Chapter 183: Minister?

Wenren Aqian led the men and horses all the way, he was still injured, and he was not lightly ill, but he still had to sit in the carriage to deal with various military affairs.

The adjutant general looked at the sky, hit his horse, approached the window of the car and whispered: "General, we can go back soon, and when the time comes, we will attack Qizhou with the king, and we will definitely go down in one fell swoop......"

"Ahem......"

Hearing this, Ah Qian coughed softly a few times and nodded, "Well, explain to the brothers, hurry up in the starry night, and don't stop." ”

He wasn't really in a hurry, but he had some regrets.

This time he went straight to Fangzhou, he really thought that the eldest brother Wenren Ying could take the opportunity to seize the Hong Dynasty in one fell swoop, of course, he also knew that this possibility was very small, but it was just to take this opportunity to show force and make the eldest brother more prestigious.

At first, he didn't think that he could really take the state.

There are several brothers next to him, they don't understand why they want to give up Fangzhou so simply, if they insist, wait until the eldest brother captures Qizhou, the army goes south, and the two sides converge, why be afraid?

Wenren Ah Qian is not a reckless man without self-knowledge.

General Pingxi, the national surname Wu Qi led an army of 100,000 straight to Fangzhou, as soon as he got the news, he didn't see the shadow of the Hong Dynasty army at all, so he set off and left in the starry night, and he didn't plan to fight with Wu Qi, this was discussed with the eldest brother before he came, and their original purpose was not to get Fangzhou now, as long as they could take Qizhou.

"There has never been a reason why the eldest brother wants to do it, and he must have succeeded now."

Hearing this, Ah Qian lifted the curtain and glanced ahead, but he didn't encounter any strong resistance along the way. Three more days. They will be able to go to Qizhou.

I hope to see the city head of Qizhou. The golden wolf flag of Ulin has been raised.

The curtain made of bamboo had not yet fallen, and the sky suddenly darkened, the wind and sand were rising, the north wind was howling, and in an instant the fog rose, and the front and back looked at each other, and it was almost impossible to see the faces of the people in front of them.

Hearing this, Ah Qian was stunned and turned his head suddenly.

That used to give him nightmares. What kept him awake all night, the mountain chief of the strange academy, sat opposite him, his throat seemed to be cold, gurgling, he wanted to speak, but he couldn't make a sound at all - didn't it take a long time to arrange the formation? How could he be so fast? How could he find himself?

In an instant, a lot of things shook in front of Ah Qian's eyes.

The turquoise prairie, herds of cattle and sheep. Although Ardor is not delicate, she has healthy and shiny skin. And his favorite horse, I wonder if Brother Lu Dao will be sad?

He thought that he was not afraid of death, he thought that he was the warrior of Wulin, and when he needed it, he would face death, but he didn't expect that he thought at this time, how good it would be if he could live, only by living, could he get everything he wanted, and he also wanted to return to Wulin, watch Wulin walk out of the grassland again, and get this great river and mountain......

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When Wu Qi received the news from the sentry, he thought that someone was joking with him.

His military horse has not yet arrived in Fangzhou, and he is worrying in his heart, how to get the national capital back with minimal losses, this is not easy!

When Fangzhou was first built, it was to resist the barbarians, and it took a lot of effort, the city walls were high and thick, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and this was his own territory, even if he damaged some flowers and plants, he had to feel distressed, and he was worried about the situation in the capital, so he couldn't help but worry - it was easy to drive away that small group of barbarians, and if he exterminated it, it was not difficult, but it was difficult, how much price he was willing to pay!

The ancestor of the national surname has the merit of the dragon, and was given the national surname by Emperor Taizu, and the family is loyal, and in the generation of Wu Qi, it is also a loyal royalist.

The barbarians knocked on the pass, Fangzhou was occupied, he was not well-informed, and he delayed his work, but as soon as he knew the way, he first took someone to rescue him, and arranged the little emperor Wu Mi properly, and then went straight to the national capital, all the way to the country, all the way to see the scorched earth, closer and closer to Fangzhou, he became more and more nervous.

