The news of the escalation of the war in Liaodong soon spread inside and outside the capital. The imperial court has to send more people to Liaodong, and one more general must be sent to the town. Although there are several Liaodong defenders, they still lack qualifications, abilities and experience, and it is enough to deal with small-scale battles, but if they really want to fight in all aspects, they may be a little difficult.

The Liaodong front, after all, is an area that has been peaceful for a long time.

In addition to Liaodong, the northern border towns also need people to guard them. The front lines of Xuanfu, Datong, Taiyuan, and Yulin have also entered a state of combat readiness, and in order to prevent the Beirong people from making unsmooth progress on the Liaodong side, they will change their ideas to fight in other directions. Fortunately, the King of Qin guarded Taiyuan, and his soldiers and civilians were effective, so there was no need to worry about it for the time being; the Yulin area was garrisoned by the children of the Ma family for many years, and it was quite peaceful; General Ma of the Ma family had been operating in Datong for many years, and now although he has left office, the iron army built in the past is still there, and the tradition of training troops has not been abandoned by his successor, so the strength is still quite sufficient; at present, it is Xuanfu, The troops of Shuozhou and other border towns are a little weaker, so they will transfer troops nearby, and if there are one or two young and strong generals in charge of the overall situation, it is estimated that it will be about the same.

Although the Beirong people have also recuperated for more than 30 years, their national strength is far from being comparable with that of the Jokhang, and they have been suffering from food shortage for many years.

Regarding the selection of generals stationed in Liaodong, the emperor and the courtiers discussed it all day, but they could not come to a conclusion. Originally, Yunyang Hou was in the prime of life, with experience, qualifications and status, he was the most suitable candidate, and he himself originally had this will, and he had already done everything that should be done, and even half of the preparations for going out had been done. It's just that because Chu Zhengfang committed an accident, the city guards were leaderless, so he could only continue to stay in office, interrupting the original plan. If you want to send him, it is certainly quite appropriate in all aspects, but what should the city guards do? Now that the chaos caused by the city guards being kicked out of the Chu family has not yet been completely resolved, and next year's Yuan Day will be the enthronement ceremony of the new monarch, and there is no room for error. At such a time, how could the chief general of the city guard army leave the capital lightly? If another outsider was found to replace the Marquis of Yunyang, who would be able to come forward?

Because the Cai family suffered a lot of grievances when Chu Zhengfang gained power, the emperor and the crown prince had some ideas to make up for them. If it weren't for the last resort, they didn't want someone other than the Cai family to interfere in the leadership of the city guards, and it would inevitably be a bit of a disadvantage to the Cai family, who were honest and untroubled, loyal to know how to advance and retreat, and bravely killed the enemy for the country.

In addition to Yunyang Hou, Marshal Yun was also a good candidate, but his daughter-in-law was the daughter of the Wang family, and she was involved in the rebellion case. Even if someone in the military department recommended him, he only said that he was old, and he was afraid that he would not be useful, and he was worried that the war would be delayed, so he promoted the Marquis of Yunyang instead.

General Ma is suitable, but his old man is not young, at the beginning of this year, in the winter, because of a moment of playfulness, he played wrestling with a few grandchildren, and accidentally twisted his waist. Although the injury is not serious, if he really wants to go out with an injury at his age, the children, grandchildren and nephews of the Ma family are not happy, and everyone is shouting that they are willing to fight on behalf of the old man. But no matter which one of them is, they don't have the weight and experience of General Ma, who can serve the public?

The general Ma who commanded the camp in western Beijing should also not leave his post lightly, and it seems that it is a little inappropriate to ask him to go. Besides, he has been stationed in Datong for a long time, and he originally had the same qualifications as the current generals in Liaodong, so if he was asked to be a commander, could he really hold the scene?

There are people in the Min family, and the qualifications of General Min are enough. It's just that the Min family has always been the only one who looks at the Cai family, and the Marquis of Yunyang doesn't say anything, so they don't speak, and they look like they obey the dispatch of the imperial court, but they embarrass others.

The imperial court has not been able to make a decision for a long time, and various gossip has been circulating throughout the capital. Some people who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic have also spread rumors, saying that more than 30 years ago, the Beirong people were terrible, and the army of this dynasty could not help them at all, and now they have all gone south, and it will not take a few days to reach the capital, so it is better to flee for your life, Yunyun. The people of Shuntianfu Yin and the city guards searched and arrested them for three days, inside and out, up and down, before they could be regarded as arresting all the people who spread the rumors, and finally blocked the source of the rumors.

It's just that after interrogation, they found that although there are also those people whose origins are unclear, it is very likely that they are spies related to the Beirong people, and most of the other people are complex, some are related to the king of Shu, the king of Ninghua, and the king of Guangchang, and some are after losing the battle for the heir more than 30 years ago. Former officials and their families who have been imprisoned or exiled for dereliction of duty and other crimes, and who have saved their lives but whose future has been ruined, and there are even many people who have been bribed with money and spread the word outside the world, regardless of the purpose of the instigator......

