When Xiao Shiji heard that it was Xiao Taihe who made his own opinion, he immediately blackened his face. He sat behind the bookcase and said, "How to punish if you don't obey military orders?" ”

The pro-soldier next to him said solemnly: "Depending on the severity of the situation, from public whipping to beheading!" ”

Xiao Taiji couldn't believe his ears, looked at Xiao Shiji in a daze, and muttered, "...... Big brother, I didn't mean to. ”

"Not intentionally? Under military law, do you mean it or not? Xiao Shiji said coldly, staring at his younger brother with some hatred. When he saw his younger brother come to Gangneung with the certificate of the military department, he was stunned at first, and then he was happy for a while, but it didn't take long for him to be unhappy. - His younger brother is indeed not a soldier material......

He couldn't assign him the work to actually go to the battlefield, so he made him his personal servant, in charge of housekeeping.

I didn't expect that even the housekeeping was not closed.

If he hadn't been awake tonight, he would have been killed by this woman!

Xiao Shiji squinted, pointed to Xiao Taiji, who was still standing in the center of the cabin in a daze, and asked his subordinates, "What about him?" It means what is the situation of Xiao Taiji and how to punish him.

The subordinate said loudly: "If you disobey the military order, you will be injured by the general, and you should be beheaded according to the law!" ”

Xiao Taiji was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he knelt down for Xiao Shiji, and suddenly his nose and tears cried out, and he crawled over to Xiao Shiji on his knees, and said loudly: "Brother...... Eldest brother...... I really didn't mean to...... Spare me once, spare me again, I don't dare again......"

Xiao Shiji was unmoved, and said coldly: "You have joined the army. When the military order is like a mountain. If you don't obey orders on the battlefield, you will lose so many of our lives in your hands. - You, even though you are my own brother, I can't show favoritism. Come! Xiao Shiji shouted.

The person next to him saw it, and he was busy pleading.

They also knew that Xiao Tai and his crimes, although they should be beheaded strictly according to the law, the law was not humane, and Xiao Shihe himself was also in danger, and his arm was scratched a little oily. It's not a big deal. As long as he doesn't pursue it, Xiao Taiji doesn't have to be beheaded so seriously.

Of course, if he wants to pursue it, no one can say that he did wrong. He was the marching commander of so many sergeants in Daqi. If he bends the law for personal gain. How can you convince the people?

Think of it this way. They can also understand his difficulties.

But persuasion still has to be persuaded.

Everyone in the cabin knelt down and pleaded for Xiao Taiji.

Xiao Shiji saw that everyone was pleading, so he reluctantly said, "That's it." For everyone's sake, I'll spare you from dying. However, capital crimes can be avoided, but living crimes cannot be escaped. - Someone came, dragged Xiao Taiji down, beat fifty military sticks, and then stripped him of his military status, sent back to Chang'an, and was not allowed to enlist in the army for life! ”

Xiao Taiji shuddered, he raised his head, with some resentment in his eyes, and glanced at Xiao Shiji.

He came to Gangneung to serve in the army with great difficulty, just hoping to earn more military merits under the command of his eldest brother, and he could go back and be alone. In the future, when the eldest brother's inspector Jingzhou thorn is in office, it is when he can go to get a piece of the pie.

Who knew that the eldest brother grabbed a little mistake and cut off his way to support the army and seal the marquis in the future!

Xiao Shiji also stared at Xiao Taiji tightly, not missing the resentment in his eyes. He knew that his brother was unhappy, but he couldn't let him stay in the army. Xiao Taiji didn't know what it was like to be a soldier. It's not that Xiao Shiji doesn't want to teach him, but Xiao Taiji only joined the army in his twenties, and he is no longer a person who can teach him well.

Besides, he has no kung fu, his physical foundation is not good, and his brain is not very good, even if he is a staff member, he can't get along with others. He didn't know why Xiao Tai and why he would think that military merit was an easy path to follow. He didn't want to think about it, as an eldest brother, he was raised by his father and Uncle Du since he was a child, learned archery and horses, practiced kung fu, worked hard outside when he was a teenager, and later followed Prince Yi to really get started.

Such an opportunity, Xiao Tai and his younger brother, who has been growing up in the back house, will not understand.

Xiao Shiji also knew that if Xiao Taiji was allowed to leave his command and go to serve as a soldier in another team, needless to say, Xiao Taiji's bones would have already been drumming, where would it be his turn to take the opportunity to save his life and let him return to Chang'an?

