Nanchen, capital Jiankang, Chu Princess Mansion.

A carriage with a single-character sign stopped in front of the Princess' Mansion of Chu. A team of guards stepped forward to check and immediately released it when they saw that it was Shan Xiongxin in the carriage. Amid a loud call, the carriage slowly drove into the Princess' Mansion of Chu.

Shan Xiongxin jumped out of the carriage, and someone was already greeting him.

The first young woman in her twenties was Shan Xiongxin's niece, the wife of Du Fuwei, the Marshal of the Southern Chen Huainan Army, known as Du Ji. Behind him was his husband Du Fuwei and a group of generals of the Huainan Army.

Shan Yunying quickly stepped forward and said to her uncle with a smile: "Uncle came from other places, thank you all the hard way."

Looking at his little niece who has grown into a wife, Shan Xiong said with emotion in his heart: "It's not hard work. If my uncle hadn't been taken in by your couple in the past few years, he wouldn't know where he would be left."

Du Fuwei smiled and stepped forward and said, "It is something the court can't ask for when the court can get help from his uncle. With his uncle's talent, there is no place in the world to summon him. I heard that Chen Pojun sent people several times to recruit his uncle."

Three years ago, in the Central Plains, the Wei Kingdom to which Shan Xiongxin belonged was destroyed, and the king Li Mi and many generals were captured. At that time, his friend Huang Junhan had already surrendered to Chen with many brothers as soon as the war started. The sworn brother Xu Shiji also wanted to surrender to Chen, but Shan Xiongxin hesitated. After the final defeat, Xu Shiji joined Chen Kefu, but Shan Xiongxin followed his niece to surrender to Du Fuwei. After joining Southern Chen, Du Fuwei also attached great importance to him. Later, Du Fuwei introduced him, and the princess of Chu Shen Luoyan also attached great importance to him. In recent years, he has recruited many old subordinates from the Central Plains and recruited troops. Gradually, a large number of troops have been raised again.

"Master Shen, have you all arrived?"

"Reply to the marshal, His Highness the Princess has arrived at the main hall, and all the adults have arrived. It's just a matter of the marshal and General Shan."

The two followed the commander of the guard into the mansion and walked into the hall of convention.

Although Shan Xiongxin has been under the command of the Princess of Chu, this is the first time the meeting hall of the Princess of Chu has come. Although Nan Chen was the emperor on the surface, everyone knows that Nan Chen belongs to the Shen family. Especially after the Shen family conquered Jianghan, the various gentry in Jiangnan were completely suppressed by the Shen family, and Nan Chen truly became the world of the Shen family.

Since the war in June, the Southern Chen suffered heavy losses and suffered heavy losses. The East and West were broken by the Northern Chen army in the middle, and a wedge was inserted into Jiujiang and other places. The King of Wu and his sons sat in Jiangling and Jiangxia areas. While dealing with the Northern Chen army in Xiangyang, he continued to attack Hanzhong.

Jiankang, the base camp, was managed by the princess of Chu who had fully demonstrated his incomparable talents in recent years. Although the princess of Chu was a daughter, the ordinary people from the King of Wu and from the Southern Chen had long been conquered by the princess' wisdom and courage over the years, and no one had any objection to the princess leaving the princess in the Chu state to supervise the state.

Although the princess was defeated by the Northern Chen army in the first half of the year, her prestige was not much damaged.

Unlike the King of Wu who liked to listen to politics and discuss matters in the palace during the court, the Chu princess rarely went to the palace. Most of the time they summoned their subordinates to discuss matters in the Chu princess's mansion. Outsiders were always full of imagination about the conference hall of the Chu princess's mansion. Many people rumored that the conference hall of the Chu princess's mansion was even more magnificent than the emperor's Golden Luan Hall. Legend has it that the walls were all inlaid with gems and night pearls, the floors were paved with gold, and the ceiling was full of crystal chandeliers produced in Liaodong, Northern Chen.

As a result, Shan Xiongxin entered the main hall. He was a little disappointed when he saw it. This was just an extremely ordinary hall, except

It is very wide and there is no luxurious decoration.

The hall is about one hundred steps long and forty steps wide. Compared with the power contained in the owner of this room, the decoration of this room does not appear luxurious, with almost no decoration. The dark green marble floor and a long conference table are almost all the furniture.

As soon as he walked into this room, Shan Xiongxin felt a smell, the smell of power.

