Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 227
The rain outside the window is getting heavier.

When Zhang Zhe woke up again, he found that his head was resting on Meng Xiaowan's lap.

When you open your eyes, you will see the graceful arc of your lower abdomen.

Meng Xiaowan was seriously sewing the children's clothes. When Zhang Zhe woke up, she showed a deep smile to her husband on her haggard face.

Although they have only been married for more than half a year, they can reveal too much information to each other with just one look.

Zhang Zhe didn't get up, but leaned on his wife's lap, reaching out and gently stroking the newborn life inside.

"Who can't keep his mouth shut?"

Hearing Zhang Zhe's whispered question, Meng Xiaowan's hand trembled, and the silver needle almost pricked her own hand.

She lowered her head and didn't look at Zhang Zhe, but the water in her eyes had already betrayed everything.

"You do such a big thing outside, at least you should think about me and my stomach. I won't stop you, but I'm the only one who keeps it a secret."

Zhang Zhe looked up at her and gently held her cheek.

"It's all in the past, don't think too much about it, our husband and wife can make an agreement for three chapters, there will never be a next time, okay?"

Meng Xiaowan shed a tear and waved his hand away.

"Where did it go?" She stared at her stomach, "Then the Luan family is the emperor's family after all. If this paper goes up and the court finds it, I don't know how many hurdles there are still to go through? You can only coax me!"

Zhang Zhe laughed strangely twice, scaring Meng Xiaowan to cover her stomach in a hurry, and looked at him reproachfully.

"If I'm not the lady's pillow, I must be deceived by your tears. How can I not know what kind of person the lady is. Maybe the lady has fears, but more than anything else, she wants to know my future. Make a plan. Tell the lady the truth, I don’t have any plans after becoming a husband. Because the court will not slow down this matter, I’m afraid it will be stopped very quickly.”

Then Zhang Zhe told Meng Xiaowan all about his judgment.

Now the court or the emperor, the two most important things, one is the Southern Expedition, and the other is the newly established prince.The outcome of the first one is related to Zheng Guo's major policies in the future, while the other is more related to the country.

Xue Xiong, who was placed in the Jiang'an camp, happened to be related to two major events, his position and his background.He is not only the commander of the rear route of the Southern Expedition Army appointed by the emperor, but also the prince's brother-in-law.

The emperor has done these two major events within this year, and he is afraid that he has already made conclusions and preparations for various possible situations.

For the grand plan of the Southern Expedition, and to maintain the prestige of the prince, the emperor will never let go of anyone or anything against Xue Xiong.

Putting Xue Xiong there, it is not necessarily a bait thrown by the emperor deliberately.

It depends on which of his sons will take the bait?

Zhang Zhe believes that it is definitely not easy to meet someone who can be an emperor for decades.What is the guilt towards other sons after the establishment of the crown prince?Zhang Zhe guessed that the emperor had probably already prepared a plan for how to deal with such incidents.

It is nothing more than two words: fast and ruthless.

For the great plan of the Southern Expedition and the stability of the prince's position, there is a "long-planned" plan to kill chickens and monkeys.

That's why in those few letters, Zhang Zhe deliberately put the motive of the other party's crime on Xue Xiong of the Jiang'an camp, and vaguely involved King Han and King Qi.
Everything was extremely in line with His Majesty's "anticipation".

Meng Xiaowan took Zhang Zhe's hand and gently placed it on her lower abdomen.

"My husband is just a young minister from the seventh rank now, and to put it more bluntly, he is just a scholar. It is better to do less of these things that ponder the emperor's mind. Although the emperor's decision is based on interests first, but the past dynasties Who in the past has not been self-willed a few times? Not to mention involving his own children. You just need to be careful!"

Zhang Zhe stood up and couldn't help kissing his wife.

"A good wife is indeed much better than a husband!"

Meng Xiaowan cared about her stomach and didn't dare to hide, so she had to get angry and let him kiss her a few times.

