serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 207

The sun has gone down.

Hefei city is still fighting fiercely, with screams and roars one after another, and flames are still burning in many places!
Jia Hu and Eunuch Zhao stood in front of the big tent, looking at the wounded barracks.

Wang Hetang and thirty imperial guards walked over leading the horses.

Jia Hu and Eunuch Zhao went up to meet him.

Wang Hetang handed the reins to the officer of the Imperial Army, and greeted Jia Hu and Eunuch Zhao, saying, "Time is running out, so I won't bother you. I have to go to Jinling overnight."

Jia Hu: "I'll arrange a battalion of cavalry to escort Mr. Ge."

"It doesn't have to be so troublesome."

Wang Hetang smiled lightly, and said as he walked: "This matter is not trivial, we must go to Jinling to check it out."

Speaking of this, he sighed, "I talked with Wang Ziteng and his officers and men all afternoon, and they felt very resentful. I really don't know how it will end!"

Jia Hu and Eunuch Zhao looked at each other.

As Wang Hetang was walking, he suddenly stopped and asked, "Where is the account book of the Liuhe official warehouse?"

Eunuch Zhao replied: "Hurry up and send him to Beijing."

Wang Hetang remained calm: "What do you think?"

Eunuch Zhao: "Whoever dares to play tricks on important military and national affairs will be beheaded."

Jia Hu continued: "I heard that Wang Ziteng and Zhang Shangwen have a good relationship!"

Wang Hetang sighed softly, took a few steps forward, stopped again, turned to Jia Hu and said, "I still have to consider for Your Majesty, do you have to get the reputation of imprisoning your biological father? The days of the Supreme Emperor are numbered." In other words, don't be confused about small things, but be confused about big things."

Jia Hu immediately asked, "What does it mean not to be confused about small things, but to be confused about big things?"

Wang Hetang said indifferently: "There are no small matters in the royal family."

Hearing what he said, Jia Hu and Eunuch Zhao exchanged glances.

The group stopped talking and walked out of the camp.

As the sky gradually darkened, Wang Hetang and the imperial cavalry escorting him disappeared from everyone's sight.

A desolate horn rang through the sky, and all the soldiers slowly walked out of Hefei City, came out of the city and formed an army formation, and returned to the camp under the leadership of the generals of each battalion.

This battle started in the early morning of the first day of November, and the attack on the government office was at noon on the second day, and it was already the fourth day of the fourth day, and the setting sun had lost its dazzling light, shining dimly on the earth and on the city of Hefei.

After a brief silence, the cries of countless people echoed over the city of Hefei.

Inside the big tent of the Chinese army

Eunuch Zhao looked at Yang Kaiwu's body, his face immediately showed excitement, and then turned to look at Jia Hu who was sitting in front of the commander's desk looking through the military merit book, "The miscellaneous family will pickle his head and send it to Beijing overnight! After finishing speaking, he greeted several fans and hurried out carrying Yang Kaiwu's body.

After reading the last page, General Jia Hu closed the merit book, raised his head, and looked at Zhang Cheng: "You have made a great contribution this time."

Zhang Cheng: "The commander-in-chief is entrusted with good planning, and the officers and soldiers are entrusted with their lives!"

Jia Hu smiled faintly: "Write the military report, give them credit, recommend it according to the credit, and I will report it to His Majesty tonight."

Zhang Cheng: "Yes." He bowed and retreated.

Jia Hu sighed. As the saying goes, red-clothed official robes are blood-stained by the common people. This is true, not counting the officers and soldiers. In just four days, nearly 30 people died in the city of Hefei. The military kills are red-eyed, and they don't care about any military orders or military orders, and kill anyone they see.

Thinking of this, Jia Hu rubbed his temples. It would definitely be a big trouble if it spread to the capital. War would kill people, but 30 people died in one place, which was enough to make all the civil servants boil.

Opened the credit book, picked up a pen and crossed out his name, mentioned Zhang Cheng's name to the front, juxtaposed with Yang Dayong's name, turned to the second page, and mentioned Jia Yun and Liu Xianglian first, and the two Can be promoted to guerrilla general.

After turning two more pages, Jia Hu's eyes stopped, and Jia Qiang and Jia Chang could also be promoted to Chief Executive Officer.

The light in the big tent has dimmed.

With a click, he ignited the tinder and lit the seat lamp on the desk.

Jia Hu picked up the pen, spread out the blank chapter and began to write quickly.

After finishing writing, Jia Hu put the credit book and the memorial into the box beside it.

After finishing these things, Jia Hu took another blank letterhead, picked up a pen and started writing.

After the battle is over, write a letter home to report safety.

At this time, a report from the soldiers came from outside the tent: "Marshal, Supervisor Zhao is here."

