Fangfei in April, the peach blossoms in Datong, Shanxi Province are still fragrant and beautiful, and they are blooming.

Another year has passed, the situation in the world has changed greatly, and Huang Chao, who occupied the two capitals, has died in Chang'an and Daming Palace. Now sitting on the dragon chair in the Xingqing Palace in Chang'an, there is another emperor. In the land of the Central Plains, a powerful alliance began to form.

But these are not things that she is willing to think about as a woman, and she just looks at it every day. She still thinks about her man the most.

She has had two men, Li Keyong and Li Jing.

and Li Keyong, the two have long been separated emotionally. Especially when he forcibly took away her daughter, the two of them had broken off their relationship. But on the other hand, she had to face this former husband. As the governor of Shanxi, Li Keyong is the marshal of Hedong, a former husband and wife, and now a neighbor, this seems to be a trick of fate.

After Li Keyong returned to Hedong, Liu also proposed to Li Jing to return to Yanjing and not continue to stay in Shanxi, which was also to avoid suspicion. However, Li Jing told her that she needed her in Shanxi, and repeatedly said that she had done a good job in Shanxi in the past two years. She was touched by this trust. Although she and Li Keyong used to be husband and wife, now she has all her thoughts on Li Jing and their child Li Delin. Li Jing asked her to give her a name several times, but she refused. She felt that her identity was not suitable for acceptance. However, for her son, she agreed to let him recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors, and his name was written into the genealogy of the Li family.

She once had a daughter with Li Keyong, but unfortunately Li Keyong snatched it away from her. Now, she cares for this son wholeheartedly. Not long ago. The new imperial court of Chang'an. gave Li Jing a series of titles. What kind of Tiance generals and others, and rewarded Li Jing's sons and daughters again. In this reward list, she was surprised to see that the new emperor actually crowned his son Delin Yanmen County King, and also gave a concubine status. This reward made her feel uneasy, Li Jing had so many sons, only three sons-in-law, and as a result, Delin was neither the eldest among the concubines, but his mother was still a person with no name. actually got the status of a concubine like the eldest son of Wang Haojun, and he was still one of the two concubines who had to be crowned the king of the county.

This incident made her very uneasy, and she knew very well that the battle between the concubines in the big family was fierce. Not to mention the current Li Jing's sons, as well as the open and secret battles between the princes of the Qin domain. Wang Haojun's eldest son, the three sons-in-law born to Yu Youniang and Wang Guiniang, these four children have been involved in the fight. She never thought that her own children were already involved. She never thought about letting her children fight for the position of the prince, and she didn't even think about asking for the position of the prince of the county, but now. Whether she wanted it or not, with the issuance of an edict. His son Delin was inevitably involved.

For today's Qin Domain, the Liu family sees it very clearly. The Tang Dynasty is unchangeable, and it is difficult to support it alone. Although Qin Fan has been in the east, it has also been developing in a low-key manner in the past few years, and there is no bright banner to show the signs that the chariots and horses are going to reverse Li Tang. It can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye that although the Qin Domain has not been too involved in the affairs of the Central Plains for several years, the power of the Qin Domain is constantly expanding, and the Qin Domain has developed rapidly both in military and people's livelihood, especially in the annexation of the five towns of Datong, Yanmen, Lulong, Yiwu and Rongjing, which really allowed the Qin Domain to occupy a high position. Surrounding the Bohai Sea, Zhenhebei, connecting Daibei and Shandong, there is Huanghuai in front, Liaodong in the back, the foundation has been solidified, and the situation has been formed.

Sooner or later, Qin Fan will replace Li Tang. Li Jing will also become a generation of founding emperors.

Although the Liu family is also Han, it is also a local wealthy family. But she was born in the border land since she was a child, grew up among the border people, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the Hu and Han are mixed, and she is really not as loyal to the Li Tang royal family as the ordinary Central Plains scholars. The Tang Dynasty has long been in turmoil, and at best it is just a larger feudal town. And after the Huangchao Rebellion and the split of the two imperial courts in Chengdu and Chang'an, this prestige is even smaller.

Looking at the chaotic world now, the feeling for the Tang family faded. On the contrary, after entering the Qin Domain for a few years, she became more and more appreciative of Li Jing's governance of the Qin Domain, and also more and more admired his concept of enriching the people and strengthening the country. Li Jing has told her more than once on the pillow that he wants to establish a more prosperous and powerful Central Plains Dynasty, and establish a real Heavenly Empire where the people are rich and the country is strong, so that the four seas will admire and all nations will come. This idea is so straightforward and undisguised.

A brand new dynasty can only be built on the ruins of an old dynasty.

If Li Jing wants to establish a new dynasty, it can only replace Li Tang. For Li Jing's thoughts, not only did she not feel that it was not at all, but she felt that it was very right. Since Li Tang is immoral, he should be replaced by someone like Li Jing who has ideas and ability.

