Chapter 809: Return to Beijing
Gu Qingcheng took the letter and read it again.
She broke down and chewed up almost every sentence and every word, and studied them thoroughly.
Then, she came to a conclusion:
The time has come!
Something unexpected happened in Jiankang, and the new emperor Chen Jing was in trouble.
As a general second only to Chen Jing and also the King of Liang, Chen Duan would naturally fight back first.
Gu Qingcheng put down the letter, took out some intelligence that she had received in recent days, read it carefully, and analyzed it again.
All this information was sent back by the merchant caravans that Gu Qingcheng had stationed in various places in Jiangnan.
On the surface, these are the prices of industries such as rice, silkworms, or local conditions such as rainfall and drought.
However, through these trivial matters, Gu Qingcheng was still able to gain insight into the trends in the court.
When Gu Qingcheng first saw this information, he had some vague guesses.
In ancient times, the fluctuations in grain prices were very critical and could reflect certain problems.
For example, the turmoil in the court and the deployment of troops.
The latter, in particular, is directly related to food prices.
"Not only Chen Duan, other generals are also secretly mobilizing troops!"
Gu Qingcheng sorted out her speculations.
She took out a piece of letter paper and quickly wrote a letter.
Let the ink dry, fold it, and put it in an envelope.
"Come here, deliver this letter to His Royal Highness Prince Liang!"
Gu Qingcheng sealed the envelope with wax, pressed her own seal, and then handed it to the visitor.
"yes!"
The visitor nodded, took the envelope with both hands, carefully put it into his lapel, and then quickly retreated.
After watching the man leave, Gu Qingcheng wrote down the other information she had just summarized, and then went to find her grandfather and father with it.
"Jiankang is going to be in chaos again!"
Gu Heng, Gu Yi and his son Gu Ji were kneeling in the study.
They passed around the letters, notes and other items that Gu Qingcheng had brought.
Gu Hengxian sighed and said, "It's only been a few years, and the Chen Dynasty is already in turmoil again!"
Gu Yi was calmer, or rather, he had even less favorable impression of the Xin Dynasty.
Come to think of it, he was the son-in-law of the Xiao family of the previous dynasty.
The Chen family was a traitor who overthrew the Xiao Dynasty.
Chen Jing's accusation of "treason" was more like a cycle of cause and effect and retribution.
Gu Yi has absolutely no sympathy, let alone any feelings.
He would only consider whether the whole matter was beneficial to the Gu family.
"Chen Duan is going back to Beijing? He wants to take that position?"
Gu Yi pondered for a moment, and asked directly without hiding anything.
Gu Qingcheng smiled slightly, "Even if he doesn't want to, I will push him to the top."
It is difficult to achieve unification from south to north.
It would be even more difficult if there is not even a title of "righteousness".
Only if Chen Duan became the emperor of the Southern Dynasty could he integrate all the military forces and fight against the Northern Dynasty.
As for Gu Qingcheng, she can also complete her plan accordingly.
Hearing Gu Qingcheng's ambitious words, all three of the Gu family members laughed.
"Aqing is right! Chen Duan is the best person to be the emperor!"
Gu Ji is not as calm as Gu Yi, but he is also good at planning.
He stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and nodded slowly.
Chen Duan came to power, and Aqing, as his fiancée, could naturally return to the capital and enter the palace.
With a formal status, many of Gu Qing's actions will become justified.
Rather than a traitor who intends to rebel.
Of course, these days, rebellion is as easy as eating and drinking.
However, becoming the mistress of the Southern Dynasty is not only a convenience in terms of title, but also has many advantages.
The Gu family could leave Lingnan openly instead of fighting back with difficulty.
After ten years of development, Lingnan is no longer a barbaric place of exile, but it is still too far away from Jiangnan.
Not to mention anything else, the layers of mountains that lie in the middle have added a lot of difficulties to the Gu family.
"Ah Qing, do you want to go back to Beijing?"
Gu Heng thought for a long time and finally looked at his granddaughter.
His eyes are full of calmness and wisdom.
"It's been ten years, it's time to go back!"
Gu Qingcheng didn't have much attachment to her hometown.
However, according to her grand plan, Jiankang must be captured.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Only by occupying Jiankang can she move all the way north.
Take Qizhou, then enter Jizhou! If we can't even take Jiankang, but send troops directly from Lingnan -
Haha, even though she had trained wolf soldiers and had sufficient food and money, the journey of several thousand miles was enough to drag down the entire team.
There is no way. The Celestial Empire is too big, and it is too difficult to achieve unification from south to north.
Throughout history, only Emperor Hongwu has done this.
And he was able to do it because of various reasons.
Even the Northern Expedition in modern times ended in failure.
You know, during the Northern Expedition, we had hot weapons!
In this era, there are no hot weapons and cold weapons are prevalent, so the northern cavalry can play the greatest role.
Chen Duan was a natural born general, and he had brave and capable soldiers under his command.
However, even Chen Duan himself had no confidence that he could defeat the Northern Dynasty cavalry on the other side of the river!
We must first return to Jiankang, use Jiankang as a base, and advance all the way to the north.
Gu Qingcheng has a clear and complete map of the Celestial Empire in her mind, and she also has a clear idea of the direction of her "development".
"But I can't go back by myself!"
Gu Qingcheng had already made a plan. She smiled with confidence and her tone was filled with inexplicable pride.
“…”
Gu Heng and his sons exchanged glances, and finally Gu Heng spoke up: "It seems that Aqing is ready!"
This is Aqing, who always has plans in advance and takes every possible measure into account before doing anything.
Gu Ji sighed secretly in his heart——
"Alas, they are both girls from the Gu family. Li Nu can't compare to A Qing at all!"
Although Gu Ji had given up on his daughter who stayed in the Northern Dynasty a long time ago, he didn't really care about her at all.
Sometimes, when he heard his wife muttering, he would think of her.
It has been almost a year since we last met, and I don’t know how Li Nu is doing.
Did Yuwen vent her anger on Gu because she ran away? Was Li Nu disliked because she had no natal family? In ancient times, without a natal family, a woman would have a much harder time in her husband's family.
Even if she is very good, she will——
What's more, the raccoon is not smart.
As a father, Gu Ji didn't want to belittle his own daughter.
But, this is the fact.
Although I don’t know what Li Nu has experienced, he seems to have suddenly become powerful.
But deep down, Gu Ji was still worried that Li Nu's "magic power" might suddenly disappear again.
Without her parents' home and without her "supernatural powers", how should she cope with the situation?
Fortunately, the Gu family still has some staff, and they have sent back some news in the past few months.
Life doesn't seem to be bad for Li Nu.
Not only is it not bad, it is still great!
Gu Youyi still has memories of her previous life. Although she was abandoned by her parents' family, she was really lost for a while.
But soon, she cheered up and continued to give Yuwen Heng advice -
"Jiankang will soon undergo tremendous changes—"
(End of this chapter)
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