Flower Stealing Master Chapter 1978: Changes in Yangzhou
The two rode all the way to the north. On the way, Song Qing suddenly asked, "Since the Red Coat Army and the Yang family have such a connection, why did the court just ignore it? As far as I know, Liu Wei, the Huaidong system, led the soldiers. Where is Wan based in Chuzhou, Xia Quan is so unscrupulous?"
An anger flashed in the eyes of the woman in the yellow shirt: "It's okay if you don't mention the surname Liu, I'm angry when I mention it."
"What's the matter?" Song Qing vaguely remembered that Yang An'er seemed to be very dissatisfied with Liu Yan.
"Speaking of everything, it's related to the dispute between Han and Dongyu-Jia Sidao..." The woman in the yellow shirt sighed, and talked about the various reasons.
It turned out that Han Yongzhe was focused on the Northern Expedition, so he valued them, the Central Plains Volunteers, and sent his confidant Xu Xiji as the ambassador of the Huaidong system, Huairou attracted these rebels, and even provided money, food, and weapons; but later, when Han Yi fell, Xu Xiji naturally did the same. Not going anymore, the successor was Liu Yan of the Jia Pai. He changed his previous policy of being soft, but instead planned to completely eliminate this rebel army.
"Does the emperor leave it alone?" Song Qing asked in confusion.
The woman in the yellow shirt sneered: "You don't know that our emperor is a surrender. He is also worried that the existence of the red-coated army will anger the people of the Kingdom of Jin and hurt him. In addition, there is no shortage of the red-coated army. The scum, some generals accepted the court’s money and supplies while secretly reselling them with the enemy. Those ministers took part in a few copies, which became the last straw to crush the camel, making the emperor moved to kill."
Song Qing vaguely remembers that the red-coated army in history was indeed an uprising at the beginning, but some leaderships deteriorated later, and they began to support their own strength, and they had their own origins among the Jin, Song, and Mongolia, and expanded their own power first. , And did not obey Song's command.
Of course, the reason for this result is that in addition to the greed of human nature, various discriminatory policies in the Southern Song Dynasty, such as calling these rebels the Northern Army, prohibiting the Northern Army from entering the Southern Song lands and deducting money and food, the Northern Army and the Southern Army have After the dispute, the commander must be biased towards the southern army. In addition, the Song Dynasty has always guarded against military generals. Those methods were naturally used on these rebels, secretly suppressing them, causing the rebels to chill.
The woman in the yellow shirt spoke again: "According to intelligence analysis, this time Xia Quan has annexed the Red Coat Army, and most of it is this Liu Yan who is behind her back!"
Song Qing is somewhat applauded: "This Liu Yan is clever, making the two tigers fight, and then reap the profits, but now that we are involved, naturally we can't let him do what he wants."
"Hmm!" The woman in the yellow shirt squeezed her fist secretly, thinking that she must rescue the Yang family this time.
The two rushed for a few hours, and finally stopped in a small city. The woman in the yellow shirt said: "Wait for me in the teahouse in front. I will come as soon as I go."
"Where are you going?" Song Qing asked in confusion. There is no mobile phone in this world. What should I do if the two sides get separated by accident? He is short of time this time, so he can't waste time.
The woman in the yellow shirt has a reddened face: "I will be back soon."
Song Qing asked: "Easy to go?"
"No!" The woman in the yellow shirt snorted.
"Oh, then I'll be with you, lest you get out of trouble after a while." Song Qing followed.
"I'm going to buy clothes!" The woman in the yellow shirt finally couldn't help but give him a white look.
"Oh, let's go together." Song Qing said with a smile. Seeing her hesitating before, I thought it was something. As for his own change of clothes, he can just ask the shopkeeper to help him buy it. You don't need to choose yourself like a woman.
"How can this be together!" The woman in the yellow shirt was extremely embarrassed.
"Why can't you be together? Not to mention that I said I paid for you." It should be normal to accompany a woman to buy clothes in a previous life, let alone go shopping with such a beautiful woman.
After all, the girl in the yellow shirt couldn't hold him back. After arriving at the clothes shop, she couldn't help but complain: "If you didn't know that you were not observant of etiquette, you would definitely be regarded as a prodigal son."
"I won't go in and wait for you at the door. What kind of apprenticeship is this?" Song Qing naturally knows that men and women are clearly guarded in this era. Shops selling women’s goods will not sell men’s goods, and men are basically. Will not set foot in such a place. In addition, clothing stores are different from later generations. Most of the time, they only sell cloth or silk, and customers buy back and make tailored clothes. Of course, there are ready-made clothes to buy, but relatively few.
