Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 642 Breaking the Ice
After the [-]th of the twelfth lunar month, most departments of the imperial court began to go into hibernation, and the household department also began to gradually close accounts, and the entire capital was shrouded in the atmosphere of the New Year.

Because she was staring at Zhao Hao's recovery, there was no other post that really wanted her to come forward, so Su Yue stayed in the mansion except for entering the second palace.

On the first day of the new year, Xie Jue didn't go to the household department, and together with Zhao Hao who was reluctant to leave, he brought everyone to see the Stove Lord.

The next day, the palace began to clean up the whole palace.

There are hundreds of people cleaning this palace every day, naturally there is no unclean place, but this is the custom of the Chinese New Year. After the new year, there is a big cleaning, window grilles, and Spring Festival couplets. The picture is auspicious and lively.

This day happened to be another rare sunny day. Early in the morning, Su Yue asked the maids in the yard to take the bedding and books outside to dry.

He himself rolled up his sleeves to paste window grilles.

It was posted in the East Wing where Zhao Hao lived, when Xie Jue came back, looked at Su Yue kneeling on the window grilles and Zhao Hao was helping her, went straight in and pulled Su Yue down, changed her clothes, took her Go to the back to get the ice.

The capital city is hot in summer and cold in winter. Usually, the ice is taken out in winter and stored in the cellar, so that it can be used in summer.

Most of the ice fetching in the capital is around the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, but Xie Jue didn't let anyone fetch ice at that time.

Instead, after it snowed, the snow with no trace of pollution was collected into ice and stored.

However, those snow and ice are stored for eating in summer, and the ice taken from the lake in the back garden today is used to cool down in summer.

The lake in the back garden of Prince Xian's Mansion is huge, with an area of ​​more than [-] mu. Xie Jue asked Che Ling to dig it deep. The deepest part is more than ten meters deep. The fish can also survive the winter.

In addition to the running water brought in from the Bian River, the water in this lake also has water flowing down from a small mountain spring on the side, and the water quality is excellent.

In today's weather, the entire lake was frozen like a large piece of ice. When Xie Jue arrived with Su Yue, a group of guards were holding tools in the middle of the lake, preparing to fetch ice.

Zhao Hao saw that posture, took off the cloak on his body, and said with a smile, "I'll go play too."

"Ah Hao!" Su Yue called out and glared at him.

"It's okay, I'm ready..." Zhao Hao threw the cloak at Ling Chuanye, looked at Xie Jue's bright face, paused for a moment, and continued: "It's too much, Doctor Kong said, if you want to exercise again Exercise, move your muscles and bones, and you will be fine when you should go back."

Xie Jue snorted angrily from his nostrils.

It's really knowing the face and the heart!
When I saw Zhao Hao before, I thought he was iron-blooded, brave, silent and resolute, but who knows that this guy's true face is a rascal!
During this period of time, he left everything to him, and when he was so busy that he was about to vomit blood, he actually stuck with Su Yue!

Why eat together, bask in the sun together, change medicine together, even Su Yue's year-end settlement with him!

Now I still want to be handsome and dig ice!

I really want to dig an ice hole and throw this bastard down!

"Yue'er, watch over here." Xie Jue first put on special felt boots for Su Yue, led her to stand beside her, then took off her cloak for Tang Bing to hold, twisted her wrist and said, "I Go make fun of it for you."

Isn't it just taking ice!Don't think it's just you!
Although we have never done it before (it is impossible for the son of a prince to do this kind of work), and we have never done it later (always in the south), but I am a genius, so there is no way!

"Be careful." Su Yue wrapped the cloak a little tighter, and smiled at the two of them.

Since Kong Miao said yes, it's okay to let them play.

Xie Jue and Zhao Hao snorted, then found their respective positions, and then called for someone to come over with tools.

Taking ice is also a technical and laborious task.

First choose a place, then draw a line, then use a sharp tool to cut into the ice layer, cut the ice layer, cut it into a square, and then use hooks to hook the four sides to lift the ice cubes out and transport them to the ice cellar on the shore go.

Seeing Zhao Hao thrust a long spear into the ice to check the thickness of the ice first, Xie Jue snorted coldly, and followed suit with a long iron rod (specially used for ice extraction) to check the thickness first, and then Some imitated how to pick up long knives to cut ice, and then imitated the guards to fetch ice.

The two of them took more than a dozen pieces of ice like a competition, and after they came out, they were already sweating profusely.

Mr. Gu, who rushed over to see the news, frowned slightly.

"My lord." Glancing at Su Yue who was protected by Tang Bing and Ling Chuanye (to keep out the wind), Mister Gu said to Xie Jue, "My lord, Prince Liu is here."

Xie Jue just finished cutting a piece of ice, when he heard his call, he stood up straight and said to Zhao Hao, "You come with me to see you."

