Li Yanqing urged the horse to come to the river, and a war horse corpse had been fished up in the river, and there was a person pressed under the war horse, wearing gold armor and a purple gold helmet, it was Xiang Fa, the commander of the Jiangnan Army, who saw that one of his feet was wrapped in the stirrup by aquatic grass, and it was this reason that he could not leave the war horse, and drowned in the river with the war horse.

Some soldiers untied Xiang Fa's sword, dedicated to Li Yanqing, Li Yanqing gently pulled out the sword, only to see the cold pressing, extremely sharp, the hilt of the sword has a small seal engraved with the word 'Lingbao', Li Yanqing knows this sword, this is also the ancient name of the sword, found in Hangzhou 30 years ago, was a sword broken ten nails, followed the flower stone gang to the imperial court, became one of Zhao Ji's swords, and later gave to his relative Xiang Zonghui, that is, Xiang Fa's father.

Li Yanqing saw that this sword was very slender and suitable for women, so he handed it to Hu Qing'er, "If you win two battles in a row, this sword will be rewarded to you!" ”

Hu Qing'er was overjoyed, took the sword and pulled it out, only to see the cold light shining, she pulled a sword flower, and a sword slashed out, 'Click! With a sound, an iron slug on the ground was split in half by her lightly sword, just like splitting tofu, extremely sharp, Hu Qing'er suddenly couldn't put it down, put the sword back into the sheath and smiled: "Thank you, big brother!" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, and then ordered left and right: "Put Xiang Fa Shou into the ice box and send it to the capital immediately!" ”

After the army cleaned up the battlefield and sent tens of thousands of prisoners of war to Wu County for registration and repatriation, Li Yanqing immediately led a large number of people to continue southward and kill Hangzhou.

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Since the rebel army was stationed in Jiangning Province, Hangzhou was not greatly affected by the rebellion, and after more than a year of wealth transfer, most of the wealth of Tokyo Bianliang was transferred to Qiantang County.

Qiantang County is located in the east of the West Lake, close to the Qiantang River, south of the foot of the Phoenix Mountain, north of the county seat, before the establishment of the Song Dynasty, here is the capital of Wu Yue Kingdom, but also one of the famous big cities in the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Yue State Qian's excellent governance for Hangzhou to lay an excellent foundation for the prosperity of Hangzhou.

Although Fang La once captured Qiantang County, his original intention was also to build the capital in Qiantang County, so the damage to Qiantang County was not great, but when he evacuated Qiantang County, he set fire to the south of the county and burned down many official warehouses, but it had no impact on the residential areas in the north.

Because Hangzhou was positioned as Nanjing by Zhao Ji, a large number of powerful officials and wealthy businessmen in Tokyo moved south to Hangzhou, which made the land price in Qiantang County skyrocket, and the trend of building houses has lasted for a year, at this time the county has expanded more than twice as much, the old city wall has been demolished, the new city wall has not yet been built, Qiantang County is full of steaming conditions, and you can see building houses everywhere.

Not only the powerful and wealthy families and giant businessmen moved south, but also a large number of ordinary people who depended on them also followed to Hangzhou, many famous shops almost moved south, only Baoyan Zhai, and there were thousands of clerks and family members who followed Li Daqi's southward migration.

In addition, hundreds of thousands of craftsmen and people from all over the south of the Yangtze River poured into Qiantang County to make a living, and a large number of grain and materials were transported into Qiantang County, making the county extremely prosperous.

There is no vacant land on the edge of the West Lake, there are pieces of newly built mansions everywhere, Xiangfu is located in the north of Yongjin Pond near the West Lake, covering an area of 50 acres, although it cannot be compared with the giant mansion covering an area of 200 acres in Tokyo City, but the 50 acres of mansions in the new mansion in Qiantang are also considered to be one of the best mansions.

At night, the atmosphere in the hall of the house is very depressing, more than a dozen men sit in the hall, all of them remain silent, this rebellion is led by the Xiang family, Zheng and Zhu families are accompanied, although the three relatives are powerful and rich and rival the country, but their power is dependent on the imperial power, once they lose the imperial power, their power will disappear.

Without the protection of the imperial power and the army, their wealth will become fish and meat on the board, to be slaughtered.

At this time, they had already received the news of the defeat of the Jiangnan army, and the gloom cloud shrouded everyone's hearts, and almost everyone's eyes were on Xiang Zongliang, who was the chief planner of this rebellion and the head of the foreign relatives group.

Xiang Zongliang looked very tired, and he said slowly for a while: "So far, there are only two ways to go, either everyone evacuates Bashu, sets up a new emperor in Bashu, and continues to fight against Zhao Gou, or surrenders and donates money to redeem his life, but I am afraid that the money will be scattered, and it is still difficult to escape death, let's discuss!" What should we do? ”

No one in the lobby spoke, and glanced at Zhu Xiaozhang next to him to Zongliang, "Let's talk about it!" ”

Zhu Xiaozhang is the elder brother of Zhao Huan Empress Zhu, and also the uncle of Zhao Chen, the king of Daning County, was named the general of the right Jin Wuwei, he represented the Zhu family to participate in today's deliberations, today in addition to the Xiang family, Zheng and Zhu are not the heads of the family to discuss matters, but to send brothers and nephews to come.