This room is the veritable brain and heart of an empire. The few people here really dominate one-quarter of the territory of the Central Plains and determine their life and death fate.

Walking into the room, everyone was watching them both.

Du Fuwei smiled at everyone calmly and naturally sat in an empty seat next to his adopted son Wang Xiongdan.

Shan Xiongxin looked around and there was an empty seat at the conference table between Kan Ling and Ximen Junyi. He walked over and sat down.

The people next to him nodded and smiled at him, and he nodded and smiled and returned the gift, looking around, and at the top of the conference table, Chen Luoyan was sitting there.

Seeing these people in the hall, Shan Xiongxin felt a little more clear. Nearly half of the generals present were generals of the Huainan Army, and among them were either Du Fuwei's adopted son or his confidant general. It can be said that half of the people here followed Du Fuwei's orders.

Almost one-quarter of the people were Li Zitong, the leader of the South Vietnam Army, and his generals. The remaining few were all directly under the princess of Chu. There were rumors in the army that Du Fuwei was young and energetic. Since he completely turned against Fu Gongyu, his temperament became a bit violent. Therefore, his relationship with the King of Wu who took Fu Gongyu in was still somewhat boundless. In addition, there were rumors in the army that he had a grudge against Li Zitong in his early years. Li Zitong was defeated and defected to him, but in the end he wanted to invade his team. Du Fuwei almost died that time. If it weren't for his adopted son Ximen Junyi's wife who escaped with severe injuries on his back, he would have died at the hands of Li Zitong.

Li Zitong was originally a general supported by the Xie family. After the Xie family fell, he turned to the King of Wu. He had no power, but the Chu princess has been strongly supporting him in recent years and promoted him to the same marshal as Du Fuwei. From here, Shan Xiongxin has seen that the Chu princess is not simple. She is balancing her subordinates to prevent her subordinates from being under the Huainan army and preventing her from being under the influence of Du Fuwei.

"Everyone is here. Then, let's start!" Chen Luoyan, who was in high position, raised her head and looked at everyone with a smile: "Recently, our situation is not good! Bad news has been coming one after another. In June, in the north of Chen suddenly marched south. Our Nanchen almost destroyed the country. On August, on the western front, His Highness of the King of Wu was attacked by Yang Hung. Brazil, Bazhong, and Badong were all lost, and several counties were lost. Tens of thousands of troops were lost. On the middle front, the Northern Chen army once again captured Jiujiang, Yuzhang and other five counties, firmly nailed a wedge between our east and west, and separated our east and west. On the southern front, Baiyue in Lingnan was under the instruction of Chen Pojun. Feng Ang led the Feng Xian family to continue to harass our south, seriously destroying the stability of the rear. If this continues, our Nanchen will one day be destroyed by enemies on all sides."

The beautiful face of Shen Luoyan has become a bit more solemn and heavy. Although Nanchen took over Jianghan, it temporarily alleviated the decline of living in Jiangdong. However, now it is under attack from three sides, but it is still in crisis.

After a moment of silence, the face of the Chen Luoyan changed into a bright look. He said loudly: "However, at this critical moment, it just showed the loyal nature of many generals in the court. The two marshals Du Fuwei and Li Zitong performed outstandingly and restored the combat power of our Huainan Army and the Nanyue Army in the shortest time. Here, the princess would like to reward General Shan Xiongxin today, on the southern line. Our General Shan Xiongxin has made great contributions recently. He set up dozens of cities in Lingnan, wiped out tens of thousands of Feng Ang's Baiyue Army, and drove Feng Ang and the people from the Nanman Cave to the mountains of Lingnan. This princess suggested that we all stand up and applaud General Shan Xiongxin's heroic achievements! He washed away the shame for our defeat in June and August. He won glory for our Nanchen!"

Stand up with the congregation and applaud together.

Shan Xiongxin quickly stood up and said humbly, saying, "It is all dependent on the power of His Highness King Wu and the Princess of Chu. My personal role is very small. Victory belongs to the two His Highnesses and the soldiers who fought bravely. I am just lucky!"

Shan Xiongxin was just a general who was defeated in the Central Plains and came to surrender. In the Southern Chen army, his status was very embarrassing and it was impossible to enter the core class. The great achievements mentioned by the Princess of Chu were actually just because he gathered his old subordinates, recruited many new recruits and practiced several practical battles with the Lingnan border. It was better to say that they rushed into the Lingnan border and plundered many towns without defense.