Before the words were finished, eunuch Zhao came in, holding an imperial decree in his hand: "The imperial decree has arrived, the prince will dismiss him from all positions, and return to Beijing immediately after he recovers from his injuries."

Jia Hu put down the pen, stood up, took the imperial decree with both hands, opened it to look carefully, was slightly startled, there was no reason, let alone a crime.

What does this mean, let bygones be bygones, or wait until the end of the year to settle the score?

After pondering for a while, Jia Hu looked at Eunuch Zhao: "There is no crime in His Majesty's will."

Eunuch Zhao smiled with a complicated expression: "It's probably because the civil servants made too much noise. When the letter and the testimonies of the soldiers arrive, His Majesty will naturally decide for Prince Teng."

Jia Hu was silent for a moment, then asked, "What's the situation in the capital now?"

Eunuch Zhao: "The negotiations between the imperial court and the Manchus have come to an impasse. The Manchu chief envoy and the deputy envoy fought in the Courtyard because of disagreements. The civil servants did not stop, and the chief minister had another old illness. It was a mess. !"

Jia Hu: "What about the palace?"

Eunuch Zhao hesitated for a moment, then replied, "It's the same as before."

Jia Hu: "Forget it. Wang Hetang is right. No matter how much I have to think about His Majesty's reputation, I don't worry about it." He handed over the imperial decree with both hands.

Eunuch Zhao was stunned, and took the imperial decree with both hands: "Only God knows about this kind of thing, let's take care of the current affairs. Go and declare the decree."

Jia Hu sat down and said, "Go by yourself, I still have to write a letter to my family." As he spoke, he picked up a pen and began to write.

Eunuch Zhao smiled wryly: "That's all, that's all. The miscellaneous family will just protect their face later." He turned and walked out.

Capital
study room

It was already dark, and the lights were lit here early.

The letter Xia Shouzhong wrote to Wang Ziteng was placed on the imperial case!

Sitting in front of the imperial case, Emperor Jianwu was looking down at the account book of the Liuhe official warehouse that was urgently sent by Babaili.

Dai Quan walked in quickly and silently, walked to the side of the case, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Director Xia is here."

Emperor Jianwu snorted, flipped through the account books irritably, and suddenly took a look at the case: "I have already greeted them, and no one is allowed to tamper with food, grass and military equipment. Why? Don't they know this?" Doing this will lead to the defeat of the army? Just to fight with me, he did not hesitate to sacrifice the imperial court's [-] troops!"

Speaking of this, he stood up abruptly, pacing, and said: "If Jia Hu hadn't moved fast enough, he quickly defeated the rebels in Lu'an, Anqing and other places. Now the whole of Anhui will be plunged into war again, and even The Yongwei Battalion will also fall into the encirclement of the rebels. If Wang Ziteng is a real villain who has both sides, he is."

Dai Quan panicked, and plopped down on his knees: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Our Great Zhou governs the world with filial piety, and uses it as the keystone to practice enlightenment. Such words cannot be said!"

Emperor Jianwu trembled slightly, grabbed the stack of memorials on the imperial case and threw them on the ground hard, and then grabbed the inkstone on the imperial case and threw them on the ground hard!
The fragments of the inkstone splashed, and the ink splashed everywhere!

Emperor Jianwu ran back and forth in the upper study like a wounded beast, shouting loudly: "Kill! Execute all the officials involved in the case on the spot! The whole family will be executed! All the clansmen will be sent out of the customs!"

Dai Quan was startled, thought for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "What should I do if Cifu is also involved in this case?"

Emperor Jianwu stopped in his tracks: "There is no if. Just because I reused the first assistant, he fell to the Supreme Emperor and refused to allocate disaster relief food to Anhui. This time such a big event, without him, how dare those officials of all sizes in Jinling ?”

After a pause, "I gave him a chance, but he didn't cherish it, acted recklessly, and did such a heartless thing, so he can't blame me!" After finishing speaking, he walked to the imperial court and sat down.

Only then did Dai Quan get up, and went forward to pick up the memorials one by one and put them on the imperial case.

After pondering for a while, Emperor Jianwu said: "Prepare a decree for Jia Hu, and give Zhang Shangwen to commit suicide."

There was a dead silence in the upper study.

Dai Quanrao was mentally prepared, but he was still shocked by the emperor's decisiveness at this moment. He was stunned for a moment before answering: "Yes."

Emperor Jianwu picked up the letter again, "Take Xia Shouzhong, and lock him up at the Criminal Division first. Pick twenty reliable eunuchs to go to Longshou Palace, serve the Supreme Emperor well, and ask them to guard him closely!"

"Of order!" Dai Quan replied loudly.

(End of this chapter)