I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 44

The festive season is full of snow, making the entire capital, rich and powerful alike, happy to celebrate.

The snow was so strong that it seemed to make up for the lack of a winter.And this snow also shows that the crisis of this year's spring drought has become invisible. The words "people eat each other" that often appear in the three history books about catastrophes should not appear in the history books or memoirs of Xuanjia Seventeen. .

Early in the morning on the fifteenth day, the princes and princesses, and concubines in the harem all came outside the door of the emperor's fasting abode to congratulate and announce the good news.

And most of these nobles can only kowtow outside the door.

Only a few people can enter the abode, including the Empress Zhenggong, His Highness the Crown Prince, and Chengyang Princess Zhao Yuanshu.

"Si's doing a good job, it seems that it's really right for you to be in charge of the Imperial City Secretary." Zhao Lingyuan held a bowl of glutinous rice balls brought by the queen, and praised while eating.

Zhao Yuanshu said with a guilty conscience: "There are still some mistakes. If the master hadn't been invited to help, the matter might have gone wrong."

Zhao Lingyuan said: "There is no plan that can be perfect. The arrangements you made in advance are very thorough, and the aftermath measures you take after the incident are adequate. That's enough. You just need to do your best in everything, and you don't have to be demanding."

On the other hand, the queen complained: "It's a big festival, and His Majesty, who is an uncle, still drags Chengyang to discuss business."

Zhao Lingyuan smiled, "It's mine, isn't it, hehehe, let's not talk about this, is Sizi going out of the city today?"

Zhao Yuanshu nodded: "Yes uncle, today is the Lantern Festival, I'm going to Bieye outside the city to visit my mother."

Zhao Yuanshu's mother, the queen of the former emperor Wuzong, was named Empress Mingde after Wuzong's death. In recent years, she has been living in a royal courtyard outside the city. look at mother.

"I went to greet the emperor's sister-in-law with your aunt for me. Where is the other courtyard outside the city? If you need to buy anything, let Tian Fuguo do it directly."

Zhao Yuanshu smiled and said, "Okay, then I won't be polite to my uncle."

After Zhao Yuanshu left, the queen also knew that she had resigned, leaving only Prince Zhao Yuantan.

"Da Lang, have you met Yaoshi Wu?"

"On the second day after he arrived in Beijing, he came to the East Palace and met him once."

"What do you think of this man?"

"It seems to be a dandy, and he hangs around places all day long, but I always feel that there is a gap in his chest. Looking for flowers and asking willows all day seems to be acting. Chang Yuan said that if he is not great, then he is a hypocrite."

Zhao Yuantan considered it carefully before speaking.

Zhao Lingyuan shook his head after hearing this, and then said with a smile: "That's not necessarily the case. It may be his nature to search for flowers and ask willows all day long, and to linger in love. Maybe he is the same as Fu Maoxiu?"

When Zhao Yuantan heard this, he also smiled.

When Zhao Lingyuan and Fu Maoxiu were young, they often went to Fengyue places, and they were notorious playboys.

For so many years, the impression of Fu Maoxiu inside and outside the government and the public is that he is a wealthy and idle person. Although he has a deep friendship with the emperor, he is just an ordinary noble.

But as soon as the dynasty went to Hexi, the originally idle prince immediately became a pillar of the Jin Dynasty.

Is it just pretending to like romance when you were young?

At this time, Zhao Yuantan felt a little enlightened, "Thank you for your teaching, father."

Zhao Lingyuan smiled, as the prince himself, he is honest and tolerant, sensitive and eager to learn, although he is smart but not conceited, he can follow different opinions like a gentleman, and he can listen to the teachings of his teachers with an open mind.

He is also the eldest son of the main palace, a well-deserved heir to the throne in terms of etiquette.For civil servants who pay attention to etiquette and law, such a prince is naturally an excellent prince.

