412 Straight to Jinling

Chen Yuanyuan turned around and walked out of Hanyuan Palace, leaving a charming back.

And the system in Liu Wei's mind gave Chen Yuanyuan the values of her attributes at the moment when she turned around: "Ding Dong...... Chen Yuanyuan - 20 in force, 29 in command, 78 in intelligence, 56 in politics, and 103 in charisma! ”

"Tsk...... 103's appearance, no wonder it turned me into a daze and made me a faint! Looking at Chen Yuanyuan's beautiful shadow, Liu Wei secretly sighed in his heart, "This appearance is already close to Diao Chan, slightly better than Wu Ruyi, Mu Guiying and others, but I don't know how to compare with Erqiao?" ”

In the past few years, Liu Wei has been busy with state affairs or crusades, and there are few opportunities to meet Er Qiao. After a year, that is, I can meet two or three times, which still refers to Da Qiao, who was rewarded with the title of "beauty" by Liu Wei. As for Xiao Qiao's girl, she was not interested in the emperor at all, and she moved to Jinling City for more than two years, and only entered Qianyang Palace once. After a long time, Liu Wei can't even remember her appearance.

"Ding-dong...... Chen Yuanyuan's appearance has caused the special attributes to explode, and the list is provided below. ”

"The first person to burst the table: Wu Sangui - 93 commanders, 87 in force, 86 in intelligence, and 72 in politics. Current location: Tang Kingdom, implanted identity: Li Yuan's nephew. ”

"The second person to burst the table: Li Zicheng - 90 commanders, 89 armed forces, 77 intelligence, and 56 political officials. Current location: Jia Meng Pass, implanted identity: Shouguan Shu General. ”

"Uh...... I said that Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng came to beat me, and sure enough, they came......" Liu Wei was speechless, and 10,000 alpacas roared past in his heart, "If I say Sun ......"

Liu Wei quickly shut up. Swallowing the name back into his stomach, "You can't just say that. What if it is fulfilled! ”

When it was dark, Chen Yuanyuan returned to Qianyang Palace. and brought Chen Yucheng, who had changed into clothes, with him.

"陛xià...... After the persuasion of the concubine, Yucheng has realized his guilt, sincerely repented, and hoped that His Majesty would allow him to atone for his sins and serve the country. "Chen Yuanyuan is graceful and graceful, and she is charming.

"Chen Yucheng greets His Majesty!"

Although Chen Yuanyuan's advice, it seems that Chen Yucheng still does not want to see this emperor, although he is giving gifts, his face is gloomy and terrifying.

Chen Yucheng's stubborn character has long been taught by Liu Wei. Chen Yuanyuan can persuade him to surrender, which is already commendable, what else do you need to be good? Coaxing him to fight for himself is the king!

"Thinking that you are young and ignorant, your family is poor, and you are shallow in learning, so you were bewitched by Hong and Yang, and I decided to open the net to avoid your sin of rebellion. For the time being, let's serve under Meng Heng! ”

Chen Yucheng didn't want to see Liu Bian, and Liu Biao didn't want to see this brother-in-law. If you hadn't had a good sister. The head has already landed, and there is still a chance to pretend to be high in front of the widow?

"General Chen, please come with the slave maid, and I will send someone to arrange a place for you to live!" Zheng He hugged his wrist and saluted Uncle Chen. Smiling greetings.

"The sinner is gone!"

Chen Yucheng arched his hand to the Son of Heaven expressionlessly, and then beckoned Chen Yuanyuan: "Sister, let's go?" ”

Chen Yuanyuan smiled bitterly: "Yucheng." Let Gonggong Zheng arrange accommodation for you! Sisters, I ...... I can't go, I have to stay with the holy driver. ”

"Sister......?"

This moment. Chen Yucheng's heart was dripping blood, and then he realized that his life was originally exchanged for his sister's body. The face contorted for a moment. Then he sighed, stomped his feet and turned away.

After Chen Yucheng left, Liu Wei took Chen Yuanyuan to Shou'an Hall to meet his mother, Empress Dowager He, and played the story of his canonization of Chen Yuanyuan as a beauty.

Although they are both women, Chen Yuanyuan's beauty still made Empress Dowager He's eyes shine, and she praised her repeatedly. It's just that after hearing about Chen Yuanyuan's identity, Empress Dowager He's face fell, with an expression of disdain.

"Queen Mother, heroes don't ask about their origins, and so do good women. I think my Han Gaozu is still a pavilion chief, Yuanyuan she is not only beautiful, but also good at singing and dancing, proficient in piano skills, let her perform for the queen mother! ”

Seeing that his cheap mother didn't want to see Chen Yuanyuan, Liu Wei smiled and said a few kind words for his woman, and even did not hesitate to bring out his ancestor Liu Bang to paste gold for Chen Yuanyuan. In the end, he praised Chen Yuanyuan's talent and ordered her to dance and play the piano for the Queen Mother.

"The concubine obeys!"

Chen Yuanyuan accompanied the smiling face, carefully received the order, and immediately danced in the Shou'an Palace.

I saw her dancing gracefully, sometimes like a shock, sometimes like a dragon, a dance, all the hall praised. Plucked the strings and played a song of heavenly sound, sometimes like mountains and flowing water, sometimes like a pearl falling on a jade plate, the end is around the beam for three days, and the aftermath is endless. After playing the song, the entire Shou'an Hall was impressed.

