpower to deal with Lin Renzhao. In addition to the excitement last night, he had no sleep all night and his energy was low, so he took a short rest in the hall.

It took more than two hours to close my eyes.

Li Hongji had a sweet dream, dreaming that he was riding on a navy boat in the south of the Yangtze River, and was about to advance into Bianjing City under the gaze of thousands of people.

Just as he was sleeping soundly, he vaguely heard the long ringing of the alarm bell.

He walked out of the side hall ignorantly, but saw a group of flustered civil and military ministers dragging their families and running into the palace city.

The entire front hall of the palace city was in a mess, and the handsome ministers were as embarrassed as refugees.

"what happened?"

Li Hongji looked at the frightened and angry minister, and asked the imperial army beside him.

The forbidden army also looked at a loss.

Li Hongji sent someone to inquire about the situation, and after asking around, no one knew what was going on.

The alarm bell sounded suddenly in the sky above Jinling.

The first to react to this will always be the dignitaries and nobles located near the imperial city.

Those with high status directly dragged their families to squeeze into the imperial city, while those with low status sealed their homes and hid cautiously.

As for the situation and where the enemy came from, they didn't know at all.

Hearing the alarm, hiding is the kingly way, who cares who the enemy is?

Where did it come from?
Li Hongji was furious. He was dreaming of entering Bianjing. Before entering the city, his Jinling was attacked?
It was not until one hour later that Li Hongji got accurate information from the guard Ma Chengxin.

The rebel general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhu Yuan, who caused the defeat of Zijin Mountain, led three thousand Qingqi into the west city of Jinling.

Upon receiving this news, Li Hongji almost fainted, and said in a voiceless voice, "How is it possible? Where did Zhu Yuan come from?"

No one can answer this question.

Because of the natural moat of the Yangtze River, there is no defense at all above and below Jinling City.

Shu Yuan knew Jinling's situation too well, so he boldly rushed to the gate of Jinling with a hundred cavalry as the front, flying the Li character flag.

The Jinling guards thought that the prince was coming and wanted to come up to greet him...

As a result, Shu Yuan took a stab at the head and directly entered Jinling West City.

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