first minister

Chapter 312
When the British Duke's voice came, Xiao Fengshan's hand holding the spear tightened instantly.

But soon, he let go silently.

Because he saw nearly a thousand elite cavalry following behind the British prince.

"Xiao Sanlang, we said goodbye to Beijing that day and haven't seen each other for more than ten years. Now we meet on the battlefield, and you have traveled hundreds of miles to help me. How can I not say that I don't have a drink?"

The British Duke's voice was bold and hearty. Xiao Fengshan just clasped his fists and said, "The British Duke is too polite."

"You are the one who is really polite!" The British Duke immediately stepped forward, pointed at Li Rufeng, and said with a smile to Xiao Fengshan: "Don't get me wrong, I know your temper, and I asked him to stop you all the way. I don't have anything to say to you. You have bad intentions.”

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of everyone under Xiao Fengshan relaxed, including Li Rufeng, who looked much better.

Xiao Fengshan looked at the British father and did not speak, but his expression clearly made it impossible for him to be fooled by such a few words.

The British Duke smiled and said: "There are some things that I can't say much about, but you and I are both warriors, and we are all relatives of the emperor. We haven't seen each other for many years, and we are going through a war together today. Isn't it worth a bottle of wine? If you If you are not worried, I will order someone to build a big tent in the Bird Tail Valley, and you and I will drink together in the tent!"

Xiao Fengshan looked at him and finally let go of his guard, "The British Lord is so kind but disrespectful. Holding the sword, you lead a team of people and go to the valley to help set up the military tent. Tonight, the British Lord and I will not stop drinking!"

The British Duke laughed, "Let's go and walk around the mountain first to see how the most powerful rebellion in Chongning years was put out by our joint efforts."

The two of them each took a few soldiers and climbed onto the hill beside them.

After giving some pointers and talking about old friendships, the tent below was set up.

The food prepared by the Huotou Army was quickly served. The British Duke and Xiao Fengshan sat alone in a tent and drank together.

The remaining deputy generals and the generals of the Longshou Army also gathered together, drinking and singing.

The laughter spread far and wide in the night.

When another dawn came, Xiao Fengshan woke up from a splitting headache and found himself lying on a hard bed.

He rubbed his head and stood up, shouting, but before he could wait for the response from his own soldiers, an ominous premonition suddenly arose in his heart.

He stood up directly and rushed out of the big tent. Outside the big tent, he saw that his soldiers and generals were all tied up and pinned to the ground, and they were closely guarded by soldiers in sharp suits.

Even the thousand sergeants who had arranged to abstain from alcohol yesterday as a warning were surrounded by the imperial soldiers and horses.

The British Duke had already put on his armor and was standing aside with a knife in his hand.

"Lu Rusong! You are despicable!"

Xiao Fengshan's eyes widened, he cursed loudly, and he was about to rush forward, but was blocked by more than ten sergeants with guns.

His subordinates in the field also started to commotion.

"Anyone who stirs up trouble will be killed without mercy!"

The British Duke shouted angrily, calmed down the situation first, and then said coldly: "I did lie to you, but you! You guys! Are you really that upright?"

"As a governor of a state, as an officer and soldier of the imperial court, you disobey the edicts, disrespect the imperial edict, and carry out separatist rule in the name of ministers! The rebels are despicable and should be punished! How can you be any better than the rebels?"

The British Duke looked at the general of the Dragon Head Army who gradually fell silent, "Xiao Fengshan tells you to go east, and tells you to go west. Your Majesty and the Central Committee refuse to listen to any of the orders. Don't forget, you are always the leader." Xia’s people are His Majesty’s ministers, not his Xiao Fengshan’s slaves!”

His tone slowly calmed down, "Besides, do you really think His Majesty will be so unreasonable and suspicious of heroes at every turn? Listen to this imperial edict in my hand!"

He took out a bright yellow imperial edict from his arms, opened it, and said calmly: "Master Xiao, your Majesty has an edict, listen to it!"