Seeing that Chen Yuanyuan's skills are excellent, Empress Dowager He can't say anything, not to mention that the current Son of Heaven is in power, even if he doesn't agree, he can't change anything. I could only bow my head and say: "Since the emperor likes it, then accept it as a beauty!" It's just that don't forget Wan'er's wedding date, so as not to favor one over the other! ”

Shangguan Wan'er stood beside her, observing Chen Yuanyuan quietly, knowing that from now on there would be another opponent for favor. After listening to the words of the Empress Dowager He, she hurriedly bowed to Shi Li: "The Empress Dowager is serious, Your Majesty has always been very good to Wan'er!" Besides, Sister Chen can sing and dance well, and her piano skills are very good, so Wan'er just asked Sister Chen for advice! ”

Leaving the Queen Mother's Shou'an Palace, Liu Wei personally arranged a palace for Chen Yuanyuan, and allocated her thirty palace maids, and ten little eunuchs to wait for the call. It has been more than a month since he accepted Diao Chan, and he was diagnosed with pregnancy by Sun Simiao a few days ago.

In the second half of the night, the sky was filled with rain, and the raindrops were small but dense, like a beaded curtain.

The trees on both sides of the Yangtze River are verdant, the humidity is heavy, and with the dripping rain, a layer of dense fog rises on the river surface, and the visibility is only about 20 zhang.

There is a lot of rain in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in May when the plums are ripe. This summer rain has been falling intermittently for four or five days, and the banks of the Yangtze River are covered with clouds and mist, like a fairyland on earth. Sail on the river, even if the distance is only 20 zhang. and they did not see each other.

Zhou Tai's sailor camp is surrounded by mountains and rivers and is located in the northern suburbs of Jinling City. More than 300 warships were all displayed in the dock because of the continuous rain. It's been four or five days since I practiced properly.

The night was lonely and foggy.

A fleet of thirty tortoiseshell ships traveled up the river from the river at a speed and concealment, a strangely shaped vessel that no one had ever seen before in the borders of the Han Empire. Because this is not a product of China, strictly speaking, it is not even a product of this era.

If you want to ask where this fleet came from, the answer is the Korean Peninsula across the sea, which is now the Tang Kingdom. The Tang Empire, which was unified by Li Yuan's father and son, was ambitious. A country that aims to annex the Central Plains.

On the handsome boat at the head stood a young man of about twenty-six or seventeen years old, who was nearly eight feet tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a magnificent appearance.

The drizzle and mist had soaked him through, but the young man stood motionless in the bow of the boat, sword in hand. led the fleet to move forward bravely and went straight to the camp of the Jinling Naval Division of the Han Army.

This young commander is none other than Li Shimin, the eldest son of Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin, the crown prince and generalissimo of the army and horses; At this moment, he suddenly led a fleet across the sea. And through the pervasive fog, he went up the river, the purpose was to smash Jinling and capture the biggest opponent in the future, Liu Wei.

Li Yuan's father and son started an uprising with 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Dragon City Kingdom. After several years of hard fighting, the entire Korean Peninsula was successfully unified; Annihilated all large and small countries such as Goguryeo, Baekje, and Buyeo. built a country with a population of four million and an army of two hundred and fifty thousand; The strength is soaring. It is enough to challenge any prince in the Central Plains.

Li Shimin's ambition is different from Li Yuan's, and Li Yuan is already satisfied that he can unify the entire peninsula. However, Li Shimin believed that the peninsula was small, the land was barren, and it was difficult to achieve great things, and only by swallowing the entire Han Empire could it make great achievements and make the Tang Empire go down in history.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Li Shimin aimed his strategic goal at the entire Chinese region, rather than the Korean Peninsula. Since a few years ago, Li Shimin has sent scouts and spies to various parts of the Central Plains to secretly collect information on the princes of the Han Dynasty, so as to know themselves and their opponents, and have a basis for advancing and retreating.

With the rapid rise of Liu Bian's forces, he successively pacified Jiangdong, defeated Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, and took Xuzhou without bloodshed, connecting the entire Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, Jingzhou, and parts of Yuzhou into an iron plate, and the strength under his command grew to 600,000, invincible and invincible.

This made Li Shimin deeply uneasy, and realized that the biggest opponent for hegemony in the future would be Liu Bian's Jinling court, even if he didn't provoke Liu Bian, after Liu Bian gradually swept away all the princes in the Central Plains, he would definitely point the banner to the Tang Dynasty. As the saying goes, the first strike is strong, and the last strike suffers, since that moment, Li Shimin's heart has germinated the idea of preemptively striking at the Jinling Imperial Court.

"If the Han loses its deer, the world will chase it! Now the Han Dynasty has been torn apart, it is the time when my Tang Dynasty opened up its territory and touched the Central Plains. ”

The Central Plains was in flames, which made Li Shimin's heart surge, knowing that he had encountered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and was born at the right time. As the saying goes, "shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and capture the thief first and capture the king first", as long as the Tang Dynasty defeated the most powerful Eastern Han Dynasty, it could replace it, gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains, and then sweep away the princes from all walks of life.

And just when Li Shimin was about to move, the envoy of the Luoyang court arrived at Wang Jiancheng and sent a topographic map of Jiangdong, Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

Even without the topographic map sent by the Luoyang Imperial Court, Li Shimin's scouts had already spied on the emptiness of Jinling. Liu Wei's army was stationed in Qingzhou with 250,000, more than 100,000 in Wancheng, 780,000 in Xuzhou, 50,000 or 60,000 in Chaisang, more than 100,000 in Jiaozhou and Jingnan, but the capital Jinling only had 15,000 sailors from Zhou Tai and 20,000 infantry from Meng Heng, as well as 15,000 forbidden troops, which was the only defensive force in Jinling, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Li Shimin has been waiting, waiting for the appearance of the tortoiseshell ship made by Yi Sunsin. After more than a year, Li Sunsin built 30 tortoiseshell ships, carefully selected 9,000 of the most elite amphibious soldiers of the Tang Kingdom, and after Li Shimin obtained the topographic map of Jiangdong, he set sail to the west and killed Jinling. (To be continued......)