"Why do you want me to come with you?" Zhao Hao wiped the sweat off his forehead, and gave him a cold sideways glance.

You are trying to drag me away on purpose.

"The autumn grain shipped to you this year, except for my fleet, half of the rest of the grain was transported by Liu Qi's caravan." Xie Jue took the handkerchief handed over by one of the guards and wiped his sweat: "Although the Ministry of War has put two people in, it won't be of much use in a short time. Now I only control a small part of the Ministry of Accounting. If you count on the people in the Ministry of Accounting and the Ministry of War for the spring food I'm afraid that your food is still not enough, so I told Liu Qi that after the spring, I still need his help."

"That's it." Zhao Hao handed the knife in his hand to the guard, took the handkerchief and said, "You are not just talking about food, are you? Is there also road tax?"

This year's autumn grain delivery was just shortly after Xie Jue took over the household department. At that time, the household department was still closing accounts, and the officials in the household department were in a state of resistance, so the collection of autumn grain was very weak.

Fortunately, Xie Jue had a lot of farms himself, so he found Liu Qi again, and the two together collected some more grain, and sent Liu Qi's caravan to the border town, and then he used the stolen money collected to pay for the grain, making up the shortfall part.

It's just that this is only a stopgap measure after all, if this is done every year, Liu Qi will definitely not want it.

For example, Xie Jue asked for the money he owed for food, because his stolen money was not hot enough...

And now Xie Jue has controlled the overall situation of the household department, but there are some troubles, the quantity is not enough, and his own shipping fleet can make up for it (he still has money to pay for the food anyway), but he still has to find Liu Qi's cooperation is probably related to road tax.

"That's right." Xie Jue nodded and said, "I'll let Liu Qi hide the identity of the caravan, not to mention that it's the caravan of his uncle in the country, and it's also not that it's the military rations. If someone troubles the caravan, then It would be a serious crime to find out."

Using this as an excuse, other things can be taken out together, at least, first pull out the big moth in the north.

In this way, there will be no gaps and loopholes in the northern barrier.

Zhao Hao frowned lightly and said, "Are you in such a hurry?"

With Tong Guan and Yelu Hongji watching outside, he must stick to the border.

Moreover, this year Xie Jue has set off such a big storm, killing two prime ministers and three servants at once, and then moving local officials...

"Don't worry, I won't act hastily. The military rations are just a precaution." Xie Jue said with a light smile, "Nowadays, the prices in the capital are soaring, and those officials will immediately find out about this problem, and someone will always bring it up. of."

Zhao Hao took the cloak from Ling Chuanye's hand and put it on, and said in a deep voice, "Anyway, you just take it easy, I may not be able to come back next year."

Can't come back!

Xie Jue's mood suddenly improved, took the cloak from Tang Bing's hand, and said with a smile: "So, it's okay, if something happens, I will call Chang Baicheng."

Most of Chang Baicheng's subordinates were trained by Zhao Hao, and Chang Baicheng had clearly told him that he would follow whoever Zhao Hao followed.

Zhao Hao thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Well, he can use it. In this way, I will take Rong Yu away, and with Rong Yu on my side, Duke Rong will not be too out of line."

Although Tong Guan's incident was a big mistake made by the people of the Ministry of War, in the final analysis, when Cai Bing and Tong Guan were found to be involved, it was proposed by Rong Guogong to send Tong Guan back to Beijing first, and it was still The Ministry of War sent people there, and then the Minister of the Ministry of War seconded it, which resulted in such a result.

Thinking about how popular he is now, the few things he did in the capital completely took Rong Guogong, a privy envoy, as air, and Rong Guogong's actions at that time were also understandable.

But then, Tong Guan's incident was like a big slap in the face of Rong Guogong. A few days ago, Lao Liu came over and said that Rong Shizi passed the words, saying that Rong Guogong had said it several times in private, meaning that Zhao Hao Marshal of the border, this time he returned to Beijing, he had to go to the Privy Council to explain the military situation.

It seems that Rong Guogong's resentment is not small.

Xie Jue looked at him with a smile and said, "What do you mean, you want Duke Rong to go home to recuperate if you want to lead Shizi Rong to do some meritorious service?"

Zhao Hao smiled lightly, and said, "Do you need such a thoughtful, yet incompetent person as a privy envoy?"

With the Ministry of War in place, although the Privy Council is a nominal name, it is more meaningful, but the Privy Council is still the highest person in charge of the military in name.

If the privy envoy joins forces with the military department to do something similar to this child's body a few more times, then he will be in some trouble.

Xie Jue nodded and said, "That's true."