But looking at Xiao Taiji's expression, he clearly didn't understand his hard work as a big brother, and he was already resentful......

Xiao Shiji closed his eyes and stretched out a stick, "Drag it down and beat thirty military sticks." ”

His subordinates answered, dragging the stunned Xiao Taiji out.

Soon after the beating of the thirty military sticks, Xiao Taiji was sent ashore, escorted by two sergeants, on a mule cart, and returned to Chang'an.

Xiao Taiji left, but Xiao Shiji breathed a sigh of relief, no longer had to stretch a rope every day, he always felt that he was being watched by others. He finally focused on the battle.

The battleship of the Great Qi Chen Bing Qingjiang was on the Yiling Tomb, and it was the time to keep an eye on it.

At this time, Xiao Yuexian, the empress dowager of Xiao Milling, had already figured out the number of warships and the formation of troops in Daqi, and after returning home, she gathered tens of thousands of elite sailors and stationed them in the waters of Yiling.

Qi Xiaogong rushed over with a large army, and wanted to attack the city immediately.

Xiao Shiji felt that it was not good, he sent several scouts out of Lu, but they were all gone and did not return, different from the previous situation, so he persuaded Qi Xiaogong and said: "I heard that Xiao Miao's princess is brave and resourceful, and scheming. Now that they have just lost Jingmen and Yidu, it is the time to be ashamed, and they must be unstoppable. Let's take a break and see how it goes. Don't go toe-to-toe with them, it's best to exhaust them until they're exhausted, and then fight hard to break the enemy's formation! "It is to persuade Qi Xiaogong to avoid the edge for the time being, cut off his sharpness, and then take Yiling in one go.

This strategy is very good, but Qi Xiaogong has been carried away because of the previous consecutive victories, and he is very dissatisfied with Xiao Shiji, so he has some intention to him. Whatever Xiao Shiji said was good, he would definitely not do it. Whatever Xiao Shiji says no, he must do. In short, I want to show that I don't have you Xiao Shiji, and I still calm half of the south of the Yangtze River! Your position as an inspector of Jingzhou's assassin history is still unstable......

Qi Xiaogong took the idea and forcibly ordered Xiao Shihe to stay in the rear. Himself led the troops to attack again.

As a result, this time, when they were about to approach the other party's waters, the water of the Qingjiang River suddenly soared, and the power of the peach blossom flood was even greater than a few days ago, and at the same time, Xiao Yuexian saw the opportunity to let his side release arrows.

Tens of thousands of long arrows fell from the sky, and the sergeants who had just changed from the big war ship to the light boat dodged left and right, and were suddenly swept into the bottom of the river by the surging peach blossom flood, and the Qi army suffered heavy losses for a while, and the river was full of floating Qi army corpses and overturned boats.

Qi Xiaogong's face turned white with fright. Hurriedly ordered: "Stand back!" Full speed back! ”

Xiao Yuexian took advantage of the situation and ordered his subordinates to attack. Hunt down Qi Xiaogong's warship.

Xiao Shiji saw it from behind, and knew that the road was not good, so he changed into a heart-protecting iron armor and held a long knife. The warship from behind rushed to the rescue.

Xiao Yuexian saw Xiao Shi and chased after him. Immediately order your men to drop the rockets. Burn Qi Xiaogong's warship into a sea of fire.

But Xiao Shiji still arrived in time and jumped into the river with Qi Xiaogong.

Qi Xiaogong is not familiar with water, so in order to keep him from moving. Xiao Shiji knocked him unconscious with a fist and took him back to his ship.

The battleships led by Xiao Shi were still neatly placed on the river, and they were not affected by the defeat in front of them.

Xiao Yuexian originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and take Xiao Shi and the warships on his side in one fell swoop, but Xiao Shiji actually ordered his subordinates to set all Qi Xiaogong's defeated warships on fire oil and burn them into a wall of fire on the Qingjiang River, which not only blocked the pace of Xiao Yuexian's sailors, but also burned Xiao Yuexian's sailors who boarded the battleships led by Qi Xiaogong to loot to death or injury.

For a while, both sides suffered heavy losses.

Xiao Yuexian once again saw Xiao Shiji's ruthlessness, staring at the impenetrable wall of fire in front of her with complicated eyes, and finally raised her hand and ordered, "Mingjin retreats!" ”

The sound of gold beeping sounded, and Xiao Yuexian withdrew his troops here.

Xiao Shihe arranged his hands to keep an eye on Xiao Yuexian's movements, and took Qi Xiaogong back to his battleship.

