Yuan Da lay on the dinner table and devoured it, and dried a big bowl of rice at the bottom, which slowed down a little.

Although he is two years older than Wang Yuan, he also calls the second brother without any psychological obstacles: "Second brother, the people in the village say that after you become the champion, you can eat delicacies from the mountains and seas every day in Beijing." How is this only one roast chicken? ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Being the champion is only a petty official, and there are so many dollars every month, how can you have the money to buy delicacies from the mountains and seas?" ”

Yuan Da asked rhetorically: "Then you have the money to buy such a big house?" ”

"Rewarded by the Emperor." Wang Yuan said.

Yuan Da sighed with emotion: "The emperor is really generous. It's a pity that I'm not a reading material, and I will memorize the "Three Character Classic" in a few years, otherwise I will definitely have to take the official exam to do it. ”

Wang Yuan hadn't gotten along with such a simple person for a long time, and he suddenly felt extremely relaxed, and said: "The emperor is not rewarded by everyone, this house is in exchange for my meritorious service by killing the enemy." ”

"Yes, yes," Yuan Da immediately became energetic, "Miss Ling'er said, you are very powerful on the battlefield, you dare to rush and kill more than 10,000 anti-thieves with two hundred cavalry, and kill these anti-thieves to the fullest." Second brother, don't go back, follow you to kill thieves in Beijing and become a big official! ”

Wang Yuan was noncommittal and asked, "Didn't you go into battle to kill thieves in Guizhou?" ”

"Yes, the anti-thieves in Guizhou are not beaten," Yuan Da recounted the situation in Guizhou with a smile, "After Miss Ling'er went back, she said that she was a thousand households in Jinyi, and the eunuch of the town helped her get two thousand guards. The more than 1,000 Tusi soldiers in the hands of Song Matou (Song Jian) were also all under the command of Miss Ling'er. And we wore Qingzhai, gathered 500 volunteers, and also fought with Ling'er girl. ”

The more than 20 letters were just about the general situation, and Wang Yuan didn't know the specific situation, so he asked: "In other words, Ling'er has more than 3,000 soldiers in his hands?" ”

"At the beginning, there were only more than three thousand," Yuan Da said with a smile, "After a few battles, it became more than five thousand, my father fought bravely, and was appointed as a deputy general by Ling'er girl, commanding five hundred Qingzhai volunteers and more than a thousand Miao soldiers." ”

"Miao Bing?" Wang Yuan was puzzled.

Yuan Da explained: "Aren't there three Miao chiefs in the anti-thief? Ah Duo had long since died in battle. Aza's stockade was besieged by the official army for more than a month, and the tribesmen killed him and surrendered with thousands of Miao people. Miss Ling'er put the old, weak, sick and disabled back to farm, and only selected more than 1,000 elite and strong young soldiers to join the gang, all of which were handed over to my Abba. ”

This is Wang Yuan's strategy that has taken effect.

He asked Song Ling'er to promise in the name of the Song clan that the Miao people who surrendered would be exempt from tax for three years in the future, and they could elect their own shejiao (the owner of the village and the tax collector).

In order to preserve their strength, the rest of the Song family has been working hard, and only Song Ling'er is fighting to kill thieves on the battlefield. Everything in Guizhou is respected by strength, so in the eyes of the anti-thief, Song Linger can represent the Song family. They don't surrender to others, only Song Ling'er, this is the main reason.

As for the imperial court, Miao Min only recognizes the toast, not the ghost court!

"When you leave Guizhou, how many thieves are left?" Wang Yuan asked.

Yuan Da said: "There is only Aja left in the Sanmiao chieftain, he said that he has 50,000 elite soldiers, and he can have one or two hundred thousand, and there are many of them. Aja is no longer guarding the village, as soon as the official army came, he ran into the mountains, and as soon as the official army left, he came out to make trouble. ”

This is fighting guerrillas, Guizhou is full of mountainous areas, and it is really difficult to exterminate it in the mountains, no wonder the officers and soldiers have been fighting and winning successes, but they can't destroy the thieves.

