In the last few days of the seventh year of Xianhe, the situation in the center of Jiangdong Jiankang has undergone great changes. This change has not only had a profound impact on the current situation, but also has had an extremely far-reaching impact on the future situation in Jiangdong and even the whole world.

The main content of the changes is several eye-catching personnel adjustments, first of all, Prime Minister Wang Dao resigned on the basis of old illness, and the Empress Dowager personally issued an edict to retain him, and the final result was the revocation of the post of Prime Minister, and Wang Dao and Taifu remained in Taichung. When Langya Wang Bin was in office before, he did more barnyard administration, so he lost his hometown wishes, so he was repatriated to his hometown.

There are also several other personnel appointments, such as Langya Zhuge Hui as the Yangzhou Assassin History, Huiji He Xi as Danyang Yin and so on.

After this round of personnel adjustments in Taichung, the long-awaited Huainan good news finally arrived in Jiankang, and the princes of Taiwan in Jiankang City finally clearly knew how brilliant Huainan's victory was: more than 15,000 people were beheaded, more than 30,000 people were captured, and hundreds of slave commanders and generals at all levels were killed, including many villains who were notorious in Jiangdong. As for the seized weapons and weapons, there are countless more. The purging of Huaishang and southern Henan has not yet been completely completed, and there will still be gains in the future.

With such an astonishing record, it can be said that the results of the battle in Huainan alone will collapse the possibility of the slave country invading the south again in one fell swoop! And with this exaggerated and almost false battle report, the Taifu finally understood why Huainan dared to put on such a tough posture that disregarded the feelings of the Taifu, it was because it was backed by a strong enough record!

In the middle of winter, Huainan is already bitterly cold. After a new snowfall, the sky and the earth were white.

It is located in a fort ten miles south of Shouchun City, where nearly 1,000 people gather. Shen Zhezi stood at the front of the team wrapped in a coat, his breath turned into mist, and his hair crown was already covered with dark frost, but he just looked at the wilderness south of the fort with a focused expression.

Behind him, in addition to a group of Huainan officials, there are still many Huainan or Henan township sect heads and sect masters. In such a cold weather, the cold air penetrates the body, and the hands cannot get out, so standing in the suburbs is naturally not a pleasant experience. But seeing that Shen Zhezi and the armor soldiers around him were all silently present, the rest did not dare to show a look of dissatisfaction or impatience.

Not only did they not dare to be dissatisfied, but whenever they noticed that they were being noticed, these people tried their best to squeeze out a warm smile on their already slightly stiff faces blown by the cold wind, to show that they were in a happy mood at the moment.

These villagers don't know much about the situation in the Jiankang court now, and they don't have an exact concept of how hard Shen Zhezi, a concubine from Wu, comes from and how hard the background is, and there are no shortage of people who suspect that after the victory in Huainan, the Jiangdong court may send another important minister north to replace Shen Zhezi. After all, in their old concept, the first-class Gaomen in Jiangdong still belong to the Langya Wang clan and the like, and the Wuxing Shen clan may rise rapidly in Jiangdong, but if they want to compete for power in the Central Plains, they are still a little immature.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking in mind, especially when some people in southern Henan are in contact with Huainan, they still maintain a posture of imminent departure. I am worried that if I get too closely involved in the current Huainan Internal History Office, it will make the successor official unhappy.

But this time Princess Danyang entered the town, which greatly dispelled such hesitations and concerns. It can be seen from this that at least in the short term, the Jiangdong Imperial Court has no intention of recalling Shen Zhezi. This is undoubtedly a great encouragement to the hearts of the people of Huainan today, Shen Zhezi has been in the town for a long time, and led the army and the people to achieve such a brilliant victory not long ago, and the prestige in today's Huainan Town is no longer a second thought.

If Jiangdong sends a new official here, it will undoubtedly shake the current situation in Huainan. If it is a successor with an extremely tough posture and means, whether it is to eliminate the influence of Shen Zhezi in the town, or to establish authority among the villagers, it will bring many immeasurable variables to Huainan.

Shen Zhezi stood at the front of the crowd, but he was not in the mood to figure out what the feelings of those township sect leaders were. For the arrival of Princess Xingnan, he is also in a tangle, of course he misses it, and he can feel that the princess's entry into the town can greatly stabilize the hearts of the people in the town, but he is really worried about whether this girl can withstand the cold weather in Huainan today.

Now it is a period of Xiaoice, and the winter climate is very cold, which is also one of the reasons why the northern border tribes will enter the Central Plains one after another in the future. Even the future Northern Wei court had to face foreign invaders from the north when it entered the Central Plains. Natural and man-made disasters are a mainstream of this period.

Although the winter in Jiangdong is wet and cold, it is still within the bearable range, but even Shen Zhezi feels a little unbearable in the cold winter of Huainan. Moreover, even the soldiers in the army suffered from frostbite on a large scale, and many planned military operations were put on hold. He was really worried that the princess would not be able to stand such a cold weather after entering the town, and endure some hardships that he would not have to bear.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, during which a lot of hot goat cheese syrup was sent to the fort to share with everyone to keep out the cold, and there were some elderly township leaders who asked people to put on their robes and hold the copper stove in their arms, and they still couldn't help but shiver.

In fact, Shen Zhezi did not ask these people to go out of the city to greet them at all, and he only brought a hundred or so personal soldiers to wait here. However, these people took the initiative to flock to the news after getting the news, and after sending people to dissuade them a few times, Shen Zhezi didn't bother to persuade them again, and smiled at this face.