Qi Xiaogong was shocked and angry, and there were several arrow wounds on his body.

The military doctor of the Qi army came to bandage his wounds.

Xiao Shi and Chu Lu went to order people to count this battle, how many men they lost, and how many warships they lost.

After the statistics came out, he had to write a table and send it to Emperor Yongchang.

This was the first time that the Qi army suffered a defeat since it moved south.

Qi Xiaogong couldn't get over his face, so he simply pretended to be sick, but he didn't completely hand over the power of the march and the tiger talisman to Xiao Shiji.

Xiao Shiji had no choice but to take his men and wait anxiously for Emperor Yongchang's imperial decree on the Qingjiang River.

When the news of the defeat of the Qi army reached Chang'an, it was already in the middle of March of the seventh year of Yongchang.

Mu Yelai's leg injury was finally healed, and he returned to his house on crutches.

Zhu Susu slaughtered ruthlessly this time, and Mu Yelai's leg consultation fee was discounted by 80% and 50,000 taels of silver, which completely emptied the liquidity of Mu Hou Mansion.

Mrs. Muhou was so angry that she fell back, but the silver was taken out by Muhou himself, and the expenses of the inner courtyard, Mu Hou claimed that there was no money in the outer court, and asked Mrs. Muhou to use her own dowry to maintain the expenses of the inner courtyard of Muhou's mansion.

Although Mrs. Muhou was reluctant, Mu Hou really couldn't get a tael of silver, and if she needed any more silver, she had to sell real estate such as grange shops. These things can't be raised in a day or two, so for the time being, I still have to eat Madame Muhou's dowry.

Mu Yelai returned to Muhou Mansion, and naturally ate a lot of cold eyes from his mother, Mrs. Muhou, but she didn't care at all. She was just wondering why Xiao Shi and twelve days in the previous life put down Xiao Miao's rebellion, but in this life, it has been four months, and she has not returned triumphantly?!

What went wrong?

Her question was answered when she went to the East Palace to visit the crown princess.

The crown princess complained to her: "Uncle Qi Huang is so ignorant, obviously he just let him follow to earn military merits, but he wants to lead the troops to fight, and now he is defeated, not to mention, he has also affected others......"

Mu Yelai was stunned. In the last life, Xiao Shiji was the generalissimo of Zhengnan recommended by Prince Yi, and Uncle Qi had no shadow at all, and he had never been crowned king in his life. In this life, Xiao Shiji was on the side of the prince, and he was the head of the march recommended by the prince, but it was a pity that the generalissimo of the expedition to the south let Qi Xiaogong do it. That's why I dragged my feet, and the problem that could be solved in twelve days was delayed for more than four months!

And looking at the current situation, I don't know how long it will last......

Mu Yelai muttered: "When you are outside, you can't go out of many doors." On the side of King Qi Jun, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should also knock and knock, don't put the cart before the horse. ”

The crown princess nodded. "You're right." said, looked at Mu Yelai regretfully and said, "It's a pity, you broke your leg, otherwise you would go to Jiangnan with you, maybe you will be pregnant......"

Mu Yelai was stunned when he said this, lowered his head shyly, and said embarrassedly: "Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess!" Yelai and Brother Xiao are innocent......"

"Okay, okay, of course this palace knows that you are innocent with him." The crown princess pursed her lips, tried her best to suppress the sourness in her voice, and said, "I really didn't expect it." He actually did the inspection of the Jingzhou Thorn History. - That's a ...... Unexpectedly. ”

Mu Yelai's heart moved. In the last life. Xiao Shiji has never been in this position. Does it mean that in this life, he is even more powerful than the previous life?!

The two talked a few words, and Mu Yelai handed over the letter he wrote to Xiao Shiji to the crown princess. Let her think of it and send it to Xiao Shiji. Then he said goodbye and left.

When passing by the Marquis of Zhuguo's Mansion by car. Mu Yelai looked at the familiar gate from the car with affection, just like looking at his own home. In fact, she is interested in this place. It was indeed more familiar than her own home.

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Du Hengshuang was not in the mansion at this time, but went to the Haixi Palace. She looked at the new IOU that Du Xiancheng got her, and couldn't help nodding and said, "Dad, you are too powerful, it's only been a few months, and he owes an extra 500,000 taels." - In two days, we will be able to make up a million taels. ”

Du Xiancheng said with a grin: "He won't even be able to pay back the interest soon." - When the time comes, your dad will be able to play in person. ”

"Dad, what are you going to do?"

