Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 249 Returning East

Although the signing of Aobo's "Chang'an Treaty" had no impact on the people of Daqi, it was a huge event for the imperial court.

In particular, Jinshang was keen on restoring Da Qi's international reputation. When he heard that the treaty was signed, the emperor cheered even more than the Ottoman envoys.

Therefore, all the officials including Li Yi and Jia Hui were rewarded.

".Your life is blessed!"

"Thank you for your honor, Your Majesty!"

In the main hall of the Duke's Mansion, after the eunuch Dai Ming read the entire imperial edict in a mellow tone, the solemnity on his face instantly collapsed and was replaced by a friendly smile.

"Hey, General, what you did this time is really beautiful. When the Holy One knew about it, Long Yan was so happy that he rewarded everyone in the camp with ten taels of silver on the spot!" Dai Ming said to Jia Hui with a smile.

Although Dai Ming was not Jia Hui's old subordinate, when he met Jia Hui, the most valuable thing about Jia Hui was the title of General Sima, so there was no problem for Dai Ming to call him General Jia Hui. He was an old subordinate of Jia Hui. Xu Le didn't have anything to say at the scene.

Dai Ming has been promoted like a rocket in the past two years. When we first met, he was just a sixth-grade eunuch in the prison district. If he hadn't been Dai Quan's godson, Jia Hui wouldn't have even taken a look at him. his.

However, on the eve of Jia Hui's Northern Expedition, he was transferred to Linzi, the eastern capital, to manage the military affairs department. A year later, the remaining eunuch in Linzi retired and returned to his hometown, so Dai Ming took over as the left-behind eunuch in the eastern capital.

The person who contributed the most was definitely his godfather Dai Quan.

But Dai Ming was able to stand out among Dai Quan's many adopted sons and gain Dai Quan's favor, and his own skills were certainly not weak.

No, just last month, this guy successfully defeated his two rivals who returned to Beijing - the left-behind eunuchs of Peking and the left-behind eunuchs of Nanjing. He successfully returned to Dauchi and took charge of the capital eunuch, ranking among the twenty-fourth palm seal. Among the eunuchs.

"It's absolutely true, the reward from the Holy One is simply so considerate!" Jia Hui said with some emotion.

Generally speaking, you, as a minister, should accept whatever the emperor rewards you. The emperor is a typical example of this type of emperor.

But it is different now. He will give the rewarded courtiers what they need most at the moment.

Take Li Yan as an example. The reward he received was to give his eldest son the title of baron!

Although the title of a baron is not worthy of Li Yan, the chief minister of the cabinet, it is actually just right!

According to the rule left by Taizong, since the death of the last founding civil servant with a title, "the one with a title will be ranked in the military class". Once a civil servant has a title, he must be converted into a military officer, even if he is the chief assistant. exception.

For Li Yan, the family's lack of support is the most troublesome thing. Now, the emperor directly awarded his eldest son a title. This did not harm the current interests, but also gave the Li family wealth for at least five generations!

Jia Hui felt that even if the emperor now asked him to blow up the bunker with explosives in his hands, Li Yan would not have any objections.

"So, when will the new equipment for me and the Suzaku Cavalry be distributed?" Jia Hui asked excitedly.

"Haha, don't worry, General. Luoyang's war situation is being built now. Maybe when the Second Saint returns to the capital of God, new equipment will be built!" Dai Ming explained quickly.

Money is just a number to Jia Hui. Unless gold is placed in front of him, he will not be so moved with tens of millions of taels of silver in his hands.

Title? The current Duke of Dunhuang, Jia Hui, is very comfortable, and the position of Duke earned by real swords and guns is what Jia Hui longs for. Fortunately? Jia Hui dismissed it.

Therefore, rebuilding a batch of equipment for him and his direct army, the Suzaku Cavalry, from head to toe, from horse head to horse tail, would make Jia Hui happy and serve as a reward.

The two of them were joking and then sat down on the chair and started chatting.

"Oh my, life goes by so fast. A few months passed in the blink of an eye, and everyone ran from Jiubian to Qiongzhou." Dai Ming sighed with emotion.

"Yes, it's finally over. After working hard for more than half a year, the brothers can finally go home and rest." Jia Hui agreed.

