King Xiang of the Red Chamber

Chapter 101 Hematemesis
[At the end of the chapter, the administrative divisions of the areas directly under the Ming Dynasty have been updated, everyone can take a look! 】

Seeing Lin Ruhai sighed, Jia Yucun guessed that there was nothing to hope for in Rongguo Mansion.

Thinking about it, this is also the reason. Lin Ruhai has now been promoted to the fourth rank, and if he is transferred from his current position, he will have to be promoted to a higher rank.

Officials from the third rank are already the chief envoys and inspectors in the local area, and they are already regarded as big officials in the frontier.

If he was directly transferred to the capital, he would have to be promoted two levels in a row, to be a deputy capital censor in the Inspectorate, or to serve as a servant in a certain department, and he would be regarded as a central officer.

The change of officials at such a level is no longer something that can be decided by the Ministry of Officials, and the emperor must carefully consider it.

It is normal for the Jia family to be speechless.

After all... Jia's family only has a real job as a member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, who is even two levels lower than Jia Yucun.

So to the Jia family, Jia Yucun actually didn't have that much gratitude. He was originally from Kejia, and it was only natural that the imperial court rehabilitated him and made him an official again.

"Brother Lin, why don't you ask others to help?" Jia Yucun still didn't give up.

After all, Lin Ruhai has become a high-ranking official, and Jia Yucun has great benefits for him.

"Who can I ask for help?" Lin Ruhai was full of curiosity.

He doesn't want to be promoted, as long as he can be transferred from this post, he doesn't want anything else.

"Isn't the crown prince in Jinling?"

"You want me to beg the crown prince? Is it right? If the Holy Majesty finds out, wouldn't it be that I am the crown prince attached to the party!"

"This is not good for the prince, nor good for me!"

Lin Ruhai is a real person, this does not mean that he has no political wisdom, he can still handle these important matters clearly.

Jia Yucun nodded, and then said, "Perhaps...you can still ask the Thirteenth Lord for help!"

"Looking for Lord Thirteen?"

From Lin Ruhai's surprised tone, it can be seen that he is not very optimistic about this, after all, it sounds like Zhu Jinghong is unreliable.

As a member of the noble circle, although Lin Ruhai didn't have much contact with Zhu Jinghong, he had heard some anecdotes about him.

Knowing that he is a martial artist who likes to dance with spears and clubs, he has a bad reputation compared to other princes, and it can even be said to be very bad.

After all, there is no prince who will be scolded by the emperor all day long, and no one will be beaten by the court staff all the time.

"Brother Lin, don't underestimate the Thirteenth Master. If he really agrees to this matter... this matter will really be done!"

In Jia Yucun's heart, or in Jinling Wenwu's heart, Zhu Jinghong is really a man who can handle things.

If you say that you are exonerated, then you will be exempted. Although you have been punished yourself, His Majesty the Emperor will not pursue the deficit, and you must practice what you say.

So Jinling's civil and military officials remembered his affection. As for the crown prince who apparently accomplished the matter, everyone didn't feel much gratitude to him.

"Forget it……"

"Brother Lin, you..."

"Brother Jia, after finishing this errand, I plan to go home and rest!"

"Go home and rest?"

Looking at the top of the bed, Lin Ruhai sighed: "Yeah... your body is dying!"

In fact, since his wife died of illness a year ago, Lin Ruhai has lost hope in his official career.

"Brother Lin, you have such a great future, why... Sigh!"

…………

Not to mention these trivial matters in Jinling, hundreds of miles away on the border of Changzhou, fierce battles are erupting at the moment.

After a month of suppression and siege, although many Japanese pirates had been wiped out, the Japanese pirates hiding on the coastal islands continued to come ashore, which caused the number of Japanese pirates to be suppressed instead of falling.

The current situation is that more than 2 officers and soldiers have surrounded the Japanese pirates in the mountains south of Yixing.

To the south is also a mountainous area, and to the east is the waters of Taihu Lake. Both are directions where Japanese pirates can escape, so the officers and soldiers in these two directions have strengthened their guard.

Around Jingnan Mountain, the imperial army had been fortified for more than ten days, and battles broke out between the two sides almost every day.

Under Zhu Jingyuan's mentality of seeking stability, all the officers and soldiers did not take the initiative to attack, and did not dare to expand the results after winning, so they could only slowly lock the Japanese pirates in the mountains.

But on the third day of July, the situation changed a little.

Unexpectedly, a Japanese pirate army appeared from the direction of Huzhou and launched an attack on the official army defending the south.

