The End of the Sui Dynasty

Chen Kefu has always attached great importance to intelligence search, but during this time, he went deep into the grassland.

Moreover, the great war between the imperial court and the steppe Turks caused most of the forces of the entire Liaodong Secret Service Division to be transferred to the front line of the Hedong grassland.

For Jiangnan, the strength of the Secret Service Division is now very weak. However, after Chen Kefu frowned and thought about it for a long time, he still had some clues in his head.

"You arrange a secret place and bring them to meet Ben Shuai."

No matter who comes, it is still necessary to meet mō to clear the situation first.

Chen Kefu left the 50,000 army outside Huaiyuan Town to rest temporarily, and entered the Huaiyuan fortress with his personal guards. Zhang Jin directly took Chen Kefu to arrange in a military depot in the north of the fortress, which was heavily guarded, and no one else would appear, so it was indeed a good place to hide.

After waiting in the warehouse for a while, the warehouse door had opened again, with Zhang Jin in front and five men behind. The first person looked like he was in his fifties, his face was white and beardless, and his body was neatly cleaned up, but he always looked a little soft. Behind him, there were four sturdy men in guard attire.

Chen Kefu looked them up and down, but he didn't speak, he still just stood with his hands in his hands.

As soon as the white-faced man entered the warehouse and saw Chen Kefu, his face suddenly bloomed, and the whole person smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were stacked, just like a bun.

"Oh, I finally met Your Highness. General Zhang is really not interesting, His Royal Highness is obviously here, but he told the old slave that he was not there. ”

Looking at this man's familiar bar, and listening to him shouting His Royal Highness, Chen Kefu's eyes couldn't help but narrow. Yang Guang named him the king of Beichen County, and he knew it. However, this was what he knew in advance through the Secret Service, and the real will was still in the hands of Pei Shiju in this fortress at this time. This beardless white-faced man must be the eunuch from Jiankang mentioned earlier.

How could the eunuch from Jiankang know now that Yang Guang had made him king?

If he didn't know about it, but he opened his mouth and called him His Highness, it would further confirm the conjecture in his heart.

"I heard that you are from Jiankang, why do you want to see Ben Shuai?" The eunuch looked at Chen Kefu's indifferent appearance, but he didn't care, he still said with a smile, "The old slave is here to deliver good news to His Royal Highness, just ten days ago, my Southern Chen Dynasty has been restored, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has ascended the throne in Jiankang and ascended the throne to the Son of Heaven." The old slave rushed to Liaodong to inform His Highness of the good news. Oh, look at the old slave, on the day His Majesty ascended the throne, he had already issued an edict to inform the world that His Royal Highness would be crowned the crown prince. The old slave brought an edict to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, please accept the holy decree!" Chen Kefu's heart was full of waves at this time, and he finally understood what was going on with this eunuch in Jiankang. He never thought that his father, who had been missing for so long, would actually be enthroned as emperor in Danyang, that is, Jiankang City, which has now changed its name. There are too many strange things in this matter, after his father was kidnapped from Kyoto, Chen Kefu had already ordered the Secret Service to send forces to search for him.

And he also vaguely suspected that the person who could rob the Qin prisoner in the Kyoto prison was ninety percent sure that it might be the Jiangnan Society, an organization that the dragon saw and did not see. However, this Jiangnan Society is too secretive, and he once sent the Luoyang Secret Service Division and the Central Plains Branches to focus on investigating this Jiangnan Society, but after a lot of time, the Secret Service Division only found out some vague information about the Jiangnan Society.

The thirty-six elders at the core of the Jiangnan Society represent the thirty-six families in the homeland of the Chen family in Jiangnan. Moreover, these thirty-six families are extremely hidden, although some can be inferred from the surface, but there is no trace at all. Moreover, these thirty-six elders are extremely hidden, and each elder still controls a peripheral organization. These thirty-six peripheral organizations, either chambers of commerce, or gangs, may also be a peasant army. Basically, the entire Jiangnan is full of their hidden strength, and their tentacles are all over the Jiangnan, and even have extended to Huainan, Shannan and other places.

Since the fall of Nan Chen, the Jiangnan Association was initiated, and until now, nearly 30 years have passed since the Jiangnan Association. For such a long time, this hidden underground organization has long been unfathomable.

When Chen Kefu heard the name of this organization from his father Chen Shen and obtained the thirty-six half-sided jade pendants, he already knew that the power that could be hidden for nearly thirty years must have already deteriorated. In thirty years, it is likely that the elders of this organization will already be in the second or even third generation. Time has passed, and it is impossible for future generations to have the same goals as the elders of previous lives. …,

He Chen Kefu has been in Liaodong for more than two years, even after he rebelled against the imperial court and became independent, it has been more than half a year. But the huge Jiangnan Club has never looked for itself. Even he sent a large number of men to find them, but they did not come into contact. But now they are quietly recovering in Jiangnan. This is self-evident.

