Wu Chao: Take the whole family to escape the famine

Chapter 887
Ding Chengwei muttered unhappily: "Father, that is the lifelong happiness of the son, how can he be buried so casually?"

"What? Your love is so superficial? Didn't Miss Fei Zhou not marry?" Ding Anhe glared at him dissatisfied.

"But now it's different from before, Miss Zhou has become a ruined flower!"

Ding Anhe patted Ding Chengwei on the shoulder with a look of coming.

"Isn't this better? In the future, she has no right to stop you as many concubines as you want, and she has to lie low in front of you for the rest of her life."

After hearing his father's persuasion, Ding Chengwei was also moved.

After serious consideration, he said, "That's fine, I'll marry her."

"Well, it's right to marry her. You have to plan for the long-term in everything you do." Ding Anhe nodded with satisfaction.

After convincing his own son, Ding Anhe hurriedly told his wife to prepare a gift list, and then brought Ding Chengwei to the prime minister's mansion again.

In Xiangfu's study room, after Luo Yi left, Zhou Qian walked in. Seeing Huangfu Xuanyuan's ruddy complexion seemed to be in a good mood, he went up to pour him a cup of tea and sat down opposite him.

"Master, have you teamed up with the Empress Dowager again?"

"That's right." Huangfu Xuanyuan squinted his eyes, "Let's join hands to recruit soldiers and buy horses, and we'll talk about defeating the Night King."

Zhou Qian nodded approvingly, "That's right, we don't want to cause internal strife, and getting rid of the Night King is the first thing to bear the brunt."

"En." Huangfu Xuanyuan took a sip of tea, tapped his right index finger on the table slowly, and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Tomorrow a law will be issued to force conscription, and all men under the age of 30 will join the army."
"Yes, my subordinates know." Zhou Qian nodded.

Huangfu Xuanyuan continued, "An additional [-]% tax is charged, and rich merchants are called on to donate money and goods. Didn't many officials resign earlier? Are those official titles still vacant? Whoever gets the most money will give it to him."
Zhou Qian couldn't help frowning, "This~~ exorbitant taxation to buy and sell officials, I'm afraid it will lose the hearts of the people'

Huangfu Xuanyuan narrowed his eyes with a smile, "So what? After all, it's not Lao Tzu's reputation that's bad, it's the empress dowager and the new emperor's!"

"That's right." Zhou Qian nodded, "The subordinates will arrange it for the next few days."

Huangfu Xuanyuan hummed, the two were talking, when his subordinates came in to report.

"Master Prime Minister, Lord Ding is taking Mr. Ding outside to ask for an audience."

"Ask them to pass through the Nuan Pavilion, and I'll go right away," Zhou Qian ordered.

"Yes, master." The subordinate responded and left.

Zhou Qian respectfully said to Huangfu Xuanyuan, "Master, this subordinate is going to deal with some matters, please go ahead."

"Go." Huangfu Xuanyuan leaned back in his chair and waved at Zhou Qian.

He didn't bother to ask about the official's affairs in the court, and left Zhou Qian to take care of it.

Zhou Qian didn't bother Huangfu Xuanyuan with these things, and went out of the study to the Nuan Pavilion.

As soon as he entered the warm pavilion, Ding Anhe stood up with a smile and cupped his fists to salute, "Your Excellency, you are being polite."

"Master Ding came at just the right time. The old man happened to have something to discuss with you." Zhou Qian sat down opposite Ding Anhe, and seeing Ding Chengwei was there, he said to him, "Mr. Ding, why don't you go out first?"

Ding Anhe quickly said with a smile, "Master Prime Minister, the official came here with his dog to propose marriage for him, of course he has to be present."

"Proposal? Proposal~~Which one?" Zhou Qian was taken aback, looking at Ding Anhe in surprise.

"Who else could it be? Naturally, it's Ling Qianjin." Ding Anhe had a guilty look on his face, "The dog made a mistake in the Merlin outside the city, and only this method can make up for this mistake."

Zhou Qian's complexion couldn't help but sink, and he thought to himself, this matter is really annoying, are both of them so rich?
One insisted on losing money, and the other actually asked to marry Zhou Lenghui in order not to lose money?
It's really a troublesome thing, Zhou Qian is not really 'Prime Minister Zhou', and he is not his own son and daughter, how can he care about it? He doesn't want to deal with these troublesome things at all.

After thinking about it for a while, he said angrily, "The old man is looking for you to talk about this matter, and the mistake you made is easy to deal with. If you take 5 taels of silver to compensate Mr. Song, it will be assumed that this matter never happened. '
Ding Anhe hurriedly said, "My lord, Prime Minister, how can we pretend that it didn't happen? My Ding family is not such an irresponsible person."

"Well, this matter was originally Gouzi's fault. My Ding family is willing to pay 5 taels of silver as damages to the Song family, so that the Song family can withdraw the marriage and let the young lady and Gouzi be happy."

Zhou Qian only thought that Ding Anhe wanted to climb up to his prime minister's mansion, and thought that Miss Zhou would always be tainted by Ding Chengwei's innocence, and she might not have any status if she married into the Song mansion. Wronged.

Anyway, Zhou Lenghui is not the only Miss Xiangfu. Wouldn't it be better to choose another innocent lady to marry?
Thinking of this, Zhou Qian said to Ding An, "I can't make a decision on this matter, I have to talk to Mr. Song first."

"Then there is Lord Lao Chenxiang." Ding Anhe stood up with a smile, and cupped his hands towards Zhou Qian. "The subordinates are waiting for your news." After speaking, he took Ding Chengwei to leave.

The next day Zhou Qian persuaded Song Shangshu to withdraw from the marriage, and betrothed Zhou Lenghui to Ding Chengwei again, and they got married half a month later.

Zhou Lenghui also counted as an unexpected surprise and got his wish.

What followed was that the imperial court promulgated new regulations, increased taxes, and forced conscription, which caused people to complain.

At this time in Jinzhou, Zhu Xiangyu led three 10,000+ defeated soldiers had retreated here, and set up camp here.

Zhu Xiangyu didn't dare to be careless, and went to check the ice breaking situation on the river as soon as he arrived in Jinzhou.

"The ice surface is really thin, and it will shatter if you hit it casually." Zhu Xiangyu said with satisfaction, looking at the several big boats that were moving in the center of the river.

"Really." Zongbing Zeng smiled, squatting down by the river and pointing at the ice floes floating downstream, "Have you seen the general? The boat sailed on the river and was completely unable to freeze again.'

Zhu Xiangyu nodded, picked up a piece of ice floe from the river and looked at it, "I didn't expect the weather to be reversed this year. The snow in the south is blizzard and the snow in the north is thinner than in previous years."
"Isn't it? So as long as we guard the Jinzhou Bridge, the Night King can't go north."

"That's true~~" Zhu Xiangyu's face was full of smiles, "But how is the ice breaking situation of this river? Has everything been dredged?"

"Dredged, the whole river is navigable."

"That's good." Zhu Xiangyu got up with ease all over his body, "But don't be careless, keep the bridge well, and don't let anything go wrong again."

The chief soldier narrowed his eyes and suggested with a smile.

"Or general, let's just destroy that bridge too, so we can sit back and relax?"

Zhu Xiangyu was taken aback for a moment and then laughed out loud.

"You old man, the idea you think of is absolute."

"Destroy it and destroy it, so that we can enjoy barbecue and drink with peace of mind, hahaha."

(End of this chapter)