Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 869 Youth is Hope (Second Update, 4000-word Chapter)
In the suburbs of Beijing, Xishan Bieyuan County Prince's Mansion.

It was just dark, and today was New Year's Eve. Red lanterns and red silk satin were hung inside and outside the Prince's Mansion, and the maidservants were still busy making the final dressing on the yard.

The backyard of the Prince's Mansion is connected to a cliff on the west mountain, and Liu Hongjian ordered people to build a fence around the cliff and build a pavilion for the family to enjoy the shade and talk here.

"Sister, it's getting dark, we should go back to have the New Year's Eve dinner." Yang Xue waved to Ling Feng, Ling Xue, and Ling Yu who were still playing around.

Ling Feng is four years old, and of course it is the last day of four years old. He is seven months older than his two younger sisters, and he is also taller than his two younger sisters as a boy.

After being greeted by Er Niang, Ling Feng took the little hands of the two younger sisters and trotted towards the gazebo.

Sun Xiuxiu sat on a stool in the gazebo and looked at the girl who was born in the northwest direction. The cool wind blew the black hair on her forehead, revealing her beautiful face under the moonlight.

"Mother, it's getting cold, and my father said that I won't let you blow the cold wind." Ling Feng stood in front of Sun Xiuxiu like a little adult, urging him softly.

"Mother, I'm hungry. Yu'er wants to eat meat. Sister Xiaobai said that there will be fish, beef and abalone tonight. Ma'am, let's go back and have dinner." Ling Yu held Yang Xue with her left hand and Sun Xiuxiu with her right hand, and was about to head towards the yard. direction to go.

"Second mother, please persuade my mother, otherwise the emperor will blame me when the father comes back." Ling Feng insisted.

According to the Ming system, the eldest son of a regular wife does not need to be called a concubine as his mother, but only needs to be called an aunt.

Although Liu Hongjian's rules are extremely loose, he is very persistent in addressing his wife and children. He requires the children to call their mothers, and in terms of etiquette, the children treat Sun Xiuxiu, Yang Xue or Kun Xing equally. Waiting for it.

"Your mother, this is missing your father." Yang Xue hesitated for a moment and said softly.

She also misses her husband who is far away, almost half a year has passed, Yang Xue can't sleep when she thinks that her husband is still fighting thousands of miles away.

It's just that the three women seldom mentioned this topic, because once the topic turned to Liu Hongjian, the chat would immediately stagnate.

Sansheng was lucky to marry such an upright man, Yang Xue wished that Liu Hongjian would not leave the county palace for a day, she was not as knowledgeable as Sun Xiuxiu, and she didn't even want her husband to have such great power.

Power means responsibility and burden, and it is this responsibility that keeps their family together forever.

"Sister, when will my husband be able to let go of this burden? He even promised to take us to the south of the Yangtze River! You liar!" Yang Xue pouted.

Although she is already a wife and a mother, Yang Xue is often childish like a child, while Kun Xing is purely like a child, but the two daughters both have children, so Sun Xiuxiu became the leader of this group of people, although she also Only in his early twenties.

"Don't say that about my husband, he doesn't want to do that either." Sun Xiuxiu suddenly closed her eyes, and embraced Ling Xue who was lying beside her.

"But the court needs him." Sun Xiuxiu said again.

"I don't know when my husband will come back. I heard from Master Xiaoliang of Jinyiwei that my husband has already arrived in Sudogeda. I don't know where it is. It is six thousand miles away from Daming."

Yang Xue naturally didn't take it seriously, she was straightforward and couldn't hide her words, she always said something.

"What's so fun about fighting? You don't go home after the Chinese New Year. In the past few years, my husband has only spent two New Years at home!" Yang Xue said again.

"Soon." Sun Xiuxiu got up, ready to go home.

"What's coming soon." Yang Xue also picked up Ling Yu and led Ling Feng to follow.

"If you defeat Rakshasa, there will be no more powerful enemies in the northern border of Ming Dynasty, and it will be peaceful at that time." Sun Xiuxiu said softly.

After all, she is Sun Chengzong's granddaughter, and she has much more knowledge than ordinary women. The only strong enemy of the Ming Dynasty for 300 years is the nomadic people in the north. Sun Chengzong knows this best, and Sun Xiuxiu also knows a little bit.

Cheng Zu Zhu Di entered Mongolia five times in order to solve this serious problem, but he failed in the end.

In the next 200 years, the Tatars, Wala, Duoyan Sanwei, and Jurchens all invaded the north of the Ming Dynasty all the time, and it was precisely because of this that the Nine Sides of the Ming Dynasty came into being. The imperial court also had to provide huge military expenses, food and weapons to the Nine Sides every year.

Liu Hongjian once said to Sun Xiuxiu that the Cossacks in the Raksha Kingdom were also nomads, and if they wanted peace in the north, they had to either gather all the nomads together or annihilate them.

Other than that, there is no other way.

Now, in Sun Xiuxiu's view, the Ming Dynasty's Western Expedition to Rakshasa is just to get rid of this trouble forever.

