(Monthly vote list sticks to the fourth day! Give me more strength!) Chapter 565: Looking Home When the convoy left Gyeonggi Province, Luo Weiran couldn't help but sigh when he looked at the imperial officers and soldiers guarding the official road. Nowadays, it is easier for people in Gyeonggi Province to leave. They can let them go by just putting some money. If they want to come in, no one can come in unless they are people sent by the imperial court to contact them or messengers conveying military information. All the official roads leading to the outside of Gyeonggi Province were sealed. It was said to be to capture the Mongolian spies who had sneaked into Gyeonggi Province, but in fact it was to prevent the news that the outside world had collapsed from spreading in Gyeonggi Province. Now that the emperor is not in the court and the prince is young, once chaos breaks out in Gyeonggi Province, the situation will be difficult to control. "You just came out like this?" Luo Weiran said with some regret: "I don't know how much wealth I left Gyeonggi Province with the scattered gold, but it was so easy and simple." Wu Daodao smiled and said: "I am not wanted by the court. Why can't I get out without a sea of ??portraits? Few people in the imperial court have time to think about me. First, they are busy dispatching troops to assist the emperor, second, they are busy deceiving the people and blocking the news, and third, they are busy doing After the good emperor dies, the prince is ready to succeed to the throne. Who can think about other things at this time? " "The prince succeeds to the throne" Luo Weiran said: "It's okay not to succeed to the throne. I went out for a while. I heard that four governors have announced that they will no longer accept imperial control and no longer recognize imperial decrees. They used the reason to suspect that the prince had been kidnapped by Xu Xiaogong and others, which makes sense. " "Nine" Wu Yiyi corrected. The numbers Luo Weiran said: "The news I just got yesterday is that there are six in the south of the Yangtze River, two in the southeast, and one in the northeast. This does not include the three in the northwest and the four in the southwest. The twenty-eight rivers and mountains in the Sui Dynasty are not subject to imperial decrees. More than half of them The roads in the Northeast are still stable, but they are getting close. Don't forget that there is a prince in the Northeast who has been unwilling to accept it. If something happens to the emperor in the northwest, once the news of his death comes out, the Northeast will not be the same. "In addition, the generals of the Six Guards of Jiangnan elected Pang Ba as the leader and announced the establishment of the National Defense Army. They have already issued a proclamation, saying that they will protect the country and fight against rebellion, and even the emperor directly omits it. The traitors to be punished are not Southwest Luo Yao or Northwest Gao Kaitai Wang Yiqu, but Xu Xiaogong and Liu Enjing of Chang'an City." Luo Weiran drank all the wine in the cup with a sad look in his eyes, "I never thought of myself before. I thought that the Sui Dynasty would continue to prosper for another hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years, or even a thousand years. "I never thought about it." Said: "But sometimes you have to think about what you should think about. Maybe you will think why I changed so quickly and why I didn't find it difficult at all. That's because I have been doing how to avoid being killed by the emperor from the beginning. Prepare. From the day I made it possible for my goods to spread all over the world, I knew that sooner or later the emperor would kill me. And because I had my goods to spread all over the world, I knew about many things earlier than others. Some, to be honest, may be known earlier than you, the commander of the Ouchi Guards Department." Luo Weiran nodded, and he did not deny this. He has never underestimated the ability of a businessman, let alone a businessman like Wu Daodao. "I just didn't expect that you would choose him in the end." Luo Weiran said: "In any case, it doesn't seem very wise to put your wealth on him. The world is in chaos, and countless heroes will rise together to build a tree. There are many people with deep roots, so why did you choose a guy with such a shallow foundation? And how did you know that he would definitely take this path? "Wu Yiyi smiled: "Since he was in Chang'an City? When I bought the dilapidated yard and converted it into a workshop, I knew that sooner or later he would embark on this path. Maybe he was just worried when he built the workshop, but there was no doubt that he was not too late to prepare. And it¡¯s more prepared than anyone else.¡± ¡°What does this have to do with the tailoring workshop?¡± Luo Weiran asked. "The relationship is too big." Wu Yiyi took out a long wooden box from behind and handed it to Luo Weiran, about one meter long. Luo Weiran reached out and took it, opened it and looked at it with some surprise in his eyes: "What is this?" Wu Yiyi took out a short blunderbuss from his sleeve and put it on the table and said: "He is the first in Prince Yi's palace. When he first saw this thing, he was moved. But later he was sent to Jiangnan by the emperor, so he gave this thing to my daughter Yinyu and asked Yinyu to take it back to the capital. Let the merchants of Dongchu invite a few craftsmen from the other side of the sea who can make this thing, and recruit many apprentices.On the surface, the workshop in Ancheng is just for making garments, but it is actually studying how to improve this thing. " "He made such a big show of letting Hongxiuzhao wear beautiful clothes at the expedition ceremony, not because he thought he could make a lot of money by making ready-made clothes, but just to deceive others. This trick was very beautiful, and even the emperor did not doubt it. Since these days, the workshop has been rushing to make long guns, which are more powerful than short guns and have a longer range. However, the output is limited, and all the things needed are my goods. Tongtianxiaxing is from Dongchu merchant. I bought it in my hand, so it doesn't have much, it can only equip a few hundred people. However I have moved the workshop to Huangyang Road, and it won't take long for production to resume. "Luo Weiran was surprised, looked at the long blunderbuss in his hand and murmured: "He started preparing for rebellion so early? " "No" Wu Daodao said lightly: "I just said that when he first prepared this thing, he was not necessarily doing it for rebellion, but was just worried about the future, so he prepared it. He wasn't sure how it would be used, but he knew it would be