"After what happened, those Jianghu people who survived should be honest, right?" Dai Ming reached out to take the tureen handed over by the maid, opened the lid and smelled the tea, and said to Jia Hui with a smile. .

"But can the lessons of more than 60,000 lives be ignored? I just don't understand. Da Qi's expedition to the desert and the Northern Expedition to the Remaining Yuan Dynasty shocked the world. At that time, a certain family had just wiped out the White Lotus Sect, and it was the people who led it. With the might of a great victory, how come those Jianghu people are so courageous that they dare to attack even an organized army?" Jia Hui looked puzzled.

Although all the people involved, including their sects, had gone to the underworld neatly, Jia Hui still didn't understand why they were so bold.

It wasn't even just an attack on the army, because the large army when Banshi returned to the court was still guarding hundreds of millions of taels of silver to be sent to the national treasury and the internal funds of the Second Saint, so the group of Jianghu people also had "attempted robbery of the national treasury" and " Trying to steal money from the Second Saint" are two serious crimes.

Especially the serious crime of trying to rob the two saints' internal funds, this is the biggest reason for Ma to step into the world!

Furthermore, how could tens of thousands of ragtag soldiers dare to confront the 3,000 Qi most elite cavalry troops who even had hundreds of armored cavalry?

If there were more contacts than that person, Daqi would have unified the world long ago!

"Hey, although the general gained his merits by fighting on the battlefield, he grew up in a wealthy family after all. If you want to read any military books, Ningrong and his two houses have them. Even if they don't, Old Rongguo can hand them over at any time. If you go to the palace to look for the sign, how can you know how precious the military book is?" Dai Ming smiled and gave Jia Hui a yin and yang without any scruples.

After hearing this, Jia Hui was not upset. Instead, he looked at Dai Ming and expressed his willingness to hear the details.

If you don't know the details, I'll beat you to death!

"This ordinary general can pass it down to his family just by having a military book, but it may not be a good military book, and it may not be suitable for him!

It's obviously a material for studying the situation of soldiers, but there is only one book in hand that teaches soldiers Yin and Yang. If you learn, you will waste your talent, and you may not learn anything famous. But if you don't learn, you will be a top soldier for the rest of your life? So should we study or not?

A general like this, let alone a group of people from ordinary people like Jianghu people, who can recognize all commonly used words is considered a rare talent. Even if two sects are fighting, it will be resolved by martial arts. If two or three people can cooperate, it will be a top-notch battle formation. As for the proper way to fight? Those who knew would have joined the army long ago! "

"Whatever," Jia Hui replied to Dai Ming without interest.

Everyone has been killed anyway, so there is no need to worry about these things anymore.

"But speaking of these Jianghu people, General, do you still remember that eunuch Zhang from Dongchang?" Dai Ming approached Jia Hui with great interest.

"I have a profound memory. It disgusted me to death! When I saw him, the flesh on his head had rotted and was covered with maggots. But it disgusted me and Dai Gong once. What, did this person find a problem?" Jia Hui recalled. That picture feels a bit disgusting.

Although he is used to seeing life and death, and he is also a general who kills many people, the battlefields of the wars he participated in were all handled very well. The corpses were buried early, and he had never seen a corpse with such a high degree of decay.

"Hehe, to tell you the truth, since that incident, my godfather has been secretly investigating whether there is any secret in this matter, but nothing has been found for several months. Originally, my godfather was ready to close the case. , guess what?" Dai Ming looked at Jia Hui expectantly.

"Look at what you said. Since you have turned around, of course you have found out something. Stop talking nonsense and talk about the key points!" Jia Hui rolled his eyes at Dai Ming, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip into his mouth.

"Okay, okay, long story short, long story short. It's like this. With your relationship with my godfather, General, you must know the dirty things about our prisoners."

"Key point!" Jia Hui's eyes gradually became dangerous.

"Private house! To be precise, it's the cook of the eunuch's private house!" Seeing that Jia Hui seemed to be going crazy, Dai Ming quickly skipped all the clutter and refined the key points.

