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Chapter 337 The Prince's Benevolence and Righteousness

Dong Xiaowan completely moved out of Jinchai Building. He bought the river house next door to Jinchai Building a few years ago, and lived there with his mother.

But this time she moved out of Jinchai Tower, but she moved directly into Yang's house.

The old wife of the Yang family, Zhao Lan, has already stated that she will give Yang Chao a concubine, which is Dong Xiaowan.

Dong Xiaowan's wife's line finally received results.

Dong Xiaowan was deeply in love with Mrs. Yang before, but due to her status as a brothel woman, although she wanted to let Yang Chao take a concubine, she was always undecided. If Yang Chao was willing, she would not object. If Yang Chao was not interested, she would But will not force.

But this time she changed her mind and decided that no matter what, she would take Yang Chao as a concubine as soon as Yang Chao came back.

So at midnight at the end of April, a sedan chair was sent to bring Dong Xiaowan to the Yang family, officially treating her as a member of the Yang family.

Dong Xiaowan's success made Li Xiangjun heartbroken.

She is the youngest of the famous prostitutes in Nanjing, and she is also the simplest. She fell in love with Yang Chao purely because of feeling.

And often this kind of pure feeling makes people sad the most.

Dong Xiaowan lived in Yang Chao's house at night, but Li Xiangjun got drunk.

Her friend Gu Mei accompanied her for a drink.

Blame Dong Xiaowan for being scheming.

Gu Mei kept complaining, belittling what Dong Xiaowan did to nothing.

Yang Chao went north to serve as king, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, news of Chongzhen's death spread to Nanjing, and there was a lot of mourning immediately.

But when people encounter blows, they are often much stronger than they imagined. When they wake up the next day, everyone should still live their lives. The common people should still work and work, dare to eat and eat. Jun, it is a matter of separatist rule of the south of the Yangtze River and guarding half of the country.

But the Yang family was always extremely nervous, because the news of the fall of the Ming Dynasty came from the city slope of Beijing, but there was no news of Yang Chao.

Zhao Lan once again brought her family to pray and make wishes everywhere. After making a wish last time, Yang Yong, the master of the Yang family, felt that his wife spent too much money, but this time he did not regret the money at all, and he was very supportive of his wife going to various temples to make wishes. .

At this time, Dong Xiaowan followed Mrs. Yang and Miss Yang every day, from one temple to another, from Taoist temple to monk temple.

The Yang family's wish is nothing more than saying to the gods that if Yang Chao is fine, they are willing to donate money to repair the mountain gate, or build a road, or coat the god statue with a layer of gold leaf.

But Dong Xiaowan made a wish. He said that if Yang Chao returned safely, she would reduce her life by ten years!
Mrs. Yang was greatly moved by Dong Xiaowan's wish, and she finally made up her mind to take Dong Xiaowan home. At the same time, she told her in-laws, Dong's mother, that she would never let her daughter go to Jinchai Tower to sing again, and gave Dong's mother a large sum of money. Dowry, and no dowry.

Dong Xiaowan has completely faded out of the world of literature and art.

But her methods made other famous prostitutes in the literary and art circles very disdainful. At this time, the entire Nanjing famous prostitute circle was on Li Xiangjun's side.

The fact that Li Xiangjun took a fancy to Yang Chao had already spread. Even Yang Chao, who had seldom been in contact with brothels, had heard about it, let alone other people.

It's just that everyone sees that Yang Chao is very busy. He spends most of the year outside, and most of them stay in the barracks after returning to Nanjing. Therefore, he didn't develop with Li Xiangjun. They didn't expect Dong Xiaowan to be the first, and he took the route of his wife. , This made these Lehu children who have always been straightforward and direct in their feelings very dissatisfied, thinking that Dong Xiaowan broke the rules.

The order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker are normal people. A romantic woman in a brothel should dare to love and hate. Although she is only a concubine in the end, she has to say something about your love and my wish. What is the matter with you cursing Mrs. Yang's family? .

Gu Mei scolded Dong Xiaowan enough, and then persuaded Li Xiangjun to consider Hou Fangyu.

Li Xiangjun shook his head and refused, expressing that he wanted to wait for Yang Chao to come back and meet Yang Chao at last.

Yang Chao is thousands of miles away in Linqing at this time, and he doesn't know that someone is sad for him, so Yang Chao is in the right mood at this moment.

"Congratulations, Your Highness, Huai'an sent people to welcome you!"

Yang Chao entered the crown prince's room and specially announced the good news to him, and at the same time urged the crown prince to prepare for moving to Huai'an.

Jin Bao used both soft and hard tactics, and finally persuaded Huai'an Mansion.

Lu Zhenfei sent a general judge to meet him in Linqing.

In fact, Lu Zhenfei has no other choice, he wants to wait for Nanjing's decision, but the officials under him can't stand the temptation, one boss today, one history tomorrow, one magistrate the day after tomorrow, all surrender to Jin Bao If you support the prince, if he doesn't stand in line, he will be emptied.

