Chapter 23 Allies
The light of light appeared slightly, and dawn was right in front of you.
Gao Yi finally came back. If he didn't come back, the people of Gaojiazhuang who were tightly stalked might have gone wild. Fortunately, he finally came back. It would be better if he came back late than not. When Ling Yun heard Gao Yi still had the mood to ask them whether they wanted to hear good news or bad news first, he knew that things were not as bad as they imagined. Sure enough, Gao Yi's news made everyone feel relieved.
Something happened to Gao Ding's team, but it was still fine. Gao Jiazhuang's new allies did not betray them, nor were they discovered by Yang Guang, the King of Jin who was in Yangzhou, but there was only a small accident.
The moment before, Ling Yun had already made plans to kill the officials and rebel and flee. The next moment, when he heard the news, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The little desperate desire that had just aroused was gone forever. Without any chance, anyone would be willing to sacrifice their heads and shed their blood. Gao Qianxue also breathed a sigh of relief and was in a good mood. She had been going south to Jiangnan for more than a year, and seeing that things were about to make progress, she was unwilling to give up all her previous efforts at this time.
.In the morning before dawn was revealed, Gao Qianxue made people prepare their mounts and then turn on the horse. She wore a soap yarn Zhaojun hat with a folded face, and the long soap yarn was covered from the wide eaves to her knees, clasping her face and body. Under the hat yarn, she was wearing a thick fur cloak, which looked noble and cold and mysterious. "Yilang, let's go out for a walk." She smiled and said, "I worry that it was just a false alarm in the middle of the night."
"Okay." Ling Yun responded with a smile. After knowing that he didn't have to fight to the death and didn't have to escape for the time being, he now felt like he had a life of surviving the disaster. "I'll go with you to watch the sunrise."
"Well, I have been to Jiangnan for more than a year, and I have never really appreciated the scenery of Jiangnan seriously." At this time, Mulan and Qinglian were also standing in the distance with more than ten children, leading horses, as if they were to follow the guards. Seeing that the guards were arranged, Ling Yun nodded and got on the horse. It was a red horse, which was very tall, but very gentle. Ling Yun was like a skilled rider, and he easily stepped on the horse on the stirrups, without any difficulty.
Qianxue rode her white horse and ran faster and faster, silent all the way, as if she was using this method to relieve the previous tension and pressure. Ling Yun had no choice but to keep up, fortunately his physical riding skills were good. He followed behind and told her to slow down, but the morning breeze blew away his words, and she didn't hear him as he was running in front. After that, Ling Yun stopped talking, but just followed behind silently. They followed along the avenue at the foot of the mountain on the open plain with rich white mist. Mulan and Qinglian two little loli followed at a distance with their servants, which made Ling Yun sigh that it turned out that not only Gao Qianxue horses were good at riding, but even two little girls could ride a big horse.
It was not until they rode their horses to a low hillside, when the dawn dawn first appeared, Gao Qianxue stopped her mount. At this time, she was several miles away from the temporary camp. Ling Yun followed Qianxue and saw her take off Zhaojun's hat, with two red glows on her fair cheeks, and she was surprisingly full of spirit. She smiled and said loudly, "It's been a long time since I rode so happily. It's so pleasant to ride a horse like a man. Yilang, I used to hope that I could be a man, so that I could show up and avenge my enemies." He didn't expect that Qianxue, who had always been very calm and restrained, would have a generous side like a man in his bones.
Ling Yun joked: "Then I can't marry you anymore. I'm not as good as Long Yang."
"If I were a man, Yi Lang could be a woman." Ling Yun's words made Qianxue smile happily. "I really want to be like this. We just rode like this and walked away from the world and let go of everything."
A smile came to Ling Yun's mouth, "You can do it."
Qianxue smiled slightly, with a little bitterness in her smile. "I really want that, but I can't. Although I am a daughter, I am the daughter of the Gao family and it is impossible to leave all this behind."
"Qianxue, in fact, sometimes, let go when it's time to let go. Qi has been destroyed for twenty years, and the Sui Dynasty has also had the Central Plains for 18 years. The Central Plains are unified and the people settle down. Isn't this really good? Why not let go of this burden? Just two of us, ride horses and swords to walk around the world, see the scenery of the world, and when we are tired, we will find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to build a manor, and live in seclusion in the mountains?"
"It's really good." Qianxue said, "But Yilang, I have a responsibility. This is not a burden, but a responsibility."
"Well." Ling Yun said warmly. He knew that this was not something he could say in just one or two words. He then said, "By the way, what are you going to do now? I didn't know what Gao Yi said just now. The people who want to cooperate with us were from the Chen clan, and the people who saved us were from the Xiao family?"
"This time we cooperated with Chen Xiong, and the one who saved Gao Ding and the others was Xiao Shiluo."