Zhu Xiaozhang pondered and said: "Today's situation is not thought of by everyone, or we thought about things too simple before, so that many things were not considered in a hurry, as the head of the family just said, everyone moved to Bashu, but Bashu is far away, how do we go over, we can't go over the mountains and mountains, if you say take a boat to go over, then how to enter the Yangtze River, if these practical problems are not solved, go to Bashu is also an empty word." ”

"Then according to Xiaozhang's opinion, we can only surrender and sacrifice money to atone for our sins?" Xiang Zongliang was very dissatisfied in his tone.

"I didn't say that, to be honest, I can only represent my personal opinion, how the Zhu family decides, I still have to go back and discuss with my brother, at least now I can't be sure."

Zhu Xiaozhang said vaguely, in fact, he disagreed with Zongliang's decision to move to Bashu, Xiang Zongliang was helpless, so he had to ask Zheng Zao, who was sitting on the other side, "What about the attitude of the Zheng family?" ”

Zheng Zao is the brother of Zheng Chen and the nephew of the Empress Dowager Zheng, and the head of the family is their father Zheng Suping, who did not come today under the pretext of illness.

Zheng Zao hurriedly bowed down and said: "The younger generation can't call the shots in this matter, I'll go back and report to my father and give the head of the family an answer as soon as possible!" ”

Xiang Zong's conscience was extremely disappointed, before the Xiang, Zheng, and Zhu families all swore and made a blood alliance, but now that the army is defeated, the Zheng family and the Zhu family began to protect themselves and refused to follow the Xiang family anymore.

Xiang Zongliang had to sigh and said, "Okay! Let's go back and discuss it again and give me an answer as soon as possible. ”

Everyone got up one after another to say goodbye, and soon walked cleanly, Xiang Zongliang was very tired, and waved his hand to several Xiang clan disciples: "You also retreat, let me be quiet." ”

Several Xiang clan disciples also saluted, retreated, and gently pressed his temples to Zongliang, feeling extremely disappointed, although the attitude of the Zhu and Zheng families was in his expectation, but it was really difficult for the birds to fly at this step, this feeling still made him very uncomfortable.

At this time, the housekeeper said in the hall: "Great official, Gorou is back." ”

Xiang Zongliang's spirits perked up, and he hurriedly said, "Quickly let him come to see me!" ”

After a moment, Xiang Zhi was brought into the inner hall, and he bowed and saluted, "See the head of the family!" ”

"No need to be polite, how is the situation in Mingzhou?"

Mingzhou is today's Ningbo, the port industry of Mingzhou in the Song Dynasty is very developed, second only to Quanzhou in the south, Mingzhou is very close to Hangzhou, and you can go directly to Mingzhou from Qiantang County.

The cunning rabbit has three holes, of course, the Xiang family also has its own way out, Bashu is just a pretense, the real way out is to go to Japan or Silla from Mingzhou to the sea, if the Zhu and Zheng families are willing to express their stance to advance and retreat together, then it doesn't hurt for everyone to go together, if the two families refuse to go, Xiang Zongliang will not tell the truth and expose his true retreat.

Xiang Zhi hurriedly said: "Back to the family master, the three sea ships are ready, and we can set off at any time!" ”

Xiang Zongliang nodded, and sent someone to find his eldest son Xiangren, who was also in his forties, and he saluted respectfully to his father, "Please give your father's orders!" ”

"How's the property selling?"

Xiang Ren shook his head, "Father, this matter is not easy to handle, so far, only one ghost tea shop has been sold, and no other industries and land have been able to get rid of it." ”

Five days ago, when the 30,000 new troops were wiped out in Wangting Town, Suzhou, Xiang Zongliang realized that something was wrong, and ordered his eldest son to sell more than 30 shops and land in Qiantang County.

"Why?" Xiang Zongliang suddenly became a little anxious.

"Father, the problem is mainly on the side of the government, and the government does not transfer the ownership."

Xiang Zongliang's face suddenly sank, "Who held it and didn't give it to the transfer?" ”

"It's Qiantang County, Weizhi County."

'Bang! Xiang Zongliang slapped the table heavily, gritted his teeth and scolded: "The bastard with three knives on both sides dares to stab me in the back and prepare a carriage for me, I will go to the county government to find him, and see if he dares to stop the transfer again!" ”

"Father, I'm afraid it's too late now."

Xiang Zongliang was stunned, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Father, now that the word has spread in Qiantang County, no one dares to take over our property, even Liu Yuanwai, who bought a ghost teahouse before, found me today and asked me to return the 10,000 taels of silver he bought for the teahouse under the pretext that he couldn't transfer the house."

Xiang Zongliang sat down dejectedly, Xiang Jiaguang's shops and houses in Qiantang County were worth more than 500,000 yuan, especially the gold and silver shops, and the silver deposits in various places alone exceeded 300,000 taels, not to mention the mines and manors distributed all over the country, and millions of family properties!

The fine and soft gold and silver they can take away can be worth more than 200,000 taels of silver at most, and there are also a number of jewels, calligraphy and paintings and official kiln porcelain hidden in the underground secret vault of the Xiang Manor in Jiangning Mansion.

At this time, a disciple of the Xiang clan hurriedly ran over, gave a salute, and reported nervously: "The head of the Qiqi family, the child has just received the news that Li Yanqing's army has reached Yuhang County, which is less than forty miles away from Qiantang County. ”

Xiang Zongliang stood up and ordered urgently: "Quickly let all the family members pack up and get on the boat and leave tonight!" ”