"How is the Song family and the An family doing?" Wang Yuan asked.

Yuan Da replied: "An Guirong is finally dead, and his three sons are fighting fiercely. Governor Wei said that the imperial court would divide Shuixi into three, and whoever killed the thief and made the most meritorious service would inherit the Xuanzhi envoy and get the largest piece of territory. The eldest of the An family didn't do it, saying that he was the eldest son and should have inherited the consolation envoy. The second and third children are all on the side of Governor Wei, especially the second child, who is particularly brave in battle, and the second child kills the most enemies in the whole of Guizhou! ”

"Governor Wei did a good job." Wang Yuan couldn't help but laugh.

Yuan Da said again: "The Song family is very chaotic now, and two of the twelve horse heads of the Song family were directly destroyed by the thieves. Of the remaining horses, there are only a few hundred of them left with few soldiers, and more than a thousand with more soldiers. I still don't accept you, you don't obey me, Miss Ling'er and her father don't care, and the acting toast can't control the field. ”

Song Ran knew that he was guilty of death, so he hid as a turtle with a shrunken head, and let his stepson Song Ren act as the toast.

However, Song Ren's only son died, there was no heir, Song Ren himself was sick, and the horse heads of the Song family were all ready to fight for the throne.

As the eldest grandson of the previous generation, Song Gongzi has enough inheritance rights, but it is not as good as Song Ren's younger brother and nephew.

Didn't Wang Yuan be sponsored by Song Jian to study and promise to come to repay his kindness? Now is the time to repay the favor.

Wang Yuan wrote a letter to Song Jian and asked Song Ling'er to bring it over, and Song Jian immediately handed over all the more than 1,000 Tusi soldiers under his command to Song Ling'er under his command. In exchange for Song Ling'er's support for Song Gongzi to inherit the toast!

Song Gongzi also had a letter from Wang Yuan.

This nerd is very easy to fool, just know the righteousness. Wang Yuan said to Song Gongzi that the Song clan was in decline, and the lives in the territory under his jurisdiction were devastated, so he must practice benevolent government and cultivate his life. And throughout the entire Song family, whoever comes out to inherit the Tusi cannot practice benevolent government, only Song Gongzi himself can take the throne.

Wang Yuan also drew a blueprint for the future in the letter, lightly dispensing with meager endowments, promoting education, and building water conservancy. Under the leadership of Song Gongzi, the people of Shuidong will live and work in peace and contentment, and become a paradise-like existence.

After reading the letter, Song Gongzi immediately stopped teaching, and now he is busy competing for the position.

It can be said that except for when An Guirong died did not expect, all the situation in Guizhou was under Wang Yuan's control. He not only wrote letters to the officials, but also to the scholarly families and landlords and gentry in Guizhou, asking these families to support Song Gongzi so that they would not fall into the tyrannical rule of the Song family in the future.

From the governor to the chief soldier, to the town guard eunuch and the local squire, almost one-sided support for Song Gongzi!

There is no way, Song Gongzi is famous, a nerd is better fooled, Wang Yuan's letter is just a series of roles.

……

Following.

There were fewer people in Wang Yuan's family, and a few more went home for the New Year.

Huang E only brought the maid Xia Chan over this time, and the master and servant carried the rice cakes and made something for Wang Yuan to eat.

Wang Yuan was eating rice cakes, thinking of Song Ling'er's letter, and a burst of emotion arose in his heart.

"My little sister is fifteen years old, right?" Wang Yuan asked suddenly.

The girl's age can't be revealed casually, Huang E blushed and said, "I'm almost sixteen years old." ”

Sixteen years old, she's only fourteen now, and fifteen in three months!

Wang Yuan is not wood, nor is he a fool, but he doesn't believe that Huang E comes every day to study physics. Things always have to be solved, and it is not good to drag it all the time, and it is easy to delay the youth of the girl's family.