Then he looked at Xiao Fengshan's hostile look and sighed, "Forget it, I guess you don't know how to salute, so just listen! Everyone should listen too."

As he spoke, he recited the imperial edict. The main idea was that Xiao Fengshan had set up special honors to quell the rebels. He was appointed as the Prince's Young Master, Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Ping Zhangshi, and Shangshu Youpu She, and ordered him to accompany the army to the capital. The emperor personally helped him. celebrate.

And with the reading of this imperial edict, apart from Xiao Fengshan's absolute loyalty, most of the hostility of the Longshou Army has been eliminated by more than half.

Your Majesty just doesn't want Longshouzhou to continue to be a big loser. What's wrong with him?

Speaking of which, Mr. Zhou Mu has indeed gone too far in recent years!

"If you don't believe it, then go back to Beijing with me and have a look!"

As he spoke, the British Duke put away the imperial edict, pointed to the carriage parked aside, and looked at Xiao Fengshan, "Xiao Sanlang, please?"

Under everyone's gaze, and under the intimidation of the soldiers who were waiting around him, Xiao Fengshan resignedly let out a breath and stepped onto the carriage.

Not long after, the army broke out of camp.

Except for the five thousand soldiers and horses who stayed here to clean up the remnants, all the other troops returned to Beijing.

Along with them, there were the rebel leaders who were directly killed, or their heads.

There were also the three thousand disarmed Dragon Head Army and their leader Xiao Fengshan.

A few fast horses broke away from the large army and galloped to Zhongjing to report the victory.

At the same time, a man in black also rode a horse to a nearby county and found the helm of the Black Ice Platform.

Not long after, the homing pigeon flapped its wings and flew to Zhongjing.
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The river was surging, and a small boat slowly docked towards the pier.

The two guards got off the boat first, bought some decent clothes and came back, and everyone changed into them.

Before disembarking, Qin Li looked at Shopkeeper Qin from Xichu County, and said with a little arrogance but not disgustingly: "Thank you for your hard work this time. Don't worry, I have written down your name and will return to Beijing." I will definitely tell the eldest lady later, and it will benefit you a lot."

Shopkeeper Qin quickly handed over his hands to express his gratitude. After spending this day and night together, he finally understood that in this line of work, there is at least one man and one woman who are not inferior to the maids of the eldest lady of the Qin family in front of him, and there are still more people in their line of work. With so many guards, they must be characters he can't afford to offend. If he serves them well and honestly, the chance to change his life may come.

What kind of bullshit is changing the dynasty? If you can change the emperor, you can't change the family.

The size of the Qin family would not be lost even if the royal family was gone.

No matter what shopkeeper Qin thought, after Qin Li finished explaining these things, he and everyone got off the boat one after another and arrived at the dock of Huaishou County.

This is the intersection of the Huai River and the Ying River. If you want to go north to the Ying River, you almost always have to make supplies here, change boats or something, so it is quite prosperous.

When Xia Jingyun went to Chuning County, he also stopped here to rest for the night.

When their feet stepped on the solid ground again, Xia Jingyun, Su Yanyan, Qin Li and others all felt as if they were in another world.

Chuning County and Xichu County have been left far behind, but the danger has not completely left.

Therefore, the cautious people did not act recklessly, but quietly found a mid-range inn to stay and freshen up separately.

Because the situation was urgent, Qin Li and Su Yanyan's maids stayed in Mingyu Tower and entrusted Ye Hongluan to take care of them. Therefore, in order to take care of each other at this moment, Xia Jingyun proposed that they share a room.

Both women looked embarrassed. It wasn't that they disliked each other, but they just felt that they couldn't let go of their dignity.

Xia Jingyun smiled and said, "That's right, I didn't think about it, but I'm afraid something will happen if any of you live alone, so how about the three of us live together?"

Su Yanyan and Qin Li immediately agreed to their proposal to share a room and hurried in.