It stands to reason that he, who has become a great eunuch, or the adopted son of the ancestor of the entire Da Qi eunuch world, should not be afraid of Jia Hui, but who let the two saints regard Jia Hui as their descendant?

Moreover, his godfather prefers Jia Hui, whom he watched growing up, compared to himself, and Jia Hui also has an inexplicable respect for his godfather.

Where is the logic in this?

Can't afford to offend, can't afford to offend.

"Cook? Whose?" What was Dai Ming thinking about? Jia Hui didn't care at all and continued to ask.

Suspected of beating the prince to death!

At that time, his outspokenness and righteousness directly saved Jia Hui's life.

So what if Dai Quan is an eunuch? Jia Hui respects him like a parent!

This is true love exchanged for sincerity. People like De Ming who are attached to the past because of power will not understand!

"King Xiaoshen!"

"Who?" Jia Hui was confused. "Prince Xiaoshen, the youngest son of Grandpa Taizu, the youngest brother of Grandpa Taizong!"

"Ah!" Jia Hui remembered.

Although almost everyone in the Chen royal family lived in the capital, and they were all ruined by the six remnants of Prince Ru, the Chen family was a big family, and they had lived in fine clothing and food for four generations. Naturally, some people escaped that situation. Jie, this King Xiaoshen is one of them.

There is no other reason than that he was left behind in the Eastern Capital. When he passed by Linzi when he moved the capital, Jia Hui even toasted him!

Daqi is called the Five Capitals, but in fact only two places are the imperial capitals.

The three cities of Chang'an, Peiping and Jinling are called companion capitals. In fact, they are all ranked in the same level. There is no essential difference from the royal palaces and gardens across the country. The only difference is that these three cities have old buildings. The palace was simply used as a residence, and at most it was called "Da Xing Zai", no more.

The capital is Luoyang, and Linzi, as the place of Longxing, the base camp for the six years of the uprising, and the hometown of Taizu, naturally became the eastern capital.

The three capitals of Chang'an, Peiping and Jinling are only large towns, so they only need to be guarded by nobles. However, Linzi is different. Linzi is a serious "capital", so Taizu set the rules and sent princes or princes to personally guard.

King Xiaoshen was the lucky one.

"Then what's the relationship between this cook and him?" Jia Hui became interested and asked quickly.

"Actually, it's a coincidence that Eunuch Zhang's cook and the mother of King Xiaoshen's concubine a few years ago are biological sisters. My godfather also checked it out. It's indeed a coincidence.

That eunuch Zhang was from Linzi, and the cook was also recruited from there. Maybe the concubine told this matter as a joke to King Xiaoshen, which made King Xiaoshen think about it, so he got in touch with Eunuch Zhang through the cook.

At first, Eunuch Zhang did not dare to contact him, but for several years, King Xiaoshen only used him to inquire about the emperor's current situation and recent preferences, so as to collect some good things to honor the emperor. Eunuch Zhang gradually got used to it. The relationship between them gradually improved. "

"Is there a problem with King Xiaoshen?" Jia Hui suddenly asked.

"We haven't found any problems so far." Dai Ming said cautiously.

"Based on King Xiaoshen's usual style and character, he probably got greedy when he heard that hundreds of millions of taels of silver were shipped to Luoyang, including tens of millions of yours.

He dare not touch the money of the imperial court and the two princes, but this is not necessarily the case for you, the junior. So he instigated Eunuch Zhang, hoping that his subordinates from Dongchang would take advantage of the Jianghu people to attack you, lend a helping hand, and repay the favor, hoping to take some money from you."

After hearing this, Jia Hui was speechless for a while.

He went around in such a long circle just to deduct two dollars from himself in a way of "repaying a favor"?

hiss.

"This King Xiaoshen is really brilliant." Jia Hui racked his brains but couldn't find a word that could accurately describe him.

And deduct some money to spend.

flower!

I'm afraid I'm really confused!

"Then does the emperor know about this?" Jia Hui did not ask the emperor if he knew. After all, King Xiaoshen was too senior and he was the only surviving son of Taizu. Even if the emperor knew about it, he would still be numb.

"Of course the saint knows it, and you also know the reason. It's really hard to punish him!" Dai Ming sighed, looked at each other with Jia Hui, and smiled bitterly at the same time.

