Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens.

Chapter 498: The Northern Expedition of a Million-Man Army! An Ending Like Chongzhen in the Late Ming Dynasty!

After struggling for a while, Jia Lian forced a smile and said, "Thank you for clearing up my doubts, my three sisters are able to serve the king. This is the honor and atonement of my Jia family."

The chief eunuch looked at Jia Lian meaningfully and smiled.

The matter between Luofu and the Jia family is now known to almost everyone in the world.

However, everyone in Jiangnan knew that how to deal with the Jia family would ultimately depend on Luofu's opinion.

Until Luofu makes a clear statement, no one would be foolish enough to take the initiative to make decisions for Luofu.

The Beiqing side did not target the Jia family, mainly because of the Jia family's own position and the protection of the emperor.

However, the chief eunuch also knew that the Jia family would not last long.

When they met for the first time, Luofu carried her into the bed and tossed her around for several hours.

When the tired Sanchun sisters woke up again, it was already the next day.

Jia Tanchun, the last one to open her eyes, discovered after she regained consciousness that her elder sister Jia Yuanchun and the second elder sister Jia Yingchun were huddled in the corner of the bed, each hugging their knees.

Suddenly coming to her senses, Jia Tanchun felt something strange in her body and her eyes suddenly turned red.

"Third sister, you're awake." Jia Yuanchun glanced at Jia Tanchun and said, "Second sisters, we had already guessed that this day would come. All of this just confirms our guess, doesn't it? Now, the most urgent thing for us is to find a way to get... get King Zhao to agree to meet with the imperial envoy."

"Big sister, can we three weak women make the decision on this matter?" Jia Tanchun said with a wry smile, "Whether in Qing Kingdom or the New Dynasty, since the slaves of my Jia family forced the King of Zhao, who was able to occupy half of the country, to rebel, our Jia family has lost its foothold in both places."

After a slight pause, Jia Tanchun said, "If we sisters want to protect the Jia family now, there is only one way, that is to choose one side and support it with all our strength. Now, for us, we can only choose the king. It's not just because the three of us have given our bodies to the king, but more importantly, Qing Kingdom will never let the Jia family go. On the contrary, it is the king. If we sisters can get pregnant with the king's child, it may be possible to prevent the Jia family from being cut off, and at least let the king show some leniency."

Jia Yingchun, who had been silent the whole time, nodded slightly upon hearing this and said, "Big sister, Third sister is right. Whether it is us or the Jia family, we have no choice now."

Jia Yuanchun was stunned for a moment, then thought for a moment before she suddenly realized, "Yes, we have no choice now. I was wrong."

After all, Jia Yuanchun was sent to the palace by the Jia family when she was very young. It can be said that she grew up in the palace. In her mind, she subconsciously believed that Beiqing was the orthodox one.

But she forgot that Luofu not only occupies half of the country, but if it ignores the stability of its basic base, it would be easy for it to unify the world.

Who made Luofu's nearly 20,000 enemies invincible in this era?

The battle of Yangzhou almost implanted the invincibility of Luo Tianjun into the minds of all members of Beiqing.

The proclamation to conquer Jiangnan gave Luo Tianjun the illusion that it was his destiny.

From the moment Luofu occupied Yangzhou, the Luo Tian Army was like a small snowball rolling down a snowy mountain, moving faster and faster. Now, it has reached a point where it is completely unstoppable.

Just when the three sisters of the Jia family were certain that the only position they could stand on now was Luofu.

Jia Yingchun seemed to have suddenly thought of something and said, "The king seems to have ulterior motives towards the women of our Jia family. He doesn't even want to let go of my fourth sister, and... and my second brother Lian was also... and..."

The story of Jia Lian being castrated, from the moment he was seen wearing eunuch's uniform to the present moment when Luofu took over the bodies of three sisters at the same time.

The three sisters of the Jia family still couldn't accept it calmly.

Who can blame Jia Lian for being so special in the Jia family?

Although Jia Baoyu is so favored in Rongguo Mansion that it seems as if the whole mansion revolves around him, in fact, the real heir to Rongguo Mansion has never been Jia Baoyu.

If it were not for Grandmother Jia's request, allowing the second son Jia Zheng to occupy Rong Xi Hall, and Jia She, the eldest son, to be driven to the side courtyard, there would be no place for the second branch of the Jia family in the Jia Mansion.

Once Lady Jia passes away, Jia She, the eldest son, will be the rightful head of the Jia family, and Jia Lian will become the heir to the Jia family.

Even now, Jia Lian is still the legitimate heir to the Rongguo Mansion.

However, such a person, Jia Lian, who was considered one of the core members of the powerful circle in Beiqing, was castrated by Luofu in Jiangnan and used as a eunuch.

The impact of this incident almost reshaped Jia Yingchun and Jia Tanchun's worldview.

After all, Jia Yuanchun grew up in the imperial palace. Although, there had not been any cases of cruel punishment of certain powerful officials in these years, such things could be seen in the past in the imperial palace. The old eunuchs and palace maids had many discussions about the misery of the powerful officials when they were punished.

It was not uncommon for the heir to a duke's mansion to become a eunuch during times of reform and opening up.

For example, the Jia family, once Luofu unified the world, even if he could become a eunuch, it would be considered a leniency to the Jia family.

The emotional estrangement made Jia Yuanchun unconsciously stand on the side of Beiqing.

But after being enlightened by his two younger sisters.

The overall perspective developed in the imperial palace enabled Jia Yuanchun to make the decision immediately.

"Second sister, since we have received the king's favor, our top priority now is to visit the princess first. As for other matters, they are not something we can consider right now."

After a slight pause, as if she was worried that someone might have ears, Jia Yuanchun calmly reminded them, "My two sisters, the palace is the most shameful place. You must be careful in everything you do here."

Jia Yingchun and Jia Tanchun are smart girls after all.

Upon hearing this, the two sisters looked at each other and quickly changed into the dresses brought by the palace maids according to Jia Yuanchun's instructions.

He took the initiative to propose to visit Lin Daiyu, the legitimate princess and future queen.

Inside the princess' palace.

When he learned that three cousins ​​from the Jia family were coming to visit him.

Lin Daiyu was stunned for a moment.

She really had never imagined that the Jia family and Beiqing would do such a thing.

What surprised Lin Daiyu the most was that Luo Fu actually took in her three cousins.

As Luofu's principal wife, she was dissatisfied with Luofu's practice of taking in her three cousins.

Lin Daiyu not only did not have any resentment at all, but even felt relieved deep down in her heart.

After all, Lin Daiyu's previous experience in Luofu made her deliberately ignore the existence of the Jia family most of the time.

This is not only Lin Daiyu's own judgment, but also the advice from her father after she was resurrected.

In any case, now Lin Ruhai, including all the Lin family members, and even Lin Ruhai's network of contacts, have boarded Luofu's ship, and Lin Daiyu, the principal concubine, is, to some extent, the representative of these people around Luofu. Talking about pure feelings with any qualified emperor is extremely absurd.

Indeed, there are some emperors who are deeply in love, but there is no doubt that Luofu is not one of them.

Lin Daiyu had obviously felt this during her interactions with Luo Fu.

The three girls of the Jia family were taken in by Luofu, which, to some extent, was equivalent to gaining a glimmer of hope for the future for the Ning and Rong mansions in the harem.

There was harmony in the Luofu harem.

Beiqing is still in a state of chaos.

The court was still embroiled in a dispute over how to deal with Luofu.

During this period of time, Luofu has completely completed the integration of the Jiangnan forces.

Of course, this process will not be smooth sailing.

However, in order to complete the integration of forces as quickly as possible and launch the Northern Expedition, Luofu still made a certain degree of compromise. Those guys who thought they could gain a foothold in the new dynasty would never dream that they were already on Luofu's list of future liquidations.

Once the day comes when Luofu completely unifies the world, it will be time for these people to be in trouble.

In this regard, Luofu still learned from the Qing Dynasty.

After achieving true unification, the Qing Dynasty almost completely denied its previous promises. Of course, as the founder of the new Luofu Dynasty, those who thought they had taken advantage would actually never get a promise from Luofu himself.

This has been a convention for the hundred years since the founding of Northern Qing.

But Luofu wanted to deny this convention without any moral burden. After all, it was a new dynasty with a new atmosphere.

The number of troops in the Northern Expedition was not as high as one million. The real elite were still only the more than 20,000 enemies under Luofu.

Although Luofu had gathered a total of 800,000 troops after integrating Jiangnan, among these 800,000 troops, except for the 20,000 truly elite troops, there were only about 200,000 who could actually engage in battle.

The remaining nearly 600,000 are actually mostly civilian logistics personnel, or second-line troops. After the elite troops capture the city, these second-line troops will have no problem garrisoning.

But if these 600,000 second-line troops were to rush to the front line to fight, that would be a joke. It's not that they have no combat effectiveness, but at most they can only fight a favorable battle. If there is a slight setback, they will either scatter or simply burst into a camp roar.

Never overestimate the combat effectiveness of the feudal army.

Although in the feudal era, with the advantage of numbers in the Central Plains, they could easily gather hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops, but in reality, only the direct lineage had real combat power.

Luofu's 20,000 enemies were considered an unprecedentedly powerful army in the entire feudal history.

After the official oath to march north, the entire process was indeed just as Luofu had predicted.

After the battle at Yangzhou city, Beiqing's elite Beijing camp was easily annihilated by Luo Tian's army, and the entire Jiangnan region was almost conquered by a single order.

Luo Tianjun's reputation in Beiqing seemed to have reached an invincible level.

With Beiqing's combat effectiveness, the army would completely lose their fighting spirit and morale would plummet even if they just heard that Luo Tian's army was attacking. Even if they barely made it to the battlefield, a few rounds of arrow rain and a charge would be enough to make Beiqing's hastily assembled army scatter.

The Northern Expedition advanced at a rapid speed, almost like a hot knife through butter.

In just two months, the capital was the only isolated city left in Beiqing south of the Great Wall and north of the Yangtze River.

In the vast north, facing the massive attack of Luo Tian’s army, the two sides had to either change their flags or defeat them in one fell swoop.

Bad news kept coming one after another. The current emperor and the emperor emeritus, who were trapped in the capital, obviously understood that the centenary of the founding of the country was about to collapse.

When Luo Tian’s army surrounded the entire capital city.

The current emperor and the retired emperor, father and son, seem to be facing the same fate as Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty.

Even though the Jingyang Bell was rung repeatedly, there was not a single civil or military official attending court in the huge court.

In the capital, inside Rongguo Mansion.

The Jia family gathered in Rongxi Hall.

"Aunt, now that Beiqing is about to fall, it's time for my Jia family to face a life-or-death decision." Jia Jing asked with deep concern in his eyes, "How is your contact with King Zhao?"

Compared to Jia Jing's worry, Jia's mother and Jia Zheng in Rong Xi Hall looked calm, and even showed a hint of joy between their brows.

For two months, Luo Tianjun and the Northern Expedition Army besieged the capital.

During these two months, the Jia family certainly did not completely cut off their ties with Jiangnan.

On the contrary, don't forget that Jia Qiang, who was looking for Jia Lian in the name of sending his two aunts to the Jinling Palace.

But he never returned from Jinling, and he would not simply stay in Jinling, but was responsible for contacting the Rongguo Mansion in the capital.

The situation in Jinling was continuously conveyed to the Rongguo Mansion through letters.

Although the Jinling Palace can be described as impregnable at Luofu's request, it is not really completely isolated from internal and external traffic.

For example, Lin Daiyu, the main wife, has the qualifications and rights to communicate with people outside the palace without asking Luofu for permission.

With Lin Daiyu's tacit consent, the three sisters of the Jia family told Jia Qiang everything they had experienced and heard.

Even the fact that Jia Lian was castrated by Luofu and rushed into the palace to become a eunuch, Jia Qiang informed the Rongguo Mansion in the capital through letters.

This is why, although Jia Jing was clearly worried about the future of the Ning and Rong mansions, in the Rongguo Mansion, who knew Luofu's attitude, only Jia Mu and Jia Zheng could not hide their joy.

On the contrary, Jia She had a sallow complexion, and his whole body exuded a desolate and decadent look, as if his energy and spirit were about to dissipate.

Although Jia She often beat or scolded Jia Lian.

But in his heart, Jia She truly regarded Jia Lian as his heir and his legitimate son.

Now the legitimate son fell into Luofu's hands and was even castrated to become a eunuch.

This was not just a great humiliation for Jia She, it was like cutting off Jia She's family's incense.

(End of this chapter)