Faced with such an urgent situation, Zhao Zhuan, at Wen Tiren's suggestion, decided to go all out to do corvee work, recruit nearly a million civilians from Jing'an Road and even Jiangnan Road, and order them to go to Xiangfan to build warships.
In order to cross the Guangling River as soon as possible and achieve the strategy of destroying Chu.
Li Yang could no longer care about anything else. He tore off the pretense of tenderness in the past and used the Qingzhou Army to force civilians to continue high-intensity labor.
Under such coercion, it took Liyang less than three months to complete the reconstruction of the Qingzhou Navy that originally took one year to complete.
The price was the expropriation of millions of civilians, and 56 out of 10 died.
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Xiangfu four years, late spring.
The rain is as moist as crisp.
Tai'an City University Scholar's Mansion is a small pavilion facing the lake with exquisite hangings under the eaves.
Two peers stood side by side, one was the young uncle Yan Chiji, and the other was Kong Zhenrong, who served in the Yamen of the Ministry of War.
At that time, Liangzhou was plagued by four evils. Although the two moved to Liyang, they were still close friends.
Kong Zhenrong crossed his arms across his chest and grinned: "This guy Li Hanlin is really amazing. He became more and more brave as he fought more and more, and became the only remaining White Horse Captain outside Beiliang Pass. Especially after last year's Battle of Wuchuan, he, Cao Wei and Wang Jingchong's three cavalry troops cooperated with Yue Peng to lift Wu Jinqing, and beat all the soldiers and horses of Beimang Beiting. They heard that they defeated the imperial army led by Dong Zhuo, the king of Beimang Nanyuan, and Xu Fengnian was at the gate of Beimang Imperial City. Reunion."
Yan Chiji subconsciously rubbed the stubble on his chin, which seemed to be getting more prickly. Looking back on those days, among the four, Kong Wuchi was the oldest and the first to have a beard, and Li Hanlin often laughed at him. Yan Chiji was a pretty boy, but it was a pity that he was uglier, and he was far inferior to his brother Nian.
Yan Chiji asked: "What do you think will happen if we stay in Beiliang?"
Kong Zhenrong had obviously thought about this problem for a long time, and said without hesitation: "You can't tell me, either I will be a swordsman under Lu Baijie in Qingliang Mountain, or I will be the military aide in white in Jubeicheng, but I will It’s different, at worst, you can be like Li Hanlin and become a White Horse Colonel!"
Yan Chiji laughed and scolded: "De Xing! It's because the two of them are not around that you can be so arrogant. When they were present in the early years, you, Kong Wuchi, never acted like a dull gourd."
Kong Zhenrong rolled his eyes, feeling helpless.
Xu Fengnian, Li Hanlin, Yan Chiji, Kong Zhenrong. Li Minzhen, Yan Dongwu.
Six people that year.
Three are in Beiliang and three are in Tai'an.
Three people stayed in their hometown, and three people went to other places.
Yan Chiji was silent for a long time and said softly: "Both you and Li Hanlin think that I have read the most. It's just that Brother Nian is born smart and can be more reasonable than me. This is not true. I figured it out very later. In fact, we were My family secretly left Beiliang. In fact, Brother Nian had known about it for a long time. That’s why he told me those drunken words alone when we got together for the last time. He said that the book said that there is no banquet in the world that never ends. Don’t be afraid, book It is also said in the book that wherever we meet in life, once a banquet is removed, there is always an opportunity to set another banquet.”
Yan Chiji turned his head, his face full of tears, and looked at Kong Wuchi, "I know that the four of us, plus my sister and Li Chengzhen, the six of us will never have the opportunity to get together again in this life. ”
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Xiangfu three years, early summer.
Zhao Sui, the king of Jiaodong, mobilized all his elite troops and went south, joined forces with Gu Jiantang, and stationed troops in the Huaihe River, ready to join the battle to annihilate Ni Chu.
The Qingzhou Navy, which has been completed, has all the troops, large warships, and sufficient food and grass.
