On the street outside the palace city, there is a tea shop.
The flow of motorcades and people coming and going makes the whole street look lively. After all, this road leading directly to the palace city is the imperial street of Nanchen Capital City and the main road of the entire Jiankang Prefecture. The best shops and restaurants in the city are basically concentrated in this imperial street.
Around the streets, even though it was almost evening, it was still noisy.
"Why don't you come out yet? I'm so anxious!" Xiao Shilian held the teacup and sipped it every sip. After coming out of the palace, whether he was going to the Wu Mansion in Wuyi Lane or the Xiao Mansion behind the Confucius Temple, he had to go through
He passed by here, but he and Li Xinchen had been sitting here for half an hour. Why didn't he see the shadow of the two carriages at all?
"Boqing, don't worry, everything will be fine." Li Xingchen sipped the tea leisurely. In fact, this was just the most common big bowl of tea on the roadside, and this was just a tea shop to shelter from the wind and rain. Obviously, it was not for
It was enjoyed by dignitaries, but was used to quench the thirst of porters and cart drivers.
However, compared with the teahouses in the surrounding alleys on both sides, the view here is wider after all, and they are all people who fought hard on the battlefield. Neither Li Xingchen nor Xiao Shilian is so particular.
Xiao Shilian snorted, as if he was not your father.
Putting down the tea bowl, Li Xingchen said in a deep voice: "The Governor and Pei Shangshu are here. Even if the general is really outspoken and may be rude, the two adults will not see him being punished, let alone your father in the officialdom.
I have always been cautious and I will definitely know it clearly. I guess His Majesty was anxious to ask for advice, so it took a long time."
Xiao Shilian smiled bitterly: "I hope so."
Li Xingchen squinted his eyes and subconsciously looked in the direction of the imperial city.
It is reasonable for the report to be unsatisfactory. Compared with others, Li Xingchen actually has a more thorough understanding of Chen Xu's character. After all, he has historical knowledge and knows some of the decisions Chen Xu will make in the future, and more importantly
The important thing is that Li Xingchen looked at Chen Xu from the perspective of a traveler, while the others looked at Chen Xu from the perspective of a monarch and his ministers.
It is taboo at all times to speculate privately on one's intentions. Even Wu Mingche usually talks about issues from his own perspective and rarely considers issues from Chen Xu's perspective.
In short, everyone is standing in their own direction, but Li Xingchen is standing in the direction of Chen Xu. Many things that frontline generals such as Wu Mingche and Xiao Mohe may take for granted are no longer the case with Chen Xu.
It must be natural.
There are different opinions on the evaluation of Chen Xu in history. In Li Xingchen's own view, Chen Xu should be a king between a great talent and a great ambition and a lack of talent. He couldn't stand living in a drunken life and dreaming of death, and he couldn't stand being content in a corner. He wanted to make contributions, and wanted to
Recover the northern homeland and fulfill the Southern Dynasty's three-hundred-year ambition to unify the world.
But to a certain extent, Chen Xu always couldn't see the reality clearly. This eagerness for quick success made him too eager for a real and complete victory. However, God did not always favor him, and the Northern Expedition was impossible.
They all went as smoothly as Nanchen's attack on Huainan.
The cause of the Battle of Luliang was that Chen Xu underestimated the strength of the Northern Qi Dynasty and kept urging Wu Mingche to mobilize troops. Wu Mingche had no choice but to bite the bullet and send his troops northward. In the end, he almost killed him because he was afraid of disobeying the emperor's orders and was unable to make contributions.
The entire army was destroyed.
But if we simply say that Chen Xu was a monarch with great ambitions and limited talents, it would seem to belittle him. After all, Chen Xu developed the domestic economy, focused on running Jingzhou and the defense of Jiangnan, and at the same time reemployed virtuous ministers, which allowed Nan Chen to remain strong under the strong pressure from the north.
Chen Xu is indeed capable of achieving steady development and progress.
It is precisely because of Chen Xu's dedicated management that although it is not easy for Nanchen to go north, it is not so easy for Northern Dynasty to conquer either.
It is a pity that in history, the foundation that Chen Xu had worked so hard to lay was completely destroyed by Chen Shubao. Those defense lines that he had painstakingly built also fell into disrepair due to Chen Shubao's indifference. In the end, the Sui Dynasty army easily crossed the river, but Chen Shubao actually still attacked
Xiao Mohe scoffed at the strategy of relying on the defense of the capital.
Such a son made Li Xingchen really doubt whether he was Chen Xu's biological son.
Therefore, in Li Xingchen's mind, Chen Xu was a monarch who was good at maintaining the status quo, but difficult to make progress. Compared with those monarchs who conquered the country but could not hold it back, Chen Xu was just the opposite. He was a man who could hold the country but could not conquer it.
The king of the country.
And I have to add that this is a monarch who is not very good at raising his sons at least.
No one is perfect, at least Nanchen is lucky to have such a monarch. No matter how bad Chen Xu is, he is still better than those crazy people in Northern Qi. Compared with his son Chen Shubao, he is even more typical.
Tiger father and dog son.
Looking at this bustling Jiankang Mansion, who would have thought that in just over ten years in history, all this would be reduced to soaring fire and ashes?
"Shizhong, what are you thinking about?" Xiao Shilian waved in front of Li Xingchen.
Li Xingchen groaned and came to his senses: "It's nothing."
Xiao Shilian frowned: "Are you really not worried at all?"
"You have asked this question four or five times since I left home," Li Xingchen slowly sipped his tea, "Do you still remember what I said when His Majesty's edict arrived in Zhongli?"
"It's useless to worry, it's better not to worry." Xiao Shilian snorted angrily.
"Isn't that enough?"
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"In the end, it's still just a word of wait?!" Chen Xu repeated with a ferocious expression, "Wait, wait, wait, I've been waiting for so many years, how much longer can I wait?!"
After a pause, Chen Xu walked straight to the map and took a photo of the map: "Tell me, how long can Chen Xu wait?!"
Everyone in the imperial study was horrified. Wu Mingche and Xu Ling glanced at each other subconsciously and were about to speak. Pei Ji, who had been sitting silently at the back, slowly raised half of his body at this time and could stand up at any time.
However, before Wu Mingche and the others could speak, Xiao Mohe had already taken the lead and handed over his hand: "Your Majesty, the whole of China has been waiting for three hundred years since the Jin Dynasty moved south."
"You still know?!" Chen Xu's face flushed red and he punched the table hard, "It's been three hundred years, but you still make me wait?!"
Xiao Mohe suddenly raised his head and looked directly into Chen Xu's eyes that seemed to be breathing fire: "It is precisely because we have waited for three hundred years that we can still wait."
After a pause, Xiao Mohe jumped in front of Chen Xu and said solemnly: "What we are waiting for now is the slightest flaw. As long as we can find it and wait for this flaw, we can retake Jiangling with thunderous momentum! If it is still like this
The reckless and blind attack we did nine years ago will only lead to failure in the end!"