"Chen Xiong, Xiao Shiluo?" Seeing Gao Qianxue's solemn words, Ling Yun probably had a big background. And just by listening to their surnames, you can guess some of them. The Jiangnan gentry was originally Wang Xie as the largest clan. However, the rebellion of Hou Jing in Jiangnan during the Southern Liang Dynasty could be said to have a devastating impact on the large clans in Jiangnan. When the Sui Dynasty destroyed Nanchen, the large clans in Jiangnan were mainly Gu Lu, Zhu, Zhang, Shen, Yu, and He, while Liu, Xiao, and Chen
The three tribes were once the royal family of the Southern Dynasty and retained their strong strength. At present, Gao Qianxue actually contacted the Chen family, which is very likely to be one of the Chens of the Southern Dynasty. Although after the demise of the Southern Chen family, the Chen people were moved to Guanlong, he believed that there would always be some people who missed the net. As for Xiao Shiluo, who took action halfway, although he had never heard of the name, it was probably also a group of the Xiao family of this great clan. Otherwise, how many ordinary people would dare to intervene in such a thing?
"What are the origins of Chen Xiong and Xiao Shiluo?" To rebel, of course, you have to attract allies, but rebellion is a dangerous thing to hold your head in your head, and you must be careful when choosing allies. Otherwise, if the other party betrays them, they may suffer a catastrophe.
The rising sun rose in the east, the red sun dyed the east sky red, the golden sun thrust through the clouds, and explored into the hazy white mist in the morning, a vast field unfolded in front of the two, and in front was the rolling eastward Yangtze River. Gao Qianxue pointed to the mountains and rivers and said to Lingyun, "This place was once owned by the Chen Xiong family!"
Ling Yun frowned, as he expected. "You actually found a royal family in the Southern Chen family to rebel together?"
In a certain way, as the old master of Southern Chen, the Chen family still had a high prestige in Jiangnan landlords. But we can't just look at the matter. When the Sui family destroyed Southern Chen, there was almost no big battle in a year, and there was no decisive battle, and it was destroyed by the Sui army. It can even be said that the demise of Southern Chen was suppressed by the thousands of miles of busyness of more than 500,000 Sui army and the east-west advance, and Chen Shubao's stupidity, but there was another very important reason for failure, that is, the wealthy families in Jiangdong at that time almost all took an onlooker attitude towards this battle. No one supported Southern Chen and fought against Northern Zhou together. Although they later formed the rebellion of the Sui Dynasty after the demise of Southern Chen.
, but that was not to restore the Southern Chen, but just because the Sui Dynasty took the Southern Chen and caused too much damage to the interests of these Jiangdong clans. From this we can see that although the Chen family was the old master of Jiangdong, their reputation in Jiangdong was not very useful. What's more, if he remembered it well, the Chen family, from Chen Shubao to Chen Shuda and Chen Shushen, all of them were driven to Guanlong by a group of princes and grandchildren. Except for Chen Shubao who was drunk and dreaming in Daxing City every day and accompanied the Sui Lord Yang Jian to drink and chat, other Chen clans did not live well. Most of them were sent to Guanlong, and many people could only sell alcohol and farm for a living, and their lives were very difficult.
Qianxue is looking for this group of people to be allies, and she is still trying to rebel from the Sui Dynasty. This is not a teammate who is a bit like a pig or a team player who is like a god. No matter how you look at it, the prospects are not good.
"Chen Xiong is the son of Chen Yin, the deposed crown prince of Nanchen for the past Chen Dynasty." At the end, Gao Qianxue added another sentence, "Well, he is Chen Yin's illegitimate son, and his mother was a singer in Jiankang."
Hearing this, Ling Yun had no idea what to say, so he could only touch his forehead and felt a headache. Damn, the name Chen Xiong was very powerful, who knew that he was just an illegitimate son who was with a genius, and he didn't even have a legitimate Chen family status. Although Chen Yin was still good to them when he was the crown prince, he didn't take him into the palace, but he also arranged a lot of land and property for them. But there was no big family like Nima who was not a big family to catch a lot of illegitimate sons. If you want to borrow the power of the Chen clan, you can't find such a guy. He is young and an illegitimate son without a name. I guess he has nothing except some money.
After Gao Qianxue carefully introduced the relationship between Chen Xiong, he was speechless. Chen Xiong, his mother was just a singer in Jiankang City. Although his father Chen Yin had been the crown prince before, Chen Yin's mother was just a very ordinary palace maid. And he died of childbirth when he gave birth. It was just because he was Chen Shubao's first son, so his grandfather Chen Xuan treated him as his legitimate son at that time. His father Chen Shubao's legitimate wife, the crown prince's concubine, had no choice but to be born.
He was raised by his side as his own son. Later, Chen Shubao succeeded to the throne, and Chen Yin made him the crown prince as his eldest son. But Empress Shen did not have Pang. Chen Shubao liked Zhang Lihua the most, so he later deposed Chen Yin, who had no support from the mother clan, and changed Chen Shen, the son of Concubine Pang Zhang Lihua, to the crown prince. Fortunately, Chen Shubao liked Wen more, so he was deposed and was placed under the position of King Wuxing. He did not have the same result as those princes who failed the power struggle in the Northern Dynasties at that time were banned or killed.
But doesn’t this just mean that Chen Xiong is of no value?
Chapter completed!