Rong Guogong is definitely not suitable for him to be a privy envoy, but now there is no one who can take the position of a privy envoy. Besides, Rong Guogong has been the commander of the Gyeonggi Daying for so many years, and his subordinates are also powerful. Prince, replacing the position with anyone else will cause Duke Rong to retaliate.

Right now, it's really inappropriate.

"By the way, I heard that Duke Rong brought his future son-in-law into his camp?" Xie Jue took Su Yue's hand, led her back, and asked Zhao Hao.

Zhao Hao's eyes twitched, and he said, "Are you asking me about this?"

I have been cultivating myself!Shouldn't you be more aware of this outside matter?
"Your old Liu didn't tell you?" Xie Jue asked with a smile.

Don't think that I don't know that some of your men will come to meet with you the next day.

The corners of Zhao Hao's eyes twitched again, and he said: "Yes, the Qin family was originally married to the Marquis of Weiyuan. A while ago, Mrs. Marquis Weiyuan's troubles happened to be seen by Prince Qin, so she immediately divorced the engagement. Yu asked the old matriarch Rong to meet the son of Qin, and the old matriarch Rong agreed to the request of the Qin family, and the two families got married, but in this way, the Weiyuan Hou's mansion would lose face, so the son of Qin was originally booked. The post under Marquis Jin Weiyuan was gone, so Rong Yu went to find Duke Rong and asked him to arrange for him to join the Xiaoqi camp."

"Is that what you mean?" Xie Jue looked at him and smiled.

"Senior Qin is a good person." Zhao Hao said indifferently: "The Xiaoqi Battalion also needs our talents."

In the previous life, Duke Rong's mansion fell, but Duke Rong still served as the commander of Xiaoqi Battalion. However, when the Beirong people went south, Duke Rong took his cronies and ran away with the prince, and lost Xiaoqi Battalion in the capital. At that time, It was Qin Shizi who came forward to bring the remaining people.

It's a pity that those members of the Xiaoqi Battalion were really neglected in training, and they began to be defeated as soon as they fought against the Beirong people.

On the second day of defending the city, Qin Shizi died in battle at the top of the city.

This made him not remember this person very much in his previous life. It was Rong Yu's help in this life that he made friends with Qin Shizi. After talking with him a few times, he found out that this person is very talented and good at martial arts, just because of him After all, he is the son of the Hou family. He cannot join the army directly from the lowest rank of soldiers like General Jiang, but his family has declined. It is not easy to get a suitable position in the military camp. Being suppressed, there is no way to get ahead.

This time, after resolutely renouncing the marriage with the Marquis of Weiyuan, Qin Shizi actually approached him and wanted to follow him to the border. However, since he has already engaged Rong Rong, it is better to stay in the capital.

First bring out his own men in the Xiaoqi camp, and when the border is more stable, he will lead him to make two contributions, and there will be someone who will be the commander of the Gyeonggi camp in the future.

"Xiaoqi Battalion..." Xie Jue paused and said, "Now the [-]th Battalion in Gyeonggi, how many battalions can you control?"

Zhao Hao glared at him, and said with a light snort, "You have a good idea, the [-]th Battalion of Gyeonggi has always been the foundation of Rongguo Duke Weiyuanhou and Huaininghou, how can it be so easy to control!"

Although it is said that he is now leading General Jiang, Rong Shizi, and Qin Shizi to prepare for the future, but it is impossible to pull out those old people so quickly!
After pondering for a while, Zhao Hao said: "Now that the imperial guards are in the hands of Chang Baicheng, and there are troops from the Wucheng Bingmasi, as well as those from the Jingji Camp, they are not to be feared, and they don't have the guts to dare to do anything. "

In the Beijing Army, there are 5 imperial guards, and 10 soldiers and horses in the five cities. Although they are not as large as the Jingji camp, but with Zhao Hao watching from behind, as long as Chang Baicheng and Chang Ningbo block the gang Three days later, his cavalry came down.

"That's it." Xie Jue nodded, with a cold smile.

"Third Master, what's the matter?" Su Yue pulled his hand and asked.

"I met Marquis Weiyuan earlier." Xie Jue lowered his head and smiled at Su Yue, then held her hand tightly and said, "He told me that he has a beautiful girl at home, and he is willing to fight with the two battalions of troops under his command." Together, put it under the account of my Prince Xian's mansion."

Seeing the change in Su Yue's expression, Xie Jue said happily, "Of course I refused! My master said, there is only one concubine, and there are enough maidservants in the palace."

Su Yue laughed unknowingly, and after laughing, she said worriedly: "You don't have to be afraid of embarrassing Marquis Weiyuan like this..."

Xie Jue mumbled to Zhao Hao, "You didn't hear what he said, aren't you afraid?!"

Zhao Hao: o(╯□╰)o
Why did you dig a hole for me just to block the peach blossoms? !
(End of this chapter)