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In the Wu Dynasty, early May of the ninth year of Jian Shuo, the summer was just beginning to turn hot, and urgent dispatches from the Ministry of War were running on every main road in the Jiangnan region. Search: \(?Complete?Book?Divine?Station) for free to read high-quality literature.

The capital, Lin'an, with its bustling merchants and ships, continued to thrive. The comings and goings of scholars and the gatherings of chivalrous individuals all served to polish and refine the prosperous scene of the Wu Dynasty.

Ten years, placed in the life of a person, is a realistic and long distance. It is enough for a teenager to grow into an adult, for a young person to transform and mature, for a mature middle-aged person to enter old age, and for the elderly to let go of their thoughts and head towards the end of life.

Joy will be more beautifully precipitated in the memory of this time, and fear will become illusory due to the passage of years. In these ten years, the transformation of Southern Wu from newborn to prosperity has been placed in front of everyone. This prosperity is visible and tangible, enough to prove the new dynasty's diligent governance and prosperity.

Due to past experiences and current pressures, scholars were able to express their indignation and write more inspiring texts. Chivalrous individuals were given more attention, and their actions and thoughts were no longer simple brawls in the green forest or shady deals that couldn't be brought to the table. Even the girls in the brothels were more likely to find a heartwarming and even intoxicating man in this relatively peaceful "turbulent world."

For everyone, this was the best of times.

The court was still busy, and officials could at least achieve their ambitions more easily on the new political map. Recently, it has become even busier.

The unusual news about Zong Fu and Zong Bi "possibly" heading south has stirred up a storm in the Wu Dynasty's court. The information brought by this storm is still under lockdown from top to bottom, but those with good sources of information can vaguely detect a trace of something. The actions of many large families can always stir up some ripples from the inside out. These ripples may not be negative. After fermenting for several days, the message that a war might be coming has taken shape in Lin'an's well-informed upper social circles.

Those who heard it were all filled with righteous indignation.

As the long years passed, nurtured by the prosperous scene, the knowledge of the Jinghan Dynasty's situation more than a decade ago, and even the recent search and seizure operations, had long been transformed into something else in people's minds. The diligent governance of Southern Wu gave people great confidence, believing on the one hand that tall people would hold up the sky if it fell, and on the other hand that even the young masters of Lin'an mostly believed that even if the Jin people attacked again, the Wu Dynasty, having learned its lesson, would have the power to fight back – this was also the result of the Wu Dynasty's external propaganda in recent years.

Since they could fight back, what needed to be considered was the opportunity that changes in power would bring to people in this war, opportunities in power and economic opportunities. And even if some people were worried about Southern Wu suffering another setback, they mostly discussed how they could contribute and turn the tide and support the crumbling edifice.

Whether such a change is a good thing or a bad thing is not easy to evaluate. But in the upper echelons of the Wu Dynasty's court, the arrival of this news could not be dealt with so willfully. After a lot of discussion and analysis, the handling of the entire situation became even more difficult.

Qin Hui, as the Privy Councilor, was at the heart of this storm.

Since the Wu Dynasty became Southern Wu, after the Jurchens' search and seizure operations, Qin Hui had gone through several twists and turns in the Wu Dynasty's officialdom, and was now one of the top officials standing at the top of power. Compared to the current Left Prime Minister Lü Yihao and Right Prime Minister Zhang Jun, Qin Hui belonged more to the leader of the rational faction in the court – he served in the Censorate during the Jinghan Dynasty, known for being upright and unyielding, and able to stabilize the overall situation. After the establishment of the Jian Shuo Dynasty, Qin Hui successively did several things to stabilize the conflicts between the people of the north and the south with thunderous means, offending many people, but he was indeed thinking about the overall situation.

At this time, the rational faction was usually the pro-peace faction. Since the Jurchens' search and seizure operations, Qin Hui deeply knew the military gap between his side and the Jin people, and was extremely restrained towards the conflicts between the two sides. In the past two years, he even said the general policy and strategy of "Southerners return to the South, Northerners return to the North." No one had any humanity in these proposals, but they were extremely realistic. Since Crown Prince Junwu was a passionate war faction, Qin Hui had never attained the position of Prime Minister, but because of this, his position became detached.

At this time, Emperor Zhou Yong of course loved his son, but on the other hand, he subconsciously relied on Qin Hui on a rational level, mostly believing that if things got out of control, people like Qin Hui could still clean up the mess. When the news that the Jin people might head south came, Qin Hui, as a major official, was indispensable at the Wu Dynasty's high-level meetings, but this time, without him pouring cold water, the atmosphere inside the entire court was uniformly dignified.