Unexpectedly, just now, someone sent a message, and also stamped a private seal of Wu Mi, saying that the group of Wulin who occupied Fangzhou had been trapped and were just waiting for him to arrest someone.

Wu Qi didn't believe it, but he was willing to take a look.

Two groups of spies were sent over, and sure enough, they saw a small number of barbarians killed or wounded, but the most important leaders were among them, and the other soldiers probably fled in confusion.

As a last resort, he could only believe in this pie in the sky.

Wu Qi's men and horses divided a part to pursue, and it took half a day to finally capture or kill all the invading barbarians, and the other group of men and horses returned to Fangzhou with him.

The situation in Fangzhou is terrible.

Wu Qi sighed in his heart, but this was much better than he had imagined, at least the streets had been cleaned, the ruins had been cleaned up, and new shacks had been erected on the site of the burned houses.

Although the common people are grieving, they are in good order and there is no chaos.

Many of the officers and soldiers defending the city died, and many survived, and they have been maintaining order.

"The garrison of the capital, if it is or, it can be punished."

The barbarian easily attacked the city gate, and the garrison would die, but if he had a merit in stabilizing the capital, he could also intercede for him a little.

Wu Qi locked up all the captives he brought back, and then quickly sent people to inform His Majesty to prepare to welcome His Majesty back to the palace, and then urgently dispatched men and horses to relieve the siege of Qizhou.

And what's worse is that there is not much food in Qizhou, and the people here are still waiting for relief, so they can only urgently allocate it from other places, but fortunately there is no shortage of money now.

Fangzhou was plagued, but the loss was still within the controllable range, those people who were plundered by the barbarians, and the gold, silver and jewelry that were taken away, are now all returned to Wu Qi in one go, presumably the family family will not be able to take it back.

Wu Qi is still upright, and he will definitely intercept this wealth himself, but the bulk of it still has to be put into the treasury, and it is also the proper meaning of the question to buy grain and grass and build weapons.

He moves neatly.

On the second day, Wu Mi returned to the capital smoothly.

Come back and see - most of the palace has been burned, people have almost died, the prosperous capital has become even more miserable than the countryside, and Wu Mi's tears are flowing down.

Turning his head and entering the Taimiao Temple, he knelt down to ask the ancestors for their guilt, but fortunately, there was still some bottom line on the barbarians' side. The mausoleum of the Hong Dynasty royal was not destroyed. There was no disturbance to the ancestors. Otherwise, Wu Mi would have to be angry.

The chores in the capital can be done slowly, and Wu Mi is most concerned about Qizhou now.

But things always go in the worst direction.

Wu Zong, the king of letters, committed suicide half a month ago, and before he died, he sent a letter backβ€”β€”, to the effect that Qizhou was besieged for two months. The city was cut off from water and food, the common people were easy to eat, the sergeants pulled the grass to satisfy their hunger, and even the grass roots and bark were almost eaten up. If you hear that Renying is willing to give the people of Qizhou a way to live, and will not prevent them from leaving. Those who were willing to stay were willing to provide food and grass, and he surrendered.

Wu Mi read the letter, and the whole person was stupid.

The meaning of Wu Zong's words is that Tong Lin really surrendered to the Wulin barbarians.

It's a big joke!

Wu Mi was furious, and when the exact news came, he heard that Renying had occupied Qizhou, and was gathering a large army to suppress the border, preparing to go south to attack Fangzhou again.

"In my opinion, General Pingxi's army should be ordered to go out immediately, and the barbarians must be driven out of Qizhou."

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Now that the country is withering and there are disasters everywhere, if you want me to say, it is better to negotiate peace, and the barbarians just want to beg for some money to live, and we can't afford it. ”

Many ministers still prefer to spend money on peace.

There is also a pile of mud, and it is particularly lively in the court for a while.

Wu Mi was about to go crazy, and ordered to slaughter the ten clans of Tong Lin!

He was furious.

In this kind of thing, none of the courtiers dared to speak for the Tong family, and of course, few people were really willing to speak for him.