The Pegasus Express from Provincial Highway, Jiangling County, and Jiang'an Daying broke through the rain and headed north one after another. The entire Jiangling City was restlessly waiting for the north's decision.

Jiangling's official actions did not exceed Zhang Zhe's expectations at all.

Luan's family was sealed off, and Luan Jin was sent to jail, but no one brought the three of them to trial.The entire Jiangling officialdom is a group of glazed beads. Although they are always concerned about the case, they collectively pretend not to see it.

The three of Luan Jin wanted to cry out for injustice, but no one listened.

It's not that no one wants to stand up for Luan's family and Anji's office. Those letters and the whole process of discovery were crushed, scattered, researched and questioned many times, and even several court officials who are best at handwriting identification, The scribes all participated in it, but they all came to the same conclusion in the end.

The letter was indeed written by the three members of the Luan family, and it wasn't cut out from the three people's past letters and spliced ​​together.And He Tang, who was most likely to frame Luan's family, had no possibility of hiding things in advance.

There is also the matter of the third steward of Luan's family and Du Ajiu as evidence, which can be said to be as solid as a mountain of evidence.

Vanity Fair has always been more icing on the cake than giving charcoal in need, and what people like to do most is to add insult to injury.

The Luan family was sealed off for a few days, but there were several more people in the yard, all of whom were daughters of the Luan family who were divorced and returned.

Just as everyone was looking forward to the news from the capital, the heavy rain kept falling.

The flood season with the same name as the Peach Blossom Flood of the Yellow River in the original world began to form from the Yunmeng Nandao Jiangdao, all the way to the east.When it reached the Jiangling River, the flood tide flooded the banks on the north and south sides.

Xue Xiong's Jiang'an camp could not stand on the Jiangnan embankment at all, so he had to retreat to a slightly higher area in the north of the river in the rain to set up a new camp.

Under the city of Zhaoyang, the heavy rain was worse than that in Jiangbei.

The Dazheng military camp was flooded everywhere, and the Marquis of Nanxiang was forced to withdraw from the siege, leading his army to retreat and set up camp on several hillsides and high grounds.

After Zhaoyang was released from the siege, several Southern Wu reinforcements who had been lingering around quickly marched into Zhaoyang, and the number of defenders in Zhaoyang increased from [-] to more than [-].

On the second day after Zhang Zhe received the news that Marquis Nanxiang was retreating, another unexpected news also crossed the river.

Zhaoyang County has fallen!
Chen Zhengxian, a veteran of Southern Wu who led [-] soldiers to reinforce Zhaoyang, led his own soldiers to kill the guards at the city gate at midnight, and opened the west gate of Zhaoyang City to announce that anyway, the [-] Zheng elites who had been waiting outside the city for a long time swarm in.The two sides fought all night in the rain, and at dawn, the entire Zhaoyang County fell into the control of Zheng Jun.

Three hundred miles away, Jinling, the capital city of Southern Wu, was completely exposed to Da Zheng's troops.

When Zhang Zhe got the news, what surprised him was not the fall of Zhaoyang County, but the veteran Chen Zhengxian anyway.This is Chen Shanyao's distant family uncle, a member of the top family in Southern Wu!
He actually turned back, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Zhang Zhe was sure that the strategic goal of the Great Zheng Nanzheng had been achieved so far, and the next stage of the dispute between the two countries would be on the negotiating table.

Da Zheng, who has taken the absolute strategic initiative, will definitely bite off a piece of Nan Wu's flesh at the negotiating table.As for completely destroying Wu, Zhang Zhe didn't think Da Zheng had such an idea.

Southern Wu is the second largest country in the world, sitting on the land of six realms, with no less than 40 armored people, nearly 3000 million Wu people under its rule, and the world's largest fish and rice merchants

According to Zhang Zhe's estimation, to completely destroy Wu, at least 40 Zheng troops need to be conscripted.

(End of this chapter)