The princess of Chu said that he had captured dozens of cities and killed tens of thousands of enemies. In fact, he had just captured more than a dozen uninhabited towns and destroyed more than thousands of Baiyue troops. He had reported in detail to the princess of Chu in detail, and he had no intention of greed for provoking merits. But now in the princess's mouth, things have changed.

Shan Xiongxin narrowed his eyes and thought carefully, and finally had a look in his heart. If he was still very honest when he was in Shanjiazhuang, then after experiencing countless storms and blood licking from Wagang and Wei, he had already understood a lot more about the secret conspiracies and tricks. Although it was difficult for the princess of Chu to understand this for a while, after thinking about it carefully, it was just a matter of what he had done to Li Zitong again.

really.

After some clichés, Chen Luoyan said: "Of course, although General Shan is indifferent to fame and fortune, the court will not treat the heroes unfairly! I have reached a unified opinion with the King of Wu, and will be promoted to General Shan to Marshal, and will be opened from then on. Unit Commander, from today, you will be another Marshal of my Great Chen. From today on, your commander can officially form an army. Today, this princess will grant you the title of the Nanjun Army of your army."

Shan Xiongxin's troops had about 50,000 new and old soldiers and horses, and their combat effectiveness was not strong. Many of them were drawn from the Huainan army by Du Fuwei. Therefore, Shan Xiongxin has always been under the Huainan army, and his troops are of course part of the Huainan army. But now, when Chen Luoyan takes action and lifts Shan Xiongxin up, it is equivalent to splitting the 50,000 troops from the Huainan army.

In this way, the strength of the Huainan Army was weakened, but Shan Xiongxin was also raised and balanced Du Fuwei with Li Zitong. She knew very well that with Du Fuwei's impatient and low-minded personality, although Shan Xiongxin was his wife and uncle, after this incident, Du Fuwei would definitely have a gap with Shan Xiongxin and would never be able to unite again.

Just when everyone was different, Chen Luoyan did not stop there. After a moment of pause, she immediately said: "In addition, this princess and His Majesty the King of Wu wrote a letter, and the emperor has already issued a letter.

The imperial edict has been issued, and the title of Duke of Jiujiang County was officially granted the title of Duke of Jiujiang County, and the prefect of Jiujiang, Yuzhang, Yichun, Luling, Nankang County and the Grand Commander of the Five Cities. The court also allowed the maximum number of troops of Zhennan Army to be 100,000."

As soon as this reward was released, Du Fuwei was already clenched with his fists and almost jumped up. Wang Xiongdan, Kan Ling and other generals of the Huainan Army all looked ugly. They were born and died, and the commander Du Fuwei was just a duke of a country, and Wang Xiongdan and other generals were just an earl, and there were not even those who could not be named a marquis.

Now a surrendered general has not made great contributions, but is always at the same level as the head coach, which makes them happy.

Shan Xiongxin on the other side also had a serious expression. He had been through the storm for a long time and was not only not half happy, but was very complicated. He never expected that once he arrived in Nanchen, he would be involved in this power struggle. This reward from the princess of Chu was simply to put him on the fire.

Although it seems that the official positions are very large, in fact they are just empty ranks. During the war, there is no practical significance for any title or official position. The five counties added to him by the court were even more empty. The five counties are now in the hands of Beichen, and are the Jiangxi province of Beichen. The princess of Chu granted him an official position on the territory of the enemy country. Isn’t this a painting of cake to satisfy hunger?

Although Zhennan Army looks good, the court did not give a soldier and a soldier. It is hard to say that after this incident, Du Fuwei would even pull away his backbone. He got an empty title but offended Du Fuwei at the same time. This is definitely not a good thing.

Chen Luoyanfeng smiled and took a jade box from the table, slowly walked to Shan Xiongxin, and handed it over to him.

Shan Xiongxin gently opened the jade box, and there was a bright yellow silk cloth inside, which was the imperial edict for his official position. There were also three goldfish, one was the official seal of Jiujiang County, one was the seal of the prefect of the five counties and the chief commander of the five counties, and the last was the golden seal of the marshal of the garrison.

This is the imperial edict and the symbol of power. If a soldier gets these, he has already indicated that he has officially entered the quagmire of power in Nanchen. From then on, his foundation of life was to rely on these three-party gold seals.

Looking at the imperial edict and golden seal, Shan Xiongxin smiled, but his heart was extremely bitter. Although he had obtained these three golden seals, how many could he know what he had lost behind his back?
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