In recent years, the Wu Dynasty had been training new soldiers and building military equipment. If it was to fight against Liu Yu, it would have some confidence, but to fight against the Jurchens, most of the people in the court with functioning brains hoped that this was false news – in fact, there had been such rumors every year in the past. However, the situation this year was different after all.

Wu Qimai's illness, and Zong Fu and Zong Bi's desire to take Jiangnan to deter Zong Han, was indeed a very likely situation for the martial Jurchens. Assuming that the news was true, everyone was hesitant about the next response. On the one hand, the policy of both negotiating for peace and sowing discord was advocated by everyone. On the other hand, the choice of war seemed more or less hesitant and chaotic.

The situation was not complicated. Since the Wu Dynasty lost the entire Central Plains in the confrontation with the Jurchens several years ago, after the establishment of the Jian Shuo Dynasty, the status of the Wu Dynasty's army had greatly improved. This improvement was not what the civil officials wanted, but a fact that emerged in the dynamic game. On the one hand, the chaotic situation in various places gave those who led the troops more power. On the other hand, the call for soldiers had gradually increased among the people and in the officialdom. During this period, even Crown Prince Junwu had been privately cheering for the army, which restricted the power of the court to a certain extent.

The confrontation between civil and military officials was not only for personal gain. In the territories of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and other major officials favored by the Crown Prince, the power of the army was immense, and the recruitment of soldiers, the collection of taxes, and even the dismissal of some officials were decided by them alone. The generals used this excessive method to ensure combat effectiveness, but the power of the civil officials was difficult to pass, and when a national law was to be implemented, there were army forces that completely disobeyed or even opposed it. In the former Wu Dynasty, such a situation was unimaginable. In the current Wu Dynasty, it was not necessarily a good thing.

There is no "just right" in officialdom, and overcorrection is often the truth. Just like the overall situation of confronting the Black Flag Army, the civil officials in the court were trying to block the power of the Huaxia Army located in the southwest, but the Wu Dynasty's troops were secretly purchasing firearms from the Huaxia Army. In the past two years, due to the activities of scholars such as Long Qifei and Li Xiannong in the southwest, someone had reported these commercial activities of the Huaxia Army to the court every now and then, but it always ended without a result. These things were always frustrating.

To defeat the enemy, the army must have autonomy and civil officials must not interfere. But when the army is autonomous, it often goes too far. Reaching a balance in the middle of this game is a long process, but in general, how to accurately control the army without weakening its combat power is a big lesson for the current Wu Dynasty court. Once the war begins, the checks and balances and efforts made by the many ministers in recent years will all be in vain.

The court discussed and argued in a chaotic and oppressive manner for several days. At first, they held the idea that this news might be false and tried to block it. Under the constant pressure from Princess Mansion and Zhang Jun and others, they sent messengers to prepare the leaders and commanders of the armies in various places and to send people to the capital to discuss the current situation and countermeasures. Before these messengers were halfway there, a horrifying message spread from north to south, the wind and waves it stirred up were like a series of giant explosions, extending thousands of miles with a rumbling sound, rushing to the front!

……

Time pushed back several days. Bianliang, the former capital of the Wu Dynasty, now the capital of Great Qi, was dark and oppressive.

The great chaos was sudden.

When the turmoil occurred, Liu Yu was meeting with several ministers in the imperial study. When the sound of weapons clashing rang out, his heart began to sink.

In the nightmares of the past few years, he may have seen some similar scenes. Liu Yu sat stiffly behind his desk, trembling slightly. When Xue Guangcheng, the commander of the imperial guards, strode in with a knife, the courtyard outside was already a scene of slaughter.

"You, you you..."

"Your Majesty, someone has made an appointment with you." The door of the imperial study slammed shut, and the figure grinned, walking over, "I'm here to pick you up."

Just like the shadowy figure he saw in the night three years ago, Xue Guangcheng was tall. Liu Yu drew his long sword, but the other party had already come over, raised his big hand, and slapped it whistling.

Since Liu Yu was threatened by Black Flag spies in the palace, there were 500 to 1,000 elite Jurchens stationed in his place, alternating with the Han army, but at this time, the entire imperial city had fallen into a slaughter.

Tie Tianying, who had been staying in Bianliang for several days, experienced this great chaos. The once prosperous Bianliang city, which was no longer as prosperous as it once was, rose with wolf smoke. The news from all sides was chaotic. Some said that a part of the imperial guards had participated in the rebellion, and some said that many ministers had tried to revolt and break away from the shadows of the Jurchens.

Under the jurisdiction of the Jurchens for several years, although they had experienced terrifying suppression, there were still many people in the Central Plains with arrogant hearts. This great chaos caused a chain reaction. Some people opened the city gates and incited the residents of Bianliang city to escape from this place to Southern Wu, while others participated in the slaughter. Aligua, the Jurchen general guarding Bianliang, soon pulled up his camp and entered the city. At this time, several Great Qi courtiers had taken their families and fled far away out of the city.

