After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 47 Suppression
The weather is getting warmer.

The wilderness outside Suzhou City seemed to be covered with a layer of green overnight.The originally gloomy sky also began to have sunshine.However, the good weather with blue sky and white clouds had only lasted for two days when wind and sand swept through. The yellow sand covered the sky and the earth for a while. In half a day, the whole yard turned gray.

Mr. Ma cursed a few times, then put on his old clothes, covered his head and face with a cloth, took a broom with his own hands, and took a family of children and servants to clean up and down the house to clean up the sand and soil.Except for Hai Xiya who brought his cousin Xie Wenzai and his grandson Hai Jiao to the Weisuo Yamen for business, no one else in the family was idle.Even the two guests, Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian, covered their faces and swept the dust on their windowsills with short brooms.

Mrs. Ma saw the two of them busy across the yard, so she discussed in a low voice with Aunt Cui. When buying or hiring people, should there be a bookboy for each of the two gentlemen?Although they can also command the servants of the Hai family, the Hai family themselves don't have enough people to handle them now, let alone two distinguished guests?In addition, since grandson Haijiao is running around all day long, he should be given a mature and stable follower, so that he will not always think about catching spies.

Furthermore, Hai Changan and his wife also need more help.Mrs. Hu took care of her son and waited on her husband at the same time. It was so hard that she became haggard.Although Aunt Cui and Jin Guo can help, they still have to do housework.Hai Changan and Hu are both easy-going people, but mothers are not considerate of their son and wife.

In addition to adding more manpower, Mrs. Ma also remembered what her husband Hai Xiya had said before, saying that after the weather got warmer, there was no need to burn the kang at night, so she could clean up the west wing of the third courtyard and move her granddaughter Haitang. past.When you clean up a new house, you also need to buy new furniture, right?
When Hai Xiya returned home in the evening, Ma told him about adding people and building furniture.

Hai Xiya looked a little absent-minded and said casually: "You can make the decision about the furniture. As for buying people, the city may be in chaos for a while, and I don't know whether the people are reliable. If you are in a hurry to hire people, hire them first. A few military family members are back to work, and we will wait until things calm down outside."

Ma was surprised: "What happened? Didn't you hear that there was trouble in the city?"

Haixi Ya paused: "The old Hu king is dead. There was some trouble before his death. Maybe some Hu people will flee to Dachu. There are also several groups of immigrants from Guasha and Shazhou who want to enter the city. Who knows? Who is involved inside? It’s better to be cautious.”

Ma asked hurriedly: "Is the old Khan really dead?"

Hai Xiya nodded: "The caravan sent by the Zhou family to the west has returned. They were stranded on the way due to the Suzhou war. Later, they heard that the old Khan was seriously ill and summoned his relatives and generals to go to the king's tent, so they stayed on purpose. They inquired about the news for several days. When they had accurate information, they set off back. They entered the city last evening and reported the news to General Wednesday overnight. "

Ma recited a Buddhist sentence: "You can wait until he dies. This man is too capable of living." Her mood suddenly improved, and she didn't care that the purchase of the person did not go well.If you can't buy people, it's the same with hiring people.The key is that if the old Khan King dies, Suzhou will be at peace for several years!
While Hai Xiya and his wife were talking privately, Hai Jiao also called his sister Haitang into the east wing and told her about the death of the Huren Old Khan.

Hai Jiao said: "The caravan told the exact date, and it turned out to be five days before the sandstorm! The caravan encountered a sandstorm on the road, and it was delayed until yesterday before returning to Suzhou. When I heard the news, I thought I heard it wrong."

The death date of the old Khan King was several days apart from the sandstorm.Now, no one will be so shameless as to say that God was mourning the death of the old Khan King, so the sandstorm just broke out, right?
Haitang blinked and said with a smile: "So, the old King Khan lived five days less than in his previous life? Is it because the third prince of Hu Ren was captured by our Da Chu and the old King Khan was hit, so he died five days earlier? ?"

Hai Jiao laughed and said, "Maybe that's the reason." He was happy in his heart. He felt that he reported the news to the Suzhou Guards and helped the guards to protect Suzhou City and captured the third prince of Hu Ren. It was really It made up for the biggest regret in my previous life.

Although he had no direct enmity with the old Hu king in his previous life, if the latter had not instigated him, the third prince would not have led troops to attack Suzhou, and his family would not have been destroyed and he would not have become a slave.In this life, he saw the third Hu Ren prince being captured, the spy and the horse ranch owner being captured, and even the old Khan King died a few days ago. Not to mention how happy he was in his heart, as if a great revenge had been avenged.Of course, the current situation on the Hu people's side is not entirely satisfactory.

He said to his sister with some regret: "The news came back from the caravan that the old barbarian king was about to die, but he was shrewd for a while. He knew that he had done evil before and promoted his nephew too much, which made Uncle Wang and The power and military strength of the third prince surpassed that of Queen Khan and his younger son. Now he can only pass the throne to his younger son. Uncle Wang has too much power, which is not conducive to the stability of the throne of his own flesh and blood. Therefore, he took advantage of the opportunity While he was still alive, he dealt a cruel blow to Uncle Wang..."

According to the information heard privately by the caravan, the old Khan King summoned all the princes, nobles, civil and military ministers to the big tent under the pretext of deciding who would be the Khan. However, he took the opportunity to put Uncle Wang and his confidants under house arrest, and found an excuse to put them under house arrest. Some of the soldiers and horses under his command were given to other powerful princes, and some of their properties were also transferred there. They even acted as matchmakers to arrange several marriages for the children of these important ministers, and required them to get married on the same day without delay, saying that it was He wanted to see his beloved juniors get married and start a business before he died...

In fact, this is to weaken the strength of Uncle Wang's faction, and to use his close relatives and children as hostages, threatening them not to harm Queen Khan and the little prince.

Haitang had wondered before, why when the Hu scouts saw Da Chu sending a large number of troops to escort the third Hu prince to Ganzhou, why did they not notify the large troops to rescue him, but only two scout teams went up?

It turns out that the scouts didn't know that their numbers were too small and there was little hope of saving people, but they knew that they couldn't recruit a large group of people.

Uncle Wang and the third prince and concubine of the Hu people had already deployed their troops and generals, so they prepared spies to pass the news back and immediately sent troops to rescue the people.But the old Khan suddenly suppressed Uncle Wang's faction, so it was naturally impossible for him to have the opportunity to mobilize troops at this critical moment.

Among Uncle Wang's subordinates, those who can make the decisions are basically under house arrest with him in the big tent. The rest are small leaders who go to the battlefield to kill the enemy but cannot command his army.

The leaders of the two scout teams were all minor nobles under Uncle Wang.The order issued by the old Khan King has seriously affected their interests. Their children are even going to be married to the sons of their enemies. How can they not be anxious?
They believed that all this was due to the absence of the third prince.As long as the third prince can rush back in time, the old Khan King will pass the throne to him, and everything that happens now will not count.The old Khan King said more than once that the third prince was the one who could inherit his will. That was why the third prince sent troops to attack Suzhou City in order to prove his ability to the Old Khan King.If he hadn't been captured by Da Chu, how could it be the young prince's turn to inherit the throne of the old Khan?

With this idea in mind, the scout team simply took the risk and became prisoners.

Hai Jiao said: "The news from Ganzhou is that some of these prisoners have finally spoken. Their confessions are consistent with the information obtained by the caravan, so they should be true. It's a pity that they all made wrong calculations, Lao The Khan King has passed the throne to the Young Khan King. Without the third prince, nothing will happen, and even Uncle Wang and his group suffered a big loss."

It is a pity that the side of the Little Khan King has the upper hand, and I am afraid that the barbarians will not be able to fight among themselves.

Haitang raised her eyebrows: "But... won't the old Khan arouse public outrage by doing this?"

(End of this chapter)