Wang Yuan said to Xia Chan: "You go out first." ”

Xia Chan looked at Huang E: "Miss, the girl in the pavilion can't be alone with a man." ”

Huang E said: "I know, you go out." ”

Xia Chan pouted, picked up a piece of rice cake and walked out.

Waiting for the maid to leave, Wang Yuan said slowly: "Your sister Song is already pregnant. ”

"Huh?"

"What?"

Huang E exclaimed, and asked again, thinking that he had misheard.

Wang Yuan said, "My child. ”

"I ...... You ......" Huang E's mind was in a mess and he completely lost his ability to think.

Wang Yuan gave her the letter: "Read it for yourself." ”

Huang E slowly regained his senses in the process of reading the letter. She felt very awkward in her heart, a little sad, a little angry, and a little moved, and said: "Sister Song really likes you, she doesn't want to delay your future, so she forced you to marry me." If you really don't want to, I won't come here in the future, so you won't have to be in a dilemma. ”

"What do you do yourself?" Wang Yuan asked.

"That's it." Huang E bowed his head.

Huang E has been veiled, and everyone is only guessing about her identity. Until Huang Qiao also came, it was immediately confirmed, how could it not be spread out when there were many people?

Now the long-tongued women in the capital have been spreading gossip wildly, saying that the second lady of the Zuo Shilang family of the Criminal Department has made a private agreement with the king of the Hanlin Academy for life, and she has to go to the Wang family for a tryst every day.

With this rumor, Huang E is not easy to marry.

It's all made up by Huang Ke's old guy, Huang E has always been wearing a veil, and he can't admit any gossip. He had to let his son come with him, and he couldn't deny it if he wanted to, so he clearly wanted to throw his daughter to Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan had a headache now, thinking about Song Ling'er and the child in her belly for a while, and thinking about Huang E's affection and circumstances for a while.

"I already have an illegitimate child before I get married, don't you mind?" Wang Yuan asked.

"It's a common thing." Huang E acted indifferent, but in fact, he was still a little uncomfortable in his heart.

It is indeed very common, especially for the children of large families who aspire to the imperial examination.

Before the age of 20, many of these scholars chose not to get married, and the more hopeful they were, the more so. Jin Wei is a typical example, every time his son takes the first level of the exam, the family's vision is improved, and now he has finally climbed to Jin Gui, a bachelor of Hanlin.

But what should young people do if they are angry and have physiological needs? In addition to going to the Qinglou, he messed with the maid at home, and there were many illegitimate children before marriage.

The higher the door, the more face-saving it is, and often the maid who gave birth to a child is taken to live elsewhere, which is equivalent to raising an outer room.

Wang Yuan wanted to make it clear today: "Little sister, people are not plants and trees, how can they be ruthless?" I understand your intentions. ”

Huang E's face turned red: "I don't have any intentions." ”

Wang Yuan continued: "In the future, I plan to find an opportunity to ask Your Majesty to grant me a marriage and take Ling'er as my wife. If you wish, I will immediately ask the matchmaker to place a dowry. ”

"Flat wife?" Huang E was surprised, "This is not allowed, even if you marry, it doesn't count." ”

Wang Yuan said: "If it is His Majesty's marriage, it should be an exception. ”

In feudal China, monogamy and polygamy have always been a system, including the emperor. This involves the inheritance system, the law only protects the wife, and the concubine has no status.

The "Da Ming Law" stipulates: If a wife remarries, the rod is ninety, and the (future wife) is divorced (the heirs return to the sect).

It was not until the last years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty that equal wives were allowed for the first time, and the law stipulated that flat wives also had status, but the premise was that both wives agreed.

Huang E was silent, preoccupied.

Wang Yuan also said: "The inheritance of the heir, I will arrange it before I die, and there will be no problems." ”

"This ...... It's too far ahead," Huang E looked down at his toes, and didn't answer positively, but said, "Sister Song is very good, I like her too, we are like sisters in the first place." ”

Wang Yuan exhaled a breath of turbidity, the whole person was much more relaxed, and said, "I will ask the matchmaker to give a dowry another day." ”

"They didn't say yes." Huang E ran out with a red face.