It was still Yang Yunqiu who rarely took care of his affairs and gave Wu Mi an excerpt, although he was not an official of the imperial court, but the head of the academy, especially the head of a big academy like him, had many privileges, one of which was that he could directly hand over the excerpt without having to let the government hall transfer it.

He didn't write much, let alone defend Tong Lin, he only said one thing, there are no more people in Tong Lin's nine clans.

Yang Yunqiu has a good memory, and he can also collect a lot of information, and write down the deaths of all Tong Lin's relatives one by one, of which most of them are either directly or indirectly, and most of them died at the hands of barbarians for the sake of the Hong Dynasty.

Tong Lin's eldest son, or in order to save the emperor, changed the emperor's robe, attracted the attention of the barbarians, and died in a bloody battle.

It should be said that even those who remember will not mention it at this time.

Yang Yunqiu sometimes thinks that it is probably because there are too many ministers in this court who know the current affairs, and the scene of the peaceful and prosperous era of the Hong Dynasty is so precarious.

Anyway, he just reminded Wu Mi that Tong Lin did surrender, but after the water and waves were broken, the soldiers were killed and wounded, and the city was absolutely unable to be defended, in order to save the people in the city, he voted for Wulin, as for the distant relatives of their Tong family who couldn't beat them, whether they should die for this or not, it depends on what Wu Mi thinks.

Wu Mi is not a fierce emperor after all.

Of course, the most important thing is that Yang Yunqiu also said-"Now that Tong Lin is surrendered, I'm afraid he is unwilling, and he shouldn't be able to give advice to the barbarians, but Wu Mi really wants to kill his ten clans...... What can a real Changsheng general, or a Changsheng general who knows all kinds of armaments of the Hong Dynasty, do, Wu Mi, as the emperor, cannot be ignorant of the Tao.

Wu Mi came to the academy again.

Looking at the academy that was still as usual, I suddenly had a feeling that things were wrong.

Yang Yunqiu is still the same as before, chic and comfortable, and there is always a special feeling of comfort when getting along with him.

Wu Mi is different.

In fact, a long time ago, he was slowly changing, bit by bit, slowly, but without stopping, from a young emperor with a sense of justice and a little naΓ―ve, to mature and become more like a king.

"Sir, the position of the right minister is vacant, you can go out of the mountain to help me, except for you, at this time, I really don't know who I should trust?"

This time, Wu Mi is obviously much more serious and serious.

As before, Yang Yunqiu still refused: "Your Majesty, my family has come to look for me, I have been in the Hong Dynasty for all these years, it has been long enough, the elders in the family miss it very much, and when this accident subsides, I should leave in the future." ”

He did want to go.

Just a while ago, when the barbarian soldiers came to Fangzhou. His cultivation quietly broke through. Now. He is a seventh-grade monk, and he can already be regarded as a small master.

Even in that monk-filled Yanguo, he can still face some problems.

He had never forgotten that place, and it was impossible to forget, he should still go back to solve the problems he left behind, after so much time, if he didn't go back, he didn't know what to do with his friends...... Will the enemies have forgotten who he really is?

"I'm homesick too." Yang Yunqiu smiled. Pleasant face.

Wu Mi was stunned.

Not only Wu Mi, Cui Huaixin was standing aside to pour wine for the two, but he was so shocked by this sentence that he almost threw the wine jug.

"There is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed, so why should you be surprised?"

Yang Yunqiu didn't feel that he threw down a bomb at all, and continued to push the cup with the little emperor calmly.

Wu Mi's eyes showed a complicated color.

Yang Yunqiu smiled casually: "The students who came out of our academy are all characters now, so I believe that he has not yet participated in the election of officials, and when he participates, he will definitely be able to get good results." ”

In the past few years, Wu Mi has really expanded the scope of the official selection assessment. Moreover, the DPRK and China can reach high-ranking officials above the fourth rank. All of them are selected and examined, and they can only be low-level officials in their lives unless they are particularly capable.

Everyone can see this momentum, just because the academy is already very valued in this world, and what he did won the support of the literati and did not cause too many waves.

The children of the big families in the middle of the dynasty can still occupy a good position, but unconsciously, the children of the poor family have gradually increased, from seeing one or two in the past, it is very rare, and now, it seems that it is nothing new.

