Jiankang has a population of one million, and the vast majority of them migrated north of the Yangtze River when they "crossed to the south", and the families accounted for the absolute majority.
The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty continued the system of the Western Jin Dynasty, emphasizing the family and ignoring the people, and the Jiankang of the capital of a country was actually not inhabitable by ordinary people, except for the family, it was some big clans.
Nowadays, the family that can be called a family, their descendants may not be too many, but the number of side branches will be a large number, and then there will inevitably be subordinates such as tribals and domestic servants, so a family has thousands of people, and it is difficult to have an upper limit.
The big family is similar to the family, the difference is prestige and connections, and Dingkou is not the key to whether or not he can become a family.
More than forty percent of Jiankang's million people are related to the family or the big family, which shows how many people the family and the big family really want to mobilize.
After the chaos broke out, every capable family tried their best to arm their youth, either by closing their doors and leaning against the courtyard walls, or by doing something unspeakable.
Jiankang was the capital of Soochow before, and its name was Jianye.
In addition to Jianye, Chaisang, Shouchun and Lujiang are the most prosperous and populous cities in Eastern Wu.
To say that in the Eastern Wu period, in addition to Jianye, there were other places to develop, but in the Eastern Jin Dynasty small court period, it was difficult to do.
The families who fled from the north of the Yangtze River have the ability to eliminate the original local families in the south and do some things to occupy land for development, such as the four major lords at least control a few counties to become family autonomous regions, and the family level is to demarcate the sphere of influence by counties, and the result is of course that the imperial court has no actual control over those areas at all.
The phenomenon caused by the political situation makes Jiankang an absolutely complicated place, any wrestling is happening in Jiankang, as long as the identity of the person is enough to stay in Jiankang for a long time, to put it mildly, once who can form an absolutely strong control in Jiankang, basically can determine the direction of the country that controls the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, at least it can also paralyze the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Chu Xin's questioning was almost torn face, and it was that things had really developed to a critical moment.
At this time, someone went over and whispered to Huan Yun, saying something that no one knew except for the two of them.
The atmosphere could only be said to be tense at first, and waiting for Chu Xin to question it added to the weirdness, and the heads of the various families who were the background walls did not know when they had been divided into three waves.
The family that knew the inside story or was complicit with Huan Yun, they were close together with the guards, and there was a very serious expression on their faces.
People who perceive what is happening and are not able to make a decision for a while, they are piled up as far away as possible, and their expressions are obviously uncertain.
It was decided that they would stand in the small court, perhaps it should be said that they would resolutely resist the Han army, and they also made up a pile, putting on a posture of being on guard and possibly breaking through at any time.
The "traitor" Chu Xin was only two or three steps away from Huan Yun, and very suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "Death" Huan Yun was not frightened by Chu Xin's yell, he watched with admiration as Chu Xin only rushed forward before the Huan warrior pounced on him and fell to the ground.
"Virtuous nephew, there has never been a traitor in the world."
Huan Yun was talking to Chu Xin, who was cut with both hands, and he also said to everyone present: "Since ancient times, there have only been kings and losers." ” In fact, the whisper just now was that there was a change on the side of the palace, and in addition to the original siege guards, some handymen, palace maids, eunuchs, and people who could hold weapons were all armed.
It's just that there may not be anything wrong with the palace city, and there is also the matter of Chu Li sending people to take over the command from the various city gate captains, and then there are also people in the city who hold the emperor's order.
Of course, the people sent by Chu Li did not succeed in taking over the command of the city gate, and the people who went were either dead or arrested, and the trouble caused was that the people on the Huan side had to announce that those people were rebelling, and the Jin army, who did not know the truth and was not sure who to listen to, was actually in turmoil.
The most troublesome thing for Huan Yun is the garrison army, Chu Li successfully took over the command of nearly 30,000 garrison guards, and the remaining except 20,000 are still under Huan Yun's control, and the rest are controlled by the Xie clan and many families.
How could Guozhang react so quickly this time Huan Yun looked at the head of the family present with a smile, and had to be anxious: Why hasn't Xie Mingda moved yet Mingda is Xie Ai's cousin, he is the commander of the Han army on the Jiangdu side.
Chu Xin scolded without saying a word, and before he could say anything to those family principals, his mouth was blocked.
Jiankang has more than 100,000 garrison guards, and the command of the Jin army has never been in the hands of the Sima family.
