After Qin Ye explained to Qin Keqing, he didn't keep her anymore, so he let her go back to Xiulou.

Qin Keqing gave Qin Ye a salute and withdrew from the study. And Qin Ye stood up and still accepted her half courtesy. The scene is so weird to watch.

Qin Keqing walked out of the study, Ruizhu was already waiting on the side, and when she saw Qin Keqing coming out, she immediately greeted her, and asked anxiously, "Miss, have you told the master?" ”

Qin Keqing was already smiling at this time, and she could no longer maintain the dignity she was in the study, looking at Ruizhu, a silly girl, and deliberately asked, "What are you talking to the master?" ”

Seeing Qin Keqing's appearance, Ruizhu hated iron and steel: "Of course, I asked the master to retire from this family business, how can a little concubine be worthy of a fairy-like character like Miss?" ”

When Qin Keqing heard this, she didn't know how to feel a little dislike in her heart, but she knew that Ruizhu was for her own good, so she explained a few words to her: "The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, how can you regret it?" Besides, Jia Gongzi is now the Marquis of Wuyang, what is not worthy of me? ”

When Ruizhu heard Qin Keqing say this, she reacted at once, and asked Qin Keqing in surprise: "Miss, you said that our uncle is already a marquis?" ”

Qin Keqing smiled and nodded to her, and walked in the direction of Xiulou, Ruizhu hurriedly followed happily, and kept saying: "I know that a character like Miss Tianxian will definitely be blessed by God." ”

After Jia Zheng came back from the Qin Mansion, he invited the official media the next day to send Jia Ke's birthday and marriage book, and gave him a dowry. Qin Ye accepted the dowry and sent Qin Keqing's birthday and the signed marriage letter back to Jia Zheng, after a series of complicated procedures. This family affair was settled, and from then on, the two families got married to Qin and Jin, and they could already move around each other as relatives.

After Jia Zheng finished this matter, he wrote a letter and sent someone to Xuanfu Town to Jia Ke. Tell him about the recent events, and tell him about the marriage he has made and the situation of the woman's family.

Besides, after Jia Ke sent Liu Yu and the others away last time, the next step was to resettle the plundered hundreds of thousands of people. If all of these populations are resettled and can be trained. It is one of the capitals that he will rise up in the future.

Jia Ke distributed these people equally among the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and carried out the brainwashing and education of slavery on them, which Jia Ke carried out many times, and he was familiar with it. Therefore, it went quite smoothly, especially for the women in it, because these women have never had a status in the grassland, so when they were brainwashed, it was particularly smooth. These men quickly integrated into the new tribe and took care of the household for their assigned men.

After being brainwashed, the Manchu Eight Banners have greatly improved in terms of numbers and cohesion, and now they have adapted to the new tribal life, and have gradually forgotten about the original tribe. And I've started to like life now.

Because in the new tribes, there were not so many nobles to exploit them. The most important thing is that the goods are very abundant, and the cattle and sheep can be exchanged for all the daily necessities they need.

After the brainwashing was completed, Jia Ke ordered the Eight Banners to expand to the grasslands north of Xuanhua and Kaiping towns, and try to compress the living space of the Tatars in this area.

This expansion laid the foundation for Jia Ke on the grasslands, and at the same time made Jia Ke the leader of a new people with a population of 200,000. At this time, if Jia Ke mobilized to the limit, he could even gather 80,000 cavalry in a few days, and this nation was completely Jia Ke's private army.

And this force is actually very powerful in the grassland, and the only one who can mobilize 80,000 cavalry on the grassland is probably Arslen Khan to the headquarters.

Jia Ke asked these Manchu Eight Banners to live as ordinary herdsmen in the north of the two towns of Xuanhua and Kaiping. As the first barrier between Xuanhua and Kaiping. If the Tatars dared to invade from here, then they would find that they would first face tens of thousands of brave Manchu Eight Banners.

The Manchu Eight Banners took advantage of the power in Jia Ke's hands to trade with merchants from the interior unscrupulously, exchanging their cattle, sheep and horses for grain, salt and tea in the interior, and Jia Ke as their leader gained great benefits from it. Help Jia Ke to get at least more than 200,000 taels of silver every year.

In fact, not only Jia Ke, but also the officers of all sizes in Xuanhua and Kaiping towns have all benefited greatly from it. Some of the generals opened almost every shop, and these shops were dedicated to doing business with the Manchu Eight Banners, and one by one they made a lot of money.

And there were also smart people among the Manchu Eight Banners, who used the materials they had exchanged for in Kaiping and Xuanhua to trade with other tribes of the Tatars, although they were no longer the same nation, but the language was still the same. Therefore, the business was relatively smooth, so that more than a dozen nearby Tatar tribes were communicated through the Manchu Eight Banners, which made the business of the generals of Xuanhua Kaiping more prosperous.

These benefits completely united the officers and soldiers of Xuanhua and Kaiping towns and formed a new interest group headed by Jia Ke.

This group was ostensibly hostile to the steppe, but in fact it was very active, and frequently traded with the tribes through the current Manchus and former Tatars who penetrated deep into the steppe, thus obtaining a large amount of money and intelligence.

And all of this is led by Tang Kuai, and his performance has been recognized by Jia Ke, and the intelligence agency he commands is getting bigger and bigger. It has even surpassed another intelligence agency led by Wei Kun.