There were only a thousand Japanese pirates in this sneak attack, and they were extremely brave in their attacks, making the guards defending here clumsy.

Just when the line of defense was about to be breached, General Qiu Hong of the Beijing Camp led troops to support him, and stabilized the line of defense.

However, only then did they discover that the purpose of these thousand Japanese pirates was to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers.

Surrounded in the encirclement, the main attack direction of the Japanese pirates was to go north, attacking the weakest point of defense of the officers and soldiers.

At this moment in Yixing County, Zhu Jingyuan was anxiously standing on the tower, waiting for the latest battle report from the front line.

"Sir, the commander of the Chuzhou Guard has asked for help twice, is he really not going to send reinforcements?" Zhu Jingyuan asked again.

"Your Highness, judging from the recent situation of suppressing Japanese pirates, these pirates have always wanted to flee to the east or south. Their purpose is to flee to the sea. How could they break through to the north..."

"The north side must be a cover-up. The most important thing is to stabilize the defense line on the south side. At the same time, we must also take care of the east side..."

Speaking of this, Gao Shuyan became more determined: "As long as the east and south are guarded, these Japanese bandits will be unable to escape. Our army only needs to besiege firmly, and we can defeat others without fighting!"

Hearing Gao Shuyan's eloquent talk, Zhu Jingyuan was a little relieved, but if Zhu Jinghong were here, he would definitely scold Gao Shuyan for talking on paper.

No, Zhao Kuo is at least still on the front line, and there is a basis for talking about war on paper, unlike the two of them hiding in the county.

Hiding in the city is fine, at this moment besides a bunch of civil servants beside Zhu Jingyuan, there are no generals to help as staff.

The commander of Jinling, Wang Quanyi, and the commander of the capital, Kong Jinshan, were sent by Zhu Jingyuan to supervise the battle.

Although he felt more at ease, Zhu Jingyuan still felt a little worried because today was different from the past.

The crowd waited anxiously for a few more minutes, but they heard a fast horse approaching in the distance, and when they approached, they knew it was a scout for the summons.

"Great victory, great victory... Qiu Hongqiu joins the generals and smashes the invading enemy!"

Hearing the sound of the scouts reporting victory, Zhu Jingyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, so he said to Gao Shu: "The enemy in the south has been defeated, let Qiu Hong go north for reinforcements on behalf of him!"

Qiu Hong's cavalry is a mobile force, mainly responsible for reinforcements, so Zhu Jingyuan immediately thought of them.

As for whether the army was tired after the battle and how to deal with the wounded, Zhu Jingyuan basically never thought about it.

This is completely an outsider commanding an insider, so Zhu Jingyuan and his staff made the generals below very uncomfortable, and they just held back their grievances.

"I think it's feasible!" Gao Shuyan replied.

"Then send someone to send orders immediately!"

The manpower was quickly arranged, and just as Zhu Jingyuan was about to drink water to relieve his fatigue, the sound of horseshoes came from a distance.

What is worrying is that this person did not call for help, making everyone on the tower think that he came to ask for help again.

The crown prince has a high status, so of course the scouts couldn't meet him. After a few breaths, the guards came up to report, and then the scholar conveyed it to Zhu Jinghong.

"His...His Royal Highness, the defense line of Chuzhou in the north, was..."

"What happened?"

"It was broken through..." The bachelor said the result with great difficulty.

"Breakthrough? Was it broken?" Zhu Jinghong asked twice, in an unbelievable tone.

After being surrounded for more than a month, seeing that victory was just ahead, his iron barrel-like encirclement was actually broken through like this?
"How? How?"

Accompanied by the roar, Zhu Jingyuan directly overturned the coffee table, and the cups and plates hit the ground with a crisp sound of shattering.

After all, he is the crown prince, the crown prince of the great empire, no matter how good his personality is on weekdays, it is really scary to get really angry this time.

All the scholars bowed their heads respectfully, not daring to make a single move.

"Mr. Gao, why? Why is this?"

Accompanied by the roar, Zhu Jingyuan's emotions had collapsed, and such a failure made him unable to face the emperor.

Even the reckless thirteenth brother can smash the White Lotus Sect in Yingtian when he is idle, so what did he, Zhu Jingyuan, do?

He came to Jinling with great power, but now he has achieved nothing, so what face does he have to meet the emperor's father?

"Heaven helps the thief...not me!"

Shouting this sentence with grief and indignation, Zhu Jingyuan was so angry that he spat out blood, and then fell directly to the ground.

(End of this chapter)