Finally, the sound of the horse's hooves sounded in the southern suburbs, and soon a Huainan sergeant rushed to the front on his horse and said, "Qi Qi horse, the princess has passed Luo Du." ”

Shen Zhezi raised his eyebrows after hearing this, but after all, he couldn't help but order someone to lead the horse, and only after turning over on the horse did he turn around and say to everyone around him: "See it." ”

Seeing this, everyone moved their stiff steps, and with some difficulty, they squeezed out a smile and said: "Shao Nian is in love, a good story in the world." There is no need to apologize, and we are all happy to see the reunion. ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he laughed loudly, flicked the horsewhip in his hand, followed by a hundred horsemen behind him, and rode south, and soon disappeared from everyone's field of vision. The representatives of the families who remained outside the fort dared to stomp their feet and retreat into the fort at this time to avoid the wind. In fact, the fort had already burned a copper stove to keep warm, and prepared more soup and other cold food, but even Shen Zhezi was waiting outside, how dare they sit in the fort. This time I went out of the city to greet him, but I would have made a face, otherwise I would have just gone out of the city to make a score and get bored.

Although it was already afternoon, the sky was cloudy, and there was not a ray of sunlight shining through. The wind lifted again, and tiny ice particles fell from the sky again.

In winter, the water is exhausted, and the Jiangbei waterway, especially the first half of Tushui, has been completely suspended. After Princess Xingnan and her entourage crossed the river, they had to transfer to the land route. The queen mother seems to be announcing to all the families in the capital that there are as many as more than 200 palace servants and maids for the princess alone, plus nearly 300 members of the Shen family's own family to follow, and more than 1,000 guards escorted along the way. Along the way, local garrisons joined the escort in Liangjun and other places, and when they entered Huainan territory, the size of the team had expanded to more than 3,000 people.

In addition to the crowd following, there were nearly 100 cars in the procession, carrying a full load of goods. Among them, there are not only rewards in the garden, but also gifts from various powerful families in the capital, plus some of the resources raised by the Shen family themselves recently. If there really were those rebels and bandits who had not spoken all the way to snatch this team, then the abundance of money would be incomparably staggering. But now that the itinerary is all inland, there is absolutely no such danger.

Although it is not cold in the carriage, the bumpy northward journey of more than half a month still makes those palace people who have lived in the palace for a long time unbearable, and there are many people who have been sick from the cold along the way. Although Princess Xingnan has not yet been infected, she is also much thinner and haggard, but her spirit is still quite good, and she can't help but ask where she has arrived at each line for a distance, and then she hangs her head and folds her fingers to read something.

"Princess, Luo Du has passed, and the road ahead has sent someone to enter the town first. If the wind and snow can fall slowly, you can reach Shouchun at night. ”

Cui Ling, the little lady of the Cui family, lifted the corner of the felt cloth of the carriage and flashed in, and the thick coat on her body covered her slender and light figure, for fear of bringing the cold into the carriage, and only shrank in the corner of the carriage after entering.

When Princess Xingnan heard this, her eyes became even brighter, and she knelt in front of the car door and lifted the corner of the felt cloth, and then a cold wind blew on her face. Seeing this, Ah Ling Niangzi hurriedly stepped forward to cover the felt cloth, but was pushed away by the princess with a wave of her hand, and said with a smile: "I want to take a closer look at what kind of magnificent world my husband's work is to fight and kill the enemy!" ”

The scenery outside the car is actually very unimpressive, and all you can see is desolation, and there may be some forts and hoards on the ground in the distance, and thick white smoke is floating in the sky above them. The north wind became more and more urgent, blowing the flags in the team to hunt, the wind and sand gradually flew up, and the ice particles hit the face with an extremely obvious pain.

At this time, a carriage on the side came over, Yu Bin was wrapped in hemp dumplings and walked over against the wind, seeing the princess's face poking out, he couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade: "The wind and sand are cold, the princess quickly retreats into the car, if it is infected with the wind and cold, I really can't explain to Wei Zhou." ”

"I'm fine, cousin don't have to worry. After Luodu, how long will it take to reach Shouchun? ”

The princess smiled and waved her hand, and then asked Yu Bin hopefully.

Yu Bin's face became a little bad when he heard this, and he arched his hand and said, "I came here to inform the princess that the cold wind is becoming more and more rampant, and there may be a snowstorm later." If the snow is too strong, we may have to stay at the nearest fort for a day today. ”

When the princess heard this, her face couldn't help but darken, but when she saw that the armorers in the team were all going against the wind, she didn't want to force people to suffer in the cold wind because of her own selfish thoughts, so she just said a little lowly: "It's all up to my cousin's arrangement." ”

After finishing speaking, she retreated into the carriage, sat on one knee, supported her cheek with one hand, and looked gloomy: "This annoying wind and snow......"

As soon as she finished speaking, a violent cheer erupted in the team outside the car, and even the cold wind was suppressed for a while. Before he could spin his heels, the sound of horses' hooves approached the chariot at a rapid pace. After hearing this sound, Princess Xingnan's eyes were already full of brilliance, and then she raised the curtain and looked out, and the slightly blurred outline in her vision gradually became clear.

Soon, a young marshal in silver armor and a large hood rode through the procession, and the people and horses avoided it, and soon stopped in front of the carriage, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were burning and looking at her directly. Behind them, there were hundreds of brave horsemen, and thousands of soldiers in the original team were raising their arms and cheering for them.