Huaian has jurisdiction over Haizhou, Pizhou and Shanyang County, Qinghe County, Andong County, Taoyuan County, Yancheng County, Shuyang County, Ganyu County, Suqian County and Suining County, among which Haizhou is the first prefecture to take effect , Then it caused a chain reaction. Within a few days, one prefecture and nine counties expressed their intention to welcome the crown prince. They not only gave advice to Lu Zhenfei, but also directly bypassed Lu Zhenfei to express their favor to Jin Bao.

If Lu Zhenfei still presses down at this time, it will cause public outrage. He realized that the Huai'an defense is already preparing to overthrow him.

Therefore, under the general trend, Lu Zhenfei also decisively changed his family, and threw the Nanjing court aside to express his support for the crown prince.

As soon as the officials from Huai'an arrived, Yang Chao immediately ordered the army to set off.

Not only the army, but also the 30 refugees gathered in Linqing.

Naturally, Yang Chao arrived a few days earlier than the officials in Huai'an when he received the news, so he put up a notice in advance to tell the refugees that the crown prince was about to go south, and those who were willing to follow would be given food and rice on the way.

Most of these refugees are from the Gyeonggi area, and a small number are from Shandong. However, due to the increasingly chaotic situation during this period, there is little hope for them to return home. In desperation, quite a few of them immediately expressed their willingness to follow the prince.

After some people come out, others are not waiting and watching, and most of them are willing to leave in the end.

Yang Chao sent people to form a formation for these people, hoping that there would be no trouble on the way.

Fortunately, these people all have leaders, and people are group animals. After gathering together, some leaders will naturally appear, or some strong people, or some people with high morals, and then others will actively attach themselves. Of course, there are more fleeing teams with each family as the core, with the patriarch of the big family as the core, and finally a small group of a township or a county is gathered.

Yang Chao acquiesced to the power of these leaders and told them to let them follow with the people and not to mess up. The benefit for them is to send some extra food.

At the beginning of May, Yang Chao took the headquarters of many men and women as the forerunner, and thousands of civilians pulled the fibers to fight the crown prince sent by Xuzhou and Jining, and went south with great fanfare, followed by hundreds of thousands of people. In the end, those hesitant refugees followed suit, and finally the [-] new recruits formed by Lu Mo and Hu Quan's artillery team held the line.

The elite soldiers protect the crown prince at the front, while the common people follow in the middle. At the end, there is Lu Mo leading the formation. There is still a certain distance between the three teams, and the common people are not allowed to approach the crown prince. this distance.

But the long marching team just stretched out ten miles away. After all, it was a team of more than 30 people.

As a result, when they arrived in Jining, tens of thousands of refugees followed. These were refugees from Shandong, who fled because of the conquest of Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie's army and Li Zicheng's army.

Refugees gathered along the way. Fortunately, there were grains sent along the canal, which could barely support the daily minimum calorie supply of several 10 people. There was no starvation to death, but deaths still happened from time to time, all of them died of illness. of.

For those who died of illness, Yang Chao immediately organized civilian husbands to bury them to avoid plague.

Although there are dead people, the number of people is still expanding rapidly. By the time of Xuzhou, 50 people have followed.

Although the supply pressure caused by refugees is great, Yang Chao still accepts these refugees with all his strength. It is not that Yang Chao has any special intentions, but because Yang Chao has a sense of humanity. He is worried that if he cannot stabilize Jiangnan within a few months However, if they go north immediately, Shandong and even the area north of the Yangtze River will inevitably be invaded by the Manchus who entered the customs. By then, few of these people will survive.

If Yang Chao could take one away, he would save one more person, so he did his best to obey the destiny.

But such a huge team frightened the states and counties along the way.

Every prefecture and county is ready to fight, with soldiers stepping on the city, armored and sharp.

Yang Chao asked people to convey the crown prince's will, telling these states and counties that refugees would not enter the city, and hoped that the states and counties could provide some supplies, such as food, firewood and clean water.

Although Huai'an, Xuzhou and other places have been put into effect, relying on the financial and material resources of Huai'an and other places to support the food and drink of more than 50 people is already the limit. Thousands of tank boats braved the risk of being ripped off and looted by bandits on the canal. , and barely able to maintain a daily food supply for more than 50 people.

With the capabilities of Huai'an and other state capitals, it is very difficult to suddenly increase the supply of so much food. With the financial resources of the Wang family and the Du family, it is actually very heartbreaking to buy these grains. It is impossible for them to break the family, so Yang Chao brought these people It is indeed very difficult, so it is impossible to increase the number of tank ships or increase the number of goods.

However, the difficulties were compensated with an additional compensation. Hundreds of thousands of people followed the crown prince to the south in an orderly manner in the counties along the way, and the crown prince also tried his best to provide them with shelter. Began to praise the benevolence and righteousness of the crown prince.

It's just that the crown prince didn't show up once, just hid in the boat, and didn't mean to care for the refugees at all, but Yang Chao was as tired as a dog, but most of the achievements were attributed to the prince, which made Yang Chao a little dumbfounded.

The closer to Huai'an, the lower the risk of transportation, the less time it takes, and the better the logistics situation. The food supply for the refugees has also increased, from an average of half a catty of rice per person per day in the past to ten taels. Two or two.

Therefore, Yang Chao's situation is getting better and better.

But the closer Yang Chao got to Huai'an, the more crisis Nanjing Fuwang Group felt.

(End of this chapter)