Nanchen, the capital city of Jiankang, the princess's mansion of Chu State.

A carriage with a single sign stopped in front of the princess's mansion of Chu State, and a team of guards stepped forward to check, and immediately let it go after seeing that it was Shan Xiongxin in the car. In a loud command, the carriage slowly drove into the princess's mansion of Chu State.

Shan Xiongxin jumped down from the carriage and was already greeted by someone in front of him.

The first young woman in her twenties is Shan Xiongxin's niece, the wife of Du Fuwei, the marshal of the Southern Chen Huainan Army, and Shan Yunying, known as Du Ji. Behind him, it was his husband Du Fuwei who led a group of generals of the Huainan Army.

Shan Yunying stepped forward quickly and said to his uncle with a smile: "Uncle came all the way from other places, and he worked hard all the way. ”

Looking at the little niece who has now grown into another wife, Shan Xiong said with emotion in confidence: "It's not hard, if my uncle hadn't been taken in by your wife in the past few years, I wouldn't know where I would be gone." ‘

Du Fuwei stepped forward with a smile and said: "The court can get the help of my uncle, that is something that the court can't ask for." With his uncle's talent, there is no competition for recruitment anywhere in the world. I heard that Chen Pojun also sent people to recruit Uncle Yu several times. ”

Three years ago, during the Central Plains War, the Wei State to which Shan Xiongxin belonged was destroyed, and the lord Li Mi and many generals were captured. At that time, his friend Huang Junhan had already brought many brothers to surrender to Chen as soon as the war began, and his righteous brother Xu Shiji also had the intention of surrendering Chen, but Shan Xiongxin had been hesitating. After the final defeat, Xu Shiji voted for Chen Kefu, but Shan Xiongxin followed his niece to Du Fuwei. After joining Nan Chen, Du Fuwei also valued him very much, and was later recommended by Du Fuwei, and Shen Luoyan, the princess of Chu State, also valued him very much. these years. He recruited many old troops from the Central Plains back then, and then recruited troops and horses, and gradually pulled up a large number of people again.

"Chief Shen Guard, have all the adults arrived?"

"Back to the marshal's words. Her Royal Highness has arrived at the main hall, and so have all the adults. Just send the marshal and General Shan. ”

The two followed the chief of the guard into the mansion and walked into the main hall.

Since Shan Xiongxin joined Nan Chen, although he has always been under the command of the princess of Chu State, this is the first time that he has come to the main hall of the princess of Chu State. Although Nan Chen was ostensibly Chen Shen as the emperor, everyone knew that Nan Chen was from the Shen family. Especially after the Shen family captured Jianghan, the scholars in Jiangnan were completely suppressed by the Shen family, and Nanchen really became the world of the Shen family.

Since the great war in June. Nan Chen lost his troops and suffered heavy losses. The east and west were broken by the North Chen army, and a wedge was inserted in Jiujiang and other places. King Wu and his sons sat in the area of Jiangling and Jiangxia, while dealing with the Northern Chen army in Xiangyang. While continuing to attack Hanzhong.

And the Jiankang of the base camp is managed by the princess of Chu who has fully demonstrated her incomparable talent in the past few years. Although the princess of Chu is a daughter, the ordinary people from King Wu and Nanchen have already been conquered by the princess's wisdom and bravery over the years. No one objected to King Wu leaving the princess of Chu in prison.

Although the princess was defeated by the Northern Chen army in the first half of the year, her prestige was not lost much.

Unlike King Wu, who liked to listen to political affairs in the palace when he was in the court, the princess of Chu rarely went to the palace, and more often called her subordinates in the palace of the princess of Chu. For the main hall of the princess of Chu State's mansion. Outsiders are always full of imagination, and many people rumor. The council hall of the princess's mansion of Chu is even more magnificent than the emperor's Jinluan hall. Legend has it that the walls are all inlaid with precious stones and pearls of the night, and the floors are paved with gold. The ceiling is full of crystal chandeliers produced by Liaodong in North Chen.

As a result, as soon as Shan Xiongxin entered the main hall, he was a little disappointed. It was just an ordinary hall, and there was no extravagant furnishings other than that it was very large.

The hall was about a hundred paces long and forty paces wide, and the decoration of this room did not seem luxurious compared to the power of the owner of this room, almost no ornamentation, with a dark green marble floor and a long conference table that was almost all furnished. …,

As soon as he walked into this room, Shan Xiongxin felt a smell, the smell of power.