There are also some families who are willing to marry their daughters, nieces and the like to the children of poor families who have successfully elected officials, but there is still a world of difference between the two sides, but it is not the same as before, there is an insurmountable gap.

Among them, there are the most children from poor families who have come out of Yang Yunqiu Academy, and although the high-ranking officials are not the most, every student is particularly capable and is an indispensable talent.

Wu Mi wants to use these people, and he wants to use them.

Yang Yunqiu can't say that it's in his way, that's the head of the academy, and there are many students in other academies, so he can't say that because there is a mountain chief, he can't use the talents from the academy?

However, Yang Yunqiu is different after all, their academy is too united, and the way Yang Yunqiu teaches these students is also very special, unconsciously, it may not be his intention, the students of the Yang Family Academy will make others feel that they are particularly grouped, they are people of a country.

Born in the same college, even if they don't know each other because of the different times of enrollment and departure, as long as they talk, chat, and handle official business together, they can immediately distinguish each other from each other.

Wu Mi has only discovered this situation in the past two years, which is not a big deal, but it always makes people feel that something is wrong, with Yang Yunqiu here, the first reaction of these students when they encounter problems is to see how their husband wants to deal with it first, rather than obeying the emperor's orders and wishes.

Now that he heard that Yang Yunqiu was leaving, Wu Mi was a little reluctant and regretful, but there was also a strange relief, such as relief.

Of course, Yang Yunqiu didn't leave right away, and the most important thing at this time was the war with the barbarians.

Although Wu Mi was young and impulsive, he also knew that the current chaos in the DPRK and China was not suitable for a big war, but he still sent Wu Qi, the surname of the country, to Qizhou and made a decisive battle.

Even if it is a peace, it is better to have more chips.

The surname of the country understood His Majesty's intentions very well, he led a large army to storm Qizhou, and several times captured Qizhou, although he lost it later, but he was not discouraged.

Not to mention anything else, what is shown is the appearance that he must fight to the death and never seek peace.

Of course, Wen Renying is not stupid, he can see what Wu Mi wants to do, but he also has a lot of troubles on his body, and he has no time to spend with Hong Chao.

One south and one north, two little emperors with a lot of hearts and eyes, a pair of mortal enemies, pretended to play a good show, of course, it can't be said to be a complete play.

Wen Ren Ying wants to get more benefits.

Wu Mi wanted to pay as little as possible.

The first time, Wu Mi refused, but did not reprimand, the second time, he began to hesitate, and then some ministers burst into tears, and he finally agreed.

"We can negotiate peace, but if Ulin wants to withdraw from Qizhou, we must not lose Qizhou."

This is also what the ministers of the DPRK and China mean.

In the end, it was decided to negotiate.

The candidate for the negotiation is making the little emperor actually appoint one, it is Cui Huaixin.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were taken aback, and they all spoke out against it, this kind of thing, it is good to send old ministers who can represent the emperor, such as the country surnamed Ye, a grass people, how can you do this kind of thing?

The little emperor was determined to eat the scales this time, so he insisted on it, and asked Cui Huaixin to go to court to defend after the last time.

When Cui Huaixin looked cold and arrogant, secretly memorized the cheat sheet given to him by the teacher, and said that those ministers were dumbfounded in the court, and they all became fools who didn't understand barbarians at all, and he finally succeeded in getting the position of the envoy.

Let the country surnamed Ye make him a deputy envoy.

The surname of the country is not unhappy, he is a person with a big heart.

Cui Huaixin went to Qizhou and actually saw Tong Lin, he also thought about it, the whole person did not lose his temper, and he didn't even say anything unpleasant, so that the rest of the mission was very blind, and the little white eyes were rolled, and the eyeballs almost fell out.

"It is estimated that you will go to the capital, and someone will participate in you."

Tong Lin has changed a lot, and he doesn't look old, but his demeanor still has a bit of childish naughtiness, "With a general like me, greet me affectionately, be careful that you will also be on the "Biography of Shechen" in the future." (To be continued......)