Seeing the joking and snickering expressions of the guards headed by Chen Fugui, Xia Jingyun snorted, "What do you know!" In the room, Su Yanyan and Qin Li were sitting on the bed, the atmosphere was awkward and at a loss.

Qin Li suddenly said: "Sister Su, do you think he did it on purpose?"

Of course, Su Yanyan's mind reacted quickly, "That's right! He did it on purpose, thinking that we would just solve it ourselves, while he was watching the show with his hands on his hands!"

Qin Li took it seriously, "This man is a lot of tricksters, so he must think so!"

In the room, the daughter's boudoir secrets quietly broke the awkwardness. The smart girls followed the steps and used the same enemy to close the distance between each other. However, their enemy was lying alone on the bed at the moment, thinking of the two lying next door. A stunning beauty who was committed to her, deeply understood what it meant for three monks to have no water to drink.

However, these things are just trivial matters. After working for days, everyone was quite tired. After washing up a little, ordering food and drinks in the room, they arranged for the person to be on duty at night, and then went to sleep.

Any strange thoughts were quickly drowned out by extreme fatigue.

The next morning, Xia Jingyun got up from bed, feeling that he had regained a lot of energy from all the exhaustion, sleeplessness, and overdraft in the past few days.

Feeling refreshed, he packed up and went out, saying hello to Su Yanyan and Qin Li, who had also recovered a lot of their beauty.

But he received two blank looks inexplicably.

???

You two wouldn't sneak up on me and then kick me, right?

Xia Jingyun secretly joked in his heart, but he was quite relieved in his heart. Smart women are good and can solve problems by themselves without having to talk much.

Of course, he made that calculation. If this golden opportunity is missed, where will the family get peace?

By the time they had breakfast and tidied up, the guards had already rented a mediocre boat in advance.

The group got on the boat and walked northward via Yingshui River to Liancheng County, just like before. Then they headed straight to Zhongjing.

On the deck, Xia Jingyun stood tall, watching the river flow back under his feet, watching the surrounding scenery slowly recede, but his expression did not have much of the comfort of Ling Feng on the river, and there was melancholy between his eyebrows.

"On this short journey, we have heard the news of four groups openly killing officials and rebelling. Counting those who are kings of the mountain, the situation has already collapsed in such a short period of time after the old military god left. "

Su Yanyan, dressed in white, walked slowly to his left and sighed softly.

Qin Li, who was dressed in green clothes, walked to his right and stood, slowly saying: "This is the Sixiang Prefecture adjacent to Zhongzhou, such as Yuyan Prefecture, Langya Prefecture, Baiyang Prefecture and other places that are already warlike, such as Yongwu Prefecture. I'm afraid the border areas will become even more unbearable, and the world will really be in chaos."

Xia Jingyun looked around and said, "No, shouldn't you two come up and comfort me? How could you just stab my heart with a knife!"

Su Yanyan said calmly: "You can't even bear to face the current situation, so why are you talking about rebuilding the country and working for world peace?"

Qin Li was much more gentle and said with a smile: "The Number One Scholar's heart is so big that he can hold so many people. Wouldn't it hurt if he pricked him a few more times?"

Xia Jingyun:.
He had no choice but to change the subject, "Since Xiao Fengshan dares to send troops to surround Chuning County, he will definitely take action. I wonder what the situation is like in Longshou Prefecture now?"

Listening to this abrupt change of topic, Su Yanyan remained calm, Qin Li covered her mouth and snickered, and both of them tacitly agreed not to talk.

Xia Jingyun was "frustrated" and flicked his sleeves, "Stop talking, I'm going to bed!"

After he left, there was a gentle chuckle on the deck, and Xia Jingyun who got into the cabin actually had a smile on his lips.

Their ship headed north, and a homing pigeon also leisurely crossed the sky and landed in the dovecote of the Black Ice Platform.

The note marked top secret was quickly sent to the desk of the first Xuanhu. Xuanhu translated the contents against the code book and immediately headed towards the palace.

In the Qianyuan Hall, Xuan Hu hurriedly arrived, "Your Majesty!"