Although Wei Kun is not as numerous as Tang Kui in terms of personnel. But his men were better at stealth and spotted the enemy's tracks. In the past year, the intelligence agency led by Wei Kun has eliminated all the intelligence agencies of the imperial court in Kaiping and Xuanhua.

Because there were a large number of Manchus among them, the imperial court always thought that they were killed by the Tatars, so the intelligence contest between the two sides never stopped. However, due to Wei Kun's geographical advantage, the intelligence officers of the imperial court were quickly expelled from this place. In the end, with the help of Jia Ke's strength, he barely managed to keep a stronghold, but he also indirectly let the court know about the cruelty of the Tatars. As a result, these intelligence officers also expressed their sincere admiration for Jia Ke for being able to repel the Tatars several times.

After Jia Ke settled the Manchurian herdsmen and all kinds of people. returned to his original peaceful life, in addition to dealing with official business every day, waiting for the reward from the imperial court, the rest of the time was basically spent in the eight banners. These people are his personal soldiers, and it can even be said that they are the source of half of his strength, so he can't ignore them.

Every time Jia Ke came to the middle of these Eight Banners, he would let go of his appearance as a righteous gentleman in Kaiping Town, and become debauched, which could be regarded as a kind of relaxation for himself.

On this day, Jia Ke was in the Zhenglan Banner, discussing with the Zhenglan Banner Dutong and others on the issue of the tribe's middle age, and set up a wine banquet in the tent, the hot roast mutton kept sending up, and all kinds of fine wine exchanged from the Central Plains were also placed around the whole altar.

Jia Ke drank and had fun with them, and by the way, he also asked them how much food, how many tents, cotton clothes, etc. Make statistics so that Jia Ke can send someone to exchange it.

While everyone was drinking and discussing things, when the tent door was opened, a cold wind drifted outside, and everyone turned their heads to look at the tent door. I saw Feng Mo coming in.

As soon as Feng Mo saw Jia Ke, he immediately said, "My lord, the imperial court has sent someone to announce the decree, let you hurry back to receive the decree." ”

Jia Ke couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, the reward of the imperial court seemed to have come down, but he didn't know how much benefit he could get this time. However, in Jia Ke's mind, at least he had to raise his title to a higher level.

So Jia Ke immediately put down everything at hand, took Feng Mo and his own soldiers, and hurried back to Kaiping Town.

When Jia Ke returned to Kaiping Town to command the embassy, the eunuch who delivered the decree was already a little impatient, and at this time he was walking around the command hall, and after seeing Feng Mo and Jia Ke coming in, he didn't recognize Jia Ke, and immediately said to Feng Mo: "Where is Commander Jia?" Why haven't you come out yet? How long are we going to wait in this place? ”

Feng Mo knew that this eunuch didn't know Jia Ke, and he wouldn't have thought that Jia Ke was so young, so he hurriedly stepped forward and introduced, "Father-in-law Qin, this person next to you is our commander. He was on patrol in the field, and as soon as he heard the news, he hurried back. ”

Jia Ke also hurriedly stepped forward and said to the eunuch: "This one thinks it is Gonggong Qin, who is patrolling outside, and failed to rush back in time to meet his father-in-law, and hopes that his father-in-law will forgive his sins." ”

The eunuch's face softened, but he still said expressionlessly: "It's nothing to delay our family's time, it's a big sin to delay the emperor's time." ”

Jia Ke looked at his expression and immediately understood something. Which of these eunuchs didn't get into the eyes of money? Now I am afraid that I am asking for a bribe. As the saying goes, Hades is good, but ghosts are difficult. Especially these eunuchs, they have not achieved enough things and have more than enough failures, if they are not taken care of, they will say a few bad things to themselves in front of the emperor in the future, and it will be enough for themselves. Such lessons abound throughout history. Jia Ke naturally can't make such a mistake, but it's not a big deal to make some money for him.

So Jia Ke immediately smiled all over his face, took a few steps forward to his side, and said quietly: "Father-in-law Qin, I know that Kaiping Town is remote, and there are no good things in the poor countryside to honor my father-in-law. However, there are some souvenirs, and I will have them delivered to my father-in-law's house in a moment. Let my father-in-law take it back to the capital and give it to his family to taste. ”

The Qin eunuch was also an interesting person, and after hearing Jia Ke say this, he immediately understood what he meant. The seriousness on his face immediately disappeared, and it turned into a smile, "Commander Jia is too polite, we are all working for the emperor, where can I collect your souvenirs?" ”

"My father-in-law's words are not right, I came to Kaiping Town from the capital to do things for the emperor, it is really hard work, I sent some local products just for my father-in-law to take home to taste, and it is not considered a bribe, what is not okay?" Jia Ke hurriedly pretended to persuade below.

When Eunuch Qin heard his words, he smiled so much that his eyes disappeared, and he said happily to Jia Ke: "Commander Jia is really a clever and transparent character, no wonder he can be in a high position at a young age. Since Commander Jia said so, our family reluctantly accepted it. ”

Jia Ke said complimentingly: "Then thank my father-in-law for giving me this face, and we will have a chance to communicate often in the future." When the time comes, my father-in-law will know who I am. ”

The Qin eunuch smiled and said, "Okay, then we will often come and go in the future, and we will also take care of each other in the future." ”