This room is the veritable brain and heart of an empire, and the few people here truly rule a quarter of the territory of the Central Plains, deciding their fate of life and death.

Walking into the room, everyone was watching the two of them.

Du Fuwei smiled calmly at everyone, and naturally sat in a vacant seat next to the righteous son Wang Xiongdan.

Shan Xiongxin looked around and left, there was an empty seat at the conference table between Kan Ling and Ximen Junyi, he walked over and sat down.

Several people next to him nodded and smiled at him, and he also nodded and smiled in return, looking around, at the top of the conference table, Shen Luoyan was sitting there.

Seeing these people in the hall, Shan Xiongxin's heart became slightly clearer. Among the generals present, nearly half of them are generals of the Huainan Army, and these people are either Du Fuwei's righteous sons or his confidant generals, so it can be said that half of the people here are following Du Fuwei's orders.

Almost a quarter of the people were the leader of the South Vietnamese Army, Li Zitong, and his generals, and the rest were all direct subordinate generals of the princess of Chu. There have long been rumors in the army that Du Fuwei is young and vigorous, and since he completely turned his face with Fu Gongyi, his temperament has become a little violent. Therefore, the relationship with King Wu, who took in Fu Gongyi, has always been a bit of a frontier, and there are rumors in the army that he had a grudge against Li Zitong in his early years. Li Zitong had been defeated and defected to him, but in the end he wanted to fire and annex his team, that time Du Fuwei almost died, if it wasn't for the wife of the righteous son Ximen Junyi who escaped with a serious wound in his back, he would have died in the hands of Li Zitong.

Li Zitong was originally a general supported by the Xie family, but after the fall of the Xie family, he switched to King Wu. There is no more power, but the princess of Chu has been vigorously supporting him in recent years, and he was forcibly promoted to the position of marshal with Du Fuwei.

"Everyone is here. So, let's get started! Shen Luoyan, who was in a high position, raised his head and looked at everyone with a smile: "Recently." We're in a bad situation! Bad news came one after another, in June, Bei Chen suddenly marched south, and my Nan Chen almost wiped out the country. And in August, on the Western Front. His Royal Highness King Wu was attacked by Yang Jun one after another, and Brazil, Bazhong, and Padang had all been lost, losing several counties and tens of thousands of soldiers. On the central line, the Northern Chen Army once again captured Jiujiang, Yuzhang and other five counties, firmly nailing a wedge between our east and west, cutting off our east and west. On the southern front, Baiyue in Lingnan was under the instruction of Chen Pojun. Feng Ang and Feng Xian and his family continued to harass us in the south, seriously disrupting the stability of the rear. If this continues, one day my Nanchen will die to enemies on all sides. ”

Shen Luoyan's beautiful face was a little more solemn and heavy, although Nan Chen took Jiang Han. It temporarily alleviated the decline of the people who lived in Jiangdong. But now that he is being attacked on three sides, he has also reached a critical time.

After a moment of silence, Shen Luoyan's face changed to a bright color, and he said loudly: "However, at this critical time, it also shows the loyal nature of many generals in the DPRK. The two marshals, Du Fuwei and Li Zitong, performed outstandingly. In the shortest possible time, the combat strength of our Huainan Army and the South Vietnamese Army was restored. And here, this princess has to be rewarded today with General Shan Xiongxin, and on the southern front, our General Shan Xiongxin has recently made great contributions. He took dozens of cities in Lingnan and wiped out tens of thousands of troops of Feng An's Baiyue army. drove Feng Ang and those Nanban cave people back into the Lingnan mountains. This princess suggests that we all stand up. Applaud General Shan Xiongxin for his heroic exploits! He washed away the shame of our defeat in June and August, and won glory for our Nanchen! ”…,

The congregation stood and applauded in unison.

Shan Xiongxin hurriedly got up and said a few words modestly, and said: "It all depends on the virtue of His Royal Highness King Wu and the princess of Chu, the bravery of the soldiers, my personal role is very small, the victory belongs to the two highnesses, and belongs to the soldiers of the three armies who fought bravely, I am just lucky!" ”

Shan Xiongxin is just a general who was defeated in the Central Plains and came to take refuge. In the Southern Chen Army, its position is very awkward, and it is impossible to enter the core class at all. The great achievement that the princess of Chu said was actually just a few actual combat exercises in the border with Lingnan after he gathered up the old department and recruited many new soldiers. It is better to say that they rushed into the Lingnan border and plundered many towns that were not defended by soldiers and horses.