The queen was born in a noble family and is now the sister of Marquis Wu Ding.Although the Marquis of Wuding's Mansion is not as prominent as the mansions of the Eight Great Kingdoms, it is also a noble general who has been handed down since the founding of the country.

With the background of holy family members, patriarchal clan, public opinion, civil servants, and generals, even the emperor himself could not shake the position of Prince Zhao Yuantan.

This also made the father and son less jealous, and more father-son affection.

Who said there is no father and son in the heavenly family?
In Liangzhou City, the sun is shining brightly in early spring, and the ice and snow are beginning to melt.

From the tent at Huben Festival, Pang Yun was lying on the bed with bruises all over his body, and Chen Xing sat beside him and applied medicine to him.

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Standing aside, Jiang Wudao: "What are you calling for? I'll just call you. If you have nothing to do, you'll be beaten up. Tell them what you did with your old affairs, so that everyone in Liangzhou will know. If your husband doesn't beat you, who will you beat?"

Pang Yundao: "Who knew that these guys were so disrespectful, talking everywhere. They even caused me to be beaten by the gentleman."

Jiang Wu smiled and said, "Isn't it because you don't have a clue?"

But it turned out that Pang Yun got drunk on New Year's Eve, not only talking about the fight between Fu Jinchuan and the prince, but also talking about Fu Jinchuan's past when he was in Beijing.

At that time, Fu Jinchuan didn't know much about it, and within a few days, he heard Huben Festival talking about how brave Mr. Lang was in Shangjing, he beat the prince, he even fought with other generals, and leveled up the big and small gangs in Shangjing.
Although they were all positive rumors, Pang Yun still told some things about Fu Jinchuan and Zhao Yuanshu.

For example, Langjun and His Highness are childhood sweethearts, when they used to go to the palace to study, they often brought His Highness food and entertainment.
Fu Jinchuan didn't even think about it, he just knew who the words came from.Can this accommodate him?Came directly to the camp and had a contest with Pang Yun.

The rules of the Fu family are that when they go to the martial arts arena, the children of the Fu family are the same as the guards, and no one is allowed to keep their hands.If there is any other act of retaliation against the guards or trilogy because of being injured in the martial arts arena, they will be severely punished, and they will not be allowed to enter the martial arts arena in the future.

This is the rule set by the ancestors, because they are afraid that the children of later generations will be spoiled and lose their vigor.

But the problem is that Pang Yun can't beat Fu Jinchuan even if he doesn't hold back his hand. The two are best at spear skills. They were both taught by Lin Fangsheng, the coach of the Duke's Mansion.

They are most familiar with each other's moves, but Fu Jinchuan's moves are faster and stronger, so naturally the gun he uses is longer than Pang Yun's.

This would be a tragedy for Pang Yun.

Because the moves are too familiar, the comparison between them is strength, speed and adaptability.

After finishing the fight, Fu Jinchuan directly said, "Continue tomorrow" and returned to the commander's residence.

Pang Yun was left alone in the wind.

After three days of beating, Pang Yun didn't have much money left on his body.

Feeling better, Fu Jinchuan returned to the commander-in-chief's mansion from the camp, but just in time for the dental soldiers to come to look for him, but they wanted to discuss matters in the festival hall.

When Fu Jinchuan entered the festival hall, the main civil and military officials of Liangzhou had already arrived.

"Now that the people are all together, let's talk about things. The court has sent an angel to canonize Ashina Yanqing as Khan. As for the follow-up resettlement of their tribe, the court asked Hexi to arrange it by ourselves. There are only tens of thousands of people around. When the time comes In the north of Xiutu City, that piece of land is unused, so I gave it to them."

"The second is Qingtang. Although our army won the battle of Shazhou and Qilian last year, Qingtang's vitality was not hurt. Now it is rumored that the Yuezhen Kingdom was bewitched by Qingtang and wanted to attack the four major kingdoms. Fan Department. The envoys from the four major Fan Departments have arrived, this matter is the current priority, and how to deal with it today needs to come up with a charter."