Emperor Liu Yu was also hijacked out of the city.

Aligua's elite soldiers immediately followed.

Pursuit and escape, chaos and slaughter. Many people had not figured out what had happened, whether someone had rebelled or the army of the South called the Black Flag had finally taken action against Liu Yu. Tie Tianying later realized that the Black Flag had launched an attack on the Great Qi court after years of operation.

The whole process of the incident was fierce and rapid, even making it impossible to distinguish who was blinded, who was incited, who was deceived, and a large amount of false information also obscured the Jurchens' first reaction. The Black Flag elite seized Liu Yu and fled south out of the city. Aligua was furious and led his elite to bite all the way. The entire process of the pursuit even lasted for several days, spreading from Bianliang to thousands of miles in the southwest.

Four days later, Aligua's pursuit troops returned. They ambushed and killed about twelve members of the Black Flag. These twelve people died tragically, and it is said that they were all dismembered – because Aligua did not bring back any survivors, it is estimated that these people were all caught after they died – Liu Yu had disappeared.

The whole of Bianliang was in chaos, and Tie Tianying had quietly left this dangerous area. Recalling the entire action of the Black Flag, he could not help but feel excited. However, his whole heart turned cold with the arrival of the next news about Liu Yu two days later...

……

Lin'an. The first news arrived in the early hours of the previous day, and everyone at the court meeting knew the news.

Bianliang was in great chaos. The puppet Qi Emperor Liu Yu was taken away in the palace, and the Jurchen general Aligua sent a large army to pursue him. Liu Yu had not been found yet.

This must be the work of the Black Flag.

Several years ago, after the Battle of Xiaocang River ended, Liu Yu celebrated wildly. As a result, one night, people from the Black Flag Army sneaked into the palace and beat him up. Liu Yu was scared into a nervous wreck from then on. This incident is said to be true, and was spread as a joke by many forces, but it also confirmed the rumor that the Black Flag had infiltrated spies into the various forces in the Central Plains.

At this moment when the relationship between Jin and Wu was tense, the Black Flag Army suddenly came out to give the Jin Kingdom such a show of force, which was not necessarily a bad thing for the Wu Dynasty court. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief more or less.

On the morning of the second day, around Si Shi (9-11 AM), while everyone was still discussing the impact of the turmoil in the puppet Qi, the good news came.

"... The puppet Qi Liu Yu issued a blood letter to the world... In the past, the Jin dogs were powerful, and the Liu family had no choice but to cooperate with them in order to protect the foundation of the Wu Dynasty, and cautiously served the Jin... In the end, it ensured that the overall situation of the Wu Dynasty was not lost, and the Central Plains was still in the hands of the Han people... Now that the time is ripe, they have joined forces with righteous men from all walks of life to launch an uprising and return to my Great Wu... The Central Plains has revolted, great joy, Your Majesty—"

In the summer, the sunlight outside the hall shone in brilliantly. After the eunuch who delivered the message finished speaking, Zhou Yong on the dragon chair was still a little dazed.

"Ah...Revolted..."

In the blink of an eye, the Central Plains had revolted. The Wu Dynasty had returned without losing an inch of land?

In the court, the faces of Lü Yihao, Qin Hui and others had turned pale. The sound of breathing began to become difficult throughout the court. The sunlight outside suddenly seemed to have lost its color, and hundreds of swords and thousands of knives, like mountains and seas, poured in from outside the hall, as if stabbing in front of everyone.

"Black Flag... This is a poisonous plan to destroy my Wu Dynasty..."

……

In the Princess Mansion, Zhou Pei, who heard the news, broke the cup in her hand. Her hands trembled, without any blood.

……

Since the assassination of the king, ten years had passed, and the Black Flag Army had always maintained a restrained attitude towards the Wu Dynasty.

Although they were often merciless in battlefield confrontations, and did not shy away from ruthless measures when defending themselves, the majority of the Black Flag Army's strategies had not shown much malice towards the Wu Dynasty. As if feeling sorry for their evil deed of assassinating the king, the Black Flag's strategy was to avoid the Wu Dynasty whenever possible, and even if they could not avoid it, they more or less had a verbal inclination of goodwill.

This time, at such a critical time, the Black Flag slapped the Jurchens in the face. No one had ever expected that it would finally turn its hand and stab the sword fiercely into the heart of the Wu Dynasty.

This was a sword with all its sharpness revealed, and it was also full of the coldness and cruelty of a life-and-death struggle.

In the arena of the world, there was never room for emotions to survive, nor was there room for the weak to breathe.

Soon after, the news spread throughout the world.

The gears of war slowly meshed. The battle was unfolding fiercely beneath the surface of the water...

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