The woman in the yellow jersey was too lazy to care about him, so she picked it up in the store. Nowadays, she definitely has no time to buy cloth to make clothes, so she can only buy ready-made clothes. The boss saw a fairy-like girl with outstanding temperament, knowing that it must be a major customer, and hurriedly greeted her with enthusiasm.
Song Qing leaned at the door waiting to be bored, then asked: "By the way, I finally know the meaning of the next line of the poem you said to me last time."
The woman in the yellow shirt who was choosing clothes gave her a finger, and a blush flashed across her cheek: "What poem?"
"The spring grass will be green next year, and the next sentence is that Wang and Sun will not return," Song Qing's face was smiling but not smiling, "I didn't expect you to expect me to come back soon."
The room fell into silence. After a long time, I heard the woman in the yellow shirt say: "I don't remember any poems I told you."
"Why, I was seeing off in the palace at that time, you..."
Song Qing has to say again, the woman in the yellow shirt has already walked out quickly with a package: "If I said nothing, then there will be no!" After speaking, she ran away without looking back.
I was about to chase, but was pulled by the shop owner: "Hey, hey, I haven't paid yet..."
Song Qing was speechless for a while, and had to throw him a piece of silver: "No need to look for it." After speaking, he hurried to catch up.
The shop owner took a small scale and weighed the silver. After repeated confirmations, he couldn't help but curl his lips: "No more, no less, no need to look for it. I'm pooh, what a big money, it deserves that. The fairy girl is going to run."
Song Qing naturally didn't know the boss's complaints behind him. Now he is sitting in a restaurant, admiring the blushing face of the girl in the yellow shirt up close: "Your skin is too pale on weekdays, you don’t have any blood, or It looks healthier now."
"I want you to take care of it." The woman in the yellow shirt held up the teacup to hide her panic. She secretly regretted that it was a shame that the ghost had to leave him a poem at the beginning.
Song Qing held her chin and looked at her side face quietly. Her face was as pure as the first snow, and the soft lines were like a stroke. On weekdays, she was mostly indifferent. It's rare to see her showing her shyness, which is really pleasing to the eye.
"Have you seen enough?" Feeling his gaze, the woman in the yellow shirt felt as if it were real, and she was immediately uncomfortable.
"Of course I can't see enough," Song Qing said arrogantly, "The ancients are beautiful and delicious. I finally understand what kind of experience it is."
"You..." The woman in the yellow shirt sighed suddenly, "No wonder you have so many confidantes by your side, and there are indeed few girls in the world that can stop you from such a stalker."
Song Qing was startled, and said with a wry smile: "Heaven and earth conscience, I just clearly only missed you."
"What about now?" The yellow-jacketed woman looked at him with water-clear eyes.
"Uh..." Song Qing fell into silence, and was aroused by what she had just said. At this time, many people appeared in his mind. For example, when Beishang would pass by Yangzhou, he hesitated whether to visit Zhou Zhiruo first. After all, the separation between the two is not short.
The girl in the yellow shirt also gradually calmed down: "The poem I said to you last time was just out of friendship, so don't think too much about it."
Song Qing knew that she said that she was killing her love in Huijian, deliberately alienating the relationship between the two parties. In fact, at this time, as long as she uses some tricks and brushes her favorability, it is not impossible to get her love, but now she With love and debts, many confidantes don’t see one or two sides throughout the year. Do you really want to harm the new girl?
"Understood." Song Qing put away his laughter and drank the water and wine in the glass.
Seeing his sudden loneliness, the woman in the yellow shirt lightly bit her lip, and she couldn't bear it for a while: Am I too unfeeling?
At this moment, there was a loud noise not far away. A group of businessmen dressed up came in and drank and chatted: "Have you heard of it? There is going to be a fight in Yangzhou."
"Yangzhou?" Song Qing suddenly turned back, what's going on, why he didn't get any news.
The woman in the yellow jersey was also taken aback, and followed her reputation.
"Yangzhou is not King Qi's territory, who dares to break ground on Tai Sui's head?"
"I heard that it was Xia Quan of the Red Coat Army. This Xia Quan is terrible. Since Yang An'er was killed, he has suddenly emerged and annexed most of Yang An'er's forces. Now he has become the strongest branch of the Red Coat Army. Up."
"Didn’t the Golden Snake Camp and the Red Coat Army have always had a good relationship, why did they suddenly start fighting?"
"I don't know, but it's not normal for them who are born in the green forest to compete for the site. Yangzhou is a famous and rich place in the world, who is not jealous."
"I don't know if Da Song can take advantage of the situation and return to the north to regain Yangzhou."
"Come on, what kind of urine is the court, don't you know what's going on these years."
"Shhh, speak carefully."
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Hearing those people's comments, the woman in Huangshan gave Song Qing anxiously: "Brother Song, or ask them about specific things."
