Xiao Rong maintained a smile on his face, but he was thinking in his heart, maybe you are a fool, you don’t even agree with such a simple truth, no wonder you can’t keep any capable scholars.
Forget it, you can't become fat in one bite. Xiao Rong feels that the road to transforming the King of Zhenbei needs to be planned over years. Being able to get such a start today is not completely ineffective.
After praising Qu Yunmie a few more times and exchanging pleasantries for a while, Xiao Rong was about to leave. At this time, Qu Yunmie stopped him and asked him after a while of hesitation: "Do you still think that I should move to Chenliu?"
Xiao Rong smiled and said, "I have no objection to where the king moves. Chenliu is a place where everything is difficult at the beginning, but once you really gain a foothold, you will get the most rewards. I know that the king is very powerful, and I hope that the king will get better and better. If the king is really determined, then I will definitely sacrifice my life to accompany you."
Qu Yunmie felt relieved after hearing this. He completely forgot that it was Xiao Rong who first proposed the idea and he was the one who responded. Now that he said a few words, their positions were reversed and Qu Yunmie became the one who owed a favor.
The simple-minded king softened his expression and asked Xiao Rong, "After the capital was moved, shouldn't you bring your family here?"
Xiao Rong didn't expect that he was still thinking about his family. He was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Of course, is there any place in the world safer than a city where the king is personally in charge?"
Qu Yunmie thought, this is a reasonable thing to say, he waved his hand and finally let Xiao Rong go. ……＊
With the king's military suppression in the front and Xiao Rong's mediation in the back, it wasn't long before the result of moving the capital to Chenliu was decided.
After the decision was made, they did not take immediate action, and the officers and soldiers under them did not receive the notice. Gao Xunzhi, with his group of aides who were just waiting to die, held meetings every day to discuss what to take and how many people to take. Although this group of people were not good at offering suggestions, they had no problem doing some odd jobs.
Xiao Rong had his own mission. He took the map of Chenliu City and thought about how to build this city.
The most important thing is to strengthen the city defense. Xiao Rong is not too worried about the Hu people. They were defeated by Qu Yunmie and their vitality was seriously damaged. They will not be able to make a difference in three to five years. Now, the only ones with some strength are Xianbei and Shanshan. Xiao Rong does not need to be vigilant about the former, because the entire Zhenbei Army is watching them. The latter has signed a non-enemy agreement with Qu Yunmie. As long as Qu Yunmie maintains his current strength, they dare not tear up the contract.
Therefore, the city defense is still to defend against the people in the Central Plains.
That is, the forces of all sizes south of the Huai River.
Huang Yanjiong need not be mentioned. In Xiao Rong's mind, this person's name is highlighted in bold. He is always paying attention to Huang Yanjiong. He Tingzhi, the King of Dongyang, is a person with a relatively low danger level, because he is the most cunning, he has very few soldiers and horses, and he likes to cultivate his reputation. In the official history, he decisively rose up because the court of Nanyong was broken. As a member of the royal family, it is most legitimate for him to avenge the emperor. Although he did not avenge this, he later conquered the brutal Huang Yanjiong, and was able to occupy the moral high ground. Then, by promoting his reputation for benevolence, he could ascend to the throne smoothly.
He values his reputation too much. This is his strength, but also his most fatal weakness. As long as the little Emperor Nanyong is fine, he will not be able to stand out. He can only wait and endure until the day when something happens to the little emperor.
In fact, this strategy was quite good, because the world was in such a mess and the little emperor had a lot of enemies. The little emperor was unexpectedly smart and wanted to save himself, which resulted in even his powerful uncle not really standing on the same side with him.
Sitting in that position, he would be killed sooner or later. It all depended on who was dumber and decided to be the first to commit the treasonous act.
Well, there is no surprise that the idiot in the official history is Qu Yunmie, the King of Zhenbei, to whom Xiao Rong is currently serving.
Xiao Rong: “…”
Otherwise, why did he collapse so much when he first came here? Is this something a normal person can do? At that time, the Prince of Chenliu had already started a rebellion, and he had occupied half of Nanyong's territory with great momentum. Qu Yunmie's army of hundreds of thousands had just shrunk by half. There were wolves in front and tigers behind. Instead of finding a place to recuperate and stabilize the morale of the army, he actually rushed into the Nanyong Palace to avenge his enemies. When he found that his enemies were dead, he simply killed the emperor and the empress dowager to vent his anger.