"It is said that the Raksha Kingdom is bigger than our Ming Dynasty. Can my husband finish it alone? Your Majesty is also true. He will only cause trouble for our husband." After Yang Xue slandered Liu Hongjian, she began to slander Zhu Cihong.

In her opinion, Zhu Cihong, who is only one year older than herself, is very disgusting. She is incapable of fighting, but sends her husband to work hard every day. Could it be that the Ming Dynasty has more than 6000 million manpower and can't find anyone who can fight? ?
"We are still young, my husband is also very young, and the emperor is also very young, youth is hope!" Sun Xiuxiu did not reprimand Yang Xue, she knew that Yang Xue often made mistakes unintentionally.

The two led the child all the way to the county palace. As soon as they arrived at the gate of the backyard, they saw Kun Xing leaving the door holding Ling Yun, who was only ten months old.

"Kun Xing is going to look for the two older sisters. Today is New Year's Eve. Sister Liu has already prepared the New Year's Eve dinner, and Dad is here!" Kun Xing said softly.

"Sanniang, did grandpa bring a lot of strange grandpas here again?" the boss Ling Feng said.

Liu Delong is considered the happiest person in the county prince's mansion. He doesn't have to worry about his livelihood now, and even the family affairs are taken care of by his eldest daughter-in-law.

And he lives alone in the old mansion in the capital city. It is said that the old mansion is only compared with the new county mansion in Xishan Bieyuan.

In terms of area in the capital, this house is the largest except for the imperial palace.

Of course, being alone is only referring to Liu Hongjian's family. It is impossible to be alone. The elderly are most afraid of loneliness, and so is Liu Delong.

He knew that his son was a busy man, and he didn't expect Liu Hongjian to be with him at home every day, so he took his colleague who was a clerk in the drugstore together, as well as his relatives and friends, friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends. Come and live in the county prince's mansion.

These friends have only one characteristic, that is old.

Anyway, I can't do it anymore, anyway, the county prince's mansion is in charge of food and housing, and when Mrs. Liu is in a good mood, there is money, so a large group of old guys circle around Liu Delong every day, so that Liu Delong doesn't know what loneliness is at all.

No, it's New Year's Eve again, as usual, Mrs. Liu is going to have a New Year's Eve dinner with his family, and he will also visit his two grandsons and two granddaughters.

Of course, Mrs. Liu is a lot of friends, and he brought seven or eight of his best friends with him to the New Year's Eve dinner.

"Brother, grandpa always brings so many strange grandpas with him every time he comes, even last year!" Ling Yu who was in Sun Xiuxiu's arms interrupted.

The three sisters would occasionally go to the capital to see Liu Delong, but Nuo Da's house was full of old men and old ladies, who would only stuff walnuts and sugar into their hands, which was meaningless.

"I want to sit at the same table with my mothers, not with my grandpa, he always stabs my face with his beard." The boss Ling Feng said again.

Not only Liu Delong, but the old man at the table knew that the Liu family had few rules, and in order to show intimacy, whenever he saw Xiao Lingfeng, he would go up and prick his beard. Of course, it was Liu Lingfeng who thought so.

"Okay, okay! It's not that your grandpa misses you, let's go." Sun Xiuxiu urged the young Ling Yun, worried that it was too cold outside.

Just after entering the door, I saw Liu Delong wearing a carved leather coat talking and laughing with a group of old men.

"Grandson, my good grandson, come and show grandpa, look, my grandson has grown taller again!"

Seeing Liu Lingfeng approaching, Liu Delong immediately stepped forward to hug Lingfeng, and said to several colleagues.

After asking about his health and asking for warmth, and being pricked again and again with beards by many strange grandfathers, Ling Feng finally got out of trouble.

"Grandchildren, guess what gift grandpa brought you this time?" Liu Delong patted the carriageway in the yard.

The carriage was covered with a red cloth, and there was something bulging underneath.

"It's a toy!" Ling Xue shouted.

"No, sister, definitely not, it's for food, there is an old man who is the best at making dim sum." Ling Yu pointed at one of the old men who looked familiar.

Liu Delong's nursing home, oh no, there is an old man surnamed Zhang in the county prince's mansion who made good dim sum, which also won the attention of Ling Yu and Ling Xue.

"No! No! Guess again." Liu Delong smiled and shook his head.

The three brothers and sisters guessed several times but failed to guess correctly. Liu Delong didn't delay, and directly lifted the red cloth with the voice of an old naughty boy.

That's a whole truckload of fireworks!
"Father, the yard is surrounded by trees, it's too dangerous to set off fireworks on the west mountain." Sun Xiuxiu naturally recognized what was on the car, but this made her very embarrassed.

Two years ago, there was a fire in Xishan because of setting off fireworks. Fortunately, the guard camp on the mountainside discovered it and extinguished it in time. It was also from that time that Liu Hongjian ordered that setting off fireworks on Xishan was prohibited.

"It's okay, it's okay, the old man tried it in the old house, and the fireworks are not the ones that soar into the sky. Shopkeeper Song in the capital said they were newly developed fireworks called Fire Tree Silver Flowers.