Fu Maoxiu sat on the big tiger-skin chair and explained the purpose of convening civil and military officials today.

"Since the alliance last year, the four great feudal clans have always been submissive to the Jiefu, and even dispatched feudal cavalry to assist in the battle. During the Battle of Baiting, the four great feudal clans contributed a lot, so our Dajin cannot ignore the relative feudal clans .”

"But Qingtang's purpose is obvious. It is to take advantage of Yuezhen Kingdom's sending troops to disperse our forces in Hexi. It must be that he is not dead against our Hexi. Although our army won a big victory last year, Qingtang's strength is not great. In this case, you have to be careful."

"It's natural. Hexi's defense is the most important thing. We must not give Qingtang an opportunity."

Everyone said what they said, and after discussing for a long time, there was no specific plan, but two points were very clear.

The first priority is defense in Hexi.

The second feudal department must be rescued.

At this time, the Golden Horde in the north has been tacitly posed no threat.Because of the death of the old Khan, the new Khan Bishamon had to face the various tribes in the northern border, and had no time to look south.

And what Hexi had to face was the Yuezhen Kingdom to the west of the four great vassals, as well as the old rival Qingtang.

The Yuezhen Kingdom is located in the easternmost part of the Western Regions, bordering on the Qingtang Dynasty and the four great vassals. It has a vast territory and tens of thousands of soldiers. It is a powerful country in the Western Regions.She has always been close to Qingtang, and the current queen is Princess Qingtang, sister of Maharaja Tuoba Chide.

"Qingtang suffered a defeat last year. Although the loss was not large, the morale of the army is weak. There should be no plans to enter the army on a large scale in the short term. Moreover, our army in Shazhou, Qilian, and Guazhou has heavy troops. For the time being, Qingtang may not be considered. .However, how to aid the four major feudal ministries is a bit fussy."

Jiedu magistrate Liu Xianke talked eloquently, and everyone immediately echoed him.

Xue Cong said: "It's not that the generals of the four major vassals are unable to fight, but they lack famous generals to dispatch them in the middle, and the vassals are not under each other's control. Compared with Yuezhen, the troops are somewhat scattered."

During the Battle of Baiting, Xue Cong had a very accurate estimate of the combat effectiveness of the cavalry.Also know what their problems are.

The individual combat effectiveness is good, and the performance when fighting with the Jin army is also remarkable.

"So it's better to send a general to lead thousands of soldiers and horses to sit in the four divisions. He can not only control the four divisions, but also monitor Yuezheng."

"It's doable"

"What countermeasures does Saburo have?"

Fu Jinchuan, who had been staring at the sand table for a long time, heard Aye calling him, so he said sternly: "Yuezhen Kingdom has only tens of thousands of armors, and it is only Qingtang. Now Qingtang has been shrunk by us. On the West Sea Plateau, as far as Yuezhen Kingdom is concerned, in my opinion, it is better to send out [-] regular troops, and then order the four departments to dispatch [-] people to coordinate and provide military supplies, food and grass, which is enough to destroy the country."

"Let's talk about Qingtang, he still didn't hurt him last year. Just a few days later today, he jumped out to prevent people from living a peaceful life? In my opinion, it's better to let Ashina and the migrating locust Yicong go out and enter the territory of Qingtang The looting also gave Qingtang a taste of what it's like to be harassed non-stop."

As soon as Fu Jinchuan said this, the faces of the soldiers who led the army were all excited. It's not that they lack courage, but it's just that they are about to destroy their country at every turn, and it's not as easy as young people to speak out if they take the initiative to attack.

After all, entering the enemy's territory to start a war is different from defensive operations. This requires the approval of the court, otherwise it is arbitrarily provoking frontier provocations, which is not a small crime.

But this time, when Fu Jinchuan said something similar to "destroy his country", Fu Maoxiu was noncommittal, but he was already thinking about the possibility in his heart.

(End of this chapter)