Song Qing shook his head: "No, they are just passing merchants. They know very little, and they can't ask anything specific."
"Then we now?" the yellow shirt woman asked.
"Go." Song Qing got up and walked out.
The woman in the yellow shirt hurriedly followed: "Where to go?"
"The largest brothel in the city."
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The girl in the yellow shirt stayed outside the brothel, and I didn’t know how many young men came to her to strike up a conversation after she was dispersed. The other party thought she was a girl in the building, and they all ran up and said that they would give her no matter how high the price was. Redemption.
"This bastard, I knew I went in with him." The woman in the yellow shirt had a terrible expression. Just now Song Qing went straight in. After hesitating for a long time, she decided to wait for him outside. As a lady, what? Can I go to such a place?
It’s just that she soon regretted it. Standing in front of the brothel was even more eye-catching. She expelled a disciple again. She had to ran to the opposite side to find a shadow and waited. Her heart was also very angry: "This bastard, How come to such a place at this time?"
She is not a fool, and she does not think that after Song Qing heard the news of Yangzhou being attacked, he still thought to come to this place to find flowers and ask Liu - of course, even if he didn't hear the news of Yangzhou being attacked, there were so many beauties around him. A confidant, it shouldn't be necessary to come to such a place, not to mention that there is this girl who accompanies him all the way, she doesn't think anyone in this brothel is more attractive than her.
"Bah, baah, what are you thinking about in a mess." The woman in yellow stomped angrily, and continued to look towards the gate of the brothel until she finally saw Song Qing coming out.
"How is it, is there any news?" The woman in the yellow shirt greeted her and asked with some concern. Although she didn't know that Song Qing deliberately established a brothel composed of brothels in the Southern Song Dynasty, with her cleverness, You can probably guess that he went in to inquire about the news. This kind of place is the place with the fastest information flow.
Song Qing nodded and explained: "Xia Quan has annexed the Red Coat Army of Yang You's line, and his power has soared. This morning, he suddenly started to attack Yangzhou."
"Is there anything going on in Yangzhou?" The woman in yellow shirt asked eagerly. Suddenly she was shocked. Why is she so nervous? Yangzhou has nothing to do with herself. Is she nervous for him? Thinking of this, a heart beats wildly a few times.
"Yangzhou is a big city, how could it be so easy to fall," Song Qing said with a worried look, "It's just that I am more worried about Liu Yan's 30,000 troops in Chuzhou than Xia Quan."
The woman in the yellow shirt said in a puzzled way: "Liu Wei is nothing more than dealing with the red-coated army, but you are after all the king of Qi granted by the court now. Does he dare to attack your territory openly at the risk of the world? Isn't that light? Qi Zhan Duan, how can he bear this responsibility."
"Naturally, he didn't dare to attack Yangzhou openly, but..." Song Qing snorted coldly. "He can help Xia Quan secretly. I got news that he not only quietly provided Xia Quan money and soldiers, but also let the army intentionally or unintentionally. Stationed near the city of Yangzhou, nominally to help Yangzhou, in fact it is to hinder the deployment of troops from Yangzhou, and because his army is watching from the sidelines, Yangzhou’s originally small force has to be divided into defenses. He caused more pressure to fight against Xia Quan."
Previously, Li Kexiu’s territory and forces were recovered, and about 38,000 elite soldiers were obtained. Later, Zhou Zhiruo slowly expanded his enrollment, and the number of soldiers was about 50,000 to 60,000, because he followed Song Qingbing’s policy of not having too many elites~IndoMTL.com~ The army in Yangzhou also maintained this number, and a large part of it had to be scattered to defend the rest of the state capitals. The field troops that Zhou Zhiruo can mobilize in Yangzhou today are at most about 20,000 or 30,000.
According to intelligence, Xia Quan has about 40,000 to 50,000 people, and Liu Wei has 30,000 under him. Although they may not be as elite as Yangzhou’s army, the number advantage is quite obvious.
"Who gave him the courage?" The woman in the yellow shirt was very puzzled, "Even if Liu Yan helped Xiaquan take down Yangzhou, what good would it do for him? Still facing the imperial court and the retaliation from the Golden Snake Camp?"
"Of course it's our Pingzhang Army State Affairs Master Jia." Song Qing was puzzled before, how could the city like Jia think about relying on a few women to tie herself? Now that I think it's just his method of paralyzing himself, and the highlight is on Yangzhou's side. In this way, it is logical to draw oneself here, and naturally there is no time to take care of Wudang's affairs.
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I always feel that the 2000-word chapter is too few. In the future, the daily updates will be collected in one chapter. As for the number of words... this is really unclear, let it happen
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