The emperor was furious and ordered that all those who spread rumors should be severely investigated and punished, and that they would not be tolerated. For this reason, the former Guangchang King Zhao Zhu, who was locked up in the prison of the Zongren Mansion and was almost forgotten by the world, suffered a lot. Even if he has the status of a clan, all kinds of treatment have plummeted, and he has finally fallen to the situation that a prisoner should have. As for the former Princess Ninghua and her two children, they also suffered less. She is now those old followers who hate her deceased husband deeply, and she curses them to the Buddha every morning and evening, and once she knows anyone's news, she immediately reports to the official for her blessings.

The former princess of Shu, Li, with a pair of children, hid in a small farm on the outskirts of Beijing with her mother and brothers, and passed a quiet day when she didn't listen to anything outside the window. She waited for her brother to return, so she returned to Shu with her family, and she didn't pay attention to those people outside, and she didn't plan to contact her husband's old ministry to joke, the prince of Shu was almost ruined by her, so she wouldn't be so stupid!

and the late Gu Changshi's son Gu Jiaoyu, who finally returned to the capital with his wife and children, is now completely white, and his home has been raided. However, he was still able to keep some of his belongings, his wife and children were safe, and his family was neat, and he was not implicated and lost his life, and he was already satisfied. They did not enter the imperial city, but rented a small courtyard near the Zhuangzi where their parents once bought in Tongzhou, guarded their parents' graves, and began to observe filial piety. Gu Jiaoyu plans to open a small school, teach a few Mengtong, and chat to make a living, what ambitions and career prospects are already in the past.

After three days of consultations, the emperor finally issued an order to determine the commander of the Liaodong War. In the end, Yunyang Hou was still entrusted with a heavy responsibility. As for the position of the commander of the city guard, he was temporarily deputized by General Min, and Cai Shizi was promoted to deputy. At the same time, Yunyang Hou will also take a group of children of the Cai family and the Min family to Liaodong and put them into the battlefield. This was about the last time that the Marquis of Yunyang led the army to preside over the war, and he himself attached great importance to it, as well as to the emperor and courtiers. Just in case, General Ma Lao still took his son and nephew to Xuanfu, and General Ma also brought half of the men and horses with General Ma to assist the Marquis of Yunyang to block the Beirong people from going south.

After the Marquis of Yunyang received the decree, he set off the next day. The emperor and the crown prince personally sent him out of the imperial city, considering that the royal honor guard was too troublesome and would delay the pace of the army, and both father and son stopped at the city gate. Seeing that Yunyang Hou led the army and quickly disappeared at the end of the avenue, their minds were full of trust and expectations for Yunyang Hou.

Qin Hanzhen was a little worried about Cai Yuanzhen's mother and daughter, and it was inconvenient to visit, so he privately sent someone to Cai Yuanzhen to send a consolation letter and seasonal snacks to eat. Cai Yuanzhen was very calm. Although she had not sent her father on an expedition since she was born, her grandmother, mother, and aunts were all familiar with it. She watched the elders calmly respond, and she quickly calmed down. The son of Jiangmen, the battlefield is the place where they repay their losses, at most it is just a horse leather shroud. She believed that her father would be able to return triumphantly.

Cai Yuanzhen replied, thanked Qin Hanzhen for her care, and apologized to her. Originally, he said that he would find time to get together again, but now that the Marquis of Yunyang is on the expedition, there are endless people from all walks of life to inquire about the news, and the people from the Marquis of Yunyang Mansion and the side branches of the Cai family have closed their doors one after another, and Cai Yuanzhen can only miss the appointment, so he naturally wants to apologize to Qin Hanzhen.

How could Qin Hanzhen be angry about such a trivial matter? In fact, she also discovered that there was new gossip in the capital. After the crown princess was funeral and officially buried in the imperial mausoleum, not everyone's attention was attracted by the war in Liaodong. There are still many people, especially the ladies of high-ranking families or official eunuchs, who are interested in the choice of the prince's stepwife.

Now that the crown prince's filial piety period has not yet passed, it is estimated that the crown prince will not be able to remarry within the year, so if he wants to continue the string in the future, it should be next year, and he will marry the queen directly. Since the founding of the Jokhang Empire, it is the first time that a woman has been welcomed directly into the palace from the Jokhang Gate and has become the lord of the six palaces. What a great honor this is? I can't even enjoy the crown prince's yuan and concubine!

Many eunuchs with daughters are starting to move. Everyone thinks that after the crown prince ascends the throne, it will not take long to be crowned queen, because although Chen Liangyuan is pregnant, it is not known whether the man is a woman or not, and the family background is obviously not qualified, it is good to be a concubine, and it is impossible to be a queen. Except for her, there was no one in the prince's backyard. Which family will the new queen choose? Will she want a famous lady, a noble daughter, or a relative of the emperor? If the crown prince is like the emperor and thinks that his relatives should not be powerful, then it is also possible to choose from a small family or a low-ranking official's family! If his own family can produce a queen, what kind of benefits can it bring to the family? Just look at the Qin family. One family, two princes, the supreme saint of two generations of emperors, even if there are no high-ranking officials, what is it?

The dark tide in the circle of officials and relatives in the capital is surging, and even people like Qin Hanzhen who love to be lazy and don't like to socialize have noticed it, let alone those who are already ambitious? 2k reading web