The children like it, so the old man thinks about making the children happy. After Liu Delong finished speaking, he picked up a box and put it on the ground, and the other old men hurriedly started after seeing this.

After a while, rows of fireworks filled the courtyard. Liu Delong held a firecracker in his hand, and he decided to show it to his grandsons and granddaughters himself.

"Are you ready? Grandpa is about to light a fire. Don't cover your ears. How can a man be afraid of this!" Liu Delong laughed, and bent over to light the fire after speaking.

The fireworks were quickly ignited, Liu Delong walked away quickly on the old man's footsteps, but because of his old age, he almost fell down, and several old men rushed to help him.

Crackle-crack-crack-crack-

Fireworks bloomed in the yard and rose to a height of one foot. There were red, golden, green, and colorful ones. The fire trees poured out the joy of the New Year in winter.

"Mother, second mother, third mother, look, they are so beautiful!" The three siblings clapped their hands happily.

The fire light reflected the faces of Sun Xiuxiu, Yang Xue and Zhaoren red, and the three girls all had smiles on their faces.

Liu Hong, the chef of the county prince's mansion, had already prepared the meals. Seeing that the fireworks were lit, she hurriedly helped her lame husband out to watch the fireworks.

Old Mr. Liu saw his grandson and granddaughter happy, and he was also happy. He grabbed his waist and found a chair to sit down.

Just now he ran so fast that he lost his waist, he couldn't stop beating his waist, and said he was old, old.

After the fireworks burned out, a group of people hurriedly took their seats, and Liu Delong naturally sat at the table with seven or eight uncles. His son was not there, and they had a common language.

Sun Xiuxiu sat beside Yang Xue, Kun Xing and the children, but there was an empty chair on the main seat, and there were bowls and chopsticks on the table in front of the chair, which they left for their husband.

"The imperial decree has arrived! The whole family of Anguo County received the imperial decree!" Wang Erxi, the chief inspector of ceremonies, first smiled and nodded at Sun Xiuxiu and the others, and then unfolded the imperial decree.

"This is the emperor's imperial edict. The emperor specifically ordered you not to salute." Wang Erxi planned to read the imperial edict after finishing speaking.

Zhongzhi is the decree that has not been approved by the cabinet, and most of it comes directly from the emperor. Of course, the cabinet is now just an office in front of Zhu Cihong.

Wang Erxi said this sentence only to show the royal family's respect for the family of Anguo County Prince's Mansion, and under normal circumstances, it is not necessary to pass the decree by the Chief of Ceremony.

The eunuch, the supervisor of ceremonies, is equivalent to the inner minister in the palace. In several emperors of the Ming Dynasty, the power was equal to or even greater than that of the chief minister of the cabinet.

Wang Erxi knew about Zhu Cihong's relationship with Anguo County Wang's family, and he was happy to pass on this will. When the two met for the first time, one was a grassroots man and the other was just a small yellow gate in the palace.

Now they have all sat at the highest positions in their systems, and Wang Erxi's position was stabilized by Liu Hongjian. To be exact, Liu Hongjian not only showed Wang Erxi the kindness of knowledge, but also the kindness of saving his life.

A group of old men behind Liu Delong looked left and right, but still chose to kneel on the ground, because they were not sure that they were not included in what Wang Erxi said.

"In today's prosperous age, fortunately, the king of Anguo County, I am not a cold and thin king, and I know that this peace is hard-won.

On New Year's Eve, three python suits, one hundred pieces of brocade, one car of velvet antler, one car of pearl Buddha strings, and two cars of agate calligraphy and paintings are specially given to Anguo County.

I know that Liu Qing likes ink treasures. Today, I personally wrote three inscriptions and presented them to the King of Anguo County.

Bestowed. "

The imperial decree was very casual and did not bite Wen Jue's words. In fact, Zhu Cihong would give something to the county palace almost every month, but this time it was delivered by car.

"Wang Concubine, the Emperor and the Empress have prepared a banquet in the palace, please hurry over there!" Wang Erxi smiled again after reading out the imperial decree.

"Thank you for your majesty's kindness. It's a small gesture. I hope the prince will accept it with a smile." Sun Xiuxiu gave Yang Xue a wink, and Yang Xue immediately took out Zhang Bailiang's bank note and handed it to Wang Erxi.

Wang Erxi wanted to shirk at first, even if he was not greedy for his position, he would not be able to spend all the money in his hands, and the county prince's mansion has always been closed, Wang Erxi was not used to it for a while.

"Your Majesty, let's accept it, let's celebrate the new year." Sun Xiuxiu smiled.

"Then our family is impolite. We haven't seen the lord for a few days. To be honest, our family is thinking very hard! Thinking back to those years..." Wang Erxi seemed to recall the past, but just as he opened his mouth, everyone looked at him , and closed his mouth in embarrassment.

"Princess Wangfei, hurry up and go with our house, the emperor and empress have not eaten yet, they are waiting for us!
Oh, by the way, the emperor specially ordered to bring the little prince and princess with him! "

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(End of this chapter)