And he slaughtered it with his own hands.
You have to know that when the Central Plains people usurp the throne, the first thing they do is to treat the previous emperor well. Only the barbarians who eat raw meat and drink blood will kill all the royal family members without a care and let the literati criticize them. Qu Yunmie's reputation was not good to begin with, and this further confirmed his identity as someone who is not of our race and must have different hearts. This time, he not only lost the support of the people, but also fell to the point where everyone wanted to kill him. Overnight, he became a rat crossing the street, and anyone could openly spit on him.
It was because of his stroke of genius that Xiao Rong had no good impression of him at first. In Xiao Rong's view, Qu Yunmie in history was just a reckless man without any brains. It was normal for him to fail. If he had not failed, it would have violated the law of historical development.
But then again, he didn't know the historical Qu Yunmie, he only knew this Qu Yunmie who would send him tonics.
Although the tonic caused him to lose too much blood and he had to drink postpartum soup for several days. …
Once this mentality changes, the original black-and-white thinking will also change. For example, now Xiao Rong will not simply think that Qu Yunmie is stupid, but will think about why he does this.
Because Gao Xunzhi was killed.
After witnessing the relationship between Qu Yunmie and Gao Xunzhi with his own eyes, Xiao Rong could no longer blame Qu Yunmie. Perhaps Qu Yunmie was really not suitable to be the emperor. He valued too many things, and his heart was ruthless enough but not ruthless enough. He wanted to protect everything he cared about, but he only knew how to rush around recklessly and could not choose the right way to protect it.
Xiao Rong couldn't help but sigh. He was really suffering from having to help such a person get promoted. He had to worry about all the things that Qu Yunmie was not good at. When he thought about how horrible the workload was, Xiao Rong felt his eyes go dark.
He still cursed and complained about how miserable his life was, but he never complained about the system sending him here again. …＊
Half a month later, the matter of moving the capital was roughly agreed upon.
Jian Qiao led a team of people to Chenliu City to check the situation in the city. When the prefect of Chenliu learned that the Prince of Zhenbei was going to move in, he was so scared that his hat almost fell off, but he couldn't say no, so he could only say yes with a smile and tears.
On the second day, the news that the King of Zhenbei wanted to make this place his capital spread throughout the entire Chenliu City. After all, Chenliu was also a very ancient city with many wealthy families. The wealthy families were not necessarily gentry, but could also be nouveau riche.
After receiving the news, this group of people's reaction was even worse than that of Chenliu Taishou. Some moved their houses on the spot, some reinforced Wu Fort, anyway, they all regarded the Zhenbei Army as a scourge.
There was no other way, since Chenliu was quite close to Nanyong. Rather than being ruled by the King of Zhenbei who only knew how to fight wars, they hoped that the Nanyong court could rescue them from their dire straits.
However, the Nanyong court could not care about them now. Upon learning that Qu Yunmie was going to move the capital to Chenliu, the entire court almost blew the roof of the imperial palace.
They were confused and didn't understand what move Qu Yunmie was making. Shouldn't he be preparing food and grass to fight the Xianbei? Could it be that he didn't want to fight anymore? Not only that, he was also preparing to fight them? ! ...
The Nanyong court was able to stabilize in the past ten years, and the economy and population were also booming. The first person to thank is the king's uncle Sun Renluan, and the second person to thank is the King of Zhenbei Qu Yunmie.
The former stabilized the internal affairs, while the latter served as their shield, attracting all the firepower of the Hu people for them.
They looked down on Qu Yunmie and the Zhenbei Army, and always spoke of him with contempt in court. But they also knew that if Qu Yunmie had not stood in front of them, the Xianbei people, who coveted the Central Plains, would have come to the Huai River to fight them to the death.
Therefore, even though Qu Yunmie had taken the entire area north of the Huai River into his possession, they did not say a word, and even tacitly accepted that the fiefdom of the King of Zhenbei was as large as the entire north.
But how can you allow others to sleep soundly beside your bed? The founding emperor of the Yong Dynasty unified the entire north and south. The founder of the Yong Dynasty achieved great unification again, which is a common pride for all those who served the Yong Dynasty. So unlike the past monarchs and ministers who lived in peace, the people of Nan Yong wanted to take back the north of the Huai River.
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