"That's all. King Xiaoshen is in his late seventies and almost eighty, not even a few years old. Let him let this matter go."

The two looked at each other in silence again

. . . . . .

In September and October of the seventh year of Tiansheng, Guanzhong was full of farewell.

Naturally, the first to leave was the heartbroken Persian mission. They left only the deputy envoy and about twenty attendants, who stayed in the small courtyard of Honglu Temple in Luoyang, and left singing desolate songs.

The Ottoman mission followed, leaving two days after the Persian mission. However, the Ottomans did not leave a mission like the Persians. The reason was that it was too far away and was completely unnecessary. Especially after the signing of the "Chang'an Treaty", the Persians must have hated the Ottomans. I am afraid that not even the merchants will be able to do so. Dare to come to Daqi via Persia to do business.

The imperial court is also leaving Chang'an.

There is no way, Chang'an is too short of supplies in winter, and no matter how hard it sucks blood subsidies from elsewhere, there will still be pressure to survive. And if it continues like this in winter, it won't be whether Kansai will rebel, but whether the whole country will. It’s a matter of rebellion!

On October 18th, the seventh year of Tiansheng's birth, Emperor Qi returned to the east.

Just like when they arrived, the honor guard stretching for dozens of kilometers beat gongs, drums and suonas, and headed towards Luoyang in a lively manner.

In the rear, in a four-seater carriage of the Taiwei's ceremonial guard, Jia Hui's family of five sat around the small stove in the center of the carriage, making hotpot and eating.

Yes, five.

Jia Hui, Li Wan and his wife, Xiaoyanei's family of three, Aunt Rakshasa Yelena, and Wu Chan, the master of the Jiaofang Department, have a family of five.

The Wu family finally got through the gate of Dunhuang County Duke's Mansion as they wished.

"Master, this is a bride coming in and returning to Luoyang. Why is she still crying? Could it be that she dislikes Sister Chan for not being pretty enough?" Seeing Jia Hui absentmindedly picking at the meat slices in the bowl, her depressed mood disturbed the mood of the people at the table. , as a doctor, of course Li Wan had to take care of it, so there was a strange atmosphere of yin and yang.

"Ah, it's nothing, just some bad business." Jia Hui was awakened by Li Wan's words. He shook his head and threw away the information sent from North Korea and Liaodong. He picked up the bowl and took a few mouthfuls to eat the meat slices in the bowl. Show it all into your mouth.

The ministers and pro-Qi faction of North Korea were finally bothered by Jiang Huan and prepared to launch a coup to kill the crown prince of North Korea.

It's just that this matter was done too roughly. When the prince of Joseon found out, he took the initiative and took action, catching them off guard and almost annihilating their entire army!

If Jiang Huan hadn't led the envoy and three thousand elites to break out and go to Pyongyang, the new King of Korea would have no team!

Thinking of this, Jia Hui put down the bowl and chopsticks, stood up bent over, walked to the window amidst the doubts of his wives and concubines, opened the curtain, and waved to Hu Jiu to come to him.

"Go and talk to Mr. Li Ge, the crown prince of Joseon. No, the traitor from Korea has not survived Jiang Huan and has taken action! We can send the Korean monarch in the envoy group ahead to Pyongyang City."

After hearing Hu Jiu's promise and walking away, Jia Hui was still worried.

Jia Zhu was chopped with a knife!

I have a high fever now and I don’t know if I can survive it!

Ugh.

Although the relationship between Jia Hui and his second wife is very bad, Jia Zhu is an exception. They are brothers who grew up together!

"Oh, Grandpa, please wish Brother Zhu to come back safely!" Jia Hui faced the sun, clasped his hands and muttered something.

Jia Hui, who had never been interested in gods and Buddhas, finally gave in and began to beg his grandfather.

"Master, the meat is cooked!"

After finishing his last sentence, Jia Hui took a deep breath, readjusted his attitude, and returned to his usual careless demeanor.

"coming!"

After lowering the hastily rolled up curtains, Jia Hui returned to his seat with a face filled with anticipation. He stretched out his chopsticks and fished out a lot of meat.

　This volume is over!

　　The next volume will be a few years later.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)