Chapter 261 You manage the territory, I manage people's livelihood
The queen was afraid, and Rime was even more afraid.
When a country is destroyed, the first people to suffer are definitely the people in the palace.
The new master will want the common people, but who will want the royal family? Will he keep them to endure hardships?
Wusong said, "My lady, I see that those kings are extremely respectful to Princess Yongning. They seem to be trying to vent their anger on Princess Yongning."
"Yes, people say that a woman's marriage is her second reincarnation," said the Queen, "In fact, finding a wife is also reincarnation! A virtuous wife brings prosperity to three generations, but an unvirtuous wife will be like this, and even the ancestral graves will be dug up!"
Rime: You don’t have to do it yourself, others are rushing to help you dig.
"Empress, I think your Majesty should find a way to reconcile with the Crown Prince. As long as the Crown Prince's heart is here, Princess Yongning will be the one who will make everything happen."
"Wait a moment. I have already sent a letter to Princess Yongning. Her mother is being treated to delicious food and drinks here. She should at least take some care of her, right?"
"My lady, I think you shouldn't count on those two beggars. I think they are just here to get money. She is the county lady's biological mother, but she has remarried. Think about it, does the county lady need a bite to eat? This Jiang Shuang must have done something unbearable."
The Queen suddenly glanced at Wusong with an unclear expression: "You seem to know Yongning quite well?"
"No, Madam, I am not speaking for her. I just think that Your Majesty and the Queen should find her back. The Tang Dynasty cannot be destroyed!" Wusong knelt down and cried, "The people can submit to the new master, but the new master will only be afraid of the royal family. They will just kill everyone to mark the beginning of a new era."
Wusong just didn't want Zhou Xiaocheng and the Queen's entire family to die.
The Queen sneered: "How do you know that Your Majesty will lose?"
He shouted outside, "Look at her. Go to the entrance of the tunnel and kneel for three days!"
The entrance to the corridor, the front hall and the harem is also a windy place. In the middle of winter, if you stay awake here for three days, you are basically dead.
"Alas," the supervising old lady said softly, "Rime, why are you doing this?"
Wusong knelt there in silence, his knees cold and his heart even colder.
On the first day of the new year, the State of Song took the lead in sending a letter to the court of the Tang Dynasty, stating that the State of Song would launch an attack on the Tang Dynasty the day after the Lantern Festival!
At the same time, the letter from the country was also delivered to Xie Yanyan's desk.
The civil and military officials and common people in the entire capital, who had been celebrating the New Year with high spirits, suddenly fell into panic.
Except for the ministers who had to attend the banquet, the common people began to pack up their gold and silver jewelry in their homes and prepared to leave the capital, waiting for the new dynasty to be established and stabilized, and then bring their children back.
The commander-in-chief of the Song army responsible for attacking the Tang Dynasty was the Grand Marshal Qingshan. Yes, it was Qingshan, Chu Xiwang's personal bodyguard, who had been delivering letters to Xie Yanyan.
Qingshan is not only a good warrior himself, but also the State of Song has received help from Xie Yanyan in the past two years. The people have been able to recuperate, the economy has been greatly restored, and there is sufficient food and grass.
Since invading the Tang Dynasty, they have been invincible all the way, as if they were in an empty land.
"Any city or area flying the flag of the Jiuzhou Empire must not be invaded!" Liu Yu gave a death order before the soldiers set off. Anyone who invaded the Jiuzhou Empire could be executed immediately without the punishment of the Jiuzhou Emperor.
Wherever the Song army went, they did not harm any city or land that flew the "Kyushu Empire Flag".
For a time, there was an endless stream of people surrendering to the Song State and begging the ruler of the Kyushu Empire to let them hang the flag of the Kyushu Empire.
Xie Yanyan, Zhou Shaoyu, Xu Wenrong, Xie Anfeng and their group did not leave Ruyang City. On the one hand, Ruyang City was the first city to surrender to the Jiuzhou Empire, and they wanted to set an example. On the other hand, the core leaders and core combat forces were all there, so there was no need for them to go back to Lingnan to fight first.
Xie Yanyan had expected the Song Dynasty to attack the Tang Dynasty.
She was not prepared to rescue.
Everyone was paying attention to the attitudes of Zhou Shaoyu and Zhou Tangtang.