"Nothing to do. It's to help my good daughter collect debts! Du Xiancheng was in a very good mood, but thinking of the recent battle situation in Jiangnan, the smile on his face collapsed again, and said: "Shiji is defeated, do you know the way?" ”

Du Hengshuang nodded, "It's the King of Qi County who is defeated." Scholars have only been received from generations. ”

"Yes, he was supposed to go to the generation. I hope this time, it will calm down his hot brain. - It's not enough to just rush forward. Du Xiancheng said with emotion.

Du Hengshuang didn't want to talk about Xiao Shiji anymore, but Du Xiancheng mentioned Xiao Taiji again, "...... He's back? What the hell is going on? ”

Du Hengshuang's face became even more ugly. After Xiao Taiji came back, he mentioned it to her, saying that he was driven back by his eldest brother because of a woman......

Of course, Du Hengshuang doesn't believe that Xiao Shihe can really have a substantive relationship with other women, but no matter what the relationship is, it is not groundless to let Xiao Taihe make a fuss......

"The second brother was driven back by Shiji. It is said that a mistake was made in Gangneung. Du Hengshuang said lightly, and worried, "Shi Ji has been gone for so long, I can't even write a letter, I really don't know what happened to him." ”

She hadn't written a letter before, but thinking that Mu Yelai was a slut who could write letters from time to time, she responded like a fly.

Du Xiancheng knew what Du Hengshuang was worried about, so he didn't break it, but said with a smile: "Then, the peerless beauty you asked me to find, I did find one for you, when will you pick one?" ”

"Really?" Du Hengshuang perked up, "Who are they?" ”

"This time, His Majesty chose a concubine, I went to take a look, only Yin Gui'er, the second daughter of the Yin Arat's family, was born with a good appearance. What's more, she is the kind of woman His Majesty likes. "As a man, Du Xiancheng still knows a lot about Emperor Yongchang's preferences.

Du Hengshuang found an opportunity and went to take a look, and found that Yin Gui'er was bright and beautiful, but there was a charming air at the corners of her eyebrows and eyes, more like Ouyang Zi and Wan Guifei combined. When she saw it, she was also sure that this was the person who could share the favor from Concubine Mu.

If you want to draw money from Mu Yelai, you must overthrow Mu Hou Mansion and Mu Guifei. This is Du Hengshuang's goal in the past few months, and he must finish the game before Xiao Shiji returns.

So she was also very glad that the battle situation in Gangneung was in a stalemate for a while. If she had finished the fight early, she would have to be restrained, and it would be difficult to start.

The silver owed by the eldest prince of Muhou Mansion is accumulating, and Zhu Susu temporarily knocked on it, hollowing out all the silver on the books of Muhou Mansion, so the eldest prince can't do it if he wants to move the account in the outer courtyard, and now he can't even pay the interest, and he was forced by the thugs sent by Du Xiancheng to hide in Tibet every day, desperately stealing antique jewelry from home to sell the mortgage, so as to repay the interest.

Du Hengshuang estimated that soon they would be able to propose to use Anxi Racecourse to pay off their debts. If the eldest prince refuses, Du Xiancheng will threaten to shake the matter in front of his father Muhou. At that time, the status of the eldest prince will be in jeopardy. There are a few younger brothers below him......

In order to maintain his good image in front of his father and his status as a son, he will take risks and steal the deed paper from the horse farm.

Du Hengshuang concentrated on investigating the situation of the Yin family. The Yin family's family background is average, but in order for Yin Guier to be selected, the Yin family did not hesitate to go bankrupt and sell all kinds of things to buy clothes for Yin Guier.

Regarding the procedure for selecting concubines in Daqi, Du Hengshuang still knows a little.

She understands better that if she wants Yin Guier to be selected, pass three levels and kill six generals, and stand in front of His Majesty at the end, these head and face clothes are not enough, and she also needs to open up the joints in order for Yin Guier to successfully pass the primary election. Otherwise, why are there so many beauties, but there are only a few people with heads and faces who can stand in front of His Majesty and let His Majesty choose them.

The emperor's choice of concubines is rarely in beauty pageants, and most of them are in creating a balance of power.

"Take my post and send it over, and ask Little Lady Yin to come to Du's house to talk about it." Du Hengshuang did not choose to see Yin Gui'er in the Marquis of Zhuguo's mansion, but chose to meet her mother's mansion.

For Yin Gui'er, Du Hengshuang wants to be gracious, and let her clearly know that it is Du Hengshuang who is gracious. Of course, this kind of kindness must be reciprocated.

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…… (To be continued......)

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