used. That guy was an outlier who always prepared for the future wherever he went. He asked someone to make two pairs of glasses in Yongzhou, one pair was given to Pei Yan and the other was dedicated to the emperor. " "Then he sent craftsmen who were good at making glasses to the Chang'an City workshop, and then started making clairvoyance And the two pairs of glasses dedicated to the emperor and Pei Yan were just his cover-up. Do you know how much a pair of glasses like this costs in Chang'an City? Three hundred taels of silver a pair and no bargaining is allowed! Both the emperor and Pei Yan thought that he was just greedy for money. He first offered two pairs of glasses just to ventilate the emperor and Pei Yan. In fact, it was to cover up his purpose of letting the workshop create clairvoyance. "Luo Weiran was stunned for a long time, and then sighed longly: "He is really an alien" "It's more than that. "Wu Yiyi smiled and said: "He has announced from the beginning that he and Aunt Xi have negotiated that the money earned from the ready-made garment business will be shared equally between Hong Xiuzhao and him. In this way, all the money accounts will go to Hong Xiuzhao's side. , and Hong Xiuzhao quietly transferred all the money outside Gyeonggi Province. If I hadn't gone to find Aunt Xi, she would have been able to hide it from me. " Luo Weiran was silent for a long time, and then said seriously: "He is not an alien, he is a pervert! " Wu Yiyi nodded: "Yes that's why I chose him. I like perverts like this who can look far ahead. What's more, I have a daughter You should know that I have never been able to do anything with the hidden jade. She fell in love with that stupid boy. How could I still help others and end up fighting with that stupid boy on the battlefield? "Luo Weiran was stunned for a moment and then laughed loudly and said: "Yes, after all, this is the point. " Northwest Hexi Road It was another day of fighting. The corpses on the west bank of Luoshui were covered with a thick layer. The corpses started to become denser from a hundred and fifty steps away from the river. By the time they reached the river, they were already there. The color of the earth could not be seen. The blood flowed slowly from under the corpse and finally merged into the river. The water about two meters wide on the side of the river was red, and the fierce red battle flag did not return to its original color for a long time. The ground was covered with holes shot by arrows. A few crows flew down from the trees in the distance, pecking at the eyes of the dead. A few hundred meters away from the shore, the soldiers retreating from the last charge of the day were talking to each other. They walked back with support. They seemed to have no strength to walk. Everyone looked expressionless, and they didn't even feel happy about the rest of their lives, because they all knew that death might be a matter of one day sooner or one day later. That¡¯s it. The rebel navy blocked the river, and the archers standing on the big boats could easily cover the river banks, but they could only rush forward against the rain of arrows, and then fell to the ground as expected. It had been smashed by the navy's big ship, and it became increasingly unrealistic to cross the river. Only once, about a thousand warriors who were familiar with water swam to the other side and tried to snatch some centipede boats back but were discovered by the rebels. Without support, the team of more than a thousand people persisted for two hours, until the last person fell. Before they set off, the emperor walked up to them and promised personally that he would not abandon them. When they were fighting alone on the east bank, their comrades on the west bank could only watch but were unable to rescue them. The soldiers on the west bank were crying, and the soldiers on the east bank were bleeding. The reason why they did not surrender was because they felt that the emperor had already surrendered. They never broke their promise that they would not abandon them, thinking that it was the emperor who kept his word. In the golden light of the morning sun, they still waved their swords and shouted while fighting, hoping that their companions had appeared. Behind me. But not.p; The team that swam through the water fought to the last man and could not bring reinforcements, because the reinforcements were blocked by the rebel navy on the west bank. All night long, the soldiers on the west bank did not give up the rescue. Too many people died, but they still could not cross such a wide river. The corpses were spread out on the east bank and also on the west bank. When the last soldier on the east bank looked back at the west bank and fell, all the soldiers on the west bank knelt down, blood and tears flowing together. That day, the emperor sat in a wheelchair and watched the scene, silent. Another day's attack finally ended when the sun set in the west, and the soldiers dragged their legs back to the camp. The rebels' strategy was not to take the initiative to attack, but they would never let them cross the river. With such fighting day after day, people have become numb in death. A general sat down on the stone, took off his iron helmet with some difficulty and threw it aside. Blood stained her long hair and dripped down her hair. "General, please bandage it." The soldiers came over and tore off their clothes, but there was no medicine. "Don't ask for a fight next timeafter all, you are a woman." The soldier's voice was trembling, and then he helped the general to untie his armor. The clothes underneath were soaked with blood, and the wound was on his shoulder, with an arrow still stuck in it. over there. The soldiers cut her clothes open with a knife, but there was only blood on the skin that should have been white and tender. "I'll go back." She lowered her head, pulled out the dagger, put it in her mouth and bit it. The moment the feather arrow was pulled out from his shoulder, the sound of the friction between the teeth and the dagger made people feel heartache. "Can you really go back?" The soldier said while bandaging: "No one believes that I can go back General, listen, someone on the other side started singing again." She spat out the bloody spit from her mouth and listened to the rebellion on the other side. Songs sung by soldiers. That is the most widely sung song among the people in Hebei Province, and its name is Wangxiang. "I heard that two more generals from the Yanwu Academy died in battle yesterday." The soldier hesitated and did not continue. She suddenly picked up the dagger and carved the character "horse" on her left arm: "If I die and my body is collected, at least people will know who I am." The blood flowed down, scalding her heart.