If they don't go to rescue, they will appear cold-blooded and heartless. If they go to rescue, they will go against the will of the Kyushu Empire.
"What do you think, Emperor Chen?" Xu Wenrong put the question on the table. He could not avoid this matter, so he said, "The Tang Dynasty has no national destiny, and the Tang ruler does not have the true dragon spirit. If there is no Song Dynasty, there will be Wei, Liang, etc. to attack. The Tang Dynasty will not last long."
The implication is that the Tang Kingdom is a hopeless case.
Zhou Shaoyu said bluntly: "No help!"
"It has nothing to do with Zhou Xiaocheng sending people to kill me. I am just discussing the facts. He is really incapable of governing a country. He is far inferior to Liu Yu and even less than Emperor Yan. Under his governance, the people of Tang will only suffer more and more."
"It's already his limit to be a good king of the South China Sea."
In the early days of the establishment of the Jiuzhou Empire, Xu Wenrong proposed the idea of two rulers for one country.
Xie Yanyan is in charge of people's livelihood. As she said, "I like farming." She is responsible for people's food and education.
Zhou Shaoyu grasped politics and territory. Xie Yanyan said: "I don't know how to fight, and I don't like dealing with too many people. I like to stay at home, at home, and in the fields."
Xie Yanyan was called Emperor Yan, and Zhou Shaoyu, whose courtesy name was Jingchen, was called Emperor Chen.
Zhou Shaoyu's opinion on how to deal with the Tang Kingdom was: "Let it perish naturally, but save Zhou Xiaocheng and his mother's lives."
Zhou Tangtang also holds the same opinion. Just save the lives of his parents and let the Tang Dynasty become history!
"Write a letter to the King of Song to spare Zhou Xiaocheng's life." Zhou Shaoyu said, "Wei also wrote a letter to the King of Wei. Yuan Rong and Murong Fenghuang knew what was going on and would not kill Zhou Xiaocheng."
Xie Anfeng also agreed with this opinion, so Xu Wenrong wrote a letter and sent it to the States of Song and Wei.
The Song State attacked the Tang State from the southeast and in just one month, it conquered 30% of the Tang State's territory.
Zhou Xiaocheng personally led the army to fight, and on the third day of March, he met Qingshan in the Wancheng area.
"Lord Tang, surrender. My Song Dynasty has received a letter from the Kyushu Empire. As long as you give up resistance, I will spare your life, but the Tang Kingdom must change its leader." Qingshan said seriously, "From the moment you sent people to hunt down Emperor Yan, you were doomed to perish."
Zhou Xiaocheng was furious: "You bastard, wait until you can capture Wancheng first."
He was a horse emperor, but his martial arts were not as good as Qingshan, and his national strength could not be compared with that of the Song Dynasty.
Qingshan not only came this time, but also brought the Prime Minister with him. The Prime Minister said, "Didn't your Majesty say that the Emperor of Jiuzhou didn't want to kill him? Then let's fight with wisdom!"
Around Wancheng, big pots were set up to cook meat!
Let the band sing and dance.
The aroma of meat wafted through the wind and enveloped the entire Tang army. Everyone ate meat in large bowls and sang loudly.
The prime minister shouted loudly: "We are all of the same clan, we all have parents, brothers, wives and children. Our emperor said that the ultimate goal of war is to live and work in peace and contentment, not to fight for the sake of fighting. So you see that Song is now strong and peaceful, why do we still have to follow the Tang Lord and eat coarse food?"
"If you don't submit to Song, Wei will attack you. The people of Wei are barbarians. They burn, kill, and plunder, but they are not as polite as your majesty."
"By the way, Japan seems to be starting to make a move. You probably know what kind of people they are. If you are occupied by them, they won't think about giving you a stable life. They just want land, resources, and the reproduction of their own people. As for you, a foreign race, they will treat you as weeds and wipe you out."
"If you submit to the Song Dynasty, then with our protection, not only will your race be preserved, but you will also have food and clothing guaranteed."
Balabala!
Zhou Xiaocheng couldn't argue with him, so he started fighting in anger.
Zhou Xiaocheng is brave and martial, but Qingshan is not only young, but his military ability ranks among the top five among more than 30 small countries.
Zhou Xiaocheng was defeated!
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