There are many people who want to replace Li Tang, and Huang Chao is bent on replacing Li Tang, in fact, he was once close to this goal. He captured the two capitals of the Tang Dynasty, drove the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty to Xichuan, established the Great Qi in Luoyang, and sat on the dragon chair of the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty in the Daming Palace of Chang'an. It's just that Huang Chao once traveled the world, and once reflected a good tactical level. But since he captured Luoyang, his strategic methods are simply stupid. wasted a few years in Chang'an, but became weaker and weaker, all of which finally proved that Huang Chao was just a smuggler with a bit of culture, a grass thief leader. Aside from wandering and plundering, he didn't know how to establish a new dynasty.

Huang Chao was the mourner of the Tang Dynasty, but he was not the founder of the new dynasty.

Speaking of which, Li Keyong, who had also said countless times on her pillow that he would establish a Shatuo dynasty, was somewhat on par with Huang Chao's tactical level. Even Li Jing once laughed with her and said that if it was purely about tactical level, Li Keyong was not below him, and he might even be slightly better than him. But Li Keyong, like Huang Chao, has a fatal flaw, he is just a brave and reckless man. In terms of strategic literacy, he is a complete failure like Huang Chao. Huangchao is only known to wander, plunder, and destroy. And Li Ke rushed and beat with only knowing the road, a complete brute.

Like Huang Chao's desire to replace the Tang Dynasty, Li Keyong's desire to establish the Shatuo Dynasty is just a delusion. Li Keyong's idea does not have the slightest success and practical step planning. He only knew that Lu Dao thought so. But I don't know how to realize him.

Li Jing is different. Although Liu and Li Jing have not been together for a long time. didn't have much time to get along, but it made her understand that Li Jing was a real king. Not only does he have a clear purpose, but he also has detailed practical steps, and he has been working towards that goal. He is not in a hurry, nor is he dry, and even grass thieves like Huang Chao can't wait to just think about beating down the two capitals and sitting on the dragon chair. When the emperor. Li Jing held his mind and focused on low-key development in the east.

Recruit nomads, hoard land and reclaim famine, promote industry and commerce, develop maritime trade, and even when the feudal towns are busy catching strong men, increasing taxes, distributing more food and wages, and even extravagant enjoyment. Li Jing was busy building roads and bridges and building water conservancy. Divide the land and reclaim the wasteland, and immigrate to the real side. Conquer the tribes. Li Jing has the largest territory and the largest population of all towns in the world, but the standing army has always maintained a small but elite number, but on the other hand, Li Jing's reserve army is very powerful, with a terrible number of mobilizable reserves.

Li Jing's expansion and development has always been in an all-round development, maintaining a very high bottom limit, never touching that bottom limit, which makes the Qin army maintain its offensive strength at any time, but also maintain a strong defensive capability.

She once heard Li Jing say a sentence, build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become the king.

Thinking about it carefully, this is indeed the development strategy of the Qin Domain over the years. The Qin army has always maintained a style lower than their strength, low-key development, stockpiling grain and gathering troops, and making every effort to develop.

Huang Chao and Li Keyong are too far behind Li Jing in this aspect, and even say that many feudal towns today are far behind Li Jing in this aspect. They wantonly conscripted troops and sent more conscriptions, just like fishing in the dry water, and they did not know what sustainable development and long-term strategy were. They don't know how important the people's hearts are to dominate the world, and the seemingly ethereal and ethereal people's hearts are actually the most important.

Huang Chao didn't know the importance of establishing a base in Langdao, and how he didn't know the importance of relying entirely on looting, but supplying logistics supplies from his own rear. In the end, when the army of locusts in Huangchao grew bigger and bigger, and finally succeeded in capturing Luoyang and Chang'an, their biggest problem also appeared, the number of grass thieves swelled to a frightening number, and finally reached the point where they could not supply it by looting alone, which made them miss the opportunity to annihilate Li Tang Tianzi in one fell swoop. In the end, occupying important places like Chang'an and Luoyang, falling into a dilemma, riding a tiger is difficult to get down, and in the end, success is also a sea of people tactics, and defeat is also a sea of people tactics.

The situation of other feudal towns is similar to that of Huangchao, although those feudal towns have a territory, but they are all using the territory of one state, or even two or three states, to maintain a huge army of 30,000, 40,000, or even 70,000, and even more and more armies. But the combat effectiveness is getting weaker and weaker, the strong people in the feudal towns are all conscripted into the army, there are still endless labor, unpaid additional levies and assessments, the last of the most, the people are not able to make a living, the people have fled, the most rearly army of the feudal town is more and more, but more and more poor, the strength is getting weaker and weaker.

Up to now, those feudal towns in the Central Plains have become more and more impoverished, and in Hebei, Henan, Guanzhong, Shannan and other places, the territory of those feudal towns is often overgrown with weeds, and dozens of miles are uninhabited. On the contrary, the Qin Domain, which was under their control, was a vibrant phenomenon, and many of the people of the feudal towns fled to the mountains or to the territory of the Qin Domain.

In Liu's view, Li Jing is popular among the people.

