Destiny Only Han

Chapter 659 Liu Ying: Go to Chang'an first and be king?

Nanhai County, Panyu County.

Nanhai County Magistrate Chen Ying sat cross-legged behind the table, with a salivating expression on his face.

In front of him, on a white and crystal-clear porcelain plate, was a yellow butter crab.

Ever since Liu Ying treated her to a meal of hairy crabs in Chang'an last time, as a native of Zhejiang, Chen Ying has completely fallen in love with this sweet and elegant umami.

Fortunately, although the quality of river crabs in Nanhai County is not high, the quality of sea crabs is extremely high, especially this kind of creamy butter crab, which is an imperial enjoyment!

Just when Chen Ying was about to feast, enjoying the ultimate freshness blooming between his lips and teeth, a sweaty man ran in from outside, sat down on the opposite side of Chen Ying, raised the tea he was going to use to wash his hands and drank it all in one gulp .

While Chen Ying was full of confusion, the man smiled and said: "The county guard is so elegant... I don't like to eat this food, but pig's trotters are more enjoyable to eat!"

Chen Ying was a little helpless, the name of this person was Xu Chai, and he was now the captain of Nanhai County.

Like him, Xu Guai was also a surrendered general of the Chu people, but his surrender was more pure and thorough. The year Xu Guai surrendered to Liu Bang was the second year of the Han Dynasty, that is, the year Liu Bang invaded Pengcheng with an army of 56.

That year, Xu Chai was a general of Chu, and Linji (now Fengqiu County, Henan Province) was ordered to guard Linji (now Fengqiu County, Henan Province), which was an important place in Western Chu, but the Han army was powerful, so Xu Chai surrendered and became a doctor next to Liu Bang. In the Battle of Gaixia, he commanded the infantry and faced the Chu army led by Xiang Yu head-on, so he was named Yanhou, but there were not many food towns, only [-] households.

Although Xu Guai didn't respect him too much at the moment, Chen Ying was not dissatisfied at all.

After all, Chen Ying knew very well that in order to go further, Xu Guai had already cast himself under the gate of the Eastern Palace, so he was able to use the lowest-level Marquis of [-] households to squeeze out a lot of households with [-] or [-] households. He took the post of county lieutenant with a silver seal and green ribbon and a rank ratio of two thousand stones!
Well, today's Lingnan has long been a wild place that people feared like a tiger and avoided it during the Qin Dynasty.

On the contrary, every year, hundreds of small-land farmers from all over the world come here to make a living.

They may enter the plantation to work, find out the growth pattern of the crops and buy land to open up wasteland by themselves, or pool money to buy a boat to go to sea, catch fish and shrimp, and smuggle some spices, pearls and gemstones by the way...

This is even more true for those dignitaries of the current dynasty. After all, a thriving place always has enough capital for promotion.

Of course, this is only limited to Nanhai County.

After all, the Pearl River Delta has a unique geographical environment. During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, when Guangxi and Fujian were mostly poor, Guangzhou was very rich. It is an international metropolis that is not inferior to Chang'an, Luoyang, and Chengdu...

Therefore, Chen Ying, who is also under the Eastern Palace Gate, put down the butter crab in his hand, looked at Xu Cai and asked, "What's the matter here, Marquis Yan?"

Xu Cai took out a bamboo tube from his sleeve, and carefully took out the letterhead inside.

"Please look at the county guard, this is an edict to dispatch troops, ordering Nanhai County to dispatch [-] elite troops to obey orders at any time..."

Chen Ying wiped his hands, took the letter and read it again, raised his head and asked in a puzzled way: "The seal is correct, Yanhou just obeys orders and dispatches troops, why do you need to tell me?"

After all, the county lieutenant is in charge of the garrison of the county, directly under the imperial court, and resists the county guard. Therefore, after having the troop transfer document, it is enough to mobilize the army according to the order, and there is no need to report to the county guard.

Xu Cai shook his head, took out another letter from his sleeve, unfolded it in front of Chen Ying, and raised his eyebrows:
"The sheriff will see."

Chen Ying leaned over to read it full of doubts, and found that this was the normal correspondence between Liu Ying and Xu Cai, and there was nothing wrong with the greetings and speeches.

Of course, it is not ruled out that those "inappropriate things" were erased by Xu Guai in advance.

So when he looked at Xu Cai, he tilted his head slightly to express his confusion.

Xu Cai said mysteriously: "The county guard compared the family letter written by the prince with the document written by His Majesty."

Chen Ying put the troop transfer documents and letters together, his eyes widened quickly in the next second, and when he looked at Xu Cai, he was full of panic and doubt.

The handwriting of the two letters is exactly the same!
"Why is the prince dispatching troops?"

"What does the Sheriff think?"

Looking at Xu Guai's hinting face, Chen Ying's fear grew even heavier.

"What do you mean?" Chen Ying lowered her voice, only feeling a dry mouth: "The crown prince wants to..."

Xu Chai nodded, and also lowered his voice and said:

"I heard from my family that there is a saying in Chang'an that His Majesty seems to have a heart for storage!"

"Your Majesty always said that the king of Zhao is like himself, and Mrs. Qi is charming and charming, which won His Majesty's heart... and the Queen is old and decrepit, and loves to gallop. The subject reprimanded him face to face, and even beat him in court..."