Emperor Chongning's heart moved, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "Is there any news?"

"Back to Your Majesty, there is news from Liangjun that the British Duke has defeated the rebels!"

As he said this, he handed over a booklet. Emperor Chongning opened it and read that the British Duke had defeated the rebels and had successfully captured Xiao Fengshan and his three thousand soldiers and horses who had sent troops according to the imperial edict, removed their armor and escorted them together. Back to Beijing, now on the way to class!
"it is good!"

Emperor Chongning, who always admired the intangible expression of emotions and anger, could not help but stand up and immediately realized, "The British Lord has indeed lived up to my expectations and defeated this group of traitors! We must let the world know that although the old military god We have gone, but my military might in Great Xia has not been dispersed! With a thunderous strike, all those rebels will be weighed down!"

Gao Yi and Xuanhu both stood quietly with their heads bowed. After the death of the old military god, in less than ten days, news of rebellions from various places came one after another, and memorials flying into the center like snowflakes.

In the past, even some of the feudal officials did not dare to raise the flag of rebellion without permission, but now a random group of thieves dare to kill officials and raise the flag of rebellion.

Those ambitions that have been suppressed for decades are like poisonous snakes waking up from hibernation, spitting out their messages coldly.

Those frightened resentments, like wildly growing weeds, spread their joy in corners where the imperial power could not reach.

Although His Majesty maintained a great deal of calm, he not only issued orders to the border troops to be on guard against border wars, but also ordered all states to organize on the spot to protect the people and effectively combat the rebellion while containing the spread of the rebellion.Such a move won unanimous praise from everyone in the court, but after all, wars were raging everywhere, which was still a great test for a country that had been at peace for a long time.

Now, the most powerful rebel army was defeated by the imperial army in one battle, the leader of the bandit was captured, and the army returned to support, so there were more soldiers to recruit from everywhere. From any point of view, it was an extremely happy thing.

But both Gao Yi and Xuanhu understood that what made His Majesty more happy, and what His Majesty valued more, was the solution to Xiao Fengshan's personal problem.

However, this is something that no one can say.

Emperor Chongning thought for a while, then turned to look at Xuanhu, "How is Xia Jingyun doing over there? Is there any news?"

Xuan Hu shook his head, "There is no news yet. I only know that he has completely pacified the Cao Gang. If he gets the news from this end, he may start his journey back."

Emperor Chongning thought for a while, "You have someone send him a message, asking him to go to Longshou Prefecture City first to help preside over the situation in Longshou Prefecture, and then return after the new Longshou Prefecture Shepherd takes office."

"Yes!"

Emperor Chongning sat back and said with a smile: "You think, how should I reward the British Duke for such a distinguished honor?"

Gao Yi subconsciously raised his head in surprise, then immediately lowered his head.

Xuan Hu did not dare to remain silent, "The thunder and rain are all due to the king's kindness. The British Duke must be loyal to his country and not come here for the purpose of seeking a title or reward."

Emperor Chongning also knew that what he was asking was a bit inappropriate, so he smiled and waved his hand, "I just said casually, come back and ask the British Duke personally to see what reward he wants, I will reward him heavily. Okay, let’s go down first!”

Xuan Hu quietly retreated.

Emperor Chongning stood up, walked to the Bingjian, and said softly as if he was alerting himself: "Eat one bite at a time, one thing at a time, don't be hasty, don't panic."

Gao Yi, as always, had his back slightly arched and his hands lowered, standing solemnly, like a wooden sculpture that could neither hear nor see.

The next day, a horse rushed into Zhongjing City.

On horseback, the rider who had been galloping restlessly all day and night shouted all the way and rushed towards Miyagi!

"A great victory in Liang County, the British Duke defeated the rebels, captured the rebels, and quelled the rebellion!"

The sound of hoofbeats faded away, and cheers rang out one after another.

In Zhongjing City, there is no fire in the surrounding areas.

(End of this chapter)