Chu Li can master 30,000 guards, which shows that there are not many families who still choose to defend the small court.
"Gentlemen."
Huan Yun was speaking to the principals of the family who were breaking through: "The prince has already held the queen mother and the emperor hostage, what do you think?"
The three thousand armed forces on the north gate are all Huan's private soldiers, standing layer by layer with Huan Yun as the center.
Those families in the same camp as Huan Yun should have four or five hundred people.
The principals of the family who want to break through are guarded, and the number of them should be one or two hundred, and if they do not compromise, they will either be killed on the spot, or they will come out in a bloody battle.
None of the people who were questioned spoke, and they would have such a choice not out of how loyal they were to the Sima family, but purely because the Han side was too harsh on the family, and they chose to resist because they didn't want to be included in the rule of the Han State, and they didn't want to give up when they could struggle.
Someone shouted "Bao" and pulled a long tail note, and after coming over, he knelt down on one knee and told Huan Yun: "There is an urgent military situation from the west and north, and the Han army is moving in a big way, and the momentum along the way is like a broken bamboo and is approaching Jiankang."
A metallic sound rang out suddenly, and those who had chosen to resist were so startled that they dropped their weapons to the ground.
"The prince of the country has indeed held the Queen Mother and Her Majesty hostage, and the Lian clan is willing to help the Metropolitan Governor to kill the rebels." ", the Zhang family is willing to follow the Metropolitan Governor."
"Wong's" One after another, the heads of the family spoke, and the background of their words was that there was chaos everywhere in Jiankang City, and some places were on fire.
Huan Yun looked at those who did not speak or abandon their weapons, laughed a few times, and ordered: "These people are complicit with the national abbot, and if they resist, they can be killed on the spot." ” In a word, in exchange for those people to throw away their weapons, but they did not change their position, and they were captured bloodlessly.
Yu Yi was standing on the city tower watching the big play, and beside him was the doorman sent by Huan Yun.
A large area of fire has appeared in the far direction to the west, and the Jin army and the private army that surrounded the city gate did not know whose order it was to start diverging, and some continued to besiege the city gate, and they also drove to the west.
I didn't expect Ah Huan's to do such a great job Yu Yi was really surprised, and at the same time he was very dissatisfied with being hidden in his bones, and there was some relaxation and luck in the dissatisfaction: in this way, if Jiankang really changed hands, the great credit was taken by Huan's.
Although the Yu clan will have a notoriety, it will not be too heavy The Huan family guest repeated what he had asked before: "Yu Gong, now I can meet my master."
Yu Yi didn't speak immediately, he looked at Jiankang City where there was fire everywhere, and listened to the noise coming from a distant place in his ears, and after a while, he said: "Let your master send troops into the city tower, and you won't be able to see each other." ” Huan's doorman said "uh" a few times, followed by a respectful salute and left.
It's just that it didn't take long for him to come back to see Yu Yi again, and said: "My lord asks Yu Gong to control the city gate, and the Han army will come later." ” Yu Yi nodded expressionlessly, even if he responded and agreed.
He didn't know how long Huan Yun and Xie Ai had been planning, and how many people were involved in it, and they actually did such an earth-shattering thing.
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He actually didn't want the Yu family to bear the notoriety, since the Huan family had such courage, of course the Huan family should invite the Han State to take credit, but what he didn't expect was that Huan Yun would give the Yu family a share of the credit.
In fact, Yu Yi didn't know that it was his hesitation that made the situation become what it is now.
Xie Ai only knew that the Yu family was preparing, but the Yu family only prepared but did nothing, the gate valve and the family standing on the side of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty were more prepared day by day, and the longer things dragged on, the more likely they were to change.
At this time, after Huan Yun communicated with Huan Wen, Huan's family, as a daring gatekeeper, also believed that the situation in the world was irreversible, and Huan's should compete for the lead, and Huan Wen was the lead, Xie Ai and Huan Yun conspired, and a big drama was brewed.
At the moment when Jiankang was changing, Xie Ai was riding a war horse and leading the army all the way to Jiankang.
The number of Han troops on their way was only 15,000, and they set off from the Xinzhou garrison early, and in Huanyun's arrangement, they hid in a mountain forest less than ten miles away from the Jiankang City Gate, and only when they saw the smoke pillar in Jiankang appear before they started the action.
The number of Han troops on the other side was 10,000, commanded by Fu Wei, and they were also concealed in advance in Huan Yun's arrangement, and only when they saw the agreed pillar of smoke did they set off to approach Jiankang.