The princess of Chu said that he attacked dozens of cities and killed tens of thousands of enemies, but in fact, he just captured more than a dozen uninhabited towns and wiped out thousands of hundreds of Yue troops. Regarding all this, he had reported it to the princess of Chu in detail, and he had no intention of being greedy for retribution. But now, in the mouth of the princess, things have changed.

Shan Xiongxin squinted his eyes and thought carefully, and finally had some eyebrows in his heart. If he was still very honest when he was in Shan Jiazhuang, then after experiencing countless ups and downs in Wagang and Wei and licking blood from the tip of the knife, he already understood a lot more about those secret conspiracies. Although it was a little difficult for the princess of Chu to do this for a while, but after thinking about it carefully, it was just another thing he had done to Li Zitong.

Really.

After some clichés, Shen Luoyan said: "Of course, although General Shan is indifferent to fame and fortune, the imperial court will not treat heroes badly!" I have reached a consensus with King Wu that I will promote General Shan to marshal and set up a curtain from now on. Unit marshal, from today onwards, you will be another marshal of my Da Chen. Also from today, your command can officially become an independent army, today, the princess gave you the number of the southern army of the military town. ”

Shan Xiongxin's subordinates have about 50,000 new and old soldiers and horses, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, and many of them are the backbone of Du Fuwei who was transferred to him from the Huainan army. Therefore, Shan Xiongxin has always been under the Huainan Army, and his troops certainly belong to the Huainan Army. But now, as soon as Shen Luoyan made a move and held Shan Xiongxin high, it was equivalent to separating the 50,000 horses from the Huainan army.

In this way, the strength of the Huainan Army was weakened, but Shan Xiongxin was brought out and worked with Li Zitong to balance Du Fuwei. She knew very well that with Du Fuwei's impatient and small character, although Shan Xiongxin was his wife and uncle, after this incident, Du Fuwei would definitely have an estrangement from Shan Xiongxin, and he would never be able to unite again.

Just when everyone was different, Shen Luoyan did not stop there, after a short pause, she immediately said: "In addition, from the princess and His Majesty King Wu, the emperor has issued an order, officially awarded the unit marshal Jiujiang County duke, and add Jiujiang, Yuzhang, Yichun, Luling, Nankang five counties Taishou and five counties of soldiers and horses Governor, the imperial court and allow the Zhennan army to have a maximum of 100,000 soldiers. ”

As soon as this reward came out, Du Fuwei was already clenched into a fist and almost jumped up. Wang Xiongdan, Kan Ling and other generals of the Huainan Army were even more ugly. They were born and died, the coach Du Fuwei was only a duke, Wang Xiongdan and other generals were just an earl, and there were no marquis who could not be crowned.

Now a demoted general, who has not made great contributions, but is suddenly at the same level as the coach, how happy is this.

On the other side, Shan Xiongxin also had a solemn face, and after a long time of ups and downs, not only was he not half happy in his heart, but it was very complicated. He never imagined that as soon as he arrived in Nanchen, he would be involved in this kind of power struggle. The reward of the princess of Chu is simply to roast him on the fire. …,

Although it seems that the official positions are very large, in fact, they are just empty titles, and in times of war, what titles and official positions are of little practical significance. The official positions of the five counties added to him by the imperial court are even more false, and the five counties are now in the hands of Bei Chen, which is the Jiangxi Province of Bei Chen, and the princess of Chu State sealed him to the territory of the enemy country as an official, isn't this a painting cake to satisfy hunger.

Although the Zhennan army looks good, the imperial court did not give a single soldier, and if it is not good, Du Fuwei will take away his backbone. It is never a good thing to get an empty title and offend Duvowe at the same time.

Shen Luoyan Feng smiled, took a jade box from the case, slowly walked in front of Shan Xiongxin, and handed the jade box to him.

Shan Xiongxin gently opened the jade box, and inside was a bright yellow silk cloth, which was the holy decree of his official position. In addition, there are three goldfish, one is the public seal of Jiujiang County, one is the seal of the Taishou of the five counties and the governor of the five counties, and the last one is the golden seal of the marshal of the town guard.

This is the golden seal of the Holy Decree and a symbol of power. If a soldier can get this, it already means that he has officially entered the quagmire of Nan Chen's rights. From then on, the foundation of his life can only rely on these three golden seals.

Looking at this holy decree and the golden seal, although Shan Xiongxin had a smile on his face, his heart was extremely bitter. Although he has obtained these three golden seals, how many can know what he has lost behind his back? (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )