The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 416 Mu Zhiqing's Dowry
Mu Zhiqing put the pocket watch on her cheek, as if she could still feel His Highness's body temperature.

Suddenly the door of the room was pushed open, and a pretty little girl yelled before she came in: "Miss, I have your letter!" When she lifted the curtain, she couldn't help covering her mouth with a smile, "Hee hee! Miss, you Are you thinking about Your Highness again?"

"Snow tea?" Mu Zhiqing hurriedly put down her pocket watch, her pretty face flushed slightly, "Don't talk nonsense, where is it?"

"So I didn't want to." Xuecha waved her hand triumphantly, "Then you definitely don't want to see His Highness's letter either! I'll go and return it to the Eldest Young Master." Then she made a gesture to leave.

"Wait! Bad girl, you haven't been serious all day long!" Mu Zhiqing hurriedly jumped up and grabbed the letter, pretending to be annoyed, "Who said I don't want to read it?"

"Hmph," the little maid smiled narrowly, "I knew it!"

Mu Zhiqing carefully opened the envelope, looking at the "small script" written with a "pen" on the paper, she felt her heart beating and her pretty face was blushing.

Xuecha quietly poked her head over, "What did you say in the letter?"

Mu Zhiqing turned around and blocked the letter like an electric shock, "No peeking!"

"Oh! Good lady, tell me quickly! I am so curious!" Xuecha pretended to be pitiful, bowing and kowtowing.

This snow tea is Mu Zhiqing's maid who served Mu Zhiqing since she was a child. She is as close as a sister. The latter bit her lip and looked at the foot of the bed with her beautiful eyes, but her face was red to the bottom of her ears. "Her voice became smaller and smaller, "The palace will soon send people...to propose marriage to the family..."

"Wow! That's great!" Xuecha jumped up and down excitedly, "Miss, hurry up and write back, just say that you are waiting for the matchmaker at home every day!"

"Bah," Mu Zhiqing spat at her lightly, "How can a girl talk like that? Like I can't get married."

Even though she said so, when the little maid left, she immediately set up the pen and inkstone, took out the handkerchief in her bosom, and wrote in beautiful handwriting, "Your pass the ruler from the fish pond, and I leave the square handkerchief to express my heart. You take the square handkerchief If you look upside down, you can see that there is a thread in the horizontal direction and a thread in the vertical direction."

After finishing writing, she folded the handkerchief properly, bowed her head to think for a while, took out the paper again, and roughly wrote down the battle situation of Ergelong.Based on Zhu Linmi's strategy of cutting off the water source in Shadingzhou half a month ago, she offered advice to Mu Tianbo and asked him to prepare more laxatives and pour them into the water near Ergelong.Since then, the Ergelong Mountain has suffered unspeakably, even more than when the water was cut off. Recently, a large number of people have come down the mountain to beg for surrender.

She wrote at the end of the letter: The sand bandits will be defeated in a short time, and there will be no more wars in Yunnan. Your Highness can concentrate on the great cause of the Northern Expedition.

Then she put the handkerchief and letter into the envelope, looked east, smiled and said to herself: "Your Highness, I hope Zhiqing can relieve your worries..."

As soon as the envoy from the Assistant Government Prince's Mansion left Fujing, the Lijiang Mu Mansion got the news.

Not only was Mu Yi extremely surprised, but the whole of Yunnan was shocked—when did the imperial court take a serious look at these frontier chieftains?And now the Mu family of the Naxi nationality is going to produce a co-government king and concubine!What an honor is this? !With this precedent, wouldn't they also have the hope of integrating into the upper class of Ming Dynasty in the future?
Before the marriage proposal team, the official document from the Ministry of Officials was sent to Yunnan a few days later, saying that because of Mu Yi's meritorious service in pacifying the Shadingzhou rebellion, he was granted the title of Zhongnan Bo, hereditary.In addition, Long Zaitian, Zuo Shi, Feng Shi, Li Shi and other chieftains who participated in the suppression of the rebellion were also granted the honorary titles of second and third ranks.

Among them, there is also the instruction of Princess Chen, adding the title of Earl Mu Yi, which also makes the background of the assistant princess look better.

But neither she nor the officials expected that this move would have unexpected results.

Immediately after Mu Yi got the title, he submitted a petition to resign from his position as the prefect of Lijiang's military and civilian government, leaving only two mountains and [-] mu of land for his descendants to live in, and the other places in Lijiang should be managed by another official from the imperial court.

He could see clearly that by relying on His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince, he would be more than just an earl in the future, and the prosperity and wealth of the Mu family would be guaranteed for generations.That being the case, it is necessary to support the assistant king.

And the Mu family's most effective help to the assistant king at this time is to help him add a huge political achievement of reforming the land and returning to the local people.Compared to becoming a Marquis or even becoming a Duke like Mu Tianbo in the future, what is the small magistrate of the Mu family now?
In addition, this "big gift" in Lijiang is also counted as the daughter's dowry.

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Dorgon sat on the chair like a clay sculpture, and swept around the group of people in the Hall of Martial Arts with a sullen face.

Jierhalang, Tan Bai, Fan Wencheng, Cai Shiying, Wang Shixuan, Ma Guangyuan and other important Manchu and Han officials of the Qing court were all present, and several Tang newspapers or memorials were thrown in front of them.Coincidentally, all these bad news arrived in Beijing on the same day.

In the early morning, Tong Yang, governor of Huguang, and Jingzhou sent a memorial to ask for reinforcements in an emergency.It said that Gao Yigong, the remnants of the rebels, led more than [-] troops to storm Jingzhou day and night. Right now, there is only less than a month of food and grass left in the city, and arrows and lead ammunition are scarce. If the imperial court does not send reinforcements, the ministers will have to die with Jingzhou .

At noon, it was the news that Prince Su Hauge had fallen to Guangyuan the day before yesterday.Right now General Jingyuan is leading an army of [-] troops to retreat to Ningqiang, but the army of Xiankou is attacking extremely fiercely, and Prince Su has planned to continue to retreat to Hanzhong to hold his ground.In addition, the Chengdu and Chongqing Ming army Qin Zuoming and other ministries captured Baoning and constantly forced the bandits to go north.

The dinner time was the most "lively", and three memorials came in a row.

First, the Yunnan line reported that the rebel army in Shadingzhou had been wiped out, and Mu Tianbo led the army back to Kunming.This means that the Yunnan Ming army can go north to reinforce Sichuan at any time, and the pressure on Prince Su will be even greater.

Then there was the Shandong Emergency Report, saying that Xie Qian, a noble family in Zichuan, gathered a crowd to rebel. Although there were only four thousand soldiers and horses, their weapons and armor were extremely sophisticated.The defenders of the Green Camp in Zichuan were defeated, and the rebel army had already entered the city at noon yesterday.Sun Zhixie, the right servant of the Ministry of Rites who was visiting relatives in Zichuan, was slaughtered by all his families.

The last one is the most important one. It is to appease the governor of the south, Hong Chengchou. The Qiantang navy was defeated by the Fujian Ming army a few days ago. The commander of the navy, Kaha, and dozens of officers below were killed, and all the warships were lost. .Now nearly [-] troops of Ma Degong's troops are trapped on the south bank of Qiantang, without food and grass supplies, and are in danger.Master Hong asked the imperial court to transfer water into Hangzhou Bay as soon as possible, otherwise Ma Degong's department will be lost, and the great cause of the Southern Expedition will not be able to continue.

Seeing that everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, Dorgon suddenly slapped the table hard, his voice as cold as ice, "Are you all dumb? Talk!"

He pointed to Hong Chengchou's memorial, "Let's talk about the Jiangsu-Zhejiang war first, what to do?!"

No wonder he was angry. In the past, when he fought in the Qing Dynasty, the Han people from the green battalion stabbed Lou Zi and lost the battle, and then the Manchu soldiers went to clean up the stalls to get the military exploits.

But this time Gaha really lost a grown-up!
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