In addition to the two Han armies that had been concealed in advance, nearly 50,000 Han troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River were ordered to start moving to the south bank, and they were mobilized and gathered from Xuzhou and Yuzhou only after the plan was determined.
The Han army that fought in Dantu, in addition to the Han army that landed at the beginning, was actually a servant army that joined later.
And this part of the servant army is the one who approached Shouchun last time, they were detained after the outbreak of ethnic vendetta in the Central Plains, and nearly 50,000 of the 200,000 servant troops were eliminated, leaving behind all the naturalized Hu who were strictly selected.
If there are no accidents, the first Han army to arrive in Jiankang will be 25,000, and 50,000 follow-up troops will arrive after dawn.
Naturally, there will be Han troops coming later, but it is very obvious that the 75,000 Han troops in the early stage want to conquer a giant city with 100,000 defenders and a population of one million, and no one thinks that it can be done, so Xie Ai will have to rely on those families, including the Huan clan lords.
When Xie Ai and Fu Wei were leading the army in a hurry, Huan Yun encountered a problem.
When the Empress Dowager Chu Garlic used all the channels she could rely on to declare Huan Yun a traitor and call on all loyal and righteous people to quell the chaos, this was the first one.
Then, Chu Li left the palace very well, and he first went to the Xie family's mansion to see Xie Li, who had the same name as him but was seriously ill.
What the two talked about is unknown to the outside world, and then Chu Li left the Xie Mansion to receive the garrison controlled by the Xie family, and the white lantern of mourning was hung in front of the Xie family, indicating the death of Xie Qi, the master of the contemporary gate valve.
Xie Pei was seriously ill early, in fact, he was already terminally ill, according to history, he would die at the age of 64 this year, the difference is that he was a few months earlier than the original history.
"The Xie clan is closed, but the military power has fallen into the hands of Chu Bao" Huan Yun was sneering, and he said to his henchmen: "In recent years, the Xie clan has frequently made faint moves, and this time is the biggest failure.
Now", the latter words were not spoken, and he expected that Xie An would definitely have a more difficult time developing in the Han Kingdom than his brother Huan Wen.
Seriously calculated, the Xie family has as many opportunities as the Huan family, Huan Wen is on the Han side, Xie An is also in the Han country, and it can even be said that it will be more convenient to change to the Xie family to do things for the Han country than the Huan family.
After all, Huan's is an emerging gate valve, but Xie's is an old door valve, and the gap between influence and connections is not small.
When the matter came, the Xie family made a decisive and wrong choice, and the Yu family did not have the courage to do so, and the Huan family was very excited, and even the people standing on the shore of the small court had begun to fight back could not affect the happy mood.
He thought: the chaos in the city could never be stopped when the Han army came, and the most important thing now was to keep the city gate firmly in his hands Jiankang City is full of shouts and killings, the troops under the control of the Huan clan and the troops standing on the side of the small court are fighting, and there are even more families themselves who can't figure out how to be involved in the fight, it must be some gangsters and ruffians who take advantage of the chaos to do some chicken and dog thieves and 1 plunder, not to mention the existence of a group of people led by the Huan clan, even if the official action is unified, it is impossible to suppress the chaos in a short time.
In the palace, Chu Lianzi hugged the crying little emperor Sima Dan and watched some people quarrel.
The people who quarreled were invited into the palace by Chu Li later, and they were all confirmed to be the heads of the civil and military families who would stand on the side of the small court, and the reason why they quarreled was because of whether to break through or not.
Now only two of the several city gates in Jiankang are under the control of the small court, and the remaining small court arms have begun to fight, but the news is very bad, there are people fighting everywhere in the city, not to mention that the troops are difficult to mobilize, even the troops have not been able to regain control of the city gates.
As the queen mother, Chu Lianzi and the little emperor Sima Dan did not have the slightest say in the quarrel, so they could only watch.
For Chu Lianzi, it is a great blessing for the Xie family to hand over the military power to Chu Li, and it is also a great blessing that the Wang family is still on the side of the royal family, but the rest are some terrible things.
The "Queen Mother" Sima Dan was full of tears and snot from crying, her little hand grabbed Chu Garlic's clothes, and said in fear: "Is it okay to go back to the palace?"
Chu Lianzi looked at Sima Dan, who didn't understand anything, and then looked at those people who were still arguing, silence is continued silence
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