The Qingzhou Navy went south and sounded the clarion call to Li Yang to destroy Chu.
Later, Gu Jiantang and Zhao Sui rested in the Lianghuai River to replenish food and grass, and then broke into the Western Barrier from the Lianghuai River.
Gu Jiantang and Zhao Sui, two famous generals of the Spring and Autumn Period, led an army of 300,000 people to arrive. At the same time, Xi Chu's double-walled Xie Xijie and Kou Jianghuai also commanded the most elite army of 250,000 people from Western Chu.
Jiang Si, the empress of Western Chu, granted Zhang Bianguan the title of General of Western Chu. She went to Zhuguo and commanded the army to fight against Liyang.
As if by God's will, Li Yang and Xi Chu once again started a decisive battle at the Western Barrier.
The last time the troops were led by Xu Xiao and Chen Zhibao, this time it was Gu Jiantang, Chen Zhibao, and Zhao Sui, most of whom were veterans who participated in the Spring and Autumn National War.
As for Xi Chu, there are the newly growing younger generation such as Zhang Bianguan, Xie Xiqiao, and Kou Jianghuai.
Lu Xiangsheng commanded the troops of Jing'an Road and Jiangnan Road to garrison troops near the Guangling River in preparation for crossing the river.
The Qingzhou Navy had a large fleet, sufficient manpower, and the support of Liyang, a powerful national power, and frantically attacked the losses led by Gu Dazu.
Under the command of Gu Dazu, the Xichu navy launched a counterattack, often achieving results of one to two, one to three or even one to four.
However, Liyang ignored his own losses and continued to recruit civilians to build warships for the Qingzhou Navy to ensure the numerical advantage of frontline warships.
The price was that many civilians died from exhaustion. The people's livelihood in Jing'an Road and Jiangnan Road was ruined due to heavy corvee labor in Liyang, and there were widespread complaints.
Even many families in Lianghuai Road were taken away by Li Yang.
Fortunately, when Gu Jiantang and Zhao Sui stationed troops here before, they did not indulge the soldiers.
In addition, Cai Nan, the governor of Jiedu, provided many lists of wealthy and unkind merchants and wealthy households to Gu Jiantang's old tribe, and their properties were confiscated to provide 300,000 military supplies.
If Zhao Zhuan's order is really followed, the Lianghuai Road will really be in dire straits under Liyang's continuous operations.
When the Battle of the West Barrier broke out, Zhang Bianguan, Xie Xijie, and Kou Jianghuai worked together to fight against the famous generals Gu Jiantang, Chen Zhibao and others, showing no signs of inferiority.
The two sides fought fiercely at the Western Barrier for more than ten days. Xichu lost nearly 100,000 people, and Liyang also lost more than 80,000 people.
At this time, bad news came from the Xichu Temple. Sun Xiji, the first assistant, died at home.
As a figure like the Dinghai Divine Needle of Western Chu, Sun Xiji relied on his own prestige and means to balance the various forces in the court and assist the empress Jiang Si in governing politics.
With him around, the Western Chu court was stable and all forces could live in peace.
With the death of Sun Xiji, all parties in the Western Chu court started a party struggle in order to divide power.
Even if Jiang Si came forward to make adjustments, she would always press the gourd and lift the gourd.
With the emergence of party strife, countless songs spread throughout the streets. Some said that this was the scourge of women ruling the country, and some had ulterior motives and insinuated that the current emperor was actually a wild fox spirit who came out of the mountains. Just wearing human skin.
It is even said that the empress Jiang Si is actually a roadside orphan girl that Cao Changqing found at random, and was only raised as a puppet to satisfy Cao Changqing's selfish desire to serve as the emperor's master.
In the face of a formidable enemy, many knowledgeable people are unwilling to participate in party struggles and rush to the battlefield. He died in battle, was awarded a title, and received a good posthumous title.
With the disappearance of these people, the children of the previously suppressed aristocratic families continued to pour into the court. Father and son were in the same court, and even the third generation Huang Zi Gongqing began to appear.