He didn't have to guess at this time, he already vaguely knew that his father Chen Huang was being used. The Jiangnan Society has long been reduced to a tool for the interests of those huge families in Jiangnan, and after the eradication of Chen, the most powerful political force in the Great Sui has always been the Guanlong Group. Although the Yang family is constantly weakened, it still can't change this situation. The big families in Jiangnan have been weakened over the years. Such a situation must be unacceptable to those big clans who have been calling for wind and rain in the south for hundreds of years.

They wanted to change that, and the current situation in the court gave them the opportunity. But they are definitely unwilling to be attached to Chen Kefu's banner, because although Chen Kefu was born in the Southern Chen royal family, he actually grew up in Hebei. What's more important is that now Chen Kefu has successfully organized his own forces, most of whom are the powerful forces in Shandong and Hebei after the exiled Southern Chen Guaneun. If they join the Liaodong Army, the Jiangnan family will still not be able to become the biggest force.

With great effort, they robbed the crown prince of Nanchen to be their puppet emperor and raised the banner of restoring the Nanchen Dynasty, but in fact, Chen Kefu could figure it out with his toes, and the goal of these people must be not only to keep their interests from losing, but also to get more benefits.

Chen Kefu's mind kept turning, constantly linking all aspects together, and outlining the situation in Jiangnan more and more clearly in his mind. He turned a deaf ear to the eunuch's words.

The eunuch looked at Chen Kefu and was not moved at all when he heard that Nan Chen had returned to the country, his father had ascended the throne and become emperor, and he had been crowned the crown prince again. He himself was indeed a eunuch of Nan Chen, but when Nan Chen destroyed the country, he was just a little eunuch beside the queen of Chen in the Nan Chen Palace. He has been following the Shen family in Jiangnan all these years, and this time he came to Liaodong, of course he understood his mission.

At the beginning, Jiangnan would choose to establish Chen Shen as the emperor, in addition to valuing Chen Shen's position as the crown prince of Nanchen, the more important point was Chen Kefu in front of him. Chen Kefu sat in the land of Liaodong, with strong soldiers and strong horses, and divided one side. And he is also Chen Shen's only son, Jiang Nan's good calculation is that even if he is a separatist like Chen Kefu, he probably can't refuse the throne, right?

They set up Chen Shen as the emperor and Chen Kefu as the crown prince, and Chen Kefu's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the territory of more than ten counties can instantly become the territory of the new dynasty. More importantly, as long as Chen Ke rejoins the new dynasty, the north and south of the new dynasty will have strong strength in each other, and even the destruction of the Sui Dynasty will be just around the corner. The major clans in Jiangnan don't care who will be the emperor, but what they care about is that

The emperor of the new dynasty must be under their control.

The eunuch Shen Yan was confessed when he came, and he must pull Chen Kefu into the new dynasty no matter what.

Chen Kefu's submission can make the Jiangnan Association more powerful and more justifiable.

Looking at the pa Chen Kefu and not looking at him, Shen Yan's expression on his face did not move at all, but he had already opened a brocade box from the hand of the shì guard behind him, and took out a roll of yellow silk holy decrees from it.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict, the taboo is the son of heaven, the late princess Shen is posthumously registered as the queen, and the prince Chen Kefu is the crown prince. And crowned the crown prince Shangshu Provincial Shangshu Order, Liaodong Dao Daxingtai Shangshu Order, the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and commanded the soldiers and horses of the counties in eastern Liaodong. Chin this! ”

This edict was very long, and the eunuch in front of him read it for most of the hour, but Chen Kefu basically didn't understand much. But the latter ones, he understood. His father, Chen Shen, ascended the throne as the emperor, posthumously crowned Chen Kefu's mother as the queen, and immediately made Chen Kefu the crown prince. also added Shang Shu Ling, Liaodong Dao Daxing Tai Shang Shu Ling, and several high-ranking positions of generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses.

However, after listening to this holy decree, Chen Kefu sneered even more in his heart. What a grand thing it is to canonize the crown prince, the prince is the king of a country, and the crown prince must have a set of extremely grand ceremonies. Each procedure has been prescribed, and it must be in the imperial palace in the capital, and it must be canonized by the emperor himself. Then you have to worship the ancestors in the Taimiao, and a series of ceremonies such as offering sacrifices to the heavens.

But now, they actually sent such a eunuch so easily, and they came to read a holy decree to end the matter.

From this detail, Chen Kefu has already judged that his father Chen Shen's ascension to the throne as emperor is just a puppet controlled by those Jiangnan families behind his back. It is even possible that there is no reason to be free now, and the thought that they not only controlled their father, but now they also hit their own heads, Concubine Chen Ke's heart couldn't help but feel angry. The hands behind his back couldn't help but clench his fists at this time, and his knuckles turned white.