The feudal towns will only get poorer, but the feudal towns will not accept that. Feudal towns with many armies will eventually be like Yellow Nests, and they can only take the road of relying on war and looting to solve their supply. Huang Chao is dead, more and more independent, and the next target of the feudal towns is undoubtedly the wealthy Qin Domain.

How to continue the separatist rule must be the only constant consideration of all the feudal towns.

As the province of the Qin Domain in Hedong, close to Hedong and Guanzhong, it is not only an important barrier to protect the west of Yanjing, the base camp of the Qin Domain, but also an important advance base for the Qin Domain to send troops to Henan and Guanzhong in the future.

The peach blossoms bloomed outside the window, and Liu suddenly had an indescribable feeling mixed with chagrin, sadness, or other thoughts. If Li Jing was not the king of the Qin domain, but just a common man in a border area, would their lives be much more stable? In this way, she does not have to face a lot of official duties all day, and she does not even have time to take care of her son. And she doesn't have to worry about her son who has just been born and has been forced to get involved in the battle for the position of the son. Even, she didn't have to be separated from Li Jing for more than a year, and she had to worry about him thousands of miles away all day long. Don't even think about the world, the dynasty.

She suddenly remembered a poem by Wang Changling, a poet of this dynasty.

The young woman in the leap didn't know how to worry, and she made up on the green building in the spring. Suddenly, I saw a strange willow color, and the penitent husband was looking for a marquis.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Liu didn't have to look back to know that Jing Sanniang was here, and only she would be so angry and enter her backyard without hindrance. Jing Sanniang used to be the deputy commander of her women's army, and after descending to Qin with her, the two were separated for a while. However, last year, before Li Jing set out for the expedition, he specially pulled the newly built women's army to Shanxi. This reorganized women's army was newly reorganized as the new army of the Suzaku Legion, with six armies of 30,000 horses, of which three were women and three were men. The commander of this new corps is not only Liu Yunniang, who was previously promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, but also the deputy corps commanders are Jing Shisanniang and Wang Dong.

Let Liu Yunniang, the governor who is only in charge of civil affairs, be the commander of the army and command 30,000 horses, which is a great exception, and it is also Li Jing's greatest trust in Liu Yunniang.

Liu Yunniang got up, and as soon as the door opened, it was Jing Shisanniang who arrived.

"Hasn't Thirteen Niang been busy training soldiers and horses recently, why is she so free today?"

Although Li Jing let Liu Yunniang be the commander of the legion, the military system of the Qin army has always been that the governor does not care about the military, so under normal circumstances, Liu Yunniang only serves as the commander of the legion in name, and she tries not to interfere in the actual affairs of the legion. Even with Jing Sanniang, they mostly meet on formal occasions, and it is very rare for Jing Sanniang to come directly to her house to see her privately.

"Li Siyuan has just sent me a letter asking me to go to the Governor's Mansion immediately to discuss matters, and he has specifically asked me to inform you." Jing Thirteen Niang said.

Since the last time something happened after drinking, Liu Yunniang has completely lost her good face towards Li Siyuan, and she usually avoids it, Li Siyuan also regrets it a lot, and laments that drinking is harmful. Since then, the two have hardly spoken separately, and most of their official correspondence is passed on from generation to generation. Today, Li Siyuan asked Jing Shisanniang to invite her to the Governor's Mansion, which surprised the Liu family.

But since the thirteen mothers are also called, it is clear that it is not a private matter. The Qin army stationed several armies in Shanxi Province, which belonged to several legions, especially several garrison generals at key and dangerous passes, and were all guarded by Li Jing's disciples. However, Li Siyuan was the governor of Shanxi, and he was the governor of the military affairs of a province. Although this governor did not have any real power and could not really command all kinds of soldiers and horses, when he did not set up a capital to command all armies, Li Siyuan, the governor of a province, was still the nominal commander of the armies of a province and had the responsibility of coordinating and liaison.

Liu Yunniang and Jing Sanniang went out of the mansion together, and when they arrived at Li Siyuan's governor's mansion, all the generals had gathered here, and the garrison generals in Datong City and near Datong had arrived, and the guards who were farther away had not arrived, but the officers who stayed in their Datong office also came.

In the hall, the eyes were full of generals full of fierce atmosphere, and at a glance, they knew that something important must have happened.

"Everyone!" Li Siyuan strode into the hall with a stack of papers, and beside him, several intelligence officers from the Supervision Office followed closely behind.

The generals in the hall stood up straight almost at the same time, and everyone saluted each other, and after the salute, they took their seats according to their positions.

"I just received an urgent report, our old rival Li Keyong has already sent troops to attack Daizhou!" Li Siyuan's loud and hurried voice sounded, Liu Shi lost his mind for a moment, and then sighed in his heart, what he had been guessing finally happened. Li Keyong is a fool, a complete reckless man, does he really think that if Li Jing is not there, Shanxi will be empty? She glanced at the generals in the hall, and couldn't help sneering, Li Keyong is a person who is brave and unscrupulous, and it is difficult to achieve great things!

(I've had severe cervical pain recently, and I didn't change it yesterday, I'm really sorry!) (To be continued......)