Chen Ying nodded lightly, feeling that what Xu Guai said made sense, especially the fact that Liu Bang often beat Liu Ying, he had heard about it many years ago...

"I regret being born in the emperor's family the most, Your Highness is too pitiful..."

Xu Chai nodded in agreement, took out a map from his sleeve again, and spread it out on the table:

"Governor, please look, His Highness is leading troops southward, and based on the date when the letter was sent, His Highness should have arrived at the junction of Nanjun and Changsha Kingdom!"

"If it is true as His Highness said, to conquer the Yunnan barbarians, the army should go to Bashu, march forward along the five-foot road, and then join forces with the mobilized army to fight the Yunnan barbarians decisively. How can they go south via Changsha?"

"I've heard that Changsha King Wu Chen and His Majesty are brothers and sisters, and the succession to the throne is all thanks to His Highness!"

"The county guard thinks, is your highness pretending to go south, but in fact he is mobilizing troops to go north and kill treacherous men?"

Chen Ying was stunned for a moment, feeling that this guy's brain was too open.

However, many things in the world cannot be deduced with common sense, so what Xu Guai said may not be pure speculation.

What if?
So those of them who have been tied to the East Palace for a long time must do something!
So Chen Ying nodded lightly, but said hesitantly:

"In my opinion, according to what His Highness said, the choice of three thousand elites to obey orders is... If there is really a change in the world, we will definitely be notified by His Highness in advance."

Xu Chai shook his head and said:
"The words of the county guard are an old-fashioned move to seek the country, but they are not in line with the current situation. If the world really changes to the point where we need to send troops to the south of the Lingnan to put an end to the chaos, I am afraid that we can only quickly stop it. First Qi Zhao's army stationed in Guanzhong!"

"You must know that the division of the world is not limited to the kings of different surnames! There are changes in the court, and the kings can also raise troops to serve the king!"

"I think we should order the army and horses immediately, and march north to meet His Highness!"

Looking at the aggressive Xu Guai, Chen Ying was momentarily at a loss.

After all, he is not a person who can take responsibility.

After Chen Sheng and Wu Guangze Township started an uprising, young people from Dongyang County killed the county magistrate, gathered thousands of people, and elected him as the leader. Afterwards, the team quickly expanded to 2 people. Because they wrapped their heads with blue scarves, they called themselves Cangtou Army !
If it were someone else, it would be natural for them to compete in the world and become the king and hegemony, but Chen Ying took his army and defected to Xiang Liang. There were only eight thousand children from the east of the river, and Xiang Liang who had not yet supported Xiong Xin as the king of Chu...

So at this moment, Xu Guai asked him to agree to the suggestion of Qing Nanhai County's soldiers to go north.

Seeing Chen Ying's expression full of hesitation, although Xu Cai scolded coward and cunning in his heart, he said without changing his face:
"The sheriff is unwilling to go through fire and water for His Highness, and I don't force it... I only have one request, and that is to ask the sheriff to forget what happened today, and you and I will be safe!"

After he finished speaking, he watched Chen Ying nod his head slightly, then stood up abruptly, and strode out.

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Changsha State, Changsha County.

Accompanied by Changsha King Wu Chen, Liu Ying wandered around, inspecting the cotton and wool textile workshop he and Wu Chen jointly opened.

Now Changsha County, an altruistic city, already has some prototypes for future generations, at least the number of women is much more than that of men.

After all, for a long time, the wages of women and children were lower than those of men, especially the wages of women textile workers.

Therefore, this is also the reason why large-scale industrial production first started from the textile industry.

The barriers to entry are low, and the profits of finished products are acceptable, so investors are naturally flocking to them.

In the textile workshop, Liu Ying touched the finished felt and felt that it was thick and dense. Although the warmth retention effect was not as good as the down jackets filled with goose feathers in later generations, it was much better than the cotton jacket.

These thick felts are the guarantee for Liaodong County to continue to expand northward.

With the vigorous development of the shipbuilding industry, the primeval forests in Liaodong and Liaoxi counties that have grown freely for tens of thousands of years are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye. Therefore, if you want to get wood for building large ships, you must continue to go north and go deep into that area. Plant a place with one or two meters of snow in winter!
Well, the navigation industry in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was sluggish, not only because of Japanese pirates or sea bans, but mainly because the trees in the Ming Dynasty were almost cut down.

Just as the Dutch used to build large ships sustainably, they planted oak everywhere.

It's a pity that a hundred years later the oak had grown into useful material, and the wooden boats on the sea had almost disappeared, and the boats across the ocean had turned into big iron shells that the ancients couldn't figure out even if they wanted to break their heads a hundred years ago...

However, this kind of worry about insufficient wood is still early for the Han Dynasty. Today, the Han Dynasty Navy only has more than 20 large ships. Even with the clipper ships for freight, there are no more than [-] large ships.

And when the Dutch were worried, the Royal Navy of the Netherlands had 1000 or [-] warships, and countless merchant ships!
That's why he got the name Sea Coachman!
But the tragedy of the Netherlands is that heaven is too far away and France is too close. After being messed up by the French a few times, the sea coachman retired and went home to plant tulips...

Just as Liu Ying walked out of this workshop and was about to go to the next workshop, Zhang Buyi walked in from the outside with a strange expression on his face.

"what happened?"

"People from Changsha came to report just now, saying that they found Nanhai County soldiers in the southern